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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1948
Page
3
A World War II novel recounts Lyon’s Western France replacement station through front line duty. The book blends autobiography and fiction with stark prose, detailing infantry life, the war’s scars, and a soldier’s search for meaning amid the marching, unknown destination.
A Western development saga about John Fenno and his steel empire set in the postwar era. The tale follows Fenno’s secret ambition, his cold daughter Willoughby, and Sam Hadley as power and romance disrupt the Fenno dynasty. A Cleveland growth portrait with scandal and ambition.
Book review of Robert Ruark's Loaded criticizing its weak humor and recycled targets. It mocks the author as overconfident and notes chapters titled with crude lines. The piece argues Ruark wastes talent on familiar subjects and aims to ride a fad with little purpose.
Fresh from The Egg And I Betty MacDonald returns with The Plague And I a tuberculosis sanatorium setting. Also previewing Eisenhower Was My Boss by Summersby and Elliott Arnold Everybody Slept Here a Pentagon locale comedy. Carnegie How To Stop Worrying remains top non fiction with New York Confidential from Lait and Mortimer. Edna's Bookshop keeps column updated.
A radio promotion offers an entire island in Ely Minnesota plus two new houses an electric plant and a boat for transport as prizes. The feature highlights the scope of the giveaway and the unique nature of the awards.
A review praises Inglis Fletcher for Roanoke Hundred from Elizabethan England to Grenville and Raleigh era. It highlights believable history, vivid dialogue, engaging suspense, and strong character portrayals that humanize famous names. B.C. notes it should be widely read in North Carolina.
A church in Oak Ridge was sold at auction to fund the new Oak Ridge Community Methodist church under construction. The third annual harvest festival and Lord's auction also sold a donated automobile, mules, farm equipment, and other items from Guilford County residents.
Bishop Arthur J. Moore reports from Europe that there is no current danger Russia will launch a shooting war. He urges America to press plans to develop Germany and says the church stands with undaunted courage at the center of rehabilitation work. He notes kindness and understanding of human nature and comments on Gen Lucius Clay as U S administrator. He also comments on Washington cleanup and remarks by Sen Irving Ives and Henry A Wallace.
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