Joseph Conrad Retold as a Literary Architect Not Seaman
Jocelyn Baines in Joseph Conrad A Critical Biography argues that Conrad’s life and fiction are deeply interwoven showing a literary heritage from his poet father and childhood plays. The book contends Conrad’s sea setting masks an interest in ideal values and inner loneliness rather than mere seafaring tales.
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Joseph Conrad
Conrad
Jocelyn Baines
McGraw-Hill
Chance
Baines
Lord Jim
Putting First Things First by Stevenson to Be Published
Random House releases a seven piece collection of Adlai Stevenson essays and speeches this week. The title work originally appeared in Foreign Affairs in January 1960 and the volume covers Western Europe Russia China the Middle East development private capital education and housing.
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Adlai Stevenson
Random House
Foreign Affairs Magazine
Stevenson
Europe
Russia
China
Middle East
Robert Marks
Army Commander Meade of Gettysburg
Freeman Cleaves profiles George Gordon Meade, arguing he led the Army of the Potomac with capable tactics under Grant's broad strategy. The book defends Meade against neglect and critiques Phil Sheridan while praising post Gettysburg service and scholarly rigor. The reviewer laments sparse maps.
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Meade
Gettysburg
Freeman Cleaves
University of Oklahoma Press
Army of the Potomac
Appomattox
U.S. Grant
George Gordon Meade
Grant
Cleaves
Make Believe FOREIGN BODIES by Jean Cayrol translation
Witty avant garde novel translated by Richard Howard. Gaspard narrates a life of absorbed foreign bodies and warped ambitions from farm childhood to Bordeaux and Paris. War profits, black market dealings, and a final chilling scene with Yolande reveal the unstable inner self behind a grand illusion.
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Jean Cayrol
Richard Howard
Putman
Gaspard
Cayrol
W. G. Rogers
Apples for Salem students celebrate Washington's Birthday
In Salem Illinois apples have been given to public school students on Washington's Birthday for 61 years. Started in 1899 by brothers Joseph and Frank Schwartz who ran an orchard the custom has continued through Joseph Schwartz's daughter Christine De Linck wife of Air Force Lt. Col. Martin J De Linck. She orders over 2000 apples yearly from locations as her husband is stationed including Sacramento California and the Panama Canal Zone in 1959.
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Salem, Ill
Salem Public
Washington
Joseph
Frank Schwartz
Joseph Schwartz
Christine de. Linck
Air Force
Martin J. de. Linck
de. Linck
Sacramento
Calif
Panama Canal Zone
Mailer’s new book may confront the era's smugness and fear
Dick Bickerton surveys Norman Mailer’s Advertisements for Myself, arguing the excerpts promise a bold response to modern dialectic. The piece credits Mailer with returning to a vision akin to Camus and Beckett, suggesting the work could provoke backlash yet offer a catalytic reconciliation of perspective.
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William Faulkner
Faulkner
Norman Mailer
Putman
Mailer
Albert Camus
Matthew Arnold
Samuel Beckett
Red Walsen
Dick Bickerton
Soviet Writers on Tour Highlight Pasternak Debate in U.S.
A four writer Soviet delegation led by Stepan Shchipachov visits New York en route to Washington and other U.S. cities. They discuss royalties and criticism, note Pasternak's limited Western earnings, and contrast Soviet literary life with American norms while highlighting Lenin prize winners and peasant origins.
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W. G. Rogers
Associated Press
NEW York
Pasternak
State Department
Gengiz Mountains
Stepan Petrovich Shchipachov
Washington
Fresno
Los Angeles
Calif
Phoenix
New Orleans
Boston
Writers’ Club
Elizabeth Janeway
Russia
Boris Pasternak
Shchipachov
Notable 1960s Fiction and Nonfiction Titles Listed
A catalog style listing highlights fiction works including Hawaii by Michener and Advise and Consent by Drury plus The Longest Day by Ryan and Two Weeks in Another Town by Shaw. Nonfiction items include Folk Medicine by Jarvis and May This House Be Safe From Tigers by King.
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Hawaii
Michener
Drury
Davenport
Shaw
Caldwell
Jarvis
Hart
King
Flynn
Ryan
Fire drives farmer from home as roof collapses
Lexington Georgia AP report details farmer Johnny Wymbs who watched TV when a visitor warned of a blaze. They escaped just as the roof caved in, with the fire said to have started on the second floor while Wymbs and his iTV were on the first.
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Lexington
Johnny Wymbs
Wymbs
Itv
Questionable Sum THE WORK OF AN ANCIENT HAND
A rural drama set in Iowa Kaleburg follows Vernon Kal Isen and his wife Letitia after moving from Kaleburg. The book traces failed lives, a foreclosed farm, and a collapsing community as a series of personal crises unfold toward a lugubrious central tragedy. Reviewer W G Rogers notes strong prose but a lack of cohesive focal tension.
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Curtis Harnack
Harcourt, Brace
Iowa
Kaleburg
Vernon Kal Isen
Letitia
Kallsens
Vernon
Schneider
Wolbers
Herman Johns
Henry Ketter
Myron Koch
Hans Albrecht
Harnack
Midwest
W. G. Rogers
The Thief in the White Collar
Norman Jaspan and Hillel Black examine embezzlement in America detailing daily losses of about four million dollars and the low court conviction rate. The book covers cases from bankers to office managers and explains detection and prevention for employers.
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Norman Jaspan
Hillel Black
Lippincott
America
Georgia
Jaspan
India Apologizes For Arrest Of Americans
In New Delhi an Indian government official offered unqualified apologies for the arrest of American actor Frederic March his wife Florence Eldridge and companions on a prohibition charge. The incident occurred in Madras State when four ounces of liquor were found in their luggage at a roadblock. Charges were dropped after bail was posted.
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New Delhi
India
Frederic March
Raj Bahadur
Transport Ministry
U.S. Congress
March
Florence Eldridge
Burrill Crohn
New York
South India
Madras
Lucia di Lammermoor Opera Returns to the Stage
A beloved opera featuring coloratura sopranos, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, is revived after an adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel. The production highlights dramatic arias and period staging to captivate fans.
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Donizetti
Sir Walter Scott
Atlas of the Classical World reviewed by editors Heyden and Scullard
A survey of ancient Greece and Rome tracing their politics culture and enduring influence from Crete and Mycenae to the decline of Rome. The volumes include 225 pages 70 maps and nearly 500 illustrations with maps highlighting authors and key sites.
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Atlas OF
A.A.M. van der Heyden
H. H. Scullard
Nelson
Greece
Rome
Crete
Mycenae
Last WWI shot fired from American 14 inch rail gun
A 14 inch railway gun fired the final shot against German forces in World War I at Thierville France with a reported range of 21 miles.
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Thierville
France
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