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Bost: of Kind Since ‘Out Of the Night

THE. ACCUSED, By A By CARL VICTOR LITTLE

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the next day he repudiated it Weissberg proved such a worthy : opponent of the GPU during the rently, like Henry Wallace, on gyestionings that an agent on one our side occasion shouted, “Why do you This is Alexander Weissberg's torment us?” (Imagine, a prisoner tormenting the GPU because he ‘would not confess.) Despite the long digressions of during which eight million people the' author on the personal hiswere arrested, many of them eéxe- tory of the characters he introimprisoned duces, THE ACCUSED reads like a novel.wf psychological suspense, and it will give you a ‘thrill that Weissherg, Weissbherg (I hope he's still on our im- side_but I don’t trust a certain type of intellectual) was the win-

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camps, ars of was exchanged as a turned over to the Hitler and Stalin signed their pact. Weissherg is an Austrian phy.sicist who joined the Communist party in 1927. In 193d he accepted an invitation of the Supreme Economic Council of the U.S.8.R. to work at the Physical Technical T k Institute in Kharkov and during -G t his tenure there founded the as en Y “Journal of Physics.” ro : The importance of this volume °° Wyck Brooks gently is the light it throws on the Great critical of Booth Tarkington in Purge and miso the information THE CONFIDENT YEARS: 1885it gives concerning the technique 1915 published Friday used by the Russian secret police Dutton ($6). (G.P.U.) to obtain the fantastic/ confessions that were. dramatized ne following excerpt’ from his during the public trials. comments This is undoubtedly the nos peared in a exciting, readable and revealing , hire se 1t tt ) tk utt book of its kind since the late Jan Rt out by the ytton Valtin’s “Out of the Night.” Al- "IM:

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RARITY—"Portrait of Richard Mather," early 17th Century woodcut, has been lent by the Massachusetts Historical Society to the current exhibition, ''The First Two Centuries of American Prints and Decorative Arts," at Herron Art Museum. The closing date has been changed from today to next Sunday, Jan. 13.

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of American has BETWEEN SITTINGS: AN INFORMAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By Jc

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though it runs more than -500 pages, and although some of it is necessarily repetitious since it concerns the continuous grilling, of Weissberg by the G. P. U,, it is likely that you'll read it all avidly.

whatever they were, to the point of view that the best thing is to get on and make money, for, although the tables might quite well

“hitherto almost unknown chapter in American history,” according to the publisher. Covering the peak years of the fur “trade in the United States, 1822-1834, the book will be based

2, gained recognition as a sculptor before World War I. He was considered a ‘‘venerable institution” as long

ago as the early ’20s, when he was pointed out to sightseers along the boulevards of

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@When Weissberg was arrested have been turned the other way, he was accused of having plotted the businessmen always have the with Micholas Bukharin, former laugh on the poets and the high(and now late) member of the brows... The trouble with TarkPolitburo, to kill Stalin and blow ington was not that he loved the up various industrial plants. For well-to-do Hoosiers he wrote about months, Weissherg held out, re- but that he so readily accepted fusing to confess to what he pro- their. Philistine standards. He tested was a lie. He was not was not sufficiently detached from beaten but, as the questioning his world to criticize its values reached its intensive stage, he which is merely a way of saying was quizzed by relays of agents that he never grew up, that he! continuously for three days and remained the college hoy who nights after which he collapsed. failed to establish his independLater he was placed in a cell ence in his prosperous “Hoogler with “Rozhansky who, although lawyer father’s house. So Tarkposing as a prisoner, was an ington, the prince of popular agent of the GPU. Rozhansky novelists, was never taken seriurged him to confess, claiming ously, -in critical circles he sat that a confession was the duty he below the salt—in spite of a brilowed the party, and holding out liant satirical gift that rivalled the belief that the punishment Sinclair Lewis's and a feeling like would be light. Scott Fitzgerald's for the glamour 80; confess Weisgherg did. But of youth.”

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“in considerable part on a huge Paris much in the manner that accumulation of original papers, the Louvre is Pointed out. And ‘including journals, diaries and let- now comes his autobiography, ters, most of which have never.finjshed when he was 68, which before been made use of or evenitells all. seen by scholars.” Trappers, guides and mountain

Mahogany Veneers on fronts, tops and sides. Nicely styled, a soundly constructed. , Well, perhaps Mr. Davidson r doesn’t .tell- all, but he does tell men appearing in the narrative enough, in this rollicking acwill include such characters as .o..+ of an abundant, merry and John Colter, Jim Bridger, Hugh o.oGuctive life, during which he Glass, Kit Carson and many j.q consorted and cavorted with others. McGraw-Hill expects 10 tually all the VIPs of the bring the book out next year. {modern era, to afford the jaded ma book reader a hilarious time. Science Stories Collected Pig names are news, even in {this century dedicated to that If you are a member of the phenomenon; ‘the common man, rapidly growing group devotédigng celebrity after celebrity pass to science fiction, you will want in review in this volume in which to own NEW TALES OF SPACE zr Davidson gives you the conAND TIME (Holt, $3.50). This 4jtions under which he “caught” F is a large collection of newiine great gnd the near great for stories, each written expressly forihjs immortal stone or bronze. this anthology. ’ This is an “undress” picture of " Jo Davidson's subjects, a gallery of celebrities with their hair down: Agide from his prodigious talent, it is likely that the success - in his field is due to the fact that Mr. Davidson loved people, virtually all people with whom he came in contact. Although somewhat left of the center politically and philosophically all his life, you can tell he had a great affection for the elder Rockefeller whom he once did; for Lord Northcliffe; and for as-| sorted millionaires and those who have been black reactionaries in the thinking of Mr. Davidson. To demonstrate what a big‘hearted lover of mankind in general Jo Davidson was, I cita| the fact he even liked ¥rank Sinatra, calling him “a phenomenon, a crooner with a social conscience.” Frankie is at least a phenomenon and in my opinion a whole list of other things. Mr. Davidson was in Paris in 1922 (as usual) when he was urged to return to the United States to do a bust of the late E. W. Scripps. A letter from Mr. Davidson's lifelong friend, Lin-/ne coln Steffens, closed the deal. Mr. Steffens wrote: “You must do a great thing with Scripps. He is a great man and an individual. There is no other Hke him. Energy, vision, courage, wisdom -he thinks his own thought absolutely, He sees straight.” Mr. Davidson returned to Long Island "where the Scripps yacht! was tied up. The sculptor said that the first words of E. W. Scripps were, “Where did you get all those whiskers?” As Mr, Davidson worked, Mr. Scripps never stopped talking. “He objected to the making of the bust,” writes Mr, Davidson. ‘‘He objected to me. He wanted to know why I lived in France.

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St. Augustine

In a Novel THE RESTLESS FLAME. A novel. By Louis de Wohl, Philadelphia, Lippincott, $3.

This is an eminently readable novel about St. Augustine, per-| haps the greatest of the church fathers who, before his conver-' sion, was certainly no saint, as those who have read CONFESSIONS know. In fact, Augustine, according to his own admissions, jwas a limb of Satan and an

abomination unto the Lord and perhaps one of the greatest of the teen-age problems of the fourth! century. Even after the age of 20, when had become a teacher of rhetoric, he frequently succumbed to the sins of the flesh and led an openly dissolute life, Finally he renounced the heresy he had, em{braced Manicheanism, and was Baptized in Milan by the great Ambrose. This least calm of the saints, this tempestuous spirit, a ‘“modern” man in many respects and one who had the Insight of a great. novelist, apparently “told all” in his celebrated CONFESSIONS on which the skillful Mr. de Wohl draws almost exclusively for his material. . Here we have Augustine the roisterer, gambler and gang leader; the m of the world with a mistress Ha a son; the student Why didn't I live in America? 20d the scholar; the son of a Wasn't it good enough for you?” saintly mother, Monica, whose Just a few of the closeups you Prayers for his conversion were get liere are’those of Bob LaFol- finally answered; his militant delette the elder, E. W. Marland,|féense of the church as a priest Clemenceau, Foch, Dawes, Persh-/2nd a bishop; and finally his ing, Shaw, Col. House, Woodrow death as the Vandals attacked his Wilson, Chaplin, Erie Pyle, city of Hippo in Africa. Frank Harris Mrs. Harry Payne| Lhe author gives no new or difWhitney and Einstein who, David- ferent insights into the character son observes, wasn't wearing|0f his hero in the manner that, socks ‘when he met him in his Thomas Mann or Sholem Asch Princeton office. —C. V. L. |have done for their characters. i — |This is not an interpretation, but |a narrative, much in the manner, Local Woman of the late. Loyd Douglas. Those . ot who are familiar with St. Augus-| Wr ites Child's Book tine's CONFESSIONS and THE Edna Frankman Keiser of In-|cITY OF GOD, two of ‘the 50! Sian polis has Jrijien a ra thick volumes he wrote, will find| she a 0 Xe this mi 1 fare. -| JUMBO GOES TO THE/CIRCUS Dj miEntY en. 1a RY a a » LP 4 and TOMMY DRUG STORE. The career will find THE RESTLESS : ® Beautifully tai- Le» 4 “aa : two stories in the volume are/py AME interesting and enjoy-|

“4h anecdotes of a pet dog and cat apie although. quite superficial. ove o dor Ih Mrs. Keiser had in her childhood! ahouss-g Supe V. L s ail ? rh hm

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SPARK OF LIFE, Erich Maria included the following whimsical Remarque’s first novel since the item: “Inflation note: Back in publicition of ARCH OF TRI- 1947, Catherine Woolley, one of 'UMPH more than five years. ago, the most popular authors of books (will be published Jan, 28 by Ap- for children, started a series of |pleton-Century-Crofts. . ; |stories about. a boy named David, © Set in a Nazi .concentration With a book called TWO HUN‘camp, Mr. Remarque's new novel - PENNIES. The fourth 'has as ‘t‘heme the triumph of the David book, to be published by /human spirit over even the most Morrow Mar. 12, 1952, is called J Aeprayed tyranny,” according to PAVID'S HUNDRED DOL-

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