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Claude Bowers Saw America Chonqe

were the two great Presidents
since Lincoln. Quite sorrow
fully he wrote of the 1924
convention which through
pickering threw its chances
OF winning the presidency
that year.
Brought to Life
Political figures who
passed from the scene long
ago come to life in the papers
of Mr.. Bowers last book.
One also meets many not
directly concerned with poll
itics. There is an unforget-
table chapter on Theodore
Dresser and fitting in and
out of the pages are the late
Ernest Hemingway and
other writers; opera singers;
newspaper editors and re-
porters and a host of Others.
Mr.. Bowers died at 79,
years before he had finished
MY Life" His daughter Pa
tricia completed the book
with a final chapter entitled
Postscript" made up Of ex-
cerpts taken from his diary
from the time he returned to
the United States after COM
pleting 20 years of diplomatic
service, the last IA as Am
baSsador to Chile. The ex-
cerpts have been selected
with discrimination and af-
ford a fitting tribute to a busy
man who remained busy un-
til the end of his life.
CECIL HOLLAND.
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never do such a thing" the
boys mother insists as she
presses the case on Jesse.
What else could a mother
say? he asks. But parent or
no, Harry's mother is right.
First rate. BY the author Of
THE Borrowed Alibi" and
"Case for Appeal"
AGAINST THE EVIDENCE.
BY Lester Egan. (Harper g.
Row; $500
LIKE LOVE. BY Ed McBain.
(Simon g. Schuster; $500
April was lovely that year,
but Detective Steve Carella
had trouble telling after a
young girl jumped from a
ledge with a push from his
misapplied psychology. Then
two more suicides. a seeming
love pact, come to light. But
while the first is clear cut,
the others aren't, and Carella
is sure some one is getting
away with murder. Mr.. Nc
Bain's skill in evoking his
city, the detectives in the
87th precinct, those they help
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THE FAMILY LETTERS OF

THE FAMILY LETTERS OF
SAMUEL BUTLER: Sc
lected, edited, and intro
duced by Arnold Silver.
university of Stanford
Press; $6.50D
During the two years be-
fore his death in 1902, Sam
uel Butler arranged his vol
luminous correspondence Of
more than 1000 letters in
16 manuscript volumes,
and left it to await its edi-
tor. Not much Of it has
since appeared in print. AS
a matter of fact. today all
but two of Buffers many
books might as well never
have been published, for
other than "Erewhon" and
The Way of All Flesh" they
are familiar only to the
scholar or the devoted But
lerian. Professor Silver in
the present volume has Sc
lected from the family cor
respondence of Butler 100
letters chosen for their in
terest primarily for the lover
of THE Way of All Flesh
the great Victorian novel
that is part autobiography,
part art, and all life.
Professor Silver says that
the collection, which con-
tains letters from 1841 when
Butler was 6 to 1886, the
year of his fathers death,
is a miniature biography Of
the major part of Buffers
life" Probably the statement
is misleading. There burned
a particular hatred between
Butler and his father and
all members of his imme-
diate family. Propriety and
convention kept this hatred
concealed for the most part,
but repression Of animosity
and the conflict between the
bonds Of consanguinity and
the bitterness of mutual dis
like, even contempt, make
Buffers letters home atyp-
ical, showing only a single
aspect Of his personality -
at least II they do not. but
are representative Of his let
ters TO friends or strangers.
Samuel Butler is an enigma,
a more interesting study
than even Ernest Pontifex.
his fictional alter ego. What
the present collection gains
in compression and unity II
loses In universally. II is
fascinating TO see Butler
throughout the years drawn
TO the man with whom he
had no tie but blood. but II
is not biography we are read
ing so much as the history
OF q disease.
Buffers father. Canon OF
Lincoln Cathedral, a learned
and intelligent man. spent
his life trying TO dominate
his children. II he imagined
himself failing. he tried 10
break them. The attempt was
probably unconscious. When
young Sam refused 10 study
for the ministry, his father.
protesting an open mind In
considering attentive voca-
tions, In fact ridiculed and
belittled every suggestion,
and would have destroyed the
self-confidence OF a weaker
son. He promised and with
drew aid tantalizing a boy
who. whatever his failings,
had the ability to make q
small fortune raising sheep
IN New Zealand - money
which II he had been able
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Morris Ernst Rides Life
For All It's Worth

UNTITLED The Diary Of My 72nd BY Morris L. Ernst
(Robert B. Luce, Inc; $4.950
In his 72d year, Marris L. Ernst lifelong battler for
individual freedom lived fully in New York and Nantucket
thought broadly about the law commented pontedy the
timeS-and wrote the second volume of his diary
The result is continuing chronicle of energetic,
provocative, very human An earlier diary volume,
"Touch Wood" was published in 1860
II enjoy most and hence envy he writes in the latest
volume, "the eapng minds-the hurdling ideas the
cusions which arrive without mans ability to tell in simple
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Deudly Sins
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

HE SEVEN DEhDLI SANSs
morrow; $500 A collec-
ton OF essays on the Seven
Deadly Sins by Angus VIII
son, Edith Sitwell. Cyril
Connolly. Patrick Leig h
Fermor. Evelyn Waugh.
Christopher Sykes and w.
H. Auden. originally fea-
tured in the London Sun
day Times.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
BOOKS IN REVIEW .'
LomPeduso's Stories
A Varied Legacy
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

TWO STORIES AND A MEMORY, by Giuseppe d Lampe-
dusa with Foreword by M Forster. Translated from
the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. pantheon Books
$395)
When Giuseppe di Lampedusa died in 1857 he left not
only the unpublished novel THE Leopard but also notes for
lectures French literature recoecons of childhood
short story and the first chapter of second novel, 1t is too
to tell whether not THE Leopard" will achieve
permanent place among the best books of the twentieth
Evening star., 1962-12-16
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Meet q Bold New Hero
In Detective Fiction
BY BETTY MILES
Star staff Writer

Lawyer Jesse Falkensen in Of the most impressive
new heroes in detective fiction His penchant is the quiet
demolition of open shut In this instance feeble
minded operator of office building newsstand charged
with the murder of dentists young assistant anc damaging
evidence makes IL ronclad couldn't Harry he'd
Evening star., 1962-12-16
M. Debussy
In Fact
And Fable
CLAIR DE LUNE. BY Pierre

CLAIR DE LUNE. BY Pierre
La Mure. (Random House;
$3.50
Works Of fiction in which
the central figure is a COM
poser are so rare that among
major contemporary novels
only two examples come cas-
lily to mind: "Jean Cristophe"
and "Dr. Faustus." Novelists
must shy away from the
compoSer-hero because they
realize the difficulty first of
comprehending, then of de-
scribing the creative process
by which such a hero's life
would be dominated. Even
more formidable problems
face the writer who attempts
a fictional realization of a
non-fictional composer, as
Pierre La Mure does in this
romantic novel about Claude
Debussy.
On the score Of superficial
reliability the author has
no problems. He re-creates
the composers domestic mi
lieu brilliantly. We eagerly
await the outcome of each
early encounter and later
quarrel with Gaby; we vince
at poor Lily's gaucheries.
And certainly La Mure's in
depreciation of Debussy's al
legedly cruel attitude toward
the women in his life is valid
both dramatically and psy-
chologically.
Not So Simple
But whenever the author
attempts a discussion of the
actual process of compost
ton he simply falls flat on
his face. There is so much
more to it than hearing per-
fectly formed phrases in
ones mind and rushing for a
sheet of music paper.
La Mure'S main problem
seems to be a basic indeci-
sion about just what kind of a
book he is writing. The phrase
Novel based on the life
of -" is usually another
name for the form that used
to be called "fictionalized
biography" until fictional-
izing biographers went too
far and fell out of favor.
In which category exactly
does the author think the
book belongs? Fiction or
non-fiction? He is working as
a novelist when he supplies
as facts what are really only
logical guesses about un-
known quantities in DebuS-
sy's life (e.g., the exact cna-
ture Of his relations with
Nine. VaSnier). He is assert
ing his status as a novelist
when he overrules known
facts (e.g., he has Debussy
writing and performing the
wedding march requested by
Pierre Louys, which is dra-
matically more satisfying
than the fact that he was
actually prevented by ILL
health from filling the COM
mission).
Nervous FOOtnOtes
Yet the biographer in La
Mure insists on inserting a
succession of distracting and
somehow nervous footnotes
that either add extra infor-
nation or else point out the
sources of random incidents.
1t is as though the author
wanted to be sure that the
reader knew there was plenty
of research involved. Nor
does his skill as a novelist
last him the length Of the
book. He produces a mass of
detail and dialogue to create
a complete, e-dimensional
Gaby. But in zooming
through the later, marvel
ously productive period Of
Debussy's life 1--WE cover
IA years in Al pagesD he
treats the second Nine. De-
busy so casually that the
poor lady remains an abso-
Lutte blank in the readers
mind. At this point, there
fore, 1t ceases to matter
whether the author is writing
fiction or biography, since
this lack Of balance is equally
poor technique in either
form. RUTH HUME.
Evening star., 1962-12-16


century, as many Of its
admirers predict, but there
is little question that 1t will
ensure an eager and curious
audience for anything else
Lampedusa's literary execu-
tors can discover.
The three pieces that COM
prise the present volume are
entirely different from each
other, although all are from
the last years of the writer's
life. When his family palace,
inherited through centuries.
was destroyed by bombs dur
ing the last war, Lampedusa's
sense of loss was far more
than mere sorrow over
property. The palazzo in
Palermo and the summer
residence in Cuto were as
intensely a spiritual part OF
Lampedusa's childhood as the
hotel at Balbec was Of
Proust's. Lampedusa's wife,
a pSychoanalist, urged her
husband to write as a thera-
peutic measure to alleviate
his nostalgia, and the vivid
and affecting memories are
the first fruits of the Princes
occupation as writer.
The last piece in the book
cannot be of great intrinsic
interest, for as the begin
ming of a new novel, perhaps
a sequel to THE Leopard" it
has little structure and less
development. 1t deals with
a new-rich Italian peasant
family OF the turn OF the
century.
The centerpiece Of the
volume is complete and per-
fect-a long short-story in
which the spirit of classic
Greece finds rebirth in the
twentieth century, not meta
phorically but, spirit made
flesh, actually and carnally.
The old professor is bril-
liantly conceived - learned,
cynical, a bit dirty, arrogant,
Self-centered, but curiously
magnetic to the young news
paperman who is drawn to
him in a cafe where each
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
A-LA-HELOISE
HELOIsE's HOUsEKEEP-
ING HINTS. BY Heloise.
prentice Hall: $3.950

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gummy2 Want TO remove
scorch from white shirts,
clean the inside OF your
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from tangling In the wash
ing machine2 For the first
time, Heloise (whose column
appears weekly In The
Sunday STAR has set down
In one volume some OF her
best shortcuts and solutions
for these and almost every
type OF housekeeping prob
lem. Arranged for quick,
easy reference, this is a
good gift book for today's
housewife who is expected
TO be a jane-of-all-trade
IN. Z.
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This Illustration from SIN WdneSs
Sierra Club presentation selections
Far than Recommendation of Thoeau
temporary collaboration the world of American
brought out memoraby and wildly In Wdness - already
its second printing featured in the
Heritage with six pages Of color plates. ($2O)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-10
Bay State Scandals

It was inevitable that politics would
move rapidly to the forefront of the
House hearings on Federal-aid highway
scandals in Massachusetts,, for Massa-
chusettS is an enticing hunting ground
for Republican members of the investi-
eating subcommittee. To date, how
ever, their complaints over the conduct
OF the inquiry have been decidedly of
the minor-league variety.
An example was the ruckus kicked
up by Republicans Cramer of Florida
and Scherer of Ohio, when the Demo-
cratic subcommittee chairman refused
to let them break in for questions until
the subcommittee counsel had finished
his examination of witness. This may
not have been friendly but it hardly
ranks as major case of "muzzling."
Nor are the Republicans on very
firm ground in demanding that the
Massachusetts hearings be extended, at
least at this time, beyond the general
area OF land-acquisition practices. The
course followed during the entire high
way inquiry, according to subcommittee
officials, has been to look at various
States in terms of separate aspects of
the Federal-aid program -. categories
such as construction, contracting and
rights-of-way acquisition. They turned
to Massachusetts, for the land acquisi-
ton phase after the Federal Bureau of
Public Roads, early in 1860, uncovered
abuses and suspended rights-of-way
ACCOMPLISHMENTS in mat State. Accord
ingly, they say, subcommittee investi-
gators have concentrated their attention
largely on that subject during their
15-month probe in Massachusetts,.
All the same, it is hard to believe
that Democrats are champing at the
bit over the prospect of damning i'm
portant State officials who are virtually
all Democrats, and whose jobs for the
most part are up for grabs this year.
Furthermore, Massachusetts, is the home
State of both the President and House
Speaker Mccormack, and State where
close relatives of both are politically
active.
Subcommittee Chairman Blatnik, as
good Democrat, can scarcely be I'M
aware of these things. And they place
on his shoulders considerable respon-
Sibility to make certain that the skull
duggery uncovered by his investigators
is dealt with in an uncompromisingly
nonpartiSan manner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-10
Research Spending

Although a Virginian for
many generations I am not
a total admirer of Senator
Harry F. Byrd. However, I
do see eye-to-eye with him
in his position regarding the
proposed appropriation of
$1.201, 1926 to find out "why
baby monkeys love their
mothers" If the Govern
ment is troubled and puzzled
concerning ways to spend the
taxpayers money, I suggest
that it might be more re-
warding to spend this amount
in research on puppy love-"
The loose use of the word
research" to cover a multi
tude of questionable activities
is getting to be absurd. In
fact it is absurd already.
Cynic.
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made specific corrections when told to
do so by the FAA, the management of
the airline did not make satisfactory
efforts on their own to improve the
overall operation and maintenance
standardS"-in fact, that they "con-
doned" substandard practices.
Imperial has closed down all opera
lions as result of the tragedy. But the
public will want to know whether proper
action has been taken to insure that all
other aircraft transporting military
personnel, or the public at large for
that matter, are free of the incredible
and inexcusable deficiencies and haz-
ards which sent IA Army men to their
deaths last November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-10
Recalled Envoys

In reference to your Janu-
airy 81 article headed Fired
ENJOYS on Way Home" I
would like to comment con-
corning the former Ambassa-
dor of Morocco and his COL
leagues:
The former Ambassador of
Morocco, Mr.. El-Mehdi Ben
Aloud has been recalled. His
action has been judged by
the Moroccan government as
an act Of INSTRUMENTATION.
He delayed his stay in
Washington, D. c. for per-
sonal reasons which actually
have nothing to do with the
so-called refusal of the Mo-
roccan government to grant
return fares for its diplo-
mats"
Moreover, this refusal" of
the Moroccan government
boils down to the ordinary
administrative difficulties en-
countered by all diplomats
who have been abroad for a
long time, and, as a result
of this fact, have accumu-
lated many personal belong
ingS.
AisSa BenchekrOun,
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy
of Morocco.
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Bre1k With Cuba

The fact that Argentine President
Frondizi yielded to military pressure in
Severing diplomatic relations with Cuba
diluteS what otherwise would be very
welcome development. Even so, there is
reason for qualification in the direction
events have taken since the Punta del
Este meeting.
A variety of explanations we're Of
fered when Argentina and five other
Latin American countries abstained on
the successful vote to GUST Cuba from
the GAS. One was that strong pro-CaS-
tro sentiment within those countries
made it too risky for them to join in the
two thirds vote for exclusion. In other
words, these governments were yielding
to pressure from leftiSt elements within
their countries. If that was the case
with Argentina at Punta del Este, how
ever, some of the curse is removed from
the fact that Mr.. Frondizi now feels it
necessary to yield to pressure from his
anti-CaStro military leaders. And this
view finds reinforcement in the fact
that, at least to this time, there has been
no serious adverse reaction to the sever
ing of relations Reports from Buenos
Aires state that the Argentines in the
capital city received the news apatheti-
cally.
Additional encouragement may be
drawn from statement this week by
Senator Alfonso Arinos de Melo Franco,
Rrazil's chief delegate to the United Ma
tons. Brazil, like Argentina abstained on
the vote to exclude Cuba from the OAS
But Brazil, with Cuba excepted, joined
all of the GAS countries, including Ar
gentina, in condemning the Castro
brand of communism which has been
enthroned in Havana. In his statement
at the UN., Senator de Melo Franco re-
iterated his governments view that the
Castro regime is incompatible" with
the political ideals of the Western Henri
sphere, and made it quite clear that
Brazil's abstention on the exclusion vote
was based on doubt as to the legal cor
rectnesS of that procedure.
= These may be relatively minor
Straws in the wind. But we think they
encourage the belief that the United
States emerged with enhanced rather
than diminished prestige from Punta
del Este, and also that most If not all of
the six abStaining countries may yet
come around to the view that the GAS
Is better off with Communist Cuba
barred from membership
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-10
Welfare Frauds

What an astounding per-
centage that of 20 relief cases
investigated here, II were
found to be fraudulent. 1t
pleaSes me to learn that the
welfare people are coming
to grips" with unethical and
downright dishonest welfare
recipients. Obviously such
frauds have no honor. dig
nifty or self-respect and they
deserve the treatment they
are getting. There are plenty
of jobs available right here
for both men and women-a
cursory check of the want
ads in any newspaper in a
metropolitan area will prove
this. These frauds will just
have to learn that there is
no substitute for honest
labor.
You simply cannot make
people work under our sys-
tenn of government. In Rus
STA they are eXiled to Sibe-
rian labor camps where they
must work or else starve, and
yet we cannot let them starve
to death here. There should
be a plan to deal with frauds
who won't work.
AS for the children of these
frauds, we just cannot let
them starve. They are
blameless and helpless, and
pitiful victims of their par
ents' stupidity, Incidence and
greed. To protect these chill
dren I would advocate a
weekly grocery credit of $40
to insure basic nutriment.
This program could be easily
supervised to discourage any
fraudulent practices.
So far as adults are con-
cerned, if they won't work we
cannot let them starve, or
possibly drive them to crime.
We could establish soup
kitchens or coffee shops, all
with a very limited menu,
where these indolent peo-
pie would have to stand in
line to get food or face the
alternative of starving. They
would soon realize it is better
to get a job and eat where,
when and what they choose.
Lillian Sinclair Large.
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sidered essential to human
health and special attention
has been given them. Two of
these, lysine and methionine,
already are being manufac-
tured in bulk and used as
food supplements.
The fats and fatty acids in
food products have all been
identified and synthesized.
There is, as yet, insufficient
evidence of human require
ments for them. All the sim
pier carbohydrates - espe-
cially glucose, levulose, lac
tose and sucrose-have been
made synthetically, but they
are so readily available that
there has been little further
investigation.
Most of the colors and
flavors used in the food proc
essing industry as well as
those sold for household use,"
says the report, NOW are
made synthetically because
they can be produced in
greater variety and more
cheaply than from natural
sources. It would be possible
to add all the minor con-
stituentS and duplicate the
natural flavors exactly. In
1857 the production If syn
thetic colorS and flavors in
the United States amounted
to As million pounds.
Uniform Amino Acids
1.-THE body requires the es-
sential amino acids in a def
mite proportion which may
differ considerably from the
proportions of these in the
proteins of natural foods. If
one amino acid is deficient it
limits the utilization of the
whole and a human being
could starve to death in an
abundance of essential nu-
trients if only a single one
should be lacking complete
ly." This would not happen
with synthetic foods.
To feed million persons,
DR.. Mcpherson estimates, the
synthetic food industry would
have to produce at this rate
annually: carbohydrates.
370,0n0 tons, fats 10000 tons,
proteins $4,000 tons. In ad"
dition, production Of all the
essential vitamins would be
required. The principal raw
materials for the synthesis of
the essential amino acids
would be either coal or pc
troleum, nitrogen from the
atmosphere and sulfur from
mineral sources.