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Husbands AfishinQ
DAN OWEN AND THE
ANGEL JOE
BY Ronald Michel. Harper &
Brothers; $780,
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

Ronald Mitchell, blessed with
gift of Welsh whimsy, has presented
here a solution for husbands who
wish to go fishing or avoid a shrew-
ish wife-or both. Dan Owen man
aged to do both with net result
of three trout and fresh outlook
on life and Amy May, his better
half of too many words. Angel Joe
had all the answers and husbands
suffering from Dams type of trouble
might prof1tably look over their
shoulder to see if they have a coun-
terpart OF Joe easily available.
Mr.. Mitchell has turned out a
pack Of plays-short ones End long
ones. He gained his academic
preparation at Yale and London
University and is now professor Of
speech and theate~ director at the
University of Wi-c onsia. Design
for November" v'as one of his fin
est earlier novels.
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must be broken up into. the indi-
vduals who compose it. The soul
needs wings. not tail . -"
Return of the Heroine.
The central episode is the return
OF Joy Munson to the little New
England city of her birth. Her
second marriage has just ended
like her first marriage, in divorce,
and she has driven up from New
York with the man she has de-
termined to make her third hus-
band-Anthony Foulk. joys three
aunts, her fathers sisters, are hor-
rified. Virtually the whole town,
we are given to understand, is in
dignant that Henry Munson's
daughter, his only child, could bring
such disgrace on him-and him
rich and successful man, head Of
the biggest store in that section.
Henry himself utters some of the
current platitudes, but, in his heart,
he knows better, for he, always has
understood his daughter better than
all others have including her
confused mother, His own life has
not been the triumph people sup
pose. More than 30 years ago,
before he married Elizabeth Green,
he gave up the girl he loved because
the town didn't approve of her and
he would have lost out at the store,
thwarted a promising carer. His
life remained strangely empty.
Seen Through Many Eyes.
Joy is seen first through the jeal
Gus, condemning eyes of Aunt
Gertie, next through the frustrated
eyes of Gilbert Wells, joys peren-
NAL rejected sutton. Then she is
glimpsed by old Abner Wright,
Henry's retired partner, q SNUG
hypocrite, and finally by her be-
wildered mother and her somewhat
less befuddled father. Thus 1t
begins to seem that the girl must be
the tramp the average townsman
considers her. Even when she starts
telling her own story, you may be
impatient with her, as was, feeling
that she is neurotic, self-centered
and searching for some impossible
ideal. But, as I read on, found
myself sympathetic. 7 felt at last
that Joy was, whatever her short
comings, a sincere, honest person
who had tried hard and failed, but
finally had found understanding
love.
The self portraits vary in interest.
Some of the characters are dull, and
80 their reflections are not too abb
sorbing. The method has advah-
tages and weaknesses. It tends to
monotony. But Mr.. Lewisohn has
escaped that to a large extent by
channeling the flow of thoughts at
times into recalled conversations
and happenings. Anniversary" Is,
viewed as a whole, q memorable
psychic panorama.
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Curtis Publishing Co., not wishing
to neglect either his family or his
job, worked a bizarre schedule Of
from 8 to every morning,
A soft-spoken Vrginian whose
gentle manner bellies q fierce and
tireless industry, Mr.. Jones did
some of the work on his nonfiction
study of Americas most famous
feud while in the Executive Man
sion of Virginia. where he served
Gov. Tuck as secretary. He didn't
get much done during those dawn
watches, though, because the Gov
ernor was an early riser, too.
The author of Ranger Moseby,"
a much-praised study of the Con-
federate leader, has terrible ap-
petite for facts. He spent a year
digging through Library of Con-
gress and Supreme Court archives
for the dispassionate story of the
young Civil War" of the Kentucky
He prefers documen-
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Time IsHoIted
AsNovel Etches
Its Characters

ANNIVERSARY
BY Ludwig Lewisohn. (Farrar.
Straus. & Co.; 49,
Review by
CARTER BROOKE JONES,
Mr.. Lewisohn uses an unusual
method to explore the people who
make up this novel. At a certain
moment, while time stands still
the thoughts of each in turn are
transcribed.
These thoughts reflect the atti-
rude of each toward certain events
that interest them all. The inward
flow of ideas, memories, hopes and
fears also serves with Photographic
accuracy to picture the character
of each.
Mr.. Lewisohn's own point of view,
shining from the musings of two
characters he offers as worthy and
third he presents with sympathy,
is always, in the best sense of a
sinned-against word, civilized. He
Is tolerant of any ones fight for
personal integrity: he is intolerant
only of sham, cant and hypocrisy
He is concerned with the dignity
of the individual rather than with
the windy slogans of mass move
ments.
Anthony Foulk, the anthropologist,
the strong man of the book, re-
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BY Mary Roberts Rinehart.
(Rinehart G. Co., Inc.;; $2.75J
Reviewed by
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Familiarity with recent history
gives readers a kind of omniscience
about things to come when the
story revolves around the events
of our time, but it also creates
painful suspense. One knows, for
instance, that the stock market
collapsed in october, 1929. II the
readers Identification with a char
acter is complete enough, he will
agonize over the imminent fate
of the innocent who refuses to
get out of the 1929 market in
time.
Mrs. Rinehart, whose many years
of mystery writing have given her
a firm hand with suspense, uses
history to advantage in this saga
of the family between two wars.
Her return to the monastery
novel after IL years is welcome,
in that she brings wisdom and
simplicity to overpowering events.
Actually, there is nothing very
new in Mrs. Rinehart's view of
that war jazz-bootleg- imitation de
pression-war era. Then, sorrow
fully, she lets history repeat it
self. There is the bride who kisses
her husband goodsby in World
War l.. There is the mother who
watches her son kiss his bride good
by in World War II. Between wars
she lets history tell its own story,
against the background of. a pub
fishing firm which reluctantly re-
linquishes the novels of true love to
print the treatises of postwar dis
illusion.
Mingled with these major crises
are the more domestic problems
worry over the children, difficult
ties with a mother-in-law, fur
nishing house, coping with
husbands night out. The char
acters, however, are more than
puppets even though their problems
seem trivial against Mrs. Rine-
hart's broad background of the
goth century tragedy. But their
problems are universal and SO is
the tragedy.
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Second novels are always hard
est for writers whose .firsts have
been hits. If the second lives up
to expectations it can consolidate a
little beachhead of reputation; if it
falls short, the ominous cry, Flash
in the pam" may be raised. Two
novelists, one English and one
whose debuts were
greeted with more than polite
plaudits, have just come forward
with crucial second attempts.
Gwyn Thomas, continuing in the
same vein as 1.-The Dark Phi
losophers," a sardonic tale of Welsh
miners, comes through well in
Venus and the Voters" Babette
Rosmond, who began so brightly In
1.-THE Dewey Dewey Eyes, fresh
and entertaining study of the trials
of a working girl on a pulp
seems, on the evidence of
"A Party for Grownups" to have
passed from an engaging f1ippancy
to premature brittleness.
Mr.. Thomas. who enjoys houting
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The model for the Gold DISCOVERY Centennial stamp
By james Waldo Foweett

The celebration OF the Tooth
anniversary Of the discovery Of
gold in California, including the
release Of a Scent commemorative
at Coloma, January "a, inevitably
brings up the question: What be-
came OF the discoverer?" His name
was James Wilson Marshall, and he
was a native of Hunterdon County,
N. j., born on October 8, 1910.
Little is known of his early years,
but he is supposed to have re-
ceiyed good schooling and to have
been trained especially as wheel
wright. What prompted him to
move westward nobody can say.
The record shows that he sought
adventure and fortune in Indiana,
Illinois and Kansas, and then in
May, 1874, joined an emigrant train
headed for Fort Hall on the Snake
River via the Oregon route. He
reached the settlement Of Capt.
John August Suffer, the site of the
present city Of Sacramento, In July,
1845.
e, His technical skill made Marshall
welcome in the valley. Soon he was
prosperous enough to buy two square
leagues and to begin to stock his
ranch with cattle. But the Bear
Flag War interfered, and he Joined
Fremont,s Battalion and served in
the party that went to the relief Of
Kearney after the Battle of San
Pasquel. At the close of hostilities
he returned to Suffers only to find
his cattle missing and his land In
the hands of strangers. Hoping to
recoup his losses, Marshall entered
into partnership with Suffer to
build and operate a sawmill. The
location of this enterprise was the
south fork of the American River.
When the mill was ready to start
it was realized that the
tail race required deepening. The
necessary excavation, disclosed an
auriferous deposit. January "a, l848,
was the date of the find.
Both Marshall and Suffer natu-
rally tried to keep their luck a
secret. They might just as. well
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Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
IA Postscript for Biography Of Wallace;
|SRO Sign at the Library Over Holidays
By Mary McGrory

It seems almost too much to ask
at the moment, but the Vanguard
Press has promised, for February IS,
an Collectively critical" biography
of the third-party presidential can
didate entitled. Henry Wallace: The
Man and the Myth" The author,
Dwight Macdonald, is busy at a
postscript that will bring the study
up to the date of Wallace's an
nouncement of his candidacy.
4 X X
The Library of Congress is just
now settling back on its foundations
after being rocked by record holi-
day week invasion of visitors. While
the rest of the world was making
merry, scholars damned the main
reading rooms in such numbers that
the SRO sign was up almost con-
tinuously.
The crowds, who offered a fine
cross section of reading America
with all types from college athletes
to nuns represented, reached a peak
on Tuesday, December 80, when an
all-time high total OF some $500
requests or books was processed.
It is ever thus at the Library dur
ing vacation weeks, a weary official
explained: Teachers getting in a
few ticks on their theses, high school
and college students working on
term papers.
Adding to the crush was the
American Political Science. which
after its convention, adjourned, the
staff thinks, in body to the Library.
X y
Thornton Wilder, famed novelist
and playwright, author of THE
Bridge of San Luis Rey' and THE
Skin of Our Teeth" paid a quiet
visit to Washington over last week
end. He spent most of his time
at the Maryland farm OF friends
whom he told that he plans to
take a six weeks trip to London
and Paris. His newest novel, 1.-THE
Ides of March," a story Of ancient
Rome, will be published in March,
being the Book-of- the-Month Club
selection for that month.
~.
Among writer's who can't face an
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Among writer's who can't face an s
adjective before breakfast, do not

1llCluuC Va ELL
G ar i n 6 t o n
("Pat") Jones,
who wrote 1.-THE
Hatheds a n d
the McCoys" Ito
be published in
April by the
University Of
North Carolina
Press entirely
on an. empty
stomach. T h e
erstwhile S t a r
reporter, who is
now manager of
the Washington
bureau of the
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have endeavored to prevent the sun
from rising. Within q few weeks
the rush" had commenced. It
altered the course of history. Even
now the effects OF Marshall's good
fortune" are felt around the world.
He himself profited nothing. His
claims were brushed aside by the
tidal wave of gold seekers that
poured into California He labored
as a gardener toward the last.
Finally or August 10, 1885, he died.
His cabin at Coloma is preserved in
a State park, and his statue in
bronze stands nearby.
Donald L. Lybarger, president Of
the American Philatelic Society, will
be in Washington this week. He will
speak before the Washington PHI
latelic Society at the YWCA, Seven
tenth and X streets NV, Wednes-
day evening at s. He also will be
the guest of the Pentagon Philatelic
Society at dinner in the Generals
Lounge of the Pentagon Building on
Thursday evening at s. Reserva-
tons for this latter event t$1.75
plate) should be sent to j. H. Bower,
secretary, 1920 Fort Stevens drive
NV, Washington IL, or by phone to
Republic 6700, extension 2613, not
later than tomorrow, pm.
The Capital Precancel Society will
meet at the home of H. E. F. Haw-
kins. 1900 F street NV, tomorrow
evening at 8, and the woodbridge
Stamp Club, at 1878 Rhode Island
avenue NE, Thursday evening at 8.
American Air Lines announces a
cachet for the starting of service on
Transcontinental Route at Rich
mond, Va. Sunday, January 10. The
design will show historic st. Johns
Church. Send covers in care of
postmaster.
Postmaster General Jesse M.
Donaldson on Wednesday revealed
that sales through the Philatelic
Agency during 1947 reached $780,
739.7ls exceeding the record for 1916
by approximately 1857 900.
Airmail service on Route AM-86
will be inaugurated on or about
February /, including the following
cities: Chicago, Minneapolis, Duluth,
st. Paul, st. Cloud, Chisholm and
Hibloing, Mimi; Milwaukee, Racine,
Kenosha, Madison, Baraboo, Portage.
Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point.
Wausau, Rhinelander, Superior.
Oshkosh, Clintonville and Eau Claire,
Wis. Cachets are to be printed for
each town mentioned. Send covers
to postmasters.
Philip J. Stone, readers adviser
at the Washington Public Library
central building, recommends the
following books of philatelic char
acter: Americas Stamps" by Maud
and Miska Petersham; Romance of
Stamp Collecting" by Ernest A.
Kehr; How to Gain Pleasure and
Profit From Stamp Collecting" by
Henry M. Ellis, and "Stamp-Col-
Letting" by Richard Curle.
Copies of list of approved phil
atelic books may be obtained from
Mr.. Stone on request. Send clipping
of this notice with stamped self.
addressed envelope.
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Hurd Summary
OF Capital Is
for ANU.S
WASHINGTON CAVALCADE
BY Charles Hurd. (E. p. Dutton
e. Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.

Paris with Middle Western out
look. The big small town, where
the chief indoor amusement is con-
versation. The capital where the
cleavage Of Jackson's day between
town and toga has never been closed.
This is the Washington of Wash
ington Cavalcade," by Charles Hurd.
It is the second volume in the $50
ciety of America" series, the first OF
which was Cleveland Amory's 1.-THE
Proper Bostonians.
MIR. Hurd is writing for the coun-
try at large and not to beguile WASH
ington residents with intimate anec-
dotes. His story is the life story of
the city from the early Georgetown
days down to the present. He gives
the reader a picture of the Capital
and its social structure and how
they changed through the years-or
through the various administrations.
Washington from the first has
been a city where social and polit-
ical interests mixed. At the begin
ming, it was sort of family affair
and down to about 1924 small
group ruled the Republic.
Like a Gigantic Mirror.
Then, Mr.. Hurd says, the West
saw the value of Washington as a
sounding board. Since that day the
Capital has been important, the
author points out, only as the mirror
In which are reflected the people of
all the United States.
The first great change came with
Andrew Jackson, when the Virginia
dynasty was gone.
1.-THE thin, small clan that termed
itself Washington society was
aghast at the change =" Mr..
Hurd writes. THE result was that
there became two Washingtons
which mingled at the edges, but
never again were to merge into one
the official Washington and the
clique of influential local families
later to become known as cave
dwellers.'"
In a city where interests are
essentially political, the political
strata came to dominate society as
everything else. Mr.. Hurd Endorses
as still valid the dictum of Barry
Buckley at about the time of World
War I that while money counts
for little in Washington, family for
more and culture and good manners
for much, official connection counts
for about everything. Official lead
ership is absolutely necessary to
social leadership or even social sue
cess"
Some Towering Milestones.
There were other milestones be-
side that which marked the coming
of Andrew Jackson. Changes came
with the Civil War when the cava-
lier days ended, with reconstruction,
with Wilson when the Capital be-
came "the meeting place of all the
Main streets" of America, and with
Franklin D. Roosevelt when the very
smell of change "pervaded every
corner of the Capital"
And then the final change, with
Washington becoming the world
capital. Gone are the days when
Sir Willmott Lewis could remark in
the normally period of the 1920s
that every one worth knowing"
lived within a mile of sone another.
Mr.. Hurd is a member of the New
York Times staff. Like MANY here,
he came from outside Washington.
He grew up in Oklahoma, went to
college in st. Louis and Chicago.
He married a member of a local
family and therefore acquired the
second viewpoint of the CAPITAL
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the convention
that proletarian
novels should be
as grim as their
settings. has told
the story Of four
p h ii os o phical
down = and = out
miners, and their
brief conflict
W ! t h authority.
His account of
how the four
e S p o use the
cause of Eurona
Morris, W h o m
they adopt as an
"orphan of the
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Here is the story of German mill
tary defeat in Western Europe as
it was witnessed by the men who
suffered it. Maj Shulman has had
access to a mine of first-hand infor-
mation-to top secret German docu-
ments, to recordings of telephone
conversations between Hitler and
his general staff, to letters written
by all ranks, to records of interroga-
lions of prisoners, including gen.
erals. He has extracted and presents
with clarity revelatory account Of
military collapse.
There are factors other than Ger
man bungling responsible for AL
lied victory, but Maj. Shulman's
material leads him to dwell on
that. He distills three reasons for
Nazi failure:
l. Hitler's interference with his
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tary evidence to family reminis-
cences. In the course of happy
summer spent travelling through
the Cumberland Mountains. the
battle-ground Of the vendetta, talk
ing to various Hatfields and Nc
Coys, he found that legend did not
always check with the record and
tended to mellow or overlook I'M
pleasant aspects Of the past.
Present members Of the two clans
received him kindly once convinced
he was ''all right Mr.. Jones said.
He thinks the smoldering animosity
on the side of the McCoys, who were
worsted in the long fray, will never
flare up into warfare again.
Mr.. Jones, an enthusiastic anna
teur gardener, now lives in Fairfax
County, Va, in a house which he
planned himself.
With j. J. Perling, it was a case
of a book written and a suspicion
confirmed. The author Of "Presi-
dents Sons" slightly disenchanted
by eight years close observation of
the Washington merit system"
which he thought "catapulted little
men into big jobs" began to suspect
that this democracy might indeed
be harboring an ''undeclared nobil-
ity." Tracking down the facts about
so sons of 20 Chief Executives, the
most obvious beneficiaries of political
prestige, bore him out.
Although he has not made spe-
cial study OF presidential daughters,
Mr.. Perling has nothing but good
to say of the present second genera
ton at the White House. Were
Margaret Truman son, I would
intellectually absolve her of any
attempt to capitalize on her fathers
high position in following her sing
ing career" he said emphatically.
Mr.. Perling wrote The Third
Term Myth" in 1899 at the prompt
ing OF his wife. Mrs. Perling, a
member of the United States Su-
preme Court bar, the District Of
Columbia and New York State
bars, decided he should stop ghost
ing for business executives and
strike out on his own. He is now
busy on a study of public relations
and putting the finishing touches
on historical novel about Presi-
dent Tyler entitled THE President
Takes a Wife," He works at his
beautiful home in Chevy Chase,
Md, good part of which is taken
up by the family dog, huge Ger
man shepherd named Flight.
The time for converting any one
who comes here-and it's the same
for people from any part of the
country-into proper Washing
tonian is about six months, accord
ing to Charles Hurd, who is some
thing OF an expert on the subject,
being the author of Washington
Cavalcade." His own conversion.
begun in 1929, took somewhat longer,
the veteran New York Times Wash
ington correspondent explained.
For about three years, he missed the
excitements of New York. Now he
wouldn't be anywhere else, although
he likes to be sent on periodical
cross country assignments to avoid
the peculiar air of arrogant omnis-
cience which Washingtonians ere
apt to adopt after moving in off,
cial circles.
Mrs. Hurd, the former Eleanor
Bransom, who has a degree in
library science. helped him with the
research for his newly published
book. Currently he is working on
a "ponderous volume" Chis term)
about Americas imperial commit
ments called ~. S. Unlimited"
It's conclusions will be based on
congressional action in the new
session on ERP.
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marks 10 nlH-
self: "I3ut I'm
terribly afraid of
the weak-minded
idealists W h o
talk about a So
cialist postwar
world. Socialism
means concen-
tration of power
in governmental
agencies. 'Agen-
cies'--good God!
What man needs
Is freedom-the
quest of his ideal
by trial and err.
ror. The mass
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orphan OF lHe NIT
world crisis" Is couched in wildly
fanciful prose that is as pungent
as camphor
Their attempts to further the ro-
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-Four Hordup Miners Afford Light Plot
For a Savage, Extrovogont Humorist
TIE VOTERS
On G. Co.,; $780,

VENUS AND THE VOTERS
by Gwyn Thomas. little, Bro1Dn & Co.; S25OJ
la PARTY FOR GROWNUPS
BY Babette Rosmond e. P. Dutton G. Co., $2.75J
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Secret Documents Unfold Inside Story
OfHow Nozis Were Finally Defeated
FEAT IN THE WEST


BY Milton Shulman. (Dutton; s450J
Reviewed by FLETCHER F. ISBELL.
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New Rinehort Novel
Creates Suspense in
Re-enocting History

A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW
BY Mary Roberts Rinehart.
(Rinehart G. Co., Inc; $2.75.J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

American Air Lines announces a
cachet for the starting of service on
Transcontinental Route at Rich
mond, Va. Sunday, January 10. The
design will show historic st. Johns
Church. Send covers in care of
postmaster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

The Capital Precancel Society will
meet at the home OF H. E. F. Haw-
kins. 1900 F street NV, tomorrow
evening at 8, and the woodbridge
Stamp Club, at 1918 Rhode Island
avenue NE, Thursday evening at 8.