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mfmj, ay r-' -CfW 10C THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Aug. 21, 1949 GAY CHARLESTON LITERARY GUILD SELECTION Romance, Drama In Dixie Locale OOI26 Helen Maclnnes' Novel Eulogizes West. People REST AND BE THANKFUL, by Helen Maclnnes; Little, Brown; 363 pp. $3. The two cosmopolitan ladies, riding in their luxurious automobile behind their Hungarian chauffeur, Jackson, ordered a wrong turn in the road.

Instead of driving through to California, as they intended, they found them selves in a Wyoming rainstorm for an hour, in a Wyoming ranch house for a night and, finally, in Wyoming for a Edited by SAM F. LUCCHESE PROVOCATIVE MP EXCITING zln Innocent Head Mis In Washington Spy Hunt THE SURE THING, by Merle Miller; Sloane; 341 pp. $3. Bradley Douglas, hard-working young liberal, has a responsible position with the State Department. In filling out his Civil Service papers, Brad had covered up the fact that for one year he had been a member of the Com i 4 AUTHOR Of the Week By W.

G. ROGERS THE RUNNING THREAD, by Drayton Mayrant; Appleton-Century-Crofts; 328 pp. $3. Although the clouds of war were gathering fast, Charleston was a gay city in 1858 when Dinah Corley, a pretty Irish lass, arrived in the South Carolina port, an unwilling pass enger aboard an immigrant ship. i mh'i brother and sister in-law took her with them to America under alee pretenses when her Galway family sent her 'J fa Drayton Mayrant away to prevent her marriage to a British soldier.

Learning of the deception, Dinah refuses to live with them and goes to make her home with the Bay family, who soon accept her as one of their own. Morry Bay falls in love with Dinah, who incurs the "hatred of Camellia Manchester, Worry's beautiful, but male volent, fiancee. Romance and drama abound in this book which contains unusually fine detail of action during the War Between the States. The author, a native of Charleston, has produced a book that will rival her first novel, "A Sword From Galyay," which won wide acclaim. S.

F. L. 01, OF INTEREST TO GEORGIANS Polio Victim's Story MY PLACE TO STAND, by Bcntz Plagemann; Farrar, Straus; 241 pp. $2.75. This is the story of an American sailor, Bcntz Plagemann, who was cut down by polio while within the orbit of short-range German bombers during the battle for Italy.

ATLANTA'S NEWEST HOUSE OF WORSHIP Graceful spire and facade of Peachtree Road Methodist Church shadowed. His superior warns him that he is again being investigated. The pressure is applied and agents of the fictional FBI invade his privacy, question him, pry into his past life, intimidate his wife. Brad is no coward. Neither is he disloyal.

The tactics of his tormentors move him to anger and he girds for a fight. But, he learns, he must battle single-handed. Deserted by his friends and associates, he realizes the hopelessness of the situation. Condemned without trial. Brad's life is ruined.

Disgraced by his dismissal, he finds himself a social outcast, his chances of getting another job slim indeed. This i a powerful and exciting novel and, at the same time, a sad commentary on the times. This is not to say that Communists should be allowed to occupy any place, no matter how small, where they can jeopardize our country. On the other hand, this enlightened era cannot afford to condone "witch hunting" per se. We trust that the young author has checked his facts concerning alleged FBI tactics He'll probably hear from J.

Edgar Hoover and his boys if he hasn't, even if hi recital is a fictional account of one man's troubles due to persecution. "The Sure Thing" is extremely well done and packs a terrific wallop. Provocative, it is as timely as the headline on your morning newspaper. -SAM F. LUCCHESE.

Pencil Fun Book Frances W. Keene, whose Play-a-Bed books have proved a godsend to parents faced with entertaining children housebound by rain, illness, boredom, or other acts of God, has written a new volume, "The Pencil Fun Book," which will be published jointly by Seahorse 'Press and Farrar, Straus Sept. 1. Designed for boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 13, it contains games, puzzles, mazes, dot pictures and many other activities caluculated to divert children's artistic impulses from the decoration of walls and woodwork into more useful, and less destructive, channels. mm Summer.

Before they finished the Summer, they bought and sold the ranch house, played hostesses to a colony of unpublished writers, one of the ladies got herself engaged1 to a member of the Strong, Silent Type, the other revealed herself as the author of an earlier best setier and discovered she was poor, one of their guests went to Hollywood, another went to the hospital, and the rest went to a party where the Indians danced in long, tight red woolen underwear. This Literary Guild selection for September by a Scotland-born author is. in a sense, a eulogy of the Great American West and its people. When she choose, Helen Maclnnes can write warmly and affectionately of her characters; she becomes quite friendly with the simple ranch hands. The Unpublished Hopefuls fare poorly by contrast.

All in all, the Wyoming Summer enlightened the writers; it also entertains the readers. JOHN L. SPRINGER tim, but few could know the strength and courage this great statesman gave to other polio cases who were fighting to regain the use of their body and to rationalize their condition in their mind. "Only we could sense," Plagemann says, "the endless tedium of his days, the being lifted in and out of chairs, of bed, bathtub, pool. And know that war and politics and the glory of his fame and career were outside all this.

And our admiration was touched with compassion because we knew, by comparison with ourselves, how great the heart was which sought such noble compensation." This book is a must for Georgians who have visited, or plan to visit, the Little White House and the Warm Springs Foundation. It is excellent reading for anyone else. GORDON SAWYER. "to -i COMEDY AND TRAGEDY Panorama of Hmerica Between Tyo World Wars THE ASPIRIN AGE, edited by Isabel Leighton; Simon and Schuster; 491 pp. $3.95.

When the Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor it marked the end of an ra, the period between two world wars. The first pages of the book give a detailed account or xne people and life surrounding Plagemann before he contracted polio. They list a rather detailed and tedious account of his trip from Norfolk to Naples. But from Page 75, where he first realized he had polio, to the end of the book, this sailor-writer has told brilliantly the story of his fight with one of the most dreaded diseases of our time. The book will be of special interest to Georgians, for Plagemann was returned to Warm Springs for treatment.

He tells graphically the workings of that famed Georgia foundation from the day he was helped off the train at the town station until he found his place to stand. Plagemann adds another great, though seldom mentioned, chapter to the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Most persons knew Roosevelt was a polio vic munist Party. Brad had Joined at the behest of a friend who had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and came home minus a leg.

He terminated his membership when Russia signed the non-aggression pact with the Nazis. Am this novel opens, the spy hunt Is on in full cry. Just about everybody is being investigated "for security reasons." The Secretary of State has been empowered to eliminate employees "in the interest of the United States." Brad knows that he is beinf BEST SELLERS IN ATLANTA FICTION Point of No Return, by John P. Marquand. Twilight on the Floods, by Marguerite Steen.

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Sh was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta. She tried fiction, drama and newspaper work before she hit upon the field of biography. Now an American citizen, sh lives in Berkely, Cal. BIBLES For Promotion Day in Sunday School Choice Recommendations of Bibles and Programs BAPTIST BOOK STORE 283 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia SALON Georgia's Early Colonists Listed In New Volume A LIST OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF GEORGIA, edited by E. Merton Coulter and Albert B.

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This book deals with the intervening 22 years, when, writes Miss Leighton: "We seem to have fluctuated between headaches sometimes induced by prohibition, more frequently by the fevered pace of the times. During these throbbing years we searched in vain for a cure-all, coming no closer to it than the aspirin bottle." Miss Leighton includes in this collection 22 articles by outstanding reporters and writers on highlights of the 1919-1941 span, some gay, some comic, others highly dramatic. The authors of the pieces had direct contact with the subject with which they deal. The Gene Tun-ney chapter is titled: "My Fights With Jack Dempsey;" Hodding Carter's topic is "Huey Long: American Dictator;" Charles Jackson describes the mass hysteria brought on by Orson Welles in "The Night the Martians Came;" Irving Stone contributes "Calvin Coolidge: A Study in Inertia;" Samuel Hopkins presents "The Timely Death of President Harding." There you have a sampling of the readable contents of this interesting compendium, a quasi history of the times that the history books will touch on lightly and without the punch and detail given them by this galaxy of writers. From Harry Hansen's leadoff piece, "The Forgotten Men of Versailles," to Jonathan Daniels "Pearl Harbor Sunday," here is a book that is crammed maim full of interesting events and personalities great, comic and tragic that are a cross section of a recent period when, to quote the editor: "America was much younger in spirit than it can ever be again." This reviewer can, ia all truthfulness, declare that this book has afforded him more reading pleasure than any volume his duties have caused him to read during the present year.

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Photographs, cartoons and reproduction of early advertisements add to the interest of the volume, which is an important item of Americana. If you remember the "electrics" of the early days, the steamers and the chugging one and two-cylinder gasoline motor cars, this book will delight you. S. F. L.

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