New Book Recalls a Great Era of Railroading in NC
A new book, Crossties Through North Carolina, chronicles the state’s early railroading from 1833 to 1913. Compiled by John Gilbert with text by Grady Jefferys, the Raleigh publishers detail how Raleigh’s first line and major infills shaped three vast systems, with NC railroads evolving into Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, and Southern Railway legacies.
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Atlantic Coast Line
North Carolina Railroad
Southern Railway
North Carolina Railroads Shaped Towns and Tragedies
The article traces the development of the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Railroads from 1852 to 1891, noting key bridges, mountains, and towns affected. It cites fatal wrecks at Bastian’s Bridge, near Statesville, and near Hamlet, and highlights railroads as lifelines for Wilmington, Fayetteville, Burlington, and Spencer. The book Crossties Through North Carolina is praised for its images but critiqued as brief in text while capturing worker scenes and trestles.
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Hill Top
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Salisbury
Old Fort
Blue Ridge
Asheville
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Saluda
Hendersonville
Bastian
Third Creek
Statesville
Lexington
Annie Oakley
Hamlet
Wilmington
Fayetteville
Cape Fear
Sunday Crossword Puzzle Inside 12 Cities TWELVE CITIES
Book review of John Gunther's Sunday crossword themed travel collection. It surveys twelve cities including London Paris Brussels Rome Warsaw Moscow Beirut Amman and Jerusalem with focus on hotels eateries local life politics and personalities. The critic notes vivid anecdotes and subjective style but says no maps are included and suggests broader city coverage next.
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A Valedictory Review of Norman Thomas’s Choices
In this review of Thomas’s final book, Ives Washburn notes the Socialist icon’s lifelong push for democratic socialism and nonviolent reform. The piece highlights his link between poverty, race tensions, and war, his faith in liberty equality and fraternity, and his call for participatory democracy amid civil rights progress and social upheaval.
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A Spy Scene Suits Author Richard Llewellyn Novel
Richard Llewellyn returns with a fast moving espionage tale featuring Ed mund Trothe, deputy director of a multinational gas pipeline company’s intelligence unit. He chases a traitor while aiming to rescue a colleague from East Germany, with bold tech stunts and jetting across cities.
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Llewellyn
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Arabia
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Rebekah Hark Ness Ballet Bright Youthful Talent
A Winston-Salem study praises the five year old Rebekah Harkness Ballet as the season’s most delightful troupe in Piedmont. The review highlights Madrigalesco by Harkarvy, pieces by Delibes and Barber, and the standout Sebastian by Menotti with Bru nilda Ruiz and Lawrence Rhodes receiving honors. Announcement of the Pennsylvania Ballet and Camerata Singers season follows, with notes on Met News and Stokowski led American Symphony Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall.
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Rebekah
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Winston-Salem
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Lawrence Rhodes
Hurras
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Birgit Finnila
Gary Graffman
Twin City
Leopold Stokowski
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Best Sellers Fiction Shelf Gathers Major Titles
A list of popular novels and authors appears, featuring Bartney’s Complaint Roth The Salzburg Connection MacInnes A Small Town in Gere many Le Carre Force 19 From Navarone MacLean Airport Halley The 900 Days Salisbury The Arms of Krupp Manchester Thirteen Days Kennedy The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson Goldman The Money Game Smith.
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Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home Review
In Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home Rabbi David Smail again blends murder mystery with Jewish theology and Talmudic reasoning. The temperate tone examines church factionalism and philosophical conflict within a temple while delivering an easy readable, enjoyable mystery that sits in Kemelman’s established homespun style.
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Putnam
David Smail
Kemelman
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