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Eight oppenheimer
Lectures Pursue
Scientific IdeoIs

THE OPEN MIND. BY J. Rob-
ert oppenheimer fSimon q
schuster: $2.75.)
In these eight lectures, ].
Robert oppenheimer speaks
with the courage and modesty
which he says is what science
always tries to teach to any
one who practices Il.
Physicists, he says, have
.1known sin" IN unlocking
the secrets which have made
nuclear warfare possible. DR..
Oppenheimer Is here coming
to grips with the means Of
expiation In the world that he
and his feiiow-scientists have
made. His views on the need
Of an international Atomic
Development Authority are
well known. They are one
facet Of his general theme in
these lucid and humane talks.
In his own words, 1t Is this:
"The open mind, the reliance
on example and persuasion
rather than authority these
are the heritage Of the CEN
turtles In which science has
altered the face Of the earth.
He does not advocate q lit
tie science for all, as have
some other thinkers in his
field. It win give its gifts only
to its faithful. And these are
the only rewards. which con-
sidering his present situation
Of having been denied security
clearance, are modest indeed.
IF the professional pursuit Of
science makes good scientists.
II It makes men with q certain
serenity in their lives. who
yield perhaps q little more
slowly than others to the
natural corruptions Of their
time, it is doing . great deal
and all that we may rightly
ask for it." M. McG.
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Not Born to Blush Unseen,
WincheII's S Biog Goes Bong!

For instance: "Some Of his in
Inmates consider him q genius.
They are frequently troubled.
however, with doubts about his
cocky self-confidence in COM
plex and erudite areas such as
politics and literature, for they
know his formal education was
skinny: He never finished
grammar school,"
Mr.. Wiener, II he has any
such doubts keeps them to
himself as he reverently re-
cords the masters brushes
with Gerald L. X. Smith,
Adolf Hitler, Representative
Rankin, Harry Truman. JOSE
phine Baker. ct al. 1t is prob
ably Just as well. considering
the fate which overlook the
editor of q magazine which ran
an uncomplimentary biography
Of w. w. After st. Clair Nc
Kelway's series appeared in
the New Yorker. its late editor,
Harold Ross, was barred from
the Stork Club FOREVER.
MARY McGRoRY
Evening star., 1955-11-13
Behind the Scenes
lin Science

In WHAT HAPPENED lMc-
Kay; $2.75). Ida Scheib selects
10 important events In the
news, such as explosions, hur-
ricanes, atomic inventions, and
takes you behind the scenes to
explain what, when, where,
why and how. Miss Scheib Is
very good at this sort Of thing,
for she has worked her way up
to this book through, such diff
ferent previous books as THE
FIRST BOOK OF SCIENCE
EXPERIMENTS and THE
FIRST BOOK or MICROBES.
lii the field Of natural his-
tory, Glenn Blough gives the
answers to many questions
children ask when they drag
their not-too-reluctant par-
ents to the ZOO on Sunday.
afternoons. The individual
animals in the photographs
may be recognized BY habitues
Of the Washington Zoo, but
the facts are universal.
Glenn BlouEh writes as he
talks. In easy conversational
style. His commentary in
cludes chapters on collecting
|. animals for the ZOO, trading
animals with other ZOO keepers,
ana the zoo hospital. In pre-
pairing material for WHEN
YOU co TO THE ZOO
(Whittlesey: $2.75), Glenn
Blough was assisted by
Marjorie Campbell, whose Aim
on the zoo in Rock Creek Park
has been seen by many WASH
ington school children.
WONDERS OF SPACE
A welcome addition to the
Giant Golden books is THE
GOLDEN BOOK OF ASTRON-
OMY, A Child's Introduction
to the Wonders Of Space. by
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penitentiaries in England,
France, the United States and
Canada.
The time came when, emerg-
ing from Winchester Prison In
England. he decided to go.
straight. Whya Not particu-
larry because he had reformed,
but because he faced q life
term, In England or the United
States, as an habitual crira-
inal, If he ever was caught
again at the smallest, most
casual caper. He does not
credit police with any great
cleverness. but he does con-
cede them thoroughness and
q long memory.
He had written. while in
New York,s Auburn Prison.
short stories that were pub
lished fn some Of the big mag
azines. 50 he felt that he
could make d living writing.
And he wrote this book with
out the help Of a single ghost.
Evening star., 1955-11-13
In the eWoke
SocioI
WhirIwiind
A CHARMED LIFE. By Mar.

A CHARMED LIFE. BY Mary
Mccarthy. (Harcourt. Brace
81 Co.: $3.50
The benighted enlightened
are Miss McCarthy's special
charges. She Is q waspish gov
erness, whose satire is Of the
curled-lip rather than the
tongue-in-cheek variety. "Un-
sparing" also comes to mind.
She misses nothing Of her sub
jects' pretensions- their inn
peccable liberalism and their
slovenly morals, their straining
at ethical gnats while eagerly
swallowing camels. INTEL
lectually. they are all dressed
up; emotionally. they have no
place to go.
Their resting place in this
tart chronicle is New Leeds, q
New England coastal artistic
community beyond the COM
muting range. In their de-
caying houses. busy with their
futile projects, they lead Q
charmed life" charmed be-
cause no breath Of common
sense ever enters 1t. In New
Leeds social world there Is no
vulgar attempt to keep up with
the Joneses. To Martha, the
heroine perhaps better called
victim Of the story--it seems
the only contest is q secret one
"as to who can have the most
squalid house and the worst
parties"
Martha, with her second hus-
band, has returned With some
trepidation to New Leeds. scene
Of her first disastrous marriage
with Miles Murphy.
Eagerly observed by the mot
ley community. Martha and
Miles, who is now married TO
an extraordinarily docile Greek
girl, meet again, Their second
encounter, after q high-minded
reading Of Racine's 'fBerenice.
inevitably eliminates in seduc-
ton. q scene minutely recorded
by Miss Mccarthy. Martha Is
only perfunctorily regretful Of
this infidelity. But her integ-
rity is outraged at the thought
that the child she finds herself
with might be Miles.
In her dilemma. Martha goes
to Warren Goes, who adores
discussion and paints "scien-
tific paintings" He UNDER
stands perfectly. as any man
would who was married to
Jane, his wife. whose sloppi-
ness, both physical and moral.
Is sufficient to make the reader
queasy.
They are q sordid lot, as Miss
Mccarthy unfiinchingly shows.
She knows how TO make you
read about them, though. She
has d vibrant prose style. and
her dialogue is superb. She
makes an extremely neat &C
count Of this social chaos.
M. McG.
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Story Of d Living RoffIes
Far Stranger Than Fiction
OCCUPATION: THIEF. by

OCCUPATION: THIEF, by
Donald Mackenzie (Bobbs-
Merrill: $500. is as fascinat-
ing as Q well turned -out novel
about q sort Of Rafiies, q crook
Of education who could pass
as q cultured gentleman. But
it's all factual. the publishers
assure US.
Mr.. Mackenzie, Canadian
born, was educated In Europe
and speaks French like a
native. This is his story of his
life in crime OF the years he
drifted about Europe and
America living, as the saying
Is. by his wits. Sometimes he
worked as q confidence man,
sometimes as q plain burglar,
depending on circumstances.
He took up with various
women at various times.
He tells Of IS such years. He
was pretty shrewd. but the law
always caught up with him
In time. He was in jails and
Evening star., 1955-11-13
School Stories .
With d Difference

Another school story with q
difference Is A VOTE FOR
DICK by Jerrold Beim CHar-
court; $500. During the pres
ent controversy over report
cards, this book should be re-
quired reading for parents, and
q consolation prize for young
sters whose report cards hang
heavy over their heads.
For girls, two new school
and family stories manage to
capture in vivid incidents the
essence Of growing up. Both
books win comfort girls Of ten
or twelve who want to be-
long"
PLAIN GIRL by Virginia
Horensen (Harcourt: $2.5f)1
has the Arnish background. but
the girl Esther is more impor-
tant than her background.
VIII Esther be able to wear
a pink dress? win her brother
marry the girl he loves?
In A CROWN FOR CARLY
by Margaret Ann Hubbard
lMacmillan: $2.75), Carly's ad-
yenturous spirit finds unex-
pected sympathy and under-
standing In the Sisters at the
boarding school, Star of the
Sea.
Older boys curious about the
service academies will choose
WEST POINT PLEBE Little.
Brown; $3l. This book makes
no literary pretensions. but
neither does it need them. It
stands squarely on its con-
vincing close-ups Of three
roommates in their first year
at West Point.
Best of all, in fact o mile
stone among sport stories. is
THE WINNER by. Robert
Garse tScribners: $3.50. The
Author Is q novelist and tennis
player. He must know boys,
too, for he never writes down.
THE WINNER Is d milestone
among school stories, too.
When Jarvis proves that he
can play tennis on the cham
pionsiip level. he exchanges
the quiet living Of q rundown
family farm on Six Mile Is
land for the brisk tempo Of an
Ivy League preparatory school.
Later. he meets the high
powered competition Of pro-
fessional tennis. Whether or
not you have the swing Of q
tennis racquet in your wrist.
this book puts you on the
courts with Jarvis.
Evening star., 1955-11-13

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR
QUOTATIONS (Thirteenth
and Centennial Edition.. BY
John Bartlett. tLittle,
Brown; $l0.)
All the familiar cliches, and
a few that are unfamiliar, are
back again doing business at
the old stand. This time
Bartlett is clothed in q new
suit Of green linsey-woolsey
instead of the old dark red
one.
Superficiaily, Mr.. Bartlett
doesn't look much different.
and in this, as in earlier edi-
tions, the good thoughts
march abreast of the bad, the
sublime is elbowed aside by
the ridiculous, the pure jockey
for position ahead Of the inn
pure, and sense occasionally
comes home in front Of nom
sense.
Again, for the 18th time.
Bartlett shows the scope Of his
literary vacuum cleaner, Civ
ing us the thinking Of the
theologians from St. Thomas
Aquinas to William Jennings
Bryan: of statesmen from
Hammurabi to Calvin Cool
idge: of influential females
from Mary Queen Of Scots to
Mae West. Maybe not the
best. but certainly the briefest.
quotation In the book is at
tributed to Anthony Clement
McAuliffe (l898- y: Nuts"
Bartlett has many uses. One
Is as a pons asinorum for
slobs who would be snobs. The
other is as a handy tool for
devotees of one-upmanship.
Study this book carefully, and
the next time some supercili-
Gus orator asks rhetorically,
"And wasn't 1t Shakespeare
who wrote, What fools these
mortals be'?" you can climb
onto your hind legs and an
swer, mo, it was Seneca
~ Bead. 65)."
N WILLIAM HINES. ]
Evening star., 1955-11-13

TR HONORED - The Theo-
dore Roosevelt Scent stamp
which goes on sale Friday at
the National Postage Stamp
Show in New York.
Washington 30 frames from its
million dollar exhibit" Of its
philatelic treasures, and is
providing a live demonstration
Of stamp production on a fiat
bed press.
The Smithsonian Institution
also is sending from Washing
ton an exhibit including some
Of its priceless Internal Reye-
nue. Service collection.
Two official" first-day en-
velopes have been prepared.
both with pictures Of Theodore
Roosevelt. One is authorized
by the American Stamp Deal
ers' Association and the other
by the Theodore Roosevelt AS
sociatior1. You can prepare
your own first-day covers, Of
course. to be handled in the
usual way by the postmaster at
New York.
= D 4
Woodbridge Club Project
National Stamp Collecting
Week Is a good time to pub
tlicize the hobby. but, the
Woodbridge Stamp Club does
better than that. It has its
own year-round project-a
permanent frame in the Wood
ridge Public Library. Displays
designed to catch the eye and
the interest of the non-col-
lector are provided by club
members in a program direct
ed by Edward Coli. Current
display is Mr.. Coils colorful
exhibit Of the flags Of the Pan
American nations and an at
tractive stamp from each.
New officers of the Wood
ridge Club. elected at its meet
ing last Monday. are president.
Martin Lazarus; vice president.
Wes M. Tryon. and secretary
treasurer. Writ r. Douglas.
&*&
Society Honors Two
Two names wen known to
stamp collectors have been
added to the rolls Of the WASH
ington Philatelic Society as
honorary members-Harry L.
Lindquist and Robert E. Fell
lers. Mr.. Lindquist, editor and
publisher Of Stamps" maga-
zine. helped greatly in publi-
cizing the society's recent Gold
en- Jubilee Exhibition. Mr..
Fellers. for many years asso-
ciated with the Philatelic
Agency, is now director Of the
Post Office Departments Di-
vision of Philately.
$3.50
Caspary Sales Start
First Of the Is auctions
planned to dispose Of the
stamps Of the late Alfred H.
Caspary. probably the worlds
most valuable philatelic prop
erty, win be conducted by H. r.
Harmer. Inc. at the Ambassa-
dor Hotel in New York Tues
day. Mr.. Caspary's group of
United States Postmasters'
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picture books appears as Christi
mas approaches.
SPINNER OF THE DREAM.
BY John H. Secondari (Little,
Brown: $3.75) Is . new novel
BY the young Italian-American
who wrote Coins IN the Foun-
tains . successful novel which
was made into an artistic
movie.
Spinner Of the Dream is
an unusual novel in several
ways. It is q sophisticated
story Of marriage. It pulls no
punches. It describes the mari-
tai disasters that 1urk in the
paths Of many couples, but its
characters, unlike those of the
standard modern novel, have
principles. even ideals, and are
not ready to surrender them
without q struggle.
Dramatic and Amusing
The story manages to be
dramatic and at the same
time amusing. It looks at Its
people obliQuely. yet deeply.
It is not. as 1t might appear
superficially to be. q light"
novel.
The action takes place on
Majorca. and centers around
the sport Of diving for FISH.
Jeff LINTON, q highly paid
network commentator, IS va
cationing on the Spanish is
land with his wife and with an
executive of the company that
sponsors him and the latter's
wife. They charter a boat
from q retired British naval
Evening star., 1955-11-13

LET'S GO TO PRESS. A BIZ
ography Of Walter Wincheii.
BY Ed Wiener. C. r. Put
mans sons: ss.75.)
When walter winchell was
here during the Army-Mc-
Carthy hearings. he was the
most obliging man at the
press table. He served as am
bassador to Pvt. g. David
Schine, who wasn't speaking
to lesser fry Of the fourth
estate. He was always passing
notes about little things hap
pening around the room. Later
on the witness stand at the
so-different Watkins Commit
tee hearings, he uneasily ex-
planned that people had been
all the time passing him notes,
which was how he happened
to be in possession Of an
FBI letter that was not the
best thing in the world to
have.
On Home Ground
Just how misleading this
disarming impression was can
be gained from a reading Of q
new biography by Ed Wiener.
On home ground-Table 30
at the Stork Club--W. w. is
a different man. From Mr..
Wiener's awed description, he
sounds like a combination OF
Jove, Louis XIV and Hldy
johnson with a flaming sword.
Press agents boast Of his
friendship at their peril.
Headwaiters quail, One Of his
favorite tests Che was once a
child actor is to read aloud
q competitors column with
such comments as something
I threw away two years ago.
but it's hot news to this fellow
now
Manhattan, which seems q
toughish town to the rest Of us.
stands In relation to w. w. as
Sweet Alice to Ben Bolt, weep
ing with delight when he gives
her smile. trembling with
fear at his frown.
Mr.. Wiener can see there Is
q strong difference Of opinion
about his subject, and includes
the extremes. Walter is q
cockroacl1. 7 morris Bealle.)
"He Is q recording angel"
dorothy Kilgallen.) AS for
Mr.. Wiener. he is under no IL
lusions about w. w. He thinks
he is absolutely wonderful. He
makes an occasional faint
hearted feint at objectiyity.
.
Evening star., 1955-11-13

ofiicer who, is an expert at
donning fins and breathing
apparatus and going after fish
In deep water.
JEFF tries the dives and at
first is terrified Of going into
undersea caves after fish. He
feels a compulsion to conquer
this fear and he does, beconl-
ing adept at the sport. He
also is deeply in love with his
wife, and when, without adj
vance intention, almost ,inad-
vertently, he is unfaithful to
her for the first time In their
10 years together. his con-
science tortures him. Mean
while there is trouble betw. en-
the other wife and her hus-
band over the British officer,
and Jeff's wife becomes appar-
emily entangled. The situation
smolders into an explosive
climax.
A Psychological Novelist
The descriptive portion Of
the book is almost entirely IN
the present tense. This be-
comes q little tiresome. though
it is managed adroitly. I've
seen no such prolonged use Of
the present tense since ! read
the stories Of Damon Runyon.
with which this novel has noth-
ing else in common.
Mr.. Secondari is q psycholog-
ical novelist who understands
his characters. He also is-and
this is q trait hecomingly un-
fortunately rare-not without
humor.
Evening star., 1955-11-13
NEWS
Mon Of Stamp Week
Is Theodore Roosevelt

Professionals, the finest ever
formed. win be offered In i53
lots. They are expected TO
realize between $150.000 and
$500. 900.
Among items to be sold are
four Alexandrias. the Annap-
oils envelope, Baltimore @Buch-
anans" on II covers, six Brat>
tleboros, q Lockport. q Mill
bury, q group Of New Yorks,
nine Providence on covers. an
unusual range Of st. Louis
Bears and two Tuscumbias.
1t was a Buchanan provi-
sional, incidentally. which
brought the biggest price,
$3.50, at the Sylvester Colby
auction here during the Gold
en- Jubilee Exhibition.
Mr.. Caspary's United States
issues Of 1S47 through 1857-61
will be sold January 16-18,
1856. and his Confederate
Postmasters' Professionals on
March Z.
~
Franklin Stamp Sale
The low value Of the accent
Ben Franklin stamp boosted
total first day sales here on
October 90 to 1,451 .1O2. but
the return was only $7.255.51,
compared to the $107,5S2
brought in by the 81 Patrick
Henry stamp at Joplin, Mo. on
October q. Franklin covers
cancelled totaled 223,122.
There were only 80.19i for the
81 stamp.
Evening star., 1955-11-13
Biography Of JuboI EurIy
Is Product Of Long Study

threatened Washington the
same year and fought at Fort
Stevens on the Capitals OUT
skirts. Early was one OF Lees
most, dependable generals
man reputed to be able to OUT
fight and outcuss most Con-
federates.
Or. Bushong, who lives at
Berryville. Va, became inter-
ested In this biography when
he was teaching history at the
United States Military Acad-
emy. His years Of exhaustive
research are obvious in the
book.
Evening star., 1955-11-13


Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames
(Simon and Schuster; $3.95.
Rose Wyler is known and re-
spected here in Washington by
her former colleagues in the
once Of Education. in New
York by the stan Of the Mu-
scum Of Natural History. and
by. many children all over the
country who followed her pop
ular articles in Story Parade
for more than five years.
1.-THE Golden Book Of Astron-
omy" makes the most of its
large fiat formal with more
than Q hundred color illustra-
tions, a vital part Of the as
tonishing answers to questions
about gravity, space travel,
seasons and tides, and all the
other mysteries Of the solar
Asystem.
Evening star., 1955-11-13
OLD JUBE. BY Millard Kess

OLD JURE. BY Millard Kess-
Ter Bushong. tCarr. Boyce.
Va)
The biography Of q Confed-
crate general feared by his
enemies and cherished BY his
men for his fortnight ways
and his victories Jubal A.
Early. For some strange rea-
son. Gen. Early has been neg
lected In recent years by the
historians and novelists who
have cornbed back over the
battles and personalities Of the
Civil War.
Jubal Early. born in Frank
lin County. Va. was graduated
from West Point in 1887. He
saw brief service in the Semi
mole War In Florida, then left
the Army and became a 1aw-
yer. He returned to the colors
for the Mexican War. served
as a major under Zachary
Taylor and was Governor Of
Monterrey after the americans
eaptured the city. Between
wars Early got into local poll
itics and became common-
wealth attorney Of Franklin
County. He entered the Con-
federacy as q colonel Of vol
unteers and quickly became q
general.
II was Gen. Early who
burned Chanbersburg, Pa. In
1854, j controversial act which
he always defended as just re-
taliation for Gen. Hunters de-
predations IN the Shenandoah
Valley. 1t was Early who
Evening star., 1955-11-13
War in Pictures

THE AMERICAN WARS.
i755-1s5s, by Roy Meredith
lWorld; $lO) Is q pictorial his
tory from the French-In Indian
war and the storming OF French
Quebec BY the British to the
fighting in Korea. It obviously
was difficult within a book Of
reasonable size to select the
best pictures available from q
vast field. but Mr.. Meredith
has done well, and his brief
texts sketch in the background
Of each war. The book seems
to be made up entirely of ar
fists sketches, in water color
or black and white, without
recourse to the lavish photo
graphic history Of the more
recent wars. But there are
many fine sketches, the work
Of eyewitnesses.
Evening star., 1955-11-13

cause they brought up the rear
among all the other scouts In
Phoenix. Arizona. The fresh
and inyigorating language.
springs straight out Of 1855.
Scouting Is Q picnic full Of
surprises. as James w. Eng
lish describes II in TAILBONE
PATROL CHoliday House:
20 ISL.
Evening star., 1955-11-13
TREASURES FOR cHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK.
BOYS AND GIRLS
Reading Together Leads
To Reading Separately
BY BARBARA NOLEN

good slogan half the battle and nothing could be more
opportune the revival by Margaret Margnon OF the OLD
book lovers that reading together leads to read
ing separately"
Miss Martgnon formerly supervisor Of work with chill
BROOKLYN Public Library wise In the Of
Evening star., 1955-11-13
GIeonines From q Fall
Avalanche Of Reading
b CARTER BRooKE JONES

This weeks selections from minor avalanche Of fall books
the publishers busiest seascnnclude amusing, percep
tive novel, many these days properly entitled
those adecye There is too the autobiography Of crook
the absorbing story of found out the hard that
criminal career increasing number Of fine