1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

A Corner With Phi Authors
Love That Golf by DON HEROLD, Indiana
'12. A. S. Barnes.
Brother Herold, who didn't take up the game
of golf until he was 45, has written a book that
will help the average amateur hacker more, we
believe, than most scientific treatises by the pros.
His thesis throughout the book is "take it
easy," "be relaxed," and "enjoy the game
more." It is packed with tips concerning those
particular shots that will take strokes off your
score—tips that even the weekend golfer can put
into practice at once. He approaches the game
from the viewpoint that most strokes are wasted
up around the green (and how right he is).
Mr. Herold, therefore, goes about it bassackwards
to the usual book on golf—and starts with
the putter, working down through the irons
and woods to the driver.
Although most of the tips and advice in the
book are Brother Herold's, its pages are also
sprinkled with observations by the game's great,
most of them close friends of the author. As
would be expected too, of course, the book contains
many of the inimitable Herold cartoons,
each of which graphically depicts a point of
form—good or bad.
We might turn this into a testimonial and
tell how many strokes we've cut off our score
after reading the book, but this would call for
certain specifics and—after all—golf has a rather
short season in Wisconsin! We will urge every
Phi golfer who'd like some good advice on his
game to buy and read a copy of Love That Golf.
It's written in the informally humorous Herold
style and you'll enjoy reading it too!
How To Believe by DR. RALPH W. SOCKMAN,
Ohio Wesleyan '11. Doubleday.
In this book, Dr. Sockman speaks clearly and
simply about the questions which trouble man's
religious faith. Sometimes they are almost naive,
such as the one, "If God is everywhere, why do
we need altars and special places of worship"
Sometimes they are very important and perplexing,
such as the one, "Do we really have
any reliable evidence for the resurrection of
Jesus" No doubt every person could list a number
of these questions which have come to his
own mind. He is grateful, therefore, to see them
listed and answered in this book.
Dr. Sockman is in a good position to write
this book. For 35 years he has been the pastor of
Christ church, ii^ the very heart of Manhattan.
For 25 years he has had a national radio pulpit
broadcast. Some 2 million letters have come to
him from his listeners. He knows what questions
disturb the modem mind. That is why we are
inclined to feel that in his discussions he
answers our questions, even before we actually
fbrmulate them.
The chapters of this book mark the great
affirmations of the Apostle's Creed. This is a
convenient device for purpose of discussion,
since the creed encompasses most of the questions
about religion that we are likely to ask.
Each chapter is divided into the major questions
concerning a particular article of faith. In the
consideration of eternal life, for example, we
find such topics as these: Is death a disagreeable
subject What do we mean by resurrection of
the body What do we mean by life everlasting
Is the universe honest What will the future
life be like
These major questions are followed by secondary
ones, thus bringing to the reader a comprehensive
understanding of religious faith
from one of the most active and well known
churchmen in Protestant Cliristianity today.—
Chicago Tribune Magazine of Books.
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Corpus of Joe Bailey by OAKLEY MAXWELL
HALL, JR., California '44. Viking Press.
The locale of much of this book, which hit
the best seller lists across the nation last Spring
is the *Ae house at the University of California,
where the author. Brother Hall, lived
during his undergraduate days. Through the
story the Fraternity is referred to as Omega
Alpha.
In his review of the book in the New York
Times, Charles Poore states, in part:
"Half a dozen novels are in this book. Although
they are strung together to make a single
narrative, a patient, scholarly editor might
thriftily carve them out as separate entities.
There is the novel of Joe Bailey's childhood,
summed up in a recurring loss of social stature
born of the depression years. There is the story
of his schooldays. This is followed by a period
that amounts to a full-length college novel, and
is, I think, the most effective part of the book
—the core of it certainly. There is the story of
his war experiences, . . . and finally, there is
the story of his harassed attempts to find a place
for himself in civilian life—the novel of postwar
adjustment. . . ."
Brother Hall, 33 years old, was graduated
from the University of California and studied
at Oxford and the Sorbonne.
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