Wingate Biography and Other Books Highlight 1960 Press
World previews ORDE WINGATE by Christopher Sykes detailing the eccentric British general’s guerrilla campaigns and Zionist ties. Jerome Weidman works on THEY TOLD ME YOU WERE DEAD as Fiorello LaGuardia Broadway musical looms. Duke of Bedford’s Woburn Abbey revival story also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orde Wingate
Winston Churchill
Christopher Sykes
World Tomorrow
Jerome Weidman
Random House
Weidman
Fiorello LaGuardia
Perpetual Insured Savings Accounts Attract More Savers
Day after day evidence shows High Point savers prefer Perpetual with eight months of 1959 averaging 29 new Insured Savings Accounts weekly. Accounts are insured to 10 000 with anytime withdrawal and conveniences like drive-up teller and after hours depository.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vamperee
Perpetual
High Point
New Look At Quaker History Journey
John Sykes surveys The Quakers from origins to 1958 in a balanced critique. He analyzes religious, political, economic, and social roles with sympathy and honesty, noting internal tensions and suggesting revitalization ideas for modern Quaker life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sykes
J. B. Lippincott Co
Religious Society of Friends
England
Colonies
George Fox
Vinobe Bhave
India
Christendom
Mr. Sykes
Moral Sickness ONE HOUR. By Lillian Smith review
A Southern town moral crisis unfolds as Dr. Mark Channing faces accusations after a girl reports abuse by a man connected to the community. The piece contrasts communal guilt, prejudice, and hidden vice with literary comparisons to Faulkner and Caldwell, noting Smith’s themes and storytelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Channing
Grace
Susan Newell
Renie
Channing
David Landrum
Charlie
Landrum
Susan
Miss Smith
Faulkner
Erskine Caldwell
Gentle Two Gentlemen Lives of Herbert and Herrick Biography
Marchette Chute profiles 17th century poets George Herbert and Robert Herrick in a measured biography. The book notes their parish ties and differing social origins, with Herbert a Welsh background and Herrick from London. Publication details, a large bibliography, and Chute’s steady scholarly tone are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
Marchette Chute
Dutton
Miss Chute
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Herbert
Herrick
Temple
London
Ben
Charles
Danvers
Tudor
French novels blur into fierce passions and politics
A review roundup of three translated French works and one Belgian origin, detailing Genevieve and Renaud’s wild union, Fool's Paradise’s courtroom boy, The Negotiators set in 1570 Paris, and a sharp literary critique by W. G. Rogers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
Cornelia Schaeffer
Harper
Alain
Mama
Posh Riviera
Patricia
Francis Walder
Denise Folliot
McDowell
Obolensky
Belgium
Adm. de Coligny
Catherine de’ Medici
Charles IX
Eleonore
St. Germain Chateau
Paris
St. Bartholomew
W. G. Rogers
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Quebec
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Duke of Bedford
Marquis of
Tavistock
Earl of Bedford
Baron Russell of
13Th Duke of Bedford
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Doubleday
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Russell
Robert Marks
Cos
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Maurice Edelman
Lippincott
Laye Parker
Newsman Smith
Russia
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Moscow
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M.P
Lillian Smith
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Matt
Exodus
Uks
Lady Chatterley
Lawrence
Caldwell
Lederer & Burdick
Drury
Packard
Ross
Thurber
Nickerson
Strunk & White
Harris Music CO
English ST
Christine
McKay
Genevieve
Renaud
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John Ehle
Ocracoke
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