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SHERlEF'S SALE
- OF VALUABLE =
REAL ESTATE

By virtue of writ of Levari Facias,
for the sale of land to me directed, will
be exposed o public sale by way of public
vendue, at the front door of the Colonial
Hotel Commerce. ST.. Smyrna. Kent Coun-
w. State of Delaware on
Smyrna times., 1958-10-02
ALIAS SUMMONS IN DIVORCE

Sheriff's Office. Dover, Delaware
September 10. 1858
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
TercentenoY Show

The Charles County Ter
centenary in La Plata, Md,
has been celebrated during
several months and will enter
its final and major week be-
ginning next Saturday. Vari-
GUS aspects of the celebra-
lions have been reported in
The Star.
Art exhibitions will be held
September Is through 20 in
the National Guard Armory
in La Plata each day from 2
to 8 pm. One of the Smith
sonian Institutions travelling
exhibitions, Fifty Original
Water Colors of Early Ameri-
can Crafts and Designs" will
be shown, along with an
tiques, documents, Indian
relics and kindred collections.
"Today's Artists in Charles
County" will be composed of
original works in painting,
sculpture and ceramics.
Washington artists Ralph de
Burgos and Rowland Lyon,
who have lectured, demo-
strated and taught classes Of
the Port Tobacco Art Guild,
organized in 1854, will select
about so paintings from works
submitted. This reviewer will
select prize winners and make
awards in several classes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Explorer HeyerdohI Digs
For Easter Island Gold
AKU-AKU. BY Thor Heyer.

AkU-AkU. BY Thor Heyer-
dahl. Grand Mentally g.
Co.; $685.
Thor Heyerdahl's theory of
the origin Of Polynesian peo-
Piles is too well known to be
detailed here. Still cam
paigning for his east-to-west
migration view, the Nor
wegian explorer has turned
his attention to Easter Is
land, the place of mysterious,
giant stone heads.
Heyerdahl is not the first
person to wonder about
Easter, nor for that matter
the first to try to explain the
great statues. In "Aku-
Aku" (Which has a meaning
in the Easter language not
unlike guardian angel" in
ours), Heyerdahl digs farther
literally and flguratively-
and comes up with more than
any other adventurer has
done.
If he did nothing else in
this book, the author would
have earned his pay by ex-
planning how primitive peo-
pie. working almost without
tools and unfamiliar with the
principle of the wheel, moved
huge stone statues about
their island almost at will.
He explains, also, how the
statues, once moved, were
erected.
A valuable addition to this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Dynamite and Peace

Another millionaire indus
trialist of the 10Th century
Of great interest to young
people is Alfred Nobel. His
story is less familiar to Amer
leans than many others. but
it is both colorful and ex-
citing.
Dynamite and peace may
seem curious companions, but
Alfred Nobel's life was filled
with contradictions. He was
an active inventor who dab
bled in oil, synthetics and
medical research along with
safe explosives" Edith Pat
terson Meyer takes on new
stature as a writer in her
biography of Alfred Nobel,
called DYNAMITE AND
ACE. Little, Brown;
$500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Tools of Science

AS one reads about the
great pioneers in science, it
is evident that they all shared
one common trait: A belief
in practical experiments.
Taking things apart and
putting them together again
is the scientific method which
has fascinated so many peo-
pie, from the small boy with
his grandfather's watch to
the modern atomic physicist.
THE TOOLS OF SCIENCE
by Irving Adler John Day;
$3) is one of the most useful
books for the young boy or
girl who is exploring the field
Of science. BY discussing
tools, from yardstick to
cyclotron, it unravels the
mysteries of the scientific
method. Parents and teach
erS trying to catch UP with
the younger generation will
find this an ideal "refresher"
course.
One of the most important
tools Of science, linking the
Dark Ages with the Space
Age, is the telescope. THE
TELESCOPE by Washington
author Harry Neal (Messner;
$500 is a convenient short
cut to the study Of astronomy
and related science. A young
neighbor Of mine, who is
building a homemade tele-
scope, is already planning to
use it as a guide.
Equally valuable are two
biographies, of convenient
size and pleasant style for
the junior high student.
These are CALICO AND
THE MAGIC NUMBERS by
Sidney Rosen little, Brown;
$500 and ISAAC NEWTON
by Patrick Moore putnam;
So. And who can resist the
sparkle Of Roy Gallant's
EXPLORING THE SUN
9tGarden City; $3.50?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Fine Psychological Mystery
Not an Easy One to Solve

know the old mans shining
secret. This is the well-told
story of how Andrea I'M
ravels the secret of Lucas
strength. A mans search for
himself is made successful
by his study and interest in
another.
The mission turns Andrea
into a man of understanding
from the arrogant person he
was. Even In defeat, Luca is
invincible. Like theaters
which will not permit seating
after the show has started
we will leave the reader to
his own solution of this psy-
Geological mystery.
1t is better to come upon
it slowly than to read in one
sentence how Luca attained
his form Of destiny for his
soul.
JERRY oLEARY. JR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
This Generation
Rich in Music
THE MUSICAL LIF

THE MUSICAL LIFE. By
Irving Kolodin. (Knopf,
$4.50.)
The modern man Of music
has no excuse for not having
a fuller life than Mozart, says
the Saturday Review associ-
ate editor and critic.
THE musical life of this
generation is certainly the
richest of ALL" says Critic Ko-
lodin, "for it has the longest
perspective of masterworks
to review"
Concerned with technical
details on the many-question
but few-answer basis, Mr..
Kolodin asks why the I'M
trained audience cannot COM
pete with the few we'll
trained listeners-the critics;
why such great conductors
as Arturo Toscanini have
photographic memories; why
the most productive COM
posers are not necessarily
the greatest; and why the
High &C" often is avoided.
One thing is for sure. They
all have a bit Of the musical
life in them, says this critic.
A -ROSANNA NOVAK
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Noble Debut

Winifred Mobiles first solo
exhibition opened a few days
ago at Franz Bader Gallery,
1705 @ street NV, to remain
through the 22nd. It is a
pleasing and generally COM
petent show of 20 landscapes,
sea coast and urban scenes,
and flowers and still life, done
in a palette knife technique
that eliminates representa-
tional details while retaining
the effect of naturalism.
The present collection in
cludeS paintings done in Eu-
rope. the West Indies, the
Pennsylvania mountains and
the seashore. Quality is un-
even, but the better works are
very good. I liked her Lake
Lugano," on a grey day, with
reflections Of the houses In
the water; the "Matterhorn,
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another Of the sponsoring
organizations.
Enamels
The jury gave enamels
only one recognition, a men,
ton to Gwen Anderson's abb
Stract design in red and blue,
enamel on steel. The jury
said that Gin enamels a
painterly approach was EVIL
dent, but without sufficient
ability"
There are many meritorious
and pleasing exhibits not only
in the classes mentioned
above, but also in stained
handwrought glass, jewelry,
leather, metal and wood.
There are also educational
booths devoted to weaving,
ceramics, enameling, linoleum
block and silk screen printing,
all with explanatory labels;
and the District of Columbia
Public Library has a large
display of books on creative
crafts. Furthermore, every
afternoon from 2 to 4, and
nearly every morning from
10 to IL, through September
26, there will be a demonstra-
ton of some craft. Schedules,
subjects and names of artists
are posted at the entrance
to the exhibition,
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to make their plans and
sneak away over the sand
dunes. viii the gods protect
them? Or will the vigilance
of the barbarian soldiers pre-
vail?
Bryher not only has writ
ten this episode with clutch
ing suspense, but with lyrical
beauty. With subtle touches
she brings back to life the
ancient, ruined city by the
sea, its captive Greeks and
their ruthless rulers.
There are few writers with
Bryher's gift Of compression,
Of evoking q vanished era
in a few paragraphs. It's q
poets gift, which she has
chosen to express in prose.
Her little book Is made
lovelier by some stunning
photographs of corridors,
columns and shafts Of Paes-
tum built by those early
Greeks and still standing
staunchly today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
The Big Business
In All Ferocity
THE BIG COMPANY LOOK.

THE BIG COMPANY LOOK.
BY J. Harvey Howells.
Doubleday; $3.50.
In the business world de-
picted by Mr.. Howells, Attila
the Hun would be quite sue
ceSsful but perhaps not quite
tough enough really to hit
the bigtime. Even jackson
Pollett, who might be loosely
described as the hero of this
book, finally founders al
though he is equipped with
great insensitivity, a vast
selfiShneSs carefully cloaked
in the "company's interest,
and a magnificent eye for
the main chance.
This is the story of jack
son, a bright young man
compulSlVeIy on the make,
from a youth warped by the
proximity of wealth that
wasn't his until his come
uppance and, of course, re-
generation. 1t isn't literature,
but there are some exciting
moments. And the picture,
Mr.. Howell, until recently a
denizen of the world of
which he writes, gives of the
more ferocious aspects of
business, has the ring OF
truth and a certain morbid
fascination.
CHARLES B. SEIB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Anti Catholic Riots

KING MOB, by Christopher
HILBERT world; $4.95) is
the dramatic story of the
anti Catholic riots set of by
the eccentric Lord George
Gordon in London on a June
day in 1870 The spreading
vandalism, in the course Of
which the original cause of
the trouble was forgotten,
convicts were released and
stores looted, almost de-
stroyed the city before it f.
nally died out. Hundreds
were killed. Mr.. Hilbert, who
wrote THE Road to Tyburn,"
has brought together from
many sources an authentic
account Of one of the most
famouS-or infamous - in
cidents in London'S long
history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
ChronicIing the Pain
And Sweetness of Life
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer
THE HOUsEBREAKER OF
SANDY HILL. By John

The hOUSEbkEAkEh OF
SANDY HILL. BY John
Cheever. (Harper; 49,
John Cheever. author Of
"The Wapshot Chronicle" is
fast becoming our leading
chronicler of what he calls
"the pain and sweetness of
life" He is truly a minstrel.
His prose is so felicitous as to
be musical, full of wonderful
loops and turns and grace
notes. The setting Of this
particular celebration of the
simple pleasures is an exur-
banite capital called Shady
Hill.
In Shady Hill, Mr.. Chew
er's eight panels reveal there
is trouble. There is the
young executive Of the title
story who feels the only way
he can recoup after he has
lost his job is by stealing from
the neighbors. There is an
aging husband who cannot
believe in his young wife's
virtue. There is a middle
aged athlete whose pride and
manhood are based on his
ability, after several drinks,
to negotiate an obstacle race
through living rooms.
He Loves Them All
The constant in all these
is Mr.. Cheever's affection for
his characters, his apprecia-
ton of the available joys Of
softball and cookouts and the
vision in a train of a woman
combing her golden hair. And
in "The Country Husband"
there is the poignant accept
ance of the unattainable.
Francis Weed falls wildly in
love with a beautiful baby
sitter and for several days
dreams of ecstacy and es-
cape. But Francis Weed is
grounded by psychiatry and
routine. When last seen, he
is making a coffee table in
the cellar. This is the rich
est story, full of charm and
humor and side glances. Mr..
Cheever even has time to
look at a dog and give him
personality. Jupiter is a
rogue retriever who lopes de-
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THE SECRET OF LUCIA. BY


Ignazio Silone. (Harper g.
Bros; $500
There are not many hui
mans who could be sent to
prison unjustly for 40 years
and return to freedom in
terested neither in vindica-
ton nor vengeance.
Such a man was Luca,
known to all his village to
be innocent of murder. But
he was neither defended be-
fore his Incarceration nor
welcomed after it.
Yet Luca, who fears moth
ing including his short re-
naming life span, has a re-
birth Of sorts in the person
of Andrea, wi lose life he has
unknowingly shaped.
Andrea knows a great deal
about Luca but he does not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Air Power

The tremendous growth Of
air power is described in
three useful handbooks:
UNITED STATES AIR
FORCE ACADEMY by Jack
Engelman Gothrop. $500:
HELICOPTERS TO THE
RESCUE, and CIVIL AIR
PATROL by c. B. Colby
Coward, Mccain. So each).
All three books are Illus
trated by excellent photo
graphs.
Another pioneer in commu-
nication during the Civil
War was Andrew Carnegie,
in charge Of biography for
the War Department. He was
a young man then, under 30,
but already climbing the lad
der Of success.
Like Cyrus Field, Andrews
first job paid only a dollar a
week. Son of an immigrant
Scotch weaver, young An
drew's industry soon earned
him a better job as a tele-
graph messenger boy. Andrew
spent his evenings reading,
at q library for apprentices,
and when better jobs were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Age of Steel

Katherine Shipper en-
phasizes the chronological
advances of the 18th century
in ANDREW CARNEGIE
AND THE AGE OF STEEL
(Random House. $3.50. This
Landmark book lives up to
the high objectives of the
series in dramatizing and
evaluating a mans contribu-
ton to his period. 1t is sig
nificant that Carnegie's sur
plus wealth was devoted not
only to libraries but to the
advancement Of scientific
knowledge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
Nevada Runch
ONLY THE MOUNT

ONLY THE MOUNTAINS
REMAIN. BY Norma LINER
Bowman. (Caxton Press:
So
A great ranch that en-
braced a 32d part of Nevada
received the author when a
bride, and her experiences
over the years-much too
long ago to carry impact
are here recalled. Part of the
great Uta h Construction
Company spread is now
owned by movie star Jimmy
Stewart.-H. A. L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07

RSAos RSFSSF - - WY NSAAN(AA~%N'
w. Field promoted the Allan
tic cable when the idea of
telegraph service between the
Old World and the new was
more improbable than space
travel today.
"POp" Goes the Gable
Just one hundred years
ago, on September and 2,
1858, New York held an enor-
nous parade and banquet to
honor Cyrus Field, who had
pushed the "crackbrained
scheme" of Samuel Morse
and Matthew Maury from
dream to reality.
Again and again, attempts
to lay the cable had failed.
Men scoffed and sang pop
goes the cable" to the tune of
Pop Goes the Weasel" AS
Maury predicted, it was no
easy thing to lind q time
calm enough, q sea smooth
enough, a wire long enough. a
ship big enough"
Cyrus Field was a young
man in a hurry when he went
to New York as a lad Of Is
and got a job at a dollar a
week. But Cyrus was a
Yankee hustler who wouldn't
accept failure. And Jean Lee
Latham is an author who
swings her readers into the
same swivel of suspense as
her hero. Her skill as a story
teller makes Young Man in
a Hurry" a candidate for the
best-seller lists.
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structively through the story.
so real you can hear him
painting.
Mr.. Cheever records wryly
the "smugness and syringa
bushes and PIT. A." meet
ings which are the stuff of
suburban existence. But his
gift is lyric rather than So
Geological. He is concerned
more with the rhyme than
the reason of life. There is
no one quite like him to blend
comedy and rue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07

book-too seldom seen in
books intended for general
circulation-are three dozen
photographs in full and APP
parently faithful color. The
use of color instead of black
and-white reproduction has
its drawback. however. Un1
doubtedly it contributed
greatly to the high price of
the book.
WILLIAM HINES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
ART NEWS
Creative
Crofts
On View
BY FLORENCE BERGMAN
star Art Critic

star ART critic
The Third Biennial Exhi-
bition of Creative Crafts,
which opened August ~ in
the foyer of the Natural His
tory Building, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street
NV, to remain through
September 26, impressed me
as an admirable show, with
many covetable objects.
mine sales were made before
the show was a day old.) This
impression was strengthened
as I examined the exhibits,
despite the somewhat de-
predatory remarks Of the
Jurors who selected the show
and made IL awards and
seven mentions in seven
classes.
In a brief statement in the
exhibition catalogue (20c)
the jurors said in part,
There is need for more Gre
alive design in crafts . in
this show. as in most shows,
there is a scarcity of origi-
nality which constitutes a
challenge to the craftsmen to
be more creative" These
well-qualifled jurors (Adelyn
Breeskin, David Campbell
and Olin RuSsum) obviously
are looking for rare and UNI
usual work.
Essential Forms
Nevertheless. there is room
for disagreement. In the
first place. creativity or origi-
nality is like genius-some-
thing born in the excep-
tional person, and not a skill
that can be acquired, how
ever hard one may work. In
the second place, there is the
nature of the given craft.
The fact that cups. bowls.
vases and jugs, for examples.
acquired fundamental shapes
millenia ago, and have un-
dergone only minor changes,
suggests that If ceramists
depart radically from the es-
sential forms, the functional
values may suffer.
The few questionable Ito
mel awards and mentions
made in ceramics here, may
be due to the jurors search
for originality. Two mem
tons went to q dichotomized
planter, with an symmetrical
incongruous shape, and a set
of Raku tea bowls with rough,
drippy edges (below the rim)
that break the flowing line.
The third award in ceramics
was bestowed on q vase whose
disproportionately SIN all
mouth gives 1t a clumsy ap-
pearance.
The chief quarrel I have
with creative crafts" in
ceramics, as distinct from
mass-produced ceramics, is
not a new one. The pre-
dominance of grays and
browns, many of the latter
muddy or dark. They seem
unbelievably dull against the
fresh, bright colors in many
contemporary interiors.
Top Awards
A quintet Of bottles in the
shapes of men and women
whose heads are both stop
pers and cups, made by Loris
Love Suite, won first award
in ceramic sculpture, which
should be popular. The fig
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available, Andrew was a
likely candidate. BY the
time he was 33, he had an
income of over $4,000 a
year, which he decided was
enough for any man. The
rest he would spend for the
good of mankind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Tools and Talent
For the Space Age
BY BARBARA NOLEN

What the most important engineering feat of the 18th
century? The battle of the books has produced exciting
reading for scientcmnded youngsters and for those
Just looking for good adventure story.
YOUNG MAN IN HURRY by Jean Lee Latham liar
contender honors It tells how Cyrus
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NEW OPENINGS

BY wINIFRED NOBLE.
Franz Bader Gallery. l705 G street.
cufrent-september 20.
PAISTINQs BY BETTY PAJAR AND
CERAMICS BY ULR1CA RUDD. The
Studio Gallery. s14 Prince street.
20.
PAINTINGS BY ROGER VAIL Falls
Church Art Supplies Shop, 1913 North
washington street, Falls Church, Va.
Current-September IA.
PAINTINGS BY BETTY HEYCOCK.
Dyer Brothers, Inc, 1921 Fort Myer
drive Rosslyn. Current-Septem-
Der 80.
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AHistoricoI Novel
In q Different Vein
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

The English novelist who writes under the name Of
Bryher born Winfred Eerman not like other writer
OF today with whom I'm familiar. Her themes usually
historical of the Of such stories and she has her
own distinctive way of writing Her new novel Is:
GATE TO THE SEA pantheon; $275).
This brief story, only lie small is more memoir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07

"Ephrata Cloisters" in a
golden light over the hills,
and flowers "Geranium
Plant" in a sunny window,
and "LilacS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-07

able than most Of the
sprawling 600-page prolixities
that pass as historical novels
Gate to the Sea" is about
Paestum, an ancient Greek
city in Southern Italy.
In Captivity
Some years before the story
opens Paestum had been cap
tured and sacked by Euca-
mans who, in compliance with
the custom of the time, made
slaves of the populace. all
but a few who escaped by sea.
Not only are these Greeks,
who had a high degree Of
culture, enslaved. but they
are forbidden to speak their
own language except once q
year, on the festival Of their
goddess Hera. The time is
the fourth century, B. c.
The high priestess of the
enslaved Poseidonians is
Harmonic, and she is sus-
pected (quite justifiably) Of
plotting against her captors.
On this festival day, she and
her acolytes are allowed
briefly outside the walls to
visit the shrine to Hera and
decorate it. Suddenly, as she
walks an overgrown path
alone, her brother Archias
appears. He was one of those
who escaped on ship, and
she has not seen him in eight
years.
Fine Writing
Archias, who is half mad, but
shrewd when his wits are
working, has slipped ashore
from a Greek ship. He has a
plan for Harmonic to escape,
with any three or four or
others she wants to take.
But first he must find an
emblem he buried at a GER
tain spot when the city
was put to the torch; the
Oracle has commanded this.
They have two hours or less
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one-Mon Air Corps

Another suspense story is
the saga Of Thaddeus Lowe,
balloonist and inventor. He
learned about chemistry as a
magician's helper. and about
aeronautics from his fore.
runner, John Wise. THAD-
DEUS LOWE by Mary Hoeh-
ling (MesSner. $2.o5) tells
how this energetic pioneer
balloonist served as Amer
ica's one-man air corps dur
ing the Civil War and be-
came the most shot at
man."
Thaddeus lived danger
ously. A civilian with no pro-
tective military status, Thad-
deus piloted his balloons over
enemy lines. He carried tele-
graphic equipment and sent
back the first message from
air to earth. Thus aerial re-
connaissance was born. Sol
dierS, watched the slow-mov-
ing balloon with awe. "One
bullet in that bag and he's a
goner!" Lowe is still remem-
bered as the founding father
Of the United States Air
Force.
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AckIund Center

Washington has been the
beneficiary of intellectually
muniflcent gifts of art and
funds for their maintenance,
from generous donors Of
many other cities. Now,
thanks to a donor who made
his fortune here, a southern
city is soon to open an i'm
preSsive art center.
William Hayes Ackland, O
native of Nashville, Tenn,
whose practice of law here in
Washington brought him
impressive financial rewards,
bequeathed more than 50
million to the University of
North Carolina in Chapel
Hill. Depressed over the
paucity of art collections in
the South, he had deter
mined to establish an art
center at a great southern
university" He died in 1910
aged "a.
Dedication
The William Hayes Ackland
Art Center will be dedicated
on Saturday, September 20,
with ceremony and an exlli-
bition of works from colleges
and universities throughout
the Nation. 1t is a handsome
million dollar building with
fine modern equipment: CAL
leries, studios. classroom and
research facilities and the in-
come from the remaining
endowment of more than 81
million will provide about
$4,000 annually for the &C.
QUESTION of objects of art.