Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 10, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday August 10, 1963 Dorothy Hughes added mystery the expendable Man by Dorothy b. Hughet 24s pp., Toronto random hone miss Hughes can always be counted on for a fast taut mystery. This one is All of that plus an added ingredient. Hugh Densmore an intern in a los Angeles Hospital is driving to Phoenix Arizona for a family wed Ding. Much against his better judg ment along the Way he gives a aft to a hitch hiking teenage girl she Sticks to him like a Leech and when he arrives in Phoenix comes to his Motel to ask him to perform an abortion on her. Scared and indignant he sends her away. Next morning her body is found in a nearby canal. She has been murdered and the Young intern is interrogated As a suspect eventually but not before he has gone through much mental anguish he manages to Clear himself. But for the first couple of score of pages of this novel miss Hughes keeps her readers on Edge for a reason not directly connected with the murder Why is Densmore so worried about picking up a girl in his White Cadillac Why do the police pounce on him right away apparently quite convinced that he is the killer Why is the intern so desperately anxious to keep any mention of his name in connection with the crime out of the newspapers Why is he so convinced that innocent though he is such mention would ruin him so there Are really two mysteries for the Reader to follow. The first the mystery of Densmore is solved in the first 50 or 60 pages the second who did kill the until close to the finish. First rate. Wildly Wacky the Boss is crazy. Too by Mell 232 pp., Toronto s. J. Reginald sounders j5.j5. This is the funniest novel if it can be called that to come this reviewer s Way since William Wein Traub s Why Rock the boat. There Are similarities in the two books. Both have a background of the publishing business Weintraub s is about a wildly Wacky newspaper Lazarus is about an even Wacker outfit that publishes comic books and magazines whose literary level leaves something to be desired True alcoholics Wackrow movie romances both have As their main charac Ter a reasonably Earnest hard working ingenious Lamb Type who is thrown into a Den of conniving Holiday Reading Short stories by p. Me. Carson Hemple the Young Art director who handles the cheaper teenage magazines and comics Law suit humor communist love tales does his Best against a rising sea of troubles. The chief of these is his Boss Fulton Fineman. Or Fineman for complicated business reasons wants the firm to go into bankruptcy by Christmas. He places the onus on Hemple to throw away All reserves financial and moral and by Hook or Crook ruin the firm. Maurice Lewinson London cab by Maurice Levinton 192 pp., the the to win j Nipes new York London or any other City is a unique person. His work brings him into Contact with every stratum of society from Crooks to millionaires. He knows his City As few of his fellow citizens f j do. His Job is varied often travelled extensively monotonous but not without its sex or Walker writes for the enjoy Cit ement and dangers. Ment of his readers. It will be a in or. Levinson tells what Reader no does not get much it is like to drive a taxi in London. This collection. Or. Levinson has been driving a cab for 30 years and by his own storms of our journey and other stories by do yid Walker 2s5 pp., Don Mills Collins 14. Or. Walker is a Story Teller one of the Best we have m Canada at the moment. He has written a handful of novels All Well received and upwards of a Hundred Short stories most of them published in top magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. This is a collection of some of the stories that have appeared in British magazines notably Argosy. They Are a mixed bag but their common denominator is their readability. There Are no tricks in or Walker s writing. His characters Are believable his plots Well plotted and developed his suspense sustained his climaxes nicely timed he also knows where of he writes his native Scotland and shooting on the Hills and moors India where he served for Many years Canada where he now makes his Caret Rogers Hollywood of old scandal in Eden by Garet Rogers. 381 pp., Toronto s. J. Reginald Soun Ders a Lons time resident of Holly her Elen is the Fum capital that Are sure to lose Money and at the same time to broaden his hitherto somewhat restricted life with the willing assistance of his Boss his blonde Secretary and other As sorted types makes for a couple of hours of solid Gusty and Lusty humor. Or. Lazarus is said to have sold his first novel to a Broadway pro Ducer of musicals and to have had offers from Hollywood. It follows not however permit his r the Job to get in the Way of a Good Story. He tells How a taxi Driver learns to know a City As Large As London the tests he must take How he can get in trouble with the police the differ ence in the work of a Day Driver and a night Driver the ins and puts of. Tipping problems posed by the Law by prostitutes by traffic and a chapter on his own strange expense aces. This May be of greater interest to people who habitually use Lon Don taxis. But even for the Reader who has never been to London or Lemson s vivid prose lifts the lid j ll3? fee big City s life that few people see or know about. Walker beef Sellers in Canada by the Canadian press Mel Lazarus boy and a Mountain in the sky by James rom Joy 206 pp., a Peacock Book this is a new edition of the Ull Man novel specially edited for Young people and first published in 3955, which was made into the film third Man on the the Story is about Rudi a 16-year old boy who More than anything wants to be a Mountain climber and to climb the Citadel an unconquered Peak in Switzerland. Because his father was killed try ing to do this Rudi s Mother and Uncle Force him to become a dish Washer in a hotel. One Day he saves the life of an English Molin Trineer who also wishes to climb the Citadel the two go together and after Many adventures hardships and difficulties the red shirt which his father had hoped to Fly from the top of the Citadel does in fact flutter from the Peak or. Human has drawn consider ably from fact the Conquest of the matterhorn for his plot. His knowledge of mountains and Moun Tain climbing his vivid writing make this a Book which Young people be tween 12 and 16 and older people too will not put aside until the last Page. . Amateur chess by d. A. Yanofsky chess master is. Chess Amateur by Max Ewe and Walter Meiden Toronto Masson Book co. Ltd., this 314 Page Book in hard covers is the latest attempt to enlighten chess amateurs on the Vari Ous Pitfalls that they can meet Over the chess Board. Or. Max Ewe is a former world Champion and or. Walter Meiden is an associate professor of Romance languages. In 1953 they conceived of the idea for the present Book which consists of 25 selected games outlining the important items that a chess Amateur should avoid. The Book is written on a theory that Amateur chess is different from master chess in that amateurs errors Are greater and Are different from masters errors and that the master is most capable of showing How to punish Amateur errors. The games Given Are actual games Between masters and amateurs of various strengths and Deal with most of the Basic chess openings and defences As Well As such Basic concepts As chess notations Centre control space control the open line and the mat ing patterns. This Book is written in a simple straight Forward manner it is easy to follow and digest and should be a very useful Aid to Amateur chess players. I fiction 1. The shoes of the Fisher e Man Morris l. West. Novel about the papacy with the head e of the soviet Union and the i Pope As protagonists. 4 Glass Owers Daphne Dumaurier. The French Revo i Lution viewed through the sex i Perien Ces of a family of Glass i blowers. 1 b favorite the gods Sybille Bedford. An aristocratic marriage in Europe and its consequences for three generations. 4. Euzabeth Appleton John Ohara. A restless faculty wife m a Small . College town. 5. Raise High the roof beam Carpenter and Seymour j d Sahnger. The author of Catcher in the Rye continues his Story of the Glass family 2 6. The Unicorn Iris Murdoch a Young school teacher comes to an isolated Castle with a spellbound heiress 7. The gift Vladimir Nabo Kov. A russian emigre living in Berlin after the first world for literary recognition. 8. City of night John Rechy. The seedy Side of sex in the big City. Non fiction wr1 great hunger Cecil Woodham Smith. The great Irish famine of the 1840s. 1 2. The kingdom of Canada w. L. Morton. A of events of the past. 3. My Darling Clementine Jack Fishman. The Story of sir Winston Churchill s wife from their first meeting. 4. I owe Russia Bob Hope. A humorous account of the comedian s visit to the soviet Union. 5. Ohye jigs and juleps a. C. Hudson. Humorous look at Small town America 60 years ago through the eyes of a 10 year old. 5 6. My life in court Louis Nizer. The famed american lawyer recalls his most celebrated cases. 2 7. The fire next time James Baldwin. What it Means to be a negro in the United states ,8. That summer in Paris Morley Callahan. The author recalls his parisian adventures with Hemingway and Scott Fitz Gerald in 1929. 10 the quiet Canadian h. Is a particularly violent death of a Young Starlet. Did she die accidentally or the result of a psychotic sexual attack on her by Archibald Forbes a be loved by some Hollywood comic known As the feb to defend the feb a once famous lawyer now on the skids and the bottle is called in. Mark d Andor has known most of the participants in the tragedy the Starlet had in fact once been his mistress. The lawyer has his work Cut out for him and in trying to dig up evidence to prove his client s innocence has to Deal with Many Hollywood types of the More hectic and glamorous Days. The Back ground the characters the suspenseful though sordid plot All keep the Reader entertained. And if he finishes the Book As untouched As when he started this May not be a Lack in miss Rogers writing _ but simply because the Hollywood types of the Gay Days seem very far away and unreal today. For people past their youth How Ever the novel will conjure up some memories and revive talk of similar deaths and similar trials and similar colourful people. E Seaman like Story so North by Easton 2ss pp., 5 Toronto Ryerson press. Four years in the second _ War the author a lieutenant commander in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve commanded a. Corvette a frigate and a destroyer. He saw much action on Convoy duty in the North Atlantic and had a role in the English Chan Nel on the Day of the Normandy invasion. He tells his Story in a Seaman like straight Forward a embellished Way. Here one who was idiot there would gather is what it was really Uke in the Navy during the War. Borne excitement some dose escapes some kills some boredom some Monotony some heroism some cowardice some action much waiting. Because it is non fictional and be cause of the author s transparent honesty and modesty this is not a Navy Book like the novels of say Alistair Maclean. But it is a Fine and interesting look into Navy life in the smaller Craft in War time Navy types will of course enjoy it most. But it is of High interest to the general Reader As Well i i i world Canadian wilderness. 9 sir William Stevenson As head of British intelligence in the americas. 4 new books and old books received the third world by Mario Rossi Longmans Canada the unsheltered by Dewey Ward 274pp Toronto random House of Canada limited. The hidden key by George har Mon Coxe 185pp., Toronto ran Dom House of Canada limited ;