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Hopes for Finer World --.

In Story of Pays

“LIVE WITH LIGHTNING." RK novel, By Mitchell Wilson. tittle Brown $3: By HENRY BUTLER

IN “LIVE WITH LIGHTNING," Mitchell Wilson has done for physicists what Sinclair Lewis did for physicians “Arrowsmith.” That abvious comparison undoubtedly has been and will be made elsewhere. "There's no point in arguing the relative merits of the two novels. Mr. Wilson's: book is by far more important

the

come-

It's,

most

Erik's ethical career™ point where he has

Boston!

for readers in 1949, if only pletely sold out to money power,’

because of the field it's set In. AS With a good sense of irony the first widely circulated, full- Wilson has Erik oversreach length novel about the personal- self in trying to make a deal fties, the struggles and the ethics Turnbull. An old hand at chiof research-physicists, this Lite. canery, Turnbull double-crosses erary Guild selection for October Erik, destroying any hope of should have enormous appeal royalties from his patent. Like so many other document. Bruised and penitent, Erik goes Ary novels Live With Light. back to Columbia to work on the ning” seems likely to Impress increasingly “hot” fission res some readers as much: by its in- search. After V.J Day, he has a formativVenss® as by ite story; brief-—period of hope—for the That's especially true of the con- world's future with the enormous cluding chapters, when Mr, Wil- resources of atomic energy now son brings his Erik Gorin, now avaliable. a famed nuclear sclentist, 0, That hope is quickly dashed Washington. Enjoying a novel- 15 washington Erik hears a spiel ist's- freedom, Mr. Wilsen is able jn the House of Representatives “to give us imaginatively -a better advocating the immediate. “pep. and more convincing picture of pering” of the enemy with *tomie the hideous embroliment of poli- bombs. The word “peppering” tics, business and science than self {s so terribly inaccurate hi any news commentator would it reminds Erik of all the scare dare attempt head stories apout the bomb stories that ignored or played down the vast potential blessings of atomic energy. Why was the bomb played up

him with

” . . BUT THAT happens after Erik has reached 36 and his active professional life, he sadly reflects, is more than half over. His success has been largely in pres- While the energy. which could tige; scientists do not meastre ‘quickly bring a new industrial achievement by income. And revolution, was played down? what modest security he and his Erik debates the question with wife, Savina, and their boy, Jody, himself and with well-heeled op enjoy has heen a long time ar- Portunists like suave Arnie riving. O'Hare, ace lobbyist, And why so Mr. Wilson wiroducen us to much insistence on re-armament, Frik applying for a research as- much of it with weapons and sistant's job at Columbia in the equipment totally obsolete since . Depression '308. Earle Fox, phy- Hiroshima? * gles department head and a kindlv man weary of science and of COULD IT BE that controllers life itself, takes Erik on and of power, through their lobbyists, gives him a chance to work with fought to keep atomic energy a Tony Haviland, brilliant re. secret and even suggested legislasearcher. Tony is doing some of tion to curtail atomic research, so the preliminary laboratory work that they might retain their hold in the development of atomic on the country's economy? Could energy. it be also that manufacturers. of Erik sharpens his wits and his obsolete armament encouraged will also against the brilliant but! through their lobbyists war talk erratic Tony, who has money In Congress? and likes social life. In one ter-| yiye Merle Colby in his excel rible summer, Erik goads Tony lent novel of last May, “The Big into finishing a difficult and vitallge ret, * Mr. ‘Wilson makes clear | experiment, completion of which th int that there is no secret may mean a fall-term job fori c PON i" ere B Tony. A job will make possible labout atomic energy. Any up-to-Tony's marriage to. Savina. date physicist in any. country Assisting Erik and Tony on Xnows the theory involved. Atthe mathematical and theoret- tempts by . Congress to clamp jcai-side is. Hugo Fabermacher, a down on international exchange: - genius afMicted with bone cancer. of scientific results could : only . A refugee from Nazi Germany, hamstring American Beientists where he had seen his Jewish without adding even an hour of father cut down by a Stormy from-attack {fan enemy. ¥ Hugo finds figured-out-how to make the bomb peace of mind only in work. for less than our expenditure of

. "= b . IN THE CONFLICTS between $3 billion )

the men. sharpened later when This “area of. Mr.. Erik discovers Hugo's love for Novel overshadows the rest of Savina. Mr. Wilson has done the book. Inevitably go, even some keen writing. Though Sa- though Mr. Wilson writes with vina remains faithful to Erik, she a great deal of skill and insight pities Hugo. The knowledge of about men and women rewarded That "pity — sometimes torments by deep love but also-“torn.. by krik, especially when he and Sa- desires and the jealous loneli vine are struggling with home ness that persists from child problems - and decisions about hood to the grave. w hat jobs Erik should take. For fhe concluding chapters What Mr, Wilson does through- of “Live With Lightning" —give Oh ano Lr reentiste a8 BOF us scientific ilerates & good all of us, with ney irresotu- Potion gt . wat the loin score ) A now is. In a layman's stumbling tion and loneliness. The chief dif- language and as 1 understand ference between Mr. Wilson's yo." wiicon the score is this scientists and most of us is that We're closer and closer to ultiscientists in their work are con- mate facts ahgut the structure cerned primarily with truth. They of our universe. Knowing those have learned co-operation fo a facts. we can heal the sick. feed = AOGELR. R0SL POOPIE AO. DOL MIELE the hungry and: peliere the ef stand. They want correct results, sie. human race from backregardless of. material rewards breaking. disfiguring toil. We That devotion to fact, frrespective .an do so for as long as the uniof vanity or personal desire, is yorge permits us to enjoy what he forced upon them by the nature somewhere. ferms the ‘accident’ of their work. The physical unk §Fe di "Vire verse cannot be bribed to reveal : its secrets After one grim: experience in A Midwestern university department

Troopers—s-h-ov.o.l,

Wilson's

That . revolutionary more drastic than any previous revolution in-world history--will upset vested interests. The vested interests and their eager sales men and busv lobbyists will not relish the change. Nor will stock holders _in heavy industry using ybsolete equipment and manufar obsolete The oppose benign *hs¢ energy

change

whose physics evil-minded tempted by

head -is an old Frik is a good salary as an InAUstriat consultant in New York Working “for the marshine-tool magnate Turnbull IBns a new cutting machine’ only to And that a patent on its atomic BATE Tdea Area v has been taken : MIT Dy A stati v dealer in the Bronx, Even after a brief look at gentle, ‘pathetically futile old Za ritzky “Erik still decides to "strad dle’ Zaritzky's patent bv techni callties, so that the nlf man would have to sue. at ruinous for

tvrant

power-hungry produ ta

the

turing he de Img will all

There is the arena of confht There and. if nationalism. which again is a reflection of each country's stubborn inter ests,

Will we

oneg

vester

internationally make the right choice Tune in week 1f the choice is wrong there won't be too many in left in Which t to tune in

cost next infringement weeks point.

» ~ THAT IS the vest

THEJWORLD OVER ia

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= re HR INPFANABOLIS TIMES 7 Pen-and-Ink Sketches Show Booth Tarkington's Skill

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A group of the pen-and-ink sketches Booth Tarkington incorporated into his letters from: Europe to his Jameson nephews show the late Hoosier novelist's skill in drawing. They are among many illus

‘rations in » ~ .

"Your Amiable Uncle,"

-Rublished yenlerday by Bobbs-Merrill.

Hoosier's Letters to Jameson Nophows

Reflect Unspoiled Era Before World War

"YOUR AMIABLE UNCLE: LETTERS TO HIS NEPHEWS." By Be at Bobbs-Me $.

KINGTON’ 8 LETTERS are a whimsical record of travel in days less complex than ours Written during a European tour in 1903-4 the late author's charm and the atmosphere of unspoiled innocence that seems to have pervaded the world before its two major Wars. And since they were addressed to voungsters

Tark 1dianapolis,

BOOTH TARK

was 14; Donald-12. and Booth, 1), light and simple, with comparatively few excursions into serious realms. What gives them added interest is the series of sketches by the author. Early in life, Tarkington had considered becoming an artist, His genuine talent is evident in the lively pen drawings of picturesque characters, which are

reproduced in this volume as near-

sible where they appearmanuscript letters.

ly as po ed in"th

» » » MUCH of the material Is family joshing, interspersed with humorous references to.Indianapolis— as for example the comment that some of the Alps are even higher than Crown Hill. On the tour, Tarkington was accompanied by his first wife and his parents,

Siarlock § Makes Debut

New Book Filled With Sharp Wit

WSILVERLOCK." A novel. By John Myers, NewYork, Dutton, $3.

By MAXWELL RIDDLE A man with

legend, a huge imagination and a sharp wity has written a book called “Silverlock.” John Myers is the author TU Rilverlock’ 1s the entertaining gfory of a Chicago salesman whe gets shipwrecked on the mythical continent of Commonwealth. He teams up with Golias, the heroic bard, who once wrote his confessions. Their adventures came pellmell, Circe turns Silverlock into a Pig Back in human form he meets Brodir Hardsark of the Viking sages, Beowulf, Manon Lescaut Pathfinder, Semiramis Don Quixote, Robin Hood, etc Cupid fixes Silverlock up with Rosalette for 30. seconds. Golias steals Kilmansegg's golden leg

raid-thex pawn. dldl a. shop. sun. by.

Barabas They = visit Xanadu. Carlion, Ilium, Thebes Derybar, from the Arabiar Nights, et Aside from its entertainment value, this book will make vou want to réad dozens of ancient ro mafites and sagas, and ahout as many hooks from our own Amer ican history

Meet Keener Job Competition. Through Evening Study!

A an encyclopedic knowledge of ancient history and:

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they

(John

and “Nana.”

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“Papa John benefit of Tarkington

pense. On occasion, he Nana sipped a cocktail,

medicinal couldn't be evil. He writes about Paris, {much spoofing about the ' Palace”) and Capri. lahdscérpes, ary seers’ interest, absurdly rectly

ruins.

He elaborate

buying religious pictures,

as presents for them.

New Novel

Earl Schenck revives the exciting days of the 19th Century whaling expeditions to the South Seas in a new adventure novel,

"Come Unto These Sands" (Doubleday, $3).

Publishing Date Set

Deh Odi ROR

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osophical Library of Oct. 17, the Chopin's death, Gide "as early as-1892 was notecompleted

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Jameson nephews rants

preserve both

Jameson

Venice Dogs Florence, Rome, Naples He is eloquent about antique and other objects of

sightinvents some approaching them with vigor myths, keyed to youngsters’ of humor. And he keeps teasing the nephews by telling them he's

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