Crashes

DOWN IN FLAMES--Ben Ray Redman --Payson & Clarke ($2).

Most of these well-told tales are about flying in the War, most of the heroes come down in flames. The author knows what he is writing about: he was there. Some of the plots: A be-monocled ground officer, never seen in the air, restores the morale of his training unit, which has just lost five pilots in crashes, by a solo flight of extreme skill and daring.

A young pilot at the front, just out from England, loses his nerve and tries to run away; dies a hero's death in spite of himself.

A veteran pilot, whose sixth sense usually leads him home from anywhere, is lost in the fog, cruises about till his gas gives out, then crashes on his own hangar.

Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert--a Biography.

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