World Of Birds HUMMINGBIRDS review notes colorful plates and travel
Joe Wing praises Greenewalt and his book World Of Birds Hummingbirds as a sumptuous study with color photographs by an industrial leader. The work emphasizes life portraits, iridescent plates, and rapid wing beats while noting hummingbird diversity in the Americas and remarkable long migrations.
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Crawford H. Greenewalt
Doubleday
du Pont Company
Dean Amadon
American Museum of Natural History
John Gould
Greenewalt
Dale Astle
North America
United States
New World
Andes
Gulf of Mexico
Joe Wing
Faith of a Salesman praised by a North Carolina judge
In the 1960 North Carolina Poetry Contest, judge Marjorie Greenbie selects Harold H. Fletcher of High Point for first place for Faith of a Salesman. She lauds its direct simple voice, patient meditations, and vivid portraits of the salesman poet traveling the mountains and roads of North Carolina and Virginia with faith in Christ and memory of a scented hairdo.
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North Carolina
Marjorie Barstow Greenbie
Harold Fletcher
High Point
Greenbie
Charlotte Young
Harold H. Fletcher
Wordsworth
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Madison Avenue
Central Shrine
John Bunyan
Broadway
42Nd Street
Mr. Fletcher
Christ
God
Midge
Marjorie B. Greenbie
Sydney Greenbie
Peggy Shippen and the West Point Treason Tale
Lengyel recounts Peggy Shippen allied with Benedict Arnold and John Andre, Arnold’s betrayal of Washington and West Point in 1780, Andre’s execution, and Shippen’s ambitious role amid the Philadelphia tensions and Loyalist intrigues. The piece portrays Arnold as deceitful, mercenary, and ruthless, shaping the era’s treason legend.
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Adelphia
John Andre
Benedict Arnold
Washington
Arnold
Peggy
Andre
West Point
Lengyel
Two South Books Lead Best Seller List
The best seller list features To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Magnolia Jungle by P. D. East. Lee’s novel, set in mid thirties Maycomb Alabama, follows Scout and Jem under Atticus, while East’s memoirs reveal a complex Mississippi editor's life and clashes with segregationists.
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Lippincott
Harper Lee
South
Maycomb
Alabama
Scout
Jem
Atticus
Dill
Boo Radley
Miss Lee
Magnolia Jungle
Simon and Schuster
P. D. East
Lowest Ebb The War for the Union Volume II
Allan Nevins presents volume II of his Civil War study covering 1862 63 and the rise of Union resolve. The narrative traces Northern setbacks Lee Jackson and Stuart boosting Confederate hopes while Grant Halleck and McClellan falter and Lincoln asserts leadership amid a long bitter struggle.
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Allan Nevins
South
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Jeb Stuart
Tichmond
Shenandoah Valley
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
McClellan
Abraham Lincoln
Nevins
United States
Robert D. Price
Americans see record personal income in October
U S personal income rose to a record 400.6 billion dollars annually in October, 800 million above September and 25 billion higher than October last year. Wages at factories fell while government, construction and retail pay increased, farm income edged down, and proprietors and professionals saw a slight gain. Glasses are being developed to protect space travelers eyes from sudden brightness in space.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Woman sentenced for fraud tied to 12 serviceman marriages
Virginia Debus, 32, was sentenced to one year in jail and placed on three years probation by Judge Walter J. Labay after being convicted of falsely receiving two government subsistence checks. She had been living with her 12th husband at Great Lakes Naval Training Center and was accused of marrying others to obtain benefits. Her current husband Donald attended court.
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Chicago
Virginia Debus
Walter J. Labay
U.S. District Court
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Donald
Tree Farm System Enrollment Reaches 18 237 Farms
The latest compilation shows 18 237 tree farms enrolled in the American Tree Farm System, highlighting growing participation among private landowners. This indicates broader adoption of sustainable forestry practices and remote land stewardship across regions.
Best Sellers List Highlights Diverse Works
The MY Best Sellers section lists fiction and nonfiction titles including Hawaii by Michener and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shire, plus works by Drury Holt Chase Jarvis and Adamson. It features varied authors and topics from history to medicine and politics.
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Jarvis
Shirei
New Books Featured at The Public Library
A selection of new titles includes Winter Solstice by Gerald Warner Brace and The Pass Beyond Kashmir by Berkeley Mather. Also listed are Proud Walk by Nancy Moore, The Loser by Peter Ustinov, Know Nothing by Mary Lee Settle, and other non fiction and fiction works across areas of history religion politics and photography.
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Gerald Warner Brace
Relman Morin
America
William O. Douglas
George W. Gallup
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