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1852 TRAVEL HONE trailer with
bath. Completely furnished.
Beautiful Is. awning-covered Pa.
ito. Ideal location. 1908 Simonton
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FURNISHED house. quiet settled
couple. Child: under one year
accepted. No pets. 80 elizabeth
Street. jlyl3-stx
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NEW ADOBE brick and c. B. 5.
house for rent. Completely fur.
lnished. Aug. 10 Jan. 10000 per
month. Call 2.aOss. jlyI5-st
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FOR SALE cheap is Cabin boat
with 5 H. P. Soaking cupboard
motor, Anchor, new brass pumps
for pumping out boat after rains.
new tarpaulin cover 100 rope, /
oar. Price $4,000. Boat without
motor $4,000. J. D. Bearup. s22
Fleming St. rear. Phone 2-62Ss.
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2 BDR. furnished house. Electric
kitchen $500 monthly, plus usi-
ities. 500 Olivia. jIy13-stxI
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MIDDLE Kge woman to work on
the s.sasn table. RennyaD Casc.
terra. sas rsmontna. ps,s-ti
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-FOUR room ffrn. house. Hot and
cold water. Free parking. One
lchild accepted. 1873 Fogarty.
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EtInNISf Ed small apt. for couple.
Hot water $500 per month.
GO Elizabeth ST. ilylA-tf
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APT. FOR RENT. 5000 including
utilities. Ills Margaret ST.
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FURNISHED apt. for rent. Apply
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SMALL furnished house with best
Of everything. Large enclosed
yard, suitable for couple with one
child. $4,000 plus utilities. sos VIII
liam St. Phone 2-2I74. jlyls-tf
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MATTRESSES and bar maids: Ap-
ply AFTER . p. IA. sloppy Joe's.
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NEW Apt. for rent. all electric
kitchen. Available July II. Can
y seen now, vs. Truman Ave.
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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-08-28
AUCTION SALES TO
BE HELD NEXT WEEK
BY BEACH GIFT SHOP

Announcement is made of auc-
ton sales to be held next week,
by Raymond Zalty of the Surf
side Gift Shop of Mays Head. Two
sales are to be held each day,
2 p. m. and $3.50 p. m. August 81
through September 3.
Zalty, who has operated the
shop for the first time this year,
says he recently bought out a
bankrupt New York firm, and
this with his regular stock, will
make total of $4,000 worth of
merchandise. Such items as
chinaware, linens, rugs, and gift
items will be offered for sale to
the highest bidder.
Door prizes are to be awarded.
The shop is located in the build
ing with the Surfside Restaurant.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-08-28

Williamson, when they made
their home there.
Mrs. Al Mathers of Memphis,
Tenn, was godmother. God
fathers were Dewey Hayman of
Mays Head and DR.. IL. w. Saun-
ders of Baltimore, Md.
Following the ceremony at the
church the guests were entertain
ed at an informal reception on
the porch of the Arlington Hotel,
of which Mr.. ad Mrs. Hayman are
proprietors. Those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Hayman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Parent, Michael Hayman,
Linda Parent, Mrs. Al Mathers,
DR.. L. w. Saunders, Mrs. N. E.
Gould of Mays Head, great
grandmother of the baby, DR..
and Mrs. James Bardin of Char
lottesville, Va, and Manteo, NC,
James Byrd of Baltimore, Md,
and Manteo, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
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CHRISTOPHER PARENT
CHRISTENED SATURDAY
Episcopal Chapel Scene of Cere-
mOny; Reception Afterward
at the Arlington

Saint Acknowledgements the
Episcopal chapel on the Mays
Head beach, was the scene of the
christening of Christopher Parent
of Mays Head and Washington,
D. c., at Ais Saturday afternoon,
August %. Christopher Charles
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Parent of Mays Head and
Washington, and the grandson of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Hayman of
Mays Head. The officiating min
lister was Rev. John Hardy of
Beaufort, S. c., who was rector of
the Episcopal church attended by
the parents and grandparents in
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WANcHEsE PERSONALS

William Daniels is a patient in
the Leigh Memorial Hospital,
Norfolk.
Norman Kelly and Wallace
Horlee of Cuswell are visiting
their aunt, Mrs. Royden Tillett.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Propet and
son, John, and Mr.. and Mrs. Err
nest Rankin of Gastonia visited
Rev. and Mrs. C. w. Guthrie Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Murphy and
children of Houston, Texas and
Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Johnson of
Longstreet, Louisiana have re-
turned to their homes after visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson's
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Wescott.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Forbes
and son, Irving, of Norfolk were
week end guests of Mrs. Forbes's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Theof Wes-
colt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Edwards
of Newport News and Sgt. and
Mrs. Dallas Midget of Norfolk
are visiting their mother, Mrs.
Rowena Midget.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Howard
of Chesapeake City, Md, are
visiting Mrs Towards mother
Mrs. Dora Davis.
Mrs. George Daniels and
daughter, Laura, are visiting rel
atives in Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Della Hooker has return
ed to her home in Norfolk after
visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Gaskill OF
Greenville, N. c., are visiting Mr.
Gaskill's parents, Mr. and Mrs
James Gaskill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Sutton
and children of New Hope were
week end guests of Mr.. and MRS.
Arnold Daniels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Meekins
and son, Alexander, of Rodanthe
visited Mrs. Meekins' sister, Mrs
Rowena Midget Friday.
Mrs. Dennis Greet and Mrs
Lucy Midget were visitors ir
Norfolk Wednesday.
Howard Durwood and Donald
Gibson of Winterville, N. c..
visited Mrs. Rowena Midget
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Daniel:
were in Norfolk Monday.
Buster, son of Mr.. and Mrs
treatment at Norfolk Genera
Hospital, Norfolk Tuesday.
Mrs. Pearl Schaff has returned
to her home in Concord after
visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Calvin Sawyer of Norfolk
was the week end guest of hel
mother, Mrs. Eva, Daniels.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Harris anc
children OF Alexandria, Va, spen
Sunday here with Mr.. and Mrs
d A. P. Harris.
Jack Coonce of Kinston spent
Sunday here as the guest of Ste.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-08-28
MACS HEAD GIRL RECENT
BRIDE OF MANTEO MAN

Miss Harriet Anna Tillett,
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
shall Tillett of Mays Head, be-
came the bride of Phillip Quid-
ley, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hale Dudley of Manteo, in
quiet ceremony in the Baptist
Mission at Mays Head, at five
o'clock Monday afternoon, Aug
ust 10. The vows were spoken to
Rev. Frank B. Dinwiddie in the
presence of a few close relatives
and friends.
The bride wore a light blue
nylon dress with navy accessor-
les. She is a graduate of Manteo
High School, having been men,
Der of the class of 1858. The
bridegroom received his educa-
ton in the Manteo schools and
John Brown University, Sloan
Springs, Ark He is at present
in business with his father near
Manteo. The couple spent their
honeymoon at Hatteras, and are
now living with Mr.. Quidley's
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George w. Baum, in Wanchese.
Among those attending the
wedding were Mrs. F. B. Din
widdie, of Mays Head, Lloyd San
derlin of Wanchese; Miss Eleanor
Douglas of Manteo; Mrs. Clyde
Twiford, Mrs. Betty Tillett and
Marshall Tillett, Jr., of Mays
Head, and Miss Phyllis Dudley
of Manteo.
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Wart Daniels.
Pat Daniels of Fla, spent Sun
day here with relatives.
Mrs. Willie Etheridge, Sr., has
returned from the Norfolk Cen
eral Hospital where she under
went an operation recently.
Mrs. Cliff Tillett and Mrs. Deb
by Daniels visited William Dan
ielS, a patient in Leigh Memorial
Hospital. Norfolk. Sunday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-08-28

Kriel of Baltimore, Md, Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Stokes, Mrs. H. o.
White and Mrs. C. w. Beasley of
Colerain, Rev. and Mrs. John
Hardy of Beaufort, S. c., Mrs.
Elmer R. Midgette of Manteo, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry w. Schacter of
Louisville, KY, and w. w. Tark-
ington of Manteo.
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DEN OF RATTLESNAKES
FOUND NEAR COLUMBIA

Columbia. - A Bushel Basket
would have held the rattlesnakes
found in one pile on the farm of
John w. Woodland near Columbia
on Sunday, August %, according
to Mr.. Woodland. A mother snake
and % of her brood were killed,
and several got away. The small
snakes measured at least IL inch
es in length.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

stories and finally a kind of
hymn to faith and hope. A
great deal for one novel, you
will say. Miss Jameson has
given herself plenty of room;
1.-The Green Man" runs close
to 800 pages.
In the various enterprises
which make up the whole.
Miss Jameson has had con-
siderable success, even though
they are not too we'll woven
together. Each scene is care
fully wrought; the dialogue
makes sense. Two monsters
of selfiShneSS, are Strikingly
done. The only trouble with
the characters is there are
too many of them, and they
talk too much.
On Sound Terrain
Where one simpering,
homSexual oxford under
graduate might have done.
Miss Jameson gives us three
or four, indistinguishable
from one another, even as
to names. In the person of
Matthew Daubney, a tycoon
with as great a greed for
women as for power, she pre-
sents the blind and realistic"
mentality which led to Munich.
But she presents him over and
over again, having very much
the same conversation with the
same little foxes who thought
Hitler could be dealt with.
The Yorkshire scenes in the
f1ve-century-old house are,
being freer from speech-mak-
ing, more winning. Here
Miss Jameson steps down from
the lectern, so to speak, and
describes with warmth the
sturdy northern types who en-
body the strength and indi-
viduality of England. Here her
hero, Andrew Daubney, once
Matthews lackey, comes home
from France to rediscover the
land. Here Richard. Mat
thew's quixotic brother, a
nationalist and a Christian
although forced to sell the
lovely house to his rapacious
brother, somehow triumphs.
Here Andrew finally shakes
loose from his beautiful. self
righteous Soul-destroying wife
who regards herself as bring
ing civilization to the savages
but who actually only brings
trouble to the innocent.
Miss Jameson writes f1uently.
feelingly. She despises the
rotterS who tried to blight the
green of England. Her novel,
despite its repetitiveness. the
covering of much familiar
ground and a zeal to present
all points of view, is rooted in
a sound tradition. Only
pruning would have made it
better. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

and the village StOrekeeper is
paid off for the supplies bought
on credit.
But Albert Clayton has some
thing many a less humble man
lacks-integrity. He minds his
own business, but he has a
quite dignity, an innate self
respect. All the Negroes ad-
mire him without quite know
ing why. and the white men
look up to him-some resent
fully. He asks nothing of any,
body except what he has COM
ing, and yet because his voice
never quavers or fawns and
his step never falters the COM
munity has nicknamed him
prince Albert" He does not
mind.
Mr.. Young, who is 80 and a
white native Mississippian. at
present a graduate student at
Tulane University, has written
a quiet. deeply felt story which
should make a lasting impress
sion on readers. He has chosen
to write of people who in re-
cent years have been subjected
to many Sordid novel. You'd
get the impression from such
books that such people were as
drab as their surroundings,
their spirits as impoverished as
their cabins. But Mr. Young
knows that honor and decency,
kindness and charity are not
peculiar to mansions or mid
dle-class bungalows.
Prince" Albert had a modest
ambition. He wanted, if pos
Sible, a little nicer house than
sharecroppers were used to. He
Evening star., 1953-03-08

These letters are fascinating.
Reading them is a reWarding
experience; their publication is
an important event.
For almost 20 years the
venerable Supreme Court JUS
tice and the young teacher Of
economics and politics wrote
frankly. sometimes indiscreetly.
to each other about everything
that interested their two zest-
full minds. Most of the impor-
tant events and people of the
world interested them.
The extraordinary friend
ship which produced the let
tiers had it's beginning when
Laski visited Justice Holmes in
July, 1916. Holmes was rs.
Today is the 112th anniversary
of his birth. Laski was then
% and about to become an in
structor at Harvard. There he
became a controversial figure
as he was to become later in
his native England as a Marx
ist and chairman of the Labor
Party.
About the only difference
that developed, although it
failed to trouble their friend
ship, came when Laski pub
lished his book, Communism"
in 1927. Wrote Holmes:
You state the pros and cons
fairly, but with an implied
sympathy for beliefs that I
Evening star., 1953-03-08
By Florence S. Berrymon

The 61st annual exhibition
of the Society of Washington
Artists. which opened Thurs
day evening to remain through
March 20 in the foyer of the
Natural History Building,
Tenth street and Constitution
avenue, is a lively show, pre-
dominantly contemporary in
idiomS. It's IS paintings and
Is sculptures were selected
from 575 entries. The dis
tinguished artists who came
from New York City to serve
as jurors (of both selection
and awards) warmly COM
mended the works. Said Pep
pino Mangravite of the paint
ings:
Il believe that Washington
artists have caught up with
that pictorial expression which
we call contemporaneous and
universal and which not long
ago was known as classical
and local"
Hugo Robus said: THE
sculpture accepted for the
1853 show is of a high quality
In it's form and eSthetic con-
tent. 1t rates, in my opinion,
with the sculpture of any other
section of our country"
Aword Winners
The list of prize winners
was published in The Stars
news columns last Monday,
with a reproduction of city
Fabric" the painting by Mimi
Du Bois Bolton which won The
Evening Star award of $100
and the society's medal. The
work is an abstract organ
ization of various architec-
tural elements in a cool color
scheme.
Leonard Maurer's "OrpheuS
and Eurydice," which fetched
the George E. Muth award
of $50 (second prize for paint
ings) and the society's medal,
issa long, narrow panel, treat
ing the classic myth in semi
abstract manner, with color
playing a major role, as the
figures emerge from the portals
of hades (orange and red) to
the fresh green of earth. just
before Orpheus takes his fatal
backward glance.
Alfred McAdams' third
prize-winning Episode" ($25
society award) is surrealistic
architectural subject. Honor
able mentions went to Bent
Lanes large Sunset Coast"
with it's feeling of solid forms
and close tonal harmony OF
deep blues and red browns.
and to Peter Blanc's "Conser-
vatory," composed Of slender
vertical abstract forms in col
ors suggesting growing things.
Frank Yee, whose sculpture
has received awards in earlier
society ANIMALS, was given the
Frank r. Jellef award of $50
Cfirst sculpture prize) and the
society's medal for his figure
of stained ebony. "Grief Shape
Is the Teardrop." Barbara Fos-
ter'S traditional life-Size head
of a young Negro received the
S. Thomas Saltz award of $50
and the society's medal. Third
prize ($25 from the society
went to Hazel Van Matters
"Platonic Solids" two little
simplified interlocking figures
making a satisfying entity.
'The Indians Dream" by Os-
wald Bridge. which received
honorable mention in sculp-
ture, is a surprise winner, en-
tirely different from the gen.
orally sophisticated works
mentioned above. This little
polychromed wood carving is
a sort of totem, and looks like
a piece of Mexican folk art.
Chonce for Newcomers
The Society's ANIMALS are
truly open, affording oppor-
tunities for newcomers. Ap-
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Reviewed BY Mary McGrory

With "Alexander's Bridge"
out of the way. she turned
back to the Middle West for
her sources, and thereafter her
progress was steady and
rewarding. The critics from
the first reYered her.
Corresponded With Reoders
She had the supreme reward
of knowing that her books
reached people, and she car
ried on a heavy correspondence
with readers whose lives had
been directly and affirmatively
touched by her luminous
stories. Travel and music, her
two greatest pleasures beyond
her friends. she steadily en-
joyed. And her work gave her
the intenseSt pleasure. Edith
Lewis tells of the rapt con-
tentment which held Miss
Gather while she lived in the
world of Death Comes to the
Archbishop"
E. K. Browns study recon-
structS each of her novels and
traces their sources. A metic-
ulous and Illuminating work,
it is too reverent and imper-
sonal to be counted as biogra-
ply. Although he corresponded
with her for years, he never
knew the subject. He died be-
fore he could complete the
book.
Miss Lewis, on the other
hand, knew Miss Gather well
and lived and travelled with
her for "A years. Yet hers, too,
is essentially the story of an
artist rather than of a woman.
Actually, this is the source ma
terial given by her to Mr..
Brown for the biography which
she authorized of Miss Gather.
Although brief, and as reticent
as Miss Gather would have
liked, her book is very moving
and presents a warm picture
of an exceptional human being
who believed that all human
beings were exceptional. That
was the essence of her art.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
BY George Santayana (Scribner's; S3J

with the sparkle reflected from
all his compositions. There is
much about some of his
friends at oxford and else
where. Looking back on his
life, he remarks: Never have
I enjoyed youth so thoroughly
as I have in my old age" Not
despairing, but resigned to the
dark outlook of today. he says:
1T would be preposterous to
expect any one civilization to
last forever" He could say in
one place that he had seen
"the vanity of religious sub
stitutes for earthly happiness"
but add in a later discussion:
The modern hatred for re-
ligion is hatred of the truth,
hatred of all sublimity, hatred
of the laughter of the gods.
1t is puerile human vanity try
ing to justify itself by a lie."
It would have been interest,"
ing if he had told more about
his last years in the convent,
but his only comment comes
early in the book: I" I write
these words, under the drastic
restrictions of war. in the
clinic of the Blue Sisters upon
the Caelius. am happy in
solitude and confinement, and
the furious factions into which
the world is divided inspire
hatred for none of them in my
heart"
&C. B, J.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
(Prenttce-HaH; $685.

/. (Prenttce-HaH;; $685.
by his wits, which were not too
sharp. Francois. the main
character, made a small for
tune out of one Of those fringe
publications which live on
blackmail and are accepted in
Paris as a necessary evil.
Finally the law began breath
ing down his neck.
The heroes of both novels
are, strangely enough, named
Francois. Both are dull men
and it is hard to care much
what happens to either. Il
Take This Woman" has no
suspense. There is some in the
other novel, especially in the
last part. But you wouldn't
think, reading either. that
Simenon was a successful
writer of mysteries before he
started writing more ambitious
novels. He does not approach
in either story the strength OF
"The Heart of a Man." his
mastery story of an aging,
ailing actor.
The translation by Louise
Varese is adequate. but some
times overliteral, as when she
translates what undoubtedly
was in the original "cocotte"
into coquette.
&C. B. ].
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Books in Review
UnforgettobIe First Novel Gives
Racial Issue New UNDERSTANDING
A Good Man
BY Jefferson Young. (BobbS-Merriu; $3J
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

decided he'd paint their cabin
white. Somehow a white house
was to him a symbol of better
things, a start toward some
thing he felt but couldn't ex-
press. AS he told his landlord.
Mr.. little, "A white house let
a man be a man." Mr.. Title
was a tolerant and under
standing white man. He owned
the Claytons' tenant house. He
told Albert to go ahead and
paint it if he could raise the
money. Albert had it all fig
ured out. He had acquired a
calf. He'd fatten it up and
sell it and that, with what the
cotton would bring, would pay
for the paint.
When word got around that
Albert was going to paint his
house MI Mathis. the store
keeper, and other white men
less understanding than Mr..
little. were. to Albert's amaze
ment. indignant. Why, there
wasn't a white "nigger house"
in the county. Albert must
be getting "uppity." And Mr..
Mathis not only cut of his
credit. but went to the county
seat and took out a lien
against the Negro's cotton
shares. If it hadn't been for
Mr.. little, the Claytons would
almost have starved. And
that wasn't all. There were
mutterings. threats, and AL
bert's wife was terrified.
The brief story comes to a
dramatic climax, but never
falls into melodrama. There
is not a false note in it. Nor
is there a vulgar phrase. The
simple line of the narrative
is lifted with beauty as the
seasons and their impacts on
the little farm are described.
The characters are touched
with reality. If any novel
like "A Good Man" has come
out of the South, I am un-
aware of it.
Is a literary renaissance
burgeoning in Mississippi?
Two weeks ago another un-
usual first novel about a
Negro, Watch Night" came
out, the work of Walter B.
Lowery, also a young white
man born in the State. It
will be interesting to observe
further developments in the
home of William Faulkner.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

significant MI S~"'~S~"~'
what he did after ne re-
signed from a professorship of
philosophy at Harvard in 1912.
The philosopher left the
United States never to return.
He spent the years of the First
World War in England and
returned there a few times
afterward, but moved to his
native Spain, then to Paris,
finally to Rome. There he
rounded out his years as guest
in a Catholic convent.
For those familiar with any
of Santayana's writing, it
need not be said that his auto
biography is unconventional
and highly selective. 1t also is
witty, profound and written
Evening star., 1953-03-08
By Miriom Gutenberg

Washington whispers Murder.
BY Leslie Ford. (Charles
Scribner's Sons: $2.50.)
The seamy side of life,
Washington style, is scrutinized
in the latest and probably the
best Col. Primrose Grace
Latham setto. The basic plot
involves a Congressman out to
ruin a public servant. He is
motivated by his ambition to
become a Senator and his
fierce hatred for the man who
gypped him out of a tidy per-
sonal profit. Lectures on
hinterland politics from the
mouth Of a demure teen-ager
provide wry humor. This is
high-tension stuff.
China Coaster. BY Don Smith.
(Henry Holt & Co.; $2.750
Michael O'Connor, unem-
ployed ships captain. has just
completed a complicated mis-
sion to Communist China when
he is shanghaied by the Rus
slams. Escaping that trap, he
is befriended by a willy old
gangster with a complicated
set of motives involving piracy.
Murder. torture and wholesale
slaughter figure prominently in
this wild but readable Oriental
thriller.
The ShrOud Of Her Back. BY
Stephen RanSome. Double
day & Co., Inc: $2.500
Illegal cock-fi fighting. a stab
wound which the heroine tried
to conceal, a sinister character
who visits bars with his pet
parakeet all figure simply in
setting the stage for the sub
sequent series of violent epi-
sodes in peaceful Virginia. The
hero's unnecessary device OF
telling each episode to a dicta-
phone slows the action a little
but it can stand it-consider-
ing the dizzy pace. I