THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958
1*ILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
FOR THE LIFE OF ME by
Robert Briscoe with Alden Hatch
(Little. Brown $5.00). This book
is gay and tragic and thorough
ly Irish. The Jewish Lord Mayor
of Dublin has had an eventful
life and it suited him. This ac
count of it in9ludes a good bit of
history, enough action for a
dozen tales of adventure and an
irresistible sauce of humor. As a
sample of the last two just try
the chapter on “Saving the Soul
of Charley McGuiness.”
Bom in 1894 of strictly Jewish
parents—^his father had emigra
ted from Lithuania—^young Rob^
ert Briscoe grew up in Dublin
and loved it. From the first he
was a hearty lad, taking more
honors in sports than in academic
subjects. In 1912 his father ap
prenticed him to an exporting
firm in Germany. This business
training and the connections
made there were later to prove
very useful to the Irish Republi
cans.
It was after the Easter Rising,
in 1916 .that young Briscoe, who
had just made a good start in
business in America, decided he
must take an active part in the
fight for Irish independence.
Then advei.tures begin. It was
largely guerilla warfare, as the
bold boys of Ireland plucked
hairs from the beard of the Brit
ish lion. Briscoe had his share of
this, but was most effective at
running guns and ammunition
from Germany. It was bitter,
ruthless fighting and it went on
for five years.
Then came the truce with Eng
land that split the Irish Repub
lican party in two. There follow
ed the tragic days of fighting
their old comrades.
Eventually the Irish Republi
can Army had to surrender to
the superior forces of the Irish
Free State, but led by De Valera
they won by constitutional
means most of the things they
had been fighting for. Briscoe be
came a deputy. Naturally he had
to take time out now and then
to run refugees into Israel or help
arm the underg’-ound fighters
there in their st »le for inde
pendence.
All this is recounted with the
relish of someone who enjoys a
good fight, but it was grim, too!
This man’s devotion to the cause
conscience not a love of adven
ture, and it entailed great risks
and \^acrifices. As an “Irishman
by cOTviction’’ he was one of the
last to give up the fight and con
sent to follow his leader in try
ing constitutional means.
With or without an interest in
the struggle for Irish indepen
dence most readers will find this
book enjoyable.
THE PROSPECTS
PLEASING by Honor Tracy
(Random $3,501]. This, too, is a
tale of Ireland but rollicking
comedy as might be expected
from the author of “The Straight
and Narrow Path.” The subject
is Art and Irish patriots and,
as one member of the Art Com
mittee remarks, “Conmon sense
flies out of the window when
patriotism comes in at the door.”
In short, the book deals with
the lunatic fringe who have got
ten in the habit of blaming the
British for all the ills of the land
and continue to do so, producing
some delightfully absurd charac
ters such as the handsome old
gentleman who complains regu
larly to the British Embassy That
the seagulls are persecuting him.
The main plot concerns a'fan-
tastic scheme to recover from a
London gallery one of three
paintings bequeathed to it by a
Spanish artist “in memory of
happy days spent at Yarmouth,
Ramsgate and Ballybunion.” The
Irish claim is based on mention
of Ballybunion, and Tommy Dris
coll is secretly despatched ^to
London to steal the picture and
bring it to Ireland.
that mad, captivating play,
vey,” knows how to do it;
you plan to give this book,
ten or twelve-year-old for Cl
mas don’t miss the chance
read it first.
Ten-year-old Colin Masor
not'know he had an older S
until he heard twq women
ing about her at the grc
store—“an a^yful, bad girl.”
he sets out to find her and
covers a most unusual pe
makes exciting reading, but I
only the beginning. It is vi
the wayward and eerie Lor
comes back to live with the o:
Masons that Colin learns the'
cret of her strsmgeness and :
attachment to the black
where lights flicker at ni
When he, too, crosses
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Bible Hatorlal: Matthew 8:1-17; Mark
1*29 ■•34 a.
BeTotlonal Beading: Matthew 9:35-38.
Body and Soul
Lesson for November 16, 1958
Dr. Foreman
not very brave or resourceful ex
cept in his own imagination, but
he meets up in London with the
insouciant Felix Horniman, and'h^m
Miss Tracy has a chance to con-i^'”^
trast the Irish and British tem
peraments, a theme she loves.
There is plenty of action in
this story and almost as much
suspense as a mystery, but most
of all it sparkles with wit and
comic situations.
+1.“''.1“'through the typical
—, the strai American community, the vis-
bridge to the castle surprisjjtor gets the Impression that
things happen and once disas healthy people live here. All the
looms for all the children, i persons he sees are able-bodied and
ABE Colin’s courage and ingenuity (active. But if you laid out on the
them through, that and Mrs. Ncourthouse lawn all the sick, the
son’s iridomitable motherlineslame or the incapacitated, who be-
The book has authentic majl°"8 com- —■.«—>«-
and the characters are real a?’^ unity, y o u
loveable. , might think it a
I pretty sickly
PASS by Jim Kjelgaard dMolk carefully out
Mead $3.00). Unable to find sight,
liable facts about how the gre, But is is difter-
dogs called St. Bernards firsnt in the Orient,
pame to the Alpine Hospiovhere people
where they help the monks ivith all sort of
their rescue work, Jim Kjelgaail'®®®®®*' every
has constructed a plausible different in Palestine
dramatic story about it. With, hP ou
made a real character of Caesar^^„tall ill) to the house where
the first dog to be accepted bjegug was staying, And collected
the monks as helper. round the door, a melancholy
Caesar belonged to Franz Hallejght.
a Swiss boy who was the despaii
of his parents because he did no«opl6 an Mora Than Soult
get on in school and showed no That happened to be a Sabbath
aptitude for farming, herdingay, and Jesus had been (as we
goats or any practical occupation.ould say) to church and had
He only liked to roam the woodsiught there. He had also restored
with Caesar. At a crisis in his man who had been imder the in
affairs the village priest proposes'^®"®® screaming devil, if in-
that he go and help the monks of s®** h® himself; and
the St. Bernard Hospice in their privately he had
work and even gets permission his host’s mother. In the
fnr hirv, ^ oming she had been too sick to
for him to take Caesar. A new church; after Jesus had cured
r she was able to get a meal for
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Tommy is a dreamy youth and f
)t verv bravp m- Wanted, useful, happy.
LORETTA MASON POTTS by
Mary Chase (Lippincott $3.50).
Here is one of those rare mix
tures of realism and fantasy that
are so enthralling to the imagin
ative person, child or adult.
^ .. W .W ~ VSIAXU. \J1 dUUH.
of independence was a matter of Needless^ to say the author of
But, as winter closes in, it is
found that Caesar eats too much
and the order is given to send
„ , a tragic
moment for boy and dog. Then
a blizzard comes, and the uncan
ny talent of the dog for finding
people buried deep in snow is
proved again and the day is sav
ed.
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L. Baxter,' deceased,
late of Moore County, North Caro
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A kJXAW O— -
e family. (Jesus’ cures were not
If-way starts.) You might think
would be tired, and probably he
is; but this yard-full c’ sick'
ople, out under the twilight sky,
jved him to action.
He did not say, and he never said
any occasion of record, to the
:k that tKeir sickness was doing
em good, just accept it! He di^
.t say, “I am a physician of souls
my interest .is in the spirit of
an, not his body.” And above all,
did not say, “All your pain and
ffering, your broken legi, your
cers, are not real, they are only
istakes in your mortal mind,
(ink you are well and you will
• well; for pain and illness do not
1st.” Quite the contrary; Jesus^
13 concerned for these leople’
ysical heklth, he made c res o
al diseases. For he was intrest ^
■ove all in people, and
ore than souls, they are ^
'"•dies. ' '
»
)dy Supports Soul
The Christian church
iming awake to this
lew it all the time, bu
•e doing something at
reat Interest in heali'
jw being shown by e9
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ptals operated by
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(k in Boy Scoij
gounds andi
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The undersigned, Marie Ce^
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of Marvin Stacy Wicker, d€
ed, late of the above named i
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Tuesday—Mt. Carmel Rt. Mrs.
Art Zenns, 10; Mrs. Sandy Black,
10:15; Mrs. Lloyd Chriscoe, 10:30;
Mrs. E. F. Whitaker, 10:45; , Mrs.
H. A. Freeman, 11; Mrs. Vernon
Lisk, 11:45; Mrs. V. L. Wilson, 12;
Mrs. Coy Richardson, 12:15; Mrs.
Herbert Harris, 12:30; Mrs. A. A.
LawhOn, 12:45; Mrs. Tracy Sea-
well, 1; Miss Rumell Gordon,
1:10; Mrs. S. E. Hannon, 1:20;
Mrs. Joyce Haywood, 1:35; Mrs.
John Willard, 1:50.
Wednesday—^Roseland Rt. Mrs.
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10:45; Mrs. Calvin Eaton, 11; Mrs.
Marvin Hartsell, 11:15; Mrs. W.
R. Robeson, 11:30; Mrs. R. E.
Morton, 11:45; Mrs. C. S. Galyean,
12; Colonial Hts, 12:15; Mrs. J. J.
Greer, 1:15.
Thursday—Robbins Rt. Mrs.
Perry Smith, 10:15; Mrs. K. C.
Maness, 10:30; Mps. Janie Mc
Neill, 10:45; Mrs. G. S. Williams,
11; Mrs. Etta Morgan, 11:15; Mrs.
James Allen, 11:30; Mrs. Audrey
Moore, 11:45; Miss Beatrice Shef
field, 12; Mrs. E. C. Derreberry,
12:10; Talc Mine, 12:25; Mrs.
Vernon Allen, 12:45.
Friday—White Hill Rt. Mrs. J.
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Bill Cameron, 11:30; Mrs. A. D.
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Thomas 11:55; Mrs. Lynn
Thomas, 12:10; Mrs. Dan Clark,
12:45; Mrs. Robert Hendricks, 1;
Mrs. W. E. Home, 1:15; Mrs. W.
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