The Battle When The Professionals Failed Rhodes James
Alan Pryce-Jones reviews Rhodes James on the Gallipoli campaign noting amateurs influenced staffs, professionally led failures, and Churchill’s nuanced role. He compares to Moorehead, highlighting new material and refined interpretations, concluding Rhodes James may become the definitive account for years.
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Winston Churchill
Alan Moorehead
Gallipoli
Robert Rhodes James
Moorehead
Rhodes James
Lord Rosebery
Alan Pryce
Jones
The Virgin of San Gil review by Mary Campbell
Paul Olsen’s first novel The Virgin of San Gil is praised for its dream like aura and restrained judgment of a corrupt society. The story centers on an aging woodsman who finds a stolen Virgin statue and seeks meaning, while priests and politicians display flaws.
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Sangel
Paul Olsen
Hott
Rinehart
Winston
Olsen
Ivo Andric
Isaac Singer
South America
Gue
New Yorker
Too Thorough Mrs Jack By Louise Hall Tharp
Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner highlighting her social boldness, art collecting, and Fenway Court creation. The biography, dense with detail, traces her New York roots, Boston society clashes, and widowhood era. Tharp delivers a chronological, well‑researched account that may test readers with countless minor particulars but preserves Gardner’s vibrant personality.
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Jack
Louise Hall Tharp
Little, Brown
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Boston
Peabodys
Back
Meni
Sargent
Singer
Adams
James
Boston Mséum
Symphony
Fenway Court
Tharp
Sammy Davis Jr. Life of glamour and peril in memoir
Sammy Davis Jr and collaborators recount a high tempo life from Harlem birth to wedlock with May Britt. The book covers near death, the Will Mastin Trio, an eye injury, Judaism conversion, and friendships with Rooney Berle Cantor and Sinatra. A revelatory, brisk entertainer’s memoir.
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Sammy Davis Jr
Jane
Burt Boyar
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Sammy
Harlem
May Britt
Davis
Will Mastin
Mickey Rooney
Milton Berle
Edie Cantor
Frank Sinatra
William Glover
Night Raid in Korean War Near Parmunjom
Franklin portrays a four hour night raid by Marine Lt Richard and eight men into Chinese trenches at The Claw near Parmunjom. The unit endures fear, sudden fire, and a perilous return, ending in a stark graphic account based on personal combat experience.
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Franklin
Parmunjom
Richard
Jarvikien
Pongo-Nt
The
Claw
Leutenant
Best Sellers and Their Notable Works
A compact catalog lists fiction best sellers including The Source, The Looking Glass War, The Green Berets, Up the Down Staircase, Hotel, and nonfiction The Making of the President 15964, Is Paris Burning? by Collins and Lapierre, plus Doctor X, Games People Play, and Markings by Hammarskjold.
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Michener
le Carre
Moore
Kaufman Hotel
Harley
White
Paris Burning
Collins and Lapierre
Berne Markings
Hammarskjold
Metropolitan Opera Opens Season with Faust at Broadway
Opera notes mark the Met season opener in the old house at Broadway and 3rd Street on Sept 27 with a new Faust production, followed by a Queen of Spades premier on Sept 24. The column laments management choices and notes Hurok Bing contract talks for 1967 68 and 69. It also covers local music news in High Point including Nancy Ferrell joining High Point College as piano instructor and upcoming Musical Arts Club events led by Beulah Moton with guest artist Terrell Cofield.
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Metropolitan Opera
Opera House
Broadway
Gounod
Tchaikovsky
Faust
Met
United States
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onggin
Pique Dame
Italy
Mazeppa
Russia
Joan of Arc
the Maid of Orleans
Iolanthe
Hurgok
Impressario
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
Hurok
Rudolf Bing
Metropolitan
High Point
Nancy Ferrell
High Point College Music Department
Miss Ferrell
University of North Carolina At Greensboro
Musical Arts Club
Beulah FE
Moton
Frances Redding
RB. I Quigley
Robin Hood Road
Terrell Cofield
Cofield
UNC G
Alice in Wonderland centennial revisited by Carroll expert
A UCLA professor analyzes the 1865 debut of Alice in Wonderland by Charles Dodgson known as Lewis Carroll. The essay traces Carroll’s life, the novel’s enduring appeal to both children and adults, and the shifting adult view of identity, reality, and madness reflected in the work.
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Oxford
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Alica
Alice
Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carrol
Don Who
Carroll
Ars Old
UCLA
R. L. Green
Witte
Gulliver
Tenniel
Dermouse
Anti-Hero The Return of Lance Tennis review
Laurence Snelling's Anti Hero The Return of Lance Tennis mixes anti-hero clichés with beatnik spoof. Norton Wilkins fakes insanity to flee a failed marriage then adopts Lance Tennis in New Orleans, ingratiating himself with bohemian readers and a wealthy target. The book aims for bitter comedy but risks repetition as Pie-throwing humor mingles with pretentious readings.
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Lance
Laurence Snelling
Holt
Rinehart
Snelling
Norton Wilkins
Norton
New Orleans
Lance Tennis
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