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new WORLD OF WRITING

NEW WORLD OF WRITING
NO. 20. Edited by Stewart
Richardson and Corlies M.
Smith. u. B. Lppincott
Co.; $3.50. Paperback $l.65O
This anthology Of good
contemporary writing is not
for rapid reading. These
stories demand some intel
lectual and emotional in
volvement.
As the very different stu
ations and characters de-
velop, often with subtleties
at first not evident, the
reader may suspect their pro-
gression, but conclusions are
seldom those expected. These
are not cheap trick endings,
but one may catch oneself
rereading and rethinking to
find and fix what really
happened. or might have
happened.
The stories are intricate
and sometimes demanding,
yet not obscure Gas are some
Of the poemS. Stanley
Kunitz, in writing about his
own Cat first-and second
glance obscure) poem, points
out:
what makes art possible
Is that one is' also, at the
same time, a bundle OF sim
pItcities. But modern criti-
ctsm Is frightened OF stmpli-
cities"
These writer's work vibrant
and erudite stuff out Of what
are. In most cases. simplici-
ties.
Sylvia Ashton Warner
makes subtle drama from the
conscious melodrama Of sew
eral generations sending q
child off TO her first school
experience.
Tim Reynolds "Banal Mir
acle" occurs when q drunken
California italian fisherman
refuses to accept his wife's
dying.
The eavesdropper outside
"The Childre ms Room"
(Louis-R Rene des Forets)
overhears school children's
dialectics which, like spread
ing circles in a pond. wash
far beyond the half-open
door.
Neither setting nor subject
seem simple In "In the Holy
Evening star., 1962-05-13

L1touBu the puDncablon OF
his novel. ''Dr. Zhivago." was
awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature.
When he received word Of
the award. on October %,
1858, Pasternak cabled the
Swedish Academy q char
aeteristic message: Inn
mensely thankful, touched,
proud, astonished, abashed."
Two days later he was
expelled from the Union of
Soviet Writers, and the Liter
ary Gazette called the award,
"a provocative sally Of in
ternational reaction" On
October 20. the aging poet
again cabled the Swedish
Academy. this time saying,
Considering the meaning
this award has been given
in the society to which I
belong. I must reject this
undeserved prize which has
been presented to me-" Three
days later, he wrote an an
guished letter to Khrushchev,
begging not to be deported.
At the subsequent congress
Of writer's, the theme was
abuse Of Pasternak in terms
usually reserved for political
criminals, although Paster-
max had never denounced the
Soviet system, merely ignored
it.
When he died on May 80,
1860. 1900 brave Russians
attended his funeral. An even
braver Russian, the critic
Valentin Asmus pronounced
Q eulogy:
There were few to equal
him in the purity and hon.
esty Of his convictions. He
viii remain forever as an ex-
ample as one who defended
his convictions before his
contemporaries, being firmly
convinced that he was right.
He followed sincerely the
highest ideal of art and the
ability to express humanity
In its highest terms"
The malevolence went be-
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StoryteIIers Spin Silk
Out of Simplicity

City," e complete-in-itseh
excerpt from q book manu-
script left by the late Isaac
Rosenfeld. Brigadier Path
finder, sent from the midst
Of q long war to discover
"the nature Of the enemy"
stays in q Tibet-like monas-
terry amid monks who had
made a study Of simplicity
and knew it perfectly"
OF all the stories in this
anthology, Mr.. Rosenfeld'S
embodies most vibrantly the
ironies Of seeming simplici-
ties hiding or conveying
complexities, versus seeming
complexities which evolve
quite clearly and directly
after all.
-ELIsAVIETTA A. RITCHIE
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FICTION

THE BLAZING STRAW. BY
Helen Fowler. Macmillan;
$4.50) A novel Of insur-
rection and intrigue In
modern Dublin.
COMRADE JACOB. BY
David Caute. pantheon:
$3.50 A novel Of the
English Revolution.
PIPPIN'S JOURNAL, Or
Rosemary is for Remem-
berance. BY Rohan O'Dra-
dy. (Macmillan: $500 A
tale about a nuclear physi-
cist who withdraws from
the contemporary world to
an earlier period when q
fatal curse was laid upon
his family.
A SECOND TREASURY OF
KAHLM GIBRAN. (Cita-
del; $3.50 Translated
from the Arabic by An
thony r. Ferris. Included
are four books: THE
Broken Wings, 'The Voice
of the Master" Thoughts
and Meditations," 'Kahlil
Gibran: A Self Portrait"
SPECTRUM. Selected and
edited by Kingsley Amis
and Robert Conquest.
Harcourt, Brace and
World; $4.95J A collection
Of science fiction stories.
Evening star., 1962-05-13
Old SutcheI Puiqe
Tells His Own
Baseball Story

MAYBE I'LL PITCH FOR
EVER. BY Leroy (Satchel)
Paige. as told to David Lip
man. Doubleday & Co.;
$4.500
Everybody who knows any
thing at all about baseball
knows something about
SatcheI Paige-what q great
pitcher he has been: how he
has never seemed to get
older-but all Of this appears
to take ON o new significance
when put in book form by
Old Satchel himself.
Paige's record is quite i'm
presSive. no doubt about 1t,
and one cannot but wonder
Gas Satchel does) what would
have happened had he got
into the major leagues in his
prime. AS it was, he became
the American Leagues first
Negro pitcher, with Cleve-
land in 1e4e, but that was
when he was 42 years Of age
and had been pitching more
than % wears.
Old Satchel Joined Cleye-.
land in August. l94S, and
helped the Indians win the
league pennant with six
victories while losing only
one game. Then he pitched
in the World Series. the first
Negro to do so. Paige played
for the Indians again in
194o. then for the st. Louis
Browns In 1851, 80 and '53.
In recent years Old Satchel
has been transforming and
at last accounting was still
at it. Who is there to dis
pute him when he says:
There's bound to be
people who'll want q man
who's done what I've done.
who's got that big name like
or Satch I'll just keep
on pitching-maybe forever.
Some folks say I already
have"
GEORGE CLARK.
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ANYTHING BUT A HERO

ANYTHING BUT A HERO.
BY Rudolf Lorenzen. Trans
lated by Michael Bullock.
(St. Martins; $3.50
At the first radio an
nouncement Of the declara-
ton of war by England and
France, Robert Mowhinkel,
Bremen shipping clerk and
fervent devotee Of the tango,
is sitting In q tavern trying
to rouse up some patriotic
sentiments. This Is some
thing more than the Fuhrer's
birthday or Labour Day,
thought Robert; but the sing
ing soldiers in the tavern {.
failed to arouse any great
emotion ALI the feelings
that could have been called
sublime had been used UP on
the many previous days Of
national celebration"
Robert had recently been
expelled from his Hitler
Youth group for failure to
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TheseHeroes
Won q Bottle
Over the Seq
THE SERPENT'S COIL. BY

THE SERPENT'S COIL. BY
Farley Mowat. (Atlantic
Monthly Press Little
Brown: $4.950
What kind Of men are they
who as a matter of course
will row in a l5-foot dory
from the safety Of their ship
to a derelict through shark
laden waves deeper and high
er than their boat is long?
Such men. clearly, are not
easily to be defeated. Neither
is the Atlantic Ocean. This is
a story Of a conflict between
those men and that ocean.
The derelict was a victim
Of an Atlantic hurricane. Sne
was not yet dead but six of
her men were. The rest had
been plucked from her oddly
slanted deck in a perilous
night rescue operation.
The ocean, where there is
no real peace" had already
dealt q full measure Of dis
aster to the ship and her
crew. It was to offer more of
the same to the Newfound-
land salvage men who first
boarded her from that 15-
foot boat a thousand miles
from the nearest port. When
it appeared, at last, that the
ship had been saved the
ocean proved otherwise,
thrusting the greatest defeat
of all upon the seamen who
had thought themselves vic
torious. But If the sea were
implacable, the men were
indomitable. What was
smashed they mended; what
was trapped they set free.
The reader will stand in
respect before the ocean and
before the men who dare
great things on that ocean,
for Farley Mowat's is a story
well told. One cannot say as
much. alas. for the illustra-
tions which appear fire.
quently, but not well.
PRANK UHLIG, Jr.
Evening star., 1962-05-13
Russian Novel
Fine Tribute
Childhood
A SUNINTER 10 REMEM-

a GONA4NAG~A~ = ~ ASA~@N@A@@sA
BER. BY Vera Panova
CThomas Yoseloff: 1880
A popular Russian writer
pays tribute TO childhood In
this brief 177-page novel.
Serioja. only six. is OBJ
served in relation to his new
step-father. At first an un-
known, then q threat, this
man in time becomes Seri-
oja's main hope Of protection
and love.
Since the story unfolds in
a series Of simple, graceful
scenes, the novel quite nat
turally inspired a motion
picture. This film, produced
in Russia and shown in New
York City this year. sur
passes the book as q work of
art. To illustrate: one scene
Of Serioja standing on tip
toe during the measure
ment Of his height to deter
mine his bus fare is amusing
enough in the novel but in
the film it Is brought to life
as q small boys first step
towards manhood. This film
Is booked to run here at q
neighborhood theater, prob
ably In June.
How much Vera Panova's
novel suffers In the loss Of
its original Russian Is hard
to tell. The translator is not
identified by the publisher.
The novels introduction
states:
The reason for Panova's
success in her own country
Is undoubtedly that in her
novels she never seeks to inn
pose on the reader artificial
schemes and improbable mo-
tivations. In the prevailing
atmosphere of Soviet life
after the war this was q great
achievement"
It Is an achievement in this
country, too.
MARY FAITH WILSON
Evening star., 1962-05-13
The Life Story Of
Pat McC
SointIy Daughter
ONCE THERE WAS A NUN.
BY Ruth Montgomery.
: putnam; $4.95.)

ONCE THERE WAS A NUN.
BY Ruth Montgomery.
putnam; $4.95.)
Ruth Montgomery, the
sometimes caustic Washing
ton correspondent for the
Hearst newspapers, has told
with great understanding and
sympathy the story Of Mary
McCarran, daughter Of the
Senator Pat McCarran Of
Nevada, who spent 80 years
Of her life in a convent, until
illness in her family called
her back to the world.
Those years in the cloister,
recounted here, were by no
means an escape from all the
worlds problems. A petty
superior could make q Sisters
life burdensome with capri
cious orders and prohibitions.
After one special injustice.
Sister Mary Mercy wrote, "All
! could do was pray over 1t
and hope that in eternity all
things would be made clear" "
Miss Montgomery ha s
wisely had Miss McCarran
tell the story in her own
words. and she has told 1t
honestly and devoutly and
humanity.
Evening star., 1962-05-13

see the refined hors d'oeuvres
with which his wife packs his
lunch box.
Miss Stone does not need
dramatic incidents to fill her
book. The daily lives of the
salesman and his neighbors
give her material enough.
So do .Leroy's conversations
with God on their Employer
employe relations, and the
pithy descriptive post cards
he sends to his old mama
when he is on the road. He
reports, alas. %. c. a bad
Bible townI"
Evening star., 1962-05-13
IN FICTION
Bible Salesman Calls
DC. Bad Bible Town

THE BIBLE SALESMAN BY Alma Stone. Doubleday; $3s5J
Leroy Ashforth Bible salesman and vrtuoso on the
musical bowls Alma Stone o. Henry Prize In 1883
when she wrote short story about him. With that story
her first chapter Miss Stone continues the Of Leroy
by moving him to New York Cty-the highly specialized
New York Of Upper Broadway Leroys horizons expand
his sales work brings him into contact with the residents Of
colIapsing tenement The tenements landlord ferventy
wishes that an the residents would housing
Evening star., 1962-05-13
THE PENTAGON'S
MAJ. McCLENDON
DOCUMENTSA INK

THE LADY BE GOOD. BY
Mai. Dennis e. McClen-
don. (John Day; $3.50
Scientifically" the Ma
jor agrees. there can be no
such thing as q ink" Yet
his precise and compelling
account Of the ghost
bomber of World War II is
excellent Recommendation Of
O jinx.
The B-24 bomber Lady
Be Good went down all
alone in the hot hell Of
the Libyan Sahara Desert
early in World War II after
its crew bailed out. Plane
and the mummified bodies
Of the crew weren't found
until 16 years later.
Mai. McClendon, an Air
Force public information
officer at the Pentagon,
had done q massive job Of
research and told his story
well. It Is one Of those
cant put 1t down" books.
CHARLES YARBROUGH.
Evening star., 1962-05-13
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Boris Posternok,
Saint or Sinner?
By MARY McGRORY
akaR staff writer


THE PAsTERNAK AFFAIR: Courage Of Genius BY Robert
Conquest. ddppincott;s $685.
In Boris Pasternak an ntransseant regime met In
tFansigeant artist.
The story Of that collision well reported at the time.
has been recapituated with all the relevant documents in
The Pasternak Affair"
The record is stll exciting appallng-and ncompre-
hesbe The Soves reacted with brutal fury when their
NEST bbory unpotical writer who became world figure
Evening star., 1962-05-13
PASTERNAK NAME
STILL AN ISSUE
IN RED RUSSIA

Three-and-a-half years
after Doctor zhivago" and
two years after his death,
Boris Pasternak still
arouses controversy in So
Wet literary circles. Partly
to answer foreign criticism,
and partly to satisfy Pas
ternak's many admirers
within Russia, the State
Literary Publishing House
(Goslitizdat) authorized
the publication late last
year of q selected collec-
ton of the poets works.
The 376-page volume has
just been reviewed in the
leading Soviet journal,
NoVy Mir CThe New
World, and the critic, A.
Sinyavsky, has found many
faults with it. Since "Novy
Mir" is edited by Alexander
Tvardovsky, the foremost
Soviet poet today and one
Of Pasternak's great
friends. the criticism is
significant. It indicates
that the liberal" wing Of
Soviet literature still de-
mands an adequate appre-
citation for Pasternak so
rudely treated at his death.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN
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yond his grave. Six weeks
after his death. Olga Ivin-
skayas, the original Of Lara
In "Dr. Zhivago" and her
daughter were arrested. They
were tried and sentenced to
eight and three years re-
spectively in Siberia. They
were accused Of currency
offenses."
Evening star., 1962-05-13
THE LAST CAMPAIGN. By
Glen Ross. CHarper &
Brothers; $3.50

Glen Ross. Harper &
Brothers; $3.50
Except for the tedious
campaign of the 5th Army up
the spine of Italy from
Salerno and Anzio, American
troops had no mountain
fighting in their tradition
and, indeed. little aptitude
for 1t until it became neces-
sary to stem the Red tide in
Korea.
No Army was less well pre-
pared for combat than the
9th Army units that took the
field in June of 1850. Yet in
the passage of a few months.
the men Of the ID, Sd. 7th,
gath. 25th Infantry Divisions,
plus the lSt Cavalry Division
and the lst Marine Division.
became not only road run
ners but mountain goats. And
when the subzero Korean
winter set in, they also be-
came ESkimos, those who sur
vived.
This excellent novel. writ
ten with expertise by a man
who roved those cold Asian
hills when the wind blowing
down from Siberia was
enough to break mems
hearts, chronicles the expert
ences and the attrition Of one
heavy machine gun squad.
But it Is really about the mis-
cradle shape the American
troops were in, morally, men
tally and physically, when
they were yanked from the
fleshpots Of Japan to fight
the North Koreans in an
Army they considered more
of a school or q travel agency
than fighting machine.
Evening star., 1962-05-13
GENERAL
OUR FRIEND YAMBO. By

OUR FRIEND YAAIBO. By
Andre Mercier. Rand-
McNally: s3.96.) The true
story Of the authors ex-
pertinent in adopting q
cheetah as q household pet.
HOW TO HUNT DEER. BY
Edward A. Freeman. (Col-
lier Guides for Sportsmen;
95 cents.) Expert advice on
the age-old sport Of deer
hunting.
LOUIS SULLIVAN. Prophet
of Modern Architecture.
BY Hugh Morrison. (The
Norton Library; $1.950
(Reprint.)
TREASURY OF WORLD
SCIENCE. Edited by Dago-
bert D. Runes. Introduc-
ton by Werner Won Braun.
philosophical Library;
$50 A Philosophically
oriented anthology Of some
Of the basic writings Of the
fundamental scientists,
from Archimedes to Elm
stein and from Raman to
Pavlov.
UNDERSTANDING TIL e
GREAT PHILOSOPHERS.
BY Henry Thomas. (Dou-
bleday and Co.; $3.50 A
vastly sinplified account
ing Of the PHILOSOPHERS of
the greatest thinkers from
Confucius to Santayana.
ADVENTURE UNDER :
GROUND. BY Joseph Gies.
Doubleday; $4.96) Joseph
Gies. editor Of This Week
newspaper supplement, pre-
sents the stories Of the
greatest tunnels ever built
SOUTH AMERICA A TO z.
BY Robert 8. Kane. Dou-
bleday; $4.o5.) In addition
TO facts and figures of
Evening star., 1962-05-13
Miss Bentley, Humble
Self ChronicIer
DREAMS. o DESTIN.
milan: $4.50)

DREAMS. DESTINATIONS. BY Phyllis Bentley. uAac-
milan: $4.5O)
Phyllis Bentley Of that band Of English women
novelsts who faithfully and compeenty ply their craft has
written Dreams. Destinations" her autobiography
those who find Miss Bentleys novels Of West Riding
mill owners honest than inspiring will be drawn to
life For those qualities which rather impede
Evening star., 1962-05-13
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editoriai pess Of The
Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"An AppToaeh to
Psoee and Other Essays" by n.
Stuart Hughes. NAthsneum.D
WEpNEsDAY-"A Spy IN Rome"
BY Peter Tompkins. tSimon 3
Schuster.D
FRIDAY-"culIoden." BY John
Prebble. tAtheneum.l
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Other Books Of the Week in Brief

Council, It's background, It's
place In history and what
may be expected from It.
THE FISHES. BY Url Lam
ham. columbia; So De-
signed for the general
reader. the university stu
dent or the fisherman.
who wants q brief account
that will give him q borad
perspective Of this group
of animals.
Evening star., 1962-05-13

sightseeing. itineraries,
accommodations. cost and
the like, Mr.. Kane has
added to this guide book.
historical. political, and
cultural backgrounds which
have shaped these fourteen
nations and their peoples.
THE SECOND VATICAN
COUNCIL: The Story Be-
hind the Ecumenical Coun-
ell Of Pope John XIII. BY
Henri Daniel-Rops. (Haw-
thorn: $500 The story
Of the coming Ecumenical
Evening star., 1962-05-13
Senator Ashurst
Opens the Poges
Of His Diary
A MANY -COLORED TOGA:
The Diary Of Henry Foun-
tain Ashurst. (University Of
Apiznsaa. eT gfN

a MANYsCOLOkED TOGA:
The Diary Of Henry Foun-
tain Ashurst. (University Of
Arizona; s7.50)
The best unwritten book in
Washington is Henry Foun-
tain Ashurst's. The former
Senator. who is now 90, has
resisted offers to publish his
memoirs. Master Of one Of
the country's greatest ora
torical styles, q man Of vast
learning. q fine sense Of
humor and an inspiring
courtliness, he has preferred
until now to keep his silence.
The University Of Arizona
has won permission to pub
lish Q diary Mr.. Ashurst kept
between the years 1910 and
1887 Che was Arizona,s first
SENATOR. It Is composed
almost entirely of single
paragraph entries, mostly Of
a personal or social nature.
There is a minimum Of COM
ment. Only occasionally does
q spark of revelation come
through: January 4, 1885,
My secretary, Mr.. Lanman,
has been with me 20 years
today. ! told him that any
one who could endure him
20 years Is o philosopher, and
that anyone who could en-
dure me 40 years is q saint"
Or: February 3. 1888. FL
nancial panic now RACES in
Washington. Senator Smith
Of South Carolina. q cotton
planter, now carries his re-
naming cash In q belt
strapped around his waist"
But the real Ashurst book Is
yet to come. -E. T. 3
Evening star., 1962-05-13

WHO SUES m NEW YORK
CITY? BY Roger Bryant
Hunting and Gloria 5. Neu-
wirth. columbia Uni
versity; $6.50.) A study Of
automobile accident claims.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-10
Bethesda Woman Makes Governor Race

Governor as a matter of prin-
ciple at a time when this state
is in need of efficient, trust
worthy leadership. Qualifica-
tons for this office vary accord
ing to the needs Of the times
and there is no standardized
pattern.
With respect to the conditions
presently prevailing in Mary
land feel that the people of
this state would prefer an eff.
ficient, vigorous and courageous
executive who is not a politician
nor bound by associations OF
political patronage. Obligations
engendered through patronage
would defeat at the outset the
purposes of good government
in Maryland.
know Of no woman In the
top echelOns OF state and ma.
tionaI government who has
ever fOrsaken her principles
under political pressure. My
principles are based upon
good government administer.
ed by people who are best
qualified BY experience and
background rather than by
DliticsA faYOritism. These are
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-10

principles L will not sacrifice
for any reason.
AS far as the Republican
Party is concerned, 1 think that
every Republican voter should
know that in the state legisla-
ture in Annapolis we have three
Republican senators out of %,
and seven delegates out of 1913.
This is the strongest possible
Indictment of the present Re-
publican leaderhip which has
endorsed Frank Small, Jr, for
reasons unknown. This endorse
ment is completely inconsistent
with the logic necessary to re-
organize and strengthen the Re-
publican Party.
There has been no proof
forthcoming to substantiate the
unilateral denial by Mr.. Small
that he will withdraw for Mr..
McKeldin should he win the
primary. The integrity of the
Republican Party is being pub
licly challenged. / will not
tolerate such weakness that will
lead to the utter destruction OF
the Republican Party in Mary
land.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-10

very successful with its legis-
lative programs. Our recent
legislative session at Annapolis
adopted my proposed budget
with very slight change. The
history of the States first saw
ings and loan regulatory act
and the special session needed
to make it effective over the
opposition of Baltimore poll
tician named James Pollock is
well known.
Some legislation which I be-
lieve is necessary for the fairest
treatment and equal representa-.
ton of all our citizens was not
enacted by the legislature. But
this body is a separate and
Independent arm of our State
government.
Anyone seeking the office of
Governor of Maryland who
guarantees to you the kind of
laws he will have enacted by our
State Legislature is merely max
ing promises for political pur-
poses and does not have sound
concept of the workings of our
State government.
Neither of my opponents in
this primary has ever been
elected to state office. Dur.
Ing the past three-and-a-half
years of my administration
they have been spectators.
One, more vOciferOus than the
other, has run loose about our
State trying to convince peO-
pie that Maryland Is poorly
governed and badly managed.
The opposite IL quite obvious
and voters have found II diff