READING AND WRITING IN SUSPENSE 'Chatterley' Enlivens By BITTY MILES V Star StaS WrlMr , .ii BEVEN STEPS EAST. By New Books Booksellers Meeting Ben Benson. (William THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 21, 1959 Morrow & Co.; $2.95.) C-5 The American Booksellers Association met here last 'Young Kirk Chanslor, week, convening with a rush of Roosevelts and adjourning a in a flurry of Astaires. trainee at the State police Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., the elegant and fragile academy and friend or * Ralph .IKMI author of “The Day Before Yesterday” was an opening-day Trooper Lindsey, tries Knowledge of Stage Proves Vital luncheon speaker. And Representative Roosevelt, Democrat some independent investigat- of California, representing ing at a summer hotel run by gambler. what to her is undoubtedly with the first prize a retired Prom an in the beginning, “the other Roosevelts” was Franklin Watts Fiction arrld Mr. Benson ITo Playwright in Dramatic Ist Novel guest of honor at the con- Award. builds a good story involving party, amateur gamblers who play By BROOKE JONES vention's first cocktail CARTER as the author of the forth- Unanimous Choice for big stakes, an ambitious f Star Book Critic girl, and a man can coming "Affectionately Yours, Miss Inyart’s book, “Tent who BLOW UP A STORM. By meet. There is a fresh prob- FDR.” a memoir of his change the color of his eyes. Under the Spider Tree.” was ** * (Random lem, Woody is physical * Garson Kanin. for a father. His collaborator, Sid- the unanimous choice of the perhaps sham- Shallett, MURDER AND BLUE- House: $3.95.) and a mental ney was also on three Judges, Ellen Lewis bles. hand. BERRY PIE. By Frances Garson Kanin wrote that Buell, Children's Book Edi- and Richard Lockrldge. successful stage Slug, the drum- The booksellers also enormously colored heard tor of the New York Times, J. B. Lippincott Co.; $2.95.) comedy, “Born Yesterday." mer, is a stunning charac- Columnist Harry Golden, Virginia Havtland, Readers' A pleasant but disappoint- His career thus far has been A Baseball Player Roy Campa- Advisor for Children, Boston ter, developed with mastery. ing dip inspira- identified almost entirely nella, Herblock, Library book. The in “Blow Up a Storm" has so Cartoonist Public and Alice the with stage and screen, first Supreme Court Justice Wil- tion title suggests is con- many merits that I hesitate Dickinson, an editor of predictable story as a stage actor, then as a di- liam O. Douglas and Franklin Watts. firmed in a to mention any defects. But Golfer young rector of movies stage Tommy Armour, before they of a woman who wit- and one is a certain wordiness, The young and comely old woman's will, plays. up a Storm" is got to the danclfig Astaires, nesses an “Blow never in description but in Miss Inyard heard the good only his first novel. Fred, his sister Adele and to hear the woman’s dialogue, which always Is words under happy circum- voice again after death. surprisingly, daughter Ava—all of which her It is, not an natural but at times ver- stances—she was vacationing Shapiro Investigates. We extremely interesting, proves that literature is the Lt. even a bose. Here, no doubt, is the in Italy. Encouraged by the suspect his doleful detection * •* * most hospitable of fields and compelling novel, meaning, playwright, used to depend- llvm m AMr success of this first attempt, would annoy Capt. phrase, not Just for writers only. Bill by the latter that it ing on dialogue to explain she is planning to write sev- Welgand and Pam and Jerry your SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY Between times, the milling forces close attention everything. eral other books. Bhe Is a North as much as lt did us. While the nar- booksellers visited exhibits * throughout. —Prom a Charcoal drawing by Roaanna Novak graduate of the University of ** * rative is largely flashbacks, and talked a lot of shop. Michigan and the Catholic THE REAL GONE GOOSE. there is contemporary action The embattled novel “Lady University Library School. By George Bagby. (Double- of great importance to the Chatterley’s Lover,” barred SI,OOO prize State She receives as day Sc Co.; $2.95.) story. We are concerned here GARSON KANIN Dept. Wife from the United States malls money, and $2,500 against with a jazz band which flour- Portrait of McCarthy was on display. A random advance royalties, which must Inspector Schmidt copes ished in the early 30s. More Writes the Story poll of the booksellers showed be more than she takes in in with several professional especially, there is Woodruff named) start with a trio in that the old novel is not an fines in year. beatniks after one of the early a (Woody), the gifted horn Ne*w York in the 30s. Os Her Career emotional Issue with them —M. McG. "exiles” is freed forever from Albie, astonishing In Slashing Strokes player who was the leader When the as censored books so often the irritation of respectable and around whom the whole pianist, becomes available, LIVING IN STATE. By Bea- are. “citizens” who lock their doubtful. Albie trice Russell. (David Mc- By MARY McGRORY ensemble, sometimes a trio, Woody is is Star Staff Writer doors and engage in other colored. Woody is not a Kay Co., $3.95). “Lady” by Express sometimes containing five or Inc.: SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY. By Richard H. Rovere. (Har- materialistic rituals. Unfor- musicians, revolved. Southerner and theoretically Mrs. Earle Russell, jr.. is In Remembrance tunately, Hero-Author Bagby more court. Brace; $3.95.) Most of them thought has no racial prejudice, and the wife of a United States they'd keep right selling departed Richard H. Rovere is not of the "speak only good of the on is a friend of the Strong Characterization yet there's something under State Department foreign it, at least until the Grove Os H. A. Garfield Sabra, and, some think, her the surface which does not dead" school. His book on the late Senator McCarthy of The quality that service officer and "Living in Press appeal on the Post- murderer. Brisk and light; distin- out until much later. is a diatribe against the deceased. To some, of a come State” is the story of her Wisconsin master General's decision STRANDS FROM THE pleasant reading. guishes this novel from a quar- course, it may appear unseemly, to others, unnecessary. He wonders if mixed “career.” been heard. And the G. ** * * number of recent novels Even those who agree unreservedly with Roveres estimate had WEAVING, by Lucretia tet will work. It does. Even- And “career” is an apt publishers intend to go right BLOOD AND about jazz and youth, is Mr. they add of McCarthy as "a bully and a fraud,” may find excessive Comer (Vantage; $2.95) is JUDGMENT. tually two saxo- word for while the marital sending it out by express, By Michael Gilbert. (Har- Kanin's careful and subtle phone players and a drum- the sometimes savage tone of on the author’s interesting bi- state of some wives means at slightly more cost. Thus per & Bros.; $2.95.) characterizations. The play- colored, the "a mer. all so that primarily cooking, cleaning the book. American people had novel seems destined to ographical sketch of her fa* ers and those of their friends ensemble is thoroughly in- not say the Obviously one of the year’s and raising children, not so That is to that favorable opinion” of the the best-seller lists, Harry A. Garfield, who who are vital to the story are tegrated racially, and tne Mr. remain on ther. best, Mr. Gilbert’s book has with the wife of an FSO. Rovere is one of those man who to a good many of has been since its a of James not alike at all: each is an saxophonists have brilliant who was retroactively where it was son President a complex but lucid plot Individual, differing in ideas While her husband has the brave the other half seemed bent recent re-publication. A. Garfield. beautifully developed, sisters, so that there is social- title, in job about the ranting red- wrecking the Republic. real and tastes. izing back and forth. But effect her is as on Harry Garfield was 16 In and wit. A important as his and also hunter like, for instance, characters credit Too many novels about Woody an Glory 1880 when Gen. Garfield, a to any force and to any au- seethes with inner many responsibilities. the White House, which Thirst for Library youth in the 20s, 30s or 50s conflict, which day bears Association member of Congress, was thor, his Detective Bergt. one She's expected to show up boldly struck him off its so- apart, Mr. have been written as if there emerges. at These matters elected President. In March, of the London police, Aside from this, the diplomatic cial list after the censure Opens New Session Petrella was a world of jazz in which all functions and Rovere. an excellent writer, 1881, the family left the farm accept superior's story shows that all racial just profound knowledge refuses to a everybody thought and did be as lhformed as he. movement. Mr. Rovere in his w’lth a Hardly will the booksellers near Mentor. Ohio, and slick solution to the murder difficulties do not occur in “Letter from Washington” to institutions, pretty much the same things, She's expected to make so- of men and doc- have disbanded when the into the White House. of . moved the South the Yorker, wrote admirably the woman at the reser- and many kept going on llq- cial calls and to participate New criti- uments the havoc The summer after taking and proves him wrong events, to cally McCarthy the McCarthy grinningly people who dole out the voir. our or dope and pep pills. Fresh Problem at tea-time be a of when which office the President was shot tactfully per- treats books for nothing, will set as as the facts Don is the only player who linguist, chef par excellence, man had the entire United wrought. Mr. Rovere by a fanatic and lingered for Years later, long after the phe- mit. Is the dope and he pre- talented hostess, sometimes States Senate cowering be- both the man and the up their camp. The Ameri- months before succumbing to on great insight, marijuana. There's band is broken up and for- school teacher, charity or- hind its chairs, when wit- nomenon with can Library Association be- his wounds. His sons, Harry fers one although contrary some, searching of a mari- gotten, remembered only ganizer, to be always well nesses were trembling before to gins its 84th meeting today. and Jim, entered Williams in women's and Girl scene or he believes the man himself Scout juana party, in which the groomed and the epitome of him and when the executive Their gathering coincided College that same fall. Harry She for some old records, the nar- the phenomenon and not organizations. was edu- narrator, who played the sax all that is best in American department was down on its was with the glad news that one Garfield became, successive- cated at Bryn Mawr and rator is told at his hotel in to be explained in sociological at days a women. hands and knees bofore him. ly, lawyer Cleveland, College, in those and now is and historical terms. He of their local members has a in Teachers’ Columbia playwright, tries smoking the Chicago that somebody How Beatrice Russell man- The book is richer in in- won a big prize in the Ju- professor of government at University. Her husband, ages her job and family in sights than revelations. does not attempt to unravel stuff for the first (and last) named Woodruff called. The in "multiple untruths" venile fiction field Princeton and, finally, presi- John P. Comer, is professor such posts as Addis There are several items, how- the of Inyart, College. time. There are strange go- name does not even register Ababa. McCarthy. He suggests in- Gene Chief of the dent of Williams emeritus of political science ings in apartment on Ethiopia, and in Beirut, ever, which are merely gra- Extension Department of the His daughter, Mrs. Comer, College. on an at first. Then he thinks of stead their scope and damage, at Williams Mr. and Riverside drive, but mostly Lebanon, during an interna- tuitous. District Public Library, in has many friends in Wash- Mrs. Comer now live in Woody, and whole pano- the story not only nationally but in- in the way of talk. a tional crisis is in There is, for example, a ternationally. her first try, walked home ington, where she was active Williamstown, Mass.—C.B.J. "Living in State.” When Mc- rama of the past unfolds. passage which Carthy was bidding for his The Mixed Quartet presentation in Mr. Rovere “Who was it said that al- Her is amus- first judgeship, steadily ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ing and informative but begins by saying that “many he ADVERTISEMENT. Woody is a complex per- though life is lived forward, advanced the age of his op- temper were son He and Don and the it can only be understood should the idea of people convinced that ponent, who was 67 until the foreign narrator (hardly, if ever. backward?" He and Woody -those who feel that (McCarthy) was a homosex- man was 89. It was, Rovere service life is glamorous. It ual,” and ends up with: shows, that way all the way. is. but it also can be short “Certain of his enemies did The saving grace of the man, on plumbing, long on bugs their best to get more evi- he says, was that his thirst and financially unrewarding. dence, but they failed, and was not for power, but for Passage of Many Years —ROBERTA HORNIG. in the absence of further glory. Turmoil was an end data, we are left tr. point in itself for him. of fact, with no data at all.” Mr. Rovere s central point This is neither good reporting about McCarthy is this: good taste, in "There has never been the About Makes Story Seem New Ideas for Going nor and seems the fact to comprise melancholy slightest reason to suppose Since we are apt to forget Empire. The Irish question Into Retirement evidence that the intemper- that he took what he said the significance of year was boiling, threatening civil that McCarthy engen- seriously or believed any of a ance spread." war. The welfare state was In THE NATURE OF RE- contagious. the nonsense he nearly half a century gone, a dered is still point will, course, in gestation, with such un- TIREM ENT (Macmillan; There also psychiatric That of be year only the older ones is a argued as long as men re- heard of things as industrial $4.50) Elon H. Moore dis- report on McCarthy from a of member the sound of that among us can remember per- accident insurance and old- cusses in a practical and psychiatrist censorship who never saying. sonally. age assistance seriously dis- helpful way the problems of voice "I hold here in James Cameron's treated him and a profane ." my hand . . The friends (Rinehart; $3.95) cussed those whose active careers in 1914 comes eulogy pronounced by a of McCarthy who regard him almost as a fresh story, lost As for the international trades, services or profes- mixed-up mourner the night in the scene, no one worried too sions is He makes many still as crusader and martyr turbulence of inter- over. the Senator died. These add will find fresh cause for vening years. much about it until those suggestions concerning how nothing to the book. There fateful August days your howling grievance in this It was. in fact, 1914. not came. to get the most out of is, alas, quite enough on the slashing appraisal. From The tempest retirement, Chatterley’s 1989, that completely altered that followed years of depend- Lady record of those outrageous what Rovere tells of his sub- the largely your a world that began the new assassinations at Sara- ing so on inter- days of fear and ferocity ject, jevo up he would not have century so bravely and. in blew without warn- ests. capacities and health. when 50 per cent of the minded it at all. general, so peacefully. After ing. “Fear and a certain amount 1914 nothing was ever to be "Western Europe had of worry," he concedes, "are quite the same. When the known no war for close on the lot of many who experi- second world war broke, we two generations, and, though ence the separation from es- Lover... were already used to war on a the Balkans muttered and tablished ways and the ap- scale never dreamed of in the grumbled in their endless in- proach of new adventures. What Life Is Like on days of The Hague tribunal comprehensible dynastic The lad of 18 who leaves his and a supposed balance of feuds, these considerations home town to make his way A STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER power in Europe. The end of were obscure and meaning- in the city, the man of 25 any A Game Preserve the war of 1914-18 brought less to but those whose who anticipates marriage, the only a smoldering truce. business it was to study worker at 40 who considers THE LION. By Joseph Kessel.. proven something pretty dev- them, remotely and post the ab- a change in location or the 'Alfred A. Knopf; $3.75.> astating. The decision of the office denying the facilities of mails Before World War I stractly, as one might ob- acceptance of heavy debts If this is a story about a The obscure path traced by to the Grove Press edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover comes as a Mr. Cameron, journalist, serve the fretful behavior of in the purchase of a home; a 10-year-old Kiri's powder over the plot does lead to the in- in born in Scotland, educated bees.” these and many other a majestic African lion who teresting fact that the Masai shock to everyone concerned with the elementary freedoms otrr in France and England, has changes in life to the cau- entirely Historic Events lives near her home in Kenya. live on milk and country. We ate faced here with Government censorship in its done a beautiful job of tious bring uncertainties and an alle- blood and that they construct When the incredible hap- I doubt it. If it is sketching in the world of the injection of many bogie- to deep dung. most powerful, most obnoxious form. In effect, a department es- pened, powers gorical reference some their homes out of cow people as it was on the eve the major men into the unknown future. This is about as ap- went human secret. I missed it. regimen tablished to carry the mails has set itself up as a censor and has of the first world war and to war, and the first It is not different as one travelogue pealing British But as a of what as the rest of the afterward. The emphasis is Exeditionary Force approaches retirement ex- game book. arrogated to itself the function of telling the public what it may embarked at Newhaven. life is like on a British on England, but France and cept as one may have learned preserve, bad. —JERRY O LEARY, Jr. Dover, Southhampton it isn’t and may not read. The Post Office has chosen to announce this Germany are brought in, and, and from long experience that The story revolves, in more Britol, it the army "of after all, in those last days was most projected disasters ways one, about white assumption of power in the case of a book which the leading critics a fought than a of peace, people were doing nation that had not never occur—at least not in girl named Patricia whose pretty things major Welling- and writers of our day have pronounced a major classic of 20th much the same a war since the severity anticipated.” father a game warden summer, day." is in Tropical Forest that whether in ton’s —C. B. J. country. Patricia, century literature and a work of unassailable moral stature. The This book is written with the Masai New York or Paris or Berlin. seems, possesses the perception it master literary experts of the Post Office have decided to disregard the Mr. Cameron recalls what a that states con- with which she can Is Grim Setting English reading, cisely the Issues, the problems words the were control Razelles and consort opinion of the overwhelming body of literary scholarship to hold what plays they were seeing, and never forgets the color OTHER BOOKS In THE PERPETUAL the dance steps that of that historic and faded with lions. F O R E S T, by W B. Collins. up in its place its own vision of what it regards to be '‘smut.” The were IN BRIEF given popular, the fashions that year. Mr. Cameron only Patricia Is to sick- (Lippincott; $4 50), the not ing her lion people, snap- Post Office is telling us that even though critics, scholars and book prevailed, the recreations is an able historian, but a on Welsh-born author, who is preferred. FICTION ping at her mother and dar- deputy chief conservator of reviewers will he able to appreciate the book's great literary and writer whose prose is a de- agitate Meanwhile, though, deeper light ing her father to forests in Ghana, writes fas- to read. BATON SINISTER. By clear moral value, the rest of us will lack the discernment to come to currents were stirring the —C. B. J. Carl J. Splnatelli.- (Little, rhinoceroses. It is not cinatingly about the ways of what prompts her to bring on in Brown; $4.50.) The author forests and soils, not only the same conclusion. of "The Florentine” an encounter between her lion Africa but everywhere. ban, schol- revives a proud The Post Office in addition to defying literary and the legend of the Doria and Masai warrior Os our dust bowl, he ob- al|F fcuttiiag B>tar § but when the battle ends in serves; own also flies in the face of leading * family of 16th century "That man is his arly opinion, public protests by death for both, the author ap- enemy espe- WEEKLY BOOK SURVEY 8 Genoa. has been made newspapers in the country which, in their editorials, have taken the The Sunday Star has arranged *> pears to believe that he has cially clear in the past few g w, to ¦» £ _ period, Post Office to task for this insult the intelligence. Now vnth some of the leading book „ 2g ! GENERAL L decades. In that the public’s sellers Washington and subur- |o z THE structure and fertility—the o/ O" ESQUIRE CULINARY that the Post Office has placed its official stamp of on the areas to each the u * hamson. (Harper; $5.1 An approval ban report week 2 COMPANION. By Charles two are closely associated—- ¦» < • urban renewal program books which sell best as a guide g st