ROY W. HOWARD SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPERS 230 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK 17 A i 15, 1955, If the closing paragraph of y our review of errianSr 1.i book in the Times'i review section of Anril 10th asmeared as you wrote it, I think it was a low -unch and very Iuch out of character for' you, So far $ I know, no one has yet revised a technique whereby acn select is own father, fiowev r, I '1l venture te guess thwt amon his associ t e, inside or outside Scripps-ioward, Jack Howard ts record of runs earned will not suffer by cop risen with your own, Jack would strongly object to this letter for two reasons, one of them being that he probably does not give a d n ou your opinion, I do give a damn for two reasons, one of them being that I regret being dissolutioned by seeing this of the technique employed by So I ave 'lovelon regarded and respected as Sinciela friend, Si.-'|.l', W. U, Lawrence, sq., c/o bow York Times Bureau, Wiashington, D. C., U. ",A bl c WS The' President reaxes durng a recess inan-At his weekly piess concern in ashngon E-~ Photogrepaa from "Meet M4 ter 5ihenower," t alscrity conference at Quantico, Va. hower faces questions from capital correspondents. At his farms in Gettysbusrg, P.. An Informal Portrait of the President at Work and at Play ETMISTER EISEN4HOWER. By other four, years in the White finds the White House "a hard tainingly of the junkets to Au- kind, and they maintain reader ertariman Smith. Illustrated. 308 House, the President wants fif- row for her to hoe." She is not gusta, to Palm Sgri se b interest atta hligh~l**int hee pg Anwforb Hrper g Bros. Moba.t m ke-addeanP *fanf'fnetheni,"fighting to is a side-splitting story about pannd putter, cook "she finds the, hours and the keep the ,.children from wear- the Presidential . method o SH0is the first fuill-length and play bridge to his heart's work, particularly during the ing out their eyes watching catching gp-asshoppers with his ~4bo~* bout Dwight D) Ei content without worrying about social season, definitely fatigu- television, will not be happy hat. senbewet since lie entered the being criticized the next day by ing." Mr Butler wasaroundly with one Smiith sidelight about In the chapter entatld Ei- WI~e House, and it is a very editorial writers and comtnenta- denounced by most of the Re- the Presidential family. He re- senhiower ad the Pressf Mr. resadable volume Indeed. It tors for. not devoting enough publican party for saying the ports that -the President and Smith reaches frieudlierd con- comes from the typewriter of time to the job. * ** He wants same thing the other day. Mrs. Eisenhower "frequently elusions about the President and the veteran United Press White to exit upright, smiling and have their evening meal brought his dealings with newsmen than Sosse correspondent who has under his own power with BEFORE he readhes this eon- to his study on trays and they would many of his colleagues been watehing them come and enough strength and vitality citislon, Mr. Smith gives .the dine while watching television.' in the White House press room. go since 1941. HIs name is left for golf and fishing." reder a highly en.tiig n The book Is highly spiced Indeed, Mr. Smilth himself talks Merriman Smith, but Mr. Eisen-- Like Paul M. Butler, the fral tato ntersiengt' with colorful incidents and an- differently than he writes, Per- howrsui~ trn i ito Democratic National Chairman fomlprri ftePeiet ecdotes about the President anid hap that Is natural for a prs- hMeruam ly trstino Mr. Smith thinks that Mrs. El (and his tafand acopny- his entourage. Most of the sto- asoiation man who is su- "Thi isthetor of hatsenhower's health mayr play a ing newsmen) at work and at ries are not new, because Mr. posed to be so objective that he h sne to thenetry ofsnhw-a big and decisive role in Mr. play under all sorts of circum- Smithe is not in the habit of has no feelings at all about a happnedtoenerl Esenow-Eisenhower's final decision as stances. He chronicles the cam- holding out on his regular em- President while in office. er when he became a mister," to whether he will run again. paign and the pre-Inaugural -ployer, The United Press. B~ut Evr fae ofte ls- Mr. Smith explains in his intro- He reports that the First Lady trip to Korea, and writes enter- they are the first collection of its Evwerypersoalty omtes uner- duction, "It is not an analysis scwruiy e reitcs hander of his political beliefs or ansrui.Heeptshate appraisal of his conduct of gov- President gets very mad when butean ts-ptato: Brtishd~ Realities in aFost-War peoprlduges hloehim- l rfe mr dB t o RITAIN AND) THE TIDE OFWORDI luslons in the popular mind in live by a Briton of experience woare ucsfladiha Mr.mit leas wrongly to AFFAIRS. By Sir Oliver Frania. 71 Britain, it says so many things and ability. evdcdbythrcnlyi- the view ,that this' is not only pp. New York: Oxford University in such firm aand at' times Sir Oliver begins with a prin evninued gueth recntslyo the- als ise-hawer's firesidermt.He s 1.5 eloquent prose that I hope'that ciple with which I believe the- White House stag dinners. alevophs lts repoidtia con By DR EW MIDDLETON Sir Oliver's countrymen will majority 4o the British ,people Tongue in cheek, he observes: clsona som e lnth and HE long journey from read and be gratefuL agree: "Britain is going to con- Itwudbe unfair to say susi this wa:Queens ColgOfr, to The contents of this book tinue to be what she has been. tat he likes the company of "I am morally certin that Lobard Street in the City of first appeared as a series of a Great Power." He attacks kingoffnceadnutr he does not want to run again. London via the Ministry of talks, the Reith Lectures, given the idea that this can be take pureoy 'finause fdthidusard I feel it Is better than an even Supply in war and the British over the British Broadcasting for granted at home when It pudrebecasego. the belneaed bet that he will retreat to Get- Embassy in Washington in Corporation network last year. certainly is not taken for thadet atngs. wHredbelieve tysbrg [herhe wnsa peceha nt dulled the pe- The five lectures deal withdthe granted abroad. It Is the folk- ta famnhswre pt farm] and make his final stand ceptions or lessened the ob- realities of the post-war world, memory of the Britain of 1905, bcm rsdn fteFr on Seminar Ridgu where Rob- jectivity of Sir Oliver Franks. the relations between Britain the year Sir Oliver was born, Motor Company, head of the e e' ry.Cgnede, t focs I BianadTeTd f and the, Commonwealth, the the belief, strangely strong in Scripps-Howard newspapers ste E. he'Conederate frs Worl Britairs SirThelie has United States and Europe and many qarters, that the bases college president or an Arch- day Cvilf te teribear'givn hi contrmen sina- the connections between politi- of British greatness remain un- bishop, then certainly the man battle. tion report on themselves and cal aimis and economic strength. changed.,a a lton the bl, knows his "I beieve that more than an- the modern world. Since his Is What the book amounts to is Sir Oliver delivered these 1ec- field thoroughly $nd will be lit- - a questing, restless mind, it is an exploration of the post-war tures to a mass audience, and crate and interesting. Mr. Lawrence, a member of reasonable to suppose that this world in which Britain must it is the British people rather This business of working The Time. Washington Bureau. does not represent Sir Oliver's than the Conservative Govern- your way up will come as quite frequently covers White House ultimate jud gments. But it Mr. Middleton is chief of T he a surprise to young Henry Ford pree conf erencees. strikes so hard at so many il- Times Londont bureau. (Continued on Paae 14) 'or young Jack Howard. AP~il, us. us955 An Intimacy Of the South T ta*;s'"""~.~ TOrleans always sets out* And Beyond - ---h-l With Evi l ing the clues in a maze. They THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALLEN were threading through the CHILDREN OF THE BLACK-HAIRED And Other Stories By Eudora narrow and one-way streets, PEOPLE. By Evan King. 435 pp. Welty. 207 pp. New York: Har- past the pale-violet bloom of New York:, Rinehart & Co. $5. coutt, Brace & Co. $3.50. tired squares, the brown ROBERT By PAYNE By FRANCES GAITHER steeples and statues. Past the OME time toward the middle WELTY'ShUDORA charace- balcony with the black mon- of the sixteenth century an ters-ro te tnorace key It the ain- unknown author of great power a "A, Im a woman as over a ballroom floor. and originality composed the that's been clear around the Pqst the grillwork and the novel which has been handed world in my rocking chair," lattice work to all the Iron down to us under the title of down to and including the -ron "Chin -'ing Mei." It is an as- tamed shrew who speaks every the front steps of bungalows tonishing work, at once Rabelal- salty syllable of "The Ponder ont stes of ae sian and highly moral, written Heart"-have till now been outlying.