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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1952-07-19
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1952-07-19
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1952-07-19
Die Saltmms Der &ommmniiten
uno Spsialiiten

Sbtpobl Die ertogiiltige gntl6ei-
oung iiber oie Sertrdge crit I'M Serblt
faaen miro, berridte in parlamenta-
ridden &reiien Die Iuffailung, baB
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babe.
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1952-07-19
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Evening star., 1952-10-05

eral specialists said, had no
minds and there wasn't much
you could do for them. The
Killileas were advised to put the
baby in an institution. But they
wouldn't give up. They worked
and. being devout. they prayed.
Finally, at some undisclosed
place in the South, an unnamed
doctor gave them hope. He ex-
amined Karen. Her mind was
perfectly normal. this doctor in
sisted, and as for her body, it
could be educated to do most
things.
There were years of patient
work with Karen. of teaching
her to do things for herself, Of
trying to make her self-reliant
80 she wouldn't grow up q self
centered invalid. The reward
was summed up one day by
Karen herself: II can walk. I
can talk. I can read. I can
write. Nom Pom, I can do any,
thingl"
Apparently it was Mrs. Kill
lilea who initiated the first
cerebral palsy association, in
New York State. Out Of it
grew national organization.
I think you'll feel, as I did,
that Marie Killilea had to write
this book. Cerebral palsy. as
most of us have learned only
in recent years, is a widespread
affliction, affecting a great many
families. Those families will
find hope in this true story.
Others. outside observers, will
discover in this record of an
average family, written with
beauty and understanding, how
faith, hope and courage can
lead the human spirit to
triumph. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-10-05
Architect-Puinter

The first one-man show Of
Howard Page. Virginia architect
turned Sunday painter" drew
q large crowd Of members and
guests to the Arts Clubs open
ing last Sunday. The exhibi-
ton Of more than 40 oil paint
ings, water colors, pencil draw
ingS and a few other items, fills
the clubs gallery and both re-
ception rooms through Octo-
ber II.
Mr.. Page, who now lives near
Vienna. Va, spent some Of his
boyhood years in the historic
Tidewater section. Hence his
paintings reflect several areas Of
our neighboring State.
Mr.. Pages paintings have
been exhibited in the Corcoran
Gallery and the National Mu-
scum, where they have fetched
IA awards in shows of the Asso-
citation of Federal Architects.
Some Of these works are includ-
ed in the present show. For
the past 20 years, the artist has
been a designer in the Navy
Departments Bureau of Yards
and Docks. After graduating
from Carnegie Tech in Pitts
burgh in 1924, he spent four
months Sketching in Europe,
then began his career in archi-
tects' Offices in several Southern
cities.
Water colors and pencil seem
to me Mr.. Pages best media, as
his work in them is consistently
good, whereas it is somewhat
uneven in oil. However, there
are a number of oil paintings
which are among his best per-
formances on view at the Arts
Club: Darling Ways. Hampton"
two views Of Waterford with
successive planes giving a feel
ing Of distance, and Grab Can
merry, Seaford, Va.
Two colored pictorial maps
done in minute detail and with
meticulous care depict Virginia
Evening star., 1952-10-05
Karen
BY Marie Killilea. (Prentice-Hau; s2.s5J

This seems to be an era Of the
documentary, the autobiogra-
ply, the factual story. Out of
the great number of such books,
some of them merely the self
pity of monologists who des-
paired of getting an audience
otherwise, others the vanity of
successful men, something dis
tinctive and memorable, a story
like Karen" is found now and
then.
Karen was born prematurely.
She weighed less than two
pounds. For months Marie and
Jimmy Killilea had to leave the
mite Of a child in an incubator
In the hospital. Slowly, almost
imperceptibly. she gained weight
and grew. But when her par
ents got her home and more
months passed, they saw she was
not like her older sister. Karen
never tried to crawl or even sit
up. She spoke no words.
They Would Not Give Up
Then came the period Of in
terminable trips to innumerable
doctors. The verdict was that
Karen had been born with cere-
bral palsy. Such children, sew
Evening star., 1952-10-05
Crime and Mystery-
Reviewed by Miriom Gutenberg

Maiden Murders. BY the MyS-
terry Writers of America. (Har-
per g. Bros: So
The MWA anthologies
chosen as they are by the pros
Enthusiastically include the
cream of the short mystery crop.
The gimmick this year is the
first published story of now rec
ognized craftsmen. A few excep-
tions have been made to the first
rule. The stories themselves
are good enough to demonstrate
how much Of the writing craft
was learned by these authors
before ever an editor paid money
to publish. But equally enter
tanning are the writer's own ac-
counts Of how they came to
break into print. John Dickson
Carr's introduction wraps up the
heartaches of the neophyte.
Catch a Tiger. BY Owen Cam
eron. (Simon & Schuster; $2,5O.)
Inner Sdnctuna.
Every one liked young Johnny
every one. that is. but an
obviously neurotic mailman who
insisted that Johnny had mur-
Evening star., 1952-10-05
The Devils of Loudun
BY Aldous Huxley. (Harper;; 81

Oy &AAOOuc 1AAA4Cys tAUI PCf p
In the early part Of the 18th
century both religious and secu-
lar arms of government. Catho-
lie and Protestant, whether in
Europe or in the new colony Of
Massachusetts,. were always on
guard against witchcraft. At
Loudun in Flanders there was a
major scandal when it was re-
ported that some Ursuline nuns
at a convent were possessed by
devils. It happened that Cardi-
nay Richelieu, in effect the ruler
Of France, had it in for Urban
Grandier. the brilliant vicar Of
Loudun. This was the cardi-
nails chance. Grandier was
charged with sorcery-specifi-
cally. with causing the devils to
control the nuns. After q far
cical trial, Grandier was tortured
and burned at the stake in the
public square in August, 1884.
Around the events that led to
the wears martyrdom, the series
of hearings and the background.
the author has written a schol-
arly and Illuminating narrative.
1t is not the easiest reading, for
MIR. Huxley, the acute satirist
and sagacious historian, has ex-
plored all the philosophical i'm
plications. And yet the perse-
Evening star., 1952-10-05

vering reader will find much re-
warding information about the
period.
Mr.. Huxley. while realizing
fully the injustice and barbarity
surrounding Grandier's trial and
execution. does not think much
Of Grandier as a priest or of his
church. The author does, how
ever, admire the wears cour-
age in refusing to confess under
torture, in insisting to the last
on his innocence. Mr.. Huxley
remarks on the transfer Of
heretic-hunting from religious
authorities to the modern total
itarian state.
"a. evil has made some
progress. Under Communist die
tators, those who come to trial
before a Peoples Court invar-
iably confess the crimes Of
which they have been accused
confess them even when they
are imaginary. In the past,
confession was by no means in
variable. Our ancestors in
vented the rack and the iron
maiden, the boot and the water
torture; but in the Subtler arts
OF breaking the will and reduc-
ing the human being to sub
humanity, they still had much
to learn" &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-10-05

dered his missing benefactor.
Nobody paid any attention to
the mailman. But Jake Brown,
even though he despised the
busybody, had to listen. Jake
was a plodder but a good police
man. He was also a man of inn
agination, which is why he Suf-
fered. The skillful buildup Of
suspense from slow beginnings
together with the shifting SYM
pathies makes this consistently
absorbing.
The Hunted Woman. BY Martha
Albrand. Random House; So
Marika escapes with her son
from a hated husband and a
lost country-only to find that
she cannot escape the terror Of
pursuit. She knows what her
husband and his Communist
clique can do. The scholarly
American who comes to her aid
out Of love only half believes
her story, because in his back
ground such terrors never ex-
listed. Thus he loses the boy he
SWore to protect.
Evening star., 1952-10-05
The Golden Hill

BY Eunice McCloSkey.
Bruce Hun1phries, Inc.;; $3.)
Life is the ragged day-by-day
toiling up that distant Golden
Hill" just ahead.
This is about Karen, the SEN
sitive child Of a Pennsylvania
coal miner and a dying mother.
Slowly she grows to the step-by-
step sufferance Of q sodden
husband, numerous and COM
plicated births, q nagging
mother-in-law, and the strug-
giles Of her own children in this
generation. Scraping all the
way, sacrificing, she is embit-
tered to the weary end of her
life. Yet, strangely. throughout
there looms that dewy golden
hill" It is evident that Karen
has found a subtle consolation
square in the arms of misery. It
is the satisfaction of the long
suffering woman who Is told
your life has been a monument
Of sacrifice and devotion"
Karen felt better. Then she
died. r. K.
Evening star., 1952-10-05

The author explains that the
present study grew out Of a
doctoral disputation written at
a fashionable eastern finishing
school; 1t appears now only after
years of expensive revision and
diligent research at the Harvard
Theological Cemetery and the
British Mausoleum." Studying
English literature, we find:
"Christianity was introduced by
the Romans in IS B. c., and it
was not long before England was
overrun by Angels. Sections and
Jukes, who settled north Of the
Humber River near the Ooze."
There are such pictures as the
Evening star., 1952-10-05
By Florence S. Berrymon


nandez de Herrera, whose first
exhibition in a public gallery in
the United States was opened at
the Union.a week earlier. It Is
the artists first trip to this
country.
More than so works are on
view through next Saturday.
Twenty are religious themes.
mostly heads Of Christ. the Vir-
gin and saints. They are framed
in velvet and silk cords. A larger
number Of paintings depict In
dians and .Paraguayan country
people. All are painted in lac
quer on Celotex panels, in a
process the artist developed
after long experimentation.
Born in Asuncion, Paraguay,
Sonora Herrera (who uses the
brush name of Laguardia)
started painting at an early age,
during sojourns in China and
Japan, where she became inter-
ested in the lacquer technique.
She also studied art in several
countries of Europe, is grad
uate Of the Academy Of Fine
Arts in Buenos Aires, and has
taken courses in five other Latin
American cities. So extensive
a program of study is extraor-
dinary for an artist still under IS.
'Laguardia's" heads of Christ
interpret Him in different ways
some as the Man Of Sorrows,
others as a Jew. still others as
a philosopher. The most con-
vincing Interpretation Of them
all, it seems to me, is the small
head lent by the Ambassador.
The crackle In many Of the
works was done deliberately, the
artist indicated, in order to give
an appearance Of age to the
works. I greatly prefer those
which have smooth, unbroken
surfaces, as the cracks in this
medium are coarse and obtru-
sive.
Gold colored backgrounds with
floral designs and halos in re-
lief, make some Of the paintings
reminiscent Of Byzantine and
early Renaissance religious
paintings.
Evening star., 1952-10-05

Mr.. March writes Of a South
Sea island back in the 1905.
long before the airplene. World
War II and the unceasing con-
flict Of ideologieS made the life
of such islanders complex and
battling. His story happened in
days when the only interrupt
items in the easy flow Of their
lives were the visits of trading
ships and the occasional arrival
of a new set Of missionaries.
His novel Is both wise and
amusing, infused with quiet
irony and touched with pity for
those who do the best they know
how. whether they grew up in
a tropical elySium or came from
strange, harsh lands across the
seas.
STEPPED in Sin
The Rev. Samuel Barnfield
and his wife, Irma, belonged to
a dour, pleasure-hating sect.
They were sure. when they ar
rived at October Island, the
only white persons there, that
people who enjoyed life so much
must be stepped in sin. The
natives were hospitable and
kind. But Sans most power
full sermons (when he learned
the language) seemed to have
no effect. They went on vaguely
and perfunctorily worshipping
their traditional god, Rahabaat,
who lived in a volcano which
had caused no trouble for CEN
turieS.
But Irma Barnfield, a shade
less dedicated than her hus-
band, had more curiosity about
the raw life their religion shut
out. Her marriage had been
purely spiritual, the way they
had agreed they wanted it.
and sometimes she wondered
what she was missing. Mean
while, in an encyclopedia left
behind by a previous mission
ary, she learned that eminent
scientists had visited October
Island.
There was widely held the
ory that the island was a sort
of Eden, a cradle of man, and
that writing had been known
there thousands of years ago
and long forgotten. though the
scientists could find no proof.
Digging about the island,
1rma found a stone carved with
what looked like writing. She
Evening star., 1952-10-05
Reunion on the Wabash
BY Sterling North. doubleday & Co., Inc; $3.50.)
Reviewed by Roy Kotwosser

You'll be surprised to know
that the languid. willow-rimmed
Wabash can rise to such great
heights that it swells to a dirty
torrent, smashes the levee bull
warking the homestead of the
late, venerated Senator Ed Bige-
low. and rushes of with eight
of the cast.
This slaughter is really more
symbolical than treacherous.
however. '"The river is a symbol
of the main stream of human
life," we are told. Those eight
Evening star., 1952-10-05

peaceful scene captioned: 1.-THE
Bucolic Plague. Pepys' Dairy in
the Foreground" We study
"Gray's eff1gy in the country
churchyard." We meet such
characters as william Jennings
Byron" who twas exiled to Don
Juan. whence he finally escaped
to Greece" The book Is a col
lege professors nightmare after
years Of absorbing students
boners. It's q good book to pick.
up and lay down with a chuckle.
II you try to read it straight
through, it soon will begin to
seem straining hard for a laugh.
&C. B. J.
Evening star., 1952-10-05

knew the islanders theory Of
the creation; she had heard it
many times from the chief and
the high priest. It fatty con-
tradicted the, account in Gene
sis. Shed be no party to fur
thering such heresy. So she
threw the tablet in the volcano.
Others she discovered she dis
posed Of the same way.
Naturally the islanders saw
what she was doing. Obviously
she held Rahabaat in great es-
TEEN. since she was restoring to
him things he must once have
inscribed. When she found an
ancient cup which the native
leaders recognized as the gods
personal chalice, missing for
centuries, and kept it beside her
as q relic, they were sure she
was q goddess.
The lsIonders Were Hers
1rma, ignoring Sans wrathful
command to stay away, took
part in the annual festival to
Rahabaat. She was clad in
flowing cloth trimmed with stars
she'd saved from some Christ
mas. After that the islanders
would do whatever she wanted.
So. after one of Sans routine
sermons, they adopted her sug-
gestion and accepted mass con-
version. It was a question,
though, who was converting
whom and to what.
All this does not by any means
give away the whole story.
There's lot more to it. There's
Hansen, mate on the schooner
that visited the island regularly.
n-ma took a maternal interest
In him and rather more. His
mother was an october Islander,
his father q Scandinavian
scientist who left the island
when Hansen was q child and
never returned. Hansen's inner
story Is absorbing. Then we
have 1rma's blacksheep sister,
who looms large in a fiashback
and is the center of a coda to
the narrative. October Island"
is an appealing story, sensitively
written, lacking in neither hu-
NOR nor pathos.
William March is skilled
hand with a story. This is his
eighth book. His first novel.
Company K" was about World
War I.