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and amusements through their
own committees, and there ID
the usual occupational therapy
in whatever direction talents or
hobbies run.
Cose Of the New Dropes
AS the curtain rises on our
drama, DR.. McIver is particu-
larly interested in a youth.
called Stevie, who has been
with him the better part of
a year. Stevie is a gifted ar
fist. who had attempted sui
eide. There are times when he
seems to be emerging from his
fog OF unreality: at other times
he slips back. The most hopeful
sign comes when he draws a
series of designs for some new
Grapes which are needed in
the patients living room. The
doctor decides to use them.
and they are to be woven into
the cloth in the patients shop.
Meanwhile. Karen. McIver's
vain. shallow wife, has been in
touch with a wealthy Chicago
woman who Is a trustee of the
clinic, and together they have
ordered some manufactured
Grapes. The treasurer of the
clinic, a penurious spinster,
has further complicated this
minor improvement by under
cutting the Chicago trustee and
ordering some cheaper Grapes.
McIver. feeling that Stevie's
sanity Is at stake. insists that
the patient project go through.
The comedy Of the Grapes
takes a serious, even tragic
turn. McIver and his wife. who
have been politely estranged
for years and have stayed to-
gether only for the children,
clash bitterly. McIver is driven
to the comfort of Meg. a young
widow. a psychotherapiSt at
the clinic. who has always loved
him. DR.. Devereux tries to re-
claim his lost authority and
double crosses several persons.
With the row over the Grapes
at boiling point. Karen slips
in early one morning and puts
up hers and the trustees.
Stevie, seeing his designs ap-
parently disregarded. disap-
pears in the direction of the
river.
All the diverse strands of
the story are drawn together
in a tight climax.
Mr.. Gibson has published a
verse play. a volume Of poems
and contributed verse and
short stories to magazines.
THE Cobweb" is an outstand-
ing novel of the new season.
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The Sinister Researches of c. p Ransom
BY H. Nearing, Jr. (Doubledoy. $685.
Reviewed BY William Hines

The way things are going
nowadays, it is getting so a
science fiction writer can't get
into print before his story isn't
science fiction any more.
Some time ago, DR.. Nearing
wrote a story about Prof.
Cleanth Penn Ransom, a semi
bughouSe mathematical genius
who rugged up an electronic
calculator so it would write
poetry. OF course, the very
concept of such a machine was
so outlandish that the maya
zine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction was happy to publish
the story just as a matter of
good, clean fun
EIectronic Calculator
But before the story could
get between hard covers-along
with eight other c. P. Ransom
adventures-some one in real
life rugged up an electronic
calculator to do something in
tellectually on a par with writ
ing poetry. This late develop
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The Image and the Search
!. Pstnam's Sons; $780,


In prose of grave distinction.
Walter Baxter has written the
story Of q woman, who. after
the loss Of a beloved husband.
turns to many men in the hope
Of recapturing the illusion OF
love.
When first encountered.
Sarah Valmont is. the most
fortunate of women. She is
beautiful. rich, much loved.
Her marriage to Robert has
brought them both an endur-
ing ecstasy. When he Is lost
on a mission. she bravely meets.
her grief head on, then with no
thought of sin or betrayal
seeks to assuage it in another
way. First it is q man just as
lonely as herself; then an
American who resembles Rob-
ert. At first. merely a pleas
ureless indecency." sex grad
ually becomes for her a means
Of recalling her passion for
Robert. AS the war draws to a
close. she has become indis-
eliminate, lewd and coarse as
her casual pickups.
A Shocking Scene
Finally, she goes to India
to inspect her fathers shellac
factory. There in the person
Of Father Depuyt, a Belgian
missionary, she sees her first
glimpse of a selfless life. There,
also. she meets a dark coun-
terfeit of her husband. a native
overseer. In a truly shocking
scene, Sarah encounters Jo-
han in a cave. The brutal
aftermath of that scene how
ever, brings to Sarah the SIM
pie realization that the wages
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Thot Bod Word

Lucy Herndon Crockett. au-
thor Of The Magnificent Bas-
tards, came to town last
week, UNDERSTANDABLE gratified
that her yes-and-no novel
about the United States Ma
rines was already in its fourth
printing and has just been sold
to Paramount Pictures for
$4,000.
A slim, self-p osse ssed,
husky-voiced charmer, Miss
Crockett has taken leave from
her art shop at Seven Mile
Ford. Va, to make personal
appearances in con n ection
with her first novel. The
project is complicated, in her
case. at least in re radio and
television, because the noun
in her title is one not in COM
mon currency over the air.
waves. Miss Crockett reports
that Mary Margaret Mcbride,
bold as a Leatherneck in the
first wave on an island assault,
warned her listeners they were
about to hear a word they
didn't usually hear on her
program. Then she came
right out and said it. Other
mistresses of ceremonies, both
here and in New York were
not so brave.
Miss Crockett. unmarried, is a
veteran Of five years Red Cross
service in the South Pacific.
She realizes that the SEN
sational title and love story
of her novel may detract
readers from its more seri-
Gus purpose which is to ex-
plain men in overseas COM
bat to their wives. their moth
ers and themselves.
Early returns indicate to
the somewhat bemused author
that the Marines adore the
book.
Says Miss Crockett with
cheerful cynicism: We'll, you
know, I made them out to be
wonderful fighters. And, as for
the other part, every man
deep down just loves to be
thought a rascal"
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Mr.. Sheeun
With Love
And Kisses

BY Vincent Sheean.
Brandon, House,. 49,

BY Vincent Sheean. 4
Random House,, $3.)
Mr.. Sheean, erstwhile for.
eign correspondent. is report
ing on the state of a lady's
heart in his second novel. His
heroine. Lily, is a very WELL
preserved 40, a cultivated.
sophisticated divorce, with q
handsome alimony and the
steadying memory of board.
ing house childhood.
Adrift on the Riviera, Lily
loses her heart to a romantic
Spaniard, with three white
arrows in his hair and a head
full of improbable schemes
about his native country. Lily
even begins to read about st.
Teresa Of Avila, the better to-
ensnare Ricardo her impetuous
and elusive lover. In true
"Traviata" fashion, his mother,
an ancient. sleepy duchess.
comes to beg Lily not to marry
her son. Ricardo is Swallowed
by a baleful stranger, Lily has
premonitions, Ricardo disap-
pears, Lily. in the fashion of
today turns to religion. The
ending is abrupt and incon-
elusive.
Mr.. Sheean's book, readable
enough, somehow never makes
up its mind to whether to be
a romance or an adventure
story. It ends up by being
neither. and a trif1e spurious
in the bargain. A Spaniard,
even one with three white
arrows in his hair. is no guar
antee of high romance: nor
can the mention of st. Teresa,
: insure an aura of mysticism.
Mr.. Sheean's non-fiction dis
patches were more genuinely
exciting than this.
M. Meg.
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T.
In his first novel William
Gibson has written a story
strong with the sinews of
f1eSh-and-b blood people.
The scene is a Middle West
ern hospital for nervous dis
orders. Thus it is hardly to
be wondered that the cast con-
tainS some strange characters,
not all of them patients. But
who, after all, is to say what
is. strange. what ordinary,
where the line between the
normal and the abnormal
falls? And. however peculiar
some of these persons may
seem, they emerge from these
pages none the less real. from
their ambitions to their tastes
in food and drink.
Mr.. Gibson writes extremely
well. His novel is long, quite
detailed and yet it manages
to hold an absorbing interest
without seeming to strain
after suspense. 1t is not with
out humor. It also is not free
from vulgarity, though this. l
think. is due to an over
literalness at times. There is
nothing trashy about the book.
The Castle Clinic
The Castle Clinic in Nebras-
ka, so-called because of the
shape of the main building, is
q private institution for the
more tractable and hopeful
cases. There are no prison
wards, and patients who be-
come unmanageable are sent
to some hospital equipped to
handle them.
The nominal medical direc-
tor is DR.. Devereux, a weak and
craven man who long ago
failed in the promise he gave
when he started practice. Some
years before the events con-
cerned in the story DR.. McIver.
a brilliant young psychiatrist,
was retained with the title of
associate director, but actually.
Under his contract, with the
authority to hire and fire en-
ployes and to have the final
word in prescribing therapy.
McIver is, to all practical pur-
poses, director.
The clinic is expensive, as all
such places are. and there are
few enough patients for each to
be studied and administered to
individually. McIver has put
in a plan for these maladjusted
men and women to live as
normally as possible. The Sc
curity provision are at a mini
mum; the patients manage
such things as. their library
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MORMON y Foro ters:
Could you suggest a quiet, modest
and inexpensive seacoast town
with q good beach and fishing
where I could retire within 100
miles Of New York City2
Is 1t possible to buy rural s.
room cottage on an acre Of ground
near the southern Gulf Coast OF
Florida for $4,000
Where can find a clean, friendly
city with q climate that's mild and
it's sunny the year around
I have a highly strung, nervous
type Of constitution. ! also suf1er
from pleurisy. / would like to re-
tire in q medium sized city with
plenty OF cultural opportunity.
What can you suggest?
Is it true that you can live like q
king in Majorca for less than $35
a week for two? How do you
reach Majorca?
Do you know of any city in Mex
leo where prices have not risen.
and where I can and other retired
Americans?
The facts to answer these typical
questions and hundreds more are
given in Norman ID. FOrd's won
derful books. Where TO Retire on
q Small Income and Barg1in
Paradises Of the World.
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ADVERT ADvFRT7SF71FNT
WHERE TO RETIRE TO-DAY
land ENJOY 1T
BY Norman D. Ford

If there is anything I have
found out in travelling up and
down this country and through
out the rest of the world, it is
this: 1t costs less to retire than
you may think it does-provided
you knoU hour to discover those
places ,Chere it costs less to hue
the kind OF life you like.
AS founder of the Glohetrot-
tiers Club made it my business
to find low-cost beauty spots all
over the world. Right here in
the U. S.. I found places where
the cost of living is surprisingly
low-and you can get a part
time or seasonal job if you must
pad out your income. Here are
Just a few Of these first-rate
retirement spots.
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Reading and Writing
Donish Readers Like Our Books,
Have No QuorreI With Reolists
By Mory McGrory

A Danish book critic, recent
ly arrived in Washington on
the first leg Of a tour of
United States literary install
tlations. under State Depart
ment auspices, reports a stead
lily growing pleasure in Ameri-
can books in his native land.
OF foreign books translated
last year, reports Hakon STAN
gerup, cultural editor of the
Copenhagen National Times,
95 were American, 10 English.
Is French and only 2 Russian,
and those two 10th century
classics.
Danish readers also love our
paperbacks. and read them in
English. To the charge that
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the late Harry Dexter White
and the Institute of Pacific
Relations, Mr.. Burnham sums
up these records clearly. He
also has some new or over
looked evidence pointing to
Red cells in crucial Federal
arteries at one time.
During the war, the author
points out, the Soviet govern
ment was not so much con-
cerned with espionage. since
this country was an ally, as
with controlling policy in the
postwar world to come. Hence,
he says. there was a great eff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
The Oxford Dictionary of Quototions
Edited by Alice Mary smyth others (Orord University
Press; $780,

This Is a revised second edi-
ton Of the authoritative and
comprehensive book first pub
lished in 1941. During the IL
intervening years, the editors
received many suggestions for
additions to the famous quota
lions listed. The committee
in charge considered these,
familiarity being the critic
rion," as in the first edition,
and some 1900 additions ap-
pear in the new edition. About
$50 quotations originally in
cluded seemed no longer ia
miliar and have been omitted"
the editors explain. The quo
are arranged alphabet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
Do you know where to find

. the greatest retirement bar
gain in Florida?
the most beautiful town In
all California?
the three top-nOtch retire.
ment towns in the Southwest?
the one place in America
where university experts have
found the most healthfuI
climate in the world? -
. that marvellous Maine island,
where its 1918 degrees
warmer in winter than on
the mainland, and living
costs are so low they attract
many who otherwise could
not afford to retire?
a health spa, with wonderful
facilities for recreation, sur
rounded by a national park?
. the ideal island for retire.
ment in the South, with cool
summers and warm winters?
. the most cultural" small
town in America, with q
Little Theatre, art and music
clubs, q cosmopolitan atmos-
phere?
OF course, these are only a
handful Of the hundreds of
beauty spots, hideaways, and
larger communities in the u. S.,
where you can retire now on
little money and enjoy yourself
completely.
And In the rest of the world,
there are hundreds more be-
. sides. Just q few Of them:
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The Prophet Armed. Trotsky: 187o-1o21
BY Isaac Deutscher. (Ortord University Press; $6D
Reviewed bv Froncis P DouoIos

"Trotsky's entire behavior"
a friend said. lis dominated by
his ego, but his ego is domi-
mated by the revolution"
That this was true is made
abundantly clear in Mr.. Deut-
scher's book about the greatest
revolutionary Of our times.
This volume deals with Trot-
sky's triumph-and ends on a
foreboding note.
BY 1921. Mr.. Deutscher says,
it was apparent the Russian
working class was incapable of
fulfilling the role of dictator
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American realists like Faux
ner. Steinbeck and Caldwell
harm Americas cause abroad.
Mr.. Stangerup makes this dis
senting answer:
Danes in the first place have
a long, realistic tradition Of
their own. And the clincher:
Here are your writers freely
and without interference crit
izing social conditions: it is a
real proof that 1t Is a free and
democratic country"
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n l S I S q n Il
p arty-linerS
in the Gov
ern m e n t.
While much
of the ma
terial Is a
rehaSh of
evidence de-
veloped by
various con-
gre S S tonal
committees,
lu d ing
such causes
celebreS as
tho 90 coS nf
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tistic and sensual Sarah could
only have been jolted out Of
her preoccupation with herself
in such a shattering episode
as her meeting in the cave with
Johan. Out Of such degrade
ton can come regeneration.
Mr.. Baxter intimates. contin-
uing the theme begun in Look
Down in Mercy" namely. that
every one has to live the con-
fusion of their uniqueness."
M. Meg.
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These middle years Of the
goth century belong to the
mountain climbers, no doubt
about it now. First it was Her
zog conquering Annapurna,
then it was Hillary and Ten
zing climbing Everest. Now we
learn about Harrer and
Aufschnaiter. a pair, Of Ger
mans from that mad but mag
nificent mountain climbing
set. who forsook the peace and
quiet Of a British prisoner-of-
war camp in India for the
rigors and desolation Of the
Himalayas and Tibet.
Their reward was the warm
friendship of one of the living
legends of our materialistic
day, the boy Dalai Lama, god
king Of Tibet.
Madness Unmatched
Herr Harrer is not a great
writer. but he has written a
great book. He is such a great
adventurer he needed only to
tell his experiences. For sheer
madness he has few peers,
even among mountaineers.
He set out from India intend
ing to flee across the Hima-
layas, Tibet and China to make
contact with the Japanese,
then allied with Germany in
the war. He and his compan-
ion got only as far as Lhasa.
capital of Tibet, after 81
months Of circulating cold
and anguish. Because they
were fugitives. they had to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14

Of sin is death. that the pleas
ures of the flesh. INDUCED in
for their own sake, bring only
dead and bitter futility."
Why Sarah. educated in an
English home, had never found
out this simple law of nature,
had never. in fact, had the
slightest intimation of moral
ity, is never explained.
Mr.. Baxter has achieved the
difficult task of writing about
a sensuous woman In erotic
terms without ever being mere
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ment you may have read
about: A machine that will
translate Russian into English.
DR.. Nearing is one of a very
small handful of science fiction
writer's who can turn out
stories that are at one time
good in their genre and funny.
His Prof. Ransom uses analysis
situs to explain Biblical proph-
ecy, 'voodoo to teach higher
mathematics and the fourth
dimension to win a basketball
game.
Three Sexes on Mars
The high point of the book,
however, is none of these. It
is screamingly funny story
of Marian family life. which
gets complicated no end by the
fact that on Mars there are not
two, but three equally neces-
sary, equally respectable sexes.
Throughout the story, one
question bothers Prof. Ran
SONS colleague-and six gets
20 it isn't the question that will
be bothering you.
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ship assigned to it. Trotsky
now urged the Bolshevik Party
to step into this role. He for
got he had once warned such
a step would lead to a single
dictator. That dictator, Stain,
the author points out, was
waiting in the wings.
The later chapters of Trot-
sky's career and his downfall
are intended to be covered in
Mr.. .Deutscher's next volume,
THE Prophet Unarmed." This
volume is an able work. using
much material from hitherto
unused sources.
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~ ScASd ttOIl
al. I do not
say that the
read in 6 of
1.-THE Image
a n d t h e
Search" is an
enriching or
even an en-
ligh t e n l n,g
expert e n c e.
But at least
it has it's own
inner logic
and in tie g.
r i t y. TIL e
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Texono

SNSsb0
BY Robert F. Mirvish.
fWilliGm Sloane Associates;
$3.50.)
This novel is built around a
series Of catastrophe explo-
sions which RACED the wharf
area Of a Texas chemical port
some years ago. The disaster
is the climax Of a story con-
corning the lives Of some sail
orS and others. The heroine
is Nilsa, a former lady of the
evening who runs a beer sa-
loon for her ex-landlady. NilSa
Is three-quarters Apache, the
rest Irish. With her, morals
are matter of convenience
and mood. She has a violent
physical attachment to Rex, a
sailor. to whom she once was
married, though she despiSes
him as a man. She learns to
appreciate the better qualities
OF Nick. a Polish fellow who
buys the saloon and cuts her
in on the profits. The drink
ing, brawling, lustful side of
the town the author calls Tex
ana is developed. Probably
there are enough erotic scenes
to hold the interest Of some
readers. Mr.. Mirvish tells a
story well, but 1t Is hard to
care what happens to the sort
Of people he has chosen to de-
pict. &C. B. j.
The Cuckoo Line Affair by An
drew Carve. (Harper &
Bros, $2.50.)
A gentle old eccentric is ac-
cused Of assaulting q girl on
a train with witnesses to prove
it. The girl drops charges but
the gossip goes on. Then, the
girl is found murdered in q
lonely spot. The old mans
sons decide he must be insane
but the psychiatrists say no.
Now. for the first time it oc-
ours to the sons that their
father might possibly be inno-
cent. "A polished performance.
M. O.
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ically by authors. There is an
index by subjects which should
prove invaluable to the stu
dent and researcher. The
original introduction by Ber-
nard Darwin appears in the
revised edition. &C. B, j.
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The Web of Subversion
BY James Burnham. John Day: $3.50

Mr.. Burnham. who has
written extensively against
communism, traces here the
alleged influence of commu-
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Mr.. Ford has
helped thou
sands to find
the right place
to retire on
their present
income. Hun
:dreds come to
him for advice.
Typical let
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.TSGv

Forty Plus and Fancy Free
BY Emily Kimbrough. Harper G. Bros; $3J
Europe on the Aisle
BY Claudia Cassidy. Random House: $780,
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WHERE TO RETIRE ON 4
SMALL INCOME
read these books BY
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WHERE TO RETIRE ON A
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This book selects out of the hum
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1t covers cities. towns and
farms throughout America
from New England south to
Florida, west to California and
north to the Pacific Northwest.
1t includes Hawaii, Puerto Rico,
and the American Virgin
Islands. Some people spend
hundreds of dollars trying to get
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