Leonard’s New Baseball Tale Joins Pennant Chase
Stretch Bolton leads the Jesters and then the Gold Sox in a pennant race in Mr. Shortstop. The boys’ book by Burgess Leonard follows a young manager torn between two teams and hidden ambitions. Leonard, a Randolph County native and veteran writer, has published hundreds of sports stories. Anchor Books launches a 10th anniversary series of English literature, with selections from Ben Jonson to Robert Herrick. World Publishing unveils Forum Books, a library paperback line led by psychoanalytic and literary titles. Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology gets a new collector’s edition with woodcuts by John Ross and Clare Romano Ross.
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Stretch Bolton
Shortstop
Lippincott
Burgess Leonard
Leonards
Gold Sox
Stretch
Why Not
Randolph County
Leonard
High Point
Mars Hill
Wake Forest College
Anchor Books
Doubleday
Ben Johnson
John Milton
Robert Herrick
J. Max Patrick
New York University
Henry Vaughan
Sir Francis Bacon
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River
Macmillan
Abraham Lincoln
Ann Rutledge
John Ross
Clare Romano Ross
Spy Story CATCH A FALLING SPY
Nathaniel Benchleys spoof of spy tales mixes Broadway style humor with New York city settings. The formerly penniless writer Stewart Long pretends to be a spy for Albania while Red China is rumored to seek secret data as slapstick chaos erupts in a suburban home and exclusive club.
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Stewart Long
Albania
Red China
New York
Long
Lisher
Nature Books
Roger Markham
Benchley
War Beneath The Sea The Tenth Fleet Story
Mary MacNickol reviews Farage’s account of the Tenth Fleet a clandestine U.S. Navy think tank that waged a secret anti submarine war against German U boats. The book details Doenitz tactics Churchill praise and the turning point in 1943 with 25 U boats sunk as Britain also fared well.
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Tenth Fleet
Ladislas Farage
Ivan Obolensky, Inc
New York
Francis Stuart Low
U.S.N
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Karl Doenitz
United States
Farage
Naval Section
Washington
United States Navy
Britain
Edge of Horror by Norman Corwin reviewed
A World Magazine review of Edge Of Horror by Norman Corwin praises its moving ideas and restrained yet powerful words. The slim volume blends poems and prose on fission fusion and fallout with pieces echoing news items and literature. It includes a radio script for the United Nations envisioning a Peace Corps like invasion to combat global ills.
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Corwin
Carl Sandburg
United Nations
Beat WHERE'S ANNIE? A Ventura Village Tale by Eileen Bassing
Review of Beat WHERE'S ANNIE? set in a primitive Mexican village colony of artists and fringe characters led by Victoria Beacon the four time married author narrator. The novel contrasts decay and vitality with a garish style and a compact plot about creative integrity under pressure.
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Annie
Eileen Bassing
Random House
Miss Bassing
Mexico
Marine Corps
Ned
Harry
Victoria Beacon
Victoria
Wounded Lieutenant Turns Instructor at Officer Training School
In Bavaria, Kirst author of the Gunner Asch trilogy, profiles a wounded lieutenant who recovers and becomes an instructor at an officer training school, illustrating resilience and continued service.
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Kirst
Gunner Asch
Bavaria
Verdi's Early Years and Rise From Italian Innkeeper’s Son
A brief note traces Giuseppe Verdi born in Le Ronde in 1813 to a poor innkeeper’s son who showed early musical interest. Lacking initial Conservatory entry, he studied privately then returned to Busseto to pursue music as a small town musician after early struggles.
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le Ronde
Italy
Giuseppe
Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
Busseto
Conservatory
Milan
Verdi
Far Road and Verdi Operas Stir the Times
A mixed review column surveys George Johnston novel The Far Road set in 1945 China with war correspondents Bruce Conover and David Meredith. It then shifts to Verdi’s major works Opéra Aida Falstaff and Requiem plus a High Point concert featuring the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra and the Columbus Boychoir.
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Johnston
China
Bruce Conover
David Meredith
Kweilin
Kunming
Meredith
Liuchow
Conover
Verdi
la Scala
Milan
New Cairo Theatre
Khedive of
Egypt
Suez Canal
Aida
Wagner
High Point
Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra
John Suele
Memorial Auditorium
High Point College
High Point Bookmobile Schedule Week of March 11 15
Public library bookmobile routes listed for Monday through Friday with times and locations including College Village Shopping Center Gatewood Emery Road Hillcrest Overbrook Kennedy Carr Rotary Westwood Otteray Rock Spring Road Brantley Circle W Farriss Hedrick Ashe English Street Oakwood Ridgecrest Dane Wynnewood Rockford Ragan Street This Sell Street Franklin Worth Clara Cox Circle Brentwood Lowe Friddle Street Austin Street Wesley Place E Russell Street
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery Road
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Hedrick
Ashe
English Street
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
W. Springfield
Dane
Wynnewood
Rockford Road
Ragan Street
Thissell Street
Franklin Street
Worth Avenue
Clara Cox Circle
Brentwood
Lowe
Friddle Street
Austin Street
Wesley Place
E. Russell Street
Family REMEMBER ME TO TOM
Edwina Dakin Williams writes a candid memoir of Tennessee Williams life and career. The mother reflects on their family, offers honest paternal and maternal insights, and reveals her own marriage turmoil and its impact on the playwright. The book notes that Tom may accept this family portrait.
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Tom
Edwina Dakin Williams
Putnam
Tennessee Williams
Broadway
Williams
Intrigue in Ambler Mystery The Light of Day
Arthur Simpson a petty opportunist and chauffeur ventures into a Turkish arms smuggling plot in Istanbul. He gets pressured by a conspirator group and is forced by Turkish police to work as a double agent against the ring.
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Eric Ambler
Knopf
Ambler
Arthur Simpson
Arthur
Istanbul
Miles A. Smith
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World Publishing Co
Forum Books
Hans Herma
Gertrud M. Kurth
Ashley Montagu
Theodore Dreiser
Carpenters
Seymour
Salinger
McKenna
Knebel and Bailey
Burdick and
Wheeler
Drury
Charley
Steinbeck
Schulz
Carson
Baldwin
White
Nathaniel Benchley
McGraw- Hill
Manhattan
Kate Simon
The
Fective
Europe
Mary Macnicol
Edge of
Overkill
Norman& Corwin
Telstar
Ellen Raskin
Officer Factory
Hans Hellmut Kirst
Robert Kee
Third Reich
George Johnston
Morrow
Columbus Boychoir
Princeton
Canada
Roy Harris
Plains
Oklahoma
Johnny
Andrew Fletcher
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