Limbo Tower by William Lindsay Gresham
A four patient tuberculosis ward tale using a philosopher, boxer, evangelist, Marxist, mystic and gambler to explore notions of hope. The novel follows three days of their lives as they debate life, ethics, freedom and progress in a stark urban institution.
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Gresham
Ayresham
Hermes Trismegistus
Local Best Seller List Debate and Special Review
Editors announce an in house best seller survey for High Point with no guarantees and present a review of A Guide to Confident Living by Rev. Thomas J. Smyth. The note cites divergent national lists and hints at economic strain including rising prices and unemployment.
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Robert Marshall
Squire Jim
Whch
New York Times
Saturday Review of Literature
Thomas J. C. Smyth
Saint Mary's Episcopal Church
Don’t spit in the well quote fuels UN veto debate
So Viet delegate Andrei Gromyko warns against weakening the UN veto power as a key element of security policy. He argues preserving veto rights is essential to maintain balance among major powers and prevent unilateral actions that could destabilize international peace.
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Andrei Gromyko
A Guide To Confidence In Living by Peale
Norman Vincent Peale argues faith in God and self helps resolve life problems. The book emphasizes listening, prayer as powerful energy, and practical methods to aid others with daily issues, in a readable, convincing Christian approach.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Prentice-Hall
Church Women To Hold Bible Study Series
Dr. Julian Price Love of Louisville Kentucky opens a teaching and preaching series at First Presbyterian Church North Main and Shirley streets. Love, professor of English Bible at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, is a nationally known lecturer and author of How to Read the Bible.
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Julian Price Love
Louisville
Kentucky
First Presbyterian Church
North Main
Shirley Streets
Love
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Toca
Textile Workers Union marks 10th anniversary week
The Textile Workers Union of America CIO celebrates its 10th anniversary week May 8 14 1949 led by International representative Robert A. Parker with a coast to coast ABC radio program featuring Melvin Douglas Alan MacMahon and appearances by Eleanor Roosevelt Gov Chester Bowles Sen Frank Graham and Emil Rieve. Local observances include open houses by Local 319 Highland Cotton Mills and Local 608 Pickett Cotton Mills plus a North Central Joint Board delegates gathering at Union Hall in High Point North Carolina.
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Textile Workers Union of America, Cio
Robert A. Parker
High Point
Thomasville
Winston-Salem
Textile Workers Union of America Cio
Earl Phillips
Earl N. Phillips
North Carolina
TWUA
ABC Network
Melvin Douglas
Alan MacMahon
Union Hall
South Main Street
North Central Joint Board
CIO
Earth’s discordant note through Hal Boyle’s send up
A Martian president hears the stars’ music is ruined by Earth’s warlike peoples. Ex explorer Rado reports Earth shows enslaving, destroying wars that mute the cosmos. He presents a sleeping baby to prove how life grows from such beings. There is nothing of any less value than a spare tire until you need it. But when you need a spare tire nothing else can take its place.
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New York
Mars
Earth
Rado
Rade
Sen. Estes Kefauver
TVA
North Carolina Hospitals and Beds Overview
North Carolina operates 146 general hospitals with a beds capacity to serve nearly four million residents. The figure highlights statewide health infrastructure and access potential across the state.
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North Carolina
Bible study series lecture at First Presbyterian Church
Dr Love will lecture on the Gospel of John each morning at 10 o'clock Monday through Friday at the First Presbyterian Church. The High Point Council of Church Women designates this as their annual Bible study series. Evening preaching services are at 7 30. One in ten North Carolinians were hospital patients last year.
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Love
First Presbyterian Church
High Point
Council of Church Women
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