Suburban Satire and Corporate Dread In New Fiction
AP Arts editor reviews Merle Miller Richard Yates Robert Graham and Jean Mercier novels satirizing suburban life and big business. Yates Revolution ary Road follows Frank and April Wheeler through marriage and career collapse, while Graham s Annals of Logan uses lyric monologue to expose a sales dept in a megacorp. Mercier Whatever You Do Don t Panic targets a controlling PTA mother amid suburban consumer battles.
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American Writers of Fiction
Times
Merle Miller
Sloane
Westchester
Manhattan
Joshua Bland
Bland
Richard Yates
Atlantic
Little Brown
Yates
Frank Wheeler
April Johnson
Frank
April
Paris
Robert Graham
LOGAN
Holt-Rinehart-Winston
Office
Happiness Club
Jean Mercier
Doubleday
PTA
Current Best Sellers in Fiction and Nonfiction
A list of top selling books across fiction and non fiction categories. Notable titles include Hawaii by Michener Advise and Consent by Drury The Last of the Just by Schware Bart A Burnt Out Case by Greene To Kill a Mocking Bird by Lee The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer Who Killed Society by Amory The Waste Makers by Packard Fate is the Hunter by Gann Skyline by Fowler.
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Hawaii
Michener
Drury
Schware-Bart
Greene
Lee
Shirer
Society
Amory
Packard
Fate
Gann
Skyline
Fowler
Italy
Andre Schwarz-Bart
American Library Assa
Neal Austin
National Book Awards Winners Honor Three Distinct Works
William L. Shirer won $1,000 for The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a 1 000 page history noted for depth and human decency. Conrad Richter earned for The Waters of Kronos a luminous slender novel described as two level time and amber light. Randall Jarrell won for The Woman at the Washington Zoo a poetry volume praised for wit subserving serious thought. Marya Mannes spoke for the awards urging resistance to consumer culture.
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Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
Conrad Richter
Kronos
Randall Jarrell
Washington Zoo
Shirer
Eric Goldman
Virgilia Peterson
Walter Sullivan
Berlin
Richter
B. J. Chute
Robert M. Coates
Arthur Mizener
Mr. Richter
Pennsylvania
Southwest
Dudley Fritts
Kimon Frair
W. D. Snodgrass
Jarrell
Mystery Bores AFFAIRS OF THE HEART
Malcolm Muggeridge pens a whimsical yet uneven thriller set in middle class London. A joint mystery writer is hired by a widow to investigate her husband’s death amid seances and cults while rival authors collide. The prose pleases with pace and character, but the plot falters as a mystery.
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Muggeridge
Lavender Hill
Three Stooges
London
British Museum
Pepys
Daniel Morgan A Revolu tionary Hero Portrait
North Callahan profiles Daniel Morgan, ranger of the American Revolution, praising his bold deeds from the tavern to battle. The biography, praised for vivid detail and vigor, ranks Morgan just behind Washington and highlights his selflessness and sacrifice in campaigns from Quebec to Cowpens.
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Daniel Morgan
Ranger
North Callahan
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Morgan
Washington
Quebec
Saratoga
Cowpens
Callahan
Henry Knox
Robert D. Price
Solve A Crime: Hartman's Accidental Death Theory Examined
Caleb Hartman pushes an accidental death theory to claim double indemnity. The scene notes an empty saucepan on the stove where water should remain, implying the pot would not boil over yet would extinguish the flame and erase heat to evaporate all remaining water.
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Caleb Hartman
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library Week
Weeklong routes for the High Point Public Library bookmobile list daily stops with time slots from 9:30 to 4:45 each day Monday through Friday. Locations include Ingleside Westover Winston Oakview Pine Valley Marywood and others across town.
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High Point Public Library
Ingleside
Westover
Winston Road
Oakview Road
Pine Valley
Marywood
Woodview
Bridges
Futrelle
Notable Books list highlights diverse works for adults
The American Library Association announces its 17th Notable Books list of 46 titles. Eight are fiction, five literary criticism or poetry, with selections spanning political science natural science religion history music travel and art.
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American Library Assn
Egypt
Vinnia Williams
John Hersey
Harper Lee
John Knowles
Lawrence Durrell
North Carolina music scene tops spring lineups touring state
Ottomar Borwitzky cellist performed in Chapel Hill at Hill Music Hall. The Obernkirchen Children’s Choir sang at Wake Forest College. Greensboro hosted La Boheme and Winston-Salem plans Pagliacci at Reynolds Auditorium with the Winston-Salem Symphony and Singers Guild. High Point composer Lew Lewis advances new material for college productions. Dot Lewis resumes concerts, April 7 in Thomasville.
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North Carolina
North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
Ottomar Borwitzky
Hill Music Hall
Chapel Hill
Obernkirchen
Watt Chapel
Wake Forest College
High Point College
Dot Lewis
Thomasville
Z. Melnikov
Lots To See An Illustrated History Of France
Frances Wing reviews Andre Maurois The new edition of Maurois history traces France from prehistoric times to Charles de Gaulle in lively prose. It reads like a story though cut text offers a survey rather than detail. The book’s strength lies in abundant photos and color plates, with few maps.
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France
Andre Maurois
Viking
Maurois
Charles de Gaulle
Frances Wing
Wedded Annie and Captain Aboard a Pacific Mail Clipper
A review of Kathryne Hulme's Wedded Annie's Captain portrays Annie Bolles and Captain John Cavarly as real people whose lives span sea service from clipper days to steam vessels. Cavarly's career in the Pacific Mail system is highlighted along with Annie's steadfast seafaring wife role, ending with her death.
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Annie
Kathryan Hulme
Atlantic
Little, Brown
Annie Bolles
John Cavarly
Miss Hulme
San Francisco
Pacific Mail Service
Miles A, Smith
Moon Rocket Ships Predicted by Langham
Houston AP report quotes Wright W. Langham, director at Los Alamos, forecasting that huge rocket ships will land on the moon within 15 years. He spoke before a civic club en route to Cape Canaveral and noted humanity already possesses far more nuclear power than a moon voyage would require, though control remains a concern.
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Houston, Tex
Wright W. Langham
Langham
Atomic Energy Commission
Los Alamos
N.M
Cape Canaveral, Fla
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