European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1952, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The topic pc and the Law of the Beautiful at major til Itlo of Bostons contributions to the air Force with a sense of humor have combined their talents to produce another pocket sized Book of entertainment for servicemen in Europe and any one else interested in a now on Sale at and stripes Newsstands cover Price 50 Price 40 it is a Little Jem called til clue by maj Franklin Hibel with cartoons by Charles Hobbs the Wiesbaden Wiesbaden military districts weekly news published the first chapter of Book when it added a new humor column april Hibbets efforts Drew such favourable com ment from the Start that 43 of his publishes clue you offerings were gathered together and bundled off to a each illustrated with a full Page Deputy Public information officer for was born in but reared in new York where he became a news paper radio script writer and editor of a weekly sports and theatrical he has been in air Force Public information work since also Boston is a former Art editor and cartoonist of the Yale University record before he lived in Paris where he made ends meet by free cartooning for parisian pub As another year in books passed we found ourselves still saluting Many of the old Mastery snubbing a few old timers and generally unimpressed with the younger Here Are the results of our new years stocktaking to pick out the top there were All 57 varieties of by Tallulah outselling everything at the years Aldous Huxley the devils of Louden took us several centuries to witchcraft i a John Becks East of Eden explored degeneration and Oriental wis Dom in californian Salinas Val Edna giant tackled the Texas millionaires and Frances Parkinson Steamboat gothic chronicled a dynasty in the revolt of women was the Best of the Many picture and Lin Coin and Washington were Bio graphed a few More it was a varied but balanced the old Max and the one of the most intense and sex stories of the sea Ever is Way out in front Ernest Hemingway statement of mans inherent courage and Faith in him self while adrift in sometimes unendurable and unaccountable seas of misery and despair first of All and most a Good Kea Dars if they rip into the flesh of this work As allegory and rip of symbols the Way the Sharks went after the old mans great Guy Crouch Back of the Hal bar a hero something less than heroic in a regiment that does Little else than Toast the grand Duchess Elena of Russia who lives in marches memorably out of British satirist Evelyn laughs men at arms into a High in the years Good War and soldiering Are pretty Good targets for Wel Situ ated pie throwers like an historical novel made it this year Britain Prescott the Man on a a dramatic and Rian peopled account of rebellion i the England of Henry Squire Robert a is some what against Nis to Lead a revolt against the King on issues remarkably contemporary loyalty to England or Devotion to the Church of the faces have changed for but the predicament is the same the rights of nations versus the Al consuming Devotion to International move be they the United nations or International this Wie be the third briton on our fiction butt hats the Way the books stack Joyce Cary very bored us very much in the past but his prisoner of Grace is a the Way Little orphan Nina gets through foe trials tribulations a teenage Radical worldly Suc divorce and a youd swear the hand of Charles was in there our fifth Choice was a peevish we narrowed it Down to three candidates by Barna by Conrad look Down in by Walter and the Devil rides by one of the prodigious John Griffin is not to be confused with Madison the texan whose Texas has the distinction of running to we chose Griffins Story of the Young american in a Benedictine monastery in France in search of his soul and himself for three it is a first novel it is contemporary and full of firsthand experience and in spite of the poverty of in spite because we Are tired of the Young novelists who Are More interested in How a thing is said than in what is being we chose twins for first place on the nonfiction list by Whittaker and the a c c u s by Alexander the Man who put the Finger on Alger went beyond accusing others and Sou searchingly went Back into his own incriminating past to warn his country the Clear and present danger of the Force that for so Long held him Weissberg described in almost pure dramatic form the great purge in it was an intellectual exercise As Well As Good Reading famed scientist trying to reach the truth through his Faith in the soviet Union and versus the fraudulent and All Weissberg has done no wrong and loves the the state has decided it does not want to be loved by the in the and Weissberg wakes it Ann Frank the diary of a Young Gejl is no less important than the Chambers and Weissberg books As a document of the Chambers and Weiss Berg were in the sense they got themselves into an intellectual Anne Frank was a done tour who got because she was defenceless and in the intellectual messes of in Holland this 13year old refugee from Hitler started a diary other years of hiding and fear which ended a Short time be fore she died at Belsen of Maunu despite her she wrote in her diary words that Light up the present general wreck As Well As More professional Torch Wield ers who has inflicted this upon us who has allowed us to suffer to terribly up to now it is god that has made us As we but it will who will raise us up the struggle for by Chester w i i m o has been greeted with both orchids and Rotten americans Are bound to be irritated by the constant hammering this Learned briton gives Eisenhower and Roosevelt and the Amer ican yet it is a full account of the War in extremely and one delicious escape from War and faxes was Eleanor Clarks the Brand new Robert Bena Warren Rome and a a work of Art that brings to mind Rebecca West on Yugoslavia and Henry Adams on Here Are the churches of the Hadrian the modern the presented As though they belong to miss Clark and As though she knows them better than anyone it x Curzio Malapart would not be on this list if this newspaper were published in new York or san but his disgusting new the which is a bestseller All Over the continent and in is a must for americans who want to get at the Root of the ant american Bug that has reared its ugly head in Malapart was Mussolini fair haired boy Italy was liberated by the americans he was Uncle Sammy Darling now he is the Darling of Amigo Home set read herein and Dis cover that Malapart himself the Carrier of the plague he attrib utes to the if you dont see the particular Book you have i mind on your 868 give the attend ant the publisher and your name and strikes will get it for you Pronto at no extra Cost but is u the French Consul the Best time to make close doubles is when your partner has bid a suit in which you Are very Short consider Deal few players would choose the action West took on the second 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to Ruff if he East did and Bis Diamond West a second Ruff in the West then simply exited with a High and after Declarer had drawn tramps he had to Lead away from his club holding and give the opponents two tricks in that suit the result was a 500 Point Courtesy of King features do feature Section