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Evening star., 1954-01-01
First 1854 Baby Born
To Truck Driver and
16-Year-0Id Wife

A Bowie (Md.) truck driver
and his 16-year-old wife cap
tured the honors in the WASH
ington areas first 1854 baby
competition early today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward john
son, who are colored. became
the proud parents of a 6-pound.
11-ounce son-their first-at the
stroke of midnight in Prince
Georges General Hospital.
The Johnson's new offspring
beat by just one minute Wash
ington's candidate. In George
town University Hospital, Mr..
anC Mrs. Herbert L. Lewis
greeted the arrival of a daughter
at 1901.
Mr.. Johnson works for a land
scaping firm in West Hyatts-
villeA He is 81.
The Lewises live at $50 Fiji
teenth street Sc. Mr.. Lewis,
who is colored, is an Agriculture
Department employe. This is
the Lewises' third child.
The Johnsons may well turn
out to be doubly lucky. for they
have a good chance of qualifying
for 5000 Federal income tax
deduction. Such a deduction is
due for babies born in 1853
and the johnson newcomer ar
rived just on the. line.
Area hospitals reported flur-
fy Of near misses for the early
baby honors. At George Wash
fngton University Hospital, En-
sign and Mrs. Gregory Zeman
became the parents of an 8
pound. II ounce boy at 1902.
The Zemans live at 200 Whining
ton place Sc.
AT 1911 there was a tie-be-
tween the new daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel MacDaniel of
I12 Sixth street Sc. born at
Evening star., 1954-01-01

WGL-The Mems Store, End Floor
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Nixon's Father Returns
To California Home
By The Associcsed Press

WHITTIER, Calf, Jan. L.
Frank A. Nixon, 75-year-old fa-
ther Of Vice President Nixon, has
returned home from Phoenix,
Ariz., where he had been hos
pitalized for a stomach ailment
since December %.
The elder Nixon became i'll
while flying home from Wash
ington, D. c.. where he and his
wife, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had
cared for their sons children
while the Vice President and his
wife were on a world tour.
Evening star., 1954-01-01

which he pledged Yugoslavia to
work Stubbornly -. for the
victory Of peace"
ION the horizon appear more
rays Of light. :. breaking through
giant clouds hanging over hu-
manity." he said.
1.-THE victory Of peace over the
war danger before which the en-
tire peace-loving world quivered
in postwar years is in less ques-
tion in the near future"
Tito described himself as mot
an exaggerated optimist."
Evening star., 1954-01-01

Upper closed, fIeece-Iined, with
IuxuriousIy warm sheor|ine cuffs
best of all, they may be worn
with or without shoes.
WGL-Shoe Center. End Floor
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Peace Outlook Bright,
Marshal Tito Asserts
sy the Assoeiotsd Press

~ the Assoeiotso PresS
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Jan.
President Marshal Tito con-
tended today the world enters
the New Year with the brightest
prospects for peace since the end
of World War II.
He expressed his opinion In a
brief midnight broadcast in
Evening star., 1954-01-01
Fumine Amid Plenty

CLIFTON FORGE. Va. Jan.
l (P).-Mayor Milton B. Whiting
owns Is service stations and
8 wholesale outlets. all selling
gasoline. Today he ran out of
gasoline.
Evening star., 1954-01-01

Washington Sanitarium, and the
neW~Son of Airman 1/c and Mrs.
John E. Coleman of 4518 Over
look avenue S.W.. delivered at
the Boiling Air Force Base hos
pital.
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Race Rock
BY Peter Matthiessen. (Harper: S3.5O)

Murray, the neighbor girl with
whom they grew up, and Cady
Shipman, the caretaker's son,
who bullied George and Sam
when they were boys and
still bullies them. Eve mar
ried Sam. then left him and
carried on an affair with
George. The relationship of
the three men reaches a cli-
max during a drunken week
end Of duck shooting at the
Point.
George and Sam are hardly
interesting enough to sustain
their major role in the story.
Both are craven, Intellectual,
cropping. You never know
what either wants or expects
out of life. Cady, sadistic,
strong. an outdoor man,
somehow attractive to women,
is the only character who
takes complete shape. It is
hard to regard Eve, despite her
pretenSions, as much more
than a tramp. The narra-
tive moves too slowly, with
its frequent f1ashbacks to
childhood, to sustain interest
up to the dramatic denoue-
ment, which is about the only
thing that happens. There
are too many long descriptions
Of places and trivial episodes,
even though they are expertly
done. C. B. ].
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clown business came later, and
he was in many carnivals, cir
cuses, Broadway shows and
Hollywood productions. includ-
ing THE Greatest Show on
Earth"
In my tramp clown charac-
ter" he feels, folks who are
down on their luck, have had
disappointments and have
maybe been pushed around by
circumstances beyond their
control see a caricature of
themselves. BY laughing at
me. they really laugh at them
selves, and realizing they have
done this gives them a sort of
spiritual second wind for going
back into the battle" And it
was P. T. Barnum who re-
marked: Clowns are pegs used
to hang circuses on"
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Books in Review
Evelyn Eoton Explores Our Finol
Journey in Brilliant New Novel
BY Evelyn Eaton. fBobbs- Merrill; So.
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

The ultimate mystery of life
is death. Many an imagina-
tive writer has pondered what
could happen and invented a
way of survival. So Miss
Eaton, a highly competent
novelist. has explored the
theme in a novel which is
sometimes brilliant, and not a
little strange, though always
provocative and worth pur-
suing.
1t may sound paradoxical,
but Miss Eaton has used a
commonplace setting, the sort
of thing others have used, per-
haps often. and yet has come
up with a story of originality.
marked by writing that is
crisply fresh.
Into the Beyond
Her heroine, Martha Deane,
around whom the whole mar
rative moves, finds herself, at
the outset, on a plane flying
over an ocean. She can't re-
member where she is going or
why; pain and lassitude per-
Sist. Others on the plane are
dim figures who do not
emerge as personalities. 1t
soon becomes clear that
Martha is dead and it is not
long before she, too, realizes it.
Martha has had unwavering
faith in survival; she is sur
prised only at the way it is
happening. AS she droWses
above the neutral sea scenes
out of her life flow back. Many
of these flaShbacks center
around her husband Michael,
an artist who gave up paint
ing to become a photographer.
She was deeply in love with
him. But why. in the midst of
what she thought of as their
idyllic days in Paris, had he
killed himself? He left no ex-
planation. No one would tell
her now.
There was the daughter born
after Michael'S death-Deb-
by, now grown and herself
married. Then Martha re-
called the stolid, good, unim-
aginative WidoWer she almost
married years ago, so Debby
would have a father, a STEP
brother and a stepsister. She
remembered how she turned
away from Crosby, how she
met Give, who was "unhap-
PLY married" Her affair with
Give, who wouldn't or couldn't
get divorce, lasted into World
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Strotford Benefit

primarily American" a
loan exhibition of several hun
dred historic objects in many
categories, will open next We'd
neSday for one week, at the
Textile Museum. 1920 S street
NV. It has been assembled
and is being shown for the
benefit of Stratford Hall, an
cient home of the Lees in
Westmoreland County, Va, to
which will be devoted all ad-
mission proceeds. Through
the courtesy of George Hewitt
Myers, founder and director of
the Textile Museum, it will be
open from 10 am. to 8 pm.
each day.
The major interest of the
exhibition is historic, but it
also has esthetic aspects, as it
will include examples of the
fine and decorative arts, as
we'll as manuscripts and let
ters. These heirlooms of the
17th through 10th centuries.
some of which will be shown
publicly for the first time,
have been lent by private own
ers and institutions in Wash
ington and elsewhere. Interest
OF the exhibits has been
heightened by the informative
labels prepared by Katherine
McCook Knox, chairman of
the exhibition. who has in
cluded biographical and his
torical data as well as infor-
nation about artists and
names of lenders
Besides the famous portraits
Of Lees mentioned in The Star
March "a, there are many
others, among them John
Vanderlyn's portrait of Theo-
dosia Burr, Robert Fultons
portrait of Joel Barlow, one of
John Stuart Skinner CU. S.
Navy, War of 1922 by Joseph
Wood. and an embroidered
portrait of Washington by Ell
Evening star., 1954-04-04

rapherS agree.
Richly embroidered as one
of Lucrezia's elaborate gowns,
Signora Bellonci's study (flrst
published in Italy in 1939) is
a work of sumptuous scholar
ship. It is also something of a
defense of Lucrezia, whom the
author sees as more sinned
against than SHINING. Her
tactic of ignoring what was
going on around her is a form
of woman's instructive self
defense which though es-
capiSt in a way, also has
pathos and courage" Miss
Haslip takes no such charitable
view. She regards the thrice
married Lucrezia who, con-
temporary gossip said. was the
mistress of both her father
and her brother, as a true
Borgia-arrogant and ruthless
as the rest of her family.
Both biographers show the
Borgias' enormous mutual re-
gard. Alexander vi was one
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Beauty of Nature

Confronted with ever in
creasing numbers of abstrac-
tions, objective and ex-
pressionistic paintings in con-
temporary exhibitions, the
layman doubtless finds gallery
going a trifle boresome or
monotonous at times. Con-
sequently. the frankly rep
resentational' oil paintings by
Garnett w. Jex in the Arts
Clubs gallery through April
16 should be a welcome in
terlude to many visitors.
Mr.. Jex, now serving his
second term as president OF
the Society of Federal Art
lists and Designers, and also a
member Of the Arts and Land
scape Clubs and the Society
of Washington Artists, is a
Washington area artist well
known here. who has long
been an exhibitor in local
group and one-man shows. He
received his M. A. from George
Washington University, his
"thesis" being a large paint
ing which hangs in the uni
versity library.
Mr.. Jex's current show of 20
oil paintings has landscapes of
nearby Virginia, some with old
buildings. including a Water
ford Inn, an ancient Q794
mill. a glimpse of Harpers
Ferry, and other buildings with
incidental figures. He paints
in all seasons, and always with
an eye to pictorial beauty,
whether at home or abroad,
for in the show there are
equally pleasing glimpses of
Quebec (new and old towns,
Evening star., 1954-04-04
History of Japan
BY Saburo Ionaga.
Japan Trauel Bureau: So

This interesting and we'll
translated history is Volume
Is in the Tourist Library Sc
ries which is designed to give
visitors and students q better
idea of the background and
customs Of the Japanese peo-
pie. The library was started in
1884 by the Board of Tourist
Industry and transferred to
the Japan Travel Bureau ia
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Puperbucks

A current roundup OF recent
choice entries in the croWded
pGper-bound book field.
REPRINTS
The Pocket Book Of Modern Verse.
Edited by oscar Williams. pocket
Books; 50c.) An absolutely first-
class anthology of the pick of the
poets from Whitman to Dylan
Winston Churchill. BY Robert Lewis
Taylor. Pocket Books; 35c.) A
sprightly study of a great man by
q sifted New Yorker Writer.
1919. BY John Dos Passos. tPocke
Books: 35c.) Period piece about q
previous postwar generation.
The Silver Chalice. BY Thomas B.
Costain. (Permabooks; 50c.l Mas
sive story centered on the chalice
of the Last Supper by one of our
most popular historical novelists.
A DOGS Head. BY Jean Dutourd.
Lion Books; 25c.D The jacket says
wonderfully naughty Actually,
it's a dry, Gallo satire about pres
ent-day society as seen by q human
with a canine head.
Night Shift. BY Martha wolff. tNey
American Library: 50c) A smash
ing realistic novel by q talented
young writer.
Evening star., 1954-04-04

of the most unsuitably doting
fathers on record. Miss Haslip
feels that Lucrezia's passion
for her brothers and father
was the ruling one of her life.
Signora Bellonci shows Lu-
crezia to be many sided, and
takes into account her sub
ject's interest in the humani-
ties flourishing during the
Renaissance, and a spirituality
that dWelt with Borgian SEN
suality.
CeSare Borgia-to read about
whom is to make all but the
most depraved feel virtuous-
tends to overShadow Miss Has
Evening star., 1954-04-04

War II, until the day she was
to leave. a war photographer.
on q tour around the world.
Souvenirs of Life
Martha has climbed out OF
the plane and discovered a sue
cession of rooms containing all
the possessions, all the souve-
Mrs of her life. A voice is ask
ing her questions. How did she
know Gives wife was a mean,
selfish woman? Well, she knew
because well, the woman
must have been. But had Mar
tia ever seen her? And how,
says the voice, which might
well have been Martia's con-
science. did she know Give
was not merely selfish? She
didn't, she had to admit.
The author has deliberate
ly used the plane and other
ultramodern devices to con-
vey her meaning. More than
once she mentions Outward
Bound" play in which the
characters, aboard ship, real
lied they were no longer alive.
AT one stage of Flight" Mar
tia sees a movie consisting of
distorted scenes from her life.
She even has a glimpse of her
funeral. Miss Eaton seems to
have used the ordinary, the
everyday props to convey her
feeling that you go on seeing
the familiar, at least for a
while.
The treatment is never triv-
lal or casual. There is a
sense of fear. of awe, of hope
and hopelessness, of reaching
out for God and fright of be-
ing cast aside-all at once.
There is drama and pathos in
the picture, now and then a
passage less clear, more vague.
To realize how ably Miss Ea-
ton has managed a difficult
theme you must read the book,
which I recommend that you
do.
Miss Eaton was born in
Switzerland and educated in
England and France. She
started with modern novels,
then became more widely
known for several historical
novels, such as Quietly NV
Captain Waits" which were
generally regarded as unusu-
ally we'll done. Flight" is a
decided departure. At present
she is visiting lecturer in Gre
ative writing at SWeetbriar
College in Virginia.
Evening star., 1954-04-04
News
Jameson Show
At Corcorun
By Florence S. Berrymon

mitchell JamleSonS one
man exhibition at the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art (men-
toned briefly here just after
it opened) is composed of
work noticeably different from
what he was doing in the mid
'40s. AS he has shown his
work frequently in one-man
and. group exhibitions here
and elsewhere. local gallery
goers have been able to fol-
low his development from
year to year. A year ago, he
had his f1rF+ one-man show in
New York City at the May
nard Walker Gallery. Most
OF the II paintings in that dis
play are among the "a in his
current exhibition at the Cor
scoran-works in oil and en-
caustic, water color and on
scratchboard.
Mr.. Jameson is more irnag-
NATIVE, more poetic. more ex-
perimental. and much less
colorful than he was seven
or eight years ago. He has
also moved far away from his
representational approach of
that time. Dominant themes
in the present show are the
rock and the shell-symboliz-
ing reason and inspiration,
which he explains persuasively
in some of the panels set up
around the gallery. Visitors
will find these interesting.
One series gives biographical
data about MI. Jameson, in
cluding long lists of his exhi-
bitions, awards and achieve
ments: another argues the
similarities of painter and fish,
erman.
Naval Combot Artist
Mr.. Jameson is engrossed
in the ocean. AS one of the
naval combat artists during
World War II, he spent a lot
of time at sea. and he has OBJ
viously been meditating about
its more mystical aspects. Not
for him such obvious maritime
subjects as those Homer
painted. or those of today's
extrovert artists rejoicing in
bright harbor scenes, sailing
vessels or sunbathers getting
happily blistered on color
streWn beaches. Mr.. jamie
son has dredged up shells of
different marine inhabitants.
and has seen figures in their
intricate convolutions. Six or
more paintings are accom-
panied by the actual shells
which inspired them.
Besides these, there are
paintings in the show filed
with swarms of human figures.
as in visions of Judgment day
by masters of the 18th and
17th centuries. There are
poetic flower studies c'Water
Lilies at Dusk"), the horrors of
war cBurning of st. Malo'O,
a dark, gloomy italian land
scape, and his most re-
cent work, completed shortly
before the show opened, the
oil. "Crucible," a panel about 6
by IL feet, a balanced COM
position of transparent figures.
branches and what appear to
be veins. Leavening all these
somber works are a few light
hearted paintings. such as
"Pasquale's Vision" "a little
boy making chalk drawings on
the sidewalk.
This exhibition will remain
through Easter Sunday.
Evening star., 1954-04-04
eviewed BY Richord FykIund

Mr.. Buckley and Mr.. Bozell
have written a book which
certainly will become the bible
of the pro-McCarthy element
in this country. The book has
been arduously researched and
skillfully written. 1t is critical
of the Wisconsin Senator as
we'll as complimentary. And
it contains a positive program.
while leaving out most of the
usual vituperation.
Evening star., 1954-04-04

all the comforts her religion
could provide. Her defense of
Lucrezia is more provocative
than convincing, but extremely
worthwhile.
Both stories abound, as did
the period, in masked strang-
ers. stabbings. trysts, betray-
ais, pageants. debauchery.
revels and poisonings-all cal
culated to keep the reader en-
thralled and perhaps thankful
to live in a less colorful age.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1954-04-04


This is a salty funeral ora
ton on Mr.. Fowler's lusty little
circle of friends, which in
cluded John Barrymore, w. c.
Fields. Artist John Decker and
critic c-cadger Sadakichi Hart
mann, a self-proclaimed gen.
ius. He acknowledges they
would not be to every ones
taste, but Il needed no pre-
text to like these men, nor
they me-" AS for their weird
doings-their heroic bouts with
the bottle, their gusty gags.
their strange preparations to
confront the Man in the
Bright Nightgown Fields
name for death)-he regards
Evening star., 1954-04-04

The anti McC Carthy element
could concede all these virtues
to the Buckley -Bozell book,
but at the same time could
and doubtless will--disagree
vigorously with the authors
estimate of Senator Mccarthy
and with their recommended
: cleanup program. Senator
McCarthy's critics will say the
book is unnaturally forgiving
Of the listed Mccarthy trans
gressionS: and they will say
the books security program is
an un-American nightmare.
The Primo Focie Cose
This. in brief. is the books
case for Senator Mccarthy:
The Senator from the very
first did not set out to prove"
certain Government employees
were Communists or pro-
Communists. He merely at
tempted to establish a prima-
facie case that there were pro-
Communists in the Govern
ment, a case strong enough
only to spark a thorough
Congre ssional investigation
and to pressure the executive
department into improving its
security program.
In setting out to make this
prima-facie case, the book
continues, Senator Mccarthy
frequently 'overstated" his
facts. But he did establish
reasonable doubt about the eff
f1ciency of the existing securi-
ty program.
In Offering their own alter
native security program, Mr..
Buckley and Mr.. Bozell start
with this premise: Communist
inf1ltration into the govern
.ment is a danger such as this
country has never before faced.
Drastic methods are needed to
combat it. Specifically. the Sc
curity program should junk
such legalistic trappings as
presumption of innocence, the
right to face ones accusers,
the right, in fact, to q. day in
court at all for the accused"
Each government depart
ment, the book maintains.
should fire summarily any per-
son about whom there is reas-
enable doubt of loyalty, Sc
curity (the drunks, homo
sexuals, loud takers, etc. or
doubt even of their devotion to
the policies of the party in
power. (Out, in other words,
go the Democrats).
To Men of Good Will
Having presented its case for
Senator Mccarthy and for a
new security program, the
book closes with these words:
LAS long as McCarthyisIn fixes
it's goal with its present pre-
cision, it is a movement around
which men of good will and
stern morality can close
ranks"
But despite the book, there
doubtless will be anti-Com-
munist persons of good will
and stern morality who will
view the Junior Senator from
Wisconsin as not quite the
proper person to lead their
crusade.
What might be used as a
basic fact book by the anti
Mccarthy element has been
published as a special issue of
THE Progressive" (the old La
Toilette magazine). The 100
page statement of charges goes
into detail on the many Nc
Carthy transgressions which
his opponents love to cite.
Evening star., 1954-04-04

them approvingly. His only
qualification: Each one in his
own fashion had lived too
much in conflict with his God
given talents, as we'll as
against the world of thou
shalt-not."
Lions share of the book goes
to Sadakichi Hartmann, a
japanese German drifter-
grifter whose charm Mr.. Fowl
er does not succeed in con-
veying to this reader anyway.
Minutes of the Last Meet
ing" seems like gleanings from
some Of the authors better
books.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-04-04

BY Emmett Kelly with F. Beverly Kelley.
prentice Hail.. $685.


(Prentice-HdH;; $685.
Beyond much question, EN-
NETT Kelly is the most famous
clown of the day. His imper-
sonation of the sad hobo who
always gets the worst of every
thing, is thwarted in whatever
he tries. will be forgotten by
few of the millions who have
seen him in the Ringing
Brothers & Barnum & Bailey
circus.
His life is a story worth
telling and he has squeezed the
most colorful episodes out of
it. His father was a railroad
section hand thrifty enough to
buy a farm. Emmett was
brought up on this farm in
the Ozark country of Missouri.
AS a boy he could draw quite
we'll and his first ambition was
to be a cartooniSt. In fact, he
sat down one day, years later.
after he already was in the
show business, and drew out
of his head the likeness of the
put-upon tramp who was to
bring him eminence.
Emmett started out in the
circus world in an aerial act
with his first wife, Eva. The
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Mystery
and
Suspense
By Miriom Ottenberq

Three for the Money. BY
ia mes McConnaughey.
(William Sloan Associates;
$2.75)
Police had just about enough
evidence to pull in Hal Pryor
for the murder of his wife.
But Pryor, convinced his small
stepson's life was in jeopardy
if he went to Jail. fled with
the boy. Thus begins the story
of a hunted man determined
to do some hunting on his
own, despite the handicap of
q child who didn't totally
trust him. This one can be
recommended without reser-
vation for high-tension ac-
action.
Sound an Alarm. BY Gene
We've Holden. doubleday 6S
Co.; $2.75J
Carol, aged 5, was the light
Of her grandfather's life and
heir to his large estate. Then
Carol disappeared and her
abductors were found dead,
but where was Carol? Various
relatives who would inherit if
Carol didn't are suspect and
assorted backwoods types act
suspiciously. It's a puzzle for
the child's pretty governess
and several personable sleuths.