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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13
GORTNER

Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Beachy, Mr..
and Mrs. Erwin Beachy and his
sister Katie, of Arthur, ILL.,, Wis
tied relatives here last week, and
also spent some time with the
formers mother, Mrs Dora Yoder,
at GrantSville.
Mr.. and Mrs d. l.. Swartzen-
truber attended a church confer
ence at JchnstoWn, for several days
last week. Their daughter, the Ger
aid Millers, of Pennsylvania, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Miller, of
Luke, we're their guests over the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Snyder and
daughter Sylvia, and her mother
and sister, of Virginia, were in
Lexington, N. c., visiting Mrs
Snyder's grandmother, Mrs. Halle
Allen, several days.
Mr.. and Mrs willard Swartzen-
truber and family, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ross Grove and children, en-
joyed a picnic supper with Mr..
and Mrs Lester Martin, of Florida,
at their Deep Greek cabin.
Mr.. and Mrs Orval Rush, son
Melvin, and daughter Ruth, of
Phoenix, Ariz.; and Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Ash, of Milford, Del, spent
several days with their aunts, Mrs.
Albert Sisk and Mrs. Noah
Schrock.
Guests on Sunday of Mrs. Fan
ME Stutzman were Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Miller and children, Key
ser Ridge; Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Lichty, Berlin, Pa; and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester Moon and sons.
Mrs. Agnes Queer, Mrs. Pearl
Nault, Misses Lena Slabach, Hulda
White, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sisk
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Simon
Swartzentruber, Sunday.
Mrs. Crist CARRIER and daugh
tiers spent Sunday afternoon with
Mrs. Lottie Peachy.
The Cooks and the Alvin Yoders,
of Lancaster, Pa, recently visited
the latterS brother, John Yoder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Sanders en-
tertained at dinner, Sunday, Mrs.
Anna Bittinger and Mr.. and Mrs.
Neil Sanders.
Miss Lena Slabach and Mr.. and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13

Mrs. Albert Sisk attended the all
night singing at Mt. Lake, Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Welch were
guests OF friends at Redwood, w.
Va over the weekend.
Elmer Beachy and family spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Swartzentruber
Mrs Hazel Dodge. Mrs. Fannie
Stutzman. Misses Mary Lichty and
Leila Mosser spent Friday evening
with Mrs. Noah Schrock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Gortner,
Morgantown; Mrs. Walter Fold
ham, of Alvans, W. Va, and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles II. Leatham, of
Fairmont, were visiting Mrs Anna
Bittinger. The latter friends she
had not seen for forty-four years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Beachy have
moved into their new bungalow.
Their son-in-law and daughter, the
Roger Fixes, Bridgewater, Va,
moved on the farm vacated by
them.
John Petersheim, Allen and
Henry Petersheim and families
visited the zoo in Washington, this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer HOstetler
and Mr.. and Mrs Levi Bontrager,
of Indiana, spent Thursday night
as guests of Chris CARRIER and Dan
Lichty. They were enrOute to
Stuarts Draft, Va, to visit other
relatives and friends.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13
LEGION Auxiliary Meets

IGOlOl fNGAiAldl "ENlo
The American Legion Auxiliary
Unit met Monday evening at the
Legion Home at p. IN. with Mrs.
Audrey Edwards. president, pre-
siding Miss Viola BrOadWater gave
the historical report for the year
and reported on the State conVen-
ton at Baltimore a citation was
presented from thc Heart associ-
alton to the unit.
The group is sponsoring a dance
at the Legion home, Saturday eve
ming at p. m. Bobby Youngs or
chestra featuring Les Clifford on
the saXOphono, viii furnish music.
Brief Mention
The Oak Grove Mennonite
church has remCdeled its church
and grounds and will hold a dedi-
cation service Sunday at 2:30 p. M
Rev Paul Roth. Masontown, Pa,
will be the speaker. The Towns
end Quartet from Masontown, Pa,
will render selections. Evangelistic
services will be held at the Oak
Grove Mennonite church, Sunday
evening at 1880 p. m, and will con-
tinuc through August %. Rev. Har-
ry Shelter, JohnstoWn. Pa, will
speak Sunday evening. The Springs
Male choraliers will provide music
Sunday evening.
A covered dish dinner was served
at the home of Mrs. Annie Oren-
dorf and daughter Susie in honor
of Mrs Hugh Orendorfs birthday
anniversary. A birthday cake was
baked by Miss Mary Bender, II
year old daughter of Alvin Ben
der Present we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvin Bender and family, Miss AL
ma Orendorf, Salisbury; Miss Car
RE Orendorf, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13
GrantSViJIe Notes

and Mrs. Glen Broadwater, Mrs
o. c. Rohrbaugh. Mrs. Noah W.
Bittinger, Miss Phyllis Johnson,
Akron, o.; Mrs. John Ridgway,
Cuyahoga Falls, o.; Carl Broad
water, Mentor, o.; Mrs. John AL
den, Washington, d. c.; Mrs. Ell
mer Korrell, Frederick; DR.. G. V.
Broadwater, Lloyd BroadWater,
HagerStoWn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13
Rroadwater Reunion Held

BrOauWdteF KeUHTOH F1tTu
The annual BroadWater reunion
was held Sunday at Meadow Noun
tain Inn with approximately 1000
persons attending. Clarence Broad
water is president; Victor Broad
water, Cumberland, vice-president;
and Miss Viola Broadwater, secre-
tary.
Guests from a distance were Mr..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13

Herbert Hoover, former presi-
dent, observed his 85th birthday
August 10.
Death rate of heavy cigaret
smokers is nearly tW.ce as great
as rate for non-smokers,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13

Speaker Rayburn called for fair
play labor reform and denounced
bill endorsed by president.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-08-13

Bittinger, Jess Burkholder, Grants
VILE Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Orendorf
and family, Mrs. Amanda Oren-
dorf, of Accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
The Sun King Is Cast
In q Brighter Light

LOUIS XIV: AN INFOR-
NAL PORTRAIT, by w. H.
Lewis (Harcourt, Brace; so.
brings a fresh opinion of the
Sun King, which shows him in
a better light than most his
torianS have cast over him.
We are apt, perhaps, in
more superficial terms. to
think of Louis the Great only
as one of the last believers in
the divine right of kings: as
an arrogant ruler who said
he was the state and pro-
ceeded to prove it.
AS Mr.. Lewis sees it, this
impression was true, to an
extent anyway, but Louis
had other attributes which
biographers have chosen to
ignore or belittle. He was,
essentially, despite a feeling
that he was cast in his role
by God, a kindly man, who
could be charitable and gen.
erous, even to his enemies.
He was invariably kind to his
family, his queen, his mis-
tresses. He may have eaten
too much, but he was other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
James Purdy Comes Up
With q Comic Novel

he spends most of his time.
His discoverer Is Mr.. Cox.
an astrologist who seems to
know all the right and wrong
people. He sends the boy to
a series of addresses where
he meets some strange and
wonderful people.
Malcolm could, l suppose,
represent all youth. the men
and women he encounters,
the world as it unfolds. 1
don't know the authors
symbolic or satirical inten-
ton, but there is much that
is typical of various sectors
of society in his adventures.
The author writes with dis
arming clarity and swiftneSs.
There is, as there should be
in a comic novel, a more
serious note heard here and
there. ' &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

toned, out of greed. out Of
hatred. out of subversion, out
of panic, THE White Band"
reaches a terrible and inevi-
table climax with an inno-
cent man dragged into the
dark by masked men.
Mr.. Jones, a Southern
born newspaperman of wide
experience and sympathy
writes obviously from a con-
viction that a little organ
lied prejudice is a dangerous
thing. The book has faults:
There is little variety in the
dialogue and some of the
minor characters are not
sharply realized. But the
author has succeeded in il
Illuminating the mean spirits
of men who know not what
they do in the name of pre-
serving a tradition that has
long since been doomed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

wise temperate; he drank
sparingly. He was a fearless
man, brave in battle, an OUT
door man who scorned dis
comfort and rode to the hunt
even in his late 70s.
Real Greatness
HE had standards and
values to which he adhered
unflinchingly," Mr.. Lewis
writes, "as pere de famille 70
20 million children he strug-
gled valiantly with the i'm
possible task of keeping them
all fed with the outmoded
economic machinery at his
disposal. OF his innate
justice there is ample evil
dence; of his almost invar-
liable good temper; and in
his magnanimity to the ira
ducers of his regime there
is something of real great
ness"
When Louis died in IT'S,
three days before his 77th
birthday, he had been king
of France for 70 years-the
longest reign in European
history. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
THE WAR LOVER. by John


Hersey. (Kopf; So
In his new novel John
Hersey has returned to the
theme of his first novel
the war.
That first novel, "A Bell
for Adano," won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1945. He since has
written a number Of other
novels.
1.-THE War Lover" is, as its
title suggests, a story about
a man who loved the glory.
the excitement, the suspense
of war.
Undoubtedly there have
been such men, more than a
few probably, and other au-
thors have written about
them, but none, perhaps,
more thoroughly, more per-
ceptively than Mr.. Hersey.
A Fighting Man
His Buzz Marrow, a bomb
er pilot. is a staggering,
self-inflated, clustering
young man. but almost a
genius at guiding and ma
neuvering a flying fort. The
more missions he and his
crew are assigned the better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

MALCOLM, by James
Purdy (Farrar, Straus &
Cudahy; 1885, is, as billed,
a comic novel by the author
of the well-received short
stories, Color of Darkness"
Malcolm" is a diverting
account of a young man who
is IS or Is at the start of the
story-he's not sure of his
age - and is alone in the
world with a hotel suite and
money. The money came
from his father, who van
iShed mysteriously nearly a
year ago. Malcolm is not
much educated and not, it
appears, too bright. but
agreeable, good looking
beautiful, women say. He is
discovered on a bench be-
longing to the hotel, where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
Fight on Segregation
EnIivens Jones Novel

BY MARY McGRORY
! Star stan Writer

Carter Brooke Jones, the
book critic of The Star.
makes his debut as a nov
elist with a provocative and
timely problem novel called
THE WHITE BAND Dunk
& Wagnalls; $4.50). The
setting is an unspecifled
Southern town. and the
theme is the sequel Of the
Supreme Court decision on
school integration. More
than a novel, 1.-THE White
Band" is a blunt, knowing
exposition Of the disastrous
attitudes which lead to such
painful episodes as the re-
cent bombings in Little Rock
The central character in
1.-THE White Band" is a poll
tician, a Senator named Joe
Duffield. who announces his
retirement from the Senate
to become Grand Protector
of the White Band, an Or
ganization devoted to the
best ideals and the finest
aims of Southerners and
those from other sections
who are interested in pro-
tecting the purity Of the
white race :" Joe, who
had started life as an ideal
list but whose youthful ideals
had disintegrated under the
severe pressures applied to
the Southern politician, joins
the group not out of con-
viction but hope of quick
financial return.
At Georgetown Law
Pitted against Joe is the
attorney for the League for
Racial Justice, Ned Tarver
a light-skinned Negro law
yer. Classmates and friends
at Georgetown Law School,
Joe and Ned meet in friendly
fashion as the lines are
drawn for the test cases in
the local school and uni
versity.
Neither the half-hearted
demagogue nor the gentle
agitator want violence. But
others do. The Communist
representative of the Inter-
national Friends of Labor,
for instance. And Fats Gill
liam, the british football
coach, who forms within the
White Band, which protests
its devotion to peaceful and
legal means, a COON squad
which can &c. well, take
people out and talk to them
real earnestly"
And so the tragedy is fash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

things were touch-and-go for
the battered Richard, as is
popularity supposed. 1t was
in response to an inquiry
from the British captain,
who had heard an American
sailor implore his skipper to
strike his colors.
A detailed account also is
given of Jones daring COM
mando-like raid on the
Castle of Lord Selkirk on st.
Mary's Isle. off the coast of
Scotland. The plan was to
kidnap his lordship and hold
him as a hostage for the
release of American sailors
held by the British. Finding
Lord Selkirk absent, how
ever, Capt. Jones reluctantly
allowed his raiders 10 take
the Selkirk silver plate. Later
he wrote a letter of apology
to Lady Selkirk and then
bought the silver service
from his men and returned it
to the castle. This is but
one of many incidents attest
ing to Jones "civility' and
well-mannered bearing" as
well as to his courage and
endurance.
A Lasting Inspiration
Despite his exploits and
his manifest qualifications,
Capt. Jones never succeeded
in winning promotion to adj
miral-the rank he always
coveted-until he Joined the
Russian Navy of Catherine
the Great. He died in rela-
tive obscurity in France. But
a grateful Nation belatedly
honored him in 1906 with
reburial at Annapolis, as
befltted one, says Admiral
Morrison, whose sheer CUTS"
in refusing to admit the
possibility of defeat" still
sis an inspiration to every
sailor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
John Hersey Rings Bell Again
In Powerful Novel Against War
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic


he likes 1t. When a planned
mission is scrubbed" he Is
furious, and when there is a
stand down." a day or per-
haps several days Of leave,
he knows nothing better to
do than get drunk. take up
with whatever women he
can find and later bore every
one at the base in England
by Dragging Of his conquests.
But there is an element
in Marrow's alteration, for
war that he himself does not
realize. 1t is. in the final
analysis, a wish not to sur
vive, as most men always
hope for, but a desire for
death. 1t is, in his subcon-
scious reasoning, a logical
climax to all the rest.
WarmOngers
How much do men like
Marrow contribute to the
persistence of warsP Quite a
lot, an Englishwoman with
whom Marrow's copiiot is
carrying on a tempeStuous
affair, believes. Perhaps she
eXaggerates their influence,
perhaps not.
This copilot, 1t. Boman,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
GENERAL

ADVENTURES IN ALGERIA.
BY Alexandra Dumas.
(Chilton; $500 A reprint.
AMERICAN FOLK ART.
From the Abby Aldridch
Rockefeller Folk Art Col
lection. (Holt; $685.
BY ROCKING CHAIR
ACROS S AMERICA. BY
Alex Atkinson and Ronald
Searle. (Funk and Wag-
nails; $685. An English
mans view of America.
EDUCATION IN THE AGE
OF SCIENCE. Edited by
Brand Blanshard. (Basic
Books; $4.50D A panel dis
cussion by 80 prominent
educational leaders in the
United States.
A FAITH TO LIVE BY. BY
Stuart Leroy Anderson.
(Oxford University; $2.75).
Prayers Of a Congregation
alist.
FISHERMAN'S SUNNI E r.
BY Roderick Haig-Brown.
Morrow; $3.75.) The aes-
thetic view of fresh-water
fishing.
HIDDEN AMERICA. BY Roll
and Wells Robbins and
Evan Jones. (Knopf; So
About Amatuer Archaeolo-
gist Robbins discovery of
Thereau'S cabin at Walden,
Thomas Jefferson's birth
place and others.
LAND OF MILK AND ON
ELETS. BY Ken Kraft.
appleton Century-Crofts;
$4.50) A light-hearted &C
count of two amateur
farmers who found that
there is more to planting
an orchard than digging it.
LIVING BEYOND YOUR
HEART ATTACK. BY Eu-
gene B. Mozes, MD. (Pren-
tice-Hall; $500 How to
survive a heart attack, by a
Canton, Ohio, specialist.
A NEW LIFE IN YOUR La
TER YEARS. BY DR.. Heinz
Woltereck. (Dial Press;
$3.75.) The EN- % tional
changes in older age.
OFFICES IN THE SKY. BY
Earle Shultz and Walter
Simmons. (Bobbs-Merrill;
So The growth upward
Of the skyscraper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
The Best Selections
Of Nature Stories

Mr.. Movius tells in $50 Long,
Voyageur," how he nursed the
goose back to health and
what happened afterward.
There are many other
equally interesting stories
and articles about wild crea-
lures of every shape, size and
habitat. The variety of these
contributions attestS to the
wide scope of the magazine
and explains its popularity.
The book is splendidly Illus
trated with 100 photographs
by Walter w. Ferguson.
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

tells the story. Buzz Marrow
Is seen entirely through Bo-
mans eyes. Boman is a
skilled copilot who always
does his job but never seems
to advance. to get a plane Of
his own. He has what might
be called a normal attitude
toward the war, the attitude
most soldiers have. He hates
1t, lives only to complete his
25th mission so he can 60
home. And yet he can't help
admiring Marrow excessively.
So do other officers, even the
sergeants in the crew Of his
bomber 1.-THE Body" on whom
he rides herd constantly.
Why does Buzz elicit this
adulation despite the feet
that many men on the base
despise his arrogance, his
conceit, his brawling temper
in liquor? Because, unlike
most of them. he enjoys what
he's doing; the great haz-
ards of the air, the fax, the
efficient German fighters,
the weather, delight him.
Somehow they are envious
of his self-conscious heroics.
A Persuasive Study
When Marrow tries to steal
Boman's girl, the co-pilot of
THE Body" is disillusioned.
He suddenly hates the much
decorated major-or thinks
he does.
AS a psychological study
1.-THE War Lover" is entirely
persuasive. AS a novel it has
serious defects. 1t is far too
long; there is much repeti-
ton in bringing out charac-
ter, or substantially that;
scenes and dialogue much
alike. In form it is unnec-
ceSsarily complex. While the
narrator is describing 1.-THE
Body's" crucial gath mission,
he keeps returning, in alter
nate chapters, to 1.-The tour"
a story of earlier missions,
leaves and long waits at the
base. This slows the pace and
may at times confuse the
reader.
On the Technical Side
Mr.. HerSey, who was a war
correspondent, has studied
bombers thoroughly. The re-
suit is perhaps too much on
the technical side for a
novel.
In his last novel, "a Sin
gle Pebble" a story of China
almost a century ago, Mr..
Hersey compressed a drama
tic story into an admirably
compact form. But in THE
War Lover" he has evidently
felt, as too many .novelists
seem to feel these days, that
since he had a theme of
major Importance, he must
write on and on about it,
with form forgotten. THE
War Lover" is a Book-of-
the-Month Club selection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
The Marines Tell 1t
To You in Pictures
THE UNITED STATES MA
RINES-a Pictorial His
tory. By LYNN MontroSs

RlNES-a Pictorial His
tory. By Lynn Montross
(Rhinehart g. Co.; $100
Books Of illustrations and
pictorial histories have always
fascinated me-there are
many good ones about the
Civil War, World War l and
World War II-but here is
one dedicated to all the
fighting done by the United
States Marine Corps since it
was founded in a Philadel-
phia tavern.
Lynn Montross, a noted
historian and author of 1888
Ontario road NV, compiled
this monumental work with
ABA illustrations drawn from
more than 100 different
sources including the Marine
Corps files, the National Ar
chives and the Library Of
Congress.
It is, among other things,
the first Marine history to
include the Korean conflict
but it does not neglect the,
countless battles and Skin
mishes that Marines have
been fighting all over the
world. OF particular interest
are some Of the off-beat
photographs taken in the
banana republics during the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

THIS is NATURE: 30
Years of the Best From Ma
ture Magazine, selected and
edited by Richard w. West
wood (Crowell; $3.50, is a
fine sampling of a Washing
ton magazine which has a
national reputation.
What could be more ap-
pealing than the opening
Renaissance by Gerald Mo-
vious of a wild Canada goose
who, when the writer was 10
years old, staggered into the
farm with a broken wing?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
Pioneer Doctor

The modern approach to
history and biography is well
illustrated by Washington
Author Esther Douty, whose
latest book concerns the life
of Benjamin Rush.
In PATRIOT DOCTOR
(Messner: $685. she reveals
DR.. Rush's narrowing years
as physician general for
George Washington's troops
and his zeal in attacking dis
ease and epidemicS in Phila-
delphia after the war. 1t is
exciting to discover that as a
young professor of chemistry
in the first medical school in
America, at the age of g.
he wrote the first chemistry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

Mexican expeditions and, of
course, against the Germans
in France during World
War I.
Mr.. Montross' list Of pub
lished volumes and articles
is too long to enumerate
here. However, he did this
book with the aid Of his wife,
Mrs. Lois H. Montross, who
acted as designer and layout
artist. There is just enough
text to explain the pictures
without slowing down the
reader who cannot wait to
turn the page.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
New Angles

Authors with a fair for re-
search keep turning up new
story material, or new angles
on old subjects. Frances Cav
anah does this most success
fully in her new biography
Of Lincoln's childhood and
youth. ABE LINCOLN GETS
HIS CHANCE Grand Nc
Nally: $685. is well worth
adding to the Lincoln book
shelf for readers under IL.
For the same age, Fairfax
Downey has written about
FAMOUS HORSES OF THE
CIVIL WAR (Thomas Mel
son: $2.95). In those davs.
generals were often known by
the horses they rode, and
Southern generals especially.
rode some very well-bred and
we'll trained horses indeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04

just begun to Tight" has
become a naval motto.
AS he did with Columbus
in his Pulitzer rize-winning
admiral Of the Ocean Sea-"
Admiral Morrison has per-
formed a prodigiouS amount
of research in his effort to
separate fact from fiction in
the colorful career Of Cap
tain Jones. And just as he
sailed the course which Co
lnmbus took in order to write
more intelligently of the dis
coverer's cruise, so he sailed
the American, British and
French waters which were
the scenes of Jones triumphs
and, at times, his disappoint-
ments.
The Battle in Detail
As might be expected, the
high point of this biography
is the battle between Jones
Bon Homme Richard and the
heavier-gunned British frig-
ate the Scraps, off Flam-
borough Head, England.
Every available detail Of this
historic engagement which
was to bring Capt. Jones I'M
dying fame is related IN the
several chapters devoted to
the preparations for the
battle, the actual fight and
the aftermath. Incidentally,
Admiral Morrison points out
that Jones uttered his de-
faint announcement almost
at the outset Of the battle
not toward the end when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
Against All Odds

The same spirit of courage
against all odds is revealed
by Mrs. Marie Peary Stat
ford in her long awaited
biography Of her father,
DISCOVERER OF THE
NORTH POLE Morrow. So
She is well qualified to tell
how Peary overcams so
many obstacles that, after
one miserable failure, his
faithful Eskimo companion
said, 1.-THE devil must have
been asleep or we would new
er have come back"
Women, too, have strug-
gled against all kinds Of
handicapS; physical handi-
caps like blindness, emotion.
al handicaps. political criti.
cism and personal prejudice.
In the hands Of sympathetic
biographers, their life sto-
ries make absorbing reading
for thoughtful teenagers.
Outstanding are THE Hell.
EN- KELLER STORY by
Catherine Owens Peare
(Crowell. $2.75); j, MARY,
the girl who married Abra.
ham Lincoln, by Ruth Paint
er Randall Oittle Brown.
$500; and NOR
ROO SEVELT by Alfred
Steinberg putnam. So.