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Evening star., 1952-06-22

Books in Review
Lively Novel Tells Of Secret Service
During the American Revolution
The Secret Road
BY Bruce Lancaster. (Atlantic-Little BroDn; $500
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

George Washington had q
secret service. Before the sum-
mer Of 1778 it remained unor-
ganized and haphazard, but by
1880 it was working smoothly.
Mr.. Lancaster, author of a
number of historical novels, has
written one around this almost
unknown branch Of the Conti-
mental Army. AS he explains,
little was brought to light about
this early American ca until
recently, when the researches Of
Carl Van Doren and Morton
Pennybacker shed considerable
information.
In "The Secret Road" the au-
thor uses several actual charac-
ters, along with some fictitious
ones, to weave a fast-paced ro-
nance of 1880. Factual persons
in the cast include BENJAMIN
Tallmadge, major of Conti-
mental dragons, a sort Of chief
Of staff for G-2, as it wasn't
called until many years later.
And there was Robert Town
send, a trusted merchant and
society editor of the Gazette in
BritiSh-held New York, who
was chief dispatcher of infor-
nation to the Americans. There
was his associate, Abraham
Woodhill; Austin Roe. the dar-
ing courier. and Caleb Brews-
ter. an artillery captain, who
ostensibly operated a whaleboat
feet on Long Island Sound.
Secret ink, perfected in Lon
don by James Jay and SNUG
gled to Gen. Washington, was
used. apparently for the first
time. American spies also used
elaborate codes In, outwardly
innocent letters.
Many of the incidents in
this book actually happened"
Mr.. Lancaster explains. Others
are based on what could have
happened within the known
framework Of fact"
It was q discouraging time
for the Americans. They had
lost New York and the whole
Southern coast. Washington's
army, camped up the Hudson.
was In a bad way. The arrival
Of Rochambeau with French
Evening star., 1952-06-22

university OF OklGhon1G:: $4.)
bus was carried OF by rheu-
matte heart disease. Catherine
the Great, grossly overweight in
her later years, expired from q
cerebral hemorrhage. For many
years it was thought that Ma
poleon died Of q stomach can
cere, but more recent medical
reviews Of his symptoms indi-
cate peptic ulcer. which prob
ably would have been cured
today, DR.. Dale says.
In former times If the disease
didn't kill. frequently the medi-
cal treatment did. The fatal
attack which Lord Byron suf-
fered in Greece in 1924 prob
ably was malaria, DR.. Dale
thinks. But If the poet had a
chance to recover, the measures
which three doctors carried out
probably tipped the scales
against him. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

against the predatory acts Of
Soviet Russia"
Mr.. Budenz deplores the ap-
peasement policy of the State
Department. reflected alike in
the Korean stalemate and in
the imprisonment Of American
citizens by satellite countries.
Nor does he consider Russia in
vincible. as propagandists have
tried to persuade us. when
Stalin," he writes, learns that
the United States will not ac-
quiesce in every demand he
makes. but will seize and retain
the initiative. then the Soviet
Union will retreat" We must,
he feels. "stop paying black
mail to the Kremlin and its
satellite regimes"
AS a domestic measure he
advocates outlawing the Com
munist Party. To the argu-
ment that this would drive it
underground, he replies that it
has always been 95 per cent
underground. &C. B. J,
Evening star., 1952-06-22

ed a university library and the
New York public. neither Of
which had it listed. If it had
been copyrighted. he said, the
Library Of Congress would have
a record. But the Library
charges 81 for a search, and it
was more convenient" for him
to make his own. AS it happens
the book is copyrighted.
The Star didn't have to face
that expense. It simply called
the General Reference Serv-
ice" of the Library and imme-
diately got full information
about the 1929 edition.
The real point of this story
is that the earlier translation
Is by far the Sprightlier.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

and been reviewed scarcely at
all, was called Americas Re-
treat from Victory-the Story
OF George Catlett Marshall"
This coming Sunday readers
who are interested In this kind
of thing will have available to
them "McCarthyism-the Fight
for America"
Senator Mccarthy will mark
publication day in typical FASH
ion. in debate. His opponent on
the American Forum of the Air,
at 10 tonight on NBC-TV will be
another congressional McCar-
thy. the Democratic Representa-
tive of Minnesota. who resem-
bles him in name only. Repre-
sentative Mccarthy. a liberal
and former college professor, is
also an author. although his out
put is Of a more quietly reasoned
nature. He has contributed ar
ticles on morality in Govern
ment political philosophy to nu-
merous magazines.
Still another congressional
author in the news this week
is Brooks Hays, Democrat,
five-term Representative from
Arkansas. Mr.. Hays, known to
his colleagues as serious, spir-
itual man. is midway in the
composition Of "A Politicians
Faith" q short book which will
explain how a man can serve in
Congress and still live by his
own inner light.
william Carlos williams has
Just been named to the chair
of poetry consultant to the Liz
brary of Congress for a two
year term beginning in Sep
tember. Just about the time he
takes Office his novel, "The
Build-Up." his first in over 10
years. will be published. Will
liams' predecessor, Conrad
Aiken, has also written fiction,
as well as poetry.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

W o uld not
exist as we
know 1t. Her
impact. upon
a d h e r e n t s
and others,
through the
centuries has
been trenen-
dous.
Today the
church's in
fuence in a
tension = torn
w orld ca n
h ar dly be
NJ n - oaAi
Evening star., 1952-06-22

The 1840 trial of Nine.
Lafarge for the poisoning Of
her provincial husband rocked
France and inspired such lit
erary gems as Madame Bo-
vary" Was Marie the innocent
victim of a fiendish plot as she
insisted to her death, or had she
actually planted arsenic In q
gift cake? The author herself
gradually gets around to the
latter view without forcing it
on her readers.
Whether you agree or disagree
with the verdict Of the French
girls peers, her story is alb
sorbing from first to last, con-
Evening star., 1952-06-22
The Diary Of a Young Girl

bS Ss "
BY Anne Frank. Doubleday
& Co.,; $3J
This extraordinary diary by
an adolescent Jewish girl, who
with her family, went into hid
ing in Amsterdam in 1912. is one
Of the wars. most unusual
documents. Anne Frank was an
unusually sensitive adolescent
who wrote with a precision and
insight that were far beyond her
years.
The Franks took refuge in a
'secret annex" in an aban-
doned Office building Wnen the
Nazis started rounding up Dutch
Jews for deportation. It was a
curious, sitting existence for a
13-year old schoolgirl, but Anne,
with her residence, humor and
untiring curiosity made the
most of 1t. This diary records,
unflinchingly her boredom. her
typical adolescent delusions Of
persecution, her dreams for the
future. She was. as she remarks,
objective. She studied herself,
as well as the people around
her, with clear-eyed honesty.
In the running warfare be-
tween her mother and the
obnoxious Mrs. Van Daan, she
observes dispassionately that
her mother is often to blame.
An Intense Nature
But Anne was no enfant ter
rible coolly ticking of her eld-
ers. She adores her father, and
in her account of the pathetic
little romance that develops be-
tween her and 16-year-old
Peter, she shows a warm and
intense nature.
The world lost an ardent
human being as well as q writer
Of exceptional promise when
Anne-discovered by the Nazis
with the others In the secret
Annexe"-died in concentra-
tion camp in Belsen two months
before the liberation Of Holland.
M. McG.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

4O4 VA Will q
third volume.
His first ef-
fort was, Of
course, the
c e e b r ated
Lustron hous-
ing pamphlet.
which COM
manded the
S p e C tacular
r e t urn Of
$4,000. His
second, hard
ly a literary
event, having
sold sparsely
Evening star., 1952-06-22
News and These United Stotes
BY Edith M. Barlow. (Funk & Wagnalls; So

The journalistic profession
undoubtedly fills q vital place
in a society such as ours. But
when the story of American
journalism Is reduced to book
form. it frequently ends up be-
ing tireSome. This is the case
here.
The reviewers opinion Of
"NewS and These United States"
and most books like twas
written 5000 years ago by King
Evening star., 1952-06-22
Silver Spring Opening

The summer exhibition OF
the Silver Spring Art Gallery.
9216 Flower avenue. will open
this afternoon at 4 o'clock,
with an informal illustrated
talk by Mr.. Pyo Wook Han.
counselor of the Korean En-
basSy.
The exhibition, to extend
through September IS, is a
group show of paintings by
Garnet Jex. Joyce Field. Helen
Rennie. Ralph de Burgos and
Lois Mailou Jones, and ceramics
by Eliza Weeks and Helen
O'Brien.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

Solomon. In the 18th and 18th
verses Of the 18th chapter of Ec-
clesiastes (King James version) .
Solomon said:
"And further, by these, my
son. be admonished: OF making
many books there is no end; and
much study is q WEAKNESS of
the flesh. Let us hear conclu-
sion Of the whole matter. ;"
-WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

1erVenC pleas
1 r o m his
party from
p r. e 81 dent
T r u m q n
down to the
lowliest pre-
cinct worker
he has re-
sisted an in
c r e a S ingly
inSiStent call
to accept q
pr &C t ically
assured pres
idential NOM
ination. That
Evening star., 1952-06-22
The Popocy
BY John p. Mcknight. (Rinehart & Co.; So
Reviewed by Casper Nonnes

The Roman Catholic church
Is one Of the great facts Of his
tory. Western civilization with
out the church and her popes
Evening star., 1952-06-22
Senator Mccarthy

Senator Mccarthy of Wiscon-
sin-of Capitol Hill authors, one
of the most prolific, and certainly
the best paid-is about to burst
Evening star., 1952-06-22
AFA Minishows

The American Federation Of
Arts inaugurated last year a
series of small exhibitions de-
signed to meet the most rigid
standards Of economy to the
borrower, yet sacrificing moth
ing In the quality Of the works
exhibited or the method Of
preparation. These exhibitions.
composed Of a limited number
Of fine examples Of original
works Of art, are easy to ship,
handle and install. Each show
is fully documented with bio
graphical and interpretative
material.
George Washington Univer-
sity's art exhibition season is
concluding with two of these
minishows, on view through
June 80. after which an exhibi-
ton drawn from the Univer-
sity's permanent collections will
be installed for the summer.
On the first floor of the Lii
brary is a little group show
from the Associated American
Artists, New York City. Seven
painters. represented with one
work each, are nationally
known, and in the case Of Georg
Grosz. internationally. BY this
famous German artist. who
came to the United States near
ly 20 years ago (after Hitler's
ascendency) and is D natural
lied American, there is a beau
tiful Seated Nude" a bather.
with luminous flesh tones and
an unselfconscious pose.
TroditionoI Works
Nicolai Cikovsky, = one time
Washington artist, has another
of the groups most appealing
traditional works: "Old Lady's
Fishing Place." dominated by
blue of sea and sky. Lily Har-
mons "Seamstress," simplified
naturalism, Doris Lees New
House." a dream painted with
sophisticated naivete, and
Mitchell Siporin's "Polychrome
Interlude," a mother and child.
interpreted in his personal
idiom, and Sigmunt Menkes'
nude figure in a lush setting,
all reveal different approaches.
Some are accompanied by bio
graphical data.
A minishow comprising 5 Or
iginal paintings by the late
Walt Kuhn, and several panels
of other works, as well as blo-
graphical and critical material.
provides q capsule one-nlan
show by this noted American
artist, famous for his charac-
terizations of clowns. acrobats
and show girls, which are more
than portraits of individuals.
Acrobat in Red" and Girl
with a Cooked Hat" are typical
of the aforementioned. The
other three originals are still
life with fruit and flowers.
beautiful in color and texture.
Despite the comprehensive
ness of the panel material, it
is pointed out that "his color
and the quality of his paint sur
face are of primary Importance
to an appreciation Of his art"
Evening star., 1952-06-22
Gov.Stevenson
Will Never Be
Druft-Dodger
AdIoi E. Stevenson
OF Illinois

BY Noel F. Busch. (Farrar.
Straus & Young; $3.75.)
To many Americans. Gov.
Stevenson Of Illinois is still best
known as q man who can say
no. In the face Of the most
Evening star., 1952-06-22

Georgetown" at the Artists
Mart is a group showing of gar
den sculpture in the Mart's sur
prisingly spacious sculpture
court" The sculptures are
hardy works of stone and other
materials impervious to rain.
They were getting thorough
drenching the afternoon I
viewed the show from indoors.
Art Mort Prizes
Winners in the amateur and
professional classes of the 1862
Center Market City Art Mart
were awarded prizes shortly be-
fore the close of the exhibition.
Selected by a Jury composed Of
three Washington artists, Theo-
dora Kane. James v. Cupoli
and John Chapman Lewis, win
ners were as follows:
Professional: First in oils.
"Bird Walk" by Marguerite
Burgess; second in oils, PAINT
ing the Lobster Pots" by Shelf
field Kagy; best in watercolors.
1.-TWO Figures" by Tob ia s
Schneebaum. Amateur: First in
oils, Bottles" by Fran Leight;
second. "The Old Stone Barn"
by Louise Craven; best in
watercolors, 1.-THE Afternoon"
by Merle Foshag.
Evening star., 1952-06-22
Art News
Artists Guild
Opens Show
By Florence S. Berrxmon

A large exhibition Of water
colors. drawings, prints and
sculptures by members Of The
Artists Guild of Washington
opened last Thursday in the at
tractive. well-lighted gallery Of
the administration building.
The American Institute Of
Architects, across the garden
from the historic old Octagon
House. 174l New York avenue.
It will remain through August
IA and will be reviewed here at
an early date.
Evening star., 1952-06-22
The Mystery of Marie Loforqe
BY Edith Saunders. William Mory

lorroU & Co., Inc.;; $780,
structed from old records and
memoirs into a pleasing period
piece.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

lures Of these goodies make the
reader drool.
Wrenching ourselves away
from Mr.. Adams subjects long
enough to consider him and his
career, we learn that a boy
hood illness kept him from
strenuous games and turned his
attention to sketching. He has
been interested in botany from
early childhood, and his ability
to bring botanical plates to life
impressed his professors at the
University Of North Carolina
and Rollins College. Incredible
as it seems Ito any one who
sees his work) he is self
taught.
On View Through Thursday
Mr.. Adams painted many Of
his subjects in their native
habitats of Guatemala. Hon.
duras, Cuba, Mexico and Carib-
bean islands. During the past
few years these water colors
have been exhibited extensive
1y, and received with enthusi-
asm from New York to New
Orleans. The present show at
the Arts Club will extend
through next Thursday.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

ON e reSti- Mr. McKnisht.
mated. Millions literally fol-
low her commands and teach
Evening star., 1952-06-22
Reading and Writing
Horpers Holding New Stevenson Biography
In Type Expecting Him to Be Drofted
BY Mary McGrory

W WOt]
Noel Busch's biography of Gov.
Adlai Stevenson Of Illinois
may be the first to come
along this year, but it is
by no means likely to be the
last. If publishers know any,
thing about politics.
Harper & Bros, more specifi-
cally, Editor John Fischer,
has been eying the Governor
for over a year now, and. not as
an author. mind you. He looked
like winner to them. Against
the day when he might be pre-
sented to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention as "the man
who." they dispatched Writer
John Barlow Martin to the
executive mansion at Spring.
field. Against their conviction
that he was available to a draft,
they had an 10000 word biogra-
ply set up in type. With a few
chapters on the doings in Chi
cago hastily added. they will be
ready to go. And they conf
IDENTIFY expect to.
A Portrait of the Man
Mr.. Martin. a Chicagoan who
makes frequent contributions to
such magazines like Harper's
and the Saturday Evening Post,
is the author Of MY Life in
Crime" an as-told-to autobi-
ography of a criminal, and
Butchers Dozen" another saga
of lawbreakers. The transition
to lawmakers was by no means
abrupt, as he has written often
on political subjects.
"Adlai Stevenson, A Portrait
Of the Man." Is not a campaign
biography, in that it has Moth
ing in common with those pious
tracts that appear just before
election and represent the can
didate as combination of st.
George and Will Rogers.
Should their cryStal-balling
about Chicago be all wrong, Har-
per's will regretfully put the
type aside until. say. 1856. Right
now, though, they think the
presses will be rolling just as
soon as the Democratic Ma
tional Convention calls it a day.
jacket Change
On Sunday, June 8, The Star
reviewed translation of STEM
dahl's 'Lamiel" as the first
English translation Of this
novel. The jacket Of the book
said so and there was no reason
to doubt it. Several other pub
1ications, similarly assured,
also reviewed the book as a
first translation. To an editor
here, however, the name of the
book sounded familiar. Sure
enough, he went home and
found 1t translated in lively
fashion by q man named
Jacques lie Clerc. It had been
issued in 1929, by Brentano's.
We asked the editor Of New
Directions, James Laughlin. in
New York, how come. He said
the matter had already been
called to hts attention by q
college professor. What did he
intend to do about it? Why
nothing, he said, except change
the jacket blurb If the book
went into another printing. eft
happens all the time" he said.
Besides, he went on. the LIE
Clerc translation was out of
print and the publishing firm
Of Brentano's had gone out Of
business. In importing their
new-but not flrst-translation
from England, he had consult
Evening star., 1952-04-09
BY Betty BeoIe

The great honor that has
come to the late Anne Morgan.
the first woman and first
American in history to be me-
morialized by a permanent
plaque in the Invalides in Paris,
has deeply touched her Wash
ington friends. Description of
the moving military ceremony
Of dedication that took place
on March q reached them last
week.
Most interested were her
niece, Helen Morgan Hamilton
Woods, who makes her home in
Georgetown and was left all
her aunt's decorations; her
nephew, Brig. Gen. Pierpont
Morgan Hamilton. USAFR, who
has just returned from Euro
pean duty, has left active serv-
ice and is now on vacation with
his wife Nora; Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, who was one Of
Miss Morgan's workers during
their close to 40 years friend
ship: Mrs. Charles Dewey and
hundreds of others who have
been active in the American
Friends Of France which Miss
Morgan founded, and Miss
Mary Breckenridge. who started
out as one Of Miss Morgan's
workers and came back here
inspired to found the American
Frontier Nursing Service in
Kentucky which holds it's an
nual benefit here Tuesday.
Miss Morgan's plaque is in the
Court Of Honor in the Invalides,
the huge. gold-domed building
In the center of Paris which
houses Napoleon's tomb. Only a
few of the great French military
leaders and war heroes are also
buried there.
How the daughter Of the ia
nous f1nancier j. P. Morgan
won this permanent place in
French history is briefly de-
scribed in the words of the
plaque inscription: ITO Miss
Anne Morgan t1873-1952)
American Citizen, Commander
OF the Legion Of Honor and
Military Cross '14-18 and '39-45;
and Intrepid and Generous
Friend of France: Helper of
War Wounded and Refugees;
1llustrious Benefactress of Suf-
fering Peoples and Of Regions
Devastated by Two Wars;
Founder Of the Franco-Ameri-
can Museum Of Blerancourt
(Aisne)."
Present at the ceremony were
Foreign Minister Robert Schu-
mann, Gen. JUN. Commander
in Chief Of the Allied Ground
Forces. Central Europe; former
Ambassador to the United States
Andre de Laboulaye. and new
United States Ambassador to
France James Clement Dunn.
Evening star., 1952-04-09

Attracts
Visitors

Kenmore, one Of the loveliest
homes built during the Pre-Revo-
llutionary Period, will be open to
Garden Week visitors on April 26.
This 200-year-old home of Col.
Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty
Washington Lewis, sister of George
Washington, retains the charm
and graciousness that it possessed
during Gen. Washington's many
visits there.
Located in Fredericksburg, the
home was commercial property in
1915. At that time. the idea de-
Iveloped to destroy the building
and sell the interiors to a museum.
However, with the aid of Is Fred
lericksburg women, headed by Mrs.
Vivian Minor Fleming, the debt
of $4,000 was collected and the
famous home became the pride of
an established Kenmore Associa-
ton.
"The Kenmore Heritage" an
annual presentation, will be done
again this year. Scenes are re-
enacted by local citizens in period
costumes, depicting those actuali-
ties which occurred in Kenmore
during the period of residence by
Col. and Mrs. Lewis.
The first Garden Week was held
in 1929, and since that time. many
visitors throughout the country
have gathered at Kenmore to view
Ia dignif1ed representation of
George WaShington'S era.
Evening star., 1952-04-09
GrOsVenOrS
ReturnHOn1e

After an extended trip through
the continent of Africa. from
Capetown to Cairo. DIR. and Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor have returned
to their home. Wild Acres. in
Bethesda. The duration of their
tour was three months and ap-
proximately $4,000 miles were
covered by such methods of travel
as the airplane, automobile and
camel back.
DR.. Grosvenor. president Of the
National Geographic Society, re-
Gently completed his SD year as
editor of the magazine. His wife
is the daughter of Alexander
Graham Bell and is a traveller and
geographer in her own right. DR..
and Mrs. Grosvenor celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
in 1850.
Evening star., 1952-04-09
Chilean Presidents Wife
Coming for Visit in May
Representative Who Shot Deer Serves
Burbecued Venison on Capitol Hill

pickles and olives. quantities of
delicious Wyoming cheese and
crackers, as we'll as an ample sup
ply of hot coffee.
Small and dainty. Mrs. Harri-
son was in dark blue, her small
round straw hat trimmed with a
single white flower. The host
wore one of the famous Harrison
ties, handpainted by his wife. He
also wears a leather belt en-
boSsed with the several designs
used in the branding of his cattle.
The small buckle of the belt bears
four of the diamonds from the
necklace of his mother, which was
"a gift to her when she married
Mr.. Harrison.
Descendants Of Presidents
Representative Harrison Is a
descendant of the two Harrison
Presidents, William Henry, for
whom he was named, and Benja-
min, his grandfather. Mrs. Harri-
sons ancestors 60 back to the two
Adams Presidents, John and John
Quincy. Mr.. Harrison first served
his native State as a member of
the Indiana Legislature when his
father, the late Russell Harrison,
was State Senator.
After that Representative and
Mrs. Harrison made their perma-
nent home in Wyoming where he
had owned a ranch for some time.
He first went to wyoming with his
uncle, the late Charles Saunders
of Omaha, Nebr., for summer out
ingS when he was a boy. Those
years were his student years at
Friends School in Washington
when his mother, the late Mrs.
Russell Harrison. made the Capital
her winter home.
Representative and Mrs. Har-
rison will leave the end Of the
week for their wyoming home to
spend a fortnight. Mrs. Harrison
will go on to Berkeley, Calf. to
visit her mother, Mrs. William
Newton. and will not be back in
the Capital before the middle or
end of May. Representative Har-
rison, however, will return for the
sessions of the House after the
Easter recess.