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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Mr.. K. Reports
On His Visit
To America
FOR VICTORY IN PEACE
FIT rOMPFTITJON WITH

FOR VICTORY IN PEACE
Full COMPETITION WITH
CAPITALISM. BY Nikita
S. Khrushchev. tDutton;
$685.
Here is another long-range
dividend for Premier Khru-
shchev after his visit to the
United States, a collection of
his speeches in l958-and his
report to the Soviet peoples
on his American tour.
In a free society, the United
States Government can not,
and does not wish to, control
private publishing houses
output. But when Dutton,
and many other American
publishers now entering the
field with lesser-known pieces
of Soviet propaganda, market
these works they throw out Of
balance the carefully negoti-
ated Soviet American cul-
tural exchange agreement.
There are no publishers in
Moscow allowed to make
money on speeches by Presi-
dent Eisenhower - except
those publishers carrying out
the provisions of the strictly
reciprocal treaty negotiated
by the Soviet Foreign Office
and the State Department.
EARL H. VOSS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
BY ROBERT E. CLARKE
cAan sAna NNnAnr

THE PEOPLE AND THE
COURT. BY Charles l..
Black. jr. Macmillan; So.
Berating the Supreme
Court is not as popular a
pastime today as it was two
or three years ago, when
criticism of the Warren
court" was at a raucous peak.
Thus the authors spirited
defense of the high court is
less timely than it might
have been even a year ago,
before the Barenblatt and
UphauS decisions spread
unguent on wounds opened
by earlier court edicts. But
Mr.. Black "a Yale Univer-
sity law professor sees the
controversy in its historic
light and yields a broad
sword on those who hold
that the present court has
exceeded the prerogatives in
tended by the founding
fathers. 1t is the proper
function of the Supreme
Court, he argues convincing
ly, to maintain a living, Wig
orous judicial review" over
the actions of Congress, the
executive branch and the so
States.
Mr.. Black prefers to deal
in constitutional principles
rather than specifics, but he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

The Dangerous Limits
| oxotion Can Reach

THE LAW AND THE
PROFITS, by c. Northcote
Parkinson tHoughton Milf
lin; $500 propounds sec
ond law by the author Of
"Park!nson's Law" which eX-
planned the way stats of civil
servants everywhere in
crease their ranks ad infni-
TEN.
Prof. Parkinson's second
law turns out to be, as you
might guess, what governs
taxation and especially the
dangerous limit it can reach.
The professor, an English
man who teaches economics
i'll this country, sets forth his
new thesis, as he did the
first. Wittily and persuasively.
There can be no econ
omy." he concludes, while
the public revenue is made
roughly equal to the sum of
the departmental demands.
Economy must begin with
fixing revenue as a proper
ton of the national income
and informing each depart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

ment Of the total expenditure
1t must not exceed
Regarding tax levels. Mr..
ParklnSon'S sees in several
modern countries the symp-
toms Of approaching CataS-
trophe, in none more so than
in Britain" He adds that
this is not a matter in which
Americans can afford to feel
Complacent. They are moving
in the same direction even #
they have not gone as far.
They too have failed to fix
a limit beyond which taxation
must not CO." ,,
As he sees it, while the
technical trend of the age
goes to make the individual
matter more, politically the
trend is to make him matter
less. In this grinding of the
individual to nothlngness, the
most effective instrument is
the steam roller of taxation.
Under its pressure, the in
dlvidual is merged into the
mass"
This book is recommended
to all taxpayers.
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
What Is Your Pet Comic?
New Book Gives It's Orioin
BY PHILIP II. LOVE
Star Magazine Editor

Every reader of newspaper
comics-and there are said to
be at least 100 million of
them in the United States
should enjoy COMIC ART
In AMERICA by Stephen
Becker tSimon g. Schuster:
$3.50. 1t tells the story of
the comics, from The Yellow
Kid" to just about the new
est one you can name, and
also the stories of their
creators, so Interestingly that
you will not realize that its
100000 words and more than
400 illustrations are an en-
cyclopedia of a sort.
What is your favorite
comic? You name it, and
this book is very likely to
have it-along with the story
of its creator and how he
created it. Comic Art in
America" is in fact so COM
plete that the Newspaper
Comics Council has recon-
mended it to newspaper edi-
tors and librarians as the
first truly authoritative social
history and modern encyclo-
pedia of newspaper comics"
Editorial cartoons and car
toonists also are covered, as
are the animated cartoons
and cartoonists of the movies.
Whether you are a Mutt
and JEFF" fan, the follower
of such adventure strips as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
By JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Star StAd Writer


THE GRASS. BY Claude
Simon. (Braziller; $3.75D
The old lady, Marie. lay
dying, her death rattle filling
the gloomy old house. She
was the one person of stabil-
ity in a decadent French
family. fast approaching
complete disintegration.
In THE Grass" a complex
and OBVIOUSLY written novel.
the story of her life emerges
in its relation to the family
of her younger, accidentally
celebrated brother. The style
of the author. Claude Simon.
almost obscures the fate of
his characters.
Seek Better Days
Marie and Pierre were the
children of an illiterate peas
ant who wanted his son to
be highly educated. On
Marie fell the responsibility
and the privation. She
taught school, worked in the
fields and kept the family
accounts in a child's note
book. She was the one who
figured a way to wear a dress
three times longer than it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Author Makes q Case
For Supreme Court

deviates from this scholarly
course far enough to give a
pungent Endorsement to the
Supreme Courts school seq
regation rulings: Anything
concerning the equal pro-
lection of a child in Arkansas
is just as legitimate a concern
of mine as it is Of the citizen
of Little Rock. This is not
a matter of metaphysics. or
even of general humanitar-
ianism. 1t is a matter OF
shipshape, alright, constitu-
tional logic"
1t is alright logic. too, in
the authors view, for the
court to hold a tight rein over
Congress in guarding against
any violation of the Bill of
Rights. He does not name
names nor discuss the Su-
preme Court in terms of in
dividual justices, but here he
aligns himself with the
courts liberal bloc. This is
a book aimed at citizens
concerned about public af-
fairs; while the avoidance
of personalities has an obvi-
Gus merit it would add a pi-
quaint sauce for the lay reader
if the court were discussed in
terms of the personal differ
ences of view-as between
Justices Black and Frank
furter-that give it much of
its flavor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

frank appraisals of his Sena-
tor employers make good
reading, especially in a cam
paign year. Senator Cape
hart made no contribu-
ton" OF Senator Mundt:
Il did not respect him for
the way he played up to
Hoffa, Reuther and other wit
nesses when they we're on the
stand, yet attacked them
vlciously when they were not
present to defend them
selves"
Brother President
Of his brother, he says
with the epic approval all
KennedyS bestow on each
other: Il am highly pref
udiced and therefore shall
make no comment on him
except to say that I think he
will make great President"
Mr.. Kennedy who has be-
come his brothers campaign
manager is no stylist, but
the intrinsic interest of his
disclosures far outweighs this
consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

from those scrid sessions in
the Caucus Room is simply
this; What does James R.
Hoffa have to do in order to
be deposed from the presi-
dency of the Transfers
Union?
Mr.. Hoffa is currently at
large and in office at the
head of the largest and most
powerful labor organization
in the country. His hour may
be about to strike, and this
book may help matters along.
The Whole Record
For three years, young Mr..
Kennedy stalked Mr.. Hoffa.
His account, save for some
acknowledgements glimpses
in the laborious investigation,
adds little to our knowledge
of Mr.. Hoffa's arrogance,
luck, corruption, contempt
for congressional committees
and human life. Mr.. Kennedy
offers no insight into his
character or motives and his
subjective impressions add
nothing. The value is to have
the record spread out in one
place.
The zeal and industry Of
the committee staff is i'm
pressively documented. For
every witness who was called
before the committee, we in
terviewed at least 35. For
every hour a witness testified
on the stand before the COM
mittee, he was interviewed on
the average of five hours. For
every document that was in
troduced. 5000 were studied,
For every hearing held, there
was approximately eight
months of intensive investi-
CATION, with two investlga-
tors from the staff and six
accountants from the General
Accounting Office"
FavOrs Crime Commission
Mr.. Kennedy favors the
founding of a national crime
commission. Such an organ
ization would keep up a
steady flow Of information
about the gangsters who
found their way into the
teamsters union in such large
numbers and alert local law
enforcement agencies to their
presence in communities. If
we do not on national scale
attack organized criminals
with weapons and technlques
as effective as their own, they
will destroy US"
If Mr.. Kennedy's estimates
of the characters of the
rogues he called before him
are not always rewarding. his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
A Poison
Label for
OurFood?
THE POISONS IN YOUR

THE POISONS IN YOUR
FOOD. BY William Long
good. Simon g. Schuster;
$685.
1t isn't romanticizing the
past to lament that things
don't taste the way they did
years ago. They don't, says
New York newsman and
author, William Longgood.
And part of the reason is the
American public is slowly be-
ing poisoned by chemicals,
additives, processing and
other means of changing the
nutrltional structures Of
natural foods.
Mr.. Longgood, in 274 pages,
has accumulated a large
amount of evidence that
countless substances mass
injected into American food
before harvest and right up
to the dinner table may pro-
duce cancer and are other
wise injurious to health. It
is a book that could make
the housewives hair stand
on end with every visit to
the Supermarket. How many
people. he asks, are dying or
will die because our food
laws ARE designed to pro-
tect commercial interests
first and people afterward?"
Citing pesticides used be-
fore harvest, and which can't
be washed off, to mass-pro-
duced enriched" white bread
that is outlawed in Canada,
Mr.. Longgood is convincing.
And, if he is correct, the book
might we'll be required read
ing for every member Of
Congress and employees of
each concerned Federal regu-
latory agency. 1t is shock
ing.
The food industry, he says,
from the farmers to the
professors, are playing with
biological dynamite" and
the public is beginning to
feel it.
CHARLES G. BROOKS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Other Books of the Week in Brief

help, where he has fun and
where he grows to have
faith and trust in those
about him.
IF ELECTED I PROMISE.
BY John F. Parker.
doubleday; $685. Jokes,
stories and gems of wis
dom by and about politi-
clans.
THE PICTORIAL KEY TO
THE TAROT. BY Arthur
Edward White, GJniver-
sity, $780, A new key to
a lost art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Family Solves
Grave Problem
In Lively Novel
GRANDPA AND THE GIRLS.

NAAEh+NDA "A avn III OlhLS.
Random House, $3.50, by
Louis M, Hayward, depicts
a Molly Goldberg" type of
family faced with maybe
the hardest decision that
ever had to be made:
Should Grandpa go to Tulsa
to see his daughter-or not.
After a number of falnting
spells by Aunt Mary and
many attempts to keep him
from going, the family sud-
denly realizes that Grandpa's
mind is made up when he
goes to work for his friend
Shloim, who has a reputa-
ton for being in a shady
business. what with prohibi-
ton and all, to earn money
for his train fare.
Grandpa embarks on his
journey and arriving at
Dora's house. he is blessed
for he finds that his daugh-
ter, though she has been
away from home these many
years, is basically the same.
The old man lengthens his
stay and then suddenly he
is aware that he is homesick
for the convenient incon-
veniences" of the family and
returns home to live out the
rest of his days.
The fulfllment of Grand
pas dream was never in
question but because of many
draWn-out descriptive pas
Sages. Mr.. Hayward doesn't
put him on the train until
the middle of the book. May
be the authors years as a
TV writer were too limiting.
and with this book he just
let 60 and went worldwide"
-JERI MANWEILER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
CHRIST LIVES
AND SPEAKS.
ELSON SAYS
AND STILL HE SPEAKS.

AND STILL HE SPEAKS,
By Edward L. R. Elson.
Fleming H. Revell Co.;
S2.50D
There is an immediacy
about the style Of Dr.. Elson
that makes it especially ap-
propriate for this book. Its
theme is the still living
presence of Christ, and the
author skillfully develops
his thesis from many
angles.
DR.. Elson, one of the
Nations most eminent
Presbyterian ministers and
pastor to President Eisen-
hover, employs an inter-
esting technique in devel-
oplng his book. He takes an
incident from the Bible of
the life of Christ and builds
1t up in the present tense.
From there he moves into
an explanation of the Incl
dents moral purpose and
then shows its application
to our current world. FIRE.
quently the author uses
with telling effect an anec-
dote to illustrate this point.
The author owns a style
that moves swiftly and
gives point to his subject.
He also chooses his Incl
dents and anecdotes aptly,
and the people involved as
sumo reality to the reader.
The book has the virtue Of
not only expressing an i'm
portant theme we'll but of
doing it in an entertaining
manner.
-CASPAR NAMES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
HISTORICAL
and BIOGRAPHICAL

THE RELUCTANT SUR
GEON. BY John Kobler.
Doubleday. S4.95) A BIZ
ography Of John Hunter,
medical genius and great
inquirer Of Johnson's Eng
land.
A LITTLE MORE TIME. BY
Jean Boley. CHougton-Mif-
fin, $3.75.D The authors
account of her preparation
for the greatest adventure
a human must experience
death. 1t was written
after she had been told
she had cancer.
WESTERN STORY: THE
COLL TION
OF CHARLEY O'KEEFE,
l364-l999. UNIV. of Ne
braska, S4.50D A hons
steader's chronicle with an
introduction by A. B.
Gutherie, Ir.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Forthcoming

"CARP'S WASHINGTON"
by Frank G. Carpenter, &C
counts Of the Capital in the
Dos by a contemporary re-
porter; "E ARTH, MY
FRIEND" by Peter Town
send, and "AIMEZ VOUS
BRAHMS" by FRANCHISE
Sagan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Other .Kennedys
In the News

Fuller explanation of why
the Kennedys are this way
about each other is offered
in THE REMARKABLE
KENNEDYS" Dial; $3.50
by Joe Mccarthy, who like
the front-runnlng Senator,
comes from Boston.
Mr.. McCarthy's is the fun
niest, liveliest and most
readable book about the fab
ulous family and is laced
through with the salty COM
ments of the Boston Irish
from which they spring.
Their determination, their
will to win, is obviously a
heritage from the financier
father. Joseph Patrick, for
mer Ambassador to the Court
Of st. James, outspoken and
demanding benefactor. He
gave each of his nine chill
dren a million dollars: Il
put them in a position where
each one Of them could spit
in my eye and tell me where
to go. and there was nothing
to prevent them from becom-
ING rich. idle buns if they
wanted to-"
HelI-Bent for Power
The boys. as the world
knows. became nothing Of
the kind. and are at the
moment hell-bent for power.
The drive may have been
spanked by the father, who
left Boston because of the
cool condescension" which
Beacon Hill has habitually
trained on Irish Catholics
in the area. Mr.. Mccarthy
suggests that all the busting
Kennedys are in a way COM
pensating for this.
Whether it's a subcom-
mittee hearing or a game of
touch football at the Wash
ington Monument. they're
out for blood" Mr.. McCar-
thy quotes an old friend of
the family as saying.
A lions share of the book
goes to the formidable IA
ther. who insists strangely
enough that he is the most
average guy in the whole
damned outfit" But Mr..
Mccarthy does full justice
to the whole Kennedy story,
which he says is over Law
ishly embellished with a va
riety of richly dramatic
scenes that even Edna Fer
Der. with all the stops pulled
out. would not dare to pack
within the covers of her
most sweeping epic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
THE VIOLENT BEAR 1T

THE VIOLENT BEAR 1T
AWAY, by Flannery O'Con-
nor (Farrar, Straus and Cud-
ahy; S3,75) is a new novel by
an exciting young Southern
writer.
Miss O'Connor, who pub
liShed a previous novel. wise
Blood" and a book of short
stories, "A Good Man Is Hard
to Find" could be called a
regional writer, but only in
the sense that her characters
are mostly from the pine
woods and river bottoms of
somewhere much like her
native Georgia. They talk in
the idiom of the country.
And yet, in a larger sense, her
stories are not regional, but
are Of people whose special
conflicts with life could hap
pen anywhere. Nor does she
write like Faulkner or any
one else I know of: she has
her own Illuminating way,
and it is not hard to under
stand.
The title Of her new novel
comes from a passage from
st Matthew: From the days
of John the Baptist until now.
the Kingdom of Heaven suf-
fereth violence. and the vio-
lent bear it away"
Mad Fanatic Streak
The four characters de-
lineated are from one family
"a family with a mad streak
of fanaticism. Rayber. the
schoolteacher, we'll educated.
on the faculty of a high
school, had escaped the
curse, at least he hoped so.
but it lived on in his idiot
scn Yet Rayber formed a
deep affection for the afflicted
boy, after his wife left him
when he refused to put the
child in an institution.
But this is more the story
OF Rayber 5 uncle. a religious
fanatic, who lived in the
woods and sold moonShine
whisky and was bringing up
the son of Rayber's dead
sister. This boys great uncle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

old-time favorites, seeing
them once again will make
you forget how many years
have slipped by since you
laughed at their wonderful
doingS.
Not the least interesting
part of the book is the INTRO
duction by Rube Goldberg.
creator of Boob McNutt. "
Mike and Ike, "Life's Little
Jokes" and other famous
comics of yesteryear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Poperbucks
CATHERINE OF ARAGON

CATHERINE OF ARAGON.
BY Carrot Mattingly. Vim
tage, $l.45D Biography of
the Spanish princess who
was the first of the six
wives of Henry VIII. RE
print
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL.
BY Noel LOOMS. Dell, 35c) .
Afficianados will remember
this title from the TV
series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
FICTION
SUNSET AT SHEBA. BY John

SUNSET AT SHEBA. BY John
Harris, SLOANE. $3.50. A
subaltern takes it upon
himself to set out in pur-
suit of a renegade accused
of running arms to the
rebels.
LEAVES OF GRASS. BY Walt
Whitman. Viking. So A
reprint of the priced first
edition which Whitman
published at his own ex-
penSe.
THE KINGDOM OF DESIRE.
BY Christopher B. Hills.
Philosophical, S. A phil
osophical work thinly yelled
as fiction in which the
reader is asked to unlearn
a mass of misconception
about life and to face a
complete reversal of many
existing beliefs.
HAMILTON TERRACE. By
Elizabeth Corbett. apple
ton-Century-Crofts, So go
The story of a school jan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

He may not have known Of
her past casual affairs, as her
mother did, but Hedda had
given herself eagerly to Rob-
ert before they had even dis
cussed marriage. He could
not have been too astonished
when. within a year of their
marriage, she strayed into
a liaiSon with a man Robert
knew and despiSed.
1t is true that the girl,
when he questioned her, ad-
mitted her infidelity with
complacent scorn calculated
to infuriate any man. But
why should this have, as we
are told. wrecked his life?
There is never any indication
that he was even in love with
Hedda, beyond craving such
an attractive companion and
taking pride in possessing
her.
Sexual CandOr
Once we get into Roberts
sexual life, there is all the
candNr usual in an O'Hara
novel He even uses some
word" which he apparently
had previously considered too
bad 10 put down.
ASIDE from that, Our
selves to Know" is a much
bettsr novel than Mr..
OLE ra'S last, From the
Terrace" The latter was
around 500 pages. The new
one -uns to 400. 1t is his best
novel since Ten North Fred
erick." And certainly Robert
MillhuoSer is one OF the best
realized characters Mr..
O'Hara has ever developed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
READING AND WRITING
BOZ Kennedy Closes
In on Hoffo HoodIums
BY MARY McGRORY
Star star Writer

The complete account of the Committee
hearings by its former chief counsel Robert Kennedy
in THE ENEMY WITHIN Harper; $685. will induce ia
mliar feelings Of futity in readers who followed dis
closures day by day in the newspapers.
The question which rises from these pages did
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

itor who helped the towns
people become better cit
liens.
TIE MEN OF GONZALES.
BY John H. CUP. Sloane,
$780, A novel of the heroic
thirty-tWo who rode to the
aid of the Alamo.
THE WEB AND THE ROCK.
BY Thomas Wolfe. (Grosset
& Dunlap. S2.98.D An auto
biographical novel about
the struggles of a young
writer IN the glittering
world of New York. Re-
print from paperback.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
An Exciting New Novel
By Young Southerner

was determined to make him
a prophet" After the old
man died, and the boy looked
up his uncle in the city, the
schoolteacher, Rayber, it was
a question of whether the
boy, then IA, could be weaned
away from his great-uncle's
baleful influence. Rayber was
willing to try, but the sullen
boy didn't give much promise
Of cooperating.
Power With Words
This is a macabre story,
but it's far more than that;
Flannery O'Connor's mastery
with words gives it a strange
power. Some of her phrases
linger in the memory, as
when, describing the retarded
child, she says: He stood
there, dim and ancient, like
a child who had been a child
for centuries
C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
GENERAL

ONE OUT OF FOUR. BY
Myrtle Williamson. Knox;
81 So The account of the
authors personal expert
enCe with cancer.
CHILDBIRTH: THE MOD
ERN GUIDE FOR EX-
PECTANT MOTHERS. BY
Charles Richard Alsop Gill
bert, MD. Hawthorne;
$685.
THE WAY OF WONDER.
BY Marion Louise Bliss.
Vantage; So The authors
own conceptions of the
word wonder.
THE PROFESS SIGNAL
HOUSEPARENT. BY Eva
Burmeister. columbia;
S4D Shows how the house
parent can use the every
day business of life to
make the house a setting
where the child is given