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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
A Dietrich Dictionary,
Solid Fun From A to z

asms and prejudices are ar
ranged in alphabetical order.
Among those that particu-
larry caught my eye are:
BORDEL. A country without
bordels is like a house
without bathrooms.
BRASSIERE. In America
something strange has
happened. A man will turn
his head, or whistle, if that
is his fashion. on seeing
an obvious contraption, a
clearly outlined steel con-
struction under a dress or,
even worse, a sweater. This
is rather touching and
only proves what an ideal
iSt man is.
CIGARETTES. I started
smoking during the war.
I have kept it up ever
since. 1t keeps me healthy.
EINSTEIN, ALBERT. His
theory of relatively, as
worded by him for lay
men: when does Zurich
stop at this train?"
ELEGANCE. Rarely found
today. Women are not
brought up to know about
it and therefore lack even
the desire to acquire it.
EXTRAVAGANT. 1t is a
completely subjective eval-
uation and therefore one
should never criticize an
other persons extrava-
gance.
G ENDER r. Why, please,
should a table be male in
German, female in French
and caStrated in English?
French children, for in
stance, are male even if
they are girls, in English
there seems to be consider
able doubt, in German
they are definitely neuter.
Even more startling is the
fact that the French give
the feminine gender to the
components of the male
anatomy that make him
male, and the male gender
to the components of the
female anatomy that make
her a female. In view of
all this let's keep a stiff
upper lip.
GRANDMOTHER. Judging
by the world press I am
the only grandmother alive.
LAS VEGAS. I love that
town. No clocks. No locks.
No restrictions. No heavy
hand of the law on your
shoulder when you roll
those dice.
MARTINI. I am deeply sus-
piciouS of men who carry
martins to the lunch or
dinner table.
OFFSPRING. The only thing
for which you will receive
something resembling a
pat on the back is your in
sistence on the study of
languages. That they will
forgive.
PIE. There is no better pie
than lemon chiffon pie.
RESTAURANT. You will
know the first-class res
taurant by the way the
food is served, without you
and your friends being
questioned as to who Or
dered what.
TALLEYRAND. The French
statesman who said: "a
married man will do any,
thing for money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
MARLENE DIETRICH'S

MARLENE DIETRICH'S
Abe. BY Marlene Dietrich.
doubleday g. Co.; $3.50
One thing that Marlene
Dietrich does not need is a
ghostwriter. Not only does
she observe things but she is
quite capable Of putting into
words her reactions to them.
She is q captivating blend Of
iconoclaSm and orthodoxy.
and the specialneSs Of her
talent is nowhere more evil
dent than in her ability to
speak pungently about her
contemporaries without ever
taking the easy advantage Of
being caustic or unkind. TO
day Hollywood harbors
more televiSion actors than
film actors. Hollywood is
dead. The exception to the
factorylike operating rules Of
today is Marilyn Monroe.
miss Dietrich is writing be-
fore Martyrs death, when
eulogy was not necessary
Miss Dietrich'S enthusi-
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zle is good, the solution sur
priSing but plausible. Most
agreeable.
TWO FOR THE MONEY.
BY Jeremy York. Doubleday
& Co.; $3.50 A cold-blooded
trio plans three murders to
grab a fortune, and are two
thirds of the way home
with the death of an inquisi-
tive outsider thrown in-be-
fore anyone tumbles to the
triumvirate. 1t all begins at
Nice when the first heir is
killed by a man who assumes
his identity. 1t ends in Lon
don, where Marion Shaw, a
cousin next in line, falls for
the impoSter. Everyone is
quite believable. Action to
spare, and good detective
work, too.
= =
COUNTER WEIGHT. BY
Daniel Broun. (Holt, Rinehart
& Winston; $500 The only
thing wrong with this mys-
terry is the mystery, which is
very dull indeed. The style is
brisk and entertaining from
beginning to end. The au-
thor has been a stage man.
ager for 10 years, according
to the jacket. His firSt-hand
knowledge of the theater
backStage, obvious without
this confirmation, gives the
book individuality. The mys-
terry? Who killed an unpop-
ular stage manager?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
Love Affair
In Occupied
Germany
THE LONELY CoNQUEE

Oh. by Will Heinrich
(The Dial Press; $3.50
1t seems a pity that so
competent a story teller as
Mr.. Heinrich wasted his con-
siderable talents on such an
unlikely a sequence of events
as he develops here. The plot
revolves around the love af-
fair between John Baako, a
Negro soldier in the Ameri-
can Army in Europe, and
Claire, a lovely German
medical studen John, it
seems, actually is a native of
Rhodesia, which has more
racial problems than Albany,
Ga, and more racial bar
riers than Chitterling Switch,
Miss.
His service in the Ameri-
can Army, an incredible
eventuality in view of the
prejudice he finds while a
student in the United States,
brings him to West Germany
where he meets Claire. This
comely fraulein, of excellent
family, falls in love with
John although the alchemy
Of this is not made clear.
1t is not so much that John
has black skin but that Herr
Heinrich endows the soldier
with a drab and introspec-
tive personality of the Great
Stone Face variety.
1t may be that the main
element is rebound since
Claire's Germ a n paramour
takes her entirely for grant,
ed. In any event, she leaves
the German for John Baako
and then their troubles be-
gin.
The authors dialogue is
crisp and some Of his char
acterizations are excellent.
He Just didn't give himself
much to work with here and
apparently he forgot to de-
velop his hero while he was
perfecting some of the lesser
characters.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
Biology
And Art
AttheZoo
THE BIOLOGY OF ART. By
Desmond Morris. (Alfred A.
Knopf; $500

THE BIOLOGY OF ART. By
Desmond Morris. (Alfred A.
Knopf; s6.50D
This book examines the
hfe's work Of an artist-in
this case, a London Zoo
chimpanzee named Congo.
Desmond Morris, curator
Of mammals at the London
Geological Society, analyses
Congo's work along with all
the other available facts on
ape and monkey picture max
ing. Mr.. Morris shows rela-
tionShips between these and
the scribbleS of young chill
dren and the paintings Of
certain modern artists (Klee.
Miro, Dubuffet and Mon
drian, a name a few
He shows that chimpan-
ices receive a Self-rewarding
aesthetic pleasure from
drawing. that they usually
control these drawings and
have a sense of composition.
He supports his conclusions
with several exemplary plates
and reproductions.
From his studies he con-
cludes there are six common
denominators that can be
found in all art - ape or
human. These are Cd self
rewarding activation, 90
compositional control, CD
calligraphic differentiation,
"a thematic variation, (5)
optimum heterogeneity and
60 universal imagery.
Some of his points are well
taken; however, as a reader,
I would question the RELIABLE
ity Of data taken principally
from only one or two Chin
panzees. The significance Of
this report would be greatly
strengthened by many more
chimps making many more
drawings. But, even with
this drawback. it does offer
an extremely interesting ar
gument with some rather
startling qualitative support,
If not cumulative.
WARREN BASS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

Nostrand; $3.50 Demon
Strates picturesque effects
and changes in setting
which can be achieved
through gardening in pots,
kettles, boxes or baskets.
Includes potting methods
and year-'round care for
everything from trees to
herbs.
THE RETIREMENT HAND
BOOK. Second Revised
and Enlarged Edition. BY
Joseph c. Buckley. (Harper;
$4.95O Answers almos t
any practical question a
prospective or actual retiree
might ask.
CLOAK AND CIPHER. BY
Dan Tyler Moore and Mar
tina Waller. Bookseller
rill; $4.500 A history and
analysis Of famous hiStori-
cal secret writings from the
time of Egyptians and the
part codes have played in
the shaping Of the destinies
Of men and nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
FodingWorId
OfuCircus
THE SPANGLED ROAD. By

THE SPANGLED ROAD. BY
Borden Deal. (Scribner's;
$4.5O.
The circus. a self-con-
tanned little world, has been
the setting for many a novel.
But few writer's have been
able to make this world as
realistic, its characters as
plausible. as Mr.. Deal.
He describes a Small-time
show which is going broke
because there's no place for
such a circus in the era of
television and drive-in NOV
les. 1t has the resounding
name of Cosmos Brothers
Great International Circus,
but it's merely a grandioSe
carnival as it plods through
small Southern towns on its
last journey.
Domino, a famous clown,
is headed for retirement in
Florida after "the big show"
up North folded and left him
stranded. But he is COMPARE
lively rich. He and his wife
own a house in Florida, and
he has ample money in the
bank, his careful savings.
The couple, driving south,
pause to greet friends when
they encounter the Cosmos
show stranded, its owner
dead.
Domino, despite his wife's
misgivingS, is unable to re-
sist the urge to sink his saw
ings in this show, to take it
over and try to revitalize it.
This is his world and he
cannot escape it.
The story relates DOM
mos futile effort to breathe
fresh life into an enterprise
which is doomed. He does
take it on a tour of small
towns, but mishaps slow it
down and help the fate that
pursues all such shows. Their
only lion, a likeable cat, who
would not hurt anyone es-
capes and is shot down by
a stupid backwoods sheriff.
Their finest trapeze artist is
incapacitated by a fall. And
so on.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
IN FICTION
IN FICTION
An Old Farm Trouble
In q Vigorous Novel
THE BONES OF PLENTY

THE BONES OF PLENTY.
BY Lois Phillips Hudson.
atlantic Little, Brown;
$3.50
Between the Great Depres-
sion and the Great Dust
Bowl, it is no wonder that in
the early '30s a steady
stream Of emigrants moved
from the Dakotas to Alaska.
In 1886 the Farm Security
Administration of the De-
partment of Agriculture en-
gagged Pare LorentZ to make
his nous documentary
film, THE Plow That Broke
the Palms." to picture the
back and heart breaking
problems Of soil erosion, poor
conservation, and outmoded
farm planning in areas that
had once been generous pro-
ducers. The film was further
distinguished by Virgil
Thomson'S arresting musical
score.
This is the unhappy era
in which Lois HudSon's novel
is set. She does a marvellous
job of capturing the unbear-
able discouragements of the
North Dakota farmer during
the Hoover-to-FDR transit
ton, when Government farm
policy was unsettled and the
farmer balanced the falling
price Of his wheat against
the rising cost Of everything
else. No one has to agree
with George Clusters Violent
ly reactionary social and po-
litical beliefs in order to
sympathize with his bitter
decision to sell out and move
to Alaska. The author does
not mention the problems
that face today's farmer I'M
til a note at the close of her
story, but 1t is impossible to
read her rapidly moving
narrative without being
haunted by thoughts of the
current surplus-heavy situa-
ton.
1t was perhaps inevitable
that the publishers of this
novel should invoke a COM
pariSon with The Grapes of
Wrath" While the present
book does not achieve the
memorable power and prose
of the earlier one, it is a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
Of Husband Truininq
And Child Rearing
TRANQunIZERs For ]

TRANQUILIZERS FOR HIS
CUP. BY Gene Laborde
and Hazel Beatrous. Dou-
bleday; $3.50
Almost any mother Of five
children land some mothers
Of two or three) will find this
book on husband training
and child rearing hilarious.
Written by two mothers of
five EACH (all under ten),
one marvels at the end how
they even found time to put
the paper in the typewriter.
The purpose Of tranquil
izers in friend husbands cof-
fee cup may be shocking to
the initiated (non-Catholic) e,
but as one Of the authors
both hide in the comfortable
facade of collaborators at
times-says, without them
you're liable to find yourself
back in those slipcovers
again." Both writer's speak
as one who knows.
M, p,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19

MS way TO the top OF the
journalistic pile in NeIg York
in the Civil War era through
prodigiouS hard work and
who was often horse-whipped
by his ungrateful readers.
His nameSake, early re-
moved by his Irish mother
from scenes of social oStra-
cism, grew up in continental
opulence and re ain d a
spoiled child all his life. A
dashing, elegant figure, he
yachted and coached with the
other gilded youth Of the
Knickerbocker set and made
the first of many bids for
publicity by participating in
a transoceanic yacht race.
Resoundingly eligible, he
alienated his fiancee with
drawing-room behavior that
would have disgraced a q
year old, and fought a duel
with her brother.
He thereupon exiled him
self to Paris, where he dis
ported himself with a dash
and extravaganza tn a t
startled the worldliest. But
although he seemed bent on
making a career Of being out
rageous, he showed also that
he was a born journalist. He
was not content with report
ing news, he made it. 1t was
he who dispatched H. M.
Stanley to find DR.. Livingston
and thus gave history one of
its best lines and most
glorious adventures.
Afterwards, as was his
wont. he treated poor Stan
ley shamefully. Stanley had
committed the unpardonable
sin of outshining his reful-
gent employer.
No worker for the Herald
was allowed so much as a
ray Of the spotlight. Bennett
treated his employees with a
contempt that makes wholly
Ineligible the rise of union
ism in the newspaper busi-
ness. Almost wholly in Paris,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
Bennett Biography
An Excellent One
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer
THE SCANDAL

THE SCANDALOUS MR.. BENNETT BY Richard OlCon-
nor Doubleday $495J
No particular distinction Of style depth insight
needed in q biography of James Gordon Bennett IT,
editor and publisher Of the New Herald The life
speaks for itself Mr. Benefits bographer Richard OCon-
newspaperman himself, has simply spread out the
record in The Scandalous Mt Bennett Doubleday;
and provided Of the most dvertng the year
Mr. Benefits father self made Scot who claHed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
GENERAL
WHAT TO TELL 70

WHAT TO TELL YOUR
CHILD. BY Helene s. Arm
stein in cooperation with
the Child Study Associa-
ton of America. (Bobbs-
Merrill; $500 Empha-
sizing at all times the
necessity for honest COM
munication and sensitive
understanding, this book
suggests various ways that
the parent can help his
child to comprehend and
handle distressing prob
lens.
FOLK MUSIC USA. BY
Howard Grafman and B.
T. Manning. (Cita del:
$4.50O Presents a broad
picture of folk music in
America today. Included
are some of the most ia
nous American folk songs,
complete with words and
music.
THE KAMA SUTRA OF
VATSYAYANA. Translated
from the SanSkrit by Sir
Richard F. Burton Dut-
ton; $4.95O The classic
Hindu treatise of love and
social conduct.
FINANCING MEDICAL
CARE. An Appraisal Of
Foreign Programs. Edited
by Helmut Schoeck. (Cax-
ton; $500 Current COM
mentarieS on medical care
systems in seven foreign
countries.
ON THE TIGERS BACK.
BY Aderogba Ajao. CWorld:
$500 The story of how
the Russians are trying to
create dedicated Commu-
mist agents from among
the newly indepedent Afri-
can peoples.
THIS HOUSE HAD WIN
DOWS. By David Scott
Bla ckh all. (Obolensky;
$500 The true story Of
a poets sudden blindness.
STOCK MARKET PRIMER.
BY Claude N. Rosenberg,
jr. Prentice-Hall; $12.500
In this approach to sue
cessful investing in the
stock market, Mr.. Rosen-
berg reduces everything to
the four things that he
thinks really count: What
to buy. what price to pay,
when to buy, and when to
sell.
TUNISIA. By John Anthony.
(Scribners; $4.50D Mr..
Anthony, who recently
spent five years in tn =
Foreign Service in Tunisia,
presents his personal view
Of the timeless land.
OUTDOOR GARDENING IN
POTS AND BOXES. BY
George Taloumis. wan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19

levitation and explains the
necessary physical and
mental preparation.
THE SURVIVOR AND
OTHERS. By H. P. Love-
craft and August Derleth.
(Ballantine: IS cents.)
Contains seven macabre
tales Of the world of the
supernatural. CReprint0
FABLES AND FAIRY TALES.
By Leo TolStoy. A New
Translation by Ann Dunn
igan. "a Signet Classic;
go centSD A new selection
and new translation of
Tolstoy'S shorter and lesser
known works, some of
them unavailable in Eng
lish for over fifty years.
THE WILLOWDALE HAND
CAR. By Edward Corey.
bs-Merrill; $1.500 Re-
lates the unusual expert
enceS of three people who
tour the countryside on q
handcar.
CONDITIONALLY HUMAN.
By Walter M. Miller, jr.
(Ballantine: so centS0 A
variety of science-fiction
novels.
CHINA. BY Felix Greene.
(Ballantine; 95 cents0 A
realistic appraisal of the
Sleeping Giant" Gre
print.)
MANS PLACE IN NATURE,
By Max Scheler. Trans
lated and with an intro
duction by Hans Meyer
hoff. (Noonday: $1.45D
Max Scheler's last work, it
represents the final phase
of his philosophical world
view.
FAMOUS TRIALS 6. Edited
by James H. Hodge. CPen-
gum Crime; IS cents0 The
sixth volume in the Pen
gum Famous Trials" Sc
ries. it contains four cases,
including that of John
George Haigh, the Kensing-
ton mass murderer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
An IstonbuI Story
Consistently Original
By BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The Bosphorus flowed past the very door Of Madame
Miasma Turkish grande dame taken on faith BY young
M bey Both the house and the lady secrets of which
he never dreamed When English girl in distress is held
there Nu bey philosopher discovers his dervsh fathers
blood flows in his veins Consistently original Joan
Fleming invests her Ianbu story with her special blend of
realism and romance. WHEN GROW RICH Ives WASH
burn, Inc. $500
UNCERTAIN DEATH BY Anthony Gilbert (Random
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TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial pOss Of
The Stor this week:
MONDAY - The Lensthenins
Shadow, by Thomos Grohom BeIden
ond MoNo Robins Belden. little,
BroWn.)
WEDNESDAY - The Money
Chonser." by John 6. Fuller.
tDiol.l
FRIDAY - "NueIeor Weapons,
edited by Wolter Stein, fOrewOrd by
Mssr. 7. D. Roberts, S. j., Arch
bishop Of Sysdea. (Sheed 8
Word.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Collection of Letters
Of MicheIongeIo
By DAY THORPE
Star Staff Writer

1, MCHELANGELO, SCULPTOR: An autobiography
through Letters From the translation Charles Speron
eoIVeo py irving and Jean Stone Doubleday Co.; $4950
With his biographical novel THE Agony and the
Ecstacy high among the bestseng fiction for the
aSt year and half Irving Stone reasonably concluded
at the public demand for Mcheangelo would make worth
WINE another book about the sculptor Thereupon
MS We Jean Stone arranged the letters Mchelangeo in
Chronological order added little background material and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19

vigorous, accurate description
of a situation that is more
complex now than it was 80
years ago.
SECOND GROWTH. BY
Ruth Moore. MORROW;
$4.950
The chronicle of Hillville,
a New England coastal town
in eclipse, is a straightfor-
ward, cod-flavored tale told
by an expert. Ruth Moore's
penetrating hut Sympathetic
attention centerS on the
members of three families
whose lives are changed
when a redheaded baby boy
is found in the town dump
by the local doctor. The book
abounds in interesting New
England characters of which
the most appealing is an 81
year-old lady who outwits a
revolving nephew. Everything
turns out splendidly for all
the right people.
q
VOYAGE TO SANTA FE. BY
Janice Holt Giles. (Hough-
ton. Mifflin; $4.95)
Jet planes, aforementioned
automobiles and super-high-
ways have obliterated all but
vestigial memories of the
days when this country was
crossed by wagon train only.
This book recalls the glowing
pioneer spirit Of the men and
women who piled their be-
longings and their hopes into
ConeStogas and PittSburgs,
and headed West. The au-
thor tells q solid, honest sto-
ry OF a young couple travel
ing from Fl. Smith, Arkan-
sas, to Santa Fe. Indians,
strange illnesses, detecting
riders and wild animals were
only a few of the perils that
lay between these points. I
am far from an expert on
opening up Of the West
novels, but it strikes me that
the strongly feminine view
point from which this book
is written might be viewed
dimly by the true aficionado.
But if you like Westerns writ
ten by women, this is great.
RUTH HUME.
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FICTION

A TIME IN THE SUN. By
Jane Barry. doubleday ;
$4.95O A novel of tn e
ApacheS and the struggle
for Arizona.
EVENING TALES. CTwayne:
$3.50 TALES OF WAR.
(Twayne; $2.95.) BY Mihail
Sadoveanu. Both of these
volumes have been issued in
conjunction with the re-
Gently effected cultural ex-
change program between
our government and the
Rumanian Peoples Repub-
lie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
PAPERBACKS

Mentor Books, published
by The New American Lii
brary has Just released, for
the first time in its entirety
in paper bound, "Bulfinch'S
Mythology" The two volumes
both newly rendered with ex-
tenSive introductions by Pal
mer Bowie, professor of
classics at Indiana Univer-
sity and director of summer
sessions Of the American
Academy in Rome, are a
treasury Of legend and folk
story from the time of the
Greek Gods capers, through
the adventures of King
Arthur and his Round Table
companions, Robin Hood, the
Welsh and English knights,
down to the exploits of
Charlemagne, Orlando and
others. They are:
BULFNCH'S MYTHOLOGY
The Age Of Fable. $50
cents) and BULFNCH'S
MYTHOLOGY; The Age
Of Chivalry and the
Legends of Charlemagne.
CTS cents.)
- -
THE REIGN OF TERROR.
By Cleveland Moffett.
(Ballantine; so cents0 Re-
counts the atrocious and
violent acts committed in
the name of patriotism
during this bloody period
in French history.
THE IMPOSSIBLE. BY Dick
Gardner. (Ballantine; so
cents) Describes such
bizarre phenomena as fire
walking, glass eating, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
HISTORIC DAGUERREOTYPEs
1853 News Photos Found

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Feb. II
(AP). - Two daguerrotypes
turned up here are believed to
be the earliest known spot news
photographs of an action event
in America. They are more
than 100 years old.
They show a big fire that
swept OsWego, N. Y, on July S,
1858.
Beaumont NeWhall, director
of Eastman House, which has
acquired the pictures, told the
Rochester Democrat Chronicle
that they were taken a month
earlier than a daguerreotype
previously considered the first
news photo made in this coun-
try.
That one, he said. shows a
train wreck on the Providence
and Worcester Railroad near
Pawtucket, R. l., on August IL,
1853.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18

Publication of photos, by
line-drawing engravings, how
ever, didn't get started until
1855, and use of actual photo
engraving reproduction waited
until 1880. Daguerreotyp
stills" go back to when the
process was invented-1839.
The fire pictures, Mr.. Newhall
said, were brought to Eastman
House by James Cady, %, an
artist, who said he purchased
them at an auction two years
ago for only a few dollars"
Mr.. Newhall said he recog-
nized their historic value. On
the back, he said, they bore
the name, Barnard" trade
mark of George N. Barnard, an
Oswego daguerreotypist, who
served as a Civil War Army
photographer.
The photographs are tech
nically unusual, with action ar
rested, Mr.. Newhall said. He