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Evening star., 1953-01-11
Walt Whitman
To the Editor of The Stor:

Your Book Section under the
caption, Reading and Writ
ing" by Mary McGrory, re-
Gently published some gratui-
tous comments about a libel
action I brought against Giles
Dawson, curator of books and
manuscripts of the Folger Lii
brary. The commentator, writ
ing in connection with and
referring to a review by Fol-
gers James McManaway Of
This Star of England" of
which my wife and I are CO.
authors, adopts an aStonish-
ingly contemptuous attitude
towards us. Why this should
be done I am at a loss to under
stand. We have simply endeav-
ored. in a dignified and schol-
arly manner, to establish
through authentic evidence an
important historical truth re-
vealed by conscientious re-
search.
Miss Nc cGrory writes that be-
cause Folger's Giles Dawson
had said in a letter that they
were all wet" though "in
slightly stronger language .
Mr.. Ogburn, a lawyer, promptly
hurled a libel suit against Mr..
Dawson. He and his wife
dropped the suit after two
years."
Suit Filed in 1948
Editors Note: In the libel
suit referred to by Miss Nc
Grory. Mr.. Ogburn, an attor-
ney, represented the plaintiff,
Charles w. Barrell, in his suit
against Mr.. Dawson. Neither
Mr.. Ogburn nor his wife, Mrs.
Dorothy Ogburn, was a COM
plainant, and Mr.. Ogburn's ac-
tionS in the suit were those of
an attorney. The Star regrets
the erroneous implication that
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogburn were
plaintiffs.
(Mr. Barrell's suit was filed
in July, 1948. The plaintiff
contended he had been libeled
in a letter written the previous
year by Mr.. Dawson, a letter
which seemed to imply that Mr..
Barrell might have "doctored"
some photographs taken in
connection with Shakespearean
research. In September. 194S.
Mr.. Dawson wrote a second let
ter disclaiming the possibly
libelous implications of his first
letter.; When the case reached
pretrial, in October of 1850, the
plaintiff agreed to accept this
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street. the exotic, learned,
kindly and strange people that
made up the citizenry Of Gales
burg. AS a newsboy, he be-
came familiar with the back
yards of prominent people.
AS a milkman, he knew their
front doors. II met people
in Galesburg who were puz-
Zling to me, and later when I
read Shakespeare, I found
those same people were puz-
zling to him." he says.
Language Of Boyhood
The wonderful thing about
these memoirs is that Sand
burg has recaptured them in
the language Of boyhood, in
the slang of the day, with a
boys wondering, literal Curl
osity. Sandburg was IS last
Tuesday, but he writes like
"the young stranger" he was
when he was looking and
listening with all his might in
that prairie town.
Echoes of Lincoln were still
in the air. and he talked with
men who had heard the Lin
coln-Douglas debates or who
had held Lincoln's horse or
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Sondburg Tells What ItMeont
To Grow Up in America
Always the Young Strangers
BY Carl Sandburg. (Harcourt, Brace; So
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

had seen Abe in the court
room. He met living segments
of history" in the pioneers who
came to the "Old Settlers Pic
MICS" Sandburg's formal edu-
cation stopped when he was
13 and went to work in earnest.
But he and his sister sat
around the kitchen table read
ing "HoStetter'S Almanac" and
he priced the cigarette biogra-
phies he cadged from older
friends. II got education in
scraps and pieces of many
kinds. not knowing they were
a part of my education" A
profession came harder, and
Gully" tried tinsmithing, bar
bering, pottery-making. hobo
ing and soldering before a
fellow-veteran of the Spanish
American War helped him to
get into Lombard College.
Sandburg was a "call man" for
the Fire Department at the
time and had to leave class
whenever the fire bell rang,
which. he adds. was not often.
When you have finished 60
ing through Sandburg's album
of faces" you will believe they
will be old familiar faces to
you, too This is one of the
really memorable autobiogra-
phieS of our time.
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might better have been titled
THE Sex Life Of a Fighter
Bomber Wing" The author
describes in great detail the
love life of some officers-their
incompatibilities with their
wives and their affairs with
japanese girls. There is a
majors wife who makes a r:wy
for any fellow officer she can
sequester and ply with drinks.
It becomes apparent, however,
as the story goes on, that it
has a larger, more significant
design. The off-duty phase is
simply another illustration Of
the fact that soldiers, knowing
better than those who send
them out to fight the uncer-
tainty of their tenure on earth,
take their fun where they find
it. They always have and
probably always will, regard
less of pious regrets at home.
The 'Monhunters'
The jet wing is based in
Japan. This Capt. Tindle re-
turns from ground duty fed up
with the killing he has seen
close up. He cannot forget the
horror of enemy troops aflame
with napalm dropped from
planes. He can still hear them
as they run screaming to their
deaths. His colonel, who
wants to make a name for him.
self and his wing, arranges for
the wing to be called "the
Manhunters" and to specialize
on troop concentrations. He
finds Tindle, a highly skilled
pilot, less than enthusiastic.
Sensing Tindle's attitude, the
colonel rides him. Tindle tries
hard and he is not, as the col
onel implies, afraid, but some
thing has gone out of him.
When he refuses to shoot down
an enemy pilot, dangling help
lessly from parachute. so that
the high command can deter
mine whether he is a Chinese,
a Russian or what, the young
captain faces disgrace.
The merit of the novel is not
so much in it's characterize
tions, which sometimes are
stereotyped, as in the extraor-
dinary vividness with which
combat missions are described.
You can see and feel them.
During World War II Mr..
Sheldon served in China as a
combat correspondent for the
Army Air Force. He served in
a similar capacity in Korea.
where he wrote Troubling of
O Star" The title is a quota
tion from Francis Thompson:
". Thou canst not stir a
flower, without troubling of
a star"
Evening star., 1953-01-11
Hands Across the Caviar
BY Charles w. Thayer. Ltppincott:: s3.50J

Mr.. Thayer writes about his
diplomatic adventures without
taking diplomacy or himself too
seriously. He also can see
through stuffed shirts and
translate double talk. The re-
suit is highly entertaining and
probably a closer approach to
the truth than most reports of
the kind. In this book he con-
tinues the amusing, enlighten-
irng story he began with Bears
In the Caviar"
The author, whose most re-
cent appointment was as con-
sui general at Munich, is a
West Pointer. He was at
tached to the United States
Embassy in Moscow for several
years before World War II.
During the war he held a COM
mission as lieutenant colonel
and was detailed to the OSS.
He headed the American mis-
sion to Yugoslavia, which ar
rived early in 1945, just as the
native resistance, aided by a
Soviet force, was driving the
Germans out of Belgrade. Tito
was emerging into power.
though he was still hailing the
Evening star., 1953-01-11

Carl Sandburg's autobiog-
raphy. although a vividly spe-
cif1c account of his first 81
years in the prairie town of
Galesburg, Illinois, has some
thing of every ones childhood
in it. This is what it is like to
grow up in America.
When Sandburg was here
two years ago and about to en-
bark on this work, he told this
reporter he hoped it would be
"a kind of manual Of American
citizenship" It is that, but
without any of the dogmatic
quality that the term implies.
It is a rambling. joyful story of
the making of poet and a
Lincoln biographer.
His Porents
Both his parents-the mother
with the beaming smile and the
serious black-haired father
came from Sweden. and every
week read the Swedish-Amer-
ican paper published in Chi
cago. They belonged to the
Swedish Lutheran Church and
the Republican Party. They
never told their seven children
what America meant to them,
but when Carl saw his father
go off to jury duty IN solemn
pride. he began to understand.
Mr.. Sandburg's prose is like
his poetry-lyric, folksy, un-
selfconscious and shot through
with quizzical humor. He re-
cords with almost total recall
the dawning of his awareness
OF the people and sights
around him. His book streams
with personalities-his teach
erS, the neighbors who came
and went with clocklike regu-
larity up and down Berrien
Evening star., 1953-01-11

which we have been treated in
your columns, although our
book presents irrefutable evi-
dence IN proof of our case, 1t
Is we who have the docu-
mentary evidence, as has been
recognized by a number of
competent persons who have
read This Star of England. !"
For example, several eminent
lawyers in New York are at
present engaged in reading this
book. These men possess minds
free Of orthodox" inhibitions
or bias and trained to weigh
and assess evidence. One of
them declared the other day at
lunch, with several others con-
curing, that This Star of
England" is fascinating, schol-
arly.. profound and completely
convincing, adding that it
would be judged one of the
great books of the era.
Many Convinced
A leading classical scholar,
an honors graduate of oxford
and a distinguished lecturer on
literature, wrote, after having
read our book in it's entirety:
THE Ogburns have proved not
only that Shaksper of STRAIT
ford could not have written the
works of Shakespeare but that
Oxford did write them"
I have received several hun
dred letters from persons
throughout the United States
and in Europe stating that they
have been convinced. The best
of these came from an English
couple residing at Stratford-
on-Avon, who remarked, I'VE
have long known, as you know,
that whoever wrote the plays,
it was not William Shakespeare
OF this town, and we often won-
der what would happen to our
revenue If the truth were
known" (The revenue amounts
to e. million a year,
It is we who have the docu-
mentary evidence, not the
Stratfordians. Our book will
stand on its merits, and thus
it should be reviewed. 1t should
not be subjected to such an
attitude as that to which Mr..
McManaway has permitted
himself to descend. How any
sentient person can remain
callous to this noble and tragic
story Of one of the greatest
Englishmen of all time is be-
yond my comprehension. Mr..
McManaway merely sneers.
Charlton dburn
Evening star., 1953-01-11

Americas strangest war takes
vivid shape in this first novel
by man who served in Korea.
It is, so far as I know, the
first full-length fiction story of
the Korean fighting by a man
who took part in it. The recent
Korean Tales" which brought
against its author, 1t. Col. Mel
vim B. VoorhieS, charges to be
heard by a court-martial. was
a collection Of short stories.
More than a year ago Pat
Frank, who had seen portions
of World War II but had never
been in Korea, published
Hold Back the Night" a
sharp imaginative account Of
the retreat from Chosin. But,
in presenting a credible point
Of view, the impact of that war
on some random soldiers, there
is no comparison between this
book and Mr.. Sheldon's novel.
Mr.. Frank went to some length
to have it appear that the aver
age fighting mamie wrote of
Marines-underStood and ap-
proved Washington's policy of
making stalemate an objective
and not invading the enemy's
territory for fear of offending
Russia. Mr.. Sheldon does not
agree.
Frustrotion Is Implicit
The author of Troubling of
a Star" has avoided propa-
Sanda. Most soldiers, he is
aware, are more concerned with
getting the job done and re-
turning home alive than with
the international problems that
sent them to war. And yet the
peculiar Illustration of the Ko-
rean war is implicit if not ex-
plicit in his story. The air.
men he writes about know there
are immense combat stores just
over the Manchurian border,
but they must be content to
strike indecisively, futilely at
little pockets of guns and am
munition and troop concentra-
tionS they can ferret out within
the limits set for this unprece-
dented war.
Officers Love Life
It is true that Mr.. Sheldon
writes only of the Air Force.
But somehow. through these
flyers and their almost daily
strikes at the enemy, you get
the feeling of the whole bleak,
disheartening project. Fur
ther. Capt. Tindle, the leading
character, is shown early in
the story on an assignment as
a ground observer at the front.
Here you get graphic flashes of
the ground fighting.
1t looks for a while, in the
earlier chapters, as If the book
Evening star., 1953-01-11
Once Around the Park
BY Frank Shannon.

BY Frank Shannon.
(MorroD; $3.)
This is an extravaganza on
an Arabian Nights theme. The
story teller is a New York taxi
driver, the listener a professor
newly arrived in what the au-
thor, borrowing from o. Henry.
calls Baghdad-on-the- Subway.
Joe describes, on different
nights, the incredible expert
ences he and a pal named
Bates, an Al pitchman, had
when they were in the Army
and stationed in Northern In
dia. The professor relays the
installments of this Schehera-
zadian narrative to the house
where unmarried members of
the university faculty live.
There it stirs an uproar of
pedagogical argument. The
story is mildly amusing, occa-
sionally acutely funny, but,
sustained to book length it be-
comes rather strained.
&C, B. J.
Evening star., 1953-01-11
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 6
Julian P. Boyd, editor. Princeton; s6J
Reviewed by Francis P. Douglas

NeVIeWeo ny II
Residents of the Capital who
have looked to George Wash
ington as the father of the city
might we'll give equal rank to
Thomas jefferson after reading
this volume.
It is the latest in the pro-
jected monumental work of so
volumes or more being edited
ably by Julian P. Boyd and his
associates, Nina R. Bryan and
Elizabeth L. Hutter. The cur
rent volume covers the period
from May, 1881, to March,
1874.
Brought together here are
the early efforts of Mr.. JEFF
ferson-moves of consummate
political skill to bring the
Nations Capital to the banks
of the Potomac. Some of these
endeavors have been known to
scholars but not generally to
the public nor apparently to
the writers'of guide books.
Congress Fled to Princeton
The story goes back to June,
1888, when mutinous Pennsyl-
vanians marched on Congress
at Philadelphia, demanding
their back pay. Congress fled to
Princeton.
This is discussed in one Of
the letters published here from
James Madison to Jefferson.
Madison wrote that there was a
disposition to return to Phila-
delphla lest an unfortunate i'm
preston be created abroad.
Other places thought the time
opportune to press their claims
to become the seat of Congress.
Madison complained that
Princeton was overcrowded; he
shared with another a room
only 10 feet square.
The editors carry on the ac-
count in their notes. The Vir-
ginia General Assembly voted
that if Congress would move to
Williamsburg it would receive
the palace. the capitol, other
Government buildings, 300
acres Of land and 100000
pounds to be spent in erecting
13 hotels for Delegates.
Annapolis Was Substituted
Gov. Benjamin Harrison did
not believe the offer would be
accepted. Apparently it was
for bargaining purposes. At
the same time money and Vir-
ginia land on the River Patow-
mack" were offered and even
an offer of 10000 pounds was
made if the Capital would be
located on the north side of the
Potomac in Maryland.
Congress, meanwhile, tenn
porized and decided on two
seats: One on the Delaware at
or near Trenton, the other on
the Potomac, at or near
Georgetown. But there were no
adequate facilities at George
town, so Southern delegates
contrived to have Annapolis
substituted temporarily.
Jefferson, then a Delegate to
Congress, wrote Gov. Harrison
OF the probable lineup of the
various States on the question
OF the seat of Government. He
said Virginia Delegates prob
ably would oppose Annapolis as
the Capital because trade would
be attracted there and away
from Virginia areas on Chesa-
peake Bay.
Harrison replied that these
fears were groundless because
nature never intended it (An-
napolis) for great town" But
he said the most convenient
Evening star., 1953-01-11
Crime
Reviewed by Miriom Gutenberg

Reviewed by MIriom Gutenberg
Death of an Intruder. BY Ned
ra Tyre. (Alfred A. Knopf:
$2.5O.)
To accept this horror story,
you must accept this basic
premise: That timid Miss Alli-
son had led such a sheltered
life she couldn't manage to
evict a stranger who pushed her
way into Miss Allison's house
one night and resisted all ef-
forts to make her leave. The
author strives greatly to make
this year-long bondage believ-
able. The stranger is very
strong, Miss Allison equally
weak. Her helplessness is more
irritating than pathetic. The
authors talent for creating
nightmarish atmosphere de-
serves a more believable basic
situation.
Every Bets a Sure Thing. BY
Thomas B. Dewey. (Simon
& Schuster; $2.500
Inner SGnctum
Within an hour after Mac,
the private sleuth, takes on a
shadow job, his predecessor on
the assignment is shot down.
Other discouraging experiences
follow apace. He is flung from
a train, discovers murder and
treachery, gets beat up by the
hirelings of a narcotics kingpin
and has to chase two kidnapped
youngsters. Violence is unre-
strained and so Is the plot.
The Double Shuttle. BY James
Hadley Chase. (E P. Dut-
ton & Co., Inc; $2.50.)
Guilt-Edged
A Showgirl with a snake act
insures her life for 81 million
but with this gimmick: She
pays a tiny premium because
she agrees the companies won't
have to pay if she dies Of any
of the causes listed in the poll
cies-and every cause of death
seems to be covered. It's just
a publicity stunt. see? Obvious
ly, there's going to be a murder.
Actually, there are several Of
them to compound the confu-
sion. Double indemnity was
never like this.
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place would be near the falls
OF the Potomac.
At about that time Jefferson
came up with a daring plan.
He pointed out it would take
the votes of nine States to
choose a new Capital. He pro-
posed that Virginia and Mary
land each put up $4,000 to
erect buildings in the George
town area on either side of the
river Congress favored. Then.
in a motion to adjourn, Con-
gress could vote to meet there
next. The canny Jefferson
pointed out that only seven
States were required to carry
an adjournment motion.
No action was taken on this
proposal. Jefferson wrote Mad
ison from Annapolis in Feb
ruary. 1894, that Georgetown
languisheS." He advised that
the strategy should be to get
Congress to some place away
from Chesapeake Bay, but
where it would not consider it's
location permanent. This pre-
sumably became the guiding
principle for the Southern
Delegates.
The climax, of course, came
six years later in New York
during the 1st Congress in a
famous bit of log rolling. Sec
retary Of State Jefferson &C
ceded to Secretary of State
Hamilton's plan for assump-
ton of the States revolution
ary debts by the Federal Gov
ernment. Hamilton, in turn,
agreed that the Capital should
be on the banks of the Potomac
after 10 years in Philadelphia.
The papers here presented
show Jefferson not only as the
skilled politician but, as is to
be expected. as philosopher, in
ventor, scientist, statesman,
even as military planner with
a remarkably long view.
Walt Whitman
BY Frederik Schyberg, with
an introduction by Gay Will
son Allen. Translated from the
Danish by Evie Allison Allen.
columbia University Press:
So
A scholarly Interpretation of
Whitman, this book contains
no novel theories, but is an
excellent summation of the
poets life and writings.
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Queen Elizabeth II. June 2 is
to be the date of release.
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Books in Review
First Hord-Hittine Novel Of Korea
BY q Soldier Who Fought There

Troubling of Star
BY Walt Sheldon. Lippincott; $500
Reviewed BY Corter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1953-01-11

The postal authorities Of
Turkey have produced multi
colored set of four stamps in
honor of the Red Crescent
organization, corresponding to
the Red Cross of non-Moslem
countries.
Evening star., 1953-01-11

Stamps Magazine for Janu-
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article on Postage Stamps and
Cancellations as Media for
Propaganda" by Carlos Stoet-
Evening star., 1953-01-11

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set OF four new stamps Of SYM
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
Ike Attempts
Appeasenlent
OF Dixie Demos
By JACK BELL

PY SNSN De t-L
WASHINGTON, jan, 10 lPl-Pres-
ident-elect Eisenhower has taken
concrete steps toward cementing
relationships with the Southern
Democrats who may provide the
margin for congressional approval
of some of his legislative proposals.
In at least one instance, Eisen-
hover has written Dixie legiSla-
tor praising the latter's record and
suggesting a conference on general
legislative matters after the inau-
guration.
In this instance. the Congress
member involved did not openly
support Eisenhower in the election
campaign. For Democrats who did
mostly state officials--the re-
ward has been even more con-
crete, through consultations on
patronage.
For members of Congress who
backed his Democratic opponent,
Gov. Adlai Z. Stevenson of Illinois,
Eisenhower had CHEEKY Christ
mas card, if nothing else,
This sort of activity is regarded
here as likely to give the new
PreSident-elect some whopping ma
jorities in Congress as long as the
honeymoon atmosphere prevails.
The test will be whether he can
cement enough SouthernerS to his
cause when Democratic party lead
erS drop their wait-and-See atti-
tlde in the next few months and
begin shooting at the Republican
Presidents proposals,
The shooting could begin. along
about April, when Congress gets
down to doing something about the
SIS, 100. 0o0. 900 budget President
Truman submitted TO Congress
this week.
Some of the Democrats who re-
gard themselves as liberals al
ready are beginning 10 organize 50
point out any miS-StepS the Repubh-
cans might make.
The Southern Democrats are
likely to SO along with most econ,
omy moves Eisenhower makes and
may support many Of his other
proposals. In fact. Sen. Daniel D.
Tex has predicted the Dixie laU
makers may be found more often
in Eisenhower corner than some
Republicans.
This support could b. critical IN
the Senate. where the Republicans
outnumher the Democrats by oHe
vote, with one independent,
In line with the new President
be kind.to- So1therners policy. Sen
Bridges lRNHl and Sen M!lliSla
tR,Colol have suggested thar Ser
Byrd <n-Nal stay ca as chalrmaa