European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books for sheer there is probably no More meritorious Book among the products of the last year than Joshua loth Lieb mans peace of after run Ning a discouraging second behind the egg and i for what seems like peace of mind has taken the Lead and appears to be carrying its weight just a length or so ahead of the information please edited by the irrepressible John Betty Macdonald by the is still cooking profitably among the first five after come Nineteen months on the list As far As fiction bestsellers All signs indicate that Laura Hobsons gentleman a novel of antisemitism in is established As the Book among current Public persistence pays off on the list of bestsellers Sinatra and the Eto War As literary subjects by the for publishing from the jacket design Tor the the by 125 if the Bobby boxers have been waiting for the epic poem of their then they have yet be kahns portrait of Frank first published last year As a profile in the new yorker will do Little to further the myth of the teenagers although Sinatra entire career has carried the most obvious traces of a press agents one of the More Active elements in his Success has been a kind of windowpane publicity which has managed to con i Vince the Public that this j unassuming kid has succeeded solely on the strength of these great american incidentally his ability to carry a As the Public knows is an idea which can hardly be considered apart from the mind of its George a Broadway press agent who picked up the singing Skeleton a few years when he was rattling around the band business without making any spectacular in the Early Days it was Evans who hired teenage girls in the theater audience to swoon noisily at some critical moment of passion Infra Kies and thereby created a legend which threatened to become a disturb ing social it was Evans himself who bought greenhouses full of Flowers and flooded the stage and dressing room with them in the name of americas Young women when Frankie came to any it was Evans who deliberately set about apparently succeeded and Seiz ing the imagination of the Public by t Host of similar each so obvious and corny and threadbare that no self respecting press agent there must be come would attempt them for fear being laughed out of business by Bis More sophisticated in his dwells on this kind of Berge Mccarthy relationship Between the voice and its he presents Sinatra As a social phenom he certainly in the one of the More interesting new arrivals on the from a professional Point of is the Story of an Irish immigrant girl and the dubious comforts of her marriage with Canadian Royal according to one of the open secrets of the Book the manuscript for the As written by the heroines real life counter fell into the hands of an agent with a keen Eye for hidden Possi the agent turned it Over to a couple of Young Nancy and Benedict who Are advertised As the authors of the the whole process seems to have worked out quite happily from a financial Point of although it has set a few of the More sensitive critics to muttering about the apply the weeks reviews highly specialized manner of the new yorker to a dispassionate inspection of the personal environment and of his subject in Kahn per haps carries the admirable new yorker thoroughness just a bit too one feels that detail has scattered Over a length that is probably soldiers by Ernest Dupuy and Herbert with additional text by Merrill Houghton most of the books which purport to Tell the Story of world War the people in or any of its have been in the nature of a grinding or nowt can behold the list of recent brie bearers includes Ralph Ingersoll Bradley Montgomery and practically every other Bill Mauldin the doughboy the Harry Butch or undiluted adulation of Eisen Mackinlay Kantor the sol Diers the whether they succeeded in proving or for that whether anyone was even affected by their argument Sis immaterial they were touting individuals or particular groups As the real claimants to the a Welcome and refreshing change from these literary pressure groups is soldiers 169 pages of pictures and text by three former Public relations officers of Eisen Howers supreme Headquarters Al lied expeditionary colonels Dupuy and with a textual assist by major have collected and edited hundreds of pictures into a chronological Story of the Eto vitalizing the chronology with the personal Impact on the men the Book is not entirely satisfactory to a former combat Man in that it cation of Assembly line methods to the literary Sholem Sachs East one of those rare books on which the critics and the booksellers apparently see has won further recognition As a recipient of the saturday review of literature Anis fled Wolf awards for the established by Anisfield Wolf in memory of her John and her husband Eugene provides each for the authors of books adjudged Ibert in the Field of racial either in fiction or in the social Asch previously had been granted his Fuller Reward by metro which plums to film the Book with Gene Kelley and june Allyson in the leading carefully avoids identification of units in most and even identifies senior commanders Only but in steering away from too close an examination of who took when and the authors have presented a Book which is perhaps More Satis factory to the Public in Masse than one which might claim to Tell the Story in Complete this attempt to avoid offending anyone is also responsible for the books major weak Point in handling a controversial subject the authors have taken the most frequently published and consequently have Given somewhat garbled accounts of some of the major a Case in Point is their Story of the Battle of the according to the German offensive threat was a fact recognized and deliberately disregarded by the command because it was Felt that our own offensive potential would suffer if troops were deployed to meet the German neither Eisenhower nor Bradley has Ever claimed the attack was Ever anything but a and the officer who was then g2 of the first army has said that twelfth army group refused to believe his estimate of enemy again the authors apparently have taken the published accounts too literally when they say the most critical Battles of the ardennes Offen Sive were at Vith and Forrest presently on per Sonal assignment by general Eisen Hower to write the history of is authority for the statement that the germans lost the Battle when they failed to Force the ninth and ninety ninth infantry divisions off the Monschau according to All other engagements in the Battle were As Anticlimactic As Battles Ever As a the Book gives the Overall Story of the War in Europe perhaps As Well As it could be done and still be in a readable at tempts to Correct Public misconceptions would involve the authors in Long chances Are they  be believed doughboy close in on a nazi held House in Normandy milk from Denmark continued from Page 11 to major Robert Jimison and Cap Tain Lowell army vet Erin Aries working with the the methods of milk testing and pasteurization and sanitation Are comparable to and in Many cases better than those in the United for a Small land that earns its living by its Dairy the Export of fifty thousand liners daily of bottled milk is not a major of the total milk products manufactured in Denmark during Only 14 per cent of the raw milk was sold As milk or included in this figure were one million liners of milk bottled of which the Export to the zone represented s per cent of the wintertime milk distribution including Lack of prompt bottle and Case Are slowly being according to and the problem will Only continue to be he As Long As Consumers and milk handlers All the Way up the line to Denmark Are conscious that the bottle is the critical and while army officials on the receiving end of the milk line Are tightening up the bottle officials of the danish butter Export now supplying the milk at cents a Are Rushing production of More milk so that by july 1 there should be liter bottles in the pipe in the meantime there Are other minor flaws that be ironed in for where half of the bottles in the daily allotment goes to just thirty Miles Clary found that instead of splitting the shipment sending half to each officials were ship Ping a full car to Bremerhaven every second so that each City received fresh milk Only three times a and while Many communities often do not have enough milk for distribution to priority wies Badens Siam enlisted ens mess once received so much milk that one of its mess sergeants reported they were making their own cottage Clary also found that failure of eligible customers to buy their milk meant the eventual loss of a if the milk was not picked up within forty eight Many commissaries sold it Over the counter to individual patrons or to class b customers who often had no bottles to turn in because they were not Able to buy milk in answer to the quartermaster corps complaint to milk users that of bottles was handicapping regular critics have proposed other systems to assure a More Reg ular milk most frequently suggested is paper used often in the United according to executive Secretary of the danish butter Export has never used paper and at present would find it very hard to procure the paper and set up factories to make the in addition to Frederiksen Points it is not practical to operate or install machinery to handle this Type of Container under our Supply setup where Jio danish Dairy Plant supplies More than five thousand liners per Day for the american other critics of the system have suggested shipping milk into the zone in tank or at least in milk cans for bottling nearer the Point of thus slashing the length of the bottle pipe Lack of bottling plants and qualified personnel to handle and supervise such an opera Tion have stopped this Only possible solution to the pro Gram which puts such emphasis on the bottle is to build up German some quartermaster officials have stated the quartermaster is still trying to Iron out the kinks in the the Job is a huge but they have been aware of its stature since James Johnston made his original Survey of the Point ing out that nothing like it has Ever been attempted in the Long history of milk 17