Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-01-23
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"iitteil IllS UOOh hF1l6 I'LL OuSl
the end of the Victorian Age
until the present, she recalls
of era of extraordinary his
torical interest, a world of New
York personalities of the original
400, with their lavish entertain
ments period" houses on Fifth
Avenue, country homes in New
port and Long Island, theVoyages
around the world on their yachts
and being the head, at eighteen,
of Bleinheim Palace, England S
most splendid private residence.
She was the hostess to all the fam
Gus of Europe, and later, in Paris,
knew and entertained all the great
writer's, painters and professional
people of France. She distinguishes
clearly, though, between the gilt
ter and the gold of those times
long ended.)
The Mark HeIlinger Story =
Bishop In this story of the be-
loved newspaper man, whose
Broadway column was read daily
by 22,000,000 people, and who
was a success as Hollywood pro-
ducer; his secretary, Jim Bishop
takes us behind the scenes to re-
live the life of the man who went
everywhere, saw everything, and
did everything - without remorse
or exultation." His contacts were
with the great and the unknown" !"
the saints and the sinners, and the
dedication to him tells the kind of
man he was:
He added to the sum of human
joy, And were every one to whom
he did some loving service to bring
a blossom to his grave, he would
sleep tonight beneath wilderness
of flowers.
Crazy-WhiteM Man.. - .-Morenus
(For anyone who has felt the call
of the wild" or longs to escape the
pressure of our tension ridden
civilization - here is what the
doctor ordered. Morenus really
got away, into the Canadian wild
erness in a shack on an island
where it was 63 below zero. He
tells of his struggle to learn to
live, of adventures in bliZZards, OF
experiences with savage sled dogs
and primitive Indians, and shows
the indomitable spirit OF man
against ntaure.)
Abraham Lincoln Thomas
despite the many books on Lin
coin, this one fills a need of long
standing. This is the first complete,
accurate, and comprehensive one
volume biography in thirty-five
years. It is excellent for the stu
dent, the general public, and any
one desiring this material in a
short space of time.
Arrow in the Blue - koestler
(This first volume of his autobio-
graphy deals with the pre-horror
period of our times, before Hitter
made the darkness at noon. Among
other things he was a lemonade
vendor on the streets of Haifa,
editor of a Cairo weekly, foreign
correspondent in the Middle East,
Paris and Berlin, and member of
Graf Zeppelin's North Pole Ex-
pedition. HIS life story provides
a super study of notwithstanding
man and his dilemma.)
Great Adventures in Medicine
Rapport (This contains more than
seventy selections, covering the
crude early treatment of the sick
to the latest refinements in medi-
cal care, the strange concoctions of
witch doctors to ACTH; the hor-
rorS of Bedlam to the cure of the
insane by insulin shock. It gives
the lives and discoveries of the
worlds foremost medical men; and
medical research up to the latest
discovery. The final section is con-
cerned with unsolved problems
and new techniques-atom medi-
cine, geriatrics, the fight against
cancer, the outlook for mental
patients and so on.)
The Book Of Furniture and De-
coration - Aronson (This covers
every field of home decoration
from period to modern, and plans
for television placement. Here is
practical information about wood
and fabrics, buying furniture, mix
ing paints, proper lighting, making
changes and remodeling, color
choices - in fact, anything you
need to know about home decora-
tion.)
What People Wore Corsline
(This is, by far, the best costume
book ever published. Beginning
with a brief review of the ancient
world, it takes every phase of
dress up to the present era. The
illustrations appear on chronology
ically dated pages, grouped accord
ing to periods, making possible
instant reference, and there is an
overall list of the source of every
drawing. An explanatory text
opens each section, and historical
calendars of major events and
personalities highlight the periods