cracy, and the national law, to produce a mystery-chiller. First novelists Misses Hutchins and Weston derive a sometimes less-than-suspenseful, but never unelaborwte melodrama while ig- noring any pathos or tragedy in the social situation. Accepted as such, the book moves rapidly along, with only occasional lapses of credibility. Mathew Scott, the main char- FAC. await nJuS reprieve ore ome a martyr. About here, even a re- viewer becomes convinced of the .ASirrationality of the fantastic plot which is only suggested in this aster, provokes and focuses the action of the story in his rogue- sairt role, combining journalism, justice, and jeopardy. He is sent to the small Southern town of Monagee City to glean from some- one else's back yard a segregation U U Headquarters For MEDICAL story for a national magazine. He naturally alienates the white resi- derts for attempting to exploit their moral problem for Northern profit. This reaction aligns Scott with the Negroes, and especially their attractive and sensitive school- toacher, Ellen Winters. Before the relationship is developed too far, she is killed one evening on a riverbank, which sees more activity than the Arboreuteum on a warm sprint night. Aer death causes a mystical conversion in Scott, convincing him of the need for his personal dedication to the plight of the Southern Negro. To increase tension, Scott is accused and even convicted of Ellen Winters' murder. whose story DENTAL NURSING PUBLIC HEALTH BOOKS and SUPPLIES Overbeck Bookstore 'FLOR ANY NEW BOOK upon such a prolifically-docmented subject as the city of Florence must al- ways need to recommend itself more strongly than its predeces- sors. The English firm of Bats- ford has added to the quantity of of this extensive literature with- out contributing much of quality: 1216 S. University Phone NO 3-4436 I CUSTOM HIGH FIDELITY' FACE OF MY ASSASSIN, by Jan A NOVEL of the South today" Hutchns an Caroyshouldnnot be a melodrama. Hutchins and Carolyn Weston, Segregation is only one of the Random House, New York, 498 pp., more obvious evidences of the gulf $4.95. of hatred and fear between men. As such, it is a social and moral he has put .before the nation's problem which needs to be dealt readers. The local sheriff has with far more seriously than this manipulated the courts, and a novel does on both the political majiority of the townspeople to and moral level. arrange the conviction. Segregation and the whole Southern situation -demand a Among the few -that he failed to Steryoftuandeadiganda terrorize with his stereotyped tac- mastery of understanding and tics, reminiscent of Faulkner's approach if they are to be used Percy Grimm in Light in August, well. Even William Faulkner's In- is the daughter of the local, be- truder in the Dust, his most seri- hind-the-scenes, inequality leader. ous attempt to write primarily She has fallen in love with Scott about segregation, suffers under and arranged his escape while in the weight of the problem and transit to the state prison. The becomes a second-rate novel. escape allows sufficient time for In American literature the social a sufficient liaison between lovers. novel has fared poorly as an art Scott sees the irrationality of the form when it has infrequently appeared. The maligned word "fraternity," abused most by those , wh~o display it as a banner, has been a difficult subject for the E N CE ' English-speaking writer. The lan- guage has been shorn of its vital- ity concerning the brotherhood of FLORENCE: by Kurt Otto-Wasow, man because the English-speaking studio: Viking Press, New York, people are perhaps the most pre- 1959, $5.95 tentious about this subject. In any analysis, a first novelist-- their Florence combines photo- and especially two joint first novel- graphs by Kurt Otto-Wasow with ists-should be wary of utilizing a an introduction and commentary social and political problem as the by Sylvia Sprigge, but the purpose theme for their beginning efforts. of such a combination is elusive. -Robert Ashton The colour photographs are ex- citing in their capture of the tones and texture of Florentine landscape and architecture; there are particularly fine pictures ofG the Bargello "John the Baptist' and of the Certosa di Galuzzo. But, equally, the photographer's imagination is at times weak: an uninspired view of the church at Fiesole, a side view of the Pitti (why not the impressive sweep of and GIFTS its main facade?), and an almost aerial view of the Palazzo Vecchio, which demands to be photo- graphed from the far side of the Piazza della Signoria from where one first sees it, however hack- neyed such a "shot" may be. BUT THE photography is the less disturbing feature of this book. The purpose of the com- mentaries which Miss Sprigge has contributed remains obscure. A stranger to Florence would not find it useful as a guidebook, for neither Miss Sprigge nor Batsford obviously intended to vie with Herr Baedeker or Le Guide Bleu.' Neither would anybody read it as a history, for Miss Sprigge is herself the first to acknowledge that her potted Etruscan history and chronological narrative can- not compare with facts from the better encyclopaedias. Her intro- duction is perhaps useful in artic- ulating certain historical associa- tions which the city has for the visitor, but these are mixed with a fugue of facts and some strange and often irrelevant allusions to nDg G Hitler, the Pre-Raphaelites, urunoge Beardsley and possible revivals of 307 South State the visual arts. Concluded on Page Eleven in all the world... no finer portable the Superb MODEL 1060 PORTABLE-CHAIRSIDE 6 HIGH FIDELITY PHONOGRAPH- TheE I uNilcC-te 300 S. THAYER NO 2-2500 "HE'S ONE-FOURTH DOCTOR, ne-fourth humorist and one- half witch doctor," said the stu- dent football manager as he pointed to Jim Hunt when the University of Michigan athletic trainer hustled out on the field to aid an injured football player. Now Hunt, one of the nation's best-known men in the field, doesn't believe that description is accurate. But it certainly is a good start in depicting the talka- tive little trainer who has grown up with his business. Hunt actually is a part-time doctor, part-time humorist, part- time teacher, part-time inventor, part-time philosopher, part-time morale builder-and he does a full-time job in each department during the school year. His spe- cialties are football and basket- ball but he aids all sports. At the University, he's ' been given unquestioned authority to withdraw any player from a game for an injury, which means that Hunt's decisions are perhaps just as crucial to Wolverine athletic fortunes as those of football coach Bump Elliott or basketball chief Bill Perigo. Because Hunt has this power, he prepares in advance by planning preventive programs and learning to recognize all phases of injuries to avoid their further develop- nent. Jim Benagh is Daily Sports Editor and a student in the literary college, majoring in journalism. first in wedding plans ..paper first in wedding papers - . As the first step in planning your wedding, we invite you to come to us and initiate the engraving of your invitations on Crane's Kid Finish, the choicest of papers for this most important moment in your life. 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He dipped cautiously into the past and confessed: "I used to have the interest . . . but .,. Then he jumped immediately back to the present-as if he had suggested that he violated medical ethics by thinking that his time at an athletic event was not 100 per cent concerned with the treatment and prevention of injuries. r JIM, as he has been called by athletes at Michigan for 13 years now, medical ethics mean a lot. In his undergraduate days at Minnesota he wanted to be a doc- tor, but the financial conditions were against him. So he chose a degree in physical education and certificate in physi- cal therapy as a second way of applying his interest to a career. He hasn't regretted the move either, despite the low pay. "I enjoy my work," he says with a sense of pride. His work involves a doctor's re- sponsibility in many respects and he is allowed to do many things that are off-limits to a regular therapist or a nurse. 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