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ing a medieval masque of the
seven deadly sins. She was fasci-
mated. she says, with the figure
representing sloth and she Won
dered what its modern counter
part would be. You can find it
in Dick Siddal. middle-aged hus-
band Of the woman who ran the
hotel. He had been a brilliant
barrlster. but had sunk into iner-
tia. living in the past, secluding
himself much of the time. You
won't have too much trouble iden-
tifying the personification of other
capital sins.
Unmarried by AllegOry
The main characterizations suf-
fer to an extent from the SYM
bolism which inspired the story.
But Miss Kennedy is too skillful
novelist to make her people
mere effigies. The proof is that
even the worst of them stir
certain sympathy. The fact that
in the end their sins betray them,
while others are saved by their
virtues makes the denouement
more allegorical than realistic.
But this does not mean the story
is not absorbing. And 1t is not,
despite the impending tragedy,
filled with gloom. 1t abounds
with subtle touches and amusing
passages. Even the two romances
are not exactly conventional. The
point of view is shifted constantly
without confusion. You can en-
joy the book without worrying
too much over it's implied parable.
American novelists, with their
sprawling 500-pagers- could learn
something from Miss Kennedys
conciseness. She has told highly
complicated story in 308 pages.
The Literary Guild is distributing
THE Feast"
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Animals Speak French, by DR..
Littleworth Davol; $D-Dr. Lit
tleworth. District author, at
tempts in this volume to teach
children the French language by
an unusual method. Cartoons
show animals speaking in French;
children's curiosity as to what the
animals are saying should spur
them on to learn the French
phrases.
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planned at the outset, nothing will
be spoiled for the reader by
touching on it. There has been a
disaster on the Cornwall coast.
The face of a cliff fell into a cove,
obliterating it and with it an old
residence which had been turned
into small resort hotel. A num-
ber of lives were lost and yet some
Of those staying at the hotel sur
vived. The story goes into the life
of each person who was stopping
there in the late summer of the
catastrophe and it explains, in the
end, how some perished and others
managed to escape.
Impending Disaster.
If you assume from this outline
that the story is without suspense,
you are in serious error. You
know, as the characters do not,
that they are facing q tragedy.
but there is no advance hint of
when it will strike or of which
ones will be buried forever under
the side of a mountain, which
ones spared. There is constant
suspense as the days creep on and
vague, disquieting reports of
widening assures in the cliffs
reach certain persons.
In the mechanics of its plot
1.-The Feast" resembles Thornton
Wilder's famous novel, THE
Bridge Of San Luis Rey," which
was not the first story to recon-
struct the events preceding a dis
aster. But In method and writing
Miss Kennedy's novel bears no
similarity to Mr.. Wider's his
torical fantasy of Peru.
THE Feast" is. in it's way, an
allegory. Those who are always
searching out symbolism in novels
will find ample evidence here. In
fact, the author is reported to
have evolved her novel after see
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the Philippines. This was a vic
tory for Gen. Macarthur over
the Navy, which wanted to by
pass the islands and invade For
mosa. In this connection the ad-
miral criticized Army insiStence
on the necessity for invading
Japan proper. "The Army" he
states, did not appear to be able
to understand that the Navy, with
some Army air assistance, already
had defeated Japan"
Yalta generated an "exultation'
among Mr.. Roosevelt and others
of the American delegation that
Admiral Leahy did not share. He
explains: THE essential agree
ment to destroy German mill
tarism accepted at the conference
would make Russia the dominant
power in Europe. That in itself
in my opinion, carried certainty
of future international disagree
ments."
His feeling of skepticism ano
near-despair increased at Pots.
dam, where Soviet intransigence
created an atmosphere of "frus-
tration." 1t is Admiral Leahy's
view that the cold war" really
began at Postdam.
Atomic Warfare.
It was while President Truman
was returning to Washington
from Potsdam that the frs
atomic bomb was used in warfare
on Hiroshima. Admiral Leahy
confeSses that he was skeptica
of the power of the atom unit
reports came in of the devasta.
ton caused by the explosion. Tht
bomb increased his hopes thai
the United Nations might be able
to work out some effective system
Of atomic control. His book con.
cludes, however, on this realistic
and dismal note: '.-
Il am forced to a reluctant con.
clusion that for the security o1
my own country, which has beer
the guiding principle in my ap.
proach to all problems faced dur.
ing my career, there Is but one
course open to us. Until the U. N
or some world organization car
guarantee-and have the power
to enforce that guarantee-that
the world will be spared the ter.
rors of atomic warfare, the United
States must have more and better
bombs than any potential enemy
In the preparation of this vol.
ume Admiral Leahy was assisted
by Charter Heslep, former Wash.
ington neWspaperman.
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chronological account OF mo-
mentous words and deeds, COM
piled from what at times were the
only written notes made at the
time. President Roosevelt asked
the Admiral to attend all Allied
conferences, political as we'll as
military, because he wanted to
have some one in whom I have
full confidence who will remember
everything we have DONE"
Accordingly, Admiral Leahy,
with the title of Chief of Staff to
the Commander in Chief of the
Army and Navy, participated in
the Allied conferences in Wash
ington, Quebec, Cairo, Teheran,
Yalta and Potsdam. Between
times he was presiding over the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. attending
sessions OF the Combined Chiefs,
advising and assisting the Presi-
dent and otherwise helping to
formulate the grand strategy
which was to bring victory. Be-
fore our entry in the war he was
our Ambassador to Vichy, striving
to induce the aged Petain to resist
the collaborationists. After the
war he turned his efforts to resist
ing another kind of collabora-
tion-appeasement of ruthless and
obdurate Russia. He pictures Mr.
Roosevelt as choosing Cancellation
as a means of bringing the Soviets
into the United Nations as a con-
structive partner-a hope that
proved futile.
Admiral Leahy's succinct ap-
praisals of the various inter-Allied
parleys are informative and fire.
quently salty.
Blueprints for Invasion.
Outstanding accomplishment at
Quebec in August, 1943, was the
preparation of the first "blue-
print" for Operation Overload
the Normandy invasion. It was
there, Admiral Leahy writes, that
reports were circulated that Mr..
Churchill had promised command
of Overload to his Chief of Staff
Sir, Alan Brooke. Although the
Admiral comedies that Brooke
would have been a good COM
mander. Mr.. Roosevelt always had
in mind Gen. Marshall for the
big job. He let the British know
this when they later pressed him
for a decision, but F. D. R. re-
fused to be hurried. The author
attributes the delay and the even
tual selection of Gen. Eisenhower
to press criticism of any shift that
would deprive the jos of Gen
Marshall's services.
At Teheran Admiral Leahy saw
the birth of what he calls "a very
useful delaying diplomatic pro-
cedure" - the habit of referring
difficult problems to a council OF
foreign ministers, who usually
failed to solve them, either.
The second Quebec Conference
produced the decision to proceed
against Japan via an invasion OF
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MRS. Mefrlu,
Debby thinks,
is an a n 6 e |
of strength AM
kindness, a n q
she is worried
to see that the
growing c h i J.
dren, on the
other hand, find
their mother a
hard, cunning
and ] e a ! o u S
creature" full
of prohibitions
a n d d o o m.
Dehhy 1ooks m
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Dr.. CorreIs Unpublished Manuscript
Throws New Scientific Light on Lourdes
THE VOYAGE TO LOURDEs

BY Alexis Carrel. fHarper; ST.
When Alexis Carrel. the great
physician and scientist. died, this
un pu b lis h ed manuscript was
found among his effects. 1t de-
scribes a visit to Lourdes which
he made in 1908. His widow de-
cided to publish it.
At the time DR.. Carrel was q
young surgeon on the medical
faculty at the University of Lyons.
Although he had been reared in
the Catholic faith, his religious
ideas. as he explains, ground
down by the analytic process, had
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ny deuTy oCeele COnlIndSeT. I
MIR. Commager's rich sym.
postum of ideas and ideals bears
the subtitle: AN Interpretation OF
American Thought and Character
Since the 1906"
In his own way he has carried
on the task left unfinished by
Vernon Louis Parrington,, who al
his death had brought up to 1886
his classic, Main Currents OF
American Thought" Mr.. Com
mager pays full tribute to Mr..
Parrington and the book that was
"a contribution to philosophy. his
tory and politics a magnifi-
cent tract calling upon Americans
to be true to their past and worthy
of their destiny" But the PAIRING
ton work was only one of many
sources of enlightenment and in
spiration to Mr.. Commager as he
explored the mental attributes of
his countrymen in recent times.
You don't need the formidable
photography in back to suggest
the research that went into this
book. 1t is explicit and implicit
throughout the authors consid-
Grafton of philosophy, literature,
fine arts, religion, journalism,
politics and economics.
Growing Prose.
And yet, for all the erudition
that has gone into it, the book is
not at all hard to read. Mr.. Com
mager has translated the forbid
ding Technology of philosophers
and theologians into working Eng
lish. The whole book is written in
glowing prose rarely in the past
associated with scholarly works
The casual reader should find as
much to enjoy in THE American
Mind" as the student will find to
grapple with.
Mr.. Commager Is particularly
interested In the transitions that
were taking place in America
about 1890. What effect did these
changes from rural to urban liv-
ing, from small trades to industri-
alization have on collective think
ing?
He says, "It Is by no means clear
that this material change precipi-
tated or even embraced a COM
parable change in the intellectual
outlook or in the national charac-
ter" Few who knew conditions
OF life in the large cities would
contend that Americans had come
to terms with their cities as their
grandparents had come to terms
with the countryside: American
civilization was urban, but it was
not yet an urbane civilization. u
Never had Americans had so much
leisure as in the Goth century, "yet
never before had men seemed SC
hurried" He adds that certainly
the American people of 1886
seemed more standardized than
those of 1880"
Our economy had changed from
scarcity to abundance and yet
the new era saw the greatest
and most prolonged depression.
Despite the. emancipation of
women, birth control. labor saving
devices, prosperity and education,
which should have made for a
happier and healthier family life"
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in complete bewilderment when
Mrs. Merrill belabors her young
with a switch. To Debby, chill
dren are just to be loved and
loved and loved" The children
accept Debby as one of them, a
perpetual playmate, firm ally.
Mr.. Steele's smiling contempla-
ton of Debby, couched in extrava-
CANT. teasing Southern phrases,
spills over into broad comedy on
one or two occasions. For the
rest it is a gentle and compassion
ate picture of a 'childlike creature
who becomes the sounding-board
of the joys and pains of a whole
family. Mr.. Steele has made his
debut in an unusual but beguil-
ing fashion. MARY McGRoRY.
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getting clearer all the time"
Visiting America for the frs
time, he came here to read anc
lecture to the Institute of Con-
temporary Arts and was the
house guest of the Francis Bid.
dies. He has been, he says, "the
usual European country cousin
gawping at the noise and size ol
your country"
"I have been haring around-a'
much as it can be said of a fa1
man that he hates-to ali YOU
colleges, giving flippant answer!
to earnest questions from stu
dents, such as What, Mr.. Thomas
is the social role of the poet ir
the atomic age?"
In New York, Mr.. Thomas
(whose first name incidentally, is
pronounced DillonD lodged the
issue of the skyscrapers by look
ing at his feet the entire time he
was there. His impression OF
Washington is that it is not a
city in which there are not many
people living for the sake of living
Mr. Thomas, who cares little
about places and things is learn
ing about America through casua
conversations on trains and ir
bars.
Europe Wants Happiness.
II met very nice young busi.
nessman in New York and we
talked about many things ane
were in complete agreement about
Everything. But I said to hin
that while we might see eye to eye
on all these things, there would
be one thing on which we woulc
absolutely disagree. That is sue
cess. You Americans want success
we Europeans want to be happy
That is the great difference be.
tween u.s."
An erstwhile scenario writer
Mr.. Thomas, now living in Vale.
with his wife and three children
will devote himself to poetry
when he goes back. He is work.
ing on a long narrative poem
which is part of an even Longer
one. having as its theme "the in.
vulnerability of happiness" Never
one of the modern school which
writes graphically of political eco
nomic and social problems, he saie
he has always written of thing
which should interest politicians
economists and sociologists-
birth, death, doom and love-" H,
is an ardent Socialist.
He likes none of the moderns S,
well as Shakespeare. Milton
Wordsworth and Blake. OF tn
new generation. he thinks al
Ulster clergyman by the name o
w. r. Rodgers, a poet of pas
sionate emotionalism and re
strained expression" is the mos
promising.
Mr.. Thomas best known work
are Portrait of the Artist as
Young Dog" and The Map o
Love-" He has written poetr,
since his early youth and has beer
fervently praised by older poet
here and abroad. Conrad Aikel
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Reading and Writing
Welsh Poet Gives His Impressions
Of Washington and America
By Mary McGrory

Dyan Thomas of the unaes OF modern poetry
to last An appecheeked mpdeyed Wehman
turned out to be
rather unexpected
pride his
tho time"
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Admiral Leohy Gives an Eyewitness
Account of His Wartime Observations
I WAS THERE
BY Fleet Admiral William Leahy IWhitteey House, $5J
Reviewed by REX COLLIER.
I WAS THERE

Because Fleet Admiral Leahy there when most of the
porant decisions of the Allied World War being
made this book valuable contribution gradually unfolding
conflict
absorbing "reminiscences of
central figure historic events They authoritative
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Books In Review
Margaret Kennedy's New Novel
Best Since The Constant Nynnph'
THE FEAST
.aret Kennedy. (Rinehart; s3J
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Miss Kennedys novel both dramatic and There
more than nge OF originality the she has developed
theme which, like most themes is without literary
No doubt the publisher right this her Best
that favorite of the '20s, "the Constant Nymph."
Since the situation around which The Feast built
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has called him "a Word-spout, full
of mad nonsense and humors. "
Mr.. Thomas calls himself IAN
eaSy-going chap"
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Chez and His Pony, by Florence
Hayes (Houghton Mifflin; $3.50
Chez, small Indian boy, and his
pony find adventures in the Far
West. Written for boys from 9
to IL.
South Pole Husky, by Charles S.
Strong Uongmans, Greens; $2.75)
This is the story of the adven-
lures of boy and his dog when
they join dangerous expedition
where only courage and determi-
nation count.
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with County Prosecutor Matthias
Heck. Mrs. Lesher is charged with
the fatal shooting of her husband,
Harry, S., of the same address.
The shooting followed an argu-
ment over another woman. She
told the police she came to Day
ton from Michigan four years ago,
but her home was in Danville, Ky.
She said she bought the gun from
a pawn shop on Sept. 3.
A fusillade of pistol shots sent
residents of 282 Dunbar ave-,
scurrying for cover last night at
$40 pm. as Harvey Watkins, 55,
of 280 Dunbar ave., and Moran
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ed shots. Terry was on the losing
end of the gunbattle. According
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his wife, Ann, who ran next door
to Watkins residence, and Wat
kins fired two shots at Terry
through the door Terry then
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gun, returned and fired through
the windows of Watkins home.
Terry was apprehended at 26
Pease street an hour later. He was
admitted to the ST. Elizabth hospi-
tai with a bullet wound in his right
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