The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

Not long after his office was opened, that list swelled beyond all recognition. Refugees of all types who had heard of the rich American who can get vises in no time at all' swamped Fry, and he was soon up to his neck in intrigue and danger as well.
 Confidential talks were held in the bathroom with all taps run ming. because the sound of the water literally drowned out their voices to any hidden dictaphone. Reports were smuggled in tooth- paste tubes. An artist was secured who could forge the rubber stamps on passports.
 For time it was possible 10 get refugees across the Spanish border; then the border was closed. A ship was chartered to take them to Gibraltar; the captain pocketed the money and skipped out. The difficulties were innumerable, but Fry nevertheless helped doctors painters, writers (the Mann and Werfel families included) and teach CTS escape the Gestapo. The book is adventurous. highly exciting, told in a dry, matter -of-fact way which somehow heightens the suspense. LADY LAWMAKERS WOMEN in Congress are between | the covers of a book for the first time, Annabel Paxton of Washing ton having collected their stories | and photographs of those in the present and recent congress. The book is "Women in Congress" (The Dictz Press: S2.00).
 Sketchng only, in a brief in troductory chapter the efforts oi | the first woman to seek election to Congress and discussing in short paragraphs the outstanding women who sat in the Senate and the House from 1917 through 1942, the author concentrates on women in | the war congresses, the 77th, 18th and 18th now sitting. The women in three Congresses. the majority reelected. are presented in full page photographs, bearing their signatures and quotations on their prime interests. Biographical data is evenly divided with information on what these women have achieved or where they have stood in the Congressional service.
 Among the interesting facts about women in Congress which the authors research have turned up are the following:
 The last witch hung in Salem and Priscilla Mullen of the Long ] fellow poem who asked Why don't you speak for yourself, John are ancestors proudly claimed by Con- gresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers. Only four spinsters have served in Congress.
 Only seven women have been elected to fill uneXpired terms Of deceased husbands,
 BOOK NEWS
 GEORGE SANTAYANA, whose ..The Middle Span; Persons and Places, Continued" was published by Charles Scribner Sons on April Is, has just been awarded the 1945 Nicholas Murray Butler Gold Medal of Columbia University This medal is given once every five years for the HlOSt ulSlillbuLsllcN SoiiliibueAoAi to philosophy .. . during the preced- ing five-year period anywhere in the world" MT Santayana was awarded the Butler Gold medal in recognition of his book Realms of Being which includes. in a one-volume edition. The Realm Of Essence" The Realm of Matter, The Realm of Truth" and The Realm of Spirit"
 Houghton Mifilin Company are making preparations for the pub lication in July ef Stuart Cloete's first non fiction book with South African setting, Entitled Against These Three. the volume IS a biography Of Paul Kruger. Cecil