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Sunday, November 10, 1968 BOOKS Br^Y*^'' 1 * iiiliruHnßßnWßßlßWi Jacket Design for ‘Paper Boats’ What To Do With 100,000 Pounds THE PAPER BOATS. By Roger Longrigg. Harper & Row. 275 pages (4.75. By J. A. C. DUNN What would you do if some body came up to you in a train and gave you 100,000 pounds sterling in small notes in a bag? Tell the police? Thought not. Spend it? Right. On yourself? Naturally. But what would you do if the money were stolen, the notes were new, and the serial numbers were recorded? Gives you pause, doesn’t it? It gives Gregory Pratt pause too. Gregory works for a large company selling something or other, or trying to. He doesn’t do it very well. He is a weedy little man (“scruffy” is the word) of about 40 whose first marriage has ended in divorce and who lives with his charm ingly senile father in a ram bling mound of Victorian flats in the country. He doesn’t make much money, and he is worried. He is trying to write a detective novel during his twice daily commuter train rides, but for some time now he has been stuck on page 75. Gregory is filled with little hates. He hates the train he rides on, he hates Waterloo Station in London, he hates the voice on the loud speaker, he hates subways, his job, the work he does, and all his colleagues. “He had slight, permanent indigestion, so that he hated his own insides. His other hates were perfectly valid and justified. George Badger had said to Arthur Selby, that day in the lunch break, ‘I should hate to be Gregory Pratt.* Gregory hated it too.” But Gregory’s view of the money the nice man dropped into his lap just before the train pulled out of the station is en tirely different. One hundred thousand pounds is limitless. It solves all kinds of problems, for Gregory and his father, and and also for all the other worried, relatively impoverished people living in the mound of flats. It also creates problems. But there is the story. This is the kind of comedy \Jjgg CURRENT BEST SEIXEBB Fiction 1. The Group . . . McCarthy 2. The Shoes of the Fish erman . . . West 3. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service . . . Fleming NooHHcMm 1. The American Way of Death . . . Mitford 2. J. F K.: The Man and the Myth . . . Lasky 3. Rascal ... North WILLS BOOK STORE LMM Ceatof afc 7ridS*S*hU 1 tfl , »* T you find yourself casting for a movie: lan Carmichael, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Peter SeHers, Ter ry-Thomas, Alec Guinness, that man who played this, and the man who played ihat. You fall down on the women because there is no part for Joan Col lins or Glymis Johns, though there might conceivably be one for Heather Sears. There are a lot of tunny people in this book, all of whom need casting. The visual aspects of the story (the crooks being defeated by Mrs. Caradoc’s cats, for exam ple) are magnificent, and the humor is not raucous, but okay. Gregory trying to sell Mr. Mick lem a plastic spiral binding is one of the finest gag scenes re cently produced. Gregory’s father trying to figure out how to bet on a horse race is another good one. Altogether, it is the kind of book you look forward to going back to after supper. There is only one thing wrong with it: it goes on for too long. The problem of changing the dangerous new notes to safe old ones gets a bit tedious toward the end. Simplification would have helped. But the writing holds up and the characters are memor ably clear. A few of the minor ones get hazy and tangled with each other, but they are minor. Among all of this, Mr. uong rigg has made a valuable con tribution to modern society: what to reply when a reception ist says, “If you’ll just take a seat. . . .” “What will happen then?” says Gregory. It is an unan swerable line. Use it. Recep tionists will hate your guts, but never again will you be given that irritating instruction. Carolina Alumnus In JFK’s Library A UNC alumnus has three books in the recently-selected White House Library. W. Clement Eaton, professor of history at the University of Kentucky and president of the Southern Historical Association, received B.A. and M.A. degrees at UNC in 1919 and 1920. The books by Prof. Eaton in the White House Library are: “Freedom of Thought in the Old South” “A History of the Old South” and "A History of the Southern Confederacy.” Prof. Eaton’s book, “Freedom of Thought in the Old South” is a prize-winning book published by the Duke University Press in 1940. The book was termed the best manuscript on the literary, social and cultural history of the United States. A native of Winston-Salem, Prof. Eaton was president of Phi Beta Kappa while a student at UNC. He is a member of the Golden Fleece. Prof. Eaton recently published his reminiscences of his life at UNC in an article appearing in the summer, 1963, issue of “The Georgia Review,” and entitled "Student Days with Thomas Wolfe." A new book of his has EVERYTHING IN BOOKS THE BOOK EXOHARBE Bumbling Along With Greene —■* ' ~ The Revolution In Carolina PRELUDE TO YORK TOWN—The Southern Cam paign of Nathaniel Greene, 17801781. By M. F. Treacy. Univereity of North Carolina Press. S6l pages, with Notes and Index. $6.00. By W. H. SCARBOROUGH As an area suitable to the con duct of a military campaign, the Carolinas during the Revolution left something to be desired— specifically supplies, communica tions, suitable terrain, climate and a populace whose sympathies remained constant and whose support was an asset rather than a hindrance. In the waning days of the American Revolution, this was the field on which a crucial side action of the War had to be fought by antagonists who perforce spent more energy in conflict with their environment than with each other. The campaigns of 1780-81 were to sap the strength of Lord Cornwallis, leaving him fatal ly susceptible to the Revolution ary armies at Yorktown. They were likewise a frustration and a drain to the Americans, who could count the simple preserva tion of their “armies’' a victory, the successful avoidance of con flict with Cornwallis a damaging blow against him. Rarely did either Americans or British field more than 4,000 -troops against one another, the bulk of them militia which had a disconcerting habit of fading into the swamps at the first in dication ot ill will from their adversaries. More often than not the Rev olution in the Carolinas was a fight for food or clothing, or arms, all of which were scarce to the point of non-existence in the sparsely settled Piedmont regions. A man might one day enlist in the American militia, march a few miles, desert and enlist the following day in a Tory unit. The almost evenly di vided loyalties of the populace occasioned fratricide and even patricide. Hie formal military forces of either side could often count a victory simply if they, by their presence, prevented partisan bands from forming. Once they decamped, their sym pathizers were subject to pil lage. The general who under took to fight a textbook war was in straits. Nevertheless Lord Cornwallis had extended control of South Carolina from the capture of Charleston well into the Pied mont, where his cavalry com mander, the notorious Col. Ban astre Tarleton, evinced a singular ability to incite more insurrection than he put down. Cornwallis had all but neu tralized South Carolina and was an effective menace to North Carolina. To oppose him, the Continental Congress commis sioned General Horatio Gates, sent him south with their senti ments of esteem and little else. Scarcely had he arrived before Cornwallis annihilated the Con tinental Army of the South at the battle of Camden. Gates had scarcely left the North Carolina capital—then Hillsboro—before just been published by George Braziller Co. of New York City. It is entitled “The Leaven of Democracy.” Prof. Eaton received a Ph.D. degree in history from Harvard University in 1929. While at Harvard, he was awarded the Edward Austin Fellowship and the Sheldon Travelling Fellow ship in Europe. Under the fel lowship, he studied at Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University. ) After teaching at Harvard, Whitman College, and Clark University. Prof. Eaton became head of the History Department at Lafayette College, Pennsyl vania, in 1989. From Lafayette, he went to the University of Kentucky where, in 1956, he was named professor of the year. Prof. Eaton has served as a visiting professor of history at a number of universities includ ing UNC, Princeton, and Colum bia. If you’re in the market for buying or selling, use The Week ly Classified Advertisement sec tion. You get good results at bargain rates. ' THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY he was back reporting devasta- L tkm, r Washington immediately call- f ed for Nathanael Greene, a r Quaker who had somehow res- _ olved his pacifism with service T as the Continental Army’s Quarto-master General. He had been all but cashiered by Con gress when Washington pre vailed on him to accept com mand of the Southern Depart ment. Before Greene assumed com mand, Gates had managed to get the skeleton Continental forces to Charlotte, where, theo retically, he had assumed a "menacing stance" toward the victorious British. With winter coming on, Greene was faced with severe shortages of food and clothing; the fighting had depleted supplies of all sorts in the area of the little village of Charlotte, so he resolved to split his forces and move them into areas where they might survive the winter without starving. The move whs con sidered suicidal. The British, still smarting from the annihilation of a Tory 55bre by mountain men at King's Mountain, decided to take advantage of the division and destroy the Continentals piecemeal. Tarleton, with a force of cavalry and light in fantry* set out tor the western contingent, consisting of Greene’s light troops, com manded by the canny old Dan iel Morgan, veteran of the French and Indian War. Morgan, thougi sick with rheu- Chapel Hill Native Is Cited For Science Personnel Book William E. Thompson Jr., a native of Chapel Hill, has been presented the Internationa! Ad vanced Management Award in the Personnel Field by the So ciety for the Advancement of Managament. Mr. Thompson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Thompson of Chapel Hill and a graduate of North Carolina State. He is now a financial ex ecutive of Union Carbide Cor poration, Nuclear Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. The Society cited Mr. Thomp son 'for his “outstanding contri bution to the solution of the problem of shortages of scienti fic and technical personnel in this country.” In making the award the So ciety said: "Mr. Thompson’s book, ‘Your Future in Nuclear Energy Fields,' pihlished by Richards Rosen Press, New York, in 1961 is an outstanding contribution to the solution of the problem of shortages of scientific and tech nical personnel. Since the end of World War 11, the United States has undertaken large-scale new scientific projects in the devel opment aid utilization of nu clear energy, in the development pf missiles and space tech nology, mid in cancer research in addition to the industrial and university research which has also been expanding. . . . “The United States Atomic Energy Commission, the Atomic Industrial Forum, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, and many individual corpora tions have devoted special ef forts to encouraging college stu dents to pursue careers in scien tific and technical fields. Mr. Thompson’s book, written es pecially for high school seniors and college undergraduates, pro vides a clear, understandable statement of the challenges, op portunities, and types of work in scientific and engineering fields. Dr. Raymond L. Murray, Head of the Physics Depart ment of North Carolina State College and Chairman of the American Nuclear Society, says in his book review in the Journal Drama Auditions Scheduled Eric Salmon, the English actor director-lecturer, will conduct open auditions at Swain Hall Tuesday from 2 to 3 pm. and 8 to 9 p.m. for a series of programs on modern British drama to be presented over WUNC radio. Mr. Salmon, currently in resi dence at the University under the joint auspices of the Dramatic Arts and Radio. Television and Motion Pictures Departments, is preparing a series dealing with the British theatre today - the repertory, the Arts Council, state subsidy and the new playwrights. Excerpts from a number of re cent and current plays will be ifu-hiftoii in the series, the dra matics segments to be directed by Mr. Salmon. The roles in these matism and sciatica, was per haps the one field general in the entire theater who instinctively knew how to fight under the unorthodox rules of war in the boondocks. A significant propor tion of his troops was militia, backed by pathetically few regu lars. Morgan broke every rule in the book. He beat a hasty retreat from his camp on the Catawba crossed tne Broad Riv er, and took a stand in a large meadow called the Cowpens. His position afforded him no retreat. The British could, if they chose, surround him; he placed the militia—his least reliable troops —in the middle of his line, fully expecting that they would break and run, calmly incorporating an anticipated rout into his_strategy. Tarleton’s forces attacked the pitiful, apparently insanely de ployed-little force confident that they would destroy it. It was the worst mistake the cocky British horseman ever made. The militia gave as predicted, but not before delivering three tell ing volleys into the British ranks; the British advanced into an en filading fire from men who had no place to retreat. He escaped with 40 men and no baggage. The Americans still had a re inforced Cornwallis to flee, which they did. Cornwallis might have caught them, but by the time he realized his army’s bag gage was too much of an impedi ment it was too late. Cornwallis spent two days burning his bag gage and converting his army to "light troops;’’ by then the Continentals and their prisoners ■ Jjk. jmm WILLIAM E. THOMPSON JR. of Nuclear Science and Technol ogy. ‘A good sign that the nu clear field has reached some maturity is the appearance of this paper bound book on ca reers. The author, in a simple, brief, interestingly-written vol ume, has provided much useful factual information about atomic energy and its opportunities, especially for high school and beginning college students . . . (Mr. Thompson is to be com mended on his style and choice of material. Never pompous, but quietly philosophical, he has provided what should be a use ful service to our young people.’ “Since its publication in 1961, the book has been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club for distribution through its Young Readers of America service and has been printed in a pocket book edition by Popular Library. It has been placed in the Lib rary of Congress, in high school, university and college libraries all over the country and has been acclaimed by educators, vocation guidance counselors plays are open to students of the University and to members of the community. Among the [days being consid ered are John Mortimer’s “What Shall We Tell Caroline ” Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker” and “The Birthday Party,” John Ar den’s “Sergeant Musgravc's Dance,” Arnold Wesker’s “Roots” and “Chicken Soup With Barley,” N. F. Simpson’s “One Way Pen dulum,” Doris Lessing’s "Each His Own Wilderness,” Brendan Behan's “The Hostage,” Ber nard Hops’ “Enter Solly Gold," and John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger." Mr. Salmon, as director of a repertory company and of long experience in the English theatre. had put a flooded river between themselves and their pursuers. There ensued a period when Cornwallis ponderously pursued Greene, while Greene could do little more than evade. He never had enough troops to attack, and Cornwallis could never move fast enough to engage him. By March of 1781, however, Greene felt sufficiently strong to risk standing and fighting. He chose a naturally advantageous field at Guilford Courthouse, then ignored most of the field’s ad vantages. The British routed him, but their losses were well nigh fatal. Thougi technically defeated, Greene had dealt Corn wallis a blow from which he never recovered. As history, Greene’s Southern campaign ranked with the larger deeds of Washington to the north. He fought a war of maneuver and inconclusive skirmishing which had to do as a means of distracting Cornwal lis from subduing the Southern States completely. He was not a great general in terms of battlefield performance, but he was essential for his resourceful ness and imagination in the non war he was forced to prosecute. Mrs. Treacy’s account of his Southern sojourn does the period a service few historians and no contemporary observers could; she has lent color, continuity and drama to events whose sig nificance is not readily apparent. Her book is an eminently read able account that will find its appeal among scholars and lay men alike. and librarians as the most un derstandable and ettective pres entation now available. The sec ond printing, a paper back edi tion, is rellecting in continued high sales the interest which the book has generated. This in creased interest in science aiid technology gives hope that in creased enrollments in univer sity and college departments of science and technology will re sult. r “In providing a book that is authoritative and popular with the readers it is intended to reach, Mr. Thompson has made a real contribution toward eas ing the nation's shortage of sci entific personnel for the attain ment of national goals. With more than 20,000 copies of the book sold to date, Mr. Thomp son has reached a large group of potential scientists. If 10% of the people who were sufficiently interested to buy the book were io choose careers in science or engineering, the resultant in crease of 2,000 scientific and technical personnel each year would materially aid the indus trial and technological develop ment of our country. . . . “In addition to writing this book, Mr. Thompson has given talks on nuclear energy careers to youth groups and has pub lished two shorter monographs on scientific careers. These monographs, ‘Careers in Nu clear Science and Technology’ and ‘Careers in Physics’ provide rihort, illustrated introductions to scientific fields of work and help students to get started in planning their careers. “Mr. Thompson has made a contribution to the personnel field by encouraging students to pursue careers in scientific and technical fields, where trained personnel shortages are ham pering the advancement of in dustrial and governmental pro grams. If purchases of the book are any indication of the num ber of students who will choose these careers, Mr. Thompson has made a most important contribution, which will have a major impact on scientific per sonnel recruiting throughout the Nation.” has acted in and directed a num ber of these plays. The auditions will be held in the Department of Radio, Televi sion and Motion Pictures radio studios, 105A Swain Hall. Randolph-Macon Alumnae Meet Randolph-Macon alumnae held their annual fall luncheon meet ing Wednesday at the Carolina Inn. Twenty members were present. Mrs. Albert Coates, president of the Chapel Hill chapter, gave a report on tlte Alumnae Council meeting, which she recently at tended at the College. Poet Van Doren Speaks Wednesday Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet wno is con sidered one of the best Ameri can poets now writing, will pre sent the Weil Lecture here next Wednesday. The lecture theme will be con cerned with the position of clas sical education in the develop ment of citizenship today. Mr. Van Doren, 69-year-old native of the “all but invisible village’’ of Hope, 111., now re sides in Falls Village, Conn. He became a teacher—a second choice to becoming a writer—at Columbia University in the fall of 1920. Although his teaching plans were short-term, they con tinued uninterrupted for almost 40 years. He was awarded the Pultizer Prize for poetry in 1939 and his stature as a poet has grown steadily since. In addition to his poetry, he began writing fiction and non fiction stories in the mid-19405. One of the most recent publi cations of his works is “Mark Van Doren: Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963,” which con tains more than 800 poems Writers Will Speak At Duke Symposium Many facets of modem writers and their work will be discussed in depth during the Fifth annual Duke University Student Sym posium today through Wednes day. Probing various aspects of the Symposium theme, “Contempor ary Literature —a Post-Human Age?,’’ will be Welt Kelly, crea tor of “Pogo” comic strip; Ralph Ellison, whose book, "Invisible Man,” won him the National Book Award for fiction; W. D. Snodgrass, whose first book of poetry, “Heart’s Needle,” won him a Pulitzer Prize; and Dr. Thomas F. Driver of New York City, a faculty member at the Union Theological Seminary, who will give the keynote address. Hie program participants will explore such questions as: What impact does the modern writer’s work have on society and vice versa? How do modem writers try to make rapport with their reading public in this current era of toppling traditions and social WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE INTIMATE CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK This is children’s book week, and as you’d expect, there is whooping and hollering at the old emporium First of all, we’ve been wrestling with publishers and salesmen, and we think we’ve gathered together the prettiest, most colorful and altogether the most exciting new childrens books you’ll find anywhere this Christmas season. This is the week when we spread ’em out, and hope you’ll agree. Second, we’ve bought in a batch of shiny new children’s books, stars of former Christmasses, which! are being dropped from publisher’s lists, and they are all out on the feature table at 99c each. There’s nothing that gives such rich satisfaction as giving a youngster a book, and this table will make it possible for you to en joy that pleasure at a moderate cost. Third there are BALLOONS for all the youngsters who give a grown-up a treat by bringing him into the shop during Children’s Book Week. Balloons all over the place! And if YOU feel a bit youthful, there’s a balloon for you, too! Used History Collection In the Old Book Feature Case this week, we’re showing not one, but TWO libraries of good history reference books. If we may hazzard a guess, these will mostly be of interest to graduate students and advanced under graduates. The lots include a few good editions, but they are mostly sturdy work-horse books, and we think the right scholars will be delighted to add them to their shelves, and the prices will be a pleasant surprise. Engagement Calendars Most of the new 1964 engagement calendars are now on display, and a right tempting batch they are! The lot includes PEANUTS calendars, and a very, charming engagement calendar just for the busy junior citizen. Don’t miss them—early birds will get the widest choice. THE INTIMATE BOOKSHOP 119 East Franklin Street Open Til 10 PM. Page 3-B I*l Sm Jp||f J ■ MARK VAN DOREN spanning a period of 40 years, some published for the first time. Hie Weil Lecture will be pre sented at 8 p.m. in Hill Hall. The public is invited to attend. cohesions? And with what con flicts are the writers primarily concerned? The symposium is designed to deepen the understanding of con temporary writers, their influ ence on society, and the motives prompting their creativity. Chairman of the Symposium committee is William J. Nichols of Massapequa Park, N. Y., a senior. In 1959, a group of Duke stu dents established the Symposium comittee to meet a need they felt existed in campus life—bring ing to Duke prominent leaders from varied areas to discuss sig nificant issues in today’s world. The U. S.-Soviet conflict, the influence of religion on man to day, and underlying factors in volved in national defense are among the subjects covered in past symposia. Help the underprivileged through the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community Chest.
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