European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Books two wartime correspondents of the stars and stripes record their impressions of the occupation in Germany while books about the War t continue to catch the Public the occupation seems to have inspired comparatively Little contribution to current most recent of the few books about our postwar Effort in Germany is one by two former stars and stapes Corre Bud Hutton and Andy who returned to the continent last summer in As reporters for one of the Maga conquerors peace double apparently the result of this second glance at has been described As a hard boiled Job which takes the tinsel off our occupation of Hutton and Rooney Are not newcomers As a liter Ary doubles their previous efforts include air gunner and the Story of the stars and Germany As a subject of fiction has inspired an outstanding look in Fritz von Unruhe the end is not yet scion of an old Junker Veteran of the German army in world War and one of Germany Bette known be tween wars has exam ined the evil of nazism through the fictional events of a week in the summer of the author has been in exile since shortly after the arrival of the nazis As a political it is interesting to note that military government was asked to arrange for publication of this Book in Ger Many some time but decided that Liis might be taken As an imposition of culture from in the manner of the late Herr current choices of the two major Book clubs will bring old standbys Back to the Best seller the Bookout Hemanth clubs Choice for june is John gun thers inside which is reputedly the most ambitious of Gunthers treatises on be Hindt Hestenes politics in various parts of the the literary guilds selection for this month is Sinclair Lewis new Kings blood Royal random also announced Are the july with the Bookout Hemanth club Tak ing the Story by Nathalie Anderson Scott Dutton and the literary Guild naming give us our by Arthemise Goertz Whittlesey Robert Penn Warrens pulitzer prize All the Kings one of the Best Sellers of last has been bought for film production by Columbia pictures in a Cash and percentage Deal which is expected to total More than the novel is concerned with the Rise to Power of a Southern political whose fictional career bears a striking re semblance to that of Huey Upton Sinclair apparently inexhaustible Lanny continues his global adventures in the newly published presidential mis Sion the eighth in Sinclair takes the ubiquitous Lanny to North Ger Many and the United states and car Ries him up to the Spring of which suggests that if Sinclair continues at his current he will soon have caught up with the daily newspapers and May be forced to project his hero into the future As a kind of literary Buck the weeks reviews by Percy 175 subtitled a fictitious which May be the authors deliberate gesture at evading responsibility for an atrocious judged by any other this slim volume is equally a in form it amounts to Little More than a series of rather in political monologues attributed to a fictional hero of Mussolini winners including who plays himself without much Are about As Lively a Bunch As Dracula this int their since they Are operating under the Handicap of the authors which is possibly the most and monotonous to be encountered in recent winners first essay into the literary is a newspaper Man of considerable experience in be dismissed without further remark except that his rather dubious political purposes Call for some apparently it is winners by tracing what he considers the inevitable course of his heros to identify communism As the heir to Mussolini write sorrow of the by Charles Christian Werten 260 Henry an ineffectual attempt to describe portion of the resistance movement in Southeastern France and its effect on the the love two men and a Wertenbaker theme is that men and women engaged in so violent a struggle Are concerned not Only with fighting the but with the potentially explosive relations they have with each this might have been an exciting Story had the writing not been Dull and and had the author riot insisted on dragging the Reader through the highly self analytical minds of his characters every step of the the census Bureau reports that theres a baby Boom the past few years have been marked by an apparent resurgence in the re productivity of the Amer ican the Bureau on the basis of preliminary it the population gain resulting from an increase in births greater in 1946 than in any other year in the Bureau estimated that if the 1946 rate should continue the result would be an in crease of about 70 per cent in the population each when the final figures Are the Bureau expects them to show births in compared with in 1943 and the de pression Low of in in Atlanta a customer rushed into a pawed through a Mound of dirty laundry he finally dumped one on the floor and retrieved his yawning Black and White j writing team of Bud and Andy Rooney got under Way in the City room of the stars and stripes London Back in in Cincinnati Lulu Menninger obtained a divorce from her Hus for Gross she testified he kept minnows i the Bath tub and fishing bait in the re a fort six six Story air conditioned House is being built in each room has a private Entrance and a length but its strictly for the Robert Giles and Walter Kustra Are putting the Model Bird House together at the Mckeesport vocational the fort department has decided not to go after any More air minded Many a fire department member ladder trucks have been sent to retrieve cats from the cites it takes gallon of gasoline to move one of those big trucks he and anyway a cat will stay above ground Only until it gets the War assets administration in announced the Sale of 684 pairs of leg Irons at five dollars As yet the leg Irons have been offered Only to penal Ethel former country school teacher in Pennsyl has managed her own driven a broken served As master of the Pomona and Secretary treasurer of the District dairymen cooperative sales she has never milked a my Mother told me you never learn to milk a youll never have she a couple in approached the City managers office with there had been a bad they in the birth certificate of their new a Secre tary dug up the document and re ported the child was listed As Ken that said the what should it be asked the and without batting an the father he pronounce the Mother said she didst know what it meant it was a Fine Leland Perry and his had to break their legs to break a Hospital the couple each suffered a fractured leg an automobile when told they Tould have to stay in the Hospital probably for a the perrys tent to work on nurses and officials about the Rule against men and loosen patients sharing the same they Toon out and Noto their Beds Are Side by with the broken Gams hoisted a women ready Tower store in says men arc such perfect gentlemen when Mak ing purchases that the women push them All that Why the store inaugurated a for men Only William Parlee delivered a new radio to a Rural customer in Illinois who wait a and ill pay the Farmer opened a trap disappeared into the dark and returned with a dirt speckled Gunny which looked like it had just been dug out of the the bag yielded 255 Silver some of them dating Back to Richard paid his Federal in come tax this year in Buffalo in his usual Anonymous according to internal Revenue collector George return signed by Richard was received with eight Hundred dollars in american express Money my Sotcan says his office has received similar tooth a meaningless Street every year since the beginning of world War the collector says Richard Alt cays gets a notices in local that other party on the two party line of police lieutenant Leo of was monopolizing the Kne one the lieutenant get a Call in Side ways All in Des he listened in to find out what was so a few min utes later the line was ant Wells had arrested the other party for making Book on the across the Street from the police 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