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kren Beacon Jourra! 7 Old-Fashionec Proud. I lie Sundav. October 21 An 0 because I didn't know what ailed him. I didn't know he was afraid of cancer. "He was so disappointed in old age.

He just couldn't believe it would happen to him." William Faulkner. "He used to sit out on his porch in good old Southern style and the tourists would drive past and slow down to look at the house. "We used to have them here, too, and they were always getting out of the car and stopping and taking pictures of the house. Once my wife Irene ran out and took a picture of THEM. "But Faulkner did better than that.

One Sunday at twilight, a couple of cars stopped, and some people got out and peered up at him. He got off the porch and went out into the yard and took a leak." STILL HANDSOME at 68, Kantor is tall, lanky, with thick, curly gray hair; bristling mustache; great, brooding, heavy-lidded eyes. He is old-fashioned, and he is proud of it. He stands when females enter the room. He has been married to the same woman, artist Irene Layne, for 46 years.

He believes in patriotism. He doesn't exactly say the younger generation is going to pot, pills and test tube babies, but it is clear he suspects something of the kind. "I think the past world was a better world. I like its la By SARAH ELDER Kniht News Strvkt SARASOTA, Fla. There he sits, pecking three-fingered at a typewriter.

MacKinlay Kantor. Author of 41 books. Winner of the 1956 Pultizer Prize for "Anderson-ville." One of the country's best known writers for more than four decades. Blue Gulf water glimmers through a picture window behind his paper-cluttered, desk. His books books he has written fill a wide shelf from floor to ceiling; photographs, posters You, Red cover the walls.

KANTOR is typing his 42nd book himself because his longtime secretary has retired. Much of "Andersonville" was dictated live, he says, while he lay on his back on that couch on the side porch. He sees nothing remarkable about dictating an 800-page book live to a secretary. Besides, "Andersonville" was ready to write; he had researched it for 11 years; he knew what he wanted to say. What does he do in Sarasota besides write? "Precious little." Isn't Kantor deeply involved in Sarasota civic life? "Hell, noT' Well, he admits, he does write a letter to the newspaper now and then.

NOW HE IS doing what he likes best telling sto- 1 1 scale of values better. I believe in all the things we were taught that amounted to "I've got grandchildren now all the way from six feet two, approaching the age of 21, down to little blond fairy girls 3 and 5. I haven't got an idea what their world will be like, and I don't intend to sit around speculating on it either." KANTOR claims, tongue-in-cheek, to be the organizer of something he calls "Enemies of New College (as opposed to "Friends of New College," group formed when the educational institution was established in Sarasota in the early 1960s.) New College students incurred his wrath several years ago by necking and interrupting while he and oth- er writers were speaking there. Then last Spring, during New books at the library. Page D-13 i 4 j.

-i a demonstration for abortion, girl students were photographed with their bare feet on the college president's desk. That was the last straw for Kantor. "I now regard New College as just a fomenting ground for all the way-out, long-haired boys and bearded girls." "ANDERSONVILLE" was Kantor 's turning point: the Pulitzer, Book of the Month, $250,000 for movie rights (the film was never made), 300,000 sales in hard cover, 1.5 million in pocketbook. Gave him, he says, freedom to write what he considers his best work, "Spirit Lake," a recounting of the settling of the West from the view of both white and Indian. "Spirit Lake," he believes, is better than "Andersonville" because there are more women in it; the female characters are better realized.

It is half again as long, and he says he spent his life researching it, beginning with tales he heard in childhood of his grandfather's encounters with Indians. The Kantors moved to Sarasota from Westfield, N. in January 1936 because the children, Layne and Timmy, were constantly ill with colds. In the 36 years since, Layne has become a mother and published novelist; Timmy a father and professional photographer. (Both live in Sarasota).

MacKINLAY KANTOR ries. His voice is deep and rich; it fills the room, calling the dead. Hemmingway. "Well, I didn't have any bad feeling about Ernest Books To Giggle About Things While Supermoney. By "Adam Smith." 301 Pages.

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A good example is how the United States in 1954 almost got into the French-' Vietnamese war with atomic weapons. In "Eisenhower and the American Crusades" (Mac Millan, Parmet recalls how French Lt. Gen. Paul Ely came to this country seeking military help for French forces trapped at Bienbienphu. The Joint Chiefs of Staff's Hawkish chairman, Adm.

Arthur Radford, Parmet says, proposed a U. S. strike force of 60 B-29s, 150 fighters on two carriers, and the use of "three small tactical atomic bombs." Radford promised Ely, the author goes on, "he was ready to convince the President." SECRETARY of State John Foster Dulles bought the plan, but top congressional leaders didn't. Presumably because the papers still bear a "secrecy" stamp, Ike's role is never Replace your This analysis is based on reports obtained from more than 125 bookstores in 64 communities of the United States. The figures in the right-hand column do not necessarily represent consecutive appearances.

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Goulden 8 19 torian. Nevertheless, he says two carriers, with atomic weapons aboard, left Manila for Indochina. Meanwhile, Dulles was dispatched to London to sound out the British. The word from Prime Minister Winston Churchill, via Foreign Secretary Anthonv Eden, was no. though the latter was told, Parmet reports, that Ike was ready to seek congressional approval for the bombing.

THE "WARRIORS" of "these critical weeks," Par-met writes, were then Vice President Nixon, who earlier had suggested troops might have to be sent to Indochina; Radford and Dulles. Parmet's book repeats a contemporary joke during Ike's White House regime that went "Just wind it up and it does nothing for eight years." But in his preface, the historian says The closer one looks at the general who occupied the White House during those years, the less possible to be glib about an 'Eisenhower existing gas furnace Bank Terms Available Remove Old Furnace Check Chimney Furnace Plumbing Furnace Wiring Heating Permit 1 Full Year Free Parts and Service 105,000 BTU Policy ntw ovoilobJc for first timt. Your Jim Bouton with "I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally." or Laurence J. Peter with "The Peter Prescription." So it was with a certain wariness that I cracked open "Supermoney" by "Adam Smith." "Adam. Smith" is of course George J.

W. Goodman, the Lili Kraus Dennis Conley Michael Davis is soloist for the Sibelius Violin Concerto. The orchestral fare consists of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 and Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" ballet suite. 'Erich Leinsdorf, who served three seasors (1913-46) as conductor of the.

Cleveland Orchestra, rurns to Severance Hall fcr concerts Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p. with Isaac Stern as violin soloist. Stern will i perform the Alban Berg Concerto as well as a Bach violin sonata. The orchestral half lists the Ricercare from J. S.

Bach's "Musical Offering" (orchestrated by Webern)-, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. A VOCAL recital by Akron tenor Dennis Conley and pianist Richard Zucker this afternoon at 3 will be the first in a series of Dialogue Concerts at the Canton Art Institute this season. Conley will sing songs and arias by Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Mussorgsky and Donizetti. No admission charge.

Hungarian pianist" Lili Kraus opens the Canton-Mas-sillon Civic Music Association series with a recital today at 3 p. m. in Timken Auditorium. Music by Bartok and Schubert is featured. Other programs in the CMCMA series are the Beers Goes I COULDN'T help but won-der: Is there anything more to say about the money game? And can it still make us giggle? Well, I'm happy to report that there is and it can.

But the real reason "Super-money" succeeds as a sequel to "The Money Game" lies outside of "Adam Smith's" talent for making high finance sound entertaining. It lies in the fact that between 1967, when "The Money Game" first appeared, and now, some interesting things were happening to the American economy, to Wall Street and to "Adam Smith" himself. 'THERE WAS, for instance, "The Day the Music Almost Died" when, as a result of the Penn Central's going broke in June, 19701" the entire economy quietly teetered on its foundations and the Federal Reserve System had to rush in and save it to the hilarious applause of all 17 men in the country who understood what had happened and how close a call it had been. You mightn't think that a drama of prime rates, commercial paper and short-term time deposits could be so exhilarating, but "Adam Smith" proves otherwise. And there was the day "Adam Smith's" own music almost died, when he picked up Wall Street Journal and discovered that $30 million had been misplaced by his Swiss bank.

Yes, his Swiss bank, the, one he owned. And while you may well anticipate the drama of this story, you will be surprised by how deeply "Smith" goes into Swiss banking and what he has to say. Beater Continued From Page D-6 the history taste as it was a study in the history of art. At drummer's you could see such things as a whole room of Greek and Roman heads; an entire case of Limoges enamels. This amassing of quantity jusi does not exist any more.

In between various stops was a runni.ig tour of the collect'on and the Ilorgan Library. We also with the Medieval curator at the Metropolitan Museum. ALTHOUGH this trip was specifically oriented to this particular group of students, much of the information gleaned is available to any one. What most people don't realize is how willing the curators at museums are to give advice to the serious collector. To the person who has done the appropriate reading in the field, and to the one who has familiarized himself with the great museum collections of the period of his interest, a curator is more tban willing to supply the novice with the names of the major dealers, to give him an oney editor of an investment counseling magazine and a man who knows his way up and down Wall Street.

And "Supermoney" is the sequel to "The Money Game," a relentlessly witty book that explained to the world how the stock market was really played and made us all giggle. Family, Nov. 19; Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra of Paris, Feb. 23; basso John Macurdy, March 18; and the University of Michigan Chamber Choir, April 6. GABRIEL FAURE'S Requiem will be sung by the Chancel Choir of First United Methodist Church, William G.

Moore, director, tonight at 7:30 at the church, 245 W. Portage Trail, Cuyahoga Falls. Peggy and Joseph Al-brecht are vocal soloists, and Herbert Chamberlain plays the organ accompaniment. Western Reserve Academy will dedicate the new Stein-way piano recently given by a member of the Blossom family in a concert in Ellsworth Hall tonight at 7:30. The all-Beethoven program features pianist Edward Emma and members of the Akron Symphony conducted by William Appling.

Emma, a senior at WRA, plays the "Emperor" Concerto, and Appling will direct the Fifth Symphony in Minor. No admission charge. The Bach Aria Group, an ensemble of vocal and instrumental soloists who perform selections from Bach's cantatas, appears in concert Friday at 8:15 p. m. in Wooster College's Chapel.

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m. The production was conceived by former Pro Musica director John Reeves White, and uses a text by modern poet John Hollander, various 16th Century songs and madrigals, reconstructions of courtly dances by Julia Sutton and period costumes by Anne Hollander. George Houle is music director of the 24-member ensemble of instrumentalists, singers and dancers. Tickets for this Artist-Lecture Series program are available at the door. PIANIST Rudolf Firkusny is soloist as the Canton Symphony performs its first concert of the season Wednesday at 8:30 p.

m. in Timken High, Canton. The Czech pianist plays Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in Minor. Beginning his 12th year as the orchestra's music director, Michael Charry will conduct Verdi's "Forza del Desti-no" Overture and Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, by the contemporary English composer Wilfred Josephs.

THE DELLER CONSORT, the popular ensemble of musicians from England headed by countertenor Alfred Deller, performs a program of Renaissance and Baroque music Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. in Strosacker Auditorium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Selections include English madrigals, French chansons, a Bach lute suite, two Monteverdi songs and sea songs for voices and guitars. The Chamber Arts Orchestra of Baldwin-Wallace College plays its first program "of the season Friday at 8:30 p.

m. in the college's Gamble Auditorium. The ensemble, which consists of both student and faculty musicians, will be heard in works of Gluck, Mozart and Dvorak, all under Dwight Oltman's baton. Soloist Galan Krai plays Bellini's Concerto for Oboe and Strings. THE WOOSTER Symphony, under Marshall Haddock's direction, opens its 57th season tonight at 8:15 in McGaw Chapel, College of Wooster.

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