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Evening star., 1952-02-18
Society News:
Senator and Mrs. Bridges
Honored at Reception

Former Speaker of the House
Representative Joseph w. Martin
jr., was among the guests yester:
day. and others from Congress in
cluded Senator and Mrs. Pat Nc
Carran. who came back after a
brief absence from town to at
tend the party.
The Chaplain of the Senate, the
Rev. DR.. Frederick Brown Harris,
and Mrs. Harris were in the large
company. DR.. and Mrs. Harris are
personal friends of long standing
of Mr.. Summers parents. The
Secretary of the Senate and Mrs.
Leslie Biff1e also were there, and
others on the invitation list were
Senator and Mrs. Edward j. Thye
Senator and Mrs. Lyndon B. John
son, Senator and Mrs. John L.
Mcclellan, Senator and Mrs
George D. Aiken, Senator and Mrs
John j. Williams, Representative
and Mrs. Thor c. Tollefson, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Walt Horan,
Representative and Mrs. Gerald
R. Ford, jr., Representative and
Mrs. Richard B. : Wigglesworth,
Representative and Mrs. Michael
A. Feighan, Representative and
Mrs. Harris Ellsworth and Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Lowell Stock
man.
Diplomots Regret
A number of the diplomats in
vlted were obligated to regret
owing to the official mourning for
England's King. However, several
called yesterday as the party was
unofficial. the numbers attending
attesting to the popularity of the
hosts and their honor guests. The
French Ambassador and Nine.
Bonnet were there for a short time
and also calling were the Chinese
Ambassador and Nine. Koo, the
Chilean Ambassador and Sonora
de Nieto del Rio, the Dominican
Ambassador and Sonora de
Thomen. the Egyptian Ambassador
and Nine. Abdul Rahim, Cuban
Ambassador Luis Machado, the
Costa Rican Ambassador and
Sonora de Oreamuno, the latter
being a member of an ardent Re-
publican family of Ohio; the Span
ish Ambassador and Sonora de Le-
querica. the Panama Ambassador
and Sonora de Heurtematte, who
left later for a visit to their
Panama home. and the Ambassa-
doris brother. Senor Julio Heur-
tematte. now with the Interna-
tional Bank as we'll as Financial
Counselor of the Embassy. His at
tractive wife is visiting in Mexico.
The Director of the Federal
Mediation Service and Mrs. Cyrus
Ching accepted and so did, the
Secretary of the Army and Mrs.
Frank Pace, the Secretary of the
Air Force and Mrs. Thomas K.
Finletter. the Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue and Mrs.
Eldon P. King. former United
States Ambassador and Mrs. STAN
ley K. Hornbeck, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence c. Aspinwall, DR..
and Mrs. Charles Stanley White,
Mrs. Conger Pratt, Mrs. George C.
Thorpe. Mr.. and Mrs. Eric john
ston and Mr.. and Mrs. John l..
Sullivan.
Evening star., 1952-02-18
Varied Fetes
|On Calendar;
IOther Items

Mrs. Wilbur j. Carr and Mrs.
Levi Cooke will go to New
York tomorrow for a midwinter
"frolic" and will have visits with
old friends and attend the the
aters.
Mrs. Carr is the widow Of
Foreign Service officer who for
many years was chief Of the Con-
sular Service in the State De-
partment before going to Czecho-
slovakia as Minister Immediately
before World War II. Saturday
she gave tea honoring Mr.. and
Mrs. Vinton Chaplin. the former
having been a colleague Of the
late Mr.. Carr.
Mr.. Chaplin is attending the
Army War College and bis last
foreign post was Counselor of the
United States embassy in the
Philippines He served as Coun-
selcr of the legation in Prague
and was Charge d'Afaires when
the Cars went on vacation.
Other guests at tea Saturday
were some 80 or IS former For
eign Service officers who now live
in Washington, and their wives.
Mrs. Carr was assisted by Mrs.
Thomas Macdonald. who is
spending the winter with her.
Miss, Agnes Miller Birney was
Ihostess Saturday at tea entertain
ling in the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dion Scott Birney.
Miss Birney was assisted in re-
ceiving by Miss Mary Ann WAL
burn. who completed a portrait of
the hostess in time for the latter
to give it to her father as a Christ
mas present. The portrait, which
was on view Saturday. is life size
and Miss Birney is shown in a
gray tulle evening frock.
Miss Walburn is a fellow men,
ber of the Junior League with
Saturdays hostess and a number
of others in the Washington
branch were in the company as
well as some of Mr.. and Mrs.
Birney's contemporaries.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Parker VAN
Zandt are giving a series of small
and informal parties, the next
one to be Thursday evening, when
their guests are invited from 81
to 8 o'clock in their apartment
in the Westchester. Wednesday
afternoon Mrs. VanZandt will be
hostess at tea in honor of her
mother, Mrs. Mary Stevenson
Begole, who is their house guest.
Mrs. Huron w. Lawson has gone
to Florida for several weeks visit
with DR.. and Mrs. Lee Mccarthy.
formerly of Washington. in their
home at Homosassa Springs. Mrs.
Lawson will return to her home
on N street early in March.
Mrs. Frank Weller left yester-
day for Miami where she will meet
her sister, Mrs. H. Cabell Maddux,
jr.. who left here by motor 10
days ago. Mrs. Maddux and Mrs.
Weller will go by plane to Panama
City where they will spend sew
eral weeks with their parents. DR..
Ricardo Alfaro and Sonora de
Alfaro. DR.. Alfaro is his country's
permanent delegate to the United
Nations and is a member of the
legal advisory staff. At present
he is at home but will leave in
the late winter for conferences in
Geneva. He formerly was minis
ter in Washington where he and
Sonora de Alfaro have many
| friends.
Evening star., 1952-02-18
Dinner Group

After attending the cocktail
party last Friday at the Naval
Gun Factory for the Marine Corps
personnel department. a group of
officers and their wives met for
dinner at Water Gate Inn. The
group included Col. and Mrs. S. M.
CharlesWorth, Maj. and Mrs.
Cecil Moore. Maj. and Mrs. N. T.
Miller and Maj. and Mrs. John
Coffee.
Evening star., 1952-02-18
HongeIio-ZevgoIis
EnQOQenent

At a party given last evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hangelia, for
merly of Burlington, N. c., an
nounced the engagement of their
daughter. Beba, to Mr.. George
Zevgolis, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Zevgolis of Hopewell. Va.
The bride elect attended Bur-
lington Business College and is at
present employed with the Gov
ernment. Mr.. Zevgolis served
80 months in the Marine Corps
and is now working for The Eve
ming Star.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1952-02-18

Miss Jean Clarke became the
bride Of Mr.. Howard Hudson in
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church February 16, the Rev
Albert P. Shirley officiating.
The bride is the daughter of
Mrs. Paul E. Clarke and the late
Mr.. Clarke. The bridegroom is
the son of Mrs. Hudson and the
late Mr.. Hudson.
After a reception at the Admiral
Club, the couple left for a wedding
trip to Florida and Bermuda.
Evening star., 1952-02-18

The wedding of Miss Elizabeth
Rebecca Burroughs and Mr.. John
Robert Britt took place Febru-
ary 16 in the Blessed Sacrament
Church in Alexandria, the Rev.
Austin l.. Ryder officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Webster
Burroughs of Alexandria are the
brides parents and the bridegroom
is the son of Mrs. Adelia M.
Britt and the late Mr.. Robert
Edward Britt of st. Louis, Mo.
After a wedding trip to Ber-
muda, the couple will make their
home at 1922 South Twenty ninth
street in Arlington.
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Photo.

in their home on Massachusetts,
avenue where they have been en-
|tertaining the latter's daughter
!in-law, Mrs. George Bunker. Mr..
and Mrs. Bunker were married
in the late summer or early au-
tumn in Paris and she has sailed
to JOIN him there.
Signor Rosso plans to return
to Florence the latter part of
April. making the trip by plane,
and Signora Rosso/ will sail in
May to join him in Florence for
the summer.
Evening star., 1952-02-18
To Be Guests

Cadet Officers of the 4th Regi-
ment of Westerns High School
Cadets will be the guests at a
buffet supper on Capt. and Mrs.
George w. Gering. on February
81. The supper is to be given
prior to the Regimental Ball.
Evening star., 1952-02-18

dinner in both table setting and
menu. The lunch table is usually
set with runners or place mats,
leaving much of the wood bare.
The dinner table is correctly set
with a tablecloth and soup is
served in plates and eaten with a
tablespoon. At a formal dinner
black coffee is served in "demi-
tasses" in the living room.
Dinner is usually served in the
evening. However, in many COM
munities it is served in the mid
die of the day Especially on Sun
day.
Supper is usually simple meal
served at the end of a day when
dinner was served at noon. It
may also be served in the late
evening after a party or when
returning from theater or con-
cert, etc.
Evening star., 1952-11-09
Great Books: Ponoceo or What?
BY Edward A. Fitzpatrick. Bruce; $275J

Mr.. Fitzpatrick. a widely
known educator, examines crit
ically the great books" pro-
gram adopted in various uni
versities and colleges. This pro-
gram is based on the theory that
any student who absorbs cer-
tain books in his undergraduate
years-phfosophy, science, lit
erature-haS received a liberal
education. Mr.. Fitzpatrick points
out that misconceptions of the
program have been widespread,
particularly in relation to st.
Johns College. Annapolis, which
requires, in addition to the great
books. the systematic study Of
Greek, French and German and
adequate laboratory work in the
sciences. The impression has
gone out that st. Johns and
other colleges require nothing
but the great books.
The author raises pertinent
points. He is not opposed to the
study of great books. But he
wonders how much of them the
average student actually alb
serbs. Many students, he feels.
are incapable Of understanding
some of these books. The dis
cussion groups. led by faculty
advisers. often do not explain
them adequately. The plan of
requiring the student to read
book every two weeks sis posi-
BILE only because there is no re-
quirement Of mastery either in
Evening star., 1952-11-09
Reviewed BY Jerry o'Leory, j..

Just about two years ago. the
cutoff 1st Marine Division
was fighting its way to the sea
through Gordon of Chinese
Communists in below zero
weather. With them was 1t.
Col. Greer.
Two regiments. surrounded at
Chosin Reservoir, had clawed
their way to the outskirts of
Hagaru where other Marines
waited to join the breakout.
AS the embattled regiments
reached the edge Of the town
Col. Geer writes this Of the
Marines:
"They saw the Snakeline of
battered, Shell-torn trucks. Six
hundred yards from the town
the trucks ground to a stop.
Those of the wounded and
froStbitten who could walk
crawled from the vehicles and
formed on the bleak, frozen
road. There In silence they
began to march; with no word
or count a cadence was picked
Evening star., 1952-11-09
These Are the Letters Shaw
Tried to Keep Out Of Print
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Potrick Campbell:
Their Correspondence
Edited hY Alan Dent [Alfred a Kn0nf. Is
Edited by Alan Dent. (Altred

Curiosity about Shaw's letters
to Mrs. Patrick Campbell was
much whetted by the manner
Of his refusal to let her publish
them. 'I refuse to play horse
to your Lady Godiva." It was
q typical Shavian overstate-
ment. Mrs. Campbell was much
nearer the mark when she dis
enchantedly called their lengthy
encounter. "Lustless lions at
play"
So the sensation-seekers will
be disappointed. Shaw was,
after all, IAN elderly gentleman
of Sc" when he declared his
passion for the still beautiful
47-year-old grandmother. At
the same time, of course, he
was a great dramatist and she
a marvellous actress. so while
business frequently reared its
ugly head between them, they
managed to make the most Of
it. Shaw had an unpleasant
way Of keeping his eye on the
exits even when most fervent.
He warned her Of himself, "He
will fill his fountain pen with
your hearts blood and sell your
most sacred emotions on the
stage" Mrs. Campbell seems
to have been perfectly aware Of
that. Many years later. in
bitterness tower his refusal to
let her sell his letters she
wrote: ''Next time you try to
fascinate an actress don't use
her as a means Of teasing
Charlotte (Mrs. Shaw)-thai
was the ugliest thing you did,"
verbol lndiscretions
The passion then was
epistolary. the indiscretions
verbal. The tenderness that
might have been between them
was swamped by the eagerness
with which both later discred-
tied the romance" Shaw said
publication would cause Char
lotte pain-a belated consid-
Grafton on his part, surely-and
Mrs. Campbell said it would
show the world the dear boy he
really was. She nagged. whined,
pleaded for years, but Shaw
was adamant.
One thing is perfectly clear.
Shaw met his match in the fiery
English = Italian Stella. Her
poorly punctuated and ill-spelt
shafts were often more telling
than his more considered
thrusts. Once. for instance, she
wrote to him: Its too late to
do anything but accept you and
love you-but when you were
quite a little boy somebody
ought to have said 'Hush!' Just
once.
Still in the Field
He on the other hand, never
tired Of batting her with her
reputation as q fantastically Diff
ficult actress and manager.
When she played Eliza in his
"Pygmalion." the theater walls
Evening star., 1952-11-09

WELL, in the first place, we have persuaded the
mills which produce our hne papers to increase
their allotment to us-with the result that, of
six Of our recent publications, we have obtained
from the printers about thousand extra copies.
So, in the second place, we can now accept
thousand members: to try US with these books.
Dur WE WANT to enroll this limited number
of people with limited expenditure upon ad.
vertisements by offering this irresistible induce
ment 70 you, to become new member. If you do,
you will obtain six beautiful, beautiful books
atthesame price sordinary rental library fiction.
You will obtain copy of The Pilgrims Prog.
ress with the newly discovered water-colors
by Blake; and The Book Of Ratb with the
miniatures-in-color by Arthur Szyk; and Great
Expectations illustrated by the English painter
Edward Ardizzone; and Confessions Of an Eng
ki,b Op;am-EAfer illustrated with gravufes by
Zhenya Gay; and The Way Of Al FLESH; and
The Sketeb-Book Of Gecf,ey Crayon 80.
Or, if any of these books should not be Of in.
terest to you, you may choose substitutions out
Of long list Of Heritage books. Then, after the
trial period, you can decide whether TO continue.
Obviously, we think you will!
Evening star., 1952-11-09
GiIde'd ed Stuff
From Down
The Bayou
Steamboat Gothic

SIe0FnOO0I SOIHIC
BY Frances Parkinson Keyes
(Messner;; $3.75.)
Reviewed by Roy Koltwosser
One can only fondly recall
Dickens famous silky. pomaded
American river dandy {. "a
man whose complexion, actually
muddy, was rendered muddier
by too strict an economy Of
soap and water - to realize
that this dandy is all slicked UP.
Clyde Bachelor began as one
Of those legendary, diamond
studded river gamblers Of the
old golden paddlewheel days.
Concealing his reckless past. he
marrieS q sweet Virginia belle,
buys q Louisiana plantation
and respectfully settles down
with his family for a very long
life.
The plot that Clyde fathers
winds as sluggishly as an old
Louisiana bayou. It twists in
and out. through the generation
of Clyde's children and through
their children, doggedly trailing
the fortunes of each, until tot
tering old Clyde. who lives all
the way into q new golden era"
Of the diesel barge. finally dies.
Embellishing this story about
the great gilded floating pal
aces" Is enough gothic knick-
knack to shame absolutely any
18th century New Orleans
drawing room. It strangles the
novel. Nothing Of the real Mis-
sissippi or Of the real silky Gay.
lords could ever seep through
this cluttered sentiment.
Evening star., 1952-11-09

AOEcAUsE we are offering you $40 set of
Norman RockwelPs paintings as an inducement
to obtain Trial Membership in The Heritage
Club at this time, we had better tell you some
thing about them:
In the first place, they are not the original
paintings in oil! If you are in position TO pay
several thousands Of dollars to obtain one Of
Norman Rockwell's original oils land if you
know where one eoald be obtained), you won't
want these facsimiles.
For they are facsimiles. Yet we will wager one
good sixty-cent dollar that, even after examin-
ing them, you wouldn't recognize them as such,
and two good sixty-cent dollars that your friends
won't do so, either!
They are created by several unusual processes.
They are in full color; and they are on heavy
boardcanvasses such as oil painters use; and
their surfaces are moulded in the brush-strokes.
Facsimiles have been created in this fashion
before, Of some of Norman Rockwell's famous
paintings notably his paintings Of The Four
Freedoms. We would present those to you, if we
could! But we can't, for the right to reproduce
them doesnt belong TO us. However, we do have
the right to reproduce Norman Rockwell's paint
ings made TO illustrate Hgeklebery Fisn; for they
were made for our own now-famous edition.
WE HAVE NOW TAKEN three of them (the
original oils are in the possession Of the Mark
Twain Museum) and have created facsimiles
which are four times larger than the plates in the
published book. Each is twelve inches across by
sixteen inches long! Each will Be sold in the
shops for $6.95; the SCI Of three, for $40.
BUT we will give You complete SET, free,
GRATUIT, snsoasf, GRATIS-if you obtain
Trial Membership in The Heritage Club at this
time. Why1
Evening star., 1952-11-09

up and the Marines at the
towns entrance heard the
frozen shoe-pacs on the frozen
road pounding in rhythm.
1.-THE haggard, bearded and
hard men of the 5th and 7th
received their tribute from the
tears in the eyes Of the Ma
rines awaiting them. Navy doc
tor Robert Harvey whispered
over and over. Look at those
bastards. those magnificent
bastards."
Tomorrow is the 177th an
niversary Of the Marine Corps
that spawned those magnificent
ones. Col. Geer's book takes the
1st Marine Division from it's
entrance into the Korean war
to the evacuation by sea from
Hungnam.
A poignantly written account
of a stirring page in American
history. The authors royal
ties are for the education Of
the children of Marines killed
in Korea.
Evening star., 1952-11-09
F. O. Motthiessen:
A Collective Portrait

Edited by Paul M. Sweezy and
Leo Huberman.
Henry Schnman, me-; $2.5OJ
A group Of friends and ad-
mirers Of the late Prof. Mat
thiessen Of Harvard have con-
tributed to this memorial. vol
ume. His talents as professor,
anthologist and critic are ap-
praised in a spirit Of admiration
and sympathy for the intellec-
tual plight which led Mr.. Mat
thiesSen to take his own life.
-E. +.
Evening star., 1952-11-09
Books in Review
Changes in the American Way Of Life
During the First Half Of the Century
The Big Change
BY Frederick Lewis Allen. (Harper; $500
Rendezvous With Destiny
BY Eric F. Goldman (Knopf: So
Reviewed BY corter Brooke Jones
Reviewed By Corter Brooke Jone.

Federal powers not only created
more potent instruments that
could pass into the hands of
conservatives or the anti-social.
They encouraged graft by max
ing it's operations easier and its
rewards greater -
The LiberoI's Doy
Mr.. Goldman concludes his
searching study by asking: How
well can modern liberalism han
die its responsibilities? The lib
eral wonders, his enemies Won
der. too, and somewhere in the
misty realm between hope and
fear, where the mistakes of the
past deride plans for the future
and every day seems a brilliant
dawn and an onruShing dusk,
the liberal can take strength
from one tremendous fact. His
is a momentous tradition, all the
way from the pre-Civil War JEFF
fersonian aspiration down
through the Prince Albert re-
form of Samuel Tilden and on
to the sidewalk heresies of Harry
Truman.
Mr.. Allen realizes that infla-
ton ''has been a serious menace
to our economic health" and
that taxes have become an al
most intolerable burden. And
yet he Is optimistic. In allowing
Government to control or at
least regulate business, prices
and production and through
taxation to limit income, we are
not, he insists, moving toward
communism or socialism. He
deplores what he sees as tend
ency to suspect every one with
unorthodox ideas Of subverSive
intent.
Cost Of Living, 1900
Mr.. Aliens early chapters on
the way people lived in 1900
are enlightening. The family
man who made $4,000 a year
could live a lot better, he adj
mits, than the man making
$4,000 today. But the salaried
man at the turn of the century
did it. we gather, at the ex-
pense Of servants making So
or 81 a week, factory workers
earning little more and condi-
tions that allowed slums more
dreadful than anything we can
imagine now.
The author feels that in our
modified version of the welfare
state We are evolving past
socialism into something less
radical and more practical.
Whether we agree that all the
reforms of recent years were
necessary and are desirable. we
are stuck with most Of them. It
is interesting to have them ex-
planned by two men who are
sympathetic to them and yet
discriminating and detached
enough to weigh them crit
ically.
Evening star., 1952-11-09

rocked to the clash Of wills.
It was a great success for her.
and thereafter she importuned
him to write parts for her. which
he refused to do. They could
be and were. on occasion. kind
to one another. He gave her
much sound advice, which she
brushed aside.
She was q greatly spirited
woman who bore illness, an un-
happy second marriage, the loss
Of her only son in the war and
even the passage of time, with
remarkable fortitude. She loved
q little dog so much she stayed
out of England for years to spare
him the horrors of quarantine.
And she fought bravely to the
end. When Shaw asked her
II she seriously was in the field
for a part in the Aim Of Major
Barbara" she replied with one
of. her old flashes, "Yes; I am
still seriously in the field but
you know not as cannon fodder" !"
His last letter to her ends: II
am too old, too old. too old"
:" IN. MEG.
Evening star., 1952-11-09
A Shower Of Summer Days

BY May Sarton.
(RhinehGrt;: $2.75.)
With a poets economy Miss
Sarton has told the story Of
three people during a summer
in a beautiful old house in Ire
land. For Violet Dene Gordon
the return to her ancestral home
sets up a train OF disturbing
memories and subtly alters her
relation to her husband Charles.
Her memories are virtually per-
sonified by her niece Sally,
American daughter Of an es-
tranged sister. Dispatched to
Ireland to forget an unsuitable
Suitor, Sally at first violently
resists the haunted atmoS-
phere. But gradually she is
enthralled by the old house and
fascinated by her beautiful
aunt. The constantly shifting
attitudes among the trio
are delicately explored by Miss
Sarton. who in her lucid prose
includes no word or episode
which does not expedite the Bit
terSWeet conclusion.
M. McG.
Evening star., 1952-11-09
Troy Chimneys
BY Margaret Kennedy.
(Rinehnrt. S3

(RinehGTt; $SJ
Margaret Kennedy's first ven-
ture into the field of historical
fiction cannot be called a re-
warding excursion. "Troy CHM
neys" has no particular period
flavor. despite its regency set
ting. The plot-a journal
bracketed between letters writ
ten years afterwards clumsy
and confusing. AS for the story.
it concerns a parsons son. who.
like most mems sons, has two
strains in his nature-one good
and one not so good. Miles Luf-
ton, a romantic, crossed in love,
becomes to the public view
''pronto." an opportunist who
gadS about to his wealthy
friends country houses, singing
naughty songs. He even gets
a seat in Parliament, although
he seems never to attend. Even
tually he falls in love with q
middle-aged spinster, who re-
fuses him and finally comes to
a violent end. which seems out
Of keeping. The point Of the
story. or the need for its many
minor characters, is never es-
tabliShed.
Miss Kennedy. author Of
'The Constant Nymph," can do
much better than this and
doubtless will again.
M. MEG.