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country and the welfare of Tx
world" Mr.. Truman said.
we also discussed the forth
coming Democratic victory II
November" Gov. Hartman said
On his customary morning
walk before breakfast. Mr.. Tru-
man reiterated his intention tC
remain neutral in the Adlai E
Stevenson Hartman rivalry fol
the nomination.
The statement was in response
to a question on his attitude
toward the possible candidacy
Of Senator Symington of Mis-
souri, for the Democratic nomi-
nation.
In Same Position
I'm in the same position as
with Hartman and Stevenson:
want TO remain neutral MI
Truman said.
In reply to another question
he remarked that he had said in
Europe that Il was very happy
when Senator Estes, Kefauvel
was defeated in California. F."
Il have an inclination toward
somebody else besides Kefauver.
Mr.. Truman said after breakfast
But l don't like to discuss il
because he Senator Kefauver)
mlaht be nominated and l would
have to support him.
Gov. Hartman remarked that
I have never said anything
against any of the candidates.
Some Democrats are not my kind
Of Democrats, but Stevenson and
Kefauver are my kind"
Mr.. Truman said he probably
would meet with Mr.. Stevenson
later in Chicago.
Gov: Hartman and I have
been the closest of friends since
l was Vice President Mr.. Tru-
man said. Nh. Stevenson and
| have been close friends since
he was Governor of Illinois.
Pledges Support
When asked whether he would
be active in support of Mr.. Ste
venson If he is nominated. as
he would be for Gov. Hartman
the former President said, I'll
be in there fighting wherever
they want me-"
Mr.. Truman said he would be
visited this afternoon by Mrs
India Edwards, who recently re-
signed as vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
to aid the Hartman campaign
When MI. Truman and Gov
Hartman met on the Sidewalk
outside the Governors residence
Gov. Hartman said, Since I've
last seen you / threw my hat ii
the ring; this is the hat, too.
Hold onto it, it is going t
be valuable Mr., Truman said
The former President earlier
said he and Gov. Hartman an
not plotting to keep Mr.. Ste,
venson from getting the nomina
ton. that he Will not try Il
boss the convention and that HI
does not want to be the keynot
speaker.
SCOTS at plot"
Mr. Truman scoffed at tn
plot idea yesterday during hi
customary early morning stro
as neWsmen asked him abou
published reports.
Mr. Truman said about tn
reported plot:
That's the first I've heard @
it. Plots are outside my ker
The convention is vide open.
wouldn't be fair for me to try t
run the Democratic convention
because ! have no desire to be
political boss"
He added that ANY man quail
fled has a chance for the nom
nation.
He expressed amusement a
the report that he and Mr.. Har
riman were plotting to pick
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convention keynoter as part of
a stop Stevenson move.
Mr.. Truman said:
The keynote speaker is Sc
lected by the national chairman
Paul Butler. He hasn't con-
suited me and he probably won't
! haven't any candidate. I have
no desire to make the keynote
speech"
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Truman Again ProcIoims Need Of Leader
His Neutrality in Primary For West Seen

NEW YORK, July (P9.-FOrmer President Truman had
breakfast with Avere Hartman contender for the
Democratic presidential and said afterward I'VE did
discuss candidates"
I'VE talked everything the trip Eu
rope welfare of the
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Student Show

Advanced members of The
odora Kane's studio classes
are having a summer-lo long ex-
hibition at the Roumanian
Inn, 815 Thirteenth street
NV, through September Is.
1t includes work which won
prizes in the annual student
show Mrs. Kane holds each
spring. awarded by a jury of
Washington artists: Burtis
Baker for portraits. Katherine
Hobbs. landscape, and Jules
Eboli, composition and still
life.
First awards went to "Nu-
clear Still Life" an abstrac-
ton of explosive impasto, by
Garland Niche; to Lu Bahr's
traditionally presented Young
Frenchman." in the portrait
class; to Marjory Whiteman's
pleasant Morning in Taxco."
for watercolor, and to Jean
Miller's vivid Along Pennsyl-
vania Avenue" for landscape.
Honorable mentions were be-
slowed on Robert Rinden's abb
stract "Opus No. y: Louis
Reichert's moody portrait "Of
Time and the River; Es-
ther Donenberg's Magnolia
Leaves" and Juanita Kirkes'
Violin and Ballet Slippers.
The largest individual rep
resentation in the show was
that by Marjory Whiteman.
whose work is competent, va
ried and pleasing.
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RoIlicking Through France
In Search of Rare Art

Simonetta," by Tintorino.
From Paris into the French
provinces he encounters some
remarkably dim-witted aris-
tocrats. Also, he meets a few
French citizens whose blood
is not so blue. OF these, the
most amusing is M. Sassifre,
a private detective, also in
search of the missing MASTER
piece, whose DISCUSSES never
fool Madi for a second.
Complications multiply and
in the peregrinations of the
Tintorino there is mounting
suspense. But, in a surprising
manner, David gains possess
sion of it at last. walks of
hand in hand with Madi, and
ends up as the proprietor of a
renowned Establishment" in
a small South France town.
the result of a curious real
estate deal.
The almost thirty drawings
OF Mircea VaSiliu, who has a
delicate touch of humor and
verve, help. enormously to
make this book a must on the
seasons list.
GLADYS WOOD DANIEL,
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Story Of the WostreI Queen
Of France and Her Times

herself into a frenzy Of vain
amusement that undoubtedly
contributed to the bankruptcy
Of the nation. Her mad orgy
of pleasure did not include in
fidelity, although Louis was
incapable of becoming hus-
band-and-father until, seven
years after marriage. he agreed
to undergo the necessary sur
gerry.
1t was her enemies that
spread the lie of unfaithful-
ness among the people. Only
near her LIES end, when she
was being swept with Louis
into the fatal vortex OF Re-
publicanism did her smolder-
ing love for Axel Won Fersen
translate itself into physical
reality.
Readers will not condemn
Marie and will feel only pity
for the Intellectual Louis whose
love for his people remained
steadfast to the end. even as
did his love for Marie. They
were the victims Of a way Of
life nourished in the reign Of
q willy old king who said.
AFTER me, the deluge."
H. A. LYON.
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Colony Group

Paintings by students OF
James Cupoli are hanging in
the Colony Lounge. 1927 De
Sales street, through Septem-
Der 81. Seventeen items Sc
lected from the work Of 43
students, include work by 8
adults. 6 young people in their
second decade and 2 from Mr..
Cupoli's classes at Quantico,
a varied group.
He teaches his pupils to
paint Enthusiastically, as firm
basis for future experiment.
This would seem to be a sound
procedure. 1t is much easier
for the layman and presum-
ably for the art student, to
recognize flaws in representa-
tional painting. which are not
so apparent in modern work
by beginners.
Errors in perspective, a uni
form appearance in objects
which were meant to be at diff
ferent distances, and kindred
flaws, leap to the most casual
glance. The more ambitious
paintings show these up more
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Lund Of Dreums

BEYOND THE BLACK
STUMP, by Nevil Shute Nor
row; 1879. is story in which
a popular British novelist ex-
plores an interesting theme.
This is the basic differences
between a family in the out
back Of Australia, the remote
region of vast sheep ranches,
and family in a small Ameri-
can town.
Young Stan Laird, an Ameri-
can geologist, went to Western
Australia for his company in
search of oil. The nearest
ranch to the prospecting camp
contained a family battling TO
Stan. The father was Irish, a
former IRA fighter who fled
Ireland during the troubles"
The mother was Scottish.
The red haired daughter
Mollie, with whom Stan fell
In love. had numerous brothers
and sisters and half brothers
and sisters. some white. some
colored. The father had come
to the lonely country unat-
tached and married, in a way
Of speaking. Q native woman.
She was still around. So were
their progeny. So was his
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Marie Comins

The author of one Of the
more provocatively titled books
of the season, "BE A SAINT
IN SPITE OF YOURELF," is
a Washington woman, Marie
c. Comins. She emphatically
does not agree with goth
century fellow-Catholics who
say holiness is not for U.S."
Modern man." she says,
"too tense over the H-bomb
to worry about hell. too pre-
occupied over imitation to think
about the high price of his
immortal soul, demands a
short cut in all his endeavors.
Even salvation must be sirnpli-
fed in two easy lessons"
1t most certainly is not easy,
Mrs. Comins illustrates in her
book. She recounts the lives
of IA saints and has in all their
individuality and trials, show
ing that the distractions Of
their own particular time and
condition were just as stiff as
any faced today. Unlike the
photographers of yesteryear,
who depicted the saints as
stepping surely along the path
OF salvation. looking neither to
right nor left, she depicts them
as human beings with human
problems.
Mrs. Comins, a native Of st.
Louis, is the wife of w. D.
Comins, professor of psychol-
ogy at Catholic University.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE. BY F.

w. Kenyon. (Crowell; $685.
When Grace Kelly married
Prince Rainier of Monaco she
became distantly related to
Gabrielle de Polignac, great
great : great grandmother of
her husband and a rather
racy character in this intimate
story about the 'let-them-eat-
cake" Queen of France.
The novel is not about Ga
brielle, whom Mr.. Kenyon de-
scribes in many passages that
portray the morals OF the
nobility Of the day. The novel
is about Queen Marie. But in
it Marie finds it easy to in
stall Gabrielle as surintendante
Of her household at Versailles
with full knowledge OF the
Countess sequence of lovers,
both the current lover and the
husband receiving pluShy jobs
at the court. There is a GER
tain candid honesty about the
Countess which readers may
find refreshing.
Summed up, the author Of
"The Emperor's Lady" (Jo-
sephine), has written another
glamorous novel sympathetic
to a great historical figure. 1t
walks and talks with the ex-
travagant queen from the time
she crosses the French border
as the l4-year-old Austrian
Princess betrothed to the Dau-
phin. 1t is the life story OF q
normal woman tortured by
Illustrations in q frivolous,
naughty environment she did
not create-indeed, it was a
society which she hated.
Denied almost every salts
faction Of the spirit, she threw
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THE SPIRIT OF THE CHASE,

The SPIRIT OF THE CHASE,
BY Robert Bright. Illustra-
lions by Mircea Vasiliu.
(Scribner's; 49,
Robert Bright must have
had a lot of fun writing this
novel. This thought comes to
mind as you chuckle through
a series of the most droll and
ingenious connections mag
Unable.
The setting is postwar
France. The story is about
David Mackland, a young and
not at all prosperous Boston
art collector, who is in Paris
on the lookout for such
masterpieces" as he can
afford. 1t is here that he first
discovers. in the hands of an
enhancing Paris gamin named
Madi, a wretched copy of a
long lost major" masterpiece.
Her aunt, small and tough
and stringy like an old rope"
supplies the vital clue to the
whereabouts of the painting.
Armed with this informa-
ton, David is off on the elusive
chase for the lost Bella
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READING AND WRITING
An Old Conventional
Is Going to Write d Book
BY MARY McGRORY

A Washington old-timer
who's been watching them
come and go from an excellent
vantage point is retiring from
the scene to set down his i'm
presSions of more than 20 years
of Capitol life.
He is D. Harold McGrath,
who just recently attended his
last convention in the role Of
general caretaker and friend Of
the Senate radio-TV CORE
spondents.
When the gavel fell in San
Francisco, the genial, dis
heveled Mr.. McGrath took of
for his home town, Walla
Walla, Wash, there to begin
intensive work on memories
and impressions gained as a
congressional aide to Senator
Schwellenbach and as the first
superintendent Of the Senate
radio-TV gallery.
Anecdotes Galore"
That job has required Mr..
McGrath to see that the cor
respondents and commentators
are kept well-informed and
reasonably happy. They in
turn, have been unwittingly
providing him with material
for his book, ANECDOTES
GALORE" as he says.
He has 16 cases full Of notes
and clippings to guide him in
his writing. Some of his most
valuable memory-joggers will
be a collection Of letters he
wrote to his son. The diary Of
his late wife, whom he met
when they were both news
papering in the West will help,
too.
I'm not solving any prob
lems." says Mr.. McGrath Of
his forthcoming work. II won't
be saying that if Senator So
and-so had only voted diff
ferently, the world would be
a better place today"
A Few Heroes
Nineteen years of watching
the members of the upper
chamber from the gallery have
not disillusioned Mr.. McGrath
at all. He regards Senators as
fine folk, and even has a few
heroes among them: Specifi-
cally. Robert A. Taft, George
Norris and Harry Byrd-these
last two at opposite extremes
of the political spectrum. Of
course, but absolutely true to
themselves at all times.
Mr.. McGrath has green
memories of many a presi-
dental press conference, and
of national conventions. I'm
less something smashing oc-
Cured during the recent
doings in Chicago and San
Francisco, his choicest con-
vention reminiscence is Of
Harry Truman in 1914. telling
him first some big news.
News From Truman
Rising early in the morning
as was his wont. the then
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brother Tom, to whom the
mother formerly was married.
They all lived in amity under
these odd relationships.
Puzzled and Mortified
And yet Stan. a SNUG young
man, very limited in his in
terests, found the family
kindly: he even came to
understand the rum guzzling
old father. Beneath his hard
exterior, he was generous to-
a fault-one of those hard
drinking Irishman of easy NOR
ais whom English novelists
love to depict. Mollie returned
STAINS love. but her canny
Scottish mother decided that
she'd better go visit her pros
pective in-lawS in the Eastern
Oregon town before COM
hitting herself to marriage.
This was done. Stan resigned
his job to go home and enter
the automobile agency with
his father, and Mollie flew back
with him.
The small Oregon town,
though it talked a lot about
being on the frontier and
pioneer days, proved to the girl
quite settled and priggish,
despite many mechanical mar
vels she had never seen and a
comfort of living she had
hardly imagined. She felt that
her new family should know
all about her, and she tried to
explain the complex relation
ships of those who lived on
the Australian ranch. STAINS
family and the town, which
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Forthcoming

Look for a new novel by
Margaret Kennedy come the
winter. This most readable
of writer's will be represented
by THE WILD SWAN" the
story Of a movie company hard
at work on a filmed biography
Of a Victorian poetess and
author of children's books,
whose life was precisely what
it seemed.
For campaign-year reading,
by September, do / MAKE
MYSELF CLEAR?" will be
available. It's a slightly satiric
view Of the political scene by
Arthur T. Hadley. The Stars
cartoonist, Jim Bergman, is
the illustrator.
For lovers Of belles-lettres,
there will be THE FINE ART
OF READING" by Lord David
Cecil. author Of that superb
biography. Melbourne"
From Leonard Patrick
O'Connor Wibberly there will
be 1.-THE TROUBLE WITH
THE IRISH" He's one Of
thin Anglo-Irish.
From H. F. NJ. Prescott,
author Of the incompatible
historical novel, The Man on
a Donkey" the release Of an
earlier work. "SON OF DUST"
a story Of 18th century Nor
mandy.
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Khrushchev's Speech

IHE ANAIOMI OF TEX
ROR, with an introduction by
Nathaniel Weyl Public At
fairs Press. 81, is a reprint Of
Nikita Khrushchev's famous
speech assailing the memory
and regime of Stain. Mr..
Weyl. in his perceptive and
informative introduction, calls
the speech of the Soviet Com
munist Party secretary lone of
the most remarkable docu-
ments Of our generation" He
adds that "the impact of the
destruction of the Stain myth
on the Soviet population and
on the foreign Communist
parties is only beginning to be
felt" &C. B. j.
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Ou4A Va OuGys OLlly LLiC lL1Ill
such award made to a Navy
man during the war up to
that time, it was presented by
Secretary of the Navy Ander-
son. to the hero's young widow
and his infant son Francis
jr., in the presence of his
mother, Mrs. Elvira Ham
mond, all of Alexandria.
The high school has a re-
Gently completed portrait of
Francis C. Hammond. painted
by Roma Harlan, from photo
graphs checked by the descrip-
tons of relatives and friends
Of the young man, who con-
slider 1t a close likeness. (The
artist customarily paints por-
traits from life.)
At National Gallery
Miss Harlan has lived in
Washington for several years,
and is on the staff of the Ma
tional Gallery of Art. First
with the Index of American
Design, she was transferred
last month to the assistant di.
rector's Office.
A native of Indiana, she
began to study art in West
Lafayette, where her family
lived during her teens, and con-
tinued at Purdue University.
Subsequently she was awarded
a scholarship in the Art Insti-
tute of Chicago, and later
studied under Ralph Clarkson.
a noted Chicago portraitist.
Portraits by Miss Harlan are
in a number of public places:
Purdue University (2), st.
Joseph's College, Rensselaer,,
Ind; others in Chicago and
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, as well
as her portraits in private
homes. She has had three
solo exhibitions in Indiana and
Illinois. and has participated
in group shows in the same
States. She is affiliated with
professional artists organiza-
tons in Indiana.
Fitting Memorial
Francis C. Hammond, whose
portrait illustrated above, shows
him as a friendly. lovable.
typical American boy, attended
George Washington High
School in Alexandria, worked
part time in the drug store
owned by his uncle, Mr.. Nu-
gent. In 1851, aged 10, he
Joined the Navy. became a
medical corpsman, married
Phyllis Jenkins. an Alexan-
dria girl, was shipped to Korea
in February, 1858. with the
LIST Marine Division. One
month later he found him.
self in hell on EARTH" attempt
ing with a Marine platoon, to
assault an enemy outpost
under a murderous barrage,
followed by a vicious onrush-
ing assault by enemy troops.
Critically wounded himself,
young Hammond continued to
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promptly heard all about it,
were puzzled and Mortified.
How could she be white and
still have black half brothers
working happily for her father?
A Matter Of Morals
Then there was the scrape
Stan got into when he was Is
and thought he ought to con-
fess to his fiancee. He and a
girl and another couple had
been drunk and driving in two
cars, wildly Stimulating a COL
lision, and a crash had oc-
CURED and one girl had been
killed. Stan was surprised
that Mollie was much more
Mortified by the girls death
than by his confession that he
was the probable father Of a
child born after the surviving
girls hasty marriage to STAINS
best friend. Morals mattered
much more in the Oregon town
than even death. Mollie
couldn't understand, and she
baffled them.
The ending is not in the
tradition of the slick maya
zines which were STAINS sole
literary diet.
Good StOry-Teller
Mr.. Shute is an entertain
ing writer, one of the best
Story-tellers among the sue
cessful novelists of the day.
He has lived in Australia and
he knows a surprising lot
about Oregon. But it is doubt
ful whether a town, even in
Eastern Oregon, an area not
noted for its broadmindedness,
despite its pioneer traditions,
could be quite so SNUG as the
place the author calls Hazel or
as adamant against liquor.
And Stan. though Mr.. Shute
tries to make him a sympa-
thetic character-or does he,
after all?-remains a dull fell
low. 1t is unlikely that a ge-
ologist would be so utterly
lacking in general culture.
The Australian girl is more
persuasive.
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obviously than simple compo-
sitions.
1t seemed to me that the best
realized of the paintings by
students at the Colony were
those confined to fairly simple
themes: Cathline Kinsella's
harbor scene, Submerged, "
Jean Ayers Wooded Path, I"
both watercolorS, and M. Phil
lips white Pitcher" in oil.
Some of these students will
work toward professional ca
reer,
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Australia, and Boston, Mass,
and has participated in group
shows in England, Israel and
the United States. The mother
of two young children, she is
also an illustrator of children's
books, which have been pub
lished in the same three coun-
tries.
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Art Lecture

Gothic Art" is the subject
of the lecture to be given this
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
lecture hall of the National
Gallery of Art. Hugh Broadley,
staff lecturer at the Gallery,
will be the speaker.
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Books
A Picture of New York
Some Forty Years Ago
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

New York still reluctant to cut loose from the
trailing the 18th century though the century
sweeping along acceeatng The automobile
had replaced the horse-the streets were filled with
the eurey and happier spirit of the 1905
fingered furious pace Of the 190O It is
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Portrait of Local Hero
Ready for Dedication
By FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

The Francis c. Hammond High School will be dedi-
Gated In Alexandria Va. in little fortnight 1t is
named for young Of that city who lost his life in the
Korean and in January 1854 posthumouy awarded
the Congressional Medal of Honor the Nays highest military
award for his conspicuous gallanty beyond the