The Happy Christmas Story Book

Cerf, Bennett. At Random The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf. New York: Random House, 1977. ISBN: 0394478770

First edition STATED FIRST EDITION. 306 pages including index and 80 pages with black and white photographs. The condition of the book in NEAR FINE with an owner's inscription on the fly page. The jacket is NEAR FINE and is price clipped with minor crimping on top spine edge. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. This Dust Jacket Reads: "I've had a very happy life. I've been as lucky as can be.." That's America's most famous book publisher, looking back with buoyant enthusiasm at the public and private event of his crowded lifetime. Bennett Cerf was an incomparable raconteur, and in these informal recollections-most of them taped shortly before his death-he is in top form He tells about the time Gertrude Stein called him "stupid" on an ABC network show..why he was taken off FDR's Christmas card list..how General MacArthur kept Harry Truman from being a mystery guest on 'What's My Line'..who made Joe Kennedy sell a building to Random House without making a profit In story after fascinating story, Bennett Cerf recalls the people he knew and offers his candid opinions of them: Moss Hart, Theodoer Dreiser, Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, George Gershwin, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, James A. Michener, Truman Capote, John O'Hara, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Theodor Geisel, Ayn Rand, Robert Penn Warren, William Styron, Jerome Weidman, Irwin Shaw, and so manh others. . Hard Cover condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

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No author. Woman's Home Companion 12/54. Springfield , OH: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1954.

Woman's Home Companion 3/56. The magazine, in illustrated wrapper is in NEAR FINE condition with a small closed tear on upper edge of front cover and small bottom tear on top spine end, minor wear on front and back cover with owner's address label affixed to front cover and several pages with lower corners creased. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazine and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other curious subjects. FICTION: The Heart's Beginning by Pearl S. Buck; ARTICLES ME AND MY SHADOWS Imogene Coca as told to Ann St. John. For the first time in any magazine, Imogene Coca tells about herself as she is seen by some of her dearest friends and enemies; THE SECRET LIFE OF BETTY CROCKER by Jean Libman Block. This soft-voiced young woman is one of the most fabulous personalities in America. Here are the facts and legends behind her career; A VISIT TO BETHLEHEM: CHRISTMAS PILGRIMAGE. The wondrous story comes alive and hearts make a pilgrimage to the birthplace of a Baby. Here is the story of the Connery family that actually went to the little town of the dark streets and the everlasting light. 3 pages filled with color photos; WALT DISNEY'S THE LADY AND THE TRAMP based upon the book by Ward Greene, Narration by Ed Penner. Disney's wonderful new film-story tells of the struggle betweent he adventurous fellow who has 'been around' and the shy young lady who leads him to the most exciting adventure of all. Here are the highlights; THE WASHINGTON STORY by Anna W.M. Wolf, photographs by Suzanne Szasa. These Negro and white children take each other for granted as school opens in Washington DC; DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU? By Amelia Losenz; CAN LOVE MAKE UP FOR EVEYTHING? By Dr. David R. Mace. Nancy felt she was drowning in a sea of household duties. She had settled for marriage and a family. Was there no way out for her?; COMPANION IN PARIS by Margaret Thompson Biddle. This month the Companion's European Editor tells about, Lis Groes, Denmark's young woman Minister of Commerce, Industry and Shipping, She also gives Scottish pudding recipes from Queen Mother Elizabeth of Englad. ; COMPANIONBLY YOURS; MOVIES: SIGN OF THE PAGAN by Philip T. Hartong. Black & white photos of film's stars: Jack Palance (Attila); Rita Gam; Moroni Olsen (Pope Leo); Eduard Franz; Jeff Chandler; Jeff Morrow; Ludmilla Tcherina. The story of Attila the Hun makes a rousing epic of the fifth century, filmed by Universal-International; GOOD MANNERS FOR HAPPY LIVING by Marguerite Bentley. Here from time to time Marguerite Bentley answers your questions about social customs, correct behaviour and how to get along with other people; YOU CAN MAKE ROBES LIKE LUCY'S AND RICKY'S (patterns) by Eleanore Merritt. Dress-alike tailored robes to keep you warm as toast this winter, worn by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz-better known to millions of TV viewers as Lucy and Ricky, stars of I Love Lucy; EASY HOLIDAY RELISHES by Edalene Stohr; PUT CHRISTMAS ON YOUR TABLE; GOOD FOOD ON YOUR DECEMBER TABLE by Neil B. Nichols; CANDY DANDIES-EASY AND GOOD by Annabel Post; FESTIVE ROAST PORK (Meal of the Month) by Barbara Harvey; OUR BEST FRUITCAKES-light and dark (cakes of the month) BY Mary Jane Stone; CHRISTMAS-TRAIN CAKE ON THE COVER; FAMILY DINNER WITH SEVEN COOKS by Bernice Strawn. That's not too many, says Mrs. O'Sullivan or any other day. Big dinners are easy for her; she has six lively assistants-her husband and her five older children-plus the help of her reliable gas range. Paperback condition: Near Fine

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No author. Ladies Home Journal Magazine 11/65 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton (cover). Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Co, 1965.

LADIES HOME JOURNAL 11/65. Vol. 82, No 11. 172 pages. Black & White and color illustrated. The magazine, in illustrated wrappers, is in VERY GOOD ++ condition with minor edge and shelf wear; spine wrap has chips away although magazine is still tightly bound; mailing label on front wrapper. A very tight, bright copy inside. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. DIAGLOGUE WITH MOTHERS: Children's Jealousy-"We Got the Baby For You." By Dr. Bruno Bettelheim; L.B.J.'S GRASS WIDOWS by Patty Cavin; JEANE DIXON PREDICTS THE FUTURE by Bill Davidson. She is Washington's favorite seer, and some of her prognostications have been uncannily accurate. Who Is She? How does she probe the unknown? And are there really no clouds in her crystal ball?; COVER STORY ELIZABETH TAYLOR by Elizabeth Taylor. The world's biggest start writes about her lively life. Five page article with numerous black & white and color photos. Richard Burton and Taylor, Taylor with her children Michael and Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd; HOW AMERICA LIVES-BLACK & WHITE: The Two Worlds of Robert Matlock by Vernon Scott. His working hours are spent in the riot-torn Watts area of Los Angeles, rebuilding lives. In his private hours, Bob Matlock is the only Negro in his suburb, Hollypark, trying to live the answer to the problem of his people: total integration. With wife, Jean, sone Keigh; THE FULL, HAPPY YEARS of JOHN F. KENNEDY painted for the Journal by Jacqueline Duheme with comments by Rose Kennedy. 6 page article filled with paintings by Duheme of aspects of JFK's life accompanied by comments from his mother; TELL ME DOCTOR: 'WHY DIDI BIRTH CONTROL FAIL FOR ME?" by Barbara Seaman; THE POETRY IN EVERY CHILD by Rumer Godden; THIRTY-NINE by Miriam Weiss; DON'T STOP THE CARNIVAL by Herman Wouk. The hilarious account of a wild Caribbean party that almost ended in mayhem-and what happened to the frantic host while everyone was dancing; THE FEMININE MISTAQUE by Art Buchwald; HAVE YOU HEARD? By Louis Benjamin; Can This Marriage be Saved? Jill's Husband was Jealous by Dorothy Cameron Disney; MEDICINE TODAY by Phyllis Wright, M.D., with Victor Cohn; AMY VANDERBILT; SPENDING YOUR MONEY by Sylvia Porter; JOURNAL ORIGINAL: 28; SPECIAL DELIVERY-CHRISTMAS by Trudy Owett; "WHAT MAKE MY OWN FUR COAT?" "Yes, Make Your Own Fur Coat" by Nora O'Leary; WINE, WOMEN AND SO ON; THE ART OF AMERICAN INDIAN COOKING Many of the best-known American dishes-our kind of barbecue, our special ways with lobster, clams and salmon, cranberries, baked beans and corn-are daily reminders of our American Indian heritage. As Yeffe Kimball (herself an Osage) and Jean Anderson explain in this fascinating cookbook, vastly different dishes evolved among the fisherman of the pacific Northwest, the gardeners and gatherers of the South Southwest, the wandering hunters of the Plains, the planters of the South and the woodsmen of th eEast. All have contributed to these entrancing menus and recipes we've culled from the book; WORK TIME: ONE HOUR, FOR THIS NEW-FASHIONED Thanksgiving Feast by Poppy Cannon; EASY-AS PIES; Things to Do with Packaged Stuffings; THE HOUSE THAT GREW AND GREW Hidden away in a deeply wooded area near the Potomac, in Fairfax County, Virginia, is Dower House, the house that grew from a one-room Colonial log cabin to the gracious, amply proportioned country house. Dower House was recently renovated and redecorated by its present owner, Donald D. McAffee, a Washington interior designer. Six page article with color photographs. Paperback condition: Very Good

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Zapala, Marta: Mr. Pooter and Victorians Victorian middle-class and achievements that made the life easier and funnier, GRIN VERLAG, November 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640742265
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: -, -, language: English, abstract: The Diary of a Nobody, the object of the examination of this work, is a fictitious story of a clerk living in London in the 1880's, written by George Grossmith. It is the record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter presented in a form of a diary. Every entry of the dairy is packed with details of trivial moments of his life and as the reviewer for The New York Times wrote, the book consists of the small triumphs and minor humiliations and homely pleasures of everyday life as lived in a lower-middle-class household in the late Victorian era. The representation of the English lower middle class as either devoid of heroism or pathetic is unfortunate but not entirely surprising. Indeed these two characteristics are rather famously combined in the figure of the eponymous Mr. Pooter, master of The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. As Hosgood claims: George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody has rightly become one of the minor classics of Victorian fiction, and no historian can avoid the comic glow it casts over any interpretation of suburban life. Whether one has studied the Victorian age at school or not, he or she must have some knowledge of it. School studies tend to focus either on the political activities of such persona as Disraeli and Gladstone, with addition of the failure of the Chartists, and rarely extend beyond 1885. Sometimes schools provide bored learners with in-depth analysis of the factory system horrors and the inadequacies of public health and hygiene. Moreover, among some adults, Victorianism is synonymous with the exploitation of the working class and the evils (or, increasingly of late, the absurdities) of Imperialism. Others see it mainly as a period of religious hypocrisy and cruelty to children. According to Mitchell:Many of us have vivid mental pictures of Victorian England: a Charles Dickens Christmas with a large, happy family surrounding a table crammed with food; the dark and terrifying slums in other Dickens novels; Sherlock Holmes in London by gaslight; timeless country estates where laborers nodded in deference to the squire while ladies paid social calls and talked about marriage. In addition, Victorianism remains a living concept in social and political debates, although its meanings are contradictory: it is used to describe exploitation and class division, sexual repression, hypocrisy, values of hard work and self-help, moral certain ties about family life, and a [...]

NEUBUCH! 2010. 84 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 5 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V159067

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