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REYNOLDS, "a. 7-652b.
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NAL. 8 bedrms., full bsmt.: eTcei.
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INC, IA. 7-4004.
ARLINGTON : 4.bedTn,, 2-beth
masonry home on large fenced
lot; very close in: WaIkine ais
lance Pentagon. Only $lO7 per
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porch, garage, fenced I'd, $3.50,
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air conditioned: rec. rm., fireplace,
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door Mr. schools and shopping.
DU. 1920. after 5.
ARL., 2205. 8. culpeper st.--cape
Cod, 4 bedrms., 2 full baths: gas
h.-Wh.; storm windows: l blk.
Wakefield HIS. 3 blks. elem. schl,,
10 mI-ls Pentagon. Fenced back
yard encl. with trees and shrubs.
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SUM- wkdays after 0 pm.
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BETHESDA--Mod 3 bedrms.. 9
baths: 4sts N. lane. Sl50, option
70 nuy. Owner a. 4, Z. RlsT. after
BETHESDA-WYNGATE = 4-bedrm.
prick home With rec nm, in re.
schools. sieo' Oh s.ls SS9f eve 81
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BETHESDA AREA--Modern brick
split-level home located on well.
Handicapped lot at 69i9 Selkirk Dir,
with 8 bedrms, ga baths, liy.
rm.. with firepl., din. rm., fully
equip. kit. rec. rm. and built-in
garage: S225 per mo. FRED A.
SMITH CO., lib 18th st, NV,
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BETHESDA AREA--Modern brick
split-leyel home located on we'll
landscsped lot at 6919 Selkirk DIR.
with 8 bedrfns., ga baths, liy.
rm., with firepl., din. rm., fully
EQUIP, ki tso rec; rm. and b I
SMITH CO., 1ifs 18th St. NV,
Elk. 3-24S0, ewes. ia. g-6l2O.
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COOP APIS. FoR SALE
APARTMENTS WANTED
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BETHESDA

BRICK 2-sToRY, 3 bedrms., irepl.,
grade and high schools: 9 blks.
from parochial school, Lady Of
Lourdes parish. Walking distance
to center Of Bethesda. zoos Chei-
ton. I'd, Avail. June |. e14O no.
Call HA. 7-7147. weekdays. q 70 s
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ONE bEDHM-. Nv. rm'. nd. and
bath. newly decorated s1b, ONE
kg.I c =. apt 81, ese Mrs.
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ROCK CREEK GARDENS APIS.
ana 2 bedrms.; unfurn. and furn
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sIL. SPG.--i -hedrm., lee. ilv. rm,,
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TAkOhA PARK ---nedrm. iiv. rm.
kit,. bath, Heat, Hot water, S7B
Adults. ~, 5-sbgf.
TAX. Pm. 7l2 HudsOn---Onea
rfn, apt, COW. bus and shopping
PVT. entrance. OIL. 4-72f2.
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Diplomatic Doings
In High Conjecture
A FOREIGN AFFAIR by AM.

drew Graham. Doubleday
e. Co.; $3.50
Diplomatic maneuver1ng in
the mythical kingdom of
Parasang, located somewhere
between Singapore and OAR
win, Australia, is the sub
ject Of this merry spool.
A cold war is commencing
between the republic to the
north and the kingdom to the
south, solely because southern
ParaSang has uncovered q
rare mineral essential to the
British.
A secret British agent ar
ranges some mb-tossing at
the psychological m o m n t,
the earnest First Secretary
makes endless reports, the
military attache nearly goes
crazy trying to interest the
native commander in chief in
proper military maneuvers
and all the time, the British
Ambassador and the Dowager
Queen are cooking up their
own solution to the threat of
war.
All this action is related
with such sly and def touches
that the reader has to stay
alert not to miss the bril-
liant satire sparkling on every
page.
Mr.. Graham presents a
gallery Of caricatures. He
covers the diplomatic set, a
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who was not told that ONeill
was his father until he was
IL years old. Young O'Neill,
a brilliant classicist, commit
ted suicide at the age Of 40.
1t may be the two boys were
victims Of what the author
considers the curse Of the
O'Neills. But surely ONeill,
who brooded over the whole
world gave little time to his
own children. It seemed
almost as though he could
not forgive them for what
he had done to them.
Mr.. Browns Recommendation
is far more impressive than
either his style or his insight.
But even 50 there energies
from his enormously detailed
pages q fascinating picture
Of q genius who made moral
judgments on the whole
world while conspicuously
excluding himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-31
17-Yeor-OId SchooIboy
Writes a First Novel

The remarkable thing
about the next novel, NO
PLACE TO RUN, by Philip
Aston Stone (Viking; $3.76
Is that it was written by a
k7-year-old schoolboy.
The author, son of an Ok
ford. Miss, lawyer-William
Faulkner's home grounds
was a senior at Hotchkiss
School when he finished the
novel last year. He now is a
student at Harvard.
To list young Mr.. Stones
merits first. he shows an
astonishing ability for his
age, to WELD that unwieldy
shape, a full-length narra-
tive, to keep it moving and
interesting. His descriptions
are crisp, and now and then
he lights up a whole scene
with a sly flash of wit. In
brief. he is a young man of
uncommon promise.
Beyond that, not much can
be said for this precocious
first novel. If it were written
by some one of mature years,
1t could be dismissed as a
perfervid reinstatement of a
familiar theme, a Southern
demagogue and his followers.
Often the story sounds like
a burlesque, though. it obvi-
ously is intended to be taken
seriously. The authors pro-
tagoniSt, Gene MasSie, the
white supremacy candidate
for Governor. twice-before
Governor and twice Senator,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-31
The Muruuders
Left q Fighting
Legend in Burma
THE MARAUDERS. BY
Charlton Ogburn. jr. (Har-
nor 81 RroS "a 5C1

THE MARAUDER S. BY
Charlton Ogburn, jr. (Har-
per & Bros; $4,000
A sardonic wag who fought
with Merrill's Marauders in
Burma once raised his voice
to sing that:
"The Fiue- Three-Qh-S Seventh
Comp. Unit, PROVISIONAL
Sinned on a scale that UGs
super Divisional"
Mr.. Ogburn's superlatively
written history of the fight
ing days of the Marauders
proves that, if anyone
sinned, it was not the men
themselves.
Origin of Name
The men who gathered
from the four corners to form
the 5307th Composite Unit
foregathered in India, truly a
bastard outfit to be stuck
with such a name. The
"Merrill's Marauders" appel
lation was the invention of
a Time-Life correspondent.
Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill, in
point of fact, was rarely with
his unit, being afflicted with
a bad heart, and made none
Of their epic marches through
the Kachin Hills and the
Burma jungles.
The Marauders were the
only United States infantry
from Italy to the Solomons
when they embarked down
the Ledo road under the
overall aegis of Vinegar Joe
Stilwell. That leathery soul
was so bemused by his con-
slant struggles with Chang
Kai-shek that he sent the
Marauders on just one too
many missions.
Beyond the. Call
Sent, after a successful
campaign in central Burma.
to invest the stronghold Of
Myitkyina, the Marauders
simply fell apart, .disinte-
grated. They had done more
than flesh and blood could
endure.
Theirs is an epic story,
skillfully written by a man
who was there to the bitter
end, of a unit which fought
at the tag end of a meager
lifeline; which was forced to
consort with indispensable
Chinese infantry units and
which never lost a battle.
No better unit history has
been written in recent years.
j. o., Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-31
Story Of Two Couples
In I rogic Friendship

THE FACE OF LOVE, by
EAnore Coffee Grown; $500,
is the story of two couples
Who in the course of their
close friendship get their
lives strangely entangled.
The . wives. Jennie and
Nina, had been the closest
friends ever since they were
together at a New York con-
vent school. Now that both
were married, their intimacy
continued and their husbands
were reasonably congenial.
Jennie and Charles had q
baby. and when Nina became
pregnant it all seemed won
derful, more so to Nina's
husband Bart than to Nina,
who was more worldly wise
and sharp-tongued than
Jennie.
Christmas at a snow-bound
lodge in the Adirondaks
brought tragedy. Nina gave
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Mayhem Walks
On the Sidewalks
OF New York
A MATTER on CONvIC-


TION. BY Evan Hunter.
(Simon g. Schuster. $500
There's an old and popu-
lar song in which young peo-
pie often "tripped the light
fantastic on the sidewalks
of New York"
Well, they still do some
fantastic things on the side
walks of New York, but
dancing doesn't seem to be
one Of them. knitting would
be more like 1t.
That is, it would be II you
believe what you read in
newspapers, magazines and
the novels Of Evan Hunter.
Slum-bred Youth
In fact, a knitting on the
city's sidewalks is the spring
from which Mr.. Hunters
latest novel on New York's
slum bred youth pours
forth.
1t is easy to believe Mr..
Hunter, because he writes
with an assurance born of
personal experience and long
reflection and observation.
His hero is an assistant
district attorney who loves
the law, but loves his con-
ception Of true justice even
more. And in this book. he
must choose between the two.
His name is Henry Bell, and
he is assigned to prosecute
three boys for the switch
blade murder of another.
The victim is blind, and the
city cries out for vengeance.
But Mr.. Bell. in his
straightforward search for
truth, soon learns that the
cold-blooded killing is not all
that it seems. And in learn
ing, he revisits-with great
pain II his own youth and
comes to terms with his own
problems and fears.
In a previous novel, "The
Blackboard Jungle" Mr..
Hunter walked his readers
surefootedly along these same
city streets. His effort hit the
best-seller lists and was made
into a successful movie. And
there is no reason to expect
less of "a Matter Of Convic-
ton" "A. L. SINGLETON.
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is a sort of amalgam of the
late Senator Bilbo, the late
Gene Talmadge and Erskine
Caldwell's most famous char
acter, Jeter Lester of ITO
bacco Road"
Gene Massie is a crook, and
his vast following seems to
know it and not care; he's a
hypocrite who talks dry and
guzzles gin; he poses as a
pillar of the church and
wenches around whenever he
can. Gene and almost every
other character talk the same
way, a thick dialect which I
doubt that many Mississip-
plans could understand.
If the youthful author will
forget Faulkner, Caldwell and
a dozen other Southern
writers for a while and stick
closely to what he has OBJ
served, he should do a much,
much better novel.-C. B. j.
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birth prematurely to a son
and died. The baby survived,
thanks to Jennie's ministra-
ton. Months afterward Jen-
ME and Bart suddenly real
lied they were in love and
had been all along.
The complications that fol-
lowed are surprising, dra-
matte and not entirely plau-
sible. The author, faced with
a dilemma in ending her
Story-as authors so often
are-ended it by leaving her
dilemma still more or less
intact. A more natural way
than most solutions.
The novel is turned out
with expert craftsmanship if
not with much depth.
Lenore Coffee, a successful
screen writer, has written
one other novel, Another
Time, Another Place"
&C. B. j.
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GEARS AND PRESIDENTS

CARS AND PRESIDENTS
By Alexandra Tarsaidze
(McD DWELL, Obolensky;
$6.5O.)
Once upon a time there
were two eagles who got along
very well together.
One was a very young
eagle who screamed and
clawed for hiss liberty from
the domination of a sea-
going bull. The other was
very old and had two heads.
These eagles didn't have
much in common. The young
eagle believed in liberty and
justice for all. The old bird
believed in the divine right
of the top eagle to rule the
rest Of the aerie.
1t was only when the old
eagle had turned into a ruth
less Red bear-oddly enough
processing to believe in a
square deal for the common
folk - that the friendship
waned.
And now, the future of the
world hinges on the balance
of power between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
This book is the story of that
forgotten friendship.
Mr.. Tarsaidze has a passel
of off-beat history here. The
story Of how the Russians
lost out in their Pacific ex-
plorations is little known
and very Interestingly put.
He writes of how many far
sighted Russians of the nine
tenth century were inter-
ested in acquiring Hawaii,
Spanish California and other
possessions in the Pacific.
They very nearly did.
There are many stories
within the framework of
RusSian-American relations
over the years. Here is the
sad end of John Paul Jones
after he helped the Musco-
vites defeat the Turks, and
the romantic days when
John Jacob Aston was max
ing his fortune in the Pa
cific Northwest.
This is an easily -digested
way to catch up on what
makes Russia tick, written
by a man who fled his home
land when the Soviets were
taking it over. His publica-
ton covers $50 years of un-
interrupted friendship. from
the Declaration of Independ-
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South African
Short Stories

Pauline Smith, who is
rightly revered in South
Africa by the new genera
ton Of writer's there, was
born Of English parents in
the little Karoo, and discov-
cred by the Novelist Arnold
Bennett. AS a child in the
highlands she observed the
God-fearing Dutch who loved
the land and God. Her sim
pie. direct stories are all but
drowned in love and COM
passion in 1.-THE Little Karoo."
She writes Of men who
live close to the soil and close
to the church. Their tre-
mendous power comes from
her clear vision of these God
haunted men and women, her
uncluttered narrative, her
noble. almost Biblical prose.
Her most = heartbreaking
story is called "Desolation."
1t concerns Allie Van Staden.
Sorrow had been her por-
ton, but this was life as she
conceived 1t, and fearless she
had borne it," Allie, pennileSs
and alone, journeys to the
town Of her youth with her
one remaining grandson. They
toll through the drought
ridden land and arrive in the
city Of her dreams to find it
all changed. She leaves her
grandson in the orphanage,
she has one final binding
vision Of her sunny child
hood, she dies. 1t is a tragedy
which somehow encompasses
all of life and carries its own
comfort.
She writes of misers and
over-dutiful daughters and
dying old women and for
saken wives. Yet her moving
stories are neither dreary
nor depressing. There is all
ways the heartening land
Scape, the consolation Of
love or faith. IN. Meg.
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Other Books of the Week in Brief
PAPERBAcKS

THE MACKEREL PLAZA.
By Peter De Vries. New
American Library Of World
Literature; 35c.) A re-
print Of the hilarious 1858
best seller, by the author
of "The Tunnel Of Love-"
MAN OF MONTMARTRE.
BY Stephen and Ethel
Longstreet. (New Ameri-
can Library of World Lit
erature; 50c.) The 1858
best seller novel, based on
the life of French artist
Maurice Utrillo.
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS.
BY John Wyndham. BAL
lantine Books; 35c.) A
horror story Of what hap
pened in a sleepy English
village when every woman
suddenly became pregnant,
by the author of 1.-THE Day
Of the Triff1ds."
THE RELIGIONS OF MAN.
BY Huston Smith. New
American Library of World
Literature; 50c.) On the
seven major faiths of the
world.
RIDE THE NIGHTMARE.
BY Richard Mathes on.
(Ballantine Books; 35c.)
In a quiet Los Ang eles
home an unexpected tele-
phone call by a mailman
develops into a tense hor-
ror story.
THE VICTIM. BY Carter
Brown. New American Liz
brary Of World Literature;
25c.) One Of three gor-
geous women knows who
turned a footlooSe husband
into a corpse. by an Aus
tralian writer.
DUVEEN. BY S. N. Behrman.
Brandon House; 95c). The
spectacular world Of an art
dealer.
ECONOMICS AND THE ART
OF CONTROVERSY. BY
John Kenneth Galbraith.
Vantage Books; ESQ., A
series of lectures by Har-
ward University.
THE FIRST FAST DRAW.
BY Louis LiAmour. (Ban-
tam Books; 25c) A novel
Of reconstruction Texas.
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snapshots. He has been far
more successful in describ-
ing ONeill's effect on others
rather than the playwright
himself. For the work, he
had the assistance Of O'Neill's
shattered son Shane, who
took to drink and later
drugs after years Of vainly
attempting to get his fathers
attention.
The Neglected
Shane was the son Of
ONeill's second wife, Agnes
Boulton, who gave her own
version Of their marriage in
Part Of A Long Story"
ONeill deserted Agnes and
Shane and his daughter
Oona when he eloped with
the beautiful possessive ac-
tress. Carlotta Monterey. His
oldest son: product of a
youthful, short-lived mar
rage. was Eugene O'Neill, jr.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-31
Combat HEROES
Given New Life
THE SAGA or PAPPY

THE SAGA OF PAPPY
GUM. BY Gen. George
C. Kenney. (Duell, Sloan
& Pearce; So
A legend and a hero of the
Southwest Pacific in World
War II before he was killed
in an air crash two years
ago. Col. Paul Irwin (Pappy)
Gum lives again In Gen.
Kenney's simple telling.
His wartime commander
tells of Col. Gums combat
heroics, his genius with modi-
flying aircraft to meet the
needs, his practical Jokes and
colorful life.
It is a warm, understand
ing and often humorous
tribute from one man to
another.
One of Col. Gums daugh-
tiers, Mrs. v. Victor Bonanza,
lives at 1109 Ellen avenue,
Falls Church.
CHARLES YARBROUGH.
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Some Lives Taken
From the Village
To New Pastures
THE HOURGLASS. By Ed
,x,;,, Tx;Ika,.t ~ u TiYy,iy1

THE HOOhGLASS. by Ed
win Gilbert. q. B. Lippin-
colt Co.; $4.950
Mr.. Louis Untermeyer wrote
a poem which reads, in part:
q. We the bright heirs
of the centuries, controlled
the hourglass of our des-
TIMES. Ours iUas tomor-
ro1U'S lDorld. We had 1t
planned.
q. While noD, yielding
reluctantly to truth, iDe
change, hour after hour,
grain By grain, from t0hGt
We thought tDe Dere to
DhGt tDe are"
Mr.. Gilbert has taken this
same title and theme for his
third novel.
His work covers 20 years in
the lives of several people who
come to New York as youths
in the 30s and move from
Greenwich Village to uptown
New York to Greenwich,
Conn.
There are the usual artsy-
craftsy sorts in the Village
setting and here Mr.. Gilbert
is at his best. His cast in
cludeS an overSexed novelist,
an inferiority complex rid
den artist, an unimaginative
interior decorator unable to
cope with reality. and a law
yer, sound, but prone to COL
lect arty friends.
Basically Mr.. Gilbert has a
fine story. 1.-THE Hourglass"
misses because he draws some
fine characters and then
leaves them in mid-air. Phyl-
lis, for example, a free-loving
Communist girl, in some ways
resembles a Dos Passos hero
inc. But she is never fully de-
veloped. How she ends up like
everyone else as a suburbanite
is never made clear.
Mr.. Gilbert also brings up
situations and leaves them
sitting. He is on the liberals
side but why, and so what?
One exception is a long sec
ton on book banning. Over
several pages the author has
his lawyer, Mr.. Mario, make
a plea against censorship.
This is eloquent and worth
reading, though not neces-
sarily an integral part of his
novel.
ROBERTA HORNIG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-31
THE THREE DAYS. nv Don

THE THREE DAYS. BY Don
Robertson. (Prentice-Hall:
$3.50
OF several novels absorbed
for today's reflections, this
one stands out as the fresh
est, the least labored, the
most deity put together.
Such observations may
sound strange when it is
pointed out that the story Is
about the Civil War, a theme
already arranged. it might
seem, in every possible Sc
uuence by factual and fiction
writer's. Still q subject mex
haustive to buffs and likely
TO be explored again and
again as the centennial Of the
conflicts inception ap-
pfoaches.
1T was an even more Diff
cult task Don Robertson, a
young Cleveland newspapers
man, set himself in his first
novel. He chose to write
about Gettysburg, the most
famous battle, the one whose
details undoubtedly are bet
ter known to the most casual
readers than the bare outline
Of any other battle Of this
far-fiung war.
And yet he has, it seems to
me, brought it OF surpris-
ingly well.
For one thing. he did not
try to write a great epic of
the three days of fighting.
Instead he gave impressions
of the battle through the eyes
Of several soldiers on both
sides. Interspersed between
these vivid passages Of the
talk and thoughts of these
men are brief comments on
what the high commands