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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
BY JOHN V. HORNER
Star STAFF Writer

CASTRO, CUBA AND JUS
TICE. BY Ray Brennan.
doubleday; $3.50
This book is one of the
clearest Recommendations to
date of the surprisingly sue
cessful revolution led by Fidel
Castro. 1t is written with
compelling simplicity and
packed with drama.
Mr.. Brennan, a reporter
for the Chicago Sun-Times
with long established reputa-
ton, writes authoritatively
of the long struggle that fin
ally overthrow the Batisa die
atorship last New Years Day.
He covered Cuba from one
end to the other-from the
ornate drawing room of the
dictator's palace in Havana,
to the shabby hideoutS OF the
revolutionaries in the far
away Sierra Maestro.
He saw for himself some
of the horrible acts COM
mitted by Batista henchmen.
He dug into records of the
incredibly corrupt admins
tration. He obtained first
hand accounts from tortured
rebels and rebel sympa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
FideI Castro, the Man
And His Revolution

thizers. He even spent a
night in Jail because Batista
subalterns were suspicious OF
North American correspond
entS
The Brennan account is
entirely sympathetic to the
Fidelistas. 1t details the pre-
parations for and the execu-
ton of the campaign for II"
beration against odds that
would have dissuaded any
one but a zealot like Mr..
Castro.
1t is perhaps natural that
in this sympathetic treat
ment the author finds a
measure of justification for
some of the ineXcusable acts
(such as mass execution)
committed by Castro Subor-
dinates after their beloved
Fidel became the head of his
government.
AS Mr.. Brennan suggests
in his summary, it may be a
long time before we can &C
curately assess Castro in his
present role at the top, the
impact of his policies on the
economy of Cuba and the
United States, the extent of
Communist influence upon
his administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
French Award
Causes Wonder

THE RIPENING. BY Ed
Guard Glissant. Trans
lated from the French by
Frances Frenaye. George
Braziller, Inc; $3.50
When this first novel came
out a year ago in France,
some Paris reviewers re-
portedly hailed it as a mas
terpiece." And it won the
Renaudot Prize for 1858.
Which is hard to UNDER
stand, because the story.
while appealing, is not great.
Nor is it told with great
ability.
The author is a young
man born in Martinique but
now living in Paris. His
novel concerns young people
caught up in the throeS OF
political rebellion and as
sassination on a Caribbean
island. And it is fluffed-up
with such observations as
this:
when a man discovers
the sea he suddenly has a
taste of black bread in his
mouth and an urge to drink
the juice of some milky
fruit. :"
Oh we'll, Mr.. Glissant is
young and undoubtedly will
go to the sea and to his
publisher again with some
new thoughts.
"A. L. SINGLETON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
British Public Relations
Prove to Be Like Ours

At the heart of his spool
about the British brand of
public relations lamentably
like our own is a rich playboy
Sheik who has discovered oil
in his mouldy desert kingdom
and will sell to the avid
moguls only on condition
that his domain be admitted
to the Empire.
To reverse the anti-impe-
rialist trend, to mobilize the
pressure groups and drum
beaters is a fairly easy mat
ter for one so versed in the
arts of cynical connivery as
Sean O'Hanlon, who is the
hero of his own book, which
somehow isn't quite as funny
as it could have been.
M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

is having an affair with a
childhood hero. She is bored
in her marriage to a civilian
drudge in the Navy Depart
ment. The affair becomes an
affair of state before a
crooked contract has been
Strengthened out before a
congressional committee.
Miss Pfoutz writes briskly
and colloquially. She told us
she wants to go on record, in
spite of everything, as much
in favor of Government serv-
ice. This despite a youthful
disenchantment in a wartime
agency where she found out
another department was do
ing exactly the same charts
as hers.
ION the higher levels,
really good work is DONE"
says she.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
OvercOnhdent

sets out to discover who the
dictator is and to expose him.
The writer has the help of a
liberal editor in the South
ern city. The dictator turns
out to be an industrial ty-
coon, he and his sheeted Or
ganization dedicated to white
supremacy and the usual
other aims.
The story is seldom plaus-
ible. 1t moves rapidly from
racial problems to melo-
drama. It's hard for a writer
to avoid cliches altogether
sometimes they alone ex-
press what he wants to say
but these pages fairly drip
with them. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
The Characters Are All
In Freudion Patterns

THE LION HOUSE, by
Marjorie Lee (Rinehart:
$500 again causes one
reader to wonder how novel;
lists managed to dissect their
characters in the era before
Freud.
Apparently, though, they
did very well. For instance,
Dostoevski was probing the
dark recesses of minds and
Flaubert was laying bare the
heart of woman long before
the Viennese psychiatrist be-
gan charting his theories.
In this first novel, Mar
jorie Lee sees all her char
acters in Freudian patterns.
True, she sometimes overdoes
1t deliberately, with satirical
intent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
Novel Tells of Threat
To South by Dictator

DEEP is THE SHADOW,
by G. Arnold Haygood (Dou-
bleday; $685. is a novel
about an emerging Fascist
type dictator who has taken
over one State in the Deep
South, plans through a Sc
cret society to capture the
other Southern States and
eventually the whole country.
The time is a few years
hence.
The central figure, aside
from the dictator, who con-
trolls anonymously behind
the scenes, is a renowned
newspaper and television
commentator. The journalist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
Shirley Pfoutz

Shirley Pfoutz is a Cabin
John housewife who writes,
she says, when my four chill
dren let me-" They recently
permitted her, over a period
of three years to compose
SEE THE FOREST, her Sec
ond novel and one which con-
stitutes a rather abrasive and
somewhat melodramatic trib-
ute to the civil servant in
Washington.
Her heroine is a Nine.
Bovary of Chevy Chase, who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

overconfldent, and, after all,
1t was Union courage and re-
sourcefulness that triumphed
at Gettysburg, not Confed-
crate mistakes.
Aside from the fresh argyll
ments it undoubtedly will stir
up, Mr.. Stewards book is a
vivid and absorbing excur-
sion into the crucial moment
Of one Of history's decisive
battles.
Combat Artists
Mr.. Storms book is a beau
tiful series Of sketches, some
in color, of battle and camp
scenes by artists who were on
the spot. Winslow Homer
was the most famous of the
artists who saw battles, biv-
ouacs and marches, but a
number of the others achieved
almost equal renown in the
years ahead.
In a day when cameras
were unable to take action
scenes, these artists compiled
an invaluable record.
Mr.. Stems text is inter-
esting and enlightening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

their hearts content, there
will always be many kinds
and untold numbers of wild
things in the great city"
From there, he proceeds to
show and explain them to
you. They are illustrated en-
chantingly, incidentally, by
Henry Bugbee Kane. Mr..
Kieran is a wonderful guide,
informative, but never pc
dantic, and his excursion is
full of pleasant little bypaths
into poetry and literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
PICKETT'S CHARGE, by

PICKETT'S CHARGE, by
George R. Stewart (Hough-
ton Mifflin; So
THEY WERE THERE: The
Civil War in Action as
Seen by Its Combat Artists,
text by Philip Van Doren
Stern Grown; $3.50.
AS the centennial Of its
start approaches, the Civil
War promises to bring fresh
stacks of books dealing with
all its colorful phases.
Two of these are out this
week, one history in the
modern idiom, the other a
picture book made up of
reproductions of sketches by
artists who saw what they
drew.
A Different Gettysburg
George Stewart, as readers
of his earlier books, includ-
ing the novels Storm and
Fire" know, is an extremely
effective writer. His account
OF the climactic charge of
Pickett'S Confederate divi-
sion on the third and final
day of Gettysburg is a con-
ception Of the tragic event
differing from others in a
number of ways.
The desperate Confederate
charge up the slopes in a fu-
tile effort to break the Union
center has been regarded
generally, it seems to me, as
one of those miscalculations.
errors in judgments, of high
commands, in a class with
the charge Of the Light Bri-
gade in the Crimea which
Tennyson immortalized.
Hung in the Balance
Mr.. Stewart appears not
to be so sure. It looked after
ward, he comedies, as if the
Confederates were sent on q
mission that could have re-
suited only in their own de-
Struction.
But for moments in his
tory-a fleeting but ponder
Gus 20 to 80 minutes-the
whole thing hung in the bal
ance, he concludes. Forward
elements of the charging
troops broke the Federal
lines, swarmed around the
guns. Adequate reserves,
coming up in time, might
have rolled back the Federal
center, turned the tide of
battle, altered history. So
he feels.
Did Lee Err?
Lee, the historian points
out, had to do something
that day or lose the battle
by default. He had gained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
Decisions
That Spun
The World
COMMAND DECISIONS. Ed
tied by Roberts Greenfield.
(Harcourt, Brace; $685.

COMMAND DECISIONS. Ed
tied by Roberts Greenfield.
(Harcourt, Brace; $3.50
Was Gen. MacArthur's de-
cision to retreat to Bataan a
good one? Was Gen. Eisen-
hower'S "broad front" STRAIT
egg logical? Was Gen. Clark
right to drive on Rome with
out orders? Should Gen.
Eisenhower have halted at
the Elbe? Were the japanese
really foolish to have attacked
the Western allies?
These command decisions
and many others-of World
War II are analysed in fas-
cinating detail by a group of
historians on assignment by
the Army's Office of Military
History. Their backward
looks show how each of these
basic decisions came to be
made and examines the re-
suits of each.
And, rather gently. the his
torian makes it clear whether
the decision maker was right
or wrong under all the COM
pick circumstances that pre-
vailed.
This is a valuable study Of
the military decision-making
process. And it is an inter-
esting critique of the deci-
sions of wartime leaders.
Gen. Eisenhower looks
pretty good, incidentally;
Gen. Clark not so good, and
as for Gen. MacArthur-well,
yes and no.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
PAPER BACKS

DEFEAT IN THE EAST. BY
Juergen Thorwald. BAL
lantine, 50c) The revenge
of the Red Russian army
in Germany. January to
May, 1915.
THE HISTORY OF WEST
ERN ART. BY Erwin O.
Christensen. (Mentor; 75c0
An original publication by
the curator of decorative
arts and the index of
American design at the
National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D. c.
LIFE AMONG THE Saw
AGES. BY Shirley jack
son. (Ballantine; 35c) Life
with wild children, by
the author of Raising
Demons"
THE SHOOK-UP GENERA
TON. BY Harrison E.
Salisbury. (Fawcett World
Library; 35c.) A study by
the New York Times star
reporter on juvenile delin-
quency.
SILLY ABOUT CATS. Edited
by Marbeth Reed. Double
day; ST. Cartoons.
TREASURE BOOK OF
FAIRY TALES. Retold by
Ann McGovern. (Fawcett
World Library; 35c.) From
women's Day Magazine.
WOLFBANE. BY Frederik
Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth.
(Ballantine; 35c) What
were the weird machines
that pulled earth away
from the sun?-a provoca-
tive question for hair
raising science-fiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
New Civil War Books Pouring in
As Centennial Date Approaches
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic


some successes the first two
days at Gettysburg. smashed
three Union corps, but
Meade's army still held the
heights, defiant and conf
dent. Whether the great Lee
erred in choosing the
strongly held middle instead
of attacking a flank, as
Longstreet advised, no one
can say for certain almost
a century afterward.
Mr.. Stewart, more contro-
versially, does not blame
LongStreet for the defeat, as
many historians have done.
This writer does not mention,
evidently feeling there was
insufficient Recommendation.
the charge that Lee ordered
elements of Longstreet's corps
to attack at daybreak, where
as the advance took place
around 3 pm. 1t was, in Mr..
Stewards figuring, impossible
for Pickett's men to have
attacked at dawn. They had
made a long forced march
the day before. The division,
according to his sources, was
allowed to rest until the
morning was we'll advanced.
LOngstreet's View
The author describes a con-
ference between Lee and
Longstreet the morning of
July 3. Longstreet, as he
quoted himself several years
later in his book, told the
commander in chief that it
was impossible for any 49,
900 men in the world to break
the center that day. Lee dis
agreed. Longstreet, instead of
sulking for hours, as some
historians have said, did his
best with the attack against
his judgment, in Mr.. Stew
arts view.
AS for Gen. Pickett, there
seems no doubt that he never
rode up the slopes, never
went to a forward position
and tried to rally his mauled
men. But Mr.. Stewart is not
inclined to attribute this to
cowardice, but to poor judg-
ment and he points out that
Pickett remained a major
general in the Confederate
service. Lee was not inclined
to blame either Longstreet or
Pickett, but to hold himself
at fault.
OvercOnfident
Mr.. Stewart thinks that
perhaps Lee and his generals,
even the whole Confederate
army, fresh from successes in
Virginia, underestimate the
morale, the courage and the
fighting ability of the YAM
KEGS. They were, in a word,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

etched, Of the Hyde Park
Roosevelts, written with deep
affection and understanding.
On almost every page Of,
affectionately, F. D. r.. by
James Roosevelt and Sidney
Shalett, (Harcourt, Brace;
$5,7S, Mr.. Roosevelt, the
oldest Of the Roosevelt chill
dren, his fathers aide in the
White House and now a men,
Der of Congress from Cali
fornia, reveals the love and
respect he bore his parents.
In his memory his father was
"the handsomest, strongest,
most glamorous, vigorous,
physical father in the world"
And he also was a busy, am
bilious and, the author sus-
poets, "a somewhat self-cen-
tered man."
Sara and Eleanor
There are also fine por-
traits Of the two women in
the Presidents life - Sara
Delano Roosevelt, the IRON
willed grandmother who held
tight to the family purse
strings and sought to DOM
mate her son even when he
was in the White House; and
Eleanor Roosevelt, in the
James words, wise and
naive, determined and uncer-
tain, compassionate and &C.
casionally misguided"
But the chronicle, of course,
centers on F. D. R. who
always found time, before he
was stricken with polio, to
romp with his children. Then
came the long illness out of
which came "a distillation Of
human dauntlessness," to use
the words of Mr.. Roosevelt's
gifted collaboration, Sidney
Shalett.
After that, there was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
FICTION

ABIGAIL. BY Mary Louise
Aswell. (Crowell; $3.50 A
novel about a charming
Quaker girl. BY the former
literary editor of Harper'S
Bazaar.
DRAG STRIP. BY William
Campbell Gault. (Dutton;
$2.75.9 Squealing tires and
hot burning oil makes lively
action for young hot rod
ders. BY the author of Dim
Thunder"
A KINDLY CONTRACTION. BY
Walter Toman. (Bobbs-
Merrill; $3.750 An anthol-
ogy from the Chicago Re-
view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
GATHER NO MOSS. BY Sean

O'Hanlon. (Harper &
Brothers; 49,
Mr.. O'Hanlon has a very
funny idea for a story here,
but he gathers moss getting
it. The satirist must be fleet
of foot, and the author must
not daily with establishing
his hero as a frightfully
funny fellow, as Mr.. O'Han-
lon does here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
Their Hats
Are Aimed
At the Rinq
candidates 1850. BEHIND

I1lC 11CdO1l1lCo AL Vic COL
Dental Race. Edited by
Eric Sevareid. Basic
Books; $4.95.)
With the nominating con-
ventions less than a year
away, the woods are getting
full Of presidential aspirants.
So it is all to the good that
some of the country's more
perceptive and articulate
writers have combined to
present this handy guide to
the personalities of the lead
ing contenderS, and some not
so leading.
The Democratic hopefuls
that are discussed far out.
number the Republicans be-
cause. with the Democrats,
the field is wide open. Four
leading contenders are treat
ed in detail and several 9TH
ers less so. The Republicans
seem to have things more
ordered and the writer's have
to cope with only two-Vice
President Nixon and New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rookie
Teller.
Take Your Choice
Mr.. Nixon, however,
achieves a distinction of his
own. He has two chapters
devoted to him, one favor
able and one not so favorable.
Phil Potter of the Baltimore
Sun sees the Vice President
as a political pitchman," a
"headS I win, tails you lose
politician" who faces a for
midable task in selling him
self this time. On the other
hand, Frank Holeman of the
New York News views what
he calls 1.-THE Curious
Quaker" who has the capac-
ity to be "a good Republican
President" and 1.-THE heart
and faith to be a good one,
if events require it,"
AS for Gov. Rockefeller,
able, personable and ambi-
tious, Don Irwin of the New
York Herald Tribune con-
cludes that he may find it
difficult to stay out of the
race" since che is not one to
back away from opportunity
when and If it knocks"
Adlai Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson, two
times loser and master of
prose if not of politics, is
still very much in the
thoughts of many Demo-
Gratis. Mary McGrory assays
the future of "the uneasy
politician" and finds it's
promising. "a political per-
sonality like this" she writes
in her own elegant prose, sis
something of an acquired
taste, but those who have
become used to its sharp and
subtle taste find others a
little fiat or obvious by con-
trast."
Fletcher Knebel of the
Cowles publications sees Sem
ator Kennedy of Massachu-
sets a man set on being
President and one Every diff
f1cult to dissuade." Senator
Symington of Missouri is
portrayed as having all the
qualifications. including good
looks, to emerge as the COM
promise nominee.
Dark Horses
Robert L. Riggs of the
Louisville Courier Journal
weighs the chances of Sena-
tor Lyndon B. johnson of
Texas and finds the prospects
wholly bleak. Arthur Syl-
vester of the Newark News
concludes with an informa-
tive essay on the dark horse
possibilities-Govs. G. Mem
men Williams of Michigan,
Robert B. Meyner of New
Jersey and others for the
Democrats. Among the Re
publican shadows he discerns
the form of Thomas E.
Dewey, also a two-time loser,
and others.
Mr.. SEVERED, CHS news
analyst, provides the frame
work for judging the con-
tenders in a thoughtful in
troductory discussion of THE
Ideal Candidate" and Robert
G. Spivak of the New York
Post contributes a foreword
on the Importance of voters
accurately sizing up the can
didates. &C. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
GENERAL

THE AUTOCRAT'S MIS-
CELLANIES. BY Oliver
Wendell Holmes. CTwayne;
So Literary reviews and
rare essays compiled and
edited by Albert Mordell.
EDUCATING THE GIFTED.
BY Joseph l.. French.
Henry Holt; $7.50.) Sixty
nine articles on the haz-
ards of the high I. @.
HOW TO LIVE WITH A
PARAKEET. BY B. A.
Benson. (Messner; $500
A light-hearted approach
to becoming a truly fine
parakeet owner.
IN PRAISE OF WINE. BY
Alec Waugh. (Sloane; So
By the author of Island
in the Sun"
PETS AT THE WHITE
HOUSE. BY Carl GARNER.
(Dutton; $3.50 Fasci-
mating tales of the favorite
pets of ten Presidents.
A TREASURY OF GREAT
AMERICAN SPEC CHES.
Selected by Charles Hurd.
(Hawthorn; $3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
READING AND WRITING
Mydons axes Photos
With Heart and Mind
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

In the madding crowd of journalists who pressed
around Mr. Khrushchev his tour of the United States
nobody but nobody got in front of Carl Mydans the
crack photographer for Life magazine Mr. Mydans does not
take up much room-his grin is big hmsef-bu
so his nmbleness notable in the throng.
What notable was his good cheer He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
A Family Portrait
OF President FDR
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star stan Writer

Sometimes in looking back" writes James Roosevelt
ut there periods when had father at all;
then 1t If had not one but three fathers"
This is Mr. Rooseves introduction to this warmly moving
story Of Franklin Delano Roosevelt the and not the
politician It is than that It family portrait finely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

smiled almost more imam ne
clicked his camera, which is
saying a great deal for a Life
man. He never was dismayed,
angry or for that matter,
ruff1ed. Now that I have read
his membranes of things
past, MORE THAN MEETS
THE EYE (Harper; So, it
all comes clear. Compared to
the troubles he has seen
through the lens of his Roll
leiflex in the last 20 years,
the fantastic Red-led expedi-
ton was probably an adven-
ture in gracious living.
Terrible Wonders
Mr.. Mydans, it should be
said, is one photographer
who takes pictures with heart
and mind as we'll. And unlike
so many reminiscing CORE
SpondentS he nobly spurnS
the f1rst-person singular; he
does not see himself as the
center Of world events. His
book is a vivid, heartening
and wholly affecting account
of the terrible wonders one
man has seen very closeup.
With his wife Shelley, Mr..
Mydans experienced the de-
feat of Finland, the fall of
France, Imprisonment by the
Japanese in Manila. On his
own, he covered the italian
campaign. the liberation of
Manila and the Korean War.
He saw things that would
have made most men cynical
but which seem to have made
him wise. There are pages in
more Than Meets the Eye"
which no human being worthy
of the name could read dry
eyed. The description of his
return to San Tomas, for in
stance, or the execution of
young collaborationists in
Grenoble. But he is never
sentimental.
Men of Good Heart
He sums up an attitude of
life in the last chapter of
his book which accounts for
the buoyancy which seems so
unwarranted to the less sus-
tanned:
II cannot tell you where
our history is leading us, or
through what suffering, or
into what era of war or
peace. But wherever it is, I
know men of good heart will
be passing there"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
ADMIRAL THUNDERBOLT,

ADMIRAL THUNDERBOLT.
BY Hans Christian Adam
son. (Chilton; $3.50 The
spectacular career of Peter
Vessel. Norway's great sea
hero.
THE BITTER FRUIT OF
KOM-PAWI. BY Taiwon
Koh. winston; $500 Mrs.
Koh tells of her fight to
hold her family together
during the Korean War.
DANCING FOR JOY. BY
Regina j. Woody. (Dutton;
So The autobiography of
the American ballet dancer
as a young girl, known as
Mia Dew who tip-toed
across the world prior to
World War I.
PADDLEWHEEL PIRATE.
BY Gordon Newell. Out
ton: $685. The adven-
lures Of Capt. Ned Wake
man who stole away from