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<£* Thursday, September 17,1984 M c H EN R Y PLAIN D E ALE R - ' * / ' * "•* Established 1875 8812 West Elm Street Phone 385-0170 Published Every Thursday at McHenry, Illinois by McHENRY PUBLISHING COMPANY. Larry E. Lund Publisher Adele Froehlich, Editor Second Class Postage Paid at McHenry, Illinois NATION At EDITORIAL innnnv A \ aMiTiflTiQw «§>C0TI^N Subscription Rates r> In McHenry County ** Outside McHenry County 1 Year $4.00 1 Year $4 50 6 ... $2.25 6 Mos $2 50 3 Mos. ... $1.50 3 Mos. $i 75 Libri Corner Main and Green Sts. HOURS 2 to 5 p.m. Daily, Including Saturday: Friday Evenings: 7 to 0 p.m. 1 ADULT NON-FICTION "CHEAPEST IN THE END" by Madeline Bingham This is the author's keynote to the warm and animated story of her family and especially of her handsome half- French father. Father, a member of a London decorating firm, had a roaring voice, a quick temper, and a robustious love of food, amateur music, gardens, and home. He was a man, furthermore, who knew his own mind and stuck to it, despite the efforts of his wife, his children, business associates, men of the Church, and even inanimate objects to change it for him. If this did not make for a peaceful life, at least it never was a dull one. And the lively household that revolved about Father learned from him that life was not a self-opening oyster, but that one had to take a knife and get on with it. There are hilarious episodes of travels abroad, of Father's shopping expeditions in which "the best was the cheapest in the end," of his daughter's struggles to circumvent his very no^-permissive Edwardian chaperonage. And if sometimes there were disappointments and sorrow, Father had given his children a sense of family and of home, which is a sen^e of security, a raft to swim back to when the ship has sunk. Madeleine Bingham, who is Lady Clanmorris in private life has written several novels and plays. She is the wife of John Bingham, one of Britain's foremost mystery writers, and is the mother of Charlotte Bingham, whose first novel, "Cornet Among The Weeds," was published recently. "POMPADOUR" by Jacques Levron On the day of her death, almost exactly 200 years ago, the Marquise de Pompadour entered into legend. No woman in the history of France has been so loved, and lauded and libel, ed. A beauty and an intellectual, and a king's mistress who deeply influenced the politics and destiny of Europe, her very name has become the symbol of everything from pure romance to political intrigue. In a lively and colorful biography, based exclusively on authentic sources, and including many hitherto unpublished UNDER 21 A column lor teen-agers By Dan Halligan DEAR DAN: The most wonderful boy in the world has started paying me some attention but so far hasn't asked me out. How can I let hirh know I'll accept a date? -- Really Anxious. DEAR REALLY ANXIOUS: Play it cool. Be friendly but don't fall all over yourself. You'll get the date without any problem, 1 think. DEAR DAN: The boy I'm going to our spring formal with next month doesn't drive so we planned to double with a friend of his who does drive. Last night when I told Daddy this he blow up. He's heard some other things about this other boy, bad things, and ,says I can't get in a car with him even if I am with another boy. Dan, whatever am I going to do? Daddy means business but I just can't tell my date his friend is too wild for my father's taste, can I? -- Doubting Miss. DEAR DOUBTING MISS: Make everything easy on yourself by realizing you're going to have to obey your father. Knowing that, you have niont of your problem licked. The next thing to do In to tell your date. Then it will be up to him to Work out something. Since you didn't say what your father heard about the boy wasn't true, then he's the "rewards" of his wildness. I realize tills puts you on the spot but I suppose life has to be complicated for all of us. DEAR DAN: I think my ex-girl friend's sister likes mo and would date me if I asked her. The trouble is that I went steady with the sister for nearly a year and I was the one who broke up with her. So she might think if I start coming around that I'm trying to get back in with her. What do you think I should do? Bobby. DEAR BOBBY: Unless dating the sister is a life or death proposition, I think you should pass. If your former girl still likes you, she might get the wrong ideas, as you say. She also might be embarrassed. Save yourself a possible headache by not dating the girl. DEAR TEEN-AGERS: As of about June 10 many of you high school students will be all primed to take on summer jobs. But as of Juno 10. most of the jobs will be gone. They'll be taken by kids who this week, last week and next week will be and were out making application. There «*ire at least three positive steps you can make: Visit your local employment office, run a "situations wanted" ad in this newspaper and go from store to store and business to business talking to the managers. But do all this now, not next week or next month. In addition to working as clerks, office help, box boys and warehouse men, you girls can also consider summer-Ion?: baby-sitting jobs. You boys might give a thought to caddying and, snow or no snow, tyou might even be able to line up a large number of lawn mowing jobs on a regular schedule. It doesn't matter how small your community might be. there are jobs available for a large percentage of you. But apply now. When applying in person, remember: have confidence in yourself, dress neatly and conservatively and answer all questions as fully as possible and honestly. As important as anything is this: the boss man or boss lady may look stern and lough, but he or she was once as shy as you. Go to it and good luck! or little known documents, Jacques Levron has given us a fairer picture of this famous woman than most of her biographers so far. It is neither a speach for the defense nor an essay in justification. The author does not hide the failings or errors of the favorite; he simply reveals the facts, but does not interpret them. From this story emerges the impression of a woman whose .strongest feeling was for the grandeur of France, who defended it to the end in the midst of intrigues and cabals at a court that was almost wholly against her. She was a patroness of art, who gave her name to the style of the time. In social life she used her influence to bring some harmony and moderattion to a world in effervescence. Jacques Levron is well qualified for his task. A professional archivist and historian, he is today the conservateur en chef of the wonderful archives of Seine-et-Oise and the lie de France at. Versailles. The portrait he offers of the famous Marquise gives him the opportunity to evoke the society of eighteenth century France, the, most, brilliant epoch in that nation's history. "SHAKESPEARE" a biography by Peter Quennell In this outstanding biography, the noted biographer and critic Peter Quennell provides an account of Shakespeare's life and literary development against the historical background of his age. His is a composite impression of the poet and his milieu, for Quennell believes that it is only through a knowledge of the period--and now it affected the artist's development -- t^iat we can hope to reach the man himself. What do we know of Shakespeare as a human being and a writer? Although he left behind few actual records, from 1593 onward there are numerous references to the literary reputation he was skillfully and rapidly building. Peter Quennell refuses to accept the suggestion that the Shakespearean comedies and tragedies may have been written by another hand, or that there is any reason why Shakespeare himself should not have been equal to this gigantic task. Facts indicate that the poet was no obscure and illiterate actor, but the offspring of a respectable middle-class family, clearly bent on improving the social position he had inherited. He was an ambitious, educated young man who, after a rather unfortunate marriage, arrived in London determined to make his way. It was there that he met Southampton, an enthusiastic playgoer, already known as a "dear lover and cherisher of poets"; Quennell points out that it was to Southampton that the rising dramatist dedicated his early poems, and it was probably he who inspired the Sonnets. It w a s p r e s u m a b l y t h r o u g h Southampton that Shakespeare was introduced into the circle of the Earl of Essex, under English hisorical dramas and which influence he wrote his courtly comedies. Quennell presents detailed portraits of Essex, Southampton, Walter Raleigh, the Cecils, father and son, and the magnetic sovereign whom they all served. Here, too, is a recounting of how the attractive and generous Essex, have aspired to wield the highest authority in the kingdom but failing to keep the Queen's favor, eventually fell from grace, attempted to organize a coup d'etat, and was condemned to die a traitor's death. There can be little doubt that Shakespeare was deeply affected by Essex's revolt and tragic end, maiintains Quennel, and there is an obvious resemblance between the rebel Earl, who felt there was "something rotten" in the state of England, and the re- THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Section One -- rage F1W bellious, but irresolute, Prince of Denmark. CHILDREN'S BOOKS "THADDEUS LOWE" (tfilcle Sam's First Airman) by Lydel Sims "Anybody could make a kite, but it took planning and hard work to make one strong enough and airworthy enough to carry a living passenger. And that was only the beginning. Kites and cats were for practice." --Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, age 16 Although Thaddeus Lowe's aspirations were newsworthy in Higham Center, New Hampshire, certainly no one really thought Thaddeus would become a daring young baloonist. Here is the life story of the man who organized an" Aeronautics corps for the Union Army, conducted countless aerial- reconnaissances, became "the most shot-at-man in the Civil War," and saved the Army of the Potomac from destruction at Fair Oaks. Lowe flew a distance of 900 miles in a balloon he himself constructed, and during the course of the Civil War he built up a fleet of observation balloons that served in many engagements. An inventor as well, Thaddeus Lowe was responsible for the first artificial ice in the United States and he eqquiped a steamer with refrigeration for hauling perishable foods. At the age of 80, when Thaddeus Lowe died, he was cited in one scientific publication mainly for his inventions and engineering ability, while his balloon exploitation was mentioned briefly. Perhaps that was because America in 1913 was more concerned and interested in airplanes. Yet the name of Thaddeus Lowe was to be heralded again, when America's balloon experiments were just beeinning years later. "NURSE AROUND THE WORLD" (Alice Fitzgerald) by Iris Noble Alice Fitzgerald, a glamorous young debutartte, shocked her family when she decided to become a nurse. At the turn of the century nursing was considered a degrading profession, but Alice was drawn to it and turned from her life of idleness among the rich. Allien she entered the nurse training school at John Hopkins, she little dreamed that she would achieve world-wide fame. Although Alice realized that her former life was poor preparation for the arduous life of a nurse, she never wavered in her purpose. A diligent stu-1 dent, she discovered with joy her natural ability for healing and, before long, her talent for teaching that gift to others. In 1908 she was in Italy when the island of Sicily was shattered by an earthquake, and her prompt, heroic action in caring for the wounded saved many lives. When World War I erupted, she served as a nurse with the British Army on the front lines n France. After America entered the war, she traveled throughout Europe setting up hospitals, helping with problems of language and customs among medical personnel and patients. Later she became chief nurse for the American Red Cross, fighting disease and starvation among Europe's homeless millions and organizing modern nursing schools in key cities. She pioneered the work of public health nursing in the United States and the Philippines, and established nursing schools in the Far East. Her work was so outstanding and so beneficial, grateful countries all over the world, honored her with decorations and medals. An inspiring story of a woman who met the adventure of life with a rare mixture of charm, zest and humility. ^I>ULT FICTION "ARMAGEDDON" by Leon Uris Bowling Shirts & Blouses $495-$695 SUY 4 - Get 5th FiEE Featuring: Hilton -- Olypian Munsingwear Shirts Ernie's SPORT CENTER 1210 N. Green Si. McHenry The author of "Battle Cry", "Exodus", and "Mila L'", has written his most important notfol. "Armageddon" is the story of the origin of the cold w&r in stlife-torn post-war Germany. It tolls of the incredible struggle for Berlin from its capture by the Russians in 1945, •through the* years of four-powor occupation, to the airlift - one of the most heroic episodes in American history. Sean O'Sullivan, a young American officer who has lost two brothers in the war, is made Military Governor of the German town. Early in the occupation he faces a personal crisis: He must decide whether or not to save a condemned Na/.i from death, in the face of Ins .own hatred of all things Herman, and of the whole world's indignation over Nazi atrocities. Later he moves on to the great arena of Berlin, where he falls in love; against iiis will, with Ernestine Falkensiein. . Ernestine's^JLJncle Ulrich. one of the few Germans who stood against Hitler, has returned from a concentration camp to lead the Berlin'ers in their rebirth. On the other side of the Brandenburg Gate, Russian Colonel Igor Karlovy tries to recapture the joy of his youth through Lotto Bohm and forget his wife, a high-ranking Communist in Leningrad. They play out their bittersweet love affairs as the Russians and Americans clash in an Armageddon for the minds of the Borliners, the German nation, and the world. "Armageddon" is the story of how a thin line of American and British soldiers on the European continent held back a mighty Red tide, of how Berlin became the most important place on the face of the earth. The book's climax--the airlift - tolls of the beginning of America's new attitude toward responsibilities and the invincibility of free men when they stand defiant. "The God Hunters" by William Kelley In "The God Hunters", William Kelley biaiigs to full power the extraordinary complex of literary gifts ttiat commanded, for his first novel, "Gemini", immediate critical acclaim. The central matter of his new novel is spiritual struggle. His mode is an exuberant play of wit flashing \,over a profound and subtle perception of individual mot ives, of emotional nuancc, of the intellectual and moral content of American life today. He sets before the reader the brilliant world of the Americanbaronial Strycker family. Aubrey and his twin brother, Arnie, have been raised on a walled coumVy estate, among the prie-dieux, holy pictures and incense pots with which their -debutante mother, Rexfordia, decorates her conversion to a Catholicism plus catholique le pape. There they have lived "in the thirteenth century," only to be catapulted periodically into the age of Darwin, Marx and Freund at every roaring visitation of l heir (divorced) father--Kermit, millionaire ship owner, movie magnate, big game hunter, hunter after immortality. Out of the clash between their mother's religiosity and their father's iconoclasm, out of thp fury of the holy wars that aie a commonplace of Strycker family intercourse--cascades of repartee that mask both love and anger--the twins come of age uneasily aware that something beyond animality has been irritated into existence within them, and poised for flight from the burdens it im- I>oses. For Aubrey the escape route has been directly into the Church itself, until, wrenching himself from the dangers of a life of easy and mechanical piety, he makes application to the austere order of the Saharan Fathers. The meaning of his decision, indeed, the essence of his priesthood and his manhood, is challenged by Arnie, his twin, who himself has fled into mysticism and madness-- a madness that seems to have intensified his perceptions as well as the compound of love and bitter rivalry that binds him to Aubrey. Their father commands Aubrey to nold fast to the world. Their mother wants for him the best of earth and heaven--in a fashionable progress upward through the Chuich. And the ultimate challenge comes from his step-sister, Julie - beautiful, intelligent, loving ^.mocking advocate of a return to Eden through the casting away of all repression. To her, Aubrey is at first an irrestible target, then a dear object to be seduced that he ra-ay be brought to life. These/are the God Hunters of thet/tle. How in the direct or fflevious manner of their pursuing^ they act upon themselves and upon each other,-is unfolded through a progession of dazzling scenes, in a novel that exhilarates by its emotional and intellectual power. ADULT FICTION "ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE" by Ian Fleming (A James Bond novel) Ian Fleming's James Bond is the world's most famous secret service agent. His adventures have attracted an international coterie of the literate and the sophisticated, a readership that includes prime ministers and presidents, and doubtless kings and queens. In "On H-n Majesty's Secret Service" James Bond -- who works under the code "name" 007 (the tiouble-O prefix signifies license to kill, who has thwarted such tainted geniuses as Dr. No and Goldfinger -- makes a mistake no secret service man should ever make. Impossible as it would seem, Bond, the eminently successful bachelor, loses his heart. Her name? Countess Teresa dl Visenzo . . . Tracy. Blueeyed, with a helmet of golden hair, shocking-pink lips, a ra«: vishing body, and a soul in., despair -- she comes Into^ Bond's life on a sparkling Sep-f tember afternoon. He rescues her from disaster. And before the next day's sun has set she involves him in the one adventure he will never in his life be able to forget. The adventure pits Bond once more against Ernest Stavro Blofeld, head of international crime syndicate known as Spectre, architect of an atomic blackmail scheme that came perilously close to success in Thunderball, the evil manipulator who now puts the finishing touches to his plot for murder on a mass scale. As the action races from the musty halls of Britain's College of Arms to the dangerous ski trails of the Swiss Alps, the reader watches Bond become both quarry and pursuer . . . and marvels as Fate, guided by the master hand of Ian Fleming, twists circumstances to bring the secret agent the fullness of victory, the bitter agony of defeat. 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