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t-m a-ar--a rri'w WW THE ATLANTA CCHSTIT'JTiCN Sun, Jan. llC WHERE TEXANS DIED TO GAIN FREEDOM STERLING NORTH SAYS: Stay oS fitamo's Heroic MtmffQyirs Edited by SAM F. LUCCHESE 'Mr. Adam' To Bow Soon The much-postponed stage version of "Mr. Adam.

best-selling novel by Pat Frank which waa published by Llppinrott in the Fall of 1948, is scheduled for an early 1948 opening, according to an announcement by producers Emerson Golden and Michael Breen. A new script Is in -the process of being written by Jack Kirkland at his Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home. ve. THE ALAMO, by John Myers Myers; Dutton; Illustrated with maps; GUILD'S FEBRUARY SELECTION tHTERESTING George Seldes Right. His Remedies Wrong 1,000 AMERICANS: The Ileal Rulers of the U.

S. by George Seldes; Boni Gaer; 312 pp. $3. ziu pp. "Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat.

The Alamo had none." When the Texians (as they called themselves in those days) went into battle against the Mexicans at San Jacinto they had -a made-to-order battle cry. It was: "Remember the Alamo." Gen. Sam Houston, leader of the Texians, had 825 men in his command. The Mexicans, led by the despicable Gen. Santa Anna.

President of Mexico. Mason's 'Eagle' Wins 'Better Story' Rating George Seldes, who has had a lone and varied and currently runs a sizzling weekly newsletter called "In is e' burnishes the most liberty of the opinion that few newspapers in America will dare to review highest standard of book, and virtually none will review it fairly. I think he under-1 mS in tn world. Among other Composer's Memory Is Explored THE VEILED FOUNTAIN, by Harry Hervey; Putnam; 370 pp. $3 things it still allows books -bv estimates both the courage and ter that has no counterpart hvMj''c' iri van wyCK ason; tappmcoti; aoo pp.

numbered at least 1,500. The battle lasted 15 minutes. The Texians killed more than 700 Mexicans, complete with Army, secret po- Seldes to be printed and reviewed. freedom of the press, while pos- Their heroic sacrifice and sry of three young doctors, circa 1780, who got what siDiy overestimating his own importance as a critic of capitalism. captured all the rest.

Their losses were 16 dead, 25 wounded. mauling they gave the Mexican' fast-moving pages. It is Seldes contention that Armv (Santa Anna later admitted iUmUUu, 1,000 Americans, who control 12 multibillion dollar corporations, battles in history and won forfe lo 1'600 av h.Tex' Texas its independence from Mex-ians. "spite they needed to as- VI i 10 VVU1U aACdla, US-saw SaiJLVl VUb for the stone, amputate a leg and prescribe nostrums, tonics and oth BBKvi o. eight huge uce, a reany Kept" press and other accoutrements of absolute power.

i I. believe Seldes to be an old-fashioned muckraker willing to work hard for his convictions. I am certain that much he has writ-! ten in this book is true. There may even be some good leads for! the Justice Department in some of the chapters. Certainly there is food for thought in the govern-! mental documents in the appen ico.

er lethal decoctions of witch's banks, seven big weeklies. The story of the Battle of San I brew. Many of the medicos of that "Calling London. Calling the fray dusk of the Thames. Calling a thousand seagulls.

Calling childhood and a boy named Brian Kim-berley Brian is the hero of this novel If V'H seven big 1948 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON HELPS PeMoubet's Select Notes $150 Tarbell's Teachers Guide $150 Snowden-Douglas S. S. $2.00 Broodman's Comments $150 Arnold's Practical Commissary. from BAPTIST BOOK STORE IK 8416 283 Peachtree St, N. I.

monthlies and Jacinto is the anti-Climax of this ie tne nani cf tne enraged da? were even greater charlatans stirring chronicle of the Fall of Texians desnite his screams oftthan the fee-splitters, pilvendors the Alamo, where less than 200 Jian hlS 8Creams 0ILnd other learned quacks who armed with rifles, toma- have been oledeinff alleeiance to ef retrospect and reverie son of men, Hippocrates and Aesculapius ever dices. nawKS, Knives ana sworas, neia off an army of 4,000 well trained The Alamo, originally a Francis-1 But before we lumo from the men for 12 days. "i frying pan into the fire, we might "Baffle in the Sky" is the Guild's selection for distribution in February. WALLS ARE BREACHED vui. dailies uuwic, wma ui the original knife that bears his stop to consider that the American other critical industries and or gans of opinion in America, are the i real rulers of the country.

His charges are not new, though they do have additional cur rent interest in view of Tom rvpla. ni. had been to the Alamo system, imperfect though it may an opera singer ana ner lover 01 the season; half-brother of Buzzy, who barely survived World War victim of loneliness and an urge to write music and a veritable talent for tragic love affairs. Calling Bucharest Calling Corsica Calling the mist-bound coast of Cornwall. Are you there, Undine, with the blue shadows of the grotto in the soft white hollows of your body?" Brian and Undine on the beach.

Afterward the young girl loses her mind. But there were other wom Cathedral a blood red flag, indi-gowie who was a native wre n2nf 5' eating the Texians could expect who Pro quarter. In spite of this hopeless practice it with skill. Sasser eUY'LIMES Nancy A Wekty SpwiMred Celumn TMnft Advrtlnd Inter ions on the prospect, an soiaiers wiuua me 4V. 4- 1 wucc i xaouu fortVlected to remain, except lie m.gJ young" menu seem to have had me4A Kl Would lane i.UUU men f.Virmin tHslH man.

bedside man- lnlrtnf way through the Mexican lines and a way witl way with a woman, be growing tendency toward monopoly in a country which was once the' Utopia of small independent wict iuhwii hawd or countess. Asa Pea- safetv moma, reiinquisnea nis commana r-j en in his life before he met the On the twelfth day the Mexicans Col. succeeded in breaching the walls. when the fort feU dead Mexicans P00' "jV1! ill-omened mnous. mysterious.

Vivian Welles, who, under three Then began the slaughter. were found all around Bowie's cotJ t.l.t. businessmen and farmers. Just how interested Seldes is in the fate of these small entrepe-neurs, or even the gentler type of economic reformers who would encourage co-operatives and Valley Authorities, I am not quite certain. ii jr uiiiiiaui, lunoi-ii Lucius Devoe all were certified as NEW YORK, N.

T- Jan. J5th I've just lsem ered a new "treasure chest" Johnson 4 Johnson RED CROSS Cotton Balls! 5 of them (each big aa a half-dollar) are tucked into one package each made from absorbent sargical cotton that's sterilized AFTER tbt package 'is sealed! That's why you can depend on taeir safety for nursery uses and as first aid applicators. I find tbem indispensable, too, for apply names, haunts the remainder or The defenders died, to a man. Another fabulous figure who this story as it develops against a 'writing in blood a dramatic chap-, died in the Alamo was David backdroo of romanticized India Crockett, who arrived ui Texas Bachelors of Medicine on New Year's Eve, 1779. Within a few days fate had giv BESTSELLERS IN ATLANTA i gatner mat ne ieeis tnat any such mixed economy is at best a scarcely a month before he met the death of a hero.

The Tennessee frontiersman had been a political figure in the Volunteer State and was sent to Congress in en each in turn a chance to secure one coveted opening on the medi cal staff of the Continental Army; mixed blessing, and that he would prefer something closer to the British system. 1828. He and President Andrew given both Asa and Lucius reason to believe that Sabra Stanton log make-up and removing nail polish particularly slaea tfceyrt spun from long-fibre cotton that won't fray or ravel at the edge. Toll Is only 29o at Drug Counters ask for Johnson A Johnson; RED CROSS Cotton Balls todayl Jackson did not see eye to eye on what to do about the Indians This, however, should not his arguments on the dangers F. VAN WYCK MASON drenched butchery on the operating table; erotic indolence on a tropic island; coincidental meetings as coaches break down; cock fights in Baltimore but you get east of the Mississippi and crocK- might be won; given Lucius an opportunity to double-cross both, his friends to secure the appointment, and finally started all three men on their separate routes to ett later denounced Jackson's leua of monopoly.

If the big corporations and banks and industrial as- iAtlafiAma ana iMfilrai A At-lnnn. Nero's yowr ehmntm for the meet adorabfe) enef novel lft with the United States Bank. the general Idea, it an ''Historical wi; i i CONFLICTING NUMBERS Crockett came up for re-election uciic auu aa uicv wain F. Van Wyck Mason is a consci a llaullton Gold Flalh Perfume Leva Charm Bracelet PLUS a fuU-eita flagon of enchanting DJER-KISS Per fume! You place a tiny drop of the perfume in the "Secret Heart" opening in the locket and the intoxicating I in the Fall of 1835 and is quoted them to vote, the situation is dan las swearing that if he wasn't per entious researcher and writes with professional skill. This is one of gerous and should be exposed and corrected.

This is a disturbing and often beautiful novel which, however, has certain curious defects. Without equalling Proust, it explores memory with Proustian fervor-exhausting every nuance and sometimes exhausting the reader as welL The plot, which is really filmable, becomes rather unbelievable when the girl assumes a third name to nobly deceive Brian in his blindness. And how is it possible that a musician who remembers all voices (a plot device) fails to recognize the girl's voice after he has become blind? A psychoanalyst would be Intrigued to explore the author's subconscious in an effort to explain why sex is always an endless chase or a brutal tragedy in this novel. "The Veiled Fountain" is an Interesting and serious attempt to reveal the mind of a composer; to utilize the internal monologue and tream-of-consciousness devices of writers from Joyce to Faulkner. Worth reading and savoring.

STERLING NORTH. New Betty Smith Novel mitted to serve his own country any longer his constituents could It would certainly give the read NONFICTION Speaking Frankly, by James F. Byrnes. I Remember Distinctly, by Agnes Rogers and Frederick Lewis Allen. The American Past, by Roger Butterfield.

Inside U. S. by John Gunther. Peace of Mind, by Joshua Loth Liebman. A Study of History, by Arnold J.

Toynbee. OTHERS: Bck Home; The Meaning of Treeson; Sexual Behavior of the Human Male; But Maybe You're NOT Craxy: Th Great ReheareaW Human Dtiny. FICTION Raintree County, by Ross Lockridge, Jr. House Divided, by Ben Ames Williams. The Bishop's Mantle, by er a more balanced picture, how go to hell ana he wouia go to the better stories in a category as predictable as" detective fiction or Westerns, raised several degrees by Mason's real devotion to American history.

Texas. Davie Crocket was not re ever, if Seldes included among his elected Andy Jackson saw to fame or dishonor. Peter's romantic itinerary included shipping" on a privateer, winning a Danish noblewoman on the Island of St. Jan, garnering a fortune after many vicissitudes, and showing up in the nick of time for the great naval battle off the capes in Virginia that may have been decisive in defeating Cornwall. s.

Asa, though compelled to return to his Maine village, became a surgeon in his country's central medical department in time to play a vital role as head of a hos rule-or-ruin boys Lewis, Petrillo and the Communist Party. Certain that so Davie oiled up his rifle, Old Betsy, and meandered off to ly Big Labor and Big Agriculture are capable of furnishing almost Texas, fragrance of DJER-KISS will go with you wherever you go! The Love Charm plus Perfume is a. $2.40 value but if you'll mail 25e ln coin and your name and address to Nancy Sasser, 271 Madison New York 16, N. I'll see that you receive this wonderful two-in-one treasure! And naturally I'd expect you to ask the reason why. And this is it! I'd like to Introduce you to a fresh, cool and delightful talcum powder called MAVIS.

No, don't bother to send a boxton or wrapper simply write me a note like this: "I boughs MAVIS Talcum Podr (nmmm of store). Eiulotfd find 25e Pleate tend mm thm Love Charm BractAet and DJER-KISS Perfume, worth $2,401 YouH love wearing your bracelet (or necklace, when attached to a velvet ribbon) and youll love wearing this precious DJER-KISS Perfume! So hurry, mail your 25c ln coin to me at oncet The monument to the Heroes of as much pressure as Big Business the Alamo bears 194 names. Fran STERLING NORTH. Library of Congress Subject of Article The world's greatest collection of books and pamphlets, the total of 8,193,200 in the Library of Con In fact the tendency in all fields and throughout the world is, un- cisco Ruiz, alcalde of San Antonio Ide Bexar, reported that the bodies iortunately, toward centralization, The real question is how to modi of 182 Texians were found after pital at Williamsburg. fy, control and humanize what the massacre, stacked on one huge Lucius, attached to Benedict gress, is featured in a 10-page ar seems to be an inevitable trend at funeral pyre and burned Arnold's official family at West Amours omciai iamny at wes Agnes Sleigh Turnbull.

East Side, West Side, Marcia Davenport. John Myers Myers has done i ticle in the February issue of this staee of the industrial follow this signpost for sturdy, fine-quality underwear for ANT Holiday. tion. child of ANY age and you can make "certain- n'-sure" It will fit exactly as It should! The reason' Betty Smith, author of "A Tree SSSti th. era1'8 treason, learned a few tricks presentation of the story of the from the fabulou8 traitor.

Alamo. He has traced the political villainy and heroism show their strings, both Texan and Mexican, true in well.plotted his. la that E-Z undergarments, whether for teen-agers, are marked with WEIGHT, as well I do not believe that Seldes socialistic remedies will in the end prove remedies at all, since Socialism, despite its promises, seems RTStSsj as AGE of the child. This gives you a two-way check on accurate fit with no uncomfortable Grows In Brooklyn has finished her new novel, "Tomorrow Will Be Better." She mailed the manuscript to Harper and Brothers on New Year's Eve because was New Year's Eve when she mailed i -J nmui ovuiua nunc "L01;" of the obligatory scenes of the Red Plush, by Guy Mc-Crone. Came a Cavalier, by Frances Parkinson Keyes.

OTHERS: The Year of the Pilgrimage; Gua the Great; The City and the Pillar; Yankee Pasha: Un-conquered; Eagle in the Sky; Prince of Foxen; The Boiling Point. Compiled from sales at Pap-Hit Hook Store, Davison's, the Georgian Book Shops, Miller's bunching or binding or discomfort for the youngster who weara It! Remember that perfect fitting E-Z Underwear will last longer, too! And here's news' genre: duels, battles on sea and on Travis, Crockett, Bowie and Santa land; rape seduction, tender but Carl L. Biemiller, author of the article, speculates that "if every other building on the face of the earth were removed by design or disaster, and only a handful of men were left, a new civilization could be established" from the library's contents. Entitled "Bank of Knowledge." the 3,500 word story is illustrated with 22 photographs, mostly in color, of the library, its personnel and some of the volumes in the rare book collection. the manuscript of "A Tree Grows! sow you can get children's hosiery with the same X-Z trad asm rkl to tend toward a police state wherever it has been tried (with England's fate still anyone's guess).

In fact, the State, as a monopoly to end all monopolies, is merely the final step toward ultimate central ization. The only power great enough to take over and subjugate Big Business, Big Labor and Big Agriculture is Big Government ma are nurcwui vny. Ster-CrOSSed love; Whipping Of Texans of our time are proud of women by sodistic old account of their feUow country. men; indenture in prostitution of la Brooklyn." She requefttrd that her second novel be published Aug. 18 because it was Aug.

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