davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-20

ant on the support of the mer- chants of Kodiak and of the people themselves. Every CO operation was extended when ever we asked for it. The Elks Club wound up with most or their games material being borrowed. Al Miller gave us everything but his socks and would probably have donated those had we asked. Curly Wilson called Bingo game un- til he was hoarse and did an awfully fine job at it. Student mothers donated the food tor the buffet luncheon, and the merchants not only gaveprizes or cash but then gave us a knockdown on most every thing we bought. The Kojak Kats, Dave Lenhart,, ,SkipFlet. cher, and Russell Gallagher. contributed their musical tal- ents for the evening.
 The gross of the carnival was $2125. 70, which is lot of money for a one night affair. Bills are still being tabulated so its impossible as yet to de-. termine how much of this is profit, but it should be some where near $500.
 Last and certainly not least, it takes people to run a carni- val and to build the booths. These people were the stud ents, and they did a wonder full job. Maybe we are biased up here on the hill. but we think we've got a pretty good bunch of kids. We only hope that the people of Kodiak a. gree with us. Thanks for sup
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-20

and students seemed to enjoy themselves. and the financial returns were very gratifying.
 As with any carnival, the success of the high schools carnival was directly depend
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-20
Cutfew Not Acted On

The curfew ordinance was not acted upon at the last. Council meetsng but was re- fferred to Committee for fur ther discussion.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-20
School Notes

The Kodiak High School Carnival was held the 18th of November in the school build- Ing. A large crowd of parents
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-20

porting our carnival and drop in to see us whenever you want.
 Jean Phillips
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
A Dictionary of
Ballet Terms

BY Leo HERSHEY and Janet
Sinclair, with drawings by
Peter Revitt.
(Pitmdn; $2.75.J
AS the current season adj
vances. with the usual num-
Der zone hopes of ballet pro-
grams in the offing, Washing
ton balletomanes may want to
brush up on steps, positions
and terms, if they know them,
and learn some, if they don't.
1t is perfectly possible to en-
joy something with no knowl-
edge of it whatsoever. But
those to whom rocks are rocks,
birds are birds, flowers are
flowers. can hardly appreciate
the subtleties and nuances APP
pretended by biologists. orni-
biologists, botanists, etc.
Those who do not know the
difference between an en-
trechat and pas de deux, can
easily find out from this little
handbook which describes in
non-technical language all
but the most obscure terms
used in ballet. More than 100
line drawings in the text
clarity steps and positions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
The Magnificent Bostords


BY Lucy Herndon Crockett.
(FGrrGr, StrduS & Young;
$500
This Is the story of a mis-
matched couple and a frantic,
degrading wartime love affair
in the South Pacific islands.
It is also an unsparing picture
of the havoc wrought among
troops by the presence of a
few women in the wholly mas
culine world of combat. It is
also an indictment of service
proud Marines for whom the
corps takes the place of honor,
religion and decency itself.
Miss Crockett served as a
Red Cross major in the Pacific
for five years. She plainly
knows whereof she speaks. If
she overwriteS a good deal in
describing the romance of gen.
tie Lee Ashley with brutal
Colin Black, she does bring
home the atmosphere of those
benighted islands. There Lee
and her workers, mildly dis
pensing coffee and doughnuts
and wholesome good cheer,
are "the target every second
of the most hopeless. helpless
desire, of the foulest, frustra-
tion-born obscenity." Not q
pretty picture, at all, but a
convincing one.-M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
The American President
BY Sidney LYMAN Harper & Bros; 81
Reviewed BY Richord ErykIund

tell how a President gets his
way over opposition. The
Constitution tells the President
to be the executive officer, but
does not tell him how to ham
die Congressman who usurp
the job.
The Presidents of both par
ties who are admired for the
way they handled their jobs
are men who have been ar
fists" in the use of all their
powers-their stated constitu-
tional powers, implied powers,
political powers and the pow
ers inherent in an Office re-
spected by the people. To that
list President Eisenhower can
add another-the power of his
tremendous popularity.
The trick in becoming a
strong Chief Executive. Mr..
President, is in using all your
powers, vigorously, skillfully.
"artistically."
Other Presidents have done
it. Mr.. Hyman has done a
service by explaining how.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

The Tanning of Carney Wilde.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.; $2.75)
Wounded by a bank employee
turned thief. Private Detec-
tive Wilde comes out of hos
pital committed to track down
the homicidal thief or lose his
biggest account. The thief had
made a reservation on a Mis-
sissippi River boat but a beau
tiful girl now occupies that
cabin. Could she be an accom-
plice? Plagued by love, suspi-
cion and total confusion as the
paddlewheeler cruises toward
Mardi Gras, Wilde energies as
a likable and far-from- omni-
scient human being. A well-de-
veloped plot and the river boat
setting combine to make this
a satisfying nights reading.
Death of an Ad Man. BY
Alfred Eichler. (Abelard-
Schuman, Inc; $2.50.)
The author, an advertising
copy writer himself, focuses
on the ulcer-breeding angle
of business in this tale of an
advertising agency magnate
stabbed fatally with copy scis-
sors. The lesser employe who
inherits the business also does
the sleuthing. Compromising
for the exaggerated and stock
characterizations is the novel
use Of advertising theories to
analyse both personalities and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

BY Theodor Plievier. Doubleday; $685.

THE thermometer fell from
"a to 40, then to 48 degrees
below zero. The foam froze
on the horses mouths. The
soldiers breath formed a hard
crust of ice on their coat COL
lars and balaclavas. Crows,
frozen to death. fell out of the
sky. A new day broke,
the sky cleaned with flashing
needles Of ice. The next day
brought a snowstorm, sweeping
horizontally over the ground,
drifting as high as the houses.
Then came more storms with
winds Of hurricane force, there
were no more fields, no woods,
no roads, no deep-cut water
courses, no frozen streams
nothing but snow lying or
drifting or blowing in violent
gusts"
Thus the German novelist,
Theodor Plievier. pictures the
scene as the Germans fell back
in the winter Of 1941 from the
outskirts Of Moscow before the
onslaught Of white-clad wraiths
Of Russian troops from the
Far East, reinforced by the
dreadful cold. It was the re-
gion where Napoleon failed in
1912 and where, before him,
Charles XII Of Sweden saw his
army broken.
The author Of "Stalingrad"
has written another almost
unbearably vivid panoramic
narrative Of war. The Ger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Books in Review
Louis BromfieId Has q Solution
For the Troubles of Our Times
A New Pottern for a Tired World
BY Louis Bromfield. (Aarper: $3.75J
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones

. corporations by few persons.
in striking contrast to the
American system in which
thousands of stockholders,
many of them little investors,
own a company. Whereas the
American system means wide
spread distribution of cor
porate wealth in wages and
dividends. the European plan
often means restriction of
profits to a narrow coterie and
the continuance of a starva-
ton wage. Thus, Mr.. Brom-
field maintains. much of the
money we have poured into
Europe to avert communism
has helped the wealthy and
done nothing for the impover-
ished we wanted to help.
The Ideal Plan
Reform. if it comes about,
he says, will be inevitably
toward the Incorporation of
the European nations into
larger and larger cooperative
economic units. The ideal,
for the nations and people of
Europe, would be the eventual
formation of a large and rich
state federated, at least eco
nomically, and centered about
the heartland of the geopoliti-
Clans"
The day Of old-fashioned
colonialiSm 'and imperialism
is over. he insists. 1T no
longer exists nor can exist
save for a limited time within
the borders of Soviet Russia's
precariouS, troubled and RAM
shackle imperialist state" The
future of the world. he be-
lieves. will be based on CO.
operation between the great
and the small nations in
dividing resources.
He distrusts and fears the
aScendancy of the military in
the United States. the con-
tinued CONSUMPTION of our
youth and plans for an atomic
war even in the name of de-
tense.
1T is curious" Mr.. Brom-
field writes. that all the
Utopians, all the eggheads,
all the false liberals confuse
freedom and civilization with
plumbing. They would buy
democracy and friendship.
They would impose freedom
and dignity by armed force"
To whatever extent you
agree with Mr.. Bromfield's
premises and conclusions, his
book is stimulating and inter-
esting. His views are worth
examining.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Mystery and Suspense
By Miriam Gutenberg

motivations. The amateur
sleuth seeks in murder the
same new twist" he would
look for to sell a brand of
breakfast food.
The Better to Eat You. BY
Charlotte Armstrong. Cow
ward-McCann, Inc: $2.750
The perils of Pauline are as
nothing to the perils suffered
by this damsel in distress. She
thinks she's a Jonah because
something terrible happens to
everybody around her. Then,
she's sure her true love will
perish. And, finally, she's the
intended victim in four differ
ent traps.
Death Rides a Painted Horse.
BY Robert Patrick Wilmot
81. B. Lippincott g. Co.;
$2.50.)
Here's a hard-hitting yarn,
economic in its prose and
knowledgeable in the ways of
crime and carnival life. Steve
Considine, the sleuth, goes to
work reluctantly for a big shot
he doesn't trust in a suicidal
setup. He is shot at, tangles
with a blowzy blond, wrestles
with a mammoth carnie and
loses his gun when he needs
1t most. You won't 60 to sleep
over this one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

man advance to the very
shadows of the Kremlin, to be
shattered by fresh Russian
troops riding the billiards, he
describes in Dantean detail.
We see how it looked to both
sides. first to German officers
and enlisted men, then, at
greater length. to Russians,
soldiers and civilians. The
Russian Army was saddled at
the outbreak of the war with
a burden Of political spies,
NKVD officers and secret OBJ
servers. The supply system
was in chaos, and because
units. out of ammunition, had
to fall back some of the
bravest and most able gen.
erals and line officers were
condemned and shot by order
Of the Kremlin. But the story
is no defense OF the Germans.
The more perceptive invaders
are shown realizing that the
psychopathic ambitions of
Hitler have sent them to q
futile and terrible fate.
AS a novel Moscow" Is so
episode and filled with so
many characters that the mar
rative Is diffuse and blurred.
But as an unsparing picture
Of the fighting and it's at
tendant tragedies nothing
more impressive has come out
of the great war. The transla-
ton Is by Stuart Hood.
&C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

Mr.. Brooks brief personal
history is like his famed liter
airy histories. That is to say.
1t Is family elegiac. told In
long, winding sentences. and
with loving emphasis on at
mosphere and minor charac-
tiers. Actually 1t is quite i'm
personal. for he tells more
about his friends than about
himself. and while he devotes
pages to a sketch Of the head
mistress of a seminary. he
does not so much as. mention
the name of his wife.
The author of 1.-THE Flower
ing of New England" grew up
in Plainfield, N. j., to which
plain name he was reconciled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
Children of the Wind
BY Burgess Drake. (Linnincott. S350l

deprived Of them before they
were ready to come into the
world. The boy, Trixie, tells
the story. The twins. though,
come to be more than the
dream of their Mamma" as
they call her, for others in the
great English country house
have hints that they are fitting
about it playing pranks and
there is talk of a poltergeist-
poultry geese" the servants
call it. Through Trixie we
come to know his mother"
and to learn Of her unhappy
marriage to a famous man. a
cabinet minister; her discern
ing and self-sufncient mother;
the retired brigadier who once
loved the old lady: his grand
son, a promising artist, the
vicar next door, several others.
The story happily escapes
archness and preciosity. It is,
indeed, written with beauty and
rare understandings. B. j.
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Company Manners
BY Louis Kronenberger
(BobbS-MerriH;: 49,

In his memoir, Mr.. Brooks
speaks of Americans as being
hungry for punishment" This
book is but another testament
of that unique appetite for self
criticism that seems to Turk in
all of us. Surely, in spite of all
the harsh things Mr.. Kronen-
berger makes, that is at least
a hopeful sign.
Times theater critic, as a
critic Of his time. sees this as
the age of publicity and the
age of the psychonalyst, "all
signposts and no destination.
We go on hinges with beauty
because it is no part of our
daily life" And. speaking of
our much-vaunted ingenuity,
"A nation that can so marvel
ouSly concoct must less and less
feel any need to create"
Unodventurous
Mr.. Kronberger puts a
Ratchet through the television
set, and applies fire to the
soles Of the feet of this genera
tons young - Tipped
snobs and name choppers. .
"depressingly unadventurous."
To him. the worst thing about
these joyless youths is that
they don't sell out; they are
exultant volunteers" They are,
moreover. coarse grained, in
trusive and insensible. He
much prefers the happy ne'er-
do-wellS of the '20s.
Mr.. Kronenberger, trying to
roll the apple of discord, over
states his case in a great many
particulars. He takes violent
exception to the Great Books"
course, which he calls almost
braZenly inhuman." think
any project which sets people
to reading Aristotle and Dante
may do them good, no matter
what the motive may be. His
chief objection is that we ov-
erdo everything.
I think the same complaint
can be made of him.
M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

AS President Eisenhower
ponders the problem Of Sena-
tor Mccarthy between chip
shots. he might be comforted
to know that 80 other Presi-
dents have had their "McCar-
thy problems" and that the
adroit Presidents among them
have been able to overcome
such obstacles. Persons who
want to know how they did it
would do well to read Mr..
Hyman's book.
Mr.. Lyman has made a
study of the presidency as it
really has been, not just as it
is outlined briefly in the Con-
stitution or as it is pictured
in the minds of some power
hungry men on Capitol Hill.
A worker in both branches of
the Government and q serious
student of the presidency. MIR.
LYMAN has done an authorita-
tive job.
The portions Of the book
that should interest Gen.
Eisenhower are those which
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State" referred to the attitude
of the natives to the summer
people," The Whites were
firmly ostracized by the locals,
talked at. but never befriended.
But they stayed on, making
mail-order furniture in winter
and running a boathouse in
summer. Through it all, moth
ing drippeG on them, which
means they were not dashed to
a routine.
At every turn in their lives,
Boris was reminded of some
bizarre adventure of his youth
his tour as a Strychnine
salesman. or as captain of a
large fleet of desert-going
taxis. A very engaging fellow,
this Boris, and the book is en-
gaging, too. AS an idyn of
middle-aged pioneering in the
challenging and Self-Sufficient
life it is most pleasant.
M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07
The Test of Freedom

To ancient seafarers one of
the worst stretches of water
was the Strait of Messina. be-
tween Italy and Sicily. On one
hand stood the rock Scylla. on
the other the whirlpool
Charybdis. It took a good nav
igator to avoid the two and
steer his craft to safety.
According to Mr.. Thomas, to-
days Scylla is communism.
today's Charybdis, Mccarthy
ism. The salvation of the
world. he holds, cannot come
from either. but the destruc-
ton of the world could.
In sternly rejecting both
McCarthyism and communism
in the world struggle. Mr..
Thomas charts for himself a
middle path. He deplores on
the one hand apparent
thought control tendencies
from the right, and on the
other the criminality and ap-
parent lack Of courage of those
on the left.
AS an old-time radical, Mr..
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It includes an early Rouoault,
Nude" 1907, dark and mono
chromatic. in contrast to the
rich, stained-glass colors of
his later works, seen at the
Phillips Gallery. Kirchner's
Lady in the Park" a sinister
creature, Klee's "Moonlit Land
scape." and other works. are
seen publicly in Washington
for the first time.
] like best Beckmann's "Val-
kyrie," a strong Interpretation
of the theme. which was also
in a Corcoran biennial; Mil
ton Avery's Lemons" starkly
simple. several yellows in fiat
color areas, producing a blaze
Of gold; Feininger's little wat
er color, Street Lights of
Paris" and Robert Gates
"Moonlit Window"
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Cartoons

Three weeks. remain to see
the exhibition of drawings and
water colors by Saul Steinberg
in the Institute of Contem-
porary Arts room at the Cor
coran Gallery. Mr.. Steinberg's
show has already drawn in
terested crowds of admirers.
This internationally famous
cartooniSt'S work is familiar
from reproduction in the New
Yorker and other publications.
Such is the character of his
work that it seems to arouse
either great enthusiasm or
abysmal boredom. I find his
multiplicity of detail weari-
some. Some of us roam men
tally through each of his ba-
rogue drawings, searching out
subtletieS and nuanceS of Carl
cature and satire and very
often they do not seem suffi-
GENTLY rewarding for the time
and effort involved.
His thumb-print birds and
cats strike me as among the
cleverest items in the show.
while the certificates" pre-
sumably satirizing the preten-
tious diplomas, ETC.. hanging
in professional peoples offices,
have a preciosity not worth the
trouble of studying them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

when he realized Tolstoy's
"Yasnaya Polyana" meant the
same. 1t was a stable, ritual
istic world, which comes back
to him "as pageant Of Anglo
American fiction" America was
then still. and was for years to
be. a literary dependency Of
England. Young Van Wyck,
taken early to Europe, devel-
oped a preoccupation with the
old world that did not end
until the outbreak of the first
World War, when "the f1ddles
were tuning up" for the great
literary revival Of the '2Os.
For many years obsessed
with Italian art-he thought
first of becoming an art critic
he lived in a dream of medi-
eval Italian catholicism. He
went to Harvard because it
was a literary stronghold, and
he meant always to be a writer.
1t was the Harvard Of Santa
yana, with his feline estheti-
cism." Of Charles Eliot Norton
with his evenings Of Dante,
and of Barrett Wendell, who
thought the world had been
going steadily to the dogs since
the time of Dante.
Immediately upon gradua-
ton. in company with a num-
Der of compatriots who found
America uniquely repellent,"
not to say "detestable, barren,
sordid." he headed back to
Europe. where he did hack
work in a London that was one
great literary shrine to him.
He wrote a book about Amer
lea: Where so many were
prosperous, why were so few
happy?", In New York he took
refuge in the company of the
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Argentine Portraits

An exhibition of portraits by
the Argentine artist. Ana
Maria Rojo Oliver, was opened
last Monday at the Pan Amer
lean Union. under auspices Of
the Argentine delegation to the
Organization of America n
States. It will remain only
through next Wednesday.
Senorita Rojo, born in
Buenos Aires, was interested
in art from childhood. She
has made a speciality of por-
traits, and one She did of
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Ignacio Baz. an outstanding
Argentine painter of the mid
10th century (alSo one of her
ancestors). was acquired by the
National Museum of Tucuman.
Her collection of some 20
portraits in charcoal and red
chalk, at the Pan American
Union, includes a number re-
Gently completed in Washing
ton. Three young women Of
the Argentine Embassy. Sonora
Alvarez Spencer and Sonora
Monti, wives of the Military
and Assistant Military At
tacheS; Sonora Percaz and
Senorita Esther Zavaleta Of
Argentina, a friend of the por-
traitist, were present at the
opening of the exhibition, af-
fording other guests a demon
stration of the closeness Of
the artists likenesses. All the
portraits are executed with
polished competence.
Senorita Rojo had solo ex-
hibitions in Buenos Aires in
.1948 and 1850. She is one of
the youngest painters in her
country who has achieved rec
ignition in the past decade.
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Burgess Group

Paintings and drawings by
Marguerite Burgess are cur
rently being shown as a small
solo exhibition, at the Artists
Mart, 1861 Wisconsin avenue,
through Wednesday. The Mart
recently inaugurated a new
service of renting paintings
and sculptures for those who
wish to try out works of art
in their homes and gardens.
Moderate rental fees may be
applied to the purchase price
if the renter becomes attached
to the work.
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Artist and Subject

1.-THE Negro in Western Art"
a panorama of more than five
centuries. is on view at How
ard University's art gallery
through, Wednesday. Next
three days, open 10 to 81. As
sembled by James A. Porter,
head of Towards art depart
ment, and Albert j. Carter, GU
rator of the gallery, the show
is composed of loans from six
institutions, including our Ma
"tional Gallery of Art. and an
equal number Of private col
lections.
This interesting and inform
alive exhibition comprises over
20 oil paintings, nearly as
many original prints on the
walls and some so engravings
and other prints. water colors,
miniatures and photographs of
paintings in 13 cases. The visi-
tor derives a comprehensive
impression of the representa-
ton of Negroes in Europe and
the Americas as seen by white
and Negro artists. in portrait,
illustration, genre and religi-
Gus subjects, such as "Adora-
ton of the Magi." original
woodcuts by Albrecht Duer and
Lucas van Leyden. In many
old-master paintings and
prints, one of the three kings
is a Negro.
The original oils range from
an early 10th century figure
painting, mid-19th century
portraits by William Simpson,
Henry 0. Tanners beguiling
Banjo Lesson" dent by Hamp-
ton Instituted, to works by
contemporary painters, among
them Lois M. Jones and Prof.
Porter of Towards art faculty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-07

seeing the wisdom of Santa
yana's dictum that "all ma
tionalitieS are better at home"
He took his side by the great
American writer's who spoke
"for a democratic socialized
world with a humanist philos-
ophy based on the positive ele-
mentS of all religions"
The book ends there. But
the argument on Europe versus
America does not. I wonder
what Mr.. Brooks thinks of the
great exodus going on again.