davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Weems Debut

Margaret Weems is intro
duced to- Washington in her
first solo exhibition, at the
Whyte Gallery, through June
l. This young artist, brought
up in Annapolis, is the wife
of Comdr. Charles Dodds,
U. S. N. whose naval assign
mentS have taken her all over
the United States. She has
studied art in New England,
California and Florida, and
during the past two years,
back in Annapolis, she has
been attending the Maryland
Institute, Baltimore.
Mrs. Dodds has an unusual
color sense; she paints in a
high key, with blues predom-
inant. Some Of these paint
ings emphasize simple dec
orative patterns, such as
"Oyster Boats, Annapolis"
and Home to Fife" two of her
best. Others have compost
tions with calligraphic details,
either painted or incised. Sew
eral with colorful detail were
inspired by classic antiquity
and the Orient. The vivid
colors of Family Idyll" seem
more In harmony with ancient
Greece than the colorless
vision we have of its monu-
ments bleached white or gray
through the millenia.
A group Of smaller paintings
depict subjects more abstract
ly. Best of these are Flight
From Cottage" and Orchid
Tree"
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Hal Ellison Gives q Clear
Picture of Juvenile Crime

"Rock" is the fourth novel
by Hal Ellison which I've read,
and I don't believe anyone else
is writing so clearly and un-
derstandingly Of adolescents
who get into trouble in our
great cities.
Rock, who tells his own
story, is a 15-year-old colored
boy who lives in one of the
teeming tenements Of Harlem.
He is not by nature a bad boy
perhaps no normal boy is
but there is only his shabby
home, where his drunken
father and his mother often
fight, and the streets. The
boys who become his friends
Evening star., 1955-05-22

DR.. Lin attempts satire, but
he Is rarely witty. Margaret
Meade and Tallulah Bankhead
invade Lin's Utopian island
under assumed names.
Mainly, DR.. Lin is trying to
interest the reader in his
Western-perverted Confucian-
ism. He is massively anti
Christian. Catholics and Epis-
copalians probably will ban
this book.
But DR.. Lin did succeed In
reminding this reviewer in
some pleasant detail that the
best things In life are almost
free.
EARL II. VOSS.
Evening star., 1955-05-22

Streets South" doubleday;
S3.75). a compilation Of the
late novelist's essays on the
region (is it a region or a state
OF mind?) as a whole and on
various components Of 1t.
If you can stand another
war novel, "The Day the Gem
tury Ended" by Francis Irby
Gwaltney (Rinehart; $500 is
one of the most relentleSsly
vivid to come out Of World
War II, though you may have
to hold your nose through
much of it.
If the plight Of adolescent
boys who have nowhere to go
but on mean streets interests
you, you'll want to read
Crock" by Hal Ellison BAL
lantine; hardbound, So; paper
bound, IS cents). This is no
cheaply sensational expose.
but a careful character study
Of youth in Harlem.
The South Is a Puzzle
flames Streets South" has
been edited by his son. James
Street, jr. These scattered
pieces, some of which have
appeared in magazines. take
on a surprisingly homogeneous
quality, as If Mr.. Street had
planned the whole thing as a
book. His reflections have wit
and understanding, If they are
superficial and often gloss
over serious questions.
The writer said he once was
asked for a definition and re-
piled ". a Southerner is a
fellow who doesn't know the
words of Dixie but who wants
to holler when he hears the
tune" If you had to put South
in an anagram, he added, the
word would be controversy"
He explained that "the South
is a puzzle and the key is con-
troversy, beginning with the
fact that there's no agreement
even on exactly where the
South is, much less on what
1t is or how it got that way"
Way Down in Memphis
Baltimore has been de-
scribed as the city where
Northern white folks think
they are down South and
Southern Negroes think they
are up North" But Baltimore
to him feels more of the
South than does Atlanta and
much more than Miami" He
called the all-Southern Deep
South city Memphis.
"It's not" he wrote, that
the South remembers the Civil
War, but, rather, that we
can't forget it. It frowns at
us from a thousand court
house monuments and hauntS
us from q hundred thousand
tombstones. 1t speaks to us
from hotels named for our
generals, from highways named
for our heroes. Its songs jeer
us or cheer us, and its books
smirk at us and call us dull,
brutal schizophrenes or puff
us up as heroic gallants, bow
ing and scraping and honey
chilling all over the place."
Mr.. Gwaltney, who halls
from Arkansas and is au-
thor of a previous novel,
THE Yeller- Headed Summer"
writes of the war in the Pacific
with a blazing realism that, in
some respects, transcends all
the novels Of the sight-and-
smell school, including THE
Naked and the Dead"
"The Day the Century
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Cartoon Exhibitions

The Corcoran Gallery is
showing this month in its
members room, q selection
from its collection Of cartoons
by the late Clifford K. Berry,
man, which he gave to the
gallery at the close Of his
large one-man show there in
1943. Considering the topical
nature Of the daily political
Evening star., 1955-05-22
At Gorden Cote

Washington and Antigua
have furnished inspiration for
most Of the oils and water
colors by Alice Acheson on
view at the Garden Gate, 1880
Wisconsin avenue, George
town, through June. Some are
painted in her familiar SEMI
abstract style, in which the
forms are heavily outlined in
black. Others are executed
without these lines. giving
them a softer, more natural
appearance. All, however,
capture the essence of the
subjects.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
JAMES STREETS HOMELAND
OHbeot Commentary
On the South Today
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

Readers with their widely differing tastes should be able to
under scrutiny this week. with considerable
number finding satisfaction in anotherfor the three
mentioned here little theme treatment
If you'd relish amusing. ofbeat commentary the
South loved it. this is your book James
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Burdened Postmun

Do you wish to be popular
with your postman? Then do
not attempt q collection Of in
ternational contemporary car
toons. The mailman who must
deliver 40 or 50 magazines a
month will not regard you as
an ideal client.
That was the experience Of
Pyke and Lucy johnson, who
have completed such a collec-
ton, to be known as "A Car
toen Treasury" In the process
they got just that much mail
and are just now getting back
on cordial terms with their
heavy-burdened postman.
Mr.. johnson, publicity di-
rector Of Doubleday and Com
pany and his wife, Lucy, who
retired from publishing house
publicity to work on the book,
have finished their job of
assembling 900 cartoons, all
non-political, which show the
universal troubles Of coping
with daily life.
Mr.. johnson. a native Of
Washington. used to edit the
University Of Maryland's hum
orous magazine, THE Old
Line"
Murtin Merson
Now that Newbold Morris
has unburdened himself Of
"reminiscences and grievances
accumulated during a long
career in politics (see review.
another short-term Washing
ton celebrity has stepped up
to be heard. He is Martin
Merson. who had Just in five
and q half disillusioning
months in the Capitol as q
worker IN the State Depart
ment's information program,
when Senator Mccarthy was
in full cry. His book, "The
Private Diary of a Public
Servant" is due next month.
D. c. Library
The District of Columbia
Library Association held its
annual dinner meeting last
Wednesday. The speaker was
Eleanor Estes. distinguished
local author Of children's
books, whose "Ginger Pye" won
the Newbury medal. Mrs.
Evening star., 1955-05-22
READING AND WRITING
The Eggheods Always
Win in the Showdown
BY MARY McGRoRY

Wright the lively director Of the Folger
Library is with another book expoundng
theory hs Tow that the eggheads always eventually win
winning of the west by the so-caed secaled better
element" subject Of Culture the Moving Frontier"
shelf full Of books he has written the general
Evening star., 1955-05-22

subject Of society In motion.
No matter what Hollywood
and the Davy Crockett-ites
give out about the wild from
tier" DR.. Wright believes that
the intellectuals (not, he speci-
fies, with q capital "I") very
early took over.
"The frontier does give an
opportunity to the uninhibited
spirit to become exuberant at
times" DR.. Wright says, "but
the community tends to settle
down rather quickly.
In his book DR.. Wright
traces the transplanting Of
British culture across the con-
tinent, the Anglo-Saxon idea
Of law and Of course Anglo
Saxon literature, "a rich and
gorgeous heritage that has
been a tremendously unifying
force in our society.
In setting forth his theories.
DR.. Wright clashes also with
the followers Of the Frederick
Henry jackson concept, who
believe that the dominating
force in the westward expan-
sion was the great sense Of
liberation that animated the
pioneers.
In the long sweep Of time"
says DR.. Wright. "lawfulness,
sobrety and decency have al
ways won out. I would be
foolhardy to say what the ex-
pansion of our mechanical
society will bring, but anyway
that's the way 1t has been UP
fn Tanuo
Evening star., 1955-05-22

convention Of depicting heads
Is the only popularity; they
are egg-shaped, with staring
eyes. Whether she had a
single model in mind, or
whether this represents fenc-
erS' facial expressions, only
those familiar with the sport
can tell.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
Juvenile Rolling Stock Held
Post Holiday Road Menace

Roller skates, scooter, bikes,
wagons and sleds gladdened the
hearts of many children this
Christmastide, but they can bring
sorrow and tragedy to many
families if the children are not
doubly careful when using their
gifts of rolling stock" on city
streets and suburban roads,
warns the Keystone Automobile
Club.
Motorists should be doubly
watchful for unexpected forays
of children on the streets at this
season." said Harold P. Pierce,
Manager of Keystone Automobile
Clubs Washington Office
youngsters unskilled in. the use
of skates or bikes are an espe-
cial hazard. Their safety will de-
pend in great measure on the
careful operation of motor We
hicles.
parents also must take their
share of responsibility for child
safety. Their duty is to impress
on children the dangers of traffic
burdened streets and to instill in
the youngsters a sense of careful
ness in the use of their gifts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
Palsy Reaches
Third of Must
Goal in County

United Cerebral Palsy of Mont
gomery County, Inc, announces
that well over one-third of their
emergency fund drive goal has
been raised thus far. AS of
Wednesday night, willing and en-
thusiastic helpers poured coins,
bills and checks into receptacles
to the amount of slightly over
$4,000.
Ernest ]. Gill, President, de-
clared that "the splendid work
of our many volunteers from all
over the county was still going
on and that some of the young
people had offered to cover adj
ditional territory when they
learned that many areas are still
unsolicited for lack of sufficient
help in some neighborhoods."
Mr.. Gill also urges the friends
of the cerebral palsied who have
not been contacted and who wish
to give, to mail contributions to
the office at 8212 Fenton Street,
Silver Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
Trustees Give
$4,000 Gifts
To Hospital

More than $4,000 has been sub
scribed by members of the board
of trustees of Suburban Hospital
to the surrent 100000 building
fund program, it was announced
today by Carroll Morgan, hospital
association president.
The subscriptions totaling $751;
600 came from the "a lay mem
bers of the board and their imme-
date families, Morgan said.
Five memorial subscriptions
were included in the group: the
chapel at $4,000, a solarium at
$500, a waiting room at $5,400,
private room at $500, and a
storeroom at $500. Each unit
will be marked with a bronze
plaque as the gift of the donors
Francis w. Hill, Jr., campaign
or in memory of those they wish
to designate.
chairman, and a former president
of the hospital, pointed out that
trustees of the hospital are elect
ed annually by their fellow mem
berS in the association and serve
without compensation of any
sort.
"These splendid example gifts
from the men and women who
are charged with the responsible
ty of administering the hospital
are doubly appreciated" he said,
"since they are in addition to the
many hours freely given by the
board in planning not only for
the daily efficient functioning of
the hospital but also for this vital
expansion program in which we
are now engaged"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
Sandy Spring Neighborhood
SPRING 4-s294

Bachelors Forest Road enter
tanned during the holidays at a
"Glug" party-Glug being a Nor
wegian drink, served hot and
very delicious. Guests included
DR.. and Mrs. ]. w. Bird, DR.. and
Mrs. Charles Lyon, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. B. Thomas ST., Mr.. and Mrs.
r. b. Thomas Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Mahlon Kirk, and several cou-
pies from the city.
Mr.. and Msr. Jack Bentley re-
turned Sunday from spending
Christmas in Linden, N. ]. with
Mrs. Bentley's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elgar Stabler
spent Christmas in North Carol
ina, with two of their married
daughters, Peggy and Anne, and
their families. Daughter Peggy's
two-year-old son kept them
amused and amazed with his
newly acquired vocabulary and
football antics. results of having
enjoyed real game perched on
the shoulders of his dad earlier
in the fall.
oakland, the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert II. Chichester, was
beautifully decorated in greens,
lit by dozens of red candles and
the glow of open fires Thursday
evening when over 100 college
and neighborhood friends danced,
as guests of her son, Gordie
Keys.
Another New Years Eve party
was that of Commander and Mrs.
John Dudley who are living with
DR.. and Mrs. Mark Ziegler while
awaiting the completion of their
new home.
Saturday, Jan. 9Th, in the Sher.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
BY MRS. osBURN srABLER

New Years Eve found parties
large and small in many homes
of the community. The old Boni-
FAINT home was the scene when
Mrs. George Bonifant, her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Bonifant, another son and
daughter-in-law, DR.. and Mrs. De-
ment Bonifant, were joint hosts
to a large group of friends gath
cred to welcome the New Year.
Another group of long time
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon
Kirk, and DR.. and Mrs. j. w.
Bird gathered at the home Of
the Herbert o. Stablers to chat
and greet the New Year. Mrs.
Stabler suffered a broken leg
several weeks ago and we are
happy to learn she is progress
ing nicely.
Sunday night, Jan. 2nd, Mr..
and Mrs. r. b. Thomas Jr., were
hosts at an Egg Nogg party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Judson Meyers
entertained Saturday, Jan. l from
9-12 at delightful breakfast.
The Christmas party of the
&sey Dos Square Dance group
hs held Thursday, Dec. 80 at
fhe Glenmont Recreation Center,
with Maurice Flowers calling.
! Many couples from Sandy
Spring enjoyed the hospitality Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Driver of
Chevy Chase on Sunday night
when they entertained at a buff
fet supper
Also hosts on Sunday evening
were Mr.. and Mrs. Emery c. Nay
Tor who entertained at cocktails
at their home in Colesville.
DR.. and Mrs. Calvin Klopp Of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
Wright of Frederick, Md.

Wight VI L IGucllCh, Nu.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Smith
ard daughters spent Sunday
visiting relatives in Baltimore.
Elaine's mother, Mrs. Virginia
Wilson, formerly of Washington,
D. c., now resides in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Goebel
and daughter, Lynn, of 1916
Gainsboro Road, spent Christ
mas with Mr.. and Mrs. Goebels
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Blendermann of Queens, Long
Island, New York. Guests at the
Goebel home for New Years
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd Wiser
of Wantagh, Long Island, New
York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Herzer of
Arlington, Va, spent Sunday WIS.,
iting at the Randall Aubinoe
home, 2018 Rockland Avenue.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06

''The Christmas sled will be-
come an increasingly serious
problem, as the winter progress
es, and what we have said in fer
erence to bikes and other vehic-
les applies with equal force to
shedding.
1--WE would suggest that police
rope off for use of children little
Travelled streets and highways,
and confine shedding to such
areas. Obviously the situation
presents difficulties, but with CO.
operation of parents the plan is
entirely feasible"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06

wood Community Library at
1890 am. movies for the young
sters will again be offered. Films
to be shown are "Circus Day in
Our Town, "Animals-All
Styles, and "Broncho Busters"
At 500 pm. same date, another
film of interest to teen.agers will
be shown.
The January meeting of the
Womens Auxiliary of Norman
Price Post will be held at the
home of Mrs. Clarence Watkins
in Ashton, Jan. 10th.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
Haines, Fry, Sante Families
Take First Three HonOrs
With Top Home Displays

when she was chosen to light a
candle symbolizing the celebra-
ton of Chanukah at the inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL teenager service
held in the Rockville Presby-
terrain Church.
The Arthur Stukis feted a
group of friends at an eggnog
party at their home on Nc
Auliffe Drive during the holt
days. Enjoying the evening
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Squires, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Settler, Mr.. and Mrs. John My
rick, Colonel and Mrs. Kenneth
Fry, Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Leland
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Crandall.
Another eggnog party for
friends and neighbors was hosted
by the Jerrold Ullmans of Lee
May Road. Mr.. Ullman, by the
way, as chairman of the child
welfare committee of the Rock
vile American Legion Post, was
the inspiration that spanked the
highly successful Christmas
party given by the American
Legion on December 10 for de-
serving children.
One of the happiest family
groups in Twinbrook on Christ
mas weekend were the Henry
Redkeys of Ridgway Avenue.
Home for the holidays were their
son, Edwin, from Pensacola, Fla,
and their daughter and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Kennedy of
Seattle, Wash, accompanied by
their four-month-old daughter,
Lucy Ann. Mr.. Redkey's mother,
Mr.. E. S. Redkey, of Hillsboro,
O., flew in to join the festivities.
y
Over the holidays, Mayor and
Mrs. Dickran Hovsepian enter
tanned Mrs. Hovsepian's sister,
Mrs. Mary Lou DeWolf, from St.
Petersburg, Fla.
The Robert McQueeneys of
Wainwright Avenue had a really
festive weekend with two open
houses, one on Christmas Eve
and one on Sunday, December 26.
Artist Bob McQueeney must have
been responsible for the especi-
ally beautiful Christmas tree
that dominated the gay parties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Gordeuk,
Ridgway Avenue, had as guests
for the holidays Mrs. Gordeuk's
father and mother.
The Peter Massaros of Halsey
Road took their two small chill
dren off to Ohio to visit rela-
tives for Christmas.
Brand new Christmas angels
arrived at the homes of two
Twinbrook families. On Deem
Der 10 the George Pittengers of
Wainwright Avenue welcomed a
little girl, Julia May, at George
town University Hospital. Julia
May, who weighed Z pounds, 9
ounces, had a brother, David, 5,
and sister, Gloria Jean, 3.
The Edward Fagans of Vande-
grift Avenue are the proud
parents of another baby girl,
their first, Linda, born Dec. 81
in Bethesda Naval Hospital and
weighing Z pounds, 2 ounces.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06
RockIand
Mrs. Randall AubinOe
Telephone GA. 4-S486

Ana q HAPPY view lear W
You'll! Doesn't the star tot a new
year make you feel inspired? I
feel as if / had a fresh clean
slate in front of me and it's up
to me to make the designs and
patterns on it harmonious. My
wish for all of you is for happy
and peaceful year. With happi-
ness and peace, who could ask
for more?
The New Year in Rockland
started out gaily. The folks on
Gainsboro Road decided to have
a party and where was the better
place for it than the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Golden
berg, 1917 Gainsboro r o a d.
There about IA couples gathered
to see old "a fade into the past.
A social evening was spent and
at 1 am. buffet supper was
served.
New Years morning the same
couples gathered for a brunch of
bacon and eggs. The highlight
of the morning (for the wives)
was when the husbands. did all
the dishes and cleaned up the re-
mains of the repast. Those pres
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. A.. Tuch-
tan, Mr.. and Mrs. William Geo.
bel, Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Brooks,
DR.. and Mrs. Eugene Flipee, DR..
and Mrs. William Hall, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Van Deusen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Dye, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Auldridge, Mr.. and Mrs.
Warner Come, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. Mad
dox Johnston, Mr.. and Mrs. HUI
bert Wilcox, Miss Shirley Van,
Mr.. Jerry Davis, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferd Wilson.
Another party was held at the
Winfield Smith home, 2012 Rock
land Avenue, when Elaine and
Win invited a few of the neigh
bors in to welcome the New
Year. After an evening of dane
ing and visiting, a delicious
luncheon was served. Those pres
ent were: Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Updikt, Miss Elsie Anderson of
Hyattsville, Mr.. Henry Trip of
Washington, D C., Mr.. and Mrs.
Seymour Harris, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stan Ruthberg, DR.. and Mrs.
Charles Baker, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Randall Aubinoe.
An open house was held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Win
ter on Henry Road, New Years
Day. Guests dropped in between
the hours of to 6 and 8 in the
evening until midnight Mrs.
Winetr's mother, Mrs. Richard
Winslow, of West Palm Beach,
Fla, is a guest in the household
for the holidays.
Little folks also had their par
ties over the weekend. JEANNE
Kretschmer of 1905 Brooke Drive
invited several little girls and
their new dolls in for a tea party.
The small mothers played with
their dolls and various games,
after which tea was served.
Those present were Alice and
Sandy Harris, Marcia Cleveland,
Karen Rapp, and Lynn Richter.
A belated Christmas gift or
maybe it was an early New
Year, arrived at the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. Leonard Sudhalter,
1927 Henry Road. Little David
Michael entered the world Dec,
%. Needless to say, Mommy
Daddy and his "big" Little
Brother are very proud.
Mr.. and Mrs. James o. Horton
and son, Jimmy, of 1903 Brooke
Drive flew to Canonsburg, Pa
last week to visit their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas McDon
ough of 1405 Mathews Drive
spent the Christmas holidays ir
New Jersey is iting Toms
mother.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Spurrier OF
1918 Gainsboro Road, visited last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-06

Ohio's system of taxing out-of-
state trucks on an axle mile
basis has been tried unsuccess-
fully by at least nine states
which have suspended third
structure taxes on trucks.