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GENERAL
STAND FAST IN LIBERTY

STAND FAST IN LIBERTY.
BY Arthur Goodfriend. (St.
Martins, $4.95.) Mans
struggle for freedom, in
photographs and text.
BERNICE, PRINCESS OF
JUDEA. BY Leon Kolb.
(Twayne, $4.95D A novel
of love in the first century
AID.
RETIREMENT AND INSUR-
ANCE PLANS IN AMER
ICAN GES. BY
Greenough and King. Co
lumbia, $8.50O The stress
ing of staff benefit plans
to attract capable teachers.
CAGE BIRDS IN COLOR.
BY Manhahl, Barth g. An
thon. (Barrows, $2.95O
photographs ana deScrlp-
tions.
THE NEWCOMERS. BY Os-
car Handlin. (Harvard,
$4.) Negroes and Puerto
Ricans in a changing me-
tropoliS.
THE SUPREME COURT IN
A FREE SOCIETY. BY
Macon and Beaney. (Pren-
tice-Hall, $6.50.)
THE CONFEDERATE SOL
DER IN THE CIVIL
WAR. BY Ben La Bree.
Pageant, $22.5OO Cam
paigns, battles and naval
engagements written by
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Senator Kennedy
As Front Runner

In the book world as in
the presidential polls, Sena->
tor Kennedy is the front
runner. The author of the
Pulitzer-Prize-winning best
selling 'P FILES IN
COURAGE" has a volume
ready for spring publication,
"THE IMAGE OF PEACE"
Joe McCarthy's excellent Sc
ries about the ambitious jun
ior Senator from Massachu-
sets will reach book form
sometime in the new year.
The Senator's younger
brother, former counsel of
the Senate Rackets Commit
tee will burst into print soon,
too, THE ENEMY WITH
IN" an account of the hor-
truths he learned in the
Caucus Room.
Senator Humphrey, more
of a talker than a writer, will
be the subject of a spring
biography by Michael Amrine.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Peyton Place Revisited
And ScondoIized Anew

Actually she likes her liquor
and can hardly remember
how many affairs she'd had
since she was in school.
Miss Metalious picks up
and untangles Cor tangles
further) the threads of
"Peyton Place" She also
introduces some new charac-
ters.
Toward the end, the au-
thor solves some tough d.
lemmas by rubbing out a
couple of dangling charac-
terS.
Without spelling the fun
for these who will enjoy the
story, it might be suggested
that a person planning a
murder, who otherwise is
shown to be sane, would not
be apt to write in a notebook
(Which might, after all, be
found the name of the vic
tim and the supposedly safe
method plotted.-C. B. j.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Ten War Stories
Of High Courage
Define Heroism
BEHIND ENEMY LINES. By

BEHIND ENEMY LINES. BY
James Dean Sanderson. Cd.
Van Nostrand Co.; s4.e5).
Most histories Of World
War II deal with faceless
masses Of men, the armies Of
the contending powers. but
this collection Of 10 stories
Of high courage is full Of
the character and strength
which makes men heroes.
While the corps and armies
struggled for supremacy.
there was spectacular work
afoot by the individualistS
raiders, parachutistS, "hu-
man torpedoes" and the like.
The armed forces Of every
nation had such loners, men
of imagination who thought
only of attack, and the allies
had no monopoly on them.
There were Axis heroes
aplenty, too.
Greatest Of All Time
Among the tales told here
are those Of the Dutch pri-
vate who picked of q Ger
man general surrounded by
his staff and the German flier
who was the greatest ace Of
all time with 158 allied planes
shot down. Surely there was
no braver man than Italian
1t. Luigi Durand de la Penne,
the human torpedo who sank
two British battleships with
the torpedoes his men rode.
The NorwegianS who de-
stroyed their own nations
heavy water plant to keep
the Nazis from developing an
atomic bomb may have won
the war for the allies. And
there was never a wilder crew
than Popski's Private Army.
JERRY OLEARY, JR.
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Fighting lrishmun
Tumes Indiuns
On Frontier
MOHAWK BARONET. Sir

MOHAWK BARONET, Sir
william Johnson. By James
Thomas Flexner. (Harper;
So
Squaw man, tribal brother
of the Iroquois, frontier COL
onizer and amateur soldier,
this immigrant IriShman held
the rampaging Indians of the
Five Nations in the hollow
of his hand. Indian loyalty
led up to the ceding of all
lands east of the Mississippi
to the English following the
French and Indian War. Here
is a really great biographical
work in the period immedi-
ately preceding the Revolu-
tionary War.
HENRY LYON.
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chroniclers of the South, Mr..
Taylor looks. not for the ex-
otic, but for the familiar.
Only two grotesques have
made their way into these
pages-the ancient, menac-
ing brother and sister who
entertain the town teen
ayers at a terrible annual
ball. They figure in venus.
Cupid, Folly and Time" a
story which won Mr.. Taylor
the first prize in this years
o. Henry Award.
But for the most part he
is content, at leisured pace
and with full explanation of
the customs of the country
and the time, to explore
those paths by which some
beholder of often trivial ac-
ton is brought to a realiza-
ton of a larger truth. Some
times this emotional petit
point seems merely an exer-
else in fine writing, as in
THE Other Times" a rather
garrulous account Of a con-
fused evening spent by some
high-school children in a
raided roadhouSe. The story
itself is convincing in the
details, but the insight that
grows out of it seems a
rather f1imsy, ill-deflned
thing.
The same method serves
him far better in Guests" a
study in American Gothic.
He tells of the tensions be-
tween a city couple and their
country cousins. He gives
a striking, oblique portrait of
the managing city wife, and
her adversary, an equally
crafty country wife. He shows
the dawning comprehension
of the supposedly insensitive
city husband and when
tragedy has struck, the sad
wisdom that comes to him
of another life and another
way of living. 1t is beauti-
full and moving story, by far
the best in a uniformly SEN
sitive collection.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
American
In Blossom
ENOUGH TIME? THE PAT

ENOUGH TIME? THE PAT
TERN OF EXECUTIVE
LIFE. BY Eric Hodgins
with drawings by Alan
Dunn Doubleday; $3.50.
This is the story of Ameri-
can executives, in brief text
and eloquent sketches.
Executives blossom here in
lush profusion, the various
types-flnanciers, industrial
leaders, college presidents,
directors Of the armed forces.
The book also is a history
Of executives, from the days
they rode to work behind
horses and sat at rolltop
desks to the man who sits
today before a profusion of
gadgets and keeps in instant
touch with the far-f1ung en-
pire of a corporation.
It's an amusing and en-
tightening book. 1t was pub
lished with the cooperation
Of Time magazine. Mr.. Hod-
gins is the author of Mr..
Blanding Builds His Dream
House" Alan Dunn's car
toons have frequently ap-
peared in the New Yorker
and have been collected in
several books.
&C B. j.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
RETURN TO PEYTON

RETURN TO PEYTON
PLACE BY Grace Meta
lious. (Messner; $3.50
If all the 6rawn-out sex
episodes were taken out of
this sequel to the best-selling
novel "Peyton Place" there
would be nothing left but the
doings of some rather dull
characters and a contrived
melodramatic coda.
Allison Mackenzie, like
Grace Metalious, writes a
best-seller called "Samuel's
Castle" a story of a small
town, sensational enough to
set most of the natives against
her. to place her in a mod
ified conventry.
From Agent to Publisher
Allison's literary agent, with
whom she had a love affair,
If you care to call it love,
finds she wants no more of
him, except in his profess
Sional capacity. She goes to
New York, signs a contract
with an attractive middle
aged publisher. Soon she is
in bed with her publisher,
turning away an idealistic
young novelist whose books
never have sold much any
way. The publisher is mar
ried, but it's all right-he
doesn't like his wife.
The most interesting phase
OF Return to Peyton Place"
is a description of how the
publisher hires a high-speed
PUBIC relations man 70 put
the book on the best-seller
lists. Allison is 25, but she
is made up (for TV) as a de-
mure 19-year-old small town
girl, who does not drink and
hardly knows the big city.
A Towns Sex Life
She becomes, in the pub
lie mind, a sort of unsophis-
ticated New England edition
OF FrancoiSe Saigon. Allison
is so sweet and simple Chats
what people think and yet
writes so frankly about the
sex life of her little town.
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the essence of apprehension
and joy that affiicts the ten
der-minded tourist in that
heart-rending country.
Ever so lightly, she shows
how too many people living
too close together have
worked out combinations of
corruption and kindness that
battle travellers from more
antiseptically arranged areas.
Through her principal char
acter, a gentle, absentmind-
ed, middle-aged American
with an irresistible urge to
communicate, she charts
surely that tide of suspicion
which rises in the alien
breast and is more often than
not washed away in a full
flood of common humanity.
Cause for Terror
Take Mrs. Engel in Paler-
mo. A 12-year-old girl, a
withered vixen. spits on her.
When she and Mr.. Engel,
her unwilling accomplice in
this foreign adventure, take
a taxi to the cathedral to see
the mosaics. an unlimited
stranger joins the cab driver
in the front seat. Mrs. Engel
knows that she and Mr.. Engel
will be kidnapped. robbed,
beaten or worse. She views
the mosaics through a fog
of fear. She comes back to
the taxi to find a bouquet
Of carnations from the rider
who wishes to express his ap-
probation for her kindness.
Through her tears, she de-
cides, as have wiser travellers
have before her, that it is
no good trying to analyZe
Italy. Shifting, she concludes
that it is like the mosaics:
You know when you stand
close to the mosaics, they're
just little bits of stones all
stuck together and they seem
to make no sense. but when
you stand away from them,
they come together and make
a picture you can under
stand"
"The Small MoSaicS of Mr..
and Mrs. Engel" is rounded
out with pictures of a selfish
mother, a drunken father,
and two wise children. But
the heart of the book is in
its wonderful, disarming
presentation of the American
in Italy, at once reused and
undone.
Evening star., 1959-11-29

UP in these twin matters that
the truth in both of them has
been hard to come by. Here
is the full record of those un-
happy episodes and a COM
pelling statement of the
lessons that might be drawn
from them.
Far-Reaching Decision
Mr.. Spanier, professor of
political science at the
University of Florida, views
the issue of the Macarthur
dismissal as one of the gravest
and most emotional consti-
tutional crises which this
country has confronted. The
issue, simply stated, was the
continuation of civilian su-
premacy over the military
an issue, in the authors opin-
ion, likely to arise on future
occasions.
Extreme partiSans will
find little comfort in Mr..
Spanier's we'll documented
conclusions. For example, he
undertakes to show that Sec
retary of State Acheson's
speech at the National Press
Club saying Korea was out
side the United States de-
tense perimeter-a view pre-
viously shared by the military
chieftains including Gen.
MacArthur-had little or no
effort in bringing on the
North Korean attack.
Why We Stopped
Mr.. Spanier gives a broad
new perspective to the rea-
sons for the United Nations
forces crossing the 38th par
Evening star., 1959-11-29
A Generals Dismissal
And q War Unwon
By CECIL HOLLAND
Star stan Writer

THE TRUMAN MACARTHUR CONTROVERSY AND THE
KOREAN WAR By John w. Spanier. (Belknap Press;
$3.50.
Few events in American history left such scars
the Korean War Seldom has there been which
raised much controversy President Tmans dismissal
Of Gen. Douglas Macarthur Far Eastern commander
ing the height of that
So much emotion and much politics have been wrapped
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Many Eye-Witnesses Give Author
True Picture Of D-Doy Invasion
THE LONGEST DAY. By

THE LONGEST DAY. BY
Cornelius Ryan. (Simon
& Schuster; $4.95.0
The longest day was June 6,
l944-D-day in the European
theater.
. Cornelius Ryan, born and
educated in Dublin, now an
American citizen. covered
D-day as a war correspond
ent and few IA bombing mis-
sions with the 9Th and 9th
United States Bonn bing
Groups. He has written a
thrilling factual story. not so
much about the overall STRAIT
egies and the command de-
cisions as about what GER
tain individuals saw and did
on D-day. These men we're
from the various components
of the Allied forces and some
were on the German side.
The author talked to a
great many men who fought
on D-day, including a num-
Der of Germans and ne tells
significant flashes out of their
stories of the memorable
day.
Inches at a Time
He also describes search
ingly what the various
beaches looked like that day
and how the Americans and
British, with some French
and Poles, fought their way
inland, sometimes inches at
a time, some units suffering
fearful casualties, others en-
countering light opposition
as they moved up the cliffs
guarding the shores Of Nor
mandy.
So completely were the
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for each unit to identify the
beach assigned it.
Then the planes carrying
advance paratroopers and
glider-borne fighters had to
be able to get in to the
hedges behind the beaches to
light flares and prepare the
way for those attacking in
force.
Eisenhower Set the Day
The weather improved
somewhat, and Eisenhower
set the day and stuck to it.
We see leaders of the
French underground, among
the handful in France who
knew of the plans, carrying
out important assignments
blowing up bridges, tearing
up railroad tracks, doing
other things that would
hamper the defense.
Monday evening, the eve of
D-day, the British Broad
casting Co. broadcast the
seemingly innocuous message
that conveyed the informa-
ton to those in the know:
1T is hot in Suez."
They Leaped Ashore
We watch various men Of
the British and American
forces - officers, sergeants,
privates-as their landing
ships made their way across
the Channel in darkness and
as they leaped ashore under
heavy nre.
There are memorable mo-
mentS in the narrative. as
when Eisenhower talked to
the men of an airborne COM
mand as they were about
to board their planes in Eng
land. He told them good-by
and wished them luck. AS
their planes thundered away,
a correspondent watched the
supreme commander. His
eyes were filled with tears.
Mr.. Ryan has suggested in
his fragments of how the day
seemed to many men, each
a slightly different way, much
of the fear, the nervousness,
the outward nonchalance,
the determination that led to
heroic exploits and victory
in the crucial moments Of
the European war. The book
adds up to a hard look at a
decisive day as these men
saw it.
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German WorIords
Beut Their Swords
Into PIoughshures
THE INCREDIBLE KRUPPS.

THE INCREDIBLE KRUPPS.
BY Norbert Mullen. CHolt;
So
Krupp the cannon-maker
and Krupp the industrialist
are the subject explored in
Norbert Muhlen's newest
book. Mr.. Mullen, with the
style of a master journalist,
the depth of an impeccable
student and tireless re-
searcher, emerges as a natu-
raj storyteller. This book
gives a new completeness
and colorfulness to recent
German history by tracing
the development Of the House
of Krupp along with the de-
velopment of modern Ger
many.
Luck Played a Part
Though the thesis that the
Krupps are only lucky. medi-
ocre businessmen carried
along by the tides of German
national development is not
easy to believe, Mr.. Mullen
documents his proof well.
A knowledgeable book,
"The Incredible Krupps"
points up the dilemma of our
times and the complex re-.
sponsibility with which we
are all faced.
"A. j. SCHMIDT.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

This picture was made at
probably the most anxious
moment in Gen. Eisen-
hOwer'S life. He was
watching the Allied inva-
sion of Europe in June,
1914, from the deck Of a
warship in the English
Channel.
Germans caught of base,
Rommel, the Desert Fox"
in command of the army
group guarding the points of
invasion, was on leave, Wis
iting his family in Germany.
Several other members of
the high German command
were away in Holland on
D-day. attending a tactical
discussion.
Touch and Go
The weather was so unfa-
vorS0le that it was assumed
no attempt at invasion would
be made at that time.
1t had been, in fact, at
supreme allied headquarters,
touch and go whether D-day
would be ordered that first
week in June or whether it
would be postponed indefi-
nitely. Rain and wind had
been persistent.
Rommel had devised a
fantastic series of obstacles
along the beachs and in the
ocean, ranging from sunken
boats to limbs of trees or bits
OF wire, all mined and ex-
plodable on contact. The field
marshal had further plans to
drive the allies back into the
sea, and they might have
had a much tougher time II
Hitler had not been so OBJ
durate. Rommel wanted five
panzer divisions ready to
counterattack. Hitler, refus-
ing to believe invasion was
imminent. held the divisions
in reserve, too far from the
coast to be effective when
the allies suddenly launched
their massive offensive.
Watched Weather
Gen. Eisenhower and his
staff watched the weather
reports as the two or three
days on which the assault
would be possible approached.
"The seaborne landings
had to take place when the
tide was low enough to ex-
pose Rommel's beach OBJ
stacles." There also had to be
a late moon the night before
D-day and visibility enough
Evening star., 1959-11-29
READING AND. WRITING
TheInnocents Abroad
FoceNeWWoes 7 odoy
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Almost any who has travelled in italy will
ognze the accents of truth in Patricia Conge series
of sketches THE SMALL MOSAICS OF MR.. AND MRS.
ENGEL doubleday; $3.75l
Miss Colinge who may be better known to you as an
Birdie THE Little FoXeS has caught
Evening star., 1959-11-29
A Uniformly Sensitive
Collection of Stories

A far more ambitious
writer is Peter Taylor, the
quiet young author of "HAP-
Ply FAMILIES ARE ALL
ALIKE" Mcdowell, Obo-
lenksy; $3.50. Unlike other
Evening star., 1959-11-29
$50 informative articles
373 photographs and drawings,
I43 in full color
Dictionary of
Modern Ballet

Edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen
Introduction by John Martin
Fascinating, authoritative, profusely.
illustrated! A history, who's who,
repertory guide and dance pictorial
in one beautiful volume. N.Y.C. Bal
let TO BOlshoi, Swan Lake TO Agon,
Diaghilev. to Laban, Astaire to
Ulanova. Essential reference for pro-
fessionals, a treat for lovers of ballet
and dance-theatre. 6,o5
at your bookstore or from
TUDOR PUBLISHING co.
22l Fourth Avenue, New York ,
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Other Books in Brief

the leaders themselves. Il
lustrated with maps, prints,
photographs and paintings
of the time.
THE WEST POINT ATLAS
OF AMERICAN WARS.
Chief editor, Col. Vincent
j. Esposito. (Praeger,
($47.500 With a foreword
by President Eisenhower.
HISTORY g. BIOGRAPHY
THE ATLANTIC FRONTIER
BY Louis B. Wright. Cor
nell: $3.75D Colonial Amer
lean Pioneering 1607-1763.
BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT. BY
Charles Hamilton. tOkla-
homa; $685. Eyewitness
accounts of one of the most
celebrated battles of his
tory.
DICTIONARY OF DISCOV-
ERIES. BY I. A. Langnas.
philosophical; So Entries
covering both the major
and minor geographical dis
coveries of Asia, Africa,
Australia, the Americas and
the Arctic and Antarctic.
THE BITED UNI
VERSE. BY Gatland and
Dempster. premier; SO
centSO An exploration of
mans origin and the pos
sibilities of intelligent life
on other planets.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
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Arkansas State press., 1959-07-31

trolling insects and plant diseases.
The increased production has
enabled them to remodel their
home and add bathroom, anoth-
er bedroom, and a den. The yard
is fenced and handicapped, making
it and the home a model for the
community.
The success of some other fami-
lies in the Farm and Home Deve-
lopment program is not so spec
tacular as that of the Bells, but
all are moving along the road to
better living, says Mr.. White ana
Mrs. Wright.
Arkansas State press., 1959-07-31
ESQ Arkansas
Farm Families
Lift Themselves
By Own Bootsfraps

BY finding out how to correct
their shortcomings and make
more effective use of their assets,
200 Arkansas eolored farm fami-
lies are lifting themselves to bet
ter living by their own bootstraps
through the Farm and Home De-
velopment program.
This Is the view of Learrie
White and Mrs. Jennie B. Wright,
Negro Farm and Home Develop
ment agent of the Arkansas State
Extension Service, who are help
Ing the staff of farm and home
demonstration agents to give in
tensive guidance in sound man
agement to as many families as
they can.
The kind of results being a.
chieved Is Illustrated by the Eu-
gene Bell family of Oneida.
For years Mr.. and Mrs. Bell had
gone along on their 240-acre farm
depending mainly on cotton and
Arkansas State press., 1959-07-31
College Station
Virginia Halter

Virginia Hatter
Lawrence Thompson of Chicago
who was here visiting his mother
Mrs. Lula Jackson, returned home
last weekend. Mrs. Lucille
Fields and grandson, Gregory OF
Chicago have returned home after
visiting with an aunt, Mrs. Anna
Heron and an uncle, George
Banks. Reuben Williams LEFT
for a visit with relatives in Chi
cago, Saturday. Pilgrim Rest
church had their Women's Day
program last Sunday. Mrs. Vail
rec Jackson of Detroit who has
been visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
]. Doyne, left for home last week
end. The Pastors Aid club OF
Antioch Baptist church rendered
Arkansas State press., 1959-07-31
Fun Insurance

Modern transportation puts sew.
en- league boots on today's vaca-
TONERS. From supersonic plane to
easy-driving family car, the accent
is on speed and convenience. Tray-
el time is pared to new lows;
vacation time counts for more.
Developments in medical re.
search take the trial out of travel,
too. Previously, most families had
at least one member whose bouts
with motion sickness took the gloss
off vacation fun. To the victim of
Arkansas State press., 1959-07-31

president.
The various committees headed
by Mrs. f. Sue Davy, Mrs. Shir-
ley Warren, Mrs. Theodoshia
Cooper, Miss Corinne Pennington,
Mrs. Willie Mae Thrasher, Mrs.
Robbie Taylor, Mrs. Zenodia
Waters, Mrs. Mrs. Vera Muldrew,
Mrs. NJ. L. Terrence and Miss V.
McClinton are promising another
spectacular event.
Many business and civic groups
have selected contestants to par
ticipate from which a winner Will
be chosen by competent judges
from the city at large. Contes-
tants must be single, between
the ages of II and % and a resi-
dent of Greater Little Rock. The
judges decisions will be based on
beauty ,poise, personality, proper
ton and talent.
All sepia beauties are agog
with enthusiasm and anticipation
awaiting the day they will COM
pete for this coveted title.
Arkansas State press., 1959-07-31

corn, and getting only low yields
of these. Their house needed re-
pair and modernization, but they
never felt that they could afford
to improve It.
Then in 1856 their farm and
home agents, Lester Hopkins and
Mrs. Gertrude d. LeMay, sug-
gested that they sit down and
take a long look at their total
farm situation and decide on the
steps needed to make improve
ments.
When the conference was over,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bell had written
down a list of goals which includ-
ed: more land, more acres in soy
beans, increased crop yields, the
addition of livestock as another
source of income, and the re-
modelling of their home.
Since that time, the Bells have
doubled the size of their farm,
added II head of beef cattle and
four brood sows, upped their cot
ton yield from three-fourths of
bale to te acre to a bale and a
fourth. their corn from 80 to so
bushels per acre. They accom-
plished these increased yields by
having their soil tested and then
applying fertilizer accordingly, and
by improving their methods of con