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Evening star., 1949-12-04

room paters and the coyly cute
features spun out Of trifles, the
editors have chosen stories which
have az their true fascination a
hard core Of momentous fact. As
a whole the collection makes lively
reading because for the most part
it has the urgency Of the eye
witness account before impressions
could dim. Thus there are mag
nificently terse and vital pictures
of John Brown at bay, the assas-
sination of Lincoln, the degrada-
ton Of Dreyfus, the last hours OF
Sacco and Vanzetti, the first air.
plane flight, and the execution OF
the Nazi war criminals. not to
mention scores Of stories from a
disheartening number Of wars.
Many writer's, before securing
their fame in more durable me-
diums were reporters and good
ones. The table of contents is
bright with such names as Defoe,
Dickens, Kipling, Crane and
Mark Twain, beside such news
paper immortals as Richard Hard
ing Davis and Haywood Broun.
Some newspapermen, writing at a
fever pitch Of fervor and indigna-
ton have changed the course OF
history. a case in point being
Januarius Aloysius MacGahan OF
Ohio. whose passionate account of
Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria pro-
vided the spark that ignited the
Russo-Turkish war: Reporters
Evening star., 1949-12-04
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Crime and
.>Mystery
By Mirium Ottenberq
The Dishonest Murderer, by Fran

The Dishonest Murderer, by Fran
ces and Richard Lockridge. u.
B. Lippincott Co.; $2.50J
Main Line
AS Vice Admiral Satterbee,
U. s. NJ. retired. would contend, it
just wasn't Navy to be unpunctual
and the eminent Senator was GER
tainly late for the party. In fact,
he didn't show up at all-being
detained on a slab at the morgue.
The admiral didn't admire the
Senator, but, Pam North insisted,
he didn't dislike the man enough
to spice his drink with chloral hy-
drate. Mrs. North is as zany as
usual In the latest Lockridge mys-
tery-comedy, but her converse
tional acrobatics sometimes make
sense. r.
It's Raining Violence, by Theodore
Du Bois. Doubleday & Co., Inc;
$2.25.)
Crime Club .-.....
The Herberts were all nice peo-
ple-decadent. perhaps. but full of
fine traditions dating back to the
early Herbert who gave Charles
the First his shirt so the monarch
wouldn't shiver on execution day.
Nevertheless. a body had been
found in the Herberts' front yard
and they were acting most Pc
culiarly about 1t. jeff and Anne
McNeill, who do their detecting
with a minimum Of small talk, find
a satisfactory solution to tan
talizing problem.
Triple Threat, by Kelley Roos.
GA. A. Wyn, Inc; $2.50.)
The sleuthing Troys find murder
In a Fifth avenue penthouse. 4
dilapidated stowboat and q
beauty emporium in this three
for-one package. All three mys-
teries follow the formula Of the
quickly presented puzzle. the mur-
derous attack on Haila Troy and
the exposure Of q least likely
killer. On the Kelley Roos writ
ing combine, the formula looks
good. =
The Queens Awards, 1949, edited
by Ellery Queen. tLittle. Brown
& Co.: So
Variety to suit the palate Of the
connoisseur lies in the Is stories
chosen for the l949 volume Of
prize winning short stories In the
mystery field. The top award was
taken by Georges Simenon for his
tale Of q meek little tailor who
solved multiple murder case.
Most Of the other stories-rang-
ing from the almost perfect crime
to the gaslight thriller-were
turned out by such veteran pur-
veyors Of mystery fiction as Mich
olas Blake, Joseph Shearing and
Edmund Crispin, but Queen let a
newcomer, Thomas Flanagan, pro-.
vide the locked-room puzzle. As q
whole, the collection Is first-rate
not only for It's mystery gimmicks
but also for the excellence Of the
writing. Such craftsmen as VIII
bur Daniel Steele and Ben Hecht
are on hand to demonstrate that
detective fiction and good writer's
need not be strangers. ,
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Reviewed by JOHN M. KAUFFMAl

Church for IL years ana twice
chaplain of the Senate. The book
will reveal to readers throughout
the country the eloquence OF the
man who filled his church each
week to the point where many
heard him through loudspeakers
in church anterooms.
The subject of Scotland. which
always inspired DR.. Marshall. is
the theme that binds the volume
into one unit and which will
especially endear 1t to his fellow
Scots. Such talks as "The Land
iof Burns" and "Our Ain Folk
extol the rugged little country
that has given so much spirit to
the world. "Just Between Cousins
and "Lest We Forget" are two
sermons preached during Britain's
worst wartime crisis calling upon
the cultural allegiance" Of Scots
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A DIARY FROM DIXIE
BY Mary Boykin Chestnut.
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.

FRANS1o Z. Ooo1AA1s'
Gayety is the word for Mrs
Chestnut. 1t is reflected on al
most every page of the diary she
kept during the Civil War.
She was intelligent and we'll
read in addition to liking parties
and people. The picture she draws
Of the Confederacy and its COL
lapse is vivid and at times in
extraordinary detail. Her diary
was published first about so years
ago In an abbreviated and CEN
sored form. Ben Ames Williams
made use of it in writing his
"House Divided" Then, with the
complete manuscript made avail
able to him, he edited and pro-
duced this rare book.
Mrs. Chestnut was the wife OF
q South Carolina Senator in
Washington who later was an aide
TO jefferson Davis and then q
brigadier general in the Confed-
crate service.
Her husband would urge her to
stay at the family plantation near
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Finding Of New Drug
Is Basis of Novel
MEDICAL MEETING
BY Mildred Walker. (Harcourt,
Brace & Co.; $3.J
Reviewed by
PIRIE BROWN.

Medical Meeting" Is a well-writ-
ten novel. technically correct and
true to life. Its locus is a large
medical conference which DR.. and
Mrs. Baker attend In order to pre-
sent a paper recording their sue
cess in finding a drug effective
against tuberculosis and coinci-
dentally to see friends not seen
since their interneship.
Upon this framework is hung a
series of character and reaction
studies which deal with DR.. and
Mrs. Baker when their success is
forestalled and with the changes
in their friends under the stimuli
Of success and failure.
Miss Walker shows a better than
average knowledge of human be-
ings and the factors which mott
vate them. She is especially per-
lceptive when dealing with doctors
wives and lives.
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Chess Notes
By DonoId n. Mueridgs

pletely overrunning his kings
side. A very interesting Falkbee'
counter cambit between Berlmel
and Mugridge, In which the for
mer found an entirely new ninth
move for white in one OF the
standard lines. worked out to
drawn ending after 26 moves
A Slav defense between Ernest M
Knapp and Chauvenet also
reached a drawn ending In 3t
moves. In the game between
Harry E. Cimermanis and Johr
r. Rice, the former won the ex.
change but did not succeed ir
winning the game, which was
likewise drawn.
The scores before the ninth anc
last round. with one game between
Chauvenet and Mugridgr still un-
played: Stark, I'll; Shapiro. 6-2;
Mugridge, 41a-2ha: Berliner an6
Cantwell. SIS; Chauvenet. 4-3;
Knapp, a.: Thomas. 21a-5h;
Cimermanis, 1T; Rice K2-7h.
Two additional teams, repre-
senting the University of Mary
land and George Washington Uni
versity. have been admitted to
the District Chess League. In
their first matches. Maryland lost
to Bald Eagle. 6Ha-81a. while G.
w. held Paragon to tie, 41a-4h
Paragon won its match from
Army Map Service by I'll, win
ming six games and drawing two
Bald Eagle beat Georgetown, 51a-
21a. and Federal scored II points
to 4 against the Library Of Con-
gress. The details Of the Divan-
Paragon match, and the score Of
a virtuoso performance by Oscar
Shapiro on top board:
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city are familiar, others are rare,
especially the Civil War scenes, a
number by the celebrated pho
tographer, Mathew Brady. Mr..
Brady's view of wounded men in
Carver Hospital is worthy of the
vastly improved Photographic art
of today. So are some of the other
Brady scenes, including one show
ing a diversified group of visitors,
among them. Indians, standing
outside the White House, where
they had just talked to the Presi-
dent. Some of the pictures and
sketches Of ante-bellum Washing
ton are unusually revealing.
Mr.. Roberts points out that
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A Readers Guide

Norman Cousins, editor OF
tho Saturday Review Of Lit
erature, appraises the Amer
lean literary scene and en-
phasizes books of non-f1ction
that have contributed to an
understanding of our time for
The Stars annual book survey,
which appears as a special
supplement with this issue.
Designed to serve the full
range of literary interests in all
age groups. this, survey pre-
sents an evaluation of books
published in 1949 under the
classifications of fiction, BIZ
ography. history, Americana,
world affairs. science. chill
dren's books. poetry, criticism
and others. Books in each
field are reviewed and dig
cussed by specialists.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Classics Of Great Reporting
That Deserve to Be Kept Alive
4 TREASURY OF GREAT. REPORTING

A TREASURY OF GREAT REPORTING
Edited by Louis L. Snyder Richard B. Morris (Simon
Schuster; $5J -,--
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY.
writing is done by people IN hurry or
people surprising Of deserves to ve for 1t
reads If not like great literature like rough draft Of history
than ITO classics OF journalism has the
something they have with their own
elfconscious OF the city
Evening star., 1949-12-04


nearly all, are competent exam
Piles of short fiction and at least
few are first-rate expressions OF
character or mood or both. Per-
haps that's all you should ask OF
a literary form which, after all,
has its limitations, just as the song
and the sonnet and the sonata
have. though some impatient Gre
ators have broken through the
bounds prescribed in all blueprints
for art. But you get the impress
sion somehow that the writer's rep
resented in this book are taking a
sideswipe at life rather than COM
ing to grips with it. Another i'm
preston with which you emerge
from reading their stories is their
concern with the topical. the pass
ing, the headline of the day
Maybe that. too, is inevitable.
Certainly it is hard to write a
story that is realistic and yet will
not seem dated in few years.
The magazine called Story was
founded by Mr.. Burnett and
Martha Foley in 1881 in Vienna
and brought to New York a
year or so later. It at
tracted more attention than most
of the literary" or little" maga-
zines. 1t commanded critical re-
spect from the first, and every
year has had stories, sometimes a
good many. reprinted in the short
story anthologies. In 1948, says
Mr.. Burnett in a foreword, "due
to no fault of the editors, the
magazine suffered a body blow to
its financial structure and had to
suspend publication for the, first
time in 18 years."
He insists that Story has never
been refuge of cliques, literary
or political, or an upholder of
preciosity." For years, he con-
cedes. "a kind of snobbish feud has
been waged between the plot-and-
substance schools. De Maupas-
SAINT, say. or Chekhov. Story
holds with both. We have used
Chekhovian moods articulated
into stories, and the De Maupas-
santian stress on narrative has
never here been sneered at"
There is in these stories of the
1940s, reprinted from Story,
heartening absence of the prole-
tartan. propaganda and ideologi-
cal stories which filled the artier
magazines in the '30s. Story
printed it's share Of them. Few
were worth printing. 1t cannot be
said that the stories in this book
follow any pattern in form or
substance. They are more hon.
est and usually more interesting
than the slick, padded stories of
the mass-circulation magazines.
There is a surprising strain of
humor in many of them.
THE Fiction of the Forties" has
the first published stories of such
successful writer's as Tennessee
Williams, Norman Mailer and
Truman Capote. Beside them are
tales by writer's who were already
established. among them William
Faulkner, Ivan Bunin, Liam
O'Flaherty, Erskine Caldwell.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Pictorial History Of Washington Makes
Valuable SesquicentenniuI Souvenir

WASHINGTON PAST AND PRESENT
BY Chalmers Roberts. (Pubic Affairs Press; s50J
texual history of the Capital comes appro-
priately on of Sesquicenenna year.
Mr. Washington newspaperman has compiled IN words
comprehensive account OF the Federal
earliest days to the present The book obviously is the
of careful and exhaustive research .
While pictures that illustrate the OF the
Evening star., 1949-12-04

The Story Of the Amulet, by E.
Nesbit (Coward-McCann; $2.751
The adventures OF Cyril. Robert,
Anthea and Jane. familiar to
readers OF Five Children" ETC..
reach q happy ending here. These
Nesbit stories have been enjoyed
By readers for nearly half 9 CEN
tury. Illustrated.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Sloane. Associates; $3.5O)

Sloane Associates; s3.50)
jealousy OF such contemporaries
as Scott and Irving. Says Mr.
Grossman: He never found q
wholly adequate symbol in which
to concentrate his tragic vision.
Some readers may find no reason
to disagree with Mark Twain who
in a celebrated debating essay re-
marked: "He Cooper saw nearly
all things as through a glass eye,
darkly."
+ \ + 4
THE PLUM TREE
BY Mary Ellen Chase. (Mac-
mllan; ST.
This is a little parable set In an
aged ladies home, whose great
beauty is q radiantly Towering
plum tree. Through the tact and
valor of q pair Of middle-aged
nurses, dark doings are averted
among three old women who are
tottering on the brink Of insanity
Miss Chase, the author of Wind
swept" has told the tale ardently
and with fine feeling. Unfortu-
nately, however, her two practical
resourceful nurses talk more like
retired English teachers and are
not always equal to the burden o1
eloquence which she has placed or
them.
A SORT OF A SAGA
BY Bill Mauldin, fWillian1
Sloane Associates; 1850 - a,a
The astringent young cartoonist
of World War II, whose Willie and
Joe were forlorn symbols Of fed
up GIs everywhere, has stopped
being bitter for the moment and
has written q sunny, earthly,
completely engaging account Of
his wonderful boyhood in the
Southwest. The son Of q spirited
mother and a restless, scheming
father who dreamed of gold but
despised prosperity, Bill and. his
older brother Sid lived . Huck
Finnish kind Of life In New Mex
leo and in the Arizona desert, be-
having no better than boys ever
do, and coming to grips with all
sorts Of problems from neurotic
mares to grade-school bullies.
Happily. 'Mauldin is as good q
writer as he is an artist, and since
he illustrated his own little
"A Sort Of q Saga" leaves
to be desired.-M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
THE HISTORY OF AN ADVER-
TISING AGENCY

BY Ralph M. Hover. (HarUard
University Press; $780,
The author is professor of bust
ress administration at Harvard
and this book is the fifth In a
series of historical studies OF
American business sponsored by
the Harvard Graduate School OF
Business Administration. The
agency cfronicled is N. w. Aver
& Son of Philadelphia. one of the
oldest dounded in 1862 and to-
day one of the largest advertis-
ing agencies in the world. Mr..
HOVER describes the growth Of
the business from a one-man,
one-roomf enterprise started by
Francis Wayiand Aver to the
present huge, complex organiza-
tion. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Andre Gide's Poetry
In Verse and Prose
THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH
BY Andre Glide. fAltred A.
Knopt; 49,

BY Andre Glide. fAltred A.
Knopt;; 49,
Reviewed by
EDWIN TRIBB1iE.
eide and his French publish
ers do not classify his books,
but Justin OBrien. who edited
Gide's Journals. lists this work
as Poetry In Verse and In Prose-"
That is perhaps as good . defini-
tion as any. The first part Of
1t was published flrst In 1897,
but only . few copies were sold.
Through the years that followed,
1t gained admirers and In 1885
Glide added q second section In
the mood Of the flrst. It Is In
this complete form that 1t II now
published In this country.
The paradox Of the book is
that it sings the Joys Of COM
|plete self-fulnllment Of the de-
sires Of the senses and appeals
at the same time for recognition
|of the simplest religious elements
|of what we consider conventional
morality. That Is 0ide's forte
and here he expresses himself by
clever use Of classical allusion
and stories with rich symbols.
It's pleasant reading. hardly
shocking to today's reader. Once
thought too worldly for popular
consumption, It now seems trifie
other-worldly.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
A 1O-Yeor Survey Of Fiction
Offered in One Handy Volume
STORY: THE FICTION OF THE FORTIES

STORY: THE FICTION OF The FORI1ES
Edited by Whit Burnett and Halle Burnett Dutton; $685.
s.-.ee Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
the this anthology lack dramatic impact II
few of them ranfx moments in such that you'll remember
probably the fault of the editors
Perhaps the uncertainty and ncoherence Of
the times to blame
written the 194os have
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Sermons Of Noted Washington Clergyman
Are Published to Raise Memorial Fund
THE EXILE HEART

THE EXILE HEART
By Peter Marshall Pubshed the Peter Marshall Scottish
Memorial Committee 1911 New York Avenue NV Washington,
D. c.; ST.
woodward BdnE
D. c.
Reviewed by JOHN NJ KAUFFMANN
deep native Scotland rugged Christian faith
of the late Peter Masha sermons and addresses
with warmth and rich color of an old plaid
collection Of 10 of Dr. Marshalls Scottish
published raise funds for church TO
who
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Extraordinary Diury Of q Confederate
Lady Now Fully Revealed in Rare Book
(Houqhton, Mi6ain Co.; $50

Camden, s. c., with his aged par
ents. But the plantation house
in wartime was far from gay, and
tragedy struck not far away. A
cousin was murdered in her bed
by the household slaves. Mrs.
Chesnut had never been afraid
but now she wondered why the
servants should treat her any bet
ter than they had Cousin Betsy
Witherspoon.
She had no illusions about
slavery, either in its moral or
economic aspects. She saw the
drain the slaves were on their
| own "rS.
>.ere was practically no one Of
Importance in the Confederacy she
did not know. The Confederate
capital to her was a city Of the
gayety demanded by the soldiers
on brief leave from the armies.
not the grim city of imitation and
want.
| \
CHARACTERISTICALLY
AMERICAN
BY Ralph Barton Perry. (Alfred
A. Knopt;; 49,
The most impressive part in this
short work by the Harvard phi
losopher is his chapter on Ameri-
can democracy. 1t founders and
lunges ahead, he writes, "but it
suits a people who are neither a
mechanism nor an organism. but
collection of mobile and distinct
individuals.
The early chapters would be
Just another examination Of why
Americans are as they are-and
there have been several such in
quiries recently-were it not that
Prof. Perry brings just bit more
keenness of perception to the
problem. He has an interesting
chapter on William James and
John Dewey and a section on the
Nations religious heritage which
will add fuel to the current Cath
olic controversy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10

the United States Army attempt
ing to make health insurance some
thing of a Jewish plot fomented, OF
course, in Soviet Russia.
The revolt of the decent, rank
and file doctors of America against
the tone and level to which the
battle against health insurance has
sunk is rapidly spreading. Whether
doctors approve of health insur-
ance or not, they are disgusted at
the Dan Gilbert letter, and at the
manner in which the AMA's House
of Delegates voted to assess each
of its members to fight the Pres
ident's Health Program without
warning and without discussion of
the matter with constituent bodies.
A group of prominent physicians
has organized and given notice to
the ANA that its members will not
pay their assessments because Of
to the Associations tao
tics. A letter to this effect was sent
to the ANA, along with notice that
if it was not printed within two
weeks it would be made public.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Witnesses Ready
To Testify On
New Labor Bill

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Labor Committee has set up stiff
schedule for its morning, after
noon, and night hearings on the
new labor bill this week. Here are
the witnesses and the day each is
scheduled right up to the last min
ute the committee has allowed it
self to complete hearings and be
ready to present a finished bill for
debate on the Senate floor:
Monday, Feb. 7, beginning at
$50 am; William H. Davis, former
War Labor Board chief; Glenn
Gardiner, Forstmann Woolen Mills;
Walter Muro, former Cancellation
Service commissioner; Charles G..
Nichols, National Retail Dry Goods
Assn; Frank Hunt, of Manning,
Maxwell & Moore Co.
Tuesday, Feb. s; A. F. Whitney,
president, Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen; Havery Brown, pres
ident, Int'l Association of Machin-
lists; Henning W. Prentis, Arm
strong Cork Co.; Chester Irving,
National Lumber Manufacturers
Assn; George ITCHY, Timber Pro-
ducts Manufacturers Assn; Henry
V. Rabouin, Conway's Express; w.
r. Gossett, Ford Motor Co.; Harry
p. Jeffrey, Floremen's League for
Education; Carl Brown and Her
man w. Booth Jr., Foremen's Assn
of America.
Wednesday, Feb. 8; Ira Mosher,
Natl Association Of Manufactur-
ers; Herman w. Steinkraus, US
Chamber of Commerce; Charles f.
Wilson, General Electric Co.; f..
Lawrence Chandl er, Engineers
Council; George B. Logan, inde-
pendent; Arthur Padula, Fairmount
Construction Co. Of Newark, NJ;
George B. Christensen, independ-
ent; Paul st. Sure, Independent.
Thursday, Feb. 10; William
Green, American Federation of La
Dor; representatives Of the United
Mine kers, the National
Grange, the American Farm Bur-
eau Federation, and the Natl
Council of Farmer Cooperatives;
James l.. Donnelly, Illinois Manu-
facturers Assn; James w. Haley,
National Coal Assn; Joseph f.
Moody, Southern Coal Producers
Assn.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Nearly Third Of All Women Over IA
Found Working For Wages In 1947

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). -
Women workers in 1947, exceeding
the 100000 mark, accounted for
more than 27 percent of all work
ers and almost 80 percent of all
women in the population, Ia years
of age and over, the Women's Bur-
eau of the U. S. Labor Department
reports.
A new handbook on Facts on
Women Workers also discloses that
the place of one-ffth of the coun-
try's married women appears to be
outside the home.
ain sharp contrast to the popu-
larly envisioned picture of the
average family, consisting of
father, mother and children, stands
the fact that in 1916 over 6,500,000
families had a woman head" the
handbook says.
In some rs pages, the handbook
tells how many women are employ
ed; where they are working; the
standards of their employment; the
wages or salaries they make; the
percentage they form of all work
ers; the number who are married,
single, widowed or divorced, and
the economic responsibilities they
carry in relation to family and
other dependents. Discussed also
in detail are labor laws for women
and laws that govern their political
and other status.
Until 1900, women constituted
less than 20 percent of all workers
in the labor force, according to the
report, based on census figures.
Less than 20 percent of women
worked for pay. But in 1947, latest
year reported, women in the labor
force numbered 16,323,000, consti-
tuted 27.6 percent Of all workers,
and 29.8 percent of all women of
working age were drawing a pay
envelope.
Analyzing the economic respon-
sibilities of women workers, the
bureau estimates that "a of every
100 working women do SO to sup
port themselves and others.
A section of the handbook on
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
STILL SHOPPING
FOR AFFILIATION

W shington (LPA) The
question of affiliation with
either AFL or CIO is still be-
fore the board of Communica-
tions Workers of America, the
currently Independent interna-
tional union in the field.
A "fact finding board" which
has discussed with both AFL
and CIO officials the condi-
tions Under which CWA would
be received into either national
federation meets next week
end, and will then present a
report to CWA's board which
opens week-long meeting
Feb. 2.
The 240,0O0 members of
CWA will then vote in refer
endum on recommendations of
the board. A convention action
outlined this procedure, and
also stipulated the AFL, CIO
and r re m a n n & independent
should be on the ballot.