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People Also Matter

A wise society, says Eli
Ginzberg in HUMAN RE-
SOURCES: The Wealth Of .
Nation (Simon and schuster;
$3.7S) will invest literally in
its people in order to accel-
crate its economic expansion
and strengthen It's national
security. But it will also do
so because in helping each
citizen to realize his maxi
mum potentialities it con-
tributes to the we'll being Of
all"
At another point in his
thoughtful, informed book,
DR.. Ginzberg, who is profess
sor of economics in the grad
uate school Of business at
Columbia University and di-
rector of the Conservation Of
Human Resources project,
contends: eff the Russian
threat is taken seriously.
then we must take a long
and hard look at our educa-
tional system, from grammar
school to the university; at
the scale and focus of our
research effort; and ct the
way In which we use trained
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Other Art Prices

Concerning the season gen.
orally, Mr.. Hyam said Com
petition was keenest for ex-
amples of highest quality Tin
whatever category. with
prices in general showing an
upward direction. No new
trends in collecting we're
discernible except for the re-
vival Of interest in Japanese
prints as evidenced by the
unusual response to the sale
Of the collection Of Charles
j. Morse and other owners, I"
(which brought o total Of
$33, ,000).
The second part Of the
Lurcy collection, French
18th century furniture and
decorative arts. realized
$512,S55, which brought the
grand total for the collection
to $2,221,355. Other promi-
nent sales included modern
paintings, drawings and
sculptures from the Heinz
and other collections, $685.
625: French and German
modern paintings from the
collections Of Hume Cronyn
and Jessica Tandy and others,
$208. 400. and five other sales
of French. English and Amer
lean furniture and decorative
arts. and Oriental art. all Of
which obtained totals Of well
over 100000 each.
Some Of the highest prices
paid for objects in the above
mentioned categories seem
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AlAlg A@SSt(AAASCAg ASeASAACA go 80
The Georges Lurcy paintings,
sold early in November, when
the stock market had
registered its lowest point,
brought the highest amount
ever realized for a single ses-
sion of sale. Sixty-f1ve mod
ern French paintings from
that collection fetched
$1,700.5OO.
Leslie A. Hyam, president
of the Galleries, said this was
not mere chance. For the
past 10 years." he remarked.
works by the Impressionists
and Post -ImpreSsionists have
steadily climbed in value.
Major examples by leading
masters are no longer easily
procurable. When a coll
lection as notable as the
Lurcy came before an inter-
national group of collectors
and dealers with a buying
power probably unequaled in
any place of its kind, it was
almost a foregone conclusion
that most previous auction
prices for individual artists
represented would be sur
passed, and that the total
would set a world record"
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To Appear

Forthcoming: Fiction lists
are studded with hig-league
names. John Marquand:
Women and Thomas Har-
row.; Graham Greene, for
saking hellfire for the nonce;
"Our Man in Havana"-an
entertainment; Jack Kerouac,
leader of the beat genera
ton" has sent in the manu-
script Of 1.-THE Dharma
Buns; and James Ramsey
Ullman, down from the
mountaintop. has fiction
allied the critical years Of the
poet Rimbaud's life in THE
Day on Fire"
Non-fiction: James Thur
ber's loving sketch of q great
New Yorker editor, The
Years with Ross; a critical
study Of Evelyn Waugh, "Por-
trait of an Artist" by Fred
erick Stopp, an English critic;
and boy on the Rooftop,"
by Tamas Szabo. one Hun
garian teen-ager's expert
ence during his country's
heartbreaking stab at free
dom in october, 1885.
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manpower in this country.
We should be doing this even
If the Russians had not
scared us =. We are willing
to drill for oil knowing that
the odds are heavily in favor
Of the holes being dry. We
are willing to write of a
half billion dollar investment
in a new missile as a bad
mistake. We make very large
grants to other nations in the
hope that they will stay
friendly with US. :. In only
one regard we act the miser.
We have been unwilling, at
least up to the present. to
make an appropriate invest
ment in the development of
our Nations brainpower, the
foundation of our strength,
the hope of our future )"
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War Episode
THE MISSION.

THE MISSION. BY Dean
Brelis. (Random House;
$500
The devotion Of a Bur-
mese hillman to his Ameri-
can oSS companion in the
backwater war against the
Japanese in World War II
Is the theme OF this simple
but engaging novella.
Apparently based ON Mr..
Brelis' experiences in the Obi,
"The Mission" can be dis
posed Of between cocktails
and dinner. There Is O mes
sage, however; the barefoot
native Of the Kachin tribes
can be just as civilized and
thoughtful in his environ
ment as any son OF Yankee
Doodle in his.
The parachuting hero wins
over the Kachins, trains
them into a compact little
army and leads them against
the enemy on the outskirts
of Myitkina. Pohm the
Americans guerrilla friend,
: commits deliberate self-de-
struction to save the mission.
His obsequies are beautifully
told.
This is pleasant fare, re-
quiring little concentration
beyond automatic compari-
son between the climate Of
wartime Burma and sum-
mertime Washington.
JERRY OLEARY. Jr.
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II Apostles
Are Pictured
In Vivid Way
VELVE CHRIST

THE TWELVE CHRIST
C H o S E. BY Asbury
Smith (Harper g. Bros;
$30
The names of the Apostles
have been known to students
of the Scriptures from the
beginning, but their person.
alites to only a few.
Here in this brief volume
DR.. Smith, superintendent of
the Washington West Dis
trict of the M e h o dist
Church, has brought to life
those names so closely aSSo-
ciated with Christ. Simon
called Peter, Andrew, James,
John and the others all as
sumo flesh and blood, with
the very human instincts
and desires that motivate
all men.
The writer has used an
old but effective device in
portraying his characters.
He has taken the outStand-
ing trait each had and has
built surely upon this basic
foundation. Thus his stady
of Peter centers around his
impulsive, big-hearted de-
sire to act. HE was always
going into action-wise or
foolish"
James springs into reality b!
his zeal for the Lord, ambi'
ton for the Kingdom. bignes'
of voice and bigness Of mind.
John assumes individuality al
"the beloved disciple" And tht
character of the traitor judas
is developed by an examination
Of his cupidity.
To this approach DR.. Smitl
adds background materia
about the men and their times
He brings this scholarly infor'
nation into each chapter un'
ostentiously. explaining in in
teresting fashion what ha!
been said about the Apostles d
individuals.
For those who want to know
the Apostles as more thar
casual acquaintance. "Thi
Twelve Christ Chose" is mus
reading.
-CASPAR NAMES.
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Pointing Prices

Highest individual prices
were 100000 for Renoir's
La Serre";; $1S0,O00 for
Gauguin's Tahitian "Mau
"Taporo";; AUX Amhassa-
deurs" By Lautrec, $95,000;
Monet's Femme dams un
Jardin," $4,000; $4,000
each for works by Bonnard
and WILLARD; Lautrec's
painting for his famous
poster "Aristide Bruant aux
Ambassadors" $4,000.
Nearly 1000 paintings were
sold during the season. Of
these, more than 700 were
offered alone or with draw
ings or sculptures, and
fetched a total of $2,604.1
Exclusive of the Lurcy col
lection, top prices for modern
works were $4,000 for Sig
macs lie Moulin; $21 900
for Picasso's Femme aux
Bas Bleus";; $4,000 for
Castor Modot," a portrait
by Modigliani; and $14,250
for Rouault's aysage
Biblique."
In three sales of Old Mas
ter and 18th century works,
four paintings by Corot
fetched SAL, 500. Results Of
two sales of works by Ameri-
can painters of a quarter
century ago should be of in
terest to Washington collec-
tors. many of whom must
have watercolors by Charles
Demuth or oils by the Ameri-
can impreSsionist Childe
HaSsam. A collection of De-
muth's exquisite watercolors
realized $82,135, with such
prices as $4,000 for still life
of fruits and vegetables. OF
the collection of 35 paintings
by Hassam, a typical oil Of
Central Park, New York"
obtained S4,250,
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AsheviIIe and Wolfe

In a letter dated 1888, the
year before he died, Thomas
Wolfe said, II was q citizen
Of Asheville-and I am now
q citizen Of mankind" These
days, Asheville is claiming
her famous son in a doting
way she never did in his
lifetime
The Chamber Of Commerce
has just published a new
folder about Wolfe. detailing
rhapSodically for the tourist
the Wolfe relics to be seen
in q town which once un-
loosed what he called "a
storm Of abuse and calumny"
for his depletion Of it in
Look Homeward, Angel"
Mr.. Wolfe once tried to
explain in o letter to a prom
inent AShevillean who COM
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incredible to the average
person: $4,000 for a Louis
XIV Sevres decorated rose
Pompadour porcelain soup
tureen; $4,000 for a pair of
Louis XIV serpentine-fron
.commodes; $4,000 for a
Louis XIV kingwood and anna
ranth writing table: $4,000
for a pair Of Meissen porce-
lain ewers mounted in bronze
dore.
Despite these top prices,
there were ample oppor-
tunities throughout the sea-
son, for the collector Of
modest means. More than
14,500 lots of furniture and
decorative arts brought prices
as widely separated as five
figures for items in the upper
echelons, down to $125 for a
Sheraton sofa table; $185 for
a Louis XIV fruitwood buffet
bas: $85 for a Crown Derby
white and gold punch bowl.
and $50 for a pair of Dresden
porcelain urns, to mention
only a few.
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ingly for his release.
Now he is gone, he surely
will not be forgotten. Two
immediate reminders Of his
curious and wildly admired
art are being published this
month. The University Of
Virginia announces publica-
tion Of a new canto, which
Is blazing with unforeseen
topicality, being Pounds
thoughts on men in high
places and their sense Of
ethics.
Last Wednesday, New Di-
rections issued "Pavannes
and Divagations," a collec-
ton OF, reprints Of various
fragments from the master
In sportive vein. These in
clude imaginary letters, par
odies, imaginary dialogues, q
few jingles frankly titled
"Frivolities" and a handful
of aphorisms.
Mr.. Pounds return to exile
was, Of course. smoothed by
an old acquaintance and pro-
tege, the magnificent elder
of American letters, Robert
Frost, who as poet Of the
Library of Congress has Just
taken employment with the
Government. which Mr..
Pound could never abide.
H. A. Sieber Of the library's
legislative reference service,
points out that poets have
had an admirable record this
year for effective political
action. Not only did Mr..
Frost see to Mr.. Pounds lib
Grafton, but another ancient
bard, Carl Sandburg. is
largely credited with the re-
lease of Nathan Leopold.
First instance we've had
in some time of Shelley's
claim that poets are the un-
acknowledged legislators Of
the world"
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JuInu Again

Once more Mazo De La
Roche returns to the scene of
her Canadian saga. of her
many novels of the Whiteoak
family. in CENTENARY AT
JALNA 1Atlantic Little
Brown; $4). This draws to-
gether many tangled threads
of earlier stories as the FAM
lily gathers in the mid-l950s
to celebrate the hundreth an
niversary of the old house.
Jalna. This novel is, like the
others, very capably written,
but it will be hard for those
who have not read other
Jalna stories to become or
tented.
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Summer Theme Show

Water Vistas' reflected in
paintings, sculpture and
prints constitute an ap-
propriate theme for the July
exhibition at The Artists
Mart, 1861 Wisconsin avenue
NV. The mood is suggested
by drift wood, conch shells,
sand dollars and other. sea
and shore relics in the win
dow.
The themes compre-
hensiveness allows wide
variety in individual subjects
and interpretations ranging
from conservative to abstract
oils and water colors. Out
standing traditional paint
ings include Ruth Safford's
Boats" in Blue Hill Bay,
Maine; William F. Walters
little Coles Point; North
Sea Boats" by Nannette
Schweig, John Bryans' Fails
of Genesee";; Marguerite
Burgess Flying Gulls." De-
lilah Pierce's "Masts" and
works by Dorothy van H.
Harrison and j. Loughlin.
Modern but figurative are
Theodore Kane's Night in
Geneva" Ben Lawless' Hull
at Low Tide" boats by Shelf
field Kagy in a double image
(refection). Ann Edelman's
Cove" and Jack Berkman's
misty little expressionist
"Harbor." The best of the
distractions, in my opinion,
are Samuel Bookatz's Yacht
Race" Helen Lambert's
Reeds" and L. Sanders
Georgetown Reflected" all
of them well painted and
evocative.
Juichi's mermaids and
other ink drawings of figures
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Two at Corner

Crossan Curry's exhibition
is the more important Of two
one-man shows at Collec-
tors Corner. 1928 Wisconsin
avenue NV, through July;
but l thought the smaller
collection of distractions
(mostly) by Lowell Owsley
the more pleasing.
Mr.. Curry's show of 90
works in various media, a
five or six years RETROSPECT
tive, is introduced with a
See ART, Page Ell
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ThriIIer Set
InPortueol
THE PORTUGUESE ES-
CAPE. BY Ann Bridge.
Macmillan; $3.95.)

NMdCLLlllldIl, @o.SOO
Miss Bridge is an author, of
thrillers with a high drawing
room quotient. Here we do
not miss a beat Of gracious
living as we follow the for
tunes Of the young Countess
Hetta, a fetching. prickly
young refuge from Hungary.
Her progress to freedom and
love is accomplished through
a number of scenes in the
houses of the very best
people, where the beds are
soft and the servants count
less and solicitous.
Hetta is a most engaging
heroine, devout, direct, a
little difficult to absorb into
the creamy diplomatic set of
Lisbon. Hetta's aristocratic
bearing is a matter of in
Stinct rather than environ
ment. Swept up in the Red
tide that poured over Hun
gary, she only left the con-
vent to become the cook of
q country priest.
The priest also fees, and
it is his attempts to get to
America via Lisbon to broad
cast the ordeal of his coun-
try, that make up Miss
Bridges excellent plot. Hetta
finds love, too, not before
some rather bruising encoun-
ters with the compromising,
worldly standards of free
people.
Miss Bridge tells most Of
her story in dialogue, and
very literate it is, too. She
also weaves in some Portu-
gese travelogue of a high
order. She has a tremendous
eye for detail, which serves
her well not only in the great
chase scene which is the high
point of the story but at
quieter moments as well.
When she is telling you of a
hardy English nanny who is
cody preparing to drug the
wine Of a Communist agent,
she tells you the brand name
and the year.
"The Portuguese Escape" is
highly readable. Any reader
wanting intelligent escape will
seek it out. Miss Bridge leaves
grubbineSs to others. She
unblushingly thinks true aris-
tocrats are worthy people,
that feudalistic societies in
the right hands we're not all
bad, that worldliness does not
necessarily mean perdition.
She even believes in tact.
Old-fashioned in these days
Of angry and destructive
writer's. Pleasant, too, though
almost as nice as a week
end In one of those great
country houses she approves
of. M. McG.
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planned that the novel was
mot just to Asheville. What
had happened between him
and his native town:
Have you ever tried to
pass a man in the street and
the moment you stepped to
the right to go around him
he would also step the same
way, when you stepped to the
left he would follow you, and
so the thing would continue
until it became funny and
you both stood still and
looked at each other and yet
all the time all you were try
ing to do was to be friendly to
each other and to give the
other fellow q free passage?
Or, better still, have you ever
met someone that you knew
you liked and you were
pretty sure he felt the same
way about you and yet, fig
uratively speaking, you got
off on the wrong foot'?"
Asheville and Tom Wolfe
made it up before he died.
Still, in 1888, he wrote his
sister a description of Ashe-
vile that would never find
its way into any Chamber of
Commerce brochure: 1T is a
ruined and defeated town
and it is full Of ruined and
defeated people,"
Mr.. Wolfe is in any case
not the booster" type. That's
just not the way of an author
who wrote a novel called
You Can't Go Home Again. "
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NEW OPENINGS

DRAWINGS BY AREA ARTISTS. Franz
Bader Gallery, 1908 q street NV.
Current-August 4.
ENGRAVINGs BY ALBERTO CAR
LISKY OF ARGENTINA. Pan Amer
lean Union. Constitution Avenue ct
Seventeenth street NV. Wednesday,
August 1S
TEN YEARS IN RETROSPECT. George
washington University Library, 2023
q street NV. current-September >.
oNE-MAN SHOW BY EDMUND A.
92I6 Flower avenue. current-July 81.
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and animals, Ed Rhoads'
quaint primitive Canoeing"
and several excellent block
prints in colors by Gwen An-
derson and Joyce Griffith.
add to the shows interest.
along with the unique
painted and fired tiles maxi
ing a head of st. Peter (flsh-
erman of mem by Orsini.
Sculptures by Katherine B.
Hobbs Ia giant sea horse)
and Robert Kuhn are the
shows best in these media.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
READING AND WRITING
New Books Follow
Ezra Pounds Exile
By MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

When Ezra Pound set sail for Italy on July l. the
Government supposedly breathed sigh Of relief and his
friends of contentmen The eccentric poet had been
Of profound international embarrassment during
his IL years detention at ST. Ezabeths Hospital While he
received disciples and pilgrims his friends agitated
Evening star., 1958-07-13
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Auctioned Paintings
Bring Record Prices
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The United States economic recession had perceptbe
effect the art and book auctions reflected in the
annual report of the outstanding firm in that field New York
Cys Parke Bernet Galleries at $50 Madison Avenue Such
auctions held there during the just closed which began
last September reached an all record high of
Evening star., 1958-07-13
THE COUNT OF NINE. B,

THE COUNT OF NINE. BY
A. A. Fair erie Stanley
Gardner. william Nor
row g. Co.; S2.95)
Even Bertha Cool has to
praise the brainy little So
and-so as Donald Lam re-
covers two stolen Jade bud
dhas and a primitive blow
gun and solves a murder,
too, quick as a wink. One
of the better Lam-Cool
stories. B. NJ.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
North Caroline Sogo
Makes Striking Novel
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

LeCette Blythe. North Caronian, is widely known
biographer and historian. He published biography Of
Marshal Ney, and his books include Bold Galean "A
Tear for Judas and The Crown Tree" This apparently
his first full-length work of fiction:
CALL DOWN THE STORM (Hot $395).
This takes unrelated but neghboring families
Evening star., 1958-07-13

-"
In North Carolina from the
years Immediately after the
Civil War to contemporary
times.
It is more especially the
story Of DR.. Claiborne Cardell
and his descendants.
We first meet him when he
has returned from medical
school in the North and taken
up practice from his parents
plantation, about 1876. His
parents are dead. "Claib"
can remember. as q boy Of
9. the day his father left to
fight for the Confederacy.
and the fathers return, with
an arm gone. in '65, to live
but a few years.
Doctor Claib" lives alone
on the plantation. attended
by the Negroes who were
once his fathers slaves. He
is romantically inclined to-
ward Melissa, Of a neigh
boring family. But they
quarrel. Sarah, a servant,
who is half white and looks
almost wholly white, is DR..
Cardell's cook and house.
keeper. She becomes his
common-law wife, and by
, her he has a number Of
children. This scandal is
hardly concealed and not
really denied, and the young
doctor gradually becomes a
pariah among the white
people.
Later Generation
Most of his and Sarah's
children cast their lot with
Negroes. But one daughter,
Cleo. goes North. and decides
to be white" She is a
student nurse. and marries
a doctor of partly Spanish
descent. Many years later
their granddaughter comes
South to- teach, at the time
of the segregation decision,
and no one, she least of all,
knows her ancestry.
Call Down the Storm" is
ably written. 1t suffers from a
surfeit of long conversations
in which the characters ex-
plore the economics and
sociology of the South and
many other topics.
But this novel has some
thing many others lack-a
deep feeling for its charac-
ters which Stirs sympathy
and understanding. Thus,
Sarah, half white. half COL
ored, loving the doctor and
loved by him, at least in a
Way. evokes more than pity
as she walks warily between
two worlds. Sympathy is felt,
too, for the doctor, who dis
regarded advice of white
friends to send Sarah away
when she was first pregnant,
who stuck by her and yet is
a lost man. slowly drinking
himself to death. The plight
of the children brings COM
passion. They are distrusted,
avoided by white and colored
people alike-they hardly
know where to turn.
IntegratiOn Comes
Despite Mr.. Blythe's SYM
pathetic portrayal of this re-
lationship beyond Southern
forgiveness (sucif things have
often happened, it is realized,
but rarely so openly there
is a strange thread in the
closing chapters. Some of the
later characters. of the l950s,
regard integration as a very
bad thing which never should
have been thrust on the
South. This, of course, is a
typical attitude. but comes
as something Of a shock
after the authors fine under
standing of the half-caste,
Sarah; the doctor, and their
children.
1t is hard to figure where
Mr.. Blythe stands on the
current perplexity. There is
even, late in the story, a touch
of propaganda about a col
ored girl who is transferred
to a white school and is un-
able to keep up with her
classes.
The first half of the book is
much the better portion. 1t
carries real power. Much OF
the ,ronical Iorce of the end
ing is weakened by attenua-
ton.
On the whole. though. Call
Down the Storm" is an un-
YHetIo1lxy f3Y1a Ya0vp1
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has paid over $l4 million In
dividends to savers. 1t has ham
died the savings Of over l0l 900
members as we'll as 10000 home
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$4,000 savings members and
$500 loan members are sttll
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The original board was q 10
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