Best Sellers Fiction and Nonfiction Picks Listed
A compiled list of noted titles includes The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Convention Knebel and Bailey The Group McCarthy The Night in Lisbon Remarque The Martyred Kim Le Nonfiction Four Days UPI American Four Days A Moveable Feast Hemingwa A Day in the Life of President Kennedy Bishop The Naked Society Packard Diplomat Among Warriors Murphy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knebel and Bailey
McCarthy
Lisbon
Remarque the Martyred
Kim le
Upi-American Ae
Hemingwa
President Kennedy
Bishop
the Naked Society
Packard
Murphy
Tawney Remembered A Scholar With Grace And Force
Alan Pryce-Jones profiles R H Tawney, 80 at death in 1962, highlighting his influence on British Labour policy, blend of learning and passion, and prose style. Essays span 1914 onward, covering public schools social democracy and Labour aims, with Gaitskell postscript memorializing a humane, non doctrinaire thinker who valued service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tawney
University of London
Labour Party
Rita Hinden
Hugh Gaitskell
Ruskin
William Morris
Gaitskell
Britain
Alan Pryce-Jones
Dog donated to charity in Columbus generosity gone awry
Franklin County Cancer Society reported a volunteer fund collector returned with the money she had collected and a dog. A family offered the animal, then a woman offered a cash gift if she could have the dog back. The trade was made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County Cancer Society
Uris in Berlin Armageddon review note
Book review of Leon Uris' Armageddon tracing Berlin crisis 1944 to 1949 with Sean O Sullivan hero, Western and Soviet clash, occupation themes, and Uris as popular fiction teller. Critics compare to Dickens and mid century drama, noting extensive detail and melodrama in a 630 page work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Uris
Doubleday
Britain
Berlin
West Berlin
Sean O'Sullivan
San Francisco
Uris
O’sullivan
Tris
England
Charles Dickens
Music Notes on Courtesy and Campals at Summer Arts Fairs
A feature outlines etiquette efforts by Miami Civic Concert Assn president Charles Crandon, promotions for Brevard Music Center and Tanglewood Barn Theatre 1962 summer lineup, plus the World’s Fair 120 foot Tower of Music and carillon recitals by famous carillonneurs amid camps and centers across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Civic Concert Assn
Charles Crandon
Crandon
Miami Civic Assn
Teads
United States
Brevard
Reading
Blue Ridge Mountains
Schulmerich Carillons
Cariilonneurs
Old 1818 locomotive retired to Barkley Park
Tears filled some retired railroad men as Old 1818, the Illinois Central steam locomotive, was retired to Barkley Park with a diesel pushing it there. Also in brief, Cincinnati Summer Opera opened its 44th festival with Samson and Delilah starring Jean Madeira and Jacob Robden. Conductor emeritus Pierre Monteux cancelled two Berkshires engagements after a Milan fall, citing rest, to resume teaching in Hancock, Maine and other fall and winter duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paducah
Illinois Central Railroad
Barkley Park
America
Cincinnati Summer Opera
Jean Madeira
Jacob Robden
Piere Monteur
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood
Mass
Milan
Italy
Hancock
Maine
Bookmobile schedule shows weekly routes and times
The timetable lists daily routes for Monday through Friday across locations such as College Village Shop Center, Gatewood, Emery Road, Hillcrest, Emerywood, Kennedy, Rotary Drive, Westwood, Otteray, Rockspring Road, Eaton Place, Brantley Circle, W Farriss, Hedrick, Ashe, English Street, Oakwood, Ridgecrest, Dane, Wynnewood, Rockford Road, Thissell Street, Worth Avenue, Clara Cox Circle, Willard Street, Gordon Road, Ellwood Drive, Wendell Street, and Daniel Brooks Apt, with various morning and afternoon blocks.
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College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery Road
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary Drive
Westwood
Otteray
Rotary
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Hedrick
Ashe
English Street
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
W. Springfield
Dane
Wynnewood
Rockford Road
Ragan
Willard Street
Gordon Road
Ellwood Drive
Wendell Street
Daniel Brooks
The Rise and Fall of the Space Age by Ed Win Diamond
Space Age Space Age reviews the Sputnik era and its promise of cosmic exploration. The author argues the space age was driven by Cold War fears and rushed assumptions, with criticism of pork barrels, high ground concepts, and showmanship. He notes evidence suggesting the Soviets may not race for the moon and calls for arms control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond
Newsweek
U. S
Sputnik
Bay of Pigs Leaders Story of Briga de 2506
Review of Haynes Johnson and collaborators account of Brigade 2506 in Bay of Pigs unfolded events and aftermath. Highlights bravery amid missteps and years imprisonment, CIA issues, and public apathy toward liberation. Notes Donovan negotiates release. Oliva experiences restaurant denial as a Black Cuban.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay OF Pigs
Brigade
Haynes Johnson
Manuel Artime
Jose Perez San Romas
Ernestie Oliva
Enrique Ruiz-Williams
Nortom
Cuba
Jacqueline Kennedy
United States
Othe
U. S
James Donovan
Johnson
Central Intelligence Agency
Erheldo Oliva
Castro
Miami
Oliva
Maurice Dolbier
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Oues
Canada
Fee
Acre
Radical Thinker
R. H. Tawney
Pantheon
Tanglewood Barn Theatre
Robert Bolt
Henry VII
Barn Theatre
Edwin Diamond
Alton Blakeslee
Lennox
Garrison Street
Central Monument CO
Vera L. Forrest
English Rd
Camelot Woods
High Point
Stokes County
Danbury
Hanging Rock
Kernersville
Walkertown
Walnut Cove
Danboury
Camelot
Holiday/Snut
West Green St Ext
High Point, N. C
North State
Central Exchange
Thomasville
Randleman
Rolling Road
Jamestown Elementary School
Dilton Road
Robbins Road
Valley Brook Dr
Jet
Building
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