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WILLIAM WlNN-p Phone 23l
oFs BOB DRrxMAN 123 I front = Fhore 891

las0 Packard Sedan. good fishing car, S250. 1887 Chevrolet Coupe, completely
 overhaulsd, new clutch, new tires. $4O0. 1884 FORD Coupe, S150 lo48 Jeep, $500, terms. GENERATORS, kw, 5 kw. 10 kw. BUILDING LOTS, West Juneau, $500 each; $500 witk -. ogs for
 house.
 QUONSET HUT, must be moved,
 16x32, ? extra bulkheads, center
 supports buckled Only $50 to
 first buyer. f CABIN ON RAFT, cabin 1Ox19, three rooms, shingled outside. ply
 wood inside, $1050. 4 GURDIES complete with wire
 and transmission, $175. MARINE TOILET, $50. SPECIAL-24 it. troller ready to
 go only $750. RAISED deck cruiser, Navy hull,
 35x9x41a, 100 hp Buda conv. s315O
 See blueprints of hull and picture
 of boat at our office. 3ox10x4 Troller, Chrysler Ace 90,
 ready to go. $2.890. sl,7Oo VIII
 handle.
 36x9x41s troller. chrys. -sar Conv.
 S3,800.
 26-FT. Gillnetter, 8 hp Universal.
 engine completely overhauled,
 complete with net. $1,25O. 32-FT. Gillnetter, Scripps Fo-HF,
 with fresh water cooling system.
 New 65-gal gas tank $500. 22-FT. Troller - $550. 2E-FT. Troller, Chrysler conv. s85O sTEELCRAF1, 2o r.. new S3.z00. CABIN Cruiser, i6 it., 25-hp Uni
 versal. 5.5 beam, recently rebuilt, $500.
 LIP freezing unit. gasoline driven, 5 eisht-foot copper shelves, l2xl2. For troller. $330. SWAN LEE, 27x81ax3, 52 hp 4 cyl Gray Built '46. lowed from Se- attle, used five times on fishing trips. original Gil still in. Sleeps four. $4,000 3-Bedroom House. modern. good view, $68O0. $7o0 down, $70 or less monthly takes 2-bed house, 1st St, total S4250. $5.000 Aux Bay, five acres. some beach. Old 2-story house. $500 cash takes beach property near Douglas. Seawall, 2 bedroom house, good water, oil, electricity. 200 it. beach frontage. 40 it. highway frontage. Sl, 500 down, balance of $4,O0O in two years, takes bright, new l. bedroom house, garage, barn, pos- sible rights to 160 acres with 1a- mile beach and West Juneau Rd. s10,000 down, $100 monthly for large apartment house, downtown Ju- neau. 2-Bedroom House. 3 acres patented land, Fritz Cove. $3,8OO. BUILDING LOTS. for $1,O00, Er- win St.; 2 at $850 each Scatter Tract; 2 at Small Boat Harbor $4,600 and $4,2OO. 4-Bedroom House, 100x10O lot, in Douglas. $6500. bedroom house C,old Creek at A St., furnished full concrete basement with space for second bedroom, yard, large strawberry patch. Away rom all traffic. $550O. DOUGLAS-3-bedroom house, furn- ished, cellar workshop, new two- car garage, lot 50x200, garden, $6,300.
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FREIGETrR FROM SEATTLE

The freighter Robert Eugene locked at the Alaska Transporta- ton Co. dock this morning from seattle with general cargo. Fred Dahl, skipper, said that the lreighter will leave this afternoon with a load of frozen fish for Prince Rupert. From there, the
 nip will go empty to Seattle. The nip took four days from Seattle, and the next time in the Juneau rort for the freighter is in about three weeks.
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Price Break
 Hits(iqars

NEW YORK, March 15-IR-The first price break in the cigar in- dustry in seven years, occurred to- day.
 Consolidated Cigar Corp. announc- ed that effective immediately two Of its 10-cent brands, Harvester and La Palma, would retail at nine cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-15
DISTRICT WELFARE WORKER
 ON FIELD TRIP TO SKAGWAY

Juneau District Welfare Work CT Sadie Bills will go to Skagway during the week for a several-day field trip. Plans to leave and re- turn depends on flying conditions in the canal, according to the well fare worker.
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March 17th - St. patrick's Day
 BAKED BEAN DINNER Trinity Parish Hall, 4th and Gold Served by Trinity Women's Guild
 6 D. m. to ' D. m. 43 2t Adults $100, Children soc
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PEER WOOD
s A L E $ A G E N [ y
 Real Estate Boats Sale Merchandise 12th at Ha-bOr - Phone SaJ

CALL FOR BIDS The Territorial Highway Patrol hereby calls for bids for the follow ing:
 Two @ Ford Four door Sedans,
 equipped with radio, heat
 CT, seat covers and two ex-
 tra mounted wheels, for delivery at Anchorage, AL
 aska, not later than July
 1, 1949;
 One CD Ford F ton Panel Truck,
 same equipment as listed
 above. for delivery not lat
 CT than July l, l949 at
 Ketchikan, Alaska. Bids must be delivered in writing to. the office of the Territorial High way Engineer, Post Office Box 2O73, Juneau, Alaska. on or before the 1st day of April, 1949 and will be opened at two o'clock P. M. on the following day.
 FRANK A. METCALF,
 Territorial Highway Engineer, Chief, Alaska Highway Patrol. First publication, March IS, 1949. Last publication, March 29, 1o49.
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WANT ADS
WANTED

fisherman wants B to 65 it. boat for salmon troll
 ing or tuna. Box 1165, Douglas, or phone Douglas 443. 43 St
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DISABLED Vet. urgently needs work of any kind. Black 359.
 Knows city well. Al St
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MISCELLANEOUS

HOPES New ana rsed Mdse. WI buy. sell and exchange. 214 2nf St. Phone 903. 999 1
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37 Ford 2-door; Al Dodge F ton
 panel. R. w. Cowiing Co. 38 tt
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SEE the new Spring and Summer fashions. I have a good line, with more styles coming in often. ready
 to show you. Those new" new ones that you will want to see. Red 120. 31 tf
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1888 GMC 3-yd. Gump truck, good condition, new rubber. Alaska Cab after D. m 34 If
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ELECTRIC Mangle for sale. Phone Red 765. 32 If
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BALDWIN Baby Grand upright
 piano, $350. R. A. Treffers. 335 I2th St., between 6-8 pm. Phone
 Blue 462. 33 If
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GROOM funy furnished house, full com .ete tasement $6,000 Terms
 Ph. Greer s99. 83 tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
New Encyclopedia
Designed for Use
In StreumIined Age

The New Funk 81 Wagnalls
Encyclopedia, a streamlined 50.
volume work for this high-speed
age, has just made its appearance.
Shorn of all abstruse material. it
is designed to fit into the average
bookshelf.
departure from the hefty. pom
derous sets of yesteryear, the new
encyclopedia is not only lighter IN
weight, but lighter in content. Its
editor in chief. Joseph Laf1an
Morse, was guided by the feeling
that many of the standard en-
cyclopedias were "too wordy and
too dull" With that in mind. he
limited himself to an overall total
of 8,500O00 words for the entire
SO volumes. That sounds like a
fairly lavish allowance until you
realize that the old encyclopedias
went to $4,000, 900 words.
A tremendous number OF
Government bureaus in Washing
ton co-operated in the venture.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, OF
Utah, Commissioner Of Reclama-
ton Michael w. Straus, Lewis B.
Hershey, director of Selective
Service, are Just a few Of the many
capitalites who aided in back
stopping errors in the encyclo-
pedia.
Designed for a mass market.
with articles that are notably
brief, factual and readable, the
encyclopedia is an almost COM
plete revision of "the New Stand
ard Encyclopedia. 1t is published
by the Unicorn Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

terms sadly misused today and
examines their true meaning. The
failure of the right he finds exem-
plifled in the lack of intelligent
political leadership in the business
community. The failure OF the
left is equally abject. He SCOTS
at the "doughfaces," those political
sentimentalists, democratic men
with totalitarian principles" who
keep their progreSsivism alive lin
the face of all the lessons Of mod
ern history" Their main trouble
he thinks is that they are fright
ened of the responsibility of de-
cision.
An ardent New Dealer, Mr..
Schlesinger has considerable faith
in political leaders, who, have had
in their heart searching doubt
about human perfectibility" which
he feels is the "gusto of democ-
racy." While he admits the con-
certed communist attempt to infll-
trate the Government in the '30S,
he scores the House Committee on
Un-American Activities for its
"promiscuous and unprincipled
attack on radicals" He fol-
lows a chilling and detailed &C
count of the monolithic society OF
Moscow with study of the Com
munist Party in America, an over
eager group who. with their comic
contortions to fit the party line,
have served to menace the left
rather than the status quo. He
suggests measures for strengthen
ing democracy at home and its
successful expectation.
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Adults VS.. Children
In the Struggle
OfGood VS.. Evil
THE DESPERATE CHILDREN
BY David Cornell De Jong. (Dou.
bleday & Co., Inc; 49,
Reviewed by
SAM EASTMAN.
SAM EASTMAN.

For almost the first time in his
prolific literary career, David Cor
mel De Jong has focused his tai
ents upon a theme other than one
dealing with his Dutch back
ground. Although 1.-THE Desperate
Children" is laid in a small New
England town, an area stepped in
local color, the authors minimiz-
ing of the background element
marks a complete departure from
regional writing.
In addition to producing a
gamut of excellent character
sketches, the essence Of this novel
Is the effects of the complexities
Of adult relationship upon two
oversensitive adolescents and of
the end-results which richochet
among the inhabitants of a small
community from the struggle be-
tween good and evil.
Mr.. De Jong's excellent style
and his adroit maneuvering of
characters in difficult situations
have produced here a tight and be-
lievable tale of the events which
occur in the lives of a handful Of
people during one-year interval.
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A. M. schlesinser, jr. one of faith
and time; faith in the value Of
our own freedoms. and time to
do the necessary things to save
them. To achieve the fullness
of faith, we must renew the
traditional sources of American
radicalism and seek out ways to
maintain our belief at a high
pitch of vibration. To achieve a
sufficiency of time, we must ward
off the totalitarian threat to free
society-and to do so without
permitting ourselves to become the
slaves of Stalinism as any man
may become the slave of things he
hates" M. MEG.
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most famous-some say Infamous
Mayor. Abroad they are con-
stantly put on the defensive by
good government advocates who
charge them with the absurdity
of perenially returning such a
man to Office. At home his sue
cess seems more logical to them.
Even those who deplore his
Vaccinations and his reputation
are forced to smile at his
leprechaun-l like wit. James Mi
chael can take on any one from
an erring City Council member
to George Bernard Shaw and
demolish him with a verbal lance.
His voice, which rings with the
accents of Groton rather than
Roxbury Crossing. is pure velvet.
His severest critics concede his
absolute mastery of municipal af-
fairs. The poor regard him as
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MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME
BY Elliot Paul. (Random House,
Inc.; $3.75.)
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

ROBERT K. WALSH.
Producing book Of personal
"reminiscences can be so much
harder than it looks that the pub
lie might wonder why so many
professional writer's, not to men
ton all the others, persist in
stringing out photographed
lines.
Mr.. Paul, who has a full and
vibrant list of volumes to his
credit, believes he has had a life
sufficient for several books. He
presents this installment so en-
gagingly and entertainingly that
readers will wonder. not why he
did it, but how.
Such indefinite detail would
seem to spring only from a mas
sive memory, minute diary, a
boundless imagination, or an in
finite capacity for taking pains to
dramatic the commonplace.
my Old Kentucky Home" deals
with the old folks at home only to
the extent of Mr.. PauPs compare
lively short sojourn in Louisville
when he and the 10th century
were very young. 1t recalls, in
particular, with youthful enthu-
siasm, warm sympathy and the
wisdom that supposedly comes
with age, the human comedy and
fascinating characters in a board
ing house.
AS more than one critic has OBJ
served and more than one author
has learned, experience, no matter
how interesting, does not auto
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good cook: two nice daughters,
one a teen-ager, the other an en-
gaging 6-year-old, and an uncle
who is writing a play. But on
closer acquaintance, they appear
more like one of those impeccable
radio family groups who have sud-
denly gone berserk. Father has a
rowing eye. Mother is a monster
of vindictiveness who stalks him,
dragging her younger daughter
around for corroborative wit
ness. Teen-age daughter tries
vainly to protect her little sister.
Uncle is a furtive. impotent lover
of Schopenhauer. Follows a
sickening, almost monotonous,
series of hair-raising scenes dur
ing which mother confronts father
with his inf1delities and he prom
ises to reform while the two chill
dren quake with horror.
Miss MacFarlane observes the
physical characteristics of her
characters with a sharp eye. She
even details the curve of their
eyelids. But herein lies the weak
ness of her story. She is too close
to them; too close to their stu
alton to achieve any kind of per-
spective or meaning from their
hysterical goings-on. Surround
ing them are a clutch of neu-
rotics. One of them says wistfully,
Which person on the block will
the little white wagon come for
first?" The answer is that it
should have come perhaps before
the story was ever begun. "A
Family Matter" should have been
left as that.
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Edward Mcsorley. is sadly missed
in this disappointing sequel which
follows the fortunes of young Will
lie as he attempts to free himself
from the tentacles of the Clan
McDermott of Providence.
Mr.. McSorley still knows down
to the last sigh about Irish wakes,
to the last cheer about the fren-
zied acclaim the Irish Of the '20s
awarded to visiting heroes of the
Easter Rising. He understands
completely the narrow, meager
lives of the women bounded by
kitchen and church, of the ap-
palling sacrifices self-righteously
accepted from dutiful sons by pos
sessive mothers. But somehow
Willie's groupings in this sitting
atmosphere, his discovery Of sex
and love, his experiences on a
politics-ridden newspaper where
he fights for his principals and
loses his job, have a kind of
raw and unassimilated quality, as
if memory had guided the au-
thor's pen more than magma
ton. And Willie's further mis-
adventures as a tramp seaman
and his meetings with various
sordid and garrulous characters
until he returns to the "au-
tumnal beauty forsaken by his
Uncle Chris when family claims
pressed too hard, are not we'll
knit. Interspersed are narrowing
accounts of Willie's cousins, a
pair of bootleggers who ARE good
to their mother" It is all a vivid,
unquestionably authentic MANU-
triton in a disturbed era, but
there is no one character strong
enough to hold it together, and
the final effect of the story is as
aimless as Willie's wanderings.
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Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT.

Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT.
Here is warm and Sympa-
thetic portrayal of all the con-
fused apathy, loyalty and fierce
determination of the Confederate
men and women who watched the
Confederacy dying an agonizing
death in the eight April days be-
fore Appomattox. Here is an
appealingly human character
study of the tagging South.
Scott Hart has accomplished
this excellent portrayal in 1876
pages with a mere handful OF
characters. He has written
briefly without being terse. He
has written compassionately but
without bias.
Old Pine, so called because OF
her stalwart bravery. is a woman
peddler who follows the army even
to its last defeat. and only then
gives up hope of victory. Her faith
goes far beyond that Of most OF
the broken, exhausted soldiers
who were dropping out along the
line of march to Appomattox in a
despair so complete that they
hadn't the will to move. Mr..
Baker, Old Pines friend and a
once-brave soldier, draws from
her his strength to make one last
boast of courage in order to gain
her admiration. There is Piggy
Biggs,s whose only dedication is
to weakness and self interest.
Capt. Crosland. loyal still to his
leaders but wretchedly tired, can't
remember just what all the fight
ing is about, although he knew
and believed in it when it started.
The only thing making any sense
to him now is his wife, to whom
he longs to return. Meanwhile,
his wife, left behind to cope with
a burden too heavy for her will,
is proving something less than his
faith deserves.
Each of these people stand out
as a part of the overall sketch of
a proud people in the heart
breaking finish of what they had
believed so firmly was q noble
cause.
Although Mr.. Hart, a Washing
ton journalist, Is considered
an expert on the Civil War, he has
not concerned himself here with
the strategy Of the army as is the
case with most Civil War novels.
His only purpose is to portray the
outstanding character factors
which made the South what it was
at the close of the war. He has
done this with def touch. It is
a beautiful piece Of writing.
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our ken, has any one used this
almost universal collegiate prac-
tice as the framework for a story
about the athlete himself-the
human side of it; how he lives
and reacts in an athletic neither
world where he is actually neither
amateur nor professional. The
author has attempted it here. and
while his hero is credible we feel
constrained to say that he is far
from typical.
Steve, the son Of a Polish fac
tory worker. was a high school
star and when the colleges were
bidding for him he chose a COM
paratively small but reputable
Southern school. He wanted to
become an engineer. To Steve the
proposition was simple: He played
football; the college gave him an
education. Since he liked to play
football he thought he was, If
getting the better Of the
bargain. But he didn't know -.
A Well Muscled Chattel.
AS a performer he more than
lived UP to his high school notices;
he became an idol of the multi
tudes. Before long, however, he
discovered that he was merely a
vell-muscled chattel, the proper
ty of his sponsor" who was pay
ing for everything.
Meanwhile, Steve, q sensitive
type. and at first an unwary, shy
boy. was learning fast.
Too, he fell in love with Mells-
"a. his sponsors niece. The story
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Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg
The d. A. Breaks an Egg, by Erl,
SfonIov Gardner. lWi11ia n

Inc ID. "A. breaks an Egg, Dy Eric
Stanley Gardner; William
Morrow & Co.: $3.50.
Once again our resourceful
D. A. Doug Selby jousts with that
shrewd shyster, A. B. Carr-Gard-
ner's perennial villain. This time,
Selby has to figure some method
of linking a local stabbing, a hit
and-run case and some shenani-
gans in a Montana gambling den.
Is it pure coincidence that old
A. B. c. seems to be involved in
all three cases-only as an at
torney, of course? Threatened
with political oblivion if he makes
q misstep, Selby sees it through.
The Second Confession, by Rex
Stout. Viking Press; $2.50.)
Nero Wolfe takes the Com
munist Party for a ride this time.
How he manages to force some
party bigwigs to squeal on one
of their comrades is the high
point of a fable that also features
some plain and fancy deduction
and the return of the one man
Wolfe fearS-an evil one who
presumably is responsible for
tommy guns blasting the obese
detectives orchid greenery. Cop
ing brusquely with both capitalists
and Communists, Wolfe and the
ubiquitous Archie are in top form.
X \ 4
Hang by Your Neck, by Henry
Kane. (Simmon g. Schuster; ST.
Inner S1nctum
Johnny the Mick just wanted
Peter Chambers to fetch a suit
case for him-he said. Peter was
inclined to be suspicious when
Johnny forked over a fat fee for
the chore but he never expected
to find a dead blond in JohnnyS
apartment. What followed wasn't
at all like Johnny, but Chambers
had a hard time proving it to
police willing to write off the
whole thing wit ha couple OF con-
venient suicides.
X 4 4
The Man Who Held Five, by Jean
Leslie. doubleday g. Co., Inc;
S2.25.)
Lonnie had everything-wealth,
friends, a beautiful wife, a sue
cessful gambling club. He also
had a hole in his neck. Lonnie's
friend Curly didn't have much
but a smoking gun in his hand.
Seems to us the police had enough
evidence to put Curly away and
no questions asked. But some
questions were asked, and thereby
hangs another tale of the MUIR
derer confessing almost all in
chapter one. This ones better
than some of that genre.
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r O b in Hood.
their friend and
protector, a n d
not with o u t
reason. In al
most so years
of public office
he has never
turned t h e m
from his door.
Right now, at
"a. Curley is
wading In to
his eighth cam
p align for
Mayor. AS usual
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Spiritual MuInutrition
In q Disturbed Era

THE YOUNG McDERMOTT
BY Edward McSorley. (Harper
G. Bros: 49,
In his first novel, "Our Own
Kind" Edward McSorley wrote
one >of the most heart-warming
chapters in Irish-American an
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IDAMION'S DAUGHTER
BY Edwin Gilbert. doubleday;


49,
Edwin Gilbert took apart the
seamy side of Hollywood a few
years ago in a bitter story called
1.-THE Squirrel Cage" Broadway
is his best for 'Damion's Daugh-
ter" and in this he unearths a
repulsively evil character in the
person of Ira Damon. producer
of tawdry but financially success
full plays. The other characters
are sketchy and the plot is trivial.
but it's an angry, accurate picture
of Damion as a Broadway type.
The New York theater background
is authentic enough, and alto
gether it's a better book than his
first. IT. C.
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nalS. 1tS glow
emanated from
t h e character
of Ned McDer-
mott, a magni-
fcent, illiterate
old sage, who
f i | | e d h i S
grandson Willie
with his pride
in Ireland and
his hopes of
America. The
old man died at
the end of the
story, and he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

Clear. well-balanced and aware,
THE Vital Center" restores the
ground under the feet of liberals
sorely beset by advocates of the
"either or" school of thought. Mr..
Schlesigner has performed a vital
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Ofnce with q
t o r thrightneSs
and vigor that
make his book
one of the
years most re-
freShing vol -
umeS. His con-
clusion should
provide a credo
for fighting lib
erals.
"Our problem
Is not resources
or leadership.
It is primarily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
ARTHUR SchIesinger Redefines
RudicuIism in America
THE VITAL CENTER
Co.. 49,


BY Arthur NJ Schlesinger, jr Houghon bf61in Co.; So
provocative by young
1.-The of Jackson provides muchneedd clearing
Schlesinger redefnes function
radical whose tradition back the jackson but whose
vitality Slapped by the fear and of
of 1.-The anxious man."
Carefully with reference humo and to history he dusts off
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The Little White Wagon
Should Have Come Sooner

A FAMILY MATTER
BY Janet MacFarlane. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; 49,
On the surface the Irelands
seem normal enough: A hand
some father engaged In a new
business scheme; a cookbook
ing mother. who u also o.