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Evening star., 1953-06-14
Books in Review
A Vivid and Exciting Account
Of Mans Ordeal in Prison
Man Alone
BY william Doyle with Scott ODel (Bobbs-MerrH; $SJ
Reviewed bY Carter Brooke Jones
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

warden during his earlier years
meant well and was not un-
kind, but was weak and domi-
mated by the captain Of the
guards, a burly, savage man.
Into the Hole
Bill felt that escape was i'm
possible and he never Joined in
any of the plans that were
always being Matched. He tried
to be a good prisoner. When,
during a movie show, a few
convicts who had managed to
arm themselves tried to force
their way out and held
several guards as hostages,
Bill talked them into sparing
the guards lives. There was
talk of paroling Bill for this
service, but because he re-
fused to testify for the State
at the murder trial of those
who had instigated the Crush
out"-and several men, includ-
ing a couple of guards. were
killed-he was instead thrown
into the "hole" for a long
period. It was many years be-
fore he finally got his parole.
Among the things that will
haunt Bill the rest of his life
are working in the stone yard
when the temperature was 115
in the shade. and enduring for
days the "hole," an unheated
dark. stone chamber, in the
bittereSt winter weather, with
all his clothes and his blankets
and mattress taken away.
The convlcts, with their
starved affections, managed
somehow to acquire pets, es-
pecially stray dogs, and the
guards winked at this viola
tion Of the rules. Bill raised
a wildcat kitten into a beau
tiful cat, tame and affection
ate with him. The cruelest
deed the hated guard captain
did was the time he had all
the pets killed. The toughest
prisoners wept with rage and
sorrow.
Prison is a hellish place."
Bill Doyle comments. IF my
story deters some other young
man from taking the first step
that leads there. it will have
fulfilled its purpose, and
doubly so if it serves in some
small way to hasten prison re-
form in those places-and
there are many-where re-
form is needed"
Scott ODell, who helped Mr..
Doyle get his story together,
is book editor of the Los An
geles Daily News.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
Crime
Reviewed by
Miriom Ottenbero

Hear Not My Steps. BY Lloyd
S. Thompson. (Abelard
Press; $2.500
NewSpaperman Phil French
knew his friend Shimoru KY
ota, was no killer but he needed
help to prove it in this Cali
fornia town which advertised
itself as "A White Town for
White People" Too many suS-
poets make his job no easier.
but he gets an able assist from
a reformed juvenile delinquent
and a vacationing homicide
squad lieutenant. The initiate
should guess the solution.
Mostly Murder. BY Frederick
Brown. (E. P. Dutton &
Co.; $2.50.)
Gilt-Edoed.
These 18 stories range from
the macabre to the merely
murderouS. There is the tense
episode of two men who sus-
pect each other of being an
escaped lunatic. There are
stories of belated revenge, of
cruelty for its sake alone and
the ultimate cruelty of fate.
One is guaranteed to make you
wish you were in a roomful of
people-all friends.
Meet Me at the Morgue. BY
John Ross Macdonald. CAL
fred A. Knopf;; $2.50D
Probation Officer Cross be-
lieved in the man on proba-
ton. Thus, he was bound to
search for the truth when the
man was accused of kidnap-
ing. His search uncoverS
murder. more than one mis-
carriage of justice and the
dark secrets of many lives. The
author creates a new type Of
investigator who understands
human frailty. who thinks as
we'll as acts. The plot, too, is
superior, N
Evening star., 1953-06-14
The Naked Heart
Ion. (Farrar, Straus G. Young; 49,
BY John Lee Weldon

Through a series of doAorous
episodes, recollections and
waking dreams, the life of a
20-year-old boy in Birming-
ham, Ala, is described in this
first novel. ChriSty Is too at
tached to his mother. and, as
she lies dying, he cannot
imagine living without her. He
had hated his father, a fore
man at the steel mill, who was
killed in an accident. The
youths auntS, cousins and
grandparents range from the
retarded to the merely moro
mic. They talk a lot, in a sort
of middle Southern dialect,
but they sound as If they were
echoing things the author
thought they should say.
ChriSty is beset by his mother
and all her relatives and by
preachers addicted to the same
patoiS to join the church. He
Evening star., 1953-06-14
Lithuuniun Festival

A festival of Lithuanian art
and music, sponsored by the
National Lithuanian Society of
America in cooperation with
the National Arts Foundation,
will be held in the Hotel Stat
Ter next Saturday.
It will commemorate the
Tooth anniversary of the
founding of the State of Lith-
uania, a Baltic nation of pow
erful influence in Europe
during the Middle Ages and
in modern times a free repub-
lie modelled after America,
until it was overwhelmed by
the armies of the U. S. S. R.
in 1899.
The festival will emphasize
cultural and artistic contribu-
tions OF the LithuanianS to
Western civilization. It is spon-
Sored by a committee of out
standing Americans with Vice
President Nixon as honorary
chairman and 1t. Gen. Albert
c. Wedemeyer, U. s. A. Gre.
tired), as chairman.
The festival will open with
a cocktail party and an exhibi-
tion of the work of IL out
standing contemporary Lithu-
anian artists, in the Federal
room of the Statler at $50
pm. An illustrated booklet on
seven contemporary Lithuanian
artists was published in Paris
recently for the International
Association of Art Critics. It
gives biographical and critical
data on these artists, all of
whom have come to the Unit
ed States since World War II.
They include three painters,
two graphic artists q sculptor
and a ceramist, all working in
modern idioms. Information
can be obtained from Lynn
Wilson Thorpe, telephone Dis
trict 7-836O."
Evening star., 1953-06-14

ny 1tOOCAO v MOo1A. tNOWuI u-1A Y
Robert Musil, a scientist
turned novelist. enjoyed con-
siderable prestige in the lit
erary circles of Germany and
his native Austria. When he
died. in 1912, an exile in
Switzerland, he left behind
this massive, unfinished novel,
which is the first of his works
to be translated into English.
"The Man Without Quail
ties" is a study of Viennese So
ciety on the eve Of World War
I, and of a group of individuals
caught in various attitudes of
futility. The hero is a former
soldier and engineer, in whom
"all qualities merge Spectrally
into the whiteneSs of none."
Ulrich, immobilized by spec
ticism, is merely a spectator Of
life. and his aimlessnesS di-
rects a plotless story. Says
the author: What the story
that makes up this novel
amounts to is that the story
that was supposed to be told
in it Is not told"
The indirection Of the char
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Man Alone

This seems to be an era of
confessional candid self
searchings in the form of auto
biographies and memories of
certain experiences. Dozens of
disillusioned Communists have
told their stories; so have vic
tins of concentration camps
and slave labor battalions; so
have displaced persons, wan
derers in a diSlocated world.
Aside from their interest as
narratives, these personal
dramas no doubt have had an
influence on the thinking of
many, especially of those who
won't bother to read more
learned treatiseS on the same
subjects. After all. some peo-
pie can learn from the expe-
riences Of others.
Man Alone" is a vivid, ex-
citing and apparently honest
account of a mans life in a
prison. It holds the interest
like a good novel, and I'm sure
it will be read eagerly by many
who would not pick up a study
of prisons by a sociologist or a
criminologist.
Bill Doyle was sentenced to
life for murder-not a crime
of passion. but a killing that
occurred in the course of a
holdup. For Bill was a crimi-
nal. He does not excuse him
self in the least, though he
tells little about his criminal
career. He devotes nearly all
his space to describing his 20
years in a Western peniten-
tiary he calls McGraw, a State
institution. a maximum Sc
curity" prison. 1t was known
in the underworld as a tough
prison and it lived up to it's
reputation.
Bill wastes no time senti-
mentalizing his plight or that
of his fellow "cons." He does
not contend that most of these
men did not deserve punish
ment. He simply reveals his
experiences and leaves con-
cluSionS to the reader. He
describes some of the more
sadistic practices that made
this prison "a hellish place."
But he does not appear
to exaggerate. He never
fails to point out the
good qualities of certain
guards and even the occasional
lapses of the more cruel Of
flcers into humane acts.
"McGraw" evidently had
eluded most prison reforms at
the time Bill did his long
stretch. The man who was
Evening star., 1953-06-14
Crafts Trio


modern stoneware by Robert
Turner, jewelry by Idella La
Vista and woods by Bob Stock
dale was opened Memorial Day
at Ursell's, 3243 Que street,
Georgetown, to remain through
this month. All of the artists
came to Washington for the
opening.
Robert Turner began his ca
reer as a painter, after a thor
ough art education and two
travelling scholarships. He
turned to ceramics after World
War II, obtained a masters de-
gree in industrial ceramic de-
sign from Alfred University,
and went to Black Mountain
College, N. c., to design and
help build the pottery studio.
He was there two years, teach
ing ceramics. He now has his
own studio in Northern New
York State. He has won impor-
tant awards, including first
prizes in the Syracuse Mu-
seum's outstanding ceramic ma
tional ANIMALS. He was recent
ly designated Potter of the
Year" by the Philadelphia Art
Alliance.
Mr.. Turner's high tempera-
ture stoneware is non-porouS
and as durable as porcelain.
Exhibits at UrSells include
round shapes thrown on the
potter's wheel and nodded
sculptured free forms. The ar
tist favorS light gray blue and
light brown. 4..- &.
Idella La Vista's silver jewel
ry has simple. casual lines, is
thoroughly contemporary in
design, and has the additional
virtue of being light as a
Evening star., 1953-06-14

feather, in which it excels some
modern jewelry, which is heavy
enough to extend the wearer's
ears to cocker spaniel length.
or break her neck and arms.
Some of Miss La Vista'S pieces
are developed around stones
notable for beauty rather than
coStlineSs. She was trained at
the Beaux Arts and in the shop
of a goldsmith in Paris.
Bob Stocksdale's wooden
bowls and trays have been
shown in two earlier exhibi-
tionS at Ursell's. They are
beautiful in design and crafts
manship, have satin-smooth
surfaces, with the grain and
color of the wood exploited to
the fullest degree. Some Of
the bowls on view seem as thin
and light as eggshellS. These
woods are further distin-
guiShed, by the varieties Of
woods used; not only the IA
miliar domestic hardwoods.
but imported woods from In
dia, South America, Great Bri-
tain, Africa and the South Pa
Cific.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
The Pecking Order
3y Mark Kennel

BY Mark Kennedy.
(Appleton-Century-CroftS;;
$780,
Mark Kennedy'S first novel
opens on a note of early
morning freshness, as he de-
scribes the awakening of
Bruce Martin, 11-year-old
son of a mice" Negro family.
Bruce friskily escapes from the
respectability of his home into
the anarchy of the Chicago
streets. With g. year old
Johnny from next door tag
ging along, he falls in with
B. j., a little neighborhood
Caeser who whips him and his
friends into a gang. Prodded
by B. j., the boys start out
stealing cookies and end up by
stealing a car. BY SundoWn,
Bruce'S four companions are
dead.
Throughout these lurid do
ings, Mr.. Kennedy's style is
impeccably, not to say self
consciously. literary and pro-
gressively unsuited to his ma
terial. AS the day wears on,
the violence accumulateS in
direct ratio to its inability to
move or even@ Startle the
reader. Bruce's ultimate rec
lamation to the forces of good
by the love of a little girl
seems also unconvincing.
Despite it's faults, Mr.. Ken
nedy'S book is redeemed to a
great extent by his obvious
knowledge of the world he de-
scribes. Also, the portrait of
B. j. is an impressive study
of the dictator as a Negro slum
child. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
First Art Fair

Greenbelt (Md.) Consumer
Services, Inc, is sponsoring It's
first annual cooperative art
fair. which will be held in the
Allen Shopping Center, New
Hampshire and Ethan Allen
avenues, from June Is to July
3. There will be separate di-
visions for professional and
professional artists from
nearby Maryland. Virginia and
the District. Entry blanks
will be available also at art
schools, art stores and from
the Washington dailies. All
entries must be delivered by
tomorrow week June 22)
either at Radio Station WCFM
(opposite the Mayflower Ho-
ted or at the Office Of the
Coop Drug Store. 1854 New
Hampshire avenue.
There will be awards for all
classes in both divisions. A
jury to select the show and
award ribbons will be COM
posed of one member from
each Of the following: Artists
Guild of Washington, the So
ciety of Washington Artists
and the Workshop Center Of
the Arts. 1t is planned to ex-
hibit about $50 oils, water
colors, drawings, pastels and
graphic arts.
Sales will be handled by
store personnel, with a COM
mission of 25 per cent charged
for each sale. the proceeds to
be turned over to CARE. Funds
raised will be used for a prof.
ect known as CARE COM
munity center in the Philip.
pines.
Evening star., 1953-06-14

Marxist tract by Simone de
Beauvoir, whose resentment
is indicated by her title.
This was followed by the
appeasing 1.-THE Natural Su-
periority of Women, by Ashley
Montague, a mere man. To-
day we have two more entries.
Women Today" is a lively
anthology in which a number
of noted authors spiritedly de-
bate the now dubious PROPOSE
ton that woman's place is in
the home. Women in the
Modern World" by Mira Ko-
marovksy, investigates with a
commendable lack of Shrill-
ness the conflicting demands
made on the group which
Worth Tuttle Heden calls
People in Skirts"
What it all comes down to is
the one question: Can a wom-
an serve two masters, her
Evening star., 1953-06-14


acters is focused on plans for
a collateral campaign, q
grandiose project to celebrate
the jubilee of the Austrian
Emperor. This inflated enter
prise allows Mr.. Musil to give
full play to his ironic view of
life. In fact, he digresses so
often that his book seems more
like a philosophical essay
interspersed with static char
acter studies. A sample chap
ter heading gives an idea of
his rather ponderous mockery:
THE Earth, too, but Ulrich in
particular, pays homage to
the Utopian idea of Essayism."
Many of Mr.. Musil's COM
mentary is penetrating. para
doxical' and highly amusing.
Some of it Is rather turgid.
Throughout, the people of
Ulrich's world are contraSted
with Moosbrugger, a con-
demned sex-maniac, whose
significance never became en-
tirely clear to this reader, al
though intended as symbolic.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
Challenges:

The book industry is grid
ing itself to fight the book
rate hike proposed by Post
master General Summerf1eld.
The National Postal Committee
for Books says, 1T seems
strange that the Postmaster
General should begin his legis-
lative program with a proposal
which would not bring in much
revenue and which would
greatly increase the existing
discrimination in postal rates
against books in favor of news
papers and magazines"
Evening star., 1953-06-14
Love Is a Lonely Thing
BY Florence Jane Soman. (R1ndom House: So }

- WOW ~~A@NS~ANs .
The author has written a
literary fugue around the love
life of several sophisticated
persons in New York. These
inner themes are developed
Skillfully from the pedal
note of a cocktail party at the
home of a literary agent. A
young woman is in love with
the celebrity of the party, a
middle-aged writer, whose ego
scars above his fame. A
young man who does fiction
for the Sticks" is attracted
to the enraptured girl. An
attractive woman of 40, who
divorced her husband and re-
grets it, is on the prowl for
a good provider and thinks
she has found him in a crude
but affluent manufacturer.
Evening star., 1953-06-14

Meanwhile the colorless IT.
year-old daughter of the host
and hostess is having her first
blind date, with a poised and
worldly youth. 3
The focus moves easily from
one to another of these en-
counters. Unfortunately none
of the persons involved is
very engaging or enlists much
sympathy. Miss Soman does
an expert job of assembling
her material---in fact, there is
more Smoothness than depth.
It Is hardly surprising to learn
that before writing this first
novel she was a graduate of
the big magazines and con-
tributed especially short stories
to women's periodicals.
&C. B. J.
Evening star., 1953-06-14

holds out, then gives in. not
because he's convinced but to
keep them quiet. His ultimate
fate is unpleasant, but not
tragic, because it is hard to
care what happens to a young
man without character, cour-
age or purpose. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-06-14

to double park, how to pass
on a hill or on a curve and
how to play games in the car.
THE Half open Road" is full
of illustrations by George Price
and also has quite a few help
full diagrams.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
D. G. Artists

The Playhouse Art Gallery
committee will open on Tues
day the first in a series of ex-
hibitions of Washington artists
in the Phillips collection. The
show will include one work
per artist. selected. by Duncan
Phillips from his collection,
and one work for sale. Duncan
and Marjorie Phillips, C. Law
Watkins, Bernice Cross. James
Mclaughlin, Harold Giese and
William Calfee will comprise
the first group.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
Art News
Indonesiun Art
At Embassy
By Florence S. Berrymon

An exhibition of Indonesian
art will open this evening at
6 o'clock at the chancery of
the Republic of Indonesia,
2020 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, to remain through next
Friday. It will be open to the
public each evening from 6
to 8. Admission is by card
only. The public IS invited to
obtain cards through the Edu-
cational and uDAltural Division
of the Embassy of Indonesia.
This exhibition is, in part, q
review of one presented for the
first time in the United States
at the Arts Club of Washing
ton two years ago. The present
show includes a more extensive
collection of both the tradi-
tional and contemporary art Of
IndoneSia, with representative
works of many IndoneSian
painters.
During the last two years,
this exhibition has been in cir
culation to art galleries in
cities in the East, South and
Midwest. Following this show
ing in Washington at the En-
basSy of Indonesia. the exhibi-
ton will be circulated in the
Western part of the United
States.
A catalogue is available,
with an interesting historical
introduction, illustrations Of
both traditional and contem-
porary Indonesian art, and a
list of more than 100 exhibits,
including paintings, sculp-
lures, textiles (both "batik"
and "ikat" arts), Wajang pup
pets, folk dance masks and
handicroftS
Evening star., 1953-06-14
De Burqos Students

Ralph de Burgos will open
this afternoon with a preview
in his studio from 3 to 6 o'clock
the fifth annual exhibition Of
paintings by his students. The
studio is at 1903 Wisconsin
avenue NV.
Evening star., 1953-06-14
The Hof-Open Road: A Handy Guide
To Chaos on the Highway
BY Keith Jennison. Doubleday; S.

Mr.. Jennison, an experienced
motorist. has put his pen in
his hand and his tongue in his
cheek to give some sound ad-
vice ON such basic driving
matters as how to talk to a
policeman, how to park, how
Evening star., 1953-06-14
The Stones of the House
BY Theodore Morrison.
Viking Press; $780,
Reviewed by Roy KoItwosser

One day lovable Acting
President Andrew Aiken finds
himself asking, what good
does it do to do good?" Such
a challenge might have led to
one of those grand and fatal
quests if it had not been ut
tered by a kindly, prim and
slightly stuffy professor.
This result is neither grand
nor fatal.
Rowley is a typical Midwest
ern college except for all the
things that happen to it. There
is the teacher who just might
have a left-wing background
(if he isn't a left-Winger, at
least he's JEWISH; there is
Badger Bratten, a booster
alumnus, who wants to build
a fraternity house where Andy
wants a library; there is Budg-
er's freeloading, "misunder-
stood" son: there is pSychotic
reSearchist;; a crooked main
tenance man; a neurotic secre-
tary and numerous others.
The result, for a sleepy college,
is a grabbag of complications
that so ruffle Andy and get so
completely out of control that
he doesn't even get the chance
to do enough good to find out
what good it does do to do
good.
Evening star., 1953-06-14

Senate press
gallery, set
up a wall
that was ap-
p are n tly
h e a r d
around the
world. II
have spent
my b e S t
years and
powers cook
in g ca b.
bages," said
s h e, a n d
since then
Evening star., 1953-06-14

roar OF SUI
+ r a G e t t e
proportio n S
at least in
t h e book
world.
The clam
or is louder
than ever
this year. It
began with
"The Second
S e X" a
Snoldering,
cradle - to-
grave, ex-
;r&n~&;o1i 90
Evening star., 1953-06-14

Just about a hundred years
ago, Jane Grey Swisshelm. a
fiery little woman who was the
first of her sex to sit in the
Evening star., 1953-06-14
An Uprour in the Book World
Of Suffrogette Proportions

Women Today Their Conflicts, Their Frustrotions
and Their FuIfilIments
Edited by Elizabeth Bragdon (Bobbs-MerriH; $4J
Women in the Modern World. Their Education and
Their Dilemmos
BY Mira Komarovsky. little, Bro,On; So
Reviewed by Moy McGroY
Evening star., 1953-06-14
The Man Without Qualities

BY Robert Musil. (Co1DGrd-McCGnn; $4)
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-28
Estranged Husband Kills Bellevue Businessman In Tryst With Spouse

SEATTLE, R-Detective Capt. A. w. Lyskoski said Lake Sam mamish resort operator gave him. self up to sheriff's deputies Sun day and told them he fired the shots that killed Bellevue busi- nessmen after he found the latter in bed with his estranged wife.
 Milton Price AZ, owner of the Concrete Products Mfgs., Co.,, was the victim. He died of bullet wounds in the back and chest.
 Lyskoski said Thomas Reeder, 54, owner of the Timber Lake re- sort at Lake Sammamish, volun- tarily surrendered and admitted he shot Price with a .38 caliber revolver.
 Reeder's wife, Beulah, A, was treated for a head cut received, she said, when struck on the head by a revolver yielded by her husband.
 Mrs. Reeder said she had gone to Prices quarters at his plant at Bellevue about II pm. Saturday night. Just prior to the shooting, she said, she heard a voice outside Prices bedroom window shout: T told you I would kill you" She said she head the window break and about six shots followed.
 Mrs. Reeder said she persuaded her husband to call the sheriff s office after the shooting. He was taken into custody at his home.
 The Feeders were separated in December 1852 and Reeder had filed suit for divorce.
The Nome nugget., 1953-09-28
Acheson Praises Ground Observer Corp Members
ELMENDORF AFB, Alaska

ELMENDORF AFB, Alaska -
 Several members of the Ground Observer Corps have proved themselves outstanding in passing reports of aircraft sighted to the air defense system, Maj. Gen. George R. Acheson, commander of the Alaskan Air Command an- nounced recently.
 Names of observers concerned are MT. Charles Quinn, Father N. Donohue and MT. SWede Johnson of Bethel, Father William M. Nc Intyre, S.J., of Holy Cross Mission, Holy Cross, and CAA station per- sonnel at Bethel and Summit.
 The Ground Observer Corps is a going business in Alaska. The corps is organized and operated under the joint sponsorship of the Territorial Dept. of Civil Defense and Alaskan Air Command and plays a vital role in the air de- fense of Alaska. Federal, territor- ial and civil agencies are volun- tarily supporting the cause.
 The Ground Observer Corps is designed to augment radar sur veillance performed by air defense units of Alaskan Air Command by visual and sound detection of air craft flying over Alaska.