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A Popular Study Of Chino
With E Emphasis on Mao

China has reached a breaking
point; when Mao Tse-tung and
Nikita S. Khrushchev are wag-
ing personal vendettas against
each others governments, and
when China again is appear
ing on the world scene as a
major power.
Mr.. Paloczi-Horvath wrote
this biography with no prior
experience in Chinese matters.
He simply researched what
was available in English and
then wrote a highly readable,
and fairly concise study Of
Chinese affairs for the last 20
years, mainly through tn e
eyes Of Mao Tse-tung, the
head of the Communist Chi
neSe.
By its nature the book is an
introduction to Mao Tse-tung.
There is little or nothing any
Sinologist will find in it; prob
ably much that he would find
missing. But for the general
public, Mr.. Paloczi-Horvath's
study is definitely worth read.
ing at this time.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN,
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GENERAL

WHAT DOES DADDY DO
ALL DAY. BY Don G. Camp
bell. (Bobbs-Merrill; 1885,
A collection Of humorous
columns by the business edi-
tor of the Indianapolis Star.
Mr.. Campbell's darts are
aimed at everybody in the
business community with a
particularly deadly accuracy
for the stuffed shirt. Mild
and good humored, they
reveal occasionally a tart
touch, none so much so,
however, as Mr.. Campbell's
description Of himself Tin a
newspaper interview as
1.-The non-rhymer's Edgar A.
Guest"
A WORLD MORE ATTRAC-
TIVE. BY Irving Howe.
(Horizon; $500 A collec-
ton of essays covering a
wide range of ideas which,
Mr.. Howe says, "if varied
in subject, they are, l be-
ieve, unified in outlook. "
He explores the writings
and influence of men like
T. E. Lawrence, Celine, Ed
mund Wilson, F. Scott Fitz-
gerald, Ernest Hemingway,
william Faulkner, James
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Baldwin, Norman Mailer,
Ralph Ellison and others.
THE LONG SHADOWED
FOREST. By Helen Hoover.
(Crowell; $4.95.) Mrs. Hoo
yer records with lyrical pre-
cision the life around her
home in the North Woods.
With the trained eye Of a
scientist and a poets gift
for words, she writes about
the deer, gray jays, owls
and weaselS that gather
around the log cabin for
suet and graham crackers.
A FEW PAINTED FEATH-
ERS. BY Stephen Long
street. Doubleday; $3.50
A novel about the American
Revolution as seen through
the eyes of a colorful cast
of characters. The totality
of the war is realized in a
variety of settings and sub
plots. The author covers
some aspects of the Revolu-
tionary period which have
been neglected by hiStori-
ans.
LIFE WITH IONIDES. By
Margaret Lane. Viking;
So Miss Lane narrates
her adventures in Africa
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through the Mountain
States, doubles back through
the Dakotas and Oklahoma
into Texas and then cuts east
through the Old Confederscy
and envelops the White House
from the South.
GOldwater Gambit
In the three years since it
was first offered, the thesis
has become fairly familiar. 1t
has been adopted and widely
publicized by the National
Draft Goldwater Committee.
Given the anti-Kennedy SEN
timent of much Of the South
and the Presidents own con-
centration on wooing minority
and ethnic groups in the North
east industrial States, it has
more than a tinge Of plausible
ity. In fact, every evidence at
the moment is that a majority
of Republicans think the Gold
water gambit is the best STRAIT
egy available to their party in
the straitened circumstances
Of 1864.
Mr.. de Toledano, a veteran
publicist of conservative
causes, gives the Goldwater
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written protests Of love, and
in 1910 they we're divorced.
The trouble, as might have
been imagined, was not, in
the beginning, at least, a
conflict of careers. Miss
Thompson abandoned hers to
"build a life with him which
shall have breadth, depth,
reative quality, dignity,
beauty and inner loyalty"
She always acknowledged his
superior gifts. But it would
seem that those two geniuses
had little talent for mar
riage. Lewis, umpire Sheean
says, was tortured by sex
ual inadequacy and malad-
justments." Miss Thompson
had a Valkyrie quality that
might not have made every
day life too easy. "She would
nobly and generously state
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MAO TSE-TUNG: Emperor Of
the Blue Ants. BY George
Paloczi Horvath. Double
day; $5.750
Mr.. Paloczi-H orvath's latest
work is quite an accomplish
ment for this Hungarian exile
who made his way to the West
in 1856. Following his sue
cessful autobiography, 1.-THE
Indicated" and a biogra-
ply, "Khrushchev," this book
marks Mr.. Paloczi-Horvath as
a major popular writer on the
Communist world.
This book is especially
timely, coming when the long
time feud between Russia and
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Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

accompanying Ionides, a
capturer of and authority on
the most venomous snakes
on earth. The book is a live
ly portrayal of this modern
Englishman whose 80 years,
spent largely in solitude in
Africa, have given him
highly personal insights and
beliefs. 1t describes the
world of snakes and offers
some human gimpSes of
Tanganyika'S people.
THE DECISION-MAKERS. BY
Carol Estes Thometz.
(Southern Methodist Uni
verSity; 81 Starting with
the premise that the real
deciSion-making power is
not lodged in the city's elect
ed officials. the author uses
the city of Dallas to find
out who the real policy
makers are and how they
attained this position. She
draws profiles Of the sew
en- "key leaders" Of the city
to acquaint the reader with
what manner of men they
are.
THE PROMISED END. BY
Stanley Edgar Hymn an.
(World; $500 A collection
of essays unified by a con-
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through about half. How de-
lightful for one who feels him
self acquainted with Sir John
Falstaff, to find W. H. Auden
suggesting a quite new reflec-
ton upon the knight: 1--WE are
told that the Heir Apparent
has taken up with a dissolute
crew of 'unrestrained loose
companions What sort of bad
company would one expect to
find Prince Hal keeping when
the curtain rises on Henry
w? Surely, one would expect
to see him surrounded by dar-
ing, rather sinister, juvenile
delinquentS and b e a utiful
gold-digging whores. But
whom do we meet in the
Bears Head? A fat, cowardly
tosspot, old enough to be his
father, two down-at-heel hang
ers-on, a slatternly hostess and
only one who're, who is not
in her earliest youth either;
all Of them seedy, and, by
any worldly standards, includ-
ing those of the cri m in a |
classes, all of them failures.
Surely, one thinks, an Heir
Apparent, sowing his wild
oats, could have picked him
self a more exciting crew
than that. :"
Auden on Falstaff is typical
of the other contributions only
in its originality and its knack
Of holding your interest; 9TH
erwiSe, it is not at all like
Nancy Milford on aristocratic
U-words, Evelyn Waugh's
reply, H. r. Trevor-Roper on
Arnold Toynbee, Erich Heller
on WittgenStein, or Katherine
Anne Porter on Lady Chat
terley's Lover" But whatever
the subject and the approach,
these selections from ''En-
counter" make fine reading.
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Roadmap for a Gastronome
MASSEE'S GUIDF

MASSEE'S GUIDE TO EAT
ING AND DRINKING IN
EUROPE. BY William E.
Massee. (McGraw Hill;
S4.95.)
My interest in this book
was piqued to fever pitch
when l read, on its cover,
that Mr.. Massee was "co-au-
thor with Alexis Lichine Of
Wines Of France written
several years ago after a
five-month trip through the
great wine regions, tasting
as many as fifty wines a
day."
Here, l decided, Is a great
leader, behind whom we can
all confidently walk, or stag
ger.
Mr.. Masses new book,
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BUT NOT EVEN
A FATHER COULD
DIG THEM

THROUGH DARKEST ADO
LESCENCE. With Tongue
in Cheek and Pen in
CheckbOOk: BY Richard
Armour. (McGraw-Hill;
1885,
Written as only a father
Of teen-agers could write it,
this is a funny book about
their peculiar way Of life.
The author writes about
such fundamentals as the
bathroom, the telephone,
parties, chaperones, cars
and their strange dialect
known as "Teenese." The
book carries delightful il
Illustrations by Susan Perl.
N. E.
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author of ''The Bridge Over
the River Kwai," begins.
On SOror, man is not hui
man, but a wild animal, with
out reason or intellect, that
inhabits the forests and is
shot by the Sororians for
sport and captured by them
for scientific experimentation
and for ZOOS. The people of
Soror are apes who dress in
clothes, drive automobiles,
watch television, drink cock
tails, and in general are, ex-
cept for their physical appear
ance, their proves in having
abolished war and their infe-
riority in the space race, indis-
tinguishable from the man Of
the planet Earth.
Emerging from their rocket,
the three scientists first
meet a herd of men who offer
them no bodily harm but, en-
ragged by the sight and smell
Of any artifact, destroy the
rocket and strip off the stran-
gers clothes so that they be-
come poor, naked, forked ami
mails like them. In this condi-
ton they are the quarry Of a
man-hunt by the apes, one is
shot and killed, the other two
captured and put in cages.
Merou is faced with two
problems-what to do about
Nova, woman and wild ami
NAL, naked, and as delectable
as DaiSy-Mae, with a vacant
look in her unhuman eyes and
no knowledge at all Of laugh
ter, and how to convince the
apes that he is as intelligent
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Street Food" with his two
major topics-e ating and
enthusiastically interwo-
ven throughout.
| liked best his Street
Food" material-the ode
lights of a gustatory nature"
to be found in a Partisan
sidewalk cafe, a Munich beer
hall, an Irish pub, a Wen
nese wurstl stand, a Flor
entine taffy barrow, a Lon
don fish-and-chips shop, an
Amsterdam herring cart, a
Spanish bodega.
Look: to 60 to Europe
without this book as your
wade mecum would be a
chuckle-headed-I said chuck
le-headed-thing to do.
CHARLES COOKE.
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Why This Had to Be Told

her obligation Ito her genius
husband) and then promptly
forget it." Lewis could not
stand any children, even his
own, and burst into a rage be-
cause his son could not blow
out the candles on the cake at
his second birthday party.
When Dorothy's career
burst into full bloom at the
time of the Nazi menace, he
could not, although he had
previously encouraged her,
endure her celebrity. Miss
Thompson was bitter when
the divorce fin ally came.
Lewis seems not to have
cared for years.
She is more literally rep
resented here. Her letter
were passionate, his largely
matter of fact. She loved
him because he suffered; he
never said why he had been
so hard hit at first, and he
obviously soon got over it.
Miss Thompson's sense Of
mission dictated the publica-
ton Of this painful intimate
study of her marriage and
even of a Lesbian interlude
in her life. A condensation of
the story appeared in Har-
per's. 1t was enough. The
book is too much, and Mr..
Sheean's comments, VIII c h
while tactful, are often repeti-
tive and sometimes fatuous.
1t is a sad love story, and
one wonders if Miss Thomp-
son, compulSive formulator
that she was, was seeking
vindication when she willed
it to the public.
MARY McGR0RY.
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thesis an extremely hard sell
in this book. Not content with
seeing it accepted as a practi-
cal approach for a particular
election, he presents it as a
guaranteed formula for VIC
tory and a long overdue tri-
umph over his favorite an
tagonists - the ''ideologically
polluted" Eastern liberal Re-
publcans.
Hurts GOldwater Cause
He says he's optimistic, but
he still sounds pretty bitter,
when he calls Gov. George
Romney a william Jennings
Bryan in a Brooks Brothers
suit" and pretty foolish when
he says the 1862 elections in
California and New YORK,
which saw sweeping victories
for Senators Kuchel and Javits,
were bad news" for liberal
Republicans.
Exaggeration, when carried
to Mr.. de T oil d ano' s ex-
tremes, hurts, r a t h e r than
helps, the Goldwater cause.
In 1864, he says, the Ameri-
can people must choose be-
tween victory and surrender,
between national survival and
engulfment, between freedom
and coercion, between princi-
pie and expedience."
A Goldwater-Kennedy con-
test may be many things, but
it is hardly that.
DAVID BRODER.
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EDITORIAL PAGE
DAILY COLUMN

The editorial page feature,
"a Book for Today" this
week:
MONDAY: 1.-The Quiet
Crisis" by Stewart L. Udall.
holt, Rinehart & Winston. }
TUESDAY: 1.-THE Future
of Russia" by Harry
Braverman. (Macmillan.)
WEDNESDAY: Prospects
for the West" by j. William
Fulbright. (Harvard.)
THURSDAY: "Footnote
PhobiaS."
FRIDAY: "Verdicts Out
of Court" by Clarence OAR
row, edited by Arthur and
Lila Weinberg. (Quadran-
gle.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-17
DonIeuvy Turns
SurreuIistic
A SINGULAR MAN. A move

A SINGULAR MAN. A novel
by j. P. Donleavy. (Atlan-
tic-Little, Brown; 49,
This novel by the author of
"The Ginger Man" is enjoy
able from beginning to end,
although the reader is seldom
sure exactly what is going on.
Smith, the hero, runs a bust
ness that makes lots of money,
he is mysteriouSly black
mailed by 81. ]. j." who
demands nothing and does not
say what he is holding over
Smiths head. Smith has two
secretaries, one of whom, Miss
Tomson, is delicious; a wife
and four children, a bawdy
colored cook, an armored car,
and a mauSoleum as elab-
crate and solid as an Egyp-
tian sarcophagus. The opening
pages of the book are sober
enough, but thereafter it is
difficult to know what is hap
pening to whom: "a Singular
Man" is a surrealistic novel.
Though the pages could
readily be perused in any
order, they are not like those
of Composition One," the
French novel that is shuffled
like a deck Of cards reviewed
in this column last week.
Light, dry, dancing, tart, they
have a musical scherzo-like.
vitality. Whether George
Smith is in bed with one of his
four girls, buying a stock of
200 canes walking sticks),
guarding a paper bag contain
ing millions in currency or
perhaps mushrooms, or cryptic
replies to cryptic blackmail
notes and phone calls, he is
always amusing and intriguing.
Maybe he even makes sense,
but a second reading or an
edition with footnotes are
required to settle the point.
Very best of all would be a
movie, but while waiting for it
you might read the book.
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as they are, and therefore
worthy Of a suit of clothes and
a martini. Jealousy prompts
him to take Nova into his
arms, with some misgivings
as to the morality of the
union, and several little
tricks, of which sketches Of
the Pythagorean theorem con-
corning right-triangles and Of
comic sections are clinchers,
are astonishing proof to the
apes that they have an intelli-
gent man in their midst.
In a couple Of months Merou
learns to speak Sororian
fluently, and several apes
learn French. It develops that
centuries before, men were
the masters of Soror, and that
apes are their descendants.
Easy living and complacency
were the undoing Of mankind,
however, and the ape became
dominant. When Nova gives
birth to a man-child, half
human, half beast, the apes
become alarmed and assist
man, wife and infant back to
their orbiting spacecraft and
thence to Earth.
What is missing from Mr..
Boulle's yarn is satire, irony
or any imagination. TIL e
switch is complexion Soror
people are apes and men are
animals. But they are not ami
mails with a difference, as in
Swift or Kafka, for example,
that speak inStructively about
the h u m a n condition. Mr..
Boulle's a overture story
wears a bit thin.
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sistent and convincing view
includes topics on literature,
Of man and his works. It
folklore, language, psy-
chology and religion.
FICTION
DINGO. BY Mary Patchett.
Doubleday; $500 A story
set in the Australian out
backs about a young boys
friendship with a wild dingo
dog.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF
CLAUDIA. BY Rose Frank
en-. Doubleday & Co., Inc;
1885, By running to 1000
pages this volume manages
to include all eight of Rose
Franken's Claudia" nov
els. These are among the
most popular books of mod
ern times - the first was
published rs years ago -
and the movies will prob
ably 60 right on making
and remaking them.
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ENCOUNTERS WITH MEN
AND IDEAS, PERSONS
AND PLACES, ARTS AND
LETTERS, PROBLEMS
AND POLEMICS. Selected
by Melvin ]. Lasky. (Basic
Books; $500
/ do not see how this vol
ume by IS writers can be
reviewed in few words, for to
write of it as a book would be
to speculate on the intellec-
tual aura of the past decade.
On the other hand, 1t would be
a mistake for a man who
earns his living writing about
books to say nothing about it
at all, for the stories, essays,
and poems that comprise this
large anthology, without any
common denomination Of inter-
est or purpose, are Of a high
er standard Of literary quality
than that attained by almost
any other omnium gatherum
one can think of readily.
Encounter" is an Anglo
American monthly magazine,
10 years old, and edited by
the Englishman, Stephen
Spender, and the present an
biologist, the American Mel
win J. Lasky. Before Mr..
Lasky, Irving KriStol was the
American editor.) 1t is not a
popular but an intellectual
publication; nevertheless, it
has a circulation of $4,000,
with 5000 in America. AS the
title of the anthology indi-
Gates, it publishes articles on
every kind of subject, together
with fiction and poetry.
So far, / have browse d
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like Undoubtedly his
wines Of France" before it,
is sober, serious, and liberal
ly helpful. my intention is
to save the traveller time
not hours but weeks" he
says in his introduction, be-
fore Zestfully revealing his
labor-of-love researches into
Europe's special but unpub-
hcized delights Of a gustatory
nature"
His formal is easy to fol-
low. He has divided his chap
tiers up into the major Euro
pean countries, Jumping Spain
and Portugal in one chapter
headed liberia" Each chap
ter is Sub-divided into "Gas-
tronomy," "Bre kfa ST."
Lunch and Dinner" and
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THE BLIC

THE BLIGHT ON THE IVY.
BY Richard E. Gordon and
Katherine K. Gordon. (Pren
tice-Hall; $4.95.)
1t is often the case that So
ciety in reform swings too far
and creates new evils before
finding a sensible course. Are
we now, in our zeal to edu-
cate, driving the young to
ulcers, nervous breakdown or
even suicide?
The Gordons, he a practic-
ing psychiatrist and she a so
cial psychologist, cite alarm
ing increases in mental health
problems among adolescents
and young adults. And they
find the evidence pointing to
greater pressure for educa-
tional achievement as partly
responsible.
They join others issuing
similar warnings when they
say that, carried to extremes,
pressure from all sides to
beat the other fellow, get into
college, stay there, rank at
the top of the class, earn a
scholarship and win accept
ance undermine the emotional,
physical and moral health Of
the college community.
New Problems
In turning their attention
from Suburbia, as surveyed in
their previous book, "The
Split-Level Trap" to the cam
puS, the GordOns report
through illustrative case histo-
ries of students and teachers
drawn from their research
and set down with their var
iouS background problems on
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DOROTHY AND RED. BY
Vincent Sheean. (Houghton
NE;feI;v. &c NJ

DOROTHY AND RED. BY
Vincent Sheean. (Houghton
Mifflin; $685.
This is the most distressful
story Of the ia nous and
doomed marriage Of Column
mist Dorothy Thompson and
Novelist Sinclair Lewis. The
narrator, Vincent Sheean,
wonders aloud, as his read
ers may, why it should be
told, but he is acting on in
Structions from Miss Thomp-
son, who willed her journals
and letters to Syracuse Uni
versity and indicated they
were to be published.
The courtship delighted the
world. Sinclair Lewis, sepa-
rated from his first wife, pro-
posed to Dorothy Thompson,
divorced from her first hus-
band, the first night they
met, in Berlin, at her 33rd
birthday party. He proposed
to her constantly and publicly
until she accepted. They were
married at a posh wedding
in London in May, 1928. But
although a dashing suitor, the
creator of "Babbitt" was
something less than an ideal
husband.
Less than three months
after the marriage, Dorothy
Thompson is confiding in her
journal that dad temper is
the most destructive of human
faults" Less than a year
later, she is complaining Of his
heavy drinking, his selfishnesS,
his boorishneSs to her friends.
BY 1897, they we're living most
of their lives apart, despite
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
"A Planet Where Apes
Are the Masters
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

PLANET OF THE APES. novel by Pierre Boue Translated
from the French by Ian Fielding vanguard Press $5O)
In the year $780, the journalist Ulysse Merou set out
upon scientific expedition to the planets of the Betegeuse
system 300 ighyears away from Earth Relatively work
ing for him, so little over two years his space ship
orbng around Soror planet of about the size tenn
peratTe and atmospheric condition Earth Leaving his
space Ship Merou and two fellow scientists rocketed EARTH
Or to avoid ambiguity let say to land to ground There
upon the fantasy Of Pierre Boue who be identified as the
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Is There q New Route
To the White House?

THE WINNING SIDE: The Case Godwater RePublicanism
By Ralph de Toledano &C. p Putnam's Sons S3-s5
Ever since 1850 conservative group within the Repub
ican Party has been trying to convince majority OF the
pas leaders that the old maps Of the route to the presidency
all wrong
The path does not arc from New York and Pennsylvania
through the Midwest and into California, they maintain.
starts Arizona at Barry Godwaters place. loops north
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Is Education Focinq
A Difficult Deal?

the campus Of an imaginary
university:
at is an arena for many Of
the students and faculty, a
place of bitter and unending
competition"
While sounding the alarm,
they also suggest remedies to
reduce unnecessary stress
piled upon unnecessary stress,
which is the pattern in so
many colleges today"
That does not mean elimi-
mating all stress: LET us re-
member that pressure need
not always crush; that, prop
erly applied, it can help mould
the productive and rewarding
life."
Easier Financing
One strain they would lessen
is the financial burden.
This, they advise, could be
done through such measures
as income tax relief, and
more and better scholarships,
fellowShipS and loan provi-
sions for average and part
time as well as for excep-
tional and full-time students.
Next, they would reward
college teaching sufficiently to
assure good faculties, unbur-
dened by the need for second
jobs or temptation to abandon
the classroom altogether.
Good counseling, abandon
ment of gra ding on the
curve" rather than on a
standard, avoidance of too
rigid rules, or, on the other
hand, too much license for
students, and curbing of de-
Structive hazing are among
other suggested easements.
HARRIET GRIFFITHS.