The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03

Carolina was rich in arable soil, hardwoods and game, but two att tempts by the English to settle there had failed miserably. The In- dians were hostile and pirates in feSted the coveS and inlets.
 Such were the circumstances into which Captain Woodes Rogers and Roger Mainwairing led 8 group of artisans and tradesmen from Bris- tol. Chief among them was Robert Fountaine, the Huguenot weaver, who fled persecution in France, only to find it again in Ireland, and then in England.
 But 'Lusty Wind of Carolina" is primarily the story of bitter struggle against the wilderness, the conquering of a wild and unfriendly shore, and as such it is engross- ing entertainment. Miss Inglis makes her history not only highly palatable, but weaves it into her narrative, rather than around it.
 PRIZE STORIES OF 1s44," Edited by Herschel Bricken Double day Doran: $2.5O), consisting of this years O. Henry Memorial Prize Story winners and seventeen other short stories, introduces many new writers This years awards go to authors who are less well known than former winners, but who have solid backgrounds of experience and craftsmanship to their credit and have produced stories of talent, if not brilliance.
 Playwright Irwin Shaw takes top honors with Walking Wounded" i" Peter Crome, a British soldier in Cairo. has not seen his wife Anne in three years. Desperately and futilely he tries to recall her image. "Wailing- Wall Crome, Agony, Cairo division" he calls himeslf apolo- getically. "Six years. Some bloody M. P. said he'd be sent home after six years. What do you think 8 woman thinks when she reads that she'll get her man back in only six years?" That is the question that tortureS Crome. And when passage home on a Liberator bursts like g bubble, he is left with one pathteie, crumb of comfort-tomorrow there may be a letter from home.
 Bessie Breuer, second prize win. ner, creates genuine pathos in her tale of the ordeal of q woman whose husband is reported presumed missing at sea. Home Is a Place is a somber story, with a deeply emotional conclusion.
 Third choice of the judges is 'The Stagecoach,' by Griffith Beems. Here is a delightful char acter study of an old man whc spins yarns about his youth, which his grandchildren have reason te believe are more of the stuff of hearsay and confused recollection than fact. They dig into the past, and in not to unkindly fashion dis mantle some of his yarns, because" there is this about Grandfather; if you get something on him you have to use it.''
 PHANTOM VICTORY" by Er. win Lessner Putnam: $2.5O) is a grim and disturbing book. In a flc- tional history" of the Fourth Reich, from 1945-1960, Lessner has the Allies baffled and thought from the very outset. "Nonviolent resistance is impossible to cope with. Punishment of the, Nazi war criminals is found at every turn. A phony Hitler is offered up as a sacrifice; the Wehrmacht dissolves and disappears; 62 million Ger mans produce fake dcards which proclaim them members of the underground, and hence good Germans. Friedolin, a mystic shep- herd, appears to lead his '.flock." Through blockade threats, he forms an economic union" of Africa Asia, and Europe.
 Meanwhile isOlationism thriveg In the Q. s. The country is totally | 1npfepared for war. Young Ger l mans. eafhletfc club ulsnaherss cn