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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
PURELY FICTIONAL
Humorists Lead List
Of New Novel Authors
THE GRASS LOVERS. BY
Ronald M. DeutSch. CDou-
bleday; $4.50.)

THE GRASS LOVERS. BY
Ronald M. Deutsch. Dou-
bleday; $4.50D
Ellis TinSel, a confirmed
chewer of Central Park turf,
has limitless faith in the
health-giving properties of
grass. With the collabora-
ton of a Norwegian boxing
champion and a Miss Uni
verse contestant, the dedi-
Gated naturopath builds the
great Tinsel health empire,
purveyorS of Vitatinsel, Vita
turf, Vitaturf Concentrate,
Grassules with calcium or
iron), Health Grass Window
Farms and related products.
But there is a stray crab
grass Seeding in Ellis gar
den of delight, in the person
of Sterling Paltry, a bio
chemist with the Pure Food
and Drug Administration who
must double as a spy because
the New York office is ter
ribly short-handed.
Ronald Deutsch is the
author of 1.-The Nuts Among
the Berries" a nonfiction
discussion Of health food
fadS. 1t was a splendid idea
to put this background to the
uses of fiction. The result
is a genuinely funny book.
The only bar to the readers
complete delight Is the lurk-
ing suspicion that the au-
thor's exaggeration of the
food-fad stranglehold on
America is really not much
of an exaggeration at all.
Instant tigers milk, anyone?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
TURN OF THE WHEEL.


Roger Vailland. Translated
by Peter WileS. (Alfred A.
Knopf; $500
Although Roger Vailland is
not the foremost contempt
rary writer in France, he
ranks among the best there.
His novel, 1.-THE Law" won
the Prix Concourt in 1857. He
also wrote the scenario for the
film recentlye shown here.
LES LiaiSons Dangereuses."
In this latest novel to be
translated, Vailland's artistry
accomplishes in the books
ITO pages what a run-of- the
mill novelist could not even
approach.
He sets the stage through
everyday conversation by a
sophisticated married couple
with their servants, the vii
lage folk, and a young girl
engaged to be married.
T h e S e conversations are
seemingly so guileless that it
is hard to see just how Vail
land brings into their midst
a sense of disaster and ter
ror. Without any heavy
handed explanations he pits
a destructive sophistication
against innocence.
Vailland is a surrealist. To
him, the reality we feel we
are dealing with is partly an
illusion. He believes that
truth is superimposed upon
this illusion. Superimposed
upon the everyday realities"
of the people in this novel is
the undetected and destruc-
tive relationship between the
man and wife.
Some Americans who have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
NucIeur Aqe
Loaded With
Benefits
THE LEGACY OF HIRO.
SHIMA. BY Edward Teller,
with Allen Brown. Double
daV. Cd Or

THE LEGACY OF HIRO.
SHIMA. BY Edward Teller,
with Allen Brown. Double
day; $4.950
DR.. Edward Teller is not
one of the nuclear scientists
who had to be dragged kick
ing and screaming into the
nuclear age. He was the en-
thusiastic father" of the
American H-bomb, a key man
in the A-bomb development,
and, in this book, he is alive
to the many opportunities
that nuclear power offers the
world.
He has one regret. He be-
lieves it was wrong to use
A-bombS on Hiroshima and
NagaSaki.
This moral wrong, he be-
lieves, created a worldwide
mental block which has kept
people from making full use
of the nuclear age. The
legacy of Hiroshima, DR..
Teller says, has held back
peaceful uses of the atom
and has also checked rational
consideration of nuclear
weapons.
Lists Uses
DR.. Teller believes that the
nuclear age is here to stay
and should be used-with due
regard for its dangers-for
the benefit of mankind.
Specifically, DR.. Teller
wants peaceful nuclear ex-
ploSions (to dig harbors in
remote areas or break UP
impervious oil formations,
more atomic power stations,
more medical use of radio
active materials, better nu-
clear limited-war forces, more
science education, and, as
soon as possible, world gov
eminent.
Russia's Broadening Gap
I'm 10 years." DR.. Teller
says, Russia will be the
worlds recognized scientific
leader" Therefore, he says,
the United States must
plunge ahead with nuclear
projects or face the loss of
the cold war.
DR.. Teller's views will
wholly please no one Gin this
readers opinion, he evades
frank and full discussion of
the disputes among scientists
over nuclear weapons and
disarmament, and the specific
nuclear-war strategy he adj
vocates is contradictory and
near-suicidaD.
But 1t is a clear and read
able book-and a refreshing
look at the positive side of
the nuclear age.
RICHARD FRYKLUND
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
DO YOURSELF A FAYOR.

III 1OURSELF A FAVOR,
KID. BY James Steven
son. macmillan; $685.
James Stevenson, a car
toonist for the New Yorker,
calls his first novel "a mod
ern morality" It is the story
of a Negro bell-hop in a
Catskill resort hotel who is
a great basketball player pri-
marily but not exclusively be-
cause he is every inch of 71a-
feet tall. We see him at the
moment of his discovery. A
national picture magazine
sends a team for a feature
spread and college coaches
converge on the spot to lure
the giant with scholarships
and legal money.
But Beanpole is just a sim
pie guy who loves basketball
and he sickens of the high
power publicity and the COL
lege professionalism. At last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
A Modern Morality Story
With Basketball Settino

he runs away. The magazine
feature writer, the narrator
OF the novel, sympathizes
with his predicament and de-
cides he will risk being fired
rather than write the kind
OF sensational story his jour-
nal demands.
But the reader must be
shocked by the grossneSs of
the antagonism of the great
modern world and Bean
pole. Unless he is shocked.
the morality is pointless and
the story, quite meager in
incident, lacks interest. I am
afraid I was not at all
shocked; Beanpole wants just
to play basketball, the maya
zine wants just its pictures;
the coaches want just their
championship. 1t may not
add up to Henry Thoreau,
but on the other hand it's
hardly the most degrading
side of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
CIVIL WAR BOOKSHELF
A Fresh Appraisal
Of Abraham Lincoln

1t always surprise when after 100 years and
hundreds of books fresh appraisal of Abraham Lincoln
energies One such surprise is LINCOLN, A CONTEMPT
RARY PORTRAIT Edited by Allan Irving Stone.
Doubleday; $4.50D
AS the lot of Lincoln scholars nowadays the supply Of
Significant new material the subject has, far anyone
knows, been exhausted This leaves the scholars to
evauae the material hand to assemble the results Of
their interpretatons that gives old material
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
A Bit More RuefuI
Than Hilarious

The jacket OF OH MARY,
TIL us MOON Orion;
$3.50, gives the reader the
impression that he is In for
a million laughs. Michael
Campbell, the author, is in
deed a witty man as native
born Irish are likely to be.
But this reviewer found his
poignant study of the eternal
inability of Saxon and Gael
to communicate more rueful
than hilarious.
His hero is a delightful
23-year-old Irishman who is
expiring of inconsistencies in
the alien corn of London
and its tight-lipped inhabi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
With Hoods Texans

RAGS AND HOPE, COM
piled and edited by Mary
LaSwell Coward Mccain;
$5.75), organizes the memoirs
of Val C. CValerius Cincin-
natus) Jones who cam
paigned for four years with
Hoods Texans. 1t was a
highly active soldering ca
reer that took in the PENN
sula, the two Bull Runs,
G ysburg and Chicka-
manga. There is much mi
nutiae concerning Johnny
Reb at war here, but the in
timacy of, say, Pvt. StrongS
memoir is missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Sir Thomas Beechom:
AMoster Musician
BY DAY THORPE
Star Staff Writer
THOMAS BEECHAN

THOMAS BEECHAM independent biography. BY Charles
Reid. &C. P. Dutton g. Co.: $4.500
Not one book in a thousand about music musicians is
worth the it is printed field of literature
barren Since the popular appeal music while universal
in its power is not dependant the training percepve
qualifications Of the listener the art created omnvorous
public uncritca Unsuitable for whom famous musicians
fascinating movie stars Their daance with their
muse during which the old wel-worn paths are
aversed again-passon and prondity clashing with
whimscaty and humour inner conviction serenely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
A Collection of Aphorisms
That Proves an Old Point

chiselled excellent phrases,
but his book is hardly for
continuous reading.
There is a degree of toler-
ance", he observes acutely,
that borders on insult"
Static morale is the hard
thing. 1t is easier to lead men
to death than to help them
to live where they are" 1T
is the destiny of every war
eventually to seem less neces-
sary than at the moment it
was agreed on" Writing:
the only way of stirring
others without being bothered
by a face"
ITO be very honest" says
Rostand, II think there is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
READING AND WRITING
Marvellous Motriorch,
Napoleon S Mother
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

No arresng character has been chosen for study
Monica Stirling has picked champion subject for
biography the mother of Napoleon MADAME LAETIZIA"
Harper; So is noble character MON" but marvellous
matarch who at every turn urged her eagle favorte
son to soar higher
Nine. Laetizia, Nine. Mere as she was called when
Napoleon was Emperor not only acted with equity COM
mon sense magnanmity" she expressed herself with
pungency and purity that possible for her sensible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11


programs with music of con-
temporary English composers,
many eccentric, many admir-
able, none the least bit pop
ular. England, alas, has had
only one Frederick Delius.
Although to many Amer
leans Beecham stands for or
chestra concerts of Haydn,
Mozart, Berlioz, Sibelius, and
Handel arrangements, as we'll
as for acidulous controversy
and a sometimes Scabrous
wit, in reality the musical
side of Beecham's life and
personality was entwined
with the production of opera.
His career accounted for 2O3
productions and numberless
performances. When Joseph
and his son made up in 1910,
the father said "All right,
let's put on opera" He in
undated England in a flood
OF opera such as few cities,
except possibly Berlin and
Vienna, have ever expert
enced.
Mr.. Reid tells the in
credible story in detail. The
only major weakness of his
book is that he tires Of his
own knack for detail some
where between the two wars.
The latter part of Beecham's
life is given scant treatment
in a few pages. The Beecham
he shows us, perhaps the
last of the great creative
patrons of music for whom
music was an art, neither a
business nor even basically
a public service, deserves a
better end.
The book is filled with a
hundred vignettes of the
multiferouS cast of charac-
tiers that walked Sir Thomas
stage. Rather than cite a
number of short excerpts. I
prefer to quote a single one
at some length, in order to
show the style and flavor of
the writing:
"A big-boned man with a
hooked nose, tousled head
and grazing, evangelical
beard, Chapman joined
Beecham as a repetiteur at
His Majesty's in 1910 and
stayed with him until after
the war. At the rehearsal
piano he was omniscient, re-
spending with somnolent
promptitude to any and
every demand made upon a
memory which must have
been the equal of Beecham's S.
These talents made him,
after his fashion, indis-
penSable. But there also was
an eccentric squalor and hui
mility about the man that
invited patronage and per-
haps a little contempt.
"All the year round, Au-
gust and January alike, in
doors as we'll as out, he wore
an enormous black greatcoat
down to his heels, it's pockets
stuffed with half eaten
sandwiches, newspapers, I'M
opened pay packetS-he is
said to have carried any
thing up to $50 pounds
around with him habitually
and a couple of vocal
scores, say Figaro" on one
side, Butterfly" on the
other. Underneath the great
coat was a suit which, in the
phrase of one who worked
with him, looked slept in and
a century old. He had a
watch that was Enthusiastically
fast and called for esoteric
calculations; as likely as not,
2:2O am. meant 9:13 the
previous night. :"
"Somnolent proptitude!" If
you have seen many rehears-
al pianists. you know that the
description is precise.
4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11


pervious to the worlds mis-
understandings the incen-
tive for endless pot-boilers.
In such a melancholy state
of affairs, then, how the
pulse quickens during the
first 10 pages of Charles
Reid's biography of Sir
Thomas Beecham! "A lit
crate music critic!" you ex-
claim in disbelief, discovering
that Mr.. Reid is a music
writer for the London Daily
Mail, and has contributed
criticism to Punch, the Man
chester Guardian and the
Yorkshire Post. Here is a
book that is fresh, uncon-
ventional, unspoiled by hero
worship. full Of fact but not
pedantic, and as compelling
as any biography of recent
times.
Fifty years after the estab-
lishment of the Beecham pill
company, Joseph Beecham,
son Of the founder, enjoyed
one Of the most considerable
fortunes in England. At the
turn of the century both Jo-
seph and his 20-year-old son
Thomas stood poised to spend
many 100000 Of pill money
to reinState England to a
position in the world of music,
at least in the fields of opera
and symphony orchestra, she
had not held since the golden
age of Dowland and William
Byrd. Neither was yet aware
of his destiny. but both loved
music and were fired with
the delight of creating for
the benefit of the public.
In December, 1899, Joseph
engaged the great Halle Or
chestra of Manchester to
come to St. Helens, in Lam
caShire, to present a cere-
monial concert at his reinStal-
lation as Mayor of the little
town. Hans Richter was to
conduct. When the revered
conductor Cancelled his en-
gagement, young Tom offered
his services, remarking that
while he had no experience,
he knew the scores of the
announced program of Wag-
ner, Gounod, Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky, Delibes, Verdi
and Berlioz. Joseph gave him
the job. and Thomas Beecham
rehearsed and conducted the
concert successfully without
score. He was never to be
long off a podium during the
last so years of his life.
Il II
At first Thomas went his
flamboyant way largely with
out benefit of the Beecham
millions. Joseph had his wife
committed to an asylum,
from where she sued him for
divorce on the grounds of
adultery. She won her case,
and as Thomas and his sister
had sided with her, there en-
sued an estrangement from
Joseph and the parental gold
that lasted 10 years. Bee
cham had four orchestras
and two major opera COM
panieS to found during his
life, so there was little time
to mark-he must start at
once.
The Beecham Symphony
Orchestra that soon evolved
with the help of friends and
mothers alimony is thought
OF by some who remember it as
one of the liveliest and most
highly polished orchestras of
the century. With it, Bee
cham won the personal fol-
lowing of an entranced public
that he never lost through all
his later activities, but the Or
cheStra was not a great box
office success, since Beecham,
for whom the pleasures of re-
hearsal were the most impor-
tant function of the orches-
ira, determinedly loaded his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
THE SUBSTANCE OF MAN.
BY Jean Rostand. Double

AAG SOO5 hLNCC III NAEAANs
BY Jean RoStand. Double
day & Co.; $4.95)
This book by a famous BIZ
ologist, the son of the play
wright Edmond Rostand, is
a collection of aphorisms,
most only a sentence or two
long, reflecting on the mean
ing of life. The trouble with
a book of aphorisms is that
only one man, Nietzsche, has
ever been able to write one
in which the level of the best
is maintained throughout-in
which quality is not sacrificed
to quantity. M. Rostand has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial poee Of
The Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"The RothsehiIds, A
Fomily Portrait" by Frederic Nor
ton. (Atheneum.)
WEDNESDAY-"The Revolt Of
French Conodo 1900 1885," by
Helen loft Manning. lSt. Mortin's.l
FRIDAY-"VoIeonoes in History,
in Theory, in EruptioD," by Fred N.
BulIord. University 81 Texos Press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
Yankee Soldier Boy
4 YANKEE PRIVATE

4 1ANNEE FhIV r ,
CIVIL WAR, by Robert Hale
Strong, edited by Ashley
Halsey (Regnery; $3.50, is
the postwar account of the
war by an Illinois farm boy
who at age 10 trudged off
to fight with Sherman's bum
mers in the Atlanta cam
paign. Strong was one of the
more observant and articu-
late Yankee soldier-boys, and
his recollections make the
mud and blood seem close.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
He Wanted to Be
Another PereImun

NEVER TEASE A DINO
SAUR. BY Joseph F. Han
nan. (Holt, Rinehart &
Winston; $500
While the other kids
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
The Invasion
That Ended
The War
NIGHT DROP. BY S. L. A.
Marshall. (Atlantic-Little,
Brown. $3.50.

NIGHT DROP. BY S. L. A.
Marshall. (Atlantic-Little,
Brown; $3.50.
In the dark hours OF early
morning on June 6, 1914, the
82d and 101st Airborne
Divisions parachuted into the
Norman countryside behind
Utah Beach, one of the two
landing sites assigned to
United States forces in the
definitive invasion of Hitler's
Europe. Their mission was to
assure and ease the landing
and subsequent inward pas
sage of the VII Corps, due to
begin hitting the beach
shortly after daylight.
This book tells what the
men of the airborne divisions
did during their first few
days of combat, and is based
on the authors exhaustive
personal in terviews with
them not long after the &C
tons took place. 1t is not a
military history of red ar
rows and blue goose eggs, but
a dirt soldier account of the
"person-by-person ordeal"
which the author insists is
the true big Story. S. L. A.
Marshall has few peers at
writing this kind of Big
Story, and here he has
turned in a masterful exam
pie of it.
We meet a few outStand-
ing heroes, and we learn that
sometimes even these elite
American troops turned and
ran. or had to be booted in
the tail so they wouldn't.
Among the heroes who make
the strongest impressions are
1t. James OrWin of the 82d
and Sgt. Harrison Summers
of the 101St. Orwin helped
relieve a bog-down on a
critical causeway under en-
envy fire by lightly strolling
through 1t all with two red
roses stuck in his hair, I'M
der the bill of his knit cap;
a sergeant who witnessed the
reaction on the men said,
It's as If they're watching
Jesus Christ" Summers, act
ing alone or almost alone,
Tommy-gunned his way for
five hours through a COM
pick of German barracks
that was supposed to be the
target of a battalion: For
endurance, for sustained
courage hour after hour, and
for blessings from on high
which made his luck run i'm
mortally, his performance is
without parallel"
Mostly, however, Might
Drop" tells of Small-unit &C
lions as they usually oc-
CURED, without exceptional
heroics or villainy. What
comes through to the reader
time after time is the impre-
ciSion of what went on and
the instructive reactions of
officers and men sweating,
shooting, sobbing, swearing,
snoozing, sometimes Sinking,
and, always, killing and be-
ing killed in the middle Of
all the swirling uncertainty
of the hedgerowS and small
fields.
The maps in this book
could be better, and one
wishes that the author had
tried more to compare what
happened to what was sup
posed to have happened, but
even these shortcomings
probably contribute to the
readers Identification with
the average trooper who re-
the central subject of
this book. L. ]. LEGERE.
Col. Legere, U. S. Army,
lOaS a pGrdtrooper on June s,
1914, and made the jump
into Normandy. He is no,U
an assistant to Gen. MarUeH
TaULOr-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

nothing in the world as raw
ishing as a blue tree-frog."
1t is the genius of the en-
thusiaSt that makes the
reader want, deeply but mo-
mentarily, also to see M. Ros-
stands blue tree-frog.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
New VuiIIund Novel Is One
Of French Authors Best

heretofore classed themselves
as sophiSticates may find
after reading these few 179
pages that they are innocents
after all.
MARY FAITH WILSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
GENERAL

THE LYRICAL EXISTEN-
TlALISTS. BY Thomas
Hanna. (Atheneum; So
A study of the writings of
Kierkegaard, NietzSche and
CamuS. Mr.. Hanna is the
author of THE Thought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
CIR Sunday Star
WEEKLY BOOK SURVEY

The Sunday Star has arranged ,Dith some
OF the leading book sellers of Washington
and suburban areas to report each week
the books Which sell best as guide to
Dhdt Washington IS reading. The num-
berS represent the rank of each book
among best sellers at the store named.
For Week Ending March 9, 1862
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
PAPER BACKS

HARVEST ON THE DON.
BY Mikhail Sholokhov. CA
Signet Book; rs cents)
The latest novel by one of
RuSSia's most foremost
writers, it is a story of So
cial revolution and its i'm
pact on the dynamic Co.'S
sacks, the fiercely individ-
ualiStic peasants of the Don
country.
WHITMAN: A Collection of
Critical Essays. Edited by
Roy Harvey Pearce. Gwen
tieth Century Views. Prem
tice Hall; $1.95.)
THE CRUSADES. By Richard
SuSkind. (Ballantine Books;
so centsO A modern history
of the cruelest wars of con-
quest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

and much more in the field
of personal finance.
THE SCIENCES AND THE
ARTS. BY Harold Comes
Cassidy. (Harper; $4.75O
Harold Comes Cassidy,
Professor of Chemistry at
Yale University, examines
the causes of common mis-
understanding between hui
maniStS and scientists, and
suggests a program to heal
what Arnold Toynbee has
called the "schism of the
soul" that has separated
our educated into two cul-
lures.
Arizona sun., 1962-04-19
Negro Leaders
(Continued from page u

CONTINUED from page u 4
with the employment service. the
employment officials said.
They added that federal regu-
lations forbid them to handle an
employer order for workers il the
order specifies a particular race.
They said they hold regular
meetings with state welfare, off
cials to alert them to job posi-
bilities for relief recipients. But
they said they did not advise Pat
terSon that the electromagnetic
openings in question we're for
whites only.
The Republic was unable to
reach Patterson or Mrs. Clark for
comment last night. But Mr..
Brooks said he talked with Mrs.
Clark earlier. He said she alb
solved Patterson and accepted
responsibility for the whites-only
qualification as an error on her
part.
Brooks said Mrs Clark v0uch-
ed for the accuracy of her memo
in all other respects but that an
employment official subsequently
told him that the job openings in
question actually were at a plant
other than the one mentioned in
the memo.
Employment officials told The
Republic that this apparent con-
tradiction could be readily ex-
planned because both plants we're
seeking assembly workers at the
time. y
but we wonder" said Mr..
Brooks, ''if we have discovered a
Iong-standing discriminatory pract-
ice perpetuated by word Of mouth
until Mrs. Clark happened to be
the one who inadvertently put it
in writing" 81 i
Regarding the NAACP request
for investigation Of all agencies
involved, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen.
Clark Kennedy said the attorney
generals office cannot investigate
another state agency in the alb
sence of clear evidence of a vio-
Ilation of state law by the agency.