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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22

his writing that he had a
strong sense Of mysticism, but
little formal religion. And
yet he could appreciate the
forms Of faith as much as
anyone. He wrote in I'm
pressions and Comments:
"As the gracious spectacle Of
the mass is unrolled before
me. / think. as ! have often
thought before, how much
they lose who cannot taste
the Joy Of religion or grasp
the significance Of its SYM
bolism. They have no faith
in gods or immortal souls or
supernatural heavens or
hells. they severely tell US.
But what have these things.
what have any Pigments of
the intellect. to do with re-
ligion? Fling them all aside
rs avsterely az you like. pr
= as gary! and you have not
touched the core of religion.
For that is from within. the
yelling up Of obscure intima-
tons Of reality into the free
grace Of Vision"
Mr.. Collins has written a
thoughtful and valuable book
on one Of the remarkable in
tellects Of goth century Eng
lsnd.-C. B. J.
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A Look at Politics

It Is okay for a defeated
politician to write a book.
Adlai Stevenson does 1t all
the time. His precedent has
been followed by Stimson
Bullitt, a West Coast two
time loser for Congress.
Mr.. Bullitt calls his book
TO BE A POLITICIAN (Dou-
bleday; $3.50. One presumes
If he had been successful
there would have been the
prefix of a how. which
would have assured his book
OF a phenomenal sale. Some
how, people will put out any
thing for what they think
might be a manual. whether
it be instructions on the
proper way to eat q lobster
or save a marriage.
Mr.. Bullitt's reflections on
political life are literate, in
telligent. and one must add
regretfully. juiceless. He has
all the qualifications for pub
lie Office save, it would seem.
the zest for the race. He has
wrung his subject dry. He
has considered it from every
angle. He says sensible, If
somewhat self-evident truths
about the candidates plight.
What he has omitted-and
here we see the egghead-is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

coasts. There was retalia-
ton, Of course. but few knew
for months what the out
come had been, for our
country had been reduced
suddenly to q third-rate
power, with most cities so
contaminated they could not
even be rebuilt.
All in One Day
But the author does not
concentrate on the horrors
of the attack which did all
its damage within "a hours.
His story Is about a town in
Central Florida which es-
capped the blasts and was
even free from the deadly
aftermath, the lingering
shreds Of lethal fallout. What
was life like in Fort Repose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22

how did the people manage?
The leading figure. Randy
Bragg. o reserve ofiicer who
had fought In Korea. was
warned Of the probable at
tack by, his brother. an Air
Force colonel. who stopped
on his way back to Strategic
Air Command. In Omaha.
The colonel was able to send
his wife and two children to
his brother in Florida hours
before the Russians struck.
Randy had their care. He
also had to look after his
fiancee and her parents, who
lived nearby. Gradually he
and the young doctor, Dan.
had the whole town on their
shoulders. A retired admiral
helped.
A Grim Picture
Electricity didn't last long.
Nor did gasoline. Radio mes
sages. meager in the weeks
after the catastrophe. stopped
altogether. They knew the
large cities of Florida were
wiped out and did not dare
visit them. Supplies Of every
thing gave out. They lived
largely on fish and the edible
animals they could trap.
Highwaymen. who came to
roam unchecked-there were
few cars with fuel and no
effective police-were q fresh
menace. But Randy and his
little band still had firearms
and ammunition.
Unlike Mr.. Shute and Mr..
Wylie, whose characters in
their nuclear stories had
little life or distinction. Mr..
Frank has filled his novel
with real people. interesting
in their own right. ALAS.
Babylon" is an absorbing
story. It is. In my opinion,
by far the best novel this
former Washington newspa-
perman has written. Some
how it adds up to a little
more than merely competent
writing, skilled craftsman
ship.
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characters engage IN more
adulteries In shorter time
than most novelists have
been able to maneuver.
There are variations, includ-
ing one lesbian attachment.
Beyond the outlined situa-
tons. though. Mr.. Hecht has
refused to follow bedroom
voyeurs into infinite detail.
There are no vulgar words in
The Sensualists." Nor does
Mr.. Hecht insist on depriving
his characters Of all privacy
as. say. John O'Hara does.
There is plenty Of good.
sound action in the story
besides. There are three MUIR
ders and a suicide. Two Of the
murders are particularly
atrocious.
Mr.. Hecht has explained
himself, to an extent anyway.
in a letter to his publishers.
He is. he wrote, more in
terested in the psychological
impulses behind erotic acts.
lawful or unlawful, than in
their anatomical details.
Ovidian Seminar
1T is" he says of his novel.
"a sort Of seminar on mod
ern eroticiSm, such as Ovid
might have set down had he
been cross-pollinated by Ray
mond Chandler.
But Raymond Chandler
would have baked at the sad
istic fury Of the detective
sergeant in this story. Micky
Spillane might be envious
that he didn't think Of two
Of the scenes. He's never done
anything grislier.
Well. If Mr.. Hecht did not
write this smoothly flowing
narrative to spool the mod
ern sex novel. why did he
write it? &C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
Other Books of the Week in Review

Wright Mills. (Oxford Uni
versity Press; $l.95.) A
study of the life Of men at
the pinnscleS Of fame,
power and fortune today in
America.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
BY Jane Austen dell Pub
fishing Co.; 50c.) Un-
abridged.
THE PROBLEMS OF PHI
LOSOPHY. BY Bertrand
Russell. (Oxford University
Press: $1.25J Theories on
knowledge by q British
philosopher and co-author
of Principal Mathemat-
ica." 4
THE RUSSIAN REVOLT
TON. BY Leon Trotsky.
doubleday 81 Co.: $1.45.)
A reprint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22

Press; So A study Of
drama. by the literary adj
wiser to the Carolina Play
makers.
THE RISE AND FALL OF
SOCIETY. BY Frank
Chodorov. (Devin -Adair
Co.; $3.50 The fight Of
the individual against the
state, by the author Of
THE Income Tax: Root Of
All Evil"
ROMAN POLITICAL IDEAS
AND PRACTICE. BY F. E.
Adcock. University Of
Michigan Press; $3.50
The rise and fall Of Roman
governments from the
kings to the dictators. BY
a former professor of
ancient history. Cambridge
University.
SEA DIVER. BY Marion
Clayton Link. (Rinehart &
Co.; $4.50D The adven-
lures Of a family on their
modern day quest for
treasure in the Caribbean.
PAPERBAcKS
HELP FOR TEN MILLION.
BY Darrell g. Grain. M. D.
81. B. Lippincott Co.; $l.45.J
A manual on arthritis,
rheumatism and govt.
THE MASTERS. BY C. p.
Snow. Doubleday g. Co.:
$l.250 Part of a Sc
ries of novels on English
life during the past half
century. This novel deals
with the ways Of power
through politics.
MONT SAINT MICHEL e.
CHARITIES. BY Henry
Ada ms. doubleday g.
Co.; $3.50 A classic re-
print.
OUTCAST OF CRIPPLE
CREEK. BY Will Cook
(Fawcett Publications, Inc:
IS cents.) He wore a stai
on his vest but he was
hated by the town he had
sworn to protect.
SMOKE IN THE VALLEY.
BY Steve Frazee. (Fawcetl
publications. Inc; IS cents.
A novel of the Western
pioneers who were either
corrupted or grew strong.
THE POWER ELITE. BY C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
Crime and Mystery
THE END OF VIOLENCE.

THE END OF VIOLENCE.
BY Ben Benson. civilian
Morrow g. Co.; $2.95J Trooper
Ralph Lindsay never thought
he'd see the day he'd be
accused Of roughing up a
prisoner. Yet young Earl
Guthrie and a friend claim
Lindsey and another trooper
beat them into confessing
an assault on a young girl
Lindsey's defense Of his
and the State police
. force's-honor while inves-
|. tigating the seemingly unre-'
. lated murder Of an unsavory
|. citizen gives author Benson
. opportunity to exploit his
!. talent for exploring human
; relationships. As usual. be-
lievable, real. B. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
A New Look
At Hoover's'
Depression !;
HERBERT HOOVER AND

HERBERT HOOVER AND
THE GREAT DEPREsi
SION. BY Harris Gaylord
Warren. (Oxford Univer-
sity Press; So
Few Presidents have been
as much AMUSED while In
office as Mr.. Hoover. Thus
there is a measure of vindi-
cation in the tribute that
has been heaped on the ga
year-old senior G. o. p,
statesman in recent years.
Prof. Warren joins the
chorus by indorsing, in the
final paragraph of his book,
the Judgment Of Raymond
Moley that Mr.. Hoover "vill
live as the greatest RepubH.
can of his generation" But
in the 800 pages Of his text
he finds little to laud in Mr.
Hoover's depression-plagued
reign in the White House.
He deplores the Hoover
failure to come to grips with
the human tragedies Of re-
lief and unemployment. He
ridicules the presidential act
of calling out the Army TO
drive the bonus marchers out
Of Washington. He charges
Mr.. Hoover with inability to
command" in four years Of
crisis that cried for a COM
manding hand.
The book is essentially, q
chronological recounting Of
Mr.. Hoover's efforts to stem
the tidal wave of depression,
with biographical asides. In
a field that has already been
exclusively recounted, Mr..
Warren might have made a
more valuable contribution
with core critique and less
chronicle.
ROBERT E. CLARK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
Whot Would Happen to Survivors
Of q CotocIysmic NucIeor War

ALAS. BABYLON. by Pat
Frank Gippincott; $3.50.
The possibility Of a nuclear
war. by no means ruled out at
the moment, has stirred the
Imagination or several popu-
lar novelists in the last few
years.
What would happen to the
survivors, II any? What
would life be like in the era
after such an Armageddon?
I must say / think Pat
Frank has made a better.
more plausible novel out Of
the grisly potentiality than
anyone else I've read. I'm
not forgetting Nevil Shute.
whose "On the Beach," pub
nshed last year, foresaw the
gradual extinction Of all life
from the permeating fallout.
Or Philip Wylie, who de-
scribed the destruction of a
great city. Mr.. Frank. Of
course, touched on the idea
In his first novel, the best
Selling Mr.. Adam" which
was a satire based on the
assumption that a nuclear
war had left only one virile
man alive.
II Is No Satire
But "Alas. Babylon" is no
satire. 1t is a serious study Of
what could well happen, ac-
cording to all the experts.
Mr.. Frank supposes that
the Russians struck without
warning. in retaliation for
an accidental bombing Of a
satellite port in the Medi-
terranean. Our largest cities
were quickly destroyed. mostly
with intercontinental missiles
fired from submarines on our
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~ IL.
This is the kind Of pub
licity that writers and their
publishers dream about. Of
course, and the good effects
are being felt. The Over
streets book has previously
caught the fancy of Column
mist Roscoe Drumrnond. who
wrote about II fervently.
twice. All this high-level
interest has served. along
with its intrinsic merit, TO
push the sales Of "What We
Must Know" up to $4,000
copies.
IT'S Well Deserved
The husband and wife
team had previously written
about mental health and
successful living and are SO
well adjusted they wouldn't
have minded If the book had
not caught on. But Mrs.
Overstreet said from her
Falls Church home the other
day she and her husband Of
20 years were happy to see
three years Of research
crowned with recognition
and success.
Actually, says bonny Boz
marc Overstreet, the book
represents no particular de-
parture from their previous
Joint efforts. They studied
Communism as a psychology
ical phenomenon. as a system
which began in an artificial
framework of ideas and did
not grow out Of human ex-
perience like other systems.
What distinguishes their
study is its lucidity and its
informality.
I'VE thought Of 1t as a
conversation with Ameri-
cans" explains Mrs. Over
street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
SEEKING THE 'FEU SACRE'
Masterpiece Lives
In the Heart Of Man
BY ROSANNA NOVAK
star star Writer

SIGHT AND INSIGHT. BY
Alexander Eliot. (McDow-
ell. Obolensky; $3.50.
In a quaint Spanish fish,
ing village. Time Magazine
art critic Eliot has calmly
looked back to see what
life is about.
Life is art and art is life.
writes Eliot. That Is all we
need to know in this book
written far away from mu-
seums and reference books.
In Spain he sees life
clearly as q city Of art; not
a Bohemia as many artists
would have 1t, but a land
where people are looking
for the meaning of life.
ITO study art should be
to study life imaginatively."
says Eliot.
Awakening TO Beauty
The artists, those gifted
people who crave a MASTER
piece as a military leader
yearns for victory, are like
mirrors. Through this human
reflection, life searchers can
be awakened to beauty. Art
lists create beyond them
selves: The cave man was
moved by shadows to draw
what was not there: Goya
saw hatred among men
whom he realized were really
brothers. and abstraction
lists sacrifice form for free
dom Of pure expression.
The critic has much to Of
fer as guide, says Eliot, but
he keeps criticizing instead
Of trying to understand"
A Private Religion
This is also a human art
for all Of the imaginative. A
child brings her doll to life.
So a masterpiece can come to
life through a man whose
heartbeat becomes the heart
beat Of the painting.
Clearly this book Is a beau
tiful aesthetic restatement Of
Plato's realm Of ideas
hedging on the border Of a
private religion. Beauty is
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the irrational element in
this most inexact Of human
sciences. One could wish
1t was not there. But 1t is.
No one could quarrel with
the right-mindedness and
fairmindedness Of Mr.. Bull
lifts analysis and conclu-
sions. One could only wish
he we're a little less solemn
about 1t all. and might have
been as penetrating about
politics as he is about life in
general. He reveals a wry
knowledge at intervals
throughout his rather cryptic
book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22

The Book Of the Month
Club choice for June Is
James Thurber's THE
YEARS WITH ROSS" It APP
pears to be one Of those per-
feet meetings between author
and, subject. Here is a quote
which illustrates the charm
Of the late New Yorker editor
and the understanding Of his
biographer:
Ross was unembarrassed
by his ignorance Of the great
novels Of any country. and
one Of the indestructible
items Of Rossiana tells how he
stuck his head into the check
ing department Of the maya
zine one day to ask, Is Moby
Dick the whale or the MANI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-22
READING AND WRITING
This Is the Last Word
In Good Publicity
BY MARY McGRORY
star Stan Writer

What happened to Harry Bonaro oversreet should
happen every deserving author President Eisenhower
went to Secretary Of State Dulles in the hospital bor
rowed their book WHAT WE MUST KNOW ABOUT COM
MUNISM" from him. and photographed holding 1t and
with expression indicating he could hardly wait To get
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FICTION

GAVE OF ICE. BY Penelope
Mortimer. (Harcourt. Brace
& Co.; $685. A psyche
logical drama of an emo
tionally disturbed British
middle-class household, by
the author of THE Bright
Prison"
DOCTOR AND SON. BY
Richard Gordon. Double
day g. Co.; $2.95) Another
hilarious free-for-all in
medicine by the British au-
thor Of Doctor in the
House"
MONSIEUR MOLIERE. BY
Michael O'Shaughnessy.
IThomas Y. Crowell Co.;
$685. A biographical novel
on the 18th century French
dramatist, by an American
stage designer.
THE UNANOINTED. BY Lau-
rene Chinn. Grown Pub
fishers: $685. The turbu-
lent story of Joab, the mill
tary leader to King David.
BY a Texas school teacher.
CHAIN WEIZMANN. BY
Isaiah Berlin. (Farrar,
StrauS and Cudahy; $2.250
An appraisal of DR.. Weiz-
mann. the first president
of Israel.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
THE COMPACT HISTORY
OF THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS. BY Charles Hurd.
Hawthorn Books; $4.95J
Third in a series of his
tories on the military Or
CARNATIONS and others
contributing in war time.
ROME ETERNAL. BY Paul
Horgan. (Farrar, Straus
and Cudahy; $4.50) A
panorama in words and pic
lures of Rome's four pc
RODS in history-pagan,
early Christian, Renais-
Sance and modern.
VIRGINIA: A NEW LOOK
AT THE OLD DOMINION.
BY Marshall w. Fishwick.
(Harper g. Brothers;
$500 A history by the
professor Of American
studies at Washington and
Lee University.
GENERAL
FREEDOM CHOOSES SLAV-
cry. BY j. Freire d. And
rade Coward Mccain;
$3.50.) An attack against
our foreign policy.
WE HAVE A GOSPEL. BY
j. S. Brewis. (Longmans,
Green & Co, $3.50 cloth
bound, 90c paper bound.)
IRONY IN THE DRAMA. BY
Robert Boies Sharpe. (Uni-
versity of North Carolina
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Cedar Brook,
WifhGranfUp.
Suffolk Victor

BOSTON, May % 1(AP).-
Mrs. Ada L. Rice's Cedar Brook.
SIS favorite with a Suffolk
Downs gathering Of 2l,82l.
scored 4Hz length victory in
the $4,000 Suffolk Downs AM
niversary Stakes today.
Jackey Howard Grant took
no chances with the odds-on
choice and kept busy with the
whip right down to the wire.
Mrs. p. Harthill's Will This
Do finished second. a nose
ahead Of Resseguet & Weiner's
Eternal BIN.
Cedar Brook raced six tur-
longs in 1:l0ls and paid 1920.
$3.50 and $3.50. Will This Do
returned $3.50 and $500, while
Eternal BIN paid $500 to show.
The odds-on favorite at
tracted the TEMPER centers in
the show pool, where a minus
pool Of $6,S27 was reported. OF
the show betting total Of
$59.974, there was $50,902 on
Cedar Brook.
Greentree Stables Hilwan
went right to the front and
was running easily until Cedar
Brook challenged at the head
Of the stretch. Hilwan folded
fast and dropped completely
out of the running. Win This
Do and Eternal BIN moved
together, putting on a good
show for the minor awards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24

Boniface, the Baltimore Suns
racing editor. piloted Alcindor.
Betting fell far below last
years $572,953 eight-race
handle for the corresponding
Saturday when only $495 ,889
was wagered on today's nine
events. Competition with the
Orioles Yankees baseball game
in nearby Baltimore was blamed
by the new management.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
JesseI to Direct
AA-Stur Bouquet
pTTTSBURGH. Nav % CAP

PITTSBURGH, May % (AP)
= George Jessel, veteran
vaudeville, radio. nv and film
comedian. viii serve as emcee
at the All-Star baseball BAN
quet here July 8.
The event, sponsored by the
Pittsburgh chapter of the Base
bali Writers Association. will
honor Stan Musial Of the
Cardinals and Ted Williams Of
the Red Sox.
Assisting Jessel will be Joe
Garagiola, former Pirate
catcher, and Mel Allen, both
noted as announcers.
Vice President Nixon will be
among the guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Navy Edges
Quontico,2-1
On 3-Hitter
ANNAPOLIS. Nav 2a fAPl

ANNAPOLIS, May % Cap
Chuck Davis, Nays unde-
feated sophomore, allowed only
three hits today as he pitched
the Middies to a 81 baseball
victory over the Quantico Ma
rineS.
Dick Browns single delivered
the winning run in the eighth
inning.
Davis, a 19-year-old left
handler from Arlington, Va,
has accounted for nine of
Nays Is victories. He walked
only two today while striking
out eight.
Three Quantico hurlers held
the MiddieS to seven singles,
and did not allow more than
one in any inning.
Davis didn't allow a hit over
the last five innings and retired
Is men in a row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Intentionally Scores
EosiIy in Withers Mile

turned sil.2D and $40. and
Bagdad. coupled In the mutuel
Held with Seven Corners. paid
$500 to show.
The old Withers record of
1855 Is was set by Man o'war
in 1920 and equalled later by
four other horses.
The crowd backed Crafty
Skipper down to s2.7O to 81.
while Intentionally was s2.75 to
81. The Elkcam Stables Atoll
winner Of the Swift and Co
than Stakes and ridden by
Eddie Arcaro. was third choice
at nearly 5 to l but. after run
ming sixth for a time, finally
finished last.
Intentionally. the only horse
to beat First Landing In 1858,
earned s58.072. He has started
l6 times. with eight victories
and I'VE seconds, and has
earned s377.722.
Royal Orbit Sparkles
Just before the withers.
Royal Orbit, winner of the
Preakness last week. worked a
sparkling 1878 for the mile
in q public drill with Jockey
kArcaro in the irons. ROYAL Orbit
was clicked in 0:24.4. 0.48.1,
l:12.3 and 1874.
The big 3-year-old son of
Royal Charger is being prepped
for the Belmont Stakes. last leg
Of the Triple Grown, which will
be run at Belmont June 10.
| Trainer Reggie Cornell few
in from the West Coast to SUI
pervise the drill. He expressed
satisfaction at the workout.
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,Hi|Isda|e Wins
Californian in
Photo Finish

INGLEwooD. Calf, May
% tAP).-Hillsdale. a big bay
horse from Indiana, put on a
gallant run to the wire today to
beat of a last-stride challenge
by Amerigo and win the S112.-
900 Californian at Hollywood
Park.
1t took a long look at the
photo to separate the two at
the finish. but it came up in
favor Of c. w. Smiths 4-year-
old by q nose. He was the
heavily backed favorite and
was ridden by Tommy Barrou.
! Wing and Yang. a long shot,
was third. Terrang. the second
choice Of a roaring crowd esti-
mated at $4,000, finished
fourth. The crowd bet a record
$3.S63,l59.
The time for the mile and
one-sixteenth was 1:404s.
The windup had the fans in
near-hysteria as Jockey Willie
Shoemaker brought Amerigo. a
genuine rogue from England,
up on the outside to battle the
rail-running Hillsdale to the
wire.
Hillsdale paid $3.50, $3.50
and $3.50. Amerigo returned 81
and $3.40. and Ying and Yang
was $3.50 to show.
The victory was worth
$66.800 to Hillsdale's happy
owner and boosted the colts
/, winnings for 1859 to $270.25O
ahead Of Vertex. the erst-
while leader. Vertex won the
Camden Handicap at Garden
State earlier this afternoon
and brought his total for the
year to $246, 029.
Hillsdale carried 1913 pounds
and conceded eight or more
pounds to each of the others
Il in the nine-horse international
field. The victory was his fifth
of the year and enhanced
his position as a candidate
for horse-of-the-year honors,
Amerigo carried only l07
pounds.