Friday, February 12, 1943
DAILY NEBRASKAN
5
Alcove
Booknotes
BY BOB W4LKINS.
Books to be reviewed in this
Week's column are selected to give
So students an idea of the type of
eading that is available in the
Llcove, a new addition to the uni
versity library originated to make
ivailable to students books of a
lighter nature than those found
in the rest of the library.
All of the Alcove books are
ivorth while and cover a wide vari
ty of contemporary subjects. It
8 up to the students to take ad
vantage of this opportunity. This
weekly column is written to ac
luaint students with some of the
mtstanding Alccove books.
War Story.
"The Raft," by Robert Trum
bull, is the story of three Ameri
?an navy fliers, Harold Dixon,
Tony Pastula and Gene Aldrich,
f were forced down m tne f&-
flic. They scarcely naa ume 10
et themselves and their four-by-tight
foot rubber raft out of the
(lane. "The Raft" tells, in Dixon's
$wn words, the story of days with
out food and water, and exposure
to the rays of the equatorial sun
fcy day and the cold by night. It
Is also the story of courage and
ingenuity.
j When it rained they caught the
fcater in the folds of their rubber
life jackets. Dixon devised a
fcrude navigation chart by which
they planned their course. They
made oars out of the soles of their
ihoes. Finally, after a thousand
Biile journey and over a month at
lea, the raft reached the shores
f a small, uninhabited Pacific
fcland. A week later they were
iescued by an American warship.
JThe Raft is an outstanding chap
ter in the story of war and sea.
Pre-war England.
In contrast with the turmoil of
ar today, the scene of Christo
pher Morley's most recent novel,
TThorofare," is a quiet English
Tillage in the late nineteenth cen
tury. In the latter part of the
the scene shifts to twentieth
J iry America.
j torley's autobiographical novel
the story of the adventures of
Jeoffrey Barton, an English boy,
fom the time of his arrival in
e United States at the age of
to the time he became an Ameri-
n citizen. The Bartons had lived
r generations in the beautiful,
eventful village of Wilford, Eng-
nd. The title of the book is
en from the name of the vil
p main street. Thorofare.
iTl VVadical change came into their
unet lives in the early twentieth
( ?ntury when they were persuaded
I ) leave their comfortable English
lame to come to America. The
i nportant action fo the story be
ins with the arrival of the Bar
lns in Philadelphia. "Thorofare"
i i an absorbing novel, humorous,
i nd, at times, exciting.
Anthology.
"This is My Best," edited by
1 fhit Burnett, is a book of a dif
ferent nature. The book is an
ithology conatining pieces of
writing by 93 contemporary Amer
ican authors. The problem facing
e editor was choosing the out
anding living American authors.
$nce he wanted other people's
itlnion on the question, he sent
- T f A. L
iiai 01 lau contemporary writers
almost 20,000 men and women
ho know authors and books. The
thors were then chosen by
Hot of this group.
The choice of the pieces of writ
ing to be used was left to the
liithors. "This is My Best" con
tains short stories, plays, poetry,
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First WAACS,
Then WAVES,
Noiv WIRES
About 8,000 women who are tak
ing Army Signal Corps training
courses in schools and colleges
thruout the country are now elig
ible for the WAACS, the War De
partment announced yesterday.
These women, commonly known
as the WIRES Women in Radio
and Electrical Service have been
training for the past few months
as radio operators, technicians
and repairmen, and as telephone
switchboard and instrument re
pairmen along with some 22,000
men in the enlisted reserve.
By offering them positions in
the WAACS, the women's reserve
is adding to its ranks occupational
specialists already pretrained by
the Signal Corps.
Warning, however, that the
WIRES don't have an automatic
open seasame into the Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps, WAC offi
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one else, women training for Sig
nal Corps work have to meet reg
ular WAAC requirements. The
new order also specifies that in the
future no women can be eligible
for the WIRES unless she can also
meet WAAC standards.
Women in Radio and Electrical
Service now who enroll in the
WAAC will be assinged to inactive
duty until they have finished their
training. They will then be called
as needed, sent to a training cen
ter for basic military training, and
then ordered to fill a vacancy for
a communications specialist in one
of the WAAC companies doing
work in the field. A WAAC en
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fails to pass the Signal Corps
course automatically becomes an
auxiliary in the Women's Army
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