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BOOK OUT MONDAY Rave Reviews For War Novel By Ex-Marine RFC Of Larkspur Jttftrpruftfnt-lmmiai. Saturday, April 25, 1953 M3 New Book Reminds Women Of Fight For Voting Right By JUDY STONE The collection of brass this side of the will be on hand when an ex-Marine PPG from Larkspur inspects the recruit depot at the Marine Corps base in San Diego on May 1. kills says ex-FFO Leon Uris with obvious delight. Even more delighted is the Marine Corps because Uris, a kid who ran away from his Philadelphia home one month after Pearl Harbor to join the Marines, felt that you kiss WvMtiu War II off without a Marine Finally, Uris, now 28, a newspaper circulation man and father of three, wrote it. is the title and no cry baby says Uris proudly.

A OUGH PUBLICATION date by G. P. Sons is not until Monday, Uris got his first fan letter this week. Addressed care of the publisher with the notation not to sell him it was from one John McCormick, late of the Marine Regiment, 32 months in the Pacific, two purple McCormick wrote, an authentic novel about the Marines I think I know what I'm talking about in a literary way and I know damned well what talking about in the Marine Corps The top book trade pre-publication reviewer Vhginia Kirkus called it and comment-' ed, there is less searching for the beast in man than in Naked and the less uncovering of basic disillusion than in Here to less integration of plot and character than in Caine but indubitably it shares some of the greatness of Merle Miller in the Saturday Review of literature comments, his best, which is most of the time, Mr. Uris is is the finest novel I have yet dealing with World War was the word from Brig.

Gen. Verne J. McCaul, director of public information, U. S. Marine Corps, who, understandably, might be slightly prejudiced.

is the powerful and moving story of the boys of the Sixth regiment. Second Marine division. Mark Harris originally wanted to be a baseball player with the New York Giants; but when that didn't work out, he wrote about "The Southpaw," pitcher for the New York Mammoths, in a novel out this week. Born in Mount Vernon, N. in 1922, Harris was in uniform in World War II and then published his first novel, "Trumpet to the World." Giving up baseball for poetry, he did a life of Vachel Lindsey, the highly praised "City of Discontent." He is married, has a daughter, now lives in Minneapolis and is working for a Ph.D.

at the University pf Minnesota, Minneapolis. Leon Uris of Larkspur, author of Battle Cry, who will appear on KPIX tomorrow, 10:30 p.m. on the "Let's Look at Books" program; and on KRON-TV Monday, 4 p.m. on Marjorie Trumbull's program. Uris' book will be released Monday.

(Frederick's Studio photo.) who became Marines almost overnight, tough and ready men who fought and died in heartbreaking battles on Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan. They had a job to do. They did it. This is the story of their lives and loves by a man proud to be one of them. hear all this glory talk about the Uris said, they know what makes him tick.

They think a Marine is an arrogant so and so. Well, I wanted to show that the price for a green uniform comes pretty damn high a Uris went on, Marines are a throwback to the men who used to fight like legions for glory. The Marines in a democratic country are a strange breed of men. They are contrary to our concepts and ideals of being a peace loving nation. In the past, when had trouble, been the militia, an uprising of the people that comes to yet here we have a hard core of professional fighters unique in this say no such thing as an Uris mused.

very true. You can spend four years in the Navy, but you feel like a sailor for the rest of your life. You can spend four years in the Army, but you feel like a soldier for the rest of your life. But when a Marine, a Marine the day you die Sure I know they used to fight banana wars and do bad things but a certain bond to being a BECAUSE THE SPIRIT of the corps is so hard to catch on paper, Uris said that professional writers have steered clear of trying to write fiction about the Marines. Although he idly thought on his first day as a Marine that someday write a he.

take it too seriously. Occasionally, he would jot down expressions he heard his buddies use, but then he lost all the notes. Most of the time, he was too busy being a radio operator with the second Marine division at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Then seriously ill from dengue fever and asthma, he was sent back to Oak Knoll hospital before being tiansferred to war bond promotion at the depot of supplies in San Francisco, There the best part of being in the Marines happened to Uris. He met and married Marine Staff Sergeant Betty Beck of Iowa.

After a couple of years trying to readjust to civilian life, he became a circulation delivery man lor the Call-Builetin. In 1950, to his astonishment, he sold his first article American Razz Ma- to Esquire magazine. THE SPURT of encouragement set him to work on his novel. He even encouraged another circulation man writing a novel about the merchant marines. was like the blind leading the he he said.

Every night after dinner he would go upstairs to his little study and work for three hours. Days off saw him spending 18 to 18 hours writing away in the room, lined with wartime memories: Joe picture of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima; a print of Franklin D. Roosevelt; a Mauldin cartoon of two sailors reading a paper headlined and commenting, was a piker. He needed an Army to help and newspaper cartoons on budding authors. was very dull, says his lady Marine wife who concentrated meanwhile on the children, Karen, six; Mark and Mike, two months.

Then last week, armed with a new contract with for a newspaper novel, Uris quit being a circulation man and became a full-time writer. He left with gifts of luggage, a Quotations, a dictionary and a light- For Wodehouse Fans P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, the famous show-writing team of the Twenties, have just signed a contract with Simon and Schuster to publish Bring on the Girls, their combined autobiographical history of musical comedy in America and England. Through its pages are sprinkled tales of such luminaries as Florenz ZiegfetaL Jerome Kern, Fred and Adele Astaire, Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward, told with typical house humor. The book will include a full picture section.

house will also have ready for publication in 1954 a book of his own, Ring the Bell Jeeves, a novel in the old Wodehouse tradition British aristocracy and all that, but modern in its situation and i i vi ft v-onw The author of Top of The Patricia Petzoldt, claims that this book was the direct result of a blizzard. For unless this adventurous couple had been snowed in for six weeks they would never have had time to write this exciting account of their adventures. Patricia Petrozld met her husband while a student at the University of Wyoming. He left school very shortly but wrote her exciting letters of his experiences in Europe and Asia. When he returned to America they were married and since then they have shared seventeen adventurous years.

Crowell 1953 FOR by Constance Buel Burnett, tells of the five courageous women who fought to achieve the position that women now hold in thi3 country. The movement for woman's rights was bom of a moral awakening to free the Negro. The crusade was launched ten years or more before the Civil War and led by the gifted Quaker, Lucretia Mott. Women today have almost forgotten that not so long ago practices and customs barred women from colleges, denied them a place in the professions and refused them all but the poorest paid employment, As recently as Portable Schools Helpful SAN DIEGO (PP) Portable schools, one of which was ready before home builders could catch up, have been helping San Diego meet the needs of its swelling population. The portable units are set up and put in use while permanent construction is planned and completed.

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Four permanent elementary schools and one permanent junior high school are planned. San population has increased from 203-341 in 1940 to 434.000 counted in a special federal census in 1952. Thinning Crops cannot grow rapidly and to good size if they are overcrowded. Small root crops, salad crops, and those grown for greens, should be thinned early. Root crops, such as beets or carrots, should be thinned to 2 inches apart.

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At the convention she refused to admit that the executive committee should decide if women delegates were acceptable. Here she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton who with her husband, Henry, was attending the convention, and the two women decided to start a crusade for rights. Elizabeth Cady became the first president of the National Sufferage association, which Office she held for twenty years. Other famous women who participated in the crusade were Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony.

The fifth famous woman described in the book is Carrie Chapman Catt under whose leadership the vast sufferage organization became a reality and women won the franchise. Abelard 1953. VJL Three First Novels Picked By Guild From January to June, 1953, the Literary Guild has used three first novels as selections. They are: "The by Helen Fowler, by Bona Karmel, and by F. W.

Kenyon. All the authors were born in foreign lands: Helen Fowler is an Australian, Ilona Karmei was born in Poland and only started to learn English in 1946, though her novel was written in English. F. W. Kenyon waa born in England, but has lived most of his life in Australia.

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