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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
An American College
Through British Eyes
NOW BLESS THYsELF. By

NOW BLESS THYSELF. BY
Elizabeth Sewell. Double
day; $3.50
A young English poet, still
suffering from the shock of
a disastrous marriage, comes
to America for a years res
ldency at a mid-WeStern
State university. The campus
she finds, Is adjacent to the
campus of a small Catholic
college. The circle that
quickly forms around the
visitor - and involves her
sympathies to an exhausting
degrees composed of stu
dents from both institutions.
The author, who is herself
a distinguished poet, writes
with warmth and beauty, and
her heroine is a woman of
great appeal. Beauty of prose
and character, unfortunately.
are not enough to make a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
GOING TO PARIS?
LET THIS GUIDE
YOU STRAIGHT
LIFE GUIDE TO PARIS.

LIFE GUIDE TO PARIS.
published by Time, Inc,
in association with
American Express, $4.950
Perhaps the best thing
that could be said of q
guide book to anywhere is
that a person should have
one even though he isn't
going there.
Such a book is the new
Life Guide to Paris" In
content and presentation it
is one Of the most out
standing publications Of
its kind and its profuse IL
Illustrations help take it far
out Of the ranks Of the
routine travel guides.
CHARLES YARBROUGH
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A Time Of Awakening Life
To Be Endured by All

but young in experience. His
knowledge Of sex has been
exclusively from physiology
and poetry books. The whole
subject comes achingly alive
for him when he meets his
aunt" Leonie, q 27-year-old
mink who lives with his aging
Uncle Patrick on q Sussex
apple farm.
The summer he spends
with them is for Walter a
series Of ethical and sensu-
GUS shocks. Leonie has a dog
named Remus whom she
treats like a person and loves
better than anyone. She
knows no poetry and never
heard of Christian charity.
She flirts automatically with
Walter, and Walter progress
Ses from knightly worship to
more earthly designs.
AdOlescent Turmoil
Walter Is lordly and child
like by turns, and almost
consistently ludicrous. He
learns from Leonie how to
kiss and how to lie. Nothing
in his public-school education
has taught him how to cope
with the feelings Leonie
arouSes in him nor the prob
lens attendant ON his deter
mination, once having dis
covered she Is not really his
uncle's wife, to marry her.
MIR. Balchin records the
turmoil In humorous, literate
unsparing prose, which cap
lures all the tremors and
abSurditieS Of what he calls
"the messy complications of
adolescence"
Seen Dimly Before Dawn"
Is slightly reminiscent in
theme Of L. P. Hartley's
gentler 1.-THE Go-Between."
The major role Of the dog
recalls Jan Godden's "a Win
ter's Tale" But, as we said,
EngliShmen know there is
nothing new under the sun,
and it all depends on the
writer. M. MEG.
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Mr.. Vidal "the good grey
goose of the Times" and
Thornton Wilder is "as
pleasure-giving and mind
withholding as all the other
cocker-SpanielS who prance
about Times Square, tails
wagging and eyes glowing
with love-"
Terrifying Tolerance
Mr.. Vidal as q social
thinker is perhaps more
entertaining than he Is pro-
found. He is subjective, some
times spiteful and sometimes
eager to shock. He Is always
readable. His title is we'll
taken. He says, wanting to
rock the boat, there being so
few satirists at work-that
there is "a profound toler-
ance in the land, a
tolerance so profound that it
is not in its effect entirely
unlike terror"
There is g rather self
conscious appendix, which
adds nothing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
U. Foreign
PoIicyStonds
Well Defined
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
YOU. By Andrew Berding.
doubleday; $4.500

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
YOU. By Andrew Berding.
doubleday; $4.500
For 80 years Andrew Berd-
ing has been trying to make
foreign policy more under
Standable to the American
public. He has been a foreign
correspondent. q State De-
partment reporter, and later
Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Affairs under the
Eisenhower administration.
Now that he is out Of
office, Mr.. Berding has not
given up this vocation. His
books subtitle is How Amer
lean Foreign Policy Is Made
and What 1t Means to You"
And it sums up well, what is
in this 262-page volume.
Useful Guide
Mr.. Berding has written a
useful layman'S guide to
foreign policy. He has taken
the reader within the con-
fines of the State Depart
ment, and has shown him
how each echelon from the
Secretary OF State to the
ambassador abroad does his
job. He has supplied several
anecdotes from his long
career which enliven the
often dry presentation. Of
facts.
His observations on some
policy decisions are quite re-
vealing. For example, as a
public affairs adviser, he feels
the whole U-2 incident was
miserably handled. Mr..
Berding says by shouldering
responsibility for the flight,
Mr.. Eisenhower made a tragic
mistake.
Had the Government with
held comment on the U-2,
Mr.. Berding believes it would
have been quickly forgotten,
and the summit conference
not ruined.
He concludes with a plea
for more Americans to take
an active role in foreign
affairs, and he offers a few
suggestions how to do it.
Obviously, the first step is
to stay abreast of foreign
policy and Mr.. Berding's bool
provides a good description
Of how such policy is made
BERNARD GWERTZMAr
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CouIdn'tWin
And Wouldn't Lose

not going to remain aloof to
the struggle but MacArthur's
intelligence chief. Gen. VIII
loughby. pooh-poohed the
masSiveness of the interview
ton.
Then came the march out
Of frozen Chosin Reservoir
by the Marines and the long
retreat south. When spring
came, the bloody struggle re-
sumed again and the only
thing that could have broken
the tie would have been all
out war on our part, includ-
ing bombing of the Chinese
cities behind the Yalu sane
tuary.
AS it was, Macarthur was
fired by Truman and the
battlefront surged back and
forth in a desperate strug-
gle. 1t was difficult for the
American troops to dedicate
themselves to a war they
would not be allowed to win.
Yet they fought and when
the truce was finally signed
at Panmunjom, the 9th Army
was as fine and brave a
group Of men as has ever
worn uniform.
Young Veterans
Perhaps. If American gain
ed nothing else from the
Korean War, it did acquire a
pool Of young veterans with
experience in fighting the
Communists. 1t also demon
Strated that there is a line
beyond which the Com
muniSts may go only at their
peril and it exploded any
belief that soft" Americans
cannot contend with Oriental
armies on their own home
grounds.
Mr.. Leckie, an accomplish
ed novelist, comes Of age as
a historian in this book. His
conclusion Is that the war
also proved that it is pos
sible to repel an invader
without totally destroying
him and, further, that the
total war concept is no long
er possible without mutual
self destruction.
OF Korea he writes: "It
was here that Communism
suffered its first defeat. That
was the only victory pos
Sible."
JERRY OLEARY, JR.
Mr.. O'Ledry, notD q major
in the Marine Corps Reserue
and a veterGn of World War
II, tDaS recalled to dctiue duty
early in 1851 and SeTUed in
Korea tDith the 1St Marine
Diuision for 10 months
through the second Dinter of
the campaign. He has re-
Uiei0ed scores of books about
both tDdrS for The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29

. u u ~ ~ AVA ~ Il DEE OnE
DAWN. BY Nigel Balchin.
(Simon & Schuster: $3.750
Englishmen do not need
new themes for their novels.
The old ones serve them very
well. A stylish account of
adolescent love by Nigel
Balchin proves the point. The
tone and the technical bril-
lance make the subject seem
new.
Mr.. Balchin, being English
does not Sentimentalize or
agonize over the awakening
adolescent. The teen-ae cult
has not caught on in Enela
where the years between
twelve and twenty are re-
garded as a time Of life to be
endured by all concerned.
Hero and Narrator
Walter Parrish is both the
hero and narrator Of Seen
Dimly Before Dawn" and he
is a beguiling creation. He
is at Is, large for his age,
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PAPERBACKS

GREENER FIELDS. By Al
ice Marriott. Dolphin
Book, Doubleday, 95 cents.)
A personal account Of the
authors experiences among
the American Indians Of
today. (Reprint.)
THE RELUCTANT SUR
GEON. BY John Kobler.
Dolphin Book, Doubleday;
$1.450 The biography Of
John Hunter, the 18th CEN
fury London physician who
was called "the founder of
Of scientific surgery" and
the Shakespeare Of medi-
cine" (Reprint.)
BLAND BEGINNINGS. By
Julian Symons. Dolphin
Book, Doubleday; 95 cents)
Mr.. Symons, the detective
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successful novel. Although
Miss Sewell holds up and
examines a number Of fas-
cinating aspects of American
campus life, she does not
come to grips with any of
them. except one small episode
in a rather pathetic teen
age triangle. Her most in
teresting characters an ex-
Communist professor and a
scholarly priest-are never
allowed full development. The
book is worth reading, how
ever. for its view of an Amer
lean college as seen through
the friendly If bewildered
eyes of so civilized a visitor
as Miss Sewell's lovely her.
oine.
RUTH HUME.
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Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

story critic for the London
Times, offers an absorbing
mystery spiced with humor
and thrills.
THE HUNTING OF THE
BUFFALO. BY e. Douglas
Branch. Olson Book, Uni
versity Of Nebraska Press;
$1.40) The saga Of the
laundering herds Of bison
that once roamed the Great
Plains Of America. Gre
print.)
THE LONDON TIMES
COOKERY BOOK. Com
piled by the Times Publish
ing Co., Inc. Dolphin
Book, Doubleday; 95 cents)
English, Spanish. Ameri-
can, French and Italian
recipes for both the novice
and the skilled cook.
THE HIGH CRUSADE. BY
Poul Anderson. Dolphin
Book, Doubleday: IS cents0
A science fiction novel
about an alien spaceship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
RobertLoWeII
Early Poet
Of 7 rudition
ROBERT LOWELL, THE

ROBERT LOWELL, THE
FIRST TWENTY YEARS.
BY Hugh B. Staples. Far-
rar, Strauss g. Cudahy;
$3.50
"a great role in history
with an astoniShingly high
level, generation after gener-
alton, Of intellectual compe-
tence and achievement"
So speaks Denis Brogan Of
the Adams family Of Mas
sachusetts. With qualifica-
ton the description might
also apply to the MaSsachu-
sets family Of the brilliant
contemporary poet, Robert
Lowell. Earlier generations
produced, among others.
James Russell Lowell and
Amy Lowell.
Defied Reality
Aside from family tradi-
ton a further comparison
may be made between Robert
Lowell and Henry Adams,
author Of the literary auto
biography, 1.-THE Education Of
Henry Adams" Each con-
demned his New England
heritage. To Adams it was
the failure Of the 18th CEN
tury mind for q man who
lived into the Goth century.
To Lowell it was q failure to
endow him for reality itself.
Yet. like Henry Adams,
Robert Lowell has progressed
from his cenSure of New Eng
land to artistic achievement
that now in his 45th year is
being recognized as part of
New England's great tradi-
ton.
Full Scale Study
The value Of this brief,
108-page book by Hugh Sta
Piles. assistant professor Of
English at the University Of
California, is that 1t is the
first full-scale Introductory
study Of this important
American poet. Both ex-
perienced readers Of Robert
Lowell and new readers will
find guidelineS. Moreover,
the poems references to his
tory and myth, and to To-
Gales in the poets own life,
are conveniently explained.
Mr.. Staples traces Low
ellis rebellion against reality
in the early volume Of po-
ems, Land of UnlikeneSS, "
to his growing intimacy with
reality in succeeding VOL
umes. Lord Weary's Cas-
tle," "The Mills Of the Kav-
anaughs" and Life Studies"
The last three volumes have
been made available in both
hard and paper back editions.
Robert Lowell's transla-
tons Of 10 European poets
from Homer to PaSternak are
announced for publication in
this country later this year.
They are entitled "Imita-
tons"
MARY FAITH WILSON
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
He Could Make 'Drot'
A Four-Letter Word
BY DAY THORPE.
Star Book Critic

W. C. FIELDS: HIS FOLLIES AND FORTUNES. BY Robert
Lewis Taylor. Doubleday; $450)
Every that is born into this world alive either for
w. C. Fields for Charlie Chaplin What pleasure the latter
group viii find in Robert Lewis Tayors biography OF Fields
not in position to say the former viii Immediately
recognize it Essential Book has its shortcomings
written in 1949 two after Fields DEATH and apparently
published book for the first time the frame Of
reference is not brought date Now in the text means
1949 and what happened to Of Fields friends is left
unsad conclusion interesting lawsuit to break
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
Mrs.HeIdCun
Reveal uLot
On HerOWn
THE BEWnDERED AGE.

NoA1s
By Virginia Held. CLARK
son N. Potter; 5000
1t can be interesting to
watch Mrs. Held sweep the
moral ills of our day under
the tag, bewildered. Unfor-
tunately, this tag does not
stand up beside best-Selling
labels of the past that in
clude the memorable status
seekers, organization men,
and lonely crowd.
Virginia Held has swept
into one container prevailing
symptoms Of moral sickness
in education, politics, foreign
policy even in the choice
Of ones life work. Every
where she finds value judg-
ments determining less and
less what should be done be-
cause objective standards Of
right and wrong have been
gnawed full of holes by
scientists and experts.
Mrs. Held obviously is in
telligent and informed. She
makes some telling points
about our general moral
decadence, but not without
pulling out quotes all along
the way from a multi-source
rag bag that includes Adlai
Stevenson, James Reston,
Walter Lippman, r. H. Taw-
ney, and Alfred Whitehead.
What this snappy lady has to
say is more interesting than
all her borrowings. If only
she would give us more that
is drawn from her own life
experience, rather than from
all her reading.
lima UHLIG.
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TOLERANCE IN THE LAND
The Time Has Come
To Rock the Boot
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

BOOKING THE BOAT. By Gore Vidal little Brown; $3.50
Gore Vidal the critic Is almost undone by Gore Vidal
the phraseaker In this collection of political literary and
theatrical he gets off many brilliant asdes they
often distract from the subject at hand
For instance, in sketch of the early Kennedy admin
istration he strikes off perfectly the White under
Eisenhower "cuiet in waiscoatS talking to each
other in ow-pitched voices"
Again, interview with Senator Goldwater, Is
memorable for longneeded direct hit the architecture
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
CONFLICT. THE HISTORY

CONFLICT. THE HISTORY
OF THE KOREAN WAR.
BY Robert Leckie. (G. P.
Putnam's Sons; $3.50
To those who were in it,
the Korean War seems as re-
cent as the last visit to the
dentist and much more pain
full. Only when the whole
panorama of that sanguine
and fruitless conflict is
chronicled In chapter and
verse, as Mr.. Leckie has done
most ably, does it come
sharply to mind that more
than IL years have passed
since the dreadful see-saw
war began.
If ever there was a Nation
with a tiger by the tail, it
was the United States when
the North Korean battalions
surged across the 38th paral-
lei on June 25, 1850. Its
the war we can't win, we
can't lose, we can't quit" as
one American soldier said
after the second retreat from
Seoul.
No Match For Early Reds
AS everyone knows, the
ROK army Of Syngman Rhee
melted before the Red on
slaught and the first under
strength, overfed, soft U. S.
division rushed over from
Japan was no match for the
North Koreans. The best
MacArthur's men could do
was slow down the rush to-
ward PuSan until other
American and UN forces
could arrive.
Slowly the tide turned and
then Macarthur struck his
master blow. one he had
been planning even when
things looked blacklist for the
Allies. He detached the 1st
Marine Brigade from the Pu-
san perimeter and sent it
ashore at mchon in the most
improbable amphibious land
ing Of all time. Some Of the
Marines in the landing had
come straight from the States
and the mudflats at Inchon
were nearly as much an i'm
pediment as the tides.
Our Inchon Attack
So audaciouS was the In
chon attack that the Reds
simply could not believe it
would take place even though
it was common gossip in ia
pan. With the capture of
Seoul a few days later, the
North Koreans were cut off
and they withered on the
vine, never again to take a
significant part in the war.
Mr.. Leckie's idea is that
MacArthur'S success here
went to his head and GER
tainly his intelligence failed
him when he sent the Ma
rines all the way around to
Wonsan on the east coast
while the rest Of the Eighth
Army headed north for thu
Yalu. It must have beer
plain that Red China was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
GENERAL

Five more volumes in
T.wayne's United States Au-
thors Series have been pub
iShed. These include the fol-
lowing titles at $3.50 each:
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS,
by Rudolf and Clara Kirk;
CONRAD AIKEN, by Freder-
lex j. Hoffman,; IONA
GALE, by Harold P. Simon
son; SARAH ORNE JEW
EFT, by Richard Carey and
WALT WHITMAN, by James
E. Miller, jr. Thirty-five vol
umes toward the full set of
$50 books in this major prof.
ect designed to promote an
understanding Of the Ameri-
can literary and cultural
heritage, will have been is
sued by the end of this year.
WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD
DICTIONARY, Elementary
Edition. (World Publishing
Co.; $4.500 Especially pre-
pared for young people in
Grades 4 to 8, this volume
provides simple and exact
definitions, and includes
current seize ntific and
technical terms, to aid
those in the formative
years Of writing and speak
ing.
RESTLESS NATIONS. Fore
word by Lester B. Pearson.
Dodd, Meade; $3.50 Rep
resenting points Of view
from all over the globe, a
group Of distinguished lead
ers in intern alto n Al
thought, study the political,
economic and educational
problems OF countries in
various stages Of develop
ment.
EMERGENCE OF THE MOD
ERN GULATORY
STATE. By James E. An
derson. public Affairs
Press; $4.500 A summary
and Interpretation of the
most meaningful aspects in
the emergence of the reg
ulatory state from 1887 to
1917.
FAITH AND REASON. By
James D. Roberts. Pho.
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TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be
reviewed on the editorial pose Of
The Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"My Lond and Ny
People," by His Holiness, the Dalai
Iona Of Tibet. (McGrow- HILL
WEDNESDAY-"The Two Foees
Of Toss" by Theodore E. KrusIok.
university Of Minnesota Press.)
FRlDAY-"The Stote Universities
and Democracy" by Allan NNinS.
university Of Illinois Press.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
IN FICTION

THE WATER AND THE
SOUND. BY Gillian Tindall.
(Morrow; $3.50
Impressive first novels seem
to be in plentiful supply these
days, but truly successful sec
ond novels are rare birds in
deed. This Is one Of them.
Nadia, a young English-bred
writer, returns to the Paris
Of her birth to investigate
the lives Of the famous par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29

christopher publishing
House; 49, A comparative
study Of Pascal, Bergson
and James.
Evening star., 1962-09-20
Moroccan Minister Honored

mediately after independence.
Kuwait, which has a pop
ulation of only 100000 but
which has some of the rich
est oil resources in the Middle
East, has the worlds highest
per capita income, and so can
well afford TO extend q help
ing hand toward its neigh
bors.
Another guest was Mr.. Hugh
jenkins, the director Of the
Foreign Students Service
Council. He said there are
$4,000 foreign students in
the United States. whereas
Lumumba University In Mos
COW has about 5000.
This university Is the. only
institution in the Soviet
Union which enrolls foreign
students from non-Iron Cur
tain countries.
Also present were Mr.. Cy-
rus Malikian, chairman Of
the American Mediterranean
Corp, and Mr.. Yacoub Tail
Farouki. the executive vice
president. The corporation
Evening star., 1962-09-20

Douiri by Morrocco's Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Ali Bengel-
loun.
Mr.. Douiri is here to attend
the current session Of the
World Bank.
More than 700 guests at
the reception included Mr..
G. Mennen Williams, the AS
sistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs, and the Air
Chief Of Staff and Mrs. Cur
tis LeMay.
One guest, dressed in long
Arab robes, was Sheikh Jabir
AL Ahmad, the Minister of
Finance Of Kuwait, who is an
uncle Of the present ruler,
and who also is representing
his country at the World
Bank conference.
He said his country has
established a $3.50 million de-
velopment fund for Arab
countries. OF this, $22 million
has been given to Jordan. and
$23 million 10 Sudan. Algeria,
too, was given SO million i'm
Evening star., 1962-09-20

Wilson. Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs.
Hoover and so on.
In the Coolidge Administra-
ton, she recalled. the Presi-
dent would take a walk along
F street every morning. II he
saw something he liked in the
stores display windows, he
would have it sent up to the
White House for Mrs. Cool
idge to see.
'I always resented the
rumor that he was penurieus.
Nothing was too expensive
for Mrs. Coolidge" she said.
In 1911 she began visiting
the European fashion mar
kets, chiefly Paris, and from
1887 on, made the trip reg
ularly twice a year.
A woman well. acquainted
with the world Of couture
says Miss Fairall ranked with
the late Carmel Snow (editor
Of Harper's Bazaar and
Stanley Marcus of Neiman-
Marcus as a dean Of American
fashion. "If any one Of them
put the stamp Of approval on
a fashion. 1t was pretty GER
tain to be picked up by the
other stores"
In 1850 Miss Fairall was
named a Chevalier in the
French Legion Of Honor and
a member of the American
Society of the French Legion
Of Honor. Inc. in recognition
Of all that she did to promote
French fashions in the
United States. especially after
the blow of World War II. i,
Later she was made q
member of one Of Frances
Evening star., 1962-09-20
FAJNED nv FASHION
'Oueen Bess' FoiroII Is
Celebrating 80 Years

Oldest societies. Les Cheva-
liers du Tastevin, also an
honorary citizen Of Paris.
Her American awards and
memberships fill q page and
aren't restricted to fashion
and business.
The testimonials that fill
one wall of her apartment
include one from the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital at
Denver for DISTINGUISHED phil
anthropic service.
Taught, Too
After retiring In IS, Miss
Fairail taught . course In
fashion retailing at American
University for several sernes-
ters and found 1t "a thrill
ing experience.
The first class really
frightened me to death. The
students were so bright and
asked such wonderful ques-
tions."
Shed never had formal
training in fashion or retail
ing but was born into the
business in Baltimore cher
grandfather, father and upon
his death, her mother all
were shop proprietors).
And selling is itself a real
education" she said.
Miss Fairall believed firmly
in the old-school credo, The
customer Is always right"
Laughing rs she remem-
bered it. a former Garfin-
ckel's employe told Of one
scene in the complaints de-
partment.
A customer came in with
Evening star., 1962-09-20

helps in the industrial de-
velopment Of North African
countries.
Other guests included the
Tunisian Ambassador and
Mrs. Habib Bourguiba, Saudi
Arabian Ambassador Abdul
lah Al-Khayyal, the LebaneSe
Charge d'Affaires Souheil
Chammas, the Finnish AM
bassador and Mrs. Richard
Seppala. the Ambassador OF
Panama and Mrs. A. @.
Arrange, the Chief Of Pro-
tocol and Mrs. Angler Biddle
Duke. and Mr.. A. Joseph
Howar.