Reader’s Digest Condensed Book, 1957, Volume 3, Summer Selection includes the following stories: “The Lady” by Conrad Richter The story of a small boy whose father disappears and when it becomes obvious he is not returning for the boy, he is sent for by his uncle. The uncle's wife, however, is the "Lady" and is the one around whom the whole story revolves. It takes place back in the time of the sheep/cattle conflict. “A Houseful of Love” by Marjorie Houseplan Dobkin Memoir of the author's childhood years, growing up in a large extended family of Armenian immigrants to the U.S. “The Three Faces of Eve” by Corbett H. Thigpen, M.D This is the report of two psychiatrists on the strange case of a patient with three distinct personalities. The Three Faces of Eve was the first popular account of a case of multiple personalities (now called dissociative identity disorder). The authors had previously published a research article on their patient 'Eve' in 1954, documenting the psychiatric sessions and how they came to view it as a case of 'multiple personality'. “Letter from Peking” by Pearl S. Buck This novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Good Earth" and "Dragon Seed" tells the story of an American-Chinese family separated by the communist revolution in China, as they struggle to overcome difficulties and the prejudices a family of mixed blood must face. “The FBI Story” by Don Whitehead What is the FBI? How did it come into being? What has it accomplished? What are its powers? Above all, what does the mere fact of its existence mean to every citizen of the United States? This book, written with the cooperation of J. Edgar Hoover and FBI personnel, will answer these questions once and for all. The FBI Story, written by one of America's top reporters, Don Whitehead, and with a Foreword by J. Edgar Hoover, takes you behind the scenes to reveal the record of America's crusade against crime and subversion. The FBI Story names names, places and events. You'll read about cases which have made today's headlines as well as about the celebrated cases and notorious events which made yesterday's. You'll read about the Black Tom explosion and other acts of sabotage which were the prelude to America's entrance into World War I. You will find the case histories of the Wall Street Explosion and "Palmer's Raids"; the Harding Era and Gaston Means. The gangsters' rise to power in the roaring twenties and the "lady in red," Pretty Ana Cumpna, who betrayed John Dillinger, and Al Capone. Here too are the Lindbergh Kidnapping, the Kansas City Massacre and many other cases which placed the FBI in the forefront of the public's imagination. The FBI Story is also the story too of Pearl Harbor, the capture of the Japanese espionage messages, the German saboteurs' invasion of the United States and their capture, and other behind-the-scenes dramas of World War II. The book tells of the FBI's secret operations in South and Central America and the experiences of its Special Intelligence Service (SIS). How the FBI tricked the Germans through double agent radio stations is a "stranger than fiction" story. You'll read of the FBI's role in combating postwar crime as Don Whitehead reports on the kidnap murder of little Bobby Greenlease and the murder of a mother by her son high over a Colorado beet field when a plane fell carrying passengers and crew to their deaths. The fight against Communism in the United States, Smith Act prosecutions and the gathering of evidence which made these prosecutions possible are all portrayed. Also related are the cases of Hiss and Klaus Fuchs and the theft of the atomic secrets and the Rosenberg and Greenglass cases, which are revealed in detail. The history of the FBI in reality represents the people's efforts to achieve government by law. The FBI Story, then, is the story of America itself and the struggles to attain this ideal. “Mission to Borneo” by Jan de Hartog The tremendous saga of a doctor's life, from the stinking dregs of Amsterdam's slums to the primeval jungles of the East Indies...