Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1949 — Page 8

Dr, Etein's Formulas Put Into Understandable English

as ky * p90 fo For Non-Scientific Reader “THE UNIVERSE AND DR. EINSTEIN." By Lincoln Barnett. New York, Sloane, $2.50. “FROM DAY TO DAY." By Odd Nansén. New York, Putnam, $5. By ROBERT'W. MINTON LINCOLN BARNETT has put our educators to shame. We have been led by them to believe the equations published by Dr. Albert Einstein in 1805 are too difficult to understand without a knowledge of higher mathematics. Relativity thus has become something of a divine sym- _ bol, a sacrament lodged in the tabernacle of science to be venerated but not understood. In “The Universe and Dr.

sketches of camp life which he later developed into drawings, some of them being included in his book. * " . .

HE WROTE a song of free Norway and they threw him into solitary and later made him live in the “parachute room,” where there was no furniture hut bunks, piled so high that a fall from the top could be lethal. But Grini was pleasant compared to Sachsenhausen in Germany. There he witnessed the most brutal atrocities. “The language is exhausted,” lhe declares in trying to describe how a pack of young German thieves were turned loose with)

he 's formulas mean in terms that can be understood by anyone of "Dr. Binstein has invalidated almost all of classical physics. The concept of the universe as a mechanism certain in-

starviig Jews, so desparate for food they were eating dust.’ It is amazing that anyone retained his sanity under these conditions, let alone his sense of humor, but Mr. Nansen is able to write about an order to salute Germans or be shot: “The German isn’t hard to understand. It goes with a bang, as one may say.” } » r ” WAS able to retain his)

volume is only one-third what he {wrote and always his act of wr was at the risk of his life. He wrote for himself and for his wife without thought of

on tissue paper in a hand small it could only be read with a magnifying glass. To get it out of Germany he hollowed out a bread board and sealed it

man elf of this essential information. by tor-| After solving the problems of turers in an effort to make him /mind and sex you may want to tell them something. He never|turn to Justus J. Schifferes spoke and remained thereafter a

books ‘has been re- has mix th. Most notable glers,

Tells but

Harold Russell, who won two Academy awards for playing the vetesan who had lost both hands in “The Best Years of Our

“I Lives,” has collaborated with

truncheons upon a thousand| 3

“In Louisiana" i

"THIS IS MY SON." A novel. By Clarence Budington Kelland.|

“New York, Harper, $2.75;

“This Is My Son” by Clarence Budington Kelland is an up-to-| date version of the old Western) story of the tenderfoot who makes

Percival Strawn, son of Michael Strawn, aggressive New York French Resistance. . business tycoon, wants to teach’ The author, Guillain de Bepor write history. But he yields to ouville, is the youngest general his father’s plea that he try for of the French army, Captured by one year to run a ranch that his/the invading Germans, he esfather has obtained in Arizona. [caped in September, 1940, and |

s the title of this cafe Scone pain and included in Herron Art Museum's current exhibition o will remain on view through Feb. 20.

Old Western [Story of French Resistance in 1949 Dress [Records Courage, H

“THE UNKNOWN WARRIORS: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF

splays Louisiana Cafe Scene

tod by

THE FRENCH RESISTANCE."

By Guillain de Benouville. Trans-

By JEAN-LOUIS RIEHL

| HERE is a new book, “The Un{known Warriors,” about

the American romanticist Robert Philip contemporary American paintings, whi

ardships

lated from the French by Law- § rence G. Blochman. New York, | Simon & Schuster, $3.50, “4

: w the to add.

Percival Strawn no sooner/thenceforward was able to work :

girl |

boards the 20th Century Limited/in the complex and perilous in New York to head west, than a/operations of the Resistance. pretty red-haired mystery

Two years ago, M. De Benou-

him into letting her share yjlle published “Sacrifice d'un

compartment.

{matin” (“Sacrifice in the Morn-

And before the year is up, he ing”), another book on the same

nte:

“decides to

Handicapped Gl His Story

1 M&ITY the redhead, but still wants to teach and write history.

with narcotics smug- subject—the day-by-day exhilarcipated in a pitched ating but dangerous life of men

Fiore AN doe er, and;

how to say “No!” to 8. N Ameri

of the noble courage, the risks and the hardships of the Resistance—the innumerable aspects of a ruthless struggle. struggle, peared. The participants lived in a shadowy world of bold lies, forged papers and narrow escapes. » = » M. De BENOUVILLE’s subject is tremendous—so much so that the author from time to time

Victor Rosen in writing his auto-| compilation of facts. Facts are

biography.

|important, but to those of us who

Under the title “Victory in My lived through the underground

Hands,” the ‘hook recounts Mr. war against the invaders, facts

Russell's own experience in over- are not everything.

* “How coming the depression and hope-| to Live Longer” (Dutton, $3); lessness that at first followed his|jot, but which does not lead you to the tragic injury during the war, It Benouvi

Dates,

readers will find in ranch! “The Unknown Warrior” a record

In ‘© that rules of war disap.

seems to be giving merely a,

names, towns mean a

Knows the subject . . . JeanLouis Riehl, who reviews Guil. 's "The Un.

lain. de .Benouville's known Warriors" for The Times book page, was himself a member of the French Resistance. Mr, Riehl, a 27-year-old Parisian currently residing at 228 E. 13th St, joined the underground forces in 1941, after two years of pre-medical study in the University of Paris. As a member of the Paris police force, he was able to aid the escape from France of many American and British fliers planes had been shot down.

~igarde about his style, no diffi-

“ has faith in life.

: lhave read enough about grasping

. |archetype of the acquisitive man, ‘ [ruthless to the point where he

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"SUZANNE AND JOSEPH." Two short novels, By George Duhamel. New York, Holt, $3.50. THE NAME of Duhamel means little to Americans, . far less than, say, Jean-Paul Sartre, yet he is one of the few living French novelists who should have great popular appeal here. There is nothing avant

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' Scarne on Cards’ John Scarne, whose book “Scarne on Dice” is familiar to many a GI, has sent the manuscript of “Scarne on Cards” to Crown Publishers, who will publish it in. March. Besides warnings and specific instructions on how to detect cheating at cards, the forthcoming book contains pointers on how to improve one’s skill legitimately.

Another: Maugham Robin Maugham, a nephew of W. Somerset , is the author of “The Servant,” which Harcourt, Brace will bring out Feb. 10. It is a psychological study of a man’s moral, spirit-

pusinessmen, but Mr. Duhamel has something new and exciting

” . » HIS Joseph Pasquier is the

not only ruins other lives but his ! lown in the bargain. At first it is ' l]amusing to listen to him babble ‘lon as if he had a tic of the . {tongue and couldn’t stop talking. But as his career rockets to disaster you realize, as Joseph himself comes to realize, that his is a poisonous nature. In the course’ of the. story Joseph has three main interests: a Mexican oil well, some imported American refrigerators and his for the Institut de France. His insatiable ego drives him to abandon the valuable oil well, lest he be duped; he recklessly engages in a ruinous scheme to corrupt a minister in order to secure an import permit; his candidacy at the Institut is made ludicrous by his own anxiety.

» » ” IN THE END this successful ‘millionaire is ruined, not so much financially as personally. And the beauty of Mr. Duhamel’s art lies in his benignity. For him Joseph's fall is, like that of Adam, more] than just, it is tragedy. The ter-|.

part of the Resistance.

he assembles: is likely to engulf the average reader, who is not necessarily interested in all the intrigue and petty deals that were

There are some exciting pages “ 8€5 willing to bring unhappiness on I am afraid that M. De/ln “The Unknown Warriors" — iors’ to return to it.”Slow movlle missed his purpose: To Pages as sharp as military re-|

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Through all his mishaps Tevye retains his sense of humor and the certainty that God watches over him. The richness of his faith and humor, cleverly distilled by Sholem Aleichem makes this book a universal pleasure.

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ence. There his main fight was spirit- * “ ‘. Details in Life Concerned mainly with the life “has

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evapora into the i mass. He| watched distinguis politicians, artists and professional men suc- Sullivan, who was Mr, Wiguts vr title in the Viking Portable Lib- principal teacher, the boo “THE EMPIRE ANDTHE GLORY. Lid by the end of May, 45 titles contain 50 hitherto unpublished By Fletcher Pratt, New York, | will have been published. Sloane, $3.75. { ii

cumb to the ennui of camp life, drawings by Sullivan. “THE Empire and the Glory,” by|

80 that all that was on their mind was camp gossip. When will we get out? Who is the new arHap i and on they droned. r. Nansen was the camp arch- | tect and enjoyed the privilege of pint primo 0d u = or ing On Sundays! He winged life of Napoleon Bonaparte. All the well-known facts about Napo-| leon and the France of those six) years are set down here, and in| great detail. | | The author, who is a military|

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period. You can smell the smoke and hear the guns. : ” r . HE HAS added two Interesting {devices to his book. One is called “The Worm's Eye View"-quota- | tons from the writings of persons {who participated in the events he {has described In the previous) |chapter. The other is “The Wrong| {End of the Telescope” —writings| |by persons who were far from the {scene of the events described but {who comment upon them anyway. - 44 R Washington St. | These two devices bring the

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