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Evening star., 1955-06-05
I'M. w. A. CLARK
COLLECTION
AT CORCORAN
ITALIAN MAIOLICA In the

ITALIAN MA1OL1CA IN Inc
w. A. Clark Collection.
(Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Bulletin; so cents.)
Italian Maiolica pottery
is not only one of the most
important sections Of the
Clark collection at The Cor
coran Gallery of Art, but
also one of the two or three
finest groups of this ware
in the United States. Com
prising more than 100 pieces.
it has been re-installed re-
Gently, and the Gallery has
published an illustrated his
tory and catalogue to guide
visitors.
James D. Breckenridge.
curator of the Clark collec-
ton, has written a brief
but comprehensive article
on Italian Maiolica, the tin
glazed pottery produced in
Italy from the 14th century
to modern times. It's great
est period was between 1850
and 1850, during the height
of the Renaissance, to which
period the majority of the
Clark pieces belong. Mr..
Breckenridge describes the
changes of style and deco
ration, and mentions OUT
standing artists.
IF g a
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A BLUEPRINT
How Britain
Can Hold
Her Place
BRITAIN AND THE TIDE OF
WORLD AFFAIRS. BY Sir
Oliver Franks. Oxford;
H1 0EN

BRITAIN AND THE TIDE OF
WORLD AFFAIRS. BY Sir
Oliver Franks. (Oxford;
$3.50
Sir Oliver, former British
Ambassador in Washington,
wants his country to preserve
its status as a great power.
This series of lectures, ad-
dressed to a British audience,
seeks to chart the course. To
keep Britain in the forefront
politically and economically.
Sir Oliver has little to offer his
people but blood, toll. tears
and sweat" to borrow from
one of his fellow knights OF
the Garter.
One of the big reasons Bri-
tain must remain a great
power, Sir Oliver says, is to
use its influence on us. What
worries Britons about us? The
author lists these things: We
might drag them into a third
world war; McCarthyism's
success betrays a flaw in our
democracy; it hurts to see Br1-
tain losing its place to the
United States: and the fric-
tions within our alliance some
times are hard to keep in
proper perspective.
Sil divers advice for pre-
serving British influence in
Washington is for his col
leagues to be fearless and
fortnight" making perfectly
clear what they have in their
minds.
IF / had to state what ]
thought the most prevalent
single cause Of misunderstand-
ing and suspicion between the
United States and Britain, !
would name the failure to
communicate the assumptions
Of q proposal" says Sir Oliver.
Both sides take too much for
granted, in his opinion.
This is a thin volume, but 1t
ought to become a valuable
contribution not only to Anglo
American unity but to diplom-
acy throughout the free world.
EARL H. VOSS.
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NEWS is A SINGULAR
THING. BY Marguerite

NEWS is A SINGULAR
THING. BY Marguerite
Higgins. doubleday; $500
The title is a bit deceptive.
Miss Higgins is a singular
thing in the newspaper busi-
ness, a conspicuous success in
a mans world, formidably
ambitious and determined
and withal a pretty, blue-eyed
blond. Whether she made the
grade because of or in spite of
this last is a question that is
argued at length by her col
leagues whenever the question
of what makes Maggie run?"
comes up.
Miss Higgins started out
early and strong, and sue
ceeded, she is frank to say. as
much from diligence as from
fair. Pluck and luck also
played their parts. She was
first at the liberation of
Dachau, she was alone Gin the
Tribune bureau) during the
blockade of Berlin. Her pres
ence as the only woman cor
respondent in Korea, where it
took Gen. Macarthur himself
to keep her, Is part Of news
Evening star., 1955-06-05
ION THE FRONT
IAT THE SIEGE
IOF VICKSBURG
THE WEB OF VICTORY. BY
Earl henck Miers.
(Knopf; So

THE WEB OF VICTORY. BY
Earl henck Miers.
Knopf; So
With the ruthless tenacity
of Gen. Grant himself, Mr..
Miers has tackled the Civil
Wars most drawn-out &C
tion, the Seven-month siege
OF Vicksburg. Even aboard
the mobile pontoons of the
authors fluent writing and
behind the massed artillery
of his research, the book
somehow makes the reader
feel he had gone through
the full siege.
An excerpt from the 800
pager picks up a parallel:
ITO a Rebel across the
picket line one day during
the Vicksburg campaign, a
Union officer spoke freely
You don't know me, per-
haps. My name Is Sherman.
My enemies in the North
sometimes call me Crazy
Sherman; but in my sane
moments. I have said this
war may last II years yet.
and I know of no place
where I should so soon spend
seven of them as right here,
before Vicksburg.'"
CHARLES YARBROUGH.
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Doqs-in-Commund

One of the most successful
new books in meeting all three
of these requirements concerns
a very lively summer in the
McDonegal family, who by
some fluke buy a farm. though
they have never lived in the
country before.
The story Of what happens
to the McDonegals is told
through the eyes of an intelli-
gent Airedale named Junket.
At some time in our lives, most
of us have known an animal
like. Junket, who has more
sense than most people and a
way of making his wishes
known in spite of the language
barrier.
AS Peter Paley says: "Junket
talks all right. Not like you
and, me-but then neither do
the French people or the Polish
people. And I'm not saying
he ever could learn to talk like
us. His nose and mouth aren't
shaped right for our kind Of
talk but he knows the
words that have to do with his
world and interests. And, for
a dog, he has a pretty big world
and lots of interests"
Junket's world includes the
farm which the McDonegals
have bought. And Junket soon
discovers that these strange
people didn't have sense
enough to bring bicycles or
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Modern Russia

THE MIND OF MODERN
RUSSIA. Edited by Hans
Kohn. (Rutgers University
Press; $500
A series of selections, with
introductions by Prof. Kohn,
illustrating the historical and
political thought of Russia in
the century before the Red
revolution. B. r.
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LOUIS BROMFIELD
TACKLES A RAFT
EOF PROBLEMS
FROM MY EXPERIENCE.
BY Louis Bromfield. (Har-
rar g. RroS. a.

FROM MY EAPEhAENCE.
BY Louis Bromfield. (Har-
per g. Bros; 50
Mr.. Bromfield is an opinion
ated, irascible old novelist
turned-farmer who is doing
his best to set the world back
on the right track.
Most of all he doesn't like
modern farming-its out Of
harmony with nature, he be-
lieves. So most of his book
is about his own unorthodox--
1. e., in MISUNDERSTANDING
methods. He also tackles a
raft of other problems, politi-
cal, social, scientific and what
have you.
The result is a highly en-
tertaining and perhaps in
structive book. A good many
of his opinions seem crackpot,
but that may be only because
they are novel. His ideas on
farming, at least, seem to work
in practice.
Any weekend gardener
could learn from this book.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1955-06-05

In paintings" Generally
speaking, it continues, these
methods include Photographic
realism, magic or surrealism,
social realism, expressionist
and mystic realism.
Whatever its classifications
land the visitor is left to
pigeonhole most of the artists
the show, despite its modest
size, takes in a vast amount of
territory, including areas that
some of us would never have
considered realism. But that
is our error: the title subjects
unreal" can blanket practically
anything into the show. It
does just that, as one discov-
ers when studying Rudolf
Rays portrait in eight parts. of
DR.. Suzuki. 1t includes a vague
physiognomy entitled "The
viii" and seven distractions.
under such titles as Land
scape of the Soul" "Soul Fad
ing" etc.
Whatever the lay visitor
may make of such real" and
unreal" subjects. there are
some paintings with which no
one can quarrel: Photographic
realists Leonid's superb "Portu-
guese Fishermen" on a beach
with a far-horizon; Andrew
Wyeth's ''Trodden Weed; and
Edward Hopper's office in a
Small City" expressionistic
realist William Choppers Hal
lowe'en" (three children in
horrif1c masks; and Reginald
Marsh's "Coney Island Beach,"
superbly drawn.
Surrealist Yves Tanguy paints
with meticulous sharpness, OBJ
jects no one can identify,
neatly arranged on beaches or
in the foreground of empty
space, under vast luminous
skies; these paintings have
considerable fascination. The
same can be said of Kurt Selig-
mann's tattered ghosts made
of ribbons or leaves or what
ever. The current show has
good examples by each.
Poetic realist Loren MacIyer
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tells his own story in "Tiger
Of the Shows" putnam; S4.50.)
Tenzing, writing with the
collaboration of James Ram
sey Ullman, the novelist with
a special interest in mountains,
has an absorbing life to de-
scribe. He has been climbing
in the Himalayas since early
youth. When he is asked what
was his hardest, most danger
Gus climb, he explained. They
expect me to say Everest, but
it is not Everest. It is Nanda
Devi East"
While he calls his compan-
ion in the final stages of the
Everest ascent "a fine climber
and a fine man." Tenzing takes
issue with some of the state
ments in Hillary's book ". (.
all the way through he indi-
Gates that when things went
well it was his doing and when
things went badly it was mine.
For this is simply not true.
All the way up and down
we helped, and were helped by
each other-and that was the
way it should be. But we were
not leader and led. We were
partners"
Tenzing never saw a "yeti"
or "abominable snowman"
but he has seen their tracks
and his father encountered
several. Tenzing believes that
the snowman" is an animal,
not a man; "that it moves
about mostly at night and lives
on the plants and small beasts
of the highest mountain pas
lures; and that it probably is
a type of ape not yet known
to u.s."
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1t is useless to quarrel with
what she made of it. At any
rate, the white-robed recluse
of later years, whether blighted
by many deaths. among family
and friends. or withered by
unrequited love, is not in these
pages. 3.
unlike Most Everyone"
Here is Emily, as a young
girl, busy with her household
duties-she was a wonderful
cook--and participating in the
doings of the college town Of
Amherst. Here she is writing
to her beloved brother. Aus
tin, whom she painfully misses
during his absences in Boston.
II think we miss each other
more every day that we grow
older, for we're all unlike
most every one, and are,
therefore, more dependent on
each other for delight She
regales him with minutiae of
family and neighborhood, she
reproaches him for not coming
home or not writing.
Other members of the family
emerge too; sensitive Austin,
practical Winnie, the formid-
able father. who gives instruc-
tions to his son to "leave both
ends Of the wrapper open,
to save postage"
There are many details here
which might prove less than
fascinating to the everyday
reader. But there are also un-
forgettable glimpses Of Emily
Dickinson, living from day to
day, busy as an ant, a unique
member Of a unique family.
MARY McGRORY
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Amateur Detectives

Charles Coombs Is a modern
father and writer who has
specialized in sport and mys-
terry stories. His latest book,
just right for the rookie base
ball set is Sleuth at Shortstop
(Lentern Press. $3.50. 1t pre-
sentS baseball on two levels,
spiced with a credible mystery
about gamblers.
In Hunters Hill, Peter de-
cides to earn money for a
Scout Jamboree by taking on
an unpopular paper route.
However, he discovers that
leaving history on the door
steps of his neighbors is only
a small part of his job, and he
soon becomes uncomfortably
involved in local "feuding and
fussing."
Hunters Hill by May Nick
erson Wallace mckay. S2.75)
is hardly typical of paper
routes in the Washington area
q have some first-hand ex-
perience in this line, myselfD
but it is good escape reading,
punctuated with laughter.
Escape was no laughing
matter for Lew Falcon when
he crossed the border into
East Berlin in an effort to
help a German friend. Danger
line by T. Morris Longstreth
Macmillan. .$2.75) has the
flavor of good journalism. 1t
would be encouraging If the
true stories of Americans be-
hind the Iron Curtain could all
hare such happy endings.
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naCreQ or SenLlmenCanty, nave
something in common, she Is
going her own way.
Miss O'Connor writes mostly
about average, half-educated
men and women, who think
and speak in the phrases they
have been brought up on, but
she does not specialize in the
low-life characters who always
intrigued Erskine Caldwell.
And, unlike some OF the other
close observing Sout h e rn
writer's, she seems to regard
her characters as explainable
human beings. however fam
tastic some of their motives
and acts.
And yet this young woman.
who resides in Milledgeville,
Ca. has a preoccupation with
violence and sudden death
which contrasts strangely with
the ordinary lives which these
eventualities interrupt. Some
how. though, her m elo-
dramatic denouements do not
seem forced or incongruous,
and this is a tribute to her gift
for developing a story.
When her first novel, "WiSe
Blood" appeared a couple of
years ago, 1t was so loaded
with murder and other vio-
lence that l took it for satire
on recent Southern novels. The
story, as coolly dramatic as it
was, could be explained more
easily as satire. Virtually all
the other reviews I read took
1t straight. however, and the
lady herself, so far as I know,
never disclosed what her in
tention was.
We have now a volume of
Miss O'Connor's short stories:
"a Good Man Is Hard to Find"
(HarcOurt, Brace; $3.50.
She shows. it seems to me,
a surprising mastery over a
difficult form. Best of all, she
displays a capacity to create
memorable characters within
the brief scope of the short
story, which is extremely diff
cult to do. Short stories of cpl
sode and atmosphere are
easier to write, and characters
are apt to be mere embellish-
mentS of mood.
Here, too, is violence enough,
and yet, except in the title
story, it is not piled up so
lavishly as to suggest satire.
"The River" is a beautifully
evoked account of a neglected
boy with an alcoholic mother
and an indifferent father.
1.-THE Life You Save May Be
Your Own" is one of the best,
a perfectly paced exposition Of
an eccentric wanderer. "a Late
Encounter With the Enemy"
reveals a 104-year-old Con-
federate veteran who has be-
come merely a display piece to
be shown in his uniform on
appropriate occasions. "The
Displaced Person" is a we'll
rounded description of a clash
of prejudice and good inten-
tions. Perhaps the least effec-
tive Of the stories is Good
Country People," 1t succeeds
in being merely unpleasant.
Miss O'Connor is not afraid
to resolve her conflicts deci-
sively.
She avoids the easier plan
of simply outlining a situation
and leaving it at that, as Miss
Welty and Miss McCullers
often do-a method followed
by a whole stable Of writer's
for the New Yorker.
7 Tenzing's Story
Tenzing Norgay, the IA
nous Sherpa guide who, with
Sir Edmund Hillary, reached
the summit of Mount Everest,
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types depict animals. birds,
fish and other creatures. real
and NEUROLOGICAL. Some of the
prints are illustrative, others
abstract. The small sculptures,
heads and figures, are simpli-
fed naturalism.
The Circulating Gallery will
be closed from June Is to the
end of September.
Evening star., 1955-06-05
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Trends in Midcentury
Paintings Surveyed
By FLORENCE 5. BERRYMAN

Institute Of Contemporary Arts third and hna In
stallent of its survey of Trends In dcentury American
Painting nits at the Corcoan Gallery Art is devoted
Subjects Real and Unreal The introductory placard
the exhibition selected the different methods BY
which Is contemporary artists treated subject
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FLANNERY o'coNNoR
A Promising Recruit
To Southern Letters
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

Flanney oConnor young and judging from her pictures
Southern letters Some persons with their
passion for classifying everybody undoubtedly will place her
the Carson McCulers Eudora Wety coere Of onic reas
I'd say that while all the writers, from Ellen Glasgow to
Faulkner tried at the South without either
Evening star., 1955-06-05

endeavor to make it plain that
in the nature Of developing
work. artists do not "stay put" :"
and the labels are intended
primarily to aid the visitor to
a given show. If this fact is
kept in mind, the layman will
derive considerable interest
and information from the In
stitute's third trend survey
(througl July 81.
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Rose at Mart

interpretations of Negro
spirituals by Ruth Starr Rose
of Alexandria, have long been
familiar to Washington art
lovers. Mrs. Rose has partici-
pated in group shows here and
has had a number of solo ex-
hibitions, most recently at the
Dupont Theater gallery early
this year.
Now she is showing more
than 20 works, serigraphs,
watercolors and Autographs,
in color and black and white,
at the Artists Mart, 1861 Wis
consin avenue, through this
week. Among these are a
number of prize winning
prints, and some of the most
beloved of her "spirituals"::
'It's Me, o Lord, Standing in
the Need of Prayer" a first
prize winner, and GLORY
Train; the handsomely pat
termed "Spinnakers," prize
winner in a Corcoran area
annual; "In the Corral" fine
in drawing, beautiful in its
soft colors; "Sailmaker" and
other figure studies, portraits,
animals, genre.
During her childhood and
after her marriage Mrs. Rose
lived on the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland, where her long &C
quaintance with Negroes en-
abled her to interpret their
spirituals with knowledge Of
their psychology. She studied
at the Art Students League OF
New York, has exhibited ex-
tensively and is represented in
such important permanent col
lections as those of the Metro
politan Museum, New York.
and the Philadelphia Museum.
Alden at Dupont
Twenty paintings from the
Barnett Alden Gallery's col
lection are on view in the Du-
pont Theater Art Gallery
through June IA. This small
group indicates the wide range
of the Alden collection, and in
cludes some of its choicest
items.
Among portraits and figure
paintings are Aaron Douglas
warm characterization. "Alta
Knitting; Ellis wilson's styl-
lied, colorful Flower Vendor;
Robert Gwathmey's social COM
mentary, Cotton Picker" and
John Farrar's meticulously
naturalistic Grocery Boy"
minimized by the scene OF
which he Is a part.
The setting of the last
mentioned, also Alma Thomas
Georgetown" Charles Davis
"Benediction" "a church in a
slum neighborhoodD and Jack
Perlmutter's dynamic Sub
way" provide varied facets OF
the city as theme.
There are particularly hand
some still life paintings by
Peppino Mangravite, Robert
Philip and Nicolai Cikovsky,
all traditional, and Ruth Gal
looms "Chrysanthemums," dis
tinguished in its color.
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Jennings Story

Tenzing Norgay, the Ia
nous Sherpa guide who, with
Sir Edmund Hillary, reached
the summit of Mount Everest,
Evening star., 1955-06-05
Dream Horses

Race horses have always
been front-page news, espe-
cially those who win the Ken
lucky Derby. In Old Bones, the
Wonder Horse (Whittlesey
House. $2.95), Mildred Mas
tin Pace tells the life story of
Exterminator. Born of the
best thoroughbred stock, he
was nicknamed "Old Bones"
because of his long, bony
frame, and homely face. This
story takes you behind the
scenes and tells how a great
race horse is trained.
Another dream horse in the
hero of q Canadian ranch
story, Stormy by Stephen Holt
IOngmans. $3.50. Stormy has
to share the spotlight with
Hugh, an energetic teen-ager
who makes plenty of mistakes
in his effort to prove that
"once a cowpuncher. always a
cowpuncher."
For younger children, World
Full of Horses by DahlOv Ipcar
Doubleday. $3.50 may well
become as popular as One
Horse Farm by the same au-
thor-illustrator. This book de-
serves special commentator
because the. pictures combine
storytelling detail with dra-
matte use Of color and design.
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butterfly nets, fishing RODS.
kites, or picnic baskets. This
is a direct challenge to Junket,
who sets out to reform the Nc
Donegals.
It is a well-known fact that
reform can be a very dull sub
ject when parent sets out to
reform a child, but when a
dog sets out to reform a family,
that is a different matter. OF
course, Junket is a very unusual
dog.
Junket, the story of a dog who
liked everything "just so," is
written by Anne H. White
and illustrated extensively by
Robert McCloskey (Viking.
$2.75).
The Doctors Dog
Another dog who likes to
run things his own way is
Riley, the doctors dog, who
made his first appearance in
Backseat Driver. In Skipper
Riley by Mabel Robinson
tRandom House, $2.50), Riley
takes the doctor to Maine for
a vacation. This is a short
book, designed for eight and
nine year olds, who will ap-
preciate Skipper Riley's mis-
adventures with skunks and
porcupines.
Irish Terrier
Older readers will meet a
real dog character-an Irish
terrier known as the Wreck
erin Lumberman's Dog by
william Marshall Rush Long
mans. $3). Rush, a veteran of
% years in the Forest Serv-
ice, has written at least eight
other books, all brimming
with enthusiasm for the life
of a forest ranger, and for
the horses and dogs who have
been his companions in the
wilds.
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Books
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c. Ell
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
The Things Vocation
Dreams Are Made Of
By BARBARA NoLEN

What Is the ideal vacation
for a boy or girl? Is it going
places with the gang, or camp
ing alone in the deep woods
Is it earning money, watching
the stars, or solving the neign-
borhood mystery? Is it per-
haps teaching a dog new tricks
or riding a dream horse?
One thing Is sure. What
ever your boy or girl has on
his mind, it will be a busy
summer. And since reading is
still a national pastime. in
spite of radio, TV. and DR..
Flesch, Johnny and Jane will
include books in their summer
program. 1t is also a sure thing
that the books any modern
youngster reads on his own
must satisfy his need for
change, stimulate his curiosity,
or bring him the relaxation Of
laughter.
Evening star., 1955-07-10
Singers Who Sang Way
Out of Prison Hunted

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 9
(Pl.-A three-State alarm went
out today for recapture Of four
convict Gospel singers who lit
orally sang themselves out of
Alabama's Kilby Prison.
In the group was Orville
Gray, q. Searcy. Ark, who
achieved a degree of fame by
turning down a parole this sum-
mer. as he explained. to keep
from breaking up the quartet"
Law enforcement officers in
Tennessee and Mississippi were
alerted to be on the lookout for
the convicts who made their
break in a prison station wagon
after an appearance at Linden,
Ala, last night.
Another singer and the pi-
anist refused to join the escape.
They were put out of the We
hicle near Columbus. Miss, along
with j. D. Grantham, prison
guard. who accompanied the
group.
Fred Hallford, special agent
in charge Of the FBI's Office at
Mobile. said Federal warrants
were issued at Montgomery to-
day charging the four with vio-
Evening star., 1955-07-10
; Turncoot GIs Freed in Hong Kong
Smiling and Apparently Healthy

HONG KONG, Sunday, July
10 (P.-Three American turn
coats, who changed their minds
about staying in Red China
crossed over the border into
Hong Kong today.
First sketchy reports from the
border 80 miles north Of Hong
Kong said the men appeared to
be in fairly good condition as
they walked across the 200-foot
bridge over the Shum Chu River
The trio crossed over into free
territory at 2:l2 pm. d:12 am
EDIT.
The three Americans whose
decision to leave Red China was
announced by Peiping Radio two
weeks ago. were unoficially
identified as Lewis w. Griggs
Jacksonville, Tex; Ohio @. Bell,
Olympia, Wash, and William A
Cowart, Dalton, Ga.
The original Peiping announce
ment said two Belgians, Roger
Devriendt and Louis verdyk, had
also changed their minds about
staying behind the Bamboo Cur
tain and had asked to leave Red
China.