davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1949-04-10

TO weave LneSe dlVerglng pat
terms into q clear fabric Of
narrative, as she does. is not
easy. though her 1impid prose
makes 1t seems 80. Miss Boyle.
has, of course. written many
novels and long has been known
as one of our distinguished writ
ers. And she has, 1t Is equally
obvious. other merits than the
one mentioned as outstanding.
The title of her new novel Is
taken from q line Of William
Blake's: '"Silence remained. and
every one resum'd his Human
Majesty" 1t Is story Of noun
tain infantry training In the Colo
RADIO Rockies for service overseas,
and the author draws q highly
personalized picture of what these
men went through. She has taken
q group of GIs equipped with skis,
parkas and all the paraphernalia
of winter, and placed at the lone
liest training post in the world.
They are men without women,
without resources except what
they can muster within them
selves-condemned to heartbreak-
ing feats of hardship and endur-
ance as they struggle up noun
tains to 60 through maneuvers in
20-below weather.
Aav~. nrsas Corry IN
But they are not, as she shows,
wholly without women or without
the families, friends and diver
sions they've left. These COM
panions of the old life follow them
through blizzards, across glaciers.
into their isolated barracks. And
we see the constant interplay OF
the present and the past. Of con-
sciousness and memory. Of the
bleak tangible world and the
softer world of dreams.
It was a difficult task Miss
Boyle set herself-to write almost
entirely about men in their own
sphere. There are several women
in the story, but they nave minor
roles. She has achieved her pur-
pose remarkably well. If there is
a serious flaw. 1t is a tendency to
overdramatize the speech Of these
men. Men are inclined among
themselves to understatement and
reticence; they often burlesque
emotions they want to hide. 1t Is
doubtful whether even an edu-
Gated and travelled soldier like
Pennington would have been quite
as articulate.
But there are other times when
Miss Boyle has caught the casual
talk of GIs admirably. The story
develops with the brooding drama
of a storm gathering over the
towering peaks she describes. and,
like lightning, tragedy strikes
more than once. 1t Is a memora-
BILE wartime panorama.
II y
THE AFFAIRS OF FLAVIE
BY Gabriel Chevallier. Double
day: $3.)
Mr. rthevalIier's novel is much
Evening star., 1949-04-10

Toms poor yearning Ito be a
pilgrim" (the line Is from a hymn
by John Bunyan is never strong
enough to overcome his homing
instinct. His vocation to become a
missionary to India dwindles away
under assumed family cares. His
youthful high -mindedness gives
away to self-righteousness. He
watches anxiously while his fiery
sister Lucy. whose slave and enemy
he alternately is. elopeS with a pull
r,ecked evangelist. He accepts his
mercurial brother Edwards dis
carded mistress after political sue
cess has taken Edward from her
side. He warns his hands by the
cheerful, makeshift hearthside OF
his brother Bill and his wife Amy.
He finally concludes that he Is,
after all, "a pilgrim only by race"
Unfolds Simply.
Beyond that, Mr.. Cary asks you
to conclude nothing. Nor does ne
ask you to Judge Of any Of his
remarkably alive characters. He
seems to ask only understanding
and bids for 1t with such q wealth
Of intimate and significant detail
that 1t could not reasonably be
withheld. The story is not bent
to follow any plot line: it unfolds
simply through Toms sly efforts
to convert to Christianity and an
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Reodme and Writing

Fighting words are being ex-
changed in publishers row these
days for the first time since op-
posing sides picked UP their mar
bles and went home after debat-
ing Ezra Pounds right to be in
cluded in an anthology of Ameri-
can poets. Strangely enough. the
controversy was touched of by
one of the seasons most peace
giving books. Thomas Merton's
The Seven-Storey Mountain"
whose position on the national
best-seller lists has caused a furi-
GUS battle as to the merits and &C
curacy of the whole business Of
best-seller lists.
The call to arms was sounded
by Mr.. Merton's publishers. Har-
court, Brace g. Co.. who ran an
ad in the New York Times
Sunday Book Review, charging
that the book should have been
listed In No. rather than No. II
position on their national surveys.
The Saturday Review of Litera-
ture. which may have been just
spelling for a scrap. promptly
leaped into the fray and came out.
in its March 26 issue with an
inflammatory editorial entitled
Bogus Best-Sellers." 1t attacked
the lists on these, among other
grounds: That the two main
sources OF best-seller information
(the Sunday Times and Herald
Tribune book sections) are re
spectacle but hardly scientific"
and apparently compiled with
out reference to the most elemen-
tary rules of statistical sampling,
weighing and analysis" and that
reporting bookstores are not nee
essarily representative.
Further. 1t cited snobbishness
on the part Of dealers who want
to report currently fashionable
titles, corruption on the part of
publishers anxious to give slow
moving books a push. and by
passing of long term best-sellers,
such as Gone With the Wind"
This provoked q stiff reply from
Herbert Lyons, acting book re-
view editor of the Times. who
complained that the very title of
SRL's piece suggested that the
New York Times Sunday Book
Review Is engaged In some sort
of dishonest enterprise" with its
best-seller list and pointed out
that the Times has recently in
creased, for the purpose Of It's
survey, the number Of cities and
the number Of stores within the
cities"
The same issue which carried
Mr.. Lyons counterattack april
q featured communications from
five leading New York publishers.
who were unanimous in their
praise Of SRL's crusade. Said
Howard Lewis Of Dodd. Mead g.
Co.. II wish there were some
way that the whole business Of
best-seller lists could be laughed
out Of existence"
The Star complies its best
seller list on the basis Of weekly
reports from Is book stores in
the Greater Washington area.
Each store lists the six most pop
ular titles In fiction and non-fic-
ton in order of volume Of sale.
To make UP our chart, We first
list all books mentioned In each
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troubled mod
ern soul and
thereby TO the
{ orn postwar
world.
Readers in
clined TO dis
pute his chal-
lenging state
ments or feel
uncomfortab lie
when struck by
un idly
obvious truth
can n 0 v z T
charge him with
dullneS or am
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Gene Fowler Measures Up to His Best
In LfeIike Portrait of Jimmy Walker

BEAU JAMES-THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JIMMY WALKER
BY Gene Fowler THE Viking Press; 81
Reviewed by JOSEPH A FOX
his unusual talents chronce Of the bizarre to
Of New York Gene Fowler
earlier Timber Line The Great
Good Night Sweet Prince"
AS sympathetic biographer time friend the author
and the Walker who Is only
Evening star., 1949-04-10

more than the affairs Of Flavie. a
young woman of Grenoble who is
bored with her industrious. un-
imaginative husband and longs
for somebody who looks and acts
like q Hollywood actor. There are
the sons and daughters Of the rich
merchant who Is accidentally
killed at the start Of the story.
Their affairs are more important
to the book than Flavie's. This
is. essentially, an old-fashioned
French novel, of the sort that q
generation ago was called racy
1t seems tepid in this era Of the
new realism. 1t s greatly de-
tailed. engaging and not without
humor. The translation by Joce-
lyn Godefroi Is more than ade-
quate.
INTO AN OLD ROOM:
A MEMOIR OF
EDWARD FTTZ GERALD
BY Peter De Polnay. fCreattpe
Age; $3J
This book is not, the author
hastens to say, another biography
of the translator of the "Rubai-
yat," but rather series Of impress
sions stemming from Mr.. De-
Polnay's stay of nearly year and
half in an old Suffolk house,
where Mr.. FITZGERALD lived. There
have been several biographies. but
no book like this. Mr.. De Potnay
has dug up some undisclosed facts
about the Victorian poets career,
exploded a few myths and added
critical study of his work.
Mr.. De Polnay concludes that
Omar Khayyam, author OF the
"Rubaiyat," who died early in the
18th century, was not as great a
philosopher as Fitz Gerald believed
him to be, nor such fine poet.
I'm Persia, Omar hardly ranks
with the giants. and, talking to
educated Persians. I have reached
the conclusion that the eternity
of the 'Rubaiyat' will be assured
more by Fitz Gerald than by
Omar, Notwithstanding Fitz Ger
AIDS misunderstanding and mis-
interpretations, which, however,
from the artists point OF view,
little matter"
Fitz Gerald was not, the author
of this memoir points out. a Per-
sian scholar, and, with his limited
knowledge of the language, his
quatrains are more creative
achievement than a translation.
"Fitz Gerald never saw the East,
never wanted to see the East. He
invented an East Of his own into
which the quatrains fitted"
MIR. De Polnay is an able novel;
ist, and he has written these i'm
pressions with understanding and
charm. He explains to an extent,
probably as nearly as any one
could. the enigma Of Fitz Gerald's
austere, If comfortable. country
life and his fascination with
Omar's hedonisn.
Evening star., 1949-04-10

others as they
W re, a n d
though timid,
he could rejoice
in the questing
English S p iri t
of his brothers
and sister. who
went boldly out
to meet ! / t e
while he peev-
ishly p &c k e d
a r o u n d its
edges.
Evening star., 1949-04-10

creature OF the
mad '20s," who
strayed from
wife and church
as he followed
a path that
brought him
finally to his
knees in role of
penitent.
A typical
Fow e r e SO u e
passage might
well serve as
the Walker ep-
itaph:
aA u,or.tirnH
Evening star., 1949-04-10

the search Is a matter OF the
supernatural and the main interest
must be In the state OF the in
dividual soul.
The eminent philosopher. educs-
tor and spiritual guide tells how
peace can be brought 70 the
Evening star., 1949-04-10
PhIosophic Search
OF Writing Opens
New World of Books
HILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE
BY Julian L. Ross. fSwacuse
University Press, >S3)

BY Julian l.. ROSS. fSyGcuSe
University Press; >$3.)
Reviewed by
HELEN ANNE HILKER
Information Assistant, Library Of
CongresS)
Julian Ross has produced a key
to a new world of books for book
lovers who have no formal back
ground in philosophy. Curiosity
about his world is the only re-
quirement asked of the novice to
hilosophy.
Believing that creative litera-
ure is a pleasant road to imagi-
lative understanding of philoso-
ohy, the author explores 1t with
Illustrations from novels, plays
and poetry of much of western
civilization.
With readable simplicity. re-
ducing long-winded terms to
everyday meaning. he shows the
novice how Hedonistic. Stole.
Socratic and Christian ethics af-
feet his own life. and even entices
him into cosmology. optimism and
pessimism, and the problem of
evil. Criticizing each idea for its
practical strengths and weak
nesses, he leaves the reader to
draw his own conclusions. never
forces his opinions on him.
Through 1t runs a gentle, dry
humor that may escape the reader
If he takes the style seriously.
Ross means his 275 pages, not
for one nights reading. but for
many evenings interspersed with
the books that illustrate them.
Reading again even familiar titles
from Hemingway. Housman, Hpx-
ley, Conrad, Shakespeare for the
PHILOSOPHERS. Ross points out. Is to
discover q new book in each.
The authors clear thinking will
lend new meaning to next years
literature as well. For the first
time. the philosophic reflections
mirrored in a wide scope Of West
ern literature are combined CO.
herently here with q lucid under
standing for the reader Of the
various systems and their tmpli-
cations In terms Of himself.
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Msgr. Sheen Brings New Hope
TouTroubIed Postwar World
PEACE OF SOUL
fWhi.flsSeg House. 81
~~n-- W NEy - CYF

BY Msgr. Fulton J Sheen fWhi.tleses House. 81
Reviewed by ROBERT K, WALSH
PSYCHOLOGISTS wonder mind
devotional theme
purpose.
Catholic University demonstrates
concerned
puolles
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Men Without Women, Theme
Of New Kay Boyle Novel
HIS HUMAN MAJESTY
Kay Boyle. (WhAtlesey House; 49,

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Boyle attribute found few novelss Of the dayn
for that matter She able combine the
tecve objective such conscious
thoughts and confused what hap
pnng him outward In fact sometimes these two facets
merged that them simultaneously.
Evening star., 1949-04-10
OLIVIA
BY Olivia. william Sloane As
soci1teS; $2.75.J
OLIVIA

by OllVld. fWbttuW otoUHS 40
sociates; $2.75J
This is an anonymous tale of an
adolescent's first taste Of love.
Her PASSIONS Is quite often the
case at such an AGES directed
toward one Of her teachers, q
magnetic, cultivated woman who
reaches the child's heart through
her mind. The setting Is an en-
lightened French boarding school,
which is paradise to Olivia, prod
uct Of a repressed Victorian
atmosphere. While under the
spell of Mile. Julie. with all her
perceptions heightened and sharp
ened by this strange disturbance
OF her senses, Olivia perceives that
she alone is not favored by her
teacher. Gradually 1t is brought
home to her that the whole school
is divided into two factions: Those
worshiping Mile. Julie and those
equally devoted to the other head
mistress. Mile. Cara. In this fetid
feminine atmosphere feelings
quickly reach . pitch Of hysteria.
and the denouement n accom-
plished amid tears and tension. A
narrow, candid and fastidious
handling Of . delicate theme.
olivia" u very good Of its kind,
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Cary Novel, q Virtuoso Performance,
Is Brilliant Job of Character Portrayal
TO BE A PILGRIM
BY Joyce Cary. Harper e. Bros; s3J
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY

Reviewed by MARY McCFOHf
In the finest of published In this country
Joyce Cary Engand greatest living writer's the other
side of story engagingy Herself Surprised That you
will remember history OF Sara Jmson complain
lover and master before her removal 10
Evening star., 1949-04-10

the able and engaging figure sky
rocketing to fame-and then po-
litical obScurity-two decades ago,
but also the irresponsible, reckless
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
TO
BARROW FOR
CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON, May II Up =
Fifteen semitic experts are flying
to Point Barrow, Alaska, for a
mid-May meeting, the Navy an
nounced today.
The conference will be held at
the Nays two-year-old Arctic Re-
search Laboratory there
Among those from the us. will
be John c. Reed, staff geologist
in the US. Geological Survey, who
is chairman Of advisers on the
laboratory
Some 80 scientists and techni-
clans from educational and scien-
tific institutions have been work
ing at the laboratory in the fields
of biology, physiology, medicine
oceanography, meteorology, ano
magnetic and cosmic radiation.
The visiting experts will review
their work and recommend future
projects to Rear Admiral T. A
Solberg, Chief of Naval Research.
Two members of the Canadian
Defense Research Board will be IN
the party. They are Drs
Somlandt, and Graham Rowley
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
ACQUIT
GIRL OF
MURDER

SEATTLE. May 11-lR-Loretta
Jean Minneker. H. has been ac-
quilted of a second degree murder
charge for the Staying of her
father with a milk bottle and
butcher knife March %.
Juvenile Court Judge William G.
Long, in announcing his memoran-
dunn decision, ordered that the girl
should continue as a ward of the
court.
The judge cited these extenuating
circumstances in the girls case: she
had had four teeth extracted the
day of the killing; she had had no
lunch; the father, Willis E. Min
neker, was intoxicated and took the
girl to a tavern and insisted she
drink several glasses of wine and
beer ito ease the pain"
After her father took her home
from the tavern, the judge wrote
there was some kind of commo-
ton between the father and
mother; some one screamed, and
Loretta rushed from the bedroom
struck her father with milk
bottle, and rushed outside. Her
mother and others attempted to
re strain her, but she broke away
seized knife and killed hel
father"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
spy HUNT
TESTIMONY
IS SECRET
Son Of University of Cali.
f0rnia Official Tells
of Moves Made

WASHINGTON, May l1-tR-
House spy hunters said today they
lave testimony that the son of q
University of California official
helped Communist attempt tc
infiltrate the schools atomic
laboratory in 1941.
The testimony was given in Sec
let session by Paul Crouch, admit
ted former Communist of Miami
Fla, who is scheduled to testify
again at hearing of the House
Un-American Activities Committee
on May "a. (There is some doubt
that he will appear then, however
Committee aides said Crouch was
under the impression that he hac
been released from grand jury
subpoena in New York but thai
there may have been a misunder-
standing sabout IT'D
Il was active in trying to infil-
trate all scientific research at the
University of California" Crouch
told the committee last Friday be-
hind closed doors.
In that project, he said, he was
assisted by the son Of the Univer-
sity official, who drove him tt
secret meetings in swank Southern
California homes. Because the testi-
mony was taken secretly, the COM
mittee would not permit use of the
officials name.
The plan, Crouch said, was tt
ofganize the laboratory workers
nto special sections of the Com
munist party. SO secret was thu
project, he said, that instead Of
using names of individuals, party
communications referred to then
in Greek figures.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
LOSES 5 81 ON
HORSE WITHOUT
PLACING BET

PHILADELPHIA, May lid
Just as a matter Of curiosity, Ber-
nard Goods wishes he knew the
name of the horse he lost S32 on
without making bet
Goddis lost his wallet containing
s32 several days ago. The next day,
he told police, he received the
empty wallet and note in the
mail.
Next time you lose your wallet,
the note read, make sure you have
more money in it and have a better
wallet or I will not return it
again. 1 put your money on horse
and, if it pays off, I will return
your $32"
Apparently the horse didn't win
Goods hasn't gotten his money
back yet.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
RED MOOSE
T|GHTENED,
SHANGHAI
BY FRED HAMPSON

SHANGHAI, May IL Up =
Chinese Communists, apparently
living off the land, bore down
swiftly today on coastal Fukien
province.
At the same time the Red moose
around Shanghai was frightened.
The Nationalist garrison here Of
ficially admitted these Red gains.
Unofficial reports indicated Han
kow, big Yangtze port in Central
China, may be doomed. A three
pronged Communist attack on
Hankow seemed to he gathering
momentum.
The Shanghai garrison COM
nlunique today gave this picture:
l. A Red force of 1000 men has
attacked Kinki in Kiangsi province
less than so miles from the Fukien
boundary. Fukien is opposite the
island of Formosa.
2. The Communists were at
lacking Kashan, SO miles southwest
of Shanghai. communications with
that city were severed at dawn.
This usually means capture.
8. Thirty miles northwest of
Shanghai the village of Chenmo is
the scene of action but most &C
lions in that area have been small
scale.
There were unofficial reports
that a local Hankow peace move
vas underway. The majority OF the
100000 National troops there are
expected to retreat southwark be-
fore any large scale fighting takes
place.
Here in Asia's largest city the
problems of war were overshadowed
for most people by local economic
worries. A cup of coffee today cost
half a million Chinese Yuan.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
45pAS5ENGER5 FOR
JUNEAU ON ALASKA

Docking at o'clock yesterday
afternoon from Seattle and sailing
to the Westward at 8 O'Clock this
morning, the Alaska had As pas
sengers disembarking and Is en-
barking for the Westward.
From Seattle, passengers were
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bond and son
Jay, Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph H
5randen, Mrs. E. Brekhus and two
children, Miss G. Brown, James E
Conner, Mrs. M. Corley, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. F. FARES, Mrs. F. Coos
Mr.. and Mrs. David Jacobson, G
Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E. Kearns
Mrs. M. E. Leighton and two chill
dren, Mrs. S. L. Lundwall, Mrs
Martin, Lorraine Merritt, Elmer L
Twete, Olaf Westby, Mr. and Mrs
william Whitney, Mrs. Owen Will
son, Edward Zane, Paul A. Milton
Ernest Parr, L. c. Taylor, Pau
WEIGH.
From Ketchikan: Les Florence
Bessie Gerard, Mrs. K. G. Merritt
Elizabeth Usher, Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Usher, C. Tubbs, F. T. Sheppard
From Petersburg: Jesse Ballard
]. Donald.
For Valdez: Mr.. and Mrs. w
McMath. Harry Scott, Robert Nc
Manus, Jim Nordale, Svend Asp
Lewis A. Taylor, Bill Wilson, E. P
Jappinen.
For Cordova: Mr. and Mrs. John
F. Curry.
For Seward: w. r. Nichols, E. A
Shaffer, Mr.. Owen Wilson, E. +
Tietjen.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
SHIPPERS WARNED
ON pACkAGING OF
ALASKA FREIGHT
Alaska Steamship Pdys0u
Over 100000 for
:. Damages in Year

SEATTLE, May 11.-tR- The AL
aska Steamship Company, in re-
quest to shippers to improve pack
aging of steamship freight, has
disclosed that cargo claims for
damage, loss and pilferage cost the
company s114,561 in one year.
Calling on shippers to improve
methods Of packing and marking
freight shipments, Adm. F. A. zeus-
Ter, executive assistant to the Pres
ident, said.
I'VE are convinced that when
shippers actually become aware Of
the cost to them of inadequate
packaging and hit-and-miss mark
ing, these practices will be discon-
tinued. Then the major problems
involved in overcarried and lost,
damaged and pilfered merchandise
will have been met from the ship
per's standpoint"
Zeusler said the company paid
$114,561.08 in claims during the
year from May u, 1947 to May
s, 1913.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
JUNEAUITE5 Leave
FOR MEETING OF
U. OF A. REGENTS

Both of the Juneau men who are
members of the University OF
Alaska Board of Regents have left
for Fairbanks to attend the Board
meeting which will open tomorrow
morning.
Leo F.. Rhode was appointed to
the Board in 1948 and DR.. G. Earl
Albrecht was named by Gov Ernest
Gruening in March, and his APP
pointment confirmed by the 10Th
Legislature.
The most important item of bust
ness concerns the appointment of
a successor to DR.. Charles E. Bun
rell. University president. DR.. Al
brecht said the meetings probably
will take the rest of the week, pos
sibly longer. He FASTENED his return
from Washington, DC, in order to
attend the regents meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-11
ALASKA OFFICIALS
ASK SENATE FOR
5. (. ROAD FUNDS

WASHINGTON, May III
Alaskan officials asked a Senate
appropriations subcommittee today
to approve s9,O59,O0 for suburban
roads in the territory
The House Appropriations COM
mittee refused to okay the item.
Delegate Bartlett and Governor
Ernest Gruening testified that in
$4,000 square miles of southeast
Alaska which has a population OF
10000, there are only IT'S miles
Of highway.
The Forest Service proposed the
money be appropriated to build
roads around towns in southeast
Alaska where large pulp mills are
to be constructed.