Boy From Nebraska and Pikes Peak Or Bust Reviews
The piece reviews two books. Ben Kuroki’s story shows a Nisei airman facing bias after Pearl Harbor while serving bravely with the US Army, earning admiration for courage amid prejudice. Pikes Peak Or Bust surveys Earl Wilson’s nightlife memoir with humor and vivid portraits but a familiar frame and light treatment.
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Nebraska
Ben Kuroki
Ralph G. Martin
Bill Mauldin
Harper
Ben
lIe
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Benson
America
Pacific
Kuroki
Carlos Bulosan
Herald Tribune
Gens. Marshall
Wainwright
Chennault
Senator Tobey
The Liberators by Wesley Towner review in Progress Book Club
Wesley Towner argues the American army leaves behind Americanism in occupied Germany. Christopher Day persuades Col. Carruthers to grant democracy, aiding displaced persons and natives. Yet Nazis and old nobility outmaneuver them as military rigidity blurs into communism versus democracy. Towner’s liberal aims show uneven storytelling.
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Wesley Towner
Towner
Germany
Christopher Day
Col
Carruthers
Day
Progressive Book Club
River and Birth and Death in a Bengal Family
A slice of 1950s literary criticism reviews several novels and memoirs. Rumer Godden’s The River centers on Harriet and siblings by the Bengal river as life birth and death intersect. Louise Baker’s Out on a Limb recounts Baker’s resilience after losing a leg. Francois Mauriac’s Woman of the Pharisees sketches two strict mothers shaping youth. Grace Tomkinson Ives’ Welcome Wilderness follows Loyalists turning to Canada and Nova Scotia.
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Little, Brown
Harriet
Bea
Victoria
Bogey
Bengal
Ram Prasad
Bathsheba
Captain John
Nan
Boa
Louise Baker
Whittlesey House
Europe
Mauriac
Brigitte Pian
Michele
Louis
God
Jean de Mirbel
Brigitte
France
Grace Tomkinson
Ives Washburn
Miss Tomkinson
Kenneth Roberts
Oliver Wiswell
New Republic
England
West Indies
Canada
Nova Scotia
Maritime
The Impudence of Youth by Warwick Deeping
A review notes Warwick Deeping title The Impudence of Youth mocks medical tradition in England. The author’s Cambridge medical background informs the story of a country doctor who shifts to commercial research amid muted character development and a fleeting central heroine.
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Warwick Deeping
England
Deeping
Cambridge
Kitty
Mocksville Arrest In Burglary And Assault Case
A 14 year old Black boy Roy Lewis Campbell was arrested in Mocksville and jailed after confessing to burglary and attempted assault in the October 22 incident at Mrs A M Kimbrough. Sheriff Bowden said Campbell was taken into custody by state agent Guyot for safekeeping. Campbell had been seen fleeing from bushes near the Kimbrough home and Mrs Kimbrough suffered a neck scratch but no serious injuries. Campbell was visiting Mocksville from Pennsylvania and returned in August.
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Mocksville
L. S. Bowden
Roy Lewis Campbell
Bowden
Guyot
State Bureau of Investigation
Campbell
A. M. Kimbrough
Kimbrough
Pennsylvania
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Groucho Marx
Fred Allen
Francois Mauriac
Gerard Hopkins
Holt
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Allen
Theatre Guild On the Air
United States Steel
United States
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