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Show 2E The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 2, 1972 Conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King? Reporter turns talents on question Bounces balk ajraiu and again Long Tall Sally really comes of age FoiilT The Connie Story, by David B.itf; Holt, Rinehart and tVinston, ,409 pp $7.93. i You can count the great ; sports books on one hand provided you have no more than I the normal of complement 'fingers, which seems a near-- . tragedy to the average fan. Most are such trivia as llow to Hit, By Joe tc (with apologies , Haw-;hi- Shlob-.otiji- k, 'Charlie Browns hero) and contain trite, polished, insipid Iphrases that athletes simply utter. Make a note of David Wolfs do-n- 'Foul," the slightly incredible life story of Connie Hawkins. It jnay be the best researched sports book ever written. Cer- rauily it is the best bcok writ-te- i) on basketball. known as Long Tall Sally due to his inordinate size. He went on to become one of New York Citys greatest high school athletes and used Madison Square Garden as a showcase for his enormous talents In city championships. When he decided it would be nice to go to college he was given an IQ test that listed him e at 63, a moron. Through cramming it rose to 312. I am now ready to go to college," said Hawkins. The tragedy, relates Wolf is that Connie Hawkins was new ready for high school. Offer Money low-grad- An American the Clobetrotters League, (S125 a week, no meal money in the U.S. and $5 per day in Europe) and later for Pittsin the American burgh Basketball Assn. Wolf Was There When his name was finally cleared and he was permitted to join the NBA, Wolf was The 1960s were the decade of riots, the decade of the assassins. Was there ever such a dreary, deadly decade? If there was, who vvantea it? Who wanted the 60s? Yet it was also the decade of great and lasting progress. The blacks marched, protested, sat in. and won most of their legal battles for civil rights. That this was a legal victory and not a complete social, economic and cultural remains victory painfully clear, but at least they got the In n.onients, his body was shaking, the tears washing down his cheeks. He slid off the chair and knelt on the floor, his huge hands cupping his face. The sobs were from deep inside within him Oh loud, almost agonized. thank you. God, oh thank you Hey-ma- James F,arl Rav Real Villain? The laws that made their future struggles easier and more certain of victory. But not without a price. Part of that price was the life of Dr. Martin LuL.er King Jr. n, Eedford-Stuyvesa- 1 of - ' ... for said. ... Former winners nominated for book honors biog-raph- United Press International Five former winners of the national book awards have been nominated for this year's awards, the nabook tional committee announced Saturday. Final winners will be named April 11. Previous winners who were nominated are James y, scar-tissu- , n i, ex-co- ex-co- ex-co- it is Franks Conclusion-ba- sed on overwhelming evi- dence that Ray acted alone, that there was no con- Out of Atmosphere Furthermore, it was not to necessary for anyone approach Ray and formally offer him a large sum of money to kiL King. The urgency to strike at King and all he stood for came out of the very atmosphere in wnich Ray grew up and lived, particularly in his years in prison where whites were bitterly hostile toward blacks; it came from the knowledge that somewhere in the land there Swords and Plowshares, by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor; W. W. Norton Co., 434 pp., illustrated, $10. In his Swords and PlowGen. Maxwell D. shares, Taylor has fired off enough shots to start a private war. Among other things, he says that all too often the people who talk most about the Vietnam war know relatively little about it. He includes in this indictment many observers who are professionally concerned with the war because they work in on newspapers government, or in television. Though this is what we might expect a general to say, we must keep in mind that this does not automatically invalidate it. A common view is that military men have a definite interest in war and cannot be trusted to talk or write about it without bias. It is not easy to fit General Taylor into this stereotype. If, as popular opinion has it, cannot be military men expected to understand politics, it is a reasonable corollary of thij view that politicians cannot be expected to King. But for the moment he and the cops are the hero. Then who is the villain? The quick, obvious answer is James Earl Ray, but it is not good enough. It leaves too much unexplained, too much unmotivated. The real villain, Frank makes clear without saying so was American socithe American people. ety America was bom in vioin the conquering of lence Giroux, fiction. A total of 102 books were nominated in 10 categories. Sun-Tim- war movement to gain momentum and hostile propaganda to make inroads at home and abroad. The general feels that, ot get the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table, we conceded away all our bargaining and thus arrived pressure at the poker table in Paris practically broke. Two Alternatives The author sees two alternatives to gradualism if we are faced with another such crisis. (He uses Israel as a possible case in point to demof onstrate the difficulty avoiding We inv olvement can either use military force swiftly and decisively and risk the interna- abroad.) Best Sellers New York Time Service This analysis Is based on reports ob tained.from more than 125 bookstores In 64 communities of the United State. Weeks Last This Week On List Week FICTION 1 The Winds of War. Wouk 1 2 2 Wheels. Halley 3 The Day of the 3 Jackal. Forsyth 4 4 The Assassins. Kazan 5 5 The Exorcist. Biatty 9 6 The Word. Wallace 7 The Blue Knight. Wambauqh 7 8 Message from Malaga. 8 Macmnes 6 9 The Betsy. Robbins 10 The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Higgins 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 general The Game of the Foxes Farago Eleanor and Franklin. Lash The Defense Never Rests. Bailey with Aronson Tracy and Hepburn. Kanin Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Brown The Moon's a Balloon. Niven Bring Me a Unicorn. Lindbergh The Double-Cros- s System. Masierman Souls on Fire. Wiesel Buying Country Properly. Price 1 2 3 4 6 5 7 10 ris. Chicago Sun-Time-s. lonal consequences, or can do nothing. Speaking of the present con- flict. he says that, if anyone is guilty of prejudice, it is our media. By dramatizing that particular pari of the war with which they are daily confronted, they encourage their readers and viewers to generalize on insufficient evidence and, !n fact, often do so themselves. The generals parting shot is shrewdly calculated: He sees the United States as entering the 70s as a declining power. Even if we were to achieve our original objectives in Vietnam, he says. We completely redeem the unheroic image created by many aspects of our behavior in the course of the conflict. The record of our violent internal divisions, cur los of morale, and our psychotic inclination to self-- f 1 a and selfg e 1 1 ation denigration justifies serious doubts as to the performance to be expected from us in any cannot future crisis . . . It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that one would have to know more about military matters than General Taylor does himself to dispute most of the points he makes. If he is biased, it doesnt show. His tone is almost hypnotically reasonable. What he seems to be saying is that, if we are going to enter into wars for moral reasons, we must not let that same moral tenderness keep us from carrying them to a successful conclusion. Anatole Broyard, New York Times. wire-tappin- Prehistoric Petroglyphs and Pictographs Swords and Plowshares deals, of course, with the Vietnam war. The general was our ambassador in Saigon in 1964-65. Our alism ment policy of - piecemeal graduemploy- of military force at inslowly mounting levels of ended has by tensity assuring a prolonged war which gave the time not only for more men to lose their lives but also for the national patience to wear thin, the anti Explosive! Jersey-kn- or OrangeAquaNatural stripes in sizes S, M, L. 10.00 indeed man. a fleck. Flared legs, flapped pockets and web belt. Natural, Blue, Aqua, Pink and Orange in geometric-abstrac- t is a meaning) S,M,L. symbols (if there eludes 20th Century Not Vaiid Art? As "Siegrist explains, there is a continued reluctance by scholars to acknowledge petroglyphs and pictographs as valid to art history. This has nothing to do with art; every child could do the same, one professor asserted. Utah campus. Artistic Value (painted images) and peimages; that is, literally nto the by the story-telle- r found in Uintah, Carbon, counties. In editing the work, Roland Siegrist selected illustrations on their artistic values; thus they are not representative of the best or the most important anthropological specimens. Yet this does nothing to detract from the strange and rare beauty of these intriguing primitive records. Trashy Look Pants in 100 Cotton fabric with chronicle? Directions? With all his knowledge ing of the 100 Cotton top with St. tails. BluePinkNatural and sophisticated gadgetry, civilized man has been frustrated in penetrating with a certainty, the stone art cipher. The key to the mean- A selection ot Utahs most artistic examples of prehistoric Indian pictographs and petroglyphs are included in this interesting catalog. The catalog was created to accompany an Indian rock art exhibit of photographs and silk screen prints presently on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the University of it Tropez sleeves and shirt Within the simple pictures, many of which are stunning in color, is concealed what? A in Utah, edited by Roland Siegrist; Utah State Historical Society Press, 72 pp., 20 black and white photographs, 8 color plates, $2.50. 1 (They are hiding something that a full dress trial would reveal). Sometimes men do strange and lonely things, and Ray was a strange and lonely man, capable of silence and the solitary act. Iloke Nor- WHERE THE FUN FASHIONS ARE! Indian rock art records Utahs past The pictographs troglyphs (engraved scratched or pecked rock surface) were Wayne and Emery outcries that were raised at Hie time against the plea General fires shots at war experts But even though this doesnt quite end up as the great book you are rooting for, mainly because Kahn at 43 still hasnt entirely outgrown short pants and the Mascot's desire to impress, it is noble enough in its honest love of baseball and its people to win him a citation from the Hall of Fame. His spunky heart and brain deserve it as much as any of the beef. Seymour Krim, Chicago of Sex, published by Lit- tie, Brown and Co., con- temporary affairs; Joyce WondeCarol Oates, rland, Vanguard Press, John Updike, fiction; Rabbit Redux, Alfred A. Knopf, fiction; and Walker in Love the Percy, Rqins, Farrar, Straus & Dr. Martin Luther King Victim of Violent Decade Swords and Plowshares dition. When it was over, life caught up with these boys of summer and slammed them back to an unavoidable and sometimes sad reality. Sorties, published by Doubleday, in the arts and letters category; Norman Mailer, for The Prisoner had to go. Lonely Man did the prosecuthen Why tion agree to a plea of guilty and a sentence of 99 years? It was the custom in Tennessee to offer killers that alternative to trial for their lives. Others had been given the choice in justice under the demands of equal treatment Ray had to get it too. He took it, recanted (predictably), and fought a vigorous but futile legal battle from behind the bars. Frank's verdict there is emiw'as no conspiracy nently plausible, despite the and spiracy. The unmistakable verdict that Ray and Ray alone was responsible for the murder that set the country on fire was rendered as a consequence of some of the best police work I have ever seen put into a book. A pair of pliers was traced to Los Angeles, and so understand military matters. was a bundle of laundry. To make things even more Guns, binoculars, lint found in difficult, government officials an automobile, a tiny identifiare often unable to hear hard cation on a windowsill all truths about the conduct of were traced and analyzed and because these are war identified and set in their drowned out by the cries of proper places among the links their constituents. in the chain of evidence. Never the Quc lion If there is a hero of this book, it is a policeman A World War II hero and a collective policemen representof the eighth commander ing all the police involved, army in Korea, Taylor was from the Memphis patrolman appointed Army Chief of Staff and the Shelby County deputy by President Eisenhower. He to the director of the Federal incurred his disfavor, howevBureau of Investigation. er, by opposing the Dulles Doctrine of massive retaliaDisseminate Information which, in his opinion, tion, There can be no doubt that naively assumed that the the FBI has no equal in the threat of our nuclear weapons investigation of crime and the would suffice to deter Comdetection and apprehension of munist expansion or aggrescriminals. More the pity, sion. It had never been a then, that the FBI director, question of nuclear weapons, J. Edgar Hoover, had seen fit says General Taylor, and the to disseminate slanderous inlessons of Korea, Cuba and formation gained through illeVietnam have borne him out. about Dr. gal The most explosive part of Dickey, author of Boys of Summer bats a thousand six-alar- Gerold Frank, previously the collaborator with celebrities in their memoirs and the of the Boston Strangler, has turned his considerable talents and energies as a reporter loose upon that question and has produced a book that should, but probably will not, satisfy the most skeptical, the most rabid devotee of the conspiracy theory of history, must be those who would take good care of him if he rid the world of Martin Luther King Jr.; and particularly from the rumor of the bounty waiting for the man who would do this. Between Dr. Kings murder and Rays arrest there occurred the murder of Robert Kennedy. There had been just too much of killing, perhaps even fo the bloodthirsty. Ray s, e g non-effe- Dr. King was murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968. On the following June 8 a man who had used a number of names but whose rea' name turned out to be James Earl Ray was arrested at a London airport on the charge that he had committed the crime. Ray had shot Dr. King and undetected from Memphis, alive and teeming with police, and then had escaped from the United States and from Canada. Could he have done so could he have planned and executed the murder and then got away not only from-thscene but from the country without the support of other persons? Was there a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King? Answers Question the natives and the vvilder-ne-in revolution More specifically, Ray grew up in a broken home with a drunken mother, an absent father. a retarded brother, a sister who was to be committed to mental institutions the father an his uncle, Earl, an Jerry and his John, brothers, on a street in Quincy. HI., notorious for its of gamblers, population pimps, prostitutes, thieves escaped tete-a-tet- Gentle lady of Maine recalls McCarthy fall The Doubleday, $10. there: Pursued by more than 250 Father, oh Jesus, oh God colleges practicing the nationthank you he moaned rocking al disgrace of recruiting (he back and forth on his turned down an automobile at haunches." Seattle) he finally settled on Despite the constant pres-erc- e Not For Kids the University of Iowa. of tragedy and sadness It is ot intended for the "Becaus e, s ays Connie Wolf injects some humor. Iowa offered me Hawkins, giadc iiool reader. The lanHe draws a warm and huthe ryost money. guage is too faithfully presmorous picture of Art ented tor that. But that is the Then along came Jack Molithe former Duke Unionly limitation to put on the nas and Hawkins was linked player, who became a versity book. into a basketball scandal, friend of Hawkins. Heyman from the time ho was born shuffled out of college and had been around, even with in ;the disdumped on the market where the New Y'ork Knicks, and trict of New York, the Hawk he put his various skills to this produced an anecdote. had problems. In his grade work for semipro leagues, the Other Interludes school years he became o d American Basketball Heymans departure was e hastened by a little with Knicks coach Harry Declaration Conscience Gallatin. Artie was playing cards or. a plane with several teammates when Gallatin asked to join the game. You dont let me play in your game, Heyman said smartly, so I wont let you play in mine. While the coach was digesting that, Artie added, No, Ill change my mind. You can play for two minutes. By Victor Wilson cherish as the American way ' Thats how long you let me of life. Newhouse News Writer play. Brief interludes with San Francisco, Cincinnati and National Sensation - WASHINGTON Shortly Boston followed. after lunch that day, Sen. This defiance of the much-feare- d Hawkins is portrayed as a i M 8 r g a r e t Chase Smith the gentle, McCarthy by sensitive brooding, and her executive from Maine, man who could laugh uproar.assistant, William C. Lewis gentle lady Jr left her Capitol Hill office created a national sensation, iously one day and burst into and perhaps the beginning of a tears on another. But he pres.and headed for the. Senate ented the Hawk with an up' floor. Lewis carried about 200 new pubic assessment of Wissense of humor of his of a consins jntfneographed copies junior senator. own. peech. McCarthy didnt take Sen. '.As we approached the litRisky Surgery An operation on his knee tle Senate subway train, Sen. Smiths attack lying down. When next she came up for nearly ended his career. mtth recalls, Sen. (Joseph) he backed another When Hawkins was prepared McCarthy appeared. ? Margaret, he said, you Republinan, trying to purge for the operation he was her. She writes; asked if he had any allergies. ytook very serious. Are you He replied: to i going His proxy candidate, Robmake a speech? Yeah, Rakel. I J'Yes, and you will not like ert L. Jones, not only shared Whats that? fully Joes views and tactics, Mt.; Hes a referee. Every time but even he in manJoe aped He smiled. Is it about see him I break out in per- I and hesitant nerisms, repeated sonal fouls. ime? tonal inflections, ? Yes, but Im not going to phrases, smiles Long Tall Sally went on to and other scowls, mention your name. a millionaire, a become gestures. Then he frowned, Remem- When the vote count came bona fide superstar and a ber Margaret, I control Wis-- . fixture for the Phoenix Suns in, Jones wound up nowhere; cousin's 27 convention votes! another devastating blow to of the NBA. His problems (There was some talk of Sen. writes Sen. Smith: never ceased. "Smith as a vice presidential McCarthy; He finally had to agonize If a mere woman over a return to the ABA. The candidate). could beat Joe McCarthy by a maturity of the once semiConversation Ends j . 5 to 1 margin, then why literate became evident at should the men senators have that moment. what? I Connie Hawkins, the man, Apparently this was his way any further fear of him? As it turned out, most had been bom. of threatening me Jack no furdidnt. Sehroeder. was exther conversation changed between us. The day was June 1, 1950. Honest love of baseball The Sen. Joseph RJ McCarthy didnt know it (nor did Sen. Margaret Chase Smith), but their meeting was the first step toward the later abyss of McCarthys censure and his subby the Senate The Bovs of Summer, by Kahn gives us vivid poron the nasequent tional political scene. (Some Roger Kahn; Harper & Row, traits of Charlie Dressen, $8.95. attributed his death to" a broJackie Robinson, Pee Wee ken heart). Kahn is a tenacious Reese, Duke Snider and Roy Roger Sen. Smith, telling this part who finally has journalist Campanella. His ear for their of the story for the first time found his perfect subject. His is crisp and unflinchm her just published Declbook tells the twin stories of dialogue aration of Conscience rarely has a basevery ing; his own young manhood and on to (Doubleday, $8.95) goes that of the Brooklyn Dodgers ball team in action been prerelate how she took her Senwhen they won the National sented so believably and yet ate seat that day and waited comLeague pennant in 1952 and with such enthusiasm. It patiently for the presiding of- 1953. municates like a ficer to recognize her. Joe blaze. As a genuine baseball fanatsat two seats ic and a faithful Dodger rootMcCarthy You may glory in a team behind me. er, it was Kahns amazing triumphant, says Kahn, but As she began her address, good fortune to be assigned to you fall in love with a team in Lewis, at the Senates door-wacover the Brooklyn baseball defeat. The team he loved distributed copies to a team for the New York Herlost the World Series to the swarm of reporters who ald Tribune when he was not Yankees in both 1952 and 1953. Kahn then left the Tribune to isepsed something big. yet 25. turn his nimble hand to freeof a I realization this is It Occasional Echo that makes Kahns lance writing, and the Dodgfantasy They were right. It was lo story unique. The only son of ers finally left Brooklyn freshman Sen. Smith's ringing two With Los in relocate intellecAngeles. Jewish Brooklyn Declaration of Conscience tuals, Kahn grew up not too the passage of time, it began speech which seems still to far from the now demolished to seem as if the high rostir an occasional echo in the mance of those two seasons the Ebbets Field, and DodgSenates chamber. In it, Sen. had never existed. Only in were his mythic companers Smith said in part: Kahns memory, laced with ions from the age of 6 to the Those of us who shout the time he went to did it live family college. loudest about Americanism in at true pitch. Baseball became Kahn's making character assassinafor Baseball's Past symbol tions are all too frequently skill and; courage, grace, In the late 1960s he set out those who, by their own words manliness. A smallto visit the dispersed and reand acts, ignore some of the especially, ish boy, he was never good tired men who had made up basic principles of Americanto play the game enough teams those championship ism. himself: but he and tell the second half of his The right to criticize; the shared with his henpecked fastory. This section of the book right to hold unpopular bether a love for the sport that seems slightly calculated and liefs; the right to protest; the became the key for their own But the stories right of independent thought. shy relationship. Robinson beset by they tell When she concluded, Sen. . tragedies, Fresh, Vital Campar.ella Smith then read a crippled but cheerful, Billy of statement The first half of the book, Cox tending bar for creeps, seven Republican senators when Kahn joins the Dodgers Carl Furillo a bitter hardhat which in spring training in 1952, is (including herself) are significant be'.ended: as fresh and vital a piece of laborer once and for ail see cause you It Is high time that we all fully human sports writing as what baseball once meant to tools vicand to read. It ever being are likely stopped you of every ethnic because it the rural poor tims of totalitarian techniques is memorable in America. stock eor.tin-"ued made such an impact on the techniques that, if but truthful It was a way to the top in a here unchecked, will sureyoung rough-hewHoratio Alger tra- who was there. ly end what we have come to Death: True Storv of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Lather King Jr., bv Gerold Frank; , Yet the challenge to anthropologists, archeologists . . . even c.yptograohers to solve the literal content of the markings remains uncon-quere- Many Other "Prehistoric Petroglyphs and Pictographs in Utah is a dandy btle bock which should appeal to tourists (and natives) who want to reflect on this hsrinatinq centuries-ol- d legacy II.S. from the regions earley inhabitants. Skids n BDWKTOWH Tups in Stripes n Solids s in I COTTOffWOOD ML 5 Colors TOUT PAH MAH J |
