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Show E The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, It Nepte mbcr 16, 1973 Deft picture Best Slice of America in Years 'Trail statue Heres Jimmy Breslin at his superb best featured in Krakel book James Earle Fraser's World Without End, Amen, by Jimmy Breslin; Viking Press, 329pp., $6.93. I once confided to an interviewer, who promptly printed it, that I thought Jimmy Breslin was nothing but "a saloon I couldn't Well, reporter. more been have wrong. Jimmy Breslin just happens to e one of the be weight ' best writers of our day. He is a man who is gifted with Absolute, I repeat Absolute pitch so far as the dialogue of the residents of New York's suburb. Queens, is concerned and more. fa- End of the mous sculpture on display in OklahoTrail, ma Citys Cowboy Hall of is the subject of a Center, 'hew book, The End of the Trail: The Odyssey of a Statue. for-ag- - For decades, the Fraser work (considered by many a national art treasure), languished in a Visalia, Calif., county park, unprotected from wind, sun and rain All of this is vividly apparent in his new novel and, I Author Dean Krakel's book, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, tells of the restoration of the original statue and the casting of a bronze reproduction for the California ."park (part of Krakels bargain to gam the original for the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center). relates several The book stones, both the saga of the statue and Fraser's carcejr including his design for the fabuffalo-Indiahead mous nickel. :j might say, has been obvious to more prescient observers than myself for a long, long time. Brokenbacked Novel is not to say that World Without End, Amen is what my late university English professor. Dr. Anna Von Helmholtz Phelan, would have judged a good novel in technical terms. And she would have been right, for this is a brokenbacked novel, a novel, indeed, that ducks an answer to the temble prob- This End of the Trail' n One mistake after another Volumes detail disastrous McGovern race Mr. Goodbye was part of than part of lesque show. made every book. Christian, Richard Dougherty; by & Doubleday Co., Inc., 262 pp. $7.95. The Long Shot, by Gordon L. Well; W. W. Norton Co., 243 pp., index $7.50. You post-morte- fact, two and both .gruesome. For two of his aides have 2now recounted the rise and ; fall of George McGovern as the Democratic candidate for ? President, with a detailed doc- umentation of the disaster befell him. He was one of that " nominees in the Didnt Object He did not object to legal when Nixon was abortion shrewdly writing letters toCar-dinTerence Cooke of New York opposing it and thereby winning a big chunk of the Catholic vote. r worst-beate- n He endorsed a minimum Americans salary for have-no- t without either reckoning the cost (which ran to billions and billions of dollars) and w ithout .recent history and, if you want to know why, here is the whole melancholy story. Dougherty was McGoverns campaign Press what he was understanding endorsing. All in all, he managed to alienate .middle-clas- s and America without ever realizing he had done so. lum down and he had to get a in a hurry. But running-matthen, when the news came out, he first endorsed Eagleton 1,009 percent and then forced him to leave the ticket. Ah, say his friends, but he What a fall was there, my countrymen, Dougherty says. e blue-coll- was a decent man, a man of principle. Well. McGovern Ihrew away the ball game when he picked Tom Eagleton for his vice mate presidential running without adequately checking Ins partner's private life. Eagleton, it turned out, had thrice electric undergone shock therapv, a fact he withheld. About Face One can sympathize with Six McGovern: others he would have preferred turned fatal error in strategy, Wed says. But was it any wonder, after all this, that the people turned to Nixon? They didnt know then what they do A now and, given the choice between a nice blunderer and a meanly' consistent man whom many of them distrusted, what other choice could they make? That 1972 election, it becomes obvious, was foredoomed to be a dirty trick on the American people no matter how it went. Hal Burton, Newsday.- Secretary. Weil was his executive assistant, chief troubleshooter on the campaign staff and, for some months before that, press secretary (when McGovern was only the Senator from South Dakota, not the nominee). Story of courage, love Survive The Savage Sea, by Dougal Robertson; Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 269 pp., Opposite Types country bumpkin who kept tripping over his own feet and a Richard Nixon, from his 1960 defeat by Kennedy and his 1962 failure to become governor of California. It was so obvious, even at the time, that one must wonder why the Nixon organization ever saw the need for duly tricks. g d scar-tisaue- d Dougherty, a practiced for- mer New York newspaperman and a former deputy police commissioner of New York, views it all with a kind of wonder. d That makes his book far more readable than that written by Weil, who seems still to cling to the notion that he ' illustrated, $7.95. People sometimes seem so doubtable these days that its heartening to read about instances of indomitability. Dougal Robertson and his family had their opportunity schooner when their was attacked by killer whales in the Pacific. The boat sank in 60 seconds, and Robertson, son his wife, their twin boys and as well as another college-agall crammed into a boy rubber raft that held only a few days food and water and no charts or navigational ine struments. They were 200 miles from the Galapagos Islands, but both the wind and the current were against them in that The direction. Marquesas Islands lay 2,800 miles to the west, but without instruments it would be sheer luck to find them. Their best chance was to follow the trade winds '400 miles north to the doldrums and then try to sail or paddle 600 more miles to the shore of Costa Rica. Seafaring Man Though he had worked as an uplands farmer in North Staffordshire for the last 15 years, the author of Survive the Savage Sea had originally been a seafanng man and he held a master mariners ticket. The poverty and narrow ness of life on a small farm had led him to sell out and purchase the schooner to show his children the wide world he once had known. They had crossed the Atlantic, cruised the West Indies, come through the Panama Canal to the Pacific, where the killer whales probably mistaking the boat for the largest whales on which they rammed and sank it. prey Besides the rubber raft, the Robertsons managed to saldinghy. Rigvage a 9'i-foging up a makeshift sail for it, they towed the raft behind, remaining in it because they were afraid their weight would sink the dinghy in bad weather. Entertaining even if unoriginal The Heresy, by Laurence Snelling; W.W. Norton & Co., 250 pp., $6.95. Laurence new Snelhng's book, although derivative in the extreme, is an entertaining example of the genre and well worth the few hours it will take ou to read it. The novel opens with a writand a publicity agent observing what they consider to be the desecration of the only good movie script the wnter has ever written the only one he has ever Cared About, you see by a Relevant Director who wishes to impress upon it the stamp of his own rancid individuality. I ought to add that this is in Italy, and if that makes it er A mis&ing sister a , ; Call in the Night, by Susan Ilowatch; Stein & Day, $6.95. Susan Hnwatch, who wrote a I eil seller with Penmar- nc, rus come up with anolh-- r er sure e popular novel of .o-b- suspense and romance in "Call in the night. The novel deals with the search by Clair Sullivan for her sister, who disappeared mysteriously. begin to sound like something out of Irwin Shaw, well . . . Then tilings begin to happen. The wnter destroys some film he doesnt like and his sabotage is repeated m spades when cameras and lights begin to be smashed. At the scene of each destructive act is found a mysterious symbol. The wnter, who has already employed an old buddy to investigate the death of the a real-lifmovies hero novelist and Resistance hero is drawn further into the toils of what appears to be a centuries-olplot. It begtns to appear, in fact, that agents of the Albigensians, who were exterminated root and branch by Holy Mother Church back in the 13th Century, are still around, and were involved both m the murder of the Resistance hero and the destruction of the camera equipment 25 years later. e d And if that begins to sound ,like .something out of Thomas Pynchon, well . . . Mixed up in all this are a lot of strange characters who rarely are what they seem; a lot of talk about sex and a little sex some of it rather kinky; and a lot of very good, very bitchy Hollywood-nove- l dialogue. And if like something by John Huston out of Rona Barrett, well effort needed to bale it out and blow it up by sheer lung power. Already weakened by semistarvation and dehydration, suffenng from sunburn and painful boils caused by the salt water in No better account of the present trouble has been written than Breshns descripion women with their garbage-pai- l tops, the brutality of the Scottish troopers, the cnildren shot before their mothers eyes, the drink, the slums, the heroics, the cowardice, the inevitability, the rain, the arguments between the provos and regulars, between violence and nonviolence, the priests who support the provos, the priests who support the communists, the blood and muck in the streets. It is all there with a See Page E-- Column 1 Xerox dictionary bow and arrow (not permitted to carry a gun), has been m and out of Straight and Narrow, an alcoholics clinic for policemen in Paterson, N.J., has put away $16,000 in a bank mother-in-law- s his under name during 17 months as a plainclothes detective. on the The Xerox Intermediate Dictionary, edited by William Morris; Xerox Family Education Services, $8.95 Here is a brilliant new gem thats hkely to go on any childs treasure shelf of favorite books. Surprisingly, its a one put together dictionary with such obvious care and thought that its bound to win youngsters with its eminent He hates blacks perhaps despises and fears them is a better wav of putting it. His Jchno, does hate partner, blacks. Jo'nno blanks them out of his mind when watching Entries With 34,000 entries in 800 pages, the Xerox hrge Inter-media- dictionary resembles the superb American Heritage Dictionary of The English Language, and with good reason: they share the same editor, WLiam Best Sellers York Times Service onoiysis is based on reports obtained from more than 250 bookstores in 110 communities of the United States. New This Buffer Zone In that exchange of insults, Ms. Flanner graciously held her own, throwing into the fracas wryly sophisticated, intelligent and sometimes pointedly sarcastic remarks. This is the writing style, too, you find in Pans Was Yesterday (Popular Libary, 1925-1S3- Q $1.25). Paris Recollections For almost 50 years she has lived in Paris, watching and writing about people, events, manners and mores of the French and American visitors. This book represents just part of her recollections. Some of the book are New Yorker pieces. Some are from an earlier book, An American In excluded, however. A minor weakness emerges in the use of illustrations, which for the most part are and exceptionally sharp detailed. Why is there a photo of a cat when most every child ought to know what a cat looks like? But these are complaints Xerox In- termediate Dictionary is superior to anything else on the childrens market. Its a treasure and godsend for harried parents and teachers. And at $8.95, its a bargain. Chicago rah Abbott, News. Llndys Landing read of Charles A. Lindberghs 1927 landing in Paris after his solo flight, of Edith Wharton and Isadora Duncan, of a Picasso art show and of some remarkable murders and trials. Arts, politics, all these are Ms. history Flanners venue, and she writes of them with humor, You can er name? People and biographical names have been few. All in all, the browse-abilit- 31,000 Or you may know her as the woman who refered a verbal dispute between Gore Vidai and Norman Mailer on the Dick Cavett Show last year. Paris. Helps here (at last) for harried parent squad Debo- Daily perception and skill. Fresh Golf Michael Murphy is a a philospher, founuer of one of those west coast institutes and a man who likes golf. In his autobiographical Golf in the Kingdom (Delta, $2.45), Murphy talks about golfing with a Scottish pro named guru-typ- e Siva Irons. It is a weirdly fashalf golf, half cinating Kaok philosophy. It does not prove much, but it is one dedicated golfer's way of locking at life. Morris. Lost Weeks Week On List GENERAL Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution. Atkins 2 The Joy Ot Sex. Comfort 3 The Making Of The President 1972. wmte 4 Sybil. Schreiber 5 How To Be Your Own Best Friend Newman & Berkowitz With Owen 6 Laughing AM The V'uv. Howar 7 Weight Watchers Program Cookbook. Nidetch in which in Leeson stench, the indomitable Bow and Arrow Squad FICTION 1 The Hollow Hills. s Stewart 2 Once Is Not Enough. Susann 3 Breakfast Of Champions. Vonnegui 4 Facing The Lions. Wicker 5 Horve Home Trvon 6 The Billion Oollor Sure Thing. Erdmon 7 The Odessa File. Forsvth fight Davey participates Street, Falls Road, Belfast. It is all there the cruelty, the to life comes Ireland through his typewriter just as Queens does in all its squalor, ignorance, tragqdy, pathos, cruelty and beauty. Dermot Davey, policeman, assigned to the 125th precinct in Queens, resident of Holy Child Parish, Richmond Hill, Queens, married, living with his wife and three daughters in the second floor of a tan house with green trim owned is as by his mother-in-law- , if not more real a man as Breslin himself. real, than Hes fire of the Sun-Tim- 2 9 3 23 1 18 5 12 4 9 v 6 1 1 41 2 38 5 18 6 16 Like its big brother, the Xerox Dictionary contains two columns per page, surrounded by wide margins, offering a feeling of simplicity and clarity that encourages a pace of .unhurried enjoyment. Topical Quality The dictionarys quality is reflected by words like black (defined in terms of race), abortion, mariarea juana, recycle, code, zip code and all the signs of the zodiac, each illus- trated. There are idioms, slang terms and numerous geographical ard historical prop university-traine- passenger d ffhat JUake s' Special? Occasions the bottom, they set themselves the apparently impossible task of living off the ocean for what they estimated to be a voyage. Fortunately, the hard life ol a farm had made them tough all but their and adaptable Special! licate lace tops off this tinctly flattering long uviyjwfatf floor. Wrinkle free polyester keeps you resit... and mackine washes and dries. Bright aqua or hot pink. ".11, They Survived For the next five weeks, their adventures had the exaggerated character of a childrens book. When the raft sank after 17 days, they g Gis? css... witli slieer sleeves ed bodice. Skirted long sleek flow to who, in the authors words, had had a theoretical education that could only support theoretical living. Well, theres nothing wrong with that. Writers, especially mystery writers, have been stealing from each other for Snell-myears, and although Mr. at isnt very good hiding hasnt even bothhis traces ered to wear gloves, so to his book moves well, speak his characters are interesting and his dialogue is often pretty funny. Also you can learn something about the Albigeh-sianif you've a mind to. David L. Beck r Davey plunges By Peggy Constantine Writer Chicago You may know Janet Flan-ne- r for her "Letters From Paris, which appeared regularly in the New Yorker under the name Genet. Strength Sapped y that begins to sound On the Other Side In Ireland, into the midst of the trouble He in Belfast and Derry. delivers a gun to the Provisional IRA. He is trapped with the provos and the Catholics in a fire fight with British regulars, and falls in love with a Marxist supporter of Bernadette Devlin. N( Davey is on the other side of the barrithe oppressed rather cades than the oppressor. Vivid Description It soon became clear that the raft would not last very long. Most of their strength was sapped by the constant ever-prese- New Snelling mystery cut-rat- e At page 105, the scene switenes to Ireland, and Breslin shows that his gift for people, for phrase, for word, for dialogue, for the specific and is incident, unchallengeable not rooted not geographic in the Queens that he knows bettem than any other living but universal. man Week Family survives the savage sea TV. He sees only the white players in football or basketball and counts only the white scores. He is quite ready to sex with a black have pross but explodes in fury and fear when the press turns out to be a transvestite. Universal Gift This Put in the simplest terms, this was a contest between a wild-eye- For McGovern mistake in the He signed a petition asking bail for Angela Davis when the nation's squares considered her the blackest of the black revolutionaries. are cordially invited to attend a of them, in rather pratfall bur- history a lem it presents to the reader. But it is the best slice of pure 100 percent America to be put between book covers in this or any other recent year. It is so good in its first 105 pages, so precise in every word, phrase and emotion, so revealing of the world of the two Queens policemen. Der-mDavey and John ODonnell, that J would defy anyone beginning at the first page to put the book down for any interval longer than necessary to get another can of beer from the icebox. of lively Paris days PLUS CUFF Smooth, uncomplicated good looks in brushed corduroy with a natural waist and straight legs finished in snappy cuffs. 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