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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 8, 1959
The Art of the Short Story
Comes Back Into Its Own
NEW YORK. Mar. 7—At
least the judges of the Na
tional Book Awards still feel
that the short story la of
some importance.
For the second time during
the 10 years these awards
have been bestowed, the fic
tion prise went to a book of
short stories. The winning
book is THE MAGIC BAR
iREL. the author Bernard
: Malamud. the publisher Far
rar. Straus A Cudahy.
- William Faulkner, a Nobel
, Prise winner, the only au
thor to* gain the National
' Book Award for fiction
twice, won it in 1951 for his
stories. His second
award was for his novel, "A
Fable," in 1955.
Not HU First
Mr. Malamud received his
scroll and a check for 91.000'
at the main ceremony in the
grand ballroom of the Wal
-dorf Astoria during a busy
week of forums, parties and
. other events for publishers,
authors, booksellers and visit
ing critics from all over
the country. "The Magic
Barrel” is not his first
book. He has published two
novels, both well received—
“ The Natural” and "The
Assistant.”
The bestowal of another
accolade from an association
of publishers, booksellers and
book manufacturers may help
along a form of literary art
which has gone into an un
deserved decline in recent
years. Publishers still are re
luctant to offer "volumes of
short stories unless they are
the work of writers who al
ready have achieved a meas
ure of fame Books of short
stories don’t sell, they ex
plain. Even though publish
ers must know why they are
unable to sell short stories,
it has always been something
of a mystery.
Languishing Interest
The more literary maga
zines, which used to feature
short stories, now print barely
a single one an issue, if that;
-they are, in away, just fill
ers. Only a few mass circula
tion magazines still feature
stories, and these, while the
products of expert craftsmen,
are apt to be bloodless efforts
to eater to a supposed average
of reader appreciation. True,
the more erudite campus
magazines and avamt garde
publications still
“feature the form, but these
or quarterlies have
meager circulation, and their
stories, like the New Yorker's,
self-consciously avoid form
-and substance; most of them
'are amorphous fragments of
life.
The 13 stories which make
up "The Magic Barrel" re
ceived high praise—where
they were reviewed at all.
But the book was what is
called in publishing and race
track circles a sleeper. It
was on no best-seller list. It
did » little better in New
York, but in Washington it
did not seem to stir the re
motest interest since it was
published last spring. When I
learned before going to New
York for book award* week
that “The Magic Barrel” haa
been chosen—this informa
tion in a hold-for-release ad
vance—l tried to acquire a
copy. Five downtown book
stores did not have it, not
because it had been sold out
but because there had been
no demand for it. The two
leading department store
book sections did not have it.
jmd one had not even orderei
"it when it came out. The city
•library did not have it. Weli,
the sleeper awoke this week.
The Old Favorites
Its reception in the book
trade only shows languishing
interest in a literary form
-practiced with such art by
Poe, Washington Irving, O.
•Henry, Stephen Crane, Willa
Cather, Ernest Hemingway.
I. Scott Fitzgerald, Kather
ine Anne Porter and 6ther
‘American writers.
The fiction jury called
-‘‘The Magic Barrel" "a work
radiant with personal vision.
'Compassionate and profound
in its wry humor, it captures
the poetry of human rela
tionships on the point where
• sundau star °
WEEKLY BOOK SURVEY Z ft
The Sunday Star has arranged 8 la. '5
With some ol the leading book „ * « 2 *
sellers ol Washington and subur- o,z ► g t J §
ban areas to report each week the 5z 8 8“ <»oo*
books which sell best as a guide Z ~ C<uo S a S
to what Washington is reading
The numbers represent the rank
of each book among best sellers at «‘z<|S S«>l i
the store named. 2 2 5 z < z 3 5 f | 8 I
Report for week ending March 6, 1959 5S i 2 „j$ 22|< flf
Unction ' -Ilf'l 1 l 1 l M ij
"The Ugly American," Lederer and
Burdick __ 3,1 23415 241 2 1
"Or. Zhivage," Potternak jII 21 1 1 1 J 41 1 | 1 1] 11 | 2
"Lolita," Nabokov j 33 2|2| 2; |!3 j 4
"Front tha Tarraca " O'Hara M 5 3 4 6131 6
•Mrs. Arria Goat to Peril," Galileo 14 1 f | 1 2 56 3
"lady 1." Gary : 5 1 6: | f 6 |3l I I i 5
MON-FICTION “1 | j ; ; I“ ;**T
'®nly in America ," Golden _6j3| 3!4 11 1 6 11i 31 3 | i 2'4
"What We Mutt Know About
* CommuniimOveritreet ill 2 [ 1 !1 ,« j 1 1| 1
"Coming of the New Deal" Schlaainger 1151! I 12 14j4 | |3l 5j 3
"American High School Today," Conont 212 16 < 4|J 6 ! j | 1 6
,r, Twi*t Twelve and Twenty," Banna iI | 3121 j_J |TT| 3I _
"Mine Enemy Grows Older,"ting ,3| ,5 11 I j 5 | |5 I j |
By CARTER BROOKE JONEB
Star Book critic
THEODORE ROETHKE
Winner of Poetry Award
reality and imagination
meet."
Mr Malamud is no stranger
to Washington. He worked
for the Government for a
wliile in the 19405. He was
born in Brooklyn in 1914 and
was educated at the College
of the City of New York and
Columbia.
In Non-Fiction
The non-fiction award was
much less a surprise. It went
to J. Christopher Herald for
MISTRESS TO AN AGE, the
highly praised biography of
Madame de Stael. This book
not only received fine reviews,
but sold very well indeed.
Bobbs-Merrill is the pub
lisher
The non-fiction Jury said
New Adventurer Trails
Augie March Footsteps
HENDERSON THE RAIN
KING. By Saul Bellow.
(Viking; $4 50.)
Saul Bellow, who won the
National Book Award in 1954
for "The Adventures of Augie
March,” is one of the few
present-day American novel
ists who run to the pica
resque.
Henderson, even more than
Augie March, is a lusty, ro
bust fellow. Because of his
predilection for petting into
trouble, simply on account of
an excess of energy and a
love of adventure, he may
remind you at times of a
certain character of Euro
pean legend. This is Til
Eulenspiegel.
A Big Fellow
A man of great build and
enormous strength. Hender
son is spared from worry by
wealth Despite his flair for
brawling drunks, he is a man
of education, with a master’s
degree from "an ivy league
college,” as he puts it dis
cretely.
When we meet Henderson.
! '.e is married for the second
ume, with various children
(all legitimate) scattered
about. He suddenly leaves his
second wife and sets out for
Africa—on an impulse.
He has a native who speaks
English take him to a remote
ulbe to which a white man
is almost unknown. There he
manages to produce—or get
the credit for producing
rain to save cattle and crops.
He purges a tribe’s only wa
ter supply of frogs, which
terrify them. He becomes the
rain king, revered but always
in danger from a loss of his
supposed powers or a whim
of some African group. He
has numerous adventures.
Fast Moving
Mr. Bello Is a very read
able writer. This novel moves
faster and with more gusto
than "The Adventures of
Augie March.” "Henderson,
the Rain King" may not add
up to a great deal, but, be
vond question, it is enter
taining.
Vou may, if you like, read
some symbolism into Hen
derson. His shifting desires,
never quite satisfied, could be
interpreted as the average
man’s, less openly expressed;
this biography ‘‘is a witty,
beautifully c o n t r o 1 led and
highly entertaining account
of one of the most remark
able women in history—an
embattled liberal who amused,
awed and sometimes fright
ened her contemporaries...
Mr. Herald. 39. was born in
Czechoslovakia of Austrian
parents. He received a M.A.
in political science from Co
lumbia University in 1942.
He is author of three' previ
ous books—“ The Swiss With
out Halos.” "Joan. Maid of
Prance,” and "The Mind of
Napoleon.”
In Poetry
The poetry award went to
Theodore Roethke for
WORDS FOR THE WIND.
The Jury called these poems
"of a ranging energy, which,
whether they appall or
delight, show love at the
center of his imaginative
grasp of life.”
Mr. Roethke, born in 1908
in Saginaw, Mich., was edu
cated at the University of
Michigan and Harvard and
at present is a professor of
English at the University of
Washington. He has received
many awards for his poetry,
including the Pulitzer Prize
for “The Waking.” and two
Guggenheim fellowships.
The sponsoring organiza
tions of the Book
Awards are the American
Book Publishers Council, the
American Booksellers Asso
ciation and the Book Manu
facturers Institute.
mim
SAUL BELLOW
his successes and failures a
blown-up version of every
one’s life. The strange com
pulsions thst drive him from
one situation into another
probably are experienced, in
some degree, by all men.
—C. B. J.
Biography Tells
Shocking Story
Os Nazi Cruelties
THE BLACK MARCH. By
Peter Neumann. (William
Sloane Associates: $4.)
What power is it that can
debase thousands of men so
that they can commit the acts
of wanton and deliberate
cruelty performed by the SS
and other Nazi organizatiohs
during World War 11.
The answer lies here in the
words of a Junior SS officer
in his candid biography of his
life when Adolf Hitler was
the hysterical god of millions
of Germans.
“The Black March” follows
Hauptsturmfuhrer Neumann
through his experiences in
the terror-laden years 1936-
45. The process of turning
Peter Neumann from a gen
tle youth into a hardened
murderer apparently began
with his harsh and pitiless
training in the SS establish
ment where he swallowed
whole the Nazi theories of
world domination, superman
and swastika worship.
Once cast in the Nazi mold,
Neumann and his sth Viking
SS Division Invade Russia
and from that point to the
final retreat into Austria, the
entire, book is the story of a
iloodbath. The wholesale ex
cutions Os friend and foe
alike have overtones of Got
..erdamerung as German Eu
rope was bathed in blood and
fire.
It Is easier to comprehend,
out not understand, Belsen
md Nordhausen when the
.ndivldual experience of one
German is absorbed through
nis life, his loves and his loy
alties.
-JERRY O’LEARY, Jr.
SITTING CP DEAD. By
Aaron Marc Stein (Double
day and Co., $2.95).
Mark Errldge .an American
engineer with some time and
a pretty girl on his hands in
Italy, finds sights to show her
he hadn’t dreamed of when
an Army acquaintance, since
deported, and his gangster
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WINNERS OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS—Bernard Malamud
(left) who won the fiction prise for his book of short stories “The Magic
Barrel” and J. Christopher Heroid whose Mistress to an Age,” the highly
praised biography of Madame de Stael, won the non-fiction award.
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This Could Be From
The Arabian Nights
BETI. By Daphne Rooke.
(Houghton Mifflin; s3.>
The South African author
of such successful books as '
“A Grove of Fever Trees”
and “Mittee,” turns to India
for her new novel.
“Beti” is a sensitive story
told by Larki, a young In
dian girl who lives happily
with her parents, her aunt and
her grandfather in a spa
cious home called “the abode
of peace.” Her cousin. Beti.
had been kidnapped years
ago. and the grandfather had
written scores of letters to
the government in an effort
to effect her return. Now at
last, as the girls were adoles
cent, Beti was being returned,
for a substantial price. Bhe
Why Americans Went
Over to the Enemy
IN EVERY WAR BUT ONE.
By Eugene Kinkead <W. W.
Norton A Co.: 83.75).
This is a profoundly dis
turbing book that lays bare a
failure in which all of us must
share; Why one of every
seven Americans taken pris
oner in Korea collaborated
seriously with the enemy and
why twi, of every five died in
prison camp.
No other American cap
tives in any war of our his
tory had ever chosen to re
main with the enemy because
they preferred his form of
government to our own. Yet
21 of our Gls captured as
members of the U. N. forces
elected to stay.
Mr Kinkead. an editor of
the New Yorker magazine
and co-author of the hilari
ous “Our Own Baedeker”
stories and book, takes on the
subject of collaboration and
Other Books of the Week in Brief
FICTION
THE BROOKS LEGEND. By
William Donohue Ellis.
(Thomas Y. Crowell Co.;
$4.95.) This is the story of
a saddlebag surgeon of the
American middle frontier.
BUFFALO COUNTRY. By
Bob Duncan. <E. P. Dutton
6i Co.; $4.) Legends of the
buffalo and the men who
hunted them.
THE DELUGE. By Muriel El
wood. (Bobbs-Merrill Co.;
$3.75.) In this story the
two women of Charles Due
de Berry live as friends
under one roof.
EPITAPH FOR AN ENEMY.
By George Barr. (Harper Ac
Brothers; $3.50.) A young
American soldier is led by
love and duty to a dramatic
recognition.
FAITH, HOPE AND CHAR
ITY. By Louis R. Milio.
(Comet Press Books; $2.75.)
Prom pre - revolutionary
Russia to a parish in Ar
kansas. a priest leads a one
man crusade against polit
ical corruption.
THE FLESH OF KINGS. By
Armin Frank. (Doubleday
Ac Co.; $3.95.) In this
story a farmer's passion for
personal Integrity becomes
a burden on his sons.
MISS PLUM AND MISS
PENNY. By Dorothy Eve
lyn Smith. (E. P. Dutton
Ac Co.; $3.50.) On her 40th
birthday, Miss Penny saves
Miss Plum from suicide.
OUTSIDE THE GATES OF
HEAVEN. By Vlviene
White Yurkovich. (Vantage
Press; $2.95.) Pre-revolu
tionary Russtf when gyp
sies danced with princes.
THE WATCH ON THE
BRIDGE. By Dayid Garth.
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons:
$3.95.) Towering over the
rushing waters of the
Rhine River, stretched a
bridge—the symbol of vic
tory or defeat In 1945. This
is its story.
HISTORY
CLEBURNE AND HIS COM
COMMAND. By Capt.
Irving A Buck. CSA. and
PAT CLEBURNE, STONE
WALL JACKSON OF THE
WEST. Edited by Thomas
Robson Hay. (McCowat
friends appear. They turn
up in Rome, they turn up in
Eboli. but, most dangerously,
they turn up in an Etruscan
necropolis in Cerveteri. Off
beat adventure, stringently
recorded, —B. M,
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had grown up on the African
coast in the sumptuous house
of a wealthy smuggler. The
intermediary who brought
her back to “the abode of
peace” was a young man who
had shared her capUve but
unhappy girlhood, whom she
had learned to love.
Larki, awaiting her cousin
so eagerly, was bitterly dis
appointed. Beti turned odt to
be a pampered, ill-tempered
girl, who missed her luxury.
Then Larki was abducted
and carried off to Africa
mistaken for Beti.
“Beti" is a well-written
story that starts quietly,
contemplatively and ends in
melodramatic violence.
-C. B. J.
brain-washing in the form of
a report on the Army's five
year study of the oonduct of
our prisoners.
Mr. Kinkead probes the
reasons for wholesale break
downs of morale. The enemy
rarelv used physical torture
but there were many forms
of mental pressure and phys
ical hardship. Nevertheless,
even to the horrors they
faced. Mr. Kinkead says the
Army found that men needn’t
have yielded any more than
they need have died.
The answers are fascinat
ing. The trouble stemmed
from the childhood, the sol
diers’ role as painted for him
and the lack of a code. That
code has now been provided
with the Army hopes, no
repetition m any future wars
of the shameful conduct of
its captured troops.—JEßßl
O'LEARY. JR.
Mercer Press; $6.00.) Re
prints of rare Confederate
memoirs.
ESCAPE TO UTOPIA. By
Everett Webber. (Hastings
House Publishers; $5.50.)
The communal movement
in late 17th century
America.
EVERYDAY LIFE IN
EGYPT. By Pierre Mon
tet. (St. Martin’s Press;
$8.00.) Daily events in the
years of Ramesses the
Great.
THE GREAT DECISION:
THE SECRET HISTORY
OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
By Michael Amrine. (G.
P. Putnam's Sons; $3.95.)
RUM ROW. By Robert
Carse. (Rinehart Ac Co.:
$3.95.) True accounts of
highjackers who stole rum
at sea during the prohibi
tion days of America.
GENERAL
THE CHAFING DISH
COOKBOOK. By John
and Marie Roberson.
(Prentice-Hall: $3.50.)
THE COMMONWEALTH IN
THE WORLD. By J. D. B.
Miller. (Harvard Univer
sity Press; $5.) Britain’s
old colonial empire now a
loose grouping of equal
sovereign states.
DRINKING AND INTOXI
CATION. Ed. by Raymond
G. McCarthy. (Free Press;
$7.50.) Selected readings
in social attitudes and
controls.
FAITH AND UNDERSTAND
ING IN AMERICA. By
Gustave Weigel. SJ. (Mac
millan Co.; $3.75.) An
American Catholic looks at
the world since 1918.
HEREDITY AND EVOLU
TION IN HUMAN POP
ULATIONS. By L. C. Dunn.
(Harvard University Press;
$3.50.) The author ex
pounds his theory that the
meaning of evolution is
continual change.
THE IMPACT OF AIR
POWER. Ed. by Eugene
M. Emme. (Van Nostrand
Co.; $12.50.) Exploring the
meaning and Influence of
air power upon national
security and world politics.
THE LONG ROAD TO HU
MANITY. By Stanton A.
Coblentz. (Thomas Yose
loff: $6.) Man's battle
against tyranny.
SCIENTIFIC MANPOWER IN
EUROPE. By E. McCren
sky. iPergamon Press;
$6.50.) A comparative study
Mineral Search
In Grey Flannel
Yields Girl, Too
THE RETURN. By Herbert
Mitgang (Simon A Schus
ter; 93.50 ).
The gray flannel disease
breaks out again in “The Re
turn.”
Joseph Broken returns to
Brucia. Sicily, with a group of
other geologists to search for
minerals. His first trip to
Sicily had been as an army
man during World War □.
At that time he had a love
affair with Franca, a local
girl. Joseph principally comes
back to look for his sweet
heart from the war years.
Finding both the minerals
and the girl, Joseph accom
plishes his two reasons for
taking the trip. While in
Sicily he decides that work
ing for a large money-con
scious company is not worth
while.
One feels that Joseph as
a geologist is not a convinc
ing character. The descrip
tions of Bicily and the politi
cal situation carry the novel.
The book might have had a
more interesting flavor if the
novel method had not been
used. BETTIE EADE.
Archaeology
In Pictures
THE MARCH OF ARCHAE
OLOGY. By C. W. Ceram.
(Ftink * Wagnalls: 915.)
A different kind of adven
ture is this highly colorful
picture book of the advances
in a rare science of rare
things.
The art of reading ancient
scripts, the knowledge re
quired for evaluating the
exact age of ancient pottery
and the fight to beat grave
robbers to the burial cham
bers are a part of the quest
for civilization preceding the
Greco-Roman cultures. This
is entertainment at its best.
—ROSANNA NOVAK.
of scientific manpower in
the public service of Great
Britain and selected Euro
pean countries.
MATERNITY: A GUIDE TO
PROSPECTIVE MOTHER
HOOD. By Frederick W.
Goodrich, Jr., MD. (Pren
tice-Hall; $1.76.)
MODERN REVIVALISM. By
William G. McLoughlin, jr.
(Ronald Press Co.; $650.)
Revivalists from Charles
Grandison Finney to Billy
Graham.
REAL ESTATE PRINCIPLES
AND PRACTICES. By
Preston Martin. (Macmil
lan Co.; $9.) An authori
tative study of modern
trends in real estate spec
ulation.
UNKNOWN SOLDIERS. By
one of them. (Vantage
Press; $3.50.) Ode to the
miseries of war by a Cana
dian veteran of 43 years’
army service.
WHO'S RUNNING THIS EX
PEDITION! By Ruth Baus.
(Co w ar d - McCann; $4.)
The misadventures of a
California ex-housewife in
the jungles of Central
America.
PAPERBACKS
THE DARLING BUDS OF
MAY. By H. E. Bates. (New
American Library of World
literature; 35c.) What
happens when the farmer's
daughter chases the local
tax collector.
DORMITORY WOMEN. By
R. V. Cassill. (New Amer
ican Library of World Lit
erature; 25c.) An explosive
novel of love on a college
campus.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE. By
John B. West. (New Amer
ican Library of World Lit
erature; 25c.) Revenge
without mercy of a wom
an’s murder.
THE MISTRESS. By Carter
Brown. (New American Li
brary of World Literature;
25c.) A stripteaser plays
taps for three corpses in
Las Vegas.
REBELS AND REDCOATS.
By George F. Scheer and
Hugh F. Rankin. (New
American Library of World
Literature; 750. Eyewit
ness accounts of the Amer
ican Revolution taken
from early diaries and
journals.
THE IMMENSE JOURNEY.
By Loren Elseley. (Random
House; 95c.) An lmmagi
native naturalist explores
the mysteries of men and
nature.
READING AND WRITING
Miss Tremayne Tells
Os a Year in Cyprus
By MARY McGRORY
Star Stag Writer
Penelope Tremayne’s book about Cyprus. BELOW THR
TIDE (Houghton Mifflin: 93), is not especially enlightening
about the political crisis of the island which was so recently
and happily reaolved. This English Red Cross worker had
little patience with the Cypriot Nationalists and less with
their leader. Archbishop Makarlos.
It is Miss Tremayne’s contention that the insurgents,
whose terrorism she came to
know uncomfortably well en
joyed practically no popular
support. “The average Cyp
riot did not know, nor much
wanted to know, what all the
fuss was about.” A Oreek
apeaker herself, she found the
Oreek Cypriots the most con
genial of people, mannerly,
amiable and generally unop
prsased. She feels they sup
ported the bloody activities of
the rebels only out of a con
viction that they would even
tually win.
A Self Portrait
But if Mias Tremayne’s ac
count of her year on the is
land | H( I something as a
political survey, it is. as a
■elf-portrait of an exception
ally brave woman, a smash
ing
Miss rremayne has guts—
there is no other word for it.
She also has the particular
British attribute, sang-froid.
Over and above, she has that
internationally regarded gift
of gamesmanship. These
qualities served her stirringly
well during the tense montns
when every Britisher walked
under an unheard death
sentence.
Sign of the Cross
There was the time when
Miss Tremayne nightly
awaited the man with the
revolver. The usually friendly
villagers told her at the tav
ern she was about to die. She
went out to the car and re
moved from the front the
Greek crucifix that she had
placed there. She returned to
the tavern and told the men
she wanted to wear it now
on her neck and needed to
have It cleaned. Somebody
shined it—they are mad for
all things Greek and
brought it back to her. She
went safely, and when the
trouble was over put the
crass back on the car.
There was also the less
harrowing time when the
clerical leader of the local
terrorists came to see about
getting relief for a poor fam
ily. He suggested that as a
Britisher, she would have
more Influence. She sug
gested that as a priest, he
would. Finally, she proposed
that they go together. This
Egotism and Pure Music
A Picture of Genius
THE NAKED FACE OF
GENIUS: BELA BAR
TOK'S AMERICAN
YEARS. By Agatha Fas
sett. (Houghton Mifflin;
$5.)
In 1940 Bela Bartok. with
his wife Ditta. fled his native
Hungary to live here where
he hoped to continue com
posing and hoped, too. with
his wife, to earn money at
the piano.
Almost 60, he had five more
years to live. Mrs. Fassett,
who studied in Budapest
where Bartok taught, met the
fugitives in New York,
helped them find and fur
nish an apartment, had them
as her guests, and remained
a family friend and retainer
till Bartok’s death.
This was an association of
hero and hero-worshiper,
the sort of thing that has
ruined many a biographer.
But Mrs. Fassett has not
allowed her love for Bartok’s
genius and music to inter
fere with her iove for the
truth.
There is precious little
about music in these pages
—"The Life and Music of
Bela Bartok.” by Halsey
Stevens, published five years
ago, takes care of that. Here
Instead is the picture of a
music-maker, pure music
maker, too. He is a creative
power that drives ruthlessly
to its goal, a power that hap
pens to have its seat in a
man. in a husband and
father, but lets none of the
usual domestic, social or
fraternal obligations stand in
his way. This directness, this
kind of seeming transubstan
tiation of the weak mortal
flesh into the everlasting
stuff of concerto and sym
phony, may bring commis
sions from Koussevitzky and
Menuhin, but can be rude to
friends, insult benefactors
and with outrageous selfish
ness demand slavish services
from intimates.
Here was. in short, a mon
strous ego—and yet unde
niably one of the priceless
manifestations of the human
spirit. Here was a man
starkly unfit for social inter
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ended the argument. The
poor family got their money.
Os the deepest period of
terrorism, Miss Tremayne
■ays, “there were times when
this coil of murder and
treachery and delusion
seemed tike nothing so much
as a nest of worms seething
in a dungrheap, and merely
to live alongside it was to be
fouled by it.”
And on the subject of
fear: “As the weeks crawled
by I came to enjoy the ex
citement of fear almost in
the way in which people
enjoy drink, for its own
sake, as well as for its pow
er to take my mind off the
heart - breaking chain of
major events.”
As I say. Miss Tremayne’s
story of herself and her
ability to cope Is far more
fascinating than anything
she has to say about Cyprus.
** * v
Kennedy Biographies
As befits a front runner
Senator Kennedy is way
ahead of the other candi
dates in biographies, too. In
preparation are two studies
of him, one by no less a per
sonage than James Mac-
Gregor Burns, author of that
superb study of Roosevelt,
“The Lion and the Fox” and
the other, by ex Yank-editor,
Joe McCarthy.
** • *
In Georgetown
As a labor of love, Mrs.
Katharine McCook Knox has
written SURPRISE PERSON
ALITIES IN GEORGETOWN,
D. C. An assignment from
the Fine Arts Committee of
the Georgetown Citizens Asso
ciation in 1958 led Mrs. Knox
to a study of the twin brick
houses at 3033-3035 P street
N.W The efforts of the group
did not stay the demolition
crews, but at least Mrs. Knox
was able to collect enough
material to construct this
literary memorial to a home
stead which sheltered Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Lanman and
their bright young Japanese
ward. Umeko Tsuda, in the
last century.
The little paperbound vol
ume is charmingly illustrated.
course. yet within his field
friendly, loving and kind. It
was too rnuefr to ask other
human beings to put up with
him. yet what helps make
life precious to those other
humans is precisely the fruit
of his colossal intransigence.
This is the * great creative
quandry: If a man is going to
give himself to tjie ages, he
has mighty little time to be
trivial and commonplace over
a cocktail.
Do not let the flashy title
mislead you. There’s no
"naked face of genius” about
this sensitive, subtly de
veloped account. Mrs. Fassett
with superb impersonality
lets Bkrtok tell his own as
tounding story of creation
and the suffering it entails.
—W. a. r.
•
Women Out West
THE GENTLE TAMERS. By
Dee Brown. (Putnam; $5.)
Where men go. no matter
how cruel the land or unin
hibited the attitudes, women
follow. Many married ones
went West with their hus
bands, but quite a few single
girls decided to sample fron
tier life. Most of them found
themselves elevated to a
plateau of popularity un
dreamed of in the quiet par
lors of the East where men
were hopelessly outnumbered.
This is a roundup of stories
and personalities in a wild
and woolly age of our his
tory. —H. A. LYON.
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