Another Age RUAN. Bryher’s vivid Cornwall saga
Bryher presents Ruan a Cornish youth drawn to the sea yet bound to church life. Set around 6th century Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, the tale follows rites, loyalties, and adventures from Lestender to Bryher with a rich evocation of a lost age. The narrative shifts from 660 B C to 1960 with convincing detail.
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Ruan
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Honorius
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Kynan
Kaden
Lestender
Gawain
Scilly Isles
Land’s End
Bryher
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Lydd
Osmund
Moram
Melvas
Wales
Waterford
Bryder
B. C
Poetry in Pursuit of Poetry by Robert Hillyer review
The review surveys Poem in Pursuit of Poetry by Robert Hillyer from McGraw-Hill at 4.75. It praises Hillyer for defending poetic virtues while critiquing contemporaries like Bridges Stephens Yeats Pound Eliot Auden and notes a mixed assessment of his stance and quotes a child poem by Tennyson as a positive highlight.
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Robert Hillyer
McGraw-Hill
Hillyer -Live
Robert Bridges
James Stephens
Yeats
Whitman
Pound
Eliot
Hillyer
Auden
Tennyson
Minnie
Winnie
Bandit Staring Bluff Turns to Real Heist in Baltimore
In Baltimore Maryland on Thursday clerk Carole Lugenbeel 21 faced a teen bandit who fled after she challenged him with two seconds to leave Friday a man read of the incident and pulled a pistol at the same clerk demanding money Miss Lugenbeel surrendered a cash box containing about 150 dollars as police noted in the report
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Baltimore, Md
Carole Lugenbeel
Our Incredible Civil War a panoramic wartime almanac
Davis presents a lively almanac of the Civil War with odd facts and tales. It covers leaders Lincoln and Lee, the war’s four year span, causes, and diverse topics from sex in the era to the music and balloons used. The work debunks legends like Barbara Fritchie and notes youths and spelling quirks of soldiers. It ends with Appomattox fading but global interest remains as the centennial approaches.
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Burke Davis
Holt
Rinehart
Winston
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Davis
United States
Mr. Lincoln
Barbara Fritchie
Company K
42Nd
North Carolina
Tom Dula
Dooley
Tom
Carolina
Lee
Grant
Appomattox Courthouse
South
North
English Writers Tie Shared Roots to Arts Careers
A review notes three new books by Lovat Dickson, C Day Lewis, and Leonard Woolf with Peter Quennell in the same orbit. It traces common backgrounds, including family wealth, Anglo world travel, and early schooling, shaping their wit, honesty, and confessional tones.
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Associated Press
New York
Violet
Ireland
Canada
Lovat Dickson
Atheneum
C. Day Lewis
Harper
Leonard Woolf
Harcourt, Brace
Peter Quennell
Viking
Dickson
Lewis
Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Hogarth Press
Quennell
Malvern
Ealing
Lancaster Gate
London
Australia
South Africa
England
Far East
India
George Moore
Maupassant
Turgenev
Intellectual Spy Tale of an Ambitious Frenchman
A Frenchman named Cousin seeks glory as an intellectual spy during World War II. He battles fear and fantasy across England and France, aided by Morvan and Claire, while Dr Fog and Austin scrutinize his motives. The novel blends romance, danger, and a brisk, chilling pace.
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Canaris
Kwai
Cousin
Boulle
Fog
Austin
France
Claire
Paris
Two Cities
Cleaver To Gavel HEAVEN KNOWS WHO
Christiana Brand details the 1862 Glasgow murder of Jessie M Pherson and the trial of her friend Jessie M Lachlan. The book is a factual account praised by experts as one of the best murder trials in literature.
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Heaven Knows Who
Christiana Brand
Scribners
Jess M’pherson
Glasgow
Jessie M’lachlan
M’pherson
Miss Brand
Jess M'Pherson
Jessie M'Lachlan
James Fleming
Fleming
Scotland
Jessie
Culture definition by Asahi Shimbun and a crime summary
Asahi Shimbun defines culture as the ability to afford decent living and cites civilized life as a good home clean with access to entertainment and arts. The article also recaps a Scottish murder case where Jessie M Lachlan and James Fleming confront a brutal killing and ensuing trial with dramatic courtroom sequence.
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Japan
Asahi Shimbun
Asahi
Nixon Suggested For Secretary of State Post
Dr. Robert Morris president of the University of Dallas urged President elect John F Kennedy to appoint Vice President Richard M Nixon as secretary of state. Morris spoke Friday at an anticommunism school in Los Angeles after his defeat in the New Jersey Republican primary by Clifford Case.
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Los Angeles
Texas
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Robert Morris
University of Dallas
Morris
New Jersey
Clifford Case
Parade Cloaks $4000 Holdup by Bandit in Jacksonville
A smartly dressed bandit stole 4000 dollars from a woman teller at the First Federal Savings and Loan Association as a Veterans Day parade passed by. Frances Dederick 39, told FBI agents the bandit was a Negro who directed her to stay calm and then disappeared into the crowd.
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Jacksonville
Fla
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Frances Dederick
FBI
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