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SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 1952 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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OK PAGE Maybe There Was Never a City Any More Wicked

QUEEN OF COWTOWNS: DODGE CITY. By Stanley Vestal. New York, Harper, $3.50.

By EMERSON PRICE Dodge City is now a somewhat sedate little town of nearly 9000 on the Arkansas River in southwestern Kansas. Its City Hall is situated on what is known as Boot Hill.

. Yet one must suppose that official life there remains undisturbed by the ghostly voices ee pam———— of the bad men who were buried &n income so small that he is there so long ago. They went to Unable to live in the grand mantheir graves pre- : ner which his wife understands

cisely as they |as the only mark of success. died— with thelr | She disparages his talent, reboots on, and gards with small appreciation the

{product of his enormous labor, {and needles him and nags him land demands of Rim that he get into work that will earn more

that's how the hill got its name. Back in the early 1870's and

for some 15 money. In the end, she appears years, the town ito win, but her triumph is one | - of momentary proportions, which als . . . . Nas widely dos will please a I oy h- THIRD LIFE—Herbert A. Philbrick was a family man in one of the three lives he led while wickedest little derstands the heartbreaking labor counterspying on the American Communist Party for the FBI. Left to right, the family are: Brenda

Mae, 6; Dale Lorraine, 9; Mr. Philbrick; Leslie Sue, nearly 2; Mrs. Philbrick, Constance Ann, IH, and Sandra Ruth, 10. Mr. Philbrick tells the story of his nine hectic years as (I) counterspy, (2) advertising man and suburban commuter and (3) family man in | LED THREE LIVES, published last week by McGraw-Hill ($3.50).

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Delightful Poems While the dreary winter drags,

city in America” -—and so it was. One might say more. It must have matched in wickedness any city in the world. Nevertheless, it is/ along, we are all aware that

a part of our common history, | spring is not so far away. still, | \ / and you will find an astonishing it is nice to brighten the bleak C WwW t vivid picture of its early years in g ’ ow oy a n e

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[TWO SOFAS IN THE PARLOR. by lack of running water when yume by Immanuel Velikovsky,

(wide, , ‘Kegel family, fresh from tulip turing Dutch bewilderment over Anti-Couch (land, is affectionately described the restful American Labor Day! :

In TWO SOFAS IN THE PAR-/and Kegel joy over a new parlor. psychologist and author of CON. LOR by David Cornel DeJong.

{house in a zig-zag of alleys known | las Little Zeeland, Grand Rapids, adventures are introduction to PSYCHOANALYSIS, to be pubMich, the Kegels are undisturbed /lovable and fantsstié neighbors. 'lished in March by Holt.

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AGES IN CHAOS, a new vols

By David Cornel DeJong. New they find the living room en- guthor of the controversial book York. Doubleday, 43. riched by & green plush rug, two WORLDS IN COLLISION, will : tired sofas and a fancy, If ear- he brought out Mar. 27 by By JACK WARFEL assaulting pump-organ, * Soubleday, after delay in publi America, 1913, viewed through| peJong writes in free-flowing, cation. clear eyes of the Dutch gimple and sympathetic style, cap- .

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Years Hence | NUMBER NINE, OR: THE MIND.

{Here's the way to accomplish it: DODGE CITY, by Stanley Vestal. P D wlio easly days, |Oet a copy of GREEN FINGERS, Dod y by Reginald Arkell (Harcourt,

Brace, $2).

QUEEN OF .COWTOWN 8 gray days when that is possible. j To Be a Cowboy

b lo rs or} This is a collection of poems; MISTER ZIP. A novel. By H. Allen Smith. New York, Doubleday, $2.75. SWEEPERS. A noyel. By A. P, Business PY the author of that delightful By EMERSON PRICE | Herbert. New York, Double-

every shade and hue. book, OLD HER B , ACEOUS, : : I enterprise was devoted largely to ob 100 1ono een In the best In these troubled times the large number of serious| day. $3.50.

) | . : 2 22 3 | { saloons, gambling houses, dance... ii. where it rightrully| books published deserves attention. Yet it is necessary to| This story takes place in 1955

halls and brothels, . : : : The restraints of organized | PEONES, Hoste Jom wre oD te turn aside from them on occasion to read something light The Russian war, explains the Jaw eTQ ery Taw. ud the Nhs with fidelity the spirit of spring and genuinely amusing. You will find an abundant rewgrd [atithor, Had been over for more o {and summer gardening, They/for such a move in H. Allen] All the 5 Vint atrplanes Had ox { “|

tepmined by how fast and how) oot Smith's latest work, MISTER| Ernst and David Loth (Harper, elight the hearts of #1 win : | $3) : = ploded, as predicted by many, the|

accurately a man could fire a re-| i What are the possible areas moment they took the air, f

who was slow in such matters. And the survivor claimed self- humor of the poems is matched the Midwest. In the minds and ,n4 wife,

{in fllustrations by John Toppich. |hearts of millions of children—|

defense. . cauges of tensions and discords?| of Vestal recreates all this with For Parents and an uncounted number of How may they be Pores 2 a oy eeB, continues; ad nt great fidelity and, at the same| Parents who take the job of adults—he is the bright symbol How do men and women reach aground, or steamed unwittingly |

seriously are fre-'of virtue. His blazing six-shooters emotional maturity? Once a i uently worried about their own are ferever employed in putting divorce occurs, what APRON] rn al i Te: of

attitudes; they wish to establish evil to rout; he is a good man Does a divorce solve the Prob-i1) the sstellite ‘countries had

tuge. The book is as exciting as the best of adventure fiction and, what is more, it 18 a valuable wholesome relations with their engaged in correcting the un- jem? piéce of Americana. child, and they. hope to avoid savory habits of the bad men. And] The authors discuss these matGenuine Talent {action that may damage or im- he is rich. /ters at great length, providing Lenard. Kaufman, a young ode the normal growth of the| curiously enough, Zip's behavior With them certain case histories| ienmroller at Lemsk and turned : ’ youngster. ; . ‘on the screen, and his private life, 8 examples. This book is profit- . { writer of genuine talent and con-|" yume} L. Hymes Jr. professor, : P ; ‘able reading for every adult, |, Pack. British, French. and stantly - expanding reputation, is! "i .o4i0n ae George Peabody 2TS in every sense consistent. His of g ery American troops were in Moscow. | the author of a College, and the author of nu./mOral outlook, and the rules by Imperfect Paradise | That's the way Mr. Herbert, new novel and a | merous articles and books onl rich he lives, would have de-) Guy Morrison and his wife, one of the many humorists in the good one. It is child development, has some ex-|.8hted the heart of Horatio Alger Kay (with their two children),'House of Commons but probably titled DIMEIN- { —a fact contributing to his reput- made a - dream come true—a the only one that makes a good shared by millions of living at it, starts his new novel,

I8H1 NG RE- in UNDERSTANDING. a parert lation as a bore among the ladles. dream TURN (Double- But it was true only the first novel since HOLY DEAD-| thing else, to become a real cow- briefly. They deserted what we LOCK 17 years ago, although he’

CHILD (Prentice-Hall, $2.95). {And he wishes more than any- people. day, $3). Fie is a tale boy. like to describe as civilization has written many essays and

that every crea- Another Eliot | When he determines to abandon and went to live on an Island stories in the intervening period. | tive writer will World Publishing Co. of Cleve- Hollywood to become a eowboy— With an area of one square mile.!And if you can quit a novel that) understand: the Jand has just concluded an agree- (to go west, as they say — his It Is situated within the Great starts out so amusingly, then story of a young ment with Maj. George Fielding|friend and subordinate actor, Barrier Reef north of Queens- you're made of sterner stuff than

ndvelist whose © |Eliot for the publication of his|Slanthead, tries to dissuade him. land, Australia. !your reviewer. »|packa human beings ever let loose Vanish. That's what happened. sweeping academies in all the| S i Friend I‘Readin’ Can.’ They set around Square Dance Book |the son of the impdverished 17th| — witty, of course, as distinguished LYPical that you mistake them for | west.” How he acquires some of YARDS OF CALICO, by Paul Was there ap ancestor had slugged dered what happened to Miss Ros- about most of the tiny tots ofisome of the most hilarious read- ers. It is illustrated. corpse. A must. C.V.L. ag excellent accounting of Miss vation.—C. V.L, a new book by Ruth Suckow is : : MORNING (Morrow, $3.50). The| , oy nook by Ben Lucien Buro pages and which, because it is a Tonsi Is {membir,” but in every case the|fellow, a sheriff's employee, who nC. Titled HIGHWATER AT is, if the effort jells at all, which laccuracy the Midwest; her char-|There is thought and beauty, ex- problems that trouble the Valley, [kow’s -life with her father, her

time, with a senes of high adven- TR

ithe ‘nearest. Russian. The heroiz| Poles had stopped the Soviet

from humorous or funny.

beoks have wr Kaufman |next book, titled MILITARY,AL- Once a real cowboy himself, Slant-| But there are compromises to| 1 don't know what happened to | fgund ‘only a = .. ... ILIANCES AND THE DEFENSE head says: be made in a communal society Churchill, but it seems as though | small group of devoted readers. OF FREEDOM, to be published | “There ain't no West. Hell's| (there were a few others on the the Socialists are back in power) The sale of his books provides early next fall. ifarr, boy, you oughta see what island), and sometime they are in this. delightful satire. The -lon this earth—don’t take a bath!It didn’t work out. All this you country housés where bright! oncet a year, got granulated eye- Shall learn when you read Mor- young men and women are trained lids . . . are ignernt. Got nothin’ to rison’s account of the venture in'to become bureaucrats in the talk about. Know what they do in WE SHARED AN ISLAND New Society. - LUCY, OR: THE DELAWARE DIALOGUES. A novel. By Babette and recite from memory every In recent years, the old square Earl of Caraway and Stoke up-| Rosmond. New York, Simon & Schuster, $3. word that’s printed on a canna/dance has become highly popular Sets the spplecart of the ne = beans or a canna vaperated again. If you are interested, here Sweepers who es shed a Here's champagne for the gen- bobs up as a heart throb of both, pie |. » . is a book containing valuable in- School in the ancestral seat, Hamhe since you Bad in the other iyo facts of life—with the help Hunt and Charlotte Underwood Oliver Cromwell with a hambone, . of Slanthead and a young lady| (Harper, $2.50). Since A PARTY FOR GROWN-| Even the children are believable | 5. pnt writer, who is also the| tailed manual that will be helpful This is sparkling, broad humor | UPS of four years ago I've won-/in “Lucy” whieh I couldnt 8ay|,yner of a saloon, makes up to beginners, callers and teach- with love interest galore, to say mond who, in that novel and a novelists. are likely to encounter! previous one, THE DEWY, DEWY| I'm sure you'll enjoy this story| 178, 0 2 a (Northwest Tale EYES, demonstrated the rare tal-about “civilized” people—and be-| ls Along with the beauty of the . ent of wittily dissecting upper|ing “civilized” is at once their; Worth Waiting For ‘American Northwest, H. L. Davis|Some Animals 8g f : has packed many other things Resmond’s time. | available. Titled SOME OTHERS : With every line polished until it| . ¢ AND MYSELF (Rinehart, ~$3), the heart of ike JX botanist With mal; author of CHILDREN OF parkles, I discern the proaigious S1| yep it has been worth waiting for. Mark Twain working from a NOAH and STEAMBOAT iabor that must have -gone into On the jacket, the work is de- Raymond Chandler plot. [ROUND THE BEND, will be pubresounding success, reads as if it| stories have in them .the sub-|gets ta [CATFISH BEND, the néw book | were dashed off in.a few weeks. |THE ORACLE. A novel. By Ed-| stance of personal experience. ey a te Tot 18 a story of a group of woods | Miss Rosmond tells her story! win - O'Connor,. ‘New “York| No other, American. writer— horses, a sharpshooting Mexican animals on the Lower River who | entirely in dialog. This, indeed,| | ner $2.75. except Sherwood Anderson—hasand a girl. “do not like the way their human | this one does. LUCY is a stofy satire 5 Bawist 0) Counor BU0ut| acters are in the deepest senselcellent ‘writing and humor. And|and decide to take matters into set in Suburbia, in Westchester radlo co en nd | Americans. The longest plece in|It’s written more for a man than their own hands,” according to County. There are four principal overpaid, overconfident and OVer- iy, "; jection is the fnemofr, and/for his wife and kids. {the publisher, characters—the brothers, Gene rated. deals specifically with Miss Suc- Ts

/ : : . real cowboys gotta do . .. worst 80 8reat that paradise begins to planners have opened mind- | You'll Recognize wintertime? Play a game called! (Norton, $3). | The story has to do with how | try, the wittiest book In months and a gallery of suburbanites so/ Nevertheless, Zip does “go formation on the subject: EIGHT bone Hall, 50. named because it | nothing of ths disappearing middle-class moderns. LUCY ‘is tragedy .and their means of sal-| por the first time in 10 years into his latest novel, WINDS or As Administrators LUCY, which only runs about 200 scribed at “seven stories and a This is the story of a young lished in April by Julian Messner, is a difficult feat to achieve—that THE ORACLE is a bright little | Deen able to interpret with such| But. it's no Wild West tale, neighbors meet certain serious andl George Delaware, married to] The story describes a frantic

L and Patty. The gitjs have afew weeks in the commentator’s | ritual groping toward maturit Ley an a er. and two|life When his contract is up for| SPiritus pian BL yt children each, factors making for|renewal, apparently a trying|, ',quiqual philosophy. no end of friction but productive Period for any radio personality. | = ? : of hilarious dialog. In a neat and well-constructed Divorce Study The story is enlivened by one little story, O'Connor details how| Most books written about the case of third-degree adultery, the his commentator does succeed, problems of marriage and dirakish ex-husband of one of théidespite overconfidence, in be-!vorce provide conclusions so Delaware wives who frequently [coming even more overpaid. But scattered that they are less than : |the methods he must use to ne-| helpful. One of the best books| {gotiate his new contract, which | published on the subject—or so inevitably leak out, make him,'it seems to me—is FOR BET- > ITER OR WORSE, by Morris L.

She Indica lr) Say

Dorothy Dix, famed reporter Perhaps, less overrated. - and more recently advice-to-the-| lovelorn. columnist, will be the subject of a book to be written by! Harnett T.. Kane and published’ by Doubleday. Mrs. Dix died re-: cently in New Orleans at the age

of 90, affer a career that bégan in 1998 and included covering! many celebrated trials, such as| thé Hall-Mills and the Evelyn, Nesbit Thaw cases.

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