Readers weigh magazine focus as Saturday Review survey aims at books
The Saturday Review editors circulated a reader questionnaire on the magazines departments and overall direction. Clement Eaton named Distinguished Professor of the Year at the University of Kentucky delivered a lecture on Henry Clay. Children's books publishers announce spring lists including The Enchanted House and Showboat's Coming.
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Saturday Review
Trade Winds
New York Times
New York Herald Tribune
Clement Eaton
Curtis Smithdeal
High Point
University of Kentucky
College of Arts and Sciences
Eaton
Henry Clay
Winston-Salem
University of North Carolina
Graduate School
Harvard University
Europe
University of Manchester
England
Library of America
New American Nation
South
Ruth Sawyer
Maine
Keith Robertson
Carol Ryrie Brink
Viking Press
World Publishing Co
Adele and
Cateau de Leeuw
Ohio River
Longman
Ellen Turngren
Sodhouse
Bon
Notes On A Native Son by James Baldwin
Vivian Alston reviews James Baldwin's Notes Of A Native Son, praising its piercing analysis of the Negro experience in America. The essay collection challenges white supremacy and dehumanization while tracing identity, culture, and race relations through personal and social critique.
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James Baldwin
Boston
Beacon Press
Harlem
Baldwin
Hollywood
Carmen Jones
Paris
America
Africa
West
Vivian Alston
A Distaff View Of Attica The Nylon Safari
Georgia Cox reviews Rehna Cloete’s travel memoir The Nylon Safari about three weeks in Africa led by Bill the White Hunter. Tiny Cloete films wildlife and endures roughing it while the couple’s safari humor contrasts with the lack of preparedness and map.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Africa
Stuart Cloete
Rehna Cloete
Bill
Tiny
Tanganyika
Georgia Cox
Profiles in Courage a Kennedy Biography Review
The review highlights Kennedy's Profiles in Courage detailing eight U.S. Senators who chose national good over political gain. It outlines figures like John Quincy Adams Daniel Webster and Edmund Ross and notes the book’s structure with time and place contexts and a claim that later events proved these brave choices wise. Bob Horney.
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Edmund Burke
Bristol
John F. Kennedy
John Quincy Adams
Kennedy
Federalist
Senate
Daniel Webster
Thomas Hart Benton
Sam Houston
Mississippi
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Edmund Ross
Johnson
George Norris
Nebraska
Robert Taft
Ohio
Bob Horney
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Mae Hyman
New American Library
Robert Marks
Betete
Attica
Houghton Miflin Co
Cloetes
New York
Harper Brothres
Belk-Beck CO
Goodfyear Paii
Mink
Belk
Beck