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"MEN AGAINST FIRE." By Col. 5. Journal and Wm. Morrow & Co.

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Intelligent Foot Soldiers

"TOKYO ROMANCE." By Earnest Hoberecht. New York, Didier.

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"THE LITTLE BOOK OF LIMERICKS." Collected by H. I. Brock. New York, Duell, Sloane & Pearce. $I.

WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN and Governor Dewey told the American Legion that they stood for universal mili-| tary training for the defense of the United States, they might have cited with approval the strong arguments of Col. 8. L. A, Marshall, grmy analyst and historian on the

MONON HISTORIANS — The history ‘of the Monon railroad and its territory is to be written by Edward Hungerford, writer of transportation history, Pictured at Indiana university where he studied records and previous Monon writings of Prof,

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WATERFRONT — "Blue Morning," an oil by Richard

one of the new group of 14 paintings by western and southwestern artists collected by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. The small collection is now touring American museums.

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In New Land

"MY FATHER'S HOUSE." By Meyer Levin, Viking Press, $2 50.

WHAT IT is like to be a boyswho business.

seeks his father and his mother in a strange land, while surroun the fears and memories of a cruel past, is packed into the pages of Meyer Levin's moving novel, “My Father's House." This is the story of David Halevi and his search for his family in "Palestine, It is also. the story of the adjustment of David and many other forlorn, persecuted, homeless Jews who reached the coveted coast. It is written from intimate knowl edge and deep emotion, ~ . ~ DAVID CAME with a shipload of displaced persons. They reached the coast in boats or swam to the shore. ‘They were taken inland by settlers who had come before them. But where to put them all? Every settlement was full, were fears—of Arabs, of British constabulary, Moreover the Palestintans had their own ways,

staff of Gen. Eisenhower in E Col. Marshall is convinced that no matter what damage is done at first by bombing of cities, only a well-trained army with superior fire power can finally win a war. « His new book, “Men Against Fire; the Problem of Battle Command in Future War,” backs up his conviction. But it has another mis-

Haines, Santa Monica, Cal.

IBook Portrays Trolley Antics |

Andrew Thurtle was the crotchety bachelor conductor of the bob-talled trolley, Betsey, for 32 years, until the advent of the gasoline-driven | lbus drove their combination out of |

| . Betsey's subsequent. cross-country |

ded by Journey from New York to Califor~ “Dark Passage,” a novel on which exactly what accounts for the ac-

nia, ang her weird habit of leaping {from track to track at Mr. Thurtle's command, make up a colorful and | lengaging novel, Mr, Thurtle's Trol- | liey (Duell, Sloan, $2.50) is replete | {with the half-forgotten lore of {streetcar travel that is now disap-| ipearing swiftly from the American scene, : =

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which the immigrants must con-|

form, For instance, they changed the names of the newcomers. became Miriam. And David was

50 his father would recognize him.

a» | HIS NEED for his father and his family filled his waking hours. Eventually he ran away to search! for them. He heard of a violinist] named Halevi in Tel Aviv, but the man was not his father, He tramped to the Dead sea, to find,

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TAKES POST HERE—Theron R. Hale has been appointed Indianapolis division manager for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., |

with offices at 320 N. Meridian by James Ramsey Ullman, author

st. Mr. Hale comes here from |

Seattle, where he was branch

sion; to preve that the foot soldier must be intelligently trained and properly valued, not as a mere . automaton operating a machine; With Suspense but as a thinking and -feeling | member of human society, bound "DARK PASSAGE." By David| together with his fellows in a Goodis. Cleveland and New| great human undertaking. York. World Publishing Co.| He ls the champion of the known, $1.00. soldier, as against the unknown, BUSPENSE 18 the keynote of

» » . COL. MARSHALL wants to know

the Warner Brothers picture starring|tions of soldiers at the front. He shre studied men under fire in both the Hump 5 y BORAT, ond. Lauren Pacific and European theaters , tgs and learned how and why we It isn't hard to picture old “Bogie” fafled in many places. Three in the role of Parry, centrallearlier reports of operations were character in the plot of “Dark Pas-{published as “Island Victory,” sage.” RW “Makin and Bastogne: the First Parry is innocent. But the jury|Eight Days” The present work, ought differently and the judge/“Men Against Fire,” contains an handed him a life sentence, As the/analysis of the personality of the book begins he’s inside looking out,|individual soldier that may upset After’ a jaunt in an empty cement many fine theories of indoctrinabarrel being carted out of theltion. . prison he’s on the outside trying to] Always recalling that the soldier keep from being put back in, is a human being, Col. Marshall po MN calls for a better understanding of THE ESCAPE marks the be- human behavior under stress. “War ginning of a tense hunt, Parry,'is too brutal a business to have suspicious. of everyone, fearing!room for brutal leading,” says he. capture, trying to move fast enough «The good company has no place before for the officer who would rather

he 1aw he right than be loved, for the catches him—these situations make time will quickly come. when he up the bulk of the story, walks alone. . . ;

The plot is good, the story moves sg ..8. » fast and the story is tight and| AFTER GIVING reasons why the tense. The dialogue is the clipped soldier who understands his weap-tough-talk which is rapidly becominglons will be indispensable in any standard equipment for any “who- future war, he gives an excellent dunit:" —In— short, it's good rainy exposition of the psychology of night reading. - the soldier at the front. His conviction that “a man re-

' mains a man after he puts on a Ullman § New Book soldier suit” leads him to advocate Is Due Sept. 25

the most careful methods of hold“Kingdom of Adventure: Everest,” ing the soldier's confidence in his

nit. " " Individual bravery will not stand of “High Conquest” and “White Tower,” will be published Sept. g5| Against organized shock, but when

roll, was entertaining children.

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for it is the tale of an American correspondent’s love for a Japanese film actress and their marriage. It appears today for the first time in the United States, published by Didier, : on ’ » » . LIMERICKS ARE BACK-—those amusing little nonsense verses of | five lined that often brighten the hours of serious men. They used to flourish In the days of peace and perhaps their return is a rift in the encircling gloom.. They. have been written by Oliver Herford, Carolyn Wells, Gelett Burgess, Don! Marquis and many other well known | writers. At the Paris peace conference Woodrow Wilson entertained David Lloyd George and his colleagues by reciting limericks, including this one: As a beauty I am not a star. | There are others more handsome by | far, But my face I don't mind it; For I am behind it; It’s the people in front get the hi » » ~ NOW H. I. BROCK has collected | some of the best known verses in “The Little Book of Limericks” and

writes that he has made special efforts to keep his book clean, for! there are two kinds of limericks.| The temptation to use poetic license developed . limericks that | “got bawdier and Yewdier.”

ward Lear, who compiled the first book of limericks in 1846, exactly 101 |

Mr, Brock quotes the principal Lear limericks and then publishes] a wide sampling. He prints the, verses about the young. lady of! Niger who rode out on a tiger, about Phidias who carved Aphro- | dite (which rhymes with nightie) | and about the pelican, one of my:

» 2 THE LIMERICK gives a chance for puns and plays on words, and Carolyn Wells made the most of them in such poems as the one

There was a young maiden, a Sioux,

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a man named Halevi In a potash) manager for P. F. Collier & Son

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the soldier knows that he is sup-|As tempting as fresh honeydioux,

R. C. Buley, I. U. authority on Indiana and Middle Western history, are (left to right) Mr. Hungerford, with his assistant, Miss Eunice K. Boehle, New York, and Prof. Buley. The history will be published within the next few mogths as a part of the railroads

observance of its centennia Trace History Of Trotters

"THE AMERICAN TROTTER." By John Hervey. Coward «Mc - Cann. $7.50.

THE SOCIAL. REGISTER of}

American race, horses is practically

as exclusive as any describing first families and “blood will tell” is its motto, proved by experience. A phase of sport that has shown increased vitality in recent years Is harness racing developed with a new breed known as “the stand-

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which derives from-the thoroughbred. At the request of the Trotting Horse Club of America John Hervey, best-known authority in this field, has compiled “The American Trotter, a bool of encyclopedic information about the sport, ” ” » RACE HORSES are famous not

the fun can start anew. Mr. Brock only as racers but as progenitors, 7 i {the author of

and careful records are kept.of the performances on track of their offspring. Hambletonian, - the most famous of the trotters, whose name is per

petuated in the annual races at| This was not the intention of Ed-{ Goshen, N. Y., had 1331 foals in|

his 27 years, many of them champions. :

years ago. Lear, like Lewis Car-| Mr, Hervey defends the reputa- | { ton of Hambletonian against all detractors, declaring “the farther| he recedes from us, the more co-

lossal he appears.” Detailed histories of many other famous trotters revive memories of Dan Patch, Lou Dillon, Star Pointer, Maud 8S, Nancy Hanks, and many others down to the present, : =

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A novel that wore out two type-

abut the tutor who tooted a flute,| Writers is “Gus the Great,” to be Some limericks have to be seen to Published Sept. 17 by J. B. Lippin- iscovery, disgrace and jail.

be enjoyed and this is one of them: [cOtt Co. of Philadelphia.

According to the publisher, Duncan, the authol,| mye third musical comedy to be!

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'Peter Abelard’ Retells |Heroine Cheats

Story of Tragic Love |Jap Death

(Holt, $3) is the tragically beautiful] Manila Espionage, bj Claire Phil-

story of one of history's great T0-| lips (Binfords & Mort, Portland, of modievet tar, ® Sifted student|o,, 43) reads like the most thrille The tale of Eloise and Abelard |Ing fiction. is a familiar one: The unforgettable. An American ‘from Portland, story of -the great 12th century whose htisband died in’ the “death Catholic scholar,./his love fors the oroh” from Bataan, Mrs. Phillips

convent-bred Eloise, and their final spiritual triumph, lived in Manila throughout the wap This first novel by Helen Waddell |i the disguise of an Italian-born was a Literary Guild selection Filipino. She was the liason for the when it was published originally in |dying Americans of Bilibid and 933. Cabanatuan prisons and for the Boone guerrillas in the hills. Finally, the caught up and she was not far from death when Gen. MacArthur's forces reached Manila,

Rabbi Writes Volume | J. (On Jewish Religion

Milton Steinberg, rabbi of Park Avenule synagog in New York, is “Basic Judaism," {3 . | which. Harcourt, Brace will publish Sept. 11." The volume is described as “a book about the Jewish re. la 44 ligion—those beliefs, * ideals and practices that make up the his . : toric Jewish faith—written for both Jews and non-Jéws.”

Trouble in a Well Elizabeth Coatsworth, in “Maine Ways” (Macmillan), tells of the piano tuner who was having {rouble with his well. “Last year,” he said, “a porcupine fell into it, and this is | year we got a skunk. And gosh, if I don’t build a wall around it, I'm going to go out some morning and find a Democrat's fallen in.”

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OF SHIPS—H. M. Tomlinson, whose latest of a long series of writings about seafarers "Morning Light."

Story of Consciences “Seventh-Avenue Story,” by Mar=||

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David could be told the truth about| his people, who had died before the German guns at Cracow, |

~ » ” MEYER LEVIN conveys the oil | tions of these Jews, their pride in hard work in the new land; their ipprehension, based on alarms and tragedies of -the past; their deep sense of solidarity and loyalty to their family life. ° He conveys it In terms of feeling, picturing thelr resignation and humility and their hope. Mr. Levin, who wrote about Chicago life a ~ decade ago, conveys the feelings of these abused people with a masterly talent, (H. H)|

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to do with the town of I but they became associated with a refrain in which Limerick is mentioned. Mr. Brock says that as recently as two years ago Archibald MacLeish composed a limerick in Limerick. . This reminds me, for no great reason, of a story that Whit Burnett tells. Before the late war he and several friends sent a man with| coals to Newcastle, which he-was to! present in a package to the mayor. | The emissary reached his destina- | tion, but the mayor threw him out! —_—

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Limericks do not have anything | 00 a manuscript that will fill 704{y ma » imerick, Pri2 New Book Teaches | » + ‘ABC's of Painting |

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Two of America’s best-known artists, Doris Lee and Arnold Blanch, have collaborated on an instruction book called “Painting for Enjoyment,” to be published this month by Tudor Publishing Co. | With 125 illustrations, the booi| aims to teach beginners the ABC’: of putting paint to canvas, with emphasis - on personal enjoyment) rather than professional aspiration.

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