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Evening star., 1945-06-17
Among
The Authors
Rv Carolyn Cogains.

Another contest. This time Whit
tlesey House is offering IS 900 as first
prize and $1,000 for each of all other
projects accepted for publication,
This is for books on scientific sub
jects or about scientists-even an
autobiography-written for the lay
man. The idea Is to encourage the
people who could write such books,
but hesitate because of the expensive
research involved For more details
on this and other contests, write us,
care of this paper.
AS encouragement we mention
three winners of awards: Elizabeth
Metzger Howard just won the $20,-
900 novel contest with Before the
Sun Goes Down. $4,000 went to
Charles Andrews Fenton for his
manuscript But We Had Fun" in
the new writers contest; and Fam
ME Cook got the George Washington
Carver award of $4,000 for her book
on the Negroes place in American
life, which has no title. All these
were Doubleday Doran contests,
with goth Century-Fox participating
in the new writers.
Il X X
When WAVERLY ROOT reached
the United States and Rockport,
Me, four years ago, he was en-
chanted with the peace and quiet.
1t was very different from Bordeaux,
where he had been broadcasting
news for Mutual every night at
12:30-precisely the hour the Ger
mans bombed Bordeaux each night.
. The armistice ended this and
his years of rowing over Europe as
a newspaper correspondent. His
memories, opinions and knowledge
of Europe Immediately began to
CONCEAL into a book 1t was planned
to run some 125,000 words and be
delivered in 1912. Now, over two
years late, and 100000 words long,
it appears as "The Secret History
of the War" in two volumes. tRe-
viewed, The Sunday Star, January
21)
He works like mad at his type
writer each day on still further his
tories, which will continue as long as
the war. This is interrupted only by
an occasional jaunt to New York
with his beautiful French wife. He
has a 6-year- -old daughter who calls
herself the little French girl" in
spite of being as American as her
brown-eyed, rosy-cheeked father.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Reviewing he New Book,
Upton Sinclair Adds
Another Book to the
Lonny Budd Series
HARVEST"
By Upton Sinclair. Viking, $3.J
By Mary-Carfer Roberts

There seems to be evidence in this
latest addition to the Lanny Budd
novels that Upton Sinclairs inter-
est in the series is waning. The
story element in Dragon Har-
vest" is so thin as to be al
most wholly lacking and, more
over, Mr.. Sinclair prophesies his
heros death to take place in year
or two. That is all right with me-
I have been tired of Lanny for
quite while, though it is only just
to say that he has worn better
than the usual hero who runs
through half a dozen volumes. But,
lately, he has been getting galvanic
and now he just about fades out.
The novel begins with the year
1889 and carries on to the fall of
Paris. 1t consists almost wholly
of reports of the events which led
to the war. Lanny. continuing his
job as presidential agent, poses as a
friend of the NaZiS and FaSciStS and
visits them in their various conf
dental quarters where they pour
out their plans to him with the
most trusting readiness. 1t is Lanny,
too, who dictates President RooSe-
velt's telegram to the heads of for
eign governments asking them to
negotiate their differences.
While this is going on, Lanny has
time to make acquaintance with
two marriageable women, but
reaches the end of the volume still
single. There is rather less than
the usual dependence on revelations
from the spirit world in this story
and, as if apologizing for his heavy
use of that ingredient in past plots,
Mr.. Sinclair devotes a number of
passages to rational hypothesis
concerning the nature of spirit
communication.
On the whole, it is a work suf-
f1ciently typical of the series. Its
diminuendo is only natural, noW~
that the end approaches.
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7 Tdhl
Tail En-
By Jeremy ingalls,. (Knopt; ~;

$780,
Believe it or not, here is 600
page narrative poem on the quest by
a man for the soul. Right back to
Byron. right back to Faust. The
author is 33-yearold woman who
writes that, at the age of 20, when
she was counselor at girls camp
on Cape Cod, she walked through a
pine woods in a thunder storm and
the name and character of Tahl,
as well as his position in contempo-
rary history, shaped themselves
with force resembling rev.
elation."
Well, in this day and age of Amer
lean letters it is a trifie startling to
come on some one taking epic poetry
and revelation so seriously, but
granted Miss ingalls, position on the
matter, one has to admit that her
seriousness is justified. She has
done a massive piece of work
throughout the great length of
which one feels a never tagging
intensity.
Tail is young American COM
poser who, on the death of friend,
sets out to range the world in
search of woman whose portrait
he finds in the dead friends studio.
The poem recounts his adventures,
which are almost wholly adventures
of the spirit He is the never
satisfied. the restless, the embit-
tered, as humorless as Manfred" +"
His quest goes on and on and ends
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Currency Values Present
Problem in Postwar Era

can truck. It would cost 10000
francs. Suppose they drop the franc
to one cent The truck would cost
100000 francs. Obviously, when
France Is buying, it would be to
her advantage to keep the value Of
the franc high.
But look at her problem when she
sells. Suppose the franc is at q
cents, and she begins to produce
leather gloves at $50 francs That
would mean she would sell them
here at 81 a pair. But if she drops
the franc to l cent she would be
able to sell the same pair of gloves
here at $3.50.
She might sell more gloves, and
81 might be able to sell to more
nations, those which couldn't afford
the higher price.
France Is Hesitant.
France wouldn't particularly like
to cut the value of the franc. But
she doesn't know what other ma
tions will do to their currencies.
Suppose Italy should stabilize the
lira at such low rate, compared
to the franc, that it would be
cheaper for women in Rio de Janeiro
to buy Italian gloves than to buy
French ones.
All of Europe is in the same boat.
None of the nations know whether
any of the others, driven by the
tremendous needs for foreign cur
rencies, may have to undercut each
other.
Part of their problem, they say,
would be solved if the Breton
Woods proposals for an interna-
tional foreign exchange fund were
ratified by the United Nations. But
it may take months to a year or
more for the Breton Woods plans
to start operation.
So the French plan to suggest an
almost immediate meeting, perhaps
limited to Europeans, if other ma
tions are not interested, to try to
set at least the interim currency
rates in relation to each other.
These shifting values of money,
with their effects on world trade,
was one of the prime reasons the
Breton Woods Conference was
called.
But the Breton Woods proposals
give the war-wrecked nations three
years of grace before they have to
announce permanent valuation.
In the meantime the French argue
that the re-opening trade lanes must
be aided by some interim agreement.
distributed by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1945-06-17

U. S. ~, as told to Hugh B.
Gaze. (Dodd, Mead & Co.; S3.)
Reviewed by J. K. VAN DENBURG.
The story of Comdr. Miller-one
of the Navys most-decorated Of
ficers-makes fascinating reading
1t is a worthy addition to the all
too-short list of war stories which
are competent factual accounts, not
romanticized rewrites.
Comdr. Miller's decorations in
clude the Navy Cross, four Dis
tinguished Flying Crosses, six Air
Medals, two Communications with
Ribbon and the Purple Heart. All
were won while he was leading a
squadron of Navy Liberator bombers
on harassing patrol raids over Jap
held Pacific islands. And, lest the
decorations be viewed too calmly,
for a single-handed raid on Truk
in which he probably sank an enemy
cruiser, the Air Medal was his re-
ward
In eight months Comdr. Miller
plane, Thunder Mug. accounted
for 66 enemy ships sunk and Is
enemy planes destroyed, plus many
more times those figures in "proba-
bles" and damaged" He and his
squadron cid the reconnaissance
work on which most of our island
victories were based.
Over and above the excellent
chronicle of recent battle history
the book carries an intensely in
teresting account of Comdr. Miller's
career in naval aviation, providing
in retrospect a short history of that
branch of service.
81 Took The Sky Road" Is the
history of a career in which Amer
lea can take pride and inspiration
Evening star., 1945-06-17
All Our Lives, Alice Due'
lLsIT

By Henry Wise Miller fCoward-
McCann; $3)
Reviewed by
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY.
Alice Duer Miller was born in 1874
into wealthy New York family. It
was a large one, related to and
friendly with similar families here
and in England. She made her
debut, went to parties at the Astors
or the Livingstones, worked her way
through Barnard College, was a
serious mathmetician, had a son,
interested herself in suffrage and led
"a full and interesting life
From her childhood she began to
write, wanting nothing from life but
material for her story. Admitting
that her writing was slight and that
it received but faint praise" from
the critics, Mrs. Miller says "her
public was the great mass of every
day people" She will be remem-
bered for Gowns From Roberta" ="
which became the musical "Rober-
ia" and for her long poem, The
White Cliffs" which was made into
a successful motion picture.
Mrs. Miller's favorite books, auth
ors, quotations and axioms are men,
toned. Many of the latter greatly
influenced her life. This is not a
biography in the strict sense of the
word, but an affectionate account of
happy and successful marriage.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Enrico Coruso,
His Life and Death

By Dorothy Caruso. (Simon &
SchuSter, s2.75.)
Reviewed BY w. G. ROGERS.
The title of this book is mislead-
ing, for the author writes almost
exclusively of the four years from
1877, when she first met the great
tenor and within a few months
married him, to 1921, when he
died in Naples. The writing is stiff
and insensitive. And finally it isn't
so much a straightforward narrative
as a series of notes.
But despite these faults, this is
an extraordinary document. the
record of a deep and
passionate attachment, the account
of persons possessed by emotions
in the EXTREMIST ranges.
Against the wishes of her father,
who disinherited her, Dorothy
"Doro" Park Benjamin, newly out
of convent school. became "Rico's'
wife, bore him one daughter, Gloria
. he already had two sons by a
singer to whom he wasn't married,
says the author helped him to
endure the fearful suffering of his
illness and accompanied him to
Italy where he underwent the last
agony.
1t is a tale of tears and laugh
ter, mad tears sometimes mingled
with imprecations. .and laughter
that romped and rollicked and
exulted. There are passages about
jealousy, about robbery and black
mail, about the bomb in the Ha-
vana opera house, about how a
singer takes care of his throat.
And there are many fascinating let
ters from husband to wife, with
the Italians spelling eccentricities
wisely preserved.
1t is sincere, honest. revealing,
setting the record straight where
it had been distorted. adding new
facts, recalling marvellous singer
and describing splendid tragic
life"
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Americas Role lin the
|WorId Economy

By AlDi1 II. Hansen. Morton,
$780,
''It takes a very sophisticated
country to be truly rational when it
comes to money matters" says
Hansen in this profound but easily
readable little book.
It is not enough to cooperate
with the rest of the world politi-
cally; America must also cooperate
economically, he says; one feature
of such. cooperation would be to
secure full employment at home. He
sees important beginnings" in con-
ferences already held on relief, food,
labor, money. W.G.R.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Brief Reviews
NOVELS.

BY, the Waters Of Babylon, by
Stephen Lister. (Dodd, Mead.)
Novel of q young Morocco-born Jew
who comes into conflict with Eng
lish society.
Mr.. Digby, by Douglass WEIGH.
(Putnam) Funny tales about a
small city news photographer, his
connections with the city hall, the
police and so on.
No Ones Kindness, by George
Loveridge. (Appleton Century,
Story Of a woman who marries her
dead sisters husband and has a
thankless job bringing up her step
children.
Dark Medallion, by Dorothy Lang
ley. (Simon e. Schuster.) Story
of a little girl growing up among
relatives in a small Southern town.
Sensitive.
MYSTERIES.
Silence in Court, by Patricia Went
worth. Gippincott) Story of an
innocent young girl on trial for
murder.
Any Shape or Form, by Elizabeth
DAILY. Farrar & Rhinehart.) Muir
der begins at country party. A
Henry Gamadge tale.
The Black Spaniel Mystery, by
Betty Cavanna. (Westminster)
Mystery for young readers, involv-
ing dogs and dog lovers. About
high school age.
The Murderer Is a Fox, by Ellery
Queen. little -Brown) The veteran
detective solves a 12-year-old murder
case and saves the peace of mind of
a young war hero. Typical.
ANIMALS.
Raffles, by zetta and Carveth
Wells. Putnams.) The life history
of the famous mynah bird. Most
interesting.
SCIENCE.
The Male Hormone, by Paul de
Kruif. (Harcourt, Brace) A survey
of recent medical efforts designed
to delay the approach of old age.
Careers in Science, by Philip Pol
lack. Dutton) A handbook to
jobs for young people with scienti-
fic training.
PLACES.
Nine-Mile Bridge, by Helen HAM
lin. (Norton) A woman who went
to live in the Maine woods writes
the story OF three years of it. Tim
bermen, French Canadians, trap
pers, animals, nature. Agreeably
done.
THE WAR.
Wilson Today, edited by Arthur
B. Tourtellot. tDuell, Sloan 81
Pearce) Selections from the ad-
dresses and papers of the former
President, chosen for their applica-
ton to the present situation.
My Rival, the Sky, by Margo
Kurtz. PutnamD A pilots wife
writes intimately Of the anguish of
having husband at war.
The Great Decision, by James
Shotwell. (Macmillan.) Last years
book with new material covering
the Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta and
Mexico City conferences.
HUMOR.
Marriage Joker, by Robert Range.
(Harvest House) A joke book on
the oldest subject.
RELIGION.
The Faith of Man Speaks, edited
by Helen Woodbury.. Macmillan. }
An anthology of prose and poetry
designed to testify to the constant
existence of religious faith.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
New Books
lin Fropt ca Ju,e 70

Up Front, SO, June 1S.
l Ask You, Ladies and Gentlemen, So rs
June IS.
Calamity at Harwood, 50, June 10.
Memories and Opinions by @, S15o
June 10.
We Flew without Guns, So 80, June IS
The Russia 1 Believe In, $3.50, June 1S
Evolution Of the Dutch Nation, $3.50
June %.
June 21.
Canada: New World Power, So, June 20
The Wayfarers, $2.75, June 21.
Great RELIGIOUS Stories, ST. 9S, June 1S
How to Live Beyond Your Means, So .95
June 20
Reprieve, 250, June %.
The Pine Tree and the Mole, $3.50,
June ~.
Cali Back Yesterday. 81. June Is.
5 Minute Classics, ST. .9S, June 90
Practical Marksmanship, So 80, June 21
The Promise Hitler Kept, S275, June 90
Evening star., 1945-06-17

tons visited on
his people e at
that time by the
Turks. His par
ents were killed
and his brothers
and sisters scat
tered. H e sur
vived for some
time b y hiding
a n d running,
getting shelter
from ki n d =
hearted Greeks
who would have
b e e n killed If
t h ir beneVO-
Evening star., 1945-06-17

not the kind of human beings you
like. But Mr.. Smiths thesis ap-
parently is that given this particular
corner of the world, these are the
people who inhabit it and this is
how they will act.
This is Mr.. Smiths second book
On the basis of what he has done
it should be worth while to re-
member the name and watch for
the next one.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Shall We Scrap
Our Merchant Morine?
By A. D. Rathbone, w. Rob.
ert M. Mcbride & Co.,. s3.)

By A. D. Rdthbone, Nv. Rob
ert M. Mcbride & Co.,. s3.)
Reviewed by SAM BOUCHARD.
A. D. Rathbone's book, Shall
We Scrap Our Merchant Mariner"
presents a comprehensive, clear -cut
discussion of the United States mer-
chant marine, the most gigantic
cargo feet the world has ever seen.
Mr.. Rathbone takes a very en-
phatic stand about the postwar
use of this fleet. He spares no
words in telling the Nation that
it's future prosperity will depend
largely upon maintaining these ships
in which the United States has an
investment of well above IL billion
dollars.
The writer shows a thorough
knowledge of American shipping
from its very beginning. He traces
the fluctuations of Americas mari
time position from Colonial days to
the present time, and draws a very
clear picture of how it compares
with ocean transportation of other
nations.
Mr.. Rathbone's book probably will
give rise to extended discussion be-
tween two groups of thought on
maritime affairs in the United
States. One group believes that
much of our shipping should be
turned over to Allied and liberated
countries whose vessels have been
destroyed by war. The other group,
of which Mr.. Rathbone is an ex-
ponent, believes that the United
States should now take the leader
ship in world water transportation
and retain its ships.
Mr.. Rathbone points out in some
detail that this Nation must now
accept the lessons it has learned the
hard way about shipping and that
big cargo feet is vital to pros
porous world trade and is an in
surance policy for peace.
Evening star., 1945-06-17

finally when he is listed a casualty
fighting in the Spanish Civil War
Miss ingalls, uses a wide variety of
verse forms and writes with a
mature finish. Her writing indeed
is better than her thinking. which
is almost desperately young.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
pFront
BIZ Bill MauIdin. (Holt,: S3.)

By Bill Mauldin. Holt; S3.)
Here are the collected cartoons
of the famous Bill Mauldin, the
tired old man of 49, who has i'm
mortalized the private soldier of our
particular war. And with the car
toons is Soldier Mauldin's story of
how he has gotten his stuff. I think
the book is one of the books of the
war. You will read lot of words
before you will come on anything
which puts the enlisted mans war
into neater compressor than that
Mauldin drawing which shows
droopy, disgruntled little, CT stand
ing before medical officer saying,
"Just gimme coupla aspirin. 1
already got a Purple Heart" The
book is must if you are getting any
war library whatever.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
The Future of japan
By William C. tombstone. (OI

BIZ William G.. tombstone. (OT-
ford University Press; s2J
The japanese postwar program
called for in this book is one which
will probably meet the approval of
every one except members of the
school which calls for killing 'em
all" 1t demands unconditional sur
render, complete disarmament,
measures against rearmament, re-
moval from power of all elements
associated with the government
since Pearl Harbor, breaking up of
patriotic societies, punishment of
war criminals and support of groups
willing to undertake reconstruction
of japanese society from an au-
toTacy to liberal condition. IT
warns that the task will be infinitely
complicated and will call for un-
relaxing vigilance on the part of
the United Nations. On all points,
Mr.. Johnstone, a veteran student
of the Far East, offers a fairly
rounded program of suggestions.
Evening star., 1945-06-17

ban Boston and
to provide a bet
ter life for them
which she hopes
will include COL
lege.
A variety of
characters peo-
pie Mr.. Smiths
scene, and he
does a good job
of b r n g i n g
them to life and
making t h e m
act like human
beings, although
many of them
quite likely are
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Antoine


Antoine is a famous Polish hair
dresser who lived in a Paris house
built almost entirely of glass until
the war forced him to take refuge
on Fifth avenue. At so years OF
age he reviewed his life and the
notability of the heads he had
dressed during As years. He de-
cided to write a book. With the
simplicity that characterizes many
of his coiffures the title states ex-
actly what the book is about
Antoine" by Antoine.
Antoine describes his start as an
adolescent boy and the ladies who
demanded his creative services.
Some of them were ladies by
courtesy only but they were all
famous and he became famous too.
One of the few gloomy excerpts amid
recital of such clients as the Duchess
of Windsor, Sarah Bernhardt, Flea
nor Duse, Lady Mendl and Eleanor
Roosevelt, is his experience at the
coronation of King George and
Queen Elizabeth. With a staff OF
ST assistants he curled hair all the
night before for women in the cor
onation ceremonies. But Queen
Elizabeth insisted on an English
hairdreSser.
Antoine" is entertainingly writ
ten and will be good reading in hot
weather. The author mentions
many well-known women but has
little time to delve into the char
acter of any because he is busy
with analysis of his own. A curious
naivete appears at times-he re-
marks that his wife was fat and ugly
but relief to come home to after
spending the day amid beauty.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Motor History of America

~ L. B. GtdSScOcE, Utth MS
torical supplement by Floyd
Clymer. (Floyd Clynaer;; $3.)
The title of this book is some
what misleading, as the work is not
a complete motor history, but al
collection of articles on the history
of various cars-Nash, Chrysler,
Durant, Dodge, Ford and others.
The pieces are popularity written.
however, and offer a good deal Of
information. The supplement by
Floyd Clymer, well-known collec-
tor of material on early motoring
days, is comprised of advertisements
of old-time cars, together with a list
of more than 1,500 names of "carsI
of yesteryear," the locations of their
factories and the date of establish
ment. The work does not have
quite the picturesque flavor of Mr..
Clymer's "Scrapbook, but 1t is per-
haps more informative. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
! Ask You, Ladies
And Gentlemen

By Leon z. Surmelidn. (Dut-
ton; S2.75.)
Leon z. Surmelian is an American
citizen of Armenian birth. He was a
boy at the time of World War I and
suffered under the famous persecu-
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Best Sellers
(Accordins to Publishers Weekly
-NATTON.WTDE

FICTION.
1st-Captain From CASTLE, Samuel
Shellabarger,
2d-FOrever Amber. Kathleen Wind
sd-The Green Years, A. J. cronin.
4th-Immortal Wife. Irving Stone.
5th-The Ballad and the Source,
Rosamond lehman.
NONFICTION.
1st-Brave Men, Ernie Pyle,
2d-Black Boy, Richard Wright.
3d-Try and Stop Me, Bennett Cert,
4th-Anything Can Happen, George
and Helen Papashvily.
6th-The Thurber Carnival, James
In WASHINGTON
FICTION.
1st-A Lion Is In the Streets. Adria
2d-Commodore HornbiOwer, c. 8.
Forester
3d-Dragon Harvest, Upton Sinclair,
4th-lmmortal Wife, Irving Stone.
5th-Coming Home, Lester Cohen.
NoNFICTION.
1st-Brave Men, Ernie Pyle.
2d-A Book About the Bible, Georee
Simpson.
3d--Justice in Transportation, Arne
C. Wiprud.
4th-Anyth1ng Can Happen, deorge
and Helen Papashvily.
bth-Ff.htinS Liberal George ".
Evening star., 1945-06-17
The Human ImoQe
By Robert Smith. Harper 6
Bros; $780,
Reviewed by
. FRANCIS p DOUGLAS

FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
This novel is the story of Rosemary
Johnson in the war years of 1917
and 1918 and her struggle to make
a home for her two bows in subur-
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Esquire's First Sports
Reader

Edited by Herb Crafts. "A. S.
Barnes; S2.75.)
Reviewed by w. G. ROGERS.
This is a collection of famous
sports stories, the sports world just
about complete, or with everything
but peanuts and popcorn. Among
the writer's are Ernest Hemingway
Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee
Masters and of course Walter
Hagen, Ford Frick,, Clark Shaugh-
messy, Vincent Richards and many
others.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
I Took the Sky Road

BIZ Comdr. Norman M. Miller,
U. S. ~, as told to Hugh B.
Gaze. (Dodd, Mead & Co.; S3.)