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Evening star., 1962-09-16
Atom Bombs
For Peaceful
Purposes
PROJECT PLoWsHARE. By
Ralph Sanders. public AZ
fairs Press; $4.50.)


Ralph Sanders. public AZ
fairs Press; $4.50.)
DR.. Sanders, q professor at
the Industrial College of the
Armed Forces at Fort Nc
Nair here in Washington,
presents the vision Of a bet
ter world which would be
possible II science were al
lowed to put nuclear explo-
sions to peaceful uses. Since
Hiroshima the world has
learned to think big about
nuclear explosions for war
and far too big about the
dangers of fallout from nu-
clear explosions. DR.. Sanders
aim is to help the world to
think big about the benefits
from nucle explosions,
especially in the less devel-
oped nations.
In this relatively new
field, his book is a pioneer
work which may well become
the textbook and springboard
for the era Of geographical
engineering" which is at
hand.
How soon we realize the
vision Of new canals, arti-
ficial harbors, diversion of
rivers, massive irrigation
projects. cutting passes
through mountains-depends
on how fast DR.. Sanders
message is carried to the
world, not only to doubling
scientists but to politicians
who command the resources
which must be brought to
bear to make the dreams
come true.
DR.. Sanders book proves
how ironic it is that II years
into the nuclear age mans
fear Of the atom has para
lyzed almost totally his abil-
ity to put this vast new
power to peaceful use.
EARL HI. VOSS,
Evening star., 1962-09-16
IN FICTION
Washington Author Tells
Of Mission in Mountains

spreads inevitable confusion
among the people Of the
valley.
This is an intensely moving
story. Illuminated by mature
insight into the variety Of
human experience, enlivened
by pictures Of remote country
folk, and enriched by q spir-
itual quality rare in today's
novels. The writer Is q for
mer Washingtonian who
graduated from Wilson High
School in 1949 and went
from there to Oberin and
Yale. His gift is an unusually
subtle one. his first novel Is
Of q quality to make us eager
for the second.
Evening star., 1962-09-16

lite is more true than reason tuiH deceiue
(nore secret or than madness did repecD
deeper is life than lose:htcEer than hare
but beauty is more each than Hutnc,s all
multiplied BY intinity sans II
the nlightieSt nteditdtions of mankind
cancelled are BY one merely opening leaf
(beyond whose neGrness there is no beyond
or does some Httler bird than eyes can learn
look up to silence and completely sing?
futures are obsolete;pGsts are unborn
dhere less than nothino's more than ererythtnoJ
dedtE,Gs men cGu him ENDS tDItdt they call men
but beauty Is more notD than dytng's tplen
Evening star., 1962-09-16
First Novel Poses
Religious Problem
A CHANGE OF GODS. Z

A CHANGE OF GODS. By
Neal Oxenhandler. tHar-
court. Brace. World; $4.5o0
Paul Shiel, q young Jewish
lawyer on an European holi-
day, meets and marries an
attractive fellow tourist
named Candy Martin. who is
q Catholic by birth If not BY
active practice. They return
home and quickly establish
amicable relations with both
families. But two overlap
ping crises are brewing for
the intense young husband.
His father is facing charges
Of tax evasion and Paul's
compassionate intervention
in the affair ends by wreck
ing his career in the law for
which he has so dedicated Q
love. The second crisis Is q
personal one. Paul. influ-
enced by Candy's devout
grandfather, become first in
terested in and soon irresist-
IDLY drawn to the faith which
his wife neglects. On the eve
of his fathers trial he is re.
ceived into the Church. This
love too Is hobbled by Q
problem in human relations;
the moral and physical
cowardice of poor Candy
who, although she has fol-
lowed her husband back in
to the Church, Is simply not
equipped intellectually to
figure out what makes him
tick.
This Is an unusually we'll
executed first novel and its
hero Is one Of the most ap-
pealing and touching young
men in recent print. !
RUTH HUME. +,
Evening star., 1962-09-16


been so acute and so far
ranging. But the novel, at
least as it impinges on my
own temperament, is becom-
ing flabby, oh so stereotyped,
and curiously deficient in a
feeling Of Wilderness, Of over
coming, of a thing done. It
is not that we have, in 1862,
no Joyce, or Proust, or
Kafka, but rather that we
have almost nobody who sees
the novel as more than an
expanded short story or of
further scope than a sub
jective laying bare. Certainly
there have been good novels
in the last decade, but you
have to dig for them.
= 4
As ! read James Hanley's
Say Nothing" I was Startled
to discover what a good book
1t is, how capable in crafts
manship, how accurate in
form, with q beginning, a
middle, and an end. I had
never heard of Hanley, but
a little investigation showed
that almost everyone else
has, that he is neither un-
known nor unsung, having
been variously acclaimed by
E. M. Forster, Henry Green,
John Cowper Powys, Herbert
Read, c. P. Snow, and John
Betjeman, among others. It
is OF course necessary, since
he is a very good writer, that
he be both an Irishman and
an exile; it is true-born in
Dublin in 1901, he now lives
in Wales. At first a sailor,
he was later strongly drawn
to music, but q stiff finger
thwarted a career as pianist,
and he has been publishing
novels since the early thir-
ties.
Say Nothing" is a sort of
urban "Wuthering Heights"
A 19-year-old boy, flee
ing the domination Of a
mother and seeking expert
ence in a law firm, arrives in
a bleak North England man
ufacturing town and takes
lodging with the Baines fam
lily, three in torture. Baines,
whose trade is nails, is a
failure and he has no forti-
tude to face his lack Of will.
He half-heartedly believes
that he lives by the Word,
the Bible, but he deceives
himself; it is only that he
cannot leave his wife, a DOM
inant, avaricious woman who
also works at the factory,
and run from himself and
his insufficiency. He plays
the flute, eats compulsively,
and talks incessantly
Winifred is Mrs. Baines'
younger sister, mad or fey,
mourning Tom, her lover, who
was taken from her by her
sister, only to die. A half
owner Of the house, Wini-
fred is tolerated in a spirit
OF penance by Mrs. Baines,
and pitied and feared by
Mr.. Baines. She, too, talks
incessantly; her sister also.
Everybody in the house
Evening star., 1962-09-16
IN FICTION
HEATHEN VALLEY. BY Ro.


mulus Linney. (Atheneum;
So
Today's traveller to North
Cardinals breath taking
mountain country drives over
roads that rise over 5000 feet
to show him one beautiful
upland valley after another.
A hundred years ago the same
trip. with horses and pack
mules. was agonizingly slow
and difficult. This was the
journey undertaken by Ma
hum Emmanuel Ames, Epis-
copal bishop Of North Caro-
lima, who had heard Of a
remote place. not far from
Grandfather Mountain, called
Heathen Valley. In this for
gotten spot. the word Of God,
although not totally unknown,
had become q crude mockery,
based on perverted vestiges
left over from the visits Of
itinerant salvationists.
AS his companion on the
journey. Bishop Ames takes
with him Willy Starns, q
hard-drinking tramp who
was born In the country
around Heathen Valley. OF
far greater Importance to
Ames than WHY'S knowledge
Of the terrain is the tramp's
uncanny resemblance to his
father, whose drunken moods
are among the Bishops dark
est memories.
With unbelievable direct
ness the author tells how
Bishop Ames transforms first
StarnS and then the people Of
the valley. But as he devotes
longer and longer periods Of
time to these forgotten souls,
opportunistic clerics back at
the diocesan seat seize upon
his founding of a quasi
monastic community to ac-
cuse him Of improper Rom
ish" tendencies, as well as
neglect. The attraction Of
Rome does. indeed. prove
overwhelming for the gen.
erous-hearted Ames and his
conversion to Catholicism
Evening star., 1962-09-16

the Charles Eliot Norton
professorship. They are
called "non-lectures" be-
cause their purpose, Cum
mings believes, is not to
teach or tell but to formu-
late and learn. The short
speeches are bits Of &uto-
biography, recitation Of his
favorite poems by other au-
thors, and excerpts Of his
own poetry and prose. You
can expect to find anything
and everything in the book;
what turns UP most fire.
quently are expressions Of
Cummings devotion to the
individual, and his hatred of
the inert and deadening
crowd. Let us pray for in
dividuals; never for worlds"
he cries and ringingly quotes
William Blake: HE who
would do good to another
must do it in Minute Par
ticulars. General Good Is the
plea Of the scoundrel; hypo-
crite, and f1atterer."
Security. avoidance, with
drawal; something undead,
suspicious and suspecting-
these are what arouses Cum
mings' contempt. "Who
would be secure?" he asks.
No whole sinleSs sinful
sleeping waking breathing
human creature ever was cor
could be- bought by, and
sold for security How
monstrouS and how feeble
seems some unworld which
would rather have its too
than eats its cakel"
Cummings first book,
"The Enormous Room" pub
lished in 1922, is even to-
day the most remarkable
story Of the horrors and the
values Of a concentration
camp ever written. In 1917,
Cummings, then 20, was a
volunteer ambulance driver
for the French Red Cross.
He was arrested by the
French together with an
American friend, Slater
Brown, whose letters home
had been censored and
found suspicious. Cummings
Evening star., 1962-09-16
SkiIIfuI Plot
In Suspense
Thriller
THE KNIFE AND THE
NEEDLE. BY Diana Gaines.
Doubleday & Co.; $4.95)

THE KNIFE AND THE
NEEDLE. BY Diana Gaines.
Doubleday & Co.; s4.95)
In q mans success lies the
potentiality for q wife's
failure. So it is here. On the
surface, the life of Kay
Quimby. beautiful wife Of q
brilliant surgeon. appears to
be a serene reflection Of her
husbands success. But his
preoccupation with the medi-
cal clinic that bears his
name deprives her Of a full
time husband. Half unwit-
tingly, she is vulnerable to
substitutes particularly in
the form Of q man out Of
her past.
From that basic situation,
the author moves onto q
broader stage. The Chicago
of predepresSion 1929 comes
to life, with the focal point
on the Quimby clinic. The
strengths, the weaknesses
and the motivations of both
the doctors and their pa
tients are examined in depth.
The parallel threads of the
Quimby home and the
Quimby clinic suddenly con-
verge in a shattering climax
that for a time-but only for
q tim e-overshadows the
threat Of personal disaster.
BY the authors skillful
handling of suspense. her
realism and the depth Of her
perception, she has created
a novel where the minor as
well as the principal charac-
ters are so fully realized that
the reader is made to care
what happens to every one
Of them. This is a novel that
carries you swiftly from
climax to climax.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1962-09-16

to Santo." He also refers to
a mans "solar plexis" and
to the American Division in
stead of the Americal Di-
vision which fought at
Guadalcanal.
The Old Jones
Although his new book
starts slowly and badly. Jones
shows the flashes of power
that made him a literary
sensation 10 years ago. Once
he gets his collection Of
drunkards, miSfits, pederasts
and adolescents into battle,
it is as though Jones has
gotten rid of a rotten husk.
His combat writing is sharp,
gripping and completely au-
thentic. His Characterization
of how the men react and
mature in the face of fear
and death is as good as his
200-page build-up is tedious.
Since this is a book which
has no central character,
Jones has to be remarkably
deft in following the adven-
lures of the many men he
employs. The technique, of
course, is age old: the story
of a squad or a patrol has
been done countless times
and as always we encounter
the excitable Italian, the
taciturn hill-billy, the noble
college man, ad infinitum.
Jones, however, elects to keep
track of virtually an entire
company and it is skillfully
done.
FOur-Letter Men
The reader will perhaps
share the reviewers puzzle
ment that almost all Of the
men in C-for- Charlie have
names of four letters: Beck,
Doll, Gait, Bead, Fife, Culp,
etc There are some excep-
tions but the longest name
has only seven letters. Can
it be that Jones preoccupa-
ton with four-letter Anglo
Saxon expletives throughout
the book has also affected his
selection of names for his
brain children?
The effect is very much
like that the reviewer has
experienced in reading the
Russian authors. After en-
countering a certain number
of Ivan Petrovichs and Petr
Ivanovichs, the names tend
to run together like the col
ors in a bargain basement
sweater.
Hardly "UnexcelIed"
"The Thin Red Line" be-
comes a very good book in
deed about one-third of the
way along but it is hardly the
"unexcelled depletion Of COM
bat" described in the dust
jacket.
Like Norman Mailer, who
electrified readers with his
first novel, "The Naked and
the Dead" Jones seems to
be having trouble untracking
himself for q second tri-
umph. Maybe each Of them
only had one good book
locked inside them from the
outset.
What James Jones appears
to need more than anything
else right now is a good edi-
tor. "The Thin Red Line"
could have done with some
thick blue-penciling.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1962-09-16
TimeIess Space

NORTHLIGHT. BY Erik Rils-
Christensen. philosophical
Library; So AS a very
young man the author had
an unforgettable expert
ence. For q fraction Of a
second time ceased to exist
for him and what he saw
in timeleSs space radically
changed his life. The
author attempts to tell
what he saw.
Evening star., 1962-09-16
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the sditorieI poss sf
The StuF this week:
MoNDAY-"The Public Hop
piness," by August Heeksehsr.
(Atheneum.)
WEDNESDAY-"ArmouTs AIma-
hoe," BY Richard Armour with
Illustrations BY cempbsIl GFont.
MeGFow- Mill
FRIDAY-"Ths PiyateeFs," BY
Fleming MoeLiesh and Mortin 1.
krieseF. tRandom House,
Evening star., 1962-09-16
WHAT PRICE COEXIST-

WHAT PRICE COEXIST-
ENCE? BY Sir John Sles-
ser. Praeger; $4.50.) An
examination Of the politi-
cal and military problems
currently facing the free
world. Sir John Slesser is
a marshal of the Royal Air
Force and a former chief
of the air staff and COM
mander of the Imperial De-
tense College.
Evening star., 1962-09-16

R0A5AAa sAA6e AAC NA0Co AAOg AAAC
the Army and that, having
found a good cast in ''Eter-
nity," there is no harm in
using 1t again.
They're All Here
Remember some of the
soldiers in Eternity? The
don't-give-a-damn first SER
geant, the flint-hard private
soldier, the Super-efficient
mess sergeant, the egotistical
general and other CT types
are all repeated in ''The Thin
Red Line" Only the names
are different. This time, in
stead of being in a Hawaiian
barracks, the men are newly
arrived infantry of C-for-
Charlie Company at Guadal-
canal. Jones uses up two
fifths of this book describing
his subjects and he has a
lower opinion of the GIs than
they deserve.
In truth, Mr.. Jones has be-
come very preachy in his ma
turity. He harps on the futil-
ity of war, making the an
cient point that more will
live than will die in battle
and that all nations will be
friends again when the war is
over, except the dead.
Through his foul-talking
characters, Jones decries the
great conspiracy Of history
about how it is to be in COM
bat. He thinks his soldiers
are making the silent plea:
"You believe my lies and I'll
believe yours"
PrOfanely Bitter
Not only are Jones' soldiers
lazy, selfish, cowardly ma
lingerers and utterly profane,
but they are bitter. "The
more Of us get killed gettin'
experience" says one Of his
heroes, "the more Of us got
to get killed usin' it."
One reaches the conclusion
that Jones does not know the
American soldier as well as
he thinks he does. UnQues-
tionably, young men under
arms are addicted to using
filthy language but they are,
withal, clever and often
amusing in their profanity.
Jones men are never comi-
cal, Just profane, and there
he loses verissimilitude as
anyone who has ever worn q
uniform will recognize.
More Lost Ground
He loses yet more ground
when he sends some of his
unblooded troops over an
old battlefield and then con-
trives that they behave like
ghouls, pulling long-dead
japanese bodies from a COM
munal grave in q souvenir
hunt. American troops did
indeed pull gold teeth from
dead japanese mouths but
the CT never lived, particu-
larry a green one, who would
go near an enemy corpse once
the tropical sun had been at
work awhile. Jones may
have intended this macabre
episode to be symbolic but
Of what 1t is hard to imagine.
Jones also commits some
rather sloppy errors in the
names Of places and things.
For instance, Efate and
Espiritu Santo were both
well-known bases in the New
Hebrides during World War
II. Jones annoyingly spells
them "Ephate" and "Esperi-
Evening star., 1962-09-16
FICTION

A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
FICTION. Edited by Da-
mon Knight. (Simon and
Schuster; $4.950 And out
standing selection from the
best stories or a hundred
years Of science fiction. Sec
tions are devoted to each
of the major themes of
science fiction: robots, time
travel, space, other worlds
and people, aliens among
us, superman, and mar
velous inventions. In each
section there Is either an
excerpt or a complete story
from the works of the in
novators who first used
these ideas - such writer's
as H. @. Wells, Jules Verne,
Olaf Stapleton, and Mark
Twain.
GENERAL
A STUDY OF HISTORY, by
Arnold j. Toynbee. (Oxford
University Press: Volume
4, $2.65; Volume S, $2.75,
and Volume 6, $2.450 These
new additions to Oxford's
history making series
(there will be 10 volumes)
of the Toynbee classic cover
"The BreakdownS of Civ
ilizationS" and two volumes
of "The Disintegrations of
Civilizations"
MAN OF DESTINY: Charles
de Gaulle Of France. BY
Richard Harrity and Ralph
G. Martin. Duell, Sloan &
Pearce; $685. A portrait
portfolio in words and pic
lures.
Evening star., 1962-09-16
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Writer james HonIey:
"A Redisoovery
BY DAY THORPE
star Book Critic

SAY NOTHING novel by James Hanley CHorizon Press;
$3.50
An intensive least continuous reading Of contem-
poraHy literature during the last years strengthened
opinion that the novel, for the greatest adornent
OF writing far from enjoying its finest
authors achieving fst-rate biography history poetry
and bellies ettres Criticism insofar art of ap-
precatng and revvfyng mode of thought artistic
approach foreign to the present has perhaps
Evening star., 1962-09-16
James Jones NeWNoveI
Based on GuodoIconoI
THE THIN RED LINE.
ner's Sons; s5,95O

The THIN RED LINE. BY James Jones (Charles scrib-
ners Sons; $3.50
S striving to reach the level of excellence that marked
his first novel, Prom Here to Eternity entaHte terrible
author James Jones merely 10 afterwards that
he has outgrown the enfdnte but not the terrible.
For the first 200 Of the 495 pages in his latest work. the
author cannot to make up his mind whether he is
James Jones Franz Kafka When he is being himself.
Jones makes it plain this novel of Guadacanal
Evening star., 1962-09-16
Energies of Space
MENTAL AND BTOLOGICAl

MENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL
ASPECTS OF THE EN-
ERGIES OF SPACE. Edited
by Paul A. Campbell. Colo
mel, USAF. CMC). (Colum-
bia; $10.) The volume has
been compiled from papers
delivered in a symposium
held in late October. 1860.
The papers delineate the
energies of space, describe
their potential applications
and explain. their dangers
for man.
Evening star., 1962-09-16
Riddle

@. What is q panther?
A. A man who makes
panth. From RIDDLE-DE-
DEE. Compiled by Bennett
Cert. (Random House;
$3.50
Evening star., 1962-09-16
Advice to President Comes Late"
SPARE THAT BACK; Don't Exercise
6sS.S.S-T.R.E.T.C

. phoenx Gazette Associated
" find exercising much boring
nofUrel reoeion TO unnatural
stretches
eonordo Vine
Misn Linden in her book WHY you SHOULD NOT EXERCISE
They do with oil hGrmfU violent you
sern oUtonote bUi regulator
wos trim end obdomn tout strengthen spine eks feel the
clsviofs tension and frUshaion niontIy
imagination the
exercising possibly in lifetime.
For your copy OF why should NOT exercise send $75 plus lse
postage to:
Evening star., 1962-05-30
Poddy Plays Cards
Once Too Often

He got into his small car
and drove to the main part
Of town. Paddy drove slow
ly, not so much because Of
the fog, although that was a
factor, but because it gave
him a better chance to look
for unescorted girls. Mr..
Smythe had no intention Of
playing cards. The extra
money he displayed at times
came from small burglaries.
These were random jobs.
He had learned a lot about
places to rob while delivering
merchandise for companies
like Shipwards and Framp-
tons. Women were his hob
by. The small robberies and
the smaller conquests made
the little man feel big. Pad
dy was smart, but he had to
keep telling himself how
smart he was.
He toured the fronts Of the
cinemas, footing his horn and
making gay remarks to lady
pedestrians. It was q dismal
evening. No one was inter-
ested in Paddy, or his car.
The cheater felt cheated.
After two hours he gave up
and went to Q hotel. He
would not go home under any
circumstances. What man
wants to study a silent re-
buke2 He got into his room
and rubbernecked out the
window, but there was Moth
ing but fog. Nothing to see.
Nothing to do.
HE WENT DOWN to the
bar and drank q couple Of
gins. Paddy swapped pleas
antries with the bartender
and, in q confidential tone,
they reached the subject Of
women. The bartender was
a man after Paddy's own
heart, He knew them all. In
fact, he could lie better and
faster than Paddy Smythe.
He told Paddy about q
woman who could make life
interesting. The more Pad
dy listened, the more he
wanted to hear. This one"
said the bartender, els not
available all the time. She'll
cost a few bob but she's
worth the best dinner in
Bristol" Paddy said to please
call her for him.
Paddy went back to his
room. He waited. His i'm
patience was bordering on
desps ir when he heard a
timid knock on the door.
He ran and threw it open.
There, smiling blankly, stood
Bridget.
Copyright. 1862, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
Evening star., 1962-05-30

psychiatrist and all the help
he can get.
DEAR ABBY: A neighbor
boy sent me an invitation
to his high school graduation.
I wasn't able to go, but I
always liked this boy so I
put q SIS bill in an envelope
with a little note wishing
him success and telling him
to buy himself something
with it. The following week
my SIS bill was returned to
me with the following note:
Thanks Just the same, but
I have a good-paying job now
and you need this more than
I do" It was signed with the
boys signature but in his
mothers handwriting. I don't
think this mother ever gave
the boy my gift. Should I
write and ask him or what?
HURT.
If the mother intercepted
your gift (which Is likely, +,
Evening star., 1962-05-30
STOP KILLING YOURSELF
Can You Deliver
Speech CoImIy?
sy Or. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN

me most Is that this condi-
ton may turn into cancer.
/ have had my colon X
rayed and it Is all right -
Mrs. w.
Call it irritable bowel or
spastic bowel or what you
will. / agree it can be stub
born and cause much dis
comfort, but I think you can
stop worrying that 1t viii
turn into cancer. Go in for
your periodic checkups. Per-
haps antispasmodies and
Sedatives will help.
= = y
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: Your
recent reference to the i'm
portance of comfortable
shoes was putting it too
blandly. Everywhere I see
women with hairdoS ana
dresses that look like ostrich
plummage, standing with one
foot raised out Of q shoe.
Do you suppose that cranes
got that way from wearing
pointed toes?-Flat Foot
Floosie.
4 . 4 4
DR.. Steincrohn,s leGtlet,
"AIlergy-D Disguised AttGcker. "
tDiH be mailed to you on re-
cetpt of a stamped, self
addressed enuelope and 10
cents tn coin for handing.
Address DR.. Stetncrohn. In
care of The EUeRing Star.
y. (Bell Syndicate Featured
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