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with extra charm if, like us,
you find the possibilities of
hypnosis fascinating.
HIT AND RUN. BY John
Greasy. (Charles Scribner's
Sons, $2.95O Two apparently
unrelated hit and run deaths,
four years apart, turn out to
be the tip of a criminal ice
berg Inspector Roger West of
New Scotland Yard measures
with Mortified unbelief. Mr..
Creasey has developed his
fine plot with his usual
skill and expert characterize
ton, though a closer rein
should be kept on clues-he
reveals one important one
twice. But the, story is so
absorbing all is forgiven.
THE LIST OF ADRIAN
MESSENGER. BY Philip
Macdonald. doubleday g.
Co.; $500 Just before he
dies, Adrian Messenger asks
a friend at Scotland Yard to
look into the whereabouts of
10 men. All of them, it de-
velops, have met accidental"
deaths, as Messenger does
himself. Of course, as Mr..
Macdonald has developed
his plot, Messenger should
have been the first to die, so
dangerous was he to the
killer. But then we would
have no fine story of a hunt
for a murderer whose iden-
tity and motive must be dis
cerned from the wispieSt Of
clues. The characterization
is excellent, the novel full of
suspense.
y 4 4
THE WIDOWS CRUISE.
BY Nicholas Blake. (Harper
& Bros, $2.95.) 1t is incred-
ible that a writer as skilled
as Mr.. Blake should tele-
graph both the crime and
Evening star., 1959-11-15
FioreIIo La Guordio,
Political Phenomenon

LA GUARDIA: A Fighter
Against His Times, by Ar
thur Mann Gippincott; So
is the first serious, scholarly
appraisal of the political
phenomenon and blazing per-
sonality that made up the
Little Flower.
DR.. Mann, an associate
professor of history at Smith
College, offers the first of two
volumes dealing with the life
and era of Fiolallo La Guar
dia. The present book ends
Just before he was elected
mayor of New York in 1888.
Spectacular Rise
La Guardia's rise in politics
was spectacular. Certainly
he was one of the most color
full figures who stepped from
obscurity into the national
picture in the early decades
of the century.
He was born in 1882 in
New York's Greenwich VIII
lage-the first of two dis
tricts he was to represent in
Congress over a period Of
years.
His parents were immi-
grants from Fiume. then
under Hungarian contr0l.
His father was Italian, his
mother Italian-JewiSh. The
father, Achille, entered our
Army as a chief musician
he was a fine cornet and
trumpet player-in 1885. He
was stationed a long time at
Prescott. Ariz,, and Fiorello's
boyhood memories centered
around the Western town.
A Young Linguist
When Achille was retired
for disability during the
Spanish-American War, with
the magnificent pension of
So a month, he moved. the
family to Trieste, where he
tried to engage in business
but soon died. Florello, then
18, got into the United
States consular service. He
could speak Italian and Yid-
dish and he added Hungar-
ian, Croatian, German and
French. The young linguist,
seeing little opportunity in
the consular service, left his
family and returned to New
York, where he studied law
at the night school of New
York University. He made
his way by working as an
interpreter at Ellis Island.
The young man was soon
deep in ward and district
Evening star., 1959-11-15
THE MANSION, by William

THE MANSION, by William
Faulkner (Random House;
$4.76.
There seems to be a ten
dency of critics to feel that
the earlier work Of a famous
writer, or at least the books
written before middle age,
are his best. This opinion
has been particularly evident
in the case Of william
Faulkner.
Not a few observers point
to "The Sound and the Fury"
and "As I Lay Dying" or
perhaps Light in August"
and indicate it's too bad Mr..
Faulkner didn't keep up that
standard.
In my dissenting belief,
these novels, original and re-
markable as they were, are
not his best. They were. for
one thing, extremely difficult
to read. His later books,
and especially the new novel,
are written in a much more
straightforward style, with
relatively little of the
throttled and gasping syn
tax, the interminable SEN
tences, that marked those
early novels.
Last Of TrilOgy
1.-THE Mansion" last Of a
trilogy about the Snopes FAM
lily, not only is not difficult
to read, but is, in my opin-
ion, one of the strongest and
finest novels our Nobel Prize
winner has written. He has.
in fact. summed up many
other characters besides the
unsavory Snopeses - he has
touched on all the changing
years in Jefferson, MiSsis-
sippi, and Yoknapatapha
county-in these gripping
pages. "The Mansion" con-
tains some of Mr.. Faulkner's
most pungent and illuminat-
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Other Books of the Week in Brief

revenge of the Red Army
in World War II.
ZEEBRUGGE. BY Barrie Pitt.
(Ballantine; 50c.) The
story of the most desperate
raid in World War II.
GALACTIC CLUSTER. BY
James Blish. (Signet;
35c.) (Science Fiction.O
Stories of outer space.
(Reprints.)
THE HISTORY OF WEST
ERN ART. BY Erwin o.
Christensen. (M tor;
75c.) Handy reference
work.
SUDDENLY BY VIOLENCE.
By Carter Brown. (Signet,
25c) Another thriller in
the Danny Boyd series.
THE DHARMA BUNS. BY
Jack Kerouac. (Signet;
50c.) (Reprint). About two
reckless wanderers out to
scale the heights of life
:. and love.
YOU TELL MY SON. BY Rex
K. Pratt. (Signet; 35c).
(Reprint.) A combat lieu
tenant fights the enemy,
the raw platoon that hates
him and the memory of
the wife who betrayed him.
UNDERSTANDING CHEM
ISTRY. BY Lawrence P.
Lessing. (Mentor; 50c.)
THE BEST OF EVERY
THING. BY Roma Jaffe.
Pocket; 50cO About girls
who play at careers while
searching for a man to
love. (tteprlnC.)
PILLOW TALK. BY Marvin
H. Albert. (Fawcett; 50c)
About a high fashion New
York City interior decorator
with designs on a con-
firmed bachelor.
THE HARD BLUE SKY. BY
Shirley Ann Grau. (Sig-
net; 75c) Love on a primi-
tive, sun-swept island. IRE
print.)
SOLOMON AND SHEBA. BY
Jay Williams. Bantam;
35c.) (Reprint.) Said to be
the most passionate and
sensuous love story of them
all.
THE UNFORGIVEN. By
Alan LeMay. Crest; 35cO
(Rsprint.) A realistic novel
of the old Southwest.
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the murderer half a book
before they occur. Certainly
he could never be accused Of
planting misleading clues.
But his very explicitness Of
a form Of unfairness to the
reader, who feels as If she
had cheated and read the
end first. The story revolves
around two sisters, one ugly,
one lovely, a precocious child
and their fellow passengers
on an Aegean cruise. Nigel
StrangewayS Sleuths.
4 + Il
SLEEP LONG, MY LOVE.
BY Hillary Waugh. (Double-
day & Co., $2.95) A stupid,
misleading title for what is
essentially an excellent story
of police procedure in a mur.
der investigation when even
the corpse is unidentified be-
cause of dismemberment.
y 4 Il
NO NEXT OF KIN. BY
Doris Miles Disney. Double-
day & Co.; $2.s5.O A gen.
tie. tender book that, 100
years ago, might have been
Subtitled. "It's the Woman
Who Pays" Andrea Lang
don's f1ve-year-old illegiti.
mate son dies in a fire at a
fair on the very day she
takes him from the couple
with whom he was boarding,
planning to introduce him
into her own home as an or
phan. Then. after her. fathers
campaign for Congress brings
her to the public eye, the few
people who know her secret
Including the boys father
proceed to blackmail her. A
reporter who loves her tries
to thwart the blackmailers
and keep her secret. The
story is romantic, the crooks
are realistic, the book is good.
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particularly the story Of
Flem's daughter Linda, who
wasn't his daughter at all.
We learn how Linda fed
the mansion and went to
New York's Greenwich Village
and married a radical, q
Communist in fact, and they
both went to Spain to fight
against Franco. Linda's hus-
band was killed there and
she returned forever deaf
from the explosion of a shell.
1t was, readers Of the Snopes'
saga will recall. Gavin
Stevens fate to love Linda's
mother, Eula, who eventually
killed herself, and then to
love Linda.
This is, too, especially the
story Of Mink Snopes, the IL
literate tenant farmer, in
whom a flame Of pure hate
burned. who killed his greedy
landlord in 1908 and served
38 years at the prison farm.
When he finally got out it
was with one purpose-to kill
his cousin Elem, who had
ignored him when he was
tried for murder, who could,
with his powerful influence
in the county. have saved
him, at least so Mink felt.
A Broad Panorama
We feel throughout the
long narrative this suspense
when Mink is released with a
new suit of overalls and $40.
What will he do? Will he
get" Elem, seeming so safe
in his mansion and in the
private Office of his bank?
We meet minor members
Of the clan with such divert
ing names as WallStreet
Panic Snopes and Admiral
Dewey Snopes. The whole
panorama of Jefferson and
the county. between early in
the century and the time
after World War II, passes in
Pickering, haunting images
of people and events.
1t is a memorable pageant.
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WhyMen and Women Think
And Act So Differently =.

way of a woman becom--
ing a genius in the field Of
pure thought and specula-
tion. are included in the dis
cussion. Religious differ
ences that crop up between
the two are within the scope
Of the book.
The writer refutes the ma
terialistic conclusions put
forth by the majority of
thinkers on sex and married
life. He does not deny the
Importance of true science,
but looks upon it as a neces-
Sary part of the Divine pat
tern in sex differences and
attitudes that are intrinsi-
cally involved in achieving
compatibility.
-MOHAMMED A. RAUF, Jr.
Evening star., 1959-11-15
William FouIkner's New Novel
One Of His Finest and Strongest
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

ing observations. And 1t has,
incredible as that may sound,
many short sentences.
The Snopes project dates
in Mr.. Faulkner'S imagination
back to 1925. The trouble
with the trilogy has been, to
readers at least, that its
components were not written
consecutively, but often were
interrupted by other books.
some Of them about other
characters and some, like
"A Fable" not even about
Mississippi. The first of the
Snopes stories, THE Hamlet"
came out in 1910. The next,
THE Town." appeared in
1857, and now we have the
final volume.
Familiar Characters
In 1.-THE Mansion" Mr..
Faulkner ties together all
the dangling threads about
the Snopeses and, of course,
about those they touched in
Jefferson and Frenchman's
Bend. Naturally, the erudite
Gavin Stevens, the lawyer
educated at Harvard and
Heidelburg; his nephew,
Charles MolliSon, and the un-
grammatical and wise Red
neck, perhaps the shrewdest
of them all, v. K. Ratliff, are
prominent in the narrative.
as they are in ali the stories
about Jefferson and its en-
vironS.
The mansion of the title
is the great house in Jeffer-
son which Elem Snopes, the
most successful of the family
financially, how else would
a SnopeS be successful? -
occupied after he drove out
his wife's lover, Manfred De
Spain, by blackmail and in
similar manner took over
from the latter the presidency
of the bank. But this is more
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an almost measure by meas
ure analysis of his music.
She dismisses all previous
identifications as so many
red herrings that have no
basis in fact.
This is a puzzle for the ex-
perts familiar with Bee
thoven'S life and his music
and for those curious about
this strange and tormented
man of genius. Much of the
warmth and contradictions
in his personality show in
the letters.
Mrs. Steichen, the wife of
Edward Steichen, the famous
photographer, spent five years
in the research and writing
of this painstaking book.
M. T.
Evening star., 1959-11-15
The First Shot

WILLIAM DIAMONDS
DRUM. BY Arthur Bernon
Tourtellot. doubleday;
$3.50
Here is an account of the
beginning of the war of the
American Revolution. so de-
tailed you get a personal
introduction to practically
everybody present at "the
shot heard round the world"
A truly great work by a top
rated historian. Who fired
the first shot in the war?
Nobody'S sure.
III. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1959-11-15
DeIves
Into the Booth Plot
BY FRED THEROUX
Star Stah Writer

THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY. BY Theodore Roscoe (Pren-
tice Hall. $100
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater
April H. 1855 left incredibly tangled snar Of mysteries
in its wake Official suppression Of important facts curious
government policy Weter of myth legend OBJ
Evening star., 1959-11-15
Gertrude Stein
Literary Cubist
BY MARIAN TRACY
Contributing Writer

THE THIRD ROSE, by John Malcolm Brnnin Gittle,
Brown Co.. So, serious book how to understand
the life and times and writing Of Gertrude Stein.
The woman and her times through clear and well
She fascinating with golden beguiling voice.
who talked brilliantly and who could listen WELL She lived
Evening star., 1959-11-15
Defense
Strategy
All IIWrong?
BY L. EDGAR PRINA
Star stan Wiiter

AM QOEo AAON Vt VA
TIONAL DEFENSE. BY
Oskar Morgenstern. IRAN
dom House; $3.950
A nation. like an individ-
ual. sometimes is blind to the
obvious. When 1t is, and the
blind spot concerns defense,
1t invites death and disaster.
This is the critical situa-
ton the United States Is in
today, according to Oskar
Morgenstern, professor Of
political economy at Prince
ton, in brilliant and devas-
tating new critique of our
military preparations and
policies which should be re-
quired reading for members
Of Congress and the National
Security Council.
Antiquated System
What is wrong? We con-
tinue to concentrate on an
antiquated strategic striking
system Cland-based bombers
and ICBMs) when a far SUI
perior one Submarine fired
Polaris misSiles) is at hand.
1T is common knowledge,
indeed notorious, that the
Strategic Air Force is ex-
ceedingly vulnerable" Prof.
Morgenstern writes. "All fixed
military installations of any
size anywhere in the world
are obsolete"
The above assertion will
land hard on lot of political
and industrial toes, but the
author doesn't care. He
charges that the composition
Of our strategic forces hinges
too much on the political
effectiveness of pressure
groups.
The great vulnerability Of
the immobile SAC bases is
due. of course, to the Rus
slams development of inter-
continental rockets and sub
marine-launched missiles and
the assurance they will strike
the first blow in any all-out
war. To survive today, you
must move. If you can move
your retaliatory force and
keep it concealed at the same
time. as with submarines, so
much the better.
Shelterless Population
Despite these elemental
facts of life, the United
States pours huge amounts
of treasure into the effort to
harden" SAC bases. The
harder" we make these fixed
installations, the heavier will
be the enemy blow and the
greater the danger to our
shelterless civil population
from radioactive fallout.
Prof. Morgenstern calls
Polaris, which becomes oper-
ational next fall. "by far
and away the greatest vehicle
of war deterrence" in our
grasp. Unfortunately, he
adds, its fundamental signifi-
canoe apparently has not yet
been recognized by the Eli
senhower administration.
Nine PolariS submarines
are under construction. Each
will carry 16 missiles, with
warheads at least is times
as powerful as those which
devastated Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The Navy wants
As to so of these ships and
maintains that, if it were
given the money. it could
have Is (400 missiles) at sea
by the end of 1868.
In his book, the author
argues convincingly that we
can afford to spend a good
deal more money on defense
without upsetting the civilian
economy. One crying need is
fallout shelters, the possess
sion of which may someday
save up to SO million Ameri-
can lives.
Evening star., 1959-11-15

speare, Clarissa Harlowe and
mysteries for pleasure and
that Picasso. after seeing
some American Westerns in
the movies, called her "Pard."
She didn't think it funny.
Evening star., 1959-11-15

politics. He had advantages
in the Greenwich Village
area, with its polyglot popu-
lation. He could speak most
of the languages and knew
the peoples problems as an
American and as a European.
From his earliest days he had
a keen eye for injustice and
a strong desire to help
the held-down and poverty
cursed. He was against the
interests" He helped guide
an early strike of the gar
ment workers.
Worst Setback
In 1916 he was elected to
Congress, the first Republic
can to beat Tammany in that
district within memory. La
ter he was to represent the
East Harlem district in Con-
gresS. On leave from Con-
gresS, he served in World
War I as a flyer in Italy and
was decorated for bravery.
In 1921, while president of
the New York Board of AL
dermen. he suffered his
worst setback. He was de-
feated in the mayoralty pri-
mary and read out" of his
party. His wife and baby
died. But he bounced back
and was returned to Con-
gress two years later.
DR.. Mann has anlyzed par
ticularly well the crosscur-
rents and rip tides of poll
tics that Swirled around La
Guardia all his life. The
book is a feat of scholarship
and yet it is continuously
entertaining. &C. B. j.
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$4.50). A summary of the
basic doctrines and teach
ings of the Cat h olic
Church.
HISTORY 6 BIOGRAPHY
THE LUCKIEST MAN
ALIVE. BY Lee Shippey.
(Westlorn, $4.95). Autobi-
ography.
THE SELF ENCHANTED.
BY Jane Ardmore. INC
Graw-Hill. $4.95). Biog-
raphy of Mae Murray.
INFANTRYMAN AT THE
FRONT. BY Grady P. Ar
rington. (Vantage, $3.50.
The viewpoint of the Amer
ican foot soldier of the
days of 1944-45.
PAPERBACKS
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH.
BY Samuel Butler. wash
ington Square; 50c.) A re-
print of the great novel
based on certain aspects of
Victorianism - published
after the authors death
in 1902.
THE OUTWARD URGE. BY
John Wyndham and Lucas
Parkes. (Ballantine Books;
35c.) The story of mans
leap into the seas of space.
(Science Fiction.)
THE COWBOY READER.
Edited by Lon Trinkle and
Allen Maxwell. Oongmans,
Green, 50c.) The Ameri-
can cowboys life on the
range.
THE WRECK OF THE
MARY DEARE. BY Ham
mond InneS. (Knopf; 35c.)
(Reprint). The well known
story of a derelict ship and
a skipper accused of a
crime he didn't commit.
AIR FORCE. BY Frank Har-
vey. (Ballantine; 35c.)
(Science Fiction.) Stories
of the Air Force on the
frontiers of space.
SANDS OF MARS. BY Arthur
c. Clarke. pocket; 35c.)
(Science Fiction.) RE
print.) A Science Fiction
Book Club selection.
DEFEAT IN THE EAST. BY
Juergen Thorwald. (Bal-
lantine; 50c.) The whole
history of the tide-turning
Evening star., 1959-11-15
CRIME AND MYSTERY
BY BETTY MILES
Star stah Writer

The seemingly motiveess murder of a psychology pro-
fessor whose specially hypnosis the intriguing theme
Frances and Richard Lockdge have developed to the ht
in MURDER is SUGGESTED. q. B. Lppncott Co.. $295J
The Norths are at their witty best and Capt Bill Wegand
is the hardWorklng investigator the seasons best
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ity of the tottering Confed-
crate regime he demonstrates
convincingly. At what level,
Of course, we cannot know
for certain, but the shadowy
rebel intelligence network
from Richmond to Canada
is linked to the conspiracy
from its very beginning. This
point alone ought to afford
hours of argument among
Civil War buffs everywhere.
Evening star., 1959-11-15
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Milford chronicle., 1959-02-20
Randolph Hughes To
Succeed Burkett As
NASSB President

Randolph Hughes, Bank Com
missioner for the State of Della
ware assumed the Office OF Presi-
dent OF the National Association of
Supervisors of State Banks on
February /. He was elected First
Vice President Of the Supervisors
Association at their convention in
Minneapolis last September, and
has acceded to the top spot in
NASSB due to the resignation of
William A. Burkett, former Super
intendent OF the California Bank
ing Department.
In accepting the Presidency, Mr..
Hughes assumed the leadership of
a group which, although active
sinces 1902, has taken on new di-
mensions in the last year. 1858
marked the opening Of Washing
ton Office and acquisition of a per-
manent staff representing the State
Supervisors in the Nations Capital.
President Hughes states that
"The Associations Washington OFF,
ice can be successful only IL 1t is
used to solve the problems and
strengthen the position of every
State Bank Supervisor. / assure
you / will use my influence to the
end that the Association will rep
resent the entire State Banking
System, and not just one segment
thereof. Furthermore, in the in
terest OF better banking proceed
ures, during my administration l
will strive to maintain a high de-
gree of cooperation with the Fed
eral Supervisory Agencies.
The new President announces
that he has appointed Robert f.
Mcdaniel. Superintendent of Banks
in Ohio. to fill the vacancy on the
Executive Committee.
Robert l.. Myers, Jr., Secretary
of Banking for the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. has been appoint
ed by Mr.. Hughes to serve as
Chairman of the Subcommittee
which directs the operation of the
.NASSB Washington Office. Mr..
Myers was one OF the original MEM
bers of this. subcommittee. and
succeeds George A. Mooney, form
er New York Superintendent of
Banks, in the Chairmanship.
Michigan Commissioner of Bank
ing Alonzo Wilson has been named
to serve on the committee respon-
sible for Liaison with State Bank
Division OF ABA.
Mr.. Hughes was born in 1908 at
FELTON,, Delaware. He is married,
has four children, and resides at
40 The Green. Dover, Delaware.
He is graduate of Wesley Cole
giate Institute. Dover, Delaware,
and attended the University OF
Maryland.
He started his banking career in
the Equitable Trust Company in
Wilmington, Delaware. He was
elected cashier OF West Dover
Trust Company. Hartly. Delaware,
in October 1881. and also served in
the offices OF vice president and
president OF that institution. In
1876. he was employed by the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corpora
tion, and within a short time was
appointed Director OF Personnel for
that organization. He was with the
FDIC in 1851 when he was appoint
ed by the Governor for the State of
Delaware to the Office OF State Bank
Commissioner
He served as an Officer in the
United States Navy during World
War III