davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1948-05-16

snippets and glimpses as it must be
for the scientist to fit together an
assortment of bones to make up a
skeleton. The artist emerges scarce
ly at all, which is a pity, since
Henry James was primarily and pre-
eminently dedicated to his art.
Mr.. Nowell-Smith, happily for
him, is a photographer rather than a
biographer. He is scrupulous one,
however, who takes the trouble, in
a pleasant preface, to show up such
romanticizers as Ford MADDOX Ford
Hueffer, who used James as an
excuse to talk about himself, and
to take apart the evidence of such
usually reliable witness as Hugh
Walpole, who occasionally was
lamentably careless about details.
Mr.. Nowell-Smith has collected the
Evening star., 1948-05-16

sisters had a worthy husband, and
so she set about, by one means or
another, to break up their content
ed marriages. Eventually she found
out that the living wasn't quite as
easy as she'd supposed.
Cleo is the meanest, cleverest and
best-drawn character I've encount-
cred in recent fiction. Some Of the
others, especially Cleos sisters, are
sharply presented. The novel has
its faults, but 1t moves fast and is
always interesting. So many lives
are traced out in the last 100 pages
that motivation sometimes is short
circuited.
1t is doubtful whether any one
talks as Miss West quotes some OF
her more high-toned characters.
Sample: Il am not surprised that
Mrs. Judson consented so readily to
arrange a gathering ." (for a
Southern college dean. Il think
she is persuasive enough to pledge
her guests to whatever cause he has
come on"
The author is at her best in the
dialogue and doings of her share
cropper emigres. With her gift for
Characterization Miss West should
go far.
These are recent novels which
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Over theT Trail
InHot Pursuit
Of Dr.. Kinsey

THE SEXUAL CONDUCT OF
MEN AND WOMEN
BY Norman Lockridge. fHogayth
House; $685.
AMERICAN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR AND THE
KINSEY REPORT
BY Morris L. Ernst and David
10th. (Greystone Press; 1885,
SEX HABITS OF
AMERICAN MEN .t
Edited by Albert DeutSch.
(Prenttce-Hdu,. 49,
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
Books that trod the by-now we'll
worn path Of the Kinsey report, are
careful to explain that their inter-
pretations are their own. It Is well
that this is true or the report would
quickly lose its validity and re-
spectability.
> OF the three titles embraced in
these paragraphs, the first is f1ttingly
subtitled: "A Minority Report" and
links up with Kinsey only through
the introduction and preface. From
there on, Mr.. Lockridge takes over
and makes such q shabby business
of love and its stage-shifting that
the speculations border on trash
He does get a chance to come up
with some sophisticated observations
without saying much that is new.
Ernst and 10th try to take the
Kinsey data from its pigeonhole OF
science and make its findings more
popular by translation. Mr.. 10th is
director Of public information fol
the Planned Parenthood Federation
The Deutsch-edited symposium Is
easily the most contributory Of the
three because it collects the views
of some experts in their fields and
they 60 after Kinsey and his find
ings in a rather fortnight way
Thus science comments on science
with new data and not always in
the role of yes-man. Among sub.
jects so treated are marriage, sex
education, religious aspects from
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
viewpoints, law, prison and institu'
tional life, anthropology, psychiatry
and psychology, interviewing and
sampling methods. womens prob
lens and cultural factors.
Evening star., 1948-05-16

THE KING AND THE QUEEN
BY Ramon J. Sender. (Van-
guard; $3.J
In the foreword to this macabre
strangely compelling novel, which
also combines the real with the
unreal, Ramon Sender, the distin-
guished Spanish writer, explains
that his brother was shot without
trial by the Fascists in 1885. He
himself fought on the Republican
side, fled his native country and is
now teaching at the University OF
New Mexico.
Despite his vivid, first-hand ex-
periences, however. Mr.. Sender has
chosen to express himself about the
revolution in nonpolitical terms, in
weird philosophical fable that is
heavy with erotic symbolism and
laden with gruesome props.
The novel takes the form Of a
protracted dialogue between deca-
dent duchess and the gardener who
shields her from the Republican
soldiers who are quartered in her
castle. Their dreamlike verbal duel
is interrupted offstage by various
grisly events which serve to mini
mize the once impossible gulf be-
tween them. To Romulo, the war
means only a means of winning the
duchess, an opportunity to force her
to consider him as a man. She
rather contemptuously shares her
de luxe reflections" with him, as
her own existence becomes more
fantastic.
Mr.. Sender writes in the European
idiom, with characters subordinate
to ideas. However obscure, the final
meaning of his novel, his stark
tension-creating style, admirably
translated by Mary Low and per-
fectly adapted to the weird tale,
carries its own suspense.
Its total effect is comparable to
that of modern music or surrealist
art, which commands attention
however baffled by the power Of its
expression. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-05-16

have been we'll received. THE
LIGHT AND THE DARK, by C. P.
Snow Macmillan; So, the story OF a
young Cambridge scholar who tries
desperately to escape a shadow that
hangs over his mind; THE MOTE
AND THE BEAM, by Percy Winner
(Harcourt, Brace; So, story OF an
Americans search for integrity
through the turmoil of Europe today,
and UNPROMISED LAND, by Bur-
ton E. Martin lives Washburn;
$3.50. a tale of refugees from Gen.
trail Europe awaiting in Italy per
mission to enter Palestine. THE
EVENING HERON, an early novel
by Philip Freund, author OF EAs-
TER ISLAND and books making up
the Zoltan Saga, has been reissued
by Beechhurst Press t$2.75.
Evening star., 1948-05-16

Mr.. Crabb passes over the Battle
OF New Orleans, which eventually
made Jackson President; over the
political Vaccinations Of the day.
This is the plain story Of marriage.
We see, not the furious Andy who
became that man" in the White
House, but the tender and affec-
tionate husband.
It is in this picture Of place and
era that Home to the Hermitage"
achieves its best result. Some will
call it old-fashioned in technique
and the sophisticated may not be
pleased; characterizations incline
now and then to the wooden. But
Mr.. Crabb hews we'll to line that
he knows and for many readers the
effect will be good.
Evening star., 1948-05-16

he reached the White House. 1t is
the story of a woman's affection for
man and the home he gave her
and her fear and anxiety about the
lies the gossips told Of her.
Rachel, as many readers will
know, had an earlier. unhappy mar
riage. Through no fault Of her own
Tor of her Andy'O she and Jackson
we're married down in Natchez
before her divorce was final. Then
the snake tongues began to work,
and as q precaution the couple went
through a second marriage cere-
mony. For the rest Of her life and
also his, the slurs haunted them.
He killed one man because Of the
stories; because Of them, too,
Rachels own death was probably
Speeded.
Evening star., 1948-05-16
|Men in Pursuit
Of Elusive Freedom
THE GOOD YEOMEN
BY Jay Williams. (Appleton-
Century-Crotts, Inc; $3.J
H6VIeWtUl Uy
NINA PEMBERTON.

NINA PEMBERION.
The world we live in today is full
of men in search of that all too
elusive privilege called freedom.
Call them what you may, refugees,
guerrillas, legionaires or just plain
rebels, no matter. Their quest in life
is mutual-freedom.
Jay Williams period novel is about
such people. Only the setting and
time are somewhat removed from
our times. Fourteenth century Eng
land, Robin Hood and his fellows in
the Sherwood Forest, the perpetual
fear of the tyranny as practiced by
the feudal overlordS, make up the
structure Of this book written about
timeless, character, Robin the
Heued, and the timeless quest Tor
freedom.
John the Mailer was blacksmith,
serf and a very unhappy person.
One day he killed a man in anger.
His recourse was to flee to the woods
and become trusty and honored
member of Robins band. John and
his mental torment have been well
and probingly dealt with by the
author.
Evening star., 1948-05-16


out into the night.
Prebroadcast jitters in Ellie's
pleasant book and picture lined
third-foor study are absolutely un-
known. The day I saw the show
the happy hecklers, most OF them
wearing blue jeans and sneakers,
drifted in nonchalantly. They
ranged in age from about to IL.
As the time drew near for Ellie to
make her final check by telephone
with WQQW, they leaned far out
of the windows to yell to latecomers
who were tooling up the front walk,
Hurry up: we've only got five min
utes!" Ellie's 2-year-old daughter
Tessa was escorted from the room
by her father.
When Ellie gave the signal, the
assembled eight shushed each other
vigorously, grouped themselves near
her on chairs and benches and on
the floor, and awaited their cue.
Ellie spoke a warm Hello, boys and
girls" into the microphone, and
they came back with loud, ragged,
Hello, Ellie!" and settled down for
the story.
Ellie began to read from "The
Burro of Barnegat Road" (by Wash
ington author Della Goetz). Her
voice was low and pleasant. She
hadn't got very far, however, when
mention of the burro eating lady's
hat prompted a little sage at her
feet to put in knowingly. Just like
an animal"
Dramatic Interruptions.
AS she went on, one boy wearing
cowboy hat sat lingering blue
plastic gun. staring raptly into
space. His seat-mate, whose sweat
shirt had Red Ryder" written
across the front, never took his
eyes from Ellie's face, and when
she read the word surprise" he
broke into a pleased grin and wur-
INJURED. Gee, this is going to be
good! N1f s 81. -~s. ~ ?
She was interrupted again by a
pretty little girl who complained
that she hadn't heard yesterdays
installment. Ellie gave her quick
fill-in and continued. At another
dramatic pause, the little girl broke
in again: Are you going to finish
this story today?"
Ellie said she was and she did.
When it was over. her audience
stirred happily, and then bolted out
to the kitchen where Ellie dispensed
two pieces of toffee to all-comers.
Ellie MRS. E. v. Conason who
looks rather like a little storybook
character herself with her pointed
face, slanting dark eyes and black,
curly hair, explained that in the
IA weeks of the program she has
never seen q case Of mike fright
on the part of her young critics,
who sometimes number as many as
18. They never fail to speak their
minds-and, she added, wryly, their
comments aren't always literary.
She reads a book week-but not
fairy stories, because the children
like something real. "Beno, the
Evening star., 1948-05-16
Poets Do Not Starve
In Library Attic

The tradition of the poet starv-
ing in the attic just doesn't hold
at the Library of Congress. In
their "attic" they have had a
different poet in residence for the
last five years, but heLor She
has always been well looked after,
thanks to a $500 salary made pos
sible by the grant Of an anonymous
donor of the fellowship IN poetry.
On the occasion of the announce
ment of the appointees for the next
two years-Leonie Adams and Will
liam Carlos Williamson. Luther
Evans, librarian of Congress, kindly
took the trouble to explain how the
selection is made. The fortunate
poets are chosen by the fellows in
American letters, group made up
of past poetry consu1tants, the pres
ent incumbent (Pulitzer Prize VIM
ner Robert LowelD and such dis
tinguished literateurs as T. S. Eliot,
w. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Kath-
crime Garrison Chaplin. Paul Green,
Willard Thorp, Katherine Anne
Porter and Theodore Spencer.
In making their choice, Dr. Evans
(who confirms the appointment
said the fellows range the field of
contemporary poetry looking for
some one especially suitable to
photographed project they have
in mind. Allen. Tate made a
choice of the go American poets
he liked best. Louise Began COL
lected poetry and prose Eritten in
England during the recent war.
Robert Lowell is engaged in COM
piling record albums of leading
contemporary poets in readings
from their work. Leonie Adams
will carry on the project.
All the poets-and they have in
cluded Karl Shapiro, Robert Penn
Warren besides those mentioned
above-have made suggestions for
additions to the Library's collection.
DR.. Evans said he didn't know
whether or not the poets had found
the Washington atmosphere and
the financial security of the post
conducive to creative writing. He
can vouch for the fact, however,
that they have all fitted beautifully
into the community life of the Lii
brary. And no one has ever refused
the invitation.
Evening star., 1948-05-16

Riverburg Mayor" by another local
author, Glenn Blough, was par
ticular favorite.
Several of the North Quantico
Street Regulars fingered while to
talk over the charms of the pro-
gram. Freddie Allen, an 81a-year-
old third-grader said he liked it
because you could talk whenever
you felt like it without raising your
hand.
Douglas Whitneybell, who is TX
and in the second grade said, Most
of the kids who come can't read
very good. I can't read too good
myself, but I like q story"
Joan Riddlehuber, a 6h-year-old
first-grader who can't read at all,
spoke with a frankness that any
book reviewer would envy. Asked
what she liked best about the pro-
gram. she opened her gray eyes wide
and said, II like the candy after
ward"
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t e S tt m o n y of
some $50 people,
all articulate and
observant, whose
testimony is as
conf / C t / n g as
that of the blind
men looking at
the e | e p h a n t.
James was tall,
he was short,
his conversation
was fascinating,
it was dull, he
was dull, he was
m alici Gus, he
was mild. Mr..
Nou,oll Smith
Evening star., 1948-05-16
Conflicting Impressions of Henry James
As Registered by His Contemporaries
THE LEGEND OF THE MASTER: HENRY JAMES


By Simon Nowell-Smh. fCharleS Scrioners Sons; SjJ
Henry lifetime museum piece 1t is perhaps
quite fitting that this assembge OF anecdotes
should adopt the tone
collection the doubtful
authenticity of the exhibits 1t as formidable task or
Evening star., 1948-05-16
Reading and Writing
Child Book Critics Speak Quite Frankly
When Ellie Reads to Them on Airshow
By Mary MeGroy

Children who can't wonderful time being heard on
delightful radio which is OF
the few in prompting the audience
broadcast weekday originates in
uantico street Arlington and
executive screaming
Evening star., 1948-05-16
A Warmly Sympathetic Novel Depicts
Iockson's SIonder-Huunted MARRIAGE
ME TO THE HERMITAGE
}. (Bobbs-Merrill;: $2.75J

BY Alfred Leland Crabb. (Bobbs- Merrill; s275J
Reviewed by HARNETT T. KANE.
Mississippi "New Orleans Woman Etc.
locale probably well
he tells Of simply understandable sympathet
his excellent series about his home region is
another pleasant evocation of 10th century Tennessee
This time he has moving theme and touching one the story
died before
Evening star., 1948-05-16
THE LONG WALK.

THE LONG WALK.
BY Betsy Barton. Duell, Sloan Il
Pearce, Inc; So
This is an understanding and
simply told story of veterans hos
pital dedicated to the rehabilita-
ton of paraplegics. M. B. S.
Evening star., 1948-05-16

Although speakers and other exhortes still
utter plattudes higher education builds character
doubts that the modern college does any
such thing
Most schools he feels right
In character building than in mental training"
exempts the military schools particularly west Point ano
Evening star., 1948-05-16

l M
Thus urged to strike out for him
self, the reader will learn much that
is trivial, somewhat that is en-
tightening and mostly what is con-
Trajectory about great novelist who
is currently enjoying an unprece-
dented revival. Much of the mate
rial is highly entertaining. Con-
scious that he was living legend,
James could be depended upon to
play his part we'll, as. for instance,
when he barred his head when speak
ing of his own genius. That he was
often ridiculous in his fussy, worri-
some way, with his habit OF deliver
ing half hour Long, labyrinthine
sentences; was obvious to even his
most affectionate admirers, among
whom the most shrewd and kindly
was Edith Wharton. To most
observers, he appeared. courteous,
pompous, shy, absent-minded, pom
tifical figure. He was a devoted
brother, lavishly affectionate
friend, courtly, and SO often success
full with children, solicitous of his
dog.
Ambiguous Personality.
THE Legend is arranged by sub
ject rather than by chronology and
presents James in various phases
as social lion, as Inflated dramatlst,
as a host and, finally, as impassioned
champion of the Allied cause in
World War and naturalized Brit
ish citizen. OF his dominating but
ambiguous" personality, perhaps the
most striking summation is made by
Violet Hunt. "One knew that the
one thing Henry really dreaded
was being mixed up with life in any
way or entangled with anything
that went on outside the drawing
room door" This is, Of course, I'M
plicit in his novels.
STOKERS' MESS
BY Arne Skouen. (Altred A.
Knopt; s2.75J
The hero OF this all-Scandinavla
prize novel Is boy who literally
grows up overnight. The bridge be-
tween adolescence and maturity
provided him by a brutal, an-night
bacchanale aboard the freighter he
serves as mess boy; on the other
side he has left forever homesick.
day dreaming 15-year-old.
Victory in fist fight has made
him host for the evening and as
other members of the two crews, un-
der the influence of raw rum, be-
comes less responsible, Einar, to his
own surprise, becomes more So He
halts an invasion Of rats, and min
listers to the many battered and be-
sotted casualties of the harsh occa-
sion. BY sunup he has tasted the
pleasures of maturity and found
them far header than his day.
dreams.
While "Stokers' Mess" is artisti-
cally sound and a skillful, if occa-
sionally puzzling, blend of fantasy
and realism, its appeal is as limited
as its compass. Arne Skouen has
been successful in capturing the
moment when a fluid personality is
set, but the focus on Einar, who
sees the other characters through
a hazy adolescent vision, blurs their
outlines. The saltwater atmosphere
is successfully conveyed. Mr.. Skou-
lens resolutely unromantic view of
life at sea suggests . first-hand
knowledge.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-24
New Regulation
Protect Buyers
OF Roof Material

Raleigh, Nov. 24-After Jan
uary purchasers of roofing an
siding in North Carolina will b
protected by a regulation estab
fishing space coverage, in term
of the Square and the "squart
foot, as the basis of measure
ment for such materials.
The regulation, adopted Nov
ember 8 by the State Board Of
Agriculture under authority of
the Weights and Measures Law.
provides that side laps or joints
must be taken into consideration
in quoting coverage for sidinr
and roofing. In the case of cor
rugated material it specifies that
the side lap shall be not less
than one full corrugation.
Hitherto there has been no uni
form standard of measurement
for roofing and siding, some ma
terials being sold on the basis of
coverage while others were mea-
sured in terms of their own area
with no allowance made for over
tapping joints.
This led to misunderstanding
between dealers and consumers,
especially in the case of some
a m n u m roofing material
which has become popular since
the war. Farmers and others
complained to the Department of
Agriculture that they had bought
certain types of roofing by the
square only to find that it would
not cover the generally accept
ed / ares of a square, or 100
square feet, when nailed down
with overlapping side joints.
The new regulation was drawn
by c. D. Baucom, superintendent
of the Agriculture Departments
Division of Weights and Mea-
sures. 1t differs from an earlier
proposal, on w h h the Board
held two public hearings, in that
it omits a requirement that all
roofing sold in this state be
marked according to its cover
age capacity. 1t also includes
siding, whereas the original pro-
posal referred only to roofing +.
AS finally adopted, the regula-
ton construes the term square
as "a quantity of roofing or sid
ing material, sufficient, when
applied as intended by the manu-
facturer in accordance with de-
sign and or specifications, to
cover an area equal to 100 u. S.
standard square feet exclusive of
side laps or side joints" Use Of
the term Square foot" also is
permitted as a stadard mea-
surement when allowance S
made for side laps.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-24
English King
Has Blood Clot
On Right Leg

London, Nov. 23-(AP)- King
George vi mas blood clot in his
right leg and has cancelled all
public engagements to avoid the
danger of amputation or other
disablement.
The news that shocked the en-
pire was released at 1:30 am
today $3.50 pm EST Tuesday,
by Buckingham. Palace so it
could be announced simultaneous
ly in the parliaments of Austria
liza and New Zealand that the
royal tour of those countries set
for 1949 had been abandoned.
The kings five physicians an
nounced thay had decided "that
it would be hazardous for His
Majesty to embark upon a long
journey which might delay his
recovery and which might well
involve serious risk to a limb"
The official medical bulletin de-
scribed the kings affliction as
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-24
heifer, having a total value of
100000.

heifer, having a total value of
100000.
Chief purchases among these
were made by Sandy Williams,
James johnson, Clarence Nichol-
son and Peter Spruill. Sandy
Williams, a member of the Vet
Grams Farmer Training Class at
McIver High School, purchased
two Hereford heifers valued at
$4,000 and $500 respectively.
Peter Spruill, a community far
mer, purchased two animals val
ued at $500 and $3.50 respec-
lively. James Johnson, a COM
munity farmer, purchased
Hereford heifer valued at $11750
and a Hereford bull valued at
10500. Clarence Nicholson also
a community farmer purchased
two Hereford heifers valued at
$4,000 and S115.00 respectively.
The purchase of these sixteen
animals which are to be used as
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-24
McIver Farmers
Buy Purebred
Beef Cattle

Recently, the agricultural de-
partment at McIver High School
under the supervision of w. B.
Jameson, teacher of agricul-
ture, A. L. Finch, principal and
w. Henry Overman county su-
perintendent, began program
to improve livestock production
in the community.
Through the efforts put forth
by the teacher of agriculture,
farmers were encouraged to pur-
chase IA purebred Hereford heif-
ers, one purebred Hereford bull
and one Pure-bred Shorthorn
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-24
Irish Potato
Acreage And
Prices Cut

College Station, Raleigh, Nov.
24-A sharp reduction in both
the acreage goals and the sup
port prices for 1949 crop Irish
potatoes has been announced by
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture.
The national production goal
for 1949 has been set at 1,938,3O0
acres-about 100000 less than
the planted acreage this year.
This figure includes 1928, 100 ac-
res for commercial production,
and us, 200 for non-commercial
purposes Qess than three acres).
The commercial production
goal for North Carolina has been
set at 20,5OO acres.
The new support price level
will be 60 per cent of parity
the maximum reduction allowed
under existing legislation.
Commenting on the new sup
port level, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Charles F. Brannan said:
II have been extremely reluc-
tant to approve the lowering of
the support price for potatoes
to 60 per cent of parity. Iwant
it clearly understood that this
figure applies to potatoes only,
and that it cannot be regarded
as a precedent or as the attitude
of this Department in establish
ing the general level of price
supports under our new legisla-
ton. Controlling excess produc-
ton by dropping price supports
sharply is not desirable way
to get adjustments, no matter
how necessary these adjust =
ments may be. However, Con-
gress has given the Department
of Agriculture no other effective
mechanism
Secretary Brannan said losses
sustained by the Department un-
der the potato program for the
1948 crop alone will probably e.
qual or exceed the entire none
tary gains which have accrued
to the Commodity Credit Corp
Grafton during the Is years of
it's general support and procure
ment operations.