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Editorial Page Thursday, June 10, 1954 ANAHEIM (Cal.) BULLETIN — 15 Published Daily Evenings Except Sundays and Holidays by ANAHEIM BULLETIN PUBLISHING CO., INC. 222 S. Lemon St. Anaheim, Calif. HAZEL D. LOUDON, President L. H. LOUDON, Jr., Vice-President and Co-Publisher STANLEY LOUDON, Co-Publisher and Treasurer MILDRED TAGGART, Member of Board RICHARD FISCHLE, Jr., Secretary and Business Manager DON SHAFFER, Editor CARRIE LOU SUTHERLAND, Society and Women's Department C. Wm BLAND, Advertising Manager MEMBER OF THE ORANGE COUNTY NEWS SERVICE Legalized in accordance California State Law December 28, 1951. Entered as second-class mail matter August 14, 1923 at the post office at Anaheim, California, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription Rates—1 month, $1.00; 3 months, $2.75; 6 months, $5.00. 1 year, $3.50. No additional charge for mailing within the continental United States. Sales tax will be added to quoted prices on taxable items appearing in the advertising columns of the Anaheim Bulletin, same to be paid for by the purchaser as required by law. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES WEST-HOLLIDAY CO., INC. UNITED PRESS New York—27 East 10th St.; Chicago—866 N. Michigan Ave.; San Francisco—625 Market St.; Detroit—319 Stephenson Blvd.; Vancouver, R. C.—711 Ball Blvd.; Los Angeles—139 So. Spring St.; Portland—520 W. Sixth St.; St. Louis—411 North Tenth St.; Seattle—603 Stewart St.; Atlanta—926 Grant Building A Canine Horatio Alger There are around 25 million dogs in this country. So states the latest canine census. Every one of them, the poetic-minded tell us, qualifies as man's best friend. He also qualifies as the most confirmed and unregenerate moocher mankind has ever encountered. Think of the millions of meals those pooches consume every day of their lives—every mouthful on the cuff. Fakers and phonies — all! All of them, that is, save one. This one is a spaniel named Rivets. He lives in Rochester, New York. Know what? This dog has his own bank account, currently standing at $130, on which he draws for horse meat and dog biscuits! And he earns it, just as Horatio Alger's heroes — alert to every opportunity, independent, proud — earned their success. Rivets is employed as watch dog in a Rochester plant; and his fellow workers regard his services so highly they pay him off in profits from a soda pop vending machine. Dogs can't read, but any loving owner will swear his dog "understands" every word he says. Then tell what? This dog has his own bank account, currently standing at $130, on which he draws for horse meat and dog biscuits! And he earns it, just as Horatio Alger's heroes — alert to every opportunity, independent, proud — earned their success. Rivets is employed as watch dog in a Rochester plant; and his fellow workers regard his services so highly they pay him off in profits from a soda pop vending machine. Dogs can't read, but any loving owner will swear his dog "understands" every word he says. Then tell your dog about Rivets. Tell every lazy mongrel you see on the street about Rivets. Tell him Rivets has credit at the bank, is respected — is a dog of honor that Horatio would have been proud to own. Might do some good. The University Spells It Out A young faculty member of the University of California got his name briefly in the news by suggesting that a university should have a few Communists on its faculty. His reasoning: Students should have opportunity to learn the truth about Communism. University President Robert Gordon Sproul took the stand that there shall be no compromise with Communism in the administration or faculty of the State University. His reasoning: "This is as ridiculous as it would be to argue that a university must have astrologers in its department of astronomy or African witch doctors in its medical school." The central truth about Communism, as it exists and functions in today's world, is that it is a fanatical, uncompromising, to-the-death movement to destroy constitutional self-government as we know it and supplant it with police-state dictatorship. To expect that truth to be imparted to students by a Communist teacher is as ridiculous an assumption, as Dr. Sproul says, as to expect a true believer in healing by magical incantation to teach the medical truth that cancer is curable only by surgery, radium or X-ray. School's Out! The day school "lets" out is a happy time for all Americans — as-of-now for millions of kids released to vacation fun, and in lively memory for oldsters who re-collect the exhilarating yelping of "Goodbye teacher, goodbye school" of long ago. Never, perhaps, has there been a happier inauguration of vacation time than in the U.S.A. of 1954. It was a glum time, in depression years, for high school and college graduates, with school papers headlining: "WPA Here We Come." Now a prosperous America has need of trained recruits for jobs in hundreds of categories. It WHERE DID THE BOY GET THESE COST FRIENDS? For the past year been in the process 16 classrooms an tion given in have been taken ing the building The District's ar and Powell and that unless there costs that the D proposed schools Film Shop (By JOHN ORMONDE) United Press Staff Correspo MEXICO CITY (Mario eno, better known to the film w as Cantinflas, is a much comedian than Charlie Ch ever was, according to Mex leading producer. Miguel Zacarias, who has more successful pictures in M co than any other producer, he has seen every picture made the British and Mexican con ans, and he is convinced that tinflas is superior. "For one thing, Chaplin o never have made as many bad pictures as Cantinflas and still in favor with the film public," Zacarias. "Cantinflas makes a Americans — as-of-now for millions of kids released to vacation fun, and in lively memory for oldsters who re-collect the exhilarating yelping of "Goodbye teacher, goodbye school" of long ago. Never, perhaps, has there been a happier inauguration of vacation time than in the U.S.A. of 1954. It was a glum time, in depression years, for high school and college graduates, with school papers headlining: "WPA Here We Come." Now a prosperous America has need of trained recruits for jobs in hundreds of categories. It was a tense time, even for younger kids, when the Nation was grimly engaged in war. But let worrisome times of the past be dead times! Let’s all have fun this summer. And you kids — be as easy on mother as you can when you storm and take over the house! SONGS OF A SONNETEER BY R. LOUIS SCOTT "UNENDING YEARS . . . !" Diana, I have sought you thru the years In prejudice to all things men held right: I have withstood the contumely and jeers Of those who labored thru day's waning light And hoarded bronzen coins to foot each bill The dusk might bring? By noon-glow and star-bright, I journeyed thru valleys and climbed each hill: And ever, in depths or on mountain's crest— I found your trace! Must you elude me still? Had I not ventured out upon your quest, I might have quaffed rare times and shed few tears— But you were calling: so life's worst and best Were squandered while I traced out new frontiers— Seeking your smile down thru unending years! To DIANA Love - 15-61 PERMANENT ECLIPSE? EVENTUAL WORLD PEACE RED OBSTRUCTION TACTICS The Publisher Comments DES THE BOARD OF EDUCATION HAVE PLAN FOR THIS BUILDING PROGRAM? INS: The Elementary Board of Education has been working on this program for over a year and has maintained close relations with City Officials and the Chamber of Commerce in developing this project. Here are the plans and estimated costs: 15 room school— Northwest part of Anaheim $ 381,100 Site 36,500 15 room school— Southwest part of Anaheim 381,100 Site 36,500 15 room school— Southeast part of Anaheim 381,100 Othman's Views on Washington By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON — I do not, myself, intend to call Liberty 5-6700 and ask for Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens. He’s a nice fellow and an interesting conversationist, but he has a crew of three helpers who listen in on every word and write it down. How they do this without making suspicious clicks on the line I have no idea, but I’m taking no chances of my own words rising up later in sworn testimony to haunt me. Take those Senators on the Army McCarthy investigating committee. Six of them, (hearing no clicks) were amazed that their conversations with the Secretary were in print. The seventh Senator Stuart Symington (D., Mo.), wasn’t surprised. He used to work in the Pentagon and then he had a little man, himself, to record his own phone calls. This situation is not confined to the military. All over our town the hot shots in the government have aides in the anteroom, jotting down their phone talks with all and also sundry. It’s getting so a fellow can’t have a private talk with a Federal official except on Barney Bartch’s bench in Lafayette Park. Even then I’d be inclined to look behind the nearest bush for a recording machine. So there was committee counsel Ray Jenkins reading into the record the conversations between the Senators and Secretary Stevens, as well as the talks between the latter and attorney Roy Cohn. Jenkins is a man of rare sensibility and this must have been a comfort to the talkers. Whenever he came to a word that struck him as shocking to the ears of the TV audience, he changed it to something less potent. In one phone call Secretary Stevens and Sen. McCarthy were making a date to bend an elbow at a local hotel Once Stevens mentioned the word cocktail; again Sen. McCarthy said drink. Teh! Counselor Jenkins these words to refrain record would indicate retary and the Senate lemonade; I claim by corded testimony the whisky. In one place during with Secretary Stevens the word, hell. Jenna that to devil. Then in still another thanked Cohn he called damn fine. rendered this as very such gentlemanly between the Secretaries in particular, jolted M. Dirksen (R., Ill.) he'd been hearing to cerning profane blow phone. Particularly had Stevens with using custophatically. “Mr. Lucas,” denied Dirksen, “are you senfane language?” Jack Lucas, the top phone calls for the Senate wasn’t. He didn’t. “Then what do you guage so explosive it the telephone?” the ted. Lucas said he’d never as hot as that, but that profanity he merely wished his shorthand book. E-profanity he also jotted except when it went length. “Well, I’ve listened and I expected some language.” Sen. Dirksen you deliberately leave “No, sir,” said Lucas Let that be a war Stevens and Lucas wring in. I urge you, by your language. (Copyright, 1954, by ture Syndicate, Inc.) and the Chamber of Commerce in developing this project. Here are the plans and estimated costs: 15 room school— Northwest part of Anaheim $ 381,100 Site 36,500 15 room school— Southwest part of Anaheim $ 381,100 Site 36,500 15 room school— Southeast part of Anaheim $ 381,100 The District owns a site on East Vermont Street 5 room addition at Katella School 100,000 Cafetorium at the Thomas A. Edison School 75,000 Cafetorium at the North Street School 75,000 Administration Building 52,000 Bus garage, shops and warehouse 28,000 Furniture, desks and other school equipment 50,000 $1,596,300 HERE DID THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AT THESE COST FIGURES? For the past year the Board of Education has been in the process of building two schools and 16 classrooms and the prices for school construction given in the proposed building program have been taken from the low bids received during the building program now in progress. The District's architectural firm of Marsh, Smith and Powell and the Board of Education believe that unless there is a sharp increase in building costs that the District will be able to build the proposed schools within the price figures given. Film Shop (By JOHN ORMONDE) And Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY (P)-Mario Moro better known to the film world than Charlie Chaplin was, according to Mexico's agro producer, Manuel Zacarias, who has made successful pictures in Mexican any other producer, says he is seen every picture made by British and Mexican comedian and he is convinced that Canal is superior. One thing, Chaplin could have made as many bad pictures as Cantinflas and still been poor with the film public," said Zacarias. "Cantinflas makes a bad studio in Hollywood pay him 2,000,000 pesos (about $150,000) in advance to distribute each Cantinflas film world-wide. The comedian lives in a mansion with a swimming pool and lunches at the Jena restaurant, Mexico City's version of Romanoff's. "Yes, Cantinflas has done well for himself," Zacarias agreed, "but he has brought us much happiness. To us, he is one of the greatest men alive." Ten Years Ago Fremont eighth grade students graduated June 8 with the ceremonies held in the Anaheim High School auditorium. Student speakers were Tommy Wright, Helen Your Birthday Forecast By STELLA THURSDAY, JUNE 10 — Born today, you are a searcher for truth and you are thoroughly unhappy unless you can explain everything that happens around you in basic terms. You have a positive personality and others confide in you easily. You would do well in any capacity where you have to deal with people. You are sensitive to others and highly sympathetic. You are also, ratner temperamental and sometimes you get impatient with what you consider that "stupidity of the world". Cultivate a little more fact in the criticism; learn to sugar-coat the pill of advice and it will be more acceptable. You probably have ability as a writer and are fond of reading. You have a good head for business ventures and will no doubt make considerable money. You might learn to be a little more spontaneous in showing your affections. Although you have a deep love nature, you are apt to be what is called "stand-offish". This is probably due to shyness. Among those who were born on this date are: John Jacob Astor, III. financier; Sir Edward Arnold, author and poet; Dr. John Morgan, noted physician, and Caroline Hazard, educator. To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. Friday, June 11 GEMINI (May 21-June 21) -- If you are careful of minor matters, you will find that the important things almost take care of themselves. CANCER (June 22-July 23) -- Contribute to some worthy cause. Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD Give of your time, if money. Give both if it. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) early start so that work can be finished and you can enjoy the VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 1) start your week enew. You have a job to do it done so your con be clear! LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. is probably a lot of done now -- one of days of the week. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov should be a fine day of work finished. An will assume the best SAGITTARIUS (Nov. Get out and meet friends. Good for you Attend a club meeting gathering. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23 Proceed cautiously but termination and with on your objective, if succeed. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. ter for you not to fail unless it comes from who is experienced pert. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. know you are right, cism no matter how may be at first. ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 2) operative in some farm Make plans for a happy with those you love. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May is a time to be very care are to avoid making a ror in calculation. (Distributed by Unit Syndicate, Inc.) Ten Years Ago Fremont eighth grade students graduated June 8 with the ceremonies held in the Anaheim High School auditorium. Student speakers were Tommy Wright, Helen Nelms, Teddy Lou Payne, and Phyllis Officer. Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Sloan have moved to Idaho where they plan to live until the end of the war. Mabel Ives was surprised on the event of her birthday anniversary last night by the Theta Rho girls of Orange County. Plano students of Florence Newkirk will play in recital tonight at the Anaheim Ebell clubhouse. Dr. M. M Henderson presided over the dinner meeting of the Orange County Dental Association last night at which time the organization honored the Auxiliary members. A Great Man Cantinflas whose slipping troucheme his film trademark, presents the appearance ofable, ingenuous ragamuffin towns from the start of his life to the end. Cantinflas made people cry such," said Zacarias." Can-makes people laugh. We in Ireland are always happy when he but in his pictures, because we feel that we can de-er troubles, too." Great Mexican comedian has a virtual film empire of his career the years, and now pro-his own movies. Columbia KEEP YOUR GUARD UP! JOIN THE NATIONAL GUARD For additional information: E. Center Phone KE 5-3741 GEMINI (May 21-June 21) -- If you are careful of minor matters, you will find that the important things almost take care of themselves. CANCER (June 22-July 23) -- Contribute to some worthy cause. Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD EP — Johnnie Ray is before the cameras for his movie debut, but the famous swoon singer isn't crying or beating his fists on the floor. Ray is making his entrance into movies as a serious dramatic actor, and he hopes the customers will do all the crying this time. "I only sing one song, a spiritual, in the picture. It's a straight role," explained Johnnie. "I don't cry or kneel or anything like that." Proud of Performance. "But in one scene where I said good-bye to my mother and father, they told me there wasn't a dry eye on the set," he added proudly. For his first picture 20th Century-Fox studio cast its new star in a musical, "There's No Business Like Show Business." Johnnie, Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor portray the children of vaudevillians Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman. Johnnie isn't worried that his fans will be disappointed to find his voice in second-tier to his acting. Wanted to Act "I've always wanted to do serious acting," he said. "These people at the studio know what they're doing and I do what they tell me to do. I have confidence in their decisions. My part isn't big and it isn't small, but I like it." Actually Ray appeared in a short subject at Columbia studio three years ago. But I don't consider that my debut. I just sang a song," he said. Fox signed him with the idea of doing story, but shelved the Memorizes All Lines. Ray will not wear a贴 on the screen. But groups of players didn't singer, who is virtually silent. "I just memorized lines," he said. "I rehearsed with the hearing aid, and we shoot it without ter of timing. While the tors speak I say their life self, I thought it would work out fine. "Ethel and Dan have derful, making suggestive giving me advice. I wore at first, but Dan told me and be myself." Dailey and Ray have such pals, in fact, that when they went nightclub actress Charlotte Austin wore hearing aids. Farmer McCoy June I git putty durn mad to thinkin about Ike's Order for bidding his Aid anything on the secret mather, and then saying investigation go on an threwhere they will":...W Burn it, us country folk any more idee what's back than a tapeworm what it's agonna git to ye, it jest ain't fair. Farmer (all rights re) There's No Substitute Circulation. As It Was Told To Me By HARMAN NICHOLS Counselor Jenkins bowdlerized these words to refreshments. The record would indicate that the Secretary and the Senator partook of lemonade; I claim by their own recorded testimony that they had whisky. In one place during another talk with Secretary Stevens was uttered the word, hell. Jenkins changed that to devil. Then in still another chat, Stevens thanked Cohn for something he called damn fine. The counselor rendered this as very fine. Such gentlemanly conversations between the Secretary and Cohn, in particular, jolted Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R., Ill.) For weeks he'd been hearing testimony concerning profane blowups via telephone. Particularly had Stevens charged Cohn with using cuss words, emphatically. "Mr. Lucas," demanded Sen. Dirksen, "are you sensitive to profane language?" Jack Lucas, the top recorder of phone calls for the Secretary, said he wasn't. He didn't blush easily. "Then what do you do with language so explosive it almost meets the telephone?" the Senator insisted. Lucas said he'd never heard talk as hot as that, but that all ordinary protonity he merely wrote down in his shorthand book. Extra-ordinary protonity he also jotted down, except when it went to extreme length. "Well, I've listened attentively and I expected some strong language." Sen. Dirksen said. "Did you deliberately leave it out?" "No, sir," said Lucas. Let that be a warning; phone Stevens and Lucas will be listening in. I urge you, be careful of your language. (Copyright, 1954, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON (UP)—I'm about to hit the trail, like millions of other vacation bound motorists. So I called on the travel people. One of them gave me some good advice: "Don't lug along any luggage your wife can't carry, particularly if you plan to stop at motels." The American Automobile Association didn't say that in so many words, but it did echo the theme that folks ought to travel light. A woman, if she is smart, will pack a tailored suit of tropic weave. She should stick to one or two basic colors with accessories to match and a change of blouses for contrast. That gives m lady several outfits. Plus, of course, a slip or so and a girdle that can be washed and party stockings for dress-up and the usual things a gal carts around like sun-around dresses. Accent on Comfort Mike Frome of the AAA told me that mere man ought to fetch along only one good suit, a sports coat, a couple or three pairs of complimentary slacks and plenty of sports shirt, with the accent on Books By UNITED PRESS The U. S. eats, kisses, drinks, rolls on, sleeps on, is wrapped in and stays healthy on menhaden oil but as a 58-year-old Negro fisherman named Bix says. "It don't know it." In Gulf Stream North (Doubleday) Earl Conrad tells the story of the menhadeners, the hardy Negro fishermen who "plow the acres of the sea" for the fantastic hordes of the herring-like menhaden whose oil and meal serve more than 200 U. S. industries. The menhaden fishery doomed the whalers more than 50 years ago and is today a primary source of special oils. Conrad tells the tale of the fish and man with comfort. If a man and his wife are traveling alone on vacation," he says, "they ought to be satisfied with two big bags, if possible, plus a little bag. The little one should contain things that are needed for rest, stops like bobby pins, make-up, etc." And when we pack the rear end of the car for a vacation, we ought to have some system about it. Don't Block Vision Mike does not advise hanging suits and dresses on the hooks over the windows to block the vision of the driver. Clean off the back rug or the back seat and lay the hampers down flat. "Things will be just as fresh," Mike says, "as though you had stretched them up against the windows." And everybody ought to carry a laundry bag for soiled clothing. Mike also told me a thing or two about stacking bags in the trunk compartment. Put 'em in flat, he says, and you'll find you have a lot more room. Not only that, it keeps your pressed clothes from settling and wrinkling. ate illness is called on to heal the healers. Tuberculosis had made such inroads on Father Michael Bretherton's physical being by the time he reached the Alpine hospital that it was unsafe for him to move or even to speak at any length, but he soon felt obliged to place his spiritual serenity at the service of those around him. Dr. John McTaggart, head of the sanatorium, and his estranged wife Elizabeth both needed the help of the Anglican missionary. Father Michael also was successful in a way in dealing with the problems of Caroline Draycott, the venomous little neurotic in the next room who caused so many of the others' troubles. Dr. Konrad Rainer and Dr. Ma- Daily Forecast STELLA Give of your time, if not of your money. Give both, if you can do it. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) -- Get an early start so that all important work can be finished at the office and you can enjoy the week end. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) -- Don't start your week end too soon! You have a job to do today. Get it done so your conscience will be clear! LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) -- There is probably a lot of work to be done now -- one of your busiest days of the week. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- This should be a fine day to get a lot of work finished. An early start will assume the best success. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) -- Get out and meet some new friends. Good for your morale. Attend a club meeting or social gathering. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) -- Proceed cautiously but with determination and with your eyes on your objective, if you are to succeed. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) -- Better for you not to follow advice unless it comes from someone who is experienced. Ask an expert. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) -- If you know you are right, ignore criticism no matter how annoying it may be at first. ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) -- Be cooperative in some family project. Make plans for a happy week end with those you love. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 20) -- This is a time to be very careful if you are to avoid making a serious error in calculation. (Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) said. Fox signed him a year ago with the idea of doing his life story, but shelved the plan. Memorizes All Lines Ray will not wear his hearing man named Bix says, "It don't know it." In Gulf Stream North (Doubleday) Earl Conrad tells the story of the menhadeners, the hardy Negro fishermen who "plow the acres of the sea" for the fantastic hordes of the herring-like menhaden whose oil and meal serve more than 200 U.S. industries. The menhaden fishery doomed the whalers more than 50 years ago and is today a primary source of special oils. Conrad tells the tale of the fish and men with superb dramatic power and a poetry and rhythm that makes his work distinctive. His narrative is in the rhythmic dialect of southern Negroes, unmarried by the crudities of phonetic spelling. Bix and his crew aboard an 85-year-old ship are having dismal luck. First there are no fish, then too many—so many that hundreds of thousands of them diving as a single mass can rip to shreds a $5,000 net, pull a man underwater or capsize a small cutter. Bix and his fellow "sharecroppers of the sea" in their aged ship make a first-rate story. We Chose to Stay, by Lali Horstmann (Houghton Mifflin): Lali Horstmann was the wife of a German diplomat who worked in the press section in Berlin but who gave up his position because he opposed Hitler. Both of the Horstmanns were wealthy with an estate at Kerzendorf in what later was to become the Russian Occupied Zone. It is the story of the couple who chose to stay when the Russian and allied armies were approaching Berlin in the closing days of the war and the suffering they underwent at the hands of the Red army. Curiously, the account does not arouse the sympathy one would expect. There are stories of wholesale rape, looting, and arson; days and nights of terror. But the story of the Russian as conqueror is not a powerful one. It may be because the Horstmanns appear to feel the loss of a priceless Meissen vase, for instance, more deeply than they do the terrible degradation around them. The sense of tragedy is again missing—when Horstmann is kidnapped and dies. This reader had the feeling he was reading of events far away which left him unmoved... The Secret Stair, by Phyllis Botome (Harcourt, Brace) tells the story of this man named Bix says, "It don't know it." In Gulf Stream North (Doubleday) Earl Conrad tells the story of the menhadeners, the hardy Negro fishermen who "plow the acres of the sea" for the fantastic hordes of the herring-like menhaden whose oil and meal serve more than 200 U.S. industries. The menhaden fishery doomed the whalers more than 50 years ago and is today a primary source of special oils. Conrad tells the tale of the fish and men with superb dramatic power and a poetry and rhythm that makes his work distinctive. His narrative is in the rhythmic dialect of southern Negroes, unmarried by the crudities of phonetic spelling. Bix and his crew aboard an 85-year-old ship are having dismal luck. First there are no fish, then too many—so many that hundreds of thousands of them diving as a single mass can rip to shreds a $5,000 net, pull a man underwater or capsize a small cutter. Bix and his fellow "sharecroppers of the sea" in their aged ship make a first-rate story. We Chose to Stay, by Lali Horstmann (Houghton Mifflin): Lali Horstmann was the wife of a German diplomat who worked in the press section in Berlin but who gave up his position because he opposed Hitler. Both of the Horstmanns were wealthy with an estate at Kerzendorf in what later was to become the Russian Occupied Zone. It is the story of the couple who chose to stay when the Russian and allied armies were approaching Berlin in the closing days of the war and the suffering they underwent at the hands of the Red army. Curiously, the account does not arouse the sympathy one would expect. There are stories of wholesale rape, looting, and arson; days and nights of terror. But the story of the Russian as conqueror is not a powerful one. It may be because the Horstmanns appear to feel the loss of a priceless Meissen vase, for instance, more deeply than they do the terrible degradation around them. The sense of tragedy is again missing—when Horstmann is kidnapped and dies. This reader had the feeling he was reading of events far away which left him unmoved... The Tunnel of Love, by Peter DeVries (Little, Brown) is a wryly comic tale of the taming of a screwball—Augie Poole, a cartoonist who couldn't draw but who felt obligated nevertheless to observe the promiscuous conventions of the artistic vie de Boheme. In recounting the details of the unlikely adoption that transformed Poole into a model breadwinner, DeVries contrives to make a good many amiable and some uproarously funny comments about the absurdities of life in Connecticut's "Suboourbon Heights." His dialogue is salted with plays on words so outrageous that the reader might feel himself entitled to punitive damages if they were not so amusing. The book is gaily improbable enough to qualify as an early starter in the "light summer reading" stakes, but DeVries has realized his principal characters with sufficient depth perhaps to give many a reader the uncomfortable feeling that he is seeing himself in a 3-D mirror. BEST SELLERS (Compiled by Publishers' Weekly) Fiction NOT AS A STRANGER — Morton Thompson AUTHOR ALL BOATS—Kenneth Dodson SAYONARA—James A. Michener ELESS THIS HOUSE—Norah Lofts LORD VANITY—Samuel Shellabarker Non-Fiction THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING — Norman Vincent Peale BUT WE WERE BORN FREE — Elmer Davis THE SECOND TREE FROM THE CORNER — E.R. White LIFE IS WORTH LIVING — Fulton TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 20) -- This is a time to be very careful if you are to avoid making a serious error in calculation. (Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) said. Fox signed him a year ago with the idea of doing his life story, but shelved the plan. Memorizes All Lines Ray will not wear his hearing aid on the screen. But acting with groups of players didn't stymie the singer, who is virtually deaf. "I just memorized everybody's lines," he said. "I rehearse once with the hearing aid, once without and we shoot it without. It a matter of timing. While the other actors speak I say their lines to myself. I thought it would be hard but it worked out fine." "Ethel and Dan have been wonderful, making suggestions and giving me advice. I was nervous at first, but Dan told me to relax and be myself." Dailey and Ray have become such pals, in fact, that one night when they went nightclubbing with actress Charlotte Austin, all three wore hearing aids. Farmer McCabe June 10, 1954 I git purty durn mad when I git to thinkin about Iké's Executive Order forbidding his Aids to reveal anything on the secret meetin they had about McCarthy and Stevens matter, and then saying 'let the investigation go on an the chips fall where they will'...Why, Dad-Burn it, us country folk ain't got any more idee what's being held back than a tapeworm has about what it's agonna git to eat. I tell ye, it jest ain't fair. Farmer McCabe (all rights reserved) There's No Substitute for Paid Circulation. The Secret Stair, by Phyllis Bottome (Harcourt, Brace) tells the story of a saint in a sanatorium, a priest who despite his own desperate loss of a priceless Meissen vase, for instance, more deeply than they do the terrible degradation around them. The sense of tragedy is again missing—when Horstmann is kidnapped and dies. This reader had the feeling he was reading of events far away which left him unmoved. 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