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Evening star., 1959-06-14
MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUI

DAUGHTER. BY Simone
de Beauvoir. (World Pub
fishing: So
Simone de Beauvoir writ
ing about her childhood Is
like Simone de Beauvoir
writing about anything else:
fierce and wordy. she suffers
from total recall. which
would give her book a cer-
tain appeal. since some of the
things that happened to ner
happen to everyone who is
born and grows up in a
family. What makes her diff
ferent, and, alas, weary:ng.
is the fact that she never
forgets a slight. Her book
fairly bristles with grievance
against the bourgeoisie,
against her family, against
the family of her friend,
against her school. against
the church.
Why is Mile. de Beauvoir
so utterly unresigned? She
had a happy childhood, she
says so. Her teens were,
like the adolescence of so
many intellectual, rebellious
children who are subject to
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President may stand stead
faStly by his appointees but
at the same time, Prof. Fenno
points out, this may increase
his own difficulties In future
dealings with the Congress.
Needs Strengthening
1t comes as no surprise that
Prof. Fenno finds that the
cabinet as an institution is
extremely weak. More than
one cabinet officer has at
tested to this fact in memoirs.
What the author is pri-
marily concerned with ale
means by which the role of
the cabinet as an effective
instrumen might be
strengthened. He analyZes
the various proposals that
have been made for REFORM
ing cabinet procedures. One
step in this direction has been
the establishment by Presi-
dent Eisenhower OF a cabinet
secretariat. But there is
still a long way to go. Prof.
Fenno emphasizes. before the
Cabinet attains in actual
practice the lofty position of
influence that many expect
from it.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
True Story ellis How
The Mobster Operates

bers racket is explored in
detail. The complexity OF it
explains the elaborateness Of
the scheme to break it. The
final irony is that after all
the police work to get the
mobsters, the judge gave
them suspended sentences.
Mr.. Horan puts into the
mouth of "Andy"-the hood
lum turned informer to get
the mobsters-what is obvi-
ously his own indignation at
the sentences:
You and your law and
your justice! You know
what took place in East Har-
lem and in all the drops on
the Avenue? Well, III tell
you. They all got drunk
the biggest celebration Har-
lem ever saw. The boys
strutted around like pea
cocks. If the big guys only
got an SIS suspended SEN
tence). they kept saying, the
runners and the collectors
will probably get a medal on
City Hall steps when they're
pinched from now on.
Back i'm Business
"And what about all the
cons who want to spill their
CUTS to the cops-like me-?
What about the guys who are
willing to put their lives on
the line to get out OF the
Evening star., 1959-06-14

DENTS CABINET, by Rlch-
ard F. Reno, jr. Harvard
University Press; $500
A Fine Study
1t is an undertaking, quite
successful, to flll a long
standing gap in the critical
appraisal of the American
political system.
In the course Of his ap-
praisal, Prof. Fenno deals
with the conflict that occurs
from time to time between
the President and Congress
over his cabinet officers. The
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THE ABC OF RELATIVELY.

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BY Bertrand Russell.
Mentor: 50c.) A reprint
of philosopher Russell's
summary of Einstein's
theories.
BEN-HUR. BY Lew Wallace.
Pocket Books; 50c.) He
was nobleman, galley slave,
chariot racer, follower of
Christ. Unbridged.
BROTHER JUNIPER. BY
Father Justin Mccarthy.
Pocket Books; 25c.) A
collection of cartoons.
FALSE WITNESS. BY Helen
Nelson. (Ballantine; $35c0
Sanity of the witness is in
volved when he has to
prove that the woman he
falls in love with was mur-
dered.
THE COMPLETE ITALIAN
STEM OF WINNING
BRIDGE. BY Edgar Kap-
Ian. (Signet: 50cD Includ-
ing the Neapolitan Club
System, the Roman Club
Evening star., 1959-06-14

System and the Standard
Italian System.
CREOLES AND CAJUNS. BY
George w. Gable Double
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Louisiana.
DAYBREAK. BY Frank G.
Slaughter. Pocket Books:
35cD A young doctors fight
to find a new cure for
schizophrenia.
THE CIRCUS IN THE AT.
TIC. BY Robert Penn War;
rem. CDell: 50c.) A collec-
ton of short stories by the
author of "All the Kings
Men"
A GHOST AT NOON. BY AL
berto Moravia. (Signet:
35c.) What makes a woman
stop loving her husband. BY
the author of Woman of
Rome"
HISTORY BEGINS AT
SUMER. BY Samuel Noah
Kramer. doubleday; $1.450
A reprint of the report Of
the well-known Sumerolo-
gist of the tablets of Sumer
found in Mesopotamia q
century ago.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
De GouIIe Library
Continues to Grow

port of virtually all French
men and that the allied
leaders were woefully slow in
realizing that fact.
President Roosevelt looks
rather bad in both books.
Prime Minister Churchill
looks better-he would have
chosen Gen. de Gaulle had
he. not Roosevelt, been the
leader of the alliance.
The President thought De
Caulle was a nuisance. He
didn't want to think about a
French government until
after the war, and then he
wanted the French people to
choose-properly guided by
Roosevelt-some leader more
tractable and democratic"
than De Gaulle.
First this country did busi-
ness with the Vichy govern
ment. the expedient thing to
do. Then it dealt with Ad-
miral Darlan, tainted by
Vichy. This was expedient,
too. Then it chose the
simpler soldier, Giroud. His
asset was that he wasn't even
interested in politics. Later.
as De Gaulle's stature with
France overseas and France
underground grew. this coun-
try tried to play off Giroud
and the Resistance against
De Gaulle.
Outmaneuvered Them
Through all this maneu-
vering De Gaulle stubbornly
claimed to be France incar-
nate, threw calculated temper
tantrumS (at least he says
they were calculated) and
skihtully consolidated his
political power. He out
waited and outmaneuvered
Roosevelt and Churchill.
All this is more than an
cient history. The same man
is President of France today.
and he has the power he
always wanted. Again he is
setting the rights of France
as he sees them against the
demands of the Western
alliance.
De Gaulle today is a bit
mellower, but his memoirs
indicate his goals and basic
techniques have not changed.
His readable and provocative
memoirs deserve space on
every bookshelf that carries
Churchill's.
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Why the Power
Of Congress
Is Ebbine Away
CON RESS AND THE
AMERICAN TRADITION,

AMERICAN TRADITION.
BY James Burnha q m.
(Henry Regnery Co.;
$3.50.
Congress is heading for ex-
tinction unless 1t stops let
ting the President tell 1t how
to run the Government. This
dour warning comes from a
perennial prophet OF the po-
litical and economic scene,
James Burnham ("The Man.
agerial Revolution" "The
Coming Defeat Of Commu-
nism"l. The point made by
Mr.. Burnham at great and
sometimes pledging length is
that Congress has been abb
dicating its authority over the
Nations affairs to the ever
advancing executive bureauc-
racy. He traces the decline In
the power of the legislative
branch from the start Of this
century. with the critical
stage twhere else?) from the
arrival Of Franklin D. Roose-
velt and the New Deal on
the national scene. The au-
thor's advice to the lawmak-
ers: Assert yourselves! Stop
carping about petty items in
the Presidents budget and
wipe out entire programs-or
step boldly into the area OF
executive policy and create
new ones. Often pedantic and
painfully PROFESSIONAL. Mr..
Burnham's book is not for the
casual observer of the Wash
ington scene but his pro-Con-
gress approach may boost
morale on Capitol Hill.
ROBERT E. CLARK.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
Why the Americas
Must Stand ogether

complex problems confront
ing Latin America. its fears.
its MISUNDERSTANDING. its as
pirations. 1t deals with the
international Com mu lis t
threat and the recurring in
ternal revolutions.
On the other hand. 1t notes
that the Latin countries are
important to us geographic
ally, militarily. economically
and politically.
Could Be Better
Mr.. Tomlinson points out
that while Latin America
needs and wants investments
from the outside-principally
the United States-the in
vestment climate. from our
standpoint. could be much
better.
But he shows that partner
ship is possible and can be
quite profitable, His ball
anced report notes the ad-
vantages and the disadvan-
tages which can accrue to
both partners.
AS other competent observ-
ers have done before him, he
says the United States Gov
ernment has picked many in
adequate representatives to
serve in Latin American posts
as diplomats" In conse-
quence. we have suffered
greatly.
There's an optimistic side.
however. Mr.. Tomlinson re-
ports tendency toward i'm
provement in this depart
ment.
The author winds up with
some advice to the ever-in-
creasing members OF tourists
bound for the countries to
the south.
The book is. as Mr.. Tom
linson says. a book for lay
men. a kind Of primer for
business and professional peo-
pie. college students and
travellers.
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town University professor
analyses Plato.
ARABIC MADE EASY. BY
Mouncef Saheb Ettaba
and Caroline Squire Saheb-
Ettaba. mckay; $500
A language textbook.
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN
ITS SOCIAL SETTING.
BY Arthur H. Cole. tHar-
ward: $500 BY a profess
sor emeritus Of business
economics at Harvard Uni
versity.
CREATIVE DISCUSSION.
BY Rupert L. Cortright and
George L. Kinds. (Macmil-
Ian; So How to discuss
creatively in a business
conference by Wayne State
University speech pro-
feSSorS.
DIG ION A RY OF
THOUGHT. BY Dagobert
D. Runes. philosophical
Library; So Excerpts of
wisdom from the authors
writings.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
OF Mighty Men


And for this massive
muscled worker in the steel
mills their fury and fire, "the
blazing furnaces, the flashing
rolls were once again the
backgrounds of Troy and
Thermopylae and Salamis. He
was of a race of mighty men
belonging to another age. His
spirit as much flame as the
spirits of Hector and Achilles
and Odysseus and all the val
liant men who lived like lions
on this dark and unfathom-
able earth"
So the others Of the older
generation who met in their
favorite coffee houses to sip
their sweet, strong coffee and
their Greek wine. No clasSi-
cal scholars these and no
winners who did not realize
that they had better jobs and
lived more comfortably than
they ever could have in
Greece. They were not un-
happy. iIot unappreciative OF
their adopted country. 1t was
simply that they didn't want
to forget. They wanted to
keep fresh and hoped their
children and grandchildren
would remember - and that
often was difficult-the blood
of their ancestors. the his
tory and the epicS Of the
mother country. And. as the
wine took hold, their talk
turned to such historic fig
ures as Socrates and Them
istocles, the warrior. and. just
as readily, to the equally in
teresting gods who once di-
rected affairs from Olympus.
The Second Generation
Mr.. PetrakiS' novel. while
written in sympathy with the
older generation. actually is
the story of a second genera
ton. 1t describes the plight
of Mike. Varinakis' elder son.
who had the temerity to fall
in love with an Irish girl. We
see the horror of the father,
a widower. who had to bring
up his two sons as best he
could, at Mixes deSertion Of
their blood and their church:
the old mans fierce and un-
yielding loyalty to his herit-
age; the boys derision Of
such obsolete traditions. We
meet a Greek Orthodox priest
and learn his troubles with
parishers who were split in
their attitude toward him,
some loyal, others denouncing
him. We find Tony. the
younger son. finishing COL
lege. planning to become a
teacher no steel mill for
him, like Mike - and falling
in love. not to please his
father. but because it hap
pened. with a Greek girl. We
Evening star., 1959-06-14

BREAKDOWN, by Robert
Dahl CBobbs-Merrill; 1885,
is a factual story Of a per-
sonal experience which is,
as so often is claimed for
such books and rarely justi-
fed, a document which sheds
fresh light on a growing
problem of everyday living.
Robert Dahl had a mental
breakdown. He tells about
it and describes his recovery
with complete candor.
There have been few ac-
counts of this sort Of har-
rowing experience so articu-
late, so enlightening.
Many Go Home
Although you could hardly
expect a pleasant book on
such a subject, Mr.. Dahl's
story cannot be called NOR
bid, centered on the dread
full and the unfathomable
While he does not hesitate
to describe the plight Of the
patients in mental hospitals
he encountered, his empha-
sis is always on the durable
nature of many, even a ma
jority, of these cases, on the
large number of patients who
were able to go back to their
homes and their jobs.
Thus Mr.. Dahl'S vivid doc
ument could be called heart
ening.
He was a representative in
the Middle West for a ma
tional charitable foundation.
He was married, and his life
apparently was going well
when his sinister disorder
began to creep up on him.
He realized he was in trouble,
and this is not unusual, de-
spite popular opinion to the
contrary. At first he volun-
tarily entered a receiving
hospital, where such cases
were observed and treated for
short periods. He was able
to return home, but then he
suffered a relapse, more
serious than the initial at
tack. This time he did not
want to go to a hospital, but,
at his wife's petition, was
committed to a State institu-
ton.
Fully Readjusted
1t was in becoming inter-
ested in other patients, try
ing to help them, that Mr..
Evening star., 1959-06-14
BY JOHN v. HORNER
star star Writer

Stht StaU WTller
LOOK SOUTHW AR ID,
UNCLE. BY Edward Tom
linson. (Devin-Adair: So
In his preface. Mr.. Tomlin-
son quotes the late Secretary
of State, Cordell Hull. as say
ing shortly before his death
in 1855. that Uncle Sam
must look southwark more
and more because the Amer
icas need one another"
The American people, to
date. certainly have not
looked southwark enough.
But in this book. Mr.. Tom
linson makes a fine pitch to
persuade them to follow the
Hull injunction.
Furthermore. he explains
clearly and in detail just why
all the American countries
North. South and Central
need one another.
Latin American Student
Mr.. Tomlinson is a distin-
guished newspaper corre-
spondent who has been
travelling in and reporting on
Latin America for IS years.
And so it is with considerable
authority that he writes
about this vast and rich re-
gion about which the people
Of the United States are so
poorly informed.
He has put together enough
historical facts, enough
background on the culture Of
our neighbors, their economic
and political problems and
what they have to offer, to
prove that all the Americas
do need one another.
He discusses the social
ferment in Latin America,
conditions Of poverty and
disease, trends in govern
ment and church-State rela-
tionshipS in a manner which
helps put into perspective
those important factors in
our changing times.
Basically, the book cites the
Evening star., 1959-06-14
AnotherMrs. Roosevelt
Whose Name Is Eleanor

never mentioned In World
War II dispatches, although
his ability to quote poetry
and his insistence on lead
ing his troops into battle
hobbling on his cane, had
made him a legendary and
heroic parsonage. He died
a hero's death In Normandy
and his funeral Is knowingly
described In a letter written
by his son, Quentin.
1t is easy to believe that
the statement of his over
whelming father made once
to Mrs. Roosevelt: II walk
with my head higher because
Of him."
Evening star., 1959-06-14
LION AT MY HEART. BY

LION AT MY HEART. BY
Harry Mark Petrakis. (At-
lantic-Little, Brown; $3.95.)
The widely differing Ma
tional strains which have
contributed so much to our
country's greatness always,
each in its way, have been
rich material for novels.
But, much as we've had
about the emigrated Irish.
Italians and others, one Of
the most distinctive blood
lines of all seems to have
been neglected. I allude to
the Greeks.
AS we learn in this Sensi-
tive, poetic first novel,
Greeks, especially those who
made the big change from
the old country-not their
sons and daughters, who
grew up Americans - have
brought with them an un-
forgettable heritage Of ira
dition and legend.
Proud of Background
It's not a matter Of educa-
ton or reading. AS Mr.. Pc
trakis' so-obviously-
tic characters develop. the
first generation immigrant
Greeks who gather in their
coffee houses in South Chi
cago, know about and are
proud of their homeland's
historic role and even more
colorful mythology.
The narrator. the younger
son of Angelo Varinakis, the
immigrant father in the
story, says of the old man.
"the lion," with whom one
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FICTION

BACK OF SUNSET. BY Jon
Cleary. Morrow: $685.
A doctor who enjoyed the
comforts of a large city
practice finds his profess
sional rewards in the bush
country of Australia.
CONQUERING HORSE. BY
Frederick Manfred. INC
Dowell. Obolensky: $4.95D
The author of Riders of
Judgment" writes Of the
Sioux Indians and a young
boy who grows into the
leader of his tribe.
DRAGOMAN PASS. BY Eric
williams. Coward Nc
Cam: $685. A daring
adventure of two people
journeying on back roads
in a jeep into the Balkans
s. only to become victims of a
Communists escape to
freedom.
HISTORY 6 BIOGRAPHY
DAYS WITH BERT
SCHWEITZER: A LAM
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Important First Novel Recalls Our
Debt to Long Neglected Greeks

become acquainted with some
of the old mans cronies and
like them. We attend some
typical Greek parties.
Lion at My Heart" Is an
unusually fine first novel. The
author, as you hardly need
TO be told, grew up in just
such a Greek community In
South Chicago.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
BY MARY McGRORY
star Staff Writer

There is another Eleanor
Roosevelt. and she is a writer,
too. But there the resem-
blance ends. For today's Mrs.
Roosevelt is Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. jr., and she is Of
the Oyster Bay branch which
is politically speaking, worlds
away from the Hyde Park
persuasion.
While the other Mrs.
Roosevelt's concern has been
the whole world, this Mrs.
Roosevelt's concern is her
family and--in her wonder
full book of "reminiscences
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY
Doubleday; $5.75)--a wholly
admirable determination that
her husband. Theodore Roose-
welt, jr., shall be appreciated
for the great man he was.
A Gallant Man
Ted had the difficulties Of
all great mems sons. Com
parison was inevitable, and
inevitably unfavorable. But
Ted was, as this loving wife
OF "a years amply demon
strates, a fine figure in his
own right. A superb Colonial
Governor Che served notably
in Puerto Rico and the Phil
ippines), an Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy, an unsuc-
cessful candidate for Gov
ernor of New York, a sur
passingly valiant soldier in
two world wars, he was,
in addition, an enchanting
human being. Even allowing
for wifely partisanship, he
comes out Of this memoir as
a game. gallant and emf
nently civilized man.
Mrs. Roosevelt is by no
means a born writer. Her
prose is artless and ram
bling and rather more thick
ly larded with details of
hunting trips and interior
decoration than is strictly
necessary. But although she
never summarize or ana
lyzes. she achieves her goal.
Spoiled Child
Mrs. Roosevelt was an only
child, who never so much as
put on her own stockings.
But when she married Ted,
she entered gracefully into
the great boiling stream of
the ebullient Oyster Bay
clan and shared the strenu-
Gus life with her soldering,
big game hunting husband
with a zest that any RooSe-
welt could applaud.
Ted Roosevelt won every
medal for bravery in his
time. Through some mys-
terious directive. he was
Evening star., 1959-06-14
Other Books of the Week in Brief

BARENE LANDSCAPE. BY
Frederick M. Franck.
(Holt: $4.)
MEN IN THE NEWS, 1858.
Edited by Robert H. Phelps.
CLippincott: $4.95.) Con-
tanning Man in the News"
sketches appearing in 1858
issues Of the New York
Times. First volume in a
projected annual series.
A TOWER FROM THE
ENEMY. BY Albert Niren-
stein. (Orion: So Per-
sonal records of human
misery kept by Jewish
scholars walled in the War
saw ghetto during World
War II.
GENERAL
AN APPROACH TO THE
METAPHYSICS OF PLATO
THROUGH THE PAR
MENIDES. BY William F.
Lynch. S. j. university
Publishers; So A George
Evening star., 1959-06-14
A LONG WAY DOWN BY

A LONG WAY DOWN by
Elizabeth Fenwick Harper
g. Bros: $685.. Somehow
the stories of the well-drawn
residents of a college town.
impaled by disaster when
lonely Lydia Lingate is found
beneath the Memorial Bridge,
and a beloved professor is
bludgeoned to death, do not
meld into a compelling mys-
terry. Lydia's lackluster flance
and her shrill, domineering
mother are suspects. BY the
author of Poor Harriet, "
greatly admired, though not
by US.
B. NJ.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
Role of the Cobinet
In Our Government
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star stan Writer

bitter Senate controversy the Lewis Strauss
appointment has spoghted again the curious not contra
dctory, role Of the cabinet in our Government
Some Of the questions raised in this controversy,
we'll detailed exposition the functioning of the
cabinet dealt with in this timely study THE PRESI-
Evening star., 1959-06-14

mob? If any of them had
any thought about helping
the law, that's gone now. . .
And what about the hon.
est cops? The cops that sat
on those rooftops freezing off
their butts all those nights?
And what about the poor
jerk who gets a year for a
petty theft? What do you
suppose he thinks when he
reads tonight's paper?"
He predicted - and Mr..
Horan agreed with him
that the smashed" lottery
was probably back in busi-
ness.
Evening star., 1959-06-14
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BY RICHARD FRYKLUND

Star STAFF Writer
UNITY, 42-1944; THE WAR
MEMOIRS OF CHARLES
DE GAULLE. (Simon and
Schuster; So
DE GAULLE. By A. L. Funk.
university of Oklahoma
Press: So
Charles de Gaulle, who is
almost as proud of his liter
airy ability as he is of his
military and political accom-
plishments. no doubt has
noted that his war memoirs
have not sold as well as those
Of Winston Churchill. And
no doubt he has said to him
self that here is another re-
gretable instance of the
world being slow to recognize
De Gaulle.
But the world will come
around.
That is the theme of VOL
ume II of his memoirs. Vol
ume I launched his self-im-
posed task of rallying de-
feated France This volume
takes him through the i'm
portant years of his struggle
for recognition as the head
of the only legitimate French
government. 1t ends with
the liberation of PariS-and
with Gen. De Gaulle at Bit
ter long last the only French
man who possibly could be
considered as the leader of
France.
The Key Years
A. L. Funk chose this time
to publish his detailed his
tory of Gen. de Gaulle's
key years. Except for the
memoirs, it is the only
scholarly work available by
an American which covers
the De Gaulle struggle for
recognition.
It bears out the generals
basic claim: That he was the
only French wartime leader
who could capture the sup
Evening star., 1959-06-14
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

quarreled so much but could
not help loving:
". he could not bear
that the heroes were gone.
That Ajax and Achilles and
Odysseus no longer hurled
lances and howled their great
war cries before the ramparts
of Troy. He could not suffer
to live quietly in our time
of dWarfS,"