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Holmes County herald., 1962-11-01

Mrs. Mollie Mcbride of
Kosciusko spent Monday
night with Mrs. Ruby Camp
bell.
Evening star., 1962-04-08

Miss Hsieh discusses
China's military strategy in
the nuclear age, and points
out how Chinese leaders for
years like their Soviet COL
leagues - downgraded the
Importance of nuclear weap-
ons. Now, however, Peking
very much wants such weap-
ons, and is believed by Miss
Hsieh to be on the verge of
decorating her first nuclear
device.
A crucial question in future
years is this: If China uses
her bomb on Taiwan, what
will happen? Will the United
States attack China with nu.
clear weapons? And If so,
will the Soviet Union re-
taliate, thus starting an all
out war? Miss Hsieh has no
answers, but points out the
dangers quite clearly.
B. G.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
Ten Stories Widely
Varied in Mood

THE LAST HUSBAND and
Other Stories. BY William
Humphrey. keystone;
$1.95O
Keystone Books, a subsid-
iary Of Lippincott's, contin-
ues its welcome project
of presenting distinguished
American and European
short-story writer's between
paper covers. William Hum
phrey, the author of Home
From the Hill," joins the
ranks with 10 stories of Wv
idly contrasting mood. Not
every writer so at home in
the milieu of the glib and
well-heeled Madison avenue
commuter can also describe
so knowingly the mentality of
those who are deprived, not
only economically but also in
their ability to communicate.
Humphreys exploration of
Evening star., 1962-04-08
In School Libraries

In school libraries, too,
reading is booming. A neigh
boring county system reports
an average circulation per
child per year of 81 books.
with some youngsters taking
out from 3 to 6 books per
week.
This positive and encour-
aging sign of children's ap-
petite for books can be sat-
isfied only if appropriate and
interesting books are easily
available. This cannot be
done with a meagre and hap
hazard collection of books.
Our grandparents or great
grandparents may have been
limited to the Bible and Rob-
inson .Crusoe. This is not
enough for today. even if you
add 10 classics or a hundred.
Children need to know the
roots of our culture, but they
must be intelligently pre-
pared for the future.
This is where DR.. Derthick
came in, with his emphasis
on the brain-power race. This
is where every parent should
come in, with awareness Of
what reading and books can
msan to the child of today.
Many practical suggestions
may be found in the March
issue of Childhood Educa-
tion," which is devoted to the
theme of living with books.
Nancy Larrick's article on
Evening star., 1962-04-08

the author of I'VE Joined
the Navy"
THE GRASS LOVERS. By
Ronald M. Deutsch. (Dou-
bleday; $4.50. A novel
about the nutty. juicy
world of people who eat,
love and sell, health foods.
Mr.. Deutsch is author Of
an original paperback,
Nuts Among the Berries"
THE SEA OFFICER. BY
Shovel Styles. (Macmil-
Ian; $3.95) A novel Of
high courage, adventure.
and war at sea, based on
the true story of Pellow
of the Indefatigable.
THE ROBBERY AT THREE
WELLS. BY Fred N. Kim
mel. Macmillan; S3.25J
A Western in which the
hero finds himself involved
in a dastardly plot to rob
an express train and later
nearly takes the rap for a
bank robbery.
THE GLASS DOVE. BY Sally
Carrigher. doubleday;
$4.95.) A novel of the Civil
War period-of that ia
nous venture, the Under
ground Railroad-and a
girl.
THE ACCIDENT. BY Ellie
Wiesel. Chill & Wang; So
Within the framework of
a love affair and a near
fatal automobile accident
on the streets of New York.
the author writes about a
sensitive man who has lost
the will to live because he
has seen too much death
and who cannot love be-
cause he has lived too long
with hate. Ellie WieSel is
the author of two previous
novels, Night" and
Dawn"
Evening star., 1962-04-08
CAPTAIN NEWMAN, MD.

CAPTAIN NEWMAN, MD.
BY Leo Rosten. (Harpers;
$4.950
Some authors are masters
of comedy, some Of tragedy,
some specialize in dialogue
and others in description. but
it is rarely indeed that a
writer is encountered with
the power to evoke deep
laughter and salty tears at
one and the same time.
. Such a man is Leo Rosten.
sometimes signing himself
Leonard @. Ross, who estab-
lished himself as a first-class
humorist with his hilarious
stories about H'Y'M'A'N
K"A"P"L"A*N when all Of
us were younger.
This novel is placed in the
neuropsychiatric ward Of a
hospital at an Army Air
Corps base in the southwest
ern American desert during
World War II. Capt. New
man is the psychiatrist in
charge Of this ward and a
more compassionate, under
standing and better loved
officer has not been born Of
an authors pen since Mister
Roberts.
Behind the locked doors of
this ward live a strange and
pathetic group of men, all
with problems of guilt or
emotional experience that
have been more than they
could endure. Sometimes
their warders seem as strange
as the patients, as with Ham
merhead Lawrence who has
Evening star., 1962-04-08
GENERAL
POLITICS IN AFRICA. Pr

POLITICS IN AFRICA. Pros
poets South Of the Sahara.
BY Herbert j. Spiro. CPren-
tice-Hall; $3.50 A new
perspective for a better un-
derstanding of the New
Africa"
THE PHONY WAR. BY E. S.
Turner. (St. Martins; $5D
A none-too-reverent &C
count of Britain's home
front, 1939-40.
THE DISMISSAL. BY Jur-
gen Thorwald. pantheon:
$500 The story of the last
days of Ferdinand Sauer-
bruch, surgeon.
DIARY OF A SIT-IN. BY
Merrill Proudfoot. CHAPEL
Hill; So Prof. c. M.
Proudfoot, of Knoxville
College, tells the first pub
lished story. of one of its
leaders, of the day by day
happenings of a sit-in.
NAVY DIVER. By Joseph
Sidney Karneke with Vic
tor BoeSen. putnam;
$4.50D The undersea ad-
ventures of a master diver.
THE LIMITS OF DEFENSE.
BY Arthur I. WaSkow.
Doubleday; $2.950 An
analysis of the varied forms
of the policy of deterrence
and the outlines of a de-
fense more in accord with
the genius of the American
people.
THE QUAKER READER. Sc
lected and introduced by
Jessamyn West. Viking;
$685. Classics of Quaker
ism. JeSsamyn West is the
author of Friendly Per-
suasion," the novel about
a Quaker family in Indiana
during the Civil War.
CAPITALISM AND AMERI-
CAN LEADERSHIP. BY
Oliver c. Cox. (Philosoph-
Evening star., 1962-04-08

ical Library; So This is
the second volume of the
authors study Of capital
ism, its structure and de-
velopment, as a form Of So
cial organization.
MILLIONS GOD. BY William
Empson. (New Directions;
So The author of "Seven
Types of Ambiguity" and
versions Of Pastoral"
plunges into the Milton
controversary."
THE MUSIC MASTER. BY
Theodore j. Kleinhans.
(Muhlenberg; $3.25) The
story of the family life and
professional career Of the
great musician and COM
poser Johann Sebastian
Bach.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
Role of the Parent

The important role of the
parent in supporting the
positive approach to books
is stressed by Ruth Strang
in her recent book, HELPING
YOUR CHILD IMPROVE
HIS READING CDutton;
$4.50). She says: Like
father. like son, often applies
to reading habits. One seri-
ouSly retarded reader identi-
fled himself closely with a
father who boasted that he
had become successful in
business without knowing how
to read.
On the other hand, the
parent who reads and likes
it, who makes time for read
ing in a busy schedule, is not
only enriching his own life,
he is setting a powerful ex-
ample. And if the parent is
wise enough to read aloud to
his children when they are
young, he is taking an i'm
portant step toward lifetime
reading.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
Medal Winners

The recent announcement
of the Newbery and Caldecott
Medal winners focuses at
tention on national stand
ards for quality books. Out
of 1913 titles published last.
year, two were selected for
literary and artistic excel
lence: THE BRONZE BOW,
by Elizabeth George Speare
for the Newbery Medal; !;
ONCE A MOUSE, by Marcia
Brown for the Caldecott.
Both author and artist will
receive these awards for the
second time. 1t would have
been more stimulating to call
attention to the high quality
of other authors and artists
who make the children's
books field the joy of book
designers, art collectors, and
literary critics, as well as
young readers. .
Without doubt, the New
berry and Caldecott Medals
have served as a golden
thread of quality for more
than a generation. Anyone
building a home library or a
school library will do well to
become acquainted with this
list of distinguished books.
many Of which have becoms
modern classics. Bookmarks
listing all medal-winnere
form a handy checklist anc
may be obtained from the
Children's Book Council, l7s
Fifth avenue, New York City.
(Send 81 for 100 bookmarks,
either Caldecott or Newbery
winners.)
Evening star., 1962-04-08
Its Easy to Understand Why
'Cuptuin Newman Is Popular

the strange compulsion to
swear at officers though he is
the neatest and most obedi-
ent soldier on the base. An
other attendant is the un-
forgettable Jackson Lai-
bowitz who regards suffering
as normal and contentment
as neurotic.
The book, a best seller
from the outset, is divided
into episodes as Capt. New
man deals with various men,
bers of his bemused. indif-
ferent or wild-eyed flock. In
the main, these episodes are
wrenching to the heart, as
with Capt. Paul Vinson who
hid from the Germans in a
cellar, Gino McGraw who is
torn by a terrible guilt be-
cause Of an abortion, Little
Jim who feels he did not
do enough to save the life of
a comrade or Mr.. Future, a
majestic cunning man with
the most puzzling secret of
all.
But the sidesplitting per-
sonalities Of CODY Clay, the
soldier who would do any
thing but make his own bed,
and others in the gallery
of comedians under Capt.
Newman's care make a Won
derful balance for the more
somber events.
This book is masterfully
written and proof again that
it is a thin line indeed that
divides the people of this
earth between reality and
fantasty.
JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
The Changing World

We can't teach them the
answers. because the world
is changing too rapidly. But
we can teach them how to
seek and find knowledge in
books. 1t isn't enough to read
the classics and study old
textbooks. In the broadest
sense, children should follow
the National Library Week
theme: Read and Watch
Your World Grow"
Fortunately, there is evi-
dence to support a positive
and optimistic approach to
children's reading habits and
tastes. In Chicago, a 1854
survey of public libraries re-
ported an average circulation
of 10 books per child. More
recently, a public library in
Alexandria reported as many
as 10 books per child at one
time.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
IN FICTION
IN fiction
GoodWriting Turns Murky
Theme Into Sound Novel
THE VIGIL OF EMMELINE

THE VIGIL OF EMMELINE
GORE. By Rudolph Won
Adele. (Houghton, Mifflin;
$4.)
AS she lies in her bed
waiting to die of leukemia,
Emmeline Gore thinks back
across her 40 years of mar
riage to a second-rate homo
sexual composer. The stricken
woman is herself a psyche
logical cripple (absolute-zero
frigidity), but she has stayed
with her husband because of
an unshakeable conviction
that only she can provide his
salvation. Probing about in
the debris Of her past, she
unearths incidents of her
early married life that for
years have been carefully
buried below the Level of
memory.
An unexpected denouement,
which rouses the dying
woman to an act of violent
hatred, seems, on surface
consideration, to be unlikely:
But in the murky, Kraft
Ebing type world of the
Cores, I suppose that any,
thing is possible.
To this sick subject matter
the author brings a strong,
persuasive style of writing
occasionally reminiscent of
Thomas Mann. Mr.. Won
Adele, professor of E n glish h
at American University, is a
poet and historian. This is
his first novel.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
y'PIoy BoII' CoIIsUp
New Bookson Old Game
ROGER MARIS AT BAT. BY

ROGER MARIS AT BAT. BY
Roger Maris and Jim Ogle.
Duell, Sloan & Pearce;
$2.95D
Perhaps Roger Maris
Strikes Back" would have
been a more accurate title
for this detailed report on
how baSeball's new home run
king topped Babe Ruth's
60-homer record last year.
For surely if the games ex-
hauStive record books had
room for one more statistic,
it might read: Most feuds
with more sports writer's,
single Season-Roger Maris."
For reasons unclear, the
New York Yankee slugger
chooses to devote an bver-
abundance of space to airing
his countless well-publicized
Spats with the press. This is
understandable to a degree,
but when the feuds begin to
outnumber the homers, you
start wondering whether you
really want to wade through
to that climactic clout.
At any rate, for the fan
who cares, every single one
of those 81 home runs is
pre-correlated with the pen
nant race, juxta-positioned
by game and inning and then
Dashed out of the park by
Mr.. Maris. And If you begin
thinking there must be some
thing besides homers in base
ball, you're just an old fogey.
JOHN Cassidy.
Evening star., 1962-04-08

love writing letters and find
in them a chance for self-ex-
preston that makes the
bother of writing them
something Of a delight.
From Sinclair Lewis
Such a one was Sinclair
Lewis, who took pen in hand
for Mr.. Cabell far less often
than q reader Of this collec-
tion might have wanted. His
first appearance is in the
guise Of an editor (of George
H. Doran Company turning
down a manuscript Of Mr..
Cabell's in the most civil
and gracious terms imagin-
able. He bounces back on
these pages from time to
time, incorrigible, droll. con-
fiding.
And Other Authors
Joseph Hergesheimer, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore
Dresser are other authors
who through the '20s wrote
to the self-contained Virginia
novelist who was at the cen
ter Of a kind of literary fra
ternity. What brought them
together on paper was the
seizure in 1920 of "Jurgen"
as "a lewd, lascivious, in
decent, obscene and dis
gusting book" The writer's
rallied around. Hergesheimer
wrote:
well, my dear Cabell, you
don't stand alone in this, we
are all marked together; this
outrage to 'Jurgen' gets, too,
at my freedom, my store of
confidence and my sense,
never, I am afraid, very
strong, Of a possible ultimate
Evening star., 1962-04-08
BOOKS IN REVIEW
ONeiII's World:
A Full Study
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

ONEILL By Arthur and Barbara Geb With an introduce
ton by Brooks Atkinson. Harpers; $12500
Biography read one or both of two reasons Either
e subject interesting the book is and in the
OF good book about the life Of complex and fascinating
man, biography turns out to be work of art The latest
biography OF Eugene ONein by the team of
arthur and Barbara Gelb is long, lesurey
entlrey captivating The authors natural story teers
never aVerse to dgresonhey not interested in
aung hero but in fasioning his world Any story Of
eugene must necessarily devote great deal Of space to
Evening star., 1962-04-08

dignity, for our beautiful,
our free, our consecrated
America. or in other words,
Gods country"
Dresser and Mencken
Theodore Dresser wrote Of
the need for a fund to be
devoted to hiring lawyers and
"the prosecution Of these cat
tie in every city in which they
operate-and they now oper-
ate everywhere" Mencken
had even bloodthirstier ideas
as to how to proceed. The
matter was finally resolved
two years later, with a total
vindication Of Cabell and
"Jurgen."
Much of the book is given
over to the correspondence
between Cabell and his editor,
Guy Holt, and his exchanges
with his most abject admirer,
Burton Rascoe, then the
literary editor of the Chicago
Tribune. These are not
enthralling.
When Books Mattered
What does come out of the
Between Friends" is a sense
that in those days, not so
long ago, books really mat
tered, and authors had a
sustaining society of their
own. Finally. a 1862 reader
would have to conclude that
philistinism. the great enemy
of that era, was perhaps not
so deadly as today's rival to
reading, television.
The collection has been
edited by Padraic Colum and
Margaret Freeman Cabell.
There is an introduction by
Carl Van Vechten, the last
survivor Of the writing circle.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
PAPERBACKS

THE MAN IN THE IRON
MASK. BY Alexander Du-
mas. CA Pyramid Book;
rs centSO The novel of ad-
venture and romance and
Dumas immortal Three
Musketeers.
WALL STREET: Men and
Money. BY Martin Mayer.
Collier; 95 cents.). An ac-
count of the world of
finance, by the author of
THE Schools" and "Madi-
son Avenue, U. S. A." RE
print.) -
MODERN GUIDE TO HOUSE
PLANTS. BY Ann Warren.
"a Dolphin Handbook; 95
cents.) More than so photo
graphs and drawings and
a special section on African
violets. (Reprint.D .
THE HORIZONTAL MAN.
BY Helen Eustis. "a Dol
phin Mystery; so cents.)
Mystery novel. (Reprint.)
Two more paperbacks in
the Pioneers Book" series.
have just been published by
the Citadel Publishing Co.
The series is devoted to tell
ing the story of the Ameri-
can frontier, and the life of
the men and women who
were the pioneers in shaping
the American West.
The latest are:
IN CAMP AND CABIN. BY
Rev. John Steele. (S1.5oD
Mining life and adventure
in California during the
1850 and later.
ECHOES OF THE PAST. By
Gen. John Bidwell. ($l.251
An account of the first emf
grant train to California,
Fremont in the conquest of
California, the discovery of
gold, and early pioneering.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
New Books Size-Up
The Two Red Giants

UNITY AND CONTRADIC-
TION: Major Aspects Of
SinO Soviet Relations.
Edited by Kurt London.
(Praeger; $7.500
COMMUNIST CHINA'S
STRATEGY IN THE NU-
CLEAR AGE. BY Alice
Langley Hsieh. prentice
Hall; $4.500
The rumblings Of discord
within the Communist world
have aroused considerable
interest in the relations be-
tweed the two Red giants
the Soviet Union and Com
munist China. Western
scholars, long in the fore
front Of such studies. have
responded admirably to the
demand for fresh and pene-
trating insights into the often
vague and incomprehensible
worlds Of Moscow and
Peking.
Mr.. London's collection of
essays were originally given
in September, 1860, and in
clude papers by such emf
nent scholars as Cyril E.
Black, Leonard Schapiro, and
Allen s. Whiting. They pro-
vide needed background on
the theological. economic
and political differences be-
tween the two great powers.
All told, SO scholars from IL
countries are represented in
this highly readable volume.
One of the problems di-
viding the two giants is the
question Of nuclear capa-
bility. Russia has, and China
has not. China wants, and
Russia won't give.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
WHAT THE REDS ARE READING
STORIES FROM MODERN RUSSIA Edited by C. snc

STORIES FROM MODERN RUSSIA Edited by C. P Snow
and Pamela Hansford johnson. (St. Martins S495)
Mr.. Snow and his wife have compiled excellent
selection of Soviet short stories The stories
have no particular to grind they overbear
ingy political They are, in fact the type of tale that
the Soviet citizen has found entertaining and the
government acceptable
The authors represented in the volume TVardov
sky PauStovsky zalygn Sholokhov Yevdokmov and Ten
dryakov. All well-known in the Soviet Union but only
Mr. Sholokhov CQuiet Flows the DOM is familiar to
Western readers. BERNARD GWERTZMAN.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed this week on the editorial
pose Of The Stor:
M0NDAY-"The Triumph of
Integrity, A Portroit Of ChorIes de
Goulle," by Duncon GrinneII-
Milne. (MocmiIlon.l
WEDNESDAY-"Who Destroyed
the Hindenburs?" by A. A.
Hoehlins. little, Brown
FRIDAY-"SehooI for Spies, the
ABc Of How Russio's Secret Ser-
ice operotes," by J. Bernard Hut
ton. (coword- -McConn.)
Evening star., 1962-04-08

CASEY AT THE BAT: The
Story Of My Life in Base
ball. By Casey Stengel as
told to Harry T. Paxton.
Random House; $3.50
Charles Dillon Stengel, well
known to some as the creator
and lone exponent of that pc
culiar English dialect called
Stengelese, but better known
to baseball fans as Casey
Stengel, didn't spend all of
his hours in the counting
house during his years sab
batical from baseball.
In the interval between his
firing by the New York Yam
KEGS and the start of a new
career with the fledgling New
York Nets this spring, the
71-year-old Casey neglected
his banking and oil inter-
eSts long enough to re-
cord his recollections of so
years in baseball.
DevoteeS of Stengelese
may find one fault in his
meandering account: The
punctuation. Casey, TO hear
the sports writer's tell it, has
a rambling speaking style
that defies translation to
English.
Stengel is only mildly bit
ter about his firing as Yam
kee manager after a fabu-
lous record of 10 pennants
and seven world champion
ships in IL years. He doesn't
quarrel with the owners
right to hire and fire; his
main grievance is their "sec-
ond-guessing and gossiping"
behind the back of the man
who. after all, had served
them rather unl1
Evening star., 1962-04-08
READING AND WRITING
Authors Who Loved
To Write Letters
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff WINTER

James Branch Cabe the author Of "Jurgen and other
fsncful novels not Of your naturalborn letter.
writer's like Lord Byron for instance Charles
Is the style Of another enormously writer
James Joyce, businesske correspondent wishes
to communicate in the most matterofact terms rather
than to reveal himself to the recipient Of the letter.
Luckily for the purposes BETWEEN FRIENDS" QIar-
court Brace & World $75) collection Of letters from and
Evening star., 1962-04-08

the l1crimG r1rum takes
him into areas not over
crowded by short-story writ
ers. In Report Card" for ex-
ample, he looks into some
subtle and appalling facets
of a three-way human rela-
tionship: a mothers vicarious
pride in her bright little boy,
and the attitude of the happy,
self satisfied child toward
some pathetically under
privileged classmates.
RUTH HUME.
Evening star., 1962-04-08
FICTION

MICHAEL TORY. BY Janet
Mathewson. doubleday;
$4.50.) A novel of one
mans rise to riches during
Americas most fabulous
era. Janet Mathewson is
also the author of a pre-
vious novel, "a Matter of
Pride"
THE WALLFLOWER SEA-
SON. BY Jeannette Bruce.
doubleday; $4.50) Anovel
about four girls who are
not beautiful.
DOWN THE HATCH. BY
John Winton. (St. Mar
tins: $3.50 A new novel
about the strange goings
on in the Royal Navy, by
Evening star., 1962-04-08

important race going on in
the world today is the BRAIN
power race.
Its a life-and-death mat
ter to win this race" he said.
"Brain-power will make the
difference in the world of to-
morrow. Everything depends
on the children of today,
what they learn in school and
from the books they read.
They must be able to think
fast and think straight.