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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

BLOW UP A STORM. BY
Carson Kanin. (Random
House; $685.
Carson Kanin wrote that
enormously successful stage
comedy, Born Yesterday"
His career thus far has been
identified almost entirely
with stage and screen. first
as a stage actor. then as a di-
rector Of movies and stage
plays. BLOW up a Storm" is
his first novel.
1t is, not surprisingly, an
extremely interesting. even a
compelling novel, meaning,
by the latter phrase, that it
forces your close attention
throughout. While the mar
rative is largely flashbacks.
there is contemporary action
of great importance to the
story. We are concerned here
with q jazz band which -four
ished in the early 30s. More
especially, there is Woodruff
(Woody). the gifted horn
player who was the leader
and around whom the whole
ensemble. sometimes a trio,
sometimes containing five or
more musicians, revolved.
Strong Characterization
The quality that distin-
guishes this novel from a
number Of recent novels
about jazz and youth. is Mr..
Kanin's careful and subtle
transformations. The play
ers and those of their friends
who are vital to the story are
not alike at all; each is an
individual, differing in ideas
and tastes.
Too many novels about
youth in the 20s, 30S or SOS
have been written as If there
was a world Of jazz in which
everybody thought and did
pretty much the same things.
and many kept going on liq-
our or dope and pep pills.
Don is the only player who
Is on the dope and he pre-
fers marijuana. There's one
searching scene of a mari
juana party. in which the
narrator. who played the sax
in those days and now is a
playwright. tries smoking the
stuff for the first land LAST
time. There are strange 60
ings on in an apartment on
Riverside drive, but mostly
in the way Of talk.
The Mixed Quartet
Woody is a complex per-
son. He and Don and the
narrator (hardly, If ever,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

Of California, representing
what to her is undoubtedly
the other Roosevelts" was
guest Of honor at the con-
vention's first cocktail party.
as the author Of the forth
coming "Affectionately Yours,
FDR," a memoir of his
father. His collaboration. Sid
ney Shallett, was also on
hand.
The booksellers also heard
Columnist Harry Golden,
Baseball Player Roy Campa-
nella, Cartoonist Herblock,
Supreme Court Justice Will
liam o. Douglas and Golfer
Tommy Armour, before they
got to the dancing Astaires,
Fred. his sister Adele and
daughter Avail of which
proves that literature is the
most hospitable Of fields and
not Just for writers only.
Between times, the milling
booksellers visited exhibits
and talked a lot of shop.
The embattled novel Lady
Chatterley's Lover" barred
from the United States mails
was on display. A random
poll of the booksellers showed
that the old novel is not an
emotional issue with them
as censored books so often
are.
Lady" by Express
Most Of them thought
they'd keep right on selling
it, at least until the Grove
Press appeal on the Post
master Generals decision
had been heard. And the
publishers intend to go right
on sending it out by express,
at slightly more cost. Thus
the novel seems destined to
remain on the best-seller lists.
where it has been since its
recent Republication.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
OTHER BOOKS
IN BRIEF
FICTION

FICTION
BATON SINISTER. BY
Carl ]. Spinatelli. Little.
Brown; $4.50.) The author
OF THE Florentine" revives
the legend Of the Doria
family OF 18th century
Genoa.
GENERAL
THE ESQUIRE CULINARY
COMPANION. BY Charles
H. Baker, jr. Grown; So
The great dishes from the
great restaurants of Eu-
rope. Recipes included.
YOGA FOR AMERICANS.
BY Indra Dew. prentice
Hall; $4.950 A complete 6
weeks course for home
practice.
MAN IN SPACE. Edited by
1t. Col. Kenneth F. Gantz.
DUEL, Sloan g. Pearce;
$4D The United States Air
Force program for devel-
oping the spacecraft crew.
POLITICAL POWER AND
PERSONAL FREEDOM.
BY Sidney Hook. (Crite-
rion; $7.50) BY the chair
man of the department Of
philosophy at New York
University.
A NEIGHBORHOOD FINDS
ITSELF. BY Julia Abra-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Passage Of Many Years
Makes StorySeem New

Since we are apt to forget
the significance of a year
nearly half a century gone. a
year only the older ones
among us can remember per-
Sonally. James Cameron'S
1914 (Rinehart;; $685. comes
almost as a fresh story, lost
in the turbulence of inter-
vening years.
1t was. in fact, 1914. not
1899, that completely altered
a world that began the new
century so bravely and, in
general, so peacefully. After
1914 nothing was ever to be
quite the same. When the
second world war broke, we
were already used to war on a
scale never dreamed of in the
days Of The Hague tribunal
and a supposed balance of
power in Europe. The end Of
the war of l914-l8 brought
only a smoldering truce.
Before. World War
Mr.. Cameron, a journalist,
born in Scotland. educated
in France and England, has
done a beautiful job of
sketching in the world of
people as it was on the eve
of the first world war and
afterward. The emphasis is
on England, but France and
Germany are brought in, and.
after all. in those last days
of peace, people were doing
pretty much the same things
that summer, whether in
New York or Paris or Berlin.
Mr.. Cameron recalls what
the English were reading,
what plays they were seeing,
the dance steps that were
popular, the fashions that
prevailed, the recreations
preferred.
Meanwhile. though. deeper
currents were stirring the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
State Dept. Wife
Writes the Story
Of Her Career
LIVING IN STATE. BY Bea-

trice Russell. David Nc
Kay Co.. Inc; 1885,.
Mrs. Earle Russell, ir.. is
the wife of a United States
State Department foreign
service officer and Living in
State" is the story of her
career"
And career is an apt
word for while the marital
state of some wives means
primarily cooking, cleaning
and raising children, not so
with the wife of an ESQ.
While her husband has the
title. in effect her job is as
important as his and also
bears many responsibilities.
She's expected to show up at
all diplomatic functions and
be just as Informed as he.
She's expected to make So
cial calls and to participate
at tea time events, to be a
linguiSt, chef par excellence.
talented hostess, sometimes
school teacher. charity or
ganizer, to be always we'll
groomed and the epitome of
all that is best in American
women.
How Beatrice Russell man.
ages her Job and family in
such posts as Adds Ababa.
Ethiopia, and in Beirut,
Lebanon, during an interna-
tional crisis is the story in
Living in State"
Her presentation is anus
ing and informative but
should temper the idea Of
those who feel that foreign
service life is glamorous. 1t
is, but it also can be short
on plumbing. long on bugs
and financially unrewarding.
ROBERTA HORNIG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
knowledge Of Stage Proves VitoI
To PIoywriqhtin Dramatic 1st Novel

meet. There is a fresh prob
lem, for Woody is a physical
and perhaps a mental sham
bles.
Slug. the colored drum
mer, is a stunning charac-
ter, developed with mastery.
BLOW Up a Storm" has so
many merits that / hesitate
to mention any defects. But
one is a certain wordiness,
never in description but in
dialogue, which always is
natural but at times ver-
bose. Here, no doubt, is the
playwright, used to depend
ing on dialogue to explain
everything.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
About the
censorship Of
Lady Cho#erleyS
Lover.
A STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER

A STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER
The denying the facilities of the mails
the Grove Press edition of LADY CHATTEREYS LOVER
shock everyone concerned with the elementary freedoms
country We faced here with Government censorship in its
powerful obnoxious form In effect department
tablshed carry the mails has itself up and has
aogated itself the function of telling the public what may
and read The Post Office has chosen this
assumption of power the of book which the leading critics
and writers of day have pronounced major classic of goth
century literature work of unassaabe moral The
literary experts of the Post Office have decided disregard the
opinion of the overwhelming body of literary scholarship to hold
up place vision of what regards be smut The
Post Office telling that though critics. scholars and book
reviewers will be able appreciate the books great literary and
moral value the of will lack the dscenment
the conclusion
The Post Office ban in addition deyng literary and scho
ay opinion also flies in the face of public protests by leading
newspapers the country which, their editorials have taken the
Post Office task for this insult the publicS intelligence Now
that the Post Office has placed its official stamp of approval the
ban fundamental issues of freedom under the Constitution have
been raised These of vital all citizens who
refuse have their reading and thinking controlled for them by
Post Office
The Supreme Court has held that all works of literary social
and philosophical significance protected from Government in
reference under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the
United States That LADY CATTERLEY LOVER such work has
become fact of literary history which the Post Office has
been unable There be little doubt that the Post
Office action will be held illegal by the Courts and Grove Press
through its counse taking immediate steps obtain reversal
of the Post Office decision.
BARNEY ROSSET, Grove Press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Librory Association
Opens New Session

Hardly will the booksellers
have disbanded when the
people who dole out the
books for nothing, will set
up their camp. The Ameri-
can Library Association be-
gins its 84th meeting today.
Their gathering conceded
with the glad news that one
of their local members has
won a big prize in the jul
venile fiction field.
Gene Inyart, Chief Of the
Extension Department of the
District Public Library. in
her first try. walked home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
What Life Is Like on
A Game Preserve

proven something pretty dew
astating.
The obscure path traced by
the plot does lead to the in
teresting fact that the Nasal
live entirely on milk and
blood and that they construct
their homes out of COW dung.
This regimen is about as APP
pealing as the rest of the
book.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Portrait of Mccarthy
In SIoshing Strokes
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer
SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY.

SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY. BY Richard H. Revere. liar
court Brace; $685.
Richard Revere not OF the speak only good Of the
dead" school, His book the late Senator Mccarthy Of
Wisconsin is diatrbe against the deceased To Of
course, appear unseemly to Others unnecessary
Even those who unreservedy with Roveres estimate
of Mccarthy "a bully and fraud" may find excessive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
IN SUSPENSE
BY BETTY MILES
Star stan Writer
SEVEN STEPS EAST. BY
Ben Benson. william

SEVEN STEPS EAST. BY
Ben Benson. william
Morrow q Co.; $3.50
Young Kirk Chanslor, D.
trainee at the State police
academy and friend or
Trooper Ralph Lindsey. tries
some independent investigat-
ing at a summer hotel run by
a retired gambler. From an
arid beginning, Mr.. Benson
builds a good story involving
amateur gamblers who play
for big stakes, an ambitious
girl, and q man who can
change the color Of his eyes.
RIDER AND BLUE
BERRY PIE. BY Frances
and Richard Lockridge.
J. B. Lippincott Co.; $3.50
A pleasant but disappoint-
ing book. The dip in inspira-
ton the title suggests Is con-
firmed in a practicable story
Of a young woman who wit
nesses an old woman's will,
only to hear the woman's
voice again after her death.
1t. Shapiro investigates. We
suspect his doleful detection
would annoy Capt. Bill
Weigand and Pam and Jerry
North as much as 1t did us.
THE REAL GONE GOOSE.
BY George Bagby. Double
day & Co.; $3.50
Inspector Schmidt copes
with several professional
beatniks after one of the
"exiles" is freed forever from
the irritation of respectable
citizens" who lock their
doors and engage in other
materialistic rituals. Unfor-
tunately, Hero-Author Bagby
is a friend Of the departed
Sabra, and, some think. her
murderer. Brisk and light;
pleasant reading.
i 4 y
BLOOD AND JUDGMENT.
BY Michael Gilbert. liar
per g. Bros: $2.95.)
Obviously one of the years
best, Mr.. Gilbert's book has
a complex but lucid plot
beautifully developed, real
characters and wit. A credit
to any force and to any ai.
thor. his Detective Sergt.
Petrella of the London police.
refuses to accept a superior's
slick solution to the murder
Of the woman at the reser-
voir. and proves him wrong
as tactfully as the facts per-
NIT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

named) start with a trio in
New York in the early 30s.
When Able, the astonishing
pianist, becomes available.
Woody is doubtful. Able is
colored. Woody is not a
Southerner and theoretically
has no racial prejudice. and
yet there's something under
the surface which does not
come out until much later.
He wonders if a mixed quar-
tet will work. 1t does. Even
tually they add two saxo-
phone players and a drum
mer, all colored. so that the
ensemble is thoroughly in
tegrated racially. and the
saxophoniSts have brilliant
sisters. so that there is social
izing back and forth. But
Woody seetheS with an inner
conflict, which one day
energies. Aside from this. the
story shows that all racial
difficulties do not occur in
the South
Fresh Problem
Years later. long after the
band is broken up and for
gotten. or remembered only
for some old records. the mar
rator is told at his hotel in
Chicago that som e body
named Woodruff called. The
name does not even register
at first. Then he thinks Of
Woody, and a whole pano-
rama of the past unfolds.
who was it said that al
though life is lived forward.
it can only be understood
Backward" He and Woody
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

Empire. The Irish question
was boiling. threatening civil
war. The welfare state was
in CESSATION. with such I'M
heard Of things as industrial
accident insurance and old
age assistance seriously dis
cuSSed
AS for the international
scene, no one worried too
much about it until those
fateful August days came.
The tempest that followed
the aSsassinations at Sara
ievo blew up without warn
ing.
Western Europe had
known no war for close on
two generations, and. though
the Balkans muttered and
grumbled in their endless in
comprehensive dynastic
feuds. these considerations
were obscure and meaning
less to any but those whose
business it was to study
them. remotely and abb
stractly. as one might OBJ
serve the fretful behavior Of
bees"
Historic Events
When the incredible hap
pened, the major powers
went to war, and the first
British Evolutionary Force
embarked at Newhaven.
Dover, Southampton and
Britol. it was the army "of
a nation that had not fought
a major war since yelling
tons day"
This book is written with
a perception that states con-
cisely the issues, the problems
and never forgets the color
Of that historic and faded
year. Mr.. Cameron not only
is an able historian, but a
writer whose prose is a de-
light to read.
C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

in women's and Girl Scout
organizations. She was edu-
Gated at Bryn Mawr and at
Teachers College, Columbia
University. Her husband,
John P. Conner, is professor
emeritus of political science
at Williams College. Mr.. and
Mrs. Conner now live in
Williamstown, Mass.-C.B.J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
READING AND WRITING
'ChotterIey' EnIivens
Booksellers MEETING

The American Booksellers Association met here last
week. converting with rush Of Rooseves and adjournng
in furry Of Astaires
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr, the elegant and fragile
author Of THE Day Before Yesterday" opening day
luncheon speaker And Representative Roosevelt Democrat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
PAPER BACKS

BEN-HUR. BY Lew Wallace.
(Signet; 50c.) Unabridged.
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.
BY Georges Simenon. Dell;
35c.) A shocking story of a
mans obsession with his
mistress, Brigitte Bardot's
latest film.
NEW WORLD WRITING.
Mentor; 75cO The 18th of
a series including a story
by Boris PaSternak.
THE RENAISSANCE. BY
Walter Pater. Mentor;
50c.) Reprint Of 10Th CEN
fury critic Pater's survey
of Renaissance art and
thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

hanson. Harper; So An
urban renewal program
lead by the residents of
South Side Chicago writ
ten by the executive di-
rector.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

BARNEY ROSSET, Grove Press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
McEIroy Sees Lag
In u. S, Boosters

MANILA, Oct. 5 (AP). -
United States Defense Secre-
tary Neil H. McElroy today
SAIL the latest Russian space
satellite is another indication
Of what we have known to be
true"-that the Russians have
more powerful boosters than
the United States.
Mr. McElroy said there could
be no comparable performance
by the United States until it
has developed it's own more
powerful rocket boosters. He
said this would take consider
able time, perhaps as much as
a year.
But Mr.. McElroy empha-
sized that the United States
is not tagging in the field of
ballistic missiles. He said the
United States has concen-
trated on rocket engines ca
pable Of delivering a nuclear
warhead to target. He point
ed out that United States forces
now have an Atlas missile on
hand and ready to 90.
Mr.. McElroy is on a tour
OF United States bases in the
Far East
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05

above the moon. This is about
three-ffths the size of the 6l4-
pound payload launched by the
Russians yesterday.
Would Photo Dark Side
The American satellite, like
the Russians was to carry q
camera to transmit detailed
maps Of the moons surface, in
GLIDING the side never seen
from the earth.
Its instruments also were to
report on the moons magnetic
and gravitational fields, its
structure, atmosphere and ra-
dioactivity.
If successful, the American
space package was expected to
hold its orbit around the moon
several weeks. After that, be-
cause Of the earth's stronger
gravitational pull, 1t might
have ended up in a long orbit
around both the moon and the
earth.
The Russians claim their
payload will swing around the
moon and then into an elon-
gated orbit about the earth.
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CURFEW
Continued From First>Page

OOhsAuCu EAOhA III SS - o8S
jailed for not more than 80
days if the fine is not paid.
Seat Pleasant is a commun-
lty Of about 5000. 1t lies just
over the District line.
Seat Pleasant is the first
community in the nearby
Washington area to pass such
an ordinance In all, 20 States
have anti-loitering laws.
A similar law has been pro-
posed for the District several
times. Inspector John E. Win
tiers Of the Youth Aid Division
made such a proposal three
years ago. However, the Dis
trict Commissioners never APP
proved the idea.
More recently, the local ccm-
mittee on the White House
Conference on Children and
Youth approved a measure
seeking to curb Objectionable
lettering, loaf1ng and hanging
around Of persons under the
age of 10 in public places"
The proposal, which will be
presented at the conference
next March, was criticized by
Juvenile Court Judge Orm
Ketcham.
II do not believe" Judge
Ketcham said, that there
should be any discrimination
between juveniles and adults
insofar as their conduct in pub
lie places is concerned"
The judge added that he was
opposed to civil statutes max
ing parents liable for the acts
Tof their children"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
Atlas FizzIe Left U. S.
AT Post in Moon Race
CAPE CANAvERAL, Fla, Oct

CAPE CANAvERAL, Fla, Oct.
s (AP).-American and Rus
sian rockets might be running
an incredible race in space to-
day II this Nations moon We
hicle had not exploded 10 days
ago.
The first to whirl a payload
above the moon and photograph
its dark side would be the
winner.
United States hopes were left
at the post when its giant
Atlas-Able rocket blew apart on
the launching pad while being
tested. It will be at least a
month before another attempt
can be made.
The Adjustable was sched-
uled for launching between Oc-
tober 3-6, with the moon at its
closest point to the earth.
Delays Allowed For
The first attempt was set
for Saturday at 7:l5 am. If
weather or technical difficulties
had delayed the launching
more than is minutes, the shot
was to be postponed "a hours.
The same 15-minute rule would
have been in effect each day
during the favorable launching
period.
A successful launching Sat-
urday probably would have
given the United States rocket
a slight Jump on the Russian
vehicle. The exact time of the
Soviet firing is not known here,
but it appears to have occurred
after the scheduled American
time. The United States rocket
was expected to cover the
221 900 miles to the moon in
about a. hours.
The Atlas-Able was designed
to hurl a 375-pound satellite
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
SPACE
U.S.. Lag in Rockets
PointedUpin Red Shot

ress In propulsion does not can
eel out this gain.
Certainly. early reports about
the Instrumentation Of the
latest Russian moon rocket in
dictate strongly that Soviet
technology has left behind 1t
the least iron" state-of-the-art
that characterized Sputnik I.
The power supply Of Lunik III
Is particularly mindful of that
aboard Explorer vi, the pad
dlewheel" satellite.
We Have Only Reds Word
No one knows with certainty.
Of course, that the Russians are
accurately describing their
satellite or its Instrumentation.
Speculation Is futile, because
the Russians obviously will give
out only what they choose to
issue, and will not be bound BY
moral considerations. The i'm
portant thing is that they do
have the capability Of lifting
/ 900 pounds of instruments to
the moon, and 1t would be fool
ish to assume that they are
lying.
The specific announcement
about solar batteries and
chemical sources Of current"
plus the statement that Lunik
MS transmitter will operate
interruptedly in accordance
with ground command. indi-
Gates that the Russians are
getting along nicely in cleo
tronics. This is the sort Of ar
rangement used in Explorer vi.
One of the most disturbing
aspects Of Soviet rocketry from
the American point Of view. is
not that the Russians do the
trick occasionally but that they
apparently have good luck
calling their shots.
They ushered in the New
Year with Lunik I, heralded
Premier Khrushchev's Ameri-
can tour with Lunik II. and
now ring in Year 8 Of the
Space Age with Lunik III.
Unanswered, Of course, Is
the question why they have
never done anything big on
May Day, or why they did
not fire q big one while Vice
President Nixon was in Rus
STA. One answer: Maybe they
did, and 1t didn't work. An
other equally plausible answer
is that shots on those occa-
sions did not At in with So
Wet space policy.