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1 DAILY PRESS, Newport News, Va Sunday, Nov. 23. 1958 4D Communist Degredatipn In The World A Devastating Historical Appraisal A Long Awaited Account Of Carolina 's Famed Outer Banks T' -cur l-; THE OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1584-1958, David Stick, lllu. HtmIhS by Frank Stick. Chap-el Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 352 pages, endpaper maps, $6.

Reviewed by Robert H. Burgess The Mariners Museum Almost within a month the second book covering the North Carolina sea coast has been released. The most recent publi-cction. "The Outer Banks of North Carolina," is a complete history of that region. The earlier volume on that area.

"The Hatterasman," was based primarily on the folklore of the banks country. David Stick's book has been awaited anxiously by those who have known of its preparation during the past decade. And the final result was worth waiting for. In this volume one learns of the geological formation of Rear Admiral Samuel E. Morison discussing the Battle for Leyte Gulf with surviving Japanese admirals in 1950.

Left to right, Admiral Morison, Admiral Ozawa, commander Mobile Force in 1944; Lt. Roger Fineau, USNR, assistant to Admiral Morison; Admiral Toyeda, commander combined fleet in 1944; Rear Admiral Tomioka, an Imperial Navy planner. Famed Historian Records One Of The 'Greatest Naval Actions Of All Time9 er make up 75 per cent of Russia's population, but they share only 62 per cent of the national income. The next 35 per cent of income goes to government bureaucrats and military personnel, who together make up only 15 per cent of the population the new ruling class. Slave labor accounts for 10 per cent of the population, and gets about 3 per cent of the national income.

Thus, the communist managerial bureaucracy of some officials and army brass now constitute the new ruling caste, and "almost nothing remains of the originial Marxism." Thirty million people at tha top of the communist bureaucracy enjoy more than one-third of the gross national product, while the other 170-million workers, peasants and slaves at the bottom of the socialist pyramid share the remaining two-thirds. These are the facts Leon Trotsky was aiming at Stalinism 25 years ago in his classic VThe Revolution Betrayed." Such are the forces which for-tell the utter collapse of communist colonialism from within says Lin Yutang. "This totalitarian regime has resulted in a number of con-traditions, in misery, despair and resentment among the masses, and confusion and degeneracy among the ruling priv ileged class," Happily for freedom, all these explosive class pressures within Russia today tend to stabilize the peace of the world. The Kremlin dare not commit its military forces away from home, lest the sullen, resentful workers and peasants tear the new two gun ruling class to pieces in a revolt which would make 1917 look like a Sunday School picnic. (Editor's Note: The reviewer is Coordinator of Information, U.

S. House of Representatives, Washington.) the conclusion that the Russian empire the present Soviet regime will be destroyed by the problems of its colonial first, and by its own domestic class struggle later Soviet Russia today has caught itself an impossible dilemma with regard to its 20 colonies Hungary is merely a striking example. The storm is gathering, not slackening The dilemma is this: today Russian communists can love Russia, but Polish communists cannot love Poland first withou tbeing labelled 'traitors'. "The fact is that Russia Is getting found out. Very gradually, its true character, behind its ideological facade, is being perceived.

The judgments of the common people go upon deeds, not words it is in the nature of things that a sham or a lie gets found out if the pe pie are given enough time The disintegration of the Russian empire began in 1953 That is why, for Russia, the status of the East European countries must unconditionally remain a closed topic at any summit conference the lowering standards of living in Russia's occupied territories is insoluable It is a strange and sad sight to see the governments of the Free World afraid to make an issue of the freedom of the satellite countries." PRICES MULTIPLIED Within Russia proper, food prices have multiplied by 15 since the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, and monetary wages to factory workers have multiplied by only 10. Thus, the purchasing power of the average worker's wage under communism has diminished by approximately one third in 40 years. The index of real wages, 100 in 1913, stood at 68 in 1937, and has declined steadily during the last 20 years, although no official figures have been published by Moscow since 1939. Workers and peasants togeth THE SECRET NAME, by Lin Yutang. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy.

$3.95 Reviewed by Lawrence Sullivan xxx Dr. Lin Yutang, the distinguished Chinese historian, addresses his new chronicle of the Lenin-Stalin years in Russia directly to the 'penthouse communists of New York." It is the New York dilettante says Linkwho sustain doddering communism throughout the entire Western Hemisphere. They are the only people in the world today who have missed the great historical fact of the last decade, namely, that the "Worker's Paradise" presented in Karl Marx's psycho a i essays of the mid-Nineteenth Century, is now the cruelest, most extensive and most oppressive colonial empire in all human history. Throughout Khrushchev's far-flung firing squad empire, the worker has been frozen to his job, reduced to abject and the independent land-owning farmer has been obliterated from the face of the earth-all this in the name of "the people's democracy." SCHOLARLY HISTORY Lin Yutang's scholarly history of communist imperialism and its semantic development is well titled "The Secret Name." Despite the fact that 20 nations already have been slugged into the black pit of Kremlin colonialism, such nationalist characters as Nehru of India, Sokarno of Indonesia, and Nasser of Egypt yet stand ready today to deliver their captive people into a new cycle of "peaceful just as Poland, Cechoslovakia, Rumania, and China began some 13 years ago. But fortunately says Lin Yutang, the immutable forces of history hunger and unquenchable nationalism now have caught up with Kremlin promises.

"Personally, 1 have come to present volume covers the most dramatic period in the history CONTEST SUMMARD2D Summarizing the contest, the author claims that "here an old sailor may indulge in a little sentiment:" "Thus when Mississippi discharged her twelve 14-inch guns at Yamashiro, at a range of yards at 0408 Oct. 25. 1944, she was not only giving that battleship the coup de grace, but firing a funeral salute to a finished era of naval warfare. One can imagine the ghosts of all great admirals from Raleigh to Jellicoe standing at attention as Battle Line went into oblivion, along with the Greek phalanx, the Spanish wall of pikemen, the English longbow and the row-galley tactics of Salamis and Lepanto." While the U.S. forces well outnumbered the Japanese in the Surigao Strait action, the Battle of Samar saw the magnificient struggle put up by a handful of our slow "jeep" carriers and their escorts in the face of what seemed inevitable destruction at the hands of the powerful Japanese Center Force.

Owing to the confusion of battle and the receipt of faulty estimates, the Japanese elected to break off and retire letting certain victory slip from their grasp. The performance of the six little American escort carriers will be "forever memorable, forever glorious." Morison summarizes: "In no engagement of its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption." Obviously this book represents the last word on the subject of the now fading Battle for Leyte Gulf. It couldn't have been recorded by a more competent hand. remain open today along the 175 mile strand. The virtues of sea bathing along the Carolina coast have been recognized for at Last two centuries.

The area was long a rendezvous for planters, and other residents of the mainland. This book describes the early resort facilities and brings the reader up to date as the area became the mecca of countless worshipers of the sun and sea. The author does not devote too much space in this work to what the region is most noted for, its tragic shipwrecks. This can be explained by the fact tnat it would be repetitious on his part since that subject is wholly covered in his earlier book, "Graveyard of the Atlantic," an interesting work now in its fourth printing. Not until reading this Outer Banks history did this reviewer realize the extent of the shore-based whaling industry which once flourished there.

This and other fisheries carried on off shore and in the sounds are dealt with in a thorough and entertaining manner. CLAIM TO FAME One of the chief claims to fame of the Banks is its contrib-' ution to the success of the Wright Brothers plane at Kitty Hawk. Having had access to certain Wright Papers the author is able to include some interesting sidelights on this famous event With the almost complete cessation of Coast Guard and lighthouse employment on the Banks there was a dim outlook for the future of the area until it was made accessible to the mainland through bridges and surfaced roads. That move created a new life, that of the tourist trade, which has changed the profile of the sand dunes and caused a boom in land values and increase in population. The last chapter in the book, "The Banks Today," is invaluable to those who havebeen to the region or who plan to visit there.

Starting with Currituck Bank, just south of the Virginia line.the reader is taken on a tour of the entire beach down to Cape Lookout Each locale is described in the manner of a guide book. This book Is a great contribution to the history of the Outer Banks and is highly recommended. Its five maps permit the reader to find bearings at. any point in the story. Clever drawings of Bank scenes by the author's father.

Frank Stick, serve as illustrations at the beginning and end of each chapter. brought disaster to the freighter and undying fame to her Danish born captain who remained on board until the last possible moment. The Adolf Leonhardt loaded coal in Hampton Roads for a voyage across the same North Atlantic toward Bremen. Mountainous waves also damaged the Leonhardt's rudder in fact, rescue tugs steaming to the Leonhardt's aid passed the disabled Flying Enterprise as still other vessels made way for the American vessel Although the voyage lasted a full month, the Leonhardt's voyage was far happier as she ultimately berthed at Bremen's Industrial Docks to discharge her cargo. Some of the more valuable goods from the Flying Enterprise was retrieved later on by divers in 17 fathoms of ocean.

All told, "Disaster at Sea" remains a good book well suited for those who love the sea and adventure despite its several shortcomings. Reik's 'Myth And Guilt' Sheds New Light On Mankind's Current Age Of Anxiety Drawing by Frank Stick in "The Outer Banks of North Carolina." Stories Of Some No table Sea Disasters Related In German Author's New Work the Outer Banks and their inlets, subsequent exploration and settlement, their status during and after the Revolution and Civil War. shipwrecks- and storm, resort areas, the natives and their occupations, and the region today. Probably most everyone who ha: driven down the comparatively recent hard-surfaced road, now bringing the once remote Outer Banks within easy reach, has wondered about the formation of that great barrier reef of sand jutting far out into the Atlantic from the North Carolina mainland. The author explains this in the languageof the layman and describes the effects of the onslaught of wind and waves which have threatened to erase it.

Man's battle to hold the drifting and eroding sand in check is also discussed. FIVE INLETS REMAIN Mr." Stick lists the 24 inlets which have at one time connected the sea and the sounds, giving their location and dates of opening and closing. Only five Nearly all the common risks faced by men at sea are illus trated through case histories in this volume. The work shows that disaster is not a product of any single age through comparisons with incidents new and old. Major stumbling blocks are built into the book for most American readers, however.

Originally published in Germany, the volume stresses disaster under the German flag to the exclusion of many famous cases. The translation often stumbles with descriptions of heroism and horror. Pictures in the volume are as coarse as if they had been engraved for rough newsprint instead of fine book stock. Reasons for omission of some of the greatest disasters in maritime history are hard to understand in view of the author's use of such comparitively minor disasters as lightships and cattle transports. IGNORES TRAGEDY Mielke blithely ignores the" famous Wilhelm Gustloff, which resulted in the greatest death toll in history.

The German refugee ship sank with 6,000 persons while fleeing the Russian advance of Danzig early in 1945. American readers are apt to miss the Morro Castle. The Peninsula-built liner burned off As-bury Park, N.J., with the loss of 125 persons on a stormy September night in 1934. This disaster was a key factor in impressing legislators with the need for more polished training for officers and crewmen. The famed Kings Point academy can trace its ancestry back to the pressures which followed this loss.

Although not in a class with "A Night to Remember," this book can be an important addition to the maritime shelf. 'Disaster at Sea" covers a broad field with sweeping colors. One of the more intriguing chapters is his work on three German vessels "lost without trace" the training ship Admiral Karpfanger and the freighters Melanie Schulte and Irene Oldendorff. Divers have since located the Oldendorff and even given the probabe cause of her loss an overladen vessel capsized in a North sea gale on the morning of Dec. 31, 1951.

SAME STORM The same shrieking storm that claimed the Irene Oldendorff resulted in disaster for two other vessels the American Flying Enterprise and the German Adolf Leonhardt. Capt. Kurt Carlsen's Flying Enterprise loaded tons of valuable cargo at German ports before starting down the channel for Rotterdam and the North Atlantic. Shifting cargo, a flooding hold and a jammed rudder Iff 'c-l it Charming 'How To' Book DISASTER AT SEA: The Story Of The World's Great Maritime Tragedies, by Otto Mielke. New York: Fleet Publishing 255 pages, 15 Illustrations, $3.95 Reviewed by Bill Delany XX Disaster at sea these words signal a new round in man's gripping battle with the elements on the world's last untamed frontier.

Even a garbled message from a troubled vessel draws immediate attention around the globe. Hazards of their calling forge strong bonds of comradeship among seafarers of all nations. The Nation's Best Sellers LEYTE. JUNE 1944 JA.YU ARY 1945, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Boston Atlantic- Little, Brown, 445 pages, profusely Illustrated, maps, charts.

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. XII, $6.50 Reviewed by Alexander Brown xxx Followers, and their numbers are legion, of Admiral Sam Morison's splendid volumes on the late "shootin" war" of the U.S. Navy, perennially look forward to the appearance tf a new book in the series covering the Navy's operational history in World War II. Now a new title, "Leyte," has made its appearance garbed in the familiar gold lettered blue and black striped dust jacket of its predecessors. With each volume the list of those in print grows longer together with, one notes almost with regret, the diminishing of those cited as being in preparation.

Now, only two titles of the monumental 14-voIume projected work are left to come out. And soon this magnificiently conceived and executed work, the first fruits of which appeared a dozen years ago, will be complete. The story of how it all started is an interesting one. Then Harvard professor Morison, already a famed biographer of Columbus, regretting the delay in setting about to record the naval actions of World War proposed to President Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Knox hardly before the smoke of Pearl Harbor had cleared that something should be done immediately to insure that the U.S. Navy's part in the global conflict to which we were then committed should not go unsung.

REALIZED OPPORTUNITY Roosevelt and Knox had the wit to realize that here was a heaven-sent opportunity. Morison came out of the meeting a lieutenant commander, U.S. Naval Reserve, virtually with carte blanche orders. Accordingly, for the rest of the war the sea-going historian spent the greater part of his time at sea with active duty on almost a dozen different ships of war, emerging a captain with seven battle stars. He is now retired with the rank of rear admiral with other honors and decorations.

And his good work goes merrily on. By this time in his narrative of the two-ocean war, i.e. June of 1944, the handwriting was plainly on the wall as far as the fate of the Japanese Empire' was concerned. But there were still many hard and dark days before the Rising Sun in the East would be permanently eclipsed. In many ways the been made at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since the days of John and Abigail Adams.

Engravings made after the War of 1812, when only the walls were intact, show its subsequent rebuilding in the French mode of the day. Drawings of the furnishings spent in a $50,000 remodeling job by Andrew Jackson reveal that the new decoration achievement was treated as a national event. His remodeling was intended to remove all traces of the hated John Quincy Adams. The extravagant collection of pictures show why Mary Todd Lincoln was attacked for her extravagances in managing the White House. Even her husband.

Abraham Lincoln, lost his patience when she asked for money to buy "flub-dubs for this damned old house." The excellent collection of A VIEW OF A IS Is V--1 i in uar-jg in Uses Folk Art AMERICAN FOLK ART, by Ellen S. Sabine. Princeton, N. Van Nostrand, 144 pages. Illustrated In color and monochrome, $6.95.

XXX Charmingly illustrated with full color plates and patterns in black and white, this book will delight anyone interested in folk-art, its history and colorful expressiveness. In rural New England and in Pennsylvania, American folk art flourished from about the middle of the 18th century to the time of the Civil War. Folk craftsmen favored traditional motifs, introducing modifications only when the need arose. These arts are characterized by a liberal use of bright color and cheerful design. It was applied to floors and walls as well as to trays, war in the Pacific.

It was uie ume mai saw wacflirinui 5 well heralded (also well photographed) "return" followed by the gargantuan Battle for Leyte Gulf, a struggle ranked quite properly by the eminent historian-author of this volume as one of "the greatest naval actions of all time." All told, the staggering number of 216 American and 64 Japanese ships took active part. And it is estimated that more U.S. officers and men were involved the Leyte engagements of October 24, 25, 1944 than comprised our entire navy and Marine Corps in 1938. Inevitably one compares with World War I's Jutland with 151 British and 99 German ships engaged. FOUR ACTIONS Actualy the Battle for Leyte Gulf consisted of four virtually separate naval actions (Sibuyan Sea, Surigao Strait, Samar.

and Cape Engano) whose objective was the defense of that area in the Philippines to which our forces had only recently landed. For their part, the Japanese were committed desperately to do everything in their power to dislodge our men at the Though Morison shows the true dedication of the historian to precise and orderly facts when he appraises the plans and disposition of the opposing forces and analyses the grand strategy that contrived to set the giant wheels turning, he is an enthusiastic story-teller par excellence when he comes to relating the actual course of the actions. His narrative, properly laced with salty reference, flows swiftly carrying the reader along as breathlessly as, no doubt, he might have been in actual combat. The night Battle of Surigao Strait possessed all the elements of drama. The Japanese Southern Foree Inexorably advanced up the strait licking its lips at the thought of the juicy American transports it planned to annihilate at anchor off the beach.

Our plucky PT boats first spotted them, launched "fish" and then high-tailed away, then destroyers got into the melee and finally the battleships. There were six of the big "wagons" (four of them had been built at Newport News), and some of them the Japanese had written off as destroyed at Pearl Harbor. It was a nice justice to have them in at the death of the Japanese fleet. This battle also provided the swan song for a time-honored form of warfare dating back to 1655 namely the formidible Battle Line, a tactical device for naval combat, whose knell was Sounded by the development of air power. photographs reproduced here reveal the family life of the children and grand children of its many Presidential occupants.

But there was tragedy, too. The son of Franklin Pierce was killed just before Pierce became President. Willie Lincoln died during his father's first term. ENJOYED BY ROOSEVELTS But probably no one enjoyed the White House as much as Theodore Roosevelt's family, Archie. Quentin, Kermit, Ethel, Alice and Theodore Jr.

"The White House" becomes almost a family album of the first Roosevelts to occupy the mansion. They kept many pets, including dogs, cats, a black bear and a kangaroo rat. Their pony, Algonquin, was suggled upstairs in the elevator when little Archie was sick. Alice's debut was treated as THE WHITE HOUSE IN but not remorse because remorse requires both a conscience and a sense of guilt. Only man has both these requisites.

From here the author goes to a study of Adam's Fall and the great Christian epic, the life and Passion of Christ, culminating in the Crucifixion to save man. He regards this as the basic and controlling myth of our civilization. Using anthropological and psychological techniques, he explores the Fall and the Passion in all their many manifestations and comes to the conclusion that mankind's communal guilt complex comes from a crime committed in prehistory that still haunts him today with unconsolable remorse. This crime was the sin of hubris, the killing of God. the ambition to be God.

Out of this crime has come man the moral climber, according to Dr. Reik. the dangerous devotee of the modern cult of man's perfectibility. RECOGNIZE NATURE If we can only recognize the nature of this sense of guilt which drives us to improve the world in our exclusive image and to recognize that man is more fallible than perfectible. Dr.

Reik argues we may find the wisdom and tolerance to live and let live, east and west. Attacking the "American vision" of man's perfectibility, the author argues: "These moral counselors of mankind intensify and enforce just those presumptuously over-idealistic and proud, vain, and conceited concepts. They are unconsciously sponsors of those tendencies of man, the moral climber, that lead to the great catastrophes of history. "The ardent love of virtue is as murderous as a fanatic hate of vice. Mankind has several times experienced a reign of terror of virtue and justice.

An observer who is wise and sober and loves man can only wish that we all might arrive at a 'more modest concept of our innate nature if man gives up the idea of his own grandiosity and perfectibility, there is perhaps a little hope that he will survive." This book may anger many readers, whether religious, agnostic or atheistic, but it undoubtedly also will provoke them into a fresh look at some of their own basic attitudes. OF THE WEEK tf it- 1 A' today that is goading both sides of the Iron Curtain toward the atonement of mutual catastrophe. The author seeks in psychoanalytic terms to find the explanation and nature of this guilt feeling deep in the religious and social history of humanity. This quest, on which he has brooded for nearly 50 years since his youthful collaboration with Freud, took him all the way back to the origins of man's fall from grace, of mankind's Original Sin. The result of the quest is a striking and provocative volume of 432 closely reasoned pages that stood out on Saturday Review's poll of books being widely read and enjoyed this week throughout the country.

OTHER TITLES Other leading titles listed by were the following: 'Inside Russia Today," by John Gunther (Harper). A close look at Russia after Stalin by our foremost reporter. "Doctor Zhivago." by Boris Pasternak (Pantheon). A momentous novel of revolutionary Russia whose author received this year's Nobel Prize for literature. "Only in America," by Harry Golden (World).

A book of wonderful essays on all manner of things by the South's celebrated philosopher-editor. "The Enemy Camp," by Jerome Weidman (Random House). With wit and indignation, this novel probes various shades of intolerance in America. "The Mackerel Plaza," by Peter De Vries (Little, Brown). A novel of authentic humor about contemporary mores, religious, amatory and psychiatric.

"The King Must Die," by Mary Renault (Pantheon). This scholarly book retells the legend of Theseus in the form of a splendid novel. STUDY OF GUILT Dr. Reik's study of guilt starts with an anecdote of Charles Darwin about the maternal swallow who suffered an agony of remorse because her basic migratory instinct compelled her to fly south at the appointed season, abandoning her young ones in the cold north. It is pointed out in this volume that the swallow might have suffered a vague regret, THE AUTHOR Dr.

Theodor Reik was born in Vienna seventy years ago and became a student, disciple and collaborator of Sigmund Freud in his pioneering work in psychoanalysis. The author of many studies and books in the field of psychiatry, he lectured at the Institutes of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Berlin and The Hague before he fled to the United States in 1938 to escape Nazism. He is now a naturalized citizen of the U. S. He brooded on his latest By WILLIAM D.

PATTERSON The age of anxiety through which mankind is now living has a new and curiously illuminating light shed on it by the latest book of Theodor Reik, "Myth and Guilt" (Braziller). It is also a time of troubles, strife and change, of challenge and hope for the world, but Dr. Reik. an eminent psychoanalyst, argues that Western man is basically driven by a sense of universal guilt that can plunge us all into the ultimate form of self-inflicted punishment, atomic war. Anxiety comes from a sense of guilt, and it is this anxiety throughout western civilization Of America canisters, chairs, boxes, coffee pots, chests and other ordinary household articles.

It gave everything it touched an air of brightness and of individuality. Weaving, embroidery, pottery making, wood carving and ornamental iron work were also mediums of expression. "American Folk Art" gives point by point directions for producing these designs, including a list of materials and sources for purchase, along with the fine selection of 20 basic patterns. It is a grand book for the nobbiest, the accomplished painter and for those with no training. No elaborate art training is needed for this work.

Native skill and some training may enhance the results, but not necessarily add to the fun of doing. -MARY E. GREIFF even newspapers hostile to the late President Roosevelt were compelled to run it. COVERS CONSTRUCTION One of the most interesting portions of the book is its coverage of the construction work during the Truman administration. The $10,000 "Truman balcony" was the first of many major changes to take place during his term of office.

President Truman first noted the sagging floor. One evening Margaret's piano leg went through the floor and through the ceiling of the dining room below. This resulted in appointment of a committee of architects and engineers to survey the mansion. They wondered why it hadn't tumbled down before then. The cost of restoration amounted to almost five and a half million dollars, and the Jenson collection of pictures shows for the first time the extent of the work that had to be done during the Truman administration's renovation and restoration.

The Eisenhower administration has seen one major outside change. A putting green has been installed for his golf practice. Yet President Eisenhower once said of the White House: "We must never minimize what the White House just as a building means to America" I have seen strong men come into that building with tears on their cheeks. I think the White House should never be overshadowed by anything, or ill treated. The photographic history of.

the White House puts Mr. Eisenhower's words into pictures that we can all understand. A Story Of The White House The People There The weekly coast-to-coast survey of leading booksellers by the New York Herald Tribune book review section shows the following books currently at the top of the best seller list (The number in parentheses at the right of each title is the number of weeks the book has qualified as a best seller" by being reported among the 20 most popular in fiction or non-fiction.) FICTION t'DR. ZHIVAGO. by Bori Pasternak (10) 2.

LOUT by Vladimir 'Nabokov (13) AROUND THE WORLD AUNTIE MAME, by P. Dennis 14 4. AKATOMY OF A MURDER, by Robert Traver (45) 5. WOMEN AND A HARROW, by John P. Mar- quand (8) 6.

EXODUS, by Leon Uris (7) 7. THE MOUNTAIN IS YOUNG, by Han Suyin 4 8. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, by Rona Jaffe (10) 9. VICTORINE, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (4 10. THE RAINBOW AND THE ROSE, by Nevil Shute (4) NON-FICTION J.

ONLY IN AMERICA, by Harry Golden (17) J. AKU-AKU, by Thor Heyer-dahl (11) J. THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY 3 4. BAA BAA BLACK. SHEEP, by "Pappy" Boyington (16) 5.

NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH, trans, bv Phillips (8) I. THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, bv John Kenneth Galbraith 23 7. THREE EDWARDS, bv Thomas B. Costain (4) i. KIDS SAY THE DARN-DEST THINGS, by Art Link-letter 54 $.

INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY, bv John Gunther (32) 10. ABANDON by Richard F. Newcomb (9) a national event and her party launched a spectacular social career. A French publication predicted a breakdown of her health unless she slowed down. So she married Nicholas Long-worth, an Ohio Congressman.

Mistresses of the White'House were always very much in the public eye. "Lemonade Lucy" Hayes would not allow alcoholic beverages to be served at social functions. (One guest reported that "water flowed as wine." Mary Todd Lincoln was widely accused of being a Southern sympathizer because she had relatives in the Confederate army. Young Mrs. Cleveland would shake hands with 6,000 people during the course of an afternoon's open house.

And Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a newspaper column from her White House desk that was so popular that 1807 THE WHITE HOUSE AND ITS THIRTY-TWO FAMILIES, by Amy Lafollette Jensen. New York: McGraw-Hill, 280 pages, profusely illustrated, $12.50 Reviewed By Jane Thompson Passage xxx One hundred and fifty years ago, Abigail Adams wrote, "This house is built for years to come." With more than 400 photographs. "The White House" tells the stirring, often humorous, story of the 102 room building we know as the executive mansion of the United States.

As the home of 32 presidential families, it has been burned, demolished, subtracted from, and added to, yet the spirit of the bouse is the same as it was when Mrs. Adams first described it. Thomas Jefferson wrote an advertisement which offered $500. or a medal of the same value, for any plans of a proposed White House accepted by the Board of Federal Commissioners. James Hogan, a little-known architect from Charleston, S.C..

won the prize and was made a long-term superintendent of the construction of the nation's Presidential mansion. Its first occupant, Mrs. Abigail Adams and her family, found the oversize chilly house very distressing, yet wrote that was "capable of every improvement" TRACES CHANGES "The White House" traces photographically every one of the many changes that have la .13 "a ii -B ft ft ft (1 ir inu book for more than forty years before finally writing it, even though he had originally discussed the idea with Freud in 1913. Today, at the age of seventy, he still practices psychoanalysis in New York City and continues his scholarly writing as actively as ever. W.

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