Evening star., 1953-05-24

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under the Attlee government
and was retired upon Church.
ills accession as Prime Min
lister.
Inside Story
June Bingham, who collab-
Grated on "The Inside Story"
with DR.. Fritz Redlich, de-
scribed the difficulties of work.
ing with the scientific mind
to an appreciative audience
at a Washington Booksellers
meeting the other night.
Mrs. Bingham, who holds
no medical degrees and who
has never even been psyche
analyzed, said she once stunned
the usually articulate, Wen
neSe-trained DR.. Redlich, head
of Yale's pSychiatry depart
ment, into Speechlessness. That
was the day she told him she
had made up a case history.
It was at once deleted.
"The Inside Story" is a
sprightly study of psychiatry as
it touches everyday life, illus
trated with some 80 cartoons.
DR.. Redlich had a collection of
some 10000 cartoons and each
choice for the book was hotly
contested.
Exploring the Id
Pretty and plainly we'll ad-
justed, Mrs. Bingham is the
wife of Jonathan Bingham. re-
tiring deputy director of point
four and the mother of four
children. She more or less
drifted into interpreting psy-
chiatrists to laymen, starting
out with authorship of a fund
raising letter for the West
chester County Mental Hy-
giene Association. Publication
of a pamphlet called do Cows
Have Neuroses?" further en-
deared her to those whose life
work has been called "the ex-
ploration of the id by the odd,"
and she was asked to give a
speech before the psychiatrists'
convention. On that occasion
she impressed DR.. Redlich as
the very person to write the
text for a cartoon-illustrated
book on psychiatry he had long
been pondering.
"Our problem ,"'she explains,
"was how, without being bor-
ingly clinical, to convince peo-
pie of facts about themselves
which they didn't know, didn't
want to know and didn't want
to know that they didn't want
to know"
Now that the last argument
about it has been finished,
Mrs. Bingham, freed from the
burden of being scientifically
accurate, has thankfully with
drawn into continuing the
novel she gave up to write
THE Inside Story" Mr.. Bing-
ham is also at work. He is
well away on a book about the
point-four program.
james Baldwin
Autobiographical fragment
from James Baldwin, author
of that striking first novel,
"Go Tell It on the Mountain"
He reveals that he read inceS-
sanity while he was minding
his younger brothers and sis
tiers in his Harlem home. II
read Uncle Toms Cabin and
"A Tale of Two Cities over and
over again; in this way, in
fact, I read just about every
thing I could get my hands
on-except the Bible, probably
because it was the only book
I was encouraged to read.
when one begins looking
for influences one finds them
by the score. I haven't
thought much about my own,
not enough anyway: I hazard
the King James Bible. the
rhetoric of the Store-front
church, something ironic and
violent and perpetually under
stated in Negro speech-and
something of Dickens love for
bravura-have something to do
with me today; but I wouldn't
stake my life on it. Likewise,
innumerable people have
helped me in many ways; but
finally, I suppose, the most
difficult (and most rewarding)
thing in my life has been the
fact that I was born a Negro
and was forced. therefore. to
effect some kind Of truce with
reality. (Truce, by the way. is
the best one can hope for.)"
Ford at So
the most popular book cur
rently circulating in the State
Department overseas book pro-
gram is an unaSsailably capi-
talistic item called Ford at
So" the story Of the Ford
Motor Co., with emphasis on
improvement of laboring con-
ditions. Five thousand copies
were presented to the State
Department by the FordS. but
so great has been demand in