BOOKS THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1944. BOOKS REFUGE FROM WAR 21 Waste Paper Collection Up 9 Tons Despite Heat GERMAN ATROCITY Books of the Times PROMISED IN LIBYA Hot weather evidently is not REPORTED BY POLE The Moving Story of Luke going to the salvage By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN of waste paper by Yorkers in the Epochal Year Stettinius Tells Dinner to Sol this summer, LYDE BRION DAVIS, who in De Ropp Says Here That Most private modern civilization going. If burglars quit work, William F Carey reported that versation one of the most intelligent Bloom Britain Has Agreed cops would their jobs. The his Department men, has burglar alarm of 300,000 Children Died an yearning to write factories would When He Knew Jesus go out of business, so would to Setting Up of Haven trucks picked up of pa- about dopes, mopes, twirps, From Blood-Bank Transfers and quar- the safe factories. would yesterday, or more ter-wits in all their banal and sordid lose their burglary banks collected settings. Give him an would lose their safe Beyer, deposit and the The and an areaway, and he will principal Public Three hundred-thousand Polish invariably skulk School financial structure of the would crash. along the latter. His informed characters children, both Jews and non-Jews. Idaho argued, the citizen Publishers Paper clichés of both too for his have been used to supply the blood good, and EMPEROR'S Committee that the expres- the burglar performs a function in German and keeping peo- father of four students Mr Davis the ple humble. to wished his name be caught Following the true Robin Hood tradition, Idaho Italian in had amount Just Smith stole from the poor. To do so would PHYSICIAN carting the weekly Dr Stefan Ropp, di- likes to dwell be immoral, and besides the any- of the school's of the Polish Office for Re- dopes thing stealing. by President dealer throughout vacation. and Planning, yes- of mys- With philosophy to justify him, Leo must be life Fitzgerald of honest He learns A Novel by the at a luncheon of the Davis joint, to twirl Roscoe, to the World Education to relieve the proceeds PERKINS the the Council, a private agency sub- finagling. It's in interests of the the with and rebuilding higher justice, of course. and take strange- During various sojourns behind 840 Europe and The bars, Leo Two famous doctors sent by the collecting ly verisi- culture. He reads Jack London, Among the host of Mr and 100 books in in the Town Hall His and La Like any Emperor Tiberius to investigate friends day. Fred West Forty-third Street moon- and of Leo Mc- remains true to the memory of a child- 11 reports of epidemics in Palestine the Hotel said col- about hood sweetheart, Frieda of Buffalo. matic and living at 100-04 universities and 1,500 meet the beautiful red-haired foreign nations. Michael finally dis- had been closed: that is no A Devastating Commentary on Life thousand attended the din- of 107-27 Metropoli- Clyde Brion Davis dancer, Mary of Magdala. They ner. tan and 760 trade schools only the I don't know quite what Mr. Davis is driving fall in with the Nazarene named know Mr. of Metropolitan operation to prepare being burglar. But particular at in his portrait of the average dumb dope said, numbers for Germany; that Can't of without finger- burglar But maybe he is out to expose the Jesus, and His followers, and all are in every VAN GOGH PAINTINGS only 1,000 pointing underlining of moral issues. dreadful ordinariness of the average crook. Leo day from He reported that 80.000 McGuire to express his own soul, McGuire is burglar merely because he has their fates become curiously inter- a efforts find concentra- in the moment of his woven The story builds to a for SHOWN IN BROOKLYN third-rate mind. The man who lives by preying places that 190 on middle-class society is horribly middle- had died dramatic climax in which the Rebellion McGuire" class himself that he loses all the perverse glam- to the suffering of Fourteen Pictures on Display sult their treatment at German fortunate hands of the utterly sophistical that is usually associated with safe-cracking. doctors' scientific doubts over the Dr. de Ropp declared that, de- Leo behind the eight-ball; There be Socialist overtones to the story, in Museum Until Sept. 24 for Leo is image of what he rejects in the miracles of Jesus are finally re- spite the ttempt of the Germans his father when he lead out Polish culture and edu- still kid, and his Polish mother, who didn't way of life. solved. A natural, impressive, by opening An exhibition of fourteen paint- high schools the life outside of the As is always the with Clyde Brion Davis doors who where 100,- tenement district of Buffalo, sent out to book, the rhythm of speech quick moving narrative set against American the wise perish under Nazi Brooklyn Museum taught steal coal for her down by reader along even through spots that ought to broad picture of the social and Telling the State galleries, to their tracks. Naturally, Leo landed in the reformatory, dull dinner of parsnips. Mr Davis knows ment's 24. These said, political life of the Holy Land in refugees from Europe, collection of Industrial Home. Released from the reforma- people talk. Often the speech rhythms from the Prime Min- nephew of Poland, he took up with family of runners. swift and racy when the actual Christ's time. $2.50 Miko- of shown through now in London. The Eventually, after frightening brush with the is something that even Mortimer Snerd would mes- the Netherlands read Oskar law, he met Idaho Smith, who gave him a phi- as boring and platitudinous. A fully illustrated Halecki, director Polish In losophy of life ready-made. commentary of American life, Clyde Brion BOBBS-MERRILL the exhibition. stitute of Arts and New Davis' works are more devastating than Europe Savage retaliation to Soviet artists professor Fordham Burglary as a Pillar of Prosperity short stories of the late Ring Lardner. But follows to our Idaho believed in honesty. But he had why does Mr Davis think the exposure banal- China begins eighth year for honest burglary put ity is worth the effort and the talent he brings score burglar kids nobody: he is out something One would like to know. has 100 greatly colleges univer- been you, and he openly. *THE REBELLION OF LEO McGUIRE. By Clyde by DOROTHY B. 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This BRION has, it seems to me, just about everything that is needed to make a front-ra novelist a con- Fish DAVIS NOW! EXPOSED for the FIRST TIME suming interest in men and women and genuine love for them the ability to tell story Two novels that make religious epic unparalleled in all literature. NEW novel JAPAN'S SECRET PLANS very nice sense of suspense humor in abun- TO DEVASTATE THE U.S. dance. Finally, Mr. Hersey has the uncommon Apostle THE THE JAPAN'S gift for the illumination of life through the single WITH DEADLY GERMS! incident." DONALD ADAMS, SECRET WEAPON New York Times Book Review Meeting, Distric REBELLION Fully Documented Report Written BASED ON THE LIFE OF ST. by Former U. S. Naval Lieutenant A BELL FOR ADANO Sergio. 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