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THE-JUNIOR BOOKSHELF Behind the Scenes withaWoman Reporter FORGIVE VS OUR PRESS PASSES, by Elaine Shepard tPrentice-HaU, 301 pages, $4.95. POLLY GOODWIN A TIME TO LOVE, by Mar-got Benary-Isbert Har court, Brace World, $3.50. Out of memories, both happy and painful, ot her life in Germany in the years just before and at the beginning of World War II, the author has created this absorbing novel, which is permeated with her clear, honest thinking and her sensitive spirit. Once again, Anne-gret Benninger, of "The Shooting Star" and "Blue Mystery," is her heroine, the daughter of exceptional parents: her father a successful seed grower, hibridist, and poet; her mother an artist, who shares her daughter's deep love for Cara, their Great Dane dog. Each of them, especially Annegret as Reviewed by Eleanor Page traveling reporter, Miss Shepard had acting roles in New York on stage and in Hollywood and Italy in films, and had been married to an air force officer with whom she maintained households in Washington, D.

and Istanbul, Turkey, among other places. Miss Shepard's tale indicates she was specially pleased with her long sought interviews with Prime Minister Nehru of India and President Nasser of the United Arab Republic, for she records them at length. Nasser, she says, was tremendously impressed by President Kennedy. She touches amusingly on her adventure as the only woman on board a navy air craft carrier her laundry was done in three hours. We learn that W.

F. H. B. T. means "We fought Hagerty before Tokyo" to newsmen on the far east tour; that Miss Shepard discerned the Kennedy appeal early, and that, in the last Republican convention, "Gov.

Rockefeller made frequent pep talks and dished out advice: 'Don't smoke cigars. Quit working crossword puzzles and reading newspapers while the speakers are on. Look Miss Shepard was the only woman reporter accredited to Eisenhower's middle east tour of 1959. She tried to get to the south pole for "Operation Deepfreeze," but there were "no facilities" for women. How the lack of facilities later plagued her on several assignments she reveals as amusing background notes.

Eleanor Page is society editor of The Tribune. Read all about it! In the newspapers. Then read about it again as Elaine Shepard tells it. You discover a thousand details the daily press never had space for and you learn about them from a woman's point of view. Miss Shepard's stories of what went on behind the scenes in President Eisenhower's tours to Europe and India, to South America, and almost to Tokyo; of press conferences and the working day of reporters and photographers are fascinating.

They provide an insight into what lies behind garnering the news, what a reporter or cameraman endured, conjured, and fought over to provide the stories and pictures of world events that the reader takes for granted when he gathers the newspaper off his doorstep. Before embarking on a career as a top flight world A chorus of hurrahs for a Christmas delight mmw Holiday Store Hours Downtown, Monday through, Friday, 9:15 to 8.O0; Saturday, 9:15 to 5:45 NCT. F1RCT 11D MEMORABILIA OFFEIED FOI TOO! AFPROB1TIOI 9 DANIELS TOn of the favorites for our Christmas fist." Oakland Amory, Saturday Raviaw "Full "of whoops and whimsy." Irv Kupdnat, Sun-TfmM "A (nicker a day the prescription for you." Herb Lyon, Tribune "A treasury of good fun for ages 10 to 120." Tony WtritzM. Daily New "Common sense and hilarious nonsense." Maggie Daly, American r4 tOUWOlD BT B11IT COLDEI At all bookstores, $3.95 QUADRANGLE BOOKS she grows from adolescent to young woman, is beautifully portrayed. As-the story opens, Hitler's Third Reich is beginning to shadow the Benningers' lives: Annegret's best friend, a Jewish girl, has left with her family to take up a new life in England, and Annegret, unable to conform to the new nazi philosophy infecting her school, is shipped, with her beloved Cara, to a boarding school in the Black Forest, where liberal ideas still prevail There she works hard, cultivates a singing talent, and makes new friends.

One of them is a boy she later falls in love with, only to see him go off to. fight in a despot's war in which he does not believe. At last the storm has caught up with Annegret and, at book's end, in her sadness and horror at events, she prays for strength to wait and hope. SNOWBOUND WITH BETSY, by Carolyn Haywood Morrow, $3.50. Being "snowbound with Betsy" will seem the gayest sort of adventure to the many children who know and love the Betsy books this is the ninth, and to fortunate newcomers.

For Betsy is full of ideas, and a big snowstorm just before Christmas, which lands a marooned mother and two children on her family's doorstep, gives her plenty of scope. Without electricity and television there seems plenty to do: popping corn with startling results, making a Garbage Father's word for it tree for the birds, trying to make a snowman, and best of all "using-their Imagination" to make Christmas presents from odds and ends. Carolyn Haywood has a genius for simply-told, humor-filled stories about thoroly nice, very real children. May their number 23 to date continue to multiply. Age 8 to 12.

THE SNOWY DAY, by Ezra Jack Keats Viking, $3. All the wonder of a snowy day as seen and experienced by a small boy is captured in this picture book, whose gently appealing story told in only a few but just' the right number of words is set against the frosty blues and' other bright colors of illustrations brilliantly combining the use of painting and collage. The end papers with their snowflake design are especially lovely. Who of us when we were very young hasn't delighted in walking between snow drifts, dragging our feet to make tracks, smacking a snow-covered tree with a stick, climbing a mountain of snow and then sliding down, packing a snowball in our pocket for tomorrow savoring these joys all by oneself! What if the snowball melts over night next day the snow is still there, this time to be enjoyed with a friend. Age 3 to 6.

THE DRAGON IN THE CLOCK BOX, by M. Jean Craig; illustrated by Kelly Oechsli Norton, $2.75. Everyone knows boxes are for putting things in. But what, asked his family, did Joshua have, sealed tight and hidden, in the alarm clock box he took everywhere with him? "It's a dragon's egg," said Joshua, piquing their curiosity and interest still further. Such questions they asked: How did it get there? When will it hatch? And, after it did hatch: How can you tell? Have you seen him yet? What does he look like? To each question Joshua had a firm and reasonable answer, even after his mother found the box open and empty and asked where his dragon had gone! Joshua's adventures with his box and its precious contents will entrance parents with small boys.

The humor may be lost on the small boys themselves, but they should be fascinated by Joshua's dragon. Joshua himself is a delight to read about and to look at, and all ages are sure to love him. THE LIFE OF SAINT PAUL, by Harry Emerson Fosdick; illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher Random House, $1.95. Here is the story of the eloquent, early Christian missionary-writer, whose spiritual and physical courage has shone thru 19 centuries of Christendom, retold by one of today's best known Christian minister-writers. Dr.

Fosdick gives the careful scholarship and historical accuracy characteristic of the Landmark series. He details not only Paul's trials, floggings, ad-ventures, and narrow escapes, but also his tribulations in dealing with the pettiness of some of the early churches and the doctrinaire differences involved in the transition from orthodox Judaism to Christianity. Adults might wish the book included mere of Paul's testimonials to faith and courage. But young people will find it a challenging biography, a valuable history of the early Christian church, and an exciting adventure story. Joan Beck MUD! MUD! MUD! by Leonore Klein; illustrated by George Wiggins Knopf, $2.75.

Helen Be vis loved mud because she liked the sounds her rubbers made when she walked in it Henry Doggery liked to sail boats on mud puddles. Dorothy Twigbee liked to put her hands in the mud, Tray down deep, then hold up her hands to admire her mid gloves! These are some of the youngsters who romp their muddy way thru a gay book that will strike a response from most preschool children. The subject is dear and familiar, the treatant funny. Age 5 to 8. Jean Baron BISTSMtR SEVEN -DAYS IK MAY Kit A NEW COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS OF RENOWNED AMERICANS IN THE HALL OF FAME For the first time, official medals are being issued of illustrious Americans elected, to the Hall of Fame For Great Americans, the beautiful memorial at New York University.

When possible, each medal will be executed by the sculptor who created the original Hall of Fame bust; the reverse side will display a symbolic design. First to be issued are medals of Alexander Graham Bell, above, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The 1-inch diameter medals will be issued monthly, in bronze and silver, until the entire series of 89 is complete; only 7,500 silver medals will be issued for each person. This holiday season give someone a medal, accompanied by a Hall of Fame handbook, from Collectors' Stamps and CoinsThird Floor, North Wabash in eluding federal excise tax Bronze, 3 Silver, 14 By the author of Moulin Rouge A dramatic new novel based on the fiery life of Claude Debussy CILAIIt de ILUNEI by PIERRE LA MURE tS.K. Sril Prhtiac ANDOM HOUSI PART 4 PACE 14 (Xljtrago cTrilnntf.