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Logerkvist Writes
Appealing Novel
BARABBAS

BARABBAS
BY Par Lagerkvist. Translated
by Alan Blair. (RandoD1
House; s3.J
Mr.. Lagerkvist is Sweden's
most intellectual novelist. re-
spected in critical circles
throughout Europe for his bril-
liant innovations if not well
known among the readers OF
popular novels. "Barabbas"
should give him a large number
of new readers in America. for
there is nothing esoteric or
metaphysical about. this brief
novel, nor Is the writing expert
mental. On the contrary. the
story is told with the utmost
economy and clarity and with
an appealing simplicity.
Barabbas, the robber who was
released that Jesus of Nazareth
might be crucified, has inspired
a number of imaginative writers.
A figure merely mentioned in
the scriptural record. he has
been a challenge to the fancy.
In Mr.. Lagerkvist's conception.
Barabbas crept to Golgotha and
witnessed the death Of Christ,
saw the earth darkened porten-
tously and three days later
saw the stone gone from the
Saviour's tomb. Though Barab-
bas never was the same, he did
not at once abandon his life of
pillage. nor did he believe. He
wanted to believe, but he could
only wonder and try to form a
rational explanation Of all that
had happened. Later he was
sent into Roman slavery and,
as an old man he, too, was cru
CITED for taking part in a sup
posed Christian uprising in
Rome, though he had never be-
come a Christian.
1t is a poetic and pathetic
story Of a man bewildered the
rest Of his days. There is more
than a hint that he finally
found peace and faith when he
said on his cross: ITO these
deliver up my soul"
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
THE WAY OF THE FREE
BY Stefan Osusky. fDutton;
$3.75J
An analysis of America S
assets and liabilities, theological
and spiritual, in the East-West
struggle for the mind of man
kind, written from the detached
viewpoint of a Czech statesman
and diplomat who is equally
familiar with the historical
forces at work in Russia today.
DR.. Osusky, as his title sug-
gests, sees in the American
stress on the individual and his
rights the best hope for the
future of Europe and the rest
of the world
BELMONT FAIRIES.
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Crime and Mystery
Reviewed by Miriam Gutenberg

B0b ShsS"S
Carry My Coffin Slowly, by Lee
Harrington. (Simon 81 Schus-
ter; $2.50)
Inner Sdnctunl
Barney Moffatt. the county
attorneys chief investigator.
had latched onto a tough one.
Here was a man ready to con-
fess to an unreported safe
cracking, a man asking only a
few hours to straighten up his
affairs before spilling an-and
getting Barney's consent to the
delay. So why should this
character pull a gun on Barney
when next they met? Perhaps
too many condolences are in
volved in setting up the solu-
ton but it's punchy stuff with
plenty of blood-letting and an
ironic finale.
Fowl Play. by Theodore Du Bois.
doubleday & Co.: $2.500 =
Crime Club
It looked like a natural death.
Old Mrs. Stanton ran upstairs
with weak heart. But to the
McNeills, Jeffrey and Anne,
there were still unanswered
questions. Why. for instance.
did Mrs. Stanton run? And
why did she bequeath her entire
estate to a mynah bird, ignoring
the weird assortment Of Stanton
cousins? Clues are scattered
literally and the guilty party
is hardly the least likely sus-
pect. but the plot spins along
nicely with the McNeill sons
cast in starring roles.
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Lily White by Nature, Lise Is New
Kind Of Heroine for Morgery Shorp
rp. little, Bro1Dn G. Co.; $3.)
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

Lillywhite by name and Silly
white by nature is sfMiss Shafp's
newest heroine. thus differing
in one important respect from
some Of her most celebrated
predecessors. Even II Lise were
inclined, like the others, to give
a generous handicap in the
battle OF the sexes, she could
hardly do SO. being chaperoned
by one Of the fiercest duennas
in fiction. the formidable Tante,
Amelie. s
Tante Amelie is actually much
more Miss Sharp's type. She is
an operator. a dowdy, tart
Frenchwoman whose line is
matchmaking, an enterprise at
which she Is upscruplilous, tire
less and utterly tasteless. Quite
naturally, her choice of a hus-
band for the exquisite Lise--
brought back to London by her
English grandfather-falls upon
one of her own kind. another
promoter. Count Stanislaus
Dombrowski, a Polish i1obieman
with the instincts of a Damon
Runyon gangster. runs a lavish
black-market operation and is
one of Miss Sharp's most felici-
tous creations. Lise, the per-
fectly bred jeune file, accepts
his invitations to the ballet
with Tante Amelie, naturally,
bringing up the rear but shows
unexpected spirit when con-
fronted with his proposal of
marriage.
BY the simple expedient of
keeping Lise under wraps for
three-quarters of the course,
Miss Sharp Is able to produce
towards the end several of those
surprise chapter endings which
have always made her novels
more fun than a box of cracker
jacks. Lise. to her cousin Martin
from whose viewpoint the
search for a suitor is recounted
seems like a passenger on "a
small raft crowded with heauti-
full objects riding to the airs of
Handel and Bach upon a great
and threatening sea-" Insulated
as she is. Lise gets a whiff of
the world blocked of by Tante
Amelie.
Martin. a 34-year-old Foreign
Office conner, can visualize love-
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Murder by the Book, by Rex
Stout: Viking Press. $2.50D.
An unpublished manuscript
links the murder of a law office
clerk with the hit-run killing
of azpublisher's reader. There's
a third murder minutes before
Nero Wolfe's Archie Goodwin
reaches the scene. That calls
for desperate measures and
Archie takes on a mass wooing
job. using Wolfe's orchids for
bait. It's an almost clueless
case, but Wolfe manages to
upset enough people to prod
the murderer into his one mis-
take. The old master is up to
standard in this astute blend
Of wit and violence.
The Man Who Died Twice, by
George Harmon Coke; (Alfred
a. Knopf, $3.50.
It took practically no time
for the pseudo Jim McQuade
to be spotted as an impostor
but before he could confess Off
cially, his wealthy uncle had
been asphyxiated. his would-be
blackmailer had been shot and
his supposed cousin had been
kidnapped. The impostor claims
his motives are impeccable, but
will the police believe that?
Coke, whose semi-annual pro-
ductions are usually slick. is
somewhat better than usual in
this Barbados yarn.
The Golden Goose, by Floyd
Mahannah. (Duell, Sloan g.
Pearce; $2.50)
Bloodhound
Mrs. Dansler said she hadn't
killed her husband. but Riley
Wadell didn't believe her. Never
theless. he agreed to hide her
for two weeks-not because she
was beautiful but because she
offered him $4,000. She got
her two weeks and Riley got
trouble. With his $4,000 he
couldn't buy an anticipated new
life, but only an uneasy con-
science that drove him back to
the city Of the murder and won
him a fast reputation as one
man crime wave. There's enough
action in this one for several
thrillers, plus a neatly plotted
puzzle.
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Books in Review
James ForreIEs Novel of Domestic
Tragedy Has Tremendous Impact
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
THIS MAN AND THIS WOMAN
BY James T. Farrell. 4Vanguard, $2.75D

Here, in 205 quiet pages,
more forceful for their SIM
plicity. Mr.. Farrell has de-
scribed a domestic tragedy too
plausible for comfort. too fire.
quent of its kind to be read
complacently.
He writes of a couple on the
downward side of middle age,
married all these years, their
children married and parents
themselves. These two, ap-
preaching their last years.
their lives entwined with the
intimacy of those who have
few interests outside their
home. find themselves suddenly
strangers, their mutual under
standing cut off, their Sympa-
thy frozen. 1t is perhaps over
simplifying to say that a nag
ging woman finally cracked,
that her well-meaning husband
no longer could communicate
with her. That happened, but
it was more a cumulative fail
ure over the .years. a lack of
some essential molding of their
lives which would have made
them devoted and content in
their old age.
In this short novel Mr.. Far
rell has gone back to the Chi
cago Irish characters he wrote
about so discerningly. in his
earlier novels and short stories.
Walt Callahan was one of the
men at the Continental Ex-
press Co.. the Chicago de-
livery system which gave us
Gashouse McGinty. Patsy Nc
Laughlin. Jim O'Neill, little
Willie Collins and the rest.
Now Walt was So, his wife,
Peg. 10 years younger, still
handsome, but often looking
haggard and letting her ap-
pearance go. Walt had a good
job. For many years he had
been q teamster and then a
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An Eosy-to-Toke
Daily Almanac
HOW TO GET FROM

INV i ~ SGi + NUN
JANUARY TO DECEMBER
BY Will Cuppy. Edited by Fred
Feldkamp. Drawings by John
Ruge. fHenry Holt & Co.; s3.)
Mr.. Cuppy's calendar is a good
natured daily guide to out-of-the-
way facts and eaSy-to-face prob
lens. Something of the quality
of his almanac is reflected in this
musing about James Watt (Janu-
ary 19). Thanks largely to James
Watt and inventors like him, our
transportation has improved so
wonderfully that you can hardly
go across the street without get
ting run over, and lots Of people
think that's just fine"
The author, whose reputation
as one of the better humorists of
this generation continues to grow,
is generous with advice to myth
ical reader wanting information
on Macgillivray warblers and how
to get husband to stop reading
the paper at breakfast. A most
easy -to-take volume.
MARY McGRoRY.
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truck driver. He had become a
dispatcher, and he got an
adequate salary, so that the
Galatians were able to main
tain their home and were inde-
pendent of their son and daugh-
ter, both married. Walt was a
decent man who worked hard,
had a pleasant disposition land
always had tried his best to be
a good husband and father. He
could not understand.
Peg had always been inclined
to nag, but these days she
seemed to get constantly worse.
Nothing he did pleased her.
And yet, to his utter confusion,
she would go out of her way to
be nice to him at times. bring
ing him beer. cooking him an
extra nice meal, and then maybe
the next moment turning on
him for no reason at all and
abusing him numerically. Walt
took refuge in looking back on
their early years. when she was
a lovely girl and they were
happy. But he dreaded to go
home from work-he never
knew how he'd find her. 1t
never occurred to him that she
was losing a conflict of years
and her mind was clouding
over.
Then came the terrible day
he returned from the Office to
find her staring at him with a
fixed, unrecognizing expression.
Mr.. Farrell has told a story
as simple and unpretentious as
the two persons involved and
yet as complex as the mind can
be. He has told it with warm
understanding and still with
out intrusive philosophizing. He
has simply let the situation
unfold itself. Even his detrac-
tors should be moved by Walt
Callahan's plight.
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ly Lise "civilising some bear of
IA Grand Duke, and through him
w province the size of England
But Martin. alas. though touch
ed. is not the marrying kind.
And as things turn out, the
] submissive little hothouse flower
has wandering eye and a
. mind of her own in regard to
these important matters.
& Lesssoutrageous than Sharp
novel can be. "Lise Lillywhite"
has the same. high degrees Of
reliability. the same sly wide
eyed needing Of pretense and
maneuver. Except for a slow
stretch at a county seat peopled
by normal relatives miss Sharp
Is not at her best with ordinary
folks) it huns along merrily,
with those two scoundrels Tante
Amelie and Count Stanislaus
giving the necessary ginger.
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Illustration from Zachary Taylor

other demands, the President
said he himself would lead Fed
eral forces against any Texans
who dared attack the United
States flag. He was a strong
Unionist. His policies were hav-
ing their effect in a South
which in 1850 was not so united
as it was 10 years later, and
there is more than a possibility
that If he had lived the Civil
War might have been averted.
Deploring the neglect and
low-rating Of Taylor by many
historians, Mr.. Hamilton points
out that "the fact that Taylor
was a powerful influence in so
is historic truth" The bi-
ographer adds: For Old Zack
profoundly affected the march
of events during his lifetime.
And his death resulted in as
wholesale a Transformation of
policy and the Nations political
temper as ever occurred in SINH
lar circumstances"
Mr.. Hamilton calls Taylor "a
strong executive in the Jack
sonian sense" His successor.
Millard Fillmore. upset all Tay-
lor's plans for cementing the
union. and Taylor's congress
sional foes took over.
This is the second volume in
Mr.. Hamilton's biography. The
first was Zachary Taylor, Sol
dier of the Republic" The two
volumes make a remarkable
biography based on colossal re-
search. It is an important con-
tribution to American history.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
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What History Might Have Had in Store
For Us if Lincoln Had Not Been Slain
THE LOST YEARS

A44G AS04 c(13l0
BY Oscar Lewis. (Knopt;: s2.5t
Suppose Lincoln had sur
vived the assassin's bullet and
served out his second term?
Would the history of the post
war years have been different,
as historians often have sur
missed?
Mr.. Lewis has written an
agreeable biographical fantasy
around the supposition that the
President recovered from the
wound inflicted at Ford's Thea
tire. To weave his story he has
used the familiar device of piec-
ing together excerpts from doc
uments, the diary of a fictitious
White House aide, some news
papers accounts of the period
and other imaginary sources.
The substance of the story is
that Lincoln was unable to car
ry out his policy of conciliation
and forgiveness toward. the
South, that the radicals in Con-
gress got in the saddle and did
what they actually did. over his
protest and veto-oppressed the
defeated people and kept Sec
tional enmity alive. Lincoln left
office with much of the popu-
larity of his first term lost, and
ne was almost a forgotten figure
when he went to California in
1869 to visit a friend.
Much of this hypothesis may
not seem plausible. And yet it
has happened fairly often in our
history that a Congress has
completely overruled a Presi-
dent. and we have had some
able Presidents who have left
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ever, m o + e
than a work
of ancestral
piety. While
Mr.. Smiths
regard for his
distinguished
for b e a r is
plain on ev-
cry page, the
i'm p or t a n t
thing he does
is to make
out an excel
lent case for
Bradford as
st he firs t
"American."
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& Bros: $2.75.)
They made the perilous gift
OF freedom to unborn genera
tions in the hope that our re-
publican system, "by reason
of its great size and infinite
diversity, will always generate
cure for its own diseases.
Mr.. Johnson feels it will pre-
vail. so long as there is a more
militant democracy on the part
Of the citizens Of the republic.
MARY McGRORY
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Office with much Of their early
popularity gone. The author q
San Franciscan, has depicted a
later Lincoln sympathetically
and with many touches typical
of the real Lincoln.
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This Was the Real Plymouth Rock
The CoIony's Own Great Governor

incott;: s5.)
of this crowded. dedicated life,
the author believed. In the end,
Bradford became what Cotton
Mather called "a father to all. !"
and certainly one of the noblest
Puritans.
MARY McGRoRY.
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Birds That Noah
Never Knew

THE SECOND INDOOR BIRD
WATCHERS MANUAL
BY Helen Ferrill and Anne Fol-
som. (DueU, Sloan G. Pearce:
ST.
Reviewed by William Hines
In reading this specialized
ornithological guide. one recalls
lines from Alfred Noyes' Barrel
Organ: For Noah hardly knew
a bird of any kind that isn't
heard at Kew, in lilac time,
and oh; so near to London"
Here. in a sequel to the origi-
nal Bird Watchers Manual,
are birds that Noah never knew
Or which he wisely kept off
the Ark. Like the original book,
this one names, in both English
and Linnaean nomenclature, the
subject bird, and furnishes a
description and Illustration of
the creature in its habitat.
Stars of this second volume
include the North American
Cross-Patch (Grumpus Famili-
arus). the Jaded Trump MAT
ronoma Frustrata) and the
never = to be forgotten Hot
Headed Inkslinger Homo Sa-
pienS MiSsouriensis), whose call
is given as "!!!+*!"!!!"
With a laugh worth so much
and a buck worth so little, this
is a good antidote to a session
with the pestiferous Soaring
Index Indicatae Inflationae)
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BRADFORD OF PLYMOUTH

BY Bradford Smith. II. B. Lip
This biography of William
Bradford is the work Of direct
descendant of the second Gov
ernor Of Plymouth. It is, how
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always manages to tell story that
captures and crystallizes the emo
tional temper of the times while all
the while providing marvellous
entertainment. That's why his new
novel is being called
Evening star., 1951-03-02
Lutheran LaymeI1
Elects
Clifford SandahI

Clifford Sandahl was elected
president of the Lutheran Fellow
ship last night at a dinner meeting
in Christ Lutheran Church, Six
teenth and Gallatin streets NV.
Mr.. Sandahl, a member OF
Augustana Lutheran Church
succeeds Alfred p. Rasch in the
Office. Mr.. Sandahl is editor OF
Business Action, a weekly publ
cation of the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
A former member of Congress
John w. Boehne, of Indiana, was
chosen vice president. He is a
member Of Calvary Lutheran
Church.
Others Elected.
Other officers elected were
Clarence I. Hendrickson, of Christ
Lutheran Church, Bethesda, treas
urer: Martin A. McGrory, of
Atonement Lutheran Church,
secretary, and Ralph H. Keister,
of Luther Place Memorial Church,
assistant secretary.
The Rev. Donald F. Bautz,
executive director of the Wash
ington Lutheran Inner Mission
Society, reported that $16.234 has
been pledged toward the society's
goal of $4,000 for 1851. OF that
amount. $4,000 is for the general
budget and $500 to start a child
care program.
$1,500 Largest Sum.
Largest contribution to date,
$1.500, has been pledged by the
Church Of the Reformation. Next
in order are Luther Place Me-
mortal Church, $1,000, and Au-
gustana Lutheran Church, SLOTS.
Mr.. Rasch outlined the work
Of the fellowship during 1850 in
his presidential report. Other re-
ports were made by Mr.. Boehne,
as treasurer, and Mr.. McGrory, as
secretary.
The speaker was DR.. Millard E..
Gladfelter, provost of Temple
University. Philadelphia. The Rev.
William F. Bruening, pastor of
the host church. gave the invo-
cation.
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Lehman Says Hoover
Views on National
Defense Fantastic

Former President Herberi
Hoover's views on national de.
Tense have been labeled "fantas.
tic" by Senator Lehman. Demo.
crat. Of New York.
The New York Senator last
night predicted that acceptance
of Mr.. Hoover's proposals woul6
mean "that the United States
isolated from the rest of the
world. would, I believe. ultimately
collapse either by attack from
without or deterioration from
within"
Senator Lehman addressed the
fourth annual conference of the
National Civil Liberties Clearing
House. The conference. meeting
in the Hotel 2400, concludes to-
day. /
Urging Congress to "reject any
suggestion to limit the presiden-
tial power to commit troops to
Europe" Senator Lehman de-
clared Mr.. Hoover's plan would
bring "abject surrender" by West
ern Europe, the Middle East and
much of Africa" and would place
most of the worlds free nations
in "the abyss of slavery"
Calls for Determination.
II strongly suspect that many
who are engaged in a dispute about
how many troops should be sent
and when they should be sent, and
whether the President has the
power to send them at all. are
actually in favor of sending no
troops at ALL" the Senator as
serted.
Senator Lehman called for "a
determination to defend and pro-
tect our rights and liberties and
those Of others" as the core of
the country's foreign policy.
The conference earlier heard
Walter White, executive secretary
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People. who urged amendment of
Senate rules to provide curtail-
ment Of debate by simple majority
vote.
Sees No Equality Here.
Mr.. White assailed what he
called a coalition of Dixiecrats
and conservatives for opposing
civil rights legislation. Senate
fllibustering, he asserted. has pro
vided the Communists in Asia.
Africa. South America and Eu-
rope material for the most potent
anti-American propaganda"
In another talk, the status Of
civil rights in Washington was
blasted as "a dark and sinister
blot on our record"
Irving M. Engel, executive sec
retary of the American Jewish
Committee. told the meeting that
ito a large extent there is no
equality in the District of
Columbia" Segregation would
largely disappear" if the District
had home rule, the speaker added.
urging that this question "be made
an issue IN every congressional
race in 1882"
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Notes Called Waste

EDMONTON P.-Too much
time is wasted by students in TAX
ing notes during lectures, says
Prof. George M. Dunlop. profess
sor of psychology at the Univer-
sity of Alberta. He says that un-
less the notes are reviewed within
"a hours students forget half the
lecture.
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rsNortheost Council of Citizen Groups Backs Donohue

The Northeast Council of Citi-
zens' Associations last night
Endorsed F. Joseph Donohue's S
nomination to the Board of
District Commissioners.
The council plans to send a
letter of the Endorsement to the
Senate District Committee today.
The group also voted for the
return of the 60-40 plan for pay
ment Of the Districts annual
budget. In such a setup. the
Federal Government would con-
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luke Box Is Absent

AURORA. Ontario R.-Trans-
port drivers who stop in the all
night coffee shop here ask for
bacon and Bach" or coffee and
Strauss" The shop has an electric
organ on which Rudy Dicaro Of
North Bay plays request numbers
and he's pleased at the number
who want good music.
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partment with no additional pay
if more days are worked. Because
of the shortage of men, a member
said, many policemen are having
to work on their days off without
extra pay.
The group voted in favor of re-
peal of the personal property tax.
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tribute 40 per cent toward District
expenses.
In another action. the body
asked that there be early hearings
on the Sasscer area commission
bill, designed to study transporta-
ton. water and other Metropolitan
Area problems.
The council also asked that the
District pay six days wages to
all policemen who work q six-day
week. The law now calls for a
five-day week in the Police De-
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Evening star., 1951-12-08
The Posing Show
Magic Carpets Now Used
As Dive Bonbers in Film
By Joy cormody

The odds are that Columbia Pictures made he Magic arpen
Tor the christmas shopping trades for those who
not resist the sight of harem girls gazy geus
Nevertheless in shy little corners of the scrpt the
new picture at the Metropolitan to be surprise for
Evening star., 1951-12-08

THE MAGIC CARPET" a Columbia
picture, produced by Sam Katzman, d.
rected by Lew Landers, written by David
Mathews. At the Metropolitan.