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Evening star., 1952-10-24
KimboIl PTA Carnival

The Kimball PTA will sponsor a
carnival from l to 9 pm. tomor-
row in the school at Minnesota
avenue and Ely place Sc. Pro-
ceeds will be used for various
school activities.
Evening star., 1952-10-24

.T,ife-like" II" all plastic
walking doll with life-like
hair that can be waved
Choice Of dress eolors'
she walks. too.
Evening star., 1952-10-24
2.WHEEL TRAIN.A.BIKE

Complete with easy to
remove trainer wheels.
Adjustable handle bars
with rubber grip. full
length chain guard.
heavy steel mud
guards, multi-spoke
wheel, rubber tires.
Positive foot action
brakes.
Evening star., 1952-10-24
Electric
RECORD PLAYER

Constant speed heavy
duty motor. Balanced
arm to reproduce
longer record wear
and clearer tones.
Plays 7-10-12" rec
ords.
Evening star., 1952-11-16

not too sophisticated to write
of young love without arch
humor. Could anything be
simpler or lovelier than David
Roberts THE Girl on the
Lake.? Maternal love flows
into the perceptive story by
Gene Marc, Angry Lions,
Lazy Lions" A fathers love un-
derlies the beautiful story, 1.-The
Weaving of Laura Wade" by
Nelson Hayes.
The burden OF a mans strug-
gle to provide for a grasping
and unappreciative family are
dealt with. on different levels,
in "A Dress for Kitty" by
Edgar Grove, and "The Case of
the Psychoanalyst," by Sheila
Strasser. There could be no bet
ter brief picture of the futility
of plans and hopes than V. j.
Beck's might Boat From Bar
celona." Il Am Edgar" by
Jerry Wexler, is an excursion
into the macabre. Whit Burnett
shows that he can still write
what he teaches and selects for
publication. His story, Suffer
the Little Children" is an
amusing slant on the parental
longing for gifted children.
All 20 of the stories are
worth mention, but, lacking
space for that let me commend
the whole book for the artistry
of the writing and the wide
variety of themeS.-C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
CuIfee's Latest

William H. Calfee steers clear
of ruts. His one-man show, on
view at the Whyte Gallery
through November Is, has a
variety of subject matter and
handling. While Mr.. Calfee
continues to paint expression
istically, he seems to have no
esthetic hangovers from last
month or last year, but ap-
proaches each subject with a
fresh outlook, regards it as a
new challenge.
His Is paintings on view are
all recent works, mostly of this
year. His handsome Terrace. "
sun-dappled and tree-shadowed,
is warm and cool in the subtle
changes of gold and green, as
seen directly and through a
glass-topped table. ''The Sea"
on a gray day, pounds the beach
in foaming breakers, dwarfing
a sandpiper in the foreground.
There is humor in his dog
Barking at Anything" the feel
of spring" in his burgeoning
greens and blue, satire in "Self
Coronation"
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Benjomin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior
BY Harry Sievers, S. J. (Regnery;: $50

Benjamin Harrison, who took
Office in 1889 to serve a single
term, apparently is one of the
least known of our more mod
ern Presidents. In any event,
this biography. of which we
have the first of two pro-
jected volumes, is described as
the first full-length treatment of
the grandson of William Henry
Harrison, the ninth President.
The first volume takes Ben
Harrison from his childhood
through the Civil War, in which
he served so valiantly. Although
he was born and brought up in
Southern Ohio, he was sent to
the White House from Indiana,
where he lived most of his adult
life The author points out that
Harrison "was never in any sense
a magnetic personality, though
more than one friend bore wit
ness that his heart beat true
to all the finer and nobler in
StinctS Of our nature"
Father Sievers has done ex-
hauStive research and emerged
with an absorbing story. Harri-
sons war service is carefully
explored. He was a young lawyer
who also was official reporter for
Evening star., 1952-11-16

If you like short stories off
the worn trail. on the distinctive
side, you'll enjoy this second
volume of the Burnetts' novel
experiment, publishing original
stories in book form.
After all, there's no proof, SO
far as I know, that readers
in general are allergic to stories
that fail to follow the formulas
worked out by the mass-circula-
ton magazines on the assump-
ton that their readers under
stand no other kind. A quality"
story even slips into one of
these publications now and
then, no doubt through an over
sight of the editors. If you
think the sort of stories that
win rejection slips from the
fiction magazines are all arty,
amorphous, if not downright
impossible to understand, I
suggest you read the latest edi-
ton of Story. You'll find Moth
ing obscure, not even such a pic
ture of a mind in torture as
Survival" by Robert Cam
Zoneri.
There can be no doubt that
these are sincere stories, in
which their authors, many Of
them young, a number hitherto
unpublished, wrote what they
felt impelled to write, not pieces
designed to please editors. 1t is
refreshing to find here writer's
Evening star., 1952-11-16
In Defense
Of Military
Censorship
Korean Tales
BY 1t. Col. Melvin B.
Voorhees,, U. S. A.

ny LII. OOl. MeIVlu ..
Voorhees,, U. S. A.
(SinlOn & SchuSter; $3.)
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
This is the book a former
chief censor of the 9th Army
in Korea refused to submit to
Army censorship "for factual
accuracy and good TASTE" with
the result that he now faces
a possible court-martial.
Col. Voorhees, lapse from
"good taste" seems to be his
suggestion that Gen. MacAr-
thur on one occasion seriously
preached 9th Army security by
publicly announcing an offen-
sive before full contact had been
made with the enemy.
His chapters on military cen
SorShip and news coverage of
the Korean War are written
from 9th Army's point Of view.
He has no enthusiasm for the
news beat" which must be
paid for in American lives, or
for the frenzied predictions of
disaster which added to the
9th Army's difficulties in the
harried early days of retreat.
Col. Voorhees, makes a con-
vincing defense of military CEN
sorship in the field; his present
plight suggests that it can get
a little silly in the higher eche-
Ions.
Between the factual chapters
are the tales" some grim and
some tender, all closer to fact
than to fiction in their brief
glimpses of Koreans and Amer
leans in war-torn land.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Books in Review
A Novel Of Successful Business Chiefs
And the World of Their Own MAKING
Executive Suite
BY Cameron Hawley fHoughton Miftin; $3J
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones
Executive Suite
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

This is a different sort of
novel about a group of business
executives and the great indus
trial corporation they work for.
It has become the fashion in
recent years either to lampoon
businessmen, as Sinclair Lewis
and his less able imitatorS did,
or to exalt them, making them
sophisticated Horatio Alger he
roes. as certain popular maga-
zines do in so much of their
fiction.
Mr.. Hawley's successful busi-
nessmen are neither heroes nor
dumb money makers with no
appreciation of what those who
have been unable to make
money call the finer things of
life. Mr.. Hawley writes per-
suasively about corporation ex-
ecutiveS, perhaps because he
has been one. He also shows
marked literary ability. and it
is not surprising to learn that
he has always been interested
in writing and has had numer-
Gus short stories published. This
is his first novel.
The Boss Is Gone
The situation in Executive
Suite" is outlined on the first
page. Avery Bullard, president
of the Tredway Corp. one
of the great manufacturers
of furniture, is leaving a New
York office building when he
drops dead. Billiard not only is
one of the country's leading
manufacturers, but an impor-
tant figure on Wall Street. His
body is carried away and he
remains unidentified for several
hours while his five vice preSi-
dents wait in the directors
room of their main factory
town in Pennsylvania for the
meeting he called by telegram.
Then, after the news of his
death permeates the corpora
ton, the after-effects are spun
out in the narrative, fragment
by fragment. Like every power
full man, he is loved and hated.
His SpinSter secretary adored
him. can hardly face life with
out him. though there was moth
ing between them except i'm
personal business. His proteges
among the executives he lifted
from obscurity to prominence
are shocked and feel grief. The
wife of the oldest vice president
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Hand and Machine Art

One more week remains to
see the handsome exhibition ar
ranged at the invitation of the
Institute of Contemporary Arts
in it's special exhibition room at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, by
Knoll Associates of New York
City.
The room settings include
furniture and textiles by 13 in
ternationally known designers.
At the entrance to the show,
outside the main gallery. are
two chairs by Pierre Jeanneret,
with foam rubber cushions COW
cred with a red and black plaid
by Franz Lorenz of Switzerland.
A glass-top desk and chair by
Milan Architect Franco Albini
have metal legs finished in white
enamel. In the same group are
a bench by Harry Bertoia and a
Evening star., 1952-11-16

is secretly elated; the man who
shaped every detail of their
lives for SO many years Is gone;
perhaps at last they can 60
their own way.
Bullard neglected to name. to
force on the board-he made
all the decisions. dominating
the company-an executive vice
president after the man who
held that Office died. Now there
is no heir apparent. The five
vice presidents. certain of them
hating certain others, immedi-
ately plan, getting behind the
candidacy of one or another. It
is a situation Of mounting ten
Sity that unfolds.
These Are the Vice Presidents
We come to know each of the
vice presidents, his wife, his
background, particularly Don
Walling. the youngest, the Gre
ative designer whom Bullard
brought into the company.
There is Loren Shaw, the go
getter, who is willing to do any,
thing to become president.
There is Walt Dudley, the
breezy vice president in charge
of sales. Shaw's man. There is
Anderson, the senior, whose wife
perSuadeS him his health will
not stand the presidency, and
Grimm, who, unknown to the
others, decided, before Billiards.
death, to retire.
The whole action takes place
within two days. The scenes fit
from one executive to another,
to the Italian elevator operator
who worshiped Billiard and
lights a candle for him,
to the destitute girl in New
York who finds Billiards.
wallet, stuffed with money,
when he falls getting into
a cab; to Billiards. grieving
secretary, to others. The story
is developed with growing sus-
penSe. never failing in interest.
The business Executives emerge
as human beings pretty much
like artists. musicians, steel
workers and clerks in their am
bitions and personal problems.
Mr.. Hawley'S writing is not
free from clicheS, but usually it
is commercially simple and di-
rect. Better still. he never for
gets he is telling a story and he
keeps his reader pacing its in
creasing tempo.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
To Live as We Wish
BY Mark Aldanov.
(E. P. Dutton,: $685.

Reviewed by Fronk SortweII, Jr.
A hatful of emigre Russians
author. actress. motion pic
ture producer, morphine addict,
kindly philosopher-prowl about
Paris. seeking to live as they
wish. They gather up a couple
of non- Russians and come to
America as most find some of
the happiness they have wor-
ried about for 512 unexciting
pages.
HumorleSs citizens, these,
wallowing in long important
thoughts.
Into this. like stones into a
blob of library paste, are thrown
two play scripts and a medieval
court record. Persons and Incl
dents from these echo through
the murky length of the novel.
Evening star., 1952-11-16

who as a boy had killed his
fathers killer. he does not know.
He meets kindness. reinsurance.
and chance to redeem himself
fighting Indians with the Texas
Rangers. But when a new
friend is pistol-whipped, Mar
tin is again quick to draw, and
once again he crosses the river
back into Mexico with blood on
his hands.
Martins efforts to regain
passage to his homeland take
up the rest of the story, which
has its share of action, and is
informed throughout with the
authors obvious affection for
the wonderful country which is
still his home. M. Meg,
Evening star., 1952-11-16

the Indiana Supreme Court
when he volunteered in 1862. AL
though he was without military
experience and doubted his
ability to command the regi-
ment intrusted to him by the
governor. he soon mastered the
necessary details and rose to
be brigadier general of volun-
teers. In less than a month, the
biographer explains, Col. Harri-
son was destined to engage in
more battles than either his
grandfather or Andrew jackson
fought in a lifetime. He led at
tackS into enemy positions, i'm
pressing his soldiers with his
courage.
Father Sievers makes a yalu-
able contribution to American
history. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Textiles at 6. W.

George Washington University
Library is now showing it's sec
ond loan exhibition from the
Textile Museum in Washington,
a collection of more than 80
Turkish textiles of the 10th to
18th centuries. The title applies
to the textile art Of those parts
of Asia Minor and Egypt under
Ottoman rule during those CEN
turieS.
Rugs in rich reds, turquoise
blue, olive green and light gold.
all patinated with age but in
Evening star., 1952-11-16

an elder, more pliable brother
Upshur, commonly called Up
pity. Rob feels an almost myS-
tic affinity for an equally gifted
foster-cousin, Clymens Ruther-
ford, who knows that she Is
destined to be a great pianist.
Clymens lives in a gay. poor,
Sister-crowded pastorium, takes
lessons from a tipsy teacher and
has trouble making up her mind
between the MILESTONE brothers.
A host of minor characters
swirls around this duo. OF
these. the most arresting is the
lovely. white-haired step-sister
of the MILESTONE boys, Sist'
India, who bolts into marriage
with the tart widower, Asa
Prowdy.
Bizorre Scenes
The union comes to a tragic
end. but not before Miss War;
rem has written some wonder
fully bizarre scenes around
Asa's woodcolt's daughter. And
Lucinda, the restless belle of
formulation Stone" is still dis
penSing largess and trouble in
about equal measure, especially
to the family of Preacher Ruth
erford.
MILESTONE Walls" suffers
from a lack of suspense and a
theme. Still, Miss Warren has
that most important asset for a
novelist. she gives life to her
characters. They, incidentally,
have more goodness and integ-
rity than any Southern family
within memory of modern tic-
ton. And they move around
on these pages at a great rate,
talking their marvellous, better
than-real lingo and pushing
their way to better days.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Art News
The Metropolitan
State Contest
By Florence S. Berrymon

The 18th Metropolitan State
Art Contest, which opened last
Sunday in the foyer of the
Natural History Building, Ma
tional Museum, Constitution
avenue at Tenth street, was re-
ported in The Stars news col
umns Saturday, November 8,
with a complete list of the four
teen winners of awards in six
classifications, and biographical
data on Betty Lowe, who won
The Evening Star Award of 500
for her gouache, Trash Col
lectors." the toneful color of
which gives it the appearance of
oil on paper.
The Metropolitan this year in
cludes 308 oil paintings, water
colors, sculptures, graphic arts,
crafts and miniatures, holding
its record as heretofore for get
ting more exhibits into the mu-
scum foyer than any other an
nual. Mrs. Miles c. Trowbridge,
chairman Of the D. C. Chapter,
American Artists Professional
League, which, with the Entire
Nous Club, sponsors the Metro
politan, and her associates on
the jury Of selection, winnowed
between 600 and TOO entries.
lnitioI Showings
Every work in the show has
been executed in the past two
years and has not been previ-
ously exhibited. Nevertheless,
the exhibition as a whole is
markedly reminiscent of earlier
editions of this annual in sew
eral respects-its generally con-
Servative character, non-contro-
versial subjects, predominantly
pleasant, the representation of a
large number of exhibitors who
apparently send work to this
annual only; and the presence
OF amateur and primitive paint
ings to the extent of about Is
per cent of the show. With ref
erence to this aforementioned
group, some of the paintings
look as if they had been done
from photographs or postcards.
However, there are many
more competent and pleasing
works than can be mentioned
in this limited space. Award
winners and others which par
ticularly like are the Nathan
Goodman, award-winning "Still
Life" by Mrs. R. Shute, a large
semiabstract composition in
grays, black and red of flowers
at a window; Maxine Roth's
Patience" honorable mention
for Sculpture), a characterful
bust of an old woman; John
c. Rogers fine pen drawing,
christmas Eve, Strasburg," and
Lila o. Asher's crayon portrait
of a little girl, which two works
received the prize and mention,
respectively, in the graphic arts
class; Marian u. M. Lanes ex-
quisite illumination with an in
terror and two figures in the
initial L. which received the
miniature prize; and Louis E.
Richards hand-carved sewing
box, admirably designed and
skillfully executed, with a floral
pattern involving more than
$50 cut-outs, which fetched the
craft prize; Jean Flagg's and
Sophie Cramer's beautiful pastel
portraits and Ruth Perkins
Safford's handsome gouache,
Stairway. Octagon House."
which three are among the
Grand National Final awards to
go to New York's AAPL ex-
hibition next spring; Helen E.
TownSend's vital portrait in
color pencils and Polly Wayne
Kittelle's bust of Capt. Charles
Bittinger, speaking likeness.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Crime
By Miriam Ottenbero

Ambush for Anatol. BY John
Sherwood. doubleday & Co.,
Inc; $2.50.)
Crime Club.
Mr.. Blessington, that decep-
lively mild British Treasury
official, is drawn into a double
murder on Hampstead Heath.
A currency swindle may be in
volved and that's Mr.. Blessing
tons baby. The hunt leads him
to interview dancehall hostess,
plunges him into an interna-
tional tangle that threatens to
shake the French cabinet, finds
him coolly removing a bomb
from his car and tackling a
gangSter. In his third adven-
ture, Mr.. Blessington continues
to be one of the most charm
ingly improbable heroes in
cloak-and-dagger fiction.
Roses Last Summer. BY Mar
garet Millar. (Random House;
$2.50)
One day, Rose. the onetime
movie star, is at her most bril-
liantly explosive. The next, she
is dead in strangers garden.
The coroner said natural causes
but the social worker who had
tried to help Rose through the
bad times didn't believe it.
Plots within plots suffice to keep
the reader off the track while
Mrs. Millar weaves her usual
spell from such materials as
compassion, worldly wisdom and
a frequently lethal wit.
Into Thin Air. BY Jack Iams.
william Morrow & Co., Inc;
$2.50.)
Government red tape and
security restrictions are the
Iams target for satire in this
hectic yarn about Voice of
America" commentator who dis
appears with a top secret
document. To avert a Nc
Carthy investigation, Iams pref
aces it all by assuring dear
readers the nearest thing he
ever saw to a Red on the
Voice" premises was a Chero-
kee chief. After that disclaimer,
he plunges into a rollicking tale
of intrigue, blasted romance and
Communist shenanigans with
thriller -diller finale.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
The Wonderful Country

BY Tom Lea. little, BroWn; !;
Tom Lea will be remembered
as the author of that superior
first novel, THE Brave Bulls"
This new effort is not quite so
memorable, being a more con-
ventional story Of Texas during
frontier days. Again, the au-
thor has illustrated his work
with beautiful, atmospheric line
drawings.
"The Wonderful Country" is
the story of a man with two
countries. He is Martin Brady,
who after IA years as an
outlaw below the Rio Grande
rides back on his black stallion
into Texas, anxious to claim
it as his own. What well
come there will be for a man
Evening star., 1952-11-16
WhefStone walls
BY Leila Warren. Appleton-C Century-C -Crotts; $4J
Reviewed by Mory McGrory

In this long, leisurely. loving
chronicle of the Whetstones,
Leila Warren, a native of Ala
bama now living in Washington,
continues a trilogy begun with
the distinguished Foundation
Stone" AS before, she recounts
in lavish detail the daily life of
a clan living on its ancestral
acres in backwoods Alabama,
and in the present installment,
brings them through the post
reconstruction era, when pri-
vate academies were giving way
to plank Schools" and South
ern gentlemen'S sons were work.
ing hard for what they got.
In a f1avorsome, almost poetic
idiom, she describes their Spats
and feuds. their rivalries and
strivings. It is the intensely re-
gional style which is virtually
the only unifying element in
this extremely diffuse story. The
WhetstoneS, a large. clamorous,
prattleSome brood, frequently
augmented by visiting relatives,
are all endowed with the spirit
of their matriarch, Ma am Gerda,
The novel is made up of Incl
dents, some trifling, some quiet
ly revealing, others wildly mel
odramatic.
Gifted Children
The chief interest centers in
two unusually gifted children of
the present generation and
takes them from the uncertain
ties of adolescence to the sure
promise of maturity Rob Lee
milestone, his fathers right
hand, wants to follow his father
into medicine. A romantic and
idealist, Rob is hampered by
the, skimpiness of family funds
and his feeling of inferiority to
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Democracy at Boy

- SAAA 0O4AA04Js
(KnOpt;: $780,
A thoughtful analysis of the
crisis OF Western democracy
from the viewpoint of a Swiss
+ economist. banker and student
of political institutions.-B. F.,
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Holland to BruziI

An exhibition Of nearly SO oil
paintings by Vim Van Dix has
just opened at the Veerhof GAL
leries. 1912 Connecticut avenue,
to remain only through next
Saturday. Generally post-im-
pressionist in manner, a ma
Jority of the paintings depict
landscapes of Holland, the art
lists native country, and of
Brazil, where he now lives. This
is his first exhibition in the
United States. There are also a
few figure paintings. religious
subjects and Dutch genre
Evening star., 1952-11-16

beautiful condition, with subtle
variety in their intricate de-
signs, many Of them floral; en-
broideries, mostly silk on linen.
and tissues and velvets, silk and
cotton brocaded with metal,
compose an exhibition of par
ticular interest to collectors.
decorators. and teachers and
students of design.
The textiles range in size from
a silk embroidery one yard by
one-half. to the great Oushak
rug, three yards wide by nearly
seven in length. sometimes
called a "Holbein" rug because
it is of a type seen in many
paintings by the German
master.
Visitors will learn much about
the textiles in this show, from
the historical notes in the cata-
logue. by John Russell Mason,
George Washington's curator of
art also notes on the techniques
and an appreciation of the Tex
tile Museum and it's founder and
president, George Hewitt Myers,
who has created in Washington
a unique treasure house of
ancient textiles,
Evening star., 1952-11-16
The League of Nations
Movement in Great Britain

BY Henry r. Winkler.
(Rutgers University Press; $3J
A study of the various pro-
poSals for an international or
ganization developed in Britain
during World War I. B. F.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
New Group Show

The Silver Spring Art Gallery
will open its third autumn ex-
hibition next Sunday afternoon
at four o'clock: Paintings by
Leo Stepe, Olga DAM. John
Dundin, Hugh Perrin, Sheffield
Kagy and Sidney Shapiro. and
sculpture by Donald Kline.
Slides of Japan and a talk by
William Harrington, special as
SiStant to the UnderSecretary
of State will be on a program
including other features.
Jewish Ceremonial Art
The Adas Israel Congregation.
Connecticut Avenue and Porter
street, dedicated last Friday
evening the Library of the Sis
terhood. In conjunction with
the dedication, an exhibition Of
ceremonial objects from the
Jewish Museum of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Ameri-
ca. in New York City, was
opened and will remain on view
to the public from l to 8 pm.
through next Sunday.
The exhibition offers a COM
prehensive review of the art Of
the Jewish people from antiqui-
ty to our own time, and illus
trates the position of art in Jew
ish culture. More than $4,000
persons visited the museum last
year.