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reassuring tWang. But its
owner was not quite COM
Portable as a neWscaster. He
had opinions, judgments,
intense feelings. These failed
to fit into the objectivity
pattern of CHS news which
meant that it was not until
he moved to ABC that Davis
became truly the voice of
sanity in a world gone mad.
Roosevelt Fan
Among his fans was Pres
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt
whose own fan Davis was
not before the 1882 election
in which he voted, in protest,
for Norman Thomas. Fan
Roosevelt, a man of quick,
firm decisions, made one in
favor of Davis when he
needed a man to head his
office of War Information.
He got him, and in the
process. got Davis into his
most useful public service.
And, at the same time, a
turmoiliSh one. among its
conflicts one of the hottest
with Robert E. Sherwood. Mr.
Burlingame goes into the
dramatic details of these, of
the latter conflict between
Davis and the Mordred of
democracy's shame, Senator
Joseph Mccarthy.
1t is all so readable, so
still pointed and meaningful
in a world so eager to hear
again an equivalently reas-
suring voice.
JAY CARMODY.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: Psy

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: PSy-
chO-Legal Aspects. BY DR..
Frank S. Caprio and Don
aid R. Brenner. (Citadel
Press; So
DR.. Caprio is a Washing
ton psychiatrist who has
made frequent court appear
ances and written extensively
on sex problems. Mr.. Bren-
ner is a Washington attor-
ney, lecturer at American
University and co-author of
several articles on the legal
aspects of sexual behavior.
Together, they have turned
out a big book, attacking vir-
tually every problem with
sexual implications. They
have written in popular terms
in line with their repeatedly
expressed conviction that
sexual ignorance condemns
thousands to lives of unnec-
essary unhappiness and dam
ages the basic fabric of social
life"
Coming from two different
disciplines, they have inevi-
tably produced a curious
combination of detailed case
histories, reviews of laws and
court decisions, quotations
and a sweeping set of rec
concentrations and conclu-
Evening star., 1961-04-23

was the cause of Uncle Bas-
CONS expulsion from a whole
series of churches, the read
er is curious about the details,
but he has a suspicion that
this is not the case. Rather
he thinks that Wolfe has not
himself visualized the situa-
ton very clearly. At other
times, Wolfe turns general
tiles into specific incidents.
as when he tells us what
people would say to Uncle
Bascom when he crossed the
street, imperceptibly and un-
consciously blending this ty-
pical happening into one real
incident.
1t is hard to believe that
the same author wrote, only
four years later, the con-
trolled, precisely timed. and
brilliantly perceived story.
"'I Have a Thing to Tell
YOU" The incident, re-
created with extreme real
ism, is about a train trip in
Germany in 1896. during
which a Jew is taken into
custody by the NaziS. The
pictures of the native Ameri-
can, the naturalized Ameri-
can, and the three Germans
are painted with extraordi-
nary discrimination. The
story tells very clearly what
was happening in the Ger
many Of that time, but as
Wolfe rightly declared it is not
propaganda" Propaganda
is the art Of making another
believe what you want him
to believe-all Wolfe is in
terested in is letting you
know precisely what he has
learned.
The Web Of Earth"
memories Of an old woman,
is formlesS and difficult to
follow, but the subject is
not badly suited to the style
and the novel" (not later
amalgamated with another)
is a successful string Of
anecdotes all imbued with
the personality Of their fic-
tional teller.
Two other pieces, mo
Door" and THE Party at
Jacks" complete Mr.. Hol-
mans collection. The intro
duction and notes are always
perceptive and Informative.
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sex, brutality, sadism, and
four-letter words, the texture
Of his own stories seems sur
prisingly mild. Bastard" is
perhaps the nearest Ham
NETT comes to a four-letter
word, and his greatest char
acter, the Continental Op,
is a stout man of 40, hard
and implacable. it is true,
but leavened with an under
standing and sympathy de-
void Of even a trace Of any
thing maudlin or sentimental.
In dialogue, action, and
variety of Characterization,
Mr.. Hammett has never been
approached by any other
detective story writer except
Simenon. (In France q
generic word for all mystery
stories is "un Simenon";; we
could honor our own writer
by coming the common noun
"a hammett.") The ease,
colloquial accuracy, and gen.
uine expresSiveness Of Mr..
Hammett's underworld dia-
logue is remarkable. It
achieves great naturalism and
realism without, as I have
said, reSorting to the ever
weaker shock Of indecency.
His typical story starts with
a believable murder the
solution Of which suddenly
expands the tale into a
fantastic nightmare OF every
sort of criminal convolution.
However wild and COM
plicated. the yarn never dis
solves into silly shapeless-
ness-the reader never even
tries to guess what will hap
pen, but the denouement, If
seldom credible, is always
understandable. In the aver
age whodunit by Gardner or
Queen. by the time the mur-
derer is uncovered the reader
is so befuddled by pointless
complication and clues that
he has ceased to care who
the william is.
But with Mr.. Hammett the
story is always of prime in
terest; his genius was in
telling a bloody and harrow
ing tale with candor, detach-
ment, and clarity.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
And O'Huru

In his urbane and read
able pages, Mr.. Auchincloss
also considers Thackery,
Charlotte Bronte, Meredith
Proust, Trollope. James Bour-
get, Marquad, O'Hara, Tolls
toy, Dostoyevsky and the New
York diarist. George Tenn
pleton Strong.
This reader enjoyed his
diSdain for John O'Hara:
Underneath all the bluster,
he is writing an old-fash-
ioned novel of manners,
where the most important
item about any character is
the social niche in which he
was born"
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lifted by Wolfe from a big
novel he never finished but
never abandoned. Some are
character studies in the style
of Melville's short pieces. one
Is stream Of consciousness
reminiscence, and some have
the length and singleness of
point-of-view Of a short
story. Inept and sensitive
writing jostle each other with
unSelfconscious comradeShip;
Maxwell Perkins was Wolfe's
friend, mentor and editor,
and it has long been conceded
that his assistance was of
great value in making Wolfe'S
writing somewhat less incho-
ate. 1t is frightening to con-
template what the unedited
originals were, since there re-
main not only an occasional
grammatical solecism but
also a wilderness Of style.
But what is constant in the
five novels" is the pervading
spirit of the young writer
his warmth. his humanity, .
his sometimes awkward Striv-
ing. When the writing is good,
as in ct Have a Thing to Tell
YOU" the effect is over
whelming; when it is dread
full. as in most of "A Portrait
Of Bascom Hawke" there is
still a bond. between writer
and reader. of sympathy and
kinship.
"Bascom Hawke" is not a
story but two portraits Of
Brill and Uncle Bascom as
seen through the eyes Of a
sensitive youth. The two
were men in a thousand, a
million: if one had seen
them in a crowd he would
have looked after them, if
one had talked with them,
he could never have forgotten
them" Wolfe may believe
this distinctive individuality,
but perhaps the reader will
be less convinced. I, for one,
having read the piece, know
virtually nothing about Brill
except that he was inveter-
ately profane and suffered
from phlegm in his throat.
Uncle Bascom never comes
into sharp focus. Wolfe
simply will not demand Of
himself any precision and ac-
curacy in his painting. For
example, Uncle Bascom was a
preacher who at various times
was pastor Of many church.
es. When he became an
agnostic his professional
connection with the Unitar-
ianS, and indeed with the
BaptistS, Methodists. Holy
Rollers, and Seventh Day
Adventists, came to an abrupt
ending after he read from his
pulpit one morning COM
position in verse entitled The
Agnostic," which made up in
conciSion what it lacked in
melody, and which ended
each stanza sadly, but very
plainly, on this recurrence:
I do not knoW;
1t may be so"
Here q single event is
turned into a sort Of sloven-
ly generality. If this one in
stance of heretical dogma
Evening star., 1961-04-23
DushieII Hummett Fuvorites
In Popular Poperbock

THE DAM CURSE, RED
HARVEST, THE MALTESE
FALCON, THE GLASS
KEY, THE THIN MAN.
BY Dashiell Hammett.
CPermabooks; 35 cents
each.)
During the last week or so,
browserS in the bookStalls Of
our local drug stores have
noticed, while waiting for
their Metrecal to be wrapped
up, a handsome new five
volume paperback edition Of
the novels of Dashiell Ham
NETT. The books, out of a
proper respect for the mem
ory Of Mr.. Hammett, who
died last January, have re-
placed their customary lurid
covers of girls, guns and gun
sells with more refined ones
of pastel hues. I suspect the
publishers know. after all
these years. that it doesn't
take blood and cheeSecake to
sell Sam Spade and the Con-
tinental Op.
Mr.. Hammett's reputation
was made on five novels.
written between 1929 and
1888, and 80 or 40 magazine
stories, most of which ap-
peared during the '20s. Like
Melville, and like Sibelius
and Rossini, he broke off a
; career at a time when it
seemed that there was still
much more. though not much
better, to be done. He was
one Of the few modern Amer
ican writer's admired by the
multitudes and the happy
few alike. In France he was
considered by Andre Glide to
be among the greatest Amer
ican novelists, while in Amer
lea there has been no other
writer of mysteries whose
novels for 80 years have
never been out Of print nor
even long off bookstore
shelves.
Mr.. Hammett is said to
have lifted the detective
story out OF the priory gar
den and put it where it be-
longs in the underworld. If
he does indeed have to take
the responsibility for the
tough" detective story Of
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Psychiotric Clinic
Or Criminal Court?

sions. many Of them con-
troverSial.
The basic theme Is that
psychiatristS and lawyers
should follow the pattern the
co-authors themselves have
set - working together to
achieve a better understand
ing of the problems that be-
set mankind because of sex
ual difficulties. For instance,
they would have many more
types of sexual offenders hos
pitalized instead of jailed.
And they blame lawyers for
inadvertently nurturing di-
vorceS" by failing to recognize
that certain problems Of
married couples need a psy-
chiatric clinic rather than a
divorce court.
In their psychological ap-
proach, they wind up with a
10-point program for world
sex health" Their recon-
mended objectives include:
More adequate sex knowl-
edge made available via lee
turers and literature; COM
pulSory sex education in the
schools; sex facts for parents
in need of guidance; re-edu-
eating society to rid it of
neurotic sex taboos; improved
laws dealing with sex Of
tenders; more enlightened
treatment of sex cases in the
military; a ban on police en-
trapment of sex offenders;
more marriage clinics; fund
raising projects to establish
clinics for treatment of sex
deviateS and scientific re-
search in the study Of sexual
alterations and crimes, in
cluding establishment of a
national institute of sexual
science.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Thomas Wolfe;
Five Studies
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE SHORT NOVELS OF THOMAS WOLFE. Edited, with
introduction and notes, by c. Hugh Holman (Charles
Scribners Sons; $4.50D
Since it well worthwhile to collect the five pieces
by Thomas Wolfe that make this volume. designate
them short novels reasonable decision any
other c. Hugh Holman the editor could have called them
accurately but with less appeal five writings" five
slices None of the pieces which so each
novel, and taken as group the five works fall into
nizable category
Some Of the pieces incorporated after their initial
publication into the novels put together by Wolfe his lit
Evening star., 1961-04-23
DON'T LET THEM SCAR

DON'T LET THEM SCARE
YOU. The Life and Times
of Elmer Davis. By Roger
Burlingame. Lippincott;
$685.
The voice of sanity has
not been one of the common
places Of this psychotic CEN
tury. Its rare owner, then.
has automatically become a
man of distinction, a Pla-
tonic figure among the
snarling statesmen, bristling
politicians and journalists
blown off balance by the
winds of change.
So for decades we have
listened nervously for the
sane voice, one of the most
listenable of which belonged
to the late Elmer Davis.
1t returns to us comfort
ingly in this diSmaying week
in geographic form, a we'll
timed volume by Roger Bur-
lingame who finds its title
in the most firmly fixed
principle of the Davis creed:
Don't Let Them Scare
You"
A Born Freedom Fighter
Mr.. Burlingame has
wrought a wonderfully read
able portrait of a journalist
who added more than a cubit
to the stature of his profess
sion. His Elmer Davis, born
in the small town of Aurora,
Ind, in 1890. was an in
stinctive freedom fighter, his
natural skills polished by de-
vouring educational oppor-
tunities offered and Frank
lin College, in Indiana, and
oxford, the latter as a
Rhodes scholar.
Including an lnvincible In
diana twang, Elmer Davis
emerged from education as
the most successfully dis
guised intellectual of his
time. AS Mr.. Burlingame
shows in copiouS quotes from
his subject. Davis could talk
sense to the American people
and make them listen, a trick
that eluded Adlai Stevenson,
whose own Midwest accent
may have been too creamily
modulated by Princeton.
Behind David's Words
Don't Let Them Scare
You" takes its reader behind
Davis words to reveal the
philosopher in homespun.
the man whose wit could be
lethal, the humorist who &C
cepted the journalists obli-
CATION to entertain as we'll as
to inform. The figure revealed
is somewhat more restless.
than his manner revealed.
After a stretch of jour-
nalism, beginning in 1914 as
a $1O-a-week reporter on the
New York Times, Davis
turned to fiction.
Inevitably, he began to
seep back to journalism. first
to his typewriter then, out of
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Other Books of the Week in Brief
PAPERBAcKS
THE SELECTED WRITINGS

THE SELECTED WRITINGS
OF SALVATORE QUASI
MODO. CNoonday; $1.950
1859 winner Of the Nobel
Prize for literature.
MICHAEL BAKUNIN. BY E.
H. Carr. Vintage; $1.450
The biography Of a con-
temporary and rival Of
Marx.
THE TWELVE CHAIRS. BY
If and Petrov. Vintage;
$1.25O A new translation
of the poignant and hu-
morous tale of a Soviet
crook.
SOVIET MARXISM. BY Her.
bert Marcuse. (Vintage;
$1.25. A critical analysis.
ASPECTS OF REVOLT. BY
Max Nomad. A study in
revolutionary theories and
techniqueS.
NEW PAPERBACK SERIES
oxford University Press will pub
liSh next September the first five
titles in Its third series OF paper
back books. The new series will
be known as HesperideS Books OK
ford already publishes Galaxy Books
the first Of which were issued in
1855. and oxford Paperbacks. a
series that made its debut last fall
GALAXY ,is Books or oriEinste tss L5 With 9xtord 99t
backs originate in England.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
BIOGRAPHY

ANGEL OF HUDSON BAY.
BY William Ashley Ander-
son. (Dutton; $4.500 A
pioneer woman fights for
rights for the Indians in
the Canadian Northwest.
1, JACK SWELLING. BY
John Myers. (Hastings
House; $685. The story
Of the reckless adventurer
who founded Phoenix, Ariz.
OUR SHARE OF MORNING.
BY Paul Burnett. CDoubleI
day; $4.50.D The story Of
an Austrian family's
terrifying flight from the
NaziS.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
His Was the Serene
Voice of America

the blue, to a Columbia
Broadcasting System micro
phone. Paul White asked him
to fill in in the catastrophe
Shadowed summer of 1899
for Hans Kaltenborn which
Davis found "a little like
trying to play centerfield in
place of Joe DiMaggio."
1t turned out just fine.
America had a voice and the
voice had wisdom, wit and a
Evening star., 1961-04-23
FICTION
MY FRIEND MONICA. By

MY FRIEND MONICA. BY
Jane Duncan. (St. Mar
tins Press; $3.950 Monica
creates a triangle when
she becomes friendly with
the narrator's husband.
APRIL MORNING. BY How
ard Fast. Grown; $500
A first-person account Of
the Battle OF Lexington.
THE SHAME OF OUR
WOUNDS. BY Arthur j.
Roth. CCrowell; $685. The
tragic story of an insti-
tutionalized boy during
the depression.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
READING AND WRITING
Authors in Praise
OF Their Masters
BY MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

those who like books about other books there
two this week Two authors American and
French writing in praise of their masters Henry
James and Stendahl respectively.
Louis Auchincloss who has rather limited
writer Of somber novels Of manners, turns out to be
happier critic than ficoneer. His REFLECTIONS OF
JACOBITE Houghton Mitfln; 50 collection of felci
tous mostly about writers, who like himself have
devoted themselves to studies Of society," that awkward and
Evening star., 1961-04-23
GENERAL
MEN, MONEY AND MOTT.

MEN, MONEY AND MOTI-
VATION. BY Arch Patton.
(McGraw-Hill; $7.500 Ex-
ecutive compensation as
an instrument Of leader
ship.
U. S. ARMY IN WORLD
WAR ii. The Ordnance
Department: Procurement
and Supply. (Office of the
chief Of military history,
Department Of the Army0
Evening star., 1961-04-23
The Man
Who Beat
Mccarthy

SENATOR FROM YER
MONT. BY Ralph E. Flan-
ders. Little, Brown 81 Co.
So
On June II, 1854. Ralph
Flanders nominated himself
for some future edition of
"Profiles in Courage" At
the cost Of ostracism in the
Senate and against the
warning Of "a leading Cab
met member" the Vermont
Senator introduced the reso-
luton that ultimately broke
the power of Senator Nc
Carthy.
To this chapter in Flan-
ders' autobiography most
readers will turn at once.
Many will be disappointed,
for the story is told with a
minimum of drama and no
passion for vengeance. Mr..
Flanders, as he told some
newly won supporters who
hoped he would lead more
cruSades, was, by nature,
not a liberal but a conser-
vative." He disclaimS cour-
age in the matter; he simply
did something which needed
doing but which no one else
offered to do.
Mr.. Flanders fits tn e
pattern of the self-made
man. The depression of the
1905 deprived him of a
college education, but he ed
ucated himself so effectively
that he has received numer-
Gus honorary degrees and
gave the 1949 Godkin Lee
lures at Harvard. His rise
from indentured apprentice
in a machine-tool factory to
president Of the Jones-Lam-
son machine-tool company
and president of the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical
Engineers constitutes one
half of his story. The other
half concerns his public SER
vice, most Importantly on
the Business Advisory Coun-
Gil (Which he pointedly
defends, on the New Eng
land Council, and on the
War Production Board. In
1916 he came to Washington
for two terms as Senator.
An liable Record
Mr.. Flanders would deny
being self-made. He claims
the benefit Of a divine
Guidance" which he COM
pares to the damon" of
Socrates. Earnest belief in
the moral law" a law of
love as inevitable as the
laws of science, dominates
his book. Actions that seem
liberal for a New England
conservative are connected
with. if not traceable to,
this faith. So are his views
on education, unem-
ployment, disarmament. and
international organizations
1t is not surprising that he
felt no animus against Nc
Carthy. but it is surprising
that he has only malice. no
charity at all, for Franklin
Roosevelt,
Senator Flanders addresses
his book to his grandchil-
dren. In the opening chap
terS he pays his respects to
his parents and his fore
fathers, then settles down
to narrating the events OF
his own life. Except for
chapters on religion and
travel, he sticks to chronol-
ogy. For his grandchildren
he evokes a romantic image
of his youth, tirelesSly points
a moral, or numbers his
contacts with royalt.'. For
his constituents he records
his views and quotes from
his articles and speeches.
Senator from Vermont"
has an innocently Self-con-
gratulatory air, with alter
nations between wonderment
at success and gratitude for
it. Here is not storehouse
for the historian, but this
Evening star., 1961-04-23

This is the challenge and
the opportunity, the author
declares. that faces the
United States in formulating
its basic policy toward those
fledgling nations and reor-
ganized societies whose own
interests dictate non-involve-
ment in the rivalry Of the
cold war-or Of a hot one.
FRED THEROUX.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

amiable record does illumi-
nate the personality and
character of an honest,
moral Yankee.
ARTHUR COLLINS.
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MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-04
Damascus
By Elizabeth Kile
WA. 6.1454

ent for this service and meeting.
The Red Cross Bloobmobile
will make its second visit to Da-
mascus under the new program
instituted this year, on April 10,
at the Fire House from 8 to
7:45 pm. Under this program
all residents in the 18th district
will be eligible for blood if the
years quota is reached. The Da.
mascus Lions are sponsoring
this program and have worked
diligently to make it a success.
The result of the first visit to
Damascus was very pleasing to
the Red Cross and they have in
stituted the same type program
in six other sections of the state.
139 pints of blood were given
the first visit and the goal for
this time is $50 pints. No one
knows who will be next to need
blood. 1t may be you! Do your
share!
Mr.. and Mrs. l. E. Wallen of
Cedar Grove spent the Easter
weekend at their former home
in Oklahoma.
Captain and Mrs. Walter Wat
kins and four children are visit
ing his mother, Mrs. Paul Wat
kins. The Captain and his FAM
lily have been stationed in Ger
many for three years. The last
place where they were stationed
was Crailsheim. They travelled
extensively during their stay in
Europe, visiting many countries
including France, Italy, and
England. They will be here for
a couple of weeks before re-
porting to Fort Benning, Ca,
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where he will be in school for
about five months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Slacum
and daughters Anna and Mar
garet, and Miss Marilyn Hackett
are spending the weekend with
Mrs. Slacum's parents in
Orange, Va.
The Damascus Elementary
School P-TA is planning a car
nival to be held Saturday, June
10, from IL am. to 6 pm. at
the school. Members of the COM
mittee are Mrs. r. J. Jones,
chairman; George Smith, treas
urer; P. I. Blake, H. D. Craw-
ford, DR.. M. K. Kellogg, and
Mrs. William Miles. Plans for
the carnival include movies of
an H bomb explosion, side
shows, dance music by famous
bands, hayrides, pony rides,
plenty of food and lots of
games, fun for the entire fam
lily. Mark the date on your cal
endar.
The Damascus Rotary Club
held its election of officers on
Thursday, March 16 at the regu-
lar meeting. The new officers
are President Charles w. Bea-
yer; vice president, DR.. C. r.
Bickel; secretary, Francis j..
Eckloff; treasurer, Douglas E.
Lindsey. There were also four
new board members elected:
George Fetrow, Walter Brown,
John Hood and Lew Gladhill.
The new officers are planning
to attend the District Confer
ence at Easton, Md, April Is
and 16.