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Show yr TH 2E Salt LAC iltbuiti oIuui7 June Newspaper proves it 4, 137! Mao uses Merriman Smith Reporter-autho- r variety Book ofPresidents' right there with facts Book of Take, for exampe, the case from books he wrote in his A WhiU; House edited by Timothy tuid foreword by Donovan; Norton, with illustrations, B. of Johnson. Lyndon as his friends Smitty, called him, got as ohse to Mr. Johnson as any White House reporter ever got He was fascinated by Johnson, especially by the contrarties In his make-up- , and the Texan was fathomless. nearly 30 years of covering presidents for United Press international. The famous reporter, who had a drinking problem, took his own life in 1970, and so this volume was put together by his son, Timothy G. Smitn, a graduate student at New College, Jxford, Mcmman Smith's ProMiknts; Memoir, 0. Smith, L Robert J. t'0 pp., By Edward T. Folliard Special to The Washing!. In his long tour 2 t Post as a White reporter, from the elt era to Mixon's term House - ftoorev icf Oific?, M"mmo Prr,'th cov- ered six American presidents. His job was first to report what they said and did, but, he learned a lot about their J temperamental peculiarities. He was never so presumptuous as to put tags on them, however, and he mistrusted J those who, viewing presidents 2 from a distance, sought to them end as-sign them Images. He himself -- was wa'-- y of that vague word, I and used it only to show how I deceptive it could be. Tioychoanalyze 2 Frailty of Image LBJ was a perfect example of the frailty of He image, Smith wrote. was the sort of person whom a hundred psychiatrists could not have figured out, whom a thousand PR men could not have produced or changed, yet he was the most typecast personality to occupy the White House since Truman. He wan a lot of different things, but one thing he defia dumb nitely was not cowboy." The passage quoted is from A While House Memoir, made up of Smittys notes, diary entries and excerpts England. There Is some graceless writing in the book, especially and diary entries, in the hut this is understandable and pardonable; it is writing that Merriman Smith dashed off hurriedly and intended to smooth or later. Young Tim Smith deserves credit for not tampering with it. Excellent Foreword Robert J. Donovan, who was long with the old New York Herald Tribune ana is now an associate editor of the Los Angeles Times, has written an excellent foreword with a faithful word picture of Shades of Holden Caulfield A writer to watch Mossman 1 Stones of Summer, .Dow Mossman; by Dobbs-- J manly, whose family lives in a narrow, small-towworld. But there, happily, are picturesque sorts of the like an prairie in the person of a mildly addled chicken fanner r.amed Abigail Winas, who enbudding courages Dawes lyric soul Where have we heard this all before? And the last third of the book is a predictably dreary account of the novelist as a dving young man In a drugn Merrill, $9.93 Thomas Wolfe! Shades Heres an Iowa boy coming 2 through the wheat fields with a -250,000-word-) huge on that hoary novel first 2 theme of novelist as a young and its going for 10 2 man 2 bucks, yet. 2 .The first third of tins badly overblown novel concerns the childhood of sensitive Dawes 2 Williams, a misfit arnon. the of (544-pag- earth-moth- tacos-and-loc- o er Seven Arrows mirrors r flowers of truth culture about w lexeme 'j! 2 , $71 . Seven Arrows, by Hyemeyohsts Storm; Harper pp., with illustrations, $9.93. By Dee Brown Special to The' Washington Post & Row, as the seasons, someone in the literary world that the novel has served its purpose and is dead. Then a genuine artist comes along with a new concept and the 1 novel is reborn with a new vitality. 2 It is just possible that Hyemeyohsts Storm, a shield maker of the Northern Cheyennes, has shown the way toward a new form of the novel with his remarkable book, Seven Arrows. all the artificial devices 1 Chronology, structure, suspense are irrelevant in 2 created by novelists of the Western world tiiis story of the Plains Indians. n 1 can better understand Seven Ar- Perhaps a the author is a descendant of a great knows if that he rows 2 tribe which came nearest to suffering total genocide of any of I the Plains people. They were slaughtered in their peaceful vil- 1 lages at Sand Creek, on the Washita, and along the rivers of 2 Wyoming and Montana. After the survivors were captured and W taken to Indian territory, they fled northward again toward their homeland pursued by thousands of soldiers. 2 ridden Mexico exile, trying to write his way out of the creeping madness that eventually kills him. The usual stuff again. But ihe central section of which could stand the novel is magnificent. on its own Here Dawes has become a teenaged naif for all seasons, a small-tow- n boy touched by poetry and a little madness in hotthe banal rod world of Rapid Cedar, Iowa. He is a kind of Holden Caulfield of the prairie, a catcher in the wheat whose dreams are ridiculed by his friends seeking kicks among the corn. Like most novels of this Mossmans Is both kind, wonderful and awful. For one thing, he needs a good editor one with an ax, rot a pencil, who could have hacked away those first and last sec- As regularly J announces tions. But Mossman is a brilliant manipulator of language. His pages spill with fecund images like water boiling down over a millrace. But, again, many eddy into a stagnant pool of preciosity. This is a young writer to be watched and, we can hope, restrained. Kisor, Henry Chicago Daily News. (Copyright) Best Seders New York Times Service 1 j 3 4 I 6 Handful Left 7 At the end, only a handful of Northern Cheyennes were left 2 alive, and then for three generations their conquerors attempted to eradicate every vestige of their culture, their religion, 2 their way of life. But if we may believe Hyemeyohsts Storm, will endure as long as there are living beings and a uni- they prsp, 2 In a way this is a historical novel of a doomed people, yet 2 there are no dates in the story because ;t cornes from a civili-- 2 zation that was not bound by time. There is no concept of tribal doom among them because they believe in the universality of 1 the Medicine Wheel, which includes not only human beings, but 2 animals, birds, plants, recks, mountains, religions, abstrac2 ' 2 Interspersed throughout the narrative are little stories that 2 were passed down through the generations, allegories in which 2 animals participate as symbols to teach the meaning of the - Sun Dance Way. The author calls them flowers of truth. While ne and other young Indians were being taught in the reserva-- 2 tion schools that they were of an inferior culture and must be-corne like white men, their leaders told them these flowers of truth. 2 Reflect Like Mirrors 2 test Weeks Week mi List Tfctt Week 8 f 10 1 2 3 4 5 4 7 I f 10 FICTION 7 The Word Wallace The Winds of War. Wouk 1 Captains and the Kings. Caldwell Jonathan Livingston Seagull Bach My Nere Is Asher Lev. 4 Potok The Exorcist Blatty The Terminal Man. 7 Crichton The Settlers. Levin The Friends of Eddie Covle Higgins The Blue Knight. 10 Wambeugh i t GENERAL The Boys of Suemer Kahn lm O K. You're O K. Harris The Game of the Foxes. Farago Report From Engine Co 82 Smith Open Marriaoe O Neill Bring Me a Unicorn. Lindbergh E'eenor and Franklin. Lash A World Beyond Montgomery NitKn and Your Mind. Watson Tne Defense Neer Rests. Bailey with Aronson (Copyright) 21 in poems Smitty, ins skill, prodigal exertion, his gall and aggressiveness, and the historic events he covered in his exciting career. Donovan recalled what happened the day after John F. Kennedy was elected president in I960, when there was sull a cloud of doubt over the outcome because of the razor-edg- e closeness of the vote. Kennedy was heartened when he spotted Merriman Smith among tlie reporters in the Hyanms Armory, and said: if youre here, Smitty, I guess Ive really been elected. For a president, Smitty came with the job. Donovan, a new reporter at the White House, first encountered Smitty in 1947. A rented limousine was about to take reporters to a hotel where President Truman was to speak, and Donovan took a seat in front next to the driver. Smitty came out and demanded that Donovan give up the seat and go to the back: the front seat, he made clear, belonged to him by right. 3 Shots Ring Ont The incident took on poignant significance 16 years later when Smitty, riding up front in a pool car with a radio telephone, heard three shots ring out, and began dictating the flash and the bulletins that gave him a resounding beat on the assassination of President Kennedy. H13 work on that tiagedy won him a Pulitzer Prize. In the book there is a chapter given over to Dallas, and to the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt In Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945. He Smitty was there, too; was always there. The book deals with Just about every aspect of the White House, and there is a First Ladies chapter on (Smitty admired Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis much more than did the girl reporters). I liked It all, but found most in- The Tatung, By William Niederkom Washington Post Writer Poems of Mao translated and edited by Willis Bamstone, eollaboraPon with Ko Ching-Po- ; Harper & Row, In $1.95 Ue must add to our a concept of Mao new dimension: Sentimental poet, writing in the scorned classical style, not only as to form, but with the traditional classical allusions. Mao wrote many of these poems during the early struggles of the Chinese Communists, before, during and after The Long March. While celebrating the Red Army and its triumphs, the verses abound with references to ancient Chinese emperors, real and legendary, and to their trials and Tse-tun- g Ocuueo. Good Reading Setting aside the question of fidelity to the originals, the poems are good reading in form and thought. They range from obviously political plugs to celebrations of nature, tributes to friends and the exhilaration of swimming Wind batters me, waves hit me I dont care. Most poignant is Maos double tribute to his first wife, slain by a 'fuomin-tan- g gene-a- l, and to the husband of a friend killed in battle: I lost :ny proud poplar, you lost your willow. Poplar and willow soar Into the heavens. In translation, the poems as reasonably close as any English can to reproducing the completely different Chinese structure. But they still bear out the Italian proverb: Tradutto-r- i trad! tori translators are traitors. come 28 Characters Faced with 28 Chinese characters in the centuries-old form of the Chueh Chu (truncated verse) shortest of the formal poems of the Tang and Sun dynasties, translator Willis Bamstone have might come up with a literal: Evening color hazy vastness see sturdy disorder pine; cloud flying pass (ferry) remain still (at ease). Instead, with a poets flexible grace, Le produced from these bones the flowing lines: A bluegreen twilight I see the rough pines serene under rioting clouds. It is reasonable to believe that Mao actually visualized much the same scene, in terms of the rich imagery that permeates Chinese poetry and the misty landscapes of classical Chinese paintings. Edward Eulenberg, Chicago Daily News teresting the chapter headed, The President-Watchin- Fiction gets audience again Trouble With Images. Smitty noted that the two presidents bom to wealth, Roosevelt and Kennedy, liked to wear old clothes, FDR doting on a greenish tweed suit inherited from his grandfather; he also noted that Lyn- (well-forme- not born to don Johnson, wealth, went around turning off the lights While dressed in a $390 suit, aligator shoes that cost between $150 and $200 and wearing a wristwatch worth more than $1,500. Merriman Smith was a fine of the detached example wire service reporter. Not only did he avoid putting image tags on the presidents, he never tried to rate them, believing that a task for historians of a later time. He believed, though, evidently that all of those he covered did their utmost to serve the country vvelL (Copyright! give-awa- (Copyright) v is Almost everyone has heard that or said it, one time or another, and can cite references that go from Marshall McLuhan to T.S. Eliot, who said that Henry Janes killed the English r.oveL Whether or not you believe in bald statements made by cultural critics, no one can deny that fiction has fallen on hard times. In America it was first exiled, then made a bond slave to the movie industry, and finally relegated for the most part to the cannery that does not have quite the variety of Campbells soups. The emergence of a newspaper called Fiction in New Yorks East Village may herald a revolution in the publi- TJ.c caiiun oi ciedave pi idea is io put short stories on an economical newsprint, and means of publishing, hawk the package everywhere from book stalls to street corners. Collectors Item Financed solely by Fictions editors and contributors, the tirst printing of 5.000 sold out Li a week at $.50 a copy and already has the status of a collectors item. Manuscripts were called for last April and started arriving over the summer. John Hawkes offered a chapter from The Blood Oranges, his recently published noveL John Ashbery, who is better known for his poetry, turned d in a somewhat philosophical piece. Rosalyn Drexler gave two scenes from a play. One of the surprises d We as a group dont have a publishing house where were all gathered, or an endowment, or a benign patron or anything of the sort, little-know- n. But were insaid Charyn. terested in what each other is doing and think its something worthwhile." Jane Delynn, an associate editor, spoke ef Fiction m terms of competing with jourN"w journalism is nalism. she said on its way out, You see only the old names. copies). Narrowed Down At present the market for good writing is narrowed People talk about whether ficton is going to survive, Charyn said. Fiction is going to survive because people are writing it. down co three very tight publishing fields. The number cf national magazines that accept it can now be counted on one hand, and almost without fail they accept exclusiveWinly from ers whom they solicit. Then there are the little college publicamagazines, tions and literary reviews. These have distributions v 'th a high average of about 5,000 copies. They are literally flooded with unsolicited material. Lawrence Grauman Jr., Antioch of Review, wrote in his observations column in February, 1970, that he receives between (Copyright) the editor and 3,000 stories per year and less than one percent of them are accepted for 2,000 publication. That leaves only the book market, the primary source of Ficdissatisfaction among tions editors. long-winde- Small Scale The economics of Fiction is on a small scale by com- - Draiving book entertains kids, adults Children can learn to draw more than 400 different things with Ed Emberleys Drawing Book: Make a World (Little, Brown, $3.95). Starting with a few easy shapes, the amateur artist is taken step by step to a finished recognizable object. Whats more, money and book prizes are offered in a Make a World drawing contest. Write for entry blanks at 34 Beacon St., Boston. Anyone may enter, even grown-upand we promise youll want to after you see Emberleys book. Take it on ycur next vacation. We once used something similar on a long auto trip with two children, and it was a lifesaver. Our only complaint against this book Is its lack of an index. Picture Books s, A dozen picture books have landed on the list of the newly released notable children's books of 1971 (write the American Library Assn., 50 E. Huron, New York, for copies of the list). It includes, of course, the winner and for the 1971 Caldecott Medal, which honors the best American picture bock of the year. The winner was Jonny Hogrogian, a previous medalist, for One Fine Day (MacMillan, $4.95), a simple retelling of an Armeni runners-u- p an folk tale enhanced by full color double-pagspreads. Runners-u- p were Moja Means One: e Swahili Counting Book, by Muriel and Tom Feelings (Dial, $4.50); If All the Seas Were One Sea, with etchings by Jania Domanska (MacMillan, $4.50.). Of this springs crop of picture books. Label's Frog and Toad Together Harper & Row, $2.50) is our favorite. It is as delightful as his earlier Frog and Toad Are Friends. And these are as good to read as to look at, yet their price is much lower than the average, often mediocre, offering. Fun to Read are fun to read aloud to the preThey schooler, and they are geared to the abilities of the beginner. Who can resist Toad when on the first page he starts his day with a list of things to do, heading it, Wake up. There are five short stories in this new work, each bringing smiles and laughs at the very human qualities of the two friends. Patience, and Willpower, Courage are all underscored in a manner. The illustrations, in soft greens and browns, move perfectly with the text Shirley Haas, Chicago Daily News (Copyright) low-key- 4 r Register NOW for Summer Art 3 2 10 Better than doing Classes... at Salt lak 11 it at home Art Center Pioneer Crcft House, Adult Education or other local art groups. 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The gleams with polished chrome and a wet-loo- k d five shades are made extra rich with textured smoke glass, turn on the jet set with this mod chandelier. tough 3fft) display stucho c m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday 8.00 am. to 1:00 p.m. SOUTH STATE J 6225 HIGHLAND OX. 2111 S. 3tli EAST 3429 S. REDWOOD RO. 3363 WALL AYE. Ogden Visit our 8 00 58 West 1st Sooth e, Same Jean ih XX Blue Denim . . .9X0 bowl-shape- I give-awa- y - Fiction (Copyright) 2 some call him Crazy New Way. -- art g 51 During and following some of the most terrible events in the 2 story, the real world merges with the world of the imagina-- 2 tion, the two worlds reflecting back and forth into one another 2 like opposite mirrors. Through the eyes of Day Woman and 2 Hawk, two of the leading characters, we experience Sand J Creek. We go north with the fugitives and meet Crazy Horse; Violence and death are only incidental to the joys and sor-- 2 rows of being alive and practicing the Sun Dance Way. The 2 story ends in the present day with the children speaking in 2 modern American slang and their grandfather ironically telling 2 mem the tale of Snow White. That too becomes a part of the ! Medicine Wheel. There is much quotable wisdom in this book: No two people on the face of the earth are alike in any 32 one thing except for their loneliness. Man accepts war and its killing. He accepts suffering, ' lies, deceit, and greed. But I, White Woif, tell you that these are the things that are unreal 2 Each person is a mirror to every other person. White Wolf: His world we live in is hard, and only the -- strong will live. Yellow Robe: If this were true then all men 22 would have perished long before now. Man is weaker than even the mouse. Seven Arrows Is the first hook in a series, all of which are 2 being ".Title" by Amenca.i Inmans. Earnings from books in uue scries will be used to support special projects designed to aid American Indians. As Hyemeyohsts Storm might put it, this is y in which Ta of the Painted Airow people, a all who buy his bock may participate and sull gain more than "they give. NEW YORK djing with the business, that that is one point that stands heavily in its favor. The first printing cost $1,100. p a r i son was a story by Max Frisch that came in just prior to Fictions deadline. The issue contains 16 stones primarily by New York writers, both well-anThe stones are highlighted by collages, photographs and drawings by New York artists. We might go to a montMy thats one idea were kicksaid Jerome ing around, Charyn, one of the managing editors, who has published six novels and a seventh due out this year (none of which, to date, has sold more than 5,000 ugD&i CGTTGNWQQD VALLEY FAIR |