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Sunday, May 8, 1966 BOOKS AuaHtl Anwrirati-aiaiwmtan BOOKS Austin, Texas Page 19 Leafing Through Makers of Latin America Dust Jacket By Sue Walking Book Editor International Organizations are discussed in a 40-page section. ft ft ft THE BRAINSTORMERS, Humorous Tales of Ingenious American Boys, edited by Dale Bick Carlson; Doubleday; 248 pages; $3.75. Plots, pranks, bright ideas, monkeyshines and high jinks of the most engaging rapscallions, prodigies, con men, and artful dodgers in American fiction are (See LEAFING, Page 22) ner. "Even a small snack in between meals would be terrific," he suggested. A Massachusetts citizen requested the senator not to run for the presidency until l'J67 so he could vote for him.

The correspondent continued: "The reason is I never voted for a Kennedy in my whote life." To 007, Walter H. of Trenton, N.J., wrote: "To me, Mr. Bond, you're just another cop. So don't get a swelled head from all the letters your fans write." Bond get a swelled head from his fan mail? Why not, when he gets such letters as: One inquiring about how to get on his "little old ten most wanted list." Or, a note from the recording secretary of the Hoosier Ladies Library and Tea Social group inviting Bond to bring one of his victims to the discussion of "Sex and Violence in Literature Today." MAKERS OF LATIN AMERICA by Donald E. Worcester; E.

P. Dutton; 222 pages; $4.95. Under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Dr. Donald E. Worcester, head of the history department at TCU, visited every country in South America.

In this volume, Dr. Worcester presents biographies of 20 men and one woman who influenced the histories of those countries he visited under the grant Maria Eva Durate de Peron, "Argentina's working girl who made good," is the lone woman receiving a biographical sketch. An index, photographs and maps are included. ft ft ft HANDBOOK OF THE NATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS by the Editors of Life; Time-Life Books; 160 pages; $2.95. This book, second to last in the series, culminates a six-year-old project.

With the publication of "Atlas of the World," the series will include 34 volumes and a total of 5,600 pages. Each volume is designed to give the reader the feeling that he has visited a country and has left with a first-hand understanding of its people. The 18 nations which did not "warrant a single volume or did not fit into any major political or geographical grouping" are lumped into "Handbook of the Nations." The books contains also a gazetteer, a guide to major topics of the other volumes, and the customary art and typographical treatment COMPETENT WORKMEN BUDGET TERMS UmOammgs. co. 18th and Son Antonio Sts.

Phone GR 6-5331 Jl -s WM JDL3 (Editor's Note: Dr. King, an associate professor of Journalism at The University of Texas, is a regular contributor to these pages.) By C. RICHARD KING A man who has a reputation for reading mail addressed to others has been snooping again tripletime. Bill Adler, who scanned letters addressed to President Kennedy, to President Johnson, to the Mets, and to the Beatles, and who has read letters children have written from camp, has three new books on the shelf. "Kids' Letters to the FBI" has been published by Prentice-Hall, "Dear Senator Kennedy" is a recent release from Dodd, Mead Company, and Simon and Schuster offers "Dear 007." Selected from thousands of pieces of correspondence weekly reaching the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., these notes are as fresh and natural as youth itself.

From Camp Re-. diving, New York, for example, one boy inquired if a counselor searching for forbidden candy has the right to open a camper's trunk, "without a warrant of any kind." Another New Yorker requested "a bullet that got its man." And yet another asked for an alias. One lad wanted "any extra bows and arrows used by Sitting Bull and some of the bullets taken out of Jesse James when they shot him." And Herbie, whose grandma had hit him, wondered if the FBI had any spare handcuffs "that will fit old ladies." "A list of good-looking agents who aren't married" was requested by another fan. Object? "I want to marry an FBI agent." Not all letters are requests, however. Some youngsters write to relate interesting incidents in their lives.

An Arizona youth, who slept with his water pistol, one night dreamed that he was an FBI agent closing in on some bank robbers. Just as he was reaching for his gun, his mother awoke him. "You guessed it," he concluded his note. Rita, after reading that $100 had been offered for information about a bank robber, wrote, "I don't think that is enough." She continued, "People today won't do much for only $100." A California boy offered help. "When an FBI agent is in a foreign country he could signal another agent by taking a red handkerchief out of his pocket and blowing his nose three times.

It is a good signal except, if an agent has a bad cold and sneezes too much." The second Adler release contains letters, to the junior US senator from New York and lacks the freshness and charm of the FBI volume probably because the letters have not been limited to youthful writers. Mrs. Robin a mother, wrote to inform Kennedy that she considers him too thin. A Hollywood resident suggested that the senator should brush his hair at least twice a day, and a loyal Democrat of Delaware begged for an invitation to din QHEQQiH IN G-E TV "see AMERICA SWEEPSTAKES 6th Grader Finds Story Intriguing Ruth M. Arthur; Athencum; 212 pages; $3.95.

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