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twwwHwwwwwHMlwmtHWHwwtwMwwlitlwl.ll.i(ll i'a i a tirunh. Sun Nov. 20, 190(1 47 IlBcsi Sellers (Compiled liv Weekly) TIIK SKCKIOT OF SANTA VITTOKIA, Crichton Author Looks Back fi; VALLKY OK TIIK DOLLS, Susann CArAIlLi; OF IIONOK, Drury TAI-I'AN. Clavell TIIK 1 'IX LI NON FICTION QAMKH TLOrLK riY, r.erne HOW TO AVOID TKOIIATK, Dacey KI SII TO Lane KVKKYTHINO IHT MONKY, Ivenson WITH KKNNKDY, Salinger "Th Bl Tim," By John Do Pittot. Nw Amrlcn library A sprightly, exuberant, con- versational memoir, full of name dropping and a not altogether modest account of his experiences as a young adventurer, this is Dos Pa.isos informal story of his life Into the 1930s, when somehow managed to reach the agt? of 40.

Withers Caters To Varied Tastes He enjoys being a raconteur. His stories have virtually noth By Th Library Staff -M uSvj JJ ing to do with his own writing There something for every HooUs iV Art career; he barely mentions one a group ot attractive new books at Withers Library. what books and articles he was working on. He makes only perl- Eight Characters With a Parade To Go To For advocates of best sellers, there'i Louis Nizer's thriller, the Hope witticisms and tells a'pheral references to his flirta-blt, too, about what life Is likejtion with the left wing, way "The Jury Returns. Here, as in his very popular My Lifo in for our troops in Southeast, back there between the wars.

Asia. Court, America's most famous trial lawyer gives dramatic ac Deo. (at 10 a.m.) and Galesburg Deo. 4. The parade has nine storybook float plus Kuril other walkers as I'lnonhio, Humpty Dumpty and Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Sprat. Little Ked Hiding Hood and her friends lined up for a clas photo, will march with 40 other "walking units" in the Illinoi cities Marting this tvek. The Streckfuss Enterprises Santa Claus parade, a creation, will be staged in 1 Salle and Rockford Friday, Springfield Saturday, Normal on In fiction, the reader will find Pictum FatW He begins with a sketch of counts of four fascinating trials many titles-in-the-news-today Goatbov hv Jnhn Rarlh "ls no seemea 10 oe on in which he has been involved. Biography buffs will welcome describes the fantastic adven-llne wron side of every turcs of a boy fresh from thehe evcr to 5Pe Thn Tba Plaasurt of Hit Company by Paul Fay, Carson Kanin's Remombtring Mr.

Maugham farm as he meets and topples ne io ms own prann Road Writer Puts Sh ow on the problems of city civihza stcrish experiences in World War I as a member of an ambulance corps in France and a and Tha Diary of Anaii Nin. tion. Critics acclaim this as In the first book an old friend satire of major importance. Also in the "modern" fiction, Cross unit in Italy. writes of a different John F.

stored It. Dick By Tom Gumbrell The Santa Claus parade Mary Jane Streckfuss. erst- Decatur had wrote a letter. category are In Gd Wt Trit, moves from Farm Bureau Field while housewife, already had One chapter he has titled The bold October tun made1 All Others Pay Cash by Jean Sinbad." which tips you off to IMU Vic- i ill" Biaiiiim uiwimii-u iwu i.n.ujr c.u OL I. I I ni riirn unn i iraaiii at irwia Finally Scores i 10.000 creations for her hu Kennedy.

Here is the JFK of joyous hours, someone the Schlcsingers and Sorensons didn't know. Garson Kanin and his actress wife Ruth Gordon were friends t', the relish with which he re- by Harry M. PetraklS. Lemher hnnndin around in 7' the dav after Thanksgiving, against a background of thresh- tni? marhine Normal is one of the five. band's endeavors.

Readers who prefer histonca the Near Eastf pcrsia( Turkey on For the Baby Animal Circus The parade there will be Five men struggled to movel, Dec 3 al a fiction will welcome a fictional "I was always doing things like this," he says, "and nothing ever came of them. This time I got a letter back saying tL A i ...1 n- I she was seamstress, sign paint ZJr ivJ ,1 spell he had the thrill of aC.i 3 5, ien being junior type Lawrence of of being a junior type uie Kidiii snow in. irorn one rui In snotlr The men unrJ 0n a tnt -ier' tlcket takeF' Chauffeur. de" man should move easier. So signer, truck driver, bookkeep- "I couldn't believe it.

in Absorbing Fire. Paris in Na Arabia. the remnants of a great wit and genius in this portrait of unowman couldn't "I went right down to give the stuff a look. There were nine poleon's day provides the background for Valentina by Evelyn "top" novelist done by a loyal Paris Crowd floats and some walkine figures friend. Anthony His chapter on yesterday's all needing a lot of repair and Tha Diary of Anais Nin is a Miss Bianca in tha Saltmines iiirarv life is full of refer- paint and trim.

Jiiinr wnTwift mm vai or tractors pulling them. and tender. But the dress rehearsal had! For the Santa Claus parade its points. dropped the ticket taking One was to see how fast the and lion tending functions, but wagons could be turned into! added a few others, parade Tarpaulins had to By conservative estimate (her come off. Hinged characters husband's), she already has put (Miss Muffet et al) had to shoot in something like 2.000 hours on third biography of importance in the week selections "Decatur wanted to sell.

They Other men and one strong boy tugged at wagons that carried Miss Muffet and her friends. Wives and daughters had become Humpty Dumpty, Pinoc-chio, Jack Sprat. Mrs. Sprat. Jack and Jill.

Little Bo Peep, a vertical tortoise and a giraffe as tall as a young tree. by Margery Sharp describes an- ences t0 Fitzgerald and Hem-other charming adventure ofingway ancj tne paris crowd that inimitable mouse "Miss the 1920s plus the early Green-Bianca." She and her cohorts wich Viilage seti whicn he pro. 'Mi said $1,500. 1 said, 'Sure. Anyone interested in current "I borrowed $300 from the events is advised not to neglect Overtaken by Events by John Bartlow Martin.

The former rescue o-edr-iu icuuy jrourfesses to have held in disdain. company credit union and ther $1,200 from a bank that de intn nlare. Folding sides had to, the parade. tne horrors or the salt mine. iinWk and Ihnn Wk ooain BUt UlCK estimates niS OWn U.S.

ambassador to the Domini Later there was a devil-may- Religious literature makes 3 Then Santa Claus showed up involvement at 1.000 hours (not mands to remain anonymous. "The bank president told me Another point was to test the gamble 1928 trip to Leningrad can Republic gives' a hard-hit headline news today. Thomas a vision in red felt. units. Humpty Dumpty, it turned, bad for a guy with a regular 'Don't tell anyone you borrowed ting account of the 1965 crisis Altizer new book The Gospel and Moscow, followed by a out.

was ece enoueh to stand J0D'- ana a joi oi oun-r peup.c money on a parade from this bank. in that country and the events that led up to it. of Christian Atheism is an im- gruelling hiking trip in the Cau-portant, and casus Mountains, and a final almost anything. Picture Time Boss's Wife philosophical. On the lighter side, there's "But I thought the parade work by one of the leaders of look at Key West, where at have totaled at least that many more.

The effort would suggest that the Streckfuss Enterprises parade is much more than just a Mother Goose mob scene. It is. the "new" theology. i last he got fed up with Hem- Dress Rehearsal This was some mob scene from Mother Goose land. It was also a dress rehearsal for a Santa Claus parade.

Somebody counted 40 men. women, boys and girls. There Ess, Ess, Mein Kindt (translation: Eat, Eat, My Child) an wasn't big enough. So I booked a calliope (from the Bloomington Shrine Club) and planned For those who like adventure ingway's archful athletic pos- A man cried Hold it, every- other book touched with Harry in their reading, the library has tures. some new units.

Target by William W. Haines, al Mm again to teU a Christmas story that sometime? is overlooked in body." Then pictures were taken for use in Rockford. La Salle, World War Two thriller; Beyond I WU3 "Wlk "And I wrote for the camels." It was understandable that Golden magic. This collection of witty, nostalgic and shrewd observations on life in the U.S. will please many readers.

might have been fiO. if all the Santa Claus parades. When it rolls for the first time in La Salle Friday, starting at 10 a.m., it will show the people warmth and color enough to Tomorrow by Damon Knight, aisei.0Ul a veiera" "ier rp. i Springfield and Galesburg. The bovs and girls counted Mary Jane Streckfuss quit fine collection of science fiction review wiwr.

tales, and a new Western story 1S storyteller Camels Commentary paraue win oe in inose cuies next Friday, Saturday and on Bob Hope tells of three speaking to her husband, Dick, turn a cold day mild. by Dwight Bennett entitled reminiscences apoui nis gusto- now concedes. The explanation: But the camels also say some place was Farm Bureau Field east of Bloomington. a storybook setting with silos. If a hectic rehearsal guaran Sunday, Dec.

4 Christmas trips to Vietnam in Fiva Women I Love. It's full of1 Crooked River Canyon. participation in we lasn- He had an original debt of thing about Dick Streckfuss. For Normal, the people of Started in Clinton 500, a camel debt of $2,500 and Streckfuss Enterprises parade "It wasn't so much buying the tees success for the real thing. at that point, little more than (promoters a be picture lonaDie Dravaao oi nis own time.

He is an adept, spice-sprinkling observer of a special era. AP parade that got my wife," he Nothing was skimped on In the renovation of a parade that this one should have insured ai parade that needed 4,000 enough. says. "It was renting the cam smash. hours of repair, painting and Short-Story Volume Leads Offerings at Normal Library els for 16 days for $2,500 O.

C. Polston, onetime Clinton sign painter, first put together Richard Streckfuss, the boss, is a Pantagraph reporter who trimming. Streckfuss "got the show bug" some 15 years ago. for years has been building a sometime between starting the Many new features were add Looking Up Gladys Taber's new book One Baby Animal Circus (to make reputation as no minuscule nut The record is clear. If he wasn't sending back dis Dozen and One, a delightful col But things brightened over the of I Faculty To Display Art The 42nd annual Faculty Ex a "kids' pet ring" self-support 4 ed, too, like the giant snowman and a religious float with an illuminated star measuring 10 of magazines and books, radio and television broadcasters, public officials and public speakers, with its purpose to WOT rf'K next five months.

lection of short stories, leads ing) and his trip to Mexico in patches from a Mississippi Riv the list of new books at the Galesburg was signed in May. 19G3-64. er tugboat, he was sending feet in diameter. Mr. Polston.

now living in Then came Normal, La Salle, hibition of the University of Illi make publishers and broadcast Normal Public Library. Miss Tabor's fans will remember her them, soaked to the onion skin, Rockford, and, by the end of nois department of art will open ers secure when saying what should be said and picturing August, Springfield. from a flatboat on the Mack inaw. Texas, was consulted about the strange materials that parades require. Then orders went out.

He went south to try writing short stories. He found himself hanging around Mexican circuses. He bought the giraffe and a pair of clown shoes, then ran into a man who tried to sell Together the contracts totaled Stillmeadow books. Other new additions are The House on the Cliff by D. E.

Stevenson, Don Quixote, U.S.A by If he wasn't writing, he was $8,000. "It cost an awesome amount, in Tennessee buying a lion for what should be pictured. The Beauty of America In Great American Art is beautifully illustrated in color. Its six "Mary Jane began speaking says Streckfuss. today at Krannert Museum, Ur-bana.

Forty five, faculty members will show more than 140 works they have created. The exhibition will continue through Dec. 11. The museum to me again," says her husband, the Miller Park Baby Animal Circus (1961-62) or in Mexico him the United States franchise Aluminum tubing came from Richard Powell, Open the Door by Hildegarde Dolson, The Cor- "and that's good. At least she for peddling 35-foot-long animat chapters concern early land Louisiana to provide the frame (1963-64) buying a two-man speaks to me when there's ed dinosaurs.

scapes and village life, the sea work for new figures. rupted Land by Fred J. Cook, Strike from Space by Phyllis giraffe suit. time." and the coast, the western fron Angel puff came from Texas, "I never got going on that," While he was writing, he al The Streckfuss Enterprises Schafly, Say it Safely by Paul is open free to the public from tier, the American city, yester- foil from New Jersey, fringe says Dick, but a Santa Claus ways had two or tnree otner P. Ashley and The Beauty of day and today, the American 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Mondays from Minnesota, sequins irom parade wasn't such a far cry interests going a farm near America in Great American landscape in the 20th century through Saturdays and from 2 Missouri and something called doesn't expect to make any money in its first year. Reason enough would be the work still to come "15 people. 10 cars -A- Art published by Country Beau Heyworth, giant earthworms in Australia, a press agent's job and the interior life. to 5 p.m.

Sundays. Celastex from New York. "I can also tell you we used from dinosaurs. He decided to buy O. C.

Pol-ston's parade after watching Bloomington's parade a year ago. tiful Foundation, Inc. The House on the Cliff con (which didn't quite materialize) and two trucks to haul it from with the Clyde Beatty Circus. town to town." 25.000 staples," said the entrepreneur of Streckfuss Enterprises, "and the Santa Claus tains laughter, love, intrigue and suspense with its setting But Dick is cheerful and Mary Something for Wife Jane philosophical about the fu in Devonshire. Chafsworth Native's Book Delves Into Psychology Sister Mary Annice (Margaret ichology at the University of Ot- float has 1,200 lights." "I thought the Bloomington parade needed some floats, and I happened to know where some Then in December, a year Don Quixote, U.5.A concerns What parade spectators will Parade Boss ture.

"At least I've got a parade," says Dick. ago, he bought a genuine Scot Arthur Peabody Goodpasture, a see first are two large letters tish bagpipe for his wife to play young Bostonian in the Peace Mary Donovan of Chatsworth) tawa in Canada and the Univer- were." Polston had sold his parade to Decatur a few years earlier. and a Santa Claus parade to a parade, says Corps. He gets involved in a 12 feet high. They say, "Hi." Local Units, Too "He's got Mary Jane.

as 1962 clown. is the author of a book just sitv of Salzburg in Austria give her something else to do, puonsned Dy Pageant Press. revolution in the Republic of San Marco in the Caribbean. Open the Door is the author's Local bands, church choirs The book title is in the form and other units will be inter of a question: "In What Is Man spersed in each city with the She is on the faculty of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, where she has served as chairman of both the psychology and the philosophy departments.

Her new book was the result of a year's study in psychology Streekfuss floats and 48 12th book. It concerns Janet Campbell, an editor, and Emery Winters, a writer, two small children, a cat, and is written So Human?" In it, Sister Annice attempts to add another dimension to psychology, to make it take in "walkin? units." The first of the floats will oe with grace, charm and wit. The Corrupted Land, the So one tnai oears a sign, in land," and features Raggedy on a writing grant-in-aid at the University of Duquesne in cial Morality of Modern Ameri Ann and Raggedy Andy (creat to account those immeasurable "qualities in man which set him apart from lower animals." The Chatsworth native received her Ph.D. in philoso ca. Here is an expose of cor ed bv Mrs.

Streckfuss) behind ruption throughout the nation, The author is the sister of a rocking horse. with a chapter each on Billie Then will come the floats oi Mrs. Adolph Haberkorn Sr. and phy and political science from Sol Estes and Bobby Baker, along with accounts of college Mother Goose herself, Little Miss Muffet, Goldilocks and the the University of Notre Dame John Donovan of Chatsworth and has taken courses in psy- and James Donovan of Chenoa. Three Bears, the Land of oz, and the Circus, the latter sur rounded bv jugglers, clowns, a UPalivision unicycle rider and the 12-foot cheating rackets, "petty" thievery and shoplifting, TV Quiz shows, all presenting nerve-shattering evidence that society is adrift in a sea of nonethics.

Strike from Space, how the Russians may destroy us. The authors consider Viet Nam a ciraffe bought in Mexico. Next will be Miss Merry Christmas (local entry) in a sieicrh nulled bv two white "-'0" i ponies. Then Santa Claus, with Ru diversion welcomed by the Salvador Dali Is not above acknowledging that he's a genius, and American television audiences will be getting a chance, probably next season, to decide for themselves whether he lives up to his own estimate. Seven Arts Television has completed a one-hour TV film, "The World of Salvador Dali," which is intended to give viewers a fresh look at the painter whose "follies" have been his greatest USSR because it requires spending billions on convention dolph and his eight regular i la ii rev a i roinHper no front, on a float I al equipment rather than on nu that measures 35 feet long and clear power.

Say It Safely is a essential twinkles like a meteor shower. Last of the floats will be the wm working tool designed for day- to-day use by authors, person religious one but someinmg else comes after that. aC 'i nel of newspapers, publishers Three camels. Three genuine camels, brought from California The movie, filmed mostly at Dali's villa In Spain, goes minutely into his claim that he is not more ham actor than artist, but simply so creative that what seems bizarre or outlandish to the ordinary man is really natural to his singular imagina iraffe and Sidekicks at a cost of $2,500 for tne live Giant Snowman practices a greeting to the kids. parade dates.

Th ramels will carry the A total of 68 players on National Football League rosters in the 1965 season were from Texas. tion. (Ill) Three Wise Men local people with Santa Claus float in background..