Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spinster, her vivid novel pub lished in 1959, Sylvia Ashton-Warner told of a loving, slightly balmy school teacher who taught Maori children in back-country New Zealand. Herself a teacher for 17 years in Maori schools (but a grandmother rather than a spinster), Novelist Ashton-Warner endowed her heroine with an extraordinary gift for handling young Maori minds in conflict with civilization. Dropping the fictional cloak, she has now expounded her singular methods in Teacher. Published this week (Simon & Schuster; $5), it may well be the year's best book on education...
Brendan Behan on Joyce (Folkways; $5.95) is a hilariously informal lecture delivered by the barroom-and-music-hall playwright to the learned exegetes of the James Joyce Society. This is pub criticism, garrulous and guileful, with now and again a boozy glint of insight...
...lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...expectation is expressed in St. Stephen's Pub, alongside Parliament here, that Christine Keeler's memoirs will be published under the title: "A Moll and Her Night Visitors...
...group was formed in 1956 by Francois Luambo, a lean, goateed guitarist who calls himself Franco and lists his nonmusical recreations as "football, women, and driving fast in my white Thunderbird." Taking their name from a Leopoldville pub called the O.K. Bar, Franco and his crowd have since played in Europe and in every country in West and Central Africa except Ghana. When the "Okayistes" travel in Africa, the President of the host country often places a plane at their disposal. In every capital, crowds of Africans too poor to get inside the club where they are playing...