Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1950 — Page 8

‘Tomboy’ Is Excellent Portrayal of Kids On Loose, Gangs

“TOMBOY." By Hal Elson. New York, Scribners, $2.75. ae By MAXWELL RIDDLE ’ 1 USED to think along with Edwin Arlington Robinson that the saddest words of all sad words were “It might have been.” But that was long ago when I was suffering from unrequited fove. Today, as a parent and citizen, I think the saddest words may be in Hal Ellson’s new book “Tomboy.” This is a book about juvenile gangs in New York City, and It contains the lament of children | # x = who do not know they are la-| THE NEW YORK kid gangs menting and who have parents war among themselves, murder, E and yet do not have them. | steal, engage in Nazi-like brutal“Older people never care, never listen, never believe. . . .” “Big ities, and go on sex orgies. To people think they know every-/fthe average reader in Tipton, thing and they know crap—less| Bedford, Beech Grove, or even Inthan that. My old lady'd faint dianapolis, they appear to have and never come out of it if she little connection with “home.” knew half the things I done in| And yet in all the towns and my life,” icities today a midnight tour will “My old man and old lady don’t disclose groups of youngsters care as long as I bring the money wandering about, and perhaps in. They don't care where I've well started on the road which been, how late I stay out, or what Ellison so well portrays in I done. , . | “Tomboy.”

Study of Destructive Philosophy

*ZERO." By Robert Payne. New York, John Day, $3.50. By STAN ANDERSON! “Zero” was written by Robert Payne and it concerns nihilism, its inception and its growth, Not many readers today have a definition for nihilism. Here is a reasonably accurate one from Dictionary of American Politics: “The doctrine that established standards and institutions have no objective validity, at timeés accompanied by advocacy of their

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” = » MR. PAYNE uses 262 pages to stand what the extremities of prove the above definition applies! European political thinking ento nazism, communism and many compass. Nihilism and anarchof the horrible crimes in today’s|ism always have been foreign to headlines. While we in the U. 8,/us. We must understand these. are living beyond the temptations Mr. Payne gives us a modern hiswhich make for nihilism, there|tory of nihilism. It should scare are world areas in which there is the devil out of us.

Two Books Shed Light onEarly U. S.

“JEFFERSON, THE SCENE OF EUROPE." By Marie Kimball. New York, Coward-McCann, $6.

ing Brant. indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, $6. By TOM BOARDMAN TWO PENETRATING books on the formative years of the American republic have been published this week.

republic to the stately and regal courts of pre-revolution Frahce. “James Madison, Father of the Constitution” covers the period

h Virfram 1787:19. 1300, when the Vir | Madison and Jefferson by the

{ i . ginia legislator was struggling 1° same authors. Both will be richly if weld the diverse interests of his rewarding to those whose curown and other states into a work-|iosity about the birth and devel‘able Federal union.

opment of American constitu: continuing series on the lives of isfied.

Burns Conquers Edinburgh “THE WONDER OF ALL THIS GAY WORLD." A biography. By James Barke. New York, Macmillan, $3.50 By LOUISE NASH

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An air of authenticity in the book. plotighman-poet, has his era well Despite the confusing number of in mind. ‘

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“Jefferson, The Scene of Europe” covers the years from 1784 | l i to 1789, when he was the minister of the infant, rowdy American/love affair is between the men last night's burglary at Cham-| gardens and ill-assembled dinner

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EDINBURGH'S gay and bustling life engulfs Robert Burns

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- . The novel is Author ricnara A Fillin Station | Bissell's first book. It is stripped] of the romanticism of vulgarity, | {the romanticism of adolgscence.| Plunderings by black market) While the book contains the operators during World War II dirty work, dirty fighting, hard were recalled today by police in-| liquor and hard loving of the vestigating the theft sof 35 new | romantic novels of the past dec-|tires. ade it relates them to reality.] Possible re-establishment of] {These elements are only inciden- government rationing due to the| tal. ;The book's most powerful Korean crisis may have Inspired |

and the river. ; ibers Filling Station, 1033 N. Capi-{ aw 8 tol Ave.; police surmised. | HERO BILL JOYCE declares, A truck and a box of mechanic's “at first I stayed (on the river) tools also were taken. out of stubbornness. Then I be-| Black marketeers during the gan to feel sorry for the people last war acquired tires for illegal jon the bank. When I got that/sale by stealing them and filing

{far IT was a riverman.” {off serial numbers to prevent! Bill came out of the era of the identification. {

Marmon phaeton and bathtub) The filling station theft was gin. He exchanged his struggle discovered at 7 a. m. by Claude with boredom for one with na- Caldwell, attendant, who called ture, olice. Entry was gained through He ends up as much a part of B rear window. ? Dug the eternal current as his friend bri {8horty who was drowned. 1 4 gy. | | Mat Legion Candidate's | MR. BISSELL'S publishers, At-| | lantic-Little, Brown, hal him as Meter System a successor to Mark Twain. Mr. | Breaks Down

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iunconscious humor of the men mm bi {themselves rather than the hu-| JACK McINTIRE has lost {mor of situation. {faith in his system for parking { The author knows his subject. at a meter before breakfast. {After a prep school and Harvard The 34-year-old Bloomfield! education, he shipped out as a|lawyer-farmer became a victim) seaman to the DMediterranean.of circumstances today that] Later he went to work as a decK- started with his system. His car {hand and mate on the Illinois, |wags damaged, it violated a parkUpper and Lower: Mississippi, | ing law, and it was towed away Tennessee and Monongahela Riv-/ nder police orders while Mr.| ers. iMcIntire, perfectly innocent, | He has picked up the talk of slept. i {the men. The dialogue is real and! A rormer southern vice-com-| American Legion, Mr. McIntire was in town] last night to push his candidacy : Teds for state Legion commander. Polio Statistics Politicking done! he checked in| Today's polio totals in Indiana/at the Severin Hotel at 1:30 a. m. since Jan. 1 compared with the today. same date last’ year: No. of + Cases Deaths Counties

- » 5 MR. McINTIRE knows that city parking meters go into effect]

1950. . 4. 40 2 24 1049..... 141 12 32 at 7 a. m, which was an hour New cases reported today: 1 in Pefore he planned to arise. So

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