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Evening star., 1960-08-11
Rock Maple Trees

Mrs. o. B. W. Washington
I would like to know If
someone has some small rock
maple trees they do not want.
I would like to get three or
four Of them, about 3 to S
feet high. Please advise me
through RICH. Thank you.
Evening star., 1960-08-11

This is the fifth Of II 0rtieles
excepted from "Thot Certoin
Something" new best-ssIlins book
in which Arlene Francis. noted ~
cnd stoss stor. discusses those
qualities which ore the ingredients
Of genuine charm.
Evening star., 1960-08-11
Take to the Road in Comfort
To Mrs. r. J. B.
J. B. c., SiIUer Spring

cross-country auto trip during August be uncom
Portable We found small cebox to be our best help
Filled with ice cubes (Which purchased all the
the country kept favorite beverages cold as
we supplying with cubes to fold into hand towels
These towels we put around necks when the heat
Evening star., 1960-08-11
Poem Of Letter
Mrs. r. L. H., Bethesda

Mrs. r. L. H., Bethesda
Do any Of you readers have
the poem "What Is o Letter?
A silent language uttered to
the eye which envious dis
tance would in vain deny. A.
tie to kind where circum-
stances part? I'd like the
rest Of the poem, please.
Evening star., 1960-08-11
New Orleans

Mrs. H. C. r., TdkonlG Park
We are planning a trip to
New Orleans the last week
in August. I would like to
know what kind of weather
to expect there at. that time.
so we viii know what kind
of clothing to take.
I have q feeling that it
will be hot. Am I right?
Evening star., 1960-08-11

have actually used this type
of electric heat in their home.
Thank you.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
a13,Il1s

500
4-Burns and Allen. Comedy.
5-Popeye. Kids.
Little Roscols. Comedy.
6:z5
9-AImonoe. NewsreeI.
$50
4-Som and Friends. Color.
5-The Three Stooses. C'm'dy.,
Life Of Riley. Comedy.
9-Spotlieht. Weather. News.
GoIoher. DoueIos. Wilson.
6:35
4-Weother. Sports. Color.
Forester. Gibbons.
6:45
4-NBc News.
Chet HuntIey. Dovid BrinkIey.
9-Doue Edwords. News.
TOO
4-The Honeymooners.
5-Sheriff Of Coehise. West'rn.
John BromfieId stors.
7-Boekstoee. Sports. News.
Strong. SieoeI. MoIkie.
9-connonboII. Action.
Poul Birch stors.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
TUESDAY

SOnIlHuSQ from TfeCeOiU9 Tu9e
400
4-comedy Playhouse.
5-Piek Temple. Kids.
! Hour. Featuring songs and Pop
eye cartoons.
7-Americon Bondstond.
IA Hours. Dick Clark, host.
s-The Brighter Doy. Serial.
AIS
s-The Secret Storm. Serial.
4:3o
4-Adventure Time.
Repeot Of Buckskin.
s-Edse Of Night. Serial.
500
4-Bozo the Clown. Color.
5-MiIt Grant Show. Variety.
! Hour. Teen-oeers' dance party.
9-The Eorly Show. Movie.
Ia Hours. 1.-THE River" 1852.
An affecting story Of adolescence
in Indio. Moro Swnburne, Es-
nond Knight.
$3.50
4-Susie. Comedy.
7-Rin Tin Tin. Adventure.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
7:l5
7-News. Weather.
McCoffrey. Allen.
7:26
9-TV Editorial.
7:30
4-Loromie. Western.

4-LoFdmie. western.
i Hour. midnight Rebellion"
Jess Harper becomes one of O
group of revolutionary terTorIsts
: along the Conodion border. Rob-
ert Fuller, John Smith.
5-WFestIing.
Z Hours. Roy Morqon, host.
7-Bronco. Western.
! Hour "Montono Possooe."
Bronco IS "shot" by his friend.
Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, in O
plan to uncover O murderer. Ty
Tordin, Charles Cooper, Molo
Powers
9-Pony Express. Western.
Grant Sullivan stors.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
E-Stortime. Color.

I Hour. "lncident OF q Corner"
By Charlotte Armstrong. A school
crossing euord is fired when on
unsigned note occuses him Of mo-
testing the pupils he is euordine.
Paul Hortmon, Vero Miles, George
Peppord Alice Bockus, leoro
Demo, Woren Beriinger.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
500
9-Dennis O'Keefe Show.

Hal Towne becomes sociol
climber and endoneers the hoppi-
ness Of his fomily. Dennis
O'Keefe, Hope Emerson, Rebecco
WeIes.
Evening star., 1960-03-26
CHURCH TO BE CONSECRATED TOMORROW

The $685. 900 Grace Methodist Church.
IakOma Park Md will be cOnsecrted at tomorrow Methodist
Bishop G. Bromley Oman Washington will
which seats AIS whpers the building
including church offices fellowship meeting
Fink of Philadelphia the architect
pastor the OOmember congregation organized
Evening star., 1960-03-26
Dedication
OfStutueSet

The 16-foot figure Of Christ
overlooking Massachusetts, av-
enue from the front Of the
Wesley Theological Seminary
chapel will be dedicated at II
am. next Friday.
The dedication service will
be held at the base Of the f1g-
ure, at 44O0 Massachusetts, av-
enue NV.
Methodist Bishop G. Brom-
ley Oman of Washington will
speak on The Significance Of
the Figure" and offer the
prayer of dedication.
Participating in the service
will be DR.. Norman l.. Trott,
seminary president; DR.. Hurst
R. Anderson. president of
American University; Leo
Friedlander, sculptor. and the
Rev. Edward G. Latch. minis
ter of Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Church.
The figure. carved from a 90
ton block of limestone. was
copied by carvers from an g.
foot plaster model created by
sculptor Friedlander. The left
hand is raised in blessing while
the right hand stretches out
to the people.
Evening star., 1960-03-26

from his spry movements and
even sprier intellectual quail
ties, that age simply does not
seem possible.
Paul pointed out at the mod
orators dinner for Presbyterian
men in Government at the
Shoreham Hotel Tuesday that
May 8 is also President Tru-
mans natal day. The former
President is three years younger
than Mr.. Wooton. Another
who claims that birth date is
Glenn Everett, Washington
correspondent for Religious
News Service.
The New Orleans correspond
ent is an elder in National
Presbyterian Church, and the
chain of events leading to that
stems from Mrs. Wooton.
II was a Methodist at the
time I married on June 8,
1908" he explained. my wife
was a Presbyterian. The next
week went into the Presby-
terian church. and I haven't
been in a. Methodist church
since then"
Evening star., 1960-03-26

(Ohio) Girls Chorus will sing
in three area churches. They
will perform at IL am. service
in the Sixth Presbyterian n
Church, Sixteenth and Ken
nedy streets NV; at 4 pm. in
Western Presbyterian Church,
1906 H street NV, and at 1880
pm. in Chevy Chase Presby-
terian Church, Chevy Chase
Circle.
Evening star., 1960-03-26

work started by their father
IS years ago.
On June IL, 1905. Riccardo
Santi was returning home from
work when he came upon a lit
tie boy and girl, brother and
sister, huddled forlorn and un-
happy beneath an archway in
Naples. They were alone, had
no place to go and nothing to
eat. Riccardo noted their plight
and took them home for a meal.
He and his wife could not turn
the boy and girl out after din
ner. and invited them to stay
overnight and share the beds
of the two Santi children,
Emanuele and Luisa.
The children stayed and
gradually became part of the
family. Out of the relationship
Riccardo had a religious expert
ence that impelled him to add
to the group. Gradually the
number Of lonely and uncared
for children staying at the
home grew-to twenty, to fifty,
to a hundred. Today there are
500 children at the home, and
in the more than half century
since Casa Materna was started
more than 5000 children have
benefited by the love and care
given them there.
In 1909 the Saints and the
children, now numbering fifty,
moved to a new home. In 1920
the Methodist Board of Mis-
sions acquired property and a
palace in Portici on the out
skirts of the city, now Casa
Materna.
"Mussolini tried to close the
home when he was in power, I"
Dr.. Santi told the ministers.
1--WE like to say. Mussolini is
gone, but Casa Materna is still
here to help children"
The visitor said many of the
children who have grown UP
and gone out into the world,
when they get married often
return to Casa Materna so his
father can bless them. Although
Riccardo is now SO years old,
he still breaches and enjoys
counseling the children.
Evening star., 1960-03-26
Building Set
ByChurch

Ground-breaking ceremonies
for the new educational build
ing to be erected by the Epis-
copal Church of st. Clement,
1701 North Quaker lane, Alex
andria. will be held at IL am.
tomorrow.
The new building, designed
by Joseph Saunders and Asso-
ciates, is due for completion in
the early fall.
It will add to the church's
facilities % new classrooms,
additional Office space and q
library-lounge.
During the work by the
Tyree Construction Co. of Ar
lington. the present educational
building will be remodeled to
provide four classrooms and a
new office for the rector.
Evening star., 1960-03-26
Visiting Choirs
To Give Concerts
In Area Churches

Two choirs will give concerts
as guests in Washington area
churches tomorrow.
The A Cappella Choir of the
Russian Orthodox Church of
st. Nicholas will present a pro-
gram Of Russian Orthodox
liturgical music at 4 pm. in the
Church of the Holy City,
Swedenborgian. 1911 Sixteenth
street NV.
The College Of Wooster
Evening star., 1960-03-26
LUTHERAN MISSOURI SYNOD
LUTHERAN SERVICES
(Missouri synod
SUNDAY SCHOOL AND
BIBLE CLASSES, s:45 AM

BETHANY (Groveton, Val
eSs ssas0e ersnda am e. ssS ssS oss asd pf Fl s;T
ST. PAUL (FalIs Church)
Leesburg Pike and Idylwood Rd
Rev Gerald Kuhn. $50 and
1l.0O am.
ST. JOHN (Franconia, Va.)
Eraneonia Rd. and st. Johns DR..
Rev. Paul Meyer. HOO am.
OXON HILL
5735 Oxon Hill Rd. Sc. Rev.
Robert schoenheider. $50 and
11:00 am.
Concordia (Dumfries, Va.)
o. 8. Hwy. No. /. Rev Fred
vonderlage, 1890 am, Sunday
TRINITY mt. Rainier)
Both and Bunker Hill Rd. Rev.
Roy Mack. $3.50 and II am.
REDEEMER (Hyattsville)
3Sth and Longfellow. Rev. VIM.
H. kohn. 10:30 am. Sunday
School. 9:15 am.
HOLY CROSS (Greenbelt)
% Ridge Rd. Rev. Edward II.
5irner S:39 and IL Am. Sunday
Ascension (LandOver HiIIs)
1920 Ardmore Rd. Rev. Henry
schhrossder chaos 3 and IL an. Sunday
TRINITY BOWEL
a:sc asoTie: Md N iaEd,z Rsy Henri srT sehroeas55
Church of the Deaf I'd. C.)
At Christ; 5I01 18th St. NV.
UNDAY, 1880 PM, WRC, $50
Evening star., 1960-03-26
Wooton to Be 7o

Paul Wooton, New Orleans
T m s-Picayune Washington
correspondent, will be 79 years
old on May 8, but to judge
Evening star., 1960-03-26

BETHLEHEM ID. c.
18th and sts. Il. Rev. Herbert
Bernthal. IL am.
CHRIST Cd. CO.
VIM. r. Bruening. s:30 and IL
FIRST TRINITY I'd. c.
tts Sa.y. snd sso ss5 s5a NV RsT s.Ivi,s: Il p
Brosdcsst over Station WooR
tAMl at 1890 am. and WFAN
FM at 1908. Sunday School.
MOUNT OLIvET d. c.
1905 Vermont Ave. NV. Rev.
VIM. schiebel, 100 am.
PILGRIM =,
$500 Mass. Ave. NV. Extended.
DR.. Martin c. Pooh. $50 and II
an. Sunday School. $50 am.
CALVARY (Silver Spring.
g542 oeorsia Ave. Rev. Frederick
ST. ANDREW (WheatOn)
lg247 Georgia Ave. Rev. Charles
Mueller $50 and IL am.
ROCKVILLE
624 Great Fails Rd., Vicar Larry
Lineberger, 11:00 am.
EMMANUEL (Alexandria)
1901 Russell Rd. Rev. wilmer d,
Mensing. $50 and IL am.
OUR SAVIOUR (ArlingtOn)
9th and s. Taylor. Rev. George
Wehmeyer. $50 and IL am.
THE LUTHERAN HOUR"
Evening star., 1960-03-26
She Scored q First

Lisa Sergio, who interviews
prominent people on the new
National Capital Area Council
OF Churches program, In the
Balance" is a vivacious native
Of Italy, and is widely known
as the first woman radio COM
mentator in Europe.
Daughter of Baron Agostino
Sergio and Margaret Fitzgerald
OF Baltimore. Miss Sergio was
invited by Mussolini in 1882 to
broadcast from Italy in Eng
lish and French. It was her
Interpretation of an Italian
word as "axis" that brought
the "Rome-Berlin Axis" desig-
nation into being.
She later broke with Musso-
ini and fascism and aided by
the great Marconi escaped to
the United States. Since then
she has become a United States
citizen and a leading news ana
lyst and lecturer.
The new program, at GAS
pm. Sundays, was developed
through conferences between
Miss Sergio and Ella Harllee,
director Of radio and television
programs for the Council of
Churches. Its title was taken
from Daniel 5:27, "Tekel, you
have been weighed in the bal
ances, and found wanting"
Evening star., 1960-03-26
THE HUMAN SIDE OF RELIGION
Italian Visitor Tells
Of Methodist Home
By CASPAR NAMES
Religious News Editor Of The Star

Last Monday Dr. Emanuele Santi spoke to Methodist
of Washington the Wesley Theological Seminary
and them vivid picture Of Casa Maena home for needy
children in Naples, Italy.
Dr. Sant who touring the United States on behalf Of
the home and brother Teolo Sant carrying on
Evening star., 1960-03-26
ORTHODOX CHURCHES
ST. GEORGE SYRIAN
ORTHODOX CHURCH

REV. JOHN NICHOLAS, Pastor
Corner 10th and Webster SITS. NV.
Sunday school. 1890 TO 1880 am.
Divine Liturgy, ll:00 am. TO 1900
Evening star., 1960-10-09
Author Here, Reverses
Error in Our History

The battle at Bunker Hill
actually Breeds Hill-was
a victory for the RedcoatS,
But today, 80 per cent of all
Americans think our forces
under Putnam and Prescott
won the day.
This misconceptlon was a
principal argument about
what is wrong with history,
used by Thomas L. Fleming,
author of the new book.
NOW WE ARE ENEMIES
(St. Martins Press; So. who
visited here Wednesday and
was a speaker before the
Washington Book Sellers As
sociation at the Woman's
National Democratic Club,
Mr.. Fleming thinks that
writer's ought to take his
tory "out of the dry dusty
world of the library. of care
fully analyzed political and
economic distractions. and
give it back to the men and
women who created it,"
Our complex, cynical.
sophisticated society needs
to reawaken the pride of
their ancestors" he says.
This is needed as much or
more than it needs social
engineering. 1t is the facts,
Evening star., 1960-10-09

pooy ever charged him cat
least nobody ever made such
a charge stick) with profit
ing at the expense of his
country,
A Democrat
While he has been nomi-
nally a Democrat ever since
he served President Wilson
so capably, Bernie" Ba-
ruch could never be called
a narrowly partisan man. He
pays quite a glowing tribute
to President Eisenhower in
the closing chapter of this
book.
He made a million dollars
in Wall Street before World
War I, but his point of view
was always far from that of
the typical stock speculator.
He espoused eagerly Mr.. Will
sons program of economic
betterment and new horizons
in social progress. An ad-
mirer and close associate of
Franklin Roosevelt, Mr.. Ba-
ruch went along with much
OF the New Deal. He had his
reservations, such as the
court-packing plan and the
agricultural program and
never hesitated to express
his opinions.
He was supreme boss of
industrial mobilization in
Evening star., 1960-10-09
What This
WriterCuIIs
ACrueI Sea
THE LONG HAUL. By D. 4

THE LONG HAUL. BY D. A.
Rayner. (McGraw Hill Co.;
$3.50
In the finest tradition of
British sea-faring men. and
the authors who write about
them, "The Long Haul is a
dramatic and low-key novel
of what another great novel;
ist called The Cruel Sea-"
D. A. Rayner is eminently
qualified as a naval person to
tell this story of a destroyer
assigned to tow a crippled
gasoline tanker and fend of
a German submarine at the
same time. Mr.. Rayner COM
manded destroyers during
World War II. and in so
doing. learned so much about
U-boats that he wrote the
well-accepted, THE Enemy
Below" He also wrote
another fine novel, The Long
Fight"
"The Long Haul" is mainly
the story of the loneliness of
command as it weighed upon
Capt. John Murrell of HMS
Hecate. His burden is the
crippled and deserted tanker
Antioch, with 4 million GAL
Ions of high octane fuel
aboard.
With the job of towing the
unwieldy tanker. Capt. Muir
rell is not in the best trim
to employ his ship against
his enemies: The German
submarine dogging his wake:
the planes sent against him
when the submarine is sunk
or the weather.
Novels of war at sea are
things the British simply do
better than our writer's and
this is one of their excellent
efforts.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1960-10-09

the unvarnished truth about
these men of the Revolution
which can bolster our nerves
and strengthen our spirit in
these years of challenge,
more than any other source
of inspiration which we now
have at our command"
MI. Fleming is friendly and
hearty. and talks about the
renewed interest in the Revo-
luton as if it were as i'm
mediate as the United Ma
tions and the cold war. He
is executive editor OF CoSmo-
politan. His book was con-
densed in the July Readers
Digest and is the october
selection of the Literary
Guild.
The battle at Bunker Hill
was a terrific reverse for the
British in that they failed to
break the spirit of revolt.
Washington when told Of
the battle asked simply, Did
the Americans stand before
the British flre?" Informed
that they had. he said: Then
the liberties of our country
are safe"
Mr.. Fleming has written an
important book.
H. A. L.
Evening star., 1960-10-09
Wife of First Governor
Of New Hampshire

London, converSes with fops,
mixes with the great landed
gentry, listens to gossip about
such theatrical personalities
as Mrs. Robinson (Perdita)
and her Prince of Wales and
Tarleton. She is we'll &C
quainted with the mission of
Benjamin Franklin to Paris
She listens with others to
the rising tide of republican
ism in France and elsewhere.
The story gets a little
earthly when it describes
British officers carousing
with trollops in the Halifax
wharf areas but this will
certainly not slow the sale
of the book.
Thomas Raddell's latest
was The Path of Destiny"
the third volume in the
Canadian History Series. He
is stepped in the lore of the
area where he lives and
where THE Governors Lady"
is centered.-H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1960-10-09

tons of metal that is scarce
in the United States. Some
have called the program
plain corruption"
There are, in Mr.. Packard's
summary, many ways in
which producers persuade
consumers to buy and keep
buying.
New and supposedly i'm
proved models of everything
from automobiles, refrigera-
tors and television sets to
more Oldest household
equipment are turned out
each year.
There have been improve
ments. sometimes radical, in
some items, Mr.. Packard con
cedeS. Others merely look
different.
Borrowing from the basic
acceptance Of women's styles
as they change from season to
season, manufacturers of cars
and other necessities, when
they've been unable to make
any appreciable engineering
improvements. have simply
given their products a new
look. Styling is frankly ad-
vertised for many items other
than clothes.
Shady Practice
Mr.. Packard charges that
some producers are stimulat-
ing their markets by shadier
practices. They have been
known, he contends, to make
products flimsy enough to
wear out in a certain period.
so that the consumers will
have to repurchase. This,
however, has proved a dan
gerous experiment. because
the consumer is apt to blame
the brand and turn to another.
But Mr.. Packard realizes
that money must continue
circulating to keep the econ
omy going. Hasn't he then
any remedy for frenzied con-
sumption Of everything be-
yond all reasonable needs?
He has indeed.
He suggests as a major
challenge to American inge-
unity more extensive recla-
nation, the remaking with
moisture of great areas which
still are arid. The critical
: shortage of school rooms and
underpayment of teachers is
another urgent need. The arts
should receive much greater
encouragement, he feels.
While tax has become a
bad word to most harassed
taxpayers, there are worse
ways Of spending money than
through the use of taxes for
such worthy purposes, the
author maintains.
A people as ingenious and
enterprising as Americans
Should be able to solve the
new problems posed by their
fabulously productive ma
chimes without undue adver-
sity and without being forced
to make a virtue of wasteful-
ness"
This is a thoughtful, stimu-
lating book, which is easy to
read and often amusing. All
consumers (meaning every
one Of us) should read it.
&C. b. j.,
Evening star., 1960-10-09
British Poets Life
Reveals Many Talents

On read this definition OF
awareness:
All that needs saying is
that a writer had better be
sensitive: if he cultivates a
mask Of toughness to con-
ceal it, he must take care
less the mask become an
armour; for once he ceases
to be vulnerable, he Is fin-
ished, a dead end, a mind
immobilized within its own
defenSes, like a body with
its pores all blocked.
And surely nobody has ex-
pressed better the feeling
for a school better than:
/ never revisit this place
never revisit this place
without falling under the
Spell-a charm blended of
its mellow physical beau
ties and the sense of the
generations of young life
which, passing g through
court and cloister, have
left something of them
selves to form an invisible
compost, wherein vice and
virtue, triumph, failure
and routine are trans
muted to a single, undif-
ferentiated element, and
have taken away in ex-
ch ange something that
each individual, whether
he cherish or depreciate it,
will for the rest Of his life
have with him.
Many British writer's have
a particular gift for the per-
sonal memoir, written with
style and a touch of the uni
versal. This is one of the best
of them.
EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star., 1960-10-09
A Thriller in
One Sittinq
THE SEARCH FOR TABA-

AhL OGAhCH FOh IAbA-
THA CARR, BY Richa; d
Martin Stern. (Charles
Scribner's Sons: $3.75.)
Everybody's looking for
Tabatha - the lawyer as
signed to tell her she has
only two months in which to
claim her Million dollar share
OF her fathers estate or lose
all, her brother and sister-in-
law who take all If she
doesn't show up, American
spy-hunting agents and as
sorted international Commu-
niStS.
The lawyer is the principal
hunter and a more fumbling
hero would be hard to find.
If there are two ways to do
something, he almost invari-
able chooses the wrong one.
Before each wrong decision,
he tips the reader to his up
coming folly with a had-I-
but-known line. Tabatha,
more shadow than substance,
is for the most part an
equally unlikely heroine.
Nevertheless. the author
cooks up a juicy stew of sus-
pense from his ingredients of
domestic and foreign intrigue.
Contributing largely to his
cause is a fine choice of Euro
ropean backgrounds and
well-r e allied subordinate
characters. It's a one-sitting
kind of thriller.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1960-10-09
Behind the
Assassination
In Jordan
A CLASH OF DESTINIEs.

"A CLASH OF DESTINIES.
BY Jon and David Kimche.
(Praeger; $4.950
Israeli Editor Jon Kimche
and his brother David, a
one-time Israeli soldier and
Army College lecturer, COL
laborated on this 277-page
history of the 1948 Arab
Jewish war.
While they bring to light
many facets of the conflict
based on their own inter-
views with often unnamed
Arab and Israeli leaders,
their work suffers from
generally poor organization
and mediocre writing.
Found of particular interest
are their accounts of the
inner conflicts among the
Arab nations in their atti-
'tude toward Palestine. These
conflicts continue, as evi-
denced most recently in the
Arab Leagues failure once
again to agree on a course
of action toward Israel and
the assassination of the Jor-
danian Prime Minister.
BURT HOFFMAN.
Evening star., 1960-10-09

World War I. In the second
war-and this is not generally
known-President Roosevelt
had an order drafted making
Mr.. Raruch director of the
War Production Board, but
held back this appointment
for no expressed reason. Mr..
Baruch recalls that Harry
Hopkins wanted Donald Mel
son kept in the position.
Mr.. Baruch says his break
with President Truman came
from a relatively unimportant
thing, Mr.. Baruch's refusal to
serve on the finance commit
tee of Mr.. Truman's cam
paign in 1913.
Tolerant Man
None of the Sights or in-
justices, perhaps inevitable
during so many years of
service to such divergent ad-
ministrationS, rankles.
For Mr.. Baruch is a rarely
tolerant man. who in the
evening of the life has cast
aside whatever grudgeS he
held and tried to see the best
side of everybody he ever
knew.
The second volume of his
life story is. like the first, an
absorbing narrative of the
fast-changing times.