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Evening star., 1959-12-27

Tropic of Cancer, Black
Spring and Sexus, but none
is typical. The selections
from the banned books, are,
of course, innocuous," COM
ments the author in a pre-
face, "and are therefore
somewhat misleading"
Angry or Amusing
In his stories, profiles, phil
oSophical essays and apho-
riSms, Mr.. Miller is sometimes
angry, sometimes amusing.
He sets forth his views on
D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce
and Marcel Proust. He lists
the petty torments of a
teacher in a French boys
school. He records his
thoughts and emotions on
visiting Epidaurus in Greece.
During World War II, he saw
with remarkable prescience
that India and China would
play important roles on the
world scene. He plugs en-
Enthusiastically for his friend,
BlaiSe Cendrars, French nov
elist, compared to whom
Ernest Hemingway is a Boy
Scout.
America, by and large,
doesn't fare well in the Miller
Evening star., 1959-12-27

Lady Wentworth had the
Byronic sense of rank and
also the perfect informality
or bearing which are re-
marked in so many descrip-
tions of the poet"
Attic Treasure
Thereafter, Miss Moore,
turned loose in the attic,
pored happily over the relics
of the family which filed
box upon box of tightly
packed papers.
Miss Moore records some
Of her discoveries, but her
little memoir is not entirely
literary" as it is inter-
spersed with comments about
her formidable hostess, a
breeder of Arabian horses
and a most engaging indi-
vidual.
And that is our payola
story.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
frightening Tale
Is Like Campfire
Reud Ghost Story
THE ODIOUS ONES. Rv

THE ODIOUS ONES. By
Jerry Sohl. (Rinehart &
Co.; $2.95O
Out of an annual reunion
Of a class of AZ Jerry Sohl
has spun a frightening tale
that would scare an old hand
at telling campfire ghost
stories.
Mr.. Sohl has with skill
portrayed the reactions Of
seven men facing death by
their own hand while they
are stradling success like a
bronco buster. !
His seven characters range
from a doctor, two lawyers,
and a merchant to a santa
ton engineer, and dime-store
novelist; four Of them die.
BaSically it is a science
fiction novel and it is my
hope that it remains that
way.
1t does, however, have
some truth in its main theme
in that it is quite obvious
that certain driving forces
in today's world could, and
have been known to drive
mankind to take their own
life.
If one looks for the word
between the lines, so to
speak, there is a lot of SYM
bollsm in Mr.. Sohl's short
245-page novel. l do not,
however. believe that he in
tended such symbolism.
The Odius Ones" is one
of those books that is hard
to put down and even harder
to review without giving away
the plot or the ending.
CAROL FROST.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
FICTION


STORIES AND SATIRES.
By Sholom Aleichem. Yo-
seloff; So A centennial
volume of writings by the
master of Yiddish humor.
THE STRANGE ONE. By
Fred Bodsworth. (Dodd,
Mead; $4.95) A novel of
forbidden love between a
naturalist and an uprooted
Indian girl.
THE GRACES OF BALLY-
KEEN. BY Una Troy CDut-
ton; $500 The story of
two nuns who manage to
escape the discipline of
convent life by taking
charge of the Ballykeen
workhouSe.
MURDER ON THE LINKS.
By Agatha Christie. Dell:
35cD A Hercule Poirot
mystery.
A HENRY ADAMS READER.
Edited by Elizabeth Steven
son. doubleday; $1.25)
Selections from all Adams
writings.
McSORLEY'S WONDERFUL
SALOON. BY Joseph Mitch
ell. (Grosset & Dunlap;
$1.25.D Twenty stories on
the eccentricities of the
bartenders and customers
and low-life in New York.
Evening star., 1959-12-27

handsomely printed version
of "The Night Before Christ
mas" which was bound in
gold cardboard. The year be-
fore. it was an original poem
by Robert Frost, equally Law
ish. Just last week, we got
a 42-page pamphlet bound
in some obviously expensive
paper with ragged edges and
a sketch of Byron.
A Well-BOund Bribe
Not having heard that any
disc jockeys were being per-
secuted for accepting gifts of
records they played, we
thought we could purge our
selves by explaining the con-
tents of this particular gift.
1t is called THE Great
Byron Adventure" and it
consists of four articles first
printed in the London Times.
relating the experiences of
Byron Biographer Doris Lang
ley Moore, who was granted
access to the hitherto mac
cesSible Lovelace papers.
On the Byron Trail
Through the years, follow
erS of the Byron trail have
sought in vain to see this
fabulous, hitherto unclasS-
flied selection. They were in
the hands of an autocratic
84-year-old lady. the Baron
ess Judith Wentworth. By
ron'S great granddaughter.
Miss Moore got her foot in
that inhospitable door by
virtue of having written two
letters to the Times in de-
fenSe Of Byron. A lofty let
ter bidding her welcome to
Crabbet Park, the scene Of
the treasure trove, came
signed simply Wentworth"
Miss Moore most gladly
went and met the descendant
Of the unquiet poet. Her first
impressions are worth re-
porting.
IN Nobody could have
doubted that she was a per-
son of grandeur, sure of her
status, accustomed to have
her way: but she was alto
gether without airs. informal
and unguardedly uncommu-
NEGATIVE. The aspersions
against his good breeding.
so often quoted. were never
made by anyone we'll bred.)
Evening star., 1959-12-27

scale Of values. America has
comforts; Europe has other
things which make these
comforts seem unimportant.
Recalls BOyhOOd
On more fundamental and
universal themes, Mr.. Miller
sympathetically recalls his
boyhood neighborhood along
Brooklyn'S waterfront: his
fathers lingering, incurable
illness; his deep-seated af-
fection for France; his con-
cern over his small sons
preoccupation with comics
and his myStiflcation over
the mechanical secrets of his
automobile.
Through the Miller stories
stalk many characters who
are best described as dere-
lictS. OF these, the author
says, he had the good fortune
to come in contact with
thousands.
l say good fortune he
writes. because it was from
the despised and neglected
ones that I learned about
life, about God, and about
the futility Of doing good"
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Underseu Boats
Leuve q Wake of
Thrilling Tales
CHALLENGERS OF THE

CHALLENGERS OF THE
DEEP. BY Wilbur Cross.
(William Sloane Associ-
ates; So
For a nation which has
had war submarines avail
able since 1855, America
waited longer than most
countries to really make use
of the undersea boat on a
grand scale.
That this situation has
been corrected apparently we
can attribute to World War
II and, more latterly, to one
man Admiral Lyman Rick
over. But if no one paid at
tention to our early geniuSes
in developing submarines, it
was not because America had
none.
David Bushnell. a student
at Yale College, constructed
the first war" submarine,
the Turtle, which made the
first submarine attack on the
British fleet off Staten Island
during the Revolutionary
war. Later, Simon Lake and
John Philip Holland came
along, years sahead of their
time, with submarines which
worked pretty we'll.
Perhaps the most dramatic
stories in the history of sub
marine warfare are the ia
nous sinkings of such craft
as the Squalus and the S-4.
Author Cross has done such
a fine research job and
written the story of these
sinkings so we'll that the
wondrous featS of the atomic
powered Nautilus seem vir-
tually miraculous.
We have come a long way
indeed in learning to navi-
gate the depths.
JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1959-12-27

Of the Paradines and his
small son.
The ghosts begin by throw
ing Lady Isobels room into a
shambles Of upset furniture,
broken mirrors and torn
down portraits.
Then the nun is seen and
the concert harp in the music
room begins playing by it
self. These are the usual
manifestations of the spec
ters who haunt Paradise Hall.
They date back, according to
legend-which of course most
people believe-Several hun
dred years, to the time an
early Lord Paradine did away
with a nun who had once
been his sweetheart.
Terrifying Manifestations
Other rooms are upset, and
the manifestations become so
terrifying that the friend Of
the family, Sir Richard Lock-
erie, suggests that he send for
a friend, Alexander Hero,
from London. Hero is a ghost
breaker" a professional in
vestigator Of psychic phe-
nomena.
Hero. who later is aided
by his beautiful stepsister.
undertakes to lay the ghosts
of Paradise Hall. He finds
plenty of evidence to explain
the strange happeni ing
either way - as haunting
spirits or as malevolent hu-
mans. Hero discovers several
croSS-currentS of hate in the
house, as well as more than
one smoldering love affair,
with attendant jealousies.
Is this, he wonders, at last
the breakthrough into the
spirit world which he has
always hoped to find? Or is
it only one. or more probably
several, impersonators of
ghosts, clever and adroit?
What does his investigation
yield?
I'll never tell you.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
GENERAL

CHESS IN TEN LESSONS.
By Larry Evans. Barnes;
$685. A practical course of
instruction.
PRECISION WEIR. BY
Howard F. Bennett. (Apple-
ton, Century, Crofts; So
The first half century of
Bodine Electric Company.
THE GOOD LIGHT. BY Karl
Bjarnhof. (Knopf; $4.) The
experience of an almost
blind young mans forma-
tive years.
RUNNING A HAPPY FAM
lily. BY Henry and Eliza
beth Swift. day: $500
How to apply management
and human relations to
make an efficient home and
happy family.
MEET THE ANCIENT
GREEKS. BY Xenophen
Leon Messinesi. (CaXton;
THE NINE DAYS OF DUN
KIRK. BY David Divine.
CW. w. Norton; $685. The
first full account of the
most dramatic military
withdraw in history and a
turning point in World
War II.
THE REVISED McCALL'S
BOOK OF DERN
HOUSES. BY Mary Davis
Gillies. (Simon and Schus-
ter; $7.95O
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Civil War
Research
Treasury
A COMPENDIUM OF THE

A COMPENDIUM OF THE
WAR OF THE REBEL
LION. BY Frederick H.
Dyer, with new introduc-
ton by Bell Irwin Wiley.
(YoSeloff; 8 vols, boxed,
$4,000
Civil War centennial OBJ
servances soon beginning will
serve to stress the impor-
tance Of the Dyer compen-
dium first brought out some
so years ago. Dyer was q
drummer boy in that war.
He made it a hobby to collect
facts about men and outfits
while he was still in service.
Later he continued to gather
material. This gathering
phase, the momentum grow
ing, required 40 years, and
the final recording required
five years of frenzied work.
The original manuscript
filled thousands Of sheets
with millions of names Of
persons and places. Dyer
proclaimed modestly at last:
II hope that it is worth the
while."'
The introduction by Mr..
Wiley reminds us of the i'm
mense labor invested, for
Dyer had no secretarial as
SiStance or other helpers.
Volume I is devoted to the
organization of the Union
forces. Volume 2 chrono-
logically records every cam
paign and skirmish with sta
tistics of the wounded, killed,
missing or captured. Volume
3 contains concise regimental
histories. The new printing
and binding are excellent
and will serve to make the
books durable as reference.
works.
There are 1.7S6 pages 71a
by 1917, full Of authoritative
tables and statistics, person.
mel, events, maps and photo
graphS.-H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
A Book of American
Symbols byMox Lerner

THE UNFINISHED COUN-
TRY, by Max Lerner (Simon
and Schuster; $3.50, is a
compendium of columns
which this widely known
journalist and historian wrote
for the New York Post dur
ing the last decade.
Mr.. Lerner, who is a Ph.D.
and has taught at some lead
ing colleges and now is pro-
fessor of American civiliza-
ton at Brandeis University,
author of several scholarly
books, has this to say in his
foreword:
Grades Of Culture
"It is only the research
minded professors who as
sign journalism to a limbo
somewhere between the hell
Of popular culture and the
heaven Of high culture The
Continentals don't do it, and
the English journals make
use of some of the best minds
of the universities. That may
explain the rather unusual
list of journalists in the Eu-
ropean tradition:
Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Vol
taire, Diderot, Marx, Engels,
DoStoevski, Sorel, Peguy,
Alain, Bagehot, Shaw, Wells,
Bertrand Russell, Keynes,
Croce, Salvemini, Borgese,
Sartre. Camus, Orwell. 1t is
a list hard for Americans to
match, although there is an
honorable tradition of Amer
ican writer's and thinkers who
have held the craft of jour-
nalism to be a not ignoble
one"
Mr.. Lerner explains that he
called this book THE Un-
finished Country" because "it
Is my deeply felt symbol for
an American whose failures
OF history must be faced, de-
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Authority on Lincoln
Writes of His Youth

this time about his early
years in Indiana. He felt
that this period had been
comparatively neglected.
The Books He Read
There is a solid kernel Of
fact in this book that is good.
Lincoln was a gifted child.
In frontier country, where
many of the adults could
only sign their name or make
their mark, Lincoln could
read and write at 7 years
old. DR.. Warren tells what
books he read at what age,
where he lived, who were the
neighbors. what furniture
his family had, gives elabo-
rate genealogical information,
how he got the scar that
was either on his right side
or his left and such other
minutiae as how many ships
were at anchor in New Or
leans when Lincoln made his
first trip there.
The ordinary, literate read
er who likes Lincoln and who
thinks that Carl Sandburg,
David Mearns and many
others have covered the i'm
portant facts in Lincoln's life
thoroughly and we'll, might
get annoyed at the sticky.
marshmallowy mass of wild
Surmise that surrounds the
facts in this book.
I am amused at learning
that Lincoln thought "The
Arabian Nights" was mighty
fine lies" I do not care for
what DR.. Warren thinks Lin
coin might have felt while
reading them. There is too
much of this.
The book is somewhat in
the format of DR.. Arnold
GeSell's "The Child from Five
to Ten" and there seems to be
no reason for this or for DR..
GeSell's vague introduction.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

Now Lord and Lady Para
dine, like good ariStocratS
these days, have found them
selves impoverished, unable
to run such a big establish
ment. So they've turned one
wing of the big house into a
country club" with paying
guests" bringing in the neces-
Sary pounds and shillingS.
Hl-AsSOrted Crowd
AS the curtain rises we
find an ill-aSsorted little
crowd roaming about the es-
tate, playing tennis, fishing
in the river, dining with the
family in the baronial dining
hall.
There's Lord Paradine's sis
ter, Lady Isobel, who really
runs the place. Lady Para
dine, who was a commOner,
anyway, doesn't bother to or
seem to care. We also have
in the family the two grown
children of MILFORD and lady,
Mark and Beth, and a fat,
fatuouS nephew, Freddie. A
lovely American girl is the
guest of Beth.
Destructive Ghosts
On the country club side,
the paying guests include a
clustering member of Parlia-
ment, his wife and their
small adopted daughter of
IL; an arrogant army officer
and his long-suffering wife:
a sporty, misunderstanding
widow: a scientist, a physi-
clan, a titled widower friend
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Meoty Criticism
Worth Saving

So many book reviews are
ephemeral efforts. Newspa-
per and periodical criticism
is seldom worth the saving.
There are exceptions, Of
course. One has come to
hand this week in a volume
C allied I'm ALL CON-
SCIENCE" Doubleday;
S4.95J a collection of the
book reviews of Father Har-
old c. Gardiner, literary edi-
tor of America, the Jesuit
weekly.
All of Father GARDENERS
criticism is based firmly in
his beliefs, as the cautionary
title would indicate. But they
are not narrow. They are
rather, serene and generous.
He is not, for example, a
so = called muscular Cath
olic" who insists that because
a book is Catholic, in author
ship and content, it must be
good. He says, speaking of
one such, which was also a
beSt-Seller, The mere fact
that the authors produced
Catholic literature is no
reason for them to escape
criticism first and foremost
on literary grounds" Nor
does Father Gardiner fear to
make minority judgments
on other giants. He disa-
grees firmly. even humor-
ously with the great chorus
of praise that went up over
HemlngWay's The Old Man
and the Sea" Those who feel
at sea with the heaving
prose of Faulkner will find
comfort here, too.
Readers need not share
either Father GARDENERS be-
liefS in order to enjoy this
solid, meaty criticism. There
are also essays on other sub
jectS in this fine collection.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Paul GoIIico's New Novel Tiqht
With Suspense, One of His Best

TOO MANY GHOSTS. By
Paul Calico. doubleday;
$3.50
Let no year pass without
notice Of a new book by Paul
Calico.
And yet this imaginative
novelist, who started his
writing career covering
sports, never relaxes on his
reputation and merely hur-
rieS out something to meet
the next market. Despite his
facility for writing, which has
enabled him to turn out many
books, he always tries his ut
most, I truly believe, to give
his public the best entertain
ment he can devise.
TOO Many Ghosts" a
story tight with suspense, is
one of his most absorbing
novels.
Familiar Landscape
We havGA familiar fictional
landscape. There's an ances-
trail home in England's Nor
folk properly haunted at in
tervals for centuries. accord
ing to repute. But the story
which Mr.. Calico spins out
to a fine point of excitement
Is different from most such
tales.
On this particular con-
temporary week an apparent
poltergeiSt-or a whole set
Of them-visits Lord Para
dimes 400-year-old mansion.
Evening star., 1959-12-27

Wolfe, Gerald w. johnson,
John Dos PassoS, Frederick
Lewis Allen, Sherwood An
derSon, Robert Paul Smith
Carl S ndburg, William
March, Ben Hecht, Sinclair
Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Damon
Runyon, Haywood Brown,
Lloyd Morris, John Stein
beck, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
William Allen White, Alistair
Cooke, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
jr., Jack Sullivan, Walter
Winchell, Jonathan Daniel
and Franklin Delano Roose-
velt.-C. B. j.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Fiction and Articles
From the Twenties

THE Sc WERE OUR
YEARS, edited by Frank
Brookhouser Doubleday:
$4.95) is an anthology from
articles and fiction by prom
inent writer's during the 20s
and 30s. The book is sub
titled "a panoramic and
nostalgia look at American
life between the two world
wars"
These excerpts bring back
much Of the flavor of those
decades so recent and yet al
ready half forgotten. Con-
tributors include: Thomas
Evening star., 1959-12-27
READING AND WRITING
Book Critics Rate on
PoyoIo Billing, Too
By MARY McGRORY
star Stad Writer

Book reviewers have been taking payoa for years
gathering in the Doodle without blush thought we
might well up while everyone else u.s. hoping that
the holiday spirit might mitigate any judgment that may
fall
Last year, gentle reader, we shamelessy accepted
Evening star., 1959-12-27
BY MARIAN TRACY
Contributing Writer

LINCOLN'S YOUTH, INDI-
ANA YEARS, SEVEN TO
TWENTY-ONE, 1S16-1SsO.
BY Louis A. Warren. (Ap-
pleton = Century Crofts;
$6.000
Only a truly dedicated
scholar, a determined Lin
coln-buff, and a dreamer
would be brave enough to
write another book on Lin
coin.
DR.. Warren is all three.
He started out normally
enough as a newspaper edi-
tor in Kentucky. Like some
one who tries to eat just
one salted nut, he began to
collect a few facts here and
there on Lincoln's early life
from the court entries, per-
sonal papers, tombstone in
scriptionS, school and church
records.
Edited Weekly Bulletin
Naturally some of this ma
terial ended up in a book,
"Lincoln's Parentage and
Childhood" From then
on he was lost. He became
director of the Lincoln
National Life Foundation at
Fort Wayne. Indiana and for
twenty-eight years he edited
a weekly bulletin, Lincoln
Lore" and gave three thou
sand lectures all over the
country (according to his
publishers).
When he retired, he wrote
another book on Lincoln,
Evening star., 1959-12-27
A Bit Durinq
FRENCH DRAGON. B,

FRENCH DRAGON. By
Roger Rudigoz. Coward
McCann; $3.95O
Much too daring since it is
translated without shame,
this French book has a thin
plot that vaguely concerns
the Napoleonic wars. In a
conversation" about Pari-
slams, one friend says AL
words without interruption
and gets 497 back. But it's
very gay and puffs with sex,
if that's what you want in a
novel. H. A. L.
Evening star., 1959-12-27

has this to say about what
Mao Tze-tung's revolution is
doing to the country:
Communist action pene-
trates into the soil of the
masses like a steel plowshare,
cuts it open, turns it over
and prepares it for future
harvests. Like an iron roller
that nothing will slow down
or stop, it cruShes and levels
people, classes and institu-
tions. Il. EDGAR PRINA.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Other Books of the Week in Brief

So An introduction to the
people to whom we can
trace so much of our own
phases of life.
CHEMICAL MAGIC. BY John
D. Lippy, jr., and Edward
L. Palder. (Stackpole.
$685. Tricks, effects and
methods of the art of magic
employing chemicals.
AIRCRAFT AND MISSILES.
BY Dennis NJ. De Soutter.
de Graft. $7.50D What
they are, what they do, and
how they work.
STONEWARE AND PORCE-
LAIN. BY Daniel Rhodes.
(Chilton, 7.50D The art of
high-f1red pottery.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
MILITARY RELATIONS BE-
TWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND CANADA:
1939-1945. BY Col. Stanley
w. Dzibban. (Chief Of Mil
itary History, So
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Henry Miller Sampler
Reveals Great Talent
By JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Star stan Writer
HENRY MILLER READER.

HENRY MILLER READER Edited by Lawrence Durrel
New Directions; $650D
The Henry Miller Reader is a sample writing
OF the New Yorkborn author, much whose work has
been published in the United States For those who
have wondered about Mr. Mer talents an excellent
opportunity to become convinced.
Excerpts included anthology from the tahooed
Evening star., 1959-12-27

THE STEEL INDUSTRY
WAGE STRUCTURE. BY
Jack Stieber. Harvard;
So A study of the Joint
union management job
evaluation program.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1959-12-05

373 points even thovch he miss.
ed several games due TO injuries,
Then there's Cap Pefhers, 6.
5Ha center from Worthwhile who
collected 332 points last year.
The other lettermcn are: Dick
Carlson. 6-3 guard from DENLY
High; John Conway, 60 guard
from ST Thomas High; Lou
Haase, 6-3 forward from Utica;
Bill Maiser. 6-3 guard from Har-
per Woods; jim Morrissey. 60
forward from L. CT d. High.
Henry Podeszwa. Ga forward
from ST. Thomas High: and Fred
Wasen, 90 guard from Royal
Oak.
Newcomers TO the squad are:
Ron Keen, $40 guard from
Southeastern High; Gene Law
son, 81 forward from Highland
Park; Ron Nosek, 5-7h guard
from Holy Redeemer High; and
Fred TinsIey. SO forward from
Csss Tech.
Athletic Director Don Rider
has arranged a 25 game SEIZED
ule for LIT AZ addition to an
appearance in Akron Univer-
sity's holiday tournament, Dec
cmber % and %.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1959-12-05
Schmidt, Klein
Tongie Mondoy

during Htler'S regime, is an
exceptionally skilled mailman
who knows just about every
hold in the book - how TO apply
them and how to break them.
Klein, a Jewish heavyweight
from Detroit. knows all of the
tricks. too He is former
AAU lightweight champion and
has been a top performer ever
since he turned pro nearly 20
years ago.
While the match is expected
&c be a battle Of mat scientists,
the companion piece will mix
brains and Drawn.
The brain trust Of Dick Cara
and Jim Hady will meet Brute
Bernard and Ali Bey in re-
match Of their Wild tag bout OF
two weeks ago which ended in
a draw.
Another in the Australian
tag team tournament series,
this event will also be for the
best two in three falls within an
hour.
Two other bouts will complete
the card. The first event starts
al $3.50 p. m.