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12-D FT. 1ADDEKDA1E SUNDAY NEWS. January 9. 1955f ST 1 I THE MEW- Let's-Play Chess You Remember? L-ocai Hji ri Has Novel On Youth IN THESE TIMES. By Verlie By DICK MILNE, Sunday News Book Editor Powerful Novel Of Biblical Times Forsyth.

Vantage. $3.95. Frank Rose is the winner for The author, a secretary at the the third time in our Solvers' contest. Tnis time ne wins a First National Bank of Ft. Lau-1 derdale, correctly disagrees with Biblical novels are becoming more and more popular, three and three quarter' inch wooden chess set.

The next win jvhich is encouraging in an age that seems to have for ner will have to beat the present high score of 46. gotten the distant past when there was a struggle be tween good and evil for the soul of man. i Among the better novels in this field is Maria Ley The maximum rate of climb on the classification of her first a. book as a religious novel. are 70 characters, and I only one of these is a minister," Miss Forsyth points out, "and except for one sermon there isn't any preaching." True, the author doesn't preach, but this book could only have been written by one un- I the Solvers' Ladder is 12 to 15 points every six weeks, at which 4 time the top mar.

is eligible for the prize. Extra points are re ceived for breaking a problem Piscatory "Lot's Wife" Bobbs-Memll, $3.95, which seems to sweep through an entire age with literary jet power. Mrs. Piscator, a Viennese by birth, has chosen a broad canvas for her first Eng- lish-language noveL We see the famed Old 1 Testament cities of Tyre, Damascus, or sending a position in that printed. derstanding young people and their problems.

It presents in quick, easily-read a -if .1 story of love and scandal. Many thanks to H. A. Scott for discovering what was wrong The problems confronting any active young clergyman are dramatized and, in the with Position 47B, reprinted as (Sunday Newt photo Dick Dillon) TRAFFIC WASNT BAD at the corner 48A. The position carried the printed explanation, "Black two end, boy in the person of VERLIE FORSYTH Bethel and Sodom, and the fabled Canaan.

This is a big novel, about a big period in the world's existence. There is the prophet Abram, his nephew, Lot and Lot's wife, Ti-sar-ilani, daughter of Sin-na, governor of Tyre. garb at the spot are, left to right, the late Omar T. Trick, Mrs. Caroline Weidling, the late Mrs.

Frick and the late Jake Chambers. men, White two men," hence the Pastor Gerald Trent wins Writes Sympathetically girl appealing, sensitive Carol 7 third White piece, a Bishop, crept of Las Olas Blvd. and NE Birch Rd. when this picture was taken, in about 1918; but It has been a problem almost ever since. Shown in old time motoring Mrs.

Piscator in on the pretense of being a Langtry. Miss Forsyth doesn't believe blnk black square. This is not a simple novel with a simple plot that can be read in an evening. It's rich perhaps too rich those who like lean literary iare but it is also exciting reading. The solution as Printed still in describing the physical appearances of the principal char Author Presents Scholarly Study holds, but those breaking it have acters "for I want the reader to 1 Hollywood, which has been in a religious mood of could received double points, as does cooked problem.

That means there is more than one solution. That should make it easy to visualize his or her own ro do considerably worse in its Scott for fixing it. Of Ocean Floor mantic ideal in the persons of Stamps In The News It is not difficult for an error Gerald and Carol. by one of the British Army's top men. SIGNIFICANT ADDITION to get into these diagrams, and that is why the number of pieces THE OCEAN FLOOR.

By CHARACTERS STAND OCT Although there probably are By SYD EJtONISH search for material. The ingredients are all there Lot corrupted by ambition deserting Abram for power and wealth In Sodom; the beautiful Ti-sar, who changes from evil to good at the destruction of are designated, Sometimes the Hans Pettersson. Yale Univer sity Press. $3. find at least one solution.

For two points each, give the key move, with the mating move follows two defenses. There is a chance for six extra points here. Every six weeks the top man on the Solvers Ladder re If the second volume comes up one for the Netherlands is a 10 WHAT IS the second bighestj type gets mashed down and does too many personalities to keep tabs on, a good job was done in making them stand out as individuals and often! opposites. mountain peak in the world? This is a fairly technical work to this one, the result will be a significant addition to our his not print at all for one pieco. but easily understandable and Checking the number of men on tory of World War II.

interesting to- the layman. It each side against the stated to This makes it easy to believe the author's explanation Another British officer, Brig. is a scholarly presentation of tal may save a lot of time in Sodom; and all the strange and amazing people who walked across that ancient stage, i Coming up a little closer in ceives a prize if he top- the last previous score. He then starts again at the botom ef the lad Gen. Claude H.

Dewhurst, has trying to solve an incomplete all known facts on "Just what constitutes the bottom of the that it took only a month to finish the book because "it must have been somewhere in a different story to tell in "Close Contact1 IHoughton '-Mifflin, position. der, while the other solvers con tinue with their scores. seas. time, there is "Lincoln and the Party Divided," by William Frank Zornow University of $41.. cent red.

Surinam's is 7 Me violet and the Antilles is 72 green. TO COMMEMORATE the inauguration of the steel mills of Paz del Rio, 180 miles from the capital city of Bogota, Colombia has issued two new stamps. The five centavos blue and black for regular mail and the 20 green and black for airmail depict the blast furnace at the mill. The inauguration included appropriate ceremonies with the Here is a Position submitted Hans Pettersson is director of Has it ever been scaled? i questions sound like geography lessons rather than philatelic ones. However, they are pertinent for stamp collec- tors.

The world's second highest peak is called "K-2." It is located in the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan and was scaled for the first time by an Italian-Pakistani expedition in July, 1954. To honor tnis occasion Pakis side me when I started writ ine." Gen. Dewhurst, who has been Position 51B Black ten men by Scott, who played the losing the Oceanograp'hic Institute in Oklahoma Press; $41. NOTHING NEW studying Russians for 20 years, was chief of the British mission As frank xas are her feelings as expressed through the 279 Sweden. end of it.

It seemed to me that there was some chance for a draw. Can anyone prove an ab He brings to his subject a to Soviet forces in eastern Ger There is nothing really new pages, Miss Forsyth admits that gift of presenting obscure that can be written about the many from 1951 to 1953. This is her writing was done "between solute draw, or is this a definite things with considerable clar the story of his experiences. 7 9 and 5" while she was a secre win for White? The best solu ity the reader is inter mid-war election of 1864 when some Republicans were ready to dump Lincoln in favor of his treasury secretary. Salmon P.

tions will be printed, and all tary in a not-very-busy Phila delphia office. ested in the natural 'history 4 'ia' President of Colombia leading correct solutions will receive of the earth. SECOND BOOK BEGUN three points on the Ladder. Certainly the inveterate novel She is working on a second lie speaks the language fluently. During his two years on assignment he had many conferences with the Red high command, as well as social contacts.

The book describes his en Chase, or Gen. John C. Fremont, While this has been told be tan has issued a new two annas stamp showing the summit of K-2. The stamp was issued on the birthday of the late Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. or mystery reader would find it Position 51A Black three men book now, a story on flood con' the dignitaries.

A BEAUTIFULLY engraved stamp from the Philippines marks the re- dull, but the seeker after knowl trol to be titled "Dry fore, the author goes on to cive his views of the election edge can hardly fall to find it She "has in my bonnet" a polit ical novel as a third work. absorbing. ramnaiern in which Lincoln Incidentally, Miss Forsyth is This is the 33rd in the series counters with the Russians, and how, despite everything, he always managed to keep his head defeated the Democratic candidate. Gen. George B.

A PROFILE portrait of Queen Juliana appears on a new set of three stamps editor of First National's house of "Silliman Lectures," a foun organ, the Finaba News. She dation established at Yale in and sense of humor. "Close Contact" views on6 side of the lives at 735 NE 15th Ave. 1901. H.

M. by the Neth- White nine men White mates in two SOLVERS' LADDER Russians few Westerners see i Zornow, who is a history teacher at Kansas State College, deserves some plaudits for cently conclud- ed Marian year. The designi is adapted from Murillo painting, "The Mystery of the I a u-late Cfincep-tion." The mas Zl IPS? f'-xft yw yw4 wm '''''Sl steaf erlands. The stamps were issued to Finally there is "Fingerprints fNo Time For Sergeants9 Never Lie," by Fred Cherrill hi work. It mignt nave Deen Frank Hose ..............46 H.

A. Scott ..............372 told in more readable fashion Macmillan, $3,951. WRITES WELL 2 mark the ratification of the hv a professional writer. Ray Heasley ......31 Howard Dye .26 Southern Boy's Experiences "Statue of the Cherrill, who is former chief Farther up the line we have "Assignment to Catastrophe Sofus Roraas terpiece of art JflrUs Kingdom," the superintendent of New Scotland Yard's fingerprint bureau, new constitu- Volume 1: Prelude to Dunkirk," H. E.

Hinton 23- F. Hallet .........21 1 1 ni writes as well as he catches Ma J. Gen. Sir Edward Spears In Air Force Provide Laughs White three men White to move and? the Louvre in Paris. At the bottom of the stamrj is a globe and a map of James Kent crooks.

lA.A-.Wyn. $51. LOWEST EBB Bob Eastwood I6V2 grants dominion status to the two former Dutch colonies of Surinam and Now is the time for New Year greetings, and here is a good one the Philippines. The five cent NO TIME FOB-. SERGEANTS.

J. Hutchinson ...11 J. Greenwood 1 7 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines the Netherlands. Antilles. The stamp is deep blue.

tor you. In the form of a pre This is World War It at its fewest ebb the period preceding the evacuation and including to get the full flavor. His reminiscences, many in light vein, portray a successful law enforcement career. Cherrill's story is above-average and is recommended to anyone interested in a good yarn. By Mac Hyman, Random House.

$2.95. Humorist Bennett Cerf, after the "nhony war" in the fall of reading this book said: 1039 when France refused to xnis one a sleeper. I was I always thought laughed halfway through the book before till I cried' was just a figure of. Grouchb's Life I discovered I was laughing like speech until I read this book." light. Although the story is told through British eyes, it is recounted by a man who has had nothing but affection for the French.

I was" mildly amused by the EntertainingStory rvn a hyena. I discovered it then only because the wife started making noises like a PIP 1M LIFE WITH GROCCHO. By Gen. Spears has a sharp about to call the nearest ilVj Arthur Marx. Simon and writing style.

opening chapter of the book and thought a Jttle contemptuously that Cerf must 7 be Schuster. $3.50. He paints vivid pictures of the young win stockdaie, a Artnur Marx has written a leaders in tne war ana tne iate ful events. biography of his father that Southern country boy from back in the is drafted into the sasily moved to laughter. I "Prelude to Dunkirk" is the reads as, though it had been lirst volume in a notable effort written by Groucho himself.

In1 fact, the footnotes are made by Air Force after some little argument with his pa. read on, enjoying it. Then I reach- the subject of the unauthorized Will goes into the service de book. As Groucho says, they are written in self-defense. ed the point termined to do his level best to be a good airman and to be a where Will, by Pearl Buck's Wife Story Mac Hyman The whole thing is very enter i credit to his country as well as this time per taining right from the opening, polite to his fellow airmen.

when Groucho decides to give manent latrine orderly, was all set to please the colonel and up or, rather, not to take xu WELL LNTENTIONED Naturally, there are any hum Wleases Fans butchering as a substitute for wired the toilet seats in the latrine and brought the wire out to the door afid put a loop in it. ber of people who try to ride Will, take advantage of him one way or another. Now Will has the surgery he was unable to study for, down to the present day when he is being presented to the president of Mexico dur MT SEVERAL WORLDS, By "The colonel come up and I Pearl S. Buck. John Day.

$5. the best intentions in the world. put my face close to his and hollered attention- and then I mind you, but his tormentors ing a movie good-will tour. 4 Pearl Buck lived in China 40 always seem to come out with In-between come the yeirs when he and his brothers be snatched my foot I did laugh till I cried the dirty end of the stick. years.

In 1934 she came back to this country and bought a farm All this may sound as if it's came first a vaudeville legend, then transferred their fooleries howled. It's the buildup that's la Pennsylvania, where she now As an added service to the sports fans who attend the Hollywood Kennel Club and Dania Fronton, the Daily News is now publishing a Broward Sports Special every night except Sunday designed particularly for jai-alai and dog track fans. just another one of those books that tries te make service life seem excruciatingly funny. to motion pictures. the thing, you see.

Mac Hyman takes you little by little up to lives. Though she was born In West this perfectly ridiculous situa It all bears out the fact thai Groucho is just as mad in his private life as in any of his It isn't. I've read 'em all since 1940 and I have never read one Virginia, she tion and it could have hap pened, maybe did. various entertainment media I enjoyed so much. Perhaps you must have been in the service LATRINE INSPECTION 'v was brought fip in China from the age of three months, and and vice versa.

Like Will Stockdaie keeping everybody out of the latrine on the morning of the inspection DAILY NeVS thereby has an understand 1 of the Chinese far greater and because he had just cleaned it and wanted it just right for inspection and the one fellow tljat "Kept coming up to the door and mumbling something about more sympa- thetic than most other Occiden taking some pills. Mrs. Buck tals. Naturally the "Finally he turned away and I seen he had tears in his eyes chapters of her autobiography relating to China are far more Dut' 1 couian't pay rum no entertaining to read for they mind." I'm still laughing. open up a county unknown to Howard Miller most of us.

She tells us of her happy child hood, her experiences at Miss Jewell's school in Shanghai, and her first realization that there Current Best Sellers (Compile FabUshara Weekly was much cruelty in the world as well as much goodness, and "Tl 5 If ll'l 'ft 7 of her promise to herself that she would help the victims of that FICTION cruelty. The View from Pompey's Miss Buck tells us how she Head, Hamilton Basso. began to write and of her many Love Is Eternal, Irving Stone, --v travels to other countries be I No Time' for Sergeants, Mac cause of that writing. We are with her when she receives the Prize for Literature in Hyman. Soldier of Fortune, Ernest 1938.

We see with her the be- 0 rfnnings. of. communism, in China, and relive with her the Gann, Katherine, Anya Seton. NONFICTION The Power of Positive Think tag, Norman Vincent Peale. attack on Pearl Harbor.

Here is a book that answers, in 'some measure, all the questions -that have been raised regarding This edition presents the most complete and comprehensive pre-match and pre-race information available in any newspaper. If you're going to the Fronton or Kennel Club, watch for the, Broward Sports Special it's being sold at the entrance. It is also on sale at Newsstands throughout Broward County. ON SALE EVERY EVENING HOLLYWOOD DOG TRACK DANIA JAI-ALAI FRONTON The Tumult and the Shouting. Grantland Rice.

'Chiang Kai-shek. Also it Is a Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sand burg. The Saturday Evening Post Treasury, Roger P. Butterf ield book full of feeling. Sometimes, the writing is uneven, sometimes repetitious, but this still is a book to please all Miss Buck's old readers and, perhaps, to attract a host of new ones.

Van Goodwin I'll Cry Lillian Roth. VEILED KNIGHT OF SAHARA A Targui, "blue knight" of the desert whose face is never seen by even his wife, sits his war camel in the archway of a natural stone formation in this photograph by Georges Tairraz from "Sahara," by Rene Lecler (Hanover House, "Sahara" is a popular history of the exploration and conquest of this hottest, driest and cruelest land on earth. The last of the tribes that claimed it were not defeated unit 1 934. Scientists recently completed measurement of the 30th meri dian from Cape Town, South Af A 14-year-old girl in Denmark found the note Vivienne Leach of 'Xaister. England, sent to sea in a bottle.

rica, to Cairo, Egypt, a project begun in 1879..