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hf Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, April 1, 1966 Trivial Picture Of Adlai Shown Adlai Stevenson, Lillian Ross, J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila delphia, 1966. Picture a matronly woman tell ing her bridge cronnies about her experiences concerning one of our nation’s greats. If you picture the woman correctly you will con jure up a name-dropper who must rely on endless trivia and inani ties to prove she really knew the celebrity. If you are the type of person who laps this up you will love Lillian Ross’ Aldai Steven son. Miss Ross wrote this short book after Stevenson’s death in place of a ned to run profile she had plan- in the New Yorker. The book is 59 pages of short episodes which took place in 1964. Most do not contain the essence of the Stevenson charac ter and temperment as the jack et preview claims primarily be cause by the time the author de scribes in detail the setting of the episode and the fact that she was. there) she appears too out of wind to say much about Stev enson himself. R. L. HUNT, JR. AND ROY W. KELLY A&M Consolidated Candidates for 2 school trustee positions, April 2. Fear 100% home owner tax hike in 1966 would hurt re tired citizens. Story on Page 3. Paid Pol. Ad. One episode is a day at the U.N. with Ambassador Steven son. After reading the comments of a guard at the U.N. doors, a blow-by blow description of which speaker followed next and what they said, and the fact that a woman in a mink with a pearl ring the size of a lima bean made a lot of noise during a speech, the reader gets short excerpts of a speech on the United States stand on what should be done when so many countries are in arrears in their payments to the U.N. Current Best Sellers (Compiled by Publishers’ Weekly) FICTION THE SOURCE, Michener THOSE WHO LOVE, Stone THE DOUBLE IMAGE, Moclnnes THE EMBEZZLER, Auchtncloss UP THE DOWN STAIR CASE, Kaufman NONFICTION IN COLD BLOOD, Capote A THOUSAND DAYS, Schlesinger GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, Berne A GIFT OF PROPHECY, Montgomery THE PROUD TOWER, Tuch man At the Movies Dylan Is Great, with Lani Presswood Book Isn’t Mud Judith may not walk away with any awards this year but it’s real ly not a bad picture. It won’t pick you up and carry you off into the clouds but it does contain some solid acting and holds your interest well throughout. It’s a revenge story, which is a tried-and-true formula for gen erating audience sympathy for the hero, or in this case the hero ine. And what a heroine she is, too, in the form of Italian powerhouse Sophia Loren. You couldn’t ask for a bigger-name star or a more attractive specimen of femininity, and Sophia, as usual, doesn’t dis appoint. Her role lapses into sentimen tality on more than one occasion but in other spots it affords her a good chance to display her act ing wares, which are more form idable than many give her credit for. Sophia plays Judith, woman with a mission. It seems that her German husband turned into a high-ranking officer during the war and chose his notion of duty over devotion to his half-Jewish wife and their boy. He co-oper ated fully in having them sent to Dachau, a concentration camp which became infamous for its atrocities. She survived Dachau and in the following years traveled from city to city in Europe, walking the streets, trying to find kill her would-be murderer. and Now it’s time to leave Judith briefly and pan over to Israel, where the bulk of the film’s ac tion takes place. Israel is on the eve of gaining its independence and in a matter of days the Brit ish officials and troops plan to pull out, making this arid patch of land formally independent. in Sa Sti What’s the problem ? The an swer is simple but ironic. Israel is surrounded by hostile Arab na tions and when the Limeys vacate the premises it’s going to be open season on the embryonic, virtual ly powerless Jewish state. End Of Third Reich Seen By Author Of ‘Longest Day’ THE LAST BATTLE. By Cor nelius Ryan. Simon & Schuster. $7.50. Ryan, the author of “The Long est Day,” has distilled here in 500 vivid pages all the kaleido scopic horror of the conquest of Berlin, in the three-week period which began at 4 a.m., Monday, April 16, 1945. It is a book filled with the sights and sounds of a tremen dous struggle, as witnessed and felt by individual human beings The Church..For a Fuller Life..For You.. CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL, 906 Jersey Street, So. Side of Campns Rector: William R. Oxley Asst.—Rev. Wesley Seeliger 8 :00 9 :15 & 11:00 A.M.—Sun. Service 6:46 A.M. & 10:00 A.M.—^Wednesday Holy Communion 7 :15 P.M.—Wed. 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BRYAN HARDWARE • CHINA WARE • CRYSTAL • GIFTS The Exchange Store ‘Serving Texas Aggies’ Bryan Building & Loan Association BRYAN JSL ICE CREAM AND MILK — the high and the mighty, the obscure, the pitiful, the vengeful and the fearful. By focusing on specific indi viduals during the high-keyed and low-keyed episodes of his story (and this is a technique of higher journalism in the serv ice of history), he has suc ceeded in making the reader feel that he is present at the making of history. We see a band of emaciated British prisoners, liberated from their German captors, marching proudly westward to the skirl of two bagpipes. We are deafened by the roar of the opening bar rage as the Russians attack from the Odor, and see the blood streaming from the gunners’ con cussion-pressed ears. We hear a Russian field marshal snapping “Get going” to one his gen erals, and see an agitated Hitler stabbing a shaking finger at sym bols on a map — symbols which represent nonexistent divisions. Ryan went directly to the mili tary experts who conducted the battle. They included Koniev and Zhukov, the Soviet marshal who were fierce rivals for the honor of reaching Berlin first; and General Heinrici, the defensive expert who was given the impos sible task of delaying the Rus- sion advance. Here is a prime example of the new type of nonacademic his tory writing; a fusion of care ful documentation with the emo tional wallop of physical pres ence. It is a book to be en countered, absorbed and appreci ated. Miles A. Smith The only hope for the embat tled descendants of David is the outside possibility that they can figure out where the main brunt of the Arab attack is coming. If they can deduce this in advance they can concentrate their de fenses there and stave off the enemy until they have time to build up a respectable war ma chine. “Ai matel |y on Ictivi sistar All right, now then . . . guess who happens to be commanding the tanks of this invading force ? Right. An ex-SS officer who no body on the Jewish side of the trenches can identify, thus mak ing it more than a little difficult to kidhap him and take a rubber hose to him until he squeal about the impending attack. Enter Judith. With Judith in the Israeli camp, both their prospects and the film’s action picks up. She initially helps out the boys strict ly to gain personal revenge, often expressing a complete lack of interest in their ambitious ulti mate goals. Peter Finch comes on strong as the Jewish underground war rior working with Judith. He looks the part, he plays it grim and tough, and he does a fine job. Another fine performance is turned in by Jack Hawkins, who plays a British officer sympa thetic to the Jewish cause but still owing a certain obligation to his own superiors. He handles his part with talent and poise expected of such an experienced professional. By HERKY KILLINGSWOH It may seem unusual toi | that the least learned persoif campus should be writing a 1 review, but under the prd circumstances I find it necessj there being no one else on; Battalion staff who would k| the book. | The I, on the other hand, idoiBctivi this subject, this man are was i men, this innovator of the rau gondu field, this Bob Dylan, or atlairesea: I kinda’ do. Iporta - I find it an honor that: j^ eS( biography, Folk-rock: The £ ^ p C Dylan Story, or “16 pages oil c jtj es citing Photographs,” should I into my hands. By Sy and ^*ph ase bara Ribakove, it is the first s what will probably be a longB l e ^ of books on this young geniiK} ^ I can say that I am proud toT its reviewer and feel it a grt honor to write of my idol. Tkfi again, I can’t. Enough of my comments, sum them up by saying that fiJ Dylan is great. I only wistf could say the same for his || orrni ography. I don’t personally kM;;?fP or the Ribakoves, but from thesoo|P v ® of the book they’re either £‘P°l'ce managers, public relations nii| ves ^8 or his apostles. ' ■®ho r In the eyes of the auth !l Dylan can do no wrong. The fir It half of the book was slightffocate fabulous, even though it wi anoth written in a quite amateuris’:,arrive style. It was Dylan’s life stor|| Fra I wish I could say the same f»r, of the second half. The authors ta»educi it on themselves. The controversl —B Dylan caused between folk miMrovin* and rock and roll is merely cause!i)durin( because he is an artist and artisli —T must follow their emotionslccess What’s the book on, artists ®or r< Bob Dylan? I —Ii The rest of the second half wj {horoi an analysis of Bob Dylan’s son||ess t (even the ones I thought I undertricts. stood I misunderstood) and a j^ es editorial about Bob’s future. TlM. ecom editorial and analysis could 1 ghoulc correct, but I kept wonderin 8 pp ro why these two people had tlgi n g power to say what would be aittj c ] es what wouldn’t be, just becaui U a y they’re the authors. Bjjg To summarize Bob Dylan: Tla. first half is good, the sixtaj pages of pictures are OK, buttl last half is bad—very bad. T| solution : go down to your neigl borhood newsstand, plunk doal 25 cents, and walk off with hi* the story. The show’s main strength, though, probably lies in its de piction of the dogged determina tion of the post-war Jews to hold on to their long-lost homeland, a determination which is still burn ing just as intensely today. MtnlciArl Supply 'Piolu.'ie pum«4- Editoi The E SipssiriiBjSP! HUM r ....... w SB SLACKS, JEANS and WALK SHORTS with FaraPress ® NEVER NEED IRONING your best DRESS SLACKS at Casual Slack Prices! FARAH MANUFACTURING CO., INC. • EL PASO, TEXAS fo r 2 ^Pril itig” ]