1962.02.02 _ Library Director Speaks to Yorktown Club Women
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1962.02.02 _ Library Director Speaks to Yorktown Club Women
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Boyle, Sindey Eaton
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"John C. Hart Memorial Library Historical News Clippings" Binder, Volume 1, 1919 - 1970
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The Reporter Dispatch
Date
1962-02-02
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Kirchhoff, Doris B. (Photographer)
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Yorktown (N.Y. : Town)
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Books - the newest in every field were the subject of the February meeting of the York town Woman's Club yesterday Mrs. Donald Weirman, director of the Yorktown libraries and a member of the club, gave her annual talk during a meeting held at the home of Mrs. A. Cecil Crawford of Broad St.
Mrs. Weirman sat at a table loaded with the lastest products of the publishing world, borrowed for the afternoon from the John C. Hart Memorial Library and the Yorktown branch. Her lively commentary on the new books was illustrated with passages read aloud, and punctuated by questions and observations from her audience. The speaker's most enthusiastic workds were for "My Wilderness" by William O. Douglas, and for Louis Nizer's "My Life in Court," which she described as "more exciting than a mystery" when the trial lawyer writes about tracking down clues and corroborating evidence in his cases.
Other Books Noted
Another favorite was "The Forest People," by Colin M. Turnbull, a young anthropologist who describes, with affection and sensitivity, the mysterious life of the gentle Congo pygmies, a way of life soon to be gone forever.
"What Ivan Knows that Johnny Doesn't" and "Russia and the West" were recommended as "hard to read and hard to agree with," but still "eye openers" that should be perused.
Most of the latest fiction on the best-seller lists was on view, including "Sylva Vercors," "Franny and Zooey," "Little Me," John O'Hara's short story collection '"Assembly," and Carson McCullers' "Clock Without Hands." But they received brief notice; the reviewer and most of the group seemed to feel that no new novel quite compares to last year's "To Kill a Mocking Bird."
One of the most handsome of the recent acquisitions of the Yorkown libraries is the large, lush volume, "Picasso's Picassos,': full of color photographs and fine reproductions of the artist's" works. "An excellent guide to understanding the artist," said the speaker, "which so many of us need when we come to modern art." Two fields more familiar are gardening and cooking. For gardeners Mrs. Weirman recommended two recent books, "Growing for Showing," by Rudy Favretti, and a new concise garden encyclopedia by Marjorie Johnson and Montague Free. An outstanding new book which should help cooks anq hostesses achieve the seemingly impossible goal of serving superb yet slenderizing food and drink is "The Gourmet in the Low Calorie Kitchen," by Helen Beiinkie. But the enobling effects of this recommendation may have been undone by the relish with which Mrs. Weirman read excerpts from ''Off My Toes," a new book by Elsie Masterson, who has written much, including a cook book, about the Lucellan food served at her Vermont Inn, Blue berry Hill.
And finally, the reviewer presented "Katonah," a local history of a part of northern Westchester published in December by th Katonah Village Improvement Society after five years of team research and writing. "Many of the people " who worked on this book were newcomers," she said, "but because they fell in love with their village and wanted to find out all about it they have produced a rich bit of regional history. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone did this for Yorktown.
(PHOTO) BEST BOOKS OF recent months were shown and discussed at the meeting of the Yorktown Woman's club yesterday af the home of Mrs. A. Cecil Crawford of Broad St. Left to right are Mrs. B. Richard Mirabelle, president of the club; Mrs. Donald L. Weirman, director of the Yorktown libraries, the speaker, and Mrs. Crawford, hostess at the meeting. Staff Photo by Doris B. Kjrchhoff.
Mrs. Weirman sat at a table loaded with the lastest products of the publishing world, borrowed for the afternoon from the John C. Hart Memorial Library and the Yorktown branch. Her lively commentary on the new books was illustrated with passages read aloud, and punctuated by questions and observations from her audience. The speaker's most enthusiastic workds were for "My Wilderness" by William O. Douglas, and for Louis Nizer's "My Life in Court," which she described as "more exciting than a mystery" when the trial lawyer writes about tracking down clues and corroborating evidence in his cases.
Other Books Noted
Another favorite was "The Forest People," by Colin M. Turnbull, a young anthropologist who describes, with affection and sensitivity, the mysterious life of the gentle Congo pygmies, a way of life soon to be gone forever.
"What Ivan Knows that Johnny Doesn't" and "Russia and the West" were recommended as "hard to read and hard to agree with," but still "eye openers" that should be perused.
Most of the latest fiction on the best-seller lists was on view, including "Sylva Vercors," "Franny and Zooey," "Little Me," John O'Hara's short story collection '"Assembly," and Carson McCullers' "Clock Without Hands." But they received brief notice; the reviewer and most of the group seemed to feel that no new novel quite compares to last year's "To Kill a Mocking Bird."
One of the most handsome of the recent acquisitions of the Yorkown libraries is the large, lush volume, "Picasso's Picassos,': full of color photographs and fine reproductions of the artist's" works. "An excellent guide to understanding the artist," said the speaker, "which so many of us need when we come to modern art." Two fields more familiar are gardening and cooking. For gardeners Mrs. Weirman recommended two recent books, "Growing for Showing," by Rudy Favretti, and a new concise garden encyclopedia by Marjorie Johnson and Montague Free. An outstanding new book which should help cooks anq hostesses achieve the seemingly impossible goal of serving superb yet slenderizing food and drink is "The Gourmet in the Low Calorie Kitchen," by Helen Beiinkie. But the enobling effects of this recommendation may have been undone by the relish with which Mrs. Weirman read excerpts from ''Off My Toes," a new book by Elsie Masterson, who has written much, including a cook book, about the Lucellan food served at her Vermont Inn, Blue berry Hill.
And finally, the reviewer presented "Katonah," a local history of a part of northern Westchester published in December by th Katonah Village Improvement Society after five years of team research and writing. "Many of the people " who worked on this book were newcomers," she said, "but because they fell in love with their village and wanted to find out all about it they have produced a rich bit of regional history. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone did this for Yorktown.
(PHOTO) BEST BOOKS OF recent months were shown and discussed at the meeting of the Yorktown Woman's club yesterday af the home of Mrs. A. Cecil Crawford of Broad St. Left to right are Mrs. B. Richard Mirabelle, president of the club; Mrs. Donald L. Weirman, director of the Yorktown libraries, the speaker, and Mrs. Crawford, hostess at the meeting. Staff Photo by Doris B. Kjrchhoff.
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Boyle, Sindey Eaton, “1962.02.02 _ Library Director Speaks to Yorktown Club Women,” John C Hart Library Archive, accessed May 16, 2024, https://hartarchive.omeka.net/items/show/31.