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...famous five who were killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador on Jan. 8, 1956 was Nate Saint (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956), and some clues to the making of a missionary are to be found in his biography, published this week under the title Jungle Pilot (Harper; $3.75). The author is Russell T. Hitt, editor of the interdenominational Protestant magazine Eternity, but as Editor Hitt admits, the book was more than co-authored by Nate Saint himself, who kept a diary in which his personality comes through strong and clear...
...laymen, the late Ernest Jones (1879-1958) is best known as the author whose massive The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953 et seq.) gave the world its best glimpse so far at what went on behind the brooding brow of the father of psychoanalysis. But Welsh-born Ernest Jones was also the No. 1 psychoanalyst of the English-speaking world. In Free Associations (Basic Books; $5), his unfinished autobiography published last week, Jones offers the world a posthumous look into his own lively mind...
Only rarely does a new author's first book of short stories announce much besides one more young lady who had a sheltered adolescence or one more young gentleman who did not. An exception was William Saroyan's The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, which created such a stir in the '30s. Lover Man, by Alston Anderson, 35, may not come up to Saroyan's Daring Voting Man, but at least it occupies the same ballpark. With this series Anderson introduces himself not only as a first-class writer, but also as an observer...
Corrupt Priests. With care and cynicism, Author Stacton builds his theory. Egypt's priesthood, Ikhnaton's mother reflects at one point, was "a series of venal officials ... a branch of the police, and only slightly more corrupt." Yet she is well aware that "corruption is the price we have to pay for order." Her son might have realized it too, had he possessed only that measure of insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone...
...gentle glowing phosphorescence of decay, Stacton's characters search for some meaning to life. Such a unicorn hunt cannot succeed, of course, but it has its impressive moments -Stacton's people talk very well. They may, in fact, talk a bit too well; after a time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific erudition. "The one thing wisdom does foolishly," Stacton chisels in the enduring wood pulp, "is to overlook the power of folly." And "though women, like cats, enjoy boredom and derive...