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Show Li 1 l.:...:-'iJ- s.:.i,.i ...w.',.i A Reporter's Bookmarks: W. L. White's "Queens Die Proudly" Proud-ly" (Harcourt-Brace) contains this beautiful wordage: "And the plane it isn't something that belongs to the Government with a number; it's Old 99, the beautiful NEW Flying Fortress that belongs to you. It's more than your home it's, well, a kind of a sweetheart. All of you picked her up off the assembly line at the Boeing plant where she was bom a beautiful, smooth, shining, naked thing. Then all of you took her up over the clouds and wrapped that beautiful blue star-spangled gown of the skies around her, which is the way every Fortress ought to be dressed, because they're the Queens of the high skies." H. Ullstein's "The Rise and Fall of the House of .Ullstein" (Simon-Schuster) (Simon-Schuster) is a tragic story of the slow death of Germany's greatest publishers via the swastika poison . . . The history of its downfall has an uncanny way of paralleling some of the events already taking place here . . . The author reports that he told conservative German dailies to offer stiffer resistance to the rising I tide of Naziism. But they, and even chiefs of his own paper, told him not to be so pessimistic about the danger within . . . They feared that such stories would lose subscribers sub-scribers so they did nothing, and now they have nothing. From "Exchange Ship," by Max Hill of the Associated Press (Far-rar-Rinehart) : "Clean people? The Japanese bath provides what probably prob-ably is the dirtiest way of getting clean in the world. Scores of men, women and children bathe In the same water, which is hot but surely not enough to kill germs . . . Each wing (of my prison) had a row of five Japanese-type baths, one of them usually out of order. That meant the 180 prisoners had four tubs, and the water wasn't emptied until the last man passed through the line. The native prisoners were first but there was only one place for the foreigners last." H. Allen Smith's book, "Life In a Putty Knife Factory," contains considerable con-siderable amusement, including: "A man who becomes the writer of a column is much worse off. His brain achieves such a state that no respectable re-spectable gumma would ever attach itself to it. He becomes a straightforward straight-forward paranoiac. He suffers first from headache, tinnitus, palpitation, digestive disturbances, and incapacity incapaci-ty for mental exertion. After that come intense egotism, selfishness, conceit, overbearing pride, violent temper, and moroseness. How do I know this? I was a columnist. My own favorite is W. W. Around newspaper offices, where it is fashionable fash-ionable to scoff, he gets very little outspoken applause. Your omnis-scient, omnis-scient, swaggering newspaper man greets his name with a sneer. I never did. I wouldn't sneer even though it made me appear to be sharp as a tack." "Time of Peace," an exciting tale by Ben Ames Williams (Houghton-Mifflin), (Houghton-Mifflin), contains this gem: "So now you've seen where your ancestors lived," Mark told his son as they came into familiar surroundings. "Don't ever forget that you're more than a New Englander. Out of your eight great-great-grandparents, two went from Massachusetts to Ohio, i two went from Georgia to Missis-1 sippi, one lived in California, one in J Oregon, one in Minnesota, and one your mother's great-great-grandmother came from Germany . . . Two of your great-grandparents came from Wales. Your grandparents grandpar-ents came from Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota. You've got all the blood strains in you, Tony. You're not a Westerner, nor a Southerner. You're an American." Secretary Harold Ickcs' "The Autobiography Au-tobiography of a Curmudgeon" ' (Reynal & Hitchcock) offers the following fol-lowing in the chapter called Blessed ' Event: "Mouth-to-ear rumors about a public man are almost without exception ex-ception so fiercely barbed that most people would hesitate to repeat them out loud if they should be said of a private citizen. The private citizen has easy recourse to the courts protection under the law. So, too, I grant you, in theory, has the public pub-lic man, but the more public he is, the greater the probability that should he prove that be didn't actually actu-ally commit the crime, the publicity that he would get would leave the world convinced that he was in the neighborhood when it occurred. In other words, the people can believe virtually anything concerning a man In public life provided that it Is sufficiently suf-ficiently unbelievable." If you are still squawking about rationing, then read "Kound Trip to Russia," by Walter Gracbncr (Lln-I (Lln-I piicott is publisher) . . . Gracbner'i I exciting book says that no civilian ' In Itus.'ila may travel by air or rail i or own a car . . . Knns, when you I can get them, coi;t each . . . Newspapers "ro uiiod fur rolling cIk-I cIk-I arcttcs arid to put between blanket ; tor more warmth . . . Ninety-five-I per cent of all food Is rationed, and Die annual civilian food consumption consump-tion there Is lens than tlio annual civilian wuuto In the U. S I |