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Surgery Aids Chronic Cases

The help of the psychiatriSt is most effective
in the early stages of Lucrative COLTS. When
the disease has been present for many months or
years, permanent changes take place in the It's
sues of the colon and rectum. The surgeon may
then have the most to offer toward relief of the
disabling symptoms. At all stages of treatment
the attending physician will use drugs such as
antibioticS, antiSpaSmodcs and cortisone to
ease the burden of the painful diarrhea and loss
of vitality.
What does the pSychiatrist try to do? He
must first discover and help his patient under
stand the nature of his emotional problem.
Many COLTS patients have grown up with an
exaggerated fear of losing control of themselves,
of openly showing anger and hostile feelings.
So intense is this Self-controI that such people
are often unaware of even feeling angry. One
young woman. Tilted without explanation by her
sweetheart, when asked how she felt, could say
only, Il was surprised"
The fear of harming others by aggressive
behavior was wildly described by another
patient, college athlete. During football
game in which member of the opposing team
was injured, he was overcome by anxiety and
guilt that he had somehow been responsible.
Yet he had not even been involved in the play
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Secrets and Promises

Boys of ten or twelve usually
prefer stories Of outdoor adj
venture, like THE LONE
HUNT by William o. Steele
(Harcourt. $2.75). Girls of this
age are more concerned with
secrets and promises, matters
of friendship and family adj
justment.
For these girls, three Of the
best new books are SECRET
FRIEND by Meta Frazier
Gongmans. $2.75), EMMY
KEEPS A PROMISE by Madye
Chastain (Harcourt. $2.75)
and THE CORNHUSK DOLL
by Eleanor Wilcox (Dodd,
Mead, $2.75). 1.-THE Corn
husk Doll" may cause more
than one reader to comment,
as my daughter did. "It's a
great book 1 think Sally should
have stayed with the Indians"
FIFTEEN by Beverly Cleary
Morrow. $2.75) is the young
teenager's choice. The junior
high girls in my neighborhood
have worn out two copies al
ready. They feel definitely at
home with the young heroine
whose experiences with baby
sitting. first dates, and prob
lem parents are the same as
theirs.
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TV and Books

One Of the most ambitious
ventures to link books, films.
and TV is the PICTURE
BOOK PARADE produced by
the Weston Woods Studios in
Westport, Conn. Ten favorite
picture books, from MIL
LIONS OF CATS to MIKE
MULLIGAN, have been trans
ferred from book TO film with
out distortion or loss Of inter-
est.
SO successful are the re-
suits that these films are be-
ing acquired by Audio-Visual
departments OF schools and
Libraries. II you are planning
a local Book Week program.
be sure to find out whether
the Picture Book Parade" Is
available in your community,
for these films will give you
ready-made entertainment on
a high level.
And II you're interested in
new angles on Children. TV
and Books. Nancy Larrick.
former Washingtonian and
reading specialist. will speak
on this subject at a luncheon
meeting az the Willard Hotel
on November II. The lunch
con Is sponsored By the Chill
dren's Book Guild OF WASH
ington. For reservations.
call Matilda Young. Adams
7-2773J
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entertaining story is framed
with the exhibition.
The artist, in his mid-20S, is
modest about his work. II
don't feel myself that they're
anything big" he is quoted.
They're just me-" He invent
ed his medium, so far as he
knows. He began as a painter,
soon tired of conventional oils,
and sought for new textures
and tonal effects. His expert
ments led to the use of many
kinds of seeds-coffee beans,
rice, lentils, fruit seeds-in-
dividually glued into a plywood
base on which a simple COM
position was sketched in out
line.
The patience required to
af1ix these innumerable tiny
seeds Staggers the imagina-
ton. At a distance the fin-
ished works resemble hooked
rugs. simple in composition,
clean in technique. Five or
more flower pieces impressed
me as the best. There are
also moon-faced heads, primi-
See ART NEWS, Page E-l
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FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Children's Book Business
Makes important Strides
BY BARBARA NOLEN

tits Always Book Time" is
the theme for the 3Sth Chill
dren's Book Week. celebrated
this year from November IS to
December /. Ten large metro
politan book fairs, from Wash
ington to Honolulu, and dozens
of smaller ones. emphasize the
fact that children's books are
no longer the step-child Of the
book business.
Thirty-eight years ago. Chill
dren's Book Week was invented
to encourage and stimulate in
terest in children'S books.
Granted that children enjoy
reading old favorites over and
over again: Peter Rabbit,
Treasure Island. Black Beauty,
Tom Sawyer, children Of the
Goth century want 10th GEN.
tury books, too.
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100 Best Books

Both new and old favorites
are included in the list of 100
best books" for children, which
appears in the current issue of
McCall's. One Washington au-
thor. Anne Malcolmson. is
represented by YANKEE
boobies COUSINS.
The books on this list were
selected by three experts, with
one eye on literary merit and
the other on the "uncompro-
missing taste of children them
selves" It is a useful list but
not radically different from
similar lists prepared by large
library systems. All such lists
must be constantly revised or
supplemented by new ma
terial.
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Nothing Stutic

There Is nothing static
about children or children's
literature. More important
than ever are the up-to-date
stories which combine chill
dren's interests and easy read
ing.
Carolyn Haywood. pioneer
in this field, has done it again
in BETSY'S BUSY SUMMER
Morrow. $685. featuring a
backyard swimming pool and
a watermelon contest. LITTLE
PEAR AND THE RABBITS
by Eleanor baltimore tMor-
row. $3.50 marks a return en-
gagement of the best-known
small boy in pre-Communist
China. In WHITLEY ROPES
AND RIDES by Glen Rounds
Holiday House. $2.25) Whitley
struggles manfully to outsmart
his visiting girl-cousin.
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The Political Lingo
In Plain English
SPEAKING OF POLITICS

SPEAKING OF POLITICS.
BY Franklin Cary Salisbury.
(Vantage Press, Inc: $3.75D
With the torrent of words
from political partisans now
at its four-year peak, Frank
lin Cary Salisbury has come
up with a scholarly. but read
able work designed as an aid
to the overwhelmed citizen.
A Georgetowner and an In
terror Department attorney.
Mr. Salisbury. like the rest of
us, often has been confused
by the use and misuse of polit-
ical terms in the United
States. He has done something
about it in this book, which
is sponsored by the Latin
American Institute of Wash
ington.
In speaking Of politics. he
offers definitions for precise
guage. He takes the everyday
words Of Professionalism.
collectivism, liberal, reaction
ary-and tells what they really
mean.
Il. EDGAR PRINA.
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Government Suppression
OF Information Attacked

centuries Of progress in the
fight to remove restrictions
against informing the public
what it properly should know.
But he sees events moving in
another direction. There is
abroad in this country and the
rest Of the world an impulse
to secrecy"
Secret Trial
He cites a growing tendency
to transact the real business
Of legislation - Federal and
State = at closed committee
meetings and private confer
ences. He points to the trans
fer of too much judicial au-
thority from the courts, with
their open trials. to executive
commissions or administrators.
who weigh in secret their
evidence against individuals
charged with disloyalty or
other offenses. He refers to
the right Of the Postmaster
General to decide, exparte,
whether mailed material is
morally or politically danger
GUS.
Mr.. Virgins has written a
hard-hitting book.
e 2 I
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Illustration by Lois Lenski for Her
Book Flood Friday"
two Arab boys rescue from
coyotes and vultures? In 1
GIVE YOU MY COLT Oong-
mans; $2.75) Alice Geer Kelsey
tells a memorable story. bridg-
ing the gap between ancient
Persia and modern Iran.
Mrs. Kelsey first went to the
Near East in 1919 to work with
war orphans. Later, she lived
in Iran. learning to love the
children. their stories and their
traditions. What THE Good
Master" does for Hungary. 1
GIVE YOU MY COLT should
do for these sturdy Arab no
MAIDS,
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shington: she has exhibited

the Berlin Academy. spent
six years in the United States
Army before coming to this
country to live. His group of
nine sculptures is excellent,
including little bronze figures
OF women and children Zone
of which won a sculpture
award at the Corcoran area
annual last winter and was
reproduced in these columns
December a and a few por-
trait heads. Mr.. Brabant's
forms are realistic but much
simplified as to features and
other details. His studies of
very young children, one d tot
in playpen. capture charac-
teristic poses and gestures.
His portrait head of "Mrs. S.
T." is individual and vital. Mr..
Brabant's exhibition also in
cludes drawings of figures for
sculptures, and some abStrac-
tions.
Nine Mobiles
Richard Cooper's nine mo-
biles are varied and imagina-
tive. They range from the lacy
forms of "Nightshade" and
the little "Fishbowl" to the
tall blue Palm" and spread
ing BLACK Bird" Some of the
works are hung, others set up,
and lighted in such a way
that their shadows extend
their compositions. Dancers"
is a particularly light and
witty item, combining i'm
movable little shapes, abb
stract but suggestive, with
mobile brightly colored disks
that move at a breath.
Mr.. Cooper, a supervisory
illustrator for the United
States Nays Bureau of Aero
nautics, has been successfully
a craftsman. mural painter,
and designer in several fields.
He now concentrates on
mobiles, by which he is best
known to Washingtonians. He
obtained his art education
at the Philadelphia Museum
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'Medinos' and 'MeIIuhs'

Visitors to Bruno Beran's
one-man show at the Wash
ington Hebrew Congregations
Ring Hall, 1895 Macomb street,
doubtless feel that they have
been transported many CEN
turtles in time to the past. This
fascinating show is composed
of more than 80 paintings in
oil. pastel, sepia and colored
inks, and a mixed technique
the artist created, depicting
several races in Morocco today.
Mr.. Beran. who came to the
United States during World
War II. has made Washington
his permanent home, although
he has had long sojourns
abroad. About two years ago
he spent a year in Morocco.
painting the Moroccan Jews
and the Arabs and Berbers, all
of whom are closely related
in language, clothing and APP
pearance, but strongly con-
trasted in their spiritual
heritages. The Jews occupy
ancient ghettos (mellahs) sur
rounded by walls thousands
of years old, while the Berbers
and Arabs live in "medinas"
and "kasbahs. These places
are far behind the times in
comfort and convenience from
our standpoint; but they are
picturesque and beautiful, to
judge from Mr.. Beran's street
scenes of Fee. Tangiers and
Marrakash.
Naturalistic
Most Of these paintings and
drawings are naturalistic, a
few are more loosely handled,
simplified and expressionistic.
His portraits of types of each
race are full of character and
individuality. He had superb
subjects. such as the Jewish
philosophers, the handsome
Berber chief, the old "Abitbol"
and the winSome Berber child,
to mention a few.
This exhibition which re-
mains through November IL.
was first shown by the United
States Information Service in
Tangiers. then in Paris a year
ago, and more recently at the
Jewish Museum in New York
City. Its current showing is
supplemented with Mr.. Beran's
excellent portraits of Mrs.
Charles Goldsmith and Hyman
Goldman, lent by the Hebrew
Home of the Aged, and the
charming pastel Of a little
girl which received The Even
ing Star award at q MetropoIi-
tan State Art Contest a few
years ago.
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frequently. and has won i'm
portant awards. She began
her art career as a student at
the Corcoran School and the
Phillips Gallery. The Corcoran
Gallery is one Of several lead
ing museums which own her
paintings.
Mimi Bottoms work is be.
coming increasingly abstract
while Jacob Kainen's is return
ing in a slight degree to repre-
sentation. In Mrs. Bottoms
new paintings her organization
of space and color seemed to
me particularly good in In
terror" while the light-filled
mist of Swamp Bird" is out
standing. But most effective
in the solidity of forms and
surrounding atmosphere is
Monarch Pass"
new Approach
Mr.. Kainen's abandonment
of abstract expressionism for
forms which can be recognized
by the layman, has not re-
turned him to the kind of fig
urative painting he did when
he first came to Washington,
good as that was. His new
paintings are more intellectual,
less sensuouS. His new APP
proach to figures is well ex-
emplif1ed in boy with Bal
loon" and Man Drawing a
Sword" and to landscape in
Fishing from a Barge" He is
well known here, not only as
a painter. but also as curator
of the Division of Graphic Arts
of the Smithsonian Institution.
Born in Connecticut, he
studied at the New York Art
Students League and the
Pratt School of Art. He has ex-
hibited throughout the United
States and is represented in
the permanent collections of
leading museums. including the
Corcoran. He is now in Europe
on a research grant, studying
the 18th Century English
artist John Baptist jackson.
Lothar Brabant, trained at
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FREEDOM OR SECRECY. BY
James Russell Virgins. (Ox-
ford: sd

FREEDOM OR SECRECY. BY
James Russell Virgins. (Ox-
ford; So
Suppression Of information
by a government is apt to
have the same bad effects on
a democracy regardless of
whether it is justified, Mr..
Virgins contends.
The author, who is execu-
tive editor and vice president
of the Washington Post and
Times Herald, adds: "a gov
eminent that generally asserts
the right to say which of its
acts may be divulged and
which must be concealed ex-
ercises a power that tends to
tyranny whatever its outward
form. 1t has the power to en-
force acceptance of its policies
by eXaggerating their merits
and distorting their disad-
vantages. 1t has the means of
concealing its crimes and
derelictions and exaggerating
its virtues and triumphs. It
possesses a device for accom-
plishing the greatest of all
corruptions-the corruption of
the public mind itself. -"
Mr.. Virgins sums up three
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Compelling Urqe

The floods Of 1855 in Con-
'necticut produced not only
John HerSey's graphic nara
tives but several food stories
for children. FLOOD WATERS
by Jerdold Beim (Harcourt.
,$2.75) is about a lucky family
whose chief problem is a lost
dog.
Less fortunate are the chill
dren in FLOOD FRIDAY by
Lois Lenski tLippincott. S2.50).
Miss Lenski says, Living in
the heart Of the flooded area
Of Connecticut. felt a COM
pelling urge 10 write this
book" That compelling urge"
lifts this story above run-of-
the-mili regional fiction.
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Two Seu-Woshed Reports
OF Life on Ancient Islands
By MARY McGRoRY

left the timeless, piercing
beauty of Kalymnos, why or
how the author never says.
She has certainly made the
dying island live in these pages,
which are shot through with
color and kindness, with the
wonderful humanity Of peo-
pie who are vibrantly alive.
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ment, nothing Mr.. Montsarrat
writes should be overlooked.
The first novel is THE TER.
RIBLE SWIFT SWORD Cow
ard-McCann; $500.
1t is about a military prep
school in Georgia. It is a dra-
matte story in which the con-
flicts and crises are as real and
as important to the characters
as most of the things which
will happen to them later in
life.
AdOlescent Drama
need hardly press the point
that boys between Is and 10
often undergo experiences that
vitality affect the later
years. After all, character is
formed largely in the terrific
years Of adolescence - some
times misnamed the tender
years-and thus there can be
more drama in kid stuff" than
in the more tepid life which
most OF us lead later. 1t all
depends on who is writing
about such youths and how
deeply he looks into them.
The spotlight at the school
which the author calls the
Mason Military. Academy is
on q plebe named Ted Can't
rell. Everything is wrong
with Ted. He is unattractive,
without poise or tact, just
naturally the sort Of boy the
more sadistic upper classmen
bully with pleasure. And yet
Ted, in his own way, is
shrewder than they, and he
contrives, with unsupported
subtlety, to bring about the
downfall Of several of his
most ruthless prosecutors.
Moves at Fast Pace
Scobey, a respected senior,
cadet lieutenant working
for West Point, is busted to
private and disgraced merely
because he was present when
Ted was beaten by a cadet
sergeant. How the comman-
dant found out is a mystery,
but you feel that Ted wasn't
the one who told. Scobey's
successor, also an accom-
plished sadist, is likely to be
held negligent when a loaded
Army automatic is stolen from
the armory. The Regular
Army sergeant who is a tacti-
cal instructor and two cadet
officers are certain Ted is
guilty, and they go to work
on him to make him confess.
How this episode comes out
is the climax of the story.
This story moves at a furious
pace from the opening to the
closing page. You are likely,
in your absorption with the
story, to forget until afterward
on obvious fact-that the
author writes extremely well.
THE Terrible Swift Sword"
proves, indeed, that Arthur
Steuer is a newcomer with an
1x,1f{;,1n kola,,f
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Ponoromo
MEN TO MATCH n

MEN TO M TIC III MY
MOUNTAIN by Irving Stone
Doubleday; $685. is an at
tempt to describe the opening
Of the West (ls40- 1900. par
ticuarly In terms Of the domi-
nant characters. The author
Of biographical novels Of Van
Gogh and many others does
very well. despite the difficulty
Of summing up such an enor-
nous expanse Of people and
events in 400 pages. The story
Is told in colorful detail, with
the most interesting episodes
corraled. The book is one Of
the Mainstream Of America
series. edited BY Lewis Gsnnett.
&C. B.j.
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Nicholas Monsurrut

Mr.. Monsarrat's new novel.
THE TRIBE THAT LOST IT'S
HEAD Sloane; $4.95) is a
major effort. at least in bulk.
1t runs to 600 pages.
As a literary achievement it
is disappointing, to put 1t
charitably.
Mr.. Monsarrat has created
clearly enough-brought to
life. you could say-an imagi-
nary island 600 miles of the
Atlantic coast Of South Africa.
It's a large island, more than
200 miles long, inhabited by a
black tribe called Maulas and
governed by the British.
A Good Setting
In making this island Of
Pharamaul so vivid the author
had at least the setting of a
good story. But in telling this
story of a revolt that followed
the return of the hereditary
chief from oxford. Mr.. Mon
sarrat could never seem to
make up his mind whether he
was writing a satire or a realis-
tic novel. Nor is it always
clear which side the author is
on.
On the surface the thesis
Is that the dear, laundering
old British colonizers, with
kindly hearts and the best in
terests Of their subjects always
at the forefront, are the vic
TINS of some plotting within
the tribe and particularly of
the U-Malas, their even less
civilized neighbors in the
northern part Of the island.
The real villain, though. is the
press--at least a shabby Sec
ton Of 1t. not. 1t is made clear.
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SiciIiun Scenes

Herbert Kubly was a bird Of
passage in Sicily. which may
account for the difference in
the tone of his book. He de-
lightedly discovered Italy, from
which all Sicilians would dis
affiliate if they could. in
American in Italy," which
won the National Book Award
for nonfiction last year. An
observer. he seems to be look
ing on sometimes with disap-
proval and sometimes with
disenchantment.
Certainly the people he met
with in his winter and spring
travels through the old. crowd
ed, suffering island, were not
the kind to restore ones faith
in humankind. His most con-
slant companion was Franco.
South American son of Italian
immigrants. whose proves
with the ladies was his pride
and only subject of CONVERSE
ton. He met Stiff-necked
British, homosexual Germans,
penny, pinching Swiss, lecher-
ous-lying SiciIlans, who car
ried on passionate affairs and
correspondence with suscepti-
BILE foreign women.
FlOwer-Decked Beauty
He was more fortunate in
the landscape. Sicily present.
ed bewildering succession of
scenes. from the blighted shore
of Ragusa. Persephone's lake,
to the flower-decked beauty
of Taormina. Mr.. Kubly does
justice to them all.
The Sicilian cult of mother
hood, reflected in the Madon-
na-dominated celebration of
Easter, in the fantastic life of
Giuliano. the bandit, is the
thread through his narrative.
His description of the Holy
Week, with its 2l-hour pro-
cession, its incredible confu-
sion. racket. heat and length
is the climax of the book. He
recounts all the details, but
something is missing. it is
somehow disjointed. Perhaps
Mr.. Kubly just didn't stay long
enough TO plumb the mystery
Of how a hopeless people cele-
brates the feast Of hope with
such ferver. gusto and pride.