The Crisis Of The French In Algeria Lieutenant In Algeria
Book review by Robert Marks on Jean Jacques Servan Schreider’s Lieutentant in Algeria outlines the Algerian rebellion’s impact on French politics and NATO footing. It notes army use against Arabs, risk of a coup, and calls for more Arab self governance in Algeria.
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Alfred A. Knopf
France
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Central Europe
Paris
L’express
Free French
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Servan - Schreider
Black Commandos
Viet Nam
Servin Schreider
Servan-Schreider
West
Robert Marks
Women In War TWO WOMEN by Alberto Mora
Review notes the novel follows Cesira a Rome widow and her daughter Rosetta as World War II reaches Italy. They flee to the mountains and face hardship tragedy from Anzio to Cassino, exposing moral collapse and human failings under war stress. The critic praises Mora via as gripping though unhappy with the ending.
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Angus Davidson
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Cesira
Rome
Trastevere
Rosetta
Mediterranean
Italy
Yugoslavia
Anzio
Cassino
Moravia
Davidson
W. R. Rogers
Improvised Darkroom Shortcuts From Household Goods
Amateur photographers with limited space and time adapt common household items for darkroom use. Methods include using a hair dryer to speed printing, bread boxes as lightproof storage, coffee makers as funnels, breadboards as enlarging-paper easels, and improvised work surfaces. Rubber seals, sprays, and Neoprene coat surfaces to be lightproof and waterproof, while portable boards and cabinets organize gear.
Gale Storm Recovers From Second TV Series Strain
Hollywood star Gale Storm chronicles a health setback after abdominal surgery tied to her second TV series workload. She reports gradual recovery, cites mobility limits, and notes uncertain renewal while eyeing a June guest appearance with Pat Boone and possible family trip with husband Lee Bonnell and their three boys.
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Hollywood
Gale Storm
Gale
Cos
Margie
Pat Boone
Lee Bonnell
New York
Jamaica
Stamps in the News Preview Colorful Canadian Sets
Canada plans revisions to its stamp program with brighter colors and emotional appeal led by John A. MacDonald. A nurse portrait stamp honoring public health is slated for summer release with an attractive model.
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Canada
John A. MacDonald
Financial Services
Postal Department
MacDonald
Marteerid Staat
Two Civil War Books Reviewed by Bob Price
Frank Aretas Haskell's The Battle of Gettysburg and Philip Van Doren Stern's An End to Valor are praised as essential Civil War works. Haskell's eyewitness narrative, though harsh at times, captures the battle's look and feel. Stern's account spans Lincoln's second inauguration to Appomattox, highlighting valor on both sides and the era's tragic yet inspirational arc.
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Gettysburg
Frank Aretas Haskell
Houghton Mifflin
Philip van Doren Stern
Haskell
Frank Haskell
Pickett
Bruce Catton
Lincoln
Appomattox
Confederacy
Bob Price
Power Of Purse Still In Pew Fight Over Parish Minister
In Federalsburg Maryland two Methodist churches Union and Christ quarrel with Bishop G Bromley over a merged minister. Parishioners threaten to cut minister salaries to two thousand dollars citing the purse power remains in the pew. Union Church counts six hundred members and Christ Church more than two hundred as they resist consolidation.
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Federalsburg
G. Brom
Union
Christ Methodist
Union Church
Christ Church
Two Faces of Jill Corey A Sad and Happy Album Review
AP News features writer covers Jill Corey whose moods shift with songs on her two sided Columbia LP Sometimes I’m Happy and Sometimes I’m Blue. The review notes her tearful ballads, upbeat numbers, arrangements by Glenn Osser, and contrasts with Ann Sothern and Eileen Rodgers releases.
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Hugh Mulligan
AP News
Jill Corey
Jill
Joanne Woodward
Columbia
Glenn Osser
Ann Sothern
Zenith
Sothern
Ann
Paris
New York City Opera Hosts Young American Opera Composers
A group of 15 U.S. composers visited New York for a City Opera five week repertory program funded in part by Ford Foundation. They toured operations, listened to talks with publishers and designers, and learned how opera houses work while hoping for a native opera season.
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New York City
The
Ford Foundation
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Rudel
Oberlin
Kubelik
Mitropoulos
Krenek
Piston
Luening
Moore
Brownlee
Milhaud
New York University
Arizona State College
State University of Iowa
Bamento State College
University of Illinois
Wesleyan
Cleveland
Guggenheim
America
Europe
City Opera
The Schools Again What’s Happened to Our High Schools
John F. Latimer argues American education failed its children with split-level schooling. He decries feeble cursory curricula and cites the Committee of Ten’s five core subjects as essential. Latimer warns enthusiasm for science must not erode basic English Latin mathematics and government.
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John F. Latimer
Public Affairs Press
America
Latimer
George Washington
Committee of Ten
Bennen Bhondiit
Arthur Edson
How To Do Nothing With No Body All Alone
Book review excerpt notes Robert Paul Smith's Howe to Do Nothing with No Body All Alone, a humorous how to guide for all ages. It covers avoiding TV, frugal crafts like mumbly peg, and hints at using the library while avoiding harm to others.
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Robert Paul Smith
Norton
Vice President Nominated for President Long After 1836
The text notes that no vice president had been nominated for president from the vice presidency since Martin Van Buren in 1836, highlighting a historic precedent in party nominating practice.
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Martin van Buren
Best Sellers List of Notable Fiction and Nonfiction
A catalog of current best sellers across fiction and nonfiction titles. Notable entries include Anatomy of a Murder by Smith, The Winthrop Woman by Seton, Ice Palace by Ferber, North from Rome by Maciones, The Sergeant by Murphy, Masters of Deceit by Hoover, Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Kerr, Inside Russia Today by Gun MADISON AVENUE, Mayer.
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Smith
Kerr
Russia
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