THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, Notrember 10, 196 1 - 30
Fannie Hurst's New Novel Deals
Greenberg Talks About Breaking Homer Record
U. RIBALOW
as stating that Maris has no right record is greater now than it
With Intermarriage, Brothers' Feud By HAROLD
(Copyright, 1961,
to break the Ruth mark. As ever was:"
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Fannie Hurst, who already that Melanie, resisting him, ran
though there were something
A final note. When Greenberg
has 15 full-length novels to her into the kitchen, grabbed a HOME RUN HITTERS
ethical about it all! Greenberg hit his 58, he was getting $35,000
Now
that
Roger
Maris
has
credit, in addition to five other knife and threatened to kill
had another viewpoint:
a year. The next season he was
full-length books of a miscel- herself if Morris persisted. In broken all existing records for
"Naturally, I've been follciwing offered the same salary and he
hitting
home
runs
in
a
single
laneous character and many his attempt to wrest the knife
Alaris and Mantle with intense had to fight and argue for a
league baseball season we interest. I have a proprietory feel-
short stories
from her, Morris was stabbed major
can discuss the "Jewish" angle to ing toward Roger — a pride of $5,000 raise. It is estimated that
now has her
to death.
Maris will earn an extra $500,000
this home run madness. There is
sixteenth nov-
This was Felix's opportunity, one, because Hank Greenberg, authorship, you may call it—be- because of his 1'961 feat. I don't
el added to
as an eye witness to what had one of the greatest Jewish ball cause I was the one who brought begrudge it to him, for he did the
her glorious
happened in the last minutes players in history, managed to him into baseball.
job under extreme pressure and
career. Dou-
of the struggle between his hit' 58 in 1938.
"What I've grown to resent is I admired the way, when he was
bleday has
brother and his very young
a great inclination on the part of
As Maris came closer to the many to deprecate the feat even at bat; he stood at the plate and
just published
wife, to testify against the non-
swung evenly and smoothly. I
her "God Must
Jewess in the family. He record, sports reporters began to before it is accomplished. They felt that he had the nerve to do
interview
Greenberg
more
_in-
Be Sad." _
speak of all the lively ball, ex-
swore to an affidavit that
tensely, and genial Hank was pansion, dilution 'of pitching it. And I was glad to see it
The new nov-
Melanie had murdered her hus- always
happen.
willing
to
tell
his
tale.
el may not be.
strength, smaller ball parks and
band. But when • he was called
In
Sports
Illustrated,
Green-
her best, but it Fannie Hurst
all that nonsense. As much as I
to the witness stand, even at
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Many
certainly is one of her most the risk of perjuring himself he berg said something that he omit- revered the Babe, I still feel that delicacies served in _M i a m i
ed
in
his
daily
newspaper
inter-
he was not subjected to the
dramatic stories. It lends itself, told the actual story, quoting
views. He said to Roger Kahn, strains of day-and-night baseball, Beach restaurants are products
exceptionally well for dramati- M e-1 a n i e correctly, asserting who
of nearby waters and fields.
wrote
a
sensitive
piece
on
zation as a movie and it en- that the knife was not pointed the ordeal of Roger Maris, that the constant travel and the fran- Stone crabs and lobsters as well
hances her status as a novelist. toward her husband but toward "the year I hit 58 the fans got tic publicity commotion that has as fish and shrimp. are taken in
to be unsettling to the two young South Florida waters while the
Its plot. is sufficiently excit- herself, declaring:
pretty rough. Drunks called me
ing to hold the attention of the
"Truth is easier to live with. Jew bastard and kike, and I'd men. I'm convinced that the ac- avocado provides one of the
readers, although the brief pro- God help me, much as I wish come in and sound off about the complishment of breaking the favorite winter salads.
logue immediately releases the she were, she is not guilty."
fans. Then the next -day I'd meet
final developments in the story
This is the dramatic story of a kid, all popeyed to be shaking
Your Last
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SURF
by indicating that one of the a brotherly feud that arose out my hand, and I knew I'd been
hance To
characters is called...as the key of an intermarriage, of evolve- wrong. But the- writers protected
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witness in the "murder" trial. ments in a Jewish home into me then. Why aren't the writers
The story is about an aged which non-Jews entered with protecting - Maris now?"
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mother and her two unmarried fondness but out of which arose
—N. Y. Post—Saturday Review.
Y. Times—
Greenberg was discussing the RUSSIAN
ta
sons who respond to an adver- hatreds. Yet even the hatreds insistence , of the writers to talk MOVIE
SINCE
tisement and employ a practical could not quench a sense of to Maris at all times and to ask WORLD
FOUR STARS_!'
— N.Y. Daily News
nurse, Anne Reagan, to man- justice.
hiin all sorts of silly questions. -WAR II."
age their home.
—Time
Fannie Hurst's "God Must Be But what emerged to this reader
Magazine
Reagan conforms' to all the Sad" may well be included was the latent antilSemitism in
among
her
very
best
novels.
Jewish rites in the home, re-
some fans when they realized
tains its kashrut, assists in Jew-
that a Jewish player had a
ish traditional observances.
Delegates of Nigeria, chance to break Ruth's record.
Incidentally, Maris hit his 60th
The two brothers, confirmed
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home run in three fewer times
bachelors, sleep in the same Burma, India, Japan
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at bat than it took Ruth to hit
room, always are together, at-
his 60.
tend to the family business to- Laud Israel at Rome
"A MAN ESCAPED"
ROME, (JTA) — High praise
In general, Greenberg was
gether, lunch together, come
for Israel was' voiced by dele- rooting for the modern players
home together.
■
While the mother is alive, gates from Nigeria, Burma, In- like Maris and Mantle. Greenberg
this family relationship con- dia and Japan at the Congress was 27 the year he hit his 58, the
tinues—until the elder, Morris, of the Socialist International same age of Maris this year.
suddenly tells his brother he'll which concluded its sessions Greenberg was rather prophetic
in his observations in mid-Sep-
visit Reagan in her room on here.
Moshe Sharett, Israel's for- tember. "If I were Maris or Man-
the upper floor on a late eve-
ning. Then commences an un- mer Prime Minister and ex- tle," he said, "I'd forget the 154• •
DINING & DANCI
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interrupted series of visits, con- Foretgn Minister, led the Mapai game ruling and concentrate on •
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ducted clandestinely so that the delegation to the Congress at- hitting 61 homers in 162 games. : FEATURING DON
Old Woman, as the mother is tended by delegates from 40 If either breaks the record after :
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referred to, would not know countries, representing more the deadline set by the commis- •
than
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sioner,
who's
going
to
deny
the
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about it.
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honor?"
Sharett,
along
with
Belgium's
The Old Woman repeatedly
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He added that if the record •
Said that over her dead body Deputy Premier Spaak, Guy
would a son of hers -marry a Mollet, former Prime Minister were smashed, it would be "great
non-Jewess. That's exactly what of France; and Hugh Gaitskell, for baseball and especially great
happened: Morris' marriage to leader of the British Labor for the American League." Rog-
Reagan, as even the husband Party, was received at an of- ers Hornsby, the brilliant batter : 18952 Woodward (1 blk. S. of 7 Mile Rd.) TO 9-9373 :
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place after the mother's death. of Italy. Late r, Sharett ad-
But even before she died, the dressed a Socialist mass demon-
brother, Felix, began to show stration here. speaking in
his resentment. Reagan had French, and drawing great ap-
TO THE
come to their home with a plause.
Especially warm was the trib-
young daughter from a previous
marriage which ended in her ute to Israel paid by the dele-
husband's death before the gate from Nigeria. "Israel," he
child was born. Felix had taken said, "is . a true bridge of under-
a liking tO the child, but when standing between Africa and
Morris took an interest in Europe, as well as between Asia
Reagan he began to show ani- and Europe. In the achieve-
ments of Israel, we are aston-
mosity even to the child.
ished at what can be achieved
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A tense life began
with in
a short time by proper plan-
Felix plotting to acquire the
ning. Israel not only gives us
family fortune so that it should practical
help; she shows how
not fall into the hands of a to do things
to 3
in a constructive
non-Jewess. He held fast to a Way." His remarks
Israel
prejudice he inherited from his were applauded by all on
the dele-
mother, in spite of Reagan's gates.
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A member of the British
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at Greenfield
to manage a strictly Jewish Nigerian speech, said: "This ii
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