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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

A research program which
might add to the worlds pro-
ductive regions an area one
fourth the size of the earth's
surface and twice as large as
all the lands now under cul-
tivation has been undertaken
by the Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization of
the United Nations.
1t will involve retaining by
modern scientific procedures
such vast wastes as the Sa-
hara. the Cobb and the Kala-
hari deserts, large arid regions
in South America and possibly
parts of the Southwestern
United States.
Even the worlds Arctic re-
gions are essentially deserts,
with problems in common.
Arid lands now occupy ap-
proximately a quarter of the
worlds surface. They support
little human life. They hardly
are considered part of the
globe. If they could be utilized
to feed the half of mankind
now underfed it would serve,
says a U. N. description of the
project, like expanding our
shrinking planet to keep pace
with ballooning populations
the world over. 1t might make
our world rs per cent bigger
than it is.
Power Possibilities
The primary needs of arid
regions are water and power.
If sea water could be purified
cheaply. for example, coastal
deserts like the Sahara could
be irrigated. If the suns ener-
gies can be harnessed for
power. the deserts all over the
world could serve as immense
power houses. 1t is worth not
ing that there is a developing
scientific opinion that mans
future most promising source
of power lies not in atomic
energy but in Harvesting the
sun with ~1nethods which al
ready have made considerable
progress.
A further possibility lies in
developing plants and animals
able to withstand aridity and
able to use brackish water.
Many marginal deserts then
could be made productive.
The first steps were taken
five years ago when UNESCO
launched a modern program
aimed at co-ordinating exist
deserts. The organization since
has acted as a clearing house
on desert science and has fos-
tered a series Of studies on
arid zone problems. These
studies include desert hydrol-
ogy, plant geology, wind and
solar energy. human and ami
NAL geology and arid zone
climatology. The project will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Midus-T Touch

He who plants 0drden-t time
crocuSeS
Has his oiun MiddS-touch
And yet he neUer tDH be one
Who loueS gold ouermuch,
Except In minted yellow,
As BRIGHT as hnch's winp:
He counts his ,Dedlth In petals
And reckons IL each spring.
AnobeI Armour ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
LETTERS TO THE STAR

illegal dictatorial powers of the
unions may lead.
Let the working man organ
ize his unions by voluntary en-
listment and payment of dues,
abolish the closed shop and
the checkoff-obvious tools of
dictatorship and gangsterism
and let us all unite for the
betterment of our country.
Mark C. Malamphy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

schools. But this carefully
prepared statement comes
from the person chosen by
Wesley Cooper. Mrs. Leone
Buchholz and George Rowzee
as the first representative of
A. l. M. Arlington Independ-
ent MovemenD on the Airing
ton County School Board.
Warren Cox.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Voice of the Arabs

With reference to the story
which appeared in The Star.
March II under the byline of
Earl VoSS and headlined Cairo
Radio Intensifyine Attacks" in
which it was claimed that
Cairo's Voice Of the Arabs, F."
attacking President Eisenhow-
er. quoted the SudaneSe paper
AL Saraha as calling him such
ugly names as "Dillinger" and
Public Enemy Number One. "
! am pleased to inform you
that this Embassy referred
that part Of the story to Cairo
for immediate investigation.
Now, after receiving an official
reply, / am in a position to
deny, categorically, that part
of the report.
The alleged attacks on the
person OF President Eisenhower
are unfounded and we're not
carried on Cairo's radio.
! would be grateful if you
would take the necessary
measures to put this correction
on the record. especially in
view Of the fact that your edi-
torial Man in the Middle" of
March 10 was based upon the
story.
MOhamed Habib,
Press Attache,
Embassy of Egypt.
Editors Note: The Star has
rechecked the sources OF the
news story to which Mr.. Habib
refers, and is satisfied that it
correctly reported the slurring
references to President Essen
hover in the Voice of the
Arabs" broadcast. The broad
cast. made on January 8, was
monitored. and we are in
formed that a recording OF it
is available.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

factorily to all concerned at subsequent
conferences, to the end that the tenn
porary branch of the University of Vir-
ginia will become a permanent addition
to the educational facilities of the rap.
idly growing nearby Virginia area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

Pen names may be used n
letters carry writerS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
SGtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

The ssSS n SET an sasT s ~ mat "ps " Vye'S r
DC iol -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
operating outside the area Of

operating outside the area Of
painting"
The chapter on Frank
Lloyd Wright and Philip
Johnson is a sharp and witty
one. further enhanced by Mr..
Rodman's description of his
uncomfortable night in Mr..
Johnson's glass guest house.
Indeed, all of the sketches
are interesting because of the
vitality with which Mr.. Rod
man presents his subjects.
William de Koonning's re-
mark about his horrific paint
ings of women, for instance,
is a Sidesplitting understate-
ment: Women irritate me
sometimes. 1 painted that irri-
tation in the Woman series.
On the other hand, Rico Le-
bruins dispassionate objec-
tivity before the Buchenwald
corpses, will undoubtedly re-
pei the reader.
In conclusion, one may say
that many of these artists
live up to the layman's ages
old feeling that the artist is a
character" different from
the rest of us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
The Role of Advertising
AS a Major Industry

the former president of
Mays and an advertising
executive. At that point,
advertising as a business is
ahead.
But the score changes as
we move on through a dis
cussion of how ad copy is
written and a chilling deScrip-
ton of motivational research
MIR in the trade-by which
the real" subconscious
motives of consumers are
rooted out for exploitation.
And two faScinatingly de-
tailed chapters on how the
Ford Co. selected an agency
to handle the $14 million &C
count for the new Edsel and
how a dog food company au-
ditioned five prospective
agencies bring the huckster to
mind Notwithstanding other
chapters which present the
impressive business structure
of advertising.
It's true that nobody is
quoted here as saying, Lets
run it up the flagpole and see
who SaluteS." But a catch
line in one agency's presenta-
ton to the dog food company
was: "Optimum compromise
automatically assures rela-
lively reasonable cost per tar
get contact" Which may be
worse.-CHARLES B. SEIB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
What Happened to the Nozi
Invasion of Great Britain

Fearing "Sea Lion" but not
dreading it, the British
ceased singing We'll Hang
Out our Washing on the
Siegfried Line" and buckled
down to doing it.
Too Late
1t soon became apparent
that Operation Sea Lion had
started too late; that the
Germans were not going to
invade. They turned in a
fury to the aerial assault on
Britain, which they lost. and
later the attack on Russia,
which they also lost.
The Hitlerian threat had
been a tonic and a drug. 1t
expunged from the memories
of the islanders the disasters
they had suffered. And per-
hapS they took it all more
seriously than the Phoney
War.
Mr.. Fleming has done a
beautiful job of recapturing
the darkest days of World
War II but he has done it
with a light touch possible
only to Monday morning
quarterbacks. His conclusion
is, in American terms, that
Hitler should have punted.
Jerry OLEARY. JR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
THE AMAZING ADVERTIS-

HE EAWAfNAAlNN M liz 10
ING BUSINESS. BY the
editors of Fortune Maya
zine. (Simon e. Schuster;
$500
This book is an attempt,
the editors say, to prove that
advertising is a business
and put to rest 1.-The legend
of the fast-talking, hard
drinking. endlessly cynical.
flannel clad huckSter.
Well, one cannot doubt
after reading it that adver-
Using is indeed a business
and a lucrative one. $40
billion a year is the figure
they're using now. What's
more, the reader also is likely
to come away agreeing to
some degree with Prof. David
M. Potter of Yale who is
quoted here as saying that
advertising is IAN instru-
ment comparable to the
school and the church in the
extent Of its influence upon
society,""
The book opens with a
somewhat unsubstantial dia-
tribe against the whole
theory and practice of ad-
vertising by the late Ber-
nard Devote and a pair of
pretty effective answers by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
Soldier Reflections

COUP DE GRACE, by Mar
garet Youncenar. translated
from the French by Grace
Prick in collaboration with
the author (Farrar. Straus
and Cudahy; So, is another
novel by the author of the
widely acclaimed Memoirs
Of Hadrian."
Coup de Grace" is a brief,
dramatic story in the form
of a Renaissance told by a
soldier of fortune. He is
looking back on the time
when he was a youthful Of
flcer fighting against the
Bolsheviks in the civil war in
Russia that followed World
War /.
This officer, part Bait.
part PruSSian, with a strain
OF French ancestry. tells of
some months when he was in
command Of a detachment
holding a small town on the
Baltic frontier where he had
spent the happiest years OF
his boyhood. There one of
his officers was Conrad. the
boy he had grown up with.
Conrad's sister and their half
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
ForgottenMen
OF Flying
THE LOCUST FIRE. BY Eu-

THE LOCUST FIRE. BY Eu-
gene Brown. Doubleday;
$685.
In all the wealth Of litera-
ture. good and bad. that
sprang from World War II.
most everyone - until Mr..
Brown came along - has
overlooked the men who few
The Hump. They were the
ones who helped the old DC-3
CAD earn its way as the
workhorse Of the air.
1t is about them, and par
ticularly Sergt. George Lewis.
that Mr.. Brown tells his
highly readable story Of a
mans anguish when rotation
time never comes to a for
gotten land.
His account Of Sergt. Lewis
other anguish in bringing in
a crippled C-47 loaded with
Chinese troops provides an
ending guaranteed to leave
the reader tearing the dust
jacket.
CHARLES YARBRoUGH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
CRIME AND MYSTERY
'By BETTY MILES

Y MILES--
accident. Sleeping pills in the
yogurt she laughs off, but not
a bullet in the forehead. In
Spector Schmidt finds his list
of suspects headed by eccen-
trio Aunt En-, Sandra's I'M
loving nextdoor neighbor.
who is kept at bay by two at
tractive nephews.
y X +
WHAT ROUGH BEAST. BY
John Trench. CThe Mac
milan Co.; $685.
Some one was framing
Canon Adamson-and doing
a remarkably good job of it.
He had been made to look
like a thief, an incompetent,
a dog killer and a degenerate.
When his unpleasant wife
was killed in the cathedral.
it naturally occurred to the
local conStabulary that the
canon had a hand in it.
Martin Cotterell; amateur
sleuth, who believes other
wise, solves the crime after a
brace of exciting episodes.
It's too bad. though. that Mr..
Trench finds it necessary to
impose. with a heavy hand.
his own view Of religion on an
audience made captive by his
skill.
THE CARPET SLIPPER
MURDER. BY Allan Camp
bell Mclean. lives Wash
burn, Inc; $685.
Inspector Mcleod, even as
Sergeant Friday, is a man
who always knows what time
1t is. including the moment
he tears open a pack of ciga-
rettes and the minute he
greets the local innkeeper.
In spite Of some excess Of
Recommendation, this is a good
tale with which the author
bows as a mystery writer.
What red bearded Paul Rem
shaw was painting is a mys-
terry. since no canvas was
found in his studio after his
murder. All the suspects
read like a local Who's Who
in the English village. COM
plicating Inspector McLeod's
life. A complex plot is
smoothly handled.
UNSEEN ENEMY. BY Chris
topher Landon. Double
day d. Co.. Inc; $685.
In its way, it's a fairy tale.
this story of a clever private
eye who uses a little girls
picture and her shadow on
series Of snapshots. sent to
her father by her kidnapper,
as a guide to her location.
Harry Trent's near-genius
friend Josh pinpoints the
place, and the hunt in the
chateau country of France is
on. Original and lively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
Record Of Revolt

THE HUNGARIAN REV.
OLUTION, edited by Melvin
j. Lasky Frederick A. Prae-
ger; So is a white paper of
official accounts of the revolt
of last fall which the Soviet
army put down so ruthlesSly.
The point of view Of those
who rebelled against the Red
regime and their description
of what happened is recalled
in reprints of broadcastS. re-
ports. letters and interviews.
There is an introduction by
Hugh Seton Watson. profess
sor of Russian history at the
University of London. Prof.
Seton-Watson calls the re-
volt Of 1856 a full-scale revo-
luton. CHASING it with those
that occurred in Hungary in
l848 and 1918.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
OPERATION SEA LION. BY
Peter Fleming. (Simon &
SchuSter. S51


Peter Fleming. tSimon &
Schuster; So
This is the thoroughly doc
umented, oftentimes comical,
story of one of history's back
waters, the Nazi invasion of
Great Britain which started
out to be a tidal wave and
ended up as a ripple.
Adolf Hitler was supreme
on the continent of Europe
and his free-wheeling intui-
ton told him the British
would sue for peace as soon
as the last beaten English
man was taken of the beach
at Dunkirk. The supreme
egomaniac was never more
wrong, and it may have cost
him the war.
For while the disciplined
Germans listened bemusedly
to the rantings Of Hitler-he
thought Of his mouthings as
an olive branch to the Eng
lish-the doughty islanders
were digging out ancestral
maces, f1int-locks and asse-
gals from the Zulu war to
defend their fastness. And
in the end. Hitler found him.
self beaten by that king
sized tank-trap, the English
Channel.
Wasted Time
And that was because. like
Napoleon, he did not have
the naval assets to cross over
to nearly defenseless Brit
ain. When he should have
been preparing for Operation
Sea Lion, he wasted his time
with speeches.
Mr.. Fleming. who writes
with a sharp-wittec clarity
about the shortcomings of his
people. freely reports the
manner in which the British
wasted their time, too. The
whole country was convinced
Of the imminence of a Ger
man airborne invasion when
none was poSsible-and tore
down every highway sign in
the kingdom. Spies were
suspected Of lurking in every
bush-but really the German
espionage on England was I'M
believably weak and ANA
flourish.
Fancy Dress Ball
The period. now that it is
long past. assumes the char
acteristics Of a fancy dress
ball with everyone asking
everybody else, What are
you going ASP" And as more
and more cooks converged on
the broth. the confusion
deepened.
Hitler's main mistake was
to completely misunderstood
the British character. The
British, when their last ally
had been pole-axed on their
doorstep. became eayer and
more serene than at any time
sincd Munich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
A Love Story
Set in Egypt
Under Revolt
REVOLUTION AND ROSES.

III WV AOAN fAAND MUSES.
BY P. H. Newly. (Knopf;
$500
Mr.. Newly, the skilful
English novelist, takes a sar-
donically sympathetic view
of insurgent nationalist in
this deft. airy novel about
revolution in Egypt. If the
uprising had an impromptu
air it wasn't because the
revolutionaries didn't know
what they were doing. but
weren't sure exactly how to
go about it and thus easily
distracted by irrelevancies.
So it is with 1t. Yehia,
an Egyptian patriot who
falls precipitately in love.
at the moment Of King
Farouk's escape. with a way
ward, blond British Jour-
nalist named Elaine. Elaine
is captured. and so is her
hostess. Mrs. Dragoumis. an
incorruptibly dramatic ma
iron married to a man with
tremendous theories Of po-
litical science. The British
diplomatic staff. keeping a
firm grip Of its perspective.
imperterbably holds a birth
day party. and all proceeds
with the insane logic Of a
nightmare at high noon.
Mr.. Newly does not at
tempt to explain events. he
merely chronicles them with
a fine satiric touch with APP
probation for the painful
attempts Of the Egyptians to
be correct and the English
to be casual when social
order is undergoing an
earthshaking change.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
Art Book Review
CONVERSATIONS WITH
ARTISTS. BY Selden Rod

nv AhO o. ny OCiOCAl IOOu-
man. (Devin-Adair; so
Artists Electives and
ideas about their own and
their contemporaries work
seem more important now
than in earlier centuries, be-
cause so wide a gulf exists
between today's artists who
work in modern idioms. and
the layman.
Selden Rodman, editor,
poet. anthologist and re-
porter, has become a Vasari
on a small scale in this ex-
ceptionally entertaining and
equally enlightening volume.
He has interviewed 35 paint
erS, sculptors and architects,
the great majority of them
avant-garde. and his tran
scriptions of their remarks
about their own and others
work. and art in general,
make absorbing reading.
The honesty of the book is
one Of its outstanding virtues.
Mr.. Rodman does not pre-
tend to admire all that is in
cluded here and the remarks
he quotes seem to have been
edited little il at all. Con-
sequently, the respective art
lists personalities are wildly
conveyed by what they say
and by the reporters brief
but telling comments on their
appearance. behavior and
background.
Emotion in Painting
The thread that ties to-
gether these strikingly differ
ent interviews is the artists
insistence on emotion as the
indispensable ingredient of
good painting Cor sculpture)
today. The lack of agree
merit is expressed without
inhibitions. between those
with different detectives,
whom Mr.. Rodman has as
sembled in five groups. Alb
stract expressionist Adolph
Gottlieb, for instance, says
the attitude of these painters
to the public is. You're
stupid. We despise you. We
don't want you to like us
or our art" With regard TO
contem p orary representa-
tional painting he said it
serves no social function at
all, has no utility value as it
had in times past. We're
going to have perhaps a
thousand years Of nonrepre-
Sensational painting now"
But the representational
painters disagree quite as exu-
berantly. Saul Steinberg. for
example: Most of the alb
stract expressionists are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21

birds and still life with their
balanced compositions and
high-keyed colors. French
born, she has been in the
United States since 1910.
Kenneth Hine seems to me
the best of the abstract ex-
pressionists here. Art-trained
in Illinois and California. he
shows two landscapes COM
posed of varied rectangles in
yellow-greens, white and
black. Alice Mavrogordato's
two paintings reveal the in
f1uence of her teachers. Ken
holland and Morris Louis.
Phoenix" is the better. with
its curved sweep OF scarlet,
orange and darker colors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21

mad aunt also were installed
in the old mansion Erick
(the narrator) remembered
so well.
There was constant Skin
mishing, and the town
changed hands more than
once. Between times Erick
and Conrad and the sister
and other soldiers stayed
in the mansion. The sister,
Sophie, was overwhelmingly
in love with Eric, but he did
not love her and treated her
only with brotherly affection.
A Surprising Turn
The story moves swiftly to
a tragic denouement. The
atmosphere of that strange,
fierce little war, in which no
quarter was asked or given,
is sketched wildly. The char
acters are delineated Subtly.
Unfortunately the force of
the drama is marred by a
monStrous act which Erick
does at the close. 1t does not
seem credible; at least we
are not prepared, in the
earlier unfolding of his char
acter. for such a deed.
There is, too, the broad
hint that his love for his boy
hood friend, Conrad, is I'M
natural, though it is never
clear how far this has gone.
The supposition is that a
homosexual tendency pre-
vented him from loving
Sophie. though once, para
doxically. he decided to marry
her from a compassionate
motive-a purpose he could
not carry out because she ran
away and Joined the Red
army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
Smoke Clouds
SCIENCE LOOKS AT

SCIENCE LOOKS AT
SMOKING, by Eric Northrup
Coward Mccain; So is a
brief for the defense in the
current controversy over
whether cigarettes cause lung
cancer and coronary throm-
bosiS.
Mr.. Northrup, who is a lay
man but an experienced med
ical journalist, holds that the
case against smoking has not
been proved. He admits that
medical statistics recently an
nounced, reporting in thou
sands of selected cases, a
much greater number Of can
Ger and heart deaths among
cigarette smokers than among
nonsmokers, are impressive
to laymen. He contends, how
ever. and backs himself with
much medical opinion, that
there is no positive evidence
that smoking causes any form
of cancer or heart disease.
Much the same position is
taken by DR.. Harry S. N.
Greene, chairman of the de-
partment of pathology at
Yale. who writes an intro
duction to this book.
Reinsurance
According to the theory of
DR.. Greene and Mr.. Northrup,
an effort has been made to
find cigarettes guilty by as
ISOLATION. Two parallel con-
ditions do not necessarily in
dictate cause and effect. In the
old days. if there was an out
break of some disease near a
marsh or swamp. it was as
sumed that 'vaporS" from
these lowlands were the
cause. Such is the argument.
The book should help re-
assure a lot of worried smok-
ers and bring a measure of
comfort to harassed ciga-
rette manufacturers. though
I do not charge that it was
written for such a purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21

as it has won ecstatic re-
actions from others in the art
field. it had better be visited
during its remaining 10 days
here. so that Washingtonians
can form their own conclu-
Sions.
Henry Sayles Francis, the
distinguished curator of
paintings and prints at the
Cleveland Museum of Art,
assembled the show. He said
of it, "A talent so unusual.
an invention so constant, a
world of the imagination so
vital, can only persuade the
viewer with ever increasing ,
pleasure" This concludes his
enthusiastic foreword to the
illustrated catalogue which
also has a biography of Cock
van Gent.
Holland Born
Born in Holland in 1925,
she began to paint at the
age of 10, later studied at
the Art Academy, The
Hague. and in Maastricht.
At 81, she came to the United
States, and with the en-
couragement of Alfred Steig-
litZ, Travelled around the
country painting. In 1852,
she was awarded a Gather
wood Foundation grant for
a year of painting in Mexico,
with which country she fell
in love, and remained there
five years. living in the CHA
pas highlands near the Qua
temalan border. The current
show is composed of work of
this period.
1t comprises variations on
a few associated themes: the
Magyar Indians of Chiapas.
women and children, and
angels and cupidS closely
resembling them. These
figures have been distorted
and conventionalized with ex-
aggerations of heavy features.
widespread eyes, short limbs
and lumpy bodies. The paint
ings have pleasant color
schemes, good patterns and
unusual perspectives of
architectural details indicat-
ing patioS and arcades in
which the figures float or
walk. But the repetitive
theme makes the show (for
me- a bit of a bore.