UNC winner resembles famed author Wolfe in spirit and career
Myles Ludwig of Statesville won the second annual Wolfe Award at the University of North Carolina, receiving 100 dollars and a silver plaque. His story The Big Sigh and Three Others will appear in the Carolina Quarterly, with judges noting parallels to Thomas Wolfe in themes of youth and growing up.
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Chapel Hill
Thomas Wolfe
University North Carolina
Asheville
UNC
Statesville
Myles Ludwig
Young Wolfe
Daily Tar Heel
Wolfe
Myles
Carolina Quarterly
Pi Kappa Phi Social Fraternity
Raphael Mac Ira Jones
Wilmington
William Hardy
Essor
Leon Rooke
Forrest Read
Brooklyn
Solomon Ludwig
Glendale Dr
Reflections
Chapel Hil
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Art Thefts Detailed In New Book
A review of The Art Stealers by Milton Esterow from MacMillan summarizes inside stories for art lovers and crime fans. It highlights a 1911 Mona Lisa theft at the Louvre and other cases including a 1939 Watteau loss, a 1876 1901 Gainsborough recovery, Nazi plundering, and a Salt Mine cache, praising the lively detective tone.
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Louvre
Esterow
Gainsborough
Duchess of Devonshire
Pinkerton
Ward Angel and Myles Versed in Youth Tales and Arts
Ward Angel and UNC alumnus Myles pursue writing, acting, and novels. They engage with issues of youth and the pains of growing up, shaping projects that explore coming of age.
The Congregational Way first in Religion in America series
Robert Marks Appropriately reviews Marion L. Starkey's The Congregational Way as the opening volume in a series examining a single faith in American history. The book traces Congregationalism from Plymouth to the United Church of Christ era, noting leaders, trials, education, and social involvement.
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Congregational Way
Marion L. Starkey
America
Doubleday
New World
Miss Starkey
Plymouth Rock
United Church of Christ
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Roger Williams
Arne Hutchinson
Salem
Harvard
Yale
Nherlin
Ohio
Charles Ferguson
Reader’s Divest
Church of Christ
Disciples of Christ
Mischa Dichter Claims Russia's Tchaikovsky Prize Aner
In Moscow Mischa Dichter 20 Beverly Hills wins second prize as a 16 year old Russian takes first. California stars Jane Marsh Edward Auer also place. News mourns American figure Deems Taylor and Peter Meremblum founder of the California Junior Symphony.
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Los Angeles
Moscow
Mischa Dichter
Beverly Hills
Dichter
Conservatory
California
Jane Marsh
Mill Vale Oner
Peter Meremblum
California Junior Symphony Orchestra
Meremblum
West Coast
Junior Symphony
Barbarella Comes to America in Grove Press Book
Barbarella by Jean Claude Forest arrives in the United States in book form published by Grove Press translated by Richard Seaver. The tale follows Barbarella through interplanetary escapades facing robots monsters perverted queens and the mythic angel Pygar as she battles evil. Film rights have been sold with Dino De Laurentiis to direct and Jane Fonda to star. Forest, born 1930 near Paris, is a noted painter illustrator and cartoonist.
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United States
Grove Press
Barbarella
Jean Claude Forest
Richard Seaver
Pygar
France
Evergreen
Dino de Laurentis
Roger Vadim
Terry Southern
Jane Fonda
Pereux
Paris
Museum Corner: Piedmont settlers artifacts loaned to High Point
This shot pouch and powder horn from early Piedmont settlers are on loan to the High Point Museum by J. M. Hoots. The Little Red School House on E Ray and N Hamilton Streets hosts Sunday hours from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Piedmont
High Point
J. M. Hoots
Little Red
E. Ray and
N. Hamilton Streets
Pessimism Dispelled In Sequel HOPE FOR MAN
Joshua Loth Liebman’s sequel to Peace of Mind presents an optimistic philosophy of life. The book argues existential pessimism rests on childhood roots and urges emotional maturity, self fulfillment, and concern for others as paths to a life worth living.
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Liebman
Kierkegaard
Kafka
Satre
Stamps in the News highlights world issues and designs
Zanzibar issues two new designs for its second union anniversary with values of 30 cents 50 cents 1 shilling 30 cents and 2 50 cents. Netherlands releases five summer stamps promoting tourism with historical manuscript and art motifs. Yemen Arab Republic issues ten animal stamps. Bechuanaland marks Pioneer Corps anniversary with four stamps. Liberia issues three stamps and a souvenir sheet for the World Cup in London July 1966.
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Syd Kronish
Tanganyika
Zanzibar
Crown
Washington
Netherlands
Gysbert Japicx
Bodleian Library
Oxford
van Walewein
Walewein
Yemen Arab Republic
Bechuanaland
Pioneer Corps
Bechuana
Liberia
London
1966
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People’s Choice
Deems Taylor
Frederick J. Pp
World
Lipp
University of Toledo
University of Iowa
Pacific
Japan
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
Museum
Elmer Horton
HOPE
Man
Joshua Loth Liebman
Simon & Schuster
By Frances Parkinson Keyes
Helen MacInnis
Adela Rogers
Johns
By Norman F. Dacey
Straughan's Booksellers
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