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Evening star., 1956-03-25
Monsignor Sheehy Writes
Story of q Heart Attack

in his vocation, bows to the
wisdom Of the higher authority
he serves. He looks back on
his boyhood, what he sees now
as the vanity of his ambition
to excel in athletics, his
modest home, his lost brother.
His hard-working parents come
to see him, so does the Bishop.
AS it happens. in the wheel
chair he is sometimes per-
mitted he is able to reconcile
to their faith some hard lots"
older priests had been unable
to influence.
The story is never senti-
mental, nor is it as sad as 1t
sounds; the cheerful optimism
of the young priests faith lifts
1t above the dismal. And yet
it is deeply moving.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
What 1t Means
To Be President
In These Times
THE PRESIDENCY TODAY

1hE fRES1DENCY IODAY.
BY Edward S. Corwin and
Louis w. Koenig. New York
University Press; So
Article II of the Constitu-
ton, describing the Office of
the President and outlining
sketchily the duties and pow
ers of the Chief Executive, is
as loosely written as stand
ard recipe for angel cake.
The words of the Constiu-
ton offer little more than
legal basis for the existence
of the office. Its character,
rather, has been moulded by
its occupants and time, by
practice and precedents. Pro-
tesSors Corwin and Koenig
have given us a basic and
orief--and what is more, a
timely-anatomical study of
the body of the Presidency as
it is today and as it goes about
what the authors call its "tridi-
mensional" duties.
Most valuable, perhaps, are
the authors revealing insight
into the functions of the Office
as it operates today: The
Presidents role in foreign pol
ICY, in initiating legislation, in
setting overall domestic policy,
as party leader. and as COM
mander-in chief. A look into
the hazy provisions for sue
cession of the Vice President
in case of the Presidents in
ability to serve is as valuable
as it is topical.
DAVID KOONCE.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
Artist-Musiciun

Vincenz Ruzicka, member of
the American two-piano team
which gave a concert at the
Library of Congress on March
2, is having a one-man show
through next Thursday at
George Washington University
Library, 1923 G street. An
interview with Mr.. Ruzicka
and his partner, Celius Doug
herty, the composer, was pub
lished in The Stars news
columns on February 4.
Mr.. Ruzicka, a native Of
Chicago, said he was as inter-
ested in art as in music from
childhood; but he has been
painting only in the last Is
years. 1t is obvious that he
gives his avocation consider
able time, for there are more
than so pastels, watercolors
and drawings on view, most of
them naturalistic and detailed
in execution. Quality is un-
even. 1 consider his work in
pastels the best. The rich
colors and velvety bloom of the
medium show to advantage in
his flower and still life sub
jects. Incidentally, nearly
three -fourths of the show is
devoted to these themes in
several media.
During the Dougherty-
RuZicka teams recent seven
months European concert tour,
the painter found time to
make drawings of Austrian
cities and landscapes, IL of
which are in the show. I
thought "Zell am See" the
best.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
Ponds First

Harold Woodford Pond, an
artist of extensive and varied
achievement. is having this
month at Collectors Corner.
3235 M street, Georgetown, his
first Washington one-man
show. 1t is composed of 40 to
so water colors, pencil draw
ings and oils, most of them
done in the past five years.
Mr.. Pond has a keen eye for
pictorial beauty in landscape.
and a hand for capturing it
in detail, as is evident in these
ensnaring views of the New
England seacoast, the Adiron-
dacks, Skyline Drive and
Alexandria's old houses. among
other subjects. He generally
makes complete pencil draw
ings ION the spot" translat-
ing them into water colors in
his studio; sometimes he exc
cutes the painting in the open.
Mr.. Pond is a native Of Wis
consin. After attending Law
renee College, Appleton, he
came East in his early twen-
ties, as World War I closed.
Evening star., 1956-03-25

He studied art at Pratt In
stitute, Brooklyn, began his
career in Boston. got into stage
set design in New York City
in the mid-30s, continued in
New Jersey for the Essex Coun-
ty Opera Co. He also designed,
constructed and installed stage
scenery for the recreation halls
in most of the Army camps
throughout the State.
Mr.. Pond taught art, had his
own gallery in East Orange.
was active in many art organi-
cations. He designed the East
Orange War Memorial. He has
moved to Washington, is at
tached to Collectors Corner.
which will move after April l
to 1925 Wisconsin avenue,
where the gallery will have
upstairs space to itself.
Evening star., 1956-03-25

and the latest bombers, inter-
continental jobs that will de-
liver the newest bombs almost
anywhere, begin to disappear
while on training flights.
The various sections of the
story move forward in turn
breathlessly. Suspense never
wavers. Even a romance is
fetched in, a little reluctantly.
It's a slick performance.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
READING AND WRITING
Bostonions Have Last
Word in Last Hurroh'
BY MARY McGRORY

Boston, we learned on a re-
cent visit, positively, and even
proudly has identified itself as
the unnamed site of "The Last
Hurrah," Edwin O'Connor's
story of an Irish politician
loaded with charm and less
burdened with morals.
Not only that, but many in
dividual Bostonians have iden-
titled themselves and each
other as characters in the book.
Hardly a day goes by that Mr..
O'Connor is not confronted,
either in his mail or in person
by someone saying either ag-
grievedly or coyly, why me?"
A librarian named McEntee
in Western Massachusetts, for
instance wrote in berating Mr..
O'Connor for using the name
"McEntee" for a chap named
"Footsie McEntee" who did a
bit of double-voting on Elec-
ton Day.
The hapless librarian, ap-
parently now "Footsie" for
ever. said Mine is not a COM
mon name. Couldn't you have
chosen another?"
The most striking case of
supposed self-recognition of
course, is that of Boston's
famous former Mayor, James
Michael Curley, who appar-
emily OWNED in the out
lines of Frank Skeffington,
himself. Sent a copy of the
book for review and check
by a Boston paper, Mr.. Curley
returned both. with a dark
hint that he was seeing his
lawyer.
Says Mr.. O'Connor, young
man in his 30s of substantial
build and clear-cut good looks,
Il told them, Skeffington
would have loved reviewing
the book. Curley would not"
Most of the inhabitants have
no trouble in seeing the differ
ence between life and art in
this case. An occasion in Mr..
Curley's life but not necessa1-
lily Mr.. Curley himself, did set
Mr.. O'Connor, who had one
little celebrated novel THE
Oracle" to his credit, to think
ing about "The Last Hurrah."
That was when the ex-Mayor,
sprung from durance vile, was
met at the railway station by
thousands of cheering, weep
ing citizens.
A reporter from a liberal
New York paper wrote an ap-
palled account of the reunion,
thereby, in Mr.. O'Connor's
view, missing the point of it all.
THAT poor boob couldn't
Evening star., 1956-03-25
IDe ToIedono Finds
Nixon FIuwIess

NIXON. BY Ralph de Tole-
dano. Henry Holt g. Co.;
So
Jefferson once called the
vice presidency tranquil and
unoffending." He could not, of
course, have foreseen Richard
M. Nixon, and his astonishing
rise in the political life of
his country and anything but
anonymous performance in a
Thorottlebottom part.
Tranquil Mr.. Nixon has not
been. Mr.. de Toledano's we'll
documented study shows that
the California Quaker has been
on the go since his boyhood.
never resting, never firing.
His indefatigable and success
full efforts to bring Alger Hiss
to bay are an illustration. Nor
has he been unoffending, par
ticularly when he was the
hard-hitting campaigner of
the 1854 season. The very zeal
of his efforts to demolish the
Democratic opposition seems
to have jeopardized Ito what
ever extent the current ru-
morS are true) the certainty
of his reappearence on the
Republican ticket this fall.
Mr.. de Toledano protests
that this is not an author
lied biography" 1t might just
as well have been, though. For
he cannot only find no flaw
in his young subject, but he
can see no good in those who
oppose him. Speaking of ex-
cess of zeal, here is a sample
sentence from a concluding
chapter. in which Mr.. de
Toledano INDUCES in rapturous
Interpretation of his carefully
collected facts. Nixon is most
hated by those who hate
themselves"
Evening star., 1956-03-25

to go bad, to "goof or" the
sergeant is impelled to try to
nurse him back to the efii-
cheney Of a good fighting man.
You must. he contends. show
such a fellow you trust him.
But all his care is wasted on
Pvt. Gardner, who suspects
that the sergeant. for his own
mixed-up motives. wants his
men to go wrong.
Then there is Richard Avery,
the young soldier who is going
under fire for the first time.
Stanley takes Avery on the pa
troll. and the youth more than
justifies the sergeant's conf
dence. Avery develops to quick
military maturity. which often
happens in war.
They Come Alive
There are no flashbacks ex-
cept a few references to Japan,
where some Of the veterans
enjoyed a pleasant life until
the Korean trouble broke out.
And yet somehow these men
come alive as clearly as If
pages were devoted to the pre-
army life of each.
The author is 26. OF course
Mr.. Anderson served In Korea
otherwise he couldn't have
written "Your Own Beloved
Sons" The remarkable thing,
though, is that although born
in Passaic, N. j., he moved to
Denmark with his family at
the age of 3 and grew UP there.
English was an acquired Ian
guage. There's not a touch of
alien influence in his fine de-
scriptions and colloquial dia-
logue.
There Is some rough Ian
guage, but not much. not
nearly the amount the authors
of "The Naked and the Dead"
and From Here to Eternity"
considered necessary to con-
vey the habitual, unthinking
vulgarity of soldiers talk.
I can't recall reading such
an excellent first novel by an
author so youthful since Will
liam Styron, at about the same
age, came out with Lie Down
in Darkness"
Evening star., 1956-03-25

(Random House; $500 is a
beautifully written story Of
the Korean war.
It is rich in Characterization.
and it moves at a pace that
never falters.
Since putting it down. re-
luctantly, I've been trying to
think Of when ! read q better
novel about any war. Well, 1t
has been a long time. and
certainly there have not been
many.
This novel is narrow in
scope. So is war to the average
soldier or group Of soldiers. In
the nervous senseless way war
appears for the first time to
one of these men, q recent
recruit, the story inevitably
challenges comparison with
Stephen Cranes classic minia-
ture of war, 1.-THE Red Badge
Of Courage"
The Strangest War
Several writer's Of ability
have written about the bloody
stalemate in Korea, the strang-
est war America ever fought.
Some have attempted novels
about it on a more ambitious
scale, but I doubt that any
has captured an impression Of
the bitter, scattered slugging
in the mountains in biting
cold as young Mr.. Anderson
has.
Essentially this is the story
OF one patrol of six men. as
signed to go in two jeeps back
of enemy lines to scout an
escape route for their recon-
naissance company, which is
surrounded. Outside the patrol
there are other characters
the company commander, a
sergeant and a corporal. both
almost pathologically sadistic-
and they come through clearly.
but the narrative is concen-
trated on the six soldiers.
Sergt. Stanley. who leads the
patrol, is the most interesting
soldier in the book. He not
only is conscientious in carry
out his duties-and he volun-
teered for this dangerous pa
trol-but he feels a fatherly
responsibility for all his men.
When one of his men starts
Evening star., 1956-03-25
THE PRIESTLY HEART, by

THE PRIESTLY HEART, by
Maurice S. Sheehy. (Farrar,
Straus and Cudahy; $2.75).
Msgr. Sheehy is head Of the
department of religious educa-
ton at Catholic University, a
decorated wartime Navy chap
lain and q Rear Admiral in the
Reserve. He wrote a previous
novel called six O'Clock
Mass"
20, "'The Priestly Heart" too, is
a short novel. It imagines the
thoughts. from time to time,
Of a young priest only three
years ordained who has been
stricken with a heart attack
and is in a hospital. He knows
he cannot recover.
This young man, so exu-
berant, so eager for a full life
Evening star., 1956-03-25


and other craftwork, illumi-
mated manuscripts, coats-of-
arms and graphic arts.
The exhibition is truly ma
tional. representing league ar
lists of "a States in all Sec
tions Of the country, the Dis
trict Of Columbia and Alaska.
Maryland leads with % ex-
hibits, New York has 20, Cali
fornia 10. With pardonable
pride in our own area. ! may
say that the District of CO.
lumbia, Maryland and Virginia
artists make an excellent
showing.
Nearly 200 works on view are
award winners, with two ex-
ceptions-paintings by Juanita
Howison, Arlington, Va, ma
tional biennial art chairman,
and Kathryne Dimmitt, D. c.,
national awards chairman. All
the others received awards or
mentions in their respective
regional exhibitions.
Less Traditional
Everyone who has visited
over a period of years this ma
tional biennial, which is held
here in conjunction with the
leagues convention every two
years (this year April 7 to 1D,
will recall that heretofore it
has been almost wholly tradi-
tional. Hence, the inclusion
of more modern work makes
the current biennial more rep
resentative of contemporary
art activity throughout the
Nation.
Otherwise, the exhibition is
similar to earlier shows in
being predominantly tradi-
tional, with generally pleasant
and picturesque subjects, and
it has the faults of these vir-
tues" Faults are much easier
for the layman to spot in
naturalistic painting Ger
tain proportion of pretty. call
endar-type work. shallow han
ding, banality, and paintings
done without conscious effort
toward composition and elm
ination Of unnecessary detail.
Also, due to the large num-
ber of exhibits. paintings are
hung two deep in some in
stances, and there are occa-
sional juxtapositions detri-
mental to both paintings-e.g.,
Marguerite Bishow's large,
modern black and red Goal
Loading" beside Pearl Van
Sewers naturalistic Summer
Bouquet, high .keyed in color.
In Wide Variety
But there are many tech
nically admirable works. Some
of the best portraits in the
show are pastels by Marjory
Adams, Jane Flagg, Florence
Bahr and Henny Freud. Mar
garet Dole's red-haired boy is
an outstanding oil portrait.
Landscapes range from Erla
Young's meticulously painted
"Ravine" to Ruby Whites ami
mated, tawny October" Flea
more Van Swearingen's rugged
Hawaiian mountain and Mary
Eta Sharpe's golden Lumber
Yard"
Among a large number Of
flower and still-life paintings,
I particularly liked Marian
Dodd's white Petunias." with
it's reticent color scheme, and
the realistic Arrangement Of
Fruit" by Emily Burling Waite
Manchester. a former long
time Washingtonian. OF the
very few animal subjects, I
was impressed with Dorothy
Rising's understated water
color of buffaloes.
Modern paintings of merit.
with varying degrees of refer
ence to reality, include works
Evening star., 1956-03-25
Trio at Temple

A trio of Washington area
artists, Jack Berkman, Melvin
Buckner and Abraham Blu
stein is having an exhibition
of oil paintings in the Ring
Social Hall, Washington He
brew Congregation, 1895 Ma
comb street (off Massachu-
setts) throughout March, and
possibly into April.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
DoyIe's First

first solo exhibition in the
United States, at the Arts Club
through next Friday. Her
painting is well known in Great
Britain and on the Continent,
however; for although Ameri-
can by birth and parentage,
Mrs. Doyle lived abroad for
some four decades. A feature
story about her life and career
was published in The Star for
March 4, one week before the
opening of her exhibition.
Forty portraits. cityscapes,
flowers and still life filling the
Arts Clubs gallery and recep-
ton rooms are painted with
technical skill. a feeling for
beauty, individuality and char
acter. Their sustained quail
ity makes preference a per-
sonal matter.
The portraits, not identified,
include members of her fam
lily as well as friends and other
sitters. OF her urban scenes,
done in many places, I liked
particularly that of London,
looking down on old houses
and chimney pots in late aft
ernoon sun, with a misty back
ground; Annecy, with its story
book quality; New York City,
just as glamorous in its own
way as Old World cities;
ALLEY in Washington" under
snow, and Bethesda" where
Mrs. Doyle now lives and has
her studio.
Evening star., 1956-03-25

see that once in a lifetime a
person is genuinely beloved
and that whether or not he's
been in Jail has absolutely
nothing to do with it," said
Mr.. O'Connor.
The general opinion in Bos-
ton is that success has not
spoiled Ed O'Connor. Even
those Puritan elements who
still lurk in the town concede
that there's no harm done
when an industrious young
man who's known some lean
years in the cause moves from
a rooming house to a hand
some apartment on Beacon
Hill, or goes to a good restau-
rant for lunch instead of hav-
ing frankfurters and beans at
a counter somewhere.
In addition to-. an estimated
quarter of a million dollars
from book club sales, movie
and condensation rights. the
popularity of his book has
brought some minor conse-
quences. For one thing, thanks
to the brilliant wake sequence,
everyone is now buttonholing
him with their wake stories.
They're also forever bending
his ear with political tidbits.
Mr.. O'Connor says. I'm not
interested in politics; there
are no issues in politics, only
personalities" We think
there's much in what he says.
Equal Time
Political books are coming
in punches this campaign
year. Two books about Vice
President Nixon will be fol-
lowed by three about Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
In the order of their appear
ance they are Affairs of
State: The Eisenhower Years."
by Richard Revere, Washing
ton correspondent of the New
Yorker Magazine, published
March %; Eisenhower the
President" by Merlo j. Pusey
of the Washington Post and
Times Herald, the Pulitzer
prize winning biographer of
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes, whose product. will be
ready April 26: and a still
nameleSs, still unfinished
study of Eisenhower in the
White House, by Robert j.
Donovan
X + \ X
Evening star., 1956-03-25

IN NATIONAL GALLERY ANNIvERSARY-The
Baptism of Christ, by Juan de Flandes, early 10th
century Hispano-F Flemish, in the Samuel H. kress
collection loan to the National Gallery OF Art in
celebration of its fifteenth anniversary. This is
one of four panels from retable painted for the
Church of San Lazaro in Palencia. According to
John Walker chief curator of the National Gallery,
the paintings of De F1andes have curious combi-
nation of mysticism and physical beauty.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
SUDDENLY A WIDOW. BY
George Harmon Coke. CAL
fY-od Knoyof. 60 TSN

Ann Harrington finds a note
on her husbands door. warm
ing her he will be dead when
she enters, and suggesting that
his bitterness toward her drove
him to suicide. The family
thinks John Harrington had a
heart attack. and the police
say it's murder. OF course, it
is, and a cleverly contrived one
at that. with Ann framed as
the killer.
Evening star., 1956-03-25
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Modern Art Featured
In Pen Women's S Show
By FLORENCE s. BERGMAN

The most impressive feature Of the biennial exhibition of
the National League of American Pen Women which will
this afternoon at the Natural History Building Tenth street
and Constitution avenue the much larger proportion of
modern painting than in earlier edition of this show In
addition it includes for the first time ceramics textiles ewey
Evening star., 1956-03-25
BOOKS IN REVIEW
New Korean War Story
Is BriIIiont First Novel
BOOKS IN REVIEW
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

Of the rewarding experiences Of book critic to nd
then first novel which is exciting to read and pleas
At least two such novels have reached
attention the first of the Here is third perhaps
remarkable than either Of the Others
YOUR OWN BELOVED SONS by Thomas Anderson
Evening star., 1956-03-25

National Gallery. Guest speaker
is Millard Meiss, professor of
fine arts at Harvard University.
Evening star., 1956-03-25

by Reva Boan, Elaine Michel
sen, Louise Powers. Leila
Ratzen. Nance Hall Asher.
Theodore Kane, Helen Ries
and Gladys Goldstein.
Sculpture, graphic arts and
crafts comprise only a small
part of the show. Eleanor Cox
and Stella Masine are repre-
sented with pleasing sculptured
figures. Helene Taterka's tiles
with abstract designs are good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20

On New Fields and Advances in Guided Missiles Technology
INSTRUMENTATION STRESS ANALYSIS YPERSoNC EXPERIMENTATION
Developments IN the vital field of guided missiles are of interest
to everyone As contribution the technical interests of
engineers and scientists the Special Defense Projects Depa
men extending its Technical Forum to scientific people out
side the General Electric Company Engineers scientists are
invited to attend this meeting Wednesday evening June 49,
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when they were barred from the
professions and from public of.
flee. and a woman lost bott
property and identity when she
married, the speaker added.
! Miss S. Winifred Burwell, as.
sistant trust officer of Nationa
Metropolitan Bank, was paid q
special tribute as the charter
member who contributed the
most toward founding of the
group Of women bank officers ir
1910.
Mrs. Frances B. Poole. present
group chairman, pointed out that
Mrs. Burwell was group chair
man and served as general
chairman for the national con-
lvention of NABW here in 1858
She also was regional vice presi-
dent of NABW's Middle Atlantic
Division.
Mrs. Poole, assistant treas
urer and assistant secretary OF
McLachlen Banking Corp, also
praised the work of Miss Char
lctte A. Engel. trust officer of
National Savings g. Trust Co.,
another past group chairman
who is serving currently as
regional vice president of NABW
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
Stocks Reach New Low
OF Six-Week Reaction

have led some brokers to conclude
it still has to prove its strength
In the absence of that proof
brokers believe the reaction still
could continue.
One more technical obServa-
tion-with one exception, volume
was heavy on the declines ano
light on the rallies. That isn't
considered very bullish.
Nevertheless, the markets fall
from its record high has beer
quite normal. So far it has re-
traced only about one-third Of
the sharp rise from mid Febru.
AIRY to early April.
The five most active issues this
week on the New York Stock Ex-
change we're General Motors of
2 at 1925 on 256,OOO shares;
Loew's UP "a at 237s; American
Bosch up l at 2134; Standard
Oil IN. j. off Is at 57ss, and
u. S. Steel of ga at 563s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-20
What Figures Imuly

The implication of the figures
lis brilliantly clear. This biggest
spending on new factories, new
plants, new equipment ever un-
Idertaken by business anywhere
lin all history is and will be a
mighty prop under American
prosperity.
In fact, the plans are so mas
lSive that the greatest challenge
facing industry is getting mate
IrialS and capacity to fulfill them
But as McGraw-Hill puts it
l"Whatever is postponed until
1857 will add to the total in that
year and so reinforce the favor
able prospects beyond 1856"
AS a group. manufacturers ex-
Ipect at least IL per cent of their
1859 sales to be in things now
being turned out.
This is the biggest, brightest
piece of business news of 1856
to date.
Copyright, 1855. the Hall Syndicate, Inc.