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Evening star., 1962-05-04
Studium Traffic
Blockade Fought

The Capitol Hill Southeast
Citizens Association will re-
quest q study Of traffic routes
leading to and from the new
D. C. Stadium.
The group voted unanimous
ly last night to support a mo-
ton by Ceylon M. Boswell to
write letters to Police Chief
Murray and the D. c. Com
missioners protesting the block
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
CoIorfuI Novel of Life:
In a Changing Africa

endows with such life we're
not concerned with trying to
Cypress anyone. They were
occupied with wrestling q liv->
ing from an unwilling soil,
an unkindly climate and q
vast continent of which they
knew little. Some of the ma
tive tribesmen not only were
servants and field hands, but
often counselors and devoted
friends Of the white settlers.
The narrator's grand
mother, called Ouma, was q
woman of vast resources and
ability. She could do any
thing from churning butter
and settling disputes among
neighbors to laying out and
building a town. Her quieter,
gentler husband, Oupa, was q
clergyman, a wise man whom
the whole valley loved. The
other persons brought into
the story are not all admir-
able-some are grasping and
villainous-but all are color
full.
The story is brief, with not
a sentence wasted, and the
writing fairly sings.
CARTER BROOKE JONES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
Lively, Good Humor
And q Lovely BIooper

longtime member of the In
ner circle he describes, one
has the uneasy feeling that
the whole CHASTITY milieu is
not the least bit exaggerated.
AS a bonus the book con-
tributes one Of the most de-
lightful bloopers to slip by
an editorial staff in some
time, the more appealing in
that those who notice 1t at
all will probably appreciate
the wild humor Of it. A COM
pany banquet is being held
at the Waldorf to launch
Garry's tax-deductible foun-
dalton. Part of the window
dressing is the presence Of
a bishop supplied by the
Archdiocese of New York to
give the invocation. (The
company had fought hard
for the cardinal, explains
Garry, but he was out of
town. But the bishop, he
comedies. was most effective
as he swept toward the mi
crophone lin the full. dra-
matte robes Of the Society Of
Jesus" A Jesuit bishop in
New York City? Dream on,
Mr.. Longstreet!
RUTH HUME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

her fighters into the IN
credible Turkey Shoot" off
Saipan. Her battle honors
span the whole Pacific from
Santa Cruz to Kwajalein,
from Two to the Philippines.
From the beginning. when
she was the flagship of the
great Admiral William (BulD
Halsey until a pilot Of ia
pans Divine Wind suicide
corps knocked her out of the
war, the Enterprise is Off
cially credited with downing
91l enemy planes, sinking II
ships and damaging almost
200 others.
1t is a tremendous record
and a gripping story by q
man who took part in many
Of the actions described in
his book. The Enterprise was
strapped in a dreary ship
yard on the Hackensack
River in 1859 but her spirit
did not die. 1t lives again in
the new Enterprise. first nu-
clear carrier in history and
the biggest ship in the world.
In a sense, the story Of the
Big E began again when her
namesake was launched In
1861.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
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TIME WAITS FOR WIN
THROP AND FOUR 9TH
OF MICE AND MEN AND MYTHS
IN THE WORLD OF MEDICINE
INDICATED FABLES FOR MICE AND MEN BY Joseph
D. WasSerslg M d lAhelard- SchIInnar. 60

INDICATED FABLES FOR MICE AND MEN BY Joseph
D. Wassersug. M D. (Abelard- Schuman; $2500
This little book is cast In the form Of animal fables
1t is satire on the medical PROFESSIONS imperfec-
tons, and striking one.
1t roughs UP the pompous diagnosticians who make
mountains out of obviously minor ailments 1t takes
crack at socalized medicine chiefly the grounds of
bureaucracy 1t gives devastating picture Of fashions
and tads among patients 1t gives the back Of the hand
to glib prescribers
1t also has some sharp things to say about cultists
fund ralsers and specialists who revel in fancy degrees
1t pokes probing finger at the economics of medical
practice In the over privileged areas.
All in all it is balloon busting little book about the
more irrational aspects Of the medical world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
The Astronouts Go Up
In Magazine Space

Mercury Astronauts. The in
PRODUCTION and certain con-
nective passages printed in
italics are the work Of John
Ollie, jr., who was Life's
bird-dog for the Astronauts
for about three years.
The roman-face accounts
carrying the by-lines of the
individual astronauts cover
all aspects Of the selection,
training and flight phases Of
the Mercury program. To the
extent that the book is a
roundup on Mercury between
a single pair Of hard covers,
it is a worth while produc-
ton. But there is little or
nothing new in the book, and
most Of it reads like a twice.
told tale, as indeed 1t Is.
Except as a roundup, there
is little justification for I'VE
Seven" at this time. 1t would
be a far more valuable his
torical record If the publisher
had waited until later this
year, when the program Of
ficially ends with one or
more 24-hour orbital flights.
AS 1t is. the book does not
even include an account of
Walter Schirra's Sigma-7
mission, which was clearly
the most skillfully done Of
all Mercury flights to date.
WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
DINING AT THE PAVILION.

A@AANS n AAAA IN AAAANOANs
BY Joseph Wechsberg:
Little. Brown g. Co.; So
BETWEEN MEALS: An APP
petite for Paris. BY A. j.
Liebling. (Simon 81 Schus-
ter; $3.50
OF all the fine arts, cook
ing is the most susceptible to
being written about. No words
can awaken strange musical
sounds in the ear, pictures
can be described only tech
nically, and books on books
are rarely evocative of the
originals. But the taste buds
can be excited and the saliva
made to flow by the descrip-
ton Of a good dish. Two Of
our most notable eaters pub
lish books this week dealing
largely with the pleasures of
the table. together with sub
sidiary joys such as women.
They are not substitutes for
board or bed, but, tGute de
mteuT, they do very we'll.
Joseph Wechsberg's volume
is largely about the life-story
Of Henri Soule, owner and
maitre d'hotel Of the Pavil-
Ion Restaurant in New York,
the one institution in the
United States comparable to
the five or six top hdute
cuisine establishments in
France. Other kinds of cook
ing are not necessarily in
ferior to meals in the haute
cuisine tradition, they are
only different, and there are
times when even the most
particular connoisseurs would
prefer a simple meal at q
good steak house or braSserie
than q dinner at Tour
d'Argent. A dinner in the
haute cuisine tradition is a
total work Of art in which
taste, texture, color. scent,
surroundings and service are
all Of great Importance. A
meat or q sauce may take as
many as eight cooks to pre-
pare and two and q half
hours to enjoy. A dinner
for two at the Pavilion costs
q lot Of money but Is not
expensive-a typical check Is
$S5, but the same product is
not to be had for less.
Mr.. Wechsberg's account
Of Soule's rise to pre-
eminence. from his early days
as an apprentice in Paris,
through his opportunity to
bring the best French cook
ing to America as q feature
of the New York Worlds
Fair, down to his present
autocratic empire at 57th
and Park, E@ings the reader
behind the scenes of one Of
the most unusual and fasci-
mating businesses of our time.
In addition to Soule, Mr..
Wechsberg tells Of the al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
Pleasures of the Table
And Subsidiary Joys

most-fabulous Escoffier, one
Of Soule's masters, Of Alex
andre Dumaine, of the Hotel
de la Cote-d'Or, in Saulieu,
France, and Of Fernand Point,
Of the Restaurant de la Pyr-
amide, in Vienne, France.
Unanimity Of opinion is not
to be expected in matters of
art. The nearest it has been
approached, no doubt, Is in
the belief that M. Point, who
died in 1855, was the greatest
cook in the history of eat
ing. So far as / know, no
one has ever questioned his
supremacy. 1t is good to hear
from Mr.. Wechsberg that
Madame Point is maintaining
the restaurant in the old
tradition. without innovation,
perhaps, but without deterio-
ration.
One day in 1925 A. ]. Lieb-
ling told his father that he
was thinking of getting mar
ried. THE girl is 10 years
older than I am" he said,
land Mother might think she
is kind Of fast, because she
is being kept by a cotton
broker from Memphis, Tenn,
who only comes north once
in a while. But you are a
man of the world. :" 1t
worked, and almost at once
young Liebling was off for
Paris, with a small but suf-
ficient allowance. He spent
his time between eating and
girls, and in his new book he
expounds very convincingly
his theory that to become a
true expert in food you must
not start out wealthy, al
though naturally you have to
achieve wealth in the later
stages Of the game.
The poor man with a fine
tongue and palate will expert
ment with all sorts of va
rieties of simple dishes and
wins ordinaires; the rich
gourmet is likely to patronize
only the best restaurants
and order only the special
ties-he may enjoy himself
but his education is static.
Mr.. Liebling develops his the
DRY with vivacity and with q
thousand delicious examples.
1.-THE primary requisite for
writing well about food is a
good appetite. Without this,
1t is impossible to accumu-
late, within the allotted
span, enough experience Of
eating to have anything
worth setting down. Each day
brings only two opportunities
for field work, and they are
not to be wasted minimizing
the intake Of cholesterol.
They are indispensable, like q
prizefighter's hours on the
road. ;" AS one enjoys Mr..
Liebling's book, one comes to
the conclusion that he has
a very good appetite indeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

American mother, whom he
adored. He was at Eton and
Oxford; wounded three times
during the 1914-18 war, and
married a Dukes daughter.
This marriage into the old
aristocracy meant that he
b &C a m e related to no less
than 16 members of Parlia-
ment. His path was thus
simple. and clear. But he
brought his own special tai
ents into his career. among
them what Mr.. Sampson de-
scribes as "unflappability."
And this "unflappability" is
the key to his guidance of
the nations fortunes, in No.
10 Downing Street-when 1t
is not being restored! For
the home was Jerry built by,
and named after, George
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
Mans Conquest of the Sea
Told in Handsome Volume

There are 436 pages, 81
maps and 440 illustrations,
including $50 in color, here
to chronicle mans struggles
with the unpredictable ele-
ment. 1t starts with the first
upright creature who learned
how to cross a stream by
padding behind q log and
travels through time to the
advent of atomic-powered
vessels.
In between, Capt. Villiers
and other knowledgeable men
have told in words and with
pictures some of the most
stirring sagas in the world.
Here are described the voy-
ages of the Phoenicians and
the battles of the Greeks
against the Persians to save
the Western World. The
voyages Of the great explor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

Downing, that scoundrel
graduate from Harvard, in
the 1640s.
The author describes an
interesting relationship In
Mr.. Macmillan's life, with
his secretary. John Wynd-
ham Is one Of the richest
landowners in Britain, a
surprising" man, full of
wild Jokes and outspoken
comments" who has worked
for his master for six years,
without a penny Of payment,
just because he admires him
intensely" 1T is a kind Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
The GoIIoping Ghost !:
Story Of the Big E
THE BIG E. BY Comdr. Ed.

THE BIG E. BY Comdr. Ed
ward P. Stafford. BRANDON
House; $3.50
The aircraft carrier USS
Enterprise may we'll have
been the greatest fighting
ship of World War II in
which many vessels have am
pie claim to the title Of
greatness.
Seven times the japanese
claimed to have sent THE
Big E" to the bottom and,
indeed. she did escape de-
struction so often that she
became known through the
fleet as the "Galloping
Ghost"
In all. as Comdr. Stafford's
excellent book relates, she
took part in nearly every
major Pacific battle-20 Of a
possible %. At one point,
when Americas fortunes we're
at low ebb, she was the only
American carrier left to face
the Japanese.
Her record Is as illustrious
as it is long. She turned the
tide at Midway; she helped
defend the embattled Ma
rines at Guadalcanal; she
launched the first attacks on
the fortress Of Truk and sent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
PAPERBAcKS

Spectrum Books published
by Prentice-Hall, Inc. has
just released three more
books in its series, "Twen-
tieth Century Views" The
aim Of the series is to present
the best in contemporary
critical opinion on major au-
thors, providing a twentieth
century perspective. ($1.95
each.D They are:
DOSTOEVSKY. A Collection
Of Critical Essays. Edited
by Rene Wellek. Among
the contributors are Irving
Howe, Sigmund Freud, and
D. H. Lawrence.
HOMER. A Collection Of Crit
ical Essays. Edited by
George Steiner and Robert
Eagles. Among the contrib
utors are Ezra Pound,
Franz Kafka and James
Joyce.
LORCA. A Collection of Crit
zeal Essays. Edited by
Manuel Duran. Among the
contributors are William
Carlos Williams, Damaso
Alfonso. and Edwin HONG.
THE PHILOS OPHY OF
MIND. Edited by v. c.
Chappell. CA Spectrum
Book: $2.25.) Among the
essayists are John Wisdom,
Norman Malcolm, and P.
F. ,Strawson.
EMPIRE AND NATION. John
Henry Dickinson's Letters
from a Pennsylvania Farm
er and Richard Henry Lees
Letters from a Federal
Farmer. Introduction and
Notes by Forrestt McDon-
aid. "a Spectrum Book;
$1.25) An addition to the
Classics in History Series"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

emotionally as any colonist In
Massachusetts,. but he con-
sidered the controversy with
the precision Of a lawyer and
the attachment Of an adjudi-
Gator. A Patrick Henry has
the knack for the front page,
an Adams. more profound,
more judicious, more quail
fled, Is buried in the editor
ials.
No character in Adams
life story Is more fascinating
than his wife Abigail. She
took care Of her man in the
best Colonial tradition, warm
ing his slippers, worrying
about his smallpox inocula-
ton, minding the servants,
and cooking the tansy pud-
ding, but she was also an
equal and an exciting human
being. But heigh day, Mr..
what's your name?," she
wrote her fiance, INVITING
him for faults and short
comings she found In him.
What do you say to that
charger" Not every Colonial
girl was chastenend and de-
mure.
1t is to be regretted that
Mr.. Smiths excellent work,
which will doubtless remain
the standard biography for
years to come, is so badly
presented to the reader. Its
nearly 1900 pages are printed
in unattractive, muddy type
on paper that is all-too-
transparent. Mr.. Smith and
John Adams deserve better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

his best creating the atmos-
phere and characters of the
small French town where M
Pinaud hopes to find a wom-
an who successfully Dispatch
ed several husbands for their
insurance. Her accomplice
appears to have been killed
there, and two leading citi-
zens have just taken brides.
The solution, which sacri-
fees realism to romance. is
clear to the reader halfway
through, though not to the
great but ponderous Pinaud.
For all our carping. we en-
joyed it, and look forward to
other books by Mr.. Aude-
mars.
DEATH FOR SHORT. BY
John Gale. The Mac
milan Co.; $3.50
A buyoant and very COM
pick tale about a chemist
sent to find out what went
wrong with the production
of Pandrinol, the newest
tranquilizer and the best Of
them all. The legitimate
manufacturer can't turn it
out successfully anymore.
but a black marketeer can.
A hospital where kill is more
certain than cure, an island
nightclub and a cliff-based
stronghold are only three Of
the settings in this first rate
adventure story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
THE FLESH PEDDLERS. BY
Stephen Longstreet. (Simon
81 Shuster; S4.95.)

Stephen Longstreet. (Simon
& Shuster; $4.95)
Garry James, hired by the
biggest talent agency in the
world because of his adept
ness at squirting female eli
ents, happens to be at a
party in his boss house on
the night a crisis arises. and
happens to come UP with a
tax-deductible idea for i'm
proving the corporate image
in the eyes of the world and
Of the Federal investigators.
From then on it's up, up, up
for Garry. and in no time
at all he is in the lucrative
If ulcer-producing higher
echelons Of the organization.
But Garry's nerves are al
ready in a snit over an in
tensely pursued affair with
his boss wife, and before
long the conflicting demands
Of business and pleasure
have the poor man on double
eQuanils.
AS a glimpse Of the work.
ing day at a not very heav-
lily disguised talent agency,
the story has its slick merits.
And since the author is o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
The White House
ASltLooks Today
THE WHITE HOUSE: Today
and Yesterday. BY Isabelle
Shaltoy Taweaft D,,hl;oo

anu ACcNChOoys ny 4OdDCllC
Shelton. tFawcett Publica-
tions. Inc: so cents0
This is a Photographic tour
of the White House in its
new appearance. Hundreds of
photographs (many in excel
lent color show exactly what
the place looks like now. In
cluded are many photographs
Of the rooms as they looked
during the peak of the hide
Gus taste Of the late Victorian
era. The colored glass and
fringed table covers are hard
to imagine now. There are
also some unusual modern
photographs including one
showing the marble entrance
hall decorated with corn
stalks. pumpkins and black
cats for an Eisenhower Hal
loween.
Mrs. Shelton, a member Of
The Star staff, has written
a sensible straightforward &C
count of the work that is
Transforming the White
House. e. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
MEN, SHIPS AND THE SEA.

MEN, SHIPS AND THE SEA.
BY Capt. Alan Villiers and
others. National Geo.
graphic Society; $685.
Man has been contending
with the sea, and using 1t for
his own purposes ever since
the first unknown human
discovered In time out of
mind that logs float and can
be propelled through the
water.
The primitive genius who
made this discovery was the
first sailor and those who
followed him have come a
long way since. This beauti-
full product of the National
Geographic Society. another
volume in The Story of Man
Library, Is the story Of mans
adventures with water and
how he has conquered It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
O'Connor's lst Novel
Stages q Come Back

Edwin O'Connor's first
novel THE ORACLE" Git-
tie Brown; 50 first pub
lished in 1851 has now been
reissued. In the interim, he
has produced two smash
successes. "The Last Hurrah"
and THE Edge Of Sadness"
THE Oracle" a satire on the
radio business was q great
flop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
THE PARADISE PEOPLE.
BY David Lytton. (Simon
& Schuster; S3.75.)

* OClluSOCL 90 tOsJ
David Lytton is q young
writer Of Boer ancestry,
brought up in South Africa
and a resident Of England for
a number Of years.
This novel, which suggests
so wildly the country life
of pioneer Beers Of an earlier
era, likely was based on some
of the experiences and phi
losophy handed down from
his own family. At least the
narrator, who in the novel
was the young man he recalls
many years ago. writes in q
foreword to his daughter:
AT the present it is the
fashion to condemn the
white South Africans In all
their generations; but I hope
you will never be persuaded
to that kind Of collective
lunacy that confuses the
part with the whole. There
are not, after all. many ma
tons that get the government
they deserve.
Certainly the characters he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
ANATOMY OF BRITAIN.
BY Anthony Sa m pson.
CHarper & Row; $685.

CHarper & Row; $3.50
Americans are usually
"hurt" when foreigners criti-
CHE them: The British don't
care two boots. They well
come books that attack their
own smugness and insular
institutions. and they even
write them themselves. A
best seller in this category
is Anatomy of Britain"
published last July. The au-
thor has lain the old, rheu-
matte body Of Britannia on
the psychiatrist's couch and
analysed her ruthlessly. The
English reviewers have show
cred him with compliments
ever since.
Now the book comes out in
America and. as a Briton, I
recommend 1t to all who wish
to know a little more about
us. 1t is the work of a bril-
liant reporter rather than q
placid thinker. but all its $50
pages are so alive with facts
that one is lured through the
immense pattern as through
the clues and episodes of q
thriller.
Good Targets
Anthony Sampson begins
with good targets: The mon
archy, the aristocracy, Parlia-
ment. the church. the uni
versities-all the people who
are at the top, in the "cita-
dels of power" and who are
easiest to hit.
One section deals with the
blood royal" and reminds us
that among the Queens an
cestors, through her mother,
are the landlord of an inn. q
London plumber, and a rela-
tive of George Washington.
For the Queen has American
blood. Il hastily add that 1t
is mid-l7th century Virgini-
an.
Then follows q serious
analysis of the role of the
Queen. and of the lively Duke
of Edinburgh, who has tried
to identify himself with the
future rather than the past"
The Duke Is the enemy of
the stuffy Establishment: He
made some Of them very an
CRY in october, 1861, when
he said of our dangerous in
dustrial apathy, Just at this
we are suffering a
national defeat comparable to
any lost military campaign,
and. what is more, self-in-
flicted. :. Gentlemen, I
think 1t is about time we
pulled our fingers out. :"
Stuffy die lizards in Britain
at such talk from
the Queens consort; they
would prefer a genteel cy-
pher. But the young like it
very much.
"Unflappability"
The dominant character in
the book Is Mr.. Harold Mac
milan. A Scot, with an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
New Books of the Fall Season in Brief Review

in which DR.. Steincrohn,
whose column appears in
The Star, alerts the reader
against his often subcon-
scious tendency to aid his
mortal enemies, the killing
diseases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
WE SEVEN. Nv

WE SEVEN. BY the Astro-
nauts themselves. (Simon
q Schuster; $6.50O
The author-billing of this
book strongly implies that
the writings contained
therein are the work of M.
Scott Carpenter. L. Gordon
Cooper, jr,, John H. Glenn.
jr., Virgil l. Grissom, Walter
M. Schirra, jr., Alan B.
Shepard, jr,, and Donald K.
Slayton. This may we'll be
the case, the Lifetime hand
is everywhere apparent.
I'VE Seven" appears to be
a fall-out Of the controversial
financial arrangement be-
tween Life Magazine and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Fair Daughters Are Not
Always Spirited Away
BY BETTY MILES
Star staff Writar

Where was 13-year-od Barbara Markle, who dsap
peaed the day after her first formal dancer Experience
had taught Stocord Police Chief Fred Fellows that
anxious parents needlesy 1t also had taught
him that parents scandaized disbelief to the contrary
daughters do voluntarily And 1t had taught him
there deadly explanations justfyng fear
Chief Fellows careful investigation brings premontions Of
disaster mystery based police procedure becomes
horror tale Born Victim by Hillary Waugh Doubleday