davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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lent wooing of a girl who is
completely oblivious to his
love-making, is Ida's breaking
up an affair with Hugh's
mistress, whom Hugh wants
to marry after her divorce;
the second involves her tax
ing charge Of the blg Wall
Street firm after Derrick has
a heart attack. Both are the
poorest things in the book.
They give the impression that
Mr.. AuchinclosS is afraid to
let his story be the accurate
and clear-cut picture of a
family and forces himself to
wind up his book with a SEN
sational but conventional
climax.
But there are many won-
derful scenes, also. Dorcas,
the daughter of Ida and Der
rick, is called Cordelia when
she is trying to win her
fathers approval of her weak
and intellectual lover, and
Goneril and Regan when
later on she turns on her
father when he discovers her
and her second husband in
a plot to edge him out of his
company. Mr.. AuchincloSS
justifieS both epithetS. Then
there is the episode of the
old grandmother who wears a
black wig and goes to bed
with a rim of curls sewed to
her nightcap, and who is
shamed by a proper friend
from travelling around Europe
with the elderly widower of
q lifelong companion.
Well, the DEVIL 1t really
does sound q little bit like
soap opera, doesn't it? But
the reader should lay it to my
inability to re-create the aura
Of Mr.. Auchincloss' style. The
book itself is populated not
with stereotyped characters
and cliche events, but with
real people and true hap
penings.
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NEW SOUTHERN WRITERS
Georgia Is Setting
For Three 1st Novels

Stationmaster at the South
Georgia town which the aH-
thor calls Greenwood. The
father, a kind and generous
person. is deeply religious and
soon is a deacon in the Bap-
tist Church.
Hallie's story brings to life
a number of characters in the
church and in the town.
Some of the towns skeletons
are ratified, and there is even
a mysterious glimpse of the
Ku Klux Klan and a threat
to a Negro, a helper at the
depot, whom the girl and her
father admire and respect.
Yet, while these inner dramas
develop as the girl gradually
perceives them, not a great
deal happens in the narrative.
1t is a tribute to Mrs.
Lloyd's gifts that she man
ages to make Hallie's obser-
vations and reflections abb
sorbing throughout a full
length story.
Charming Comedy
"The Last of the Whit
fields" is a comedy and a
charming one. Felicia, 13.
tells the story in her own
peculiar way, som e times
guessing at a word but usu-
ally expressing herself clearly
enough. Her recollectionS
center on Arthur, her slightly
older brother, "the last of the
Whitfields," who is sent off
to a prep school in Connect
icut and writes home some
amazing letters.
Arthur, through his letters
and his sisters descriptions,
develops from an unhappy,
inhibited little boy into a
much more assured and un-
expectedly talented youth
approaching manhood.
But the Georgia town of
Ashton and a significant
number of its characters
come to life under Felicia's
immature and prejudiced but
penetrating observations.
"The Wandering Of Desire"
Is a more ambitious novel.
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and interviewed the mans
widow along with those who
once fought on the sand with
the young. rather happy-go-
lucky Texan.
The book is a solid research
job and frightened by the
Illustrations of Tom Lea,
another resident Of El Paso,
whose knowledge Of the bulls
is reflected in what he has
written and set down in pen
and ink.
Why Not Here?
Mr.. Halls narrative never
bogS down in thick passages
of what the moment of truth
is all about, nor has he be-
come lost in lengthy technical
descriptions of the pageant.
There is a delightful chap
ter on the few attempts to
introduce bullfighting in the
United States which, as he
puts it, never had q chance.
But we can still read about
it.
JOHN McKELWAY.
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A Personal Account
Of Red Inquisition
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer
INVITATION TO

INVITATION TO MOSCOW. By Zbigniew Stypulkowsk.
walker & Co.; $3.50
Zbignew Stypukowsh is true Pole fiercey patriotic
acquainted with adversely but unable to consider his
plight separate from that of his fatherland.
He suffered the full horrors of the Naz occupation
the subsequent Soviet seizure of his country He has told the
story his survival terrible and moving account called
Invitation to Moscow which first published in 1850 and
is now reiSsued
As leader of the Polish underground the largest and
most efficient resistance movement in Europe he went in
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Policiere and the Inner Sane
tum Mystery Award.
y Il y
SEANCE, by Mark Nc
Shane doubleday & Co.,
$3.50. Myra was a medium
who believed in her powers,
but she was not above a stunt
to call the worlds attention
to them. With her husband,
Bill, she plans a kidnapping
that she will solve" in a
demonstration of second
sight. But the crime doesn't
work out as planned, and the
book moves to an inevitable,
breathtaking climax. The
plot is one of the most origi-
nal we've encountered in
some time, and the author
makes the most of his inspi-
ration.
y II y
THE LADY FINGER, by
George Malcolm-Smith Dou-
bleday & Co., $3.50. A
bright, witty style makes The
Lady Finger a pleasure from
the very first page, when the
Nutmeg Indemnity Co. finds
out how much it has to pay
out in the Massassoit Ma
tional Bank & Trust Co.
robbery in Boston. The story
concerns the efforts of Nut
meg'S Otis Minton to get the
money back. It's good enough,
though you'll have to make
allowances here and there.
But the charm is in the tell
ing. A joy to read.
+
GIRL MISSING, by Edna
Sherry Dodd, Mead & Co.,
$3.50. A bittersweet tale of
a lazy young man cut off
from his fathers money and
facing settlement of a gam
bling debt, the crime he &C
cepts to raise the money, and
the love he thinks can make
him a new man. Miss Sher-
rvs style is smooth and easy.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
The Privileged Class
In BroWnstone
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

PORTRAIT m BROWNSTONE. BY Louis Auchincloss
Houghton, Mifflin; $4e5O
For half a century, from 1901 to 1851, the block of
Fythir street between Fifth Sixth the
habitat Of the Denson family In Portrait in BrownStone
Louis AuchncoSS chronicler
status in life established by the Wall Street fnancier
Lnnaeus Teman who married into the Densons and whose
various loves tensions and ambitions remind the reader
wildly though unspecfcaly of Galsworhys Forsye Saga"
The book of faShbacks from the initial episode
When outlined the framework of the plot to friend, she
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Worldwide
TV Sporked
By Murconi
MY FATHER, MARCONI.

NH r "A L n 4 II, MAhCONl.
BY Dogma Marconi. (Mc-
Graw-Hill Book Co., Inc;
$7.50)
Dogma Marconi, daughter
Of the inventor of the wire
less, is the wife of DR.. Ga
briele Paresce, who from l949
to 1860 was press counselor to
the Italian Embassy in Wash
ington.
Her biography of her IA
ther is published at the mo-
ment the Italian press has
raised a cry to save the neg
lected villa where the 20
year-old Guglielmo Marconi
first transmitted radio sig
mails in 1895 and where he
now lies buried. Although he
is forgotten by many, it is
Marconi's inventions which
now bring messages to earth
from orbiting satellites, and
which opened the door to
worldwide television.
The scientific endeavors
which won Marconi the No
bel Prize in 1909 stemmed
from a personality so in
capable of sustained rela-
tionship with his family that
Queen Elena of Italy once
remarked "a man like Mar
conf should never marry"
His daughter has a double
advantage in telling the
story. To her own memories
from girlhood she adds the
penetration, intelligence, and.
above all, taste of a mature
and cultivated woman.
Unusual as Guglielmo Mar
coni's life was, it takes sec
ond place in this reviewers
interest to Dogma Marconi's
report on the family of her
Irish mother, the lovely Bea-
trice O'Brien, daughter Of
the 18th Baron Inchiquin.
MARY FAITH WILSON.
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A DREAM OF MANSIONS.

A DREAM OF MANSIONS.
BY Norris Lloyd. (Random
House; $3.50
THE LAST OF THE WHIT
FIELDS. BY Elise Sangui-
netti (McGraw-Hill; $5.75D
THE WANDERING OF DE-
SIRE. BY Marion Mont
gomery. (Harper; $4.95.)
Each Of these first novels
deals with Georgia. All are by
Southern writers not too
emancipated from the native
heath nor grown too critical
of it's ways to try to present
their characters as discern
ible human beings.
1t is notable, too, that none
Of these new authors tries to
write like the late and great
william Faulkner or like
Erskine Caldwell or even
Eudora Welty.
1t seems to me that the
first two listed, Mrs. Lloyd's
"A Dream of Mansions" and
Mrs. Sanguinetti's "The Last
of the .Whitfields." are the
more successful, though Mr..
Montgomery's "The Wander
ing of Desire" the most lit
erary of the three, is not
without its decided merits.
Teen-Agers
It Is only coincidence that
"a Dream of Mansions" and
"The Last of the Whitfields"
are both about girls in their
early teens. They are about a
great deal more, but the focus
is on these girls.
In "a Dream of Mansions"
which ! rate the best of the
three novels, the point Of
view throughout is that of
young Halle Jones, though
the story is told in the third
person. Through her eyes un-
fold a small Georgia town in
the early 1920s as her father.
mother, older sister and
brother move there from
South Carolina.
Hallie's father is trans
ferred by the railroad to be
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Proper Rhinoceroses

Readers who were mysti-
fled by the headline on last
weeks review of Ionesco,s
"Rhinoceros" People
Make Bad Rhinoceroses"-
will be glad to know that
they did not miss some subtle
irony that wasn't there. 1t
was purely an error of trans
mission. The headline should
have been Good People
Make Good Rhinoceroses."
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remarked that 1t sounded as
though it we're good material
for the Ladies Home Journal.
The judgment has a spark of
truth, but only when Mr..
Auchincloss' story is epito-
mized, for as he tells it him
self nothing could be more
remote from literary soap
opera. The writing is fluid
and easily readable; the out
standing talent of Mr.. Auch-
inclosS' is the creation of
situations convincing in dia-
logue and impressive in their
implication of the background
and character of the partici-
pants. If the book is a trifle
static, if the gathering-up Of
a neat plot at the end is not
entirely successful, it must be
remembered that the novel
is, by its very title, a portrait
more than a story.
&&
When the 27- year old
Derrick Hartley came to New
York in 1911 he was deter
mined to make a fortune
under the guidance of the
financial genius Linnaeus
Tremain. While achieving
his ambition, he courted
Tremain'S niece. Ida, and
fluttered the family dovecote
by turning his attentions to
another niece, Geraldine, a
beauty with whom he fell in
love the moment he met her.
Concerted action of the
family breaks up the liaison
Geraldine marries another
and Derrick returns to Ida.
Ida is the focal point of the
whole story. She learns from
her father on his deathbed
that "in life you can be a
leader or you can be led"
1t doesn't much matter which
you are, you can be happy
either way; what is important
is not to be confused, to be
aware whether you are active
or passive, dominating or
yielding.
During the first part of
her life Ida is passive. She
reflects everybody that comes
within her circle-her mother
and auntS. her weak cousin
at Yale, her older cousin Livia,
the daughter of Linnaeus by
an Italian mistress during
his day of wild oats. She
accepts her husbands adul-
ferrous affair with Geraldine
with equanimity. even help
ing her cousin decorate the
apartment Derrick gives her,
and when Geraldine becomes
a dtpsomaniac it is Ida who
stands by her to the moment
Of her suicide.
What might seem some
thing Of small import changes
Ida's life and turns her con-
sciously from a passive to an
active woman. Long after
the death of Linuaeus, Der
rick, who has successfully
taken over his place as head
of the firm, removes the older
mans name from the title of
the brokerage house. The act
is a bitter blow to Ida's fam
lily pride, and she never for
gets it.
Her life as a doer, a shaper,
eliminates in two episodes.
The first. following the most
humorous and charming
chapter in the book, recount
ing bachelor son Hugh's vio-
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TIM, "The Praying Mantises"
tells Of a woman marked as
one Of the victims of a highly
calculated, d-blooded plot
for money who turns the
tables on her would-be mur-
derers. The murder plan is
diverting but the inhuman
characters are bores. The
tone Of excruciattng irony is
predictable. The story is told
through letters, diaries, and
tape recordings, in what, ac-
cording to the publisher. is a
deliberate echo of the famous
Les LiaiSon Dangereuses. We
found the method more hin
drance than help. The book
has won two awards-Le
Grand Prix de Ia Literature
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daily fear of his life. The
Poles, with little more than
their prayers and their leg
endary courage. harassed the
Nazis with a unanimity and
tenacity that remains unbe-
lievable in the face Of the
brutality of the occupation.
Yalta
They knew a greater enemy
menaced them on the East.
They never called Russia
anything but "the ally Of
our allies" They could not
fathom the stupidity Of the
West who urged them to CO.
operate. When they rose up
in 1914 against. their op-
pressors, they received no
help from the Soviets. Only
Yalta demoralized them.
Mr.. Stypulkowski had a
further ordeal when the Ger
mans left. He was lured to
Moscow with an invitation to
lunch with Marshal Zhukov.
He and the other Polish re-
sistance leaders we're put into
the notorious Lubianka Jail.
He was interrogated 100 times
by a Soviet who tried to
prove he had collaborated
with the Germans.
FerOciOus Determination
Mr.. Stypulk wski was
hauled from bed at all hours.
questioned for hours on end.
He had been Warsaw's lead
ing trial lawyer before the
war, and he had, in addition
to his legal mind, a strong
Evening star., 1962-07-15
IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
Todoy's S Encyclopedia
Represents q New Art

These hove been trying times
for the encyclopaedia. chonges
ore tightening fost. No sooner
does the horOssed publisher bring
his multi-VoIumed set up to
dote thon things hoppen to moke
il obsolete. The world turns up
side down. Yesterdays mops ore
useless. Todoy's roods run in new
directions. Towns and countries
hove different nomes, and revo-
lutionoN new chapters ore
added to history. Miracles in
science evolve with explosive
speed, and q whole new Ionsuose
is needed to expIoin them. Edit
ing on encyclopedia hos become
o new ort.
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lovely Oriental heroine for
whom a pigheaded English
man quickly abandons his
quaint East-is-East notions,
a rubber plantation COM
plete with lurking spies, a
sinister political coup that
almost succeeds and a hair
raising chase sequence in
which one Of the heroes dives
into a 20-foot fish tank to
disconnect a time-bomb.
This is one of the higher
type adventure yarns in cur
rent print. AS a bonus to the
pure enjoyment involved,
there is uncomfortable au-
thenticity in the not-so-
fictional political events lead
ing up to the explosive
finale. RUTH HUME.
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A short time ago If you had
looked into any encyclopedia
for material on space explo-
ration" or space medicine"
you wouldn't have found any
thing. Space hadn't been
explored.
Gradually the world Of
satellites crept into the revised
editions and annual supple
ments Of various reference
books, and by now such mat
tiers are covered thoroughly
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His Only Weapon

the tragedy it inevitably
brings.
There is a High Noon"
quality to the hours before
the wedding. the similarity
Of feeling intensified by the
fact that attention centers
on the arrival Of the train
presumably bringing numi-
nada's former suitor back to
the village. But in this case
it Is not reasoned hatred,
however unjust, that pro-
duces the conflict. 1t is the
appalling cruelty of igno-
rance. r. H.
AGENCY HOUSE, MALAYA.
By Susan Yorke. (Farrar,
Straus g. Cudahy; $3.50
Heads should roll out at
the Hitchcock studio If this
item is not picked up for
transfer to a wide screen in
full color. The ingredients,
mixed by a knowing profess
sional hand. are all present:
A lush Malayan setting, a
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WlCn CexC, pictures, graphs
and charts.
CThe 1862 edition Of
Golfers Encyclopedia in
corporates the orbital flight
Of Astronaut John H.
Glenn. jr0
The same is true of more
eSoteric subjects, such as
high-preSSure physics. Scien-
tific knowledge is developing .
so fast that the makers Of
encyclopedias have a hard
time keeping up.
Not that science is the only
field which needs updating.
Publishers of encyclopedias
have to maintain a process
called continuous revision"
in which articles are changed
every time there is a new
printing.
For one small example,
every time there is a new
United States Census report,
population figures scattered
through all the volumes have
to be changed.
Major RevisiOns
About three years ago the
editors of Golfers Encyclo- .
pedia decided the continuous
revisions were not enough. A
major overhaul was indicated.
I'm the area of the physical
sciences even Golfers, then
less than 10 years old, was
out of date" says William
HalSey, editorial director Of
the publication.
So it was decided to review
every article in the 20
volumes. Not just the science
articles. The next step was to
obtain the services of 1874
outside" authorities in every
field, with emphasis on the
"outSide"-experts who never
had served Golfers in any
capacity before. .
Many New Specialists
For one whole year the
books were examined. bit by
Bit" said Halsey, before
anything actually was done.
Some major articles were
read by five or six specialists
in overlapping fields.
These outside authorities
were asked to criticize thor
oughly, to suggest which ar
ticles needed to be replaced,
which needed revision. And
to suggest which persons were .
best qualified to do the
work"
During the overhaul, the
set also was increased from
Is to "a volumes, new maps
were added and many illus
trations were changed.
So now in the 1862 edition,
says Halsey. "35 per cent of
the material either has been
rewritten or is new, and
every article has been thor
oughly checked"
For the Student
In scope, this encyclopedias
is designed for the user who
more often than not is a
student. Major articles are
constructed so that pupils in
the fifth grade can get a
comprehension of the sub
ject, and students up through -
the college level can find ..
reference material.
The purpose, says Halsey,
is not to publish a learned
reference book. 1t is to lin .
form the layman, but with
a degree of authority which
is acceptable to the scholar"
Continuous Printing
In keeping the set up to
date. each edition goes
through an almost continu-
GUS printing process, in con-
trast with older methods of
never changing an edition.
More and more we are
using press equipment and
production techniques of the.
mass magazines" said Hal
sey."
The updating process never
stops. With the orbital flight
If Astronaut Glenn covered
n the first printing, the
second printing includes
Scott Carpenters
Tight.
MILES A. SMITH.
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TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editoriol poee Of
The Stor this week:
MONDAY THE Greet Price
Conspiracy" by John Herring.
Luce
WEDNESDAY - Beyond the
Trosic Vision" by Morse Peekhom.
(BrozilIer.l
FRIoAY-"The Potriotie Chiefs"
by Alvin N. JOsephX ir. (vikinsD
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PAPER BACKS

ANTIGONE. Sophocles.
Translated by Mich a e !
Townsend, with an intro
duction by Eugene H. Falk.
$50 cents.)
SHAKESPEARE. BY John
Drinkwater. (Collier Book:
95 cents.) A critical biog-
raphy.
WHAT RUSSIAN SCIEN-
lists SAY ABOUT FALL
OUT. BY James F. Crow.
(Collier Book; 95 cents0
Presents an mcensored
view of Russian scientific
thought and opinion on the
frightening fallout problem.
SOVIET SCIENCE FICTION.
With an introduction by
Isaac ASimov. (Collier
Book; 95 cents.) Seven
tales of life in outer space,
Russian style.
GETTYSBURG. Edited by
Earl s. Miers and Richard
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faith and the Poles typical
determination to survive.
He laboriously presented
his own defense, in Russian.
He was the first political
prisoner to plead innocent in
a Soviet court. The Soviets,
aware that they had aroused
Western suspicion by their
kidnapping of the Polish
leaders, made one of their in
frequent bows to world opin-
ion. Mr.. Stypulkowski was
sentenced to four months
Imprisonment.
His Only Weapon
The story Of his imprison-
ment and interrogation is
a Recommendation of Arthur
Koestler's Darkness at
Noon" Mr.. Stypulkowski
gives the real reason for his
survival in one paragraph,
which probably explains
everything. Almost at the
breaking point: 81 reminded
myself that hundreds of
thousands of Poles had given
their lives. modestly and
quietly. for the national
cause. I had no right to get
hysterical about my own. I
had to remember that I rep
resented more than myself. I
must muster the remnants of
my spiritual and physical
forces, as they were the only
weapons of defense I had"
Mr.. Stypulkowski went to
London when he was freed,
now makes his home in
Washington.
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Other Books in Brief

A. Brown. (Collier Book;
95 cents.) A narrative of
invasion and battle, told
by the men and women who
lived through it.
RETURN TO BITTERNESS.
BY Henry Kuttner. (Bal-
lantine; so cents.) Con-
tains eight science fiction
tales.
FICTION
THE LABYRINTH OF SOIL
TUDE: Life and Thought
in Mexico. BY Octavio Paz.
Translated by Lysander
Kemp. Grove; $3.50
SATANSTOE or The Little
page M a uscripts. BY
James Fenimore Cooper.
"a Dolphin Book; $l.450
The first novel of the Little
page trilogy, Cooper's last
literary effort. which de-
plored the tenants riots
against the New York aris-
tocracy. (Reprint.)
Evening star., 1962-07-15
GENERAL
THE LANDMARKS OF

IhE LANDmAhhS Of a
PEOPLE. A Guide to Jew
ish Sites In Europe. BY
Bernard Postal and Sam
uel H. Abramson. chill &
w ng; $3.50 Provides
specific country by-coun-
try and city by city in
formation about everything
of Jewish interest in Eu-
rope, on both sides Of the
iron curtain.
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS.
BY Heinz Haber. Golden
Press; $685. Considered
by the publisher to be a
family book" DR.. Haber
discusses mans concept of
his surroundings from the
time he first discovered
earth to be a sphere, the
exciting controversy over
Copernicus' theory that
earth revolves around the
sun, then proceeds to dis
cuss what ideas are excit-
ing scientists and laymen
today.
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