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Manners & Morals. All in all, the best novels of the year came from Britain. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was a grim warning of what the latter stages of statism could be like. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination of urgent theme and ideal writer that found adequate recognition. The Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen...
...FICTION The war, the uneasy peace and the many-directioned search for personal and world repose accounted for most of the year's best-read books. No war books achieved the popularity of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston Churchill came Their Finest Hour, the stately, grandly stated second volume of his World War II memoirs. Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery went on with his battle report in El Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more dramatic...
Even. In St. Joseph, Mo., when a 17-year-old customer returned to the Townsend and Wall department store to complain that a costly cigarette lighter he had bought was no good, the store retorted that neither was his check...
Australia's new Prime Minister, Robert Gordon Menzies, announced last night the names of 14 Liberal and five Country Party leaders as members of his coalition cabinet. They will be swern in tomorrow to take over from the eight-year-old Labor government which lost the December 10 elections...
Thirty eight hundred fans at Washington's National Guard Armory watched the varsity basketball team drop its second game Saturday night, 58 to 53. In its first road match this year, the quintet had traveled south to meet Georgetown, and the undefeated Hoyas produced their fifth straight...