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younger than Maugham, recently have presented an eager world with their notebooks. I should like to commit To their attention an explanatory sentence in this on, stan tendon ein8%| hook which describes, without design, something of

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Maugham'’s tisfying humility: “I should have looked upon »

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Cites Danger In Jap's Case

"THE CASE OF GEN. YAMASHITA." By Frank Reel. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, $4.

By STERLING NORTH HE DOESN'T look like a crusader. He looks like the successful young lawyer he is. But Frank Reel, who, against his desire, found himself ordered to join the defense staff of the Japanese general, Yamashita, seems to be [spending the rest of his life trying to clear the name of that executed officer. His ts are too many and too complicated to summarize in a brief column, but they can be found in his book, “The Case of Gen. Yamashita.” At least two members of the Supreme Court agreed with him when the case was appealed to that august body. “Furthermore,” said Mr. Reel the other day, “12 American correspondents who covered the case took a poll of their own econvictions in the matter. All 12 voted for acquittal.” Latest twist in this sensational debate is news from Tokyo that

not to mention the book in their columns. Plans for translation have had to be canceled. Mr. Reel believes the book is being frowned upon by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who, he says, was eager to have Gen. Yamashita executed.

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'gards with tolerance and under-| axacuted for the decision to d WHICH IS cause for regret. For standing the limitations of the kop the difference between Maugham human mind. —E. P.

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Turns Spotlight on

Obscure Figures

Blind chance often prepares for small men of meager attainments the garments of the great. But the people alone make history. Theodore C. Blegen, well aware that obscure figures of the past

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upon events, now gives us the story of the Upper Mississippi Valley in “The Land Lies Open” (University of Minnesota Press, $3). The author will be remembered “for his important “Grass! Roots History” published some AZO.

New Janney Book. Russell Janney, author of “The Miracle of the Bells,” has another book.coming out Nov. 7 (CowardMcCann). “The Vision of Red O'Shea” is “a melodrama in rhyme” into which Janney has poured his feeling for people and religion. ’ ¢

Hemingway at Work Ernest Hemingway now is completing the final pages of a new novel, which will be published by

New Erskine Novel John Erskine’s first novel in! six years, “Venus, the Lonely| Goddess,” will be published by| Morrow Nov. 9.

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. 8 On the Air HOLLYWOOD STAR THEA« TER—Linda Darnell will introduce Robert Patton In the lead role of a drama titled “Return to Death . , WIRE-WLW 7 p. m. TWENTY QUESTIONS — Guest panelist for tonight's sion of the “animal, mineral or vegetable” quiz game will be Sir Cedric Hardwicke, stage and screen actor-producer , . .WIBO m. DENNIS DAY—Faced with the loss of his job or the loss of his home when he gets two dates to a Country Club dance, Dennis has to talk his way out of a di

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ard McGrath, U. 8. Attorney General, will be interviewed by Phelps Adams, of the N. Y. Sun; Glenn Thompson, of the Cincinnati Inquirer, and Warren Francis, of the Los Angeles Times . , . WIBC 9:30 p. m.

New Abridgment Omnibook’s November list of abridgments starts with Isabel Leighton’s anthology of news stories, “The Aspirin Age” (Simon & Schuster). Also condensed in the forthcoming issue of the pocket-sized magazine are: “Call It Treason,” by George Howe (Viking) and “The Doctor Wears Three Faces,” by Mary Bard (Lippincott).

Volume on Europe A new book, “The State of Eure ope,” by Howard K. Smith, who wrote “Last Train From Berlin,® will be published Nov. 7 by Houghton Mifflin. Mr. Smith is chief of the CBS European News Bureau.

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