Pathos Clock Without Hands. A Carson McCullers Novel
Four central figures in a Deep South drama drive toward a senseless act of racial violence. Judge Fox Crane, aging Blusterer, longs for a Confederate currency revival while J. T. Malone, a pharmacist doomed by leukemia, faces moral tests as two adolescents Jester and Sherman Pew reveal hidden truths about family history and race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deep South
Fox Crane
Congress
J. T. Malone
Jester
Sherman Pew
Sherman
Malone
Mrs. McCullers
Miles A. Smith
Bookman's Holiday Big Run Into The Cherokee Strip
An elder recounts the Cherokee Strip opening rush to claim land in 1889. He notes the faded memory of participants, cites books about the era, and urges readers to learn from hardy pioneers who endured space, distance, and danger to settle the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Shaw
Cherokee Strip
Enid
Edna Ferber
Mari Sandoz
Old Jules
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Marquis’ James
Huck Finn
Music Notes Survival of the Arts Tied to Home and School Teaching
Music In The Schools notes stress that survival of the arts depends on home support and classroom teaching from elementary through senior high levels. The article highlights the role of families and schools in sustaining arts programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Educators’ National Conference
National Assn. of Schools of Music
Music Teachers
National Asia
Reading Hopkins and Music Education in a 20th Century Review
A heterogeneous 1960s newspaper page surveys fiction on the American Revolution featuring John Frayne in Wendham near Lexington and Concord. it also discusses arts education trends, calling for cooperation with major music groups and noting High Point school ensembles. It highlights Yale Ives manuscripts, Princeton High School Choir Webern performances, Berlin Philharmonic US tour plans, Carl Ebert at Berlin Opera, and Melnikov.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph G. E. Hopkins
Scribners
John Frayne
Wendham
Lexington and Concord
Frayne
Europe
Russia
Yale University
Columbia University
Princeton
N. J
Anton Webern
Carl Ebert
Berlin
Crude Father A Lost King by De Capite
Raymond De Capite chronicles Paul Christopher a fey harmonica playing son and his crude, warped father Carl in a grim Cleveland steel mill setting. The narrative traces failed careers and countless firings, Paul’s longing to please his father and a romance with Peggy, all rendered in stark prose and dark humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond de Capite
McKay
Cleveland
de Capite
Fabrizzo
Paul Christopher
Carl
Paul
Peggy
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library Week
The High Point Public Library announces the bookmobile routes for September 18 to 22. Each day lists locations and time blocks including College Village Shopping Center Ingleside Westover Parkside Tabor Lindale Gordon Cedrow Barbee Fifth W. College Woodrow Blain Terrell Willard Ellwood and Daniel Brooks Homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Public Library
College Village
Pine Valley
Marywood
Oak View
Woodview
Bridges
Futrelle
Lindale
Locust
Gordon
Kimrey
Cedrow
Arlington
Barbee
Fifth
W. College
North
Woodrow
Forrest
Blain
Farriss
Terrell
Kimmons
Willard
Ellwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
Dilemma Chairing the Bored
Edward Streeter’s novel portrays Graham Crombie a retired investment executive facing compulsory retirement at 65. The story follows his attempts to adjust by adopting country life and hobbies, then returning to his old business patterns for salvation.
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Streeter
Graham Crombie
Crombie
Soviets Informed Of U S Nuclear Test Explosion
London AP dispatch notes Moscow radio warned the Soviet public of a U S underground nuclear explosion as the first in a series. No official Soviet announcement yet about its atmospheric tests begun September 1 in central Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow Radio
U.S
Radio
Soviet Union
Central Asia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carson McCullers
Houghton Mifflin
James Horan
Edward Dale
America
Frederick Jackson Turner
Orater
Richard
Cunningham
Dr. Frayne
Lexington
Concord
Boston
Hopkins
Princeton Aleander Hall
Berlin Philharmonic
United States
Herbert von Karajan
Karl Bohm
New York
Carnegie Hall
Z. Melnikov
Ingleside
Westover
Old Winston Road
Parkside
Clover
Tabor
Dayton
E. Lexington
E. College
Ma Btn
Mila
Urs
Steinbeck
O'Connor
Skirer
White
Gunther
Lederer
Maxwell
Edward Streeter
Harper
Penneys
Penney’s
Sebo
Dura
By Lees
Young’s Furn. & Rug Co., Inc
N. Main
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