The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-21

SNNAA wv va BVA tANNhAR NhNN Nah' around Q corporal and two lieutena
 First figure Is the corporal, Frank Hansen, The kid is on lntrevert; on the other hand, Lieutenant deisser is an eXtrovert while Lieutenant orm Is a swell guy, Just in between the two,
 You feel sorry for the slight Han sen, who uneomplaininRly bears his burden of the war in frigid Alaska You feel dlSguSted at the Self-een' tered antics of Lieutenant 0eiSSet who uses superior airs to get him. self e promotion to e eaptainey You thrill at the antics of Lieuten. ant Orm 6 deVil-may.eare pilot whose chief faults are his courage women, and his fathers check book
 It's Q mighty fine novel Gabriel has built around these three, With some other pretty swell minor char neters to embelliSh the plot-Sirius with whom the meek Hansen falls In love, Major Meduire, Q swash' buekling Irish soldier of fortune who befriendS Hansen, and Martha Wainwright, Red Gross gal over whom Lee orm is dlppy,
 The author covers a broad range of human emotions in thiS novel, love, hate, drunkeneSS, pSuedo-ele' ganee, misery, war, and the empty ness and fullneSs of the human heart, Tn addition, he describes in minute detail the life Of our men who cleared the frozen wastes oi the AleutianS of the yellow jaF horde, You'll like it,
 LOVE GAME AND SET
 DICHMoND DARRETr's "rht I( Truant" (Dutton; s9,7Sl Is a story of change and tennis, Here is what happens to Jonathan Colt when a wealthy dilettante finds he has a great talent for the game and abruptly transports him from his life of seeluslon Into the smart.set Newport Casino and Forest HlllS tennis world, Colt, deSolte his sense of danger Is irrevoeably drawn te the presidlng queen Of the tennis Kingdom, Mlddy Fleet, wife Of the amateur champion, His bent Is no' toward the fast, hard.drlnklng litt MiddV enjoys, and he knows that her domineering nature soon makes captive the soul of any man Sht loves, But, c star in his own fisht he necessarily travels In close eom' painIonshlp with the Fleets on c goodwill tour through Japan,
 The story Of the young, hermit like Colt Is well done, psyehologi' cal study which is absorbing, The tale of the famous tennis star, pat ting for his soul as well 0s his title Is less convincing and somewha! Stereotyped, But the latter part oi the book Is rescued by descriptions of tennis matches which will make many sportswriter enviouS. m them, rather than in the love story Richmond Barrett has real claim on his readers
 WESTERN COLOR
 YOU'LL remember Rainb oW \ Ripley and his range detective work from his escapades with Senp Mei-lang, the beautiful Chinese gir on whom he had crush. Also youl remember his partner, Grumpy Gibbs, the short feller with whom he paired in solving so many range mysteries,
 So you'll get belt out of reading Bliss LomaX' latest offering on the adventures of this pair-"Horsethiei Greek" Doubleday, Doran: $O.
 Plot is based on the double mur, der of Glenna Gordon's father ano their Chinese cook And It takes the caliber of the Ripley Gibbs team te find out that a rival rancher, linked up with a Chinese leader wa' the guilty party. Gold enters tho picture, as does Seng Mei-lane again.
 WHEN an author, writing 6
 W mystery story, keeps his chiei character in an insane asylum fol three quarters of the book, you have something. That's what Vir. ginia Perdue does in Alarm ano Excursion" (Crime Club: $O.
 Nick Matheny finds himself ir the booby-hatc wondering what happened to him following an ex' plosion outside his plant in which he was developing a new aviation gasoline. It takes you quite a while following the slow recovery of hi: memory to piece the storp together and find that an untrue wife wal at the bottom of it-she and dot ing. no-good father. Finale of thC book isn't what you'd think 1t would be, especially with such consider ate nurse as Miss Chapin.
 INVASION STORY
 CHARLES CHRISTIAN WEIR
 TENBAKER, an editor of the Time Life Fortune group of mag. azines, did his level best to encom. pass the magnitude of the world: greatest military undertaking. the June invasion of northern France
 Tn his Invasion" CD. Appleton Century: S250), Wertenbaker ex- plains in quite some detail the men behind the plans for invasion. ar inkling of the overall strategy. the men leading the invasion, the early battles and the 0. I.'s who won those battles.