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Evening star., 1953-11-26
Championship Game
Tomorrow Matches
Two Scholastic Stars

When Roosevelt, interhigh
champion. and st. Johns Cath
olic League titlist. meet at 8
pm. tomorrow at Griffith Sta
dium in the sixth annual Cath
olic-Public High championship
game, it could very well evolve
into a personal battle.
Not hand d-to-hand combat. but
the matching of two of the out
standing players in their re-
Spective leagues. The players
are Quarterback Phil Perlo of
Roosevelt and Halfback Bob
RuSevlyan of st. Johns.
Perlo, a 6-foot, 170-pounder
and Rusevlyan, 5-foot-11. 160-
FOUNDER. are natural athletes.
Each, in addition to starring in
football, are mainstays on the
baseball and basketball teams
of their respective schools.
Little to Choose.
In football, there is little to
choose between them. Perlo, be-
sides directing the spliJ T from
his quarterback post, passes,
runs we'll on option plays, puntS
and plays safety on defense.
RuSevlyan, who started at quar-
terback this year but was moved
over to halfback to get the most
out of his running ability, kicks
off, is safety on defense and is
better than average in kicking
extra points. He is one OF the
finest runners on end sweeps,
consistently piling up yardage.
However, each team has
players of proven ability besides
Perlo and RuSevlyan. Roosevelt,
in addition to Perlo, placed two
other players, Tackle Abe Leach
and Guard Bob Yeager, on The
Stars All-High team. st. Johns
also placed three on The Stars
All-Catholic League team, in
Rusevlyan. End Dave Shannon
and Guard Bob Gailliot.
Roosevelt is in top condition,
according to Coach Lou Chacos.
and his assistant, joey Kaufman.
The Riders have been idle since
last Friday when they defeated
Anacostia for the Interhigh title.
The team has been practicing all
week, however, particularly on
defense.
st. Johns to Scrimmage.
St. Johns, on the other hand.
will be playing its third game
in six days. Despite this gruelling
schedule, the Cadets are in good
shape with the exception of
Guard Jim Healy. He received
a severely sprained right ankle
in the game with John Carroll
Tuesday night and Coach Joe
Gallagher expressed doubt that
he would be able to play.
Roosevelt is not expected to
practice today in view of the
holiday and the closing Of school.
st Johns, however, will hold
a two-hour scrimmage, starting
at 2 o'clock, on its home field.
Tickets are 81 for adults and
SO cents for students. Student
tickets are on sale at, the public
high and Catholic high schools
but will not be on sale at Grif-
fifth Stadium tomorrow.
Adult tickets may be purchased
at the TimeS-Herald, the Touch
down Club, FairWay Sports
Store, G street NV, near Thir-
teenth; Sphinx Club, 1915 K
street NV; Michels Sport
Store, upper Fourteenth street
NV, near the Savoy Theater:
Leemans Cleaners & Dyers, 1926
Georgia avenue. Silver Spring,
and Griffith Stadium.
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Service Come
Continued From Page C-l.,

NSSAASAAAANA GAOIkl o6C -
Lauricella of Tennessee, Frank
DiPietro of Georgia, George
Tinsley of Virginia. Bob She
monski of Maryland, and Char
ley Meyer of Tennessee. The
Engineers also have a fast-mov-
ing ball carrier in Jim Leftwich,
who never attended college.
Belvoir'S line has such as
George Morris of Georgia Tech,
Bill Pearman of Tennessee, Ed
Clemens of Dayton. Bob Quit of
George Washington and Pat
SarneSe of Temple.
And for those who like pag-
eantry with their football, plenty
of that was on schedule. Bands,
color guards, drum and bugle
corps and drill teams from all
services were to take part.
Evening star., 1953-11-26
By Bill Fuchs
Stor Stcff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 26.-Navy
Gs a decided underdog to Army
in the big football game Satur-
day in Philadelphia, but some
body neglected to tell the Navy
players.
| George Welsh, the sophomore
quarterback from Coaldale, Pa.
says: I'D say We had better
I than an even chance. The team
spirit is the best it's been all
season"
Welsh, who played for Coal
dale high school team that won
% straight games. had his heart
set on going to the Naval Acad-
emy since he was a high school
sophomore. His father. an elec-
trician for coal company, and
his mother began writing letters
for information on the matter
at CIlaC LlIne.
Olson Thinks Navy Is Up
Dick Olson, Navy's great center
and captain, says: That's all
I've been thinking about, the
Army game. I think both teams
are equal in personnel, so it's
going to be a matter of fire and
spirit. And we've got it,"
Olson comes from Lorain,
Ohio, and his family consists
only of his mother, who has
worked as secretary to support
him since he was an infant.
Dick. himself, worked as a
laborer part time while going to
high scnool. job that led him
indirectly to the academy.
| Il worked with Lorain Shovel
Co.," Dick. a 5-foot-11, 200
FOUNDER. says. Ralph Reynolds.
one of the executives of the
company, wanted me to go to
Bulls School and then to the
academy. He wasn't connected
with either place: he just
wanted to see me go to the
academy"
Halfhack Jack Garrow of An
tioch, Calf. also predicts a
Navy victory on the basis of
team spirit.
1t was his mothers boss that
influenced Garrow in going to
Annapolis. Garrow's father died
several years ago. His mother is
a stenographer and her employer
is an Annapolis graduate!
Hitting Line Harder.
End Don Fullam, a senior, of
Bronxville, N. Y. says: We're
going to win. 1 just feel it.
We've been working hard. We've
been hitting the line harder this
week than any time all season"
Fullam, the son of a brick
layer, was put on the road to
Annapolis by Ben Carnevale, the
Navy basketball coach.
II played summer basketball
up at Schroon Lake, N. Y" he
says. II met Carnevale there.
He got me interested in the
academy. Funny thing, though.
I played basketball here in my
plebe year. Haven't played
since"
Jack Perkins, the 6-foot. 215-
pound tackle from Layton, Utah,
also sees Navy winning. Perkins
is a former Navy enlisted man.
He spent two years as a seaman
and while aboard the U. S. S.
John R. Craig. played football
with the Destroyers' Pacific
team.
The son of an electrician,
Perkins played on the same
team with officers and former
Navy players. They talked him
into trying for the academy.
Sophomore John Hopkins.
Navy's 6-foot-3 end from Brook
lyn, says: 1.-The spirit here is
something! We're really going
out to get this one!"
Hopkins is another player who
has lost his father.
That's one of the reasons I
wanted to come to the acad-
emy," he says. Its just Mother
and me now and with me here
she has no worries"
Quarterback John Weaver says
! he expects a tough, good
Evening star., 1953-03-22
By Meredith S. Buel

COMETIMES, even beauty
- blossoms forth from war.
Mrs. Ellen Gordon Allen
realized this during those
first hectic months of the
Korean conflict. 1t was then
that the United Nations
forces were fighting with
their backs to the sea. And
her husband, Brig. Gen.
Frank A. Allen, jr., assistant
commander of the famed LIST
Cavalry Division, was in the
thick of it.
When the North Koreans
attacked, she was on a boat
bound for the Far East to join
her husband in Japan. He
left for Korea shortly after
her arrival in July, 1850.
Mrs. Allen plunged into a
multitude of activities which
developed almost overnight as
troops were rushed from
Japan to the Korean front.
She assisted in the operation
of a 24-hour-a-day canteen
for incoming servicemen, in
addition to performing other
duties for the American Red
Cross.
Trying to relax and forget
the battle raging several hun
dred miles away, she discov-
cred a beauty she had never
Evening star., 1953-03-22

known before. This she found
in Ikebana, the ancient art of
Japanese flower arranging.
Strangely enough, Mrs. Allen
had had little more than a
passing interest in flowers.
Yet she went on to master an
art which took centuries to
perfect and recently pub
Evening star., 1953-03-22

lished a book on it. Ikebana,
or flowers arranged according
to rule, became a delightful
and comforting hobby. It
proved to be, in her own
words, IAN antidote to worry"
While she tried to keep her
mind occupied. her husband
was being cited twice for gal
Evening star., 1953-03-22

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Evening star., 1953-03-22

Famous strain, perfected
through years Of careful se-
lection and cutting for hardi-
ness and abundance Of thick,
beautiful blooms.
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Evening star., 1953-03-15

Second, Mr.. Gihney puts a
new twist to the postwar third
force theme which India's
Nehru aspires to organize. The
third-force theory is this: To
avoid a clash between the
Russian and American spheres,
a third force must be de-
veloped to serve as a balance
and moderator. Mr.. Gibney
plugs for Nehru's rival, Japan,
to head this third-force group.
He suggests that Japan can
become a bridge" between
East and West, a mediator
between continents"
This is a pretty thought, but,
alas, painfully impractical.
For Japan, unlike India, has
not the native wealth to sup
port an independent policy.
There is not enough grazing
ground between the two worlds
to support Japan'S teeming
millions.
These criticisms are but pin
pricks, however. Mr.. Gibney's
delicate brush has painted the
most perfect likeness of Japan
that has emerged in the post
war period. He has found the
historical psychological for
mula for making Western
sense out of those four far,
Far Eastern islands.
Evening star., 1953-03-15

with the Navy and the Philip
pines, is different in approach
and development. And yet, in
a more individual, less univer-
sal way, it drives in its point
with as hard an impact. The
writing, too, is quite as effec-
tive. perhaps more, since the
new book is much briefer, re-
quiring concentration, econ
ony of expression.
A Tough Crew
In Bamboo" Mr.. Bowen
writes of the old Navy a few
years before Pearl Harbor. The
characters are all enlisted men
the tough-talking, heavy
listed, freely drinking and
wenching crew of a destroyer
lowering in Manila Bay.
These sailors emerge as
clearly as the soldiers did in
From Here to Eternity"
James Jones' novel of the old
army in Hawaii. But Mr..
Jones wrote an enormous,
spraWling book, cluttered with
foul and vulgar phrases, ef-
fective despite its lack of fern
and style. His privates and
noncoms carried on an end
less feud with the Army, it's
injustices, its senseleSs ways.
Mr.. Bowen writes concisely
and with artistry and he has
not thought it necessary to
drag in pages of the kind of
dialogue soldiers and sailors
feel they have to talk to main
tain their manhood and their
Indifference to civilian society.
He has used enough-perhaps
at times too much-candor to
make his narrative natural
istic. On the other hand, he
has described POLITICALLY the
old moods and memories that
haunt some of these men.
Brutality and beauty are min
gled in the story, as they are
in life.
Evening star., 1953-03-15

itary confinement he gave up
the illusion "of being the pivot
and focus Of all things"
Mr.. Burney's story, quiet.
understated. deliberately un-
dramatic, is a moving account
Of one mans Snail-like prog
ress to belief. The author is
no mystic; his formal religious
training was both sketchy and
hearty. But in that bleak cell,
tormented by hunger and the
fear of further torture, he be-
gan to believe in God, a con-
dition he says is inevitable to
any solitary mot crippled with
spiritual rheumatism"
Physicol Hunger
He took to the anchorite'S
existence with almost the ease
Of inborn talent" Even so, he
did not deliberately sit down
to put his soul in order. His
hunger was for earthly food.
Most of his day was spent in
furious debate over whether to
eat the crust of bread with
the soup or as a bedtime snack.
Events of his past life came
back to him only in their food
content. Church was simply
the interval before the roast
beef. Inevitably he bethought
himself Of the parable of the
prodigal son, with it's feast
ings and homecomings. Should
he take it literally? He could
not tell. He only knew it COM
forted him.
You Shore His Monotony
Tremendous trifies loomed
up in that monotonous exist
ence. You share them with
the author: the birthday gift
of 96 cookies from a guard;
the spring day he went out in
the courtyard and brought
back a snail as q companion
and a memorial; and the su-
Evening star., 1953-03-15

successful. Somehow in the
brief compass, the mechanism
shows up. Except in the case
of a sensitive sketch of a love
affair that becomes unexpect-
edly expensive for q bored
French lady of fashion, Miss
duMaurier seems to want only
to practice her scales on the
nerves ends of the reader.
Such narrowing little .exer-
cises can certainly hold the
attention, as THE Apple
Tree" the story of a nagging
wife who hauntS her husband
in the shape of a difficult apple
tree. But in spite of their skill
and deftnesS, her stories leave
you unsatisfied. She needs the
novel form to practice her un-
deniable talents as q story
teller. M.McG.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
(Farrar, Straus G. Young; $685.

rrar, Straus & Young; $685.
restraint. The consequence is
a book that must run to 2O0,-
900 words. 1t would have been
a better book at half the
length. Minor characters and
episodes of no Importance to
the story occupy many pages.
The author has tried hard to
make the actor, Bart Blaine.
inspire sympathy beneath his
promiscuous sex life and his
ruthless SelfiShnesS. But Bart
emerges as only a glorified
heel. Even when, surfeited and
facing death from an over
driven heart, he repudiates the
old life, he does not sound
sincere. His long-patient wife.
who once sought surceaSe in
suicide, can hardly be blamed
for receiving his repentance
skeptically.
Prince Bart" turns out to
be just another Hollywood
novel. In vulgar frankness it
goes about as far as any book
has since the era of neo-
naturalism began.
&C. B. J.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Essays on Church and
State

Essays on SHuICn ana
Stote
BY Lord Acton.
Viking Press; $6.)
Reviewed by Cospor Nonnes
The stature of Lord Acton as
a historian and thinker has
been growing steadily since he
died in 1902. These essays,
edited by Douglas Woodruff,
add further testimony to the
sohd reasons for regarding the
once Regius professor of his
tory at Cambridge University
with respect and even awe.
For they display the vast cru
ditiop and sharp intellectual
powers he possessed.
This is not a volume for per-
sons who want to read as they
run. What Lord Acton has to
say on Catholicism and its
many facets is both learned
and deep But, for readers
who are willing to dig for their
gold, a treasure Of information,
ideas and unexpected perspec-
tives may be uncovered. This
is especially true for those in
terested in church and state
relations, and the cause Of lib
eral Catholicism in England
during the past century.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Books in Review
A Tough, SoIt-Crusted Picture
Of Our Pre-Peurl Hurbor Navy
BY Robert O. Bowen. GKnopt; $3J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jone.


Mr.. Bowen's sailors have no
quarrel with the Navy. Some
have re-enlisted for hitch
after hitch. They take the
Navy as it is. They talk
mostly about their prowess on
shore leave. But they are not
indifferent to the sleek, low
slung destroyer. 1t is, in a
way, their home and they are
proud of it. Which is the more
authentic picture, these sail
ors, taking the Navy and lik-
ing it, or the Hawaiian SOL
diers, hating the Army and
yet sticking with it? Perhaps
both are, depending on men
and circumstances.
Shore Leave
Bamboo" is chiefly the story
of Shanghai Egan, a young
sailor who has just signed up
for his second hitch and re-
ceived the customary 30-day
shore leave. Shanghai is tough.
not only because he must be
like his shipmates, but because
his father, back in the Eastern
city, was craven, let himself be
pushed around by tougher men.
The sailors hoyhood hero was
the Irish blacksmith, who could
lick any three men in the COM
munity and often, in liquor,
did.
Gone Bamboo
During his leave Shanghai
"shacks up" with a lovely
young native, a virgin. He
loves her, and there is the
temptation to end his days
with her on the languid shore.
But there is the example Of
Mac, the old soldier. who
fought the insurrectos in the
old days and was wounded in
France in World War I and
talks endlessly of old wars and
vanished mra des. Mac,
stepped in gin. with his aging
native wife waiting patiently
for him outside the bar, has
gone bamboo" native, beach
comber, though his pension
pays for what he needs. There
is no hope for him, and he will
die before his time. Shanghai
senses the danger. And he and
the girl he calls Pigeon can
understand each other only to
a point-there are barriers be-
tween them neither can ever
cross.
The story reaches q climax
as Shanghai works out his
problem, between drinking
bouts and brawls and quiet
evenings with Pigeon. It is a
hard-crusted story, streaked
with cruelty, but q memorable
one.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Five Gentlemen of Japan
BY Frank Gibney. (Farrar, Straus G. Young; S4J
Reviewed by Earl H. Voss

For overall balance. this Is
the best book to have come
out of the Japanese occupa-
ton. Mr.. Gibney has an un-
usual depth for a man of %.
He draws on an impressive
background of Japanese and
world history. In addition, he
has a deep understanding Of
the people in Japan today.
Out of the lives of the five
gentlemen from Japan. the
author has skillfully drawn
the picture he set out to give
us, "the portrait Of a nations
character" The five men
(women, unhappily, don't shape
this country's character are
Emperor Hirohito, a farmer,
a steel worker, a purged ad-
miral and a newspaperman.
Tracing their ancestry-an
important consideration in
Japan-against the nations
ancient, medieval and mod
ern history, Mr.. Gibney is
able to give the feel" of life
in Japan, past and present.
But when Mr.. Gibney breaks
off from the portrait and
dabbles in Japan's destiny, he
gets lost. He has allowed his
unashamed friendship for the
japanese to color his judg-
ment. First, he tends to be
overenthuSiastic about Amer
ican aid. He Is juStifiably
eager to help Japan support
its swiftly multiplying popula-
tion, but tends to overestimate
our capacity to help and
Japan's capacity to help others.
Evening star., 1953-03-15

TuUEtTty among LNe gTSULSSL
1DriterS of all time."
ter. He was a full part of that
turbulent Victorian era in
which he lived. He had a sue
cess which would be impossible
to any writer today. He was
famous for no less a work than
the "Pickwick Papers" when he
was Is. He moved steadily
thereafter through that long
succession of novels that fills
the Dickens shelf. Such amaz-
ing versatility was equaled only
by an equally amazing energy.
He found time to edit maga-
zines and newspapers Che read
hundreds of manuscripts a
month and rewrote scores for
publication); he wrote, direct
ed and acted in numerous
plays that had respectable runs
and sometimes even went on
tours for months; he kept up
a correspondence with various
individuals; he advised philan-
thropiStS on their donations to
charity: he took time to have
a real home life with a family
Of 10 children. and he seldom
missed any Of those long pub
lie dinners given in London's
artistic world for writer's,
painters or actors. His triumph
over the 24-hour day was
Dickens first victory.
Dickens won his literary
following because he brought
to his descriptions Of his times
an original turn of mind, q
vivid satire. and a real criti-
cism. He was able to do all
this in fiction form that cap
tured and held the reader. It
was a combination of elements
scarcely equaled before or
since. Some writer's excelled
him in one or more of these
qualities; no one had so many
done so well. He assailed
debtors prisons, the new Poor
Law, the Yorkshire schools,
lum-breeding grounds of
crime and disease, ignorant
officials, bullying magistrates,
greedy usurers. lordly wastrels,
dishonest lawyers, a misgov-
erning aristocracy. irresponsi-
Evening star., 1953-03-15

preme gift in that wordless
life-a copy of the Bible.
The Psalms and the Cos
pels reinforced his new faith.
The Old Testament only re.
newed the confusion between
wrath and love. The con-
clusions he come to about
good and evil were strictly
personal. What is noteworthy
is the search.
The appeal of the book as
a human document is caught
in one sentence. Describing the
lift in his spirits when he be-
gan laboriously to fashion him
self a vest out of an old
blanket. he says:
"As q moribund, I was like
q ship tossing between Scylla
and Charybdis: as a tailor,
like a small canoe padding
from Hong Kong to Valpa-
raiso." M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Reviewed by Edwin TribbI'

This long new biography of
Charles Dickens, a recent
ok-of-the- Month selection,
is q work of continuing i'm
portance.
Mr.. johnson, a professor Of
English at City College in New
York, spent years on this study
and he emerged from it con-
vinced that Dickens is truly
a Titan of literature, ranking
among the greatest writer's of
all time. With this opinion he
has stirred up a lively con-
troverSy.
It is a triusm that Dickens
himself was a Dickens charac-
Evening star., 1953-03-15

p r / s o n
G mmando
c christopher
B u rney
during his
l 8 months
in a N az
pri SO n in
F r a n c e !,
II z v z T
dreamed of
e S c a ping.
Yet in the
tru e sense
h e fre e d
himself. for
in that SOL
Evening star., 1953-03-15

ScrlDeQ Z n e
re demption
of a mental
ly sick sailor
t h r o u g h
helping 9TH
ers in the
struggle to
S surviV a
OoNo6N OOP
anese prison
camp.
The young
writer's Sec
ond novel,
though h it
also deals
Evening star., 1953-03-15
and Writing
State Dept. Is Trying to Sell
America Through Little Books
By Mary McGrory.

The State Department and
the paper-backed book in
dustry-neither of which have
been exactly deafened by con-
gressional applause of late
have collaborated on an in
genious scheme which should
disarm their critics every
where. The Expendable Lii
brary, a collection of 102
pocket-size books, tells the
world about us in a formal
which proves that in America
you don't have to be rich to be
cultured. All this, mind you,
at a cost of $3.50 for the
taxpayer.
Some $500 of these little Ii
braries, .packaged in a handy
three-shelf cardboard car
ton, have gone all over
linda. Many more are being
assembled at the request OF
public affairs officers for use
in Burma, Brazil and other
points around the world. The
beauty Of the kits is two
fold. They give a sampling
of Americas most repre-
sentative poetry and prose.
They also refute the Russian
canard-which is ably abetted.
to be sure, by the imported
floods of tawdry sex shockers-
that first-class literature is not
available in low prices in
America.
Selected Book Lists
The project was initiated by
the International Informa-
ton Administration of the
State Department at the be-
hest of our Ambassador to
India, Chester Bowles. He
and his staff sent a list of 100
titles they thought should be
included. The IIA, guided by
their own strict standards Of
suitability and also by the
availability of titles in pocket
size books, finally hit upon 102
books which they thought
would give the Indians a fa-
vorable impression of us. The
result is an uncontroversial,
well-balanced collection that
has something for everybody
from the philosopher (Dewey's
Reconstruction in Philoso-
phy'D to the expectant mother
(Guttmacher's Having a
Baby").
Patrons of the Expandable
Library will encounter a min
imum of formality. Upon
first borrowing they must
sign their name, but there
after a returned book acts as
a library card. The libraries
are set up in places like mu-
nicipal libraries, student hos
tells, labor union reading
rooms and railroad stations.
Non -Americon Authors
Not all the authors in the
collection are Americans. Brit
aims George Orwell is repre-
sented by his powerful anti
Communist novel. 1894" and
Hungary's Arthur Koestler, by
Darkness at Noon" The in
clusion of Koestler, inciden-
tally, has become dubious since
the State Department, under
senatorial pressure, issued a
directive banning use of
Communist, fellow traveller,
ETC., sources" Koestler, an
eloquent anti-Stalinist, has not
been proven anti-Marxist.
Another Englishman on the
list is Shakespeare, in an
American edition edited by
Mark Van Doren. The Irish
man Dom Byrne is there, too,
Just because the State De-