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Show 2E 8 i The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 1!, 1970 I Yi Ii HEX ERXEST Hemingway began apprenticeship on the Kansas City cub Star on Oct. 1, 1917, the 18 year-olreporter was handed a style sheet vuth four basic rules: Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigornot ous Be English. positive, negative. Hemingway d Called Rules of I i i I I Journalism I Rest I Ever B B Business of Writing B By Henry Raymont New York Times Writer B seven-mont- which exposed death h him to violence and themes that were to mark his fiction. During his lifetime Hemingway opposed as rhe height of silliness any attempt by publishers to reprint his newspaper stories, fearing that his journalism would be used as a measure of his literary skill. B B Dunn his stint on the favorite assignStar, Hemingway ments were the general hospital, he railroad terminal and the police beat, Opposed Comparison of Writings Learned for the B Hospital, Railroad Station, Police Years later, after he had achieved fame as one of the mot vigorous and concise writers in the English language. he acknowledged tnat, Those were the best rules 1 ever learned for the business of writing. B B Wednesday. The unsigned stories were authenti- cated by Bruccoli with the help of reporters who worked on the newspaper with Hemingway and by studying clippings that the proud young newspaperman sent to his family in Oak Park, HI. Some of the material was found by the professor In the collection of C. E. Frazer Clark Jr., a Chicago businessman who has accumulated a sizable collection of manuscripts and first editions of American writers. Now every fact helps us to understand his career, '"id Matthew J. Bruccoli, a University of South Carolina English professor who is editor of the Hemingway - Fitzgerald Annual. Bruccoli has collected 11 unsigned the brains and the eyes of the new pa per stories showed The Hemingway's early ta'ent for turning routine assignments into lively, colorfully written vignettes. One story, At The End Of The Ambulance Run, dated Jan. 20, 1918, begins: on the left side of the skull, he said to the attendants who stood about the table. 'Well, George, youre not going to finish jinying for that home of yours. The night ambulance attendants shuffled down the long, dark corridors at the er training National Guard recruits at -- Hemingway newspaper stories which will appear in a bool; titled Ernest Cub Kansas Hemirg.iay, Reporter: City Star Stone', to be issued by the University of Pittsburgh Press on ' b An interview with a tank command- General Hospital with an inert burden on the stretcher. They turned in at the receiving ward and lifted the unconscious man to the operating table. His hands were calnused and he was unkempt and ragged, a victim of a street brnwl near the City Market. No one knew who he was, but a receipt, bearing the name of George Anderson, for $10 paid on a heme out in a little Nebraska town served to identify him. The surgeon opened the swollen eyelids. The eyes were turned to the left. A fracture Gettysburg provided him with The Inside Story of tanks in action in Germany. Dated April 17, 1913, the story said ui tank. He sits crouched close under the fore turret and has a view of the fumbled terrain of the battlefield through a nai row slit. The engineer is the heart of the machine, for he changes the tank com a mere protection into a living, moving fighter. The faith of his editors in Hemingboundless energy was indicated in an assignment sheet dated Jan. 3, 1918, which is reproduced in the book. It shows Hemingway had seven assignments that day, while most reporters averaged three or four. Reflecting on the rules for terse writing he learned on the Star, Hemingway said in an interview in 194(1: Those u'ere the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. Ive never forgotten them. No man vvi'h any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides by them. part: ways For several days the men prepare for the coming off ensile. The tanks are brought up behind the first line trenches under cover of darkness and the crews crawl into the dose, oil smelling steel shells. The machine gunners, artillerymen and engineers get into their cramped quarters, the commander crawls into his seat, the engines clatter and pound and the great steel monster clanks lumberingly forward. The commander is (Copyright) B B B B rmn Colorful View of Frontier B A Montana Gold Rush Diary of 64 B B The Montana Gold Rush Itiary of Kate Dunlap, edited and annotated by S. Lyman Tyler; Old Wed Publishing Company and University of Utah Press, 76 pp., maps, Illustrations; p h o tographs, S B B B fl fl B B B Carl farmer ' Writes Mormon Book General Reader's Summary fl fl fl B B fl fl B B fl fl B B B B I B fl B B B E B Carl Carmer Authors The Farm Boy And The by Carl Carmer; Doubleday, 237 pp., $5.95. Historiar, poet, novelist and anthologist Carmer offers in this book a review for the general reader of the whole story of the Mormon church (formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints.) Carmer, as an experienced to chronicler, is careful remain as objective as possior Gentile, ble A as the Mormons would say, he uses much of his material from Mormon sources, In order to be historically correct; he documents his narrative from recorded statements of the period. Main Thrust Quite naturally, the main thrust of the story deals with Joseph Smith, the farm boy of western New York state who said he was visited by the angel Moroni and eventually a set of golden fl was fl plates which he translated into the Book of Mormon. given B Carmer has explored B fully the evangelistic ground of the period B place. B B I B B B fl i careback- and Beit Belle Tbit Wert FICTION Lnt Wertt 3. 4. 5. Week On Liu THt French Lieutenant's 1 Women. Fowles U 7 Love Story. Seeat 2 S5 4 The Godfather. Puzo With My Aunt Greene Mr Sammier'e Planet. Bellow The Gang That Coudn't Shoot Straight. Bresim 7. Deliverance. Dickey The House On The Strand. Du Maurier f Bpaoar In Jerusalem. 4. ! Wreset 10. Bitter Opposition There also is a documented account of the Mormons migration to Nauvoo, 111., the bitter opposition of nearby residents, and the murder of Joseph Smith by a mob. followed by the story of the Mormons long trek to Itah under the leadership of Brigham Young. The author examines the The Inheritors. Rohbini GENERAL Everything You Always wanted to Know About Sex. Reuben 2, Mar v Queen ef $cot. 1. book Ruffes And Flourishes. Carpenter Hull I Peter Someone s Shadow. McKuen (Copynaht) 4t 12 10. In fl B B B B B B fl r B I i 1 I fl I. Chicago Daily News Writer Librarians have voted and the results are in: 64 titles from 24 publishers have landed on the American Library Assn.s Notable Children's Book List of 1969. A continued interest in good stories about minority groups is apparent. Fanta-y- . folk and epic tales are significantly represented even though more than a third of the hooks are nonfiction. Free copies of the list are available by Anting the association at .50 E. Huron, Chicago, 111. 60611. Here are books, typical of the wide variety synep'izr'd Nobody's Tat (Little Brown, $3.75), is an admirable portrait of an alley cat's struggle to survive in Miska and-ups- d An old family favorite, first published in 1910, "The Lost Zoo, by Coun'ee Cullen and his pet, Christopher Cat (Uol-letis charmingly illustrated by Joseph Ixiw in this new ediion of verses explaining why certain animals got left behind ark. The prose introduction in which the poet and his cat converse is a delight. f, $4.9-5)- . outfit proper The for emi- me day. next encom- portion passes Kate Dunlap's travel narrative. Since their journey was from east to west, Editor Tyler asks the reader to begin with the last page of the section and read forward, following the party in its logical advance along the route. color, with progress of the Dunlaps boldly marked and Kates diary entries keyed to proper camp site 5. portrait painter Piercey's superb sketches from (1853) were borrowed to clari- Miles sympathetic story and Schoenherr's John black, white and tawrv drawings. , The Time-Ag- o For 7 Tales of Jahdu, by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated bv Nor.ny Hogrogian (Macmillan, $1.50) is .'an for family time with four tales of an ageless black hero told by Mama Luka to a little Harlem boy. read-alou- the grants of Route From Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Promises Fun for Young Bv Shirley Lowry Three major sections comprise Tyler's work. The first i n c 1 udes historical background introducing the Dunlaps. explaining the Montana mining region, and describing overland fl B Mr. D shortly became one of Bannack's druggists and died there 14 years later. The diary, however, concerns only their journey west. BritMi Frederick Librarians Pick for 1969 B fl stage-fobbin- Here Eddingtons contribution glitters. Using what must be every device at an artist's command to illustrate the narrative, he has each of the map plates numbered and in f. Up the Organization. Townsend 4. The Sell ng of the PresiMcGmniu dent 5 The New English B'b'e 4. The Graham Ker Cook I Love And Will Max f Thf pe'er Principle. Kate and Mr. D, as she styled her husband in the journal, were attracted to the gold fields by reports of the rich finds near Grasshopper Creek, Alder Gulch, and Last Chance Gnch. (Once civilization set in, Grasshopper became Bannack City; Alder gave way to Virginia City, and Last Chance was rechristened Helena.) Judge Lynch Presides Vigilantes had disposed of g Henry Plummer and his underlings at a com- -' munity necktie party by the time the Dunlaps arrived in the territory in Brilliant Design Work Fraser 7. Lyman became. Of course this is not, nor is it intended to be, a definitive study of the Mormon story. It is a summary for the general reader, prepared by an experienced writer who communiMiles A. Smith, cates well. Associated Press. 1. S. Tyler, designer Keith Eddington, and the printer are obligated in spirit to take a combined bow for their excellent efforts. the vision and imagination of who saw its potential for the remarkable volume it Mormon principle of plural wives, later abandoned; the economic power of the church and its missionary efforts. Carmers account is much more illuminating about Joseph Smith than it is about Brigham Young, for many long years the Mormon leader, or the churchs later years. Other Views 2 editor Dunlap, those Joseph Smith History Angel,, Published in limited edition, the volume is such a delightful departure in typography and styling that the late Mrs. Actually, the diary itself is nothing out of the ordinary, in fact it probably would have passed with little notice from scholars but fur fl B nugget. Limited Edition Catherine Cruickshank Dunlap and her husband, Samuel, left Keokuk, Iowa, in May of 1864 for the gold fields of what soon was to become to Montana Territory. Kate Dunlap found no bonanza in the mines, but instead left behind a treasure of her own in the small travel B B diary which chronicled the journey west. She could not know that more than a century later it would be polished to the luster of a literary $15. B fl The Information War fy landmarks. More Chatty Than ... Kate's written thoughts are more chatty than revealing, et occasionally her feminine a colorful reflects style glimpse of the frontier. On June 7, 1S64, for example, she Filled our kegs noted. at Pawnee Swamp. Here is a splendid spring of good cool water. A fienai'h specimen of humanity was keeping a grocery in a tent and sold wood to the emigrants . . ... At Fort Laramie she observed unhappily, The Ohio 7th is here. The soldiers are very insolent to emigrants, stripping them of old soldier clothes, belts, pistol', etc. They are no protection to emigrants at all. They all have end their squaws, often Author Claims Press Distorts News Salt akf white men have been imprisoned for insulting Indians, while the latter have been loaded with provisions and sent off. The Information - ... Dale Minor; 212 pp., $6.93. To hear Dale Minor tell it, neither public servants local or national nor members of the working press local or national are capable of telling the truth. His book, The Information War, is labeled as a story of How the government and the press manipulate, censor and distort the news. Book The dosing section of the book contains a Letter which accompanied the diary to Dunlap family members in Iowa, plus pertinent chapters of an emigrant guidebook believed carried by Kate and her Mr. D. Reviews The Montana Gold Rush is a handsome work Diary flawed only by die absence of Harold Schindier. an index. Spiritual Leader Wrote Loving Letters Home Pope John XXIII: Letters To His Family, edited by Loris Francisco Capovllla, translated by Dorothy White; McGraw-Hil- My $15, l, dearest family, runs the salutation of Angelo first letter home from the Seminary St. Appolinare of Rome in 1901. The words remained the theme of this Ron-call- is correspondence with his family for more than 60 years. The last letter to his brother was signed Joannes XXIII PP. in 1961 and though the language was more elevated, the affection and concern remained the same. Companion Volume Pope John XXIII: Letters To His Family, is a fitting companion volume to Journal Of A Soul. In these letters, we are given a sense of the man who was one of the most inspiring of those who have occupied the throne of Peter. He loved his family and they loved him; this was a key to the bond of faith and love, of duty and service, of and piety which holiness shone from the man, who came mut of the poverty of aepasant family in northern Italy. Concerns are Practical The man who led the ecumenical movement as Pope is not far removed from the young seminarist who thought wonderful the range and spectrum of peoples with whom he studied. If only you could see them! They were all colors, and white, yellow, red some with faces and hands as black as charcoaL He surpasses nationalism to speak of the evils of war. He takes time from a busy schedule to seek information on the fate of a relative who is a prisoner of war; he takes his responsibility as a member of the parish to contribute to the restoration of the church in which he was baptized and had his first communion. If he urges humility and meekness, obedience and selfdenial and simplicity, his lessons are not to teach the poor to submit fatalistically to the conditions of their lives. The worth of daily work, of an awareness of the beauty and value of life, of affection and quest in the spirit, of a life devoted to bringing the quality of the Kingdom of God in this world these are the themes of his letters. If his affection la deep he is not indulgent or uncritical the oldest son, Angelo Roncalli occupied that special place of responsibility. His concerns are practical as well as spiritual. He advises his brother on his service in the Army, constantly sends money, speaks of practical matters such as carpets and court cases, comments on the great crisis of history with the same intensity as he does on the death of a friend. As New Gardner Mystery The recent death of Erie Gardner centered Stanley attention on his great Perry but Mason series, many readers must have equally ena joyed his Donald Lam-Ber- t detective tales, written under the name of A.A. Fa. A new one. the first in two All Grass Isn't years. Green (Morrow, $4.95), casts Donald in a:: unusual Terry-lik- e role in a marijuana case near the Cool nd-iiiurder Mexican border. T.V. The U.S.O. Touring Musical April Call 975 322-696- 1 information e, Br -- )') Strong Attack The work is 200 pages of attack on government handling of public information, primarily at Washington, D.C., levels, coupled with an almost vitriolic chastisement of the American press for its handling of the news. Mr. Minor builds his case around proven incidents of of government mishandling news from Vietnam, of U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic, of over optimistic reports submitted to the national leadership by officials in the field and on the attacks on newsmen by Chicago police during the 1968 Democratic convention. And Skull Valley Turning to the press, he charges that newsmen often affect a story rather than cover it, that they become a part of the effort to manage news by letting themselves be taken into the confidence of officials and that they cater to personality cults. Questionable Utility person in the news business probably shouldnt review Mr. Minors efforts, because such a person cant help but be a little over sensitive to having mud slung all over an effort of which generally he is proud. On the other hand, he cant say Mr. Minor is right about the wrong doings fo public officials and wrong about the press. Anyone who has spent A He even relates the 1968 Skull Valley incident in which 6,000 sheep suddenly lay down and died. The cause of death, Mr. Minor says, proved to be exposure to a nerve gas from the Armys Dugway Proving Ground, where CBW agents are tested. The Army, however, lied in its teeth, denying what it knew to be perfectly true, that its nerve gas had killed the sheep. It persisted in its denial, curiously, even after it had agreed to indemnify the owners of the animals. Not until On The Other Hand ut, by the same token, it is just as easy to find fault with Mr. Minor because of the universal application he gives his position. Referring to what he calls a snow job given to the American people by a governd ment which was in turn officials by involved in the 1965 military coup in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Minor quotes New York Times writer Tad Szulc misin-forme- its as saying: . . This - whole episode, then, added up to the lesson that one never seems to learn well enough in journalism: Do not ever trust anybody's word, no matter how high his position and how good his Whether this also applies to Mr. Minor is another question. John R. Cummins. V.W.V.VNV ,vv Joyce Clark ART CLASS WORK SHOP Souium . . . $30 Fin Single Setfiont ... $IO nearby April 27 thru May 1 Noted ortijt and lecturer from Laguna Beach, California for details Phone 355-171- 3 : 113 lest 3n 4 So.. 35S-171- 3 316S Inst 4100 So., 371-403- 1 MENS SHOPS . . . Olympus Hills & Foothill Village 'VCtfYVO SPECIAL VALUE! ( ai J oars 7 SUMMER WEIGHT I f f i WOOL -i - regslsrly 1.75 s: 11 SOCKS ' I diet. There is much more: Instruction and anecdote, concern and loneliness. Even as Pope, he writes to his niece, wondering why yea have neither come nor written. Robert Kirscb, Los Angeles Times 5k 4m Mr. Minor claims that government seeks to shape and guide the consciousness of its electorate by either control of information or by disseminating information, the content and tone of which it is the any time at all in one or more newsrooms knows that across the country there are newsmen, both printed and electronic, that are in some degree guilty of some of Mr. Minors recusations just as there are public officials guilty of his accusations. Keep Flame Bright To his nephew, the seminarist Battista Roncalli, he shows he remembers the difficulties of seminary, Keep very bright the fine flame of piety and charity which will help you apply yourself to all the subjects you have to ftudy, with a special care to those you like least, mathematics for example, and later on you will be able to pluck delicious fruits from the tree which had such bitter roots. If his concerns are primarily spiritual, he is a man among men. 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