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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Engraved Glass Show
At National GoIIery
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

The first exhibition any,
where OF American crystal
engraved with designs by art
lists OF l6 nations of the Far
and Near East. will be opened
to the public next Wednesday.
January 10, at the National
Gallery of Art. Entitled asian
Artists in Crystal" the collec-
ton by Steuben Glass comprises
SO forms: Vases, bowls, plates,
urns. steles. plaques and disks,
the various shapes having
been selected to conform best
to the respective designs.
There will be an official pre-
view Tuesday for the ambas-
sailors of the l6 Asian coun-
tries and other official guests,
at which time the Secretary of
State, the Honorable John
Foster Dulles, will give the
opening address. The exhibit
ton will remain at the Ma
tional Gallery through Febru-
airy 10; it will then go to New
York City. to be shown at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In conjunction with this
major collection there will be
an exhibition of the artists
original drawings, lent by the
New York Public Library.
These drawings were commits
stoned for Steuben Glass by
Karl Kup. the Library's cura-
tor of prints and the Spencer
Collection, on an extensive
trip throughout Asia in 1954-5.
The drawings were subse-
quently given to the New York
Library by Steuben. in appre-
citation of the institutions
assistance in the project.
Every crystal piece in the
exhibition is reproduced in a
full-page halftone in the COM
prehensive. admirably written
S3-page catalogue, which will
be on sale during the exhibit
ton. 1t includes also a photo
graph of every artist, a de-
scription of his work and bio
graphical data. Besides a FORE
word by the directors of the
National Gallery and Metro
politan Museum, the catalogue
has texts by Karl Kup and
John NJ. Gates, vice president
Of Steuben Glass. relating how
the Asian artists drawings were
obtained and translated into
these beautiful pieces of crystal.
simultaneously with Asian
Artists in Crystal. another ex-
hibition will open at the Ma
tional Gallery of Art: A coll
lection of works by contempo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
A Sympathetic Biography
Of LincoIn's Four Sons

LINCOLN'S SONS, by Ruth
Painter Randall Gittle, Brown;
So, is a sympathetic and care
fully documented study of the
four sons born to Abraham
and Mary Todd Lincoln. 1t
is an interesting contribution
to Lincolniana by the author
OF Mary Lincoln: The Biog-
raphy Of a Marriage"
The Lincolns were devoted
to their children in a way not
all parents are-this love was
expressed in a close compan-
ionship from infancy. The
father in particular, a young
lawyer in Springfield whose
political star was rising, never
was too busy for a romp with
his little boys, never too digni-
fed or preoccupied to take
them along to his Office or on
a ride in the country. There
is no doubt. from the many
episodes Mrs. Randall cites,
that he spoiled them out
rageously. at least the younger
ones. but they were merely
spirited boys, not really bad,
and it is doubtful If this
paternal overindulgence hurt
them.
Much Tragedy
There was too much tragedy
in the home of the great man
who himself awaited a tragic
destiny at the height of his
achievements. Eddie, the Sec
ond son, died in infancy. Will
lie and Tad were born after
ward, but the eldest, Robert
Todd, could remember his lit
tie brother. Then the beloved
Willie died in the White House
at the age Of IL. in the middle
of his fathers first term. Tad
lived on after the Presidents
death to accompany his mother
to Europe for two and a half
years, where the boys delayed
education was pursued. Then,
at ID, with every promise
ahead, Tad died of some lung
infection in Chicago shortly
after their return to this
country Thus it was only the
eldest son who lived on and
had a distinguished career in
public and private life. Robert
Lincoln was Secretary of War
and Minister (then the rank
to England, each for four
years, a noted lawyer and
president of the Pullman Co.
He died in 1925 within six
days of his 83d birthday.
There is no doubt that Mary
Lincoln, always emotionally
unstable. cracked up for q
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quite killed loss of memory as
story line-if it's handled
skillfully. And it is here. Juliet
Macrae Jonason is baffied
when her husband, a man of
distinction, comes out of an
accident-induced coma on the
other side of the moral tracks.
He is the hand-picked heir to
the financial empire of Juliet's
late father. and the accident
happens precisely at the time
papers are TO be signed giving
him legal as well as actual
control Of the holdings. He
might be schizophrenic. He
might be a clever substitute.
DR.. Jonathan Merrill, a psy-
chologist with a fair for
mystery. solves the puzzle in a
surprising out satisfactory
ending. A Crime Club Selec-
ton.
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JoURNEY DOWN A RAIN-

JOURNEY DOWN A RAIN
BOW. BY j. B. Priestley and
Jacquetta Hawkes.. tHarper
& Bros; $500
j. B. Priestley and his wife,
Jacquetta Hawkes.. parted at
Kansas City, the Threshold of
the Southwest. the better to
pursue their special interests.
She. being an anthropologist,
set out for the Indian reserva-
tions; he. being a novelist,
headed for Texas to observe
the newer rituals of the new
oil rich. According to the
separate entries in this Joint
account. she chose the better
part.
The visiting Englishman we
have always with US. and Mr..
Priestley is in this great ira
dition. He liked the sunshine
of the Southwest. but found
little else he could whole
heartedly indorse. Miss
Hawkes. also liked the sun
shine, but she found too
much to admire in the stately
ceremonials of the Indians.
He Was Appalled,
Mr.. Priestly went rumbling
and grumbling through any
number Of contemporary GER
emonials. His nerves were
shredded, his eardrums shat
tered, his sensibilities outraged
by the football games, night
clubs, TV programs and hostel
festivities he participated in.
He found that the natives we're
friendly, but their customs ap-
palled him. The articulate
complainer is always worth
listening to, and he is no ex-
ception. Many of his excep-
tons about car worship,
crowds, rackets and the gen.
orally joyless dominated rec
reations Of a fortunate people
have already been made and
by ourselves.
He is most interesting in his
comments about our arch
and anxious women" He does
not believe this is a matri-
arcny, but rather a society so
completely dominated by the
masculine principle that wom-
en- have to be heavily bribed
to remain in it."
She longs for prophets.
seers. heroes, artists and magic
males to adore; what she gets
are pompous bank presidents.
statesmen with ulcers, apollo
getic chartered accountants.
and lunatic designers Of atomic
bombs"
He speaks of the need to
shout at Southwestern social
occasions like men exchang-
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day had better read some new
Last week we had a remark
able historical novel, Gregory
Solon's THE Three Legions."
This week there is another
first novel. altogether different
but equally worthy of note:
THE HEARTH AND THE
STRANGENESS. BY N.
Martin Kramer (Macmil-
Ian: $4.50D
Mr.. Kramer's novel is, in
deed. like its title, a strange
story, and yet it carries a
cumulative impact which
makes you forget its faults
and remember its strength.
This is the story of the
Grange family over a period
of so years. 1t is a family
touched with brilliance, Law
ished with talents, but streaked
with madness. This madness
comes out, not in all the chill
dren, all the aunts and uncles,
but in enough of them and in
enough odd ways to make
the Oranges peculiarly in
capable of coming to terms
with life, of maintaining any
spiritual stability. Those who
appear normal fear, knowing
the family history, what may
happen to them.
An Odd Story Form
The novel is written in an
odd way which might be cal
culated to destroy all suspense.
but does not have exactly that
effect. 1t Skips back and forth,
between 1908 and the 1950s,
forsaking chronology, but
jumping back to bring out
Illuminating interludes in the
lives of some important char
acterS. The method is not as
illogical and annoying as it
may sound.
The opening chapter, hap
pening in January, 1908, finds
Sumner and Lisette Grange
just married. on their honey
moon. 1t was Sumner who had
a suicide and two cases of
mental collapse among his
brothers and sisters, but he did
not tell Lisette until, years
later, a circumstance made it
necessary. Lisette's family,
French. had at least two mem
bers who. while technically
sane, could be called retarded.
Sumner was tinged with gen.
ius. He was an inventor and
not, in this activity, a crack
pot, Some of his inventions
actually made money, and his
reputation was such that in
the first World War the Gov
eminent sent for him to work
on some military devices. And
yet the madness did not skip
Sumner. There were times
when he was entirely irrespon-
sible, practically disoriented.
Lisette was deeply religious,
and it was her fate to see her
children, one by one, give UP
their religion, become agnos-
tics. lacking faith in anything.
And this is more particular
ly the story of the children.
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Courtesy Library OF Congress
while because of Tad's death,
coming so soon after her hus-
bands assassination and fol-
lowing years of grief at the loss
of two other sons.
Apparently there never was
the sympathy between Robert
and his parents that there was
between them and the younger
boys. Robert was a student at
Harvard when the Civil War
broke out. He wanted to en-
list, so he said, but his father,
mindful Of his mothers tenn
permanent and insistence, for
babe it. Some boys would have
gone away to war anyway, but
Robert obeyed his father, who
was much criticized because he
had an able-bodied. grown son
who was not fighting. Finally,
the last few months of the war,
it was arranged for the young
man to be commissioned a
captain on Gen. Grants staff,
and he saw some nominal serv-
ice at the front.
Roberts Devotion
Robert was something OF a
controversial figure despite his
great ability and his success
Some historians criticized him
for withholding certain papers
which might have thrown
added light on Lincoln's life.
He had the heartbreaking task
of having his mother COM
mitted to a mental hospital
for a time. But. as Mrs.
Randall emphasizes, Robert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
Best Poker
Stories

DEALERS CHOICE, edited
by Jerry D. Lewis "a. S.
Barnes; 1885,, contains some
of the best poker stories ever
written. The more familiar
names among the contribu-
tors include o. Henry, Som
erSet Vaughan. Ernest Hem
ingway, John O'Hara. c. S.
Forester, Robert Benchlsy and
James Thurber. OF course,
there is Brett Harte's classic.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
Mark Twain
Selections
MARK TWAIN: SELECTED

MARK TWAIN: SELECTED
CRITICISM, edited by Arthur
L. Scott (Southern Methodist
University Press: So, tells
what some outstanding critics.
from 1867 to the present time.
thought Of the author Of
"Huckleberry Finn" The Sc
lections are arranged chrome
logically and range from the
frankly hostile to the rhap-
sodic. Charles Henry Webb and
Brett Harte are among the
early commentators--and very
favorable ones and Van
Wyck Brooks and Bernard
Devote among the latter ones.
C p i
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was a sensitive man, devoted
TO the memory of his father,
despite their lack of complete
understanding. He resented
what he felt to be libels on
his family by his fathers old
law partner, William H. Hern-
don, and other biographers.
Beyond question, Robert was a
man of unyielding integrity
and a keen sense of honor,
who shrank from publicity
and never wanted to capitalize
on his fathers name.
'Lincoln's Sons" is written
at a lively tempo and with
fine understanding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15

rary American glassmakers,
both of small craft houses and
large companies. lent by the
Corning Museum of Glass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
First Novels Revive Faith
In the Storytelling Art
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

reasonable to that the in fiction
making encouraging start When find two striking
first novels within week. begin to realize that storytelling
lost and feel that those literary analysts who
solemnly that the novel form which has had its
had better read their position
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15

WHO'LL WIN THE ELECTION? Some 100000 answer
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battle TO make up your mind.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15

MARY McGRORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-22

To look forward, not back, never to cry over
split milk, to remember that tomorrow is
another day; these are old, old saws, but the
person who tries to apply their logic to the
immediate situation will be spared lot of
grieving.
This is not matter of deliberately cultivating
blind optimism. Pooling yourself is always
mistake. The wise course is the simple one of
looking straight at things as they are.
My own life has not been an easy one. 1t has
had its full share of the darker hours but the
darkness always passed. 1t is simply matter of
practical experience that in the mental and emo
tional as in the physical world, light follows
darkness. To realize this clearly is the best of
disciplineS for facing life and playing our parts
manfully = and womanfully!
Playing our parts" Yes, we all have to do
that; and from childhood on, have found that
my own character has been much harder to play
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-22

SONY that day dawns to which we are awake.
There is more day to dawn"
HENRY DAVID THoREAU
these words of Thoreau's have always meant
great deal to me- loved them even before
came to feel how they applied to me and my
own outlook on life. | loved their rhythm and
the picture they painted for me. And as the
years have passed have realized more and more
clearly how | have somehow always had the
consciousness of a new day coming, no matter
how dark the night might be.
As New England child was proud of my
heritage - and still am 1t is good to feel that
Thoreau, that sturdy, independent, wise philoS-
opher, was a New Englander, too. But even
before read any of his writing. had learned to
act on some of the old folk sayings which en-
body the SoundeSt lessons of human experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-22
Rv BETTE DAVIS

worthiIy - and far harder, at times, to COM
prehend = than any of the roles | have por-
trayed on stage and screen.
We can none of us live always in the sunlight;
but what we can remember for our comfort and
courage is that there is more day to dawn"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-22

AUTHOR and husband Gary Merrill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
DORIS FLEESON
Royburn Burns to Freeze Out Shivers
And Eisenhower-Democrots of 1852

One bright spring day four
years ago a flood of Eisenhower
Democrats shattered the coun-
try club atmosphere of presi-
Dental primaries arranged by
Taft Republicans in Texas.
This pro-Ike invasion con-
tinued to gather momentum
which in November, 1852, gave
Texas to Eisenhower with
1,102,878 votes as compared to
969,228 for Democrat Adlai
Stevenson.
The burning rage of the
veteran Speaker of the House,
Sam Rayburn, against the.
Democrats who led the bolt to
Eisenhower - Governor Allan
Shivers in particular-has set
the stage for new drama in
this years Texas primaries
which start in the precincts
Saturday.
Rayburn found his weapon
in Senate Majority Leader
johnson. The Speaker pro-
posed that johnson go to the
Chicago convention as the
favorite son of Texas and
chairman of the States delega-
tion-a freeze-out of Shivers.
Senator johnson, who had
worked for Stevenson but
tried consistently within the
State to unite the warning fac
tons, took a deep breath and
cast his lot with his old House
mentor, the Speaker. johnson
is home this week, calling his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

political options in all quarters
and hurting back at Shivers
the variety of hard charges
Shivers has thrown at him.
In the rough. tough scram-
BILE, the apparent efforts of
Attorney General Brownell to
save the State for the Repub-
licans and discredit the Dem
ocratic congressional leaders
are a major issue. Brownell,
reporters discovered, recently
drove 228 miles from Dallas
into eastern Texas to call on
Shivers at the Governors
WoodVille retreat. "A social
visit" the Attorney General
later explained.
Such disclaimer was indi-
Gated. The Attorney General
is the author of the admin
lStraClonS civil rights program
and pushed the successful
Government case against segre.
cation in the Supreme Court.
Shivers is invoking the segre-
cation issue against Rayburn
and johnson, attacking them
for not signing the Southern
manifesto against the court
decision and urging on the
white citizens councils of
which there are about 100 in
Texas.
This year. however, Shivers
is a lame duck: after De-
cember 81 he will not be Gov
ernor any longer, and in a
position to punish OBJECTIONS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee is looking into
the possibility of calling some
important witnesses from the
executive branch to find out
who was responsible for per-
hitting % Soviet goonS to
spirit away by force five Soviet
sailors who had obtained polit-
ical asylum in this country.
Evidence presented so far
shows clearly that the Idle
wild Airport in New York &C.
tually was under control of
musclemen commanded by K.
Ekimov. first secretary of the
Soviet delegation at the United
Nations, for more than two
hours while the kidnapped
sailors were cleared by immi-
grafton authorities and pushed
into a kim plane to be flown
to Stockholm and thence to
Moscow. This probably was the
most fragrant interference with
our sovereignty ever perpe-
trated by a foreign power.
Why is it, ask members of
the Internal Security subcom-
mittee. that the immigration
officials did not smell a rat
when they saw five Soviet
refugees appear before them
surrounded by 10 of the %
goons -four stayed outside at
the door? Surely this was no.
where near usual procedure
for departing aliens.
1t is true that since the
formal end of the war exit
permits no longer are re-
quired So long as a departing
alien has a sailing permit
showing that he is in the
clear with the Internal Rev.
enue authorities he is per-
mitted to depart.
But the immigration officers
have soiue latitude to ask per-
tinent questions. Had these
questions been put-snd the
appearance of five departing
foreigners surrounded by a
squad Of obvious goons would
have justified extensive ques-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
Economic NATO' No Gye-Awoy

understand this simple prop
osition, the sooner will there
be a realistic approach to the
problems of helping under
developed countries, and the
sooner also perhaps will the So
called 'uncommitted" coun-
tries begin to realize that they
can't ride the high horse of
indifference to the American
taxpayer or pursue neutral
ism" indefinitely.
Dulles, in his testimony be-
fore the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. said the Pres
ident, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and he, himself, are "all con-
WINGED that this expenditure
is necessary for the security
Of the United States"
Dulles sketched the military
situations in Korea. Formosa,
Viet-Nam, Japan. the. Philip
pines and Thailand. He spoke
of the alliances of America
with Turkey and Pakistan. He
said Southeast Asia required
= about $1.8 billion and the Mid
die East aid of about $500 mil
lion. Then he described the
needs of NATO in Europe, and
estimated that would cost
about one billion dollars.
Finally. the Secretary said
Asia. Europe, the Middle East
and Latin America would re-
quire about SO per cent of the
mutual security program for
next year. Only II per cent of
the program, however, or about
S700 million. is earmarked for
use in areas which "are threat
ened by Communist subversion
and which contain people, re-
sources, and strategic locations
which in our own interests, as
well as theirs, should be Sc
cure from hostile domination"
Thus does Dulles put the di-
rect interests of the United
States plainly before Congress.
He will have a hard time get
ting the money even that way
AS for the fuzzy minded who
think there are plenty of bill
lions more available for alb
stract purposes of prestige"
or anonymous generosity. they
have another guess coming as
to when, if ever. any such pol
icy will materialize.
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Vice President, Leading the G. o. P. Drive
Will Bear Brunt of Opponents Attack

leaders long have been i'm
patient, as has the Vice Presi-
dent himself, for the word"
and they finally forced the
Presidents hand.
In the view of Democrats.
Vice President Nixon offers a
much better issue than does a
Vice President ordinarily.
For one thing. he has be-
come a highly controversial
f1gure-and that is so even in
his own party, as we'll as
among Democrats. For an
other. this controversial figure
must be weighed by voters as
a potential President, more so
on account of President Eisen-
hower's age and health than
normally is the case with vice
presidential candidates. who
usually get little public atten-
ton and less thought. If the
President is renominated, he
will be the second oldest cam
didate for the presidency in
our history.
This situation is openly dis
cussed by National Democratic
Chairman Butler and others,
as 1t will be.
But Democrats will hammer
away at Vice President Nixon
from now on for another and
very practical reason.
They take it for granted that
1t will be his Job to carry the
fight for the Republicans
against them, to bear the big
load Of the campaign while the
President remains more aloof
and also uses the high-level
approach in the few speeches
which Chairman Hall says he
will make on television.
BY concentrating their own
low-level sharpshooters on the
Vice President and by publi-
citing widely among the voters
the abusive manner in which
Mr.. Nixon attacked the Demo-
cratic Party and its leading
figures in the past two cam
paigns-l952 and l954-Demo-
cratic Party managers hope
to pull his teeth in advance