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stitute, Pittsburgh; the Art
Students League in New York,
George Washington University
and the University of Puerto
Rico. He further studied art
with Isabel. Bishop and Ra-
phael Soyer. He is a member of
the Society of Washington
Artists and the Artists Guild
here, has won several awards,
and has exhibited actively
since his participation with the
Associated Artists of Pitts
burgh in 1887. He has also
designed theatrical produc-
tions, among them six Char
acters in Search of an Author"
About half of his group of
Is oil paintings at Wilson are
religious in theme-"Flight
Into Egypt" (the most appeal
ing), Betrayal" "Crucifixion,"
Descent From the Cross"
"Pieta" and others. There is
also his well-composed Me
tropolis," presumably New
York, seen from a height: the
nightmarish "Schizophrenic"
and the brutal Age of Chiv-
airy"
Mr.. Buckner's paintings are
expresSionistic, with character,
personality and physical fea-
lures emphasized by distortion
and heavy corrugated delinea-
ton in some instances. At
times his color is hot and
harsh, as in THE Talmudists";;
in other works, irridescent,
broken up into many-color
facets, reminiscent of stained
glass.
Margaret Dickey, art direc-
tor at Wilson Teachers Col
lege, has done more for an
active art program there, both
teaching and exhibitions, than
any of her predecessors.
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glorious feelings OF personal
worth"
Some citations: Richard
Wagner thought he was the
originator of the music drama
and deserved musical immor-
tality. He was right. Victor
Hugo agreed with his admirers
that he was a master. He was.
Gen. James Wolfe, the con-
queror of Quebec, considered
himself q great strategist. He
was. And you could go on
and on.
The author has a new and
provocative slant on the per-
haps maligned quality Of self
esteem.
Mr.. Hamele. Washing
tonian, wrote when Destiny
Called" q novel of the Mexican
War.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
The World
Is Lovely
And Wide
Reviewed by Mary MeGrory

Reviewed BY Mary Mc(5roFy
THE RED PETTICOAT. BY
Bryan MacMahon. (E. P.
Dutton; $3.)
Bryan MacMahon loves life
and doesn't care who knows it.
While other short story writer's
and there are O host of them
to the fore this season-indite
bitter little pictures Of futility
and loss, he Is ever q yea
sayer.
The dark side of ireland is
in his stories, as It is in the
works of his distinguished
countryman. Frank O'Connor.
But hope and humor and love
are here. all recounted with a
great sweep Of words and an
unquenchable lilt. No senti-
mentalist, Mr.. MacMahon still
plainly feels. there's a great
deal to be said for life.
Not all of the twenty stories
in this collection are of equal
worth. A couple Of them are
mere sketches of souls in a
moment Of communication.
But the best of them have
verve and poignancy. A couple
Of them. as indirect as only the
Irish can be, were frankly be-
yond this reviewers compre-
henSion.
The best Of a good lot, to
the present writer's way Of
thinking, is $50 Early in the
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Margaret Kennedy

Margaret Kennedy wrote
"The Constant Nymph," "The
Feast" and other best sellers
which were captivating books.
Unfortunately her new novel,
"Act Of God" (Rinehart; $3.50,
seems to me considerably be-
low her best work.
Miss Kennedy, setting her
story In q small seaside town
In the south Of England. had
O good central idea-a satire
on modern art. The supposed
inability Of the average citi-
zen to understand it in it's
more extreme forms. the pre-
tense of some who patronize
such art and the nonsense
talked about it furnished some
amusing pages. The trouble is
that the author was not con-
tent to depict her sculptor and
those surrounding him. She
has sidetracked her main mar
rative with side issues. con-
cerned, true enough. with the
sculptor's controversial art, but
remote from his fate, which
we follow, leave and resume
only at intervals. There are
his three children. whose ad-
ventures are absorbing but al
lowed to lapse at crucial mo-
ments. We have the side &C
count Of q marriage between
o lawyer and a girl who is
supposed to be not too bright
but actually seems to have
more sense than most Of those
about her. The constant bick-
ering of this couple becomes
wearing.
AS a result of writing on so
many levels a story that could
have been relatively simple,
Miss Kennedy, I fear, will con-
fuse a good many Of her nu-
merous faithful readers. I had
q hard time remembering
characters that kept drifting
In and out Of the narrative.
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"'s" ~no"' Is IN trouble.
Full Of fisticuffs and poetry,
it reveals a woman who would
have nothing to fire in the
face" Of the girl she wants her
son to marry.
Another lovely one is 1.-THE
White Blackbird," a high
hearted account of a profess
sor who finds a true lover of
lore in a poor workingman
through whose brain there's
a never-ending torchlight pro-
cession Of ideas marching"
One passage from the sly
"The Sound of the Bell" gives
some idea of Mr.. MacMahon's
joyous prose. A villager is
explaining to the parish priest
the place of the church bell
in their lives.
1--WE set our clocks to it.
We began and ended work to
1t. The wimmin put down
the parties to it and we came
back from the bog to it. If it
was a thing it was a dead
bell we said a Lord-ha'- mercy
on the soul of the faithful de-
parted. If twas a mass bell
we took care to be in good
time. And it was a thing it
rang out in the heart of the
night we knew that something
terrible had happened. :"
And Mr.. MacMahon's whole
philosophy can be summarized
in the title of one of his sad
dest stories: "The World Is
Lovely and the World Is
Wide"
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Sherlock Holmes

The Baker Street Irregulars
and other admirers of Sher-
lock Holmes. organized and
unorganized, will want "a
Treasury of Sherlock Holmes"
(Hanover House; $2.95).
The anthology contains the
two best-knoWn short novels
which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
wrote of the great detective
"A Study in Scarlet" and THE
Hound of the Baskerville"
and q short stories. The Sc
lection was made by the au-
thor's son, Adrian Conan
Doyle, who writes an introduce
tiOn.
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SSh NWhihsAA' SlSD1lG CaD-
tain" Finally there was an
attempt to poison him and he
found a microphone hidden in
his cabin. 1t was the Batory
on which Americas No. /
Communist agent, Gerhard
Eisler, slowed away when he
jumped bail in New York. I'm
a way" the captain writes. Il
was no more the commander
of the Batory than a chauffeur
is in command of an automo-
bile when his employer Is
riding in the back seat"
The skipper. offered asylum
by the British as a political
exile, is doing what he can to
help Poles in similar plight
and to further the hoped-for
day when their country may
be free again.
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Carl Garner

StdTS rell on ALABAMA ana
other fine books of folklore,
brings out the 48th volume in
the Rivers of America" series
the story of the Susque-
hanna. "The Susquehanna"
(Rinehart; So takes one Of
our most beautiful rivers from
its discovery (aS white men
liked to call their first glimpse
of such a phenomenon by a
vessel from jamestown COM
manded by Capt. John Smith
in 1903 to modern times.
The author has revived many
unfamiliar episodes of history
and legend. 1t is doubtful if
many persons know that Havre
de Grace, near the mouth of
the Susquehanna, was defended
from the British on May 2,
1913, by a solitary Irishman
named John O'Neill. When
the militiamen fled, he re-
manned and manned the single
cannon until he was captured
An American brigadier general
heard that O'Neill was to be
executed as a traitor" because
he was Irish and technically a
British subject. The general
sent word that if this hap
pened he would hang two Brit
ish prisoners. O'Neill was
promptly released.
The book is attractively il
1ustrated by Stow Wengen-
roth,
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Jan CwiIinski

"The Captain Leaves His
Ship" Doubleday; $4) is Jan
Cwilinski's dramatic story of
how and why he left his Polish
ship, the Batory, in England
in flight from the Communist
terror.
At first Capt. Cwilinski did
not realize that his ship, which
piled the Atlantic between
Evening star., 1955-02-06
At Wilson Teachers

Melvin D. Buckner, native
Washingtonian and art di-
rector of the Rural Electrifica-
ton Administration for nearly
a decade, is having a one-man
show of recent work at Wilson
Teachers College, Harvard and
Eleventh streets NV, through
February 18. He had an excel
lent education at Carnegie In
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Oh, Auntie!
AUNTIE NAME. BY Patri

AUNTIE NAME. BY Patrick
Dennis. vanguard; $500
Patrick Dennis tells a hilari-
Gus story of his Auntie Name,
who became his guardian when
he was 10. Among her many
misadventures, Auntie Name
sends her nephew to a nudist
school, dates his pals at Prince
ton, and arranges and disar-
ranges his engagements. She
is perfectly enchanting as she
outrides the horsiest set in
Georgia and copes with six
English refugee children she
took in during the war. Auntie
Name is the gayest. most un-
conventional aunt you've ever
known and you'll love her.
SALLY GREENLAND.
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Defense of Iran
OIL DIPLOMACY. BY Mas

OIL DIPLOMACY. BY NasroI-
lah Saifpour Fatemi. whit
tier; $4.50D
Trans seizure, of the British
oil concession seemed a hasty,
almost irrational act to most
Westerners. DR.. Fatemi tells
the story behind the action
from the Iranian point of view,
tracing so years of tangled di-
plomacy which saw his country
more often than not a helpless
pawn in a big power struggle.
BELMONT FAIRIES.
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contributed to our cultural
history. Naturally, children
should know about our great
political leaders, but it is
equally important for them to
know about men like Stephen
Foster and John James Au-
dubon. Besides, children often
have a compelling hobby, as
these men did, so that music
or nature or science seems a
more interesting career than
business or politics.
In their biography of Audu-
bon, Margaret and John Kie-
ran re-create the world of ma
ture and the fascination that
birds in motion had for Au-
dubon. Children will quickly
sympathize with the young boy
who wanted to spend his time
in the woods instead of the
schoolroom. "JOhn James Au-
dubon," by the Kierans, is a
Landmark book (R d o m
House; $1.50).
"The Story Of Stephen Fos-
ter" by Esther Douty (Grosset
& Dunlap: $1.50, is another
sensitive biography. Young
Stevie's fight with a bully over
his precious flute, his amateur
minstrel shows and his sur
prise when other people liked
his songs; all, these happenings
give us a new appreciation of
the boy who had a talent for
music" and grew up to write
"Oh. Susanna" "Old Black
Joe" and other favorites.
The United Nations
From the world of biogra-
ply it is a short step to the
world of the United Nations.
And those of us who have long
admired the fine writing of
Katherine Shippen, and know
of her work with children at
the Brooklyn Museum, watch
for each new book of hers with
special eagernesS. Her latest Is
"The Pool of X nowl e d & e"
Harpers; $2.50D.
The subject of 'The Pool of
knowledge" is the technical
assistance program of the U. N.
in which skills are shared
among nations, in order to
make a better world for to-
morrow's children. 1t is a sub
ject in which accuracy is as
important as sympathy, so it
is disappointing to find that
Katherine Shipper OCCASION
ally slips into error.
1t does not strengthen in
ternational friendship to say
of FL Salvador that "only one
person in 10 in her country
has been to school" or that
"all the people of Ell Salvador
are very poor" when such
sweeping statements are in
accurate. Nor is it helpful to
say that "in Haiti there is no
room for CATTLE" when, in fact,
cattle are found in three Sec
tions of Haiti. No doubt the
schools of El Salvador could be
improved and better cattle
raised in Haiti. The same thing
could be said of parts Of the
United States. It is to be
hoped that such errors will be
corrected in later printings,
for Miss Shippen's fine record
should not be spoiled by in
accuracies.
This seems a good time to
mention a book about parties:
Holiday parties, birthday par
ties. parties for every month
of the year. "Party A B c." by
Bernice Bryant (Bobbs. Mer-
rill; $2.75), can be used to take
the trouble out of parties, for
parents and for young hosts
and hostesses, especially those
between 10 and IA. Party
A B c" even tells you how to
have fun at your own parties!
Evening star., 1955-02-06

~ u ! v PNdA
port S and
N e W York,
was part of
the r e d
scheme. In
time he was
required to
c a rry an
9 IL U c !
t a i n ment"
o fl er, a
&c ul t ural"
if ic er, a
press officer
and an "aS-
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Area Sculpture

The sculpture section OF the
Corcoran Gallery's ninth an
nual area exhibition selected
by Alexander Archipenko, dis
tinguished sculptor (who has
had some 80 one-man shows
himself. is a better represen-
tation than the oils and wa
tercolors. Thirty-five sculp-
lures include many materials
and a wide variety of treat
ments.
A number of them were seen
in The Washington Sculptor's
Group show at the National
Museum last autumn, includ-
ing one of the award winners.
Jack Goembel's "Constella-
ton" an abstraction of alumi-
mum and wire.
Pietro Lazzari's strong Her
itage" which also received an
award, is admirable-a mod
ern head reminiscent of arch
aic Greek sculpture. The third
sculpture award went to Alex
ander Giampietro's "Renas-
cence," primitive Madonna.
Mr.. Archipenko's selections
afford representation to ira
ditional works (about one
third, abstract and non-ob-
jective. In the first category
are Belle Bellerose's WE'LL
modelled Torso" Gladys Moon
Jones speaking likeness of
Balthasar Meyer. Pietro Laz-
zari'S head of Diana"
Evening star., 1955-02-06

Earning the
scorn Of his
friends as q
tn u m ping
egotist. H e
can put on
Q m a SIX Of
m o d e S t y
" hile re
t q / n / n g
Nv l t h o u t
0 h q m e or
o polo gy q
full 100 per
cent of those
& ! o W in g.,
nd and
Evening star., 1955-02-06

70 pe con0emneu as q con-
ceited so-and-such?
Not at all. contends Otta-
mar Hamele in "Your Desire
to Feel Important" Dorrance:
$3.50. On the contrary, such
aFperson, If he has the where
withal to succeed, can get
there more quickly and surely.
Even If he has the ability. if
he lacks that feeling that he is
somebody who deserves the
best, he's not likely to make
the grade.
"Your life will surely be a
waste" Mr.. Hamele writes. "if
you look upon yourself as a
worm"
We overvoIue Our importance
He adds. though: ION the
other hand. human beings al
most always overvalue their
importance. It could not be
otherwise, because in fixing
such values they are heavily
prejudiced. However, it should
not be assumed that a correc-
tion Of their inaccurate ap-
prAisals would rebound to
their benefit. The truth does
not always make us free; it
sometimes puts us in letters.
The elimination of a mans
generalization of his import
ance would lessen his ambition
and place a brake on his power
to achieve"
A Mosk Of Modesty
And yet, the author con-
eedes, the fellow nursing his
self-importance to his advan-
tage need not parade it, thus
Evening star., 1955-02-06

M " ! II i II 3,
OF" This is
the story of
a woman
who tells
her son the
story of her
life in an
effort to
keep him
from going
to England,
leaving be-
hind q girl
who, as the
saying goes,
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Church Lecture

The Rev. Stuart F. Cast,
rector of st. Stephens Church,
will give a lecture on "Currier
and Ives" prints, a subject on
which he is an authority, using
his large personal collection
for Illustration and display.
at Emmanuel Church, Anacos-
tia Thirteenth and v streets
S.E.) next Wednesday evening
at 8 O'Clock. Proceeds from
admission fees (adults 81, chill
dren Soc will benefit the
church's work. Tickets can be
had at the door. or will be
mailed to those sending fees in
advance. Father Cast will
show about $50 of his prints,
many of them UNIQUE items,
Evening star., 1955-02-06
For Boys and Girls
For Boys and Girls
Heroes and Holidays Are Dramatically
Presented for the Discriminating
By Borboro NoIen
Editor and Lecturer on children's Books

the current controversies the childrens
field ceners the value of series books and their
chden reading There doubt that children love
started these mery They gobble
book after another whether exploits
girl detective boy explorer the fe-story Of
Evening star., 1955-02-06

venir Of Venice" filled with
golden light. Swooping curves
in his abstract "Mistral" con-
vey something Of the violence
of that wind Of the Mediterra-
mean.
Comprehensive biographical
data and comments of several
foreign critics are given in
Jose Sicre's introduction to the
free illustrated catalogue of
Obregon'S exhibition.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
BOOKS
Much-Needed New Slide Rule
ToMeusure Your SeIf-Esteem
By Carter Brooke Jones

outstanding novel to this week. there
at of fiction by author prominent enough
attract lot Of readers and engaging assortment of
fiction books.
To touch first nonfction
What the person who feels he is important? Is he
Evening star., 1955-02-06
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Evening star., 1955-02-06

There are some good laughs in
the book, but also, unlike Miss
Kennedy. some plodding, If
not downright dull, pages.
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
HOMER
4 UMOR.

This Is the garage, y a.
exctted voice proclaimed to O.
man over the phone. rYou1
wife just, drove your car In
here to be repaired and }
want to knou Who's going
to--m ra
ro.K., o.K.,n tnterrupted
the man uoartly.- WILL pay
for the car.n m
what 7 want to knew Is,
Hho's going to pay TO fix my
garage?"
XXXXKXXX
Those uho cause divisions,
in order, to injure othe r poo
pie, arc In fact preparing
pitfa lis for their own ruin.
--chinese Maxim
XNxXocH r
PLEASE furnish q copy for
my file." That means: IT
think something l. going to
go urong with this, and # 1t
docs 7 want to BE- able TO
belt you good~r A
XXXXXXXK
Tomen live longer than4
men. And It serves them
rights
NyXYXXX
A woman with q reputat ion
as man-hater announced sud /
denly that she vas going to-
be marrt cd. f9
nCoodne ssln exclaimed a
friend, VI thought you de-
sptsed all men, 1f
"oh. + do.fr replied the
br1de-to-be, "but this man
asked me TO marry him.
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
ANCHOR PIT.

The Alaska-yRoad cqun1 ssion
has been grave Ling portions
or the North Fork road viii ch
broke DOM dur ing breakup
this Spring. 1
The Frank Loos11 family
received electricity Last
week which makes them We ry
happy.
A stork shower MAS held
last tednesday afte moon for
Lorna Kee1er at the Easons.
E1va Grtner and Alice Eascn
we're co-hostessess
Silvers are running Ia the
Anchor River. MI
Mrs. Lloyd onstott went to
Seldovia for q visit last
week, got q job. and - stay
ing for d fen weeks.
lord has been recet we'd via
radio that Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Walter are the parents Of a
son born Last ,7eek at Anchor
ages
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
AGRICULTURAL G oNSEJITENr
TO WORK ON PENINSULA

Dr.. George D. Scarseth,
agricultural consultant, will
spend a port ion OF the third
week OF August On the Kena1
Pen 1nsula 1nve stigating nu-
trttional pro blems OF Alaskan
crops accord ing to word re-
ceived from the Extension
Service tH~ ~
This trip Will be Scar
sethss second to the Terri
tory. As director oS re-
search for the Ame rtcan Farm
Research Assoc tatton, 10 was
a principal speaker at Last
February's Al1-Alaska Farm
Forum he1d in Palmer Mrs.
Scarseth and their daughter,
Mary, will accompany h1ms
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
E'7 BULLET ms AVAILABLE

NEf ~ lAaEiL LIND AVAAAADAA
Several new agricultural
bulletins are avail Liable now
at the Homer extension office
according TO word received
from the Extension Servi ce.
The bulletins are: "Mos-
ou1toes--Ho- to Control Them
on Your Propsrty"; cabbage
Insects: How TO Control Them
In the Home Garden; "Home
Cured Meat: How TO Protect it
from Inssctsr; Poultry Mites
How TO Control Themn; Farm
Methods OF Cooling Mt1k";
Hrnsects and Diseases OF Veg
etab1es Ia the Home Garden;
"Horn Flies on catt1e--Iiou TO
Control Them". and "Rhurarb--
Cultivation u Food Value,
Pro parat1on, Pr9servat ion"s
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
YOU DON'T GAMBLE
':3
WHEN YOU u.
TRADE AT HOME
.-+ta s.sr L-.
.s4s s: N;
-H . 9I

But there. - another thing that f. even
more important.s~ It is sure thing that
the dollars you spend will be used to buy
more stock 50 that you Will have better
selection the next thine you shop. They
will be kept In Homer much as pos s1blel
and spent again and again TO event lily re-
turn to you Ia one way Or another. When
your dollar le ayes the community it - gone
never to return. The cash value OF the
cemun3 ty.is uust that much less. - >
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
SOU KNOW
I'VE BEEN THINKING

WI btEN I linking
Ehen you get what you vans
"a your struggle. for SELF,
. And the vorld makes you
king fer DAY,
Then 90 TO your mirror and
look NJ yourself,
And seq what The guy has
TO says ''~l
FOE - asn't your father
or mother Or wife,
those judgement upon you
anst PASS 80 !
The fellow whose verdict
count o most In your life,
Is the guy staring back
fran the glass.
He's the man you must
please; never mind 81 l the
rest,
FOR he's with you clear UP
TO the end,
and you've passed your
nest difficult, DANCE rous
test,
Z IT the guy in the glass II
year friend.
e-r
You may be like Little
Jack Horner and "ch Use II a
plum, M
And think; you're a wonder
fu1 guy,
But, the man in the glass
says you're eH1y q bum,
IF you can't 1eok him
stra1 ght in the eye.
You may fool the world
down the. pathway OF years.
u. Ana get pats on the back
as you pass,
But your final reward WILL
be heartaches and tears,
If, you have cheated the
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
,ss ne gamble M1en you trade at hons

There's no gamble When you trade at hons
because you can see What you are getting
before you buy. This is probably the moss
important factor TO be considered when you
decide that you need Particular item OF
merchandi Sc, But there are other Factors
to be considered. Vhen you buy locally.
YOU know that If 1t isn't right you can
take IL backs You know that tf II - an
item that WALL need serv1c1ng you can ex~
pect that sc rv1ce from your local merchants
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
CALL FOR BIDS POSTED
AT posToFFrCE

4 call for bids has been
posted In the postofftoe TO
carry mail by air between
Seldovta and Port Graham once
a week. The contract TO car
ry the nail had orr einal "
been awarded to the inlet
Flying servi ce, however IT Is
understood that protests have
been made to the award On the
grounds that the original
call for bids had not been
properly posted or the award
properly made.
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04
man in the glasss

A thought for the week; Three
"T's that have caused q lot
! Of trouble are: tongue )
thoughts and temper.
! ~ !. sS
Ray Green, Church Of chri ut
Homer news. (Homer, Alaska) 1950-1955, 1955-08-04

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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-08-20

If you sick, worried or in trouble this is the
place to come. Don't stay in the rut, push back the
veil of bad luck that to hold you in your track
and advance forward by the help of God under the
leadership Of Prof. Hunter who has 80 years of ex
perience in sprtualst and occult science Make your
home happy. He will show you how to bypass your
enemies and get the things that life demands for YOU