Books in the 1950s campaign era show slim political book flood
The article surveys how presidential campaigns shifted from pamphlets and broadsides to print books in the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights Eisenhower the President by Merle J. Pusey and Give em Hell Harry by E L Dayton, noting publishers and awards. It also previews forthcoming titles, with profiles of Devin Adair and Harper’s Magazine notes. The overall tone contrasts old and modern methods of reaching voters through printed works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Merle J. Pusey
Macmillan
Korea
Formosa
Pusey
Washington Post
Times-Herald
Charlies Evans Hughes
Columbia University
Harry
E. L. Dayton
Mr. T
vin-Adair Co
New York
Devin-Adair
Truman
Devin - Adair
Missouri
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
New York Daily News
River of the Carolinas Santee River and its basin
Review covers Henry Savage Jr book River of the Carolinas about the Santee System from Wateree to the Atlantic. It traces the geography, history from Charleston through Revolution and Civil War, economic development via hydroelectric plants, and key figures like Marion and Kings Mountain in a narrative for readers of the Carolinas.
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Carolinas
Henry Savage Jr
New York
Rinehart & Co
Wateree
Congaree
Atlantic
Lake Marion
Blue Ridge
Grandfather Mountain
North Carolina
Caesar’s Head
South Carolina
Low Country
Charleston
Kings Mountain
Francis Marion
Swamp Fox
New South
Santee
Two
Bob Horney
New Library Additions Highlight Public Collection
The High Point public library adds nonfiction and fiction titles from authors such as Collins Conant Aiken Bissonnette Frank and Benary among others. A travel note from Majorca describes a local custom where a husband rides a bicycle beside a moving trolley to converse with his wife en route to town.
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High Point Public Library
Thomas Collins
Curen
Majorca
Palma
The Best Prize Stories 1956 O Henry Prize Anthology
Review notes this Doubeday and Co collection edited by Engle and Martin collects 16 American short stories from 1954 55 periodicals. Prize winners include John er’s The Country Husband and others by James Buechler R. V. Cassill Faulkner Steinbeck Whitehill Stafford Coates. • Readers gain access to major magazine work via hard cover edition.
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Paul Engle
Hansford Martin
Garden City
Doubleday & Co
Saturday Evening Post
Kenyon Review
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Atlantic
Joseph Whitehill
Able Baker
Merchant Marine
New Yorker
Jean Stafford
Robert M. Coates
Bob Horney
Generations of Men by John Clinton Hunt reviewed
Neal Austin notes Generations of Men captures Southwestern life and Native characters with moving emotional depth. Jeff Beecher seeks a father figure in Hardin Buck whose memory anchors the story though tragedy ends their bond, leaving Jeff to learn his place among the plains and drums of extinction.
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John Clinton Hunt
Boston
Atlantic-Little, Brown
American Southwest
Jeff Beecher
Jeff
Samuel Beecher
Chetopah County
Oklo
Sam Beecher
Hardin Buck
Hardin
Chetopah
Hardin Lick
Hunt
Buck
John White Eagle
White Eagle
Paul
Neal Austin
Longest railway bridge spans 12 miles over Utah lake
The Lucin cutoff, a 12 mile wooden pile railroad bridge crosses over the Great Salt Lake in Utah, claiming the title of the longest railway structure in the world.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
Barbara Crawley Entered as Seventh Miss High Point Contestant
Barbara Jeane Crawley, born February 29, 1936, daughter of Mrs. Gladys Crawley of Chestnut Street, is the seventh entrant in the 1956 Miss High Point beauty contest. A 1954 High Point High School graduate and WHPE secretary, she is 5 feet 8 inches, 130 pounds with 34 25 36 figures. She lists skating and dancing as hobbies and is a noted bowler in the state. She plans to perform a talent recital.
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Miss High Point
Barbara Jeane Crawley
Miss Crawley
Gladys Crawley
Chestnut St
Jaycee
High Point College Memorial Auditorium
High Point High School
Jailhouse Tip Reaches Covington Inmate Plot
In Covington Kentucky two men Delmar Wells 32 and Norman Simpson 28 aided an imprisoned friend James Thom by using a straw to swirl whisky through cell bars. They were observed by jailer William Knauf and cited for disorderly conduct and being drunk after a test of the method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delmar Wells
Norman Simpson
James Thomas
William Knauf
Knauf
Washington trucker dies in Russian roulette incident
A Macon Georgia truck driver Ernest M Pattison 34 was relaxing during a layover at Washburn Storage Co Washburn Storage Co when he showed a .32 caliber revolver to Herbert Hoffman and Odell McNeil and stated I can spin with anybody He removed all but one shell from the chamber and spun it Police reported Lt Bonaccorsky said Pattison lost the deadly gamble resulting in his death
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Nunzio Bonaccorsky
Ernest M. Pattison
Washburn Storage Co
Herbert Hoffman
Odell McNeil
Fayetteville
N.C
Pattison
Bonaccorsy
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Katherine Gauss Jackson
Harper's Magazine
Franciose Sagan
Dutton
Sagan
William Sloane Associates
Nicholas Monsarrat
Robert Ruark
Henry Holt
Walter Lord
Lord
Pearl Harbor
Charmed Circle
Susan Friz
Literary Guild
Uncle Tom
J. C. Furnas
Robert Marks
Carolina River Story
Learning
James Conant
Victor Cohn
Lisle
Horowitz
Conrad Aiken
Moscow
Georges
Herblock
Herbert Block
Harvey Breit
Edinburgh
David Daiches
G Fox
Robert EF. Lee
Burke Davis
Thoreau
Hough
Toscanini
Chotzinoff
Ilbert Benary
Johner
The
Pepicelli
James Buechler
R. Vv. Cassill
Mondo
U. S. Patent Office Sequirer
Department O of Agricultare
China
Americas
Mondo Grass CO
Dept
Bilext, Miss
Ronson
Jrwelam
Suvec
Prire
S. Main ST
Covington, Ky
Childers
Wise ST
Carolina Tri-City
Termite CO
Barbara Jfeane Crawley
Ronson Essex
Satio
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