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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
ADVERTISEMENT FOR

ADVERTISEMENT FOR
MYSELF. BY Norma an
Mailer. putnam; So
& The author of 1.-THE Naked
and the Dead" one Of the
best-sold and most unsparing
Of our war novels. seems to
be Americas angriest young
man.
In this curious confession
al, q sort of literary auto
biography but certainly not
o story Of his life, he gives
ample expression to his choler
against various things.
His particular targets are
publishers, some of whom,
he says. were afraid to pub
lish some Of his writing:
critics, who were too dumb
to know what he was trying
to say: other writer's. few Of
whom he approves.
He's Still an Anarchist
A critic for a weekly maya
zine of enormous circulation
"a publication which is Mr..
Mailer's special bette noir-
remarked once that THE
Naked and the Dead" was
the war as seen by "a certi-
fled left-wing intellectual"
In his new book Mr.. Mailer
reprints an interview which
appeared originally in a
small literary magazine. He
was asked if his social ken"
had changed since he wrote
"The Naked and the Dead"
He replied:
II was an anarchist then,
and I'm an anarchist today.
=. Let me put it that today
I'm a MARKHAM anarchist,
which is a contradiction in
terms, but a not Improbable
contradiction for doing some
original thinking. I suppose
part Of the change in my
social ken is that politics as
politics interests me less to-
day than politics as a part Of
everything else in life"
Trouble With Censors
He was asked: did you
have any censorship prob
lens with your publisher"
II had none with G. p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Of Special Interest

Note will be taken here Of
two books received which
merit special attention and
will be discussed at a later
date. They are: ID.
EDISON: A BIOGRAPHY,
by Matthew Josephson INC
Graw-Hill, $685.. PurportS
to be a new concept" Of
the great inventor.
CONTROLS FOR OUTER
SPACE, by Philip c. Jessup
and Howard ]. Taubenfeld
columbia, So. Discussion
Of problems and issues in the
space race.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
A True-Life
Thriller That
Rivals Fiction
TWENTY SECONDS TO

TWENTY SECONDS TO
LIVE. BY Elizabeth Land.
&c. P. Dutton & Co.;
$3.25.)
There will be many read
ers who remember the ex-
traordinary adventure that
began on an April night In
1858 when q BAT using the
code name "Binbrook One
Six" endured an explosion
$4,000 feet over Dalhart,
Tex.
Bail out, bail out!"
shouted the pilot into the
intercom, and two of the
four men aboard hit their
election buttons. But two
men stayed on the plane, an
injured navigator and the
co-pilot, 1t. James Obenauf.
Quick Decision
Obenauf's election cart
ridge had failed and he was
preparing to use an emer-
gency escape hatch when he
spotted the injured Joe Max
well lying in the catwalk
without an oxygen mask.
That was Obenauf's mo-
ment Of decision. The plane
carried thousands of pounds
of explosive jet fuel and was
likely to blow up any second
from the fire burning on one
wing. But If he threw the in
jured observer out of the
escape hatch without oxy-
gen, Maxwell was as good as
dead.
Back to Safety
So James Obenauf slowly
climbed back into the CO.
pilots seat and brought Bin
brook One-Six in aafely.
This is a terrific story, true
in every detail and more
thrilling than 1.-THE High and
the Mighty" Elizabeth Land
has done an immense job
with her story Of the
men Of the Strategic Air
Command.
j. A. OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Americas Angriest Young Man
Writes Curious Confessional

self as Americas first existen-
tialist writer. unless Faulk-
ner is put in that category.
where he probably belongs.
Mr.. Mailer feels.
An Uninhibited Opinion
The author is certain he
is O writer of the first rank.
He had no doubt. when he
enlisted in the Army. that he
would emerge from the war
with o major novel. It never
occurred to him, he explains,
when he went to the South
Pacific a. q rifleman that he
might be killed.
Perhaps other writer's have
as high an opinion Of them
selves, and Mr.. Mailer merely
Is more candid. less inhibited.
His Own Selections
Mr.. Mailer reproduces
large segments Of his writing.
excerpts Of novels. short
stories, the earliest story
written when he was q soph-
omore at Harvard. q story
that won first prize in q COLI
lege contest for Story maya
zine.
His comments and expla-
nations of how and why he
wrote various things are in
teresting and enlightening.
The writer's Mr.. Mailer
likes are. as you might ex-
pect. also angry. James Jones'
From Here to Eternity" Mr..
Mailer admires excessively,
though he agrees with most
critics chat despised tribe)
that Some Came Running"
was pretty much Of a bust.
He comedies great talent to
William Styron and Truman
Capote. He has some reser-
vations about Hemingway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

his life, and editor Of the
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, since
1850, has done careful, in
tense and serious research
to produce this distinguished
Job. which, incidentally is his
first book. He is 81 years old.
Rich in Detail
The book Is rich in almost
every known detail Of jack
sons personal, civilian and
military life. documented
with quotations from letters
and from official records at
West Point. Virginia Military
Institute, the United States
Army and the Confederate
Army and books by and
about his contemporaries.
Mr.. Chambers has even
scrutinized the books in
Jackson's own library looking
for clues that might throw
new light on this puzzling
and contradictory man gener-
ally considered one of the
military geniuses of all ages.
In the 1888 pages Of this
work, Mr.. Chambers has tried
to give a three dimentional
picture Of a paradoxicaf
leader. Thomas Jonathan
Jackson was a modest and
quiet man who was extraor-
dinarily ambitious. He used
every means at his disposal
to further himself, excep-
tionally hard work and con-
slant appeal to anyone of in
fluence who could help him
to achieve the place he felt
was rightfully his due.
All his life he was an eccen-
trio, a man who seemed all
angles and no curves. He had
ridden horseback since child
hood, even racing when he
was young, and yet he al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

in many Of his most insistent
judgments. -" He has sharp
criticism also for the for
eign policy announcements
of Vice President Nixon and
former Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson.
The Hughes finger points
at Mr.. Eisenhower PERSONAL
ly only in the overall and
endlessly repeated theme of
the book-that America has
been drifting aimlessly
through years of global crisis,
without direction, positive
leadership or intelligent I'M
derstanding of the issues in
the East-West conflict. The
theme is not unfamiliar. but
it has rarely been voiced as
acknowledgement never be-
fore from such unexpected
lips.
Mr.. Hughes offers solutions
based on a realistic approach
to the strength and perma-
nence Of the Soviet position
in the world. He calls for a
lowering of East-West bar
riers, greater exchange Of
students, a new belt-tighten-
ing concept of increased for
eign aid, intensive cultivation
Of Africa and other underde-
veloped areas. He would ex-
tend the realism to Americas
dealings with Red China,
though he stops short of
espousing immediate recogni.
ton of the Peiping regime.
Pricks the Conscience
This is a book that pro-
vokes the mind and pricks
the conscience. If its single
theme rings necessarily on
the readers ear, Mr.. Hughes
may be excused, for he is
writing with the fervor of
the evangelist. Readers may
be less likely to pardon the
rolling, ringing prose that for
all the mastery craftsman
ship Of one of Americas finest
writers in the field of con-
temporary events makes this
book read at times like a
book-length speech.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

Two interesting books on
archaeology have come to
hand recently. They are
ADVENTURES WITH THE
MISSING LINK, by Ray
mond A. Dart (Harper; So,
and NO STONE UNTURNED,
by Louis A. Brennan IRAN
dom House; So. DR.. Dart
is the discoverer of Australia
pithecus, the nasty little
South African ape-man who
(which?) for a time was
thought to be a sort of kiss
ing kin to both Gargantua
the Great and Prof. Einstein.
The Brennan book is about
prehistoric America, which
had some pretty revolving in
habitants of its own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
FORGING THE FIRST AMERICAN ARMY
Picture Story Of
PhiIosophyMokes
Stunning Volume
pTCTORTAT, HTSTORY OF

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF
PHILOSOPHY, by Dagobert
D. Runes philosophical Lii
brary; $50 is a stunning
volume. profusely illustrated
with reproductions of
ske &c hes. paintings and
photographs of philosophers
from earliest times to Henry
George, Albert Schweitzer.
John Dewey and Albert Elm
stein. There are brief bio
graphical accounts Of all the
outstandings philosophers.
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

and poetic words he has
spoken to the American peo-
pie were written for him by
Emmett John Hughes.
In this book that will be
read with elevated eyebrows
at the White House and the
State Department the speech
writer speaks for himself.
America the Vincible" is the
more startling because it
marks the first time a men,
Der of the Eisenhower inner
circle has publicly acclaimed
the failures of the EiSen-
hover administration.
Words of ScOrn
Mr.. Hughes, now chief Of
the Foreign News Service of
Time and Life, does not con-
Germ himself with domestic
policy. But while stopping
meticulously short of per-
sonal criticism of the Presi-
dent, he claws the Eisen-
hower-Dulles foreign policy
with words of scorn that add
up to one of the harshest in
dictments of the Eisenhower
years yet to appear in print.
II have known, as each Of
us in his own life must know,
some of those moments of
anxiety when the spirit
aches - when one man
watches another, good in
spirit and patient in conduct
and proud in purpose, pursue
some course of action whose
final rewards can only be
pain and peril" This is the
opening sentence of Mr..
Hughes book. The author
wrote Eisenhower speeches in
the 1852 and 1856 cam
paigns and spent 1858, the
first year of the administra-
ton, as a speech-writer on
the Presidents personal
staff.
Profoundly Wrong
During his years of close
association with the high
command of the administra-
ton, Mr.. Hughes writes, he
came to regard John Foster
Dulles as profoundly wrong
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
ARABIAN SANDS. ]

ARABIAN SANDS. BY Will
fred Thesiger. (Dutton;
$3.50
20. to see the wonders Of
the world abroad than
to live duly sluggardized at
home" is the Shakespearean
advice Wilfred Thesiger, a
veteran British traveller and
explorer, believes in follow
ing.
Arabian Sands" is an &C
count of his journey made
in 1916 through the south
ern wastes of Arabia, a region
twice the size of Texas, and
so barren of life and vegeta-
ton that the Arabs call it
the Empty Quarter.
Nomadic Tribes
1t was in these very deserts
that an army sent by Au-
gustus Caesar to conquer
Arabia was lost. Known to
the Romans y as ARABIA
Deserta," Thesiger found
there nomads leading a way
of life that is the best
adaptation mankind is ca
pable of in a region, where in
areas the size of an Ameri-
can county there were only
single wells, where there were
sand dunes 700 feet high and
the temperature rose to 100
degrees in the shade, if there
was any shade.
BY dressing, eating. and
even thinking like the ma
tiveS, Thesiger was able to
share with them their al
most mystical affinity with
the desert, and became the
third foreigner ever to under
go a gruelling journey and
live through a bare-footed
adventure on camel-back
through a desert that defies
comparison in harshness.
Book is a Classic
His description of the fan
tastic privations the nomads
endure without complaint, of
their strange customs, of their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Awhile House Ghost
Comes Into the Open
BY ROBERT CLARK
Star stan Writer

AMERICA THE vNCIBLE. BY Emmett John Hughes.
Doubleday; $3.50
ghost writer who looks his craft than
skilled craftsmanship is apt to be tomented SOUL 1t is his
lot to write speeches designed to arcuate and popuarze
policies with which he does agree his in under
standahly unbearable of the best speeches
delivered by President Eisenhower some of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Late Arrivals

FREE WORLD AWAKES.
BY Col. R. A. Ellsworth.
Exposition, So The vet
Grams of Troop B" speak
out on national and world
affairs.
THE LAND AND PEOPLE
OF EGYPT. By Zeki Ma
guib Mahmoud. Lippin-
colt, $2.95.) A well-illus-
trated book in the portraits
Of the Nation series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Astronomy

Another extremely well
done non-technical science
book is THE SKY OBSERV-
Frs GUIDE, by M. and N.
Mayall and j. Wyckoff
Golden Press; $3.50. A
discriminating use of run-of-
book color has pulled this
stargazer's manual up out of
the ruck. Virtually the only
complaint is a minor one:
The stars in the star-maps
at the back of the book do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Other Works

Other recent additions to
the science bookshelf: -
WHAT MAKES A SCIEN-
list? by George H. Waltz,
jr. doubleday, $3.50. Pro-
files of contemporary giants.
BIO RAPHY OF THE
EARTH, by George Gamow
Viking, $4.95). Revised edi-
ton of a near-classic by Q
former GNU scientist. e..
RELATIVELY FOR WTHE
LAYMAN, by James A. Cole
man macmillan, $3.50. An
EinStein abe, overcute in
spots, but Informative. -
FROM GALAXIES TO
MAN, by John Pfeiffer Ran
dom House; $3.50. Super
fetal but readable.
THE UNITY OF THE UNI
VERSE, by D. w. Sciama
doubleday, $3.50. Reflects
the cosmology of Hoyle.
NEW DIMENSIONS OF
FLIGHT, by Lewis Zarem
(Dutton, $4.50). Popular dis
cussion of hypersonic fight
problems.
THE OCEAN OF AIR, by
David I. Blumenstock (Rut-
gers, $6.75). A thorough dis
cussion Of the atmosphere in
which we live. i.
HISTORY AND PHILOS-
OPHY OF SCIENCE, by L.
w. H. Hull Nongmans, $50.
The best brief work on the
subject since Sir James Jeans
book. ~
THE ARMCHAIR SCI
ENCE READER, I. S. Cor
don and S. Sorkin, editors
(Simon g. Schuster, $3.50.
For skimming between (or
in lieu Of TV programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
THE SCIENCE BOOKSHELF
Science Boom Loosens
Flood of New Books
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

The success of American Heritage and Horizon being
what has BEEN it almost inevitable that book in
similar formal dealing with should Called
SPECTRUM" Cray Ginger editor; Henry Holt g. Co., $3.50,
offers readers articles by recognized experts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
StonewoII Jackson
Wildly Portrayed.
BY MARIAN TRACY

Civil War Bluffs military strategists. both armchair and
real and the tribe Of Stonewa Jackson admirers,
look forward to revealing hours with the twovoume
biography by Lenor Chambers, STONEWALL JACKSON
civilian Morrow and Company 500.
Mr. Chambers newspaper reporter and editor most Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
A Marriage Adventure
Full of Laughter

This story Of the adven-
lures of John and Harriet,
there and elsewhere, should
relax the most tense reader
and wiring a smile, If not
some hearty chuckleS, from
the grouchiest.-C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

Ill val 1OuS 4lC1Oos
AS an example, the lead
article in the book Zone must
assume it is a book and not
q periodical like Heritage) is
on Making New Building
Blocks of Matter" by a man
who has invented, or devised,
or discovered. more new ele-
ments than anyone who ever
lived: DR.. Glenn T. Seaborg,
Nobel Prize winning chancel-
lor of the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley. This gen.
eral level of expertise char
acterizes the authorship Of
other sections.
Outstanding Job
It is doubtful that anyone
well grounded in a given dis
cipline will learn anything
new about that branch of
science by reading "Spec-
trum." But it is not the
books purpose to be a re-
search tool for post-gradu-
ates, and within the limita-
tions established for it by its
editors, it is one of the finest
general science readers this
critic has seen in recent
years.
Of more than passing in
terest from a printing point
of view is a special insert of
peel-a way transparencies
which allows the reader to
"dissect" a frog without get
ting his hands messy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

the subject, and he writes
both intelligently and INTEL
lightly. ...
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08

not agree in all instances
with the magnitude and color
KEYS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
GENERAL

THE BOOK OF LANDSCAPE
DESIGN. BY Ortloff and
Raymore. (Barrows; $3.50
Plans, drawings and pho
tographs cover this field.
1T TAKES ONE TO KNOW
ONE. BY joey Adams.
(Putnam's; $3.50 Wig
niettes of today's great
funny men.
JAPANALIA. BY Lewis Bush.
mckay; $500 Informa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
FICTION

AMELIA RANKIN. BY
Charles o. Locke. Nor
ton; $3.50 The story Of
a widow who was left vast
Texas ranch holdings.
DUEL OF ANGELS. BY Jean
Giraudoux. (Oxford: 49,
This play, the last one
written by Giraudoux.
brings together the ex-
tremes of vice and virtue.
STARSHIP TROOPERS. BY
Robert A. Heinlein. put
mans; $3.50 Story of
combat 5000 years in the
future.
AN APPLE A DAY. BY Hem
ry Brinton. (Washburn;
$3.50 A new novel by
the author of "Coppers
and Gold"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
Book is a Classic

His description of the fan
tastic privations the nomads
endure without complaint, of
their strange customs, of their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
Meyer Sturgeon,
Retired D. c.
Furniture Man
THE SUNDAY STAR E-23
Washington. D. c. tt
JuIy II, 1859

Meyer Spurgeon, II, retired
Washington merchant, died
Friday at George Washington
University Hospital.
Mr.. Spurgeon came to WASH
ington q years ago and was
in the furniture business until
five years ago.
He was born in Russia and
came to Camden, N. j., from
England when he was 20 years
old.
He was a secretary for the
Birth Sholom Center.
He is survived by his wife.
Rebecca. of the home address:
two daughters, Mrs. Aaron
lacks. Of Columbus, Ohio, and
Mrs. Nathan Chatlin, Of 235
Oglethorpe street NV; a son,
Sidney, Of 1757 Verbena street
NV: three sisters, Mrs. Louis
Apter, Of BOIL Eastern avenue,
Silver Spring: Miss Jean and
Miss Hilda Spurgeon Of Staten
Island, N. Y, and six grand
children and three great grand.
children. u.s.
Services will be at 2 pm. to-
day at Goldberg's Funeral
Home. Burial will be in George
Washington Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
Albert P. Muvurs:
District Native
Aided Red Cross

Albert Percy Mavars, IS, g
native and lifetime resident
of the District. died Thursday
at his home, SIS South Caro-
lima avenue Sc.
Until his retirement about
1910, Mr.. Mavars had been
employed at the American Ice
Co. here since 1888.
During World War II he
served as director of trans
portation for the District Red
Cross.
He was a life member of the
Lebanon Masonic Lodge No. Z
and the Central Union Mis-
sion.
He also belonged to District
Elks Chapter Is and the AS
ISOLATION of Oldest Inhabitants
Of the District.
He leaves, besides his wife
a daughter, Mrs. Ida Eliza
beth Ewald Of the home ad.
dress.
Services will be at 2::30 pm
tomorrow at the Lee funera
home, Fourth street and Mas
sachusetts avenue NV. Buria
will be at the Congressional,
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
Deborah Ann Huord, q,
Victim of Leukemiu

Deborah Ann Huard, 4-year-
old daughter Of Mai. and Mrs.
Edward j. Huard Of 1902
Rockville pike, Kensington.
Md, died Wednesday Of leu
kemia at Walter Reed Army
Hospital.
The child's illness was first
diagnosed in April, 1858, when
Maj. Huard was stationed in
Germany.
The symptoms disappeared
after treatment, and the par
ents were given hope for re-
covery when the family re-
turned to the United States last
May. However. the symptoms
returned in mid-June and
Deborah was admitted to the
hospital a week ago.
Maj. Huard is an Army Re-
serve unit advisor. In addi-
ton to the parents, Deborah is
survived by a sister, Irene, IL,
and two brothers, David, IL,
and Richard, Z.
Graveside services will be
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AnuftltnD

BERKow. JERRY J. There wiz >.
7 RERKoW, beloved HUSBAND o.
q Lois and EdygssEESa BerkoS .oC on
Washington blvd, Rabbi Siegal Of
itleiatinS Relatives and friends
BRIGHAM. SARAH. There. will be
an unwilling in memory Of. SARAH
BERGMAN. beloved wife Of Joseph
Brennan and mother Of Emanuel
and Robert Bregman, and Mrs, Rubin
Waldman, on Sunday, July IL,
1859. at pm, at the George
Washington Cemetery. Relatives and
friends invited. 1919
FAVIN, MAX. There will be an un-
ory ~ MAJ F% 0zn' Beloved W IN husband
Of Pauline. beloved father Of Flor
ence and Irving, and brother OF
Alfred. on Sunday, July IL, 1859,
at IL am, at the Beth Sholom Gem
etery. Directions: Out Central ave..
right on 57th ave, right on NJ st.
Relatives and friends invited. IL
FRAZER, FRANK. There will be an
unwilling in memory OF FRANK
FRAZER, beloved husband OF Celia
Frager and devoted father Of George
and julius Frager, on Sunday, July
10, 1859, at 1880 am, at the
George Washington Cemetery, South
east Hebrew CONGREGATION Section,
$500 Rigs I'd. Relatives and friends
invited. 12,17,lS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12

Col. Gillesby was commits
stoned in the Air Force in 1912.
He received two bronze stars
for his service in the China
Burma India theater during
World War II. where he piloted
B-25 bombers during 80 combat
hours.
He is survived by his wife,
Pearl of the home address, TIC
Marshall avenue, Rockville; a
son. Robert, is, and daughter
Charmaine, IL, both Of the
home address; his mother in
Los Angeles, a sister and two
brothers. p
Services will be at 3 pm
Tuesday at Fort Myer chapel
Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
Col. F.G. GiIIesby Dies;
AT Officer With Acc

1t. Col. Fred Gillesby. a.
Air Force officer with the
Atomic Energy Commission.
died Of q heart attack Friday
at the Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Col. Gillesby was chief of
a support section that dealt
with radiation hazards in
nuclear-powered aircraft. He
had been with the Acc since
January. 1858.
He was born in Nampa,
Idaho. and was graduated from
the University of Idaho with a
bachelor Of science degree in
aeronautical engineering. He
later received a masters degree
in nuclear engineering from
North Carolina State.