Evening star., 1949-12-04

spirit of MY Sister Eileen" in
Love Story" And Daphne Du
Maurier. creator of several COM
manding historicals. has written
about Gertrude Lawrence-Noel
Coward types in 'The Parasites.
scheduled for January by Double
day.
Kathleen Winsor of amber"
repute, who has exchanged the
silks of Macmillan for those
of Appleton Century -Crofts. will
have new novel in April. 1t is
billed as "a searching character
study of girl who wins phenom-
email success in her 20s."
One of our finest contemporary
novelists, Robert Penn Warren.
writes of Kentucky in 1880 in
"World Enough and Time" Nancy
Wilson Ross, she of the lyric LEFT
Hand Is the Dreamer" has novel
of neurotic New Yorker in
search of his soul called II, My
Ancestor" coming on January 30.
John Fischer OF Harper's
brought back from England THE
Horses Mouth" a new novel by
Joyce Cary. a Book-o Of -the-Month
Club selection. So prolific is Mr..
Cary, Mr.. Fischer reports. that
he has II novels under construc-
ton. Harold Guinzburg of Viking
had lunch in London with Henry
Green. author of the recent and
ecstatically praised Loving" and
was handed the manuscript OF
new novel. Mr.. Green's passion
for cryptic titles has now been
run into the ground. This one Is
called Nothing"
The Harper Prize novel Is
first. and frankly folksy. 1t has
no name yet, was written by Max
Steele of Chapel Hill. Another
first, for which its publishers have
high hopes is Red Bone Women"
by Carlyle Tillery, who works in
q super market in Tuscaloosa.
Ala. 1.-THE Town and the City"
by John Kerouac, also bears the
1949 hallmark of affirmation.
More Reports of Men
In High Places
Leading off 1949's reports Of
men in high places will be Gen.
Clay's Decision in Germany" and
my Three Years in Moscow" by
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. "Ber-
lin Command" is Gen. Howley's
story of the cold war. coming
from Putnam's. Admiral Leahy's
II Was There" is scheduled for
April publication. Also coming in
spring is "The Hard Way Back"
Gen. Eichelberger's account of
ground fighting in the Pacific.
which he wrote with Washing
toms Milton MacKaye.
Two accounts of Israel are in
the works: watch for the Morn
ing" by Thomas Sugrue. who has
also completed the second INSTALL
ment of an autobiography bril-
liantly begun in Stranger in the
Earth" The other is by Irwin
Shaw, with pictures by Robert
Capa.
Admiral Zacharias has written
a history of the cold war in Be
hind Closed Doors" Louis Adamic
is working on an account Of the
Tito regime THE Coming De-
feat of Communism" is the heart
ening title of a new book by
James Burnham.
Sumner Welles deals with con-
temporary crises in Ten Deci-
sions That Shaped History" "
Other backward-looking notables
are Justice Douglas whose "Of
Men and Mountains" slated for
April, is entirely unpolitical, and
Harold Ickes, whose memoirs are
expected to be entirely to the con-
trary.
Judge Sam Rosenman is the
author of Roosevelt at Work" ="
John Day reports rather visit
fully that they have had the
jacket of Nine. Pandit's proposed
autobiography, Sunlight and
Shadow" ready for the past four
years. No manuscript has come
to them as yet, however. The
Indian Ambassadors brother will
shortly contribute a foreword of
his impressions of the United