Sea poet John Masefield remembered in London feature
London reports on John Masefield longtime poet laureate and seafaring figure. The piece notes his 34 years as poet laureate, royal stipend, and memories of Yeats, Synge, and Lenin near the British Museum. It covers his career, family losses, and roots in Ledbury Herefordshire.
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London
Burcot
Oxfordshire
John Masefield
New York
Masefield
Britain
Panea
Vladimir Lenin
British Museum
Monday Club
Yeats and Synge
W. B. Yeats
Yeats
Synge
Somme
Gallipoli
Dunkirk
Ledbury
Herefordshire
Merchant
Greenwich Village
Masefield Country
Degas na Curtiss Wesleyan U Press Note
Fragmentary text notes a Wesleyan University press item and a Degas reference with a $6 figure. Details are unclear but imply a publishing or exhibit context tied to Degas and Wesleyan.
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Na Curtiss
Wesleyan U. Press
Time and its textures in a hybrid personal essay
The author treats time as a subject in a lively personal essay. He braids a playful history with early civilizations attitudes toward time and uses diverse media from paintings to diagrams to illuminate the concept. The author admits he is not objective yet his passion gives the work a distinctive voice and style.
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Priestley Maks
Scientist
Frontier LITTLE BIGMAN by Thomas Berger
A 1953 taped reminiscence purports to tell Jack Crabb’s first person life from 1850s to Custer’s Last Stand. The illiterate narrator blends myth and memory to recount battles, buffalo hunts, poker, and meetings with Wild Bill Hickok and Old Lodge Skins. The work is praised for audacious wild inspiration and tragic undercurrents.
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Jack Crabb
America
Jack
Bill
Poker
Little Bighorn
Wild Bill Hickok
Old Lodge
Berger
Expository Works Dominate Autumn Book Scene In New York
New York AP notes publishers push gift books alongside essays biographies and history this autumn. Notable titles include Kierans Not Under Oath Fromms The Heart of Man Lilienthals Journals and Churchill's The Act of Creation with many social justice and modern life themes across fiction and non fiction including Behan Ehrenburg Waugh O Hara and Spillane set for upcoming releases.
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New York
David E. Lilienthal
Harper
Winston S. Churchill
Macmillan
J. B. Priestley
Doubleday
Evelyn Waugh
Little, Brown
John O'Hara
Random
Robert Payne
Lord Jesus
Abelard Schuman
Frances Parkinson Keyes
McGraw
Edison Marshall
Roanoke
Edwin Lanham
Farrar, Straus
Laura Z. Hobson
Atheneum
Eric Ambler
Mickey Spillane
Tiger Mann
Dutton
Best Sellers in THE Spy Who Came In From the Cold
A list of popular books including Spy Who Came In From the Cold and You Only Live Twice along with other titles by authors such as Auchincloss Hemingway and MacArthur, highlighting varied nonfiction and fiction works.
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SPY
Arre Rector
Justin
Auchincloss
Stewart Candy
Southern and Hoffenberg
Flaming
The World Of Strauss Five Operas And Richrd Strauss
Lotte Lehmann biography reviews her study of Strauss and Richard Strauss. The critic notes the book retells operatic plots with autobiography fragments, praising Lehmann’s warmth but faulting narrative focus and reader appeal. It recounts Lehmann’s 1916 Hamburg to Vienna move and a trial appearance with Strauss and colleagues.
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Richard Strauss
Lotte Lehmann
Macmillan
Madame Lehmann
Hamburg State Opera
Vienna
Franz Schalk
Strauss
Sartre Autobiography Review Highlights Struggle and Style
A literary trade notice surveys Sartre There Are Two Parts Reading and Writing detailing existential angst and self critique. The critique notes choppy style and grand rhetoric yet acknowledges force and predicted further autobiographical works.
The Future of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Philosophical treatise arguing that humans are evolving toward a higher race guided by cosmic life force. It blends science, faith, and biology claiming man will master his fate within a planetary order, contrasting with existentialism.
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Man
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Norman Denny
Harper
Teilhard
Concerts Highlight Week of Music and Theater
A mix of tours and local events features the Japan Philharmonic and a major US tour as Oliver is staged at Greensboro Auditorium with evening and matinee performances. Van Cliburn headlines a Greensboro concert benefiting Basic-Witz Furniture, featuring Brahms intermezzi and Chopin Sonata among other works.
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van Cliburn
Basic-Witz Furniture Industries Inc
Greensboro Auditorium
High Point
Brahms
Beethoven
Barber
Chopin
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