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Joe vATe SAYS ;


 new books added to the Base Li- brary shelves this past week. His torical novels, westerns, mysteries, non-fiction, covering a wide range of subjects. We have book for EACH mans interest,"!
 Historical Novels
 Two new historical novels have recently been added to the Best Seller lists of the metropolitan newspapers, and to the Base Lii brary shelves. One is Immortal Wife" by Irving Stone, and the other Being Met Together" by Vaughan Wilkins.
 Irving Stone is no newcomer to the literary "4O0". Ten years ago he wrote another outstanding best seller, "Lust for Life," novel about the passionate painter, Vim cent Van Gogh. Immortal Wife" his latest, is the dynamic story of Jessie Benton Fremont, one of the most exciting women in American history. Beloved, hated, feared and feted across continent, Jessie left her mark on every major event in nineteenth-century America. At sixteen she fell in love with Ere mont, daring young topographer of the unexplored West. Jessie never got over that love.
 Virginia in 1781, the continent of Europe, and England form the To- cales for the new Vaughan Wilkins novel, Being Met Together" It's a romantic and swashbuckling novel concerning itself with a mother, obsessed with hatred of the English, and her grandson, the young Anthony Purvic, whom she reared with one purpose-to re- venge herself through him against the British. History, romance and adventure go hand in hand as only Vaughan Wilkins can lead them.
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 "Wild Horse Shorty" by Nelson Nye, is a Western with a new twist. It is not a blood-and-t thunder item, but a horsy yarn laid prac- tically in MT. Yves own paddock.
 Shorty is a lovable, typical American hero, a simple soul who must continually borrow and con- hive for the sake of his sixteen horses, and who, in the end, mad vertently outsmarts the slick vil- lain. MT. Wye loves horses, and knows them and writes we'll about them. Add to this his hlack with plot, his gamey humor, and you have a story for every horse lover and every Western fan.
 Low Man Travels
 H. Allen Smith is now ''Lost in the Horse Latitudes" and you'll laugh yourself sick at him. This time he turns Hollywood inside out in such chapters as "How to Write for the Movies Somewhat" Sex Life of the Date Palm," Feet Have Their Good Points," "How to Play Stud Poker All Night" and other laugh hits. Buddy De Sylva, who writes the introduction, in troduces us to Smith in Hollywood by citing how the maestro descend ed on the Paramount lot like a plague of locusts and then pro- ceeded to offer such vital contribu- tions as moving the lawn and ask ing for the mems room. But Smith and non-conformity have always been a devastatingly funny com bination, and his misadventures in rate top billing in the annals of the human comedy.
 Facts About Wild Life
 Arthur Loveridge, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at liar wards Museum of Comparative Zoology, started quest for facts about wild life in every form, a quest which took him in time to Africa and eventually to the United States. "Many Happy Days I've Squandered" is an account of this travelling. Snakes have always been his greatest enthusiasm, but IL T.