Bookman's Holiday at Library of Congress in Washington
Neal Austin highlights the Library of Congress near the Capitol as a vast national repository. He notes historic items such as Jefferson's draft of the Declaration and Washingtons commission, plus extensive cataloging and rare divisions like the Gutenberg Bible and Mainz Giant Bible.
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Capitol Building
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Continental Army
Jefferson
Library of Congress
Mainz
Capitol
White House
National Archives
Smithsonian
Neal Austin
Notable Best Sellers List Crowns Classics and Histories
A curated display lists top titles including The Agony and the Ecstasy by Stone and To Kill a Mockingbird by See, along with Mila 18 Urs The Edge of Sadness O Connor The Winter of Our Discontent Steinbeck The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Skirer A Nation of Sheep Lederer The New English Bible The New Testament Ring of Bright Water Maxwell and Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin Kennan.
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Mila
Urs
O'Connor
Steinbeck
Skirer
Lederer
Maxwell
Russia
West
Lenin
Stalin
Kennan
Island Off Cape Cod Satirizes Visitors and a Russian Sub
Nathaniel Benchley’s Island Off Cape Cod portrays island residents who mistake a Russian submarine’s shore leave for an invasion. A slapstick clash unfolds between locals led by a postmistress and a bumbling crew, including a drunken scout and a commissar. The comic satire favors coastal New England flavor and vacation-era whimsy.
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Cape Cod
New England
Cape
la Revere
Luther Gilk
Unfastened Beach Coat Reveals Knife Wound Evidence
A crime scene description notes the coat of Dawn Regan was unfastened and pulled apart to view a knife wound. It questions whether the wound would have pierced the coat and if fresh blood would have stained it, implying forensic uncertainty about the visible damage.
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Dawn Regan
Jungle Of Jazz The Jazz Life by Nat Hentoff
Review highlights Nat Hentoff’s Jazz Life a vivid look into the jazz world. He surveys narcotics, crooked agents, overcommercialization and reverse prejudice while profiling figures like Louis Armstrong Miles Davis and John Lewis. The book mixes history with sharp social critique.
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Nat Hentoff
Hentoff
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
John Lewis
Inside Europe Today by John Gunther review
John Gunther’s Inside Europe Today is a new survey of Europe since 1936. The book analyzes Germany Britain France and Khrushchev era politics with accessible explanations and a practical overview of the Common Market and global shifts.
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Europe
John Gunther
Harper
Gunther
Germany
Adenauer
Great Britain
Macmillan
France
de Gaulle
Khrushchev
Miles A. Smith
Music Notes on Musicians Makers and Romantic Masterpieces
The article muses on the musician’s central role against mechanized futures and traces the Romantic era’s influence. It discusses flutes shaped from human bones, Beethoven as a bridge from classical to Romantic styles, and instrument makers enhancing tuning and new instruments like the saxophone, marking a golden age of serious music.
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South
Central America
Beethoven
Z. Melnikov
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library Week
High Point Public Library releases a week long bookmobile schedule from July 24 to 28 with daily routes at multiple locations including College Village Shopping Center Gatewood Hillcrest Emerywood Overbrook Kennedy Carr Rotary Westwood Rockspring Eaton Place Brantley Circle W Farriss Hedrick Ashe Oakwood Ridgecrest Dane Rockford Thissell Clara Cox Circle Willard Gordon Ellwood Wendell and Daniel Brooks Homes.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Hedrick
Ashe
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
Willard
Gordon
Ellwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
Danger Intrigue SATURN OVER THE WATER
Priestley crafts a cloak and dagger melodrama told by Tim Bedford a London painter. Bedford pursues scientist Farne who vanished after sending a cryptic Chilean list. The chase spans Peru New York South America and Australia with romances and international agents until a final rescue on a mountain.
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Priestley
Tim Bedford
London
Joe Farne
Peru
Bedford
Farne
Chile
New York
Wilds
South America
Australia
Rosalia
Nadia
Prayer Worship Bowman new book Resources for Worship review
The critic notes Clarice Bowman offers an intimate look at prayer and worship in Resources for Worship. The first section on inward preparation is praised while the second section of prayers and devotions is seen as wearying toil for on demand occasions.
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Clarice M. Bowman
Association Press
Miss Bowman
Bowman
High Point College
Bangor Theological Seminary
Maine
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