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Evening star., 1961-03-05
Let's Learn to Decode
Khrushchev DoubIetoIk k

slant alertneSs to counteract
the influence of bourgeois
ideology." Since the doctrine
of Marxism-Leninism is pred
icated on the ultimate su-
premacy of world commu-
niSm, Khrushchev is obliged
to work his propaganda ma
chine overtime in order to
announce endless advances
and victories, both at home
and abroad.
Equally important from the
Communist viewpoint. as the
authors indicate, is the
achievement of MarxiSt-
feminist goals by a new
human type, Communist
man." Since man is "a ma
terial object in a material
universe, there is no logical
reason why a new model
should not be turned out g.
to keep pace with efficiencieS
Of science and technology in
other fields"
Recent events confirm the
Overstreets' warning that the
free world dare not be gullible
about Communist intentions.
The manifesto issued in Mos
cow on December 6, 1860,
after a prolonged conference
Of 81 Communist Party lead
ers, declares that "coexistence
between states of differing
social systems is a form of
class struggle between social
ism (communism) and capi-
talism e. Qt) does not mean
a reconciliation between the
Socialists (Communists) and
bourgeois ideologies it
implies the intensification of
the struggle"
Khrushchev's latest display
Of belligerence, especially with
reference to the Congo. again
corroborateS the theme Of
"The War Called Peace"
GEORGE w. CRONYN
Evening star., 1961-03-05
RUSSIA, AMERICA AND
THE WORLD. BY Louis
Fischer. (Harper's; $4.5O.)

RUSSIA, AMERICA AND
THE WORLD. BY Louis
Fischer. (Harper's; $4.50.)
Mr.. Fischer. a journalist
and foreign affairs specialist
Of broad experience, presents
here an informative and gen.
orally hopeful view of the
world in a time OF cold war.
He thinks that if America
uses its material and spiritual
resources widely and posi-
lively there is no reason why
a third world war cannot be
averted and peace secured.
In addition to providing a
wealth Of readable informa-
ton and informed opinion,
Mr.. Fischer performs two
other important services: He
answers those who would say
that the United States has
flubbed completely in for
eign relations and those who
see the Kremlin as a fright
eningly dynamic and dis
couragingly successful op-
ponent.
After all. he points out,
1t was largely through Amer
lean determination and as
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Something Light,
Also Quite Trivial
SOMETHING LIGHT. 3

SOMETHING LIGHT. By
Margery Sharp. Little,
Brown & Co.: $3.50
It may be something light,
but many readers will find
it only something trivial.
Louisa is very fond of men,"
and having decided that the
time has come to catch her
self a husband, she goes
about the job swathed in an
insufferable pert brightness
that makes her too cozy for
words. She goes as chap
erone to the country house
of Freddy, who has a big
checking account, a big
Rolls Royce, and who
is always good for as much
champagne as his friends
can drink. Her services as
duenna are needed because
Freddy has invited his BRIDE
to-be to put up at his rural
digs. and he requires a cer-
tain veneer Of respectability.
The book Is concerned with
how Louisa thereupon makes
the most Of her possibilities.
A Wodehouse can clothe
his narrative cliches in Ian
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Musical Miracle

The Times Square subway
is an unlikely place for a
musical miracle, but strange
things happen between trains
in George Selden's comedy
of mice and men, THE
KET IN TIMES
SQUARE (Ariel, $3.50. The
strangest of all was the
cricket's chirp which Mario
heard late one Saturday
night. The chirp came from a
pile of trash near the family
newsstand. Crickets are good
luck. Mario knew that.
Papa Bellino didn't see
anything wrong in keeping
the cricket. Mama didn't
dare disagree, but she warned
Mario: only on trial he
stays. Any peculiar diseases,
and out he goes"
So Chester Cricket spends
the summer in the Times
Square subway, where his
musical talents are exploited
by two native New YorkerS,
q Broadway mouse named
Tucker. and a cat named
Harry who lived in a drain
pipe and did very we'll with
his scrounging. Each human
character and each animal
character in this extraordi-
nary fantasy is a memorable
individual, faithfully por-
trayed by Garth Williams in
a series Of full page illustra-
tions. They couldn't be
better.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
ProfiIes in Courage:
A Publishing History
The 10-HOur Day

When "Profiles In Cour-
age" was published in jan
uary. 1856, bookstore owners
had to be reminded that the
author, John F. Kennedy,
was a Senator from Massa- =
chusetts.
Publisher Harper q Bros.
found advance sales only
average for a book Of non
fiction, although the Massa-
chusetts stores stocked the
book well.
Reviews Were Good
But reviewers were kind.
The New York Times said
"Splendidly readable" The
Star called the book a Stir
ring recital Of past political
deeds performed at great per-
sonal sacrifice"
And soon schools and IL
braries discovered Profiles as
a good book for young peo-
pie. ProfileS rose to the best
seller lists and remained on
some for as long as SO weeks.
Even an inexpensive pa
perback reprint failed to cut
into the sales of hardcover
editions. On May 7, 1857,
Profiles won the Pulitzer
prize for biography. The
Evening star., 1961-03-05
THE WAR CALLED PEACE

THE WAR CALLED PEACE.
By Harry and Bonaro
Overstreet. (W. w. Norton
Co.; $4.500
The knowledgeable team of
Harry and Bonaro Over
street offers a timely sequel
to an earlier success, what
We Must Know About Com
munism." The title of the
current volume is the key to
its central theme, derived
from Communist semantics.
The Overstreets remind us
that Khrushchev makes con-
slant use of ''the kind of
double-talk that we must
learn to decode. He will not
do the DECIDING for u.s."
KhruShchev asks the world
to believe that all Commu-
mist nations are peace
loving" However, non-Com-
munist nations ARE headed
for oblivion, and commu-
niSm's historic role is to help
them reach that state"
Questions relative to peace
full co-existence" and other
enticing slogans lead to a
detailed analysis of world
communism bearing on the
authors general thesis.
The problems Khrushchev
faces are of staggering
dimensions. With the rising
productivity of the USSR and
its expanSioniSt program
abroad, Moscow is committed
to aiding underdeveloped
countries, at the same time
holding domestic require
ments for consumer goods
within predetermined limits.
There is also Red China to
be reckoned with. Further
more, the present generation
is apathetic toward the
Party line" requiring con-
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Seeing the Seomy Side
Of ouIouse-Loutrec

and pitiful life Of one Of the
great painters Of the 18th
century" as its publisher
claims.
The biography is based
mostly on standard works
and well known previously
published documents. OF
the many photographs and
sketches illustrating the book
only two are listed by the
author as having not been
previously published. The
references are erratic and
some of the footnotes are ir-
relevant.
These failingS could readily
be forgiven If the author had
succeeded in conjuring up a
convincing and moving image
OF Toulouse-Lautrec, or in
defining the nature of his
genius. Unfortunately he
does neither. Under the guise
Of creating an atmosphere,
the author delves with in
finite gusto in the seamier
aspects of Partisan night life
OF the period, forgetting, 1T
seems, that when depicted
with anything less than Lau-
trees own cauStic genius, this
can be pretty dull. Further
more, frequent conjectures as
to what the artist felt and
thought considerably weaken
the real drama of his life.
Perhaps the most serious
fault of the book is that the
author has neglected the
most obvious and most reli-
able source of psychological
insight: Lautrec's own works.
He refers to them in the most
general terms and does not
anywhere attempt to analyze
them. Indeed, there are few
reproductions Of the artists
paintings and drawings.
For this reviewer, Gerstle
Mack's remains the best
biography on Lautrec, while
Pierre La Mure's novel Mou-
lin Rouge is more gripping.
HENRI DORA.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

during the busy season for
women and children was II
hours.
The Cup Of Salvation
For Is years, Ashley, al
ways invoking the blessing Of
the Lord, labored and fretted,
while Peel prophesied the
ruin Of the economy if the
10-hour bill passed. When
finally in 1843 it was won,
Lord Ashley, true Victorian,
wrote in his journal: God in
His mercy, prosper the work
and grant that these opera
tives may receive the cup Of
Salvation and call upon the
name of the Lord"
The chapter on Ashley, the
least known Of Mr.. Rosen-
baum's select half-dozen is
the most fascinating. Ordeals
of the others are more cele-
brated: Newman graphing
with Rome; Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, torn between filial
piety and womanly passion;
Darwin. racked with illness
and laboring like the ant on
the Origin Of the Species"
General Chinese" Gordon,
who went down with the
Empire at Khartoum is Of the
breed of Ashley, a Christian
first and one who accepted
suffering as a condition Of
life and read Imitation of
Christ" while coping with in
fidelS. You might quarrel a bit
with the inclusion Of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, who is
mostly recorded by his brother
in any case and lacks the
stature of the others. Mr..
RoSenbaum probably did not
wish to follow Lytton Stra-
chey, the idolsmasher, too
closely. else why did he not
include that most stupendous,
most suffering, most produc-
tive Of Victorians, Florence
Nightingale, who had much
to say for herself.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
New Fiction SHES
From 'Snobbishness'

BY BARBARA NOLEN
Toptyjhuti,r Writer

Some adults still sign with nostalgia the poor but
proud families in Five Little Peppers" Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch The modern writer and the modern child
tend to reject this type of mawksh morality Instead the
plain folk of big city small town have into their
in delightful chdrenS books which take their heroes
where they find them, without trace of snob appeal
FAMILY WALK-UP by Elizabeth Stucley Franklin
Watts $3.50 the story of normal working class family
in crowded London flat is complete change from the
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Family Mysteries

Something is always hap
pening in several new family
stories which combine a touch
of mystery with good char
acteriZation. THE PHAN-
TOM OF WALKAWAY HILL
doubleday; $2.95) is excel
lent, and no surprise, for Mr..
Fenton is a dependable story
teller. In this title. a tre-
mendous snowstorm isolates
the Little family in an old
mansion. All the proper ele-
ments of suspense are pro-
vided when the telephone is
cut off and strengthening
tracks appear in the snow.
THE ROBBER GHOST by
Karin Anckarsvard (Har-
court; $3.25O is a spooky tale
about Swedish boys and girls
in a small town where the
postoffice is located in an old
castle, complete with ghost.
When a large sum of money
disappears, school politics
hinder efforts to catch the
thief. The whole situation
produces some neat detective
work.
For girls Of 10 or there
abouts. there's another Lon
don story, THE HOUSE IN
Evening star., 1961-03-05

typical English story OF
ponies and prams and iIan-
MES. The four BernerS chill
dren continually step on one
another's toes, as children do
everywhere. Action centers
on 12-year-old Val, danger
ously mixed with a local
gang, and on 14-year -old
Glory. short for Glory Allie
lula, whose New Years reso-
luton had been that "she was
going to have glamour, if it
killed her"
The presiding genius of
this London family is Mum
Berners. Every day, she
trudges off to her job as an
office cleaning woman, but
still she manages to be the
hub of the family circle.
Family Walk-Up" has every
thing: Adventure, humor,
warmth of feeling, realism,
and style. And the most i'm
portant of these is humor.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Blue DoIphins

How would it feel to be left
alone on an island, if you
were only IL? How would you
feel if your g. year = old
brother. your only compan-
ion, had been killed by wild
dogs?
This Is the story which
Scott O'Dell tells in ISLAND
OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
(Houghton. Mifflin; $2.75).
The island was rock and al
most barren. Otter and dol
phins and sea elephants
swan in the coveS. The In
dian girl who was left alone
did not know how to make
weapons or hunt; such activ-
tiles were forbidden to the
women of her tribe. Even
tually, she braved the taboos
IN order to survive.
It is a compelling story,
full of turmoil, its only flaw
the lack of illustrations to
match the vivid word picture
of storm and sunshine, of
pelican and cormorant, Of
savage beast and savage ma
ture.
Drums are already beating
for National Library Week,
April 1922, which will en-
phasize school libraries this
year. For parents and
teachers who want to pro-
mote books and libraries in
their own community, a spe-
cial kit is available, with COL
orful poster, Streamer, book
marks and suggested pro-,
grams. Send one dollar to
School Kit, National Library
Week, Post Office Box 365,
Midtown Branch, New York
l8, N. Y. Deadline for orders
is March 81.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

helped by Charles Dana Glib
son. who made the fatally
handsome Richard Harding
Davis the counterpart of the
Gibson Girl of his drawings,
there was also born a half
self-consciouS, half-native lit
erary figure that almost over
night became the idol of the
public.
Van Bibber, who was the
cause Of this furore, is de-
scribed by Mr.. Langford
through direct quotation: "He
is a figure for young girls to
sigh over his soft, care
less drawl' inspires respect
even on the part of his valet,
an English domestic with a
dignified and repellent air.
Van Bibber never enters
the martS of trade and
finance except in re-
Sponse to a call from his
lawyer who wanted his sigma
ture on some papers. :. He
decided to get back to his
club window and its quiet as
soon as possible ;" In
Davis later fiction Van Bib
ber is joined by another type,
the soldier of fortune, the
adventurer. But today the
fascination is gone. On the
other hand, his reporting as
a war correspondent, which
for the rest of his life was to
take him all over the world,
is still fresh and alive.
1t is in the tentative por-
trayal Of Davis enigmatic
character that the biographer
is at his best. Davis was
genuinely and inherently
modest and unassuming, and
never answered almost uni
versal lifelong unfavorable
journalistic criticism with an
easy sneer and a finger
pointed to his sales figures.
But he was always his
mothers boy, try though he
did to break away. The
reader is first aware Of some
thing odd when he hears the
gallant Davis wondering in a
letter whether to kiss the
bride at the wedding of his
best friend, Charles Dana
Gibson, to his own Gibson
Girl, and deciding against it
though she held out her lips
to be kissed" Late in life he
is shocked to see girls on the
bathing beach, their legs
bare from their short socks
to their crotch" (Those
socks! I can't picture it,
In 1899, Davis married Cecil
Clark, a girl he had known
from boyhood, whose inter-
ests were painting and breed
ing dogs. Before the mar
riage she insisted that there
would never be q connubial
bed. and Davis agreed to the
stipulation. At first the cou-
pie seemed happy. but at the
age Of 48 Davis left his wife
and married a Broadway
dancer, Bessie Mccoy. This
union was a short but happy
one. and perhaps Davis was
beginning to grow up when,
shortly after the birth of a
daughter. he was killed by a
heart attack.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Other Books in Brief
FICTION
DEEP ARE THE VALLEY.

DEEP ARE THE VALLEYS.
By Hannah Close. VAN
guard; $4.95D A second
historical novel by the
author Of High Are the
Mountains"
THE ROARING DAYS. BY
Donald Mclean. (St. Mar
tins Press; $3.50 Humor-
Gus and exaggerated yarns
Of the Australian Outback
at the turn of the century.
GENERAL
CONVERSATION TODAY.
BY Albert B. Dahlquist.
(Nelson-Hall; $3.50 The
art. science and techniques
of putting thoughts and
feelings into words.
THE PEOPLE OF MUSHAN.
BY Howard R. Long. CUni-
versity Of Missouri; $7.50)
A picture record Of life
in a Formosan village.
STROKE. BY Douglass
Ritchie. Doubleday; $500
The authors physical and
psychological rehabilitation
after a paralyzing stroke.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
Fiction Hath No
Natter Beau
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE RICHARD HARDING DAVIS YEARS: A Biography of
Mother and Son. By Gerald LangfOrd Holt, Rnehart
and winston $3.50
When 10 years old. my father gave set of the
collected fiction Of Richard Harding Davis who had been
friend of his The volumes handsomely printed and
magncenty bound in threequarters red morocco stamped
gold At the time loved the books but in later
when cursed discrimination lost interest in their literary
quality used to feel regret that such mediocre writing should
be decked in such smptuou garb The beauty Of the
shows in his absorbing biography Davis clothes
Evening star., 1961-03-05
CASE HISTORIES
Troubled Children
In q Victorian Aoe
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

Here is a representative entry from EARNEST VIC
TORIANS Hawthorn Books; $7.50) edited by Robert A.
RoSenhaum volume in which exceptional children of
their pos purpoSeul recorded by themselves
by their contemporaries.
Wrote Lord Ashley his 25th birthday: Time was
Evening star., 1961-03-05
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC,

Henri Perruchot, trans
lated by Humphrey Hare.
CWorld Publishing Co.; So
This is a swiftly paced
account Of the life Of Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1t is
not "a definitive biography"
nor does it throw an entire
ly new light on the strange
Evening star., 1961-03-05
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Evening star., 1961-03-05

when I couldn't sleep for am
bition. I thought of nothing
but fame and immortality.
I could not bear the idea of
dying and being forgotten.
But now I am much changed.
Immortality has ceased to be
a longing with me. I desire
to be useful in my generation
and die in the knowledge of
having advanced happiness
by having advanced true re-
ligion."
The 10-Hour Day
Lord Ashley achieved i'm
mortality anyway by his work
for the factory and mine
children and his devotion to
the cause of the 10-hour
day. His lifelong struggle
to free the children from
peonage reads in part like a
Victorian melodrama with
the factory and mine-owners
playing the villains on the
floor of Parliament. The
opposition encountered by
Ashley is hair-raising even
now. Economic chaos was
argued; the well-being of the
children was cited; the term
"the jolly collier" was in
voked to show that the miners
were happy at their work.
But Ashley finally got hold
Of a report by the Commis-
sion Of the Employment of
Children in Mines and fac
tories. And public opinion
was aroused.
In vain did Lord London
derry, a mine owner, say in
the House, II think they are
as fit for the work at the age
Of 8 as when they are TO-" The
testimony of the mine chill
dren. shouted out from the
report: Il went into the pit
at 7 years of age. When I drew
by the girdle and chain, the
skin was broken, and the
blood ran down. If we said
anything they would beat
u.s." The normal working day
Evening star., 1961-03-05

guage that makes something
light, something attractive
and beguiling. Miss Sharp is
less successful.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

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of a hurricane on Virginia
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by Elizabeth Cheatharn
Walton. Miss Walton is a
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The Nome nugget., 1961-10-27
US. Soviet Tanks Train Guns on Each Other <. Border Tension Mounts

They were reasserting the rights of passage that the United States claims for it's forces, civilian and military.
 A few hours later, Premier Khrushchev served notice the So- viet Union has no intention of guaranteeing in d e fini ely the Western powers access to the city.
 He told a Moscow audience the West is threatening war to back up it's position here. He insisted, however, that the Soviet Union has no designs on West Berlin.
 The main issue in Berlin at the moment was the right of the United States and it's allies to pass civilian officials into East Berlin without identifying them to the satisfaction of the East Berlin police.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-27

BERLIN tn Barely 200 yards apart, forces of US. and Russian tanks trained their guns on each other tonight in the explosive cen ter of Berlin.
 Ten Soviet tanks took up posi- ti0ns facing the critical Friedrich strasse checkpoint; eight more stood in reserve, out of sight two blocks away. Five American tanks were at the border, with five more in reserve.
 For two hours all $500 US. troops in Berlin were on general battle alert. The alert was can celed in mid-evening.
 For a time no traffic passed through the Friedrichstrasse crossing point connecting East and West Berlin. Later East Ger man police reopened the border.
 A new US. armed thrust into Berlin three jeeps carrying military policemen and escorting a car carrying civilians = set off series of maneuvers by the tanks before they settled down, app parently to stay the night.
 The Americans were inches from the white line marking the border. The Russian tanks stood POO yards back in East Berlin. Between them was a zig-zag bar Tier Of concrete blocks = no ob- stacle if the tank commanders were ordered forward.
 Also standing between the forces were a few East German police - who brought the tense Berlin situation to a head last Sunday when they started de- ssaanding identifi cation from American civilians moving be- tween the twu halves of the city.
 A senior British Army officer identified the Red tanks as So- viet, manned by Soviet crews. They were presumably from a group of 20-30 Soviet tanks that moved into East Berlin last night from neighboring East Germany.
 The Communist tanks moved toward the US. sector within an hour after three US. Anny jeeps bearing military police escorted a small gray car carrying Amer ican civilians into the East sector.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-27
Russia Sets Off No. 25

WASHINGTON R Russia set off another nuclear blast at its Arctic testing testing station today, the Atomic Energy Com mission announced.
 1t was the 18th announced by the commission since the Russians resumed testing Sept. 1. Others are reported to have been de- tected but net announced.
 The newest explosion, in the Novaya Zemlya Arctic testing area, was ssin the low to inter mediate yield range" the AEC said. That would indicate a blast force equivalent to between 10000 and 5O,00O tons of TINT.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-27
Flying Feathers

xy LUX GC0SA4(A0 0 ss
 ATHOL., Mass. Lh Flying feather. flying glass and flying fists suddenly disturbed the de- corum of junior high school in- dustrial arts room Thursday.
 For one confused minute no- body knew what had happened as one student leaped up in anger and clouted the student behind him.
 What had happened was this: A partridge flew through a win dow pane, and before falling stunned and injured on the floor, struck the back of the first stu- dents head. He. reacted instantly by slugging the innocent student behind him.
 Instructor Reino Sandberg took in the situation, quieted the rsc- kus, and dispatched the injured wildfow destined to find place In Sandberg's freezer.