and Reading Writing j Crime and Books In Review MysteryzM M Jack Schaefer, Tenderfoot Western Author, By Miriam Ottenberg ,had some more subtle value. This one lacks the sustained horror A Shot of Murder. By Jack lams. Miss a Is Riding Herd on His Farm at Leesburg (William Morrow & Co.; $2.50.) of Hughes’ best, but it’s Budd Writes a Memorable : full of Schulberg Kidnaping, casual mayhem skillfully plotted yarn, A tenderfoot writer of westerns, who has never been west of the across-the-border local color and and mysterious drugs are all Novel in Tribute to a Fallen Idol Mississippi, is happily settled on a farm near Leesburg, occasionally characters who refuse to m tossed into this cloak-and-dagger stay riding herd on his 35 head of Angus beef cattle. character. THE DISENCHANTED affair behind the iron curtain. | He is Jack Schaefer, author of “Shane” and proprietor of Budd (Random Our hero. City Editor Rockwell, By Schulberg. House; $3.50.) Shaneway, a 117-acre place which he purchased with the proceeds wants a free honeymoon and, to of the movie sale of his first novel. Alan Ladd will star. GEORGE FRIEND’S Reviewed by Mary McGrory get it, takes on the impossible job It was the second time that Hollywood took a hand in Mr. of locating a American Budd Schulberg's third book is his flaming youth. Schulberg ocnaexex s xxxe. xiaxive ox vjinu missing BOOK STORE those as as girl somewhere in Poland. Society a terrible and wonderful novel makes days glamorous and graduate of Oberlin, he went the book. In into the delving a about a writer seemed to Halliday. The Editor Pickett, pet lams charac- SET OF CHILDCRAFT the last days of they to Columbia for his master’s de- congressional past, Mr. Crane has center of the flame, of course, was ter, pops up periodically to save who is unmistakably F. Scott gree, with the idea of becoming an also rummaged through the flies 1949, LIKE NEW, Jere the mad Rockwell from sudden death. For $35 Fitzgerald. It is like a funeral Wilder, young Engilsh professor. But when he of the Archives and the Library of who was Halliday’s fate the rest, embassy officials act OF oration in the style of Brutus. beauty proposed to write his thesis on the Congress for old prints, early pho- SET in the truest sense of the word. harassed, a French actress tempts Fitzgerald's epitaph are his own development of motion pictures, tographs and caricatures. ENCYCLOPEDIA Their marriage was “a long and a Polish general grunts with enduring novels, of which he was 10-year the faculty board laughed at the All that is needed now to com- date.” ‘‘The trouble with both of and Mr. Schaefer menace. It all adds up to a neat BRITTANICA, JR., both hero and author, rounded suggestion, plete the volume are photographs them,” tells Stearns, blend of humor and hairbreadth out by “The Crack-Up,” a re- Halliday “Congratulations on the liberation of North China” reads walked out of the academic life of the newly reconditioned House 1941 ED., $35 “was that was escapes. markable confessional document, they thought youth on this in a huff. blue- the inscription Chinese Communist truck triumphantly and Senate chambers and * * * * a career, instead of a prepara- Books bought, sold and which describes the dregs of his entering Peking. From “Peking Diary,” by Derk Bodde. “I might never have gone into prints for further alterations. tion." Their dizzy progress fol- In the Best Families. By Rex youthful success. What Schulberg newspaper work if it hand’t been Mr. Crane is the author of pic- Exchanged lowed the of the Stout. {Viking Press: $2.50.) has rendered is the tribute and upward path for that,” says Mr. Schaefer, who torial histories of the United We specialize in Science-Fiction and stock-market. Their world crashed Nero Wolfe, a man of seden- judgment of a younger genera- obviously now thinks it was all for States Naval Academy and West Fantasy and have a(l other kinds. in and neither one of Prof. Bodde Presents a tary habits, not only leaves his tion—one bred on the sterner 1929, too, Day-by-Day the best. An alumnus of a New Point. them had the stiength nor the ma- house this time. He actually dis- 922 9th St N.W. NA. 9402 stuff of Freud. Marx and the de- Haven paper and the Baltimore His history of the Marines, “175 turity to pick up the pieces. The of the Revolution in China war asso- appears. Reason: The shadowy OPEN EVENINGS pression—which deplored the jazz Report Sun, he was during the Years With the Marine Corps” hectic idyll crumbled on psychi- DIARY: A Year editor of the Norfolk Vir- underworld character of two age and all its works, while daz- PEKING of Revolution ciate will be published on November 10. atric couches and expensive sani- where he the earlier cases finally takes stage zled the brilliance of Fitzgerald, By Derk Bodde. (Schuman; $3.75.) ginian Pilot, got which no mere coincidence, is by by center to ; tariums, and Manley limped off to habit of getting away from the threaten the great man. Its idol, spokesman and captive. Reviewed Belmont Fories the 175th anniversary of the Hollywood, his last, worst hope. by cares of the fiction Naturally, Wolfe—with Archie Half of “The Disenchanted,” day by writing Marine Corps. Dr. Bodde, a University of rule was disintegrating. He saw between 12 and 2. Goodwin in the middle—comes the flashbacks in which Manley Victim of His Own Success. every night * * * * went to the take the out the as Pennsylvania professor, Communists over “Shane” was first published in winner, but at what a Halliday (as Schulberg calls his Schulberg presents Halliday Falls Church now to translate a of ancient and set the The Library, sacrifice! As as a tragic hero, a darling of the Peking history capital up three installments in the Western afterthought. hero) recalls his glittering hey- ensconced in its new quarters, Chinese philosophy. But it is ob- government that was soon to con- Wolfe solves a murder but his day. sounds as though it might gods blessed with every gift save magazine "Argosy.” vious from the of trol all China. The will initiate a “Great Books” dis- method of responsibility, a victim of his own pages “Peking changes they j About that time, he pulled up coping with his all- have been written by Fitzgerald cussion beginning November 2 at a of his Diary” that he found Chinese made and the rapid conversion of stakes in Norfolk and went to New powerful enemy is much trickier. himself. The other half is Schul- 'success, casualty times, 7:45 The will be lim- people of all classes, their way of mpst of Peking's population York. at his p.m. group * * * * in who knew better than any one else toj Later, agent’s sug- berg speaking, describing piti- ited to 25 persons. People wish- The Kid. what was with him. Hal- life and their ideas on politics. at; their views convinced him that gestion, Mr. Schaefer expanded it Candy By Dorothy B. less, painful detail the disinte- wrong to should least as as his schol- are to be in ing participate register Sloan liday, bibulously musing on his interesting they likely firmly | slightly for book publication, Hughes. (Duell, & gration of a has-been who feels now at the library. own disintegration^says of Ameri- arly task. the saddle in China for a long i whereupon the movies began a Pearce, Inc.; $2.50.) like an interloper in the '30s; com- —MARY McGRORY. can writers like himself: “Success When he arrived Kuomintang time. spirited bidding for the rights. A Santa Fe cavalier, mistaken pletely unreconciled to a world I--1 isolates them. for a bum a from which folly and inspiration uproots them, Not a Gun-Toting Hero. I by beautiful blond, a book is a a leaf to run an for and gayety seemed to have fled. ‘Europe, book, of “Shane,” as the author explains i agrees errand her. literature. America, a book’s a Letters Reveal Ezra Pound's Influence a New Books He thinks it would be The framework is a disastrous it. “is not about gun-toting hero I | amusing. Instead, he gets involved in a week end which sees Halliday commodity.” who saves the ranch by killing the FICTION. ; Besides such excellent shop- In Behalf of He Led to Fame It's the of an old packet of international intrigue, dragged back East from a shaky 'Pupils' right guy. story BICYCLE THIEVES. By Luigi Bartolinl. Hollywood retirement in the train talk, Schulberg works in a whole THE LETTERS OF EZRA POUND: 1907 TO 194T cowboy and what he did for a MacMillan. A tale of the wretched Rome centering on a package that of after the war. The novel that in- of of an rogue’s gallery of Hollywood per- little boy.” the film "The Bicycle Thief." smells perfume but apparently all-conquering producer, Edited by D. D. Paige, with a preface by Mark van Doren. (Har- spired who is to i sonalities, ticking off the carnivor- It has not had a sensational $2.50. giving genius a chance Brace & ;ous producer and his court, Co.; $5.) Mr. “it’s SHF. BODE A YELLOW STALLION. By recoup his losses by writing a boot-licking sale, but. says Schaefer, Warren Reed Bobbs-Merrill. A love aides. a lot of letters story set in Wisconsin of 1846.