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= ~ Bobls-Merrill, $6. AMERICAN THEMES." By D. W. By ROBERT

before war finally came.

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: *JOHN: C. CALHOUN, NULLIFIER." By Charles M. Wiltse. Indian-

‘HISTORIANS, especially liberal historians, © Kindly with John C. Calhoun, the austere South Carolinian whose| passionate devotion to the doctrines of states rights and the insti-| tution of slavery contributed heavily.to. the South's intransigence

her for

Brogan. New York: Harper, $3.50.

w. MINTON have not dealt

Charen M. Wise came to study Caioun oy way of Jefferson :

. D. W. BROGAN, a Scotsman who studied history at Harvard and traveled around the U. 8, for two years in the 20's, knows more, about America than most of 0s.! Read his “American Themes” ir you don’t think so. In this collection of 39 reviews and essays - written mostly * for British periodicals, Prof, Brogan ranges from Al Capone to Tom

lem to the dynamics of our language. And the pleasant surprise

is that he genuinely likes: America. Of course he doesn't like our

picture magazines, which are all

willing to hide the fact that

"Respected Citizen,” 244K Annual-Circult Exhibition of | Museum through Apr. 20.

Erizae inti water color b William A Smith, is an important item in the | or Society currently on display in Herron Art |

the Ohio Water

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ "Color on Display of Museum

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Harrison. Chicago and New York, Ziff-Davis, $2.75.

THE TROUBLE with Richard) porting to be “the inside story of

The author's record indicates

more than a decade, as a British] journalist, he has studied and written of crime in England, lectured on it at Cambridge. During the war he was a memper of the military intelligence. He furthermore has won popularity with his books of fiction on the cases of *Chiet Inspector

. BUT IN his report of the real cases in which the Yard is inery he disappoints by omitting the very facts the reader most wants to know. He wiil, for example, sum up the ecircumstances of a murder, the early

"bafflement of the police, their

later more hopeful efforts, only ta remark that the golutiyn of the

_ What the hed of solution

vleance,

story is in the works. It's Allan brainchild, to be edited nry Pringle, Pulitzer Prize es. Roger Burlingame and Courtland Canby, Though spon-

sored by the: Society of American Historians it will not be academic| and will treat history in the broad sense-—include the history of art, music, erature, ete, o J

ALFRED KNOPF is SHngIng|..

ginius Dabney, the great prohi-|

elmis shading the funny, ugly, bitionist on Apr. 18. I suggest somewhat lovable mansions of Chicago's merchant Pines.” cocktail party.

Jacket Reflects Chevallier s Gallic Wi

A NEW magazine devoted to

was, the clues and their signifithe reasoning they led to, the exact incidents thereafter until the arrest, he does not tell p years ago Groucho Marx, in a. New York musical, made an after-dinner speech. Apropos of

Harrison's “Scotland Yard,” pur-|

that his knowledge of his subject i tu axtensive and. Fen

practically nothing he remarked, wThat reminds me of the story of laughed

Frederick Lewis Allen, editor in chief of Harper's Magazine, presents a new and unbiased

portal of a legendary financier |

n "The Great Pierpont Morgan" | (Harper, $3. 50).

out “Dry Messiah,” the Life of 5 ble, Bishop James Cannon by vir-| Noted Cellist [3

‘His Autobiography Gregor Platigorsky, famou

ol it be celebrated by a nice rousing, THE | ‘cellist, is taking a year off from short story of the stage. Random

[concert appearances to complete House has issued 30 of them in a/

{his autobiography and a novel. The manuscript of the autobiography is mostly in Russian and] has been in preparation for years. Doubleday will publish it. The novel will tell of an artist ne

has lived through troublous d

3 in Russia and betomes a __

to women's clubs in the U. 8.

{Tibetan Life Described

In Ladakh. Tibet, men outnum- Clifford Odets, Edna St, Vincent ber women many times, and the Millay, ete ete. matrimonial customs meet this situation. Most women "have three

husbands. A man shares his wi

ways of life. Author's Love Notes

don, and 1904, when she dled.

Harper will publish “The Love)

York, Putnam, $4.50,

‘By PARKER LA MOORE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ° THOSE WHO have read the |1ate Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's diary of his China experiences are offered the other side of the story lin a new war book by Maj. Gen. Claire 32a] C the old

{much ‘of Vintear Joe’s_ trouble iwas of his own making, growing lout of his own inordinate ambi ition. 7 | The old infantryman, Gen. |

prejudice against air power with) a faint suspicion of any weapon

a bayonet,” and none of the di« plomacy required in a top military post in a coalition war. Gen. Chennault regarded Gen. Stilwell as a “rugged field soldier” of great personal courage, who, in a continual struggle to meet problems that were foreign to him, “turned sour toward the other leaders with whom he had to work,” one of whom was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

~ ” » BUT GEN. Chennault's story is much more than an inside story or rebuttal to the Stilwell book.

Asiatic policies during the last decade, and a veteran airman’s observation on air tactics and strategy. ¢ Included among these comments are some scorching indictments of Pentagon bigwigs, past and dp ft pointed are

A 's mission China.

“The truce sponsored and pushed by Marshall forced the ea Histo to halt his. antiCommunist offensive at a timé when it was on the verge of wip-

i ing out large bodies of Chinese

Communist troops,” Gen. Chennault writes. Then when we placed an embargo on arms shipments to the {government forces the Russians supplied the Communist troops

|iwith captured Japanese equip-

ment. After that, he remarks, “it

did not take long for the well-

chew up the government divisions armed only widh the worn rem- ‘ inants of two-year old American

1 equipment.”

EVEN GEN. Chennault did not find it too easy to work with the Chinese, because they would think in terms of decades and dynasties “when days and weeks | {seemed so vital for me.”

{served respect and admiration.)

¥ Are Col ected

_"THIRTY FAMOUS ONE-ACT | PLAYS." Edited by Bennett Cerf

| and Van H. Cartmell. Naw York Modern Library, $2.45 ONE-ACT play i=

Modern: Library Giant. {Famous One-Act Plays”

jducers of dramatic sketches,

ithe war is that of a heroine.

" ho she

It fs a searching review of OlFitween 1937 and 1042; President

For Chiang Kai-shek, however, ithe old Fighting Tiger has unre-|

One-Ach Play ‘|

the

Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cart-|y ay 9. The book, mell, editors of the anthology, Jim. Cros has a foreword by Ways be some editor to fill that!

Scotland Yard Chennault Raps U. S. Far East hE 3 Probes Eludes Author Policy, Criticizes Gen. Stilwell Journalism

“SCOTLAND YARD." By Richard "WAY OF A FIGHTER." By Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennaiilt, New! “FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.” By Herbert Brucker. New York,

{ {And the picture he gives of the part Madame Chiang played in|

“While the Japanese were sending 100 planes a day over Nanking, Madame Chiang repeatedly risked her life by coming to the d atrri Id, always sarget -. rage ih

FespohaIbie Re

teit he said. i Lack of Bonesk technically competent, loyal subordinates was, Gen, Chiang’s worst problem, in Gen. Chennault’s opinion, But

Chennault says, had a “strong “he managed by playing off one conveying

against thd -other, getting what| he could from them, and every

more complicated than a rifle and now and then lopping off a few! This is not a new idea, but his

heads as a warning that there, was a limit 1 his Patience.”

GEN. CHENNAULT'S own ca-| reer is a miiltary “rags to riches”| story. | He was washed out in the Army| Air Corps in 1937 with the rank of captain at the age of 47, discouraged and broken in health. Then he went to China. - His ups and downs are told in this book, as well as a great deal of unwritten history—the little publicized part Russia played in the Chinese-Japanese war. bee

Roosevelt's secret order which! made the Flying Tigers a reality; the days when his planes couldn't 'go aloft for want of gasoline; the loss of his original Foreign Legion, which vanished in five seconds of flame and dust when a arwman pilot Med too much

Japs came in on the Hinting * rays of the etting. sun”)

and caught his whole force in! flight line on the ground.

Book Out Monday |

{plight, how to reconcile growing | collectivist and restrictive tenden-

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“FREEDOM OF INFORMA-| TION” by Herbert Brucker, edi-| tor of the Hartford Courant, is|

predicated on the twin truths that “a fact that cannot reach a man’

mind from the outside world be is concerned: And WHat AABN: x

{has in his head is a fact as far

as he’s concerned, whether or not| #

it exists in the world outside.” He conceives of “journalism, which includes all facilities for facts — from newspapers to television—as the fourth branch of government.

specific definition — journalism

ar ves democratic government]

the bee serves a flower, by ee it”"—makes an old notion clearer. » » ” FROM these key concepts Mr. Brucker goes on to show how information throughout the world is gathered, disseminated and sometimes distorted. He is inclined to be academic and discursive and I find it" hard to say what his central thesis is. But his vital concern for journalism's present

{gles of the 20th century with the 18th century theory of press freedom, has led him to turn up some startling facts. : . . . HERE ave a few: ONE. Advertising does not curtail press freedom, but rather it aR t. The more advertising a paper has the rjgore its editor can ignore pressure from advertisers. Only a marginal

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HOLLYWOOD STAR THEA-TER-—Herbert Marshall intro-

‘|duces June Lockhart in an orig{inal radio drama . . WLW, 7pm.

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TWENTY QUESTIONS Stage and screen star Irene Rich will re Jn a

on, of. Sil

Karloff

Tp m : SPIKE JONES-—-Boris

;\will visit Spike and his City

Young author-editor .., + Jerry N. Williamson,

"Local Youth Is Author

JERRY N. WILLIAMSON, 4620 Haverford Ave. a regular contributor of ecrime-fiction reviews to The Times Book Page, is an editor and author in his own right. A Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for some years, young Mr. ‘Williamson recently has published “The Illustrious Client's Second Case Book,” a 96-page collection of essays and sketches on Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth. Printed’ by the Indianapolis Blue Print and Lithograph Co. the book contains an introduction by Ellery Queen and numerous contributions by other Holmesians, including Jane Throckmorton, Helen Howard, H. B. Williams, Dorothy Gray, Stan-|

paper would think of letting an {advertiser influence its news columns. TWO. Newspapers tend to fight | the status quo. During ‘the '20's| when government was conserva-, tive the press was liberal. Since 1935 the reverse has been true. THREE, The effect of monop-

oly upon press freedom is simply " inot known. We cannot say with

any assurance that concentration of power in journalism

_ | causes distortion or suppression

of information. FOUR. In an accuracy survey 455 errors were found in 591 newspaper stories. Radio news was adjudged more accurate than

|i newspaper news in a 1939 For-|

e survey. Yet because a 12 page daily paper handles about 5000 facts per edition, newspapers have no reason to be

usual patterns of writing in_| "His Human Majesty,” a new novel which Whittlesey House will publish Monday. The story concerns a group of ski-troopers in training in the Colorado Rockies i in 1944. Book by Reporter Ray Sprigle, Pulitzer Prize winning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette re-

, “Thr porter, disguised himself as a Ne-

|g {appeal to readers of brief fiction] ‘las well as to students and pro-| Iii ¢ the South for a mODth.

last fall, and traveled "His observations will be pub[lished by Simon & Schuster on]

“In the Land of!

have given it an all-star cast with| Margaret Halsey.

{plays by contemporaries like Eu-| «| gene O'Neill; Noel Coward, J. M.! Barrie. Oscar Wilde, Irwin Shaw,

fe!

racial segregation.

“Strange Fruit.”

|Book Neady Ready

Samuel Taylor

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Lillian Smith's next book: to be! with his younger brothers. “Gol. published by W. W. Norton in the den Doorway to Tibet,” by Nicolifall, is “Killers of the Dream; oa {tization of a best: seller, Smith, to be published June 13 non-fictional andlysis of sin,’ sex| | @ by Bobbs-Merrill tells all about and

Miss 5% these remote people and their Smith :

is "also the author of]

(Chosen for IV

“Dinner at Antoine's,” by FranParkinson Keyes. pubiished by Julian Messner. Inc; and a nation-wide best-seller for four nionths, has been selected by {Philco for its first Video drama-

ces

Kay Boyle dopucts from her | |

ashamed of their record for accuracy.

» ~ » IT will be observed that Mr. {Brucker is pursuing a middle | path in his study of journalism. {He has great faith in the future of journalism in the democracies. [He rejects any radical changes in our information system, which has reached the apogee of ob-| ‘jectivé news reporting. What he

would like to see is more objective =

editorial opinion. | This last wish is like asking a drunkard to stop drinking. The well tempered editorial based on a fair -xamination without prej-| udice of both sides of & question is in my opinion too much to hope for. There is a segment of lany populace which demands the) biased view and there will al!

demand. —R. W. M.

Book Postponed Kenneth Roberts’ own story. of; . hiz career, “I Wanted tg Write,” has been postponed by Doubleday to Apr. 20. Besides showing the artist at work, the Hook gives an intimate glimpse of the modern literary world.

Coleridge’ Ka

Letters of Mark Twain” this fall. ihitherto unpublished “Philosophi: | 3 of a modern American marriage The letters were written between cal Lectures: 1818-19," edited b 2 September, 1868 when Mark Kathleen, will be brought out Apr.| £ Twain first wrote to Olivia Lang-'27 by the Philosophical Library ‘of New York,

A master of the American novel probes the basic conflicts

JamesT. Farrell

a new novel

The Road Between

by the creator of STUDS LONIGAN LR At oll bookstores + 5.50 - ;

{ley McComas and Mrs. Mary-| esther Williamson, the editor's mother, all ot Indianapolis.

THE “CASE {took some eight months to pre- | pare, has been marketed through ‘the Baker St. Irregulars, national) organization of Sherlock Holmes | fans. Mr. Williamson heads the! Indiana division of the “society, known as the Illustrious Clients. A junior in School, the 17-year-old connois{seur of detective fiction plans to | continue writing and hopes to {major in journalism Jn college

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Story of Polish Leader Published

| On Apr. 19th, the date marking the sixth anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Viking Press will publish the story of one of the leaders of. the Warsaw underground-—"The Stars Bear Witness,” by Bernard ® Goldstein. The author iz almost the only leader of the Jewish community to live through the calculated campaign of genocide, in which a population of 500,000 was reduced to 10,000.

Producer Buys Novel “Edge of Doom,” a first novel

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