Burrs And Bouquets Book Banter in This Week
A digest of literary notices includes Pogo by Walt Kelly and Gardening the Small Place by William H. Clark. Simon and Schuster decline preview details for I Go Pogo while Josue de Castro’s The Geography of Hunger earns the Roosevelt Foundation Award. The Literary Guild of America selects The Sojourner by Marikinnan Rawlings and Midcentury Journey by William L. Shirer as October picks. Several authors to visit High Point. more updates promised.
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Walt Kelly
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He, Brown and Company
William H. Clark
Josue de Castro
Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation
de Castro
Foundation
New York
Literary Guild of America
the Sojourner
Markinnan Rawlings
William L. Shirer
Tales of wrecks and rescues on the Carolina coast
Malcolm Little reviews David Stick's Graveyard of the Atlantic at UNC Press. The book documents Coast Guard Life Saver Service rescues and reef wrecks with a ledgerlike history of heroes such as Davis, the Midgett family, and Captain John Allen Midgett as storms and shipwrecks test seafaring courage along Cape Fear and eastern Carolina shores.
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Carolina Coast
Cape Fear
South Atlantic
Coast Guard Life Saver Service
North Carolina
Pe Hemingway
Atlantic
Davis
Euver
Carolina St
John Allen
O'Neal
Carolina
Hettie Dorman
Frescues
Malcolm Little
Sleeping Sword review of Nelson biography by Pearl Prye
A critical look at The Sleeping Sword recounts Nelson's Nile victory and Trafalgar triumphs, yet the reviewer faults pacing with letters from two figures and questions the portrayed affair with Lady Hamilton amid his English marriage and the Hamiltons. The piece notes naval campaigns, exile rescue efforts, and personal intrigues surrounding Nelson and the Hamiltons.
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Pearl Prye
Little, Brown & Company
Boston
Lord Horatio Nelson
Lord Nelson
Lord
Lady Hamilton
Nelson
The
Nile
Naples
Tredroner
Atlantic Ocean
Trafalgar
England
J. B. Stokley
Mutiny Tale of the Globe Whaler 1823
The novel Captain by Louis B Davison and Eddie Doherty traces the Globe mutiny of 1823 through a diary by George Comstock, brother of mutineer Samuel Comstock. It follows the voyage from Nantucket to the Pacific, the murder of Captain Worth, and a maritime court showdown with a tense, suspenseful narrative.
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Louis B. Daviidson
Eddie Doherty
New York
Thomas ¥. Crowell Company
Globe
Bounty
Nantucket
South Pacific
Samuel Comstock
Pacific
Thomas Worth
Comstock
Pacific Islands
Soee
Sam Comstock
George
Snake Catcher Hired to Calm Durban Oil Refinery
In Durban the Standard Vacuum Oil refinery hires Julio Desebrook to clear venomous snakes that threaten workers. Desebrook, 66, with four decades of experience, traps mambas and puff-adders amid bush around the site and may sell the snakes he catches.
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Durban
South Africa
Julio Desebrook
South Ca
Desebrook
Farmers Flock To Cities Amid Communist Land Reform Backlash
Independent underground reports claim South China land reform triggers famine and chaos. In Kwangsi province Red seizures drive 40,000 farmers across four counties from their land, leaving acres idle and the countryside starved. as many as 3,000 may have joined guerillas.
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Hong Kong
Independent
China
Kwangsi
Lite Of Prisoners Of War In Italy Described In Eyewitness Account
John Leeming describes his RAF experience during 1940 when ordered to discard payroll into the Mediterranean. After landing in Sicily he and others were captured and held in Italian POW camps for two and a half years. The book blends humor with stark hardship and recounts escape plots and camp conditions.
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John Leeming
Air Marshal
Boyd
Malta
Air Force
Leeming
Mediterranean
Sicily
Mr. Leeming
Jamestown Teen Age Club Plans Fall Activities
Jamestown report notes the Teen-Age Girls' Club schedules 7:30 Monday meeting at the Community House with plans for a party, crafts, and a business session. Young Girls' Club meets Tuesday at 3:30 for a business session and crafts. Childrens' Clinic set for Thursday at 2 pm for weigh-ins and immunizations.
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Jamestown
Robert Parker
American Legion
Tom Ragsdale
Helicopters Aid Pest Campaign In Leopoldville
Two helicopters sweep over roofs spraying potent insecticides as a new pest eradication campaign begins in Leopoldville Belgian Congo. residents are urged to open windows and doors to expose every room to fumes.
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Leopoldville
Belgian Congo
Library Additions Featured New Titles and Authors
The notice lists multiple new library acquisitions across categories. Authors include Robert Kiputh Pearl Frye Alexander Heard Carolina Ivey Bhabani Bhattachar a Phil p Wylie Harold McCoy Lee Floren Warren Howard William Neubauer Charles Strong Bennie Carolina Hall Comer Vann Woodward Rene Prud hommeaux Merritt Allen Kelly R Masters Doris Shannon Garst Rosamond du Jardin Et bel T Anderson Eric Swenson.
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Robert Kiputh
Pearl Frye
Alexander Heard
Carolina Ivey
Mohini
Bhabani Bhattachara
Philp Wylie
Harold McCoy
Wyoming
Lee Floren
Love
Warren Howard
Elaine
William Neubauer
Charles Strong
Bennie Carolina Hall
New South
Comer Vann Woodward
Jim Bridger
Doris Shannon Garst
Rosamond du Jardin
Ethel T. Anderson
Eric Swenson
Old House Sold in Des Moines After Two-Year Vacancy
The 1918 house built for former Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith sold for $32,000 in Des Moines. It features seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms on the two upper floors and had been vacant for about two years.
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Des Moines
E. T. Meredith
Wilson
Boys Town in Indo China Aims to Aid 1000 War Orphans
In Hanoi the Cite du Christ Roi known as Boys Town is run by Catholic priests and sisters to shelter orphans from Viet Minh and French forces. Father Paul Seitz hopes the institution will grow to house 1,000 war orphans, currently caring for about 450 boys.
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Hanoi
Christ
Paul Seitz
Eight-foot salamanders inhabited earth millions of years ago
Fossil records indicate eight-foot salamanders once lived on the planet's surface during ancient geological periods.
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