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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1955
Page
25
A compiled list of new library offerings includes numerous nonfiction titles across politics ethics housing and economics and biographies by figures such as Meyerson and Reynolds. Fiction selections feature works by Maugham Neill and Seligman among others plus several classic literary reissues and contemporary novels.
Leon Burnete describes tea components including caffeine and theobromine, noting cerebral, cardiac, and diuretic actions. He cites a New York Academy of Sciences booklet, praising tea's stimulating, mood enhancing effects. A roadside scene with two anxious women and a train crossing follows.
Dorothea James, 32, told police a man approached with a knife. She grabbed his arm, twisted it, and took the weapon. She warned if he wanted to knife back he could retrieve it at police headquarters. James said she learned to handle men while working at a local mental hospital.
Book reviews Garbo by John Bainbridge from Doubleday. The author admires the star while noting limits in analysis, tracing her early Stiller influence, Svengali-like relationships, and wartime Hollywood decline. Garbo’s European appeal and resisted cheap fame are highlighted, with some critique of Two-Faced Woman.
A pair of vintage reviews cover Myron Zobel’s ambitious super deluxe trailer project and a larger-than-life land yacht fantasy. Details include opulent Australian satinwood interiors, hidden lighting, a wine bar, and a $20,000 final price tag. Critics note social themes and dramatic outcomes.
Kelland’s tale follows scriptwriter John Miller seeking funding for a pilot film who becomes entangled in a real murder plot. Dolly Dove and her brother Quality Piper form a film company with ex silent stars as cast. A criminal syndicate disrupts rehearsals as guns replace cameras and danger rises toward a shocking finale.
A study of William Heirens the University of Chicago student convicted of three murders and burglaries. Lacy Freeman interviews parents teachers priests police and neighbors to trace emotional disturbances from early life to crime. The author argues no single cause and cites fear deprivation and strict upbringing as factors.
A review of Betty MacDonald’s Onions in the Stew from Lippincott notes her move from Seattle to Vashon Island during World War II. It highlights island life, gardening triumphs, and family tales with her characteristic humor, recalling The Egg and I and The Plague and I.
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