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a reader as well. In "Tammy Out Of
Time" Mrs. Sumner demonstrates
something OF the same sympathy,
much the same simplicity that she
gave us in her previous work. She
has managed a pleasant, readable
light book" But it isn't another
Quality" in intent or achievement.
Perhaps she wanted to get this
one out Of her system. Now that
she has, those who admired her
Quality" will be watching for an
other in which she will catch some
thing of the impact, something OF
the fine earnestness, of the earlier
book. The main problem here, per-
haps, is shat she has chosen as a
subject, a cliche-one of the COM
mon literary cliches. It's the one
about the fine, simple-wise unso-
phisticated who shows up the world
lings. Her Tammy fits too easily
into a mold; we guess quickly what
is to follow.
She has an interesting background
the white -pillared mansions Of
Natchez, the old cotton capital on
the Mississippi, now the great tour
lists attraction Of the Deep South.
To it she adds a no-less colorful set
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Secretary Stinson's S
Story Now Appears
In Book Form
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
IN PEACE AND WAR

ON ACTIVE SERVICE
IN PEACE AND WAR
BY Henry L. Stimson and Nc
George Bundy. Harper & Bros
So
The personal, informal story of
Henry L. Stimson's years in public
life, which appeared serially under
the title Time Of Peril has now
been issued by Harper & Bros.
in the form of a book called "On
Active Service in Peace and War
with McGeorge Bundy Of Harvard
University as collaboration.
Much of the book describes Secre-
tary Stimsons relations with Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and is gift to
history and biography for its evalu-
alton of the wartime President as
a strategist.
Mr.. Stimson, once Secretary of
State and twice. Secretary of War
the last time during World War II
quotes literally from his diaries
and private records. He discourses
on the difficulties which arose with
the Russians during the war and
draws his own conclusions as to
our future dealings with them.
j, A, G.
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Forgetting the things that are
behind, press on. :. Having done
all, stand. DIR. Peale regards such
words from the Bible as bona flde
form of medication. How is medi-
cine taken?' he asks. Ordinarily
through the mouth or by injection
into the blood stream, but there are
other entrances through which
medicine may be inserted. One is
through the eye. For example, pick
up the Bible and read some OF It's
great words. A reflection is made
on the retina of the eye. This image
changes into the form OF an idea
positive idea Of faith. The idea
passes through the mind until 1t
arrives at the infection point. {.
There it throws its healing inf1u-
epce around the center of infection
1t drives off infection and finally
through the therapeutic operation
of spiritual idea the diseased idea
is cast from the mind. One, there
fore, has taken medicine "a heal
ing agenD through the reading Of
the Scriptures"
"a Guide to Confident Living" is
good book for people who want
to improve their living.
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ting of poor white shanty boat life,
with liquor making for good meas
ure. She brings her shanty girl
into the pilgrimage, among the
ladies in crinoline who show their
ancient possessions; and there 1t Is,
the contrast Of. tutored and un-
tutored.
Tammy is a pleasant character, q
little idealized. too simple on occa-
sien; and her opponents appear a
trifle vulnerable. Yet, though Ii
lacks a sharply realistic touch, the
novel does have a frequent charm Of
scene and treatment, and a senti-
ment that should please many read
ers. And now. Mrs. Sumner, how
about the third book?
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Ottenberq

There Is Tide, by Agatha Christie.
Dodd, Mead g. Co., $250o Red
Badge.
Even Hercule Poirot's superior
little gray cells" have TO work over
time to solve the mysteries evoked
by a group of relatives suddenly
deprived of the security which so
long had protected them from the
ravages of real life. Would one or
more of them do murder to regain
that security? All of them need
money and only a fragile young
woman stands in their way. But
which members of the Cloade FAM
lily could possibly benefit from the
death of the one man who says
he can prove the young woman
isn't entitled to the Cloade for
tune? The finger of suspicion
points convincingly in half dozen
different directions before the
mighty mite from Belgium sorts the
chaf1 of wishful thinking from the
wheat of guilty.
Detroit Murders, edited by Alvin C..
Hamer. (Duell, Sloan & Pearce;
So
Unlike some Of the earlier true
cases in this regional murder series,
particularly those of San Francisco
and Charleston, most of these cases
could have happened anywhere.
Except for the gang killings Of
prohibition days, they lacked the
background atmosphere drawn from
the unique quality of city. Never
theless, most of them are well told,
particularly the Jerry Buckley muir
der and the comparatively recent
Lydia Thompson case. Also repre-
sented are a typical crime OF pas
sion, matricide, several cult kill
ings, a wife murder and an early
vintage Indian killing. Most of
them are narrated by Detroit news
papermen.
False Bounty. by Stephen Ran
some. doubleday g. Co., Inc, 81
Crime Club.
Webster Lindley, first husband OF
the lethal Lydia, plotted her death
with infinite care For his weapon,
he chose some of the capsules he
was sure Lydia had used to kill her
second husband, Webster's brother.
But the plan backflred. The wrong
person died and Webster was forced
to defend the girl accused of the
crime. The author tries to extri-
cate his hero from this mess, OBJ
viously hoping the reader will for
get Webster was guilty at least OF
intent to murder
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to Archeologist Sam Lothrop un-
earthing ancient treasure in Gen.
tral America.
She is also, she revealed during
her brief stay here, a refugee from
a revolution, having caught the last
plane out of Costa Rica before the
present violence broke out.
That situation, she says, is a crit
ical one, not only because it is
Communist-inspired, but because it
provides a pattern for all other
Central American countries. 1t is
further confused, she explained, by
the fact that the present Com
munist dominated government,
which Is trying to keep President
elect Otilio Ulate from taking office,
is using American lend-lease arms
which were provided during the war
for hemisphere defense. The sight
of United States insignia on these
weapons has led the populace to be-
lieve that the Communists have the
blessing of Uncle Sam.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lothrop came to
Washington to look over the latest
additions made to the Latin Ameri-
can archaeological exhibit at the
National Gallery of Art. Mr.. 10th
rop is connected with the Peabody
Museum at Harvard and he checked
every archaeological fact in his
wifes blithe memoir.
Il may have said there were five
bedbugs on me when there were
really only four, but anything about
the bones is absolutely so," she said.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Early RoiIrooding
In Great Britain
DANDY HART

DANDY HART
BY Hamilton Ellis. fMacmillan,
$780,
Dandy Hart" is a historical
novel woven around the formation
and growth of the railway indus
try in England. The story has two
component parts. One is the ro-
nance of Leander DANDY Hart
and Sarah, the cockney girl. The
other and more interesting Is the
human scramble that went on in
the mid-Victorian railway world.
Patents were neatly and wickedly
stolen, men in the lower strata of
railway life were worked as many
as 18 hours day, and the mere
thought of labor being organized
was firmly put out of mind.
Mr.. Ellis is quite an expert on
railway history and has done much
writing on this subject, both from
technical angle and from the flc-
tional side. IN. P.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
A Changed Viewpoint About
The Brotherhood of Man

From Atlanta came DR.. Alfred
Weinstein, a native of Chelsea,
Mass, a graduate of Harvard Med
ical School and survivor of Bataan,
Corregidor and three and half
years of japanese Imprisonment.
He is the author of "Barbed Wire
Surgeon" one of the most harrow
ing and heartening war stories to
be published.
DR.. Weinstein was accompanied
by his pretty, plump Viennese wife,
Hanna, who was a member OF an
international underground organi-
zation called the Blue Eagles, who
risked their lives to provide pris-
oners of war in the Philippines with
food and medical supplies.
Their activity convinced him, DR..
Weinstein said, that the brother
hood of man was really one of the
things that makes Little Joe tick. u
Another conclusion reached by DR.
Weinstein during his ordeal is that
the desire for knowledge is as great
as the instinct for selfrperservation.
So completely did the men live the
few books at their disposal, he said,
that he often saw fist fights break
out over certain characters.
DIR. Weinstein, sturdy, balding
man, is now recovered from the in
juries he suffered in prison. The
present war talk?
TT murders me-" he said sue
of1v
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Hard, Houghty
And Heortbroken
SUCH AS WE
BY Pierre Sichel.
Hitchcock, $780,

BY Pierre Sichel. (Reyndl g.
Hitchcock; $780,
The heroine of this story begins to
show promise of getting both feet
on the ground as the book comes to
an end. BY that time she is 26 and
has been bumped of the straight
and-narrow into the high weeds of
error so often she appears to be al
most as rotten with excesses" as
she herself confesses.
But since to know one is lost is a
hopeful sign, the reader has the
feeling that Elaine Chickering,
daughter of the 1932-1946 dissolute
rich, will find integrity of a sort
even happiness. One regrets that
the author has seen At merely to
underscore her weakness through
out most of the story-and it is a
sordid story of people buffeted by
strenuous times.
Elaine's mother is as unlovely a
creature as you could flnd-even in
a book. In fact, there are lot of
stinkers in it. Frequently the dia-
logue is forced. H. A. L.
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pie face to tGce.
Their love, like the great music they
both played. was too ethereal for an
earthly world. Then Paris realized
that he and Randy, the widow, were
deeply in love. But neither was the
sort to cheat or betray Elise. Elise,
in her tragic and unobtrusive way,
removed the dilemma. Meanwhile,
there were problems of behavior
and mental twist among towns
people which Paris was called in to
solve. And there was Paris personal
enemy, Fulmer Green, the politician,
who finally succeeded in getting the
doctor ousted from the hospital.
But after that Paris. whose life
had been as entangled as that OF
any patient, though without such
discernible consequences, really
found himself and emerged a finer
man.
The story of Paris and Of those
whose lives he touched is clearly
observed and deeply moving The
Literary Guild is to be commended
for choosing such fine novel Tor
its May selection.
** ~
MY UNCLE JAN
BY Joseph Auslander and Audrey
Wurdemann. (Longsmans, Green
G. Co.; s275.J
This is another nostalgia novel,
but quite different from the others
I've read and more amusing than
most of them.
Uncle Jan emigrated from Bo-
hemia (now Czechoslovakia) in the
/ last years Of the 18th century. Set
tling in Wisconsin, he bought four
acres of forest from the Govern
ment for $40. He began to cut the
lumber and sell it. Within Is years,
he owned several thousand acres, a
! lumber mill, the bank of New Bo-
hemia, the saloon and the drygoods
store. When he notified relatives in
the old country to come on over,
there was all the land they wanted
cheap, they came and with them
half the village. The adventures of
Uncle Jan and of the community
are highly diverting, often hilarious.
Mr.. Auslander is the poet and an
biologist. His wife, Audrey Wurde-
mann, won the Pulitzer Prize for
poetry in 1884.
NEW pOEMS
BY Mark Van Doren. William
Sloane Associates, Inc: $780,
Mr.. Van Doren is a poet who
continues to grow in stature and
variety. One of his principal
themes s-nature-shows an earnest
fidelity to his earlier styles But in
general the poems in this book are
more carefully formulated and
more intense. AS his wisdom grows
his words become fewer until now
we have a poet who has few living
equals in the distinguished art of
saying great things in the simplest
manner possible. Emily Dickinson
had it and so did A. E. Housman.
Admirers of their work will treasure
Mr.. Van Doren's new book. e. T.
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Reviewed by
THE REV. MILTON H. KEENE.

Reviewed by
THE REV. MILTON H. KEENE.
With a simplicity that at times
almost borders on the naive, Nor
man Vincent Peale in his latest
book, "A Guide to Confident Liv-
ing" discusses the mental and
moral confusion of modern man
and prescribe" definite and spe-
cific treatment. Were it not for the
fact that the book is based upon
the authors actual experience in
his own clinic with Psychiatrist DR..
Smiley Blanton as colleague, one
would be inclined to call DR.. Peale's
handling OF grave human problems
too easy.
He proceeds on the premise that
much of our trouble is the result
of wrong thinking, and that only
right thinking can set us right. He
finds the Bible, especially the New
Testament, a veritable reservoir Of
untapped power for the remaking
of our minds: Tap that power and
life is changed, because the human
mind is changed.
Thou wilt keep him In perfect
peace whose mind Is stayed on Thee.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
But the Reds
Need Lot
|OfWotching
CONSPIRATOR

BY Humphrey Slater. (Harcourt
Brace & Co.; $2.75J
With Humphrey Slater as with
another brilliant political novel
ist, Arthur Koestler, it has evil
IDENTIFY been a case of familiarity
with the Communist Party
breeding contempt. hatred and
the urge to warn the world OF
the "superhuman ruthlessness''
of the Comintern. Mr.. Slater is
described by his publishers as
one time chief of operations for the
Spanish International Brigade and
former Berlin anti-Nazi street
fighter and visitor to Moscow. In
his first and highly praised novel
The Heretics," he compared the
tactics of the extreme left with
those of the InQuisition. Now, in
"Conspirator," the story of a Brit
ish Communist who married with
out party permission. he continues
to expose the appalling conse-
quences of total dedication to the
totalitarian line.
In the light Of Mr.. Slater's back
ground and current conditions, 1t is
difficult to single out the most sin
lister aspect of his novel. 1t is
bad enough that the conspirator of
the title, Major the Honorable
Desmond Ferneaux-Lightfoot, should
be an officer in the Grenadier
Guards who has been for some
years feeding military secrets to the
Soviets. 1t is even worse that he
should submit so slavishly to their
discipline that, having been ordered
by Moscow to eliminate" his bride
of several months, he should ra-
tionalize that lit was meanly illogi-
cal to prefer one insignificant
bourgeois person to the historic
movement of millions OF human
beings in every country in the
world"
Like Suspense Story.
Mrs. Slater relates this contem-
porary horror story in matter-of-
fact terms against a background Of
the swank European resorts visited
by Desmond and Harriet on theil
honeymoon and the elegant in
teriors which they frequent on theil
return to England. He contrasts
Harriet's innocent plotting to re-
form her husbands taste in art
with Desmonds fatuous notions Of
correcting her political illiteracy.
Her discovery of his treason and hel
growing terror for her life, de-
scribed in phrases as terse as the
conversations of the taciturn young
agents to whom her husband re-
ports, give "Conspirator" the taut-
ness of q suspense story.
But the chief interest Is the char.
acterization of Desmond, who !.
utterly without Imagination o.
mercy. He is a snob whom adde's.
cent exposure to the revolutionary
atmosphere of a rebellious Irelane
dIlu O lldDlU VI OAlAuCoOAOi20AS obCdl-
ence have fashioned into fanatic
He simply does not understand ths
meaning Of treason.
With all its brutality and chilling
Recommendation of the inhumanity O.
party methods, "Conspirator" is no
without its moments of humor-
and these are tronic thrusts a
the Communists their ineptitud'
abroad, their indulgence at -hom'
in bourgeois pleasures. The director
who orders Harriet's death, fol
example, enjoys day Of shooting
in his country home very mucf
like a similar affair organized b!
Harriet and Desmond in England
Mr.. Slater is an EXCEPTIONAL.
skilled writer. And he has con
verted one ugly incident of proposed
world conquest into powerful move
that is arresting both as fictior
and a lesson in theology.
M, Meg.
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THE TRIAL OF
ALVIN BOAKER
BY John Reywall. IRAN
Hp,Ieo. So 51
Random


Fantastic is the word for this
story. But it drives home the Sc
riousness of imposing the death
penalty on circumstantial evidence.
A Federal judge is tried for mur-
dering his wife in his own cham
bers. His lawyer quits him in the
middle of the trial and his own
mother is called by the prosecution
as a witness against him. But in
the end his estranged law partner,
in a dramatic jail scene, reveals
the real killer. The author, using
the name John Reywall," is de-
scribed by the publisher as "a sue
cessful, currently practicing attor-
ney," who wants to preserve anony-
nifty in the interests of his clients
w A. NJ
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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
'Tommy Out of Time Is a Time-KiIler
By Author of an Excellent First Novel
TAMMY OUT OF TIME
(Bo5bs- Merrill. s2.75J"

TANdMY OUT OF TIME
BY Cid Ricketts, Sumner (Bo5bs- Merrill: s275J. *
Reviewed by HARNETT KANE,
Mississippi" "Nep Orleans Woman etc
Mrs Sumner will be remembered and happily thoughtful
moving Quality of the better recent books
the South had honesty and warmth
and an overall conviction lady things to and she
said them.
The second novel problem author occasionally for
Evening star., 1948-04-18
WINGS IN THE WILDERNESS

BY Allan D. Cruickshank. (OT-
ford University Press; $6.)
Those who are interested in birds
and in beautiful photography will
enjoy Allan Cruickshank's latest
compilation Of pictures of American
birds. The books 125 photographs
Illustrate both marvellous con-
ception Of wildlife and a superb
command Of the camera.
Evening star., 1948-04-18

her. She was cited, of course, for
her coverage of the treason trials, a
feat Of transcendent journalism
which made some members of the
fourth estate think of turning in
their typewriters.
Miss West is one of the worlds
most formidable intellectuals, so it
was almost disconcerting to find her
as easy to meet as newspaper
woman. The qualities of sorority
and wisdom that mark her books
are scaled down in her conversation
to q nice crispness and lively COM
mon sense. She seemed rather to
enjoy being interviewed because, like
most reporters she likes to talk shop.
She's quite proud of her profess
sionat standing as journalist and
spoke with good-humored indigna-
ton OF the allegation in weekly
news magazine that she met daily
deadline for the first time when she
covered Princess Elizabeth's wedding.
Just for the record, she wanted it
known that she's been sitting at
press tables for years, although she
has never worked on a newspaper,
doing features on the opening Of
Parliament, the Derby and other
special events.
The National Sport.
Miss West, who is short and stocky,
with frizzy gray hair and fine dark
eyes, declared herself "all in favor
of the Labor government. She said
everybody grumbles about the
shortages. But it is a form Of ma
tional sport to grumble about the
government.
"Is it here?" she wanted to know.
She will be in better position to
answer her own question this June,
when she will cover both national
conventions for the London Evening
Standard. That done, she will stop
reporting for while to devote her
self to the completion Of a novel
that she has been working on inter-
mittently for some time. 1t is the
story of woman.
In the course of a brief interview
Miss West licked off her opinions
on q number of matters, including
Jean-Paul Sartre c'he's writing the
same kind of French novel that
I've been reviewing man and boy
for 20 years., the British Com
munist Party ga second-rate COL
lection of old beavers"), Winston
Churchill owe all owe our lives to
him. and Harold Ross, editor of
the New Yorker C"I'd rather work
for him than any editor I know.
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Reading and Writing
Rebecco West and Three Other Noted
Authors Talk Shop on Visit Here
By Moy McGrory

the authors who have recently Washington on
Rebecca
British novelist
the Women National Press Club
Tor
informally
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Author of Throw.Me.a.Bone
Recalls Revolution

Eleanor Lothrop is slim, chic,
tanned, youngish matron who
doesn't look capable of digging up
anything more than fourth for
bridge. Actually, as readers of
Throw Me a Bone" know, she has
spent the 18 years of her marriage
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Bible Reading Is Prescribed as Remedy
For Toduy's Mental and Moral Confusion

GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING
BY Norman Vincent Peale. prentice Hall; s2.75J
Evening star., 1948-04-18
The Russians
Are Really
Nice People

A RUSSIAN JOURNAL
BY John Steinbeck. With Pic
lures by Robert Capa. Viking
Press; $3.75)
The Detroit tribune., 1948-06-19
D. I. c. GRADUATES
THREE ECORSE MEN

Rohcrt RcdWInc Rufus Pear
son and Eddo Underwood oi
fcorsc VII graduate fom the
Detroit Institute Of Commerce
Thursday june r. AH THREE Of
the Young ucn have completed
tWo wear Coui SOS IN accounting
" Redwinc and VI Pearson
have passed. examinations fo,
government positions MI Tn
dc.Wc0d who has been cm.
ploycd duuuG his course Of study
also rlans "a make hls anplca-
ton fer 2 government po>rion
t,yadGainu exercises WI. hc
held q The mall oaej'oaIm ~
me institute OF Arts on Wood
ward ave at 8 p ne
The Detroit tribune., 1948-06-19
Loveland Drug
Case Comes up
Thursday Morn

The case Of the Loyei.,s
Drug Store VIII be heard The-.
day June II, al the ~,
County Prosecutors off'c.
Ecorse Court House al qso /.
nl according 10 an anro.nrs
mont from the legal redress ce,,
miticc of the River Rsss,
Ecor,e branch Of the NAAcp
LOUIS Jordan vas fetss
service IN the Ndrug Sta
April IN violation Of the nr..
Civil Rights Law,
According 10 Homas N,
Charman ~ the NAACP
lesS committee LoVeland s
repeatedly refused 10 scrl ~
grocS IN violation of ~ ian
and with full knowc1ee ie4
he was violating the D,cg ca
Rights LaW In his talk MI.
the police and prosccu'o-s
fice II was alleged that lcs
land had maintained ,hs'
has policy not 10 serve NeE~
The NAACP committee ,s.s.
that they hoped Gu c,-
would be forthcoming
The Detroit tribune., 1948-06-19
GIoster Current
Hits Dems, COP
On Civil Rights

NliARLOTIf y & one
~ ''ena ns 'nr i,'n aa.
rtc.ert M asi Nrte heard
i} rcrf 'sr Ns,ec3.
ro-thegn NeG. tr, iar ch-
SIR nl Ehfs .CC sIa' 'n
Mr. Current speaking al the
opening session Of the three
day conference which closed
here last Friday June I'D.
called Tor enactment OF legis.
lsiion providing for fair en-
ploYment practices vctIng op-
poriunites educational equal
iiY adequate housing and elm
inaiien Of segregation in the
armed services and ny civilian
life.
o,e the
s. Jrrc NAACP ae-
- Statr cnt
or N j,er-
vs. nm ~o CiO state
= At-T' rf.a rrs
The Detroit tribune., 1948-06-19

Tho Sahih Sport Associates.
well known sports club Of the
Twin ClticS afc planning 90 Sus-
pond regular meetings ior the
summer. The group which has
been organized for the period OF
tWo year, viii resume activities
n late August or early IN Sop
icnIhcl
They have recently increased
Their numhrt 20 sixteen with
thc addition of Jane, Morris
Mi Morris will ind an ample
amount az interesting work with
The group when they convene
again foi cluh activities.
The Detroit tribune., 1948-06-19

The Mcns Southwest Pro
-ressive Club held dance
Satasaav p.sht a. 500 Cross
icy ayenle !, was great
sacccss This c.ab has bought
'he ba.5!n1 on the correr cf
Sc SclvaY and Erie and their
creates aim IS fo Try and
oaN1 a gecreaNor center for
our people SO let's ge; behind
;Aese men and help them par
:cllar!y those ot Us who have
children Here is cur chance
70 prove ihs. We want 20 have
IN De.ray the type Of parks
s1a recreation ;ha; ether com.
T-rifics have
The Detroit tribune., 1948-06-19
klilllINNliltN.
CLUB TO TAKE SUMNER
VACATION

/ cty Of Detroit. and surroundin