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Mr.. BiddIe's Story
One of Real DeIiqht

in the authors graceful prose.
Few autobiographies can be
expected to achieve the lit
erary merit reached by Mr..
Biddle as he interprets events
with which he was connected
in terms of the characters
involved.
AS with genuinely culti-
waited men, Mr.. Biddle has
little patience with the POM
pouS and the stupid. Some of
those he encountered in his
official life are so described
but he does so in such a
detached way that much Of
the sting is taken out of what
he writes. OF Franklin D.
Roosevelt, whom he admired,
he writes: mot wishing to
perpetuate the Roosevelt
myth, from which he is
sometimes transformed into
a superman, I have tried to
see him as he was-an in
tensely human man, with
his faults as well as his
strength. :"
Mr.. Biddle related that he
was forced out as Attorney
General and did not resign
as former President Truman
wrote in his memoirs. He
says gently that Mr.. Tru-
mans memory was at
fault"
One puts aside I'm Brief
Authority" with the hope
my second volume" as Mr..
Biddle refers to it, offers the
promise of a third which will
discuss the postwar years
from the view of a keen OBJ
server if not a participant.
CECIL HOLLAND.
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Versatile Steve Allen

Kahlil Gibran. This should
give you an idea Of its phil
osophic content. Let's say it
is Hollywood rientated. Mr..
Aliens sincerity, though, is
so obvious that it is some
how appealing. And a few
sage thoughts do come from
Dams partner, whose func-
ton is to give the authors
overall view of the situa-
ton, and who delivers a
striking critique of the Irish
hero's utter unfamiliarity
with the very aspects Of his
religion that could get him
through the crisis he is fight
ing with such meagre re-
sources of his own.
RUTH HUME
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

NOT ALL OF YOUR
LAUGHTER, NOT ALL OF
YOUR TEARS. BY Steve
Allen. (Geis; $4.95D
1t was inevitable that the
talented and versatile Steve
Allen would, in time, pro-
duce a novel, and here it is.
His first entry in the field is
the story of a successful
Hollywood song-writer named
Dan Scanlon who, although
he lives an affluently pleas
ant life with his attractive
wife and children, becomes
hopelessly enamored of a
b eautiful divorce named
Elaine. Dan is a Catholic and
his wife is not. He SHES away
from a divorce not so much
from his own convictions as
from an unwillingness to hurt
his crotchety. in fact appal-
ling old mother. His real
problem, though, is a con-
stitutional inability to make
up his mind about anything
more serious than a choice of
tie.
One reason Dams agonieS
are so interminable is that
Mr.. Allen, like many an ar
ticulate first novelist before
him, seems determined to
record in this partly auto
biographical story every idea
he has ever had on any given
subject. The substance of
these ideas may be gagged
from the fact that the title
and text of the book are
taken from The Prophet, by
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mission in the Straits of
Kattegat during the Sec
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PISTOLS. BY Charles Ed
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percussion and cartridge
pistols by the author of
THE Gun Collectors
Handbook of Values"
EDUCATION AND THE
CULT OF EFFICIENCY.
BY Raymond E. Callahan.
university of Chicago;
$500 A study of the So
cial forces that have
shaped the administration
of public schools.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN A CHANGING AMER
ICA. BY Msgr. Francis F.
Lally. Little, Brown;
$3.75.O Msgr. Lally, editor
of THE Pilot" of Boston,
describes the nature of
the Catholic Church in
contemporary Am erica
and provides a view of an
institution whose men,
bership includes one fifth
of our population.
THE MADEMOISELLE CA
REER GIRLS GUIDE TO
NEW YORK. BY Faye
Hammel. dial; $4.95O
Tips on everything from
where to find a low-priced
comfortable apartment to
buying clothes bargains In
Brooklyn.
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returned home, he found his
212-year-old son in tears.
What's the matter, Felix"
Il lost my ball"
Don't worry, I'll find it for
you"
You mean, you'll look for
it,"
"All right, I'll look for it.
But I'm a little tired now.
After supper"
Papa, does that mean as
soon as supper is over?"
It's easy to imagine the
paternal pride of the man
thus corrected in the niceties
OF logic. The story is told by
Cohen'S daughter, DR.. Leon
ora Cohen Rosenfield, asso-
ciate professor of foreign
language at the University of
Maryland, in her book "Por-
trait of a Philosopher" and
If we think that the age of
the child detracts from the
plausibility of the incident
we should remember that
Felix was the son of a pre-
cociouS father. Morris Cohen
came to the United States
from Tsarist Russia in 1892
at the age of IL. He
knew no English. not even
the alphabet, but the diary he
started on New Years day,
1897, is written in English
that is not only correct and
idiomatic but extraordinarily
expressive of the doubts, am
billions and strivings of a boy
who even as a pool-hall at
tendant knew that he could
will his choice and make that
choice his destiny.
4 4 -
DR.. Rosenfield's biography
Of her father, who died in
1947, is not strictly a chron-
illogical account but a COLA
ton of letters by and to Co.
hen on various aspects of his
life and work, with back
ground and other explanatory
material supplied by the
daughter. Thus there are
chapters on Cohen's youth,
his life with his wife, Mary
Ryshpan, Cohen as teacher,
as writer, as philosopher, as
Jew, and as correspondent
while a large number of the
most provocative men of his
time William James, John
Dewey, Felix Frankfurter,
Benjamin Cardozo, Learned
Hand, Bertrand Russell, AL
bert Einstein, Santayana, Ed
win Arlington Robinson, and
others. DR.. Rosenfield
is not only a scholar but an
experienced writer, and her
narrative and editorial work
are for the most part en-
tirely satisfactory. Now and
then the reader wishes she
had gone into greater detail.
\ \ \ +
Cohen graduated from City
College. New York, and took
his doctors degree in phil
osophy at Harvard, where he
was the room mate of Frank
furter. For a time he con-
sidered journalism, but phil
osophy was his life, and he
returned to CCNY first as
instructor in mathematics
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Descending 80 Steps
Into q Human Mind
THE EDINBURGH CAPER:
A One-Man TnteruotionoJ

A One-Man International
Plot. BY st. Clair Nickel
way. (Holt, Rhinehart g.
Winston; So
This story. a fantasy within
a fantasy, is a truly remark
able case-hiStory of a para
Modal delusion. 1.-THE Edin-
burgh Caper," say its pub
fishers, took place entirely
within the head of Mr.. Nc
Kelway. 1t certainly did, and
in that sense, if in no other,
it is a true story, a tale by
a debonair Kafka.
Mr.. McKelway imagines to
himself an investigation con-
Quoted by the CHA into an
episode in his life in 1859,
and with his happy talent for
total recall he sets down the
tale as told to an Army gen.
eral and major who ask him
for details to complete their
doSsier. In Scotland on vaca-
ton, and to do some articles
for The New Yorker, he
meets in a bar a couple who
Immediately attract him. The
woman in particular fasci-
mates him, and he soon is
aware of her own not-quite-
hidden innuendos of interest.
Mr.. McKelway is a highly
intelligent and perceptive
man, a continuous if not a
heavy drinker, and a self
conscious student of the va
carries of the human mind.
The slight emotional shock
of his romantic attachment
with Mrs. Cameron sets him
to day dreaming. His dreams
soon take shape in an mag
ined plot to kidnap President
Eisenhower and pc ssibly
Queen Elizabeth. Within a day
or two he sees in a hundred
casual and innocuous insig-
nificant incidents confirm
ing evidence of the plot and
of efforts of British and per-
haps American counter-intel-
ligence to tip him off to the
situation, even, maybe, to in
volve him in it. Mr.. Nickel
way at every moment is aware
that what he imagines may
be a hallucination. He knows
his own weakness for taking
too much thought, and he
argues with himself that his
fears are probably the contri-
button of alcohol. Finally
however he reaches such a
state of excitement that he
risks ridicule and recounts
his story to American security
officers. He is received with
understanding and sympathy,
and assured that yes, such
things do happen, and one
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as a matter Of principle, to
take the hint.
After "a years in the Sen
ate. Wheeler enjoyed a pres
tige achieved by few men.
Various labels were pinned on
him. But he was not easily
labeled. Some of the rawness
and the brashness Of a
younger Wheeler may have
worn off. He had accumu-
lated a brand new list Of
enemies, had been called q
lot of new names. But he was
pretty much the same man in
1916, with the same convic-
tions and quick readiness to
express them, that he was
when he was elected to the
Senate in 1922. If he had re-
manned unchanged, however,
the tides of public opinion
were flowing in other direc-
tions and they left Wheeler
high and dry. He was de-
feated in the 1916 Montana
primary and retired from
politics to begin a new life
at age "a.
A Story Well Told
That new life has been CEN
tered in a Washington law
practice. And now, at 80, mel
lowed by the years, singu-
larly free from vindictive-
ness or regrets over battles
lost and as free from brag
or boast about battles won,
he has completed the story
that friends have urged him
to tell. 1t is well-told story
and well worth the telling.
Most of the research was
done by his gifted daughter
Frances, the late Mrs. Allen
Saylor, before her tragic
death. The arrangement Of
material and most of the
writing were placed in the
capable hands of Paul Healy.
The book is dedicated to a
gracious lady, the late Mrs.
Lulu M. Wheeler, who was in
on the start of things, was
always in the thick of things,
but did not live to see the
final printing of this book.
Many who took part in the
events now told by Senator
Wheeler are gone. But he has
given a new generation Of
readers, as we'll as those of
his contemporaries who re-
main, a delightful story Of
an unusual, and worthwhile,
life. B. M. NICK.
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New Books of the Fall Season in Brief Review

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IN BRIEF AUTHORITY. BY

AN DhAEr Az NUM- H. by
Francis Biddle. Double
day & Co.; $3.50
When Francis Biddle COM
pleted an extensive and var
led public career as one of the
judges at the Nurnberg trial,
he could not bring himself to
return to the practice of law.
He settled down in Washing
ton and busted himself with
writing and lecturing. For
that decision the reading
public can be UNNECESSARILY
grateful.
Last year Mr.. Biddle pub
liShed the first volume of his
"reminiscences. Entitled "A
Casual Past" he recounted
in a wonderfully detached
way his background, his years
at Groton and Harvard and
in the practice of law in Phil
adelphia. Now he has fol-
lowed it with I'm Brief Au-
thority" which covers his
years of Government service
starting with the National
Labor Relations Board, as
solicitor general, Attorney
General during World War II
and finally as one of the
judges of the German war
criminals.
With vast understatement
Mr.. Biddle questions whether
his observations will have
historical value and suggests
that perhaps they can serve
as footnotes on the history
of these fermenting years"
Mr.. Biddle has written his
tory-hiStory that comes alive
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GENERAL

Southern Illinois Univer-
sity Press has just inaugu-
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currents" It's a series of
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THE GROTESQ UE: An
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BY Irving Malin.
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Senator Wheeler Looks Back on Long Career
YANKEE FROM THE WEST.

YANKEE FROM THE WEST.
By Burton K. Wheeler,
with Paul F. Healy. The
candid story of the free
wheeling United States.
Senator from Montana.
Doubleday & Co., Inc;
$3.50
One Of many interesting
things about this frank and
fascinating autobiography of
a distinguished American,
with his instructive aptitude
for politics, brash love of
combat and stubborn adher-
ence to principles as he saw
them. is that so much of what
happened to him in his out
standing career turns out to
have been the result of acct
dent rather than design. This
is not to say that Burton K.
Wheeler was merely the lucky
beneficiary of circumstances
he could not control. But
some of his decisions set up
trains of events as UMPIRE
dictable as he was himself.
Born near Boston, descend
ant on both sides of a long
line of New England Yankees,
he was poor and rather sickly
as a youth. Chance rather
than any considered plan
brought him to the Univer-
sity Of Michigan to work his
way through law school.
Graduating as president of
his class, he headed west,
with no fixed destination.
He only hoped to find a
likely place, almost any place,
to hang up his shingle.
A Game Of Poker
He stopped off in Butte,
Mont. He found little to hold
him there. He was on his
way to the depot to catch
the next train out Of town.
The train was late. Three
strangers got him to join
them in a poker game. His
two jacks, back to back,
stood up through the fourth
card. On the fifth the dealer
dealt himself another trey.
Two jacks are better than
two treys. But the dealer had
another trey in the hole.
Young Burt Wheeler lost his
money, missed his train, was
stuck in Butte and there he
stayed
One thing, including arrest
OF the card sharps, led to an
other. Wheeler gradually es-
tablished a law practice with
the idea of staying out of
politics. But he soon found
himself involved in politics,
taking on such worthy foes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

has cast its shade on Nickel
way in many earlier New
Yorker stories, and we find
it again in full bloom in
Scotland. Ancestor fantasy
combines readily with the
fantasy of kidnap plot and
persecution. McKelway is in
tent on genealogy even on
vacation.
Those who read this book
a month ago in the New
Yorker may be interested in
knowing that the magazine
version is considerably short
ened. and several incidents
are entirely omitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Its q Dogs Life
EVERYONE is so

EVERYONE is SOMEONE.
BY Fiji Monteux. (Far-
rar, Straus & Cudahy;
$685. Fiji, a miniature
French poodle, tells of her
life in the household of the
great Composer Maestro
Pierre Monteux and Nine.
Doris Monteux.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
AWorthy Portrait
Of q Philosopher
BY DAY THORPE
Star Staff Writer

PORTRAIT OF PHILOSOPHERS Morris r. Cohen in
Life and Letters. BY Leonora Cohen Rosenfield Har-
court, Brace & World, Inc. $10)
One day when Morris Cohen author Of IAN Introduction
to Logic and Scientific Method of the three
outstanding philosophers Of Goth century America
Evening star., 1962-03-19

Grafton upon generation Of
A m e ic ans without the
simplest analytical, tools OF
economic reasoning. b.
Proposals Outlined
Now, though, the CED has
put the pieces together, come
up with a program, spent con-
siderable money on research
and offered us all a spring.
board from which to step up
ward. Among it's proposals are:
Cd At least one semester
course devoted to economics
should be required near the
end Of the high school years.
(2) Youngsters should be ex-
posed to elementary notions Of
the division Of labor, prices.
the function of profits, saw
ings, investment-from the
first grade on. Arithmetic, geo.
graphy, history offer superb
opportunities for introducing
economic concepts.
90 The college Of the Air"
course should be followed by
all teachers in the social
sciences and until better text
books are written. The packet
Of study material chosen by
the experts can be used to in
troduce economics into the high
schools.
Distributed 1862 by The Hall
Syndicate, Inc. AL Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1962-03-19
. YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
NN XVI VIA NAAPeA
Attack on Economic HIiterocv

For the first time. an inten.
Sive, co-ordinated drive is un-
derway to make the American
public economically literate.
Today, the Committee fol
Economic Development releases
an, ll-point program to reduce
economic illiteracy. The re-
port eliminates 13 years OF
work by leading members OF
the economics and education
professions and civic groups
It will lay the foundation for
a stepped up effort to promote
economics education in schools.
In September, the college
Of the Air" will begin a series
Of 160 half-hour sessions, five
days a week, on economics and
methods Of teaching the sub
ject. The course also will be
shown by independent and edu-
cational TV stations.
Meanwhile, the Center for
Evening star., 1962-03-19

Of economic illiteracy - and
despite all the efforts Of those
Of us who care. the fact re-
mains, as the CED puts it, that
the level OF economic literacy
OF our nations youth remains
abysmally low" Almost 80 per
cent of our citizens must rely
on high schools for tht If eco
nomics training but less than
one-fourth of the nations high
school teachers are prepared
to teach the subject. Only l8
states require even one college
course in economics for certi-
fication to teach in the social
sciences. OF those who 60 to
college. only Is per cent take
q single course in economics.
So great is the shortage Of
teachers that when a large
Mid-western city decided to
make economics a required
course in its high schools in
1860, it could find only II
qualified teachers - it needed
300.
The goals for economic
education are extraordinarily
fuzzy: many efforts made by
business and labor have been
so obviously biased that the
education" has been worse
than nothing. Study materials,
textbooks and tests have been
grossly inadequate.
We've been graduating gen.
Evening star., 1962-03-19
BY SYLVIA PORTER

Economic Education at the
University of Illinois has just
finished screening 1000 publ
cations and has come UP with
81 study materials suitable and
useful for high school educa-
ton. The CED and the Joint
Council on Economic Educa-
ton have sent a sample packer
OF the materials to each of the
Nations $4,000 high schools
Also, a special committee head
ed by John M. Stalmaker, pres.
1dent Of the National Merit
Scholarship Corp, is writing
basic tests which will measure
how much economics knowledge
students are absorbing. The
tests are scheduled for COM
pletion next spring.
At last. the attack on eco
nomic illiteracy is getting into
high gear.
At present, we are a nation
Evening star., 1962-03-19

general freight agent Of the
Southern Railway with head
quarters here. He held a simi-
lar position with the Central OF
Georgia.
David b. Rhodes has been
promoted to associate manager
of the Washington district Of
flee of The Life Insurance Co.
Of Virginia.
Charles H. A. Cochran has
been appointed Navy systems
manager in this area for Litton
Systems. He formerly was as
sistant manager of Lockheed's
Washington office.
Edward r. Redding has be-
come marketing director for
United Research Services with
offices here.
Vincent J. McEvily has been
named field real estate man.
ager for Grand Union Co. in
the Washington, Florida and
Puerto Rico Divisions.
Evening star., 1962-03-19
PEOPLE
~ IN
BUSINESS

James L. McKenna has be-
come public relations director
for Allegheny Airlines here. He
formerly was with General
Electric. r
Louis T. DOnatelli has beer
named program director for In
formation for Industry, Inc
Previously he was in the secu-
rites business.
Benjamin Frauwirth, C.L.U.
has been appointed regional
president of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co.'S Million
aires Club.
Clifford L. Kehr and RazmiC
s. Gregorian have been named
research supervisors for w. r
Grace & Co. in Clarksville, Md
Walter HI. Weeks, formerly
resident chemist of NICHEM
Inc, has been named vice presi.
dent Of the company. e.
A. ]. Humphrey of Savan.
nah, Ca, has been appointed