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Almost About
Everything
By Percy villa

fight week at the Auditorium that we could
just well the saying Mr. Flanagan
dtion This timing and punching sompthn
shouldn't have been his opponent in the first place.
Referee Britt stopped 9th perhaps
would better
third In short the longer the socaed fight went the Fana
gan looked.
introduced leading lightweight contender
e weighted at 4 For that statement he the an
apology and lucky that the statement made before the
By the size of the attendance look as though the fans haven't
bout against Jimmy Carter the
last summer
Talking Hurley fight manager other week one
he's just much Of attraction to the fans his
hstcer Harry Matthews
To be successful fight manager close
cut and open puncshu eye in the minute fighter allowed to
pain
ledge of cowardce don't the fighter with seess
one who sticks out his chin to show courage and ughnes There
a very today
and yet they trying teach the kids fight They
limited and the majority around today are mPoster They take
weight off give him rundown and show him how to hold
his hands, but that is about all
only few can teach kid how to be a fighter and Jack
Hurley years
racket he produced good fighters Made fighters out of kids
that others given up Hurley
cussng the shortage of good fighters.
kids younger years ago.
thing They're dancing they got
their minds There fighters
want to work When first came around fighter was in the gym
twothrty every day they
girl go o
got enough CUTS They just
work gymnasium. Maybe that's the Ringsde
closed todayD"
one Hurley conceded can teach a man to take punch well
But it possible to protect
The gymnasium is where fighter" Hurley
There exceptions who training
unique"
The above is the advice from the master himself One of the best
II not the best
II didn't happen house but
Anabee that night
sitter how his daughter
the phone and the father
Where the babyser?" His daughter
loud asleep"
Have the ADAers (Amcrcans dsband-
ed?
In Russia fellow of very easily
My dad always me- stay o. court Most law
suits loss suits"
Being regular wrestling
the difference between wrestling
holds barred in wrestling
Firms that public compelled law to
see that they keep the right time.
Washington doing a duty: keeping
the wives and making hot OF
Who said aldermen don't living? and
Polly offers that
wife everything he did that he suspects she's already found
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One Man Dead.
One Injured In
Minneapolis Fire

one man was killed and another
was injured when a fire destroyed
a rooming house at So Royalston
Ave. No, Minneapolis, early We'd
nesday morning.
Buford Jones, Sc, was killed and
Lewis Scott bruised his shoulder
and cut his right hand when ne
dived through a ground floor win
dow.
Lceman Young escaped injury
when he jumped from a second
story window and twelve other
persons fled from the building in
scant clothing into the II below
zero cold when the alarm was
spread by a neighbor at l:4S a. m.
Jones body was found by fire
men at the top of the rear stairs
on the second floor, approximately
10 feet from his room.
The coroner said that he died
Of suffocation and that ne suf-
fcred first and second degree
burns.
The irony of Jones death is
that if he had stayed in his room
he might have saved his life. His
room was not damaged by the
blaze and little smoke damage,
firemen said. There was also a
balcony that he could have gotten
to from two windows in his room
Eugene Carter, 68 Royalston,
aroused the tenants when he
spotted the flames through a sec
ond story on his way home from
work.
The fire started in the room Of
Harry Broussard and apparently
Jones tried to escape by way of
the back stairs and was trapped
by the flames.
BrOussard who was unharmcd
was jailed by the fire department
investigators for questioning.
The other roomers who fled and
were given shelter by the neigh
bOrs were Mrs. Mary Bradford
and her daughter, Ella; McKeeva
Thomas and his four small chill
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wilkcr-
son; Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Par
ker.
Jones was a native of Omaha,
Neb., and was reared at the late
Father Flanagan's Boys Town.
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was given the Swcdc Nelson a
ward for Sportsmanship. 1t is an
annual award given by the Bos-
ton sportswriters
Don NewcOmbe's call TO the
colors just about knocks the Buns
out of the contenders roll in the
so National league pennant race
When Joe DiMaggio bowed out
of baseball as an active player, it
brought TO mind that the Bronx
Bomber's career in the Big League
started about the same time that
Joe Louis won the heavyweight
title. In 1851 Joe DiMaggio bowed
out gracefully while Joe Louis
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went out flat on his back.

went out flat on his back.
More honors to st. Paups Leo
Lewis. He was selected on the All
star offensive team selected by
the Midwest Athletic association.
Leon Ford, Bill Willis, Emelen
Tunell and Dan fowler were selec-
ted on the all-pro eleven.
Correction: Last week this col
umn said nine Negro gridders
were in the pro Championship
game. There were ten; Willis,
Cole, Gillom, Motley and Ford
with Cleveland. And for Los An
gelcs; Lewis, Thompson, Boyd,
fowler and Younger.
January the Harlem Globe
trotters viii play the Philadelphia
Spas in the St. Paul Auditorium.
With the coming of the New
Year, / hope that Shorty Patter-
son, North High eager; Dick
Blakely. Marshall Highs top
eager and Bob Wagner Of Hop
kins a real great season. We
would like to see them in the 1852
Minnesota State High School
L.-ly.fLnn Tournaments
Let's all hope Dwight Reeds
Lincoln U. will be undefeated next
season and Leo Lewis will be All
American. That st. Paul Marshall
will finally win a city football
championship. And that Jimmy
Lee will get the state Basketball
Tournament.
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Keep up with Nell DOdson Rus
sell every week in the Spokesman
and Recorder papers.
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Shown above is J. Rowland
Rhodes of Morrestown, n. j., one
of two Negroes recently appointed
to the State Committee of the
Republican party in New Jersey.
Also appointed was Mrs. James
Otto Hill of Essex, N. j.
Rhodes is treasurer and one Of
the founders of the South Jersey
Republican league. An active civic
worker, he also is vice president
of his local NAACP, chairman of
the legislative committee Of the
Burlington County league, and
associat ed with the Girard Trust
Corn Exchange bank of Philadel-
phia. (ANP)
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GrGn's

BY JIMMY GRIFFIN

Gene White won MS first pro
fight by TKO in the first round
at the Minneapolis Auditorium on
the Del Flanagan card Dec. q.
The Halle All-Stars defeated
the Phyllis Wheatley Seniors 81
to 81 on December %. Leo Lewis,
HnrachnM Garrett Percy ZacharY
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CARD OF APPRECIATION

We wish to hank the various
groups, clubs and entertainers
who made use Of our musical SER
vices during the holiday season.
We hope to be Of service to you in
the future. Again we thank you
Prince Rodgers and his Combo
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were standOuts
for / h @ All
Stars.
Monte Irvi n
signed his 1852
contract with a
substantial raise.
His n W con-
tract calls for
about % g's
not bad
Johnny Bright
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Cepted until Wednesday, p. m.
Remittance in currency, coin,
checks or stamps should accompany
copy mailed to office. Call BR. 1895
to place ad,
Evening star., 1952-08-10
European Graphic Art

The Whyte Gallery'S August
exhibition is composed of about
Is prints. most of them in col
orS, from The International
Guild of Engraving, of Geneva
and Paris. This is the same or
ganization which supplied q
similar show there last year.
Some famous names are in
cluded among the artists repre-
Sented: Arp, with a two-color
lithograph of amorphous shapes,
"Conf1guration"; Van Dongen
with two Paris street scenes,
day and night, colorful and at
tractive; G. Severini. an alb
straction of sharp angles and
movement of black lines over
color areas, and Stanley w.
Hayter, and abstract compo-
sition of black thread-like lines
and net one lime, orange, pink
and white, which sounds gar
ish, but is very effective.
I liked the strong, simplif1ed
five-color lithograph Builders
by Da Yez; A Gross etchingS
Fish" and landscape, both ar
ranged naturalism; Nina Negri's
handsome abstraction in sombre
colors; Desnoyer's robust Beach
Scene and the sentimental
portrait of children and a dog
by c. Terechkovitch.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Art. Book Reviews
Art and Technics

BY Lewis Mumford. columbia
University Press; $780,
This is the most exciting and
most challenging art book have
had the pleasure of reading in
several years. But the term "art
book" is inadequate in its gen.
eral meaning Of spatial or time
arts; for this book is about the
art of life itself. Each chapter
was one lecture in a series of six
which Mr.. Mumford gave last
year at Columbia University.
They are published as they were
delivered.
The general theme is our in
creasing preoccupation with the
machine, which is a skillful and
faithful servant, but a tyran-
nical master. Pioneer inventors,
the author says, did not fore
see that the humanization of the
machine might have the para
doxical effect of mechanizing
humanity" It is not too late
to escape such a fate. Our OBJ
jective should be to establish
the mechanical and the per-
sonal. the objective and the sub
jectiye sides Of our life, in an
organic working relationship"
In illustrating the argument
that there has always been COM
petition between art and tech
MICS, Mr.. Mumford surveys past
ages. even to prehistoric times.
Until the end of the 18th Gen.
tury despite the increasing speed
Of mechanization. "a belief in
the human person remained
dominant" he. says. Since then,
however. people have begun ito
worship the machine and Its
masters"
Let no one imagine, however,
that MIR. Mumford is against
technics. Their advance, as he
points out, has fabulously salts
fed mans need to live in an
orderly and predictable world"
This order should bring about
freedom, and release of energy
for the creative processes. In his
lecture on handicraft to ma
chine art, he examines the in
vention Of printing from NOV
able type because it shows show
art and technics may be brought
together" for the incalculable
benefit Of man. setting him free
from "illiteracy, that chains one
to the here and now, a form of
cultural solitary confinement"
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covoIcode Of Justice
BY Bernard O'Donnell. (Mt

BY Bernard oDonnell. Mac
milan: til
BY rights the story Of the de-
velopment Of Anglo-Saxon ju-
risprudence should be a pretty
dull and starchy one. Some
how, MIR. O'Donnell. Britain's
ace courthouse-beat man, has
managed to make it interest
ing and at times almost excit-
ing.
The history of the moots,
eyres and aSsizeS is intriguing
enough by itself. When you go
a step farther than the book
does, and, relate the trial-and-
error of the Middle Ages to our
American system Of justice, the
story becomes important. With
out the ordeals Of fire and bat
tie, without the abuses OF Office
by the ancient sheriffs, we
would nave had no Supreme
Court. boldly guarding the
rights of private citizens from
encroachment by the state.
It is q book to be read for
pleasure. Also-and better-it
is q book to be read as back
ground for what is happening
today. WILLIAM HINES.
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Four Woshingtonions

The Playhouse Art Gallery is
currently showing paintings by
four resident Washington art
lists, two of whom are also ma
tives: Margaret Appich and
Dominic Spadaro. The latter.
although the youngest (21),
makes the best showing Of the
four.
He has two large oils and one
small, Of architectural subjects,
Italian towns picturesquely
climbing hills. and a composite
city picture, which suggested
Rome to me. He is also showing
a large, double portrait of his
infant nephews, in which he re-
veals their budding personalities
quite. as completely as he cap
lures the character Of the cities.
A graduate of Eastern High
School, Mr.. Spadaro received
the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whit
ney art scholarship from the
National Society Of Arts and
Letters. to study at American
University. Last spring he re-
ceived third place honors in the
1852 national career award COM
petition of the same society. He
has exhibited at the Baltimore
Museum. as well as at the Cor
coran, Watkins and Whyte gal
leries here.
Miss Appich, after graduating
from Western High School.
studied at the Corcoran and
Phillips Gallery schools. later at
the Art Students League Of New
York. Currently on the staff
Of the United States News and
World Report, she sometimes
works as q commercial artist.
The best Of her four paintings
on view is Morning Mist" a
boat drawn up on the beach, in
horizontal bands OF light brown
and yellow.
Jack Boul. q 25-year-old New
Yorker, who graduated from
Seattle's Cornish Art School,
where he attracted the atten-
ton Of Mitchell Jameson who
was teaching there. is now at
tending American University.
and working In the summer
camp for children. He was one
of the Critics Choices" IN the
Whyte Gallery show Of that
name, in June. One Of the
paintings he exhibited there. is
also in the Playhouse, italian
Memory" Family Portrait"
primitive in style, succeeds in
bringing out the individuality of
each member Of the group. But
the repulsive Vivian" and the
unbroken dark mass Rocks on
Shore" seem to me poor per-
formances.
Jean Lutins. a native of Nor
folk, now working in the art
section of Army Ordinance at
the Pentagon, has had a large
number OF art teachers at
Baltimore's Maryland In ttute.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Give the Lady What She Wants!
BY Lloyd Wendt Hogan (Rand McNouy: 450J
The Second City
BY A. J. Liebling. (Knopt; $780,
The Second City

In "The Second City," Mr..
Liebling, one of the most highly
regarded in the New Workers.
stable of writer's. has under
taken a profile of Chicago.
Three pieces in the magazine
have been expanded into a
book.
Give the Lady What She
Wants!" is the story of Mar
shall Field & Co., Chicago's
fabulous store. In reciting the
history of the establishment,
which is more an institution
than a store, the authors have
necessarily told much of Chi
cago's history, for Marshall
Fields and the city grew to-
gether.
The book which Mr.. Wendt
and Mr.. Hogan have turned out,
laviShly illustrated with old
sketches and wood cuts, is no
glorifled house organ. 1t is a
thorough but sprightly written
story Of the origin and develop
ment Of an amazing enterprise.
Marshall Field, the hard-Work-
ing. thrifty. austere young clerk
with an absolute passion for
merchandising" who became
what was aptly called in the '90s
q merchant prince, is a charac-
ter you'll remember. So is Pot
ter Palmer, whom Field bought
out: so are others with whom
Field was associated.
Actually there is more Of Chi
cago's flavor in the Marshall
Field saga than in Mr.. Lieb-
ling's thin book. The author. as
New Yorker readers do not need
to be reminded. is an amusing
writer. But Chicago seems to
have eluded him, nor does he
appear to have tried very hard
to capture the essence Of this
most American of cities. Mr..
Liebling is a native Of New York,
but has spent enough time in
Chicago to have learned more
about it.
He charges ChicagoanS with
having their homes many miles
from their cherished city, in
places like Evanston and Win
netka. The same thing could
be said Of New Workers, who
hurry when they have the
means to get as far away as
possible every night from the
incredibly crowded, pushed
around existence Of their buSi-
ness hours. The point could
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to bulwark us against the on
slaught Of the day. said Yeer-
sci the tailor. Every Joy and sor-
row was the property of all the
10 families. They needed all
their wits about them when the
decision was to be made to
mutiliate the son against the
coming Of conscription. They
mortgaged themselves to end
less hard labor to bribe the
Squire'S steward, so he would
tell the squire their daughters
would not do for his pleasure.
The evil that really CALLED the
landsmen, though. was one Of
their own who had turned on
them. the unregenerate Motel.
Motel, under the inhuman
preSsures applied during his
army service, had gone over to
the Gentiles and had become
the creature of the hated
squire. Still. blood told when his
nephew wanted to learn music
instruction was provided by
Mottel's friend, a prostitute
and later when the boy had to
make the perilous flight to
America.
Peter Martin had the ma
terial for his story from his Rus
sian grandmother. He has fash
ioned it into a first novel of
unusual power and humanity,
one that is laced with earthly
humor and salted with bitter
wisdom. The narrators are nine
landsmen. who more or less
cover the same events. It is q
device which gives great life to
the novel, but which makes it
occasionally confusing. One epi-
sode covering the nephew's stay
in the Squire's weird menage
sounds like something out of
one of the great Russian novel;
lists. Mr.. Martin has not CLOSED
over the ugliness of life in
Golinsk but he has shown, too
the Transforming elements Of
piety and kinship.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
The Londsmen
BY Peter Martin.
little, Brovn & Co.,: $3.75.J
Reviewed by Mary McGrorY

For the Jews who lived in Co
linsk. little Russian town in
the last century. life was hard.
Some would have said impos-
sible. The threat of pogroms
shadowed their existence. Their
sons were in danger of con-
scription, their daughters of
prostitution. Living as they did
among people who were "in
principle opposed to their very
existence" they were oppressed,
despised and spat upon. Yet
they survived.
Treated like animals by the
squire, the soldiery and the
Evening star., 1952-08-10

father. Gregory knew paganism
wasn't all cruelty and de-
cadence. The old Romans had
many virtues, chief among them
an answering sense of honor.
And yet he felt increasingly
that there was only one God
and he was impressed with what
he had read Of Christ.
A Complex Life
Gregory was a young man in
the reign of the Christian en-
peror Theodosius. The youth
married Marcia, a Christian girl,
and went to Milan, where he
came under the influence of
Bishop Ambrose. Theodosius,
who had triumphed over his
non-ChriStian enemies and pro-
scribed most of them. including
Gregory's father, accepted Greg
ory at court reluctantly. The
Emperor advised the young man
to study Christianity, which he
agreed to do.
Gregory tells, from the mel
lowing distance of old age and
a sanctuary in Britain. the COM
plex story of his life. It is
largely a spiritual struggle.
There were two great influences
in his life-St. Ambrose in per-
son and st. Augustine through
his great Confessions" He met
Bishop Augustine briefly at
Hippo, in Africa. In his later
years, after Rome was overrun
by Alaric the Goth, Gregory
became a priest and a bishop in
Spain. But he differed with the
church on certain doctrines and
so he exiled himself in Britain
and set up as an independent
teacher. Nearly all his life he
had searched for God and it
seemed to him that he never
quite found Him. But after
reading his apologize. I think
you'll feel, as I felt, that he did
find Him.
Mr.. Reynolds has made his
dialogue modern enough and
other details vital enough to
make the last days of Rome
seem Of direct concern to us. not
something out of a shadowy
past, He made his literary
debut more than 20 years ago
with Brothers, in the West"
Harper prize novel. "The Sin
ner of Saint Ambrose" is a
Book of -the-Month Club selec-
ton.
Evening star., 1952-08-10

they observed lovingly the an
cient rituals of their religion in
their miserable synagogue, with
out even a rabbi, and addressed
themselves in fervor and hope to
The One Above, they were
clothed in the only dignity that
was permitted them.
To the world that lay out
side their own side of the street,
they were subservient and
wheedling, their sole weapons
bribes and ruses. Among them
selves however. they had their
councils and committees, their
leaders and Sages, their wise
sayings and sardonic jokes.
And they stuck together. I'VE
needed full strength each time
to raise up the vision which was
Evening star., 1952-08-10

Two exhibitions just opened
in the foyer of the Natural His
tory building, United States Ma
tional Museum. reveal contrast
in wholly traditional styles Of
painting. Fourteen works by
Marguerite Hardesty occupy the
first two bays. A much larger
number by the late Edwin Scott
fill the remaining space. Mrs.
Hardesty's collection, mostly
portraits of japanese, are bright
and colorful. Scott's are low
keyed, somber in color, but,
when one gets Unto" his show,
it has much nostalgia charm.
1t will be reviewed here in de-
tail next Sunday.
The wife of a State Depart.
ment official, Mrs. HardeSty
spent two years in Japan and
studied there under Nakayama.
a japanese portrait painter.
However, he had studied in Eu-
rope, so presumably paints in
the Western manner. At any
rate, Mrs. Hardesty's portraits,
landscape and flower studies
currently on view are done from
the Occidental point of view.
There is much individuality
in her 10 or IL portraits, which
convinces the observer that they
are probably speaking like
nesses." Most of the subjects
wear traditional japanese dress.
the beautiful and graceful XII
mono, to which women add the
obi sash. One little girl, with
her hair cut in familiar Japa-
nese style, looks like a doll.
Older children, with hair in
short braids. are pretty by any
standards. yet indisputably Jap
anese. The hair of one young
woman, curled in a long bob,
doesn't seem as right. as the
straight hair of the japanese.
The scholarly faces of two pa
triarchs with long boards, the
thoughtful expression of an
older woman with a bowl of
iris, all attest to Mrs. Hardesty's
admiration and interest in the
neighbors and friends she made
during her Sojourn in the
"FloWery Kingdom"
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Perhaps only now, he warns.
I'VE are falling back into a state
of vacuous illiteracy through
the overdevelopment of radio
and television," we can realize
the benefit of the printed word.
CYstoIIine Clarity
AS all readers Of his earlier
books and magazine articles
know. Mr.. Mumford writes with
crystalline clarity and q genius
for the vivid phrase, which
makes so many of his sentences
good in themselves and preg-
nant with suggestion. It is diff
f1cult for the reviewer to re-
frain from giving available
space to a selection Of quota
tions, from the book at hand.
In his lecture on standardiza-
ton, reproduction and choice, he
discusses how we "are over
whelmed by the rank fecundity
of the machine making it
necessary for people to achieve
a certain opacity. insensitive-
ness. thickening of the hide" in
order to escape nervous break
down. ..
In Symbol and Function in
Architecture" the domain where
art and technics have always
been closely united, he explains
why so much contemporary
architecture is such a crashing
bore. Life must have meaning,
value and purpose, or we die" he
says, even though in outward
appearance, we still move and
breathe.
In his final lecture, he exam
ines "the more general terms for
establishing unity. For unless
the will to achieve integration is
a universal one, neither art nor
technics will long prosper" But
Mr.. Mumford is no dismal pessi-
mist. After pointing out the
many ramifications of our prob.
lem, he descrieS the hopeful
signs of coping with it.
Worth while as a large pro-
portion of current publishers
offerings is. there is not more
than one in a hundred books I
consider merit re-reading. art
and Technics" is that rare one,
which in repeated readings, of
ferS new stimuli to the thought
full person.