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Evening star., 1952-05-11
Song in the Night
BY Josephine Lawrence. (MorroU;; $780,

Lissa Miller, the most impor-
tant Of many characters in this
novel, had lost a brother in the
first war and a son in the Sec
ond war. Now her younger son
was about to be drafted to fight
in Korea. In her bitterness at
the recurrence of war for each
generation of young men she
faced other problems. She had
opposed the marriage of her
older son before he went away
to war. He was too young, she
felt. He had gone away unmar-
ried, and in the years since his
girl had been warped into an
ill-adjusted neurotic. Should
LisSa consent to the marriage
Of the younger boy? Then the
rector of Lissa's church
preached a sermon that set her
thinking. Must people end their
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Will WiIIkie
Boners Help
Ike Win?
Wendell WiIkie

BY Mary Earhart Dillon. ~. B.
Lippincott;; $3J
Into this biography Of Wen
dell Willkie Is written a lively
case history of how amateurs
can botch q presidential cam
paign. Contemporary parallels
are obvious. Gen. Eisenhower'S
hackers could read it with profit.
So, indeed, could any one who
Is fascinated by the ins and
outs Of practical politics.
Mrsa Dillon nowhere goes so
far as to say that If Willkie had
gone along with the Republican
professionals he might have
made the White House in 1914.
But she records the unshaken
hands and the snubs that added
up to such diSaffection in. the
ranks that his chances were ma
terially lessened. Wilkes atti-
tude was summed up by his
closest personal adviser. Russell
Davenport, who when reproved
for the brush-oh given a money
raiser on the campaign train,
said, "Willkie Is too busy to be
bothered with shaking hands
with all those people!"
Amoteur Stonding
Willkie had from the first a
strong sense of mission about
his candidacy. He was so anx-
ious to preserve his amateur
standing as the peoples choice
that he cold-shouldered the
doorbell ringers, saving his
time and his charm for the
Willkie Club members, who for
him made up in enthusiasm
what they lacked in savvy.
Yet in his attitude toward
the "boyS'-as in his attitude
toward many larger questions
Willkie was contradictory. Al
Evening star., 1952-05-11
The Devils Advocate
BY Taylor Caldwell. (Cro,on; $780,
Reviewed by Cynthio Medley

It is not George Orwell's
1884" but the year 1870 in
1.-THE Devils Advocate" There
is no telescreen, no vaporizing,
but there is a story of a country
which failed to be alerted and
through the subtleties of it's gov
enring officials became the VIC
tim Of "lost freedom" Miss
Caldwell has transformed the
United States of America into
"The Democracy" with the
President as a figurehead-the
military as the ruler. AS hero,
she has Andrew Durant, a min
ute man, who, through espio-
mage, restores THE Democracy"
to the United States.
Miss Caldwell is forecaSting
life in 1870 as an outcome of the
present dangerous trend in Gov
ment. Although "The Devils
Advocate" does not play up a
grotesque scientific progress, the
novel follows the 1894" pattern
and borders upon the extreme.
This could happen" has long
Evening star., 1952-05-11

This novel is a quiet, unpre-
tentious yet absorbing story Of
a young Negro who helped
create and develop jazz in the
New Orleans of the early 1900s.
Dade Tarrant was a young
man everybody liked except q
few who were jealous Of his
musical prowess.
He tx0id hardly have had a
less pruullslng start. He enters
the narrative in 1905 at the
age Of Z. He and his mother
existed in a squalid area of Al
giers. a. suburb across the river
from New Orleans. Usually they
were hungry; at least they
never had enough to eat. When
his mother died Of yellow fever,
Dade was taken in by her more
prosperous sister and brother
in-law. who lived in the big
city. which the boy had never
seen. His uncle had a job at
the Federal building and he
sent Dade to school. But when
the boy finished the elementary
grades and his uncle got him a
job shining shoes, the big break
of his life came. He met a
curious, drug addicted man
who played the piano marvel
ously. Dade begged lessons and
got them.
Dade was a natural musical
genius. AS a little boy he would
follow bands for miles. In his
early teens he not only learned
to play the piano, but to read
any score. Later he could write
down the music that was al
ways floating through his mind.
Before he was 20 he was one
OF the best pianists in New
Orleans.
New Musical ldiom
Though he hardly realized 1t,
he was developing a new musi-
cal idiom. He could play the
classics when he felt like it, as
he proved one night at Emma's
Evening star., 1952-05-11

He calls him.
self a Dem
ocrat social
ist", but his
political train
ing has been
in Marxisn,
his reading in
Debs, De Leon
and j a c k
London. He
gives some of
the b a c k
ground of a
poverty strick-
en- mining
= 49,
Evening star., 1952-05-11

the most aStute strategy and
shoWmanship won him the
nomination, he did not hesitate
to capture the Michigan dele
cation by an off-the-cuff agree
ment to give the naming Of
Federal judges to the regular
organization rather than to the
Willkie clubs.
Partisan though she obviously
is, Mrs. Dillon does not fail to
record every such blunder. At
the same, she maintains that if
Willkie obviously did not unity
the Republican Party, he re-
vitalized it. Further she main
tains, after the battle with the
kind of craftsmanship he could
summon up between bids for
publicity, he made a crucial
contribution to the bipartisan
foreign policy.
Whatever her readers feelings
about WILKES stature, none can
deny that Mrs. Dillon'S biogra-
ply of the Wall Street lawyer,
who, in defiance of the tradi-
tions, captured the Imagination
of the man in the street, blitzed
the Republican convention and
roared across the political scene
with rare brilliance and vigor
makes the livelieSt kind of cam
paign-year reading.-M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

book, to study the accepted
theory and give it back. Only
at Harvard and Yale did he
find a spirit of free exchange
of ideas and a closer approach
to the English university prac-
tice, where the multiple ques-
ton" technique has never pene-
trated.
Although he welcomes an
argument on military matters,
Mr.. Wilmot refuses to be drawn
into one debate. and that is
about the candidacy of Gen.
Eisenhower. All he says is that
the qualities that made the gen.
eral a good supreme commander
made him less successful as
commander in the field. AS for
Senator Taft's contentious about
defending Europe by sea and
air power rather than with
with ground troops. he labels it
nonsense from start to finish"
Korea. he has found out from
interviewing our military leaders
in his capacity as military cor
respondent for the London OBJ
server, has demonstrated that
superior air power is not a con-
elusive factor. ....
In writing his book, Mr.. Will
mot consulted original sources
whenever possible and spent al
. most a year in Germany reading
Nazi operational reports. He
also corresponded with partici-
pants in the various wartime
conferences. His previous book
was an account of the siege of
Tobruk. ..
Pat McGerr, prominent local
mystery and short-story writer,
will conduct two eight-week
courses in short-story writing
beginning June 4 at the YWCA.
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Back Door to War
BY Charles Callan Tansill

(Regnery; $6.50.)
Strong anti-Roosevelt study
of American foreign policy be-
tween 1888 and Pearl Harbor.
DR.. Tansill is professor Of
American diplomatic history at
Georgetown University.
"A p
Evening star., 1952-05-11

44Ao bOOA ID
as diverting
as it is in
formative.
Plagiarism,
y ou gather
after reading
summaries of
many cases,
is not easy
to prove. In
the firS t
p a c e, the
plaintiff must
have an orig
inal idea en-
fif1od fo ~ro
Evening star., 1952-05-11

Here is the ultimate ram
part of our wilderness-lofty,
lonely. rugged. crested with for
est, starred with alpine bloom"
So writes Donald Culross Peat
tie in his description of the
above photograph of Glacier
National Park, Montana. The
picture was taken by Ansel
Adams and is one of SO full
Evening star., 1952-05-11

I n o u g n ne
S e ! d o m
m j S S e d a
C h a ce to
show his con-
tie m p t, he
could, on oc-
caSion, make
as gross a
d e a ! a S the
hardest = eyed
warhorSe in
the machine.
At the Spec
tacular con-
v en- tion Of
1Q40 w EN-
Evening star., 1952-05-11

titled to pro- Alexander Lindey.
lection. A woman who charged
a movie company with pirating
her song was held by the judge
to have stolen her composition
from Johann Strauss die
Fledermaus." Thus, he decided,
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Kiln Club Proqrum

The public is invited to at
tend an exhibition and sale Of
pottery and ceramic sculpture
made by members of the Kiln
Club of Washington. For the
benefit of Friendship House,
Evening star., 1952-05-11
St. AIbuns

The annual exhibition of stu
dent paintings is currently on
view at st. Adams School. In
the activities building. Open
daily. from 4 to 6, through next
Sunday. the exhibition sums up
a years teaching in the schools
art department, headed by
Dean Stambaugh. well-known
Washington artist. who has
participated in important group
shows here, and had one
man show at George Wash.
ington University last year.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

GIG D street Sc, it will be held
there this afternoon from 2 to 6.
Alexander Giampietro, as
sistant professor of art. Cath
olic University, will speak on
REHABILITATION of Traditional
Forms and Contemporary
Trends in Ceramic Design" to
be illustrated with slides from
the Index of American Design,
used thus for the first time.
Tea will be served.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Plagiarism and Originality
BY Alexander Lindey. (Harper: s5J

A lawyer who has specialized
in the law Of literary property
discusses plagiarism and re-
views some famous court cases.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

been a tendency Of authors but
unfortunately they lean to-
ward a low level of probability.
It would be better If the enthu-
siasm and wisdom of present.
day living were emphasized.
Nightmare
BY Jean Rounault. (Cropell:
$780,
The experiences of a French
journalist and teacher picked
up by the Red army in Bucha-
rest and sent with thousands of
Germans and Romanians to a
labor camp in the Donets Basin.
If the bureaucratic confusion
and ineff1ciency Of his camp is
at all typical. it is difficult to
&, see how the Russians have
reached even their present stage
of induStrialization. Mr.. Rou-
nault writes a touch of humor
unusual in view of his expe-
rienceS.
BELMONT FAIRIES.
Evening star., 1952-05-11

Realities of World Power
BY John E. Kieffer. Mckay;
49,
A geopolitical blueprint Of the
American strategic position.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Miniuturists

The 10th annual exhibition
of the Miniature Painters,
Sculptors and Gravers' Society
of Washington. D. c., opened
last Sunday in the foyer of the
Natural History Building. Ma
tional Museum, to remain
through May 30. Two hundred
and nine exhibits by Ill artists
of % States, the District of Co.
lumbia and Canada represent
about Is different mediums:
Paintings, prints, relief and in
talgio. enamel on metal, silk
screen, illuminated manuscript,
bookbinding, ceramics and sculp-
ture in the usual mediums and
also in bread crumbs. Works in
all artistic media are accepted,
provided they do not exceed 8x10
inches or equivalent.
The Elizabeth Muhlhofer prize,
donated annually by Charlotte
Muhlhofer in honor of her sis
ter, founder of the society, was
awarded by Capt. Charles Bit
finger. N. A.. and Bjorn Egeli,
Washington Area portrait paint
er, to Margaret Isabelle Johns
ton of Hollywood, Calf, for her
portrait miniature MY Mother"
The miniaturists' annual is
one of the years most engaging
art events, and is always worth
seeing. It will be reviewed in
more detail later.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
In Place of Fear

BY Aneurin Bevan. (Simon &
SchuSter; $3J
Mr.. Bevan. leader of the left
wing Of the British Labor
Party, here presents his formula
for a peaceful, prosperous world.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
The Glory of Our West
Foreword by Joseph Henry Jackson Doubleday $295J

;On. iDOuOLeG0y, $Z.S5J
color photographs of the West
ern United States made by vari-
Gus photographers and accom-
panied by descriptions written
by 35 authors. The entire coll
lection appears in the book,
1.-THE Glory of Our West" q
handsome souvenir and an ex-
citing invitation to travel en-
joyment. H. c. G.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Another Kind
BY Anthony West. (Hough-
fo,o M;H7jr m 60 Sn

AUOtU6T NIUO
BY Anthony West. (Hough-
ton, Mi67in Co.,; $780,
In his second novel, Anthony
West progresses from the murky
to the Opaque by uneasy stages.
Precisely what he had in mind
it is difficult to decide, since he
starts out with a variation on
the theme of Design for Liv-
ing" and ends up with a Com
munist invasion of England
following a transportation
strike. Presumably the lady who
survives all this-a prostitute
for whom a London architect
leaves his wife-is some one he
approves of. why he does not
say. Anne runs away with Wal
ter jackson to an abandoned
mill, where they are shortly
joined by his ever-loving wife
and children. The arrangement
suits the women and children
all right, but Walter soon gets
that tied-down feeling. and his
daughter takes to spying on
him. Walter becomes a black
marketer with one of his mis-
tress' old lovers and soon has a
civil war going. The daughter,
you will not be surprised to
learn, turns out to be a beastly
little Red. Anne eventually re-
turns to the old millstream to
have Walters baby and to con-
clude that life was a cable
woven of a thousand strands,
half white, half black"
Mr.. West writes well, with
considerable insight into various
situations. but lucidity is not
one of his strong points. The
grand plan of his book escapes
me entirely. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Titoism and the Cominforn,

Titoism and the Con1inform
BY Adam B. Ulam. (Har-
vard; $4.J
Titoism. says Prof. Ulam, is
simply Stalinism transplanted
to a foreign soil, a recurrent
but not fatal disease of Com
munism in power. Yugoslavia's
Red rulers were a danger to
Soviet imperialism because they
were not subservient enough.
Through an unusual combina-
ton of circumstances they were
able to defy a Russian purge
and get away with it. but they
are nonethelesS MarxiSts for
their success. Prof. Ulam's
study, based on original sources,
is the fifth in series from the
Russian Research Center at
Harvard University.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
By Florence 5. Berrymon

mystifying themes, are all here.
to make a varied exhibition
which certainly seems to have
something to appeal to every
taste.
The representation from the
Washington area is disappoint-
ingly small. Prentiss Taylor
(Arlington) is showing "The
Bridge" lithograph and litho-
tint, filled with the peaceful
emptiness of Sunday afternoon;
Marguerite Kumm (Falls
church,. a miniature aquatint
of boys enjoying the "Swimmin'
Hole; Thomas Yanosky CFalls
church, 1.-THE Courier" aqua
tint and drypoint;; Evelyn Wynne
Chevy Chase), linoleum cut,
1.-The Swim; and two from the
District of Columbia, Kitty Pot
hast, a woodcut of strong con-
trast, Halloween" and Philip
Cheney, lithograph, "The Lone
Stray" a Western cattle sub
ject.
This exhibition will remain
until August, and will be further
reviewedTwhen the Pennell Fund
Committee makes purchases for
the permanent collection.
Evening star., 1952-05-11
Books in Review
The Basin Street Cradle Song
Of Dusky New Orleans jazz
Music Out of Dixie
BY Harold Sinclair (Rinehart; $500
Reviewed hv Carter Rrnoka Innas
Music Out of Dixie
BY Harold Sinclair. (Rinehart;; $500

Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1952-12-05
Brennan Denies Pose
To Get Inquiry Data
BY the Associated Press

Ray Brennan, Chicago Sum-
Times reporter, pleaded not guilty
today to a charge of posing as
office manager of the Senate
Crime Investigating Committee to
get secret testimony.
Mr.. Brennan entered his plea
before Judge Edward M. Curran
in U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. His trial
was set for January II and he was
released on $4,000 bond. -
The original indictment against
Mr.. Brennan was dismissed re-
Gently while under heavy defense
attack as faulty, and a new in
dictment was returned Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Brennan is accused of rep
resenting himself as office mana
ger of the committee to obtain
from the Anderson Reporting Co
A stenographic transcript of the
testimony of Chicago Police Capt.
Dan CTubbo) Gilbert, dubbed "the
worlds richest policeman" by the
crime investigators. Gilbert had
testified behind closed doors.
The Sun-Times published the
testimony November 2, 1850, five
days before the Illinois election.
Gilbert, Democratic nominee for
sheriff of Cook County, was over
whelmingly defeated.
The police captain testified that
he had made thousands of dollars
in market speculations and in bet
ting on sports events and elections.
Evening star., 1952-12-05
Defense Plant 10 Load
|0rdnance Materials
Planned in Maryland
Speeiol Dispotch 10 The Stor

LEXINGTON PARK. Md, Dec.
5.-A defense plant to load "ord-
nance components" will be con-
structed near Hollywood, a few
miles north of the Patuxent Naval
Air Base, it was learned today.
A tract of 644 acres has been
purchased by Federal Explosives,
Inc. of New York, for this project.
The land transfer filed at the
clerks Office listed $4,000 as the
price for the property. The for
mer owners, c. L. Robey, Gertrude
and James Robey of Purcellville
Loudoun County, Va, transferred
the land to Norman B. Sober ,of
80 Broad street, New York, the
firms president.
Leroy Baldwin, the company's
treasurer. said that small ord
nance componentS would be
loaded at the site. He explained
additional buildings will be con-
structed. Two small steel struc-
lures have been erected on the
site.
/ Mr.. Baldwin declined to reveal
the amount of total investment in
the project, the estimated num-
bers of employees and other in
formation. He explained he was
bound by security regulations OF
the Federal Government.
The land is located adjacent to
the Three Notch road and Mac
Intosh road. north of the Bull
Frog Inn, north of Hollywood.
Evening star., 1952-12-05

ences in this role, the President
laughed and said he wanted no
more to do with news conferences.
On the question of job proposals,
the President said he had been
offered almost anything that could
be mentioned.
He said once more that he had
enough of Washington after l8
years, and his future home would
be in the rambling old white
frame house in Independence.
The heavy wire fence installed
around this little White House
some years ago will remain. the
President said in reply to a ques-
ton, not that the family likes it,
but as a protection against SOU
venir hunters.
Chuckling as he recalled that
the Herbert Hoover home in Cali
fornia was almost torn down by
souvenir hunters. the President
commented that that is the way
Americans are.
In World War I, he related, it
used to be said that the French
fought for their country; the Brit
ish for freedom of the seas, and
the Americans for souvenirs.
Mr.. Truman said that he had
been invited to the coronation of
Queen Elizabeth. and regretted
that it would not be possible to
attend.
Evening star., 1952-12-05
Nearby Legislators
10 Fight Proposal On
Virginia Redistring
By Alex R. Preston
Sfor StnSf

RICHMOND, Dec. 5.-The Cen
eral Assembly today tackled the
main issue that brought its men,
bers back to Richmond in special
Observation-Disclosures legisla-
tors from Arlington and Alex
andrla laid plans to fight a pro-
posal to place both of their areas
in the same senatorial district.
The issue of permitting Fed
eral employees to serve in county
offices is dead. Operating under
a one-objection rule, the House
and Senate beat off separate at
tempts by Arlington's representa-
tives to permit Government work.
ers to hold offices in any county
that approved the idea by refer
endum.
But there were brighter hopes
for bill by Senator John A.
X Donovan Of Fairfax to permit
retired Federal workers to serve
in county offices. Gov. Battle
agreed to submit this proposal to
the Legislature.
House and Senate bills reappor-
tioning the membership of both
bodies were reported out of the
two Privileges and Elections Com
mittees with only minor changes
in tthe House version.
The 10th congressional district,
next to Washington, would pick up
two additional Delegates and one
more Senator for a total of six
House members and three men,
bers of the Senate.
But all attempts to have the
Senate committees proposal to di-
vide Arlington and Alexandria
into two districts, each with it's
own Senator, failed. The commit
tee insisted on grouping Arlington,
with $4,000 population. and Alex
andria. with $4,000. into one dis
trict but with two Senators. The
ideal representation per Senator
is 00 ,UUU.
Senator Charles r. Fenwick of
Arlington made an appeal before
the Senate committee for more
representation. He said the effect
of the bill was to reduce Airing
tons representation because 1t
takes away his home county's own
Senator and gives it two half
Senators"
Senator FenWick and Senator
Donovan, who also represents Alex
andria, were laying plans to divide
the district. The same strategy
was planned by Delegates George
Damn and j. Maynard Magruder
of Arlington and Armistead
BoOthe of Alexandria.
Evening star., 1952-12-05

are Edward j. SisSelberger, Marie
C. Gorton and Theresa j. Byrne.
X X X X
BENEFICIAL SUGGESTIONS
Awards for beneficial suggestions
have been given to the following
employees in the Naval Research
Laboratory: George w. Wells.
Adolph F. Hauser. William D..
Skolochenko. Leonard j. Orbeck,
John w. Trembly. Raymond
Hotchkiss. James Shelton. Allen
w. Bertschy. Wilfred j. Ferguson,
David L. Satterfield and Revus r.
Black
PERSONNEL REVISIO ONS-
Prospects for the Hoover per-
sonnel report in the new admin
Iistration" will be discussed by the
Society for Personnel Administra-
ton at 1880 pm. Tuesday in the
Archives auditorium. Participat-
ing will be John E. Moore, Office
OF Secretary Defense; Charles E.
johnson, House Civil Service
Committee; o. Glenn Stahl, Fed
eral Personnel Council, and John
w. Sundstrom. Army Department
CHRISTMAS DAN The
Commerce Department Social
Club will hold its Christmas dance
Thursday in the National Press
Club auditorium.
FCC-H. Clifford Irion has been
appointed hearing examiner
with the Federal Communications
Commission.
BROADCAST-Be sure to listen
to our Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast at 6:15 pm. tomorrow
over WMAL for additional news
and views of the Government
scene. Our special guest will be
Frank Wilson the former chief of
the Secret Service and now presi-
dent of the National Association
of Retired Civil Employees.