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Merits and Morals. Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, a heartfelt story of South African racial problems, was admired as much for its merits as for its morals. So was the strangest parable of the year: Ernst Juenger's On the Marble Cliffs (published in Germany in 1939), in which, under a cunning mythological disguise, a talented former disciple of Hitler had denounced the Führer and all his works. In World Without Visa, a story of Marseille under the Vichy regime, France's Jean Malaquais wrote. perhaps the year's best political novel...
...BELOVED COUNTRY (278 pp.]-Alan Paton-Scribner...
...corneal operation is "a relatively simple procedure," according to Manhattan Ophthalmologist R. Townley Paton, one of the bank's founders. Chief requirements are a skilled surgeon and good eye material to work with. One eye will restore sight to three others because all the corneal tissue can be used (the cornea covers the whole iris), but each transplant needs to be only about average pupil size (see cut). Bandages come off in three or four days; stitches are out in a week...
...Council directs the activities of missionary groups in 28 countries. Chiefly responsible for these efforts is the Council's secretary (Chairman John R. Mott's title is honorary). Last week the Council elected a new British secretary-the Rev. Norman Goodall. He succeeds famed missionary Dr. William Paton, who died last August...
Cleared: the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest; of charges that he had exerted "undue influence" on 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Paton, who left him 30% of her $1,300,000 (which shrank to about $800,000). Her relatives, who had charged that the pastor had wooed the 230-lb. widow out of the money, said they would appeal...