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Evening star., 1960-07-24
FICTION

THE SECOND LIFE OF
CAPTAIN CONTRERAS.
BY Torcuato Luca de Tena.
Houghton, Mifflin, $3.50.
The story of a 18th CEN
tury soldier of fortune.
FLIGHT INTO FURY. BY
Ruth and Searle Simmons.
Vantage, $3.50. The
backstage story of Fair
Grandstand Show life.
THE INQUISITORS. BY
jerry Andrzeje wski.
(Knopf, $3.50. Reprint of
the 1857 Polish original set
the 18th century Spain.
ENDEARING ENDEAVORS.
BY Rose Hinton Martin.
pageant, $3.50. Poetry.
AFTER RAIN. BY Alice Glen
don McKenna. Vantage.
So. A love story in prose
and poetry.
SLIGHTLY SOILED SAINT.
By Gordon F. Morkel,
NJ. D. (Dorrance, $3.50.
The story of flying doctors.
THE UNICORN. BY Thomas
G. Buchanan. Sloane,
$3.50. An allegory, a tale
of love and virtue, set in
the Biblical city of Sodom.
THE FACE OF THE CITY.
BY Garry Fleming. phil
osophical, $3.75). First part
of THE Grand Design:
The Epic of Man and The
Drama of America With
The Tale of Nature, and
the Story of Things"
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Miss Steen's I'D Novel
Is Engaging Narrative

anyway, though, but his pro-
posal contains warning-his
real life is centered at Shag-
ford and he belongs to the
students. Everything else
takes second place"
After a years sojourn in
the dull little college town
Ellen finds this is all too true.
Her misery is complete when
she discovers that her daugh-
ter, now a sort of Suburban
beatnik, is in love with Paul,
and that the vice is versa.
High Sounding Excuses
This is a well-told and
fairly interesting story, but
the Characterization, eSpe-
claIly OF Paul, is unreallStlc.
Too obviously designed to ap-
peal to feminine fancy, Miss
Steen attempts to sketch the
hero as a op his tic a t e d.
charming soap opera grandee.
Actually he appears selfish
and rather weak-just an
other citizen who refuses to
face family responsibilities
but is adept at phrasing high
sounding excuses for his con-
duct. We're living in an age
of unreason, and all we can
do is to face the mess to
which evolution's brought us. /"
Boiled down, t.;is seems to
say something like "It's a lot
easier-and loads more fun
to let nature take its course. "
Poor Ellen.
BONNIE AIKMAN.
Evening star., 1960-07-24

vigorous" candidate for
president. Obviously he means
two different things here.
The coming months will
surely clarity the distinction.
Dramatically, he makes
the mistake of saying "he
told Bobby and T., a familiar
misuse which he may institu-
tionalize.
His running mate, Senator
johnson, runs to the earthly
metaphor, to practical SYM
bolism. When Senator John
son was running against
Senator Kennedy for the top
spot, he was wont to tell eau
cuses "It'S time to count the
coonskins on the wall" 1t
turned out. of course, that his
was the last nailed up, but at
the time, the sentence had an
ominous authoritative ring.
The vice presidential can
didate has a turn for the
cryptic phrase, too. He was
always telling the farm state
d eleg tes that they had
more in common with Aus
tin than, Boston" He de-
scribeS the world situation in
vivid terms: This isn't any
Sunday school picnic or an
Epworth Singing Society.
They are putting on the brass
knucks and you're in trouble"
The Senator also has a fair
for the climactic construc-
ton. Now he will put to work
for Senator Kennedy, instead
Of against him.. such step
ping-Stone sentences as this:
Il raise cattle, I raise hogs,
I raise corn; I know what it
is to have half your land
taken out of production"
Lost ElOquence
Rhetorically speaking, any,
way, it is a balanced ticket.
The peak of the convention
for word-lovers, however,
came with the speech of
Senator Mccarthy of Mime
sofa, in nominating Adlai
Stevenson. Senator McCar-
thy, a sedate number in the
Senate, cut loose with an
Grafton that rocked the hall.
Eloquent pleader in a lost
cause, Senator Mccarthy
gave his listeners something
to remember after the
placards we're trampled to
dust and the frantic cries of
Mr.. Chairman" had echoed
through the appointment Of
the last cabinet member.
do not" he cried, reject
this man who made us all
proud to be called Demo-
Gratis. Do not leave this
prophet without honor in
his own country"
His words, unheeded. were
the most memorable of the
thousands spoken in the
Sports Arena.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Why Some
Distrust
UsAbrood
THE NATION ON THE FLY

THE NATION ON THE FLY
ING TRAPEZE. BY James
Saxon Childers. David
Mckay Co., Inc; $4.509
"It is fashionable to at
tack the United States" a
man in India told James
Saxon Childers, who was
travelling through eight Far
and Middle Eastern countries
as a representative of the
State Department.
Mr.. Childers, a former At
lanta newspaper editor, full
filled his mission with a great
deal of zest. He lectured in
clubs, schools and universe
ties. and talked to educators,
students, editors, business
men and to anyone who
would listen. And in these
conversations, supplemented
by close observation, he tried
to detect the reasons for the
soft spots in United States
foreign policy which are set
forth in THE Nation on the
Flying Trapeze."
In general, the author
found great affection for
America. But the huge sums
spent on foreign aid are cas-
ually taken for granted. East
Indians bitterly resent Amer
ican segregation, despite their
own rigid caste system. Our
policy of arming Pakistan
also aggravates India. Arabs
deplore our helping Israel.
japanese warn of the grow
ing menace of Red China.
Self interest is predominant.
But in Vietnam, the United
States built an unneeded su-
per-highway stretching 80
miles from Saigon. 1t cost
about 81 million a mile and
goes nowhere.
Russian aid is planned
more methodically. 1t is
Evening star., 1960-07-24
A PLAYFUL HOUSE CAT IN AFRICA
AsUsuoI,
All Our Fault
AN APPROACH no SANITY.

nv al NOhSh III S1ENI i
A Study Of East-West
Relations. BY Field Mar
shall Montgomery. CWorld;
S2.75O
Bernard Law Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein is
making a career out of be-
laboring. the obvious and
helping his Prime Minister,
Sir Harold Macmillan. steer
Europe along paths which
will assure Britain's survival
as a great power.
Exhibit A is this small
book, built around two lee
lures he gave at oxford.
He sees the United States
as a od-hearted, vastly en-
dowed power given to major
bungles but saved from
complete disaster by the
genius of the less-powerful
yet infinitely more clever
British ally. His formula
for bringing long-term peace
is to drop German reunifica-
ton as a goal now; to give
the Soviet Union what 1t
wants (which he calls Euro
pean security" but Wash
ington sees as "disengage-
ment" and recognition of
the status quoD; and then
to live on hope that the
Soviet Union would allow
German reunification later.
Meanwhile, stay strong,
America, and sic 'em If
Russia gets tough.
EARL HI. VOSS.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Nuzi Prison Days
Recalled by Texan

KRIEGIE. BY Kenneth w.
Simmons. (Thomas Nell
son g. Sons; $3.95)
Both grim and inspiring,
here is a book which may
become notable simply be-
cause of the authors ap-
parent mastery Of total re-
call.
Mr.. Simmons, now an in
surance company sales di-
rector, was a "Kriegie" -
prisoner of war after his
bomber was shot down over
Nazi Germany. Through
his Imprisonment, he kept
his notes on rolls of toilet
paper carefully concealed.
When he was freed he re-
turned to Texas, seven rolls
Of paper in his luggage, but
a thief took luggage and
notes from his parked car.
Then total recall set in.
1t is interesting reading.
&C. J. YARBROUGH.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
MAN OF VAST
WEALTH LIVES
IN OBSCURITY
THE RICHEST AMERI-

THE RICHEST AMERI-
CAN. BY Ralph Hewins.
(E. P. Dutton g. Co.,
Inc; So
j. Paul Getty is one Of
the worlds richest and
most mysterious men. He
is a Millionaire and yet has
enjoyed the anonymity of
a pauper.
Mr.. Getty, now 81, was
a millionaire at %. Al
though his parents were
wealthy, Mr.. Getty made
most of his first million
on his own. The author
makes the point that Mr..
Getty might have amassed
even greater wealth If
differences with his par
ents had not slowed down
his financial climb.
Mr.. Getty's oil empire
stretches halfway around
the world. He owns hotels,
ships and many art treas
ures. Yet, he lives in a
hotel room-more like a
hermit than a Millionaire.
The oil tycoon has had
five unsuccessful marri-
ages. He seldom sees his
children and is admittedly
a lonely man.
Mr.. HeWinS' biography
is frank, though friendly.
and dispels the mystery
which has cloaked the
richest American.
ALFRED ALIBRANDO.
Evening star., 1960-07-24

THE WOMAN IN THE
BACK SEAT Doubleday,
$3,95, novel number % by
Miss Marguerite Steen, has a
familiar theme-love's frail
vessel shattered on the rocks
of marriage.
Back-seat navigator here is
an 18-year-old English girl
who becomes engaged to a
childhood friend the day
after her fathers funeral.
Anxious to escape her over
bearing, hypochondriac
mother, Ellen has no real
feeling for Ian, a mild and
sensitive person who loves
her deeply. In a brave at
tempt to act the role of a
good wife" she only succeeds
in developing a guilt complex
"a state of mind which
poisons her future family
relationships.
Becomes Secretary
When Ian dies Ellen leaves
her daughter in England and
hires out as secretary to a
pompous but widely cele-
brated writer at his sumptu-
Gus Riviera villa. Here, be-
tween manuscripts, she falls
in love at last.
The man is Paul Vilmorin,
a literature instructor in a
small poor boys" college in
Shagford, England. The pro-
feSsor is having his annual
fling and is a little dismayed
to have it interrupted by this
"marriage-type love-"
He ups and marries her
Evening star., 1960-07-24

damaged the front of the
residence of Attorney Gen.
eral A. Mitchell Palmer in
Washington and killed the
man who was placing the
bomb.
However, as Mr.. Montgom-
cry brings out, the prosecu-
tion at the Sacco-Vanzetti
trial did not go into the po-
litical views of the Defend
ants. These were brought out
by the defendants themselves
on the witness stand as ex-
planning why Sacco was
armed when arrested and
why Vanzettti had shotgun
shells-they were afraid be-
cause of the temper Of the
times.
Position OF Jurors
1t was widely charged and
is still believed by many
that the two men were con-
victed because they were
radicals. Eight Of the sur
viving members of the jury
were interviewed in recent
years and all said they were
not influenced by anything
but the evidence in the case.
This evidence is confusing
and conflicting. Certain eye
witnesses placed Vanzetti in
the car in which the bandits
were escaping. Sacco's cap
was supposed to have been
found at the scene of the
murders. Some Of the eye
witnesses were not too sure.
Each of the defendants had
an alibi, but they relied
largely on compatriotS who
were in the anarchist move
ment or were Communists
and there were holes in the
alibis, particularly in VAN
zetti's.
BalIistic evidence indi-
Gated that the fatal bullet
found in the payroll guards
body could we'll have been
fired from Sacco's gun.
More persuasive, Sacco car
ried extra bullets of a rare,
obsolete type which matched
the murder bullet.
The defendants both lied
about their movements when
they were arrested. This
they later admitted, explain
ing that they were afraid
they would be deported. But
Sacco had already applied
for a one-way passport to
Italy.
I suggest that you read
this book and make up your
own mind If that is
possible after all these
years and all the irrespon-
Sible charges. In Commu-
mist textbooks the case is a
classic example of capitalis-
tic injustice. In many mod
crate publications, it has
been cited as an obvious in
stance of justice gone
wrong.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
TroveI Spool
On ourists
And Guides
is EUROPE NECESSARY?
BY Ronald M. Deutsch.
Henry Holt: $2.95.l

40 LOhOE Il NESLSSAn1
BY Ronald M. Deutsch.
Henry Holt; $2.950
This is a hilarious spool
of the American traveller,
with most of its barbs di-
rected at the people who
take him in hand during his
trip.
BY the time Mr.. Deutsch
reaches THE End" he has
ripped the travel folders to
shreds, pulled the exposed
film into the sunlight, and
explained how the steamship
companies can afford to Of
fer such lavish meals.
A sample: In a f1ctional
conversation with a guide
book writer, the writer. tells
him: For seven centuries
these walls have stood a bas-
ton against. You see, the
castle commanded. And from
the watchtower the order
was given which sent. Once
croSsbows fired from these
sally ports. And in a mad
attempt to seize it, Eleanor
of Aquitaine lost. OF course,
she was deceived by. FFan-
co.'s 1 stripped a kingdom to
build it, and 100 men died
before it reached"
The man who has Travelled
abroad, as well as the one
who hopes some day to do
so, will get many a hearty
chuckle and a few belly
laughs from rs Europe Nee
essary?"
JACK JONAS.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
GENERAL

NORTH AFRICA: NATION
ALISM TO NATION
HOOD. BY Lorna Hahn.
public Affairs; So Draws
together the pattern of
events in all of North Afri-
ca during these past years.
THE SEXLESS DYNASTY.
BY DR.. William w. Bolton.
(Dorrance; So Evaluation
of social changes that are
becoming more and more
apparent.
DISCIPLINE ACHIEVE
MENT AND NTAL
HEALTH. BY E. Lakin Phil
lips, Daniel N. Wiener and
Norris G.. Haring. (Pren-
tice-Hall; $50 Shows how
teachers and parents can
inter-relate major areas of
education, discipline,
achievement and mental
health to solve problems of
child behavior.
EVERYBODY'S BOOK OF
BETTER SPEAKING. BY
Dorothy Urls. mckay;
4.95D A personal workshop
plan for improving your
conversational and speak
ing skillS.
SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN
FAMILIES. BY earle c.
Zimmerman and Lucius F.
Vervantes, pageant; So
Intensive study Of Ameri-
can family life.
HEY CRACKIE. BY Walter
E. McCracken. (Vantage;
$2.75D A grandpa tells his
grandson what he did when
he was a boy.
COM MON nee IN
EVERYDAY LIFE. BY o.
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pictureSqueneSS that derives
from farm and range. In
other words, there is a COM
bination of town and country
here that may be just the
thing.
Readers are by now we'll
aware that Senator Kennedy
is one of them. He is a
history and biography man,
and re m e m b ers what he
reads. The charge that he
draws all his word-strength
from "Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations" is a canard. In
many cases he is familiar
with the original, in context.
His first big set speech,
when he predictably accepted
his party's nomination, not
only promised well, rhetoric
ally for the campaign; it
quieted the whimpers of the
followers of Adlai Stevenson
who are addicted to SYM
phonic prose.
Stated to Teeth
Senator Kennedy, who is
stated to the teeth in every
department, is well-provided
with Speechwriters. They
served him we'll in his OPEN
er; and he served them, and
himself we'll. by a more con-
f1dent delivery than usual.
The address had a theme;
the new frontier Of 1860. 1t
was stuffed with quotations.
There was a distortion of a
Lincoln maxim. which the
crowd found well adapted to
his rival Vice-President
Nixon, who, the young nomi-
nee said displayed charity
for none and malice for all. :"
Young Senator Kennedy
made effective use of the
"Argumentum ad hominen"
so dear to rhetoricians. Give
me your hand, your help and
your vote. :"
Grammatical Problem
The Southern Californian
Stevensonians, the m oS t
clamorous and unreconciled
in the land. were for the first
time disarmed.
The following day in his
press conference, the new
leader of the Democrats re-
vealed he has an excellent
vocabulary and a slight
grammatical problem.
He was brief and to the
point. used good, progressive
adjectives. He described the
attitude Of Red China, in
succession as "belligerent'
and "bellicose." He uses the
word vigorous" as a syno-
nym for a number OF
qualities. He thinks Senator
Johnson will be a wig
orous" candidate for vice
president. He thinks Vice
President Nixon will be 6
Evening star., 1960-07-24
WILD BILL HICKOK. B.

Richard O'Connor. (Dou-
bleday & Co.; $3.950
The number of James But
Ter wild Bill" Hickok's un-
successful opponents at the
ungentle art of the fast draw
has often been estimated at
anywhere from rs to 100,
excluding Indians and Con-
federateS.
However, the total casual
ty list of this colorful pioneer,
so far as can be determined
by diligent research and a
determined skepticism, was
actually IT, again excluding
Redskins and Johnny Rebs.
Mr.. O'Connor, who has
done a similar work on the
cane-wielding Bat Master
son, writes that this would be
enough, certainly, to give the
ordinary citizen bad dreams.
But in all except three of his
gunfights, Hickok was wear
ing a badge and in the three
exceptions, the other men
were the aggressors.
Actually, Hickok's greatest
pleasure was not in killing
badmen but in yarning away
in various barrooms.
He was a colorful man
with his stallion-tail mus
tache, his pearl-handled pis-
tolls and his waistcoats of the
finest brocade. Nobody knows
why Jack Mccall elected to
murder Hickok in a Dead
wood saloon. Wild Bills back
was turned and he was glum-
ly studying the last poker
hand Of his career-a pair of
aces, a pair of eights and a
queen kicker. Ever after
wards, aces and eights would
Evening star., 1960-07-24
A Dogs World
TOP DOG. BY Mary Cobb

TOP DOG. BY Mary Cobb
Doubleday; $685.
This novel about dogs and
people who breed and show
dogs - particularly French
poodles - makes one think
perhaps it should be a dogs
world. Most Of the people
involved in this neverthe-
less readable book are not
very likeable in their bitter
struggle to reach top place
with their pooches. French
poodle fanciers say this is
an accurate picture of the
dog-eat-dog world of canine
shows. M. p.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Other Books of the Week in Brief

A. Battista. Bruce; $2.75D
Commonscience is a meth
cd of doing or looking at
something in a more eff
cient or better way for you.
SELLING: ITS BROADER
DIMENSIONS. BY Taylor
w. Mclean and John M.
Rathmell. Shows how the
salesman of today can meet
the increasingly rigorous
demands of the modern
business world.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Wild Bill Hickok
Finds New Historian

be known as the Dead Mans
Hand.
Take that!" said Jack Nc
Call, and the amazing career
Of Wild Bill was ended. He
left little behind him but a
vast and swollen body of
Bunyanesque fable. He went
out of the world fiat broke,
in fact, owing the saloon in
which he died $50 for the
chips in his Dead Mans
Hand.
JERRY O'LEARY, JR
Evening star., 1960-07-24
READING AND WRITING
Democratic Ticket
Shows Prose Pottern
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

is possible to trace the shape Of the prose that
would come out of Democratic administration.
Already we what the campaign is going to be
like from the verbal standpoint
At the of the ticket from Kennedy unabashed
have eracy: the other end Senator Johnson
Evening star., 1960-07-24
AN EXPLOSIVE TRIAL
Socco-Vonzetti Case
Seen From New AnqIe
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star pook Critic

SACCO-VANZETTI: THE MURDER AND THE MYTH
BY Robert H. Montgomery. Devin-Adair: So
While this book probably will cause hberaS-those VINO
bother over-to temperature deserves
to be read and considered.
gives the other side the unpopular slde OF an Aerl-
ceebre
The author. Massachusetts, LAWYER, graduate OF
Evening star., 1960-07-24
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Evening star., 1960-05-07
Portable Scales Catch
7OverIooded Trucks

A two-day police and high
way department drive to stor
overloaded trucks on District
streets has nettted at least
seven arrests this week.
The campaign was made pos
sible by a new portable weight
scales purchased by the city:
highway department.
If a motorcycle policeman
sees a truck that he thinks is
carrying too heavy a load, he
stops the truck and radios for
the highway department. Then
a highway department man
comes to the scene and weighs
the truck.
Pvt. James D. Sandy of the
traffic division and Carl c.
Stump of the District Highway
Department were detailed to
look for overloaded trucks on
Wednesday.
Six Arrested
Pvt. Sandy arrested six
drivers, all carrying sand OF
gravel, out of the 40 to SO
trucks that were spot checked
Arrested were Samuel Farmer
48, of the 1400 block Of Merid-
ian place NV, for carrying ar
overweight of 10000 pounds:
william King. 81, of the 5000
block of Rollins avenue, $500
pounds overweight; Bennie
Huston, As, 1900 block of Fifty
Evening star., 1960-05-07

second avenue, Hillside, Md.
.8,700 pounds overweight.
Also, Oscar D. Jeter, 38, 460C
block of Saint Barnabas road
Sc, 1900 pounds overweight;
Pompey Jackson. 38, of the
unit block of K street NE, $500
pounds overweight; Charles B
Person. 81. 400 block of N street
NV. II, 200 pounds overweight
Up to $50 Fines
In Municipal Court Person
who was taking his first trip
as a truck driver when ar
rested, was sentenced to pay
a $50 fine or serve 10 days in
jail. Farmer, King and Hus-
ton we're sentenced to $25 fines
or 10 days in jail. The cases
Of Jeter and jackson we're con-
tinued until May 20.
On the second day of the
campaign Edward E. Nichols,
81, Of the $500 block of Walker
Mill road, District Heights,
Md, was arrested. Municipal
Court Judge Catherine Kelly
sentenced him to a $25 fine
or 10 days in jail.
Evening star., 1960-05-07
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Arena Stage-"The Disen-
chanted," 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Catholic University-"Sweet
William" $50 pm.
National - Mary Stuart, "
2 and $50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - Tall Story"
lis, ESQ, 4:30, $40, 8 and
$50 pm.
Apex-"Anatomy of Love" "
6;l5, 8 and $50 pm.
Capitol-"Please Don't Eat
the Daisies" 1920 am, 1925.
$3.50, 5:35, 7:35, s:40 and HAS
pm.
Dupont - BLACK OrpheuS, &"
1:10, $40, $40. 7:30, $40 and
li:50 pm.
Keith's - THE Unforgiven, !"
11:15 am..SA1:45. 4:20, $50,
9:25 and IL pm.
MacArthur-"The Man in a
Cooked Hat" 2:30, 4:20, 6:10,
8 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan Tall Story, -
l1:4O am. 1:25, 3, 4:45, $40,
$40 and 10 pm.
Ontario-"Our Man in Ha-
vana," 1:25, $40, 5:55, $40
and 1925 pm.
Palace-"The Fugitive Kind
l1:5O am, 2:15, 4:35. 7, 9:2O
and 11:40 pm.
Playhouse - Rosemary" IL,
1:55, $50, 5:45, TAO, $50 pm.
Plaza - Private Property" p"
Has am, lis. 2::3O, $50, $40,
$50, 8:25, 9:55 and 1880 pm.
Town - Greatest Show on
Earth" l1:05 am, LAS, 4:25,
7:05, GAS pm. and 1925 am
Trans-Lux - Suddenly Last
Summer" II am, ITO, $3.50
$50, $40 and 1890 pm.
Misunderstanding" 2 anc
8 pm.