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A New Portrait of John c. Calhoun,
In True Color, PenetrotinqIy Clear
JOHN C. CALHOUN: AMERICAN PORTRAIT
BY Margaret L. Colt. (Houghton, Mi67in; So

BY margaret Il. COlC. fHOugHLo7
With the possible exception of
George Washington. says Miss
Colt in this extraordinary biog-
raphy, mo American statesman
has been more thoroughly de-
humanized than John c. Cal
houn." And she adds:
THE 'uncrowned king of South
Carolina has suffered the fate of
the Father of His Country in
having his virtues magnified into
composites. his faults gilded by
hero worship"
There is neither magnifying nor
gliding in this penetrating biog-
raphy. Miss Colt has approached
her subject sympathetically, with
the idea of finding out why Cal
houn did the things he did, what
impelled his stand on the issues
Of the day. But she writes of him
with historians effectiveness
Even more important, she has
brought to her task remarkable
grasp of the period in which he
lived. And she has another at
tribute many able biographers
lack-a gift for vivid, flowing
prose.
South Carolina's leading states
man was born in 1882 in the hill
country Of the State. He died in
1850 in Washington. He was q
Representative In Congress. a
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Hanna Carpenter emerges from
her Madison avenue hotel into q
world Of noise and strangeness
In this outer world, David smiles
at her-thereby thrusting he1
into a Greenwich Village party
and a murder. From there on it's
question of whether the mur.
derer Or the police will find Hanna
first. Hanna's own fancy set OF
delusions adds to the eeriness OF
this f1rst-class thriller.
X X X
Brat Farrar, by Josephine Tey
macmillan Co., $2.50.)
The malevolence of adolescents
again fascinates the author OF
"The Franchise Affair" This
time, however. she is more in
clined to imply it than spell IL
out as she deals with her care
fully unfolding tale Of false pre-
lenses. The pretender aspires to
a fortune, destined for an heir
who, it has long been assumed
committed suicide at the age OF
13. How the author manages to
convey sympathy for the imposter
is one Of the neat tricks Of an
excellent suspense story.
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'Poqes of Words That Used Only
To Be ScruwIed on Back Fences
GERALDINE BRADSHAW
(Vanquard, $500

BY Calder Willlngham. (VdnguG
This is Mr.. Willingham's second
novel. A certain critical claque
has hailed him as a novelist who
probably is entering on notable
career, a realist who writes fast,
accurate prose that keeps the in
terest at keen edge, a portrayer of
character who strips aside pose
and pretension.
1t is interesting to speculate
whether he would have won this
praise-whether, in fact, he would
have been noticed at all-if he
had written about ordinarily de-
cent people in the sort of language
that was customary until a few
years ago. Both of his novels
have themes that were well
adapted to a profusion of the vul-
garities and ohscenities of episode
and phrase which are considered
printable these days. The first,
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N~~>>~
astrous, and his death in a duel
with one of her admirers, pre-
mature. Small wonder. with all
this glittering drama, that M.
Troyat cannot bring himself,
despite the length of this BIZ
ography, to a consideration of the
life of the poets mind.
But if he fails to make clear
the chaotic character of Pushkin,
M. Troyat succeeds brilliantly in
|recreating the sumptuous, BAR
baric age of which the poet was
child and victim. In the early
10Th century Russian households
swarmed with serfs; entertain
ments and debts were on a ho-
meric scale. A rather dis
organized liberal from the start,
Pushkin early ran afoul Of the
authorities with his lode to
Liberty" and was exiled. at the
height of his youthful popularity,
to the south of Russia. He thus
missed being involved in the De-
cembrist uprising which brought
frightful reprisals on his best
friends. He consoled himself
with countless seductions, gam
bling and calculated eccentricities
When he finally returned to the
Capitol under Nicholas I it was
with a paltry government allow
ance and the strictest surveillance
of the Cars secret police who
censored all his writings, both
personal and public.
Ill-Fated Life.
His marriage to Natalie Con-
chorova brought him q great
beauty who despised poetry, a
most trying mother-in-law. a host
of debts and the unhappy dis
tinction of being the husband of
a woman much admired by the
Car. To insure Nine. Pushkin' S
presence at the balls which occu-
pied most of aristocratic Moscow's S
waking hours, the Car made
Pushkin a courtier. Harried by
creditors and censors, tormented
by his wife's f1irtations, Pushkin
became embroiled in court con-
spiracies, which worked against
him when he fought his fatal
duel at 81 with a young Alsatian
count who loved Natalie but mar
'ried her sister for appearances
sake. This particular imbroglio,
incidentally far exceeds any fic-
ton that Pushkin wrote. When
Pushkin died. the authorities
barred the public from the
funeral, and tried to bury his
memory, which rests largely on
his romantic poetry. of which
Eugene Onegin" and Boris
Goudunov" are best known.
M. Troyat. a French-educated
Russian, writes with Gallo ex-
plicitness and a great attention
to details. Engagingly over
written in spots, it is consistently
entertaining, a readable portrait
Iof a spectacularly incorporate
man who said. THE Devil caused
him to be born in Russia with a
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statesmen have done. II Was TIE
those crucial war years only and
the admiral's crucial part in them
-"the facts, as they appeared to
me at that time
The notes will be published
a week from tomorrow and un-
doubtedly will be the only book of
the year to boast a presidential
foreword.
Now back at his house at 2168
Florida avenue after a recent hos
pitalization, the admiral is on
duty in the Navy Department,
where he is on call to the Presi-
dent. In recent interview at
his home the dry and decisive
sailor diplomat had nothing what
ever to say about the rumors
currently rippling Capital society
to the effect that the one
time Chief of Naval Operations
and Governor of Puerto Rico will
be appointed Ambassador to
Spain. ;-..
No stranger to delicate diplo-
matte posts. the admiral was from
1910 to 1912 our Ambassador to
Vichy France. He has souvenir
Of that demanding interval in the
form of picture of Marshall
Petain inscribed to Mrs. Leahy,
who died just before the admirals
return tn this country
Mild Understatement.
OF his service in Vichy. the ad-
miral said only that sit wasn't
bad" And Of the diplomatic life
in general. into which he was
plunged after a lifetime in the
Navy. he was more than ordi-
narily cryptic.
"It was busy" he says.
Since his retirement a year ago
as our only Chief of Staff, the
admiral has continued. to keep a
weather eye on the diplomatic de-
velopments which have grown out
Of the war conferences which he
attended as adviser to two Presi-
dents. The one survivor of all
parleys save Casablanca, he has
seen the Soviets break confer
ence table agreements either
through misunderstanding, mis-
Interpretation or sheer mischief.
He regards proposals of Moscow
meetings with something less than
starry-eyed enthusiasm. Regard
ing the outlawing OF atomic wea-
pons, he feels that we, judging
from past history. would be likely
to keep our agreements, while the
Russians, from their record, might
not.
When this veteran Of two World
Wars and a clutch of lesser revo-
lutions and uprisings was asked
how he felt about the inevitability
of future wars. he said. Read
your history books"
Roosevelts Friend.
Friends of 80 years standing,
President Roosevelt and the ad-
miral. who first met when the
young Roosevelt was Undersecre-
tary Of the Navy in 1912, did not
see eye to eye on the United Ma
tions issue. The President. re-
ports the admiral, was entirely
devoted to the. idea of preventing
future wars through world organ
ization. The admiral. more ma
tionalistic in his outlook, and
made skeptical by a close study of
the League of Nations, was al
ways doubtful. But their common |
love of the sea and their great |
mutual trust and admiration
made them most congenial. and
it was at the Presidents sugges-
ton that the admiral attended
all the political conferences so
that they could talk them over.
1t was at President Roosevelt's
behest that the admiral kept his
careful notes, and so had vol
ume for each year when President
Truman took over and needed
filling-in on what had gone be-
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Peachy. This
bibulous ply
sician, who GER
tainly rates a
return appear
ance, ol v e S
three murders
by d e d u ctive
logic from the
Slim m e st of
clues. Scene of
the crimes is
nearby Alexan-
dria and the
author, make
up editor OF the
w Shinnf fnn
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Crime and Nystery
BY Miriam Ottenbero

And When She Was Bad She Was
b Murdered, by Richard Starnes.
u. B. Lippincott Co.; $2.50.)
Mainline Mysteries
The best mystery title In years
is ably supported by what follows
it-a puzzler packed with wry
humor and introducing DR.. George
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Southern military school. It
highlighted the occasional perver-
sion found in such institutions
and the filth of expression with
which many growing-up boys
think they have to season their
conversation to show proper So
phistication.
Dirty Talk.
The new novel, Geraldine
Bradshaw" deals with two young
men of around 81 in Chicago dur
ing the war. For one reason or
another, neither is in the armed
forces. Dick has just gone to work
as bellhop in big hotel and he
makes $100 week in tips. His
pal, Beau st. John, is a copy boy
on a newspaper. They were ex-
posed to university together and
they collaborated on a play which
won a prize. Presumably they
have some intellectual interests,
but you'd never know it. All they
talk about and apparently think
about is the seduction, achieved or
planned, Of the girls they are cur
rently interested in. Their talk,
reported in great detail, is quite as
dirty as that Of the younger boys
at the military school. There are
pages OF words that used only to
be scrawled on sheds and back
fences. All this may be realism
and naturalism, but so is much
else in life which literary artists
have always felt they could take
for granted or merely suggest.
Geraldine Bradshaw is the girl
Dick spends the whole book trying
to seduce. The sex-saturated story
oogs down to mere dullness before
half the AIS pages are finished.
While the novel is touted as a war
time study of character disinte-
grafton on the civilian front, there
is nothing to indicate that either
OF these young men ever had any
character.
4
A DICTIONARY OF WORD
MAKERS
BY Cecil Hunt. Philosophical
LIBRARY; s3.75J
In an unusual compilation
which should be highly useful, MI.
Hunt gives brief sketches of men
and women, gods and goddesses
whose names have special mean
ing in our language. The origin
OF many OF these names in COM
mon usage has been obscured in
the mists of history and mythol-
ogy. The man to whom Hob
sons Choice is traced was Tobias
Hobson, a 18th century letter car
rier between Cambridge and Lon
don. 1t was not a choice in ex-
tremity. but one out of an ample
number, yet, said the Spectator
in 1712, "you must make such a
choice as not to hurt another who
is to come after you" The proto-
type OF a martinez was Col. Jean
Martinez, who was inspector gen.
eral of infantry for Louis XIV.
The colonel, an autocratic dis
ciplinarian, was killed in battle ac-
cidentally by his own artillery.
(But was it an accident?) The
book Is illustrated with sketches
by John Nicholson.
X *
THE LINCOLN ENCYCLOPEDIA
Compiled by Archer H. Shaw.
Macmillan. $780,
Lincoln students probably will
find this q must" Lincoln's as
sertions concerning issues, events
and men are arranged alphabeti-
cally and briefly for easy reference.
At the end of each quotation the
speech or letter or other paper
from which it is cited is listed.
with the date. The book must be
the result Of colossal research.
While 1t is, the author says, pri-
marily q reference book, "it is
in a real sense a life of Lincoln
told exclusively in his own words"
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Books In Review
Author 6. S. Forester Turns Back
To His Beloved / HornbIoWer
MR.. MIDsHIPMAN HORNBLOWER
By C. S. Forester. little, BroWn;; $3J

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Hornbower fan-and it's not surprising If you are
read the books ABOUT
lieutenant in his majestys then
captain commodore. finally lord of the realm
Here then sixth volume the first chronoogcaly-tn
of days the from tine
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Reading and Writing
Adm. Leohy, Soi|or-DipIomot, Tells
How He Happened to Write q Book
By Mory McGrory

When President Truman suggested to Admiral William Leahy
that
his Chief
Enthusiastically rejected publishers
the of today, many
picture
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New Southern Writer Makes Case History
Of Aggravated Ancestor Worship
Iarcourt, Brace & Co.; $3.)

BY Alice Fellows. (Harcourt, Br'
Another precocious Southerner
comes forward to confound elders
who will insist that a writer should
live first. Miss Fellows, who is
only %, has written an unusually
sensitive first novel with a sure
ness of touch and a depth of in
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WHYwas this man great? How does
anyone-man or woman-achieve
greatness? Is.it not by mastery of the
powers within ourselves?
Know the mysterious world within
you! Attune yourself to the wisdom
of the ages! Grasp the inner power
of your mind Learn the secrets Of a
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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington D. C.
SUNDAY. MARCH a. 1880
Pushkin, the Russian Byron
Of q Sumptuous, Borboric Age
PUSHKIN. His Life and Times
BY Henri Troyat. Pantheon; $5J

perhaps excused for dealing with the
the Puskn wrote with but
he lived stranng intensity that bordered frenzy The
descendant of the Negro favorite of Peter the
Great with tragedy and violence His
proigate his marriage
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soul and talent" Randolph T.
Weaver has provided an admir-
ably fluent translation.
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fore. When the admiral left Of
fee, President Truman told him.
you have been a tower of
strength to me-"
If his country has no more
trouble spots that need bis at
tention, the admiral, who will be
rs in May, would like to do some
traveling-by sea, of course.
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fuII and PeacefuI HE!
Benjamin Franklin-like
many other learned and
great men and women
was a Rosicruoian. The
csicrueians (NOT q
religious organization)
first came to America in
1904. Today, headquar-
ters of the Rosicrueians
send over seven million
Evening star., 1950-04-11
Dorothy Dix
Youth Fails to Appreciate Blessing
Of Woman Who Is Good Listener

DEAR MISS DIX: I have been
going steady with young man
and we get along very well to-
gether except for one thing which
I am afraid will break up our
friendship, which I value very
highly, and that is my lack of
conversation. talk very little. I
am intelligent, well educated and
a great reader. but I enjoy listen
ing in preference 70 talking. This
silence on my part Is q bone of
contention between us. He feels
that I am too interpretive and
that I not only do not talk enough
but that am so shut up In my
self that I drive people away from
me. Is reticence on a persons part
an asset or a liability. or just un-
natural? GRACE.
Answer: It is all three, accord
ing to the way you look at it.
Certainly the woman who talks
little Is kept from saying many
foolish things, and If she never
discusses her private affairs she
saves herself from much bitter
repentance, and so far reticence is
an asset.
There is q lot to be said in favor
Of lending your ears instead Of
giving your tongue. Good listeners
are such rarity in a world filled
with monologists that it appears
to me your boy friend does not
appreciate the blessing he has
in you. Personally, I can think
of nothing so delightful as having
companion who would let me
do all the talking without even
desiring to retaliate.
However, the truth is that most
men are conversationally lazy.
They don't want to have to make
any effort to entertain a woman.
They don't want to have to bother
to think up subjects to talk about.
And so they pick out a girl who
can babble on, like the brook, for
ever and forever.
And men like chatterbox wives.
They like wife who is overflow
ing with the news of the house
and the neighborhood and who
can't go to the corner grocery with
out picking up funny little story.
Stevenson rated being q good
gossip as the most important quail
lty a wife could have, and he
wasn't far wrong.
And certainly we must all ad-
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A review Of Marsha Aliens
recently published novel in sonnet
form. Strange journey" will be
given by Ida Elaine James, Wash
ington poet, before the poetry
group of the District Branch. Ma
tional League Of American Pen
Women, at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the branch studio, 1851 Columbia
road NV.
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EIectionCoIIed

The Progress Club of College
Park will elect officers at q meet
ing at 2 pm. tomorrow in the
parish hall at College Park. An
nual reports will be given and a
program on conservation of ma
tural resources, featuring an
exhibit Of American Indian crafts,
will be presented. Mrs. A. o.
Foster will be in charge OF the
tea table,
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Strange Journey To Be Reviewed

Miss Allen. in private life Mrs.
Eva Grant Marshall, is q member
of the local branch of the Pen
Women. and is the author Of
earlier works, including a volume
Of miscellaneous poems and q
novel in blank verse. She Is also
q member of the Writers League
of Washington.
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NIT that reticence Is cloak Of ice
about an individual that chills
any friendly impulse we may have
toward her. We never seem to get
close to such . one. We never
feel really acquainted with her
because we never know what she
is thinking or feeling. or anything
abuot her private affairs.
So I think learning to talk is
a necessary accomplishment for
women, and no line they can carry
is as good a line as one Of inno-
cuous chatter.
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Altrusu Dinner

The Altrusa Club Of Washing
ton will celebrate the 33rd ami
versary Of the founding Of Altrusa
International and the 14th ami
versary of the local club at a
dinner meeting at 6:l5 pm.
tomorrow at the Brookings
Institution. Founders of the
Washington club viii be honor
guests.
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Benefit Dance

The Washington AlumnAe Club
Of Phi Sigma Sorority win hold q
benefit dance at 10 pm. tomorrow
at the Dupont Plaza Hotel. Pro-
|ceeds win 60 towards local and
national philanthropic projects.
Locally, the club assists children
handicapped by poor hearing.
Mrs. Milton Cohen is dance chair
man
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Inner Wheel Club To Install Officers

the. new president Of the club.
Other new officers are Mrs. Edwin
w. Stillwell. vice president: Mrs.
Paul N. Cherry. corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Leverett c. Stone,
recording secretary, and Mrs.
Roger Nj Fred. treasurer.
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New officers Of the Inner Wheel
Club Of Washington viii be in
stalled at q luncheon meeting at
1915 pm. Friday at the May
flower Hotel.
Mrs. Horace L. Richardson Is
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Foster will be in charge Of the
tea table. ! ~,
II
Evening star., 1950-02-19

ToACH Vadal Peterson sat biting his nails,
~ spectacle of despair on the University
of Utah bench. 1t was big game, and the
Utes were only seven points ahead. Anything
less than a 10-point lead causes the Utah
basketball professor to contemplate climbing
the nearest rafter and flinging himself into
space.
But Peterson felt better when he noticed
the other coach.
He was having kind of fit," says Peter
son. His face was purple, his arms were 60
ing like windmills and he was jumping straight
up and down. His eyes were bugging out
And all the time his pants, which had worked
loose, were slowly sliding down.
Peterson happily recognized the certain
signs of losing cause Such scenes, however,
worry him. I'm not at all sure" he says,
that it doesn't prove all of us in this business
are little crazy"
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Peterson admits that he operates in near
coma during tight game. He is often sur
prised to hear later what he said to players
and did or threatened to do - to officials.
Yet big, easy-going Vadal, who coached two
national-championship teams in the past six
years, is considered one of basketballs cool
est, most self-contained teachers.
Good Thesis Material
PSYCHOLOGISTS have long recognized re-
search gold mine in the 1000 college and
1900 high-school hoop coaches of the coun-
try. Not long ago student at the University
OF Washington, preparing thesis on abnor-
NAL behavior, announced that he would make
the Athletic Pavilion his laboratory. His puz-
zed professor asked why.
Sir, see that you are no basketball fan"
replied the youth.
Within the sports world hysteria hits its
Tw-2-19-5e
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8 g BEDLAM ON THE

Hysterical basketball coaches hit the
roof during exciting games. Sometimes
their zany goings-on make the bench
more fun to watch than the game =.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-08
1.-The Home Of Radium Springs"
A Braille
Hebrew Bible

Continued from Page 84)
of the English alphabet were
made to serve for their Hebrew
equivalents in sound.
Most appropriately, the pub
lisher's preface to the new
Braille Bible says: ut has bless
eddy been granted to us all to
bring to our sightleSs coreligion-
lists the radiant realization of a
long and devoutly cherished
dream-the Holy Bible in it's sa-
cred text-right under their fin
gertips. Prayerfully and most
reverently we say What God
Hath Wrought " We salute the
Institute for it's great work.
Evening star., 1950-09-02
This; and That

The dogs in the next block have al
ways been an interesting lot.
There is old Charlie, the Scottie, for
one.
He barks ferociously at most passersby,
including Tenp1eton Jones, the great
dog lover ~ ..."'7
Jones deprecates such action, but
sometimes finds it amusing. He recalls
one slushy, icy winter day, when the
street was a-swim, making it difficult for
even the young fry to get By.
Temp Jones could not claim men,
bership in the Young Fry, OF course, SO
he had time making it.
E'fti'+t* &
+ That was where Charles Official
name) came in
While Jones was slipping and sliding
on the melting ice, old Charlie was
shifting and walking toward him.
"Woof. woof,' said Charles, or words
to that effect.
The words made Jones angry
Listen, you ugly looking mutt" he
called. This is hard enough walking,
without having you try to interfere"
At this point, Jones took a slide for
life. but managed to stay upright.
Charlie looked grave.
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nouncing this decision, said 1t was taken
because the Malaga situation might be
aggravated by events in Korea.
Now Australia is preparing a ground
force for Korea. To speed its organiza-
tion, only combat veterans in excellent
physical condition have been accepted.
An estimated 40 per cent of those volun-
teering have been rejected either because
of physical defects or insufficient combat
experience.
The government indicates the force
will be full-strength infantry battalion
of about 1000 men "as an immediate
army contribution to the U. N. action"
Australia has force of approximately
$500 troops in Japan. part of which
might provide the nucleus Of crack.
battle seasoned outfit.
At the same time the government is
planning to increase the regular army.
navy and air force by $4,000 men and
the Citizen force" by $4,000. In addition,
an average of $4,000 youths annually
will be given IA weeks of military train
ing in the next three years under a
compulsory military training system.
Much of the impact of the commit
ments in Malaga and Korea is already
being felt in Australia. Conscripted
training alone will cost SITS million
yearly. and this is only the beginning.
On August 2, for instance, Canberra
announced 1t would build six 2.000-ton