The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

l bAlC dAls
 Leonard Bridgman, editor of the bible of aviation,' has included full descriptions of all fighting planes, carriers, auxiliaries. You can compare speeds, armament, range of the various air fighters, and check upon German and Jap ships as cas- 1 fly as on U. s. and British. Identifi- cation markings are also included. All the mysteries of aviation desig- nations are solved by this excellent work.
 KANSANs FIRST
 MICHAEL AMRINE has hewed 1VA his first novel, All Sons Must Say Goodhy" (Harper & Brothers S2.50), out of his own experience.
 This is not to say that the book Is autobiographical, for it undoubt- cdly is not. But it is an honest story of young America, written by young man who, at 24, vividly re- members his own boyhood and growing up, both of which were rooted deep in the Kansas country where his scene is set.
 The story of Roger Wendell is the story of an entire section is American youth, written frankly and well. The inevitable clash be- tween Roger and his Straight-laeed parents; the healing philosophy of Whitey, the agnostic; Rogers mis- understood love for Agnes; the Soul- soaring adventure of college and finally the experience of watching death win his uneven struggle, all ring true.
 A fine flair for words, an excel- lent sense of the dramatic and a genuine ability to portray character combine to make this an unusual first novel.
 LITTLE WORLD
 THE poor we have always with us, l but such stories of the poor as Aben Kandel's "The Stones Begin to Dance" (Duell, Sloan & Pearce: $2) are found all too seldom.
 Here is the simple story of the simple people of New York tene- ment district, movingly and beauti- fully told. It is the story of MT. Marco, who might have been a rich man but preferred to be happy one, and of his young son Peter, who worshipped his father and and learned to worship little Rosa Komsak.
 Futher, it is the story of a little world within a world-the market under the Williamsburg bridge, which MT. Marco ran with gentle tyranny and of what happened to that market when progress finally did away with the rat-infested tene- ments which edged the market. CHICAGO STORY
 ssT TITLE HELL. BIG HEAVEN
 IL by Edith Roberts (Bobbs- Merrill: S250) joins the many fine novels that have been written about Chicago-none of which are more vivid, more varied, more dramatic than this latest addition to the group.
 A fateful smash of a wildly speeding automobile against the frail body of a young girl sets into motion events that touch and change lives in the whcle range of social strata in this great city, The time is the summer and fall of l94i, reaching right down to Pearl HarboF. 4 year filled with excite ment and portsnt. with much of America asleep to her danger and her people still engrossed in private interests. Miss Roberts give illumi- mating perspective in her version oi it
 DICKENS AGAIN
 WHEN Monica Dickens wrote her W first excellent book a couple oi years ago she proved herself worthy 10 follow in the footsteps Of her dis llnguished forebear. Charles Dick. arg. Her new effort. "0ne Pair oi Feet" further marks that fact and her own increasing stature as writer and interpreter of our times
 "Ore Pair of Feet. (HarpeFs' s250) is the detailed and witty ae' count of the year Miss Dickens ynent as a hosnltal nurse in war inc England, She worked for ionG heurg under conditions which wer' sometlmes difficult, but she loved tae job and she kept her sense o lumor.
 It Is that humoF which distin. eulshes the book. makes it human and much truer than many of th' hospital books" we have recent! heen reading. Monica Dickens un cerstands and appreciates peopll and writes about them with heart warming gaiety.