Mountain artist Junior Cobb carves Ozark relics for fun
Cobb, a Cotter Arkansas craftsman, roams the Ozark hills carving small animals to lifelike nudes for tourists and resorts. He works with wood chisels and a pocket knife, shelves his best pieces for patron Mrs. T. J. McCabe, and says he carves to pay bills and enjoy the craft rather than to amass wealth.
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Jerry Curry Cotter
Ark
Junior Cobb
Ozark Mountains
Junior
Cobb
Cotter
White River
Little Rock
Helen
Mountain Home
Arkansas State College At
Jonesboro
T. J. McCabe
Missionary to Japan Reflections by C Grant From 1950s
C Grant of High Point narrates fifteen years in Japan as a Baptist missionary. He served in Sendai and Tokyo, faced cultural barriers, Soka Gakkai influences, and shifts from village church to urban publishing efforts. He questions mission methods and notes personal faith amid humdrum realities.
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Grant
Sendai
Tokyo
Honshu
Little Publishing
India
Humdrum
Jordan Press
Japan
Soka Gakkai
America
Southern Baptist Convention
The Kremlin Letter review and classified ads montage
A mixed page combines a vintage review of The Kremlin Letter by Noel Behn noting espionage thrills and a sample of local rental listings. The critique praises pace and realism while the ads promote apartments, houses for rent, and a realty office contact.
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Kremlin
Noel Behn
Simon & Schuster
Complex Twain Biography Highlights a Lifelong Enigma
Justin Simon profiles Mark Twain in a thorough study that traces his rise from printer and river pilot to financial heights and debt. The author notes Twain’s dynamic personality, public chastening by fame, and enduring mystery as biographers debate the man behind the satirical genius.
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Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
the Lincoln
Twain
Ernest Hemingway
Jonathan Swift
Andrew Carnegie
Out from Cape Cod about the seafaring rogue Pattillo
Joseph E. Garland tells of Pattillo a Nova Scotia born seaman who became a Gloucester legend after arriving in 1834. The biography notes his rough early life at sea his strength and heavy drinking and a series of clashes with authorities that sent him to the United States and anchor in Gloucester.
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Pattillo
Joseph E. Garland
Little, Brown
Gloucester
Garland
Nova Scotia
United States
Rogue’s Hole
Soprano Jane Marsh draws LA talking near Tschaikovsky win
California soprano Jane Marsh, 24, who took up music five years ago, has sparked LA discussion after winning first prize for women at Moscow’s Tschaikovsky competition. A former Olympic swimmer turned singer, she debuted operatically as Desdemona in Spoleto and at the Boston Symphony. The American Harp Society held its third convention at UC Los Angeles with Vera Dulova headlining. The Bolshoi Ballet plays sold out shows at Shrine Auditorium and Hollywood Bowl, while Pasadena Playhouse faces closure from financial woes, prompting appeals to save live theater.
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Los Angeles
California
van Cliburn
Moscow
Jane Marsh
Mill Valley
Calif
Miss Marsh
Oberlin College
Ohio
Conservatory
Desdemona
Spoleto
Italy
Boston Symphony
Can Harp Society
University of California At Loseles
Vera Dulova
Miss Dulova
Harp Society
Russia
Moscow Ervatory
Europe
Israel
Bolshoi Ballet
Shrine Auditorium
Hollywood Bowl
Bolshoi
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