Notty May Give Navy Another Secret Weapon Notty
Notty a three year old porpoise at China Lake Navy facility may become a secret weapon. She trains in a San Diego tank with Convair scientists recording her speed and responses. Notty could help improve torpedo and submarine speeds by studying skin and blood flow effects on drag.
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Navy
Ralph Dighton
Palos Verdes
Calif
U.S. Navy
Naval Ordnance Test Station
China Lake
Marineland
Oceanarium
San Diego
Convair
Thomas Lang
Ralph Penner
USC
Penner
Natty
Troubled Years in Ambush
Roger Grenier’s novel follows Pierre a photographer in southern France who aids Constance after she claims to have killed a German. Their escape, shifting to Paris and Athens, traces war’s toll on spirit and ambition, ending with a bleak morning after and universal disillusion.
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Roger Grenier
Linda Asher
Knopf
Pierre
France
Constance
Joseph Prulieres
Paris
Spain
Prulieres
Athens
Texas
Grenier
Manet Watercolors and Pastels Facsimile Volume
Kurt Martin reviews Abrams deluxe facsimile of 24 Manet pastel and watercolor reproductions. Subjects include portraits and cityscapes with studies for Luncheon on the Grass, packaged in a protective cellophane envelope with removable Mats. Series companion artists include Klee and Renoir.
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MANET
Kurt Martin
Abrams
Klee
Renoir
The Big Ward by Jacoba van Velde review
A bleak poignant Dutch translated novel set in a Paris household with a dying Dutch grandmother in a hospital ward. The narrative follows memory longing and loss as she confronts dependence, despair, and the absence of a happy ending. It portrays deep emotion, realism, and healing through stark truth.
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Jacoba van Velde
Simon & Schuster
Helena
Paris
Holland
Willem
The Death of Africa Promises American Aid and Action
Robert Marks reviews Peter Ritner’s The Death of Africa, arguing the continent faces hunger, underdevelopment, racial injustice, and political disempowerment from South Africa to Kenya. Ritner urges a radical U S policy shift, cultural ties, and possible UN actions to prevent chaos and preserve Africa as a partner for the United States.
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Africa
Peter Ritner
Macmillan
Ritner
America
Union of South Africa
Rhodesias
Congo
Kenya
Ghana
Nigeria
Mozambique
Angola
Great Britain
Belgium
France
West Africa
Portuguese Africa
United Nations Study Commission
South Africa
United States
Robert Marks
Reflections of an Angry Middle-Aged Editor
James A. Wechsler outlines his political views in Reflections of an Angry Middleaged Editor. He defends survival without surrender equal rights and liberal causes while critiquing Eisenhower Nixon and segregation. The book compiles editorials from the New York Post and Wechsler’s own liberal stance.
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James A. Wechsler
Random House
The
New York Post
Eisenhower
Nixson
John F. Kennedy
Dmass
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Wechsler
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Eous
Arthur Everett
Glory Before Bull Run Colonel Ellsworth
Ruth Painter Randall profiles Elmer Ellsworth a celebrated Zouave officer killed before Bull Run. The narrative uses his letters and a diary to reveal a gifted but self dramatizing man whose charm, vanity, and self pity shape a nuanced Civil War portrait.
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Elmer Ellsworth
Ruth Painter Randall
Little, Brown
Bull Run
Zouave Cadets
Chicago
Alexandria
Abraham Lincoln
New York Times
White House
Lincoln
Ells
Carrie Spafford
Illinois
Ellsworth
Mrs. Randall
Randall
Robert F. Lee
North
Poppycock
George Armstrong Custer
Bob Price
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper review
A 1960 two volume Beards edition expands Cooper’s correspondence from 1789 birth to 1830s Europe travels. It highlights his wit with Scott Morse and Greenough, travel costs, political views, and images of 19th century transatlantic culture. The reviewer calls the letters a genial, simple travel account revealing more about Cooper than his novels.
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Franklin Beard
Belknap Press
Harvard
Yale
Cooper
Susan de Lancey
Europe
America
Lafayette
Comprehensive Booksreturns: Classic Gift Volume List
A catalog of travel guides dictionaries atlases cookbooks etiquette and reference titles from major publishers. Notable entries include Fielding Europe 1960 61 Rand McNally The Encyclopedia of Sports Peterson Birds and Roget thesaurus with prices and editions.
Alvar Aalto in Focus by Gutheim for Braziller Books
Aalto’s diverse achievements from chairs to major buildings are explored by Frederick Gutheim in a strong World Architecture Masters volume. The review praises Gutheim’s praise of Aalto as responsive architect, notes the book’s 30 pages of text and 100 pages of photographs, and places it among a series with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
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Aalto
Finland
M.st
Paris
New York
Gutheim
William Alexander
Braziller
le Corbusier
Franacoise Chony
William Cook
Michael Stein
Ovenfant
Salvation Army
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vincent Scully
Pier Luigi Nervi
Ada Louise Huxtable
Antonio Gaudi
George R. Collins
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Arthur Drexler
W. G. Rogers
Current Best Sellers List Highlights Fiction and Nonfiction
The display lists top titles including Advise and Consent by Drury and Michener’s The Constant Image. Other noted works are The Lincoln Lords Hawley The Truster from the Tool Room by Shute May This House Be Safe from Tigers by King Folk Medicine Jarvis The Law and the Profits Parkinson The Enemy Within Kennedy I Kid You Not Paar.
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King Folk Medicine
Jarvis
THE
LAW
Parkinson
Kennedy
Paar
Woman buys straight razor for friend at barbershop
A Baltimore barbershop encounter ends with a woman purchasing a straight razor for a friend. She then asks the supplier where blades come from, signaling interest in the tool’s components.
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Baltimore
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