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Course of Communism
In Chinese Territory
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star staff Writer

this, American policy gen.
orally tries to prevent dom
ination of all Asia by one
power; supports independ-
ence and self-determination
for people of the area, and
encourages political and eco
nomic growth of non-Com-
munist states. All these aims
will be costing the United
States more. not less, in the
future, Mr.. Barnett predicts.
His impartial evaluation of
the developing situation is
so objective, however, that for
this reviewer it undermines
the authors recommended
tions for American policy
changes.
To get broader interna-
tional support Mr.. Barnett
favors a two China" ap-
proach accepting both Red
and Nationalist regimes in
the United Nations and in
ternational relations gen.
orally. He would disengage
the United States from the
offShore islands and, some
how, he does not say how,
disengage Chang Kai-shek
as we'll.
He would open nonofflcial
avenues of contact between
Red China and the United
States Immediately but get
our allies to help us keep
FormoSa out of the Red orbit.
But he holds little hope that
this more flexible" attitude
will make Red China less
aggressive or reduce the
chances of an Asian war in
volving the United States in
the decades ahead.
Evening star., 1960-02-21
ON THE FIRING RANGE
Jack Bell Takes Aim
At the White House
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star Stan Writer

THE SPLENDID MISERY, Story of the Presidency and
Power Politics at Close Range. BY Bell Doubleday
$495)
OF all the political books of this presidential election
Jack Bell the widely regarded Associated
pondent has published book that likely will be
most controversial Mr. Bell covered politics and
Capitol Hill for years. has taken the theme of the
presidency the powers of the Office and the they have
been exercised.
forecast raised by Bell that is already on
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FICTION

FORTY BEST STORIES
FROM MADEMOISELLE,
1935-1960. Edited by Cyrilly
AbelS and Margarita G.
Smith. (Harper, So Among
the authors: Truman Ca
pote, Tennessee Williams,
Nadine Gordimer. William
Faulkner and Robert Penn
Warren.
THE RESCUE. BY Joseph
Conrad. Doubleday, $3.50
A paperback reprint of one
of this master Storyteller's
later novels. First published
in 1920, he said in his in
PRODUCTION that he waited
20 years before he felt equal
to writing it.
THE LAND BEYOND THE
TEMPEST. BY Drayton
Mayrant. Coward Nc
Cam, $685. The legend of
the storm that wrecked the
Sea Venture" as it brought
the Third Supply" to the
Jamestown colony.
GOD HAS A SENSE OF
HUMOR. BY Rubylea Hall.
CDuell. Sloan & Pearce.
$685. A half tradgedy,
half romance about the
primitive b a kwoods S of
Florida.
Evening star., 1960-02-21
Canadian Rockies
Setting for Novel

hired as a guide by gold
hunters, quit the tribe and
moved south to work for
white men who were build
ing a railroad around the
turn of the century.
The best part of the book
-. is the opening section called
Legend" and the second
part, "Hearsay." The final
part, "Evidence-Without a
Finding" is always interest,"
ing, but is weakened by the
introduction of a priest who
never seems real and whose
motivationS are confused.
Tay John, though, emerges
as a strong and persuasive
character, who cannot quite
leave his Indian heritage or
entirely adapt himself to the
white mans ways. He is
caught between two worlds,
which, true enough, overlap
to an extent in that wild
country.
It's no wonder that Har-
vey Ferguson. the fine novel;
ist of the Southwest, writes
in IN introduction: This is
one of the most distinctive
novels I have ever read, a
novel to delight those who
can appreciate a fresh vision
of life. &C. B.J.
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command over "a Republican
Congress that would need to
be led by the nose toward
any progressive goals that
might be attained"
Above Politics
The author details how
Mr.. Eisenhower sought to
keep above politics. as Wash
ington did, and left Sherman
Adams and others the dreary
demands of such affairs. His
conclusions, of course, are
subject to question-and will
be questioned. Undoubtedly
it will be pointed out that
while Mr.. Eisenhower has
not been a leader in the pat
tern of a Roosevelt or a Tru-
man, neither has he allowed
Congress to become dominant.
If anything, history may re-
cord, it has been a standoff
and that, perhaps. is what
the people have wanted.
The author treats in some
detail the Sherman Adams af-
fair and suggests it may have
resulted because Eisenhower
himself seemed to have no
SenSitivity toward the accept
arce of gifts and presents of
all kinds" Many of those
gifts are listed in a chapter
called the Red Carpet Virus"
in support of Mr.. Bells view
that different standards did
apply" to the President and
his assistants in the matter
of presents.
He Knows Them
Mr.. Bell has known many
of the political figures about
whom he writes. Anecdotes
concerning them adorn many
pages and add to the inter-
est THE Splendid Misery"
Because the author has filled
so many chapters with his
torical background the read
er may need a nimble mind
to keep up with the main
stream. But the effort, it must
be added. is quite rewarding.
Evening star., 1960-02-21

anything can happen-can't
it?
Another word getting a tre-
mendous airing these days is
serious" 1t does not mean
solemn. 1t means in one
sense sincere" as in the case
Of favorite son candidate,
Gov. Pat Brown of Cali
fornia; or in another, for
midable" as in the case of
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, another favorite son
contender.
Politicians do not often,
or at least conspicuously,
weigh their words when out
in front of the folks. In the
back room, yes, but generally
when confronted with a mi
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night after a long day on the
campaign trail. In those hours
the two words put together"
recur. The politician says to
himself, or his aides or at
tendant reporters, or, in fact.
to anyone who will listen,
that he expects to put to-
gether" New England and the
South and achieve victory.
Or you can put together"
the Midwest and a few modest
size States and there you are
practically.
If you are a front-runner,
you use the word strength"
which really means delegate
strength. If you're trailing
the field, you use the word
people" which means you're
living from day to day, but
Evening star., 1960-02-21
CRIME AND MYSTERY
By BETTY MILES
Star Stan Writer

pens, including several mur-
derS, before he gets his man.
But the books real charm
lies in the character of Arte-
mus Baldwin, with his fasci-
mating attempts to maintain
his tough-guy cover, and the
intriguing minor characters
he meets. The book was
serialized under the title
Counterfeit Cavalier"
MISS MES. BY Joan
Fleming. lives Washburn,
Inc; $2.95D
Miss Fleming tells an en-
tertaining story, and the fact
that the reader is consistent
ly several chapters ahead in
deduction really needn't spoil
things. Young art restorer
Thomas Melsonby finds his
employer, art dealer Wal
purgis, a garrulous mystery,
who talks in order to con-
ceal. At last Walpurgis dis
appears altogether. touching
of a murder investigation
as we'll as exploration of his
carefully camouf1aged life.
+ y
VENETIAN BLIND. BY Will
liam Haggard. lives Wash
burn, Inc; $685.
An offbeat, fascinating
study of Gervas Leaf, the
attractive. inScrutable. fas-
tidious engineer-tycoon, and
a young lawyers go at in
telligence to work to prevent
leaks of nuclear information
from Leafs plants. Scene
shifts from England to Ven-
ice add to the richness and
intrigue of this first class
story.
Evening star., 1960-02-21

Lonsdale Walsh was aller-
gic to lies. reacting as vio-
lently to them as some
people do to strawberries.
Thus, to be convicted of mur-
der on testimony that was
false from start to finish was
more than he could bear.
The wealthy f1nancier de-
cides to create a new trial"
appeal having been denied
him-before a judge willing
to consider old testimony in
a new light. SETTLED OUT
OF COURT by Henry Cecil
(Harper & Bros, $500 is
one of the most original and
best written mysteries of the
year, complete with several
irrelevant and delightful
satirical portraits of judges
and barriSters at work.
x
NJ U r d E h OUT OF
SCHOOL by Ivan T. Ross
(Simon and Schuster. $2.950
Not without it's cliches, Muir
der Out of School is still a
moving study of a young
teachers faith in a bright
Puerto Rican student ac-
cused Of armed robbery.
x X
COUNTERFEIT GENTLE
MAN. BY Clarence Bud
ington Kelland (Dodd,
Mead & Co.; $3.50.
A fresh story of a young
Secret Service man, posing
as a fugitive from Guys and
Dolls to capture counter
feiters in the Arizona desert,
who glows with professional
pride when a girl he admires
finds him slick and rather
uncouth. A great deal hap
Evening star., 1960-02-21
British Authorization
Does Fine 1st Novel
BY JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Star stan Writer
THE HIDING PLACE

THE HIDING PLACE. By Robert Shaw. (The World Pub
fishing Co.; $3.50)
Two British airmen shot down in night over
Bonn in l945. To protect them from angry mob neu-
roc German conceas them in air-raid shelter in his
home And there they remain his captive years.
kept in complete ignorance of the collapse the Third Reich
This is the theme of The Hiding Place" first novel by
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the way TO becoming an
issue in this years campaign.
is what kind of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower has
been. His answer is not one
that will be pleasing to the
President and those Repub-
licans, such as Vice President
Nixon. who must run this
year on the record of the
Eisenhower administration.
In Role of Interpreter
According to Mr.. Bell. who
abandonS temporarily his role
of reporting the raw material
Of history in order to assume
that of an interpreter, there
has been no epoch of true
national advancement that
did not have as its command
ing figure a strong chief
executive"
Where the President was
timid or ineffective" Mr.. Bell
continues, the people suf-
fered. Where Congress was
able to command. there was
reaction, qualification and
often near-disaster."
Most Telling Blows
1t is in this balance of the
struggle between the preSi-
dency and the Congress that
Mr.. Bell has undertaken to
assess not only the Eisen-
hover administration but
also those of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry Truman
and others to a lesser extent.
But it is with regard to
the Eisenhower administra-
tion that the most telling
blows are delivered.
Mr.. Bell, in a newspaper
mans fashion, wastes little
time in making his points. In
an opening chapter entitled
"The Great Surrender" he re-
calls Mr.. EiSenhower's Morn
lngslde Heights meeting with
the late Senator Taft of
Ohio as the 1852 campaign
was getting under way. At
that meeting, the author
says, Mr.. Eisenhower sur
rendered the presidential
Evening star., 1960-02-21

Sleezy and trivial and sem
Sational."
o. Henry'S Art
There was a time, a few
years back, when the master
for whom the o. Henry an
nual anthology is named
probably would have disowned
most of the stories. They ran
to the incomplete, the un-
thought-out, the too-Subtle
point. But this. too, has
changed. just as o. Henry's
reputation has undergone
something of a revaluatlon
after critics of the '20s and
'30s read him out as merely a
purveyor of artificial drama
and trick endings. 1t began
to be realized that the man
who could write THE Fur
nished Room" "A Municipal
Report" and Gifts of the
Magi" was an artist.
Certainly this years o.
Henry collection is worthy Of
him. There is hardly a story
that is not a development Of
character or situation or both.
Most of them are dramatic
and absorbing.
The New Prize Winner
First prize went to Law
renee Sargent Hall for The
Ledge" a beautifully evoked
story of a cantankerous. brave
and doomed New England
fisherman and the two boys
he took duck hunting a fate
full Christmas day, his son
and his nephew. This belongs
among the distinctive stories
of our era.
There might be more dis
agreement about the second
prize story. Philip Roth's De
fender of the Faith" though
there could be no question of
how we'll it is done. Third
prize went to an excellent
story, a tense, effectively un-
derStated drama of India,
Shower of Ashes" by Robin
White.
The other stories mostly
are very good. Sylvia Berk-
mans Ellen Craig" a story
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Fine New Collections Prove
Short Story Is Still Alive

PRIZE STORIES OF 1860:
The o. Henry Awards.
Edited by Mary Stegner
Doubleday: $3.50
THE BIG 1T AND OTHER
STORIES. BY A. B. Guth-
rie, jr. (Houghton Mifflin;
$500
Where is the short story
headed? How we'll is it -four
ishing as a form of literary
art?
These are not easy ques-
tionS to answer.
1t did look for a time. only
a few years back, as if the
more serious short story was
pointed toward the merely
modernistic, a counterpart of
atonal music and So-called
abstract painting. 1t also ap-
peared that it was being dis
couraged to the point where
upcoming writers might drop
the form entirely. 1t was in
almost as sorry plight as
poetry.
A Different Picture
In the last few years, how
ever, the picture has changed
to a considerable extent. You
don't often see the freakishly
modern story, the story that
tries only to be different. The
story that's only a slice of
life. static, without drama or
development, doesn't appear
so often even in the New
Yorker.
Also publishers are ventur-
ing more volumes of stories,
even by new writer's, despite
publishing axiom that books
of short stories never sell.
It's still true that there are
few magazine markets for
the distinctive story. There
remain the campus monthlieS
or quarterlies and a few
little magazines that still
manage to keep going. An
thologieS of the more literary
stories draw heavily on these
smaller publications, which
can pay the authors little or
nothing.
Not Easy to Sell
There are fewer markets,
even. for the mass-circulation
story. which requires expert
craftsmanship, though it
rarely has much relation to
life as most of us know it.
And yet, despite such a
general impression. we find
Wallace Stegner, the author
and critic, reporting in his
introduction to the new o.
Henry memorial volume, an
abundance of publis IN ID
stories from which to draw.
II was surprised at the num-
Der of magazines" he tells
us. surprised at the total
offering of stories, surprised
at how few were at all Seri-
Gus. surprised at how few
even of the serious ones will
stand up to critical reading.
There is, as one would eX-
pect, a great mass of the
Evening star., 1960-02-21
READING AND WRITING
Politics sHos Language
Entirely Its Own
By MARY McGRORY
Star Stan Writer

In a presidential year whole vocabulary comes
into being at least returns to fashion We
such words dark horse and front which due to
the political preOccppatons of the country part of the
language.
the meaningful phrases that crop up late at
Evening star., 1960-02-21

OfOutdoor
America
BY JOHN M. KAUFFMANN


BY JOHN M. KAUFFMANN
Contributing Writer
THE is THE AMERICAN
EARTH. By Ansel Adams
and Nancy Newhall. (Sier-
ra Club; $50
This majestic quarto. elo-
quent with breathtaking
photographs and the power
Of poetic language, voices
perhaps the most beautiful
and impressive cry for will
derness preservation since
the writings of John Muir.
The superbly printed black
and-white pictures by Ansel
Adams and others are organ
tones to Nancy Newhall's
proSe-poem, in which with a
psalmist's command of Ian
guage she exhortS, "Tenderly
now let all men turn to the
earth"
Our Inheritance
This is the American
EARTH" writes Miss Newhall.
This, as citizens, we all in
herit. This is ours. to love
and live upon, and use wisely
down all the generations Of
the future. In all the CEN
turieS to come always we
must have water for dry
land, rich earth beneath the
plow and timber in the
hills. Yet never can man
live by bread alone. Now in
an age whose hopes are
darkened by huge fears
what is the price of exalta-
'tion?"
With a dramatic impact
that only surprising pho
Biography can bring. This
Is the American Earth"
traces mans brief, yet dew
astating tenancy on earth.
1t tells of his quickened
hopes in the New World.
and his growing conviction,
after wilderness struggle,
that wilderness is beautiful,
and that I'VE, the living, are
now and throughout time re-
sponsible for what happens
to the earth. to man, to
life"
Plea for Conservation
But despite this. Reckless.
we tore at the last great
virgin resources. Schism
divided conservationiSts. some
championing material goals,
others striving Ito keep un-
marred earth's great gestures
for our spiritual USE"
With mounting fervor the
authors ask, ITO what shabby
hells of our own making DO
We rush? A poisoned, gutted
planet ?" Then quietly
+ they point out How lightly
might this earth bear man
forever!", and they plead
that for the sake of the most
crucial of all resources, mans
spirit. the glories of the nat
ural world be cherished. ITO
any beauty" writes Miss
Newhall, 1--WE must come as
lovers, not deStroyers."
Sierra Club Sponsor
This Is the American
Earth" was produced under
the auspices of the Sierra
Club, and that influential con-
servation organization halls
it as the most moving work it
has ever published. Many will
agree, yet lament the fact
that the handsome book is
probably too expensive to
spread its vital gospel to a
wide enough leadership. How
ever, it is hard to quarrel
with giving a broad format
and quality gravure to Mr..
Adams Winter Storm
Yosemite" Dawn, Mount
Whitney" or Burnt Stump
and New Grass" or to Will
liam Garnett's Flight of
Pelicans Over the Suns Re-
tlection" or even to his ter
rifying aerial view of Los
Angeles urban sprawl.
Evening star., 1960-02-21

BET. BY Pedro Carrasco.
university of Washington.
$3.50 Describes the sys-
TEN of land tenure as re-
lated to political organiza-
ton.
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crophone and an audience,
they tend to go on a bit. But
sometimes local situations
bring on a caution that leads
to word weighing of the most
arresting sort.
Senator Humphrey, DEM
ocrat of Minnesota, was the
chief victim of this unwonted
reserve. Whereas ordinarily
he might expect to be intro
"duced by friendly toast
master with the great, -four
ishing, trumpet-like phrase,
The next President of the
United States" poor Senator
Humphrey had to settle in
one town for "A man who
may we'll be the next Presi-
dent of the United States"
and in another as "a man
whose candidacy for the pres
idency is taken seriously"
This is, of course, because
loyal Californians are united
in their efforts of Governor
Brown.
Evening star., 1960-02-21
To Do an Ohio"

A wholly new phrase has
sprung up since Senator Ken
nedy, Democrat of MasSachu-
sets, brought off the first
real coup of the current cam.
palgn. That is do an Ohio"
ITO do an Ohio" means that
you lean on a favorite son so
that he doesn't withdraw, but
pledges you his delegates, as
in the case Of Gov. Mike De-
Sale of Ohio. Much of the
conversation in the West has
been about the possibility Of
California doing an Ohio"
The sentence may not have
survival value, but it is ter
ribly chic right now.
Whether fairly or unfairly,
candidates are often regarded
as rather garrulous fellows.
Actually, the real takers in
politics are the local chair
men. The nearness Of the
great, the presence Of a po--
tential president, the entour-
age of national press-these
elements tend to go to the
head of many a man who has
known no greater glory hith-
erto than Stuffing envelopes
Or in some cases possibly
ballot boxes.
BY comparison with some
of these chaps. a man like.
Senator Humphrey who has
a goodish name for loquacity
is the autobiographical chair
man, who takes his audience
back over his life step by
step, up to the glorious mo-
ment in which he is now
baSking.
He is only slightly less of
a hazard than the chairman
who repeats word for word
his exchanges with the cam
didate at the head table. dis
solving into helpless chuckles
as he recalls some of his finer
witticisms.
Campaign Literature
So far, it does not seem
that the campaign literature
is going to be anything of a
highly inspiring nature. An
early entry in this field is a
glossy, tWo-color brochure Is
sued in the interests of Sen-
ate Majority Leader Johnson
of Texas.
The first line will give you
the flavor.
Senator Lyndon B. John
son is on the 60 Travel
wise. Speechwise. Supporter
wise"
Had enough? %.
Grammarians are frankly
looking forward to a change
of administration. Whatever
the historians may render as
their verdict, the Eisenhower
years for the word lovers has
been a disaster. If the style
is the man, then the rhetori-
clans see the President as a
man who never knows where
he is going when he starts
out ands one who fetcheS UP
in some brambles of paren-
thetical clauses and heads
straight for such pitfalls as
the multiple, not to mention,
the false starts. Take for in
stance, Ills answer 10 a QueS-
ton about who's ahead. Il
would like to see our people
and I admit that there's
that they get disturbed and
="
Meanwhile, we must look
to France for high style in
words as we'll as in fashions.
Take the magnificent appeal
of Gen. Charles de Gaulle to
the French army in Algiers.
Il know you, I love you, I
respect you. But you must
obey for France"
UjTp In Fr0ncer
Evening star., 1960-02-21

SleeZy and trivial and sem
Sational."
o. Henry'S Art
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1960-02-06
Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.
Changes Department Heads

earliest opponents of professional
help for homcmakers. organized
Michigan Consolidated'S first
home service department She
plans TO carry on her work in
retirement through serving the
many women's groups she has
worked with during her active
business career.
She joined Michigan Consoli.
dated in 1929 following her grad
uation from Iowa State College
and served as home service di-
rector until l947 when she was
appointed executive advisor.
In addition TO her home eco
Monies activities, Miss hickey
has been active in Catholic char.
lily work which she plans TO
continue.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1960-02-06
nee Banquets
Sparks CT. Fight

MEMPHIS. Tenn The Nation
al Education fer Citizenship Ban
quot which was held at the Ma
onai Press Club in Washington
January 2Sth symbolized the A.
mcrica Negro Overwhelming
support cf Civil Rights lcgiSla-
iion winch VIII be considered by
his session Of Congress
Senators Paul Douglas Of III
nois ard Kenneth B. Heating Of
New York was among the disfin-
gUished per- ans horored al the
banquet and this is our way Of
letting them know we stand full
ly behind them as they lead the
civil riaht f.qht in Congress"
Said Ii. George w. Lee, Memphis
insurance executive and Grand
Commissioner Of Education Of
the Improved Benevolent Proteo-
tive Order Of EIks Of The World
which is sponsored The Banquet.
Senators Douglas and Heating,
as well as seven other outstand-
ing American citizens were
elected 10 the John Brown Hall
Of Fame and presented the Elks'
National Service Awards. The
two law makers are Spcarhead-
ing the fight to pass effective
civil rights measures.
This rs a crucial period in
the life of our great nation. .
IL Lee said" and mon like Sen
aiorS Douglas and Heating are
setting standards Of democracy
which other legislators might
we'll follow. Negro America sa-
luteS them at this banquet for
their courage and dedication in
the sensitive area Of civil
rights