The Crush of Poverty by Oscar Lewis
A critical review of Oscar Lewis’s Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty, with fictionalized names yet stark portraits of poverty. The piece praises Lewis’s humane, human-centered approach and notes the book’s unflinching depiction of hardship, family dynamics, and cultural beliefs.
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Oscar Lewis
Oliver la Farge
Basic Books
Martinez
Gomez
Gutierrez
Sanchez
Castro
Lewis
Chile
Synchronizing slave and master electronic flash units
A guide explains photoelectric slave units triggered by a master flash. It covers timing accuracy, Heiland Fotoeye, practical setups for multi unit lighting, bounce lighting, exposure calculations, and recommended reading in the Modern Camera Guide Series for more details.
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Rus Arnold
Chilton Co
Philadelphia
Sky High The Big X
Mystery flight tale follows Mitch Westerly a test pilot who must diagnose a deadly problem at 200 miles up. An engineer pushes risks for unproven theories while Sue fears for Mitch as friendships and loyalties shape the perilous mission.
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Hank Sears
Harper
Mitch Westerly
Mitch
Sue
Shakespeare Festival Opens Fifth Season With Romeo and Juliet
Stratford, Conn AP Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opened the American Shakespeare Festival Theater fifth season with Richard Easton as Romeo and Inga Swenson as Juliet. Both actors are part of the festival repertory and the large theater is styled after Shakespearean times. The season will include The Merry Wives of Windsor and All’s Well That Ends Well with scenery by David Hays.
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Stratford, Conn
American Shakespeare Festival Theater
Richard Easton
Romeo
Inga Swenson
David Hays
Mae Best Sellers List Shows Wide Range of Titles
A catalog of fiction and nonfiction offerings includes Exodos Urs The Ugly American Doctor Zhivago Dear and Glorious Physician Lady Chatterley's Lover The Status Seekers Mine Enemy Grows Older Only in America How I Turned One Thousand Dollars into a Million in Real Estate Elizabeth the Great with multiple authors and topics across genres.
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Exodus
Urs
Lederer & Burdick
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak
Caldwell
Lady Chatterley
Lawrence
Packard
King
America
Golden
Nickerson
Elizabeth the Great
Jenkins
Air War the Clock with Four Hands
James Leasor reviews Air War the Clock with Four Hands, detailing Hollis’s wartime insight and a cast including Brooke Montgomery Gort Dill Roosevelt Marshall Eisenhower Stimson Churchill. The author notes anecdotes, scarce new ground, and critiques Allied strategy from Chamberlain to the Second Front.
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James Leasor
Sir Leslie Hollis
War Cabinet
Washington
Leasor
Hollis
Britain
Chamberlain
Far East
Europe
Mediterranean
France
Greece
North Africa
Alamein
Stalingrad
Alanbrooke
Montgomery
Gort
Dill
Roosevelt
Marshall
Eisenhower
Stimson
Churchill
London
England
Truman
Error in Shelby paper misreads sub debutantes as sub debts
The Shelby Daily Star apologized for a typographical error in a sub debutante ball story sponsored by the Junior Charity League. The piece misspelled debutantes as debts, drawing attention to the misprint and fathers' reactions.
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Shelby
N. C
Shelby Daily Star
Star
Niche in Life Finding Your Place and Purpose
A reflective piece urges readers to discover a personal niche in life and to contribute fully. It emphasizes belonging, individual value, and completing one’s part with effort and intention.
Records On Huginmulligan and Spoken Arts Projects
A feature review notes Lennox Robinson and Spoken Arts curating Yeats and other writers on records. It highlights Robinson readings, Yeats essays, and bonus albums from Masefield Miller Parker Wilbur and Eban, plus RCA Victor’s Baseball Game novelty and its quirks and reception.
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Huginmulligan
AP News
Laywright Lennox Robinson
Ireland
Spoken Arts
William Butler Yeats
Yeats
Robinson
John Masefield
Arthur Miller
S. J. Perelman
Dorothy Parker
James Stephens
Erskine Caldwell
Richard Wilbur
Emergency Assembly United Nations
Israel
Sinai
David Ben Gurion
Eban
Cambridge
RCA Victor
Mel Allen
Bermuda to honor Sea Venture wreck with 350th stamp issue
Bermuda plans a July stamp release marking the Sea Venture shipwreck of 1609 with full color coats of arms of James I and Queen Elizabeth II. The 350th anniversary tribute mirrors historic ties to Virginia relief voyages led by Sir George Somers.
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Bermuda
Sea Venture
James I
England
Virginia
George Somers
Bermudas
Coral Islands
Plymouth Rock
Olimpia by Burt Cole lights up Barcelona with wit
A spicy 1930s novel follows Olimpia a calculating young woman who travels from innocence to fame in Barcelona She uses a string of patrons including a newspaperman impresario journalist and a police captain to fund her adventures and fend off rivals A bold mercurial tale with humor a wicked rogue in Juan Bautista and a playful ending hints at truth behind the mischief
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Barcelona
Juan Bautista
Don Martin Arimon
Olimpia
Don Martin
Til Eulenspiegel
Live and Learn to Pee 2 Experience
A quirky note emphasizes practical lessons in life with a focus on experience over theory. It hints that valuable knowledge often comes from real-world practice, not classroom instruction.
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