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Evening star., 1963-04-28
The Gamble
At Anzio
ANZIO: The Gamble That
Failed. BY Martin Blumen-
son. Lippincott; S3.95.)

son. CLippincott; $3.95O
Martin Blumenson, senior
historian in the Army's Of
flee of the Chief of Mill
tary History, has long con-
cerned himself with the
landing at Anzio, one Of the
most ill-conceived, ill-carried
out, and useless allied cam
paigns during World War II.
In this concise, and beau
tifully written volume in the
admirable series, Great Bat
ties Of History" edited by
Hanson w. Baldwin, Mr..
Blumenson has written a
military history that will
serve either as an introduc-
ton or the final word on
that allied attempt to breach
the German defenSeS south
Of Rome.
Mr.. Blumenson's criti-
cisms are always judicious-
he tries to explain the ex-
igencies that forced Winston
Churchill to push for the in
vasion in l943 even though
the gamble seemed extraor-
dinarily risky; that led Gen.
Mark Clark to let ego
tism cloud his brilliant mill
tary mind, and finally. which
led Mai. Gen. John P. Lucas.
to hesitate on the Anzio
beachhead instead of striking
forcefully and gambling on
capturing Rome in one
sweep.
BERNARD GwERTZMAN.
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Life in the Days
OF Elizabeth
LADY RICH. Ry e

LADY RICH. BY Elizabeth
Boatwright Coker. (Dut-
ton; $4.95)
This story deals with a
slice OF life at the court OF
Queen Elizabeth and her
successors. The heroine is
Penelope Devereux. a lady In
waiting. Although the daugh-
ter OF an earl, she was the
enemy Of Robert Dudley,
the Queens favorite. Her
hectic career and strange
marriages make this novel
most entertaining while at
the same time maintaining
the necessary suspense.
III. A. LYON.
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lection Of their customs and
values.
Robert has been sent to his
Yankee kin, the Harmsworths,
it seems because his adored
father is having an affair
with a neighbor's wife. Rob-
ert is constantly eXhorted to
love his aunt and uncle, whom
he can see at a glance are
absurd-the uncle, a boom
ingly pious nitwit, and his
aunt a mere blob on the land
scape.
Lion and Dragon
His uncle's mother is a
dragon. His uncle's uncle, a
retired general, is a motheat-
en- lion being further ravaged
by his two spinSter daughters.
Robert makes an ally of the
general, who gives him 10
dollars to run away. Robert
is dragged back from his
eScapade in disgrace, and
saved from Heaven knows
what further punishment by
the fact that his perfect"
l0-year-old consin Julie has
torn off her clothes in front
Of a clergyman.
Miss Hale makes the most
of the opportunities for satire
in her brisk novel. Yankees
who mistake anxiety for love,
who confuse church. going
with religion, are odiously
compared in young Roberts
mind with the folks in the
South who loved you and
turned you out into the upper
meadow Z. and liked to have
a good time . and liked for
you to enjoy yourself, too"
Her young hero might be a
little too small to formulate
all the ideas Miss Hale puts
in his head. but he is appeal
ing, all the same, and so is
her story.
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at his finest, unmarked by
the occasional pettiness, self
pity, and insensitiveness to
his friends that are to be
found in his earlier and later
life. Siberia was a hell in
which the great novelist was
tempered, although the fine
steel was already at hand,
since Poor People," written
before DoStoevsky's exile,
would have assured his fame
If he had written nothing
else.
All his life Dostoevsky was
a voracious reader, but ap-
parently not a wide or deep
one. George Sand meant as
much to him as Balzac or
Pushkin, and 1t was perhaps
not solely his dislike Of Tur-
genev personally that caused
him to disprize his books. His
xenophobia was extreme; all
his life he could see nothing
of value or Of interest in Ger
many, France, Switzerland or
England, and his attachment
to the status quo Of Russian
institutions was so without
reservation (after his return
from Siberia) and so out
spoken that ironically 1t was
suspect, and kept him almost
to the end of his life under
the surveillance Of the secret
police.
He hated Professionalism,
which led to atheism" and
Roman Catholicism, which
led to "idolotry": although he
was not q strong adherent to
Russian Orthodoxy. he had a
passionate belief In the gos-
pei of Christ. But man and
artist, it seems to me. can
often scarcely be recognized
in the same individual. When
one thinks of Ivan and Alloy
sha Karamazov, of the Grand
Inquisitor, Of the profound
and endlessly complicated be-
lief and doubt that strive
within them, can one imagine
that the following ordinary
and illogical sentiment was
written in a letter by Dos
toevsky at about the same
time as THE Brothers Ka-
ramazov"?-
"Only by his belief in i'm
mortality does man attain his
rational aim on earth. :. If
the belief in Immortality is
necessary for human exist
ence, then 1t is q normal
condition of man, and If 1t
is a normal condition Of man.
then the Immortality Of the
soul undoubtedly exists"
Mr.. Magarshak is we'll
known as the leading
20th-century translator Of
Dostoevsky. Gogol. Turgenev
and Goncharov. AS q biog-
rapher he writes lucidly, and
has organized q sprawling
era and subject admirably.
His book is unquestionably
the best study Of Dostoevsky
the man in English.
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Admiralty in the beginning Of
the then called "phony war"
in 1899. followed him to 10
Downing street and stayed
with him until the Potsdam
Conference and the hu-
initiating drubbing Of the
Tories in 1945.
The tone Of the book is set
in the foreword written by
w. Averell Hartman who
took part in many Of the in
cidents described by the au-
thor. Mr.. Hartman says the
book q. brings back many
cherished moments that I
shared. While I cannot agree
with some Of the political
conclusions which the author
expresses, I find the book a
valuable contribution to the
personal side Of Churchill's
life during the war years."
Churchilrs Own
According to the author,
Sir Winston himself encour-
aged Commander Thompson
to tell his story Of those
eventful years, so it is implied
that some Of the opinions
which Mr.. Hartman dis
agrees with, and which are q
little jarring to some cher
ished American opinions,
represent the attitudes Of the
wartime Prime Minister.
It was not unnatural that
England's main concern was
in Europe, North Africa and
the Middle East, but through
the book one gets the feeling
that Japan and the Pacific
war scarcely existed, or were
at best an irritating diver
sion from the main task,
which was defeating Hitler.
Yalta
Those who regard the Yalta
conference as a triumph for
Russia and a disaster for the
free world will find comfort
as Mr.. Pawle adds new fuel
to an old fire. Churchill APP
parently felt that many times
during the war Roosevelt and
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TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial poee Of The
Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"Westword Tilt" by
Neil Morgan. CRondom House,
WEDNESDAY-"PoIitieol Porties
in New Notion" by Williom
Nsbet ChombeS. loxford.D
FRIDAY-"A History Of the Mon
roe Doctrine" by Dexter Perkins.
Little. Brown
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rather a portrait Of their
author.
Money, women, and the
Emperor Of Russia were the
three focal points Of Dos
toevsky's career, almost every
step OF which astonishes the
reader Of Mr.. Magarshak's
book to see Dostoevsky cheat
one OF the three nemeSes to
create a masterpiece. The
young army officer in st.
Petersburg, the son OF a
landowner murdered by his
serfs, later the exiled army
private who had served four
years in a Siberian prison for
having attempted the dis
tribution Of seditious litera-
ture, and finally the famous
novelist-the three Dostoev-
skys were always impov-
erished. Flattery Of his
father, blackmail Of his rela-
tives, importuning Of his
friends, begging Of his pub
fishers and even borrowing
from his mistress were all
methods used by Dostoevsky
to keep out Of debtors prison
and to stake himself at roul-
cite.
Hiss passion for gambling
was a disease against which
he was powerless as against
his epilepsy. He had a sys-
TEN that would insure his
winning, one factor OF which
was a cool head, and he
would always blame his in
evitable loss on his own
excitement at the table, al
though it seems clear that
his error was always to play
until he was broke against
a house with sufficient re-
sources to break him.
His first wife, a young
widow with whom he became
infatuated during his exile
in Semipalatinsk, he seems
to have lost interest in al
most as soon as he was mar
ried; his second, whom he
met as the stenographer to
whom he dictated "The
Gambler" while he was writ
ing Crime and Punishment"
was his companion for IA
years, although there de-
veloped little intellectual or
artistic affinity. OF the sew
eral other women in his life.
the most interesting to both
DOStoevsky and the reader
of his life was Pauline Sus-
low, his mistress in whose
spell he was blind to, but
not impervious to, her
sadism.
Dostoevsky spent four years
in iron shackles In q Siberian
prison. It Is remarkable
that the horrible incarcera-
ton did not shatter his
spirit; in fact at his trial,
during the ghaStly 10 min
utes he and his fellow con-
spirators expected to be exc
cuted by a firing squad, and
in Siberia, we see Dostoevsky
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day Anchor Book; $l.45D
THE Overcoat," by Nikolai
Gogol; Lady Macbeth Of
the Mtsenk District" by
Nikolai Leskov; "A Lear Of
the Steppes," by Ivan Tur-
genev; Master and Man"
and Death OF Ivan nych,"
by Leo Tolstoy; Ward No.
g." by Anton Chekhov.
THE CASE FOR BASIC
EDUCATION. Edited by
James d. Koerner. at
lantic-Little. Brown; $l.95D
Eighteen contributors state
their opinions about goals
in public education. IRE
printD
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When Churchill
Was Colonel Warden
THE WAR AND COLONI
(Knopf; $7.95)

THE WAR AND COLONEL WARDEN. By Gerald PaWle.
(Knopf; $7950
Colonel Warden" the used by Winston
Churchill in his travels during World War (although his
unmistakabe figure and buoyant personality almost always
made mockery of the sctest security precautions This
book based the recolecon Of his constant companion
and de-de-camp, Commander C. r. Thompson. who
assigned to Churchill when he became First Lord Of the
Evening star., 1963-04-28

Elizabeth Pagani, "a tight
little bundle of certitudes,"
who wants to make of her
life "a significant arrange
ment-of the best" Her hus-
band, David, less intense,
goes along. Liz rejects
things" scorns her mother,
seeks out lofts to live in.
No Conflict
There is no real conflict
between these two who walk
around in each others
minds" They have their
ecstasies, their mild mis-
understandings. Their one
moment of alienation comes
when Liz mother and David's
father are married. Little by
little. they bend themselves
to the dear yoke Of parent
hood. Miss CaliSher shows
considerable talents in the
clinical line as she describes
the convulsions Of their baby
daughter.
At the end Liz and David,
still in love, are a little more
like other couples. At least
Liz is less demanding and
angular and almost tolerant
Of her mother.
Miss CaliSher writes splen-
didly, but sometimes her in
SiStence on registering some
nuances hardly seem worth
the trouble. Sometimes also
she is so excruciatingly subtle
she is merely battling to her
readers, as she never is In her
short stories.
Miss Hale's gifts are of a
heartier nature. BLACK Sum-
mer" is slightly overdrawn,
but very funny all the same.
Her young rebel, 7-year-
old Robert Kean. incites a
whole Hudson River clan to
rebellion by his ferocious re-
Evening star., 1963-04-28
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Dostoevsky,
Man and Artist
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

DOSTOEVSKY: Life By David Magarshak. Harcourt;
Brace a. World: $875.
Dosteovsky the great progentors Of the modern
spirit Of Sartre Camus Glide and Kafka reaconary,
almost provincial in his life, II not in his art. David
Magarshaks and authoritative biography reveals lot
the although fails to explain much about the
enigma That it is is not a shortcomng Of the book
which does not set itself study Of Dosoevskys novels but
Evening star., 1963-04-28
The Underestimoted
House of Congress
THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. c.
April 2S. 1868
FORGE OF DEMOCRACY: The House

FORGE OF DEMOCRACY: The House Of Representatives
BY Neil MacNel. MacKay; $675D
To welcome this book only comprehensive story and
study OF the congressional branch closest to the people
would be faint praise Mr. MacNel, Washington news
correspondent stepped American history and political phi
osophy does more than describe narrae report He
does remarkably well in the extremely difficult task OF de-
filming the sometimes ignored and often underestimate
House.
This product years research and observation clears
Evening star., 1963-04-28
He BIuzed
A Trail to
Seubottom
THE LIVING SEA. BY Capt.
Jacques Yves Cousteau.
Harper a. Row; $6.50D

OdSNuCS FCo NOuSItdu,
Harper a. Row; $6,50D
Captain CouSteau is prob
ably the worlds foremost ex-
plorer and adventurer.
This statement may hurt
the feelings of John Glenn
and Yuri Gagarin. but the
fact is that the aStronauts
and cosmonautS have done a
lot less than the French un-
dersea explorer to push back
the frontiers of human knowl-
edge.
Furthermore, Capt. Cous-
teau is a fine writer. His first
book, The Silent World, is
now a classic. 1t introduced
the public to underwater ex-
ploration and managed to
express the wonder and ex-
citement Of swimming free in
the unexplored seas.
Expeditions
This book, THE Living
Sea-" describes expeditions in
his research ship, Calypso, to
the Red Sea, Indian Ocean
and Atlantic. He introduces
some Of the new diving de-
vices that are more complex
than his aqualung but which
permit man to go deeper with
more freedom and to gather
more information.
Capt. Cousteau is more
than a passenger in a capsule.
He designs the equipment,
leads the expeditions, takes
the dangerous diveS-out of
touch with the surface-and
returns with vast amounts of
new information about the
seas.
High Adventure
1t is high adventure but i'm
meaSurably useful. as the
deep seas are as unknown as
outer space but Of probably
greater value to us all. We
are fortunate to have Capt.
CouSteau to tell us what it is
like down there.
Z. FRYKLUND
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LISTENING TO MUSIC. BY
Douglas Moore. Morton:
$3.50 A revised edition Of
a practical guide to under
standing music. especially
designed for concert
goers.
Evening star., 1963-04-28

OF Freedom
For All
ONE MANS STAND FOR

ONE MANS STAND FOR
FREEDOM: Mr.. Justice
Black and the Bill of
Rights. Collected opinions,
a biography and notes.
Edited by Irving billiard.
Kpopf; $685.
The passionate message OF
Justice Blacks Is years of
labor on the Supreme Court
in support Of the Bill Of
Rights and individual free
dom is best found in his own
words.
This collection OF his opin-
ions and major public state
ments puts the Justice, the
court and the issues involved
into perspective and then,
appropriately, stands aside.
Many of the most moving
passages - and there are
many - deal with the First
Amendment, first in the Bill
Of Rights and certainly first
in the heart of Mr.. Justice
Black.
Freedom In Full
II am for the First Amend
ment from the first word to
the last" he said in a rare
interview In 1862.
II believe it means what it
says. and it says to me:
Government shall keep its
hands off religion. Govern
ment shall not attempt to
control the ideas a man has.
Government shall not at
tempt to establish a religion
Of any kind. Government
shall not abridge freedom of
the press or speech. 1t shall
let everybody talk in this
country
Il have never been shaken
in the faith that the Ameri-
can people are the kind Of
people and have the kind Of
loyalty to their Government
that we need not fear the
talk Of Communists or of
anybody else. Let them talk
in the American way, We
will answer them"
And, in a 1861 opinion. he
said:
II do not believe that it
can be too often repeated
that the freedoms Of speech,
press, petition, and assembly
guaranteed by the First
Amendment must be accord
ed to the ideas We hate or
sooner or later they will be
denied to the ideas we cher
ish."
Bill of Rights
In cases spanning a quar-
ter Of q century. Justice
Black has had ringing words
on many Bill Of Rights is
sues.
He has spoken - some
times in vigorous dissents-
on the rights of accused
persons, religion in the
schools. Communist affilia-
tions. police search and
seizure practices. Congress
sional investigating and
many other heated issues.
To steal a phrase. one
might aptly say that Justice
Black has modified the
English language and sent 1t
into battle in defense Of free
dom under the Bill of Rights.
Lawyers and laymen alike
will find much Of value in
this important, well-present-
ed collection of his opinions.
DANA BULLEN.
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STACY TOWER. I

STACY TOWER. BY Robert
H. X. Walter. Macmillan;
$3.50 This college novel
attempts a lot: Student and
faculty politics. the race
question. and sex. AS a pic
ture Of a large Western
university, 1t is enlighten-
ing and somewhat interest
ing. The writing is. for
the most part. straight and
has the virtue of not being
overweight when 1t deals
with its sometimes melo-
dram attic situations. II
would have been better II
1t had been shorter.
GENERAL
THE YEARS BETWEEN: A
DRAMATIC VIEW OF
THE TWENTIES AND
THIRTIES. BY Marvin
Barrett. Little. Brown a.
Co.; $685. A dynamic
blend OF narrative and
photograph. this striking
book presents the essence
OF two crucial and fas-
cinating decades. and fur
nishes a timely review
doubly significant In the
dawn Of a new perilous
era.
DAYS WITH ULANOvA. BY
Albert Kahn. (Simon a.
Schuster; $l0) An extra
ordinary pictorial biogra-
ply presenting. for the first
time. an intimate portrait
OF the celebrated Russian
ballerina Galina Ulanova,
who has achieved world
wide fame as one OF the
great artists OF our time.
The book includes 800 pho
tographs along with Mr..
Kahns story OF his experi-
Evening star., 1963-04-28
WHAT'S BECOME OF WAR

ING. BY Anthony Powell.
Little, Brown g. Co.; 50
Anthony Powell has a
large and delighted audience
for each successive volume
OF his "The Music Of Time"
series. II Is not surprising
that his publishers should
supply his devotees with
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Books of the Week in Brief

ences during four trips to
the Soviet Union to take
them. This" declares Sol
Hurok. lis poetry not pho
tography." The book will
make a superb gift not only
for lovers of the dance, but
for all who love beauty.
PAPERBAcKS
THE DECEITFUL MARRI-
AGE: And Other Exam
plary Novels. BY Miguel de
Cervantes. (25 cents.)
SIX RUSSIAN SHORT
NOVELS. Selecte d and
with an introduction by
Randall FARRELL. "a Double
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READERS CLEARING HOUSE

is within the corporate limits
Of the city.
Entertainment is Las Cru
ces Excluding Ell Paso and
Juarez. Mexico) is limited.
There's one public swimming
pool, one private country
club, a community concert
organization. and numerous
local fiestas. OF course. the
usual college athletic events
at New Mexico State Uni
versity are there. Also there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-23

winter clothing because &C.
casionally it gets quite cold
On mild days. woolens are
worn outside without coats.
homes are not so warmly
heated as in the North. The
summer days are very hot,
but the nights are delightful.
Absolutely all homes and
public buildings are air con-
ditioned-so there is practi-
cally no discomfort from the
heat. The most disagreeable
aspect of the weather are
the dust storms from Janu-
airy through April.
There is one small general
hospital and several good
general practitioners. There
were only five or six special
lists. Several dentists and one
oral surgeon were available.
However, FL Paso is within an
hours drive. where there are
several large hospitals.
The degree Of public sani-
tatiou was less than we de-
sired, but perhaps that has
been improved since 1860.
Shopping is about average
for a town that size approx
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are numerous service organi-
cations. lodges and bridge
clubs. etc.
Attending Mexican bull
fights and local rodeos and
artifact hunting are some
diversions peculiar to the
area.
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CherryC obbIer

To Mrs. W. M, Stlper Spring
From Mrs. H. g., Fort BelvoiT
I have used this recipe for
cherry cobbler for IL years
and have given 1t to many
people who have enjoyed It.
Bring to q boil one can sour
cherries and one cup sugar.
Sift together one cup flour,
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imately 100000. Retail facili-
ties are very good in FL Paso.
The cost Of living is much
lower than that Of the Wash
ington area. This is mainly
q result of lower housing
cost, utility cost, and charges
for services. However, APP
planes are more costly. and
are not included in all houses
for rent or sale as they are
here.
We purchased a new four
bedroom brick house with
one and a half baths, large
walled yard. air conditioning.
sidewalks, sewers and gas for
$13,500. Almost all housing
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three fourths cups sugar, and
one heaping teaspoon Of bak-
ing powder.
Blend two tablespoons but
ter with the dry ingredients;
add one-half cup milk and
beat to consistency Of cake
batter. Pour this into q two
quart pyrex bowl. Finally,
pour in the warm cherries and
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Here's How

Readers Clearing House Is con-
Quoted ENTIRELY THROUGH THE
MAIL os q pubIie-serieS exchange
Of ideos between oreo readers. The
Stor cannot oeespt phone calls per-
toinins TO this column. All letters
must bear the writer's full name and
address. No advertising is printed.
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bake in a pre-heated oven at
400 degrees for 80 minutes.
Serve with. whipped cream
or Ice cream-and it's good
hot or cold.
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as Cruces Is an Expanding City
To Mrs. d. L. j., Washington
From Mrs. J. L. S., Washington

We lived in Las Cruces, N. Mex, from 1858 to
1850 During this period the city was rapidly
expanding-so perhaps there have been some
changes since we resided there However, I will
attempt to describe the community as we knew it.
The winters are very mild-but keep your
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