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Evening star., 1960-10-30
A Sotirist Looks Upon
Bureoucrots at Work
ARSENIC AND RED TAPE

ARSENIC AND RED TAPE.
BY Edmund G. Love. (Har-
court, Brace & Co.; $3.750
AS death by arsenic poison
ing can be deceptive, some
times blamed on the vic
TINS more obvious ailments,
Mr.. Love sees a great threat
to American life in the ar
senic-like strangling Of red
tape, springing out of the
complex challenges Of keep
ing alive today and pulled
tight around the throats Of
our countrymen by the great
est Of all poiSonerS, the
bureaucrat.
In a series Of IL satirical
exposes of bureaucrats at
work, the author shows the
processes by which they at
tempt to undermine inde-
pendent thinking, and the
frantic retreat of those who
dare to oppose them.
The utopia the bureaucrat
is trying to create is directed
smoothly and efficiently by
Government pamphlets (pro-
duced en- masSe but writ
Evening star., 1960-10-30

past. They demand Eastern
retribution when she insists
she has been seduced by
David.
There is no question but
what Miss Yorke knows what
she is writing about. The
atmosphere of the rubber
plantation, its drudgery and
boredom is compellingly con-
veyed. She Is less successful,
however with her characters.
Zainah. ever present, ever
listening, is a kind of uni
versal busybody with little
special appeal. The story is
of passion and revenge, but
with a heroine with a pro-
found instinct for self-preser-
vation, it lacks an operatic
quality. Miss Yorke impresses
more with her skill than
her art.
Evening star., 1960-10-30
World. War II
AsGen. Ismuy
Recalls 1t
THE MEMOIRS OF GEN.
ERAL LORD ISMAY. (Vi-
king Press; $6.500

THE MEMOIRS OF GEN.
ERAL LORD ISNfAY. (Vi-
king Press; $6.500
At last we have q fascinat-
ing collection Of facts on
events, people. places and
policies Of World War II
that avoids any self-right-
eous aspersions, even OBJ
liquely on the abilities Of
others. It is q very refresh
ing experience to read such a
work at last.
Hastings Lionel Ismay,
elevated to the peerage in
1947, was Winston Chruch-
ills chief-of-staff from the
fall of France to the end Of
the war. AS such, he re-
manned relatively obscure in
the public prints; his job
was to be the Prime Minis
ter's shadow" and closest
aide. He was content to
leave to the combat generals
and the prima donnas the
headlines in the war news Of
the allied world.
Vivid Story
Lord Ismay, writing with
great skill and simplicity.
weaves a vivid, detailed
story Of the years from the
despair of 1910 to the victory
of 1945. II the readers in
terest ever lags, 1t Is perhaps
when the gripping account Of
the war years subsidies into
less exciting events.
All the great names Of
these stupendouS times pass
across Lord Isrnay's pages,
and somehow each takes on
a real, vibrant aliveness
that makes one feel present
in person, whatever the oc-
caSion.
Key Roles
President Roosevelt, Harry
Hopkins, Ambassador Wi
nant, Gen. Eisenhower, Gen.
Marshall and other leading
Americans are described and
appraised judiciously as they
play their key roles in the
welding Of the mighty mill
tary alliance that buried
Hitler'S "thous a n d-year
Reich" under the rubble of
the Reichschancellory in
Berlin.
But most Of all, the hero
Of the book is Winston
Churchill. THE greatest
Englishman of his time. per-
haps Of all time" he writes
Of the man who led Britain
from Dunkirk to Potsdam.
If the praise is extravagant,
it is certainly well document
ed and convincing. Lord
Ismay is reticent only when
talking Of himself and his
own war honors-he just
never mentions the latter.
FIRED THEROUX.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

ten in SUCH a complicated
style only their authors can
understand them), and is
made up Of housewives who
run their homes with clock
like precision by adhering to
time-Saving schedules (but
lose. their husbands in the
process), by super-market
clerks who line up their
wares enticingly (but hate
their customers who ruin the
display when they make a
purchaSe) and of Army
WACS whose complicated
system of processing recruits,
based on looks and pocket
book, keep the undesirables
speeding towards the front
line (while keeping these who
make the grade stationed in
California for the duration).
Hope for the anti-bureau-
crat lies in the time Of unex-
pected crisis, when a moment
of human frailty spoils the
system. Then it will founder
and collapse, and humanity
may be granted a reprieve
until a new pamphlet can be
printed with instructions on
what to do next.
-ELIZABETH McNELLY.
Evening star., 1960-10-30
Other Books of the Week Reviewed in Brief

textbook but combining
with it appropriate allu-
sions. quotations and even
comments which are usu-
ally absent from such books.
A really good job of its kind.
FATHERS DAY COMES
ONCE A YEAR AND
THEN 1T ALWAYS RAINS.
BY Harold H. Martin. put
nam, $3.76. A father of
four, the author, speaks
out for fathers everywhere.
HEROES OF THE WEST
ERN WOODS. BY Ralph
w. Andrews. Dutton;
$500 The story of men
with big dreams who con-
Quered the vast forest of
California. Washington and
Oregon.
THE HARVARD BRIEF
DICTIONARY OF MUSIC.
BY Will APPEL and Ralph
T. Daniel. (Harvard; $3.50
A junior companion to the
famous Harvard Dictionary
of Music.
Evening star., 1960-10-30
FICTION

RABBIT, RUN. BY John Up
dixie. (Knopf, $4). The
story of a one-time high
school basketball star who
deserts his wife and leads
a rather vague existence.
WE SAW THE SEA. BY John
Winton. est. Martins,
$3.50. BY the author of
We Joined the Navy.
THE POWERS OF POETRY.
BY Gilbert Highet. (Oxford
University Press; $60 What
Leonard Bernstein is doing
for music in his illustrated
television lectures MIR.
Highet does here for poetry.
First-rate popularizations
from Gray'S Elegy to Eliot's
Waste Land.
COME WITH ME HOME.
BY Gladys Hasty Carroll.
Oittle, Brown, $4). A story
about a woman, her friends,
her neighbors and the
stranger who seeks her out.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

more than mere mention.
Mr.. Ketchum writes an in
PRODUCTION in which he dis
cusses them.
On-the-spot pictorial Inn
pressions of the war were
largely sketches by artists Of
varying ability. the most
famous of them Winslow
Homer. The new art of pho
Biography was rapidly de-
veloping. however, and
Mathew Brady and others
followed the armies with fine
results Tor that era.
Tell Memorable Story
Photo-engraving had yet to
come, though, and In those
days it was necessary for
some one to copy the pic
ture with engravings on zinc
or stone. Whenever possible,
the present editors re-photo-
graphed originals. reproduc-
ing them with modern meth
odS Of engraving. Many are
in color. The pictures tell a
memorable story. aside from
the vivid text. The maps Of
battlef1eldS, easy to UNDER
stand, are particularly en-
tightening.
In sum, American Heritage
has turned out one Of the
years handsomest and most
informative books.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

dresses, for q decision she
made some years ago, namely
that it is far more fun to
shatter life with scornful
laughter than to be shattered
by it. AS an absolute act of
faith by a woman who uses
relatives only as writing ma
terial. she proved the hilari-
Gus potential Of this with
please Don't Eat The
Daisies"
He'll Be First Man"
She underscores it beauti-
fully with The Snake Has
All The Lines"
It is about everything,
husbands, children, houses,
hotels. family cars. the
theater. and even Lolita"
type novels. One can only
await the day when her
horizon is pushed back to
give her a clear view Of such
more general subjects as
American prestige, the missile
lag, religious bigotry, the
cold war. Quemoy and MatSu,
and making left turns from
the right-hand lane.
That's when Walter will
find himself the first First
Man" in the White House.
JAY CARMODY.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

doubtful II the Civil War
centennial will bring any
book that better carries out
its purpose
Mr.. Cation, Of course, is
widely known for his books
on the period. This Wash
ington writer has won a
Pulitzer Prize and a Ma
tional Book Award for his
series of books on McClel-
lands army and on Grants
campaign.
Impartial Presentation
While Mr.. Cations Civil
War narratives have been
from the Union side. you'd
look in vain in the Heritage
history for any partiality in
presenting a rounded por-
trayal Of the internecine con-
flict. The South's valiant
effortS-her victories and her
lei ders-are given equal
space and equal credit with
the exploits of the fighting
men from the North.
Here Mr.. Cation had to
tell a lot in comparatively
few words, to condense a
great deal, to sketch out,
even briefly, the entire war.
And yet many of the lyrical
touches which have made his
writing distinguished come
through here, too.
The pictures are worth
Evening star., 1960-10-30
EZRA POUND. BY Charles
Norman. (The Macmillan
Co.; $685.

ELEtA EOONDs by OIlaTleS
Norman. (The Macmillan
Co.; $685.
Ezra Pound Is rs today and
this is his birthday biogra-
ply. 1t is not an ofiicial .biog-
raphy (although the author
refers to Mr.. Pound as having
read q certain passage in
proof and it is not an apol.
ogy; put it down. rather, as
a sympathetic treatment.
The Pound who interests
Mr.. Norman is the young
man who went to Europe
from Pennsylvania in the
first years Of this century to
become the discoverer and
encourager Of Robert Frost,
T. S. Eliot. James Joyce and
Ernest Hemingway. The
Pound who interests him less
is the author Of almost innu-
merable books Of poetry and
criticism, much of it totally
unintelligible to the average
reader. The Pound who In
terests him least is the men,
tai patient who broadcast
against his country during
the war and spent IL years
in st. Elizabeths Hospital.
The biographical facts are
fairly well known. The ex-
tent Of Pounds role as a
founder Of modern poetry is
given here perhaps for the
first time in one place. It's
even more impressive than
we had known. Take the case
of Eliot, for example. Eliot
sent him a much-too-lo long
manuscript that no one would
publish. Pound cut it in half,
found a publisher for it and
then set up a fund for the
author so he could keep on
writing. That kind of critical
Evening star., 1960-10-30
DEATH TO TRAITORS. BY

Jacob Mogelever. Double
day & Co., Inc; $4950
Jacob Mogelever, former
journalist, employs his in
veStigative and reporting
skillS to re-create the secre-
tive life during discordant
times Of Lincoln's master spy,
Lafayette C. Baker.
Resorting to disguise, en-
trapment and feats of der
ring-do, Baker pioneered in
crude yet ingenious fashion
the sleuthing techniques now
practiced with greater f1neSse
and legality by the FBI, the
Central Intelligence Agency
and the Secret Service.
His role in saving the
Union, underestimated by
historians, is retraced with
dexterity in the authors first
literary venture, which
dramatizes the adventurous,
gay, tragic, scheming and
sometimes violent goings-on
in Civil War Washington.
Early Methods
Bakers training in the
California vigilantes pre-
pared him well for the Or
ganization Of the Govern
ment's first detective force in
his mysterious headquarters
at 2l7 Pennsylvania avenue
opposite the Willard Hotel.
Operating under the egis
Of Lincoln and enjoying a
wartime suspension Of the
writ of habeas corpus. Baker
rounded up traitors, blockade
runners and Confederate
spies, leaving them TO rot in
dreaded Capitol Prison.
He unmaSked the Confed-
crates dummy Notifications
at Manassas, prodded into
misdoings of the Treasury
Evening star., 1960-10-30
Poet Ezra Pound
In Sharp Profile

acumen and human good will
was common in him.
Mr.. Norman has respect
even a kind Of awe-for
Pound as a poet but as he dis
cusses the "Cantos" you feel
that he'd rather be writing
about a poet he could under
stand. When he gets to
Pounds indictment for trea-
son. the hearing, commitment
and the st. Elizabeths year
he resorts to the device of
throwing in the full text of
documents.
Eminently Fair
The biography is neither
very well written nor very
well organized. Mr.. Norman
has a weakness for irrele-
vances: Pound lived at 270
Fourth avenue (now Park
avenue SOUTH. Why?" And
for a man with a real flair
for writing about writers
how can he write such a sem
tence as: HE lost touch"
He very judiciously ana
lyzes Pounds long, useful
strenuous and controversial
career" and he is eminently
fair in his description Of the
disintegration Of the writer's
thought process and style.
It's an absorbing subject and,
on the whole. we'll handled.
But another poet and friend,
William Carlos Williams, said
it all much better in a SEN
tence:
Ezra Pound is one of the
most competent poets in our
language he is also, it
must be confessed, the biggest
damn fool and faker in the
business"
EDWIN TREBLE
Evening star., 1960-10-30
Spying Techniques
In LincoIn's Time

girls, broke the Northwest
conspiracy to burn and pill
lage Northern cities, routed
proflteers Of cotton-trade
rings and exposed enlistment
frauds.
His men Spied on erring
generals and tracked down
Southern marauders, includ-
ing the cunning Walt Bowie
Of Upper Marlboro.
Swift Downfall
Baker plotted the capture
of Lincoln's assassins and
harassed peddlers of presi-
Dental pardons. a foray
which led to his undoing.
With the death of Lincoln.
the detective chief lacked a
bulwark for protection
against his enemies. Indicted
for false arrest, he was tried
and found guilty. Although
fined only 81, his reputation
was destroyed.
Having risen rapidly to a
pinnacle of power, his down.
fall was even more swift.
Baker died shortly after the
war, broken and rejected.
Mr.. Mogelever handles
swift-moving events in this
historical drama with such
flare for description and ad-
herence to accuracy that one
is lulled into an impression
he was there.
BILL TALBOT.
Evening star., 1960-10-30
ErstwhiIe Southerner
Cast in q New Role
THE BURDEN OF SOUTH

THE BURDEN OF SOUTH
ERN HISTORY. BY C.
Vann Woodward. Gouisi-
ana State University;
!. $3.500
The time is coming, says
Mr.. Woodward, who is profess
Sor Of history at the Johns
Hopkins University, when
the Southerner will begin to
ask himself whether there is
really any longer very much
point in calling himself a
'Southerner."
When he ventures among
strangers, particularly up
North, Mr.. Woodward reflects,
how often does the Southern
er find himself suppressing
the Identifying idiom,- avoid
ing the awkward subject,
blending inconspicuously into
the national pattern, the role
Of the standard American?
The old monuments of re-
gional distinctivenesS are dis
appearing, the author feels.
The Southerner may, in fact,
have deplored the existence
of some-the one-horse farm
er, one-crop agriculture, one
party politics. the sharecrop-
er, the poll tax, the white
primary. the Jim Crow car,
the lynching bee.
"It would take a blind
sentimentalist to mourn their
passing. But until the day be-
fore yesterday there they
stood, indisputable proof that
the South was different. Now
that they are vanished or on
Evening star., 1960-10-30
Remote Indiu
Proves to Be
World Apart
GONE AWAY. BY Dom
Moraes. CLittle, Brown &
Co.; $3.50

u " ~ Z avail. by 0OLII
Moraes. (Little, Brown &
Co.; $3.95D
So often we have been told
that the globe has shrunk
and that we all live in one
world, the expression has
become a cliche. But there
are still vast regions of the
earth where life is so strange
and values SO different that
1t is hard for the Western
imagination to grasp.
"Gone Away" is the jour-
nal Of a journey to remote
India by Dom Moraes, a o.
year-old oxford poet who
writes with mature appre-
citation and a great deal Of
good humor. Young Moraes
lectured at universities,
drank cocktails with 1ndia'S
poets and authors and dis
cussed the nations predomi-
nant problem-the threat of
the Chinese Communists. He
also interviewed Premier
Nehru and the rosy-cheeked,
freckled Dalai Lama.
Out of a Story Book
But the real story lay on
the Tibetan border. where
Mr.. Moraes went with his
blind companion, We'd Mehta.
For a time they were the
guests in Nepal of the Ranas.
the last Of the worlds feudal
overlordS. Bears roamed the
corridors of the 500-room
palace. There were $50 girls
in the harem. but the palace
plumbing was dreadful. The
days when the Ranas had
life-or-death lower over
their subjects had ended. and
it was just as well, a son
conceded.
In primitive Sikkim, the
Red threat took on substance.
Chinese troops patrolled the
Tibetan boundary. Tibetan
refugees told Of tortures be-
fore being driven from their
homes. India's forces were
m a asSing. but censorship
cloaked the news.
For young Moraes the
travel by horse and jeep
over rough mountain trails
was at times an ordeal. But
he spins out his story as one
who enjoyed nearly every
minute of it.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

their way toward vanishing,
we are suddenly aware of the
vacant place they have left in
the landscape and of our
habit Of depending upon them
in the final resort as land
marks.
ITO establish identity by
reference to our faults was
always simplest. for what
ever their reservations about
our virtues, our critics were
never reluctant to concede us
our vices and shortcomings"
Mr.. Woodward has written
a series of essays which are
provocatively stimulating.
&C. B. J.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

The deputy'S wife Is q beauti-
full Dutchwoman, Mem Hell
ena, who has no other Euro
pean woman to talk to. Zai-
nah, a Malay, who has been
taught English by the man
ayers wife, Is her only COM
panion and conf1dante.
Zainah, when discovered is
in prison awaiting trial for
the murder Of q white man,
q junior Anglo-American
named David.
Child Of Two Worlds
1t is zainah, sly. clear
eyed, infinitely patient who
tells the story. She is a child
OF two worlds-the bungalow
and the kampong. Before she
goes to live with Mem Hell
Evening star., 1960-10-30

ena. she has been seduced by
two Asians. But a more sub
tie seduction is in store for
her. David tells her, Helena
seduced you to western ways
and now I've come along to
clinch the matter and seduce
you to western IDEAS"
zainah becomes q witness
of the love affair Of David
and Mem Helena. At first
she regards David as semi
untouchable." In due time,
however, she falls in love
with him and attempts to
lure him from his hopeless
devotion for Mem Helena.
Eventually, too. the world of
the kampong learns of her
Evening star., 1960-10-30
PAPERBAcKS

THE BOOK OF THE ACTS
OF GOD. BY G. Ernest
Wright and Reginald H.
Fuller. Doubleday; $1.45.D
Contemporary scholarship
interprets the Bible.
CULTURE AND SOCIETY,
178O-195O. BY Raymond
Williams. Double day;
$1.45.) Traces the growth
of culture through the
poets and writers Of the
times.
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN
AND THREE OTHER
PLAYS. BY Henrik Ibsen.
doubleday; $1.450 Newly
translated from the Norwe-
gian by Michael Myerthe.
SELECTED LETTERS OF
RAINIER MARIA RILKE.
Edited by Harry T. Moore.
doubleday; $l.45.) Poets
acute exploration of peo-
pie, books and places as
told in the letters he wrote
during the travels.
Evening star., 1960-10-30
GENERAL

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP
MENT. BY Murray D.
Bryce. (McGraw-Hill, ??).
A guide for accelerating
economic growth.
A HISTORY OF ORGIES.
BY Burgo Partridge. Grown
Publishers; $3.50 An in
teresting subject but this
version is neither very deep
nor very well written.
THE HERITAGE OF MAN:
A History Of the World. BY
Goldwin Smith. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $12.500
This one-volume history of
the world is a sensible COM
bination of a simple text
book history and one which
the general reader can use
with profit. Mr.. Smith,
who is professor Of history
at Wayne State University,
has achieved this by a de-
vice of using the general
formal of the conventional
Evening star., 1960-10-30
Jean Kerr Has All
The Advantages
THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE
LINES. By Jean Kerr.
Doubleday; $500


Doubleday; $500
All right, Jean Kerr is the
funniest girl in the world.
Also, as the jacket on her
latest book says. she will
some day be elected Presi-
dent.
One can see her now, en-
ticing Khrushchev to take
of for the moon in Lunik
XVII, and sending Castro
out into the mountains of
east Cuba to shoot a dragon,
dear, for mummy's dinner"
But as "The Snake Has
All The Lines" proves. Jean
really has all the advantages.
This is not to deny her credit
for making the most of them.
but who else is married to
Walter and who the mother
Of Chris, Conlin. John, Gil
bert, and another small male
whose name We cannot
remember?
Crazy House Rule
These six; members of the
opposite sex, each with q
personality Of his own, is
nevertheless amenable to the
Kerr house (crazy house, rule
that anyone who cannot say
something bright will simply
keep his mouth shut. Even
this pariah, of course, is not
barred from mummy's books.
He still has an opportunity
to do something writeable,
as. say, Walter cracking up
at Bonwit's while Jean is
thumbing through the size
18 dresses.
Moreover, if she ever runs
out Of Walter things to write
about, she might ask him of
the day he was best man at
this reviewers wedding and
forgot the words of the
Apostles Greed. This was
the funnier for the fact that
this was in his pre-critic
days, when he was on the
faculty Of Catholic Uni
verSity.
Mrs. Kerr is a standout,
apart from those size l8
Evening star., 1960-10-30
READING AND WRITING
Neverthe vain Shall
Meet Is Reoffiirmed
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Stan Writer

We have yet another Recommendation of the truth of
Rudyard Kplings melancholy Jingle about and West
THE SEDUCTION Farrar, Sraus & Cudahy: $3.95) by
Susan Yorke.
The setting is Malay rubber plantation by tryan-
nca manager who leaves everything to his decent assistant
Evening star., 1960-10-30
IN MEMORIAM
Finest Record
OF Civil War
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

THE AMERICAN HERITAGE PICTURE HISTORY OF THE
CIVIL WAR, edited by Richard M Ketchum narrative by
Bruce Cation published by the American Heritage Co.,
distributed by Doubleday: $l995)
This concise history Of the is lavish in its ne Illus
Taons beautiful in formal and accurate in text
Evening star., 1960-10-30

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
AND THE PROGRESSIVE
MOVEMENT. BY George
E. Mowry. Chill & Wang;
$3.50 Account Of his con-
nection with one of the
major political movements
OF our age. Reprint.
Evening star., 1960-10-30
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
james Henehun
Rites Tomorrow

Graveside services will be
held at / pm. tomorrow at
Arlington Cemetery for James
j. Henehan, 90, of 3414 Dupont
avenue, Kensington, who died
Monday. He had suffered a
fractured skull in an August II
automobile accident.
DR.. Frank j. Broschart,
Montgomery County coroner,
said he is waiting for autopsy
test results before ruling on
Mr.. Henehan's accident in
juries.
The victim, an employee of
the Asplundh Tree Expert Co,
OF Silver Spring, was hit by a
car while walking along Uni
versity boulevard near Wheaton
at ! am, police said.
Mr.. Henehan was taken to
Washington Sanitarium where
he was a patient until his re-
lease from the hospital Sep.
TENDER 10. Police said other
accident details were not avail
able at this time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Guy Webb, 81,
Druftsmun at
Weapons Plant

Guy Webb, 81, a craftsman
engineer with the Naval Weap-
ons plant for % years, died
after a heart attack Friday at
the Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park, Md.
Mr.. Webb, of 3404 Purdue
street, University Hills, Md,
was born in Norfolk, Va. He
moved to the Washington area
in 1888 to work for the Naval
Weapons Plant-then the Navy
Misunderstanding machine guns.
He leaves his wife, the for
mer Fideles Mclaughlin, of the
home address; a daughter, Mrs.
Allen Ahearn of 7403 Eight
zenith avenue, West Hyattsville;
four sons, John Guy Webb of
2725 Nicholson street, Hyatts-
vile, Thomas Gray Webb and
Richard M. Webb Of the home
address, and Robert M. Webb