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Evening star., 1952-01-06

with the possibility Of constant
build-up of forces, it was al
most obviously only a matter of
time for the American divisions
to sweep across France to the
Rhine and thence into the in
terror Of Germany. Eventually
we may expect to see hundreds
of volumes on this operation.
All of them, it may be predicted
with some confidence, will lean
heavily for their basic facts on
this narrative. About all they
can add is human interest and
color.
The Early Phase.
This first phase of the Nor
mandy operations necessarily
was highly complicated and
confusing-perhaps most of all
to those Immediately concerned,
who saw and thoroughly appre-
ciated the significance of those
events in their immediate
neighborhood, but were not
very clear on the part played
by other divisions in other parts
of the limited theater. Per-
sonally I have found the book
a most interesting and valuable
means of checking my own
memories and records as a war
correspondent intimately in
volved in the advance from the
beaches to Cherbourg.
Under the present plan. the
history of the European theater
will be presented in nine vol
umes. One other of these has
been published previously, deal
ing with the Sd Armys cam
paign in Lorraine. This was
far out of sequence, of course,
but it is stated frankly that no
strict sequence will be followed
in publication dates.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
New Year to Bring
Much Campaign Reodinq

Whatever else the new year
brings, 1t will surely have a full
complement Of campaign read
ing. Here are a few titles with
political flavor culled from the
spring lists:
Raymond Moley, onetime
New Dealer, has addressed
How to Keep Our Liberty"
(Knopf) to ofhce-hungry Re-
publicans; Sidney Hyman, who
collaborated with Robert E.
Sherwood on Roosevelt and
Hopkins" describes the worlds
toughest job in 1.-THE President"
(Harper); Samuel Lubell, local
man, analyses American poll
tics for the last 20 years in
"The Hidden Revolution"
CHarper); Nathan Straus, first
administrator of the FHA,
describes housing program for
America in "Two-thirds of a
Nation" (Knopf).
X \
A spry 81. Ernest Green Dodge
OF 1471 Irving street NV. has
just published Bold Thoughts
on Life" the cumulative
thoughts of a lifetime. Mr..
Dodge, who retired from Gov
eminent service twice, once in
July, 1941, and again in June,
1945, after a wartime recall to
duty, is treasurer of the Ma
tional Association of Retired
Civil Employees.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Mr.. Davis Returns
To the West -
WINDS OF MORNING
BY H. L. Davis. will
MOTrO1D. 81 so

WINDS OF MORNING
BY H. L. Davis. (Willian1
MorroW;; $780,
One of the most original nov
elists writing in America today,
H. L. Davis loves character and
language as few others today.
His country is the Northwest
although he is not provincial, as
proven with Harp of a Thou
sand Strings" a striking novel
of the French Revolution. Now
he is back on the reservation, so
to speak, telling you dryly on
one hand that the romance has
gone out of the West and on
the other that the people there
are still remarkably different.
His setting is a rundown In
dian reservation on the Colum-
bia River in the '20s. His main
characters are a sharp young
deputy sheriff trying to keep his
feet on the ground and an en-
bittered old pioneer trying to
prove he's still Of some use to
somebody. Their twanging,
tangy dialogue is a marvellous
debate between old and young,
richly ored with pioneer history
and earthly anecdotes about the
more unmentionable side of the
early settlers existence. Young
Clarke, serious and searching,
but willing to believe the worst,
is the perfect foil for old Hend-
ricks, with his fiattening COM
ments on the making of the
West and the cussedness of it's
people. Having carefully wrung
all the sentiment out of life,
he just as carefully puts it all
back before he sends Clarke on
his way.
Mr.. Davis plot is an intricate
one, involving murder and
blackmail among Hendricks
many and mostly despised rela-
tives. 1t is played out through
wonderful scenes as the men
drive a herd of worthless horses
through the spring. touched
landscape. But its main theme
is the old mans hunt for self
respect, and the young mans
search for values. Such things
are not hard to find in such
country, Mr.. Davis is saying in
his virile, flavorsome way.
The year starts auspiciously
with this refreshing and genuine
novel.
MARY McGRORY.
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Artist in Haiti

Richard Dempsey, a WASH
lngton artist for the past decade
during which he has been en-
ployed in the United States
Government, received from the
government of Haiti, a grant to
paint there last summer. The
fruits of this Sojourn are now
the major part of his first
washington one-man show. on
view at the Barnett Alden Gal
lery through January.
Thirteen or IA works from
Haiti include both distractions
and comparatively realistic
paintings. The artist depicted
many aspects of the contem-
porary Haitian scene: Land
scapes, street scenes, interiors,
natives, exotic dances, a cock
fight. The lush, brilliantly color
ful atmosphere of the tropics
is present in all these paintings,
in contrast to the dark, strong
colors in his few American
paintings in the show.
In such works as Saturday
Morning. Port-au-Prince," he
has transcribed with consider
able realism. the crowds on the
street, and the vivid setting. In
his more imaginative works,
such as "Matelottes," and For
ever Friends" (two Of his best),
he has manipulated human faces
and figures into near-abstract
designs.
Several paintings have been
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contributors to exhibitions in
the Washington area and else
where; faculty members have
served on many art juries, have
given lectures outside the uni
verSity, talks and interviews
over radio and television and
have written critical articles
and reviews for influential
publications. Monthly exhibi-
tions and occasional art lectures
are free to the public.
few years. It will include
faculty members and students
prize-winning paintings, draw
ings and sculpture, also a num-
ber Of their works owned by
museums and private collectors
and lent for this occasion and
a selection from the universitys
Watkins Memorial collection.
An impressive number OF
prizes have been received by
American University's art fac
ulty members and art students
since 1945. Seventeen paint
ings and drawings of some 80
which have fetched prizes and
mentions for students in such
professional exhibitions as the
Corcoran area shows, Society of
Washington Artists and WASH
ington Water Color Club an
nuals and shows at the Whyte
Gallery, will be included, along
with faculty artists prize win
ming works in these and out
of-town exhibitions.
The Department of Fine Arts
OF the American University was
{ established in 1925 under the
late Will Hutchins, who was
its chairman for nearly two
decades. In 1912 the depart
ment's scope was broadened
with the cooperation of the
late c. Law Watkins, then as
sociate director of the Phillips
Memorial Gallery, and the as
slStance Of Suzanne Mullett
Smith, on the university's art
faculty at that time.
The main purpose of the de-
partment, as conceived by Mr..
Watkins and the president of
the university, was to make
available to college students the
opportunity to study art on q
professional level within the
academic framework k-i.e., to
work toward a B.A. or MA.
degree with adequate time for
the study of art under teachers
who are themselves practicing
professional artists. After his
untimely death in 1945, Mr..
Watkins was succeeded as head
OF the art department by Will
liam H. Calfee, his assistant.
American University's art
department has made a remark.
able record in the past few
years. It's influence has ex-
tended far beyond the uniyer-
slty. as both faculty members
and students have been active
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By Florence 5. Berrymon
sold from this exhibition, among
them view From My Room"
acquired by Howard University.
MIR. Dempsey is also represented
In the Barnett Alden Gallery's
permanent collection, and in
that Of International Business
Machines.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Buechner's Second
Novel Is Built on
UnreoIistic Theme
THE SEASONS DIFFERENCE
BY Frederick Buechner.
(Knopt;; $780,

Mr.. Buechner, who publishes
his second novel at the age of
rs, was acclaimed by some crit
les when his first novel. "A Long
Days Dying" appeared in 1850.
These reviewers saw another
youthful talent springing into
an immediate maturity.
AS one who missed this first
novel, I find myself compelled
to say of the second books
merit. Eyes and no." 1.-The Sea-
sons Difference" is crisply writ
ten and shows more than a
: trace of originality in the way
character is unfolded and the
story developed. 1t also displays
. q concern with phraSing for its
own sake typical of very young
writer's. Sometimes this venera-
ton for words as an end in
themselves produces poetic pas
sages; it also results as often
in mere preciosity. The story
seems heavy with symbolism
and is told in that indirect way
which some writer's affect at the
expense of drama and suspense.
Peter, young schoolteacher,
who is instructing the children
of a small group of summer
residents at an exclusive sea-
shore resort, has had a vision Of
religious significance and he is
eager to share it with the par
entS, q Skeptical lot. Later a
colleague at the winter school,
AN older man, clergyman, ar
rives, dispensing some vague
theories about the salvation of
the world resting in children,
the innocent ones. The children
here depicted are far from in
nocent; they are q particularly
savage lot. Two of them, IA
year-old boys who regard them
selves as poets and talk an adult
jargon, are especially hard to
take.
Beyond dispute, Mr.. Buechner
is gifted; the question, it seems
to me. is what he will do with
his gifts in the future.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

The sixth annual area exhi-
bition, with only two more
weeks to run, is really many
shows in one, and requires sew
eral visits for q real acquaint-
ance with it. A general review
Of the show and comments on
the oil painting, water color
and sculpture awards were
given here the opening Sunday,
November Is.
It seems to me that some Of
the more rewarding items are
outside Of the award and hon.
orable mention list. They di-
vide about equally between ira
ditional, and modern and alb
stract works. Some are by
artists well known through fire.
quent exhibitions, others are by
artists new to me, among the
latter two particularly good still
life paintings. That by Harry
Eisenberg is exquisitely exc
cuted. in a realistic manner.
1.-THE Window" by Ona O'Con-
nell, has a charming little bou-
quet of garden flowers, a view
OF a farmyard through the
window pane, on which are sub
tie light Observation-Disclosures
an enchanting work. Another
still life called 1.-THE Butterfly"
by Margaret Keshishian, Is in
teresting because of the re-
peated rocco motifs. William
r. Thompson's Blue Sarmen-
tum," more modern in it's
elongatiop, has an excellent
color scheme.
There are winsome portraits
and figure paintings by Fran
els H. Beaugureau "a beguiling
little blond GRID, Lily Byrd, Ann
Scoville and Jane Brewer "a
convincing character study of
an old nam.
John Chapman Lewis PEN
.thesilean Trawler" with it's
Jewel-like blue and red, is to me
the most beautiful painting in
the oil section. inspired by a
harbor scene. James Cough
Inns Boat House" and Helen
DoWnham's Sailing Marina"
treat kindred subjects in a ira
dltlonal manner. The subject
matter of Jane Whitmore's
.Driftwood Chaos" also tradi-
tional in technique, gives it an
abstract effect.
I liked. too, Andrea Zerepa,s
little Washington roofscape
with glimpse of st. Mathews
ana the Monument; Richard
Lahey's Virginia Farm" with
its complex design; Anthonv
Qualia's stormy Dunes" and
Mary Shows strong, simplifled
Highways"
Outstanding abstract paint
lngs include Samuel Bookatz'
vivid Hill Top" with an iri-
descent green and violet color
Scheme and composition of
angles: Jacob Kainen's Voyage
OF Discovery" with varied, inter-
estlng shapes in a blue tonality,
and Helene McKinsev,s bright
sharp "Scherzo."
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Look at the Record

Watkins Gallery, American
University, is starting the New
Year with what promises to be
its most important exhibition
Of the 1951-52 season. The
public is invited to the opening
next Saturday. January IL,
from 8 to 6. of a three-part
show which is a retrospective
of the university's art depart
ment's achievement of the past
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Operation Overload as Described
In War Departments Official History

CROSS CHANNEL ATTACK.
Office of Chief of Military His
tory, Department of the Army.
Reviewed by Thomas R. Henry
This is volume one of the War
Departments official histories
of the European Theater In the
last war.
It deals with Operation
Overload" the obtaining of a
foothold in Western Europe, and
details the months of planning
and training in England, the
D-day landings on the Nor
mandy coast and the months
campaign on the Cotentin
Peninsula that proceeded the
capture of the Channel port Of
Cherbourg. The author is DR..
Gordon r. Harrison, a profess
Sional historian. who served as
historical officer of the Sd
Army later in the war.
He had access, naturally, to
official reports of all sorts, both
American and British, as we'll
as the logs of divisions and
regiments that made up the
United States 1st Army in it's
epic battle to secure a Euro
pean bridgehead. Despite the
official stamp upon it, the book
is excellently and vividly writ
ten. 1t is accompanied by a
most interesting and valuable
set of maps of the Normandy
terrain, particularly the depart
,mentS of La Manche and CAL
lvados, where the action took
place.
The Normandy landings con-
,stituted one of the turning
points in history. Once they
were effected the doom of the
Third Reich was sealed for,
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Corcorun Alumni

A small group OF former STU
dents of the Corcoran School of
Art, in the autumn Of 1850, or
ganized the Corcoran Alumni
Association. In one year, this
nucleus had expanded to a
membership of more than $50.
A constitution was drawn up
and accepted, and four meetings
were held during the first year.
OF special interest to most of
the members, has been a sketch
class held Wednesday evenings
at the Corcoran, of which Bob
Hoke of The Evening Stars art
department, is monitor. (He is
also vice president Of the asso-
ciation). Last summer Kath-
crime Hobbs shared her studio
for a summer sketch class.
Now past the first quarter Of
its second year, the association
is increasing its membership
and feels it can eventually make
itself an important influence in
Washington's art world. Jessa-
lee Sickman, Corcoran School
instructor and an active member
of the association, serving as
chairman of its Publicity Com
mittee, said:
I'VE have found among the
former students of the school
an interested aWareness of the
Importance of art in any COM
munity. In the near future we
hope that we shall be able to
accomplish something concrete
in the way of helping art in
Washington"
Other officers of the Associa-
ton, besides Mr.. Hoke, are
Kenneth Stubbs (Corcoran
School instructor), president;
John c. Josephs, treasurer;
Beryl CARROT and Helena
Evans. corresponding and re-
cording secretaries, respective
ly. The Executive Committee
is composed of Sheffield Kagy,
Rowland Lyon, Mary Ruth
Snow and Sophie Winston.
\
Guest Lecturers
Three of the National Gal
lery's four Sunday lectures this
month in the lecture hall at 4
o'clock will be given by dis
tinguished guest speakers.
Dorothy Adlow. art critic of
The Christian Science Monitor,
will speak this afternoon on
Artists in the Modern World"
Next Sunday, Yvon Bizardel,
director of fine arts, the City of
Paris, will give a lecture on
Women Painters in France"
January 20, Dorothea Mi
chelson will devote the lecture
hour to "The Artist and His
Image"
January 27, Professor Fred
erick Hartt of Washington Uni
versity. st. Louis, will speak on
Andrea del Castagno.
II
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Books in Review
Ernest Hoycox Brings the West VNidIy
To Life in Novel of Early Settlers
THE EARTHBREAKERS
BY Ernest Haycox. little, Brown; $500
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones

IST pTooNe JONES
tiers during the first hard year
on their new land.
The 400 who made up Mr..
Haycox's emigrant train came,
as might be expected, from
nearly every social level and
occupation, though small farm
ers and mechanics seemed
in the majority. They were
not the first settlers-Oregon
City already was a muddy little
town-but they were we'll in the
vanguard of the great westward
trek.
There were those who WELD
ed good wherever they went,
like John Gay. There was Cal
Lockyear, the epitome of evil, a
grasper and a killer. There was
Rice Burnett, the chief charac-
ter, a mountain man who had
decided to try to settle down, a
born leader, a man without
fear, who understood the Ian
guage of the woods and the
wind. But none of these men,
nor the women important to the
story, like Katherine Gay and
Edna baltimore, so different
temperamentally, are merely
typed. They seem individuals.
AS the settlers struggle
through the incessant rain to
build their cabins, and break
the ground for the winter wheat,
which is SO vital, we feel the
bitterness Of their fight to make
a wilderness into a yielding
land. Often they curse the
country, asking themselves why
they left easy, friendly acres in
Ohio or Indiana, but they drive
themselves on, thinking of the
years ahead. the farms of the
future, the towns their grand
children will find.
1t is a greatly detailed book
and at times the conversations
are overlong. But there is no
lack Of drama, even melodrama.
The primitive side of these peo-
pie comes out in such a life.
There are both savage clashes
and deeds of self-sacrifice. The
story should hold your interest
to the last page. With 1.-The
Earthbreakers" Mr.. Haycox be-
longs in the select company of
A. B. Guthrie, Walter Van TIL
burg Clark and a handful of
others who have made the old
West a real place, it's people
much like those you and I know.
THE MEANING OF
CIVILIZATION
BY Bohdan Chudoba. (P. J.
Kennedy G. Sons; $4.)
This is, as the ambitious title
implies, an erudite book; yet it
is surprisingly readable. MIR.
Chudoba. who was a leading
Catholic intellectual Of Czecho-
slovakia, fled from his native
country on skis in 1916 to escape
being transported to Siberia by
the Communist government. He
now lives in the United States.
His book is described more ac-
curately perhaps by the head
ing of the last six chapters,
Aspects of Christian Culture"
than by its more general title.
In Christianity he sees mans
only hope. Concerning the So
called progress of military SCI
ence, he points out that the
Lateran Council in 1889 tried in
vain to forbid crossbow and
arch as deadly and odius to
God" while the United Ma
tions between 1945 and 1850
attempted futilely to outlaw
atomic weapons. "But moth
ing has restricted the prog
ress Of that deadly science" He
discusses discerningly the the
ory of the will of the people, ex-
planning that such theoreticians
as Marx and such dictatorS as
Hitler and Stain always con-
tended they were carrying out
the popular wish.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

IL is OICen remarked that
American writer's, more than
those of other countries, tend to
peter out or sell out after early
success A British born grand
mother with some Is books to
her credit, stopped briefly in
town last week with a theory
as to why this is so.
Its the publishers fault,
said Evelyn Eaton, who began
writing at the age of 8 and is
now branching out into a new
kind of novel.
Authors get typed here, once
they've written successful
book. Their publishers insist
on their doing the same thing
over and over again. In Europe,
it's different. A writer's new
work is judged in relation to
what he's done before. The
question is, is he experimenting,
progressing, growing. Here the
question is Has he done the
same thing?'" -.
Miss Eaton uses her own case
as an Illustration. Upon arrival
here from France in 1888, when
the historical novel was at the
height of its vogue, she decided,
what with one financial consid-
GRAFTON and another, that it
might be we'll to get in on a
good thing. The result was
Quietly My Captain Waits" q
huge popular success. She fol-
lowed it up with four more in
the same vein. Then, with pub
lication of Give Me Your
Golden Hand" story of
George Ill and his commoner
wife, she decided to quit the
field.
Publishers Indignant.
my publishers were indig-
nant. They acted as if I were
having an illicit love affair or
something, and they would Just
wait until I came back to the
fold"
Meanwhile, she began con-
tributing deft little sketches of
continental life to the New
Yorker.
THE only way to do what you
want to do is to get another job
and become independent of the
brutes," says Miss Eaton.
She has taken up new pro-
fession, teaching, and Is now
visiting professor of English at
Sweet Briar. she came to Wash
ngton to address the local chap
ter of the college a1umnae.
In the peace and quiet of aca-
demlc surroundings, she is hard
at work on a novel with super
natural theme. It will incor-
porate impressions gained dur
ing a tour as a war correspond
ent under ATC auspices.
A native of Montreal who
grew up in England and France,
Miss Eaton lived in the latter
country during her marriage to
Polish refugee. While there,
she wrote scripts for a movie
company, and with prodding
from her sister-in-law wrote
Desire, Spanish Version" a
prize-winning novel. Her pre-
vious efforts had been in poetry,
classical style.
Miss Eaton brought her
daughter with her to this coun-
try. and they are now both
American citizens. She thinks
her generation has seen more
than most. She remembers
when she came home during
World War and told her
mother she had her first job
post at the Lithuanian EN-
basSy in London.
Her mothers reply was, ooh,
dear, not in front of the
servants"
4 X Il
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Reading and Writing
British Novelist Says Our Publishers Smother
Authors Success by Putting Them in Groove
By Mary McGrory

OF the study rooms VINO spoke
OF the Library's great service to
scholars. In presenting Chester
with the library's parting gift
OF a travelling bag. he told him
that he was "the embodiment of
that tradition Of service"
If every one worked with the
humanity and kindness and
willingness with which you have
served, we could reduce our
congressional appropriation" he
said to Chester.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Librory cf Congress Honors
Chester Arthur Atkinson

While most, people were pre-
pairing to open the new year,
Chester Arthur Atkinson, GA,
was bringing to a close a a.
year career with the Library of
Congress. AS messenger in the
Library's much sought-after
study decks, Chester has played
his humble part in the creation
of numberless manuscripts.
helped countless authors
through the pitfalls of getting
books off and on to Library
shelves and in any number of
ways made the literary life
easier for them.
Librarian Luther H. Evans,
newly home from a world trip,
told Chester that almost every
where he went he met alumni