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y star books, presented for an inde- finite run, available morning noon and night, the books people will be talking about tomorrow. These books are on order for delivery this week and should be available by the time this column appears-if not, you can always stop in and sign up for them!
 A light book but not slight book, "a kind of novel" is what Margaret Halsey calls her new book "Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers" The book consists of a series of letters written by a sister to her brother, young sci enlist in the Army. With the same sparkling humor that pervaded Miss Halsey's best-seller "With Malice Toward Some" she says some highly pertinent things in these letters about prejudice and tolerance, especially with respect to the Negro and the Jew. We pre- dict that this too will make the best-se1ler list within a month.
 "About eighteen months ago Philip Wylie," according to one re- viewer, "erupted on the peaceful plain of American literature, like Mexico's Particutin, showering lava and hot ashes on the consci- ousness of his readers. The crater was called The Generation of Vii pers' and the dust from it's explo- sive birth still reddens the sun for those who entered it's atmosphere. Now a vent, fictional in form, has appeared in its side, and second flow of molten lava has begun" This vent is MT. Wylie's new novel ''Night Unto Night" the title a quotation from the Psalms Might unto night showeth knowledge" Knowledge is the preoccupatiOn of the new Wylie characters-knowl- edge of death, its meanings, impli- cations, condition and mental pat terms. It is a novel of today and contains much of the biting com ment that marked "Generation of Vipers."
 All the world loves lover, and all America is welcoming Peter, RAF pilot, and Gervase, a WAAF at his station, whose moving story is told by Nevil Shute in "Pastor- al," Book-of- -the-Month selection. It's an idyll of modern love amid bombers, breath-taking combat, meadows and mill-ponds, war novel that somehow manages to leave one with a profound sense of peace and hope for the future.
 For the mystery fan we've or dered the new A. Fair book "Give 'Em the Axe" so new that it has not yet been reviewed. All we can tell you about it is that Bertha Cool and Donald Lam are at it again in a swift-moving murder full of corpses, cops and a pin-up girl Donald couldn't pin down. Did you know that A. Fair and Erie Gardner are one and the same? How does he ever find time to write so much and so well?
 For GIs whose favorite charac- ter is Sad Sack, we've ordered complete book of his experiences. As you might guess it's called "The Sad Sack" Sgt. George Bak- CT is the artist, and there's fore word by Sgt. Marion Hargrove.
 If these "teasers" appeal, re- member to stop in at the Base Li- brary and get the complete show. They're guaranteed 1O0% interest ing, if not 1OO96 pure!
 To prove that we have a BOOK FOR EACH MANS INTEREST we suggest the following titles:
 For Sgt. Esther Beach: "Amer- ican Jiu-jitsu," by Allen as text book for her judo class.
 For Fred Jadrosich: "1'm Stranger Here Myself" by Ogen Nash.
 For s/sgt. stigile: "Golf," by Patty Berg.