Fall Harvest Of Books Under Way By W. G. Rogers
This fall books flood the market with varied topics from Army uniforms and biogs to poetry and Civil War histories. Notable titles include Updike Rabbit Run and Schwarz Bard The Last of the Just, with biographies of Pound Stieglitz Dulles and many Civil War volumes among others.
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W. G. Rogers
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Noel Coward
Doubleday
John Updike
Knopf
Isak Dinesen
Random House
Elizabeth
Henri Troyat
Michel Butor
Simon & Schuster
Bryher
Ryan
Pantheon
March Cost
Lippincott
Ava
Richard Bissell
H. E. Bates
Little, Brown
Andre Schwarz-Bar
Atheneum
Elizabeth Spencer
McGraw-Hill
Ezra Pound
Macmillan
Charles Norman
E. E. Cummings
Dorothy Norman
Alfred Stieglitz
Duell, Sloan & Pearce
Max
Beerbohm
S. N. Behrman
Random
de Gaulle
Alden Hatch
Hawthorn
le Corbusier
Praeger
Peggy Guggenheim
John Foster Dulles
Deane
David Heller
Holt, Rinehart & Win
Stormy Rebecca of Honour by Alexander Cordell
A wild stormy romance set among Welsh coal miners and Rebecca rioters in 1830s 40s. Jethro Morfydd Mari and Mam confront hunger fights passion and revolt with mine dangers inn clashes and tearful farewells.
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Alexander Cordell
Doubleday
Rebecca
Mortymer
Jethro
Mari
Iesthyn
Morfydd
Jesus
Mam
The Enigma Of Mr. Eliot
Eugene Fallon questions T. S. Eliot's obscurity and moral stance praising his talent while critiquing his elusive verse and life choices. The piece contrasts Eliot with Hemingway, notes Eliot's move to England, naturalization, and his controversial religious remarks.
Big tree in Milton tagged not nation’s largest oak
At Connallys View Farm near Milton North Carolina a black oak measures 19 feet 10 inches in girth at four and a half feet, 64 feet tall, 74 feet leaf spread and an age estimate over 500 years yet State Forester F H Claridge says a larger specimen exists in Lloyds Neck Long Island New York listed by the American Forestry Assn.
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Milton
N. C
Connally
F. H. Claridge
American Forestry Assn
Lloyd’s Neck
Long Island
New York
Neighborhood dog fetches goods in Nogales tale
Amalia Rojas reports her clever dog visits the local grocer, picks a can of dog food, and carries it outside for children to open. The grocer moved the display, and Oldi Fido followed, prompting police to seek a solution.
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Nogales
Ariz
Amalia Rojas
Oldi Fido
Veteran cyclist Florence pedals through life miles logged
Fritz Bultman, 77, lifelong Florence bicycle enthusiast, says he has ridden about 25 000 miles in his lifetime as he continues to pedal around town.
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Florence, S& C
Fritz Bultman
Florence
Classics spoofed in a volume of spoofing by Armour
Half a dozen classics are taken apart and rebuilt with humor in The Classics Reclassified by Richard Armour. The volume features Front-de-Boeuf Hester and Micawber, with drawings by Campbell Grant.
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Hee-Haws
Richard Armour
McGraw-Hill
Front-de-Boeuf
Scott
Hester
Hawthorne
Micawber
Dickens
David Coppere
Campbell Grant
Ending REVOLT IN PARADISE by K'tut Tantri
A biographical account of K t ut Tantri known as Surabaya Sue recounts her Bali years from the 1930s as Sukarno supporter, her indigenization, and brutal wartime experiences including torture and imprisonment. The narrative emphasizes courage and resilience amid Dutch and British pressures.
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Surabaya Sue
K’tut Tantri
Glasgow
Hollywood
Bali
Advised Works and Books Listed in Mixed Catalog
A varied catalog lists works and authors including Advising Consent by Drury, The Leopard by di Lampedusa, The Lovely Ambition by Chase, To Kill a Mockingbird, Born Free by Adamson, How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Darvas, Folk Medicine by Jarvis, The Liberal Hour by Galbraith, and others. It appears as a bibliography-like selection with assorted fiction and non fiction titles.
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Adamson
Golden
Jarvis
Galbraith
Goldwater proposes limit on political convention speeches
Sen. Barry Goldwater suggests a rule to shorten conventions by banning any nominating speech from using the phrase great American more than four times. He says the rule would curb rhetoric and speed proceedings.
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Tucson
Ariz
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
More Light On War Years Ismay Memoirs Review
W G Rogers praises the memoir More Light On War Years by General Lord Ismay. The book positions Ismay at Churchill’s side as Chief of Staff from 1940 to 1946 and highlights his humor, loyalty, and admiration for Churchill. Rogers notes light shed on decisions from Quebec to Yalta and credits Ismay with calm, candid narration of wartime events.
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Lord Ismay
Viking
Ismay
Churchill
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Charterhouse School
Defense
Casablanca
Washington
Quebec
Cairo
Teheran
Yalta
Berlin
India
Whitehall
War Office
Air Ministry
Sir So
W. G. Rogers
Battle of Bunker Hill and the origins of the American Revolution
The article reviews Fleming's NOW WE ARE ENEMIES, tracing the start of the war to April 19 1775 at Lexington and Concord and the June 17 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. It highlights key figures on both sides, the American defense on Breed's Hill, Howe's assaults, and the shift from conflict to war as Congress names Washington commander.
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Concord-Lexington
Boston
Concord
Thomas J. Fleming
Boston Harbor
Charlestown
Bunker Hill
Breed's Hill
Fleming
St. Martin’s Press
William Prescott
Israel Putnam
John Stark
Joseph Warren
Thomas Gage
William Howe
Henry Clinton
Lexington-Concord
Prescott
Putnam
Charlestown Peninsula
Breed’s Hill
Howe
Morton's Point
Breed
Peter Burgess Still Writing At 86 In Retirement
Thornton Burgess, creator of Peter Rabbit, spends his first summer of retirement at a desk piled with correspondence and proofs for his autobiography Now I remember. The 86 year old author reflects on a lifetime of work, arthritis, and a studio echoing with Green Forest and Laughing Brook as he chronicles his career and plans fall publication of his memoir and a 50th anniversary edition of Old Mother West Wind.
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Hampden
Mass
Thornton Burgess
Peter Rabbit
Cape Cod
Cape
Burgess
Reddy Fox
Jimmy Skunk
Chatterer the
Red Squirrel
Green Forest
Laughing Brook
Niversary
America
Harrison Cady
Cady
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Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Heritage
Europe
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Lillian Friedman
Orion
Virgil Carrington
Walt Whitman
Walter Lowenfels
Mary McBride
Mr. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Hemingway
Eliot
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T.S
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New England
Thomas Stearns
Alf Red Prufrock
Mississippi River
Amercan
Thomas
Harvard
England
Oxford University
Alfred Prufrock
Tom
Eugene Fallon
Paradise
K'twt Tantri
Harper
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Hawaii
Miche Ser
Drury
the Leopard
di Lampedusa
Chase
Mockingbird
Oneal
Benjamin Franklin
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