davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1960-09-03

THE PRESIDENTS: The resolution is passed and
copies will be forwarded to Senator Kerr and the Cover
MOI. Of the Virgin Islands in accordance with its terms.
DR.. ANDUZE: Mr.. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Senator Anduze.
DR.. ANDUZE: Mr.. President, I guess you'll get
tired Of having me get up all the time
THE PRESIDENT: Not at all!
DR.. ANDUZE: If it would be agreeable, I shall like
to make one statement covering the rest of the bills that
will be voted upon this afternoon 3. Ne
PRESIDENT: I tried to tell you that in the be-
ginning MAUGHTER.
DR.. ANDUZE: ! would like to say, Mr.. President,
that as long as these bills continue to be voted upon with
out waving the Rules Of Business, to permit the voting, /
consider it illegal and therefore in good conscience cannot
vote.
Evening star., 1960-04-24

want a West Germany tied
to the rest of Europe eco
nomically, militarily and po-
litically. He wants to join
Britain and Germany - or
Germany alone if Britain
won't go along-in deciding
the fate of Europe. And he
wants Europe to be a balanc-
ing force between America
and Russia. agreeing with
Americas aims and prin-
ciples but not tied to
Americas strategy.
Successful Tactics
His tactics are to depend
on arrogant independence
and time. The first has sue
ceeded for him in the past.
The latter now lies in the
hands of the French Army
in Algeria.
These m e m oirs inevi-
tably will be compared with
Churchill's by lovers of fine
writing. Despite the fact this
is a translation "a remark
ably fine job, this reader
would say the great French
man has even outdone the
great Englishman.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Striking First Novel
Is Satire at Its Best

Golk and golkism (as it be-
comes known a commentary
on our times? Are not "golks"
a conception Of our mania for
prying into everything, for
public opinion polls and anal
yseS of all thought and ex-
preston on every conceivable
subject? Are not the char
acters typical, if blown up
somewhat. Even the occa-
sional obscenities (Which
could as well have been left
OUT seem to typify the exag-
gerated candor of our lit
erature and talk.
A few more novels like
"Golk," and satire (which
has become almost a word to
be avoided by publishers
again will occupy a respect
able place in our letters. Mr..
Stern is an assistant profess
sor of English at the Uni
versity of Chicago and has
had short stories in the lit
erary magazines and in an
thologies. &C. B. ].
Evening star., 1960-04-24
New American History
A Distinguished Work

EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY:
THE GENESIS AND
WITH OF THE
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, Volume /: TO
1865. Volume Q: SINCE
1865. BY Dumas Malone
and Basil Rauch (Apple-
ton-Century-Crofts: 500
The two opening sentences
of Empire for Liberty" an
nounce the theme of a sig
nificant work. THE migra-
ton of Europeans to Amer
lea was one of the greatest
folk movements in human
history. In the vast and rich
new land mankind was given
a fresh chance to create on
this planet a civilization
more nearly like its dreams"
The authors begin their
story in the year 1000 when
the Viking, Left Ericsson, be-
came the first white man to
touch the coast of North
America. They tell the epic
tale of the settling of the
colonies and the foundation
of the nation. They follow
the main currents of Ameri-
can life-political, economic.
social and cultural.
In dealing with the heated
issues of yesterday and with
those that still arouse intense
emotions the authors are
cool, objective and fair. They
end their narrative with the
election in 1859 in the State
of Hawaii of a Senator of
Evening star., 1960-04-24

today's world affairs has set
down his goals, his motives
and his methods in detail;
astonishing that a soldier
and politician can write with
such skill that his memoirs
are in literal sense a work
of art.
The least one can say for
this book is that if President
Eisenhower did not read an
advance copy before he
started his talks with Presi-
dent de Gaulle, then he has
done a disservice to this coun-
try. For the book tells where
President de Gaulle is going
and why-and if the world
has not learned by now that
de Gaulle, like Lola, usually
gets what he wants, then the
world has learned nothing
from history.
His Aims Are Clear
What does he want?
First of all, a France rec
ognized as one of the first
world powers and worthy of
that recognition. This has
much significance for NATO
policy in particular. Then
he clearly does not want a
unified Germany. He does
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Carved in Stone
THE HEAVEN TREE. By

THE HEAVEN TREE. BY
Edith Pargeter. Double
day; S4.500
This is a novel of the 18th
century when men carved
their dreams in stone. A son
of Welsh nobility becomes
one of the great cathedral
builders. To protect his
freedom he makes a blood
contract with a French lord
until the church is complete.
AS the building nears COM
pletion its architect works
in chains for he has doomed
himself by freeing a Welsh
princeling. This romantic
story reveals the feudal Sys-
TENS unbelievable bondage
and its colorful trappings
and splendor.
H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Novel Centers in
House of Misery
On the Hudson
THUNDER HEIGHTS. By

THUNDER HEIGHTS. BY
Phyllis A. Whitney. (Apple-
ton-Century-C -Crofts; $3.50
The setting for Miss Whit
ney's novel is the beautiful
but run down mansion of
Orrin Judd, on the banks of
the Hudson.
After the mysterious death
of her mother, in which
adopted cousin Booth had a
hand, Camilla King never re-
turns to Thunder Heights
until she is summoned to the
deathbed of her grandfather
who wishes to make amends
for having neglected her
most Of his life. This he does
by leaving her his entire es-
tate. But there is a string
tied to the stipulation that
she must provide for her two
auntS and cousin so long as
they wish to live there.
Should they leave, they
would get nothing. 1t is
here that greed and hate
come into the picture.
However Ross Granger. her
grandfather's business aide
for several years, advises
Camilla to leave everything
to charity. This would insure
her life against the attempts
of Aunt Hortense and Booth
to regain the family fortune.
But Aunt Lefty solves every.
body'S problems by setting
fire to the house after
Booths final attempt on the
young girls life. 1t destroys
both the house and Booth
and releases Lefty and Hor-
tense from a home that has
brought them so much mis-
cry. Also, Camilla and Ross
are now free to leave, and
he may seek work in his
chosen field, engineering.
Old grudges are hard to
shake but Cinderella never
had II so rough.
-JERI MANWEILER,
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Does Not Soy All

In contrast, there is E. M.
Almedingen'S THE WINTER
IN THE HEART (Appleton-
Century-Crofts; $3.95), a
stark. uncluttered, cleanly
wrought novel of an erudite
young priest who is sent to a
remote corner of Russia dur
ing the Revolution.
Miss Almedingen. unlike
Miss West, does not feel it
is necessary to say every
thing. Much can be left to
the imagination. She is sat-
isfied to give the crucial de-
tails and leave the rest to the
readers.
Bound by Devotion
Without sentiment or
straining she has given an
excellent portrait of an aris-
tocratic priest with literary
ambitions who bitterly re-
SentS his assignment to a
little pocket of imported
German Catholics on the
Finnish border. The peasants
are no better pleased with
their stiff-necked shepherd.
But the common bond of re-
ligion. devout on both sides,
eases the situation, and by
the time the minions of the
new order with their tipsy
red stars and their gruff
commands have arrived, the
practical peasants and the
scholarly priest are bound to-
gether by devotion.
Miss Almedingen's simple
story is told with a quiet
power. Her characters are
fully realized. She wants
you merely to understand
how it comes about that a
priest who loves God but not
his neighbor learns how to
minister and how suspicious
traditional people can learn
to tolerate strangeness and
even treasure it.
Evening star., 1960-04-24

tail for day wear and even
appearing in Congress in
business suits. Susan B. An
thony addressed the Wom-
ans Rights National Con-
vention which was attended
not only by thousands Of
ladies" but by 100 men.
Then there were those Won
derful social seasons when
the First Lady of the land
MRS. Cleveland was a
beautiful woman in her early
20S.
Every season Carp noted
with misgiving zone feels he
was not as seriously con-
cerned about it as he made
OUT that the deCollete was
another inch lower.
A Korean minister amused
his host by observing that:
The ladies seem to be
much above their Clothes"
He Loved II
Washington was a WONDER
city and Carp loved it. The
streets were paved. And any
day you might pass w. T.
Sherman or Phil Sheridan
strolling along Massachusetts
avenue. And as today it was
full of remarkable bits of in
formation On a visit to the
Patent Office Carp discovered
that a man named Plimpton
had realized one of the big
gest fortunes from a patent.
He invented the roller skate.
GEORGE KENNEDY.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
THE DEATH OF AFRICA.
BY Peter Ritner. (Macmil-
ian; S4.95.)

THE DEATH OF AFRICA.
BY Peter Ritner. (Macmil-
Ian; $3.50
The author of this political
and economic treatise does
not feel that the vast CONT
nent need stay dead. On the
other hand, he thinks that
nothing less than a full
scale social resurrection" can
revive it.
Mr.. Ritner, a ung
writer and editor, displays
quite a grasp of the diverse
and complex problems of
Africa. He maintains that
neither political concessions
nor stop-gap economic meas
ures can save the emerging
giant from starvation and
chaos.
Very Dangerous
Governmental problems are
only one angle. And yet
"the situation in Kenya is
now very dangerous, and
another-and this time much
worse-Mau Mau like out
break could erupt at any
time" South Africa (has)
lone of the vilest and most
irrational governments in
the history of the world .
The essential problem boils
down to whether 2 million
Afrikaners prefer to die hor-
Evening star., 1960-04-24
THE LIFETIME READING

LII AAA II ANAL hLADAANO
PLAN. BY Clifton Fadi-
man. (World Publishing
Co., $3.750
Americans respond more
readily to the best than to
the worst, provided the best
is offered them, comments
Clifton Fadiman in the fore
word to his Lifetime Read
ing Plan"
On this premise he dis
cusseS 100 books and au-
thors selected for a program
of general reading that is de-
signed ito fill our minds.
slowly, gradually, under no
compulsion, with what the
greatest writers of our West
ern tradition had thought.
felt and imagined"
The Lifetime Reading Plan
appeared originally last year
Evening star., 1960-04-24
READING AND WRITING
Two Engaging New Novels
Written nbyWomenA Authors

As a novelist, Jessamyn
West sets a fine table. She
has all sorts of nourishment
to offer: Character, style, in
sight, humor. Her trouble is
that. like an over-solicitous
hostess, she presses so much
on you that midway in the
meal you are surfeited. BY
the time it is over, you are
stuffed and apathetic.
This is too bad, for her
new novel, "SOUTH OF THE
ANGELS" CHarcourt. Brace;
$5.75) is full of interesting
people, who are new pioneers
in a lovely, arid stretch of
newly developed land in CAL
Norma called the Tract. Miss
West follows their fortunes in
their first year, investigating
their private lives with the
relentlessneSs of a social
worker. You know more about
them finally than you want
to know. She leaves yoll
hungry for the discreetly
closed door.
She Reaches You
Miss West is nonetheleSs
a real writer. She can make
you feel the heat of the sun,
see the beauty of the coun-
tryside. She can write up a
considerable storm about a
night fight against a blight
ing frost. She can record love
in all its forms: Young love,
old love. first love, late love,
marital devotion and illicit
passion; the love of a boy for
his dog, of a man for a
friend, of a minister for God.
She can be lyric and reso-
lutely earthly. She commands
the unending brightness of
the California sun.
Her trouble is she tells you
everything twice. She tells
you over and over again that
Eunice Fry, an ardent old
maid school teacher is con-
sumed by a passion for Tom
Mount, an itinerant carpen-
ter who is rightly labelled by
one of many deceived hus-
Evening star., 1960-04-24


Dr.. RoIph H. GobrieI retired fror
Yale University as q professor o
American history in 1858 ofte
teaching there for more thon 81
yeors. He is now professor o
Amerieon eiviIizotion in the Sehoo
Of international Studies ot AmerieoI
University.
Chinese descent and a Repre-
sentative of japanese descent
to the Congress of the United
States. The fifty stars in
the flag" conclude Messers
Malone and Rauch, re
minded Americans that in a
perilous world their coun-
try continued to fulfill JET
fersons dream of an empire
for liberty
Dumas Malone, of Columbia
University and the University
of Virginia. brings to the
writing of this book expert
ence as editor of the Die
tionary of American Biog-
raphy" and as biographer of
Thomas Jefferson. He has
published two volumes Of a
projected five-volume life.
Basil Rauch, author Of
works on the New Deal,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
American interest in Cuba, is
chairman of the American
Civilization Program at Co.
lumbia University.
The authors have worked
as a team in the composition
of every page. They have
produced a distinguished
book, marked by sound
scholarship, broad coverage
of American life, and good
writing.
RALPH H. GABRIEL.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Selected Reading Plan
Appears in Book Form

in This Week Magazine. The
response was so favorable,
the present book resulted.
Some of his omissions, Fadi-
man comedies, are open to
debate.
The volume begins by list
ing II classics of Greek or
Roman origin and extends to
contemporary writer's. With
each work catalogued, Mr..
Fadiman contributes a key"
in the form of a comment
aimed to entice the reader
into dipping into the sug-
geSted book. (Mr. Fadiman
admits he does not pos
sess the key" to William
Faulkner
AS a guide. Fadiman offers
some candid advice. Some
sections of Plato may be
skipped. Laurence Sterne was
a bit gamy. There is no sense
in denying that Walt Whit
man was a bit of a charlatan.
Ralph Waldo Emerson dis
pensed spiritual goods with
out the support of any con-
crete idea of God.
So wide is The Plans
scope it might take SO years
to complete, although prob
ably considerably less. The
costs of all suggested VOL
umes are given, and as a
clincher, Mr.. Fadiman points
out that if spread over sew
eral years it will average
little more than the price of
a magazine subscription or
two. JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
This Was Woshinqton
In Carpenters Time
CARP'S WASHINGTON. BY

CARP'S WASHINGTON. BY
Frank G. Carpenter. Edited
by Frances Carpenter. NC
Graw-Hill Book Co., $5.75O
The social historian going
over mementoS of the past
becomes aware how rare is
that artist of words or brush
who leaves a picture of the
life of his day. A Pieter Breu-
ghel picture of skating on a
German pond. a Thomas
EakinS' showing Sculling on
the Schuylkill, an intimate
diary, all these tell this is
how it was" far better than
official records or newspaper
files.
Such an artist was Frank
G. Carpenter whose "Carpen-
ter's Geographical Readers"
were favorite supplementary
fare for school children early
in this century and whose
syndicated travel articles ap-
peared in The Sunday Star
until his death in 1924.
All New to Him
Like Mark Twain, he was
at his best in the years of
his young manhood when so
many things were new to
him. We know this now be-
cause his daughter, Mrs. w.
Chaplin Huntington of 2l01
Connecticut avenue NV, has
made a selection of his early
work.
That is the truncated title
of a column which appeared
in the Cleveland Leader in
the 1880s, "Carp'S Washing
ton Letter" The nom de
plume by-line was the Gus
tom of those days.
His wife preserved every
thing he wrote in scrapbooks.
This reviewer, who has
been writing about Washing
ton for almost two decades,
envies Carp his keen eye. the
Wilderness of his horizon and
his sense Of change.
We know we live IN a era
of change. But the 1880s saw
the beginnings of two great
changes whose effects are still
with us, the characterization
of clothing and the emanci-
patton of women.
The Social Seasons
Carp noted both. Gentle
men were substituting the
Prince Albert for the swallow
Evening star., 1960-04-24
By MARY McGRORY
Star stafi Writer

bands as a tom cat. She
keeps harping on the fact
that the local editor, Luther
Cope, is an inadequate hus-
band and therefore an in
adequate man; that Cope's
daughter PRESLEY loves her
father best, so guiltily hovers
around her mother, thereby
Evening star., 1960-04-24

inhibiting her romance with
the son of Shelby Lewis. a
transplanted Kentuckian. who
is more or less the hero of
this panorama of tantrums,
sighs. tears, kisses, reconcilia-
tions and MISUNDERSTANDING.
It's 564 pages in Sd. Just
about half again as much as
the Tract can bear.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Other Books in Brief

corsage making from home
grown or florist materials.
THE LEGACY OF I'M
PERIALISM. Chatham
College; So Essays by
Barbara Ward, Thomas P.
Whitney, Robert Strausz-
Hupe and Charles Malik.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
NOVEL REVWES
PREWAR YEARS
IN GEORGIA
THE ARDENT YEARS. BY
Janet Stevenson. (The Vik-
ing Press, $4.95D


Fanny Kemble, a beauti-
full British actress, came to
America, married wealthy
Pierce Butler and went to
live in the 1840s on a Georgia
slave plantation. Her story
is well known because Miss
Kemble wrote, in later years,
journal of a Residence on
a Georgian Plantation" 1t
aroused the expected resent
ment in the South and is be-
lieved to have harmed the
Confederacy's cause in Eng
land during the Civil War.
THE Ardent Years" is
the story of the years when
Miss Kemble and her hus-
band and children were &C
tually living in Georgia. 1t
ends with her divorce and re-
turn to England. 1t covers
and quite extensively
the time spent on the plan
tation and draws material
from the journal" And
that is where it turns into
something of a paradox. For
it is mainly a novel of ex-
clamation points countless
sentences have their own and
one sentence even has two).
and Superlatives cher friends
seemed to include everyone
worth knowing in EnglandD.
Even the passages describing
the inhuman treatment of
the slaves have an archness
more reminiscent of Thomas
Nelson Page than Harriet
Beecher Stowe, or even
Fanny Kemble's Journal"
EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
LIGHT FOR A DARK CONTINENT
SocioIogist Outlines Ways
Of Ending African Chaos

cultural, and enlightenment.
What we must do" he ex-
plains, sis to step into Africa
and break, by main force, the
mighty, vicious circle Of
'pauperization' and social dis
integration, by planting in
Africa-as surgeons plant
tiny seeds of skin over a badly
burned chest-the mechan-
iSms and installations that
can then begin to run by
themselves and weave into a
sound social fabric"
Mr.. Ritner is only 80 and
idealistic. This perhaps ac-
counts for the naivete of his
proposal.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
On the Horizon

Coming, too, is HATS IN
THE RING" by Malcolm
Moos, President Eisenhower's
speech writer, and Stephen
Hess.
The midsummer selection
of the Book of the Month
Club is THOMAS WOLFE:
A BIOGRAPHY" by Eliza
beth Novel;.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Science Poperbuck

LIGHT. By Eduard Rue
chardt. UNIV. of Michi-
gan, $1.95D Reprint of
1852 German publication
telling what we know to-
day about the nature and
behavior of light, how we
found it out, and the
astounding things science
has done with light.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Gen. De GouIIe Wins
Authorship LoureIs
SALVATION, 1s44-1s46.-The

SALVATION, 1944-1946-The War Memoirs of Charles de
Gaule. Translated by Richard Howard from the French
lie Saut." (Simon and Schuster; So
The word astonishing" comes to mind and
again reads this third and final volume of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle's memoirs.
Astonishing that the human mind operate with such
clarity and vision in the most complex of human and
national affairs astonishing that this towering figure
Evening star., 1960-04-24
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

ribly rather than to sur
render the pleasures of
Kaffir- beating"
Mr.. Ritner suggests, for all
Africa, something like an
African Institute, in which
the West (meaning mostly
the United States) would ap-
propriate S6 to So billions a
year to provide the country
with scientific Improvements,
medical and particularly agri-
Evening star., 1960-04-24
Senator GoIdwuter

Another country is heard
from politically this week.
the country of the far right.
The guide is Senator Barry
Goldwater. Republican of
Arizona; the book, The Con-
science of a Conservative"
Evening star., 1960-04-24
FICTION

THE BIG PINK KITE. BY
Clyde Brion Davis. DAY:
50 The story of a decent
small-town family and of
married love against a
background of the Ameri-
can Midwest as it really
was so years ago.
THE FELL OF DARK. BY
James Norman. CLippin-
colt; $685. A novel of
the Spanish Civil War.
THE UNKNOWN AJAX. BY
Georgette Heyer. Put
nam; $685. The story of
a Baron and his task of
finding the heir for his
estate since the first two
in line were killed in a
boating accident.
GENERAL
CORSAGE CRAFT. By Glad
ReuSch and Mary Noble.
Wan Nostrand; $4.95)
The second revised edition
Of the manual of step-by-
step creative process of
Evening star., 1960-04-24
GOLK. BY Richard G. Stern,
(Criterion. S3Q5O

NNAACC4lOll' 9o'oO')
There are few truly satiri-
cal novels these days, fables
in the tradition of Voltaire
Gin the mood of "CandideD
or Anatole France or the pest
Of Swift.
Mostly our satires are mere
burlesques, funny pieces cat
least allegedly) in the way
of Wodehouse or Max Shul-
man or H. Allen Smith.
Distorted Focus
A satire, as Richard G.
Stern shows in this striking
first novel, is more than an
attempt to be humorous at
the expense of somebody
or something. 1t may be,
in turn, amusing, pathetic,
even tragic, but it looks
through a magnifying glass
at some portion of the world
around us, bringing it into
glaring, usually distorted
focus. While the picture is
exaggerated, it is, like most
good hyperboles, essentially
true.
The Golk in Mr.. Stern's
fast-moving story is at once
a person, a way of doing
things-an amusement, an
annoyance, a new word in
the language.
Camera ObScura
Actually Golk is the author
and producer of a televiSion
program. 1t is a disconcert-
ingly original conception.
Golk and his assistants plant
their equipment in various
places, confront a victim in
disguise, and then, when
they've got him to talking,
perhaps discussing his inner
life, announce suddenly:
You're on camera!"
The results are rebroadcast
after the tape has been gone
over in the studio.
Golk starts in a modest
way. His program attracts
such attention that before
long a network engages him.
He has sponsors, a conspicu-
Gus spot, becomes a national
figure.
Just Browsing
The way our young hero,
Hondorp, encounters Golk
will illustrate the program.
Hondorp, the shiftless, un-
employed but well-read son
of a widowed medical spe-
cialist, is wandering about a
bookstore in Manhattan.
Suddenly, a voice, apparently
from the wall, asks: Are you
buying or just browsing?"
So we'll does Hondorp acquit
himself in the colloquy which
follows that Golk employs
the young man as an assist
ant.
After that Hondorp helps
Golk plan to catch people un-
aware and record their first
reactions. Usually it is nee
eSsary, in the case of shops
or hotels, to frame these
programs with owners or
managers, but they are usu-
ally only toe glad to accom-
modate for the publicity.
He'll to Pay
But Golk, inevitably, over
reaches himself. When he
goes to Washington, frames
the chief assistant to the
President at phony party
and broadcaStS some of his
informal (and supposed pri-
vate) comments, and when
Golk quotes a nationally
known hoodlum, who pre-
sumed he was guest at a
small party aboard a mil
llonaire's yacht, there is, as
the saying is, hell to pay. Golk
and his network are sued for
a million or so. Golk is de-
nounced in the press for
outrageous invasion of peo-
pies lives, for recording their
commences. Eventually he is
through.
In the course of his ad-
ventures with Golk, Hondorp
comes to know a strange
group within the inner Golk
circle, including the zaniest
and most attractive girl he
ever met.
Evening star., 1960-04-24
GENERAL

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