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Evening star., 1961-01-15
Old Feud Kept
Alive for the
Fighting Irish
THE OTHER END OF THE

THE OTHER END OF THE
BRIDGE. By Una Troy.
(E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc;
$500
In the family of towering,
majestic bridges Of the world,
the twisting, rickety struc-
ture that spanned the Dara
might be considered q black
sheep. This ancient, narrow
hulk impeded progress %
successfully that nothing
crossed it swiftly except the
bad feelings between the two
Irish towns at opposite ends.
Una Troy has written a
lighthearted novel about the
feud between Corkbeg and
Waterville, often kept alive
by two well-meaning Irish
men who love a good spat for
itself alone. The prevailing
fuss ragged over the birthplace
Of an obscure poet. Each side
claimed him, and was pre-
pared to render homage in
its own way.
But events veer off on q
new tangent when cars driven
by the sons Of the respective
mayors ram headon in the
middle Of the bridge. Com
plications multiply rapidly
and shift the focus Of the
story to Judy, the 13.year-
old daughter Of Corkbeg'S
mayor, a frail, affectionate
little thing with the incisive
determination Of Jim my
Hoffa.
Like heroines since Shake
speare's day. she falls in love
with a boy from the enemy
camp, Terry O'Donovan, son
Of the Waterville mayor.
While the two pursue their
romance, the Corkbeg YAM
pires cross the bridge and tar
and feather the poets statue.
In a counter raid, the Water
vile Werewolves daub Cork
beg shops with red paint.
Despite all the froth, most
Of Miss Troy's characters in
this shimmery story are
believable men and women.
She displays acute perception
in the romance Of Harriet
Wilson, who had received the
attention Of James Arnold, q
portly schoolmaster from the
other end of the bridge for
some IS years, but had never
received proposal.
But there is also a kind
hearted eccentric called the
Apostle. who wanders across
the bridge, spreading dire
forebodings at either end. It
is a bit Of a jolt that most Of
the fussing between the two
towns is climaxed by the dire
events that the Apostle had
predicted.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE
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cowing Apostles. He meets
Simon Of Cyrene. who had
unwillingly helped to bear
the cross and was sick from
his experience. Finally he
goes with the faithful to Cali
lee to see the risen Christ.
He sees the Apostles after
they have received the gift
Of tongues. beginning to
spread the gospel.
Mr.. Waltari records these
events gravely and reverently.
His book, however, will
arouse more admiration than
genuine feeling. His hero is
not o particularly interesting
figure. and having the Scrip
ture quoted piecemeal by
various people is not the
most exciting possible drama
tization. He Is more fortu-
nate with his minor charac-
ters. Simon Of Cyrene. q
self-made man who has risen
up from slavery. resists the
new slavery that Christ de-
mands Of his followers. His
reluctant acceptance Of the
fact that there is no other
way for one who has seen
Christ Is the most affecting
portion Of the book.
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too often for stealing the
life of a fellow human
being" he etches briefly, WV
idly and contemptuously. The
human sacrifice Of the an
cient Cypriots, the Indians
Of Ecuador. the Pawnees Of
North America, the Jews Of
the Old Testament and the
Romans Of early Christianity
is no more abominable to
Sulzberger than the whole-
sale slaughter. in the name
Of God, of thousands Of
Protestants by Catholics,
thousands Of Catholics by
Protestants. and further
thousands Of Jews by both.
During our own time, this
virus Of secular killing spread
elsewhere to other faiths.
Buddhist Singhalese slaught-
cred Hindu Tamils In Ceylon.
Sink mobs In Punjab bat
tered Moslems to death and
Moslems speared Sinks, men,
women and children. and cut
their corpses to bits. :"
There are other deaths in
Sulzberger's somber cate
gories-death by battle, by
pestilence, by suicide, death
demanded by duty, death
struggled against, and death
reconciled. They are all
evoked philosophically and
dismissed POLITICALLY. MY
Brother Death" is a book in
style and thought born out
Of Its time which may outlive
many q one more timely.
ID. T.
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centurion say Of the figure
on the Gross, Truly He was
the Son of God" Marcus
himself instantly believe that
Christ is the promised King
of the Jews.
The rest Of the story Is his
gradual, step-by-step ap-
proach to the belief that
Christ is God.
Marcus tells Of his conver-
sion himself in . series Of
letters 10 his perfidious
Roman mistress. It is ac-
complished through a series
Of chance and arranged
meetings between himself
and the followers of the
Galilean. He finds the Dis
ciples demoralized and con-
fused, disillusioned. quarrel
some. suspicious. particularly
Of an unclean Roman who
they are sure was not meant
for the kingdom. which was
promised them and ended, so
they thought, on Cavalry.
Almost every one, however.
tells Marcus some part Of the
great picture he is trying to
put together. He meets Su-
sanna, who took care Of
Jesus, and Mary Magdalene
railing against the cowardly,
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coliseum Operation Ter
ror" Ii . racing study Of
people under tension and
meticulous investigative pro-
cedure. Gordon Gordon
half Of the husband-wife
team now living in Los
Angeles-is q former Takoma
Park, Md. resident and was
for three years, an FB1
agent. The book was serial
lied in the Ladies Home
journal.
THE LATE UNLAMENTED
by Harry Carmichael CDou-
bleday q Co.: $2.s5). Done
in q furniture store. caddish
Charles Graham's cadaver
was delivered in a new ward
robe chest to unSuspecting
newly-weds. The police arrest
his mistress, but Quinn Of the
Morning Post doubts she
was the shadowy girl Charles
met among the chairs and
tables. Good Characterization
with O fairly routine plot.
DEATH IN VIEW by Ira
Wis Macrae (Holt. Rinehart
g. Winston, Inc: $2.95).
There was only one witness
to despised Alice Eckert'S
murder at q dinner for eight
and Kate Harris was hope
lessly nearsighted. But she
had q secret-which could
prove her and the murderer's
undoing. Original. pleasant.
THE ACE OF SPADES by
Dell Shannon civilian Nor
row & Co.; $2.95). 1t. Luis
Mendoza Of the Los An
geles police, elegant. rich
and a very good cop, pulls
many threads together to
weave q solution to the mur-
der Of a young Greek en-
ployed by an importer. Nei-
ther the people nor the case
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Other Books of the Week in Brief

selected by Judge Harold
r. Medina.
THE WAX FOUNDATION.
BY Gwen Davenport. (Dou-
bleday; $3.50 A univer-
sal time plan. q universal
language and a rewritten
Euclid for tots are some of
the zany research projects
undertaken at this literally
endowed research center.
THIS WAS YOUR WAR.
Edited by Frank Brook
houser. Doubleday: $4.95.,
A collection Of World War
II writings including selec-
tions by Shaw, Pyle, Wouk,
Mailer. Hargrove, Kantor
and Michener.
GENERAL
OSCAR WILDE. A pictorial
biography. by Vyvyan Hol-
land. (The Viking Press;
$6.500 The pictures are
the important thing in
this: From the narrow
little Victorian row house
in Chelsea where Wilde
lived, to the curious Jacob
Epstein-decorated tomb in
the Pere Lachaise ceme-
terry where he rests. Be-
tween are mementoes of his
triumphs, in the form Of
old theater programs and
title pages. and mementoes
Of his downfall as well, a
pale photograph Of Lord
Alfred Douglas and a
silhouette-caricature Of the
Marques Of Queensberry.
Vyvyan Holland, who has
written the text that ac-
companies the pictures, is
Wilde's son.
AMERICAN PANORAMA
EAST OF THE MISSIS.
SIPPI. Holiday Magazine.
doubleday; So Por-
traits Of 26 States by native
and famous authors in
cluding Richter, Cation,
Faulkner and Schulberg.
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He Looks at Death
With UnfriendIy Eyes
MY BROTHER DEATH. BY
Cyrus Sulzberger. (Harper
q Brothers; $4.5O.)

cyrus Sulzberger. (Harper
& Brothers; $4.50.)
Cyrus Sulzberger is a con-
temporary and a newspaper
man. It is hard to reconcile
this book with these two
facts, for Its outlook is that
Of the 17th century and its
style Is that of q poet. Like
Robert Burton's Anatomy Of
Melancholy" it is a great list
Of incidents, an endless series
Of quotations, a ceaseless
torrent Of elegiac reflection.
Its periods at times roll out
with the cold ring Of iron on
stone. and the cumulative
effect Of It's surge Of narra-
ton, speculation. and lament,
sometimes Is to annihilate
death by making it q ia
miliar.
Death in all his giises Is the
subject Of this book. not the
dear. beauteous death. the
jewel Of the just" but rather
the death that has been made
both, horrible and contempt
ible by human agency. Sulz-
berger can find death at times
humorous, or noble. or arbi-
trary, or artistic; usually,
however, it is for him a hol-
low horror. He builds his
story Of death with a thou
sand specific instances, told
in prose Of which the re-
morseless tramp Of subject,
a dozen modifiers, and predi-
cate. endlessly repeated, is
remarkably appropriate to his
subject, and a majestic music
10 the cara momentary re-
lief from both today's precise
Journalistic storytelling and
today's preoccupation with
subjective antiquities.
Sulzberger looks at death
with many eyes-none Of
them friendly. That he is al
ways at least slightly antag-
onistic, slightly bitter, is what
keeps his book from being
the least mawkish or maud
lin. He cannot stand the sight
Of Little Nell, and death in
her presence is not reported
by him.
Sulzberger's drily humorous
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interloper. the newcomer was
suddenly acutely self-con-
scious. As Stanley wrote:
81 would have run to him,
only I was a coward in the
presence Of such q mob
would have embraced him,
but that I did not know how
he would receive me. So I did
what moral cowardice and
false pride suggested was, the
best thing-walked deliber-
ately up to him. took off my
hat, and said, '.Dr. Living
stone. I presume?' Yes he
said with a kind smile, lifting
his cap slightly. I replaced
my hat on my head. and he
replaced his cap. and we
both grasped hands, and
then I said aloud: I thank
God. Doctor, I have been per-
mitted to see you"
After the headwaters Of
the Nile had been discovered,
confirmed. and mapped, the
story resolves into one Of de-
velopment, administration.
and war. Many Of the original
explorers returned to settle
the Nile Valley, at first under
the aegis Of the Khedive Of
Egypt, who had been made o
ruler Of considerable i'm
portance by the French con-
struction Of the Suez Canal,
then by colonization efforts
Of Britain and. to q lesser
extent, France.
This is the story that most
Of Moorehead's book Is con-
cerned with the story Of
Baker, Gordon. Emin Pasha,
King Kabarega. Evelyn Bar
ing, Gladstone and Victoria,
and, in the finale. Marchand
and Kitchener. The revolt of
the Moslems under their
religious leader Mohammed
Abdullah. the Mahdi. the
seige and slaughter Of Cor
don's forces at Khartoum
(the citadel that was relieved
just two days too late). and
the eventual avenging Of
Khartoum by Kitchener. are
the climax Of Moorhead's
story.
How unconventional q
story it Is. how civilization in
the valley Of the Nile became
at times almost indistinguish-
able from the savagery Of
the natives, can be strangely
felt when we hear that Col.
Kitchener, q British officer
and gentleman, after his
crucial defeat Of the Khalifa
at Omdurman. demanded
and took the severed head OF
his defeated enemy as q per-
sonal trophy.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
7 he White Nile:
River Of Dror1o
By DAY THORPE
star Book Critic

TIE WHITE NILE BY Alan Moorehead. CHarpers; $3.50
ons Of the simplest direct and most effective ex-
eeences book may boast the telling Of good story one
tat the reader does not only thinks he knows in
sufficient detail and with Of continuous excitement
that out of control This was perhaps once pat
t,de but todays reader knows that often author
Is more interested significance than in narrative per-
hans is unwilling TO make the effort to create ua-
tim These faults cannot be laid Alan Moorehead who in
his history Of the Nile River its discovery its exploitation
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are as absorbing as the au-
thor's earlier case Pend
ing,' but the story's nicely
done, with red-headed ALI
son Weir adding romance as
Mendoza's frustrated flame.
THESE UNLUCKY DEEDS
by Richard Martin Stern
tCharles Scribner's Sons;
$3.50. Exurbia confounded,
when ROE Warren, prolific
favor dispenser. is shot to
: death. Bachelor artist George
Hanks observes as from
Olympus the terror and sus-
picion Of Roz's circle In
Quidnunc County. Too much
moralizing by Mr.. Hanks for
us--and fuzzy moralizing, at
that.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
Stain to Khrushchev,
The Red Might Grows
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY
AErEn SrAT ~ nv no,,iA

SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY
AFTER STAIN. BY David
]. Dallin. u. 3. Lippin-
colt Co.; $3.50
David Dallin, veteran his
torian Of Soviet affairs, has
written q saga that Is schol-
arly and eminently readable.
It covers the last years Of
Stalin's life. the brief inter-
lude Of collective leader
ship" and the subsequent
ascendancy of Nikita Khru-
shchev. The time is roughly
from the Berlin blockade,
1882, to the present.
\ The principal and second
airy characters are sharply
etched against the murky
background Of Soviet diplo-
macy. OF all the noted fig
ures portrayed by Mr.. Dali
lin, none Is more intriguing
than Khrushchev, Q relative
ly obscure official at the time
Of Stains death. who rose
within three years to un-
disputed party leadership.
Like Greek Tragedy
Despite the range Of sub
ject matter and the wealth
Of Informative detail. the
course Of historic events Is
kept clearly in perspective.
One Is reminded Of the grad
ual unfolding Of q Greek
tragedy on Q global scale.
There are no heroes but
myriads Of victims. some of
whom try desperately to re-
gain q measure Of freedom.
The author again reviews
the evidence that postwar
outbreaks in Czechoslovakia,
East Berlin, Hungary and
Poland were crushed on di-
rect orders from Moscow.
AS the machinery Of repres-
sion swung into action, the
Kremlin blandly invoked the
simulacrum Of q workers
state"
With Khrushchev in COM
mand. new light Is shed on
the "ominous contest" with
in the Soviet Communist
Evening star., 1961-01-15
PAPERBAcKS

JUVENAL THE SATIRIST.
BY Gilbert Highet. (Ox-
ford; S1.85.) A reprint
Of the study by a Columbia
University professor.
GOETHE'S FAUST. Trans
lated by Louis Mac Neice.
(Oxford; $1.25.) An
abridged version Of parts /
and 2.
RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
BY Bertrand Russell. (Ox-
ford: $l.25.) A reprint
Of the 1885 review Of the
conflicts between tradi-
tional religion and science.
THE CROWDED SKY. Hank
Searle. (Dell; so cents.) A
reprint.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
THE TRUE SON OF GOD
MoIturi Novel
Poeon of Faith
BY MARY McGRORY
star stan writer

The finnish historical novelist La Waltar has chosen
the time between the first Good Friday and the first Pente-
cost the framework Of his novel THE SECRET OF
THE KINGDOM putnam; $4950 He has told the story of
young Roman scholar exed and disappointed in love- who
becomes Of the earliest converts to Christianity.
Marcus Mezentus having read the prophecies in the
Jewish scrolls in the libraries Of Alexandria whim
journeys to Jerusalem to watch the celebration Of the Pass
Instead he the Crucxion He hears the Roman
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Party. the custer Of the
"anti-party group" the diff
culties Of the Moscow lead
ership following the Hun
garian rebellion, and the
threat to Soviet primacy rep
resented by "revisionism."
The Moscow-Peking rift is
subjected to penetrating anal
ysis.
Sputnik Launching
Significantly. the decline in
Soviet prestige was not def
initely arrested until the an
nouncement In October. 1857,
Of the successful launching Of
Sputnik I. Thereafter came
renewed militancy on the
part Of the Kremlin, while
fresh impetus was given to
Soviet expansionist policies.
notably in Cuba and the
Congo.
Mr.. Dallin emphasizes that
periodic shifts in Soviet in
ternal policy and interna-
tional diplomacy do not af-
feet the ultimate goal-the
supremacy Of world commu-
nism. He stresses further
that since 1867. except for
occasional lulls in the cold
war. the primary target Of
the Soviet diplomatic and
propaganda offensive has
been the United States. The
recent manifesto issued by
Communist world leaders in
Moscow confirms this ap-
praisal.
Anyone interested in world
affairs and American for
eign policy will appreciate
this thoroughly documented
study. It Is also recommended
to those oracles who offer
ready panaceas for the ills
besetting our country's rela-
tions with the Communist
bloc.
GEORGE w. CRONYN.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
FICTION

WISCONSIN IN THEIR
BONES. BY August Der
leth. (Duell, Sloan & Pearce
$4.500 More stories abou
Sac Prairie.
MIR. TUTT AT HIS BEST.
BY Arthur Train. (Scrib-
ner; $4.50.) A new COL
lection Of stories about the
= courtroom field marshal
Evening star., 1961-01-15

The original book was pub
lished by the late Prof. Rich
ard c. Reager in 1946. Its
high standard has been main
tanned in the revised version
by two Of his students, Prof.
Edwin L. Stevens of George
Washington University and
DR.. Norman P. Crawford Of
Jacksonville University.
-CASPAR NAMES.
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and the colonization OF the
lands through which it flows,
never; lets the bloom rub off
his wonder and fascination,
or allows his events and men
to become commonplace.
The "White" Nile, the
river one usually thinks Of
without the adjective, as dis
tinguished from the Blue"
Nile, which runs from Lake
Tana to Khartoum, had given
life to Northeast Africa for
centuries before its source
was at last discovered by H.
M. Stanley In 1877. The diff
ficulties Of the terrain, the
native savages. or the hard.
ships of an extended journey
into the interior had kept it
secret from explorers since
before the time Of Christ.
The imrnediate epoch which
ended in Stanley's confirrna-
tion Of earlier conjectures
begins in the 1865 with the
journeys of Speke and Bur-
ton (the translator of the
arabian Nights"), and in
cludes the trips Of Grant.
Baker, Livingstone. Gessi.
and many others. These men
are all remarkable individuals
as they come from Moore
heads pen, each obsessed with
Africa. but none really loving
it--motivated by the lust to
discover, or to colonize, or to
convert to Christianity. or to
make accessible to trade, or
to write.
Nature was not the only
obstacle to discovery. Man.
both black and white. was the
enemy of the explorer-the
first openly. the second in
directly. Although the slave
trade was illegal In Africa, 1t
was nevertheless q big busi-
ness. its two centers, Zanzibar
and Khartoum, handling 3d.
900 to 100000 slaves a year
for the markets Of Arabia,
Egypt, Persia and Turkey.
Not only were the Arab
traders not unaware Of the
eventual difficulties discovery
and colonization would in
evitably bring to their busi-
ness, but many Of the native
tribes, who supplied thou
sands of captive blacks. taken
in the continuous hereditary
warfare that was a way Of
life with them. to the white
middlemen, were chary Of
their welcome.
The incredible cruelty and
savagery Of many Of the
native chieftains, who tor
tured their own people out
of whim and killed them for
sport. is q high-light Of this
part Of Moorehead's tale. An
other Is the setting Of a
phrase which quite unreaSon-
ably. quite fortuitously, has
become a tag wherever the
English language Is spoken
"Dr. Livingstone. I presume?"
These were indeed the
words with which Stanley
greeted Livingstone, when,
sent by the New York Herald
to rescue the explorer who
had disappeared from the
world for two years, he found
him in 1871, In Ujiji, sick,
bereft Of most of his followers
by desertion or disease, lost
and disconSolate over the
failure Of his missionary en-
deavors. But the words were
not evidence of an almost
superciious politeness. Out Of
sudden acute embarrassment
and perhaps doubt as to his
reception by one who might
consider him q competitor Of
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CRIME AND MYSTERY
FBI and The Yard
Fare in ThriIIers
BY BETTY MILES
Star Stan Writer

cliche ttle-OPERATION TERROR-fails to suggest
the fresh story the Gordons fashion In their latest book
Doubleday & Co.; $3.50. Kelly Sherwood young bank
teller calls the FBI after criminal tells her to help him
the bank her younger sister die. From Kelys
first dangerous call smashing finale in the Los Angeles
Evening star., 1961-01-15
New Look
AT W.
THE PRESIDENTS ODYs-
'SEY. BY Merriman Smith.
(Harper q Bros: $3.95.)

'SEY. BY Merriman Smith.
(Harper q Bros: $3.05.)
One late summer day last
year a visitor" was surprised
to hear President Eisenhower.
talking about the U-2 spy
plane incident. say he be-
came "a bit careless" with
the success of the flights. II
he had 1t all to do over again.
the President is represented
as suggesting, he would have
halted the flights and not
given Soviet Premier Nikita s.
Khrushchev this excuse for
breaking up the Paris summit
meeting.
The visitor" quite appar-
emily, was Merriman Smith,
the able. White House corre-
spondent Of United Press In
ternational, who has written
extensively about. the presi-
dency. This is only one of
many absorbing parts of Mr..
Smiths latest book, "The
Presidents Odyssey" which
gives new and revealing in
sight into the Presidents
views not only on the U-2
incident but also on personal
diplomacy. summitry and
presidential travels abroad.
Diplomatic Setback
Perhaps none will be more
noteworthy In history about
the U-2 incident and the con-
troversy over the way it was
handled by the President and
his advisers. This marked the
beginning Of q number Of
diplomatic setbacks for the
United States. the conse-
quences Of which are not yet
known.
1t is not a question Of
whether the flights were JUS
titled. Nor is 1t a matter Of
VIII ther Mr.. Khrushchev
would have torpedoed the
summit meeting on any other
grounds. It Is the fumbling
way the whole matter was
handled and apparent mat
tention to details which
might have averted the crisis
that has been Of major con-
troversy in this country.
Mr.. Eisenhower. in effect,
admitted to some shortcom-
ings, according to Mr.. Smith.
Eisenhower had becom e
overconfident about the con-
tinuing success Of the U.2
flights" he writes. "and It did
not occur to him to stop
them Just before the Big -Four
meeting in Paris"
In this light, the contention
Of Vice President Nixon and
other Republican spokesmen
during the presidential cam
paign that the United States
could not afford an intelli-
gence gap by suspending the
flights becomes q little hollow
indeed.
In his last year in office
Mr.. Eisenhower Travelled 100,-
900 miles In his quest fol
peace. In this book Mr.
Smith. who went along on
them all, relates the story in
human terms-how the Presi-
dent was protected. his hopes
and disappointments. In
every way 1t Is q fascinating
book.
CECIL HOLLAND
Evening star., 1961-01-15

Mr.. cronyn Is the outhor Of A
Primer on Communism, published
in o new and revised edition recently
BY {. ?. Duttos g. Co.
Evening star., 1961-01-15

ADVERTISEMENT
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-20
No Applications for IT. High Science Position

Conrad Potter, Nome School
 Superienfendent, that that he had received no applications for the junior hieh science position which has been opeu for nearly two months. He announced that the class would be abeorbed Into the remaining four classes, effective at the beginning of the second semester, Jan. IS, 1962.
 Because this move will leave a classroom vacant, 1t will be pos sible to move two elementary classes back to a regular sched- ule. For the remainder of the school year, beginning Jan. Is, MissMiss Small's fifth grade class and Miss Park1nan's sixth grade class will go on regular shift from 8 am. to ll2 noon, and from l pm. to 3 pm.
 While discussing some of the problems of teacher recruitment, Supt. Potter also expressed con- cern over the drop in letters of inquiry over this same period a year ago. To date, 12 letters have been received from prospective as compared to three times that number before Christ mas last year.