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Dorothy Dix

Dear Dorothy Dix" first
biography of the famous lady
who dispensed so much COM
mon sense advice to the troubled
and the lovelorn will be pub
lished next Thursday. Harnett
Kane, the New Orleans author
who put the less" in "tireless."
wrote the book with the assist
ance Of Miss Dix's confidential
secretary. Ella Bentley Arthur.
Mr.. Kane feels it was at least
partially in payment Of a debt
to the late Miss Dix, since he got
his start as a writer when as a
sophomore at Tulane University
he received the Dorothy Dix
Writing Prize.
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Times Corner
BY Nancy Wilson Ross. (Randons House: $500
BY Nancy Y

Nancy Wilson Ross is the au-
thor Of 1.-THE Left Hand Is the
Dreamer" q fact sufficient to
intrigue readers about any other
novel she ever writes. Unfor-
tunately. Times Corner" does
not continue the striking
achievement of that book, being
q rather confused and some
times downright incredible story
Of a weak-willed lovelorn at
tempting to rebuild health and
heart in an Anglican convent.
The instrument of Louisa's re-
generation is rather surprisingly
a dope-ridden teen-ager who is
thrust on the convent steps by
q pair of gangster boyfriends.
Even with the spectacle Of
Bobby's agony before her. Louisa
is induced to engage in an ex-
pertinent with drugs by an OBJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-12

Mr.. Baker comedies, one OF
Mr.. Hemingway's major novels.
nor was it intended to be. Its
intrinsic form was that Of a
prose poem. with q remarkably
complex emotional structure, on
the theme of the three ages of
man." And Mr.. Baker analyses
carefully the literal and SYM
bolic meanings Of the scenes in
Venice between the old Army
officer and the Italian girl. The
author Of this study shows re-
straint in ignoring the critical
assaults on the book, some of
them In execrable taste.
Beyond Mere Propaganda
Mr.. Baker feels that Heming-
way in his lifelong espousal Of
truth as he saw it was always
beyond mere propaganda or
shaping a story to fit some social
or economic movement Of the
moment. The great test was
the Spanish civil war. Al
though Hemingway took up the
cause Of the Loyalists, the novel
that grew out of the bitter
struggle. For Whom the Bell
Tolls" is not, Mr.. Baker insists,
propagandistic, despite its pres
entation Of the Loyalist side.
The book, in fact. shows how the
Russians manipulated the whole
democratic" front In Spain.
Nor did Hemingway give any
comfort to his literary comrades
Of the left who stretched out
their arms to him when he an
nounced that he wanted to see
the Loyalists win. He later
said fatty: II had no Stalinist
period"
It is interesting in this con-
nection to find Mr.. Baker re-
porting on Hemingway's extern
sive visits to Spain before the
war: LAS an American and as q
Catholic convert Of some years
standing, he had In general ap-
proved the separation of the
church and the state achieved
by the democratic republic,
though he had naturally de-
plored the anti-clerical riotings
which preceded it."
Mr.. Bakers book is an analysis
OF the novels and short stories
and not a biography. There are,
however. some interesting bio
graphical passages, especially of
the young Hemingway in Paris
after the first war and his con-
facts with Gertrude Stein,
Fitzgerald, Anderson, Joyce and
others. The book not only Is an
acute and scholarly critique, but
it is written sensitively, never
pedantically, often with beauty
OF image and phrase.
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H. M. Pullman and Gen. Melville
Goodwin.
u. p. Marquand. Esquire" Is
what its subtitle says-"a por-
trait In the form Of . novel,"
Mr.. Hamburger has seized Mar
quand's own style and turned it
on him-the profusion of satiric
detail. the rueful dialogue, even
the wrily nostalgia chapter
headings.
The plot concerns what takes
place the day q magazine writer
interviews Marquand but. by
means of Marquandian fash
backs. Mr.. Hamburger does q
creditably Marquandian job Of
recreating Marquand's life.
Mr.. Hamburger is a good re-
porter. He has created a por-
trait replete with such varied
details as why Marquand is fas-
cinated by China to how the
Book of the Month Club selects
its books. Mr.. Hamburger Is
also a fine parodist In the way
he uses a form that is novel in
both senses of the word to make
delicious satire.
y. P. Marquand. Esquire" is
q must for Marquand fans. ALI
others had best read Marquand
novels first.
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viously fanatical doctor. The
sign which rushes her into this
madness is the ANGLICAN priests
refusal to give Bobby COM
munion when she has gone
staggering up to the rail. Louise
takes this refusal as a symbol
Of her own rejection even
though it would seem that the
most cursory study Of the Situa-
ton would reveal to her that a
priest would be more inclined to
risk offending a little gun moll
than to defile the sacrament. In
any case, Louisa goes on the
stuff herself. and it takes o
couple Of melodramatic COIN
cidences to straighten her out.
Miss Ross Is an excellent
writer, but here. I am afraid.
she Is one In search Of q theme.
M. Meg.
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Books in Review
Critical Study Of Hemingway Labels
His Work Most Original of Our Time
Hemingway: The Writer as Artist
BY Carlos Baker. princeton University Press; $504
L..
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
The Writer as Artist

Mr.. Bakers remarkably fine
critical study of Ernest Hem
ingway. apparently the first
book-length appraisal Of tn,
novelist, aside from a recent
symposium, is timely. 1t follows
a wave of admiration for Hem
ingway's short lyrical novel,
"The Old Man and the Sea-"
published a month ago.
This prose poem Of the sea
still stirs discussions. in which
some critics have found it nee
eSSary to reasseSs a writer they
had read out as deplorably past
his peak. Mr.. Baker, who never
saw any signs indicating Hem
ingWay'S powers were waning,
has written an evaluation of all
his writings which is sure to
be quoted often in the years
to come.
Princeton Professor
The critic, who is professor Of
English at Princeton. feels that
Hemingway's best work has a
better chance Of surviving than
most of the novels of our era.
The Hemingway devotion to
truth and poetry, in the sense
Goethe employed these terms,
gives his best work, Mr.. Baker
thinks. Its special strength and
staying power, as well as its
special distinction Of being the
most truly original writing in
the field Of Goth century nc
ton"
Mr.. Baker rates "For Whom
the Bell Tolls" Hemingway's
finest novel, ranking "A Fare
well to Arms" second, and
Hemingway's first novel. 1.-THE
Sun Also Rises" somewhat be-
low those two outstanding
books. There will be those who
place "A Farewell to Arms" on
top. giving such shorter MASTER
pieces as 1.-THE Old Man and
the Sea-" which Mr.. Baker calls
a novelette, or long short story,
special inches in the Hemingway
gallery. But this critic always
has interesting reasons for his
judgments.
It is comforting to those of
us who presumed to see a deep
and poetic perception in the
Hemingway novel of 1850,
Across the River and Under
the Trees"-a small minority on
the critical front-to find Prof.
Baker devoting an appreciative
chapter to that brief book. For
those, he says. who were pre-
pared to take it seriously and to
read it often enough to grasp
Its full intention, the book was
a genuine contribution to the
Hemingway canon" 1t was not,
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when he said he had been told
by many people that. while they
understood him perfectly well.
they felt he was talking over the
heads of the Other Fellow. Gov.
Stevenson says he's not wor-
ried about o. F., and neither,
apparently. is Random House,
which expects a post-election
sale of the book, no matter what
the outcome on November 4.
Meanwhile, something new in
presidential campaign literature
is being hurried through the
presses Of John C. Winston
that is to say, a biography Of
a vice presidential candidate.
This Man Nixon" billed as
"The Story Of His Life-Includ-
ing the Complete Text of His
Famous Radio and TV Vindica-
ton Speech" will be ready by
october 10. The author is Phil
lip Andrews.
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The Lost Discovery
BY Frederick ]. Pohl.


Morton; s3.75.)
Mr.. Pohl has devoted many
years to investigating scat
tered evidences that there were
explorers in North America
centuries before Columbus.
Here he examines, with the
judicial care Of q scientific
detective, clues to voyages that
may have started long before
the 10th century. There was.
Of course, the legendary discov-
cry of America by Left Ericsson,
the Viking. But the Morse
sagas, Mr.. Pohl points out. tell
that the Irish crossed the At
lantic before Left. ut seems"
the author concludes, mo more
logical to discard the Irish
from the Morse sagas than to
discard the Norsemen them
selves" He cites the discovery
of stone chambers, implements
and a probable mooring rock in
New England. obviously not of
Indian origin and much older
than and inconsistent with the
work of English colonists. And
there is the famous inscribed
rhinestone found near Kensing-
ton, Mimi. and the mystery Of
the round stone tower at New
port. r. I. A Morse sword, ak
head and shield grip were dug
up at Beardmore, Ontario.
st. Brendan's voyage from
Western Ireland to the east
coast Of Greenland and to Ice
land is believed to have occurred
between 565 and 573, and in 795
Irish monks. according to Morse
records, visited Iceland. Whether
the Irish. and perhaps others,
pressed on to the New World
is q matter Of interesting specu-
lation. &C. B. ].
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Reading and Writing >'~A
Clergyman and Psychoono|yst Hold Key
To Curb Mental Illness in America
By Mary McGrory

Sebastian de Grazia is q SCI
enlist with a profound sense Of
the limitations of his calling.
In 1.-THE Political Community"
published four years ago, he cast
a critical eye over the social sci
ences. and decided they were en-
gagged in an often fruitless round
Of responsibility shifting. Now
with Errors of Psychotherapy,"
a refreshing and stimulating
volume, he is investigating the
inadequacies Of psychoanalysis.
Young DR.. de Grazia, who is
merry despite his preoccupation
with such pressing problems,
spent two years studying case
histories and another two in
writing the book, which Double
day will publish next week.
Strangely enough. he wrote it in
Italy. where neurosis is prac-
tically unknown. He was there
on several grants studying the
tangled Royalties Of Renaissance
Italians and also teaching at the
University of Florence. Recent
ly he returned to George Wash
ington University, where he is
engaged in research on Human
Resources for the Department of
the Army.
A Forsivins Clergy
The reasons for the emotional
equilibrium Of the Italians
which contrasts strongly with
our own-lies in the integration
OF their religion into their daily
lives. and their great security in
the Church. They feel at home
with the Church-although they
may complain about the
thinks. because Of the presence
Of q forgiving clergy.
The failure Of both clergyman
and psychoanalyst to impart
forgiveness. DR.. De Grazia feels
Is q strong factor in the de-
presSingly high incidence Of
mental illness in America. Psy-
chiatry's refusal to recognize
mental disorder as moral disor-
der Is at the root Of its defeat,
he feels. The church has lost
much Of its power to heal trou-
bled souls because of an increase
in an unforgiving attitude on
the part Of its priests. Protest.
ant clergymen have largely fore
gone private confession, and
some Catholic priests have
adopted what he calls "a Prot
estant attitude toward sim"
Thus. he feels men had to seek
forgiveness outside the church.
"The swing toward secular heal
ing happened not because psy-
chotherapy proved itself more
Successful-thiS it could not do
but because it removed guilt
by tolerance"
We Hove Gone Overheard
The solution as he sees 1t Is
for the clergyman to exchange
with the psychiatrist his moral
attitudes and ideals in return
for the knowledge and practical
experience Of the psychiatrist.
Only jointly can they work
toward the refrigeration of
troubled modern man.
Americas headlong accept
ance Of Freudian psychiatry, DR..
de Grazia feels is in line with its
star-struck vision Of the scien.
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Of his subject
to ind facts
and incidents
thatwillmake
the subject
come to life in
words.
Philip Ham
burger had
this problem
when the New
Yorker origi-
nally assigned
him to write
a profile SER
les on Novelist
John p. Mar
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The Life and Good Times of William Randolph Hearst

This biography is a colorful
addition to the growing number
of books about the late pub
Usher. 1t probably is the best
thing Mr.. Tebbel has written
since he brought out the story
of the Marshall Field dynasty.
He is fully aware of Hearst's
soft-spoken arrogance and vim
dictiveness. his ruthlessness and
paradoxical policies. And yet
the author is scrupulously fair
In bringing out the publishers
genuine abilities, his intuitive
grasp of people and situations
and his peculiar but answering
sense of loyalty.
The fabulous journalist was
the worlds greatest private COL
lector Of art objects, and Mr..
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quand. a series now available in
book form. MIR. Hamburger was
wise enough to know the place a
novelist reveals his true self is
in his novels, that his characters
and even his methods are self
glveaways. Mr.. Hamburger was
also witty enough to realize Mr..
MarQuand might best be re-
created in the exact same way
the novelist had brought to life
such characters as George Apley.
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We Hove Gone Overheard

G1SG DIS n man
in q W hite
coat far more
KIN o W ledge
q BILE an
other men.
I'VE can't
ct aw az
from the fact
that the sci
enlist Is q
mortal crea-
ture." avs
DIR. de Grazia.
Along with
psyc h iatry,
A m Aric ans
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w j j Z 1e 3
d e q tn. the
r ep ublicans
In convention
q 8 s e m b l ed
n e v er even
s a W fit to
mention his
name. Ye t
in q sense. it
was his brief
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Administration Stamp Club ex-
hibition will open at the Depart
ment Of Commerce Building.
Fourteenth street and Constitu-
ton avenue, NV, tomorrow
morning at 8 and will continue
to october 81, from 8 am. to 10
pm. daily. Francis Cardinal
Spellman is to show his famous
collection Of stamps relating to
religion and philosophy. and
approximately 100 other philat-
elists will display prize speci-
mems from their albums. The
show will be Judged by q Jury
consisting Of Major James T.
De Voss, o. s. A.; Franklin r.
Bruins, jr., philatelic curator.
Smithsonian Institution, and
Ralph A. Davis, assistant direc-
tor. Philatelic Division, Post Of
flee Department. Mrs. Virginia
Woodin. president Of the club.
will receive visitors, assisted by
Stanley w. Brown. vice presi-
dent; Joseph s. Gray. treasurer,
and Dorothy r. Cundall, secre-
tary. The public is invited.
The British Embassy is making
inquiry as to the present where
abouts of Queen Victoria's stamp
collection. and there is hope that
the long-lost treasure finally
will be found.
Stamp collectors are advised to
watch for an important an
nouncement by the director Of
the National Gallery of Art,
expected momentarily.
Post ONCE Department in
spectors are investigating COM
plants Of alleged sharp prac-
tices" on the part Of certain
mail-order stamp dealers.
Stamps Magazine and Linn's
Weekly Stamp News have re-
printed with favorable COM
ment most of the text Of The
Stars recent article on the need
for stamps Of national signifl-
canoe.
Canada Is bringing out por-
trait stamps in honor Of two
former prime ministers-Alex-
ander Mackenzie and Sir John
j. c. Abbott. The first Of these
will be q 4-cent orange adhe-
sive, the second a Scent purple.
Both will be released on the
same day as the 7-cent blue
Canada goose stamp, November
s. Send flrst-day covers to post
master at Ottawa with wrapped
United States coins to pay for
specimens wanted.
The Educator Stamp Club, q
new Saturday morning series
Of broadcasts featuring Walter
Law, went on the air from sta
ton WGBS. New York. Octo-
Der 4.
When the Scent Civil Engi-
neers stamp went ON first-day
sale in Chicago, September 8,
1,776. 429 copies were sold and
318.493 covers processed. But
when the Scent Women In the
Armed Services commemorative
was released in Washington,
September II, only 472,758 cop
les were sold. yet the number of
covers Cancelled was 308, 062.
Three different special each
cts will be provided for mail car
ried by helicopter between New
York and Newark, N. j., begin
ming Wednesday. Readers in
terested should send self-ad-
dressed standard-size airmail
envelopes (6c) to: District SUI
perintendent. District 5, Postal
Transportation Service. New
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WiIIkie

WiIIkie
BY Joseph Barnes.
(Simon & Schuster;; 49,.
At the end Of this biography,
Joseph Barnes remarks with
suitable melancholy that less
than four years after Wendell
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have gone overheard Tor such
dubious projects as human en-
cheering. public opinion polls
and Kinsey reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-12

An interview with O celebrated
person Is difficult to write. The
interviewer faces the task Of
penetrating quickly to the heart
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IN
A Of 49,
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up. Morqu0nd, Esquire
Portrait in the Form Of Novel by Philip Hamburger.
(Houghton- Mi11in Co..
Reviewed hy 1 William Hill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-12

Stamp collectors are advised to
watch for an important an
nouncement by the director Of
the National Gallery of Art,
expected momentarilY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-12

Stamps Magazine and Linn's
Weekly Stamp News have re-
printed with favorable COM
ment most Of the text Of The
Stars recent article on the need
for stamps Of national signifl-
canoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-12

The British Embassy is making
inquiry as to the present where
abouts of Queen Victoria's stamp
collection. and there is hope that
the long-lost treasure finally
will be found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-12

Post ONCE Department in
spectors are investigating COM
plants Of alleged sharp prac-
tees" on the part Of certain
mail-order stamp dealers.
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Majority Repudiotes
Communist Designs

It would be a grave injustice
to both japanese and Ameri-
cans to accord to this incident
an exaggerated Importance.
That it revealed to the Japanese
people the character and OBJ
jective of Communist designs is
a beneficial by-product. The
overwhelming majority Of re-
sponsible Japanese opinion has
already repudiated these acts
in no unmistakable terms. The
japanese government is alive to
the Communist threat and re-
solved adequately to control it.
The full influence of the En-
peror, the Prime Minister, and
of all responsible members of
the present government will be
employed to solve this problem
in a manner to bring this Situa-
ton under adequate control
with the least practicable delay
and to keep IL there.
In short, the Japanese are at
our side. Their gaze is lifted
to see the same objective we see.
They are presently walking with
us. Whether they continue or
not is a responsibility which
rests rather more on us in the
immediate future than on them,
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Surveys Relations
With japanese

My third and final topic per-
tains to our relations with Ja-
pan.
This relation is of incalculable
value and Importance to this
Nation. Whether Japan grows
in strength and resiliance suf-
ficient to withstand the impact
of the inevitable blows of acci-
dental and deliberate origin, or
whether it declines in strength
until circumstances or hostile
powers succeed in effect in abro-
eating it, only history will tell.
But if I may be pardoned ex-
pressing before this august body
a personal conviction in d field
of responsibility which is now
no longer mine, I would say the
continuance; in fact the ever
strengthening of the bonds
which today make of America
and Japan mutually UNDER
standing, mutually respecting
and cooperative friends. conf
dent each of the support Of the
Evening star., 1952-05-22

for our strength is superior. our
resources immeasurably greater.
and ours is the role of leader
ship.
In all these great problems.
which though lightly touched
upon have such profound sig
nif1cance for US and the future
of our country. we can. I think
we must. look for strength to
solve them upon that greatest
reservoir of An1reica's strength
faith in principle and trust
in God. If we draw upon this
reservoir with resolution and
courage it will meet all our
needs.
I have been greatly privi-
legged to have had the response
bilities which I recently relin-
quished. I shortly assume new
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Sums Up Progress
OF Armistice Talks

I pass now to the second of
my three topics. the armistice
negotiations.
For more than 10 months, a
group of men, representative of
the United Nations Command,
and individually and collective
ly of as high principled integ-
rity, fidelity. courage and vision,
as any group assembled for any
similar purpose anywhere, any,
time, have sought with full
faith and loyalty to achieve an
honorable armistice in accord
.ance with the instructions of
competent authority. That they
have so far been unsuccessful
is no slightest mark of failure,
but rather, in my opinion, a
monumental tribute to their
strict adherence to United Ma
tons concepts of human dig
nifty and human rights and to
their efforts in the cause of
peace. AS the military arm Of
a great democracy, where that
Evening star., 1952-05-22

reduced In tonnage, her con-
stitutional limitations against
maintaining ground. sea and air
forces now having rendered her
incapable Of preserving unaided
the independence recently re-
stored to her, any government in
Japan, the present included, is
vulnerable to a degree to all
manner of attack by both well
and i'll intentioned opposition.
Despite all this. the over
whelming attitude of the Japa-
nese people toward US today is
one of gratitude for the past, of
hopefulneSs for sympathetic con-
sideration in the future and Of
great friendlineSs.
The unfortunate occurrences
on the first of May last were re-
ported with accuracy and OBJ
jectivity from the scene. I be-
lieve, however, they received a
misleading Interpretation in the
United States.
Throughout Japan as a whole,
that day passed in Q generally
quiet and orderly manner. The
few disorders which occurred,
other than in Tokyo, were rela-
lively minor in character. Had
they occurred in the United
States, they would have excited
little or no comment.
The disorders in Tokyo were
of a different character. They
bore the unmistakable stamp
of deliberate Communist de-
sign, the target of which would.
of course, have been America
and all the principles for which
she stands. Such was the case.
It was marked, however, and r
believe the facts will sustain
this opinion by an absolute
minimum either of anti-foreign-
ism or anti-Americanism. The
individual Americans who suf-
fered bodily injury or indignity
and the foreign property dam
aged or destroyed, the latter
almost exclusively limited to a
few automobiles, happened to
be among or in the direct path
of the rioting demonstrators.
The results could have hap
pened anywhere, and they have,
on other occasions, even in our
own land.