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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

Important new exhibitions
in Washington galleries in
clude two from distant ma
tions, which should be of spe-
cial interest to the layman as
we'll as to the artist and stu
dent: Handmade From In
dia," a gorgeous display which
was inaugurated by the Am
bassador of India and Mrs.
Mehta, on April 20, in the
Institute of Contemporary Arts
room at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, to remain through
May 81, and Finnish Crafts"
by Tapio Wirkkala and Rut
Bryk, to be opened this after
noon at 3 o'clock by the Am
bassador of Finland and Mrs.
Nykopp, in the foyer of the
Natural History Building,
Tenth street and Constitution
avenue, to remain only through
May II. Another exhibition
of exceptional interest is the
admirably developed theme
show, art and the Theater,"
at Watkins Gallery, American
University, which has two
weeks to run. All of these
will be reviewed here in de-
tail in the near future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

came invaders, like the vi
kings in their shallow, swift
boats; Alfred, Athelstan and
Canute: William the Conquer
or; Henry Plantagenet; Rich
ard the Lion Hearted, Runny-
mede and Magma Carta; Ban
nockburn and Bruce; Edward
III and Crecy; Henry v and
Agincourt.
Churchill is concerned with
the growth of law, the spread
of liberty, the increasing
checks on the power of mobiles
and kings. He says little about
the common people and the
way they lived; this is a his
tory of kings, courts, parlia-
mentS, judges and generals. a
history of the great exclu-
Sively. This lacks the ire
sistible urgency of Churchill's
World War II history. Yet
this is handsomely, vigorously
told and deserves the popu-
larity which the authors re-
nown will surely win for it.
w. G. ROGERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
An EIection-Yeur Assessment
Of the White House Record

umphing over demagoguery in
a way not to jeopardize major
administration policies by
"splintering" the Republican
Party.
The book praises Mr.. Eisen-
hover for his cabinet selec-
lions, his cooperative attitude
toward Congress and his work
methods generally, as well as
for his major domestic and
foreign policies.
Mi. Pussy, associate editor of
the Washington Post and
Times Herald, won the Pulitzer
Prize for biography in 1852 for
his Charles Evans Hughes. "
His new book, dealing with a
contemporary subject in an
election year, probably will not
win such undiSputed acclaim.
Those who like Ike" will like
the book; Democratic parti-
sans will not.
GARNET D. HORNER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

majority naturalistic, depict
landscape. urban themes, flow
ers and still life, and there
are few abstract paintings,
in which design is emphasized.
The collection speaks we'll not
only for her talent, but also
for the well-known Washing
ton artist-teachers with whom
she studied: Eliot O'Hara,
Rowland Lyon and Gustav
Trois, and also the noted Chi
nese artist, Wang Chi Yuen,
now living in New York, with
whom she studied Oriental
brush work and design.
Two large landscapes i'm
pressed me as her best: Win
ter Afternoon" and January
Thaw." Her Bright Horizon"
is her best abstraction. with
a prophetic title. for it appears
that Mrs. Leef has a bright
horizon as an artist. She is
a member of the National
League of American Pen Wom-
en-, in whose recent biennial
exhibition one Of her award
winning works was included.
furthermore, she has been pre-
viously represented in nine
juried exhibitions.
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Rennie Retrospective

Helen Rennie of Washington
is one of the small number of
artists who have had a draw
ing accepted for the exhibition
just opened at the Museum Of
Modern Art, New York City,
entitled, Recent Drawings,
U. S. A." to remain through
June 10. Entries totaled 5000
from all parts of the Nation.
from which only $50 we're
selected.
Her third solo exhibition is
drawing to a close MAY u at
the Dupont Theater Gallery.
Eighteen paintings, drawings
and colleges constitute a small
retrospective of her work over
a nine-year period. About
half the show is new work and
nearly all of it is abstract.
But the best abstract painting,
in my opinion, is THE Buda-
pest" done in 1949, with in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
THE NEWS EDITOR
WHO KEPT LINCOLN
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
THE MAN WHO ELECTED

THE MAN WHO ELECTED
LINCOLN. BY Jay Mon
Afghan. (Bobbs Merrill;
$4.509
Abraham Lincoln probably
would have reached the
White House had there
never been a Charles Ray,
for fate has a habit of shap-
ing history without too much
regard for outside influence.
There is no doubt, how
ever. but that Ray, the doc
tor-editor who welded a
powerful anti-slavery pen in
the struggling infancy of
the Chicago Tribune, con-
tributed nightly toward the
advancement of the Lincoln
political fortunes.
AS editor in chief Of the
Tribune. and a crusading
abolitionist, Ray did all in
his power to keep Lincoln in
the public eye. And as a
practical politician, he
played no small part in the
back stage maneuverings
that gave the Republican
nomination to his protege.
The account Of the bitter
ness engendered by the
slavery issue which finally
ended in war. finds a strik-
ing parallel today in the
feelings created by the seq
regation issue.
Much new light is shed on
a familiar subject.
JOSEPH A. FOX.
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REVOLT OF THE MODER-
ATES. By Samuel Lubell.

NJ NOLA UT he NODER-
ATES. BY Samuel Lubell.
Harper & Bros; $3.75.)
Mr.. Lubell's new book is so
pungently written that one is
tempted to quote whole pages
instead of summarizing them.
The most provocative conten-
ton of his early chapters is
that President Eisenhower is
not so much a magic" leader
as a follower of national trends
that have been in the making
for the last 20 years.
In saying SO, however, Mr..
Lubell upSetS still another leg
end-that of Mr.. Eisenhower
as a babe in the political
woods. If one defines politics
in its broadcast sense-as the
art of governing people
through people-there is little
question that Mr.. Eisenhower
must be rated as a highly
skilled professional. as COM
pleat political angler as ever
fished the White House" Fur
ther, says Mr.. Lubell, In his
own approach to politics, Mr..
Eisenhower has managed to
combine Cromwell's zeal to win
and sense of a heaven-bound
mission with a keen sensitive
ness to the psychological in
tangibles that make for good
organization and effective
public inspiration"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Sam LubeII Rates Eisenhower
Highly Skilled Professional

The Eisenhower balance"
Mr.. Lubell sees as the bal
ance struck by Eisenhower
between the risk of war and
the many domestic preSsures
for reduced spending and low
cred taxes"
This balance, he feels has
come about through 1.-The skill
with which Eisenhower has
followed the public mood" In
other words, Mr.. Lubell be-
lieveS that the time is ripe for
moderation. And it already
has triumphed everywhere in
the country except in the Deep
South, where the Supreme
Court decision on desegregation
has reopened old wounds. In
the crucial areas of foreign
policy, economic improvement
and racial tolerance, he finds,
except in the Negro-white ten
sion, that the middle-o the
readers largely derived from
the new middle classes are
prevailing.
Third Party
The likelihood Of a third
party in the South is envi-
stoned here. A Statistician
with a heart, Mr.. Lubell finds
that voters still vote emotions
and prejudices, but now bal
ance off the parties to get
what they want. Even in the
farm belt, which is supposedly
in rebellion, he found a con-
flict of interests. Farmers just
starting out and already in
debt favored rigid supports
and the Democratic Party. The
more established SquireS sup
ported the Republicans. He
feels that the Republicans in
rejecting the establishment"
wing represented by Senator
Mccarthy nave begun to move
out of the negativism that has
bedevileo their foreign policy
in the early postwar years.
Mr.. Lubell's lively analysis
seems to point to a Republican
year.
MARY McGRORY.
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A Story Of Human
Endurance Almost
Beyond Believing

THE LONG WALK. BY Slav-
omir Rawicz. Harper;
$500
The frantic desire to live is
a strange and powerful force
in the lives of men. 1t
prompted seven to attempt the
lmpossible-escape from a ST.
berian labor camp. 1t kept
them walking for nearly a year,
without food or clothing or
weapons. through the great
Cobb desert, over the Tibetan
Himalayas, at last, into India.
The story of these seven men
is a story of suffering, and pri-
walton; of courage and deter
mination. 1t is the story of
men who dared Soviet arms,
adverse weather and terrain
and extreme hunger and
thirst; the story of the will to
live. Their story will leave you
wondering, perhaps disbeliev-
ing; but it will leave you awed
and inspired with a new faith
in the courage of men.
GLADYS ELLISON.
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Commercial Art

Fine art" which is re-
viewed most of the time in
these and other art columns,
and commercial art, with
which we live every day, are
classified in separate pigeon
holes, but are not mutually ex-
elusive. Fine artists" fire.
quently execute commercial
art commissions. and com
mercial artists" show their
paintings and drawings in
fine arts" exhibitions.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
a stronghold of the fine arts"
has been host this month to
Washington-area commercial
artists, in their seventh annual
show sponsored by the Art
Directors Club of Metropoli-
tan Washington. A detailed
factual report of this show,
with a complete list of awards,
was given in The Stars news
columns April 5.
There are clear-cut differ
ences between fine and COM
mercial art. To mention one,
competent commercial artists
eat regularly by selling their
art, whereas the majority OF
fine artists" earn the better
part of their livings by their
activities in every other pro-
fession. from psychiatry to
cow punching, according to a
survey made by a New Eng
land museum a few years ago.
Furthermore, commercial art
lists major aim is to please
and hold the attention Of the
public by conveying ideas
forcefully, subtly, humorously
or suggestively, and sometimes
charmingly.
Today is the last Of this in
teresting and entertaining
show. on view in the upper
atrium.
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Not for Bedtime
Unless You Laugh
Yourself to Sleep
THE FALLEN ANGEL

The FALLEN ANGEL. BY
William 7. Polk. University
OF North Carolina Press; So
Give Faulkner's storytelling
a good cleaning, add a present.
day touch to Mark Twain and
you'll have some of the best
Of American humor in the late
Mr.. Folks collection of stories.
The author, a lawyer and
editorial writer for the Green's
boro Daily News writes with
the carefree style of one who
dosen't care whether his light
hides under a bushel.
Nobody" said Jonathan
Daniels. has ever succeeded so
well in depicting such a South
in robust veracity."
Mr.. Polk submitted the
manuscript to The Fallen
Angel to University Press only
a few weeks before his death
last year.
1t isn't recommended for
bedtime reading, unless one
can actually laugh himself to
sleep.
CHARLES YARBRouGH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Thomas Merton Reflects
On Christianity oduy

that We secretly or openly
hate and fear our own selves.
And we hate ourselves because
the depths of our being are a
chaos of Illustration and
spiritual misery. Lonely and
helpless. we cannot be at peace
with others because we are
not at peace with ourselves.
and we can not be at peace
with ourselves because we are
not at peace with God"
The author writes glowingly
of the Holy Eucharist and its
transcendent place in his
church. &C. B. j.
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THE LIVING BREAD, BY

THE LIVING BREAD. by
Thomas Merton (Farrar.
Straus g. Cudahy; So con-
tsins reflections appropriate
to the Easter season by the
famous monk of the Order of
CistercianS who wrote THE
Seven Storey Mountain" and
other books which sold widely
in the secular world.
Christianity" Mr.. Merton
or Father Louis-writes. lis
a religion of life, not death.
i. s. The whole problem Of our
time is the problem of love;
How are we going to recover
the ability to love ourselves
and love one another? The
reason why we hate one an
other and fear one another is
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Mussett's First

Charles Mussett of Memphis.
Tenn, is having his first one
man show in Washington at
the Whyte Gallery. through
Wednesday. A graduate of the
Universities of Tennessee and
Iowa, and not yet 80, he also
has had three years IN Europe,
which he spent chiefly in
Britain and Spain. He had his
first one-man show in London,
which was favorably received.
He now is on the staff of the
Hunter Gallery and the art
faculty of the University OF
Chattanooga.
The Whyte Gallery is show
ing IS oils, water colors, draw
lngS and colleges. The major
ity depict figures and heads III
a seminaturallstic convention.
In some of the paintings,
masklike white faces emerge
from murky backgrounds. with
occasional flashes of bright
color, as in Bouquet" 1
thought Orange Seller" a
large water color drawing, the
best item in the collection.
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ChurchiIl's English History
Handsomely, Vigorously Told

A HISTORY OF THE ENG
LISH l. SPEAKING PEO-
PIES: Vol 1: THE BIRTH
OF BRITAIN. BY Winston
S. Churchill. (Dodd, Mead;
$60
Churchill's long planned
history of the English-speak-
ing peoples begins with Caesar,
withdraws briefly to the still
more remote past, comes down
in these 500 pages to the end
Of the 18th century.
There were three Roman
centuries when Britons, says
Churchill, had it better than
ever before or since. Then
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The Dilemma
Of the Upper
Class Indian
SOME INNER FURY.

SOME INNER FURY. BY Ka-
mala Markandaya. John
Day; $780,
In her first book, Nectar
in a Sieve" Kamala Markham
daya wrote of the peasants Of
India. Here she describes the
dilemma Of upper-c lass In
dams, those wealthy and WELL
born families whose children
are often alienated by Western
education and who return to
their native land almost as
emigrants.
Such is the case in the fam
lily of Mira. Her brother, Kit,
returns from oxford, having
left his heart behind. she
promptly loses hers To his
English friend, Richard. Kit
meekly marries a gentle In
dian. Mira goes to work on a
Nationalist periodical. When
the struggle for independence
comes, in a violent phase,
brother and sister, each in
their way, pay for the disori-
entation the West has brought
into their lives.
Some Inner Fury is brief
and limpid, written in a style
that is only occasionally q
little high-flown. AS a depic-
ton Of various Indian atti-
tudes and the secure, ritual
istic life of orthodox Hindus,
1t is most illuminating. But
at its heart is the love affair
between Mira and Richard,
and his character and person
atty are never quite clear,
which makes for a certain
weakness. The climax is q
stunning court scene.
M. Mc0.
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made millions and lost them
as readily. Restless at the age
of IA, he got himself elected to
another term in Congress
with his chief aim, which was
realized, the purchase of the
Gettysburg battlefield as a ma
tional memorial.
Forever Active
He lived on into the goth
century still active. still at
tractive to women, still break
ing into the news now and
then as he f1ercely defended
his war record or engaged in
some fresh financial or politi-
cal exploit. Death finally
stilled his inexhauStible ener-
gy in his 95th year.
1t is an irony of history that
sometimes the more eminent
and blameless figures are less
interesting than some on the
fringe, whose characters may
be far from admirable.
Considering his ambitions
and opportunities, Sickles
could have been called a fail
ure. But. as Mr.. Swanberg says,
If he was a failure, he gave to
failure an indomitable distinc-
ton it had seldom known. He
invested it with a grandeur, a
roll of drums and a sounding
of trumpets that never accom-
panied men who achieved
humdrum success. He was the
most spectacularly successful
failure of the century"
In Full Blazing Color
Mr.. Swanberg, a Mime
sotan, presents his first book.
He has transferred to these
pages all the blazing color of
the generals life. 1t was said
that nearly everyone who met
Sickles was captivated by his
charm. his quick intelligence,
his wit. The biographer could
hardly dig through the annals
without succumbing to SYM
pathy for his subject. But
Mr.. Swanberg has not failed
to point out the other side of
Sickles. who, if he had many
loyal friends, also had en-
thusiaStic enemies who pur-
sued him relentlessly. He had
done things which were for
ever being dredged up against
him. He was indicted for fraud
in his early youth, though,
perhaps because of his con-
nection with Tammany, this
and a couple of other charges
never came to trial. He
presented a notorious New
York woman to shocked legis-
lators in Albany and even took
her to London, where he was
Secretary of the Legation in the
middle 1850s. This was before
his tragic first marriage,
though, from all accounts, he
never bothered to be faithful
to any one woman.
Mr.. Swanberg has written
his biography at the lively
tempo at which his subject
always lived. The humorous
situations are never neglected.
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A good many inventions did
get into production before the
war was over, some through
Lincoln's intervention, includ-
ing breach-loading rifles, even
a few repeating rifles. An an
cestor of the machine gun was
tried out, not with entire sue
cess.
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Alumni Show

Artists OF the Corcoran
Alumni Association are con-
Guiding an exhibition at
Friendship House, 6i9 D street
Sc. More than 40 oils,
water colors, pastels and draw
ings are hung in the audito-
rum, dining and clay rooms.
The works vary greatly in
quality. Nearly all are natural
istic, ana deficiencies in draw
ing. perspective and compost
ton show UP more readily Ito
the layman, at any rate) than
in abstract painting.
The best portraits are two
in pastel by Mary E. King.
The best landscapes and ur-
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EISENHOWER, THE PREsI

EASENL1OWEh, HE hE0A-
DENT. BY Merlo J. Pussy.
(The Macmillan Co.; $3.75)
This is an Il like Ike" book.
Mr.. Pussy presents a COM
prehensive review and favor
able assessment of the major
policies andS public actions of
President Eisenhower.
His chronicle begins with
what he calls the political
badgering" of a reluctant Gen.
Eisenhower, traces the gen.
erals decision to seek the Re-
publican nomination in 1852
and the ensuing campaign,
and then attempts to put in
perspective the first three
Eisenhower years in the White
House.
Most of the events of which
Mr.. Pussy writes have been
page-one news. His book ties
these events together into a
cohesive pattern. pointing up
Mr.. Eisenhower's middle of
the road" philosophy.
In his appraisal of the Pres
ident's policies and actions,
Mr.. Pussy finds much to APP
plaud and practically nothing
to criticize. He concludes that
1.-The Eisenhower years, though
clouded by struggle and uncer-
tainty, have been a buoyant.
forward-moving and fruitful
period"
The author defends many of
the Presidents actions that
have met with criticism else
understanding from his pa
tience" with Senator McCar-
thy to his golf playing.
Tracing the long contest"
with the Wisconsin Senator
through the 1854 Senate CEN
sure vote, Mr.. Pussy credits
Mr.. Eisenhower's "soft-spoken
candor and sincerity" with fri
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Leef Water CoIors

Dorothy Leef. a native
Washingtonian who began to
study painting only two years
ago. is having her second solo
exhibition. at the Roumanian
Inn. BIS Thirteenth street. II
is a delightful show. the paint
ingS being more advanced than
one would expect. even though
she has devoted a major part
of her time to art in this short
period.
Eighteen water colors. the
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ner'S; So could easily be the
most absorbing and colorful
biography of the year.
Gen. Sickles was, like most
extraordinary men, highly am
bilious. He wanted to be Pres
ident. and there was a time,
in his youth, when it looked as
if he might make it. But, at
the most sympathetic and
charitable estimate, he was
part rogue. Usually, at the
crucial moment, when his po-
litical fortunes were soaring,
what the biographer calls his
gamey reputation interfered
and he was set back, though
never for long-he always
bounced back.
A leader of Tammany in his
youth, he was in the New York
Legislature in his 20s and in
Congress in his 30s.
While in Congress, a rising
figure, a close friend of Pres
ident Buchanan and lavish
host, he shot and killed Philip
Barton Key, the United States
Attorney, in Lafayette Square.
Key had been intimate with
the CongreSsman's. 22-year
old wife, Teresa.
Just the Beginning
Sickles was acquitted, but
people said his career was
ended. 1t was only beginning.
When the Civil War broke
out, he raised a volunteer bri-
gade in New York and was
commissioned a brigadier gen.
eral by President Lincoln when
the Governor of New York, a
political enemy, refused.
At Gettysburg, Sickles COM
manded a corps. He won the
battle by disregarding orders
and posting his divisions on
the high peach orchard well
ahead of the line assigned him.
Or he almost lost it, depend
ing on whether you believe
SickleS and his devoted friends
or Gen. Meade and the profess
sional soldiers, who insisted
that the Union forces won de-
spite Sickles. But SickleS,.
whose personal bravery was
never questioned, lost a leg in
the battle.
Back in Limelight
The one-legged hero hared
back into fame-or notoriety,
as you look at it-after the
war. President Grant made
him Minister to Madrid, where
he got himself mixed up in the
plot to establish a Republic,
carried on an affair with the
deposed Queen, Isabella IL
Sickles never lacked for girl
friends-and finally married
poor Teresa having died) a
Spanish lady out of the no
bility.
Sickles returned to New
York and wrested control of
the Erie Railroad from Jay
Gould in one of the most spec
tacular coups in the history
of American finances.
Later, the aging general
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Shows Include Works
Of Indio and Finland
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

struments and suggestive lines
of musicians and music stands.
Mrs. Rennie has exhibited
frequently in local group
shows and is we'll known for
lively captures of her Siamese
cats. One in the present show.
painted on a rose-red drapery,
should prove popular. There
also are several clever colleges,
my favorite being "CheSa-
peake Idyl."
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INTERPRETATION OF SPIRITUALS-"Old Arks
AMoverin'" by Ruth Starr Rose of Alexandria, one
of series of 81 of her Autographs and serigraphs
which she had given to Howard University and
which James A. Porter head of its art department,
describes as probably the most sympathetic visual
Interpretation of the Negro spritualS yet to appear
in the United States" Mrs. Roses exhibition at
Howard has been extended to May 11-Star Staff
Photo
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Books
Here's One Old General
Who Didn't Fade Awoy
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

fabulous American out of the 10Th century
Daniel Sckles he'd be hard locate at glance Ger
tainy p T. Barnum John C. Fremont Kit
other candidate likely to readily to mind Unlike
Crockett Gen. Scles does require the help of folk
lore-t fascinating enough strictly factual basis
SICKLES THE INCREDIBLE, by w. A. Swanberg Scrib-