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trines, particularly that Of
the superman, but he re-
manned permanently indebt-
ed to the epigrammatic Ger
man philosopher.
Sheltered Childhood
Mann was unlike a lot of
other writer's VINO were driven
by poverty and Illustration
into compulsive expression
of what they had seen and
heard. He says: MY child
hood was sheltered and
happy"
But he adds: School I
los t h e d, and to the end
failed to satisfy its demands.
l despiSed it as a milieu, I
was critical of the manners
of its masters, and I early
eSpouSed a sort of literary
opposition to its spirit, its
discipline and its methods of
training. My Incidence, nee
eSSary perhaps to my par
ticular growth; my need of
much free time for leisure
and quiet reading; an actual
heavineSs of Spirit-even to-
day l suffer from it-made
me hate being urged to study
and react with feelings of
contempt and Scorn."
His first novel, "Budden-
brooks" was completed when
Mann was 25. 1t was sent to
the publishers, an untidy
heap of manuscript, written
in longhand on both sides of
the paper, a formidable task,
he admits, for any copyiSt or
typeSetter. But it came out in
1901.
1t was not at first a sue
cess. 1t sold barely 1000
copies the first year, and a
critic said the book was like
a heavy dray grinding
through sand" But gradually
it caught on, went through
successive editions, a great
many, and in time brought
the young novelist fame.
He was surprised at his
success. for he was essentially
a modest man, and yet, in
some strange way, he ex-
pected it. A sense of latent,
yet-to-be developed powers
accompanied even his early
writing. Even when he won
the Nobel Prize he was not
entirely astonished.
This was not conceit, but a
feeling that he was born for
a certain career, a specific
destiny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Sensitive Suqu
Of Family Life

A new novel of life with
father that sounds as though
it might be more of a memoir
is PORTRAIT OF A
FATHER by Joan Simon
lAtheneum; $3.50. It's not
much of . novel, but it is a
wonderfully sensitive, atmos-
pheric picture of family life
as it was lived under the
total domination of an cnor-
mously wealthy, tremendous
ly cultivated and endlessly
laxative Jewish art-collector
named Saul Bettelheimer.
Saul was a trial to his
family. ritualistic, demand
ing. petty. He makes a crisis
over a poached egg. treats
his psychiatrist like a family
doctor, DULLES his wife,
tyranniZeS over his four
daughters, terrorizes The
servants.
He is, at the same time,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Sotirizing
The Cultural
Foundations
CRUSADING FOR KRONK.
By Stanley Price. &C. P.
pntnonn,c So,,c. 60 o.

by STANLEY FIlCe. w. +.
Putnam's Sons; $685.
The wealthy, pretentious
foundations that dole out
funds for programs of dubi-
Gus intellectual worth are
Satirized in this frothy bit
of summer reading. Stanley
Price, a 28-year-old London
novelist, muSters a vulnerable
collection of cultural do
coolers who go all-out for
hope and unity.
The protagonist of "Cru-
Sading for Kronk" is Cor
nell Grant. jr., only a year
or two younger than his
author. The organization
which employed him as a sort
of literary scout was founded
by Henry Kronk, an aging
tycoon who created the foun-
dation to perpetuate his name.
Grant is sent to Europe to
round up authors who will
write according to the Kronk
philosophy for a new maya
zine. This publication. called
Link, will do for the West
culturally what NATO has
done militarily." its spon-
sorS declare. They also speak
glibly of new concepts of
vision and understanding and
OF cross-pollinating new
ideas.
Authors All
Young Grant meets au-
thors who are greedy. who
are cynical or who are &C.
centric. AS a perSonable
young American travelling
alone he also meets a Brit
ish divorce and a Shipboard
romance blossoms.
But Author Price fires his
most telling blows against
foundations through a per-
ceptive and articula [ q
Frenchman. Kronk is phil
anthropic. this Gallo OBJ
server comedies. but it is
philanthropy with a politi-
cal purpose. There is a big
business investment in it. so
it can hardly be very revolu-
tionary or avante-garde. Pri-
vately, Grant concurS.
AS he prepares to return
to his home in Washington,
Grant realizes that his ex-
periences have altered his
own outlook. He discards his
plan for settling down with
Kronk and marrying a
GEORGETOWN girl who is a
Senator's secretary. If the
Kronk money accomplished
anything from his mission
it was in sharpening Grants
ideas so that he could pene-
trate the superficiality of the
program.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Success Story
Has New Angle
In CONGRESSMAN FROM

In CONGRESSMAN FROM
INDIA e. P. Dutton; S4.50,
we have the typical Ameri-
can success story, with the
authors nationality providing
the only new twist. D. S.
Saund, who was elected from
CALIFORNIA; 29th district first
in 1856 and again in 1858,
was born in India, had some
trouble obtaining American
citizenship. He proposed to
his American wife by writing
in the sand these words. If
l prove myself worthy. will
you become mine?" She &C
cepted.
Representative Saund's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14

enormously interesting, and
well worth reading about.
He is unblushingly incon-
sistent. of course. His eX-
quiSite wife at one point
chides him.
You can't be a Freudian,
enlightened, tolerant father
and the primitive. Victorian,
forbidding father" But with
his powerful personality, Saul
can be and is, and that's
what makes Portrait of a
Father" with its elegant
prose and wry introspections,
very rewarding, offbeat read
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
GEN ERAL
THE BRITISH GENERAL
-r~rr0N- an ,nrn

THE BRITISH GENERAL
ELECTION OF 1859. BY D.
E. Butler and Richard
Rose. CSt. Martins; $6.750
Insight into the election.
WITH DEAREST LOVE TO
ALL. By Mary Reed Bob
bit. (Regnery; So The
letters and life of Lady
Jebb.
SAY 1T WITH YOUR CAM
ERA. BY Jacob Deschin.
(Ziff-Davis; $4.95.D Tells
how to speak your mind"
photographically.
COLOUR IN YOUR CAM
ERA. BY Costa Skoglund.
(zitf-DaviS; $685. Basic
technical points and ref
erence information for the
color photographer.
THE NATURAL GAS IN
DUSTRY. BY Edward j.
Neuner. university of Ok
lahoma; $5,75D Monopoly
and competition in field
markets.
USSR. BY Thomas Fitzsim-
mons, Peter Malof and
John C. Fiske. tTaplinger;
$500 Its people, society
and culture.
HOW ARBITRATION
WORKS. BY Frank and
Edna Asper Elkouri. Blu
reau of National Affairs;
$685. Second revised and
enlarged edition of the
guide to labor arbitration.
TWICE ACROSS NORTH
AMERICA BY MOTOR
BOAT. BY John Edwin
Hogg. CZiff-Davis; $4.95D.
The story of a man who
in 1925 made the first
transcontinental crossing,
from Oregon to New York
by motorboat.
THE BOY AND THE
BROTHERS. BY Swami
Omananda Puri. Double
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
PAPER BACKS
THE RUSTY LIZARD. BY w.

THE RUSTY LIZARD. BY w.
Frank Blair. UNIV. of Tex
as, S4.50.O A population
study of the rusty lizards
inhabiting a 10-acre tract
near the authors home.
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY. BY
L. Dudley Stamp. penguin,
ESQ., How the geographer's
survey and analysis can
help in understanding Brit
ain of today and in the
planning for its future.
MANAGEMENT SURVEY.
By Frederic Hooper. (Pen-
gum; $.950 Key activity IN
modern society reviewed
by an outstanding indus
trialiSt.
THE JEWS IN OUR TIME.
BY Norman Bentwich.
penguin; $.95.) The devel-
opment of Jewish life in
the modern world.
THE STONE AGE OF
NORTHERN AFRICA. BY
c. B. M. McBurney. PEN
gum; $l.45.) An outline of
prehistoric discoveries in
Northern Africa from the
southern margins of the
Sahara to the Mediterra-
mean coast. covering the
period from the earliest
traces of human activity
to the end of the Stone
Age.
DISCOURSE ON METHOD.
BY Descartes. penguin;
$95.D New translation by
Arthur Wollaston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14

latlon, a very limited edition
of a book, in Paris. This is
the first American edition.
1t is doubtful if any but
the most determined stu
dents of Mann'S work have
ever seen it.
The sketch was written
when the novelist was SIS and
had recently received the
Nobel Prize. He had pub
lished two of his three long
"Buddenbrooks" and
The Magic Mountain" His
final major fiction, the te-
tralogy of novels later pub
liShed in a single volume
under the general title "Jo-
seph and His Brothers," was
written in the '30s and '40s.
Literary Influences
DR.. Mann. who became an
American citizen and lived
most of his final years at Pa
cific Palisades, Calf, died in
1855, shortly after his 80th
birthday.
"A Sketch of My Life" al
though limited and meager in
its detail about the authors
first half century, does tell a
great deal in few words.
This Mann could do, despite
the great length of his epic
novels.
The literary influences of
his youth are of particular
interest.
In his childhood Hans
Christian Anderson left IAN
indelible impression" Later
Heine was the poet Mann re-
vered. Then he used to read
Schiller after he came home
from school, while he sat
snug with a plate of open
sandwiches before him.
Goethe. of course, he ad-
mired excessively, and in 1889
he wrote a novel, which has
the English title The Beloved
Returns" about Goethe.
Earliest Prose
But the philosophers Scho-
penhauer and Nietzsc h e
greatly influenced his youth
and made him, despite such
lyrical stories as Death in
Venice" essentially an intel
lectual. philosophical nov
eliSt. Probably" he writes,
my earliest prose writings
that saw the light of print
betray clearly enough the in
tellectual and stylistic influ-
ence of Nietzsche."
Certainly he never &C
cepted all of NietzSche'S doc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
John P. Morquond
1st Novel Award

A suitable memorial to the
late John P. Marquand has
already been established by
the Book of the Month Club.
A prize of $4,000 to be called
the John P. Marquand First
Novel Award will be made to
the best first novel published
by an American or Canadian
firm during the 18-month
period from July Is, 1860 to
December 81, 1861. Mr.. Mar
quand was member of the
board of judges of the Book
of the Month Club, to which
application should be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
The Oedipus Story
And Its Origins
OEDIPUS AND ANIMATION

OEDIPUS AND ANIMATION.
BY Emmanuel Velikovsky.
doubleday; $4.95.O
The source area and origi-
nal dramatis personae of the
Oedipus story, which in
trigued the Greek poets,
were Egypt and the Grim
inal" king Akhnaton, his
wives, children and other kin.
A daughter was by the kings
mother-wife, the research
tends to show, this in spite
of evidence the king died
while a young man.
The folklore yarns that
impressed the Greeks and,
through them. influenced
modern thought - including
Freud and other scientists
allegedly were carried by
tradeSmen to Aegean ports.
H. A. l..
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CONVENTION DECISIONS
AND VOTING RECORDS,


BY Richard C. Balm. The
Brookings Institution,
S6.75D
The standard reaction to
the spectacle of the political
conventions such as we have
just witnessed is: There
must be a better way"
Be that as it may. the fact
is political conventions have
a fascinating history and
tradition. and many of the
things that seem so ridicu-
lous when judged by the
standards of television enter
tainment, have real political
purpose and meaning.
This is made clear in this
study of the political conven-
tions Of both parties from
1882 through 1856. 1t simply
comments authoritatively and
perceptively on the role of
the convention in the politi-
cal cycle and then goes on
to summarize in narrative
style the highlights of each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
THE FUTURE AS HISTORY,

BY Robert L. Heilbroner.
Harper. So
He who believes that man
proposes and God diSpoSeS
will find little to alarm him
or to admire in this score
board by Mr.. Heilbroner who
pretends to discard both OPP
timism and pessimism.
Certainly it is not news
that men are being progress
sively confined in an environ
mental mold that actually
prevents individualism and
casts out diSSenters.
We May Mark Time
But many Americans will
resent the suggestion that our
way of life, our standards,
may have to mark time or re-
trogreSS while the backward
peoples catch up with US.
Mr.. Heilbroner says, More
aware than the rising masses
of the world of the destina-
ton to which their inchoate
revolution may hopefully car
~ them, it is the humanist
spirits of the West who will
feel most betrayed by the vio-
lence and excess which will
likely accompany its course.
-. The West must take upon
itself a new and more difficult
role: not that of leading in
the van of history's forces
under the banner of progress,
but that of preserving from
the ruthless onslaught of his
tory'S forces the integrity of
the vely idea of progress it.
self.
Particularly for Ameri-
cans will this long period of
allegiance provide a test of
the spirit We are apt to
interpret the intransigence
of history as a kind of per-
sonal betrayal :"
Mr.. Heilbroner seems to be
carried away by the notion
that planning in perpetuity
with an impossible consist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
HISTORY AND
BIOGRAPHY

A CENTENNIAL READER.
BY Jane Adams. Mac
milan; So Biography of
the woman reputed to be
involved in practically
every good cause in the
United States.
RUDOLPH MATAS. BY lisa
dore Cohn. MD. Double
day, $685. Biography of
one of the great pioneers
in surgery.
PAST AND PRESENT. BY
Monika Mann. CSt. Mar
tins; 81 Portrait of the
author Thomas Mann and
his fourth child. Monika.
SAINTS OF RUSSIA. BY
Constantine de GrunWald.
Macmillan, $780, Bio
graphical studies of 10 of
RuSsia's greatest saints.
GREAT RIVER. BY Paul
Horgan. Holt, Rinehart &
Win ston. So The Rio
Grande in North American
history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Cloak and Dagger
THE PLOTTERS. BY Ala,

THE PLOTTERS. BY Alan
Gallon. Harper g. Broth
ers: $685.
This Latin-American sus-
pense-and-politics story is so
outlandishly bad. I thought
the author was contriving a
parody on all that Eric Am
bier stands for.
When I found out he wasn't
kidding. I stopped reading.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14

story otherwise follows a con-
ventional pattern. He was a
farmer, who made good
speeches, Joined the Demo-
cratic Party, was elected a
judge, and was finally chosen
as a congressional candidate.
He has written it in absolutely
conventional terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
What Have WeLeorned
From the Conventions?

convention with copious sta
tistical data.
Although this is a COM
panion volume to the schol-
arly The Politics of National
Party Conventions" by Paul
T. David. Ralph M. Goldman
and Mr.. Balm. this book
stands on its own as a valu-
able basic source book and
a pleasant browsing place for
for anyone with an interest
in politics.
CHARLES b. SEIB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
READING AND WRITING
Renewal of Bill Which BROUGHT
Books to 30 Million Is Urged
By MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Lovers of libraries are
hoping that the special ses-
sion of Congress will do some
thing special for the library
service bill, which will expire
next June unless the program
is extended.
The renewal of the pro-
gram which brought books
within reach to some 80 mil
lion readers in the past five
years, passed the Senate
without any trouble. But in
the House it has been stalled
in the Rules Committee.
The library services bill
started some 200 bookmobiles
chugging around the back
roads of the United States,
added S million books to the
bookShelves of the Nation
under a cooperative Federal
State scheme.
Appreciative Readers
The reservations enter
tanned by the Rules Commit
tee about its efficacy and
necessity are not echoed by
the patrons of the five-year-
old service.
An old man in Texas, en-
joying the first public Ii
brary patronage of his life,
wrote in to say this: 1T is al
most too much for me. When
/ look at all these books OF
knowledge and adventure at
my fngertipS and think OF
hoW much PUe missed in the
past. I'm Just desperate to
kno,D where to begin."
The wife of a New Mexico
forest ranger put the hunger
for books more starkly: This
bookmobile is a bright spot
in our Ines. We liUe for the
times it comes: Ue need the
reading to keep US sane. It's
lonely out here"
The American Library As
ISOLATION is asking its friends
to lobby, either by letter or
in person for positive action
on the bill before the special
session is over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14

death IN 1899 at va, the near
est thing we've had to the
genuinely cultured man Of
Renaissance flavor.
This book, by a former
Rome correspondent for the
Manchester Guardian, is the
first biography of Mr.. Ber-
enson. Miss Sprigge visited
BerenSon often and appar-
emily knew him quite well.
Brilliant Youth
Mr.. Berenson was born in
the Lithuania part of Russia.
was taken to Boston by his
penniless immigrant parents
at 10. He went to Harvard
after a year at Boston Uni
versity and had embarked
upon his art-connoisSeurship
in Europe by the time he
was %.
The most fortunate thing
that befell young BerenSon
was his friendship with Mrs.
Jack Gardner. 1t led to his
assembling for her cat a per
cent fec the art collection
which is now in the Gardner
Museum in Boston. 1t was
the first great American COL
lection in private hands and
it was a good one. 1t led to
others which eliminated in
the great Mellon collection of
the National Gallery of Art.
1t led also to the 30-year
partnership of Mr.. BerenSon
and Lord Duveen.
Fame and Wealth
The Duveen connection
brought Berenson fame, riches
100000 pounds a year and a
5 per cent commission and.
as long as it lasted. SatiSfac-
ton. The break came in 1886
in a dispute over a picture.
BerenSon refused to identify
a Nativity" owned by Lord
AllenSdale as a Giorgione. He
said it was an early Titan.
Mr.. Mellon did buy it as a
Giorgione and it hangs to-
day, so labeled, in our Ma
tional Gallery. The picture,
Miss Sprigge says. is now
recognized in Berenson's
Lists of Venetian Renais-
Sance Paintings" as a Gior-
gione but with a notation that
it was probably finished by
Titan I wish she'd asked
Mr.. Berenson why he changed
his mind.
Amiable Memoir
The accounts of life at the
Berensons' Florentine Villa
II Tatti" are among the
freshest material in this
rambling amiable memoir.
I Tatti attracted the best
young talent in the art
world. Among them was an
American, John Walker. who
was so favorably received
that Berenson, according to
Miss Sprigge, made him
promise that he would take
over II Tatti" when it be-
came a museum. Later he
was released from his
promise and became director
of the National Gallery here.
AS art connoisseur Beren-
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LITERARY TREASURE
Early Authorship
OfThomos Mann
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

SKETCH OF MY LIFE. BY Thomas Mann translated
from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter Knopf; $3.50
This brief memoir, concerned with the earlier literary
life of the German master published in German
magazine 1880 and the year English trans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
;ouThERN cnlWlRY AReuMENTxs.sy. clun,:
CONNOISSEUR EXTRAORDINARY
Berenson Biography
Bores Expert oIent

BERENSON. BY Sylvia Sprigge OIoughon Mifhin Co.;
So
Specialization usually limits mans outlook This
the Berenson. He specialized in
art in Italian art in Italian art of the Renaissance But
after long life practicing his specially he was his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Other Books of the Week in Brief

day: $685. An exalted
story of the Occult.
GUIDE FOR LIVING. BY
Pope Plus XII. (Longmans,
Green; $4.50D Selected
addresses and letters of
His Holiness.
THE UNITED NATIONS:
DESIGN FOR PEACE. BY
Stephen S. Fenichell. holt,
Rinehart & Winston;
$3.250 A behind the-scenes
report on how United Ma
tons agencies are working
in all parts of the world,
improving standards of
health, education and tech
nology to remove causes of
war.
IN SEARCH OF HUMAN
ITY. By Alfred Cobban.
CBraziller; $4.50.D The
role of the enlightenment
in modern history.
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son had no equal. As a writer
he was a man of crochets
and prejudices, the same as
any other. One of his pecu-
liarities: he was unimpreSSed
with Leonardo da Vinci. The
faces in the Last Supper he
found "uncanny, too big and
too many. And, of the Mona
Lisa: "A woman beyond the
reach of my sympathies, or
of the ken of my interests
:. Watchful, sly, secure, with
a smile of anticipated salts
faction and a pervading air
of hostile superiority"
Favored Renaissance
The Renaissance was his
great love. He simply toll
Grated other art and other
eras. Few moderns caught
his eye. He had a disarming
way of simply asking, in
wide-eyed innocence. Exact
ly "Whdt is Mannerism?"
AS Berenson grew older he
turned more and more to the
natural beauty available to
the eye. less to the man
made beauty on the cam
vases he knew so we'll. Was
it not his master, Walter
Pater, who wrote: For art
comes to you frankly pro-
posing to give nothing but
the highest quality to your
moments as they pass, and
simply for those moments
sake"
EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14

'StondIns Week Ending August 5, 1860.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-07
YOU TOO
CAN BE A
HIT SINGER
By CURT GUNTHER
Sunday Group

In the last few years so many new record
companies have popped up 1t seems almost as
though there was gold strike and everyone was
trying to stake claim Though the trend dates
back to the md-1950s the surging record bust
ness is still on the upgrade and showing no signs
of stopping.
The payoff, of course is to find the song and
singer to hit the Nations top-ten record list. Al
ways in back of the mind when record is being
prepared is: "Wi the teen-agers buy it?" The
question of whether it's good music seldom arises
Because the established record companies
have lease on nearly all the well-known vocal
1sts-Elvis Presley Ricky Nelson, Annette Fa-
bian, Paul Anka, the Everly Brothers, etc.-the
new companies, to survive, have to be adept at
Spotting new songs and new vocalists. Apparently
this is not too difficult, at least If one tries
To make sure of not missing dreamboat
small record companies, like the new and prosper
ing Laurie label in New York, hold regular audi
tons for aspiring teen-age vocalists with with
out previous experience. All they have to do
Is walk In.
The theory, in effect, says any youth can
be a hit if the circumstances are right.
On addition days, twice week. any teen
ager who thinks he can sing as well as the
sounds that come from his radio land he probably
CAM Is welcome to demonstrate his vocal style in
the Laurie studios. If he, or she, happens to hit
responsive chord during the tryouts, contract
and a record can be signed and sealed in a matter
of days.
In the 193Os and the 1940s, popular music
had more limited sound and tempo range. To-
day, the record men who must decide for their
companies what's to be sung, who's to sing it, and
how say anything goes in the pop field. All you
need is a gimmick-a peculiar sound or some