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Evening star., 1953-02-01

Collected Poems" The hon.
ored trio spoke manfully and
briefly and a gratifying num-
ber Of distinguished writer's
turned UP for the occasion.
The National Book Awards
represents an industry-wide
effort to give a modest sales
assist to worthy books. It also
serves as a kind of old home
week for the inhabitants OF the
book world, who enjoy a con-
vention just as much as other
Americans. Authors, publish
ers, booksellers, designers and
reviewers from all over the
country-in the face Of we'll
established cliche that no one
ever discusses books at liter
airy teas-talked books very
earnestly over the din.
Faulkner SteoIs Show
Actually it was a former
book award winner who was
the lion of the occasion. VIII
liam Faulker. whose collected
short stories won the prize in
1851, stood in a corner wear
ing q tattersall vest and re-
ceived the deferential attention
of the throng. A small gray
ing man, quietly courteous but
stubhornly unaddicted to small
talk, he received patiently the
queries and commands OF re-
porters and photographers. No
one, as far as could be deter
mined, succeeded in drawing
him out, but every one seemed
to feel better for having the
Nobel Prize winner-whose &C
ceptance speech was one OF
the loftiest utterances Of its
kind-on hand.
None OF the talks reacLleo
quite the peak achieved by
Yale's Whitney Griswold. who
last year made an impassioned
plea for a return to books that
many felt should have been
pasted on every television set
in the country.
Democratic Responsibility
Mr.. Ellison, the young Negro
graduate of Tuskegee. gave the
most literary speech. He de-
scribed the significance OF his
first novel a story of a Negro's
attempt to find his place in
American life, which the
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Books in Review
New Novelist Writes SpiritedIy
Of Youngsters Going Nowhere
The Second Hoppiest Day
BY John Phillips. (HGrper; $375.J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

he faded. BY the time he re-
turned from war, with an ex-
cellent record. his innate hol-
lowneSs. his lack of stability,
once he was on his own, be-
came clear. His ambitions were
confused, his intellectual Curl
oSity vague and limited. Lila,
whom he had loved from
childhood. decided she pre-
ferred Gus.
Perpetual College Boys
Gus. meanwhile, was strug-
Cling to escape George and his
coterie, whom he could not
afford and with whom he
found at last he had nothing
in common. He wanted to
make his own way. unaided by
wealthy friends.
It does seem that the young
people Mr.. Phillips describes
penetratingly will never grow
up. Most Of them remain,
approaching their sos, fixedly
collegiate. They are not too
interesting. They appear to
have little concern with
world that threatens to disin-
tegrate about them. The story
could have been more dramat-
ic at considerably less length.
The childhood and prep school
flashbacks are far too long.
Even so, the novel is a respect
able achievement and, beyond
question, the author is a gifted
and promising writer. "The
Second Happiest Day" is q
Book-of- the Month Club selec-
tion.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
By Alfred Duggan. (Coward- -McCann;:

GSUfGftI pOH
"a faithful servant Of Rome
was q faithful servant Of the
human race" However, when
the squeeze came, and the old
notion Of q separate British
Empire was revived in the per-
son Of the Tribune Marcus,
he was able to rationalize a
new loyalty by telling himself
that "a praeses who remained
obstinately loyal to an OUT
worn dynasty was not doing
his best for civilization"
The new rule of the Sacred
Marcus is soon over. Felix
willy father-in-law, Gratianus,
aided, by his bloodthirsty
daughter, seizes the purple,
but not for long. When the
crown changes hands again,
Felix is dealt out, and he
fees to the wilds. There among
the barbarians he sadly
learns that the Romans have
no monopoly on civilization.
AS the joke Of the story is
dry, so is the telling. Mr..
Duggan does not attempt to
recapture any antique flavor in
the dialogue or writing. Char
acterization. except in the case
Of Felix, Is rather sketchy. and
the story Is told mostly In
exposition. He has produced q
convincing picture Of q mighty
empire falling apart at the
seams and an understated
flctional account Of Herbert
Agar's theory GA Declaration
Of Faith'') that civilizations
are generally betrayed by
barbarians on the inside
rather than from the outside.
IN. &c.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
English Lass
Turns Town
Topsy-Turvy
Love for lydia
BY H. E. Bates.

BY H. e. Bates.
(Atlantic-Little, Brown;
$500
Lydia is one Of those smol-
dering, enigmatic girls who
never explain and never apol-
ogize and mesmerize men with
a flick Of her sloe eyes. The
story Of her coming to a dreary
little English town and the
emotional havoc she wrought
there is told with a wealth
of sensitive detail by an Eng
lish writer, whose long suit is
undercurrents. some Of which
were so deep that at least one
reader was not entirely sure
just what was going on.
When Lydia arrives in
Evensford, she is a rigid,
gawky adolescent just emerg-
ing from a strange, shadowed
childhood. The teller Of the
story. a shy young newspaper
reporter, is dragooned into
showing her around by Lydia's
weird, aristocratic aunts. She
soon sheds her inhibitions,
Seduces the nice young man
and begins to flirt with his
two nice young friends. She
also inspires a doglike devo-
ton from one Of the local
toughS. The two young men
both meet violent death, not
as q direct result of their in
fatuation for Lydia but be-
cause Of events set in motion
by her disturbing influence.
In the course Of the story
Lydia becomes sadder and
wiser but not less imperious.
Mr. Bates, very solemn
throughout, tells the story in
prose that is precise and often
quite lovely. The dialogue,
like the heroine. is, however,
often enigmatic.-M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Guest Lecturer

Doris Langley Moore, di-
rector Of the London Museum
Of Costume, will be guest lee.
turer this afternoon at the
National Gallery Of Art. at
4 o'clock. Her subject will be
Costume in the Works Of the
Masters" Mrs. Moore has
brought with her from Eng
land, to illustrate her lectures,
the coronation (193O robes
worn by Princess Margaret
and Queen Elizabeth. the
Queen Mother. Mrs. Moore Ia
also an author and her 18th
book has just been published.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Colombian Pointer

The one-man show by Pedro
Restrepo Pelaez, a native Of
Columbia (1919) on view at
the Pan American Union
through February II, is the
artists first exhibition in the
United States. He has had
one-man shows in London and
several Latin American cities,
as he has travelled extensively
in South and Central America,
Europe, the Near East and
North Africa. In recent years
he has resided in Mexico City,
Evening star., 1953-02-01
chiIdren's S Art Work

An exhibition Of children's
paintings by pupils Of Gilbert
Art School. 1751 Eighteenth
street NV. win be held this
afternoon from 2 to 8. Marian
u. nj. Lane. eminent Washing
ton artist. viii be the Judge.
Evening star., 1953-02-01

John Phillips, who is 30,
makes his literary bow with
this spirited novel of youth.
The scene Is current, at least
before and after the long
flashback. The author proves
a close observer of the New
York boys and girls who fire.
quent country clubs and their
fathers town clubs, and of 9TH
ers on the fringeS Of this un-
stabilized. shifting society. His
characters are vaguely like
some Of Fitzgerald's eligible
young persons. transplanted
into the 1950s. These later
ones. born in the Jazz Age
from the Lost Generation,
matured in World War II,
grope their way as cynically
as their fathers and mothers
once did and care less, Mr..
Phillips seems to be telling us.
The author rates a detached
consideration. He chose
pseudonym for a good reason.
1t is perhaps unfortunate that
the publishers felt they had to
announce on the jacket that
Mr.. Phillips actually is John
P. Marquand, jr. He might as
well have written under his
own name. Probably it was
held that such things always
get out and might as we'll
be confessed at the start.
In any event, since the new
novelist is revealed as the son
Of the famous author Of 1.-THE
Late George Apley" and MEL
vile Goodwin, U. s. A." it is
humanity impossible to avoid
speculating over what, If any,
parental influence the young
writer discloSes. For John
Phillips, like his father, is by
way of being a social Satirist.
We have in THE Second Hap
piest Day" some of the scions
of faded New England gentil-
1ty whom the senior Mar
quand delights to impale with
delicate darts. This is hardly
to be wondered at, since the
son grew up in Massachusetts,.
In the milieu that gave his
father material for his mature
work. John Phillips, too, went
to Harvard, interrupting his
course for war service. But
he has gone his own way. His
style is more direct, less subtle,
than his fathers and this book
is more cerned with
juvenilia and less with matur-
ity than anything the senior
Marquand wrote. The son does
seem to have inherited q lik-
ing for fashbacks and for in
terminable descriptions - not
his fathers best traits.
TroditionoI School
The story of "The Second
Happiest Day" is told by Au-
gustus (Gus) Taylor, an Or
plan reared in a small MasSa-
chuSetts town by an uncle and
aunt of impeccable New Eng
land background but with very
little money. Gus managed
through a scholarship to at
tend Emmanuel, a middle and
prep school, completely in the
English public school tradition.
1t might have been Groton,
which is mentioned as a rival
institution. There Gus met
George Marsh and he is more
concerned in the whole narra-
tive with explaining his friend
ship with Marsh throughout
the growing-up years and their
eventual break than with auto
biography. Gus and George
went on to Harvard, roomed
together and enlisted at the
same time.
George had a respectable in
come from his fathers estate
and a rich uncle. He liked to
take charge of his boyhood
friends and spend money on
them lavishly. At Emmanuel
he was the big man on the
campus - football captain,
crucifer in chapel, honor stu
dent. At Harvard he started
like q streak and the clubs
fought to get him. Gradually
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Reviewed by Roy Koltwosser

To Maurice Herzog. born in
the shadow Of the Alps, the
challenge Of q great mountain
peak had become Q way Of life.
This is perhaps enough to
justify the anguish and the
Joy Of the conquest of the An
anpurna. the highest mountain
ever climbed.
"Annapurna" is the story of
that climb. told by the man
who climbed it. A story not
likely to be soon forgotten.
The Mighty Everest
The giant southern flank of
the Hump" cuts straight
across the length of Nepal and
is climaxed. over the border
of Tibet. in the mighty Everest.
The Annapurna is a center
peak of this first great ridge
of the Himalyas. 1t reaches
26,494 feet, one Of the few
tabled $1,000 meter" noun
tains. The jumping-off point
was the tiny cliff town of Tu-
kucha, Nepal!
To the east Of Tukucha
there looms an immense cres-
cent Of knife-like ridges appro-
priately called the Great Bar
rier. Hidden behind this bar
rier lies the Annapurna. The
only approach is to the south
where the fearful bluffs of the
crescent break slowly into the
gorges of a mountain river.
The Challenge
On the far bank of the river,
beyond a finger ridge, Herzog
first spotted the Annapurna
:. "resplendent, domineering."
The Annapurna was the chal-
lenge. He could see that it's
base rose out Of a deep glacial
plateau and swept up smoothly
until a great cash in the slope
had LETT one side of the face
a deep furrow Of jagged ice
and the other a great unblem-
ished arch. Rising up along
the snow arch, like the blade
of a giant sickle, the slope
touched the summit.
Herzog figured his ap-
proach in teams Of three. He
mapped out the sites of five
camps. The base camp would
be established at a point be-
low the sickle. where the
great furrow. flowed like a
delta into the glacier. That
was about $4,000 feet. From
there teams would leap frog"
the camps straight up the
dangerous crevasse then up
the edge of the sickle and on
UP the blade.
They Had Won
In terrain and slope many
Of the Alps are more for
bidding than the Annapurna,
but the little groups of men
nearly failed. One team
numbed by cold and terrible
headaches turned back. Two
managed to cross the ava
lanche-swept gully and pitch
Camp Nv on the rim of the
cliff. Then the second team
failed. Herzog and his part
ner, Lachenal, decided to go it
alone. They finally assault
ed" the top in a. stagger on
slowly freezing feet. They
had won. Herzog. failing a
tiny French tri-color. oblivi-
GUS. beaming like a child.
stood like a man fulfilled. Life
had been good to this French
man who loved above all the
challenge of the mountain.
But the real battle, the
nightmare descent, had just
begun. They tumbled into
part of the second team down
the slope and there suffered
two nights huddled close,
flogging away the numbness
Of their hands and feet with
climbing, rope. For Herzog
the end was near. But death,
Evening star., 1953-02-01

judges praised for its bold ex-
perimentation.
Mr.. Devote was witty and
breezy. He modestly offered
that he hoped he had "at least
achieved an honorable COM
promise with the failure that is
our common lot"
Function Of Novelist and Poet
The prize-winning poet, Mr..
MacLeish, spoke In the vein
familiar to those who followed
his career as librarian Of Con-
gresS. head of the Office Of
Facts and Figures, Undersec-
retary of State and head OF
the American delegation to
UNESCO. Only in a climate Of
intellectual freedom can the
artist flourish. said this po-
litical poet.
Justice Douglas Speoks
The chief speaker, Supreme
Court Justice william O.
Douglas delivered a plea for
a federation Of free Asia.
Many of the Justices audience
felt it was a good talk but
inappropriate for the event.
Washington was altogether
we'll represented on the plat
form, where Frederick Lewis
Allen presided. Besides Mr..
Douglas and Mr.. MacLeish
was Rachel Carson Of 1.-THE Sea
Around Us" fame "a 1852
award winner) and William
Carlos Williams, present poet
of the Library Of Congress. a
Judge Of the poetry awards.
Another poetry judge was
Leonie Adams, a former Libra
ry poet.
Many NotobIes Present
Two distinguished British
novelists. Pamela Frankau and
Elizabeth Bowen, were among
the audience. The book worlds
most distinguished newlyweds,
Eleanor Clark CRome and a
Villa") and Robert Penn War
rem ("All the Kings Men~,
were there, besides Whit Bur-
nett. Ishbel Ross, Eleanor Rug
giles, Marguerite Higgins, Bren-
dan Gill and Cleveland Ar
mory.
Mr.. MacLeish few up from
the British West Indies, where
he left his house-guest Of one
hour and his friend Of 40
years, former Secretary of
State Dean Acheson. Now at
Harvard as Boylston professor
Of rhetoric and oratory. he
gladly teaches Yeats, his ideal
Of a poet who was also polit-
ical.
Washington Experiences
An admirer Of the City of
Washington itself, he misses
the city "but not what goes
on there" During his stay In
the Capital he was its con-
stant champion.
Tanned and happy, clutch
ing his newest award Che re-
ceived the Pulitzer Prize in
1882. the Poetry Magazine
Award in 1941 and the. Boil
ligen Prize two weeks ago). Mr..
MacLeish recalled his most
f1attehing experience in WASH
ington.
While a resident in Alexan-
dria. he was prompted by his
wife to make the acquaintance
of a prominent neighbor. John
L. Lewis. He found the occa-
sion one day when the labor
leader was walking his dog.
He went up. smiling. with,
mfr. Lewis, I'm Archie Mac
LeiSh. !"
Mr.. Lewis looked at him,
raised those awe-inSpiring eye
brows and rejoined. heavily,
Yes, ] know" and walked
u1aJestically on.
Evening star., 1953-02-01

> I q lin Is
one Of the
p olitic al
miracles of
our time.
The au-
thor, Vladi-
mir D e d j.
jer, is a
p q p erman,
ira nslator,
lawyer and
one of Tito's
Oldest party
C o m r a deS.
His h00k is
Evening star., 1953-02-01

gu rr eled
W ith tn e
decision of
the judges
to on or
Ralph Eli
son for his
novel, en-
v i S i b ! e
Man." Ber-
nard Devote
for "T he
Cours e Of
E m pir e"
and Archi-
bald Mac
T.eich for his
Evening star., 1953-02-01

or his hands, didn't seem to
matter 90 much any more.
What really mattered was
that Herzog had found that
secret something, that pearl
of great price," And he found
it where 1t must be-on the
summit Of q very great noun
tain.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Art News
Corcoron Opens
10th Series Show
By Florence S. Bergman


has just opened the 18th one
man show in its series Of con-
temporary American artists
inaugurated in 1948. Leonard
Maurer is the artist honored,
with 81 paintings in oil, oil
wax, oil-enamel and encaustic.
and about 10 drawings and
studies, all made in the past
three years. The show will
extend into March.
Leonard Maurer was born in
Newark. N. j.. grew UP and
began his education there.
Painting was an avocation for
him before World War II.
during which he served more
than four years in the Infantry
here and in Europe. Subse-
quently he took a position with
the Army Map Service here in
Washington, continuing to
paint for pleasure. Two years
later, he began a serious study
of art, at the Corcoran School,
and attended American Uni
versity, obtaining his ALB. He
studied art there, and took a
course with Karl Knaths at
the Phillips Gallery.
During the past three years,
Mr.. Maurer has had large one
man shows at Watkins Gallery,
and in Waterford, Va, and
several smaller shows; he has
also exhibited with local and
national groups, including the
Corcoran Biennial and the an
nual of the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts.
Has Won Mony Honos
He has received three
awards in Corcoran area an
nuals. and two in the Society
Of Washington Artists. He is
represented in the permanent
collections Of the Corcoran
and Phillips Galleries here. He
is on the art faculties Of
Mount Vernon Junior College
and the Washington Work
shop.
The rapid progress Mr..
Maurer has made during his
brief career is obvious in the
Corcoran exhibition. Pattern
plays the major role in his
work, which is also strong in
color and varied In theme and
handling. There is imagina-
ton and beauty. and an unus-
ual way of dealing with sub
jects. Some Of his paintings
have an elusive mystery. Re-
versing the usual trend today,
he was more abstract In his
approach several years ago,
than he now Is.
Mr.. Maurer likes to ring
changes on q subject, as in
his several interpretations Of
fir trees in snow; his tigers in
a forest at night, faces and
bodies interviewer with dense
foliage: and two big cats with
mosaic bodies in a swirling
landscape; two paintings of
crows; and two professions Of
robed figures, Red Frieze" and
"Blue Frieze." reminiscent of
stained glass.
The paintings / like best in
the collection are Snow,
Night; "Out of Eden," a tap
estry Of figures and trees:
3 Quarry" with the intricate de-
sign Of stone repeated in the
shape Of the landscape: q large
handsome patterned flight of
gulls over sea and coast; and
the romantic Sea Town"
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Reading and Writing
Authors, Publishers and Critics
Talk Shop After National Awards
By Mary McGrory

NEW YORK. The fourth
annual National Book Awards
went off with a swing here
last week. No one seriously
Evening star., 1953-02-01
BARGAINPARADISES

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Evening star., 1953-02-01

Annopurno- Conquest of the Highest Mountain
Ever Climbed by Man
BY Maurice Herzog Translated by NORM and Janet Adam
Smith. (E. p Dutton & Co., Inc; So
hv RnvK KnI&
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Tito
BY Vladimir Dedijer.
(Simon & Schuster;; $5J
Reviewed bY Belmont Forie,

Here, told largely in his own
words, is the story Of Marshal
Tito Of Yugoslavia, the man
whose successful defiance of
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only enough to dampen flour. Fold
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EVERYONE SAYS, you're as young
as you feel" but when see how
quickly those youngsters next door
are growing up, it makes me feel my