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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

tent" He did not seek adj
venture, but adventures
logged his trail.
Up the snow-covered slopes
Of Mount Whitney, trapped
in the hot springs on Mount
Shasta, Muir led a charmed
life, occasionally assisted by
his Scotch second sight"
Muir himself called the
most memorable of all my
wild days" his adventures on
an Alaskan glacier with the
mongrel dog. Stickeen. Slip
ping and sliding on icy steps,
they Travelled in constant
peril over crevasses a thou
sand feet deep.
The highlights of Muir's
career are told for younger
readers by Madge Haines and
Leslie Morrill, in JOHN
MUIR, PROTECTOR OF
THE WILDS (Abingdon.
$3.50. For older readers,
Charles Norman creates a
more complete picture of this
eccentric naturalist in JOHN
MUIR, FATHER OF OUR
NATIONAL PARKS Mess
ner. $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Edison Awards

This year the Thomas Alva
Edison Foundation has in
creased its awards to four,
honoring two books in the
science field and two in
American history and char
acter development. The win
ners are chosen by vote Of
81 organizations, including
national youth organizations
like the Boys Clubs Of Amer
lea, adult service groups such
as the Child Study Associa-
ton. the Women's National
Book Association, and, the
Children's Book Guild of
Washington.
The two science books
selected this year are THE
WONDERFUL WORLD OF
ENERGY by Lancelot Hogben
Garden City and BUILD
ING BLOCKS OF THE UNI
VERSE by Isaac Asimov
(Abelard Schuman). The
first explains all kinds Of
energy, from the muscles
Of primitive man to modern
uses Of sun, wind. water and
the atom. The building
blocks" are the 101 known
chemical elements, their uses
and dangers.
Because they recognize
that the interests Of science
are best served by a broad
educational base, the Edison
Foundation continues its
awards for excellence in
contributing to the character
development Of children"
This years winner is ARMED
WITH COURAGE by May
McNeer and Lynd Ward
(Abingdon), a collection Of
seven biographies Of men and
women who blazed new trails
in battles against disease,
poverty and ignorance.
The fourth award, for
excellence in portraying
Americas past" goes to
COLONIAL LIVING by Ed
win Tunis (World Publishing
Coz. This Is q pictorial his
tory Of the everyday life Of
American colonists, their
tools and their clothes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Hot or Cold

What would 1t be like to
live the year round in the
cold land Of the Arctic tun-
dra, or to herd cattle in the
tropical jungles of South
America? In ROSS SAL
MONS JUN GLE BOOK
Nelson. $3.50 the author
makes you feel the never
ending heat as well as the
treachery Of jaguars and
crocodiles and cannibals. In
his experience, there is no
Flaw" in the jungle. =
THE ARCTIC TUNDRA by
Della Goetz Morrow. $2.50)
is written in sharp, staccato
sentences, as brittle as an
icicle. "The polar bear may
wait hours to bag a seal.
The fox will take care of
the leftovers." The illustra-
lions by Louis Darling in
cold grays and blues have
the same shivery quality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02


arctic cold to tropical
storms.
MOUNTAIN COURAGE is
the story of Forrest Judson,
a 13-year-old Boy Scout,
whose mother was the over
protective type. No one in
the Judson family. least of
all Forrest himself, knew
that his big adventure was
ahead. when he strolled away
from a picnic site in the High
Sierras, while the others took
an after-luncheon Snooze.
Quail Hawkins does a con-
vincing job Of narration in
Mountain Courage" (Dou-
bleday; $2.50). telling how the
lost boy found water. Never,
as long as he lived, would
he forget the taste of fresh,
cold mountain water" In al
ternating chapters. the au-.
thor describes first the boys
fright and recovery, then the
anxiety Of the rescue party,
including forest ranger and
bloodhounds, as they unravel
the faint trail up over rocky
hills and down through dense
underbrush. 1t is a remark
able book, well named
Mountain Courage"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Art Lectures

The Corcoran Galley Of Art
offers two art lectures this
week. On Wednesday at
II am. the fifth in the series
arranged by the Women's
Committee for the benefit of
the Gallery will be given:
byzantine Mosaics and
Frescoes in the Kariye Djami
at Istanbul" by Paul Under
wood, associate professor Of
Byzantine art and architec-
ture, Dumbarton Oaks. Next
Thursday evening at $40
Henri Dora, assistant director
Of the Corcoran Gallery, will
speak on Emile Bernard and
Paul Gauguin. For Gallery
members and guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

DICKENS AT WORK. by
John Butt and Kathleen TIL
lotson Essential Books;
$6.25) is rather special,
mostly Of interest to writer's
and students Of literatures.
And yet there are pages Of
more general interest. espe-
cially Dickens experience
in the serial publication
that nearly always preceded
the appearance Of his novels
in book form. For instance, a
magazine started printing
'"The Pickwick Papers" after
Dickens wrote the first in
stalment, and he had to keep
up with his story, never more
than a jump ahead Of the
printers. The same was true
Of Nicholas Nickleby" and
Martin Chuzzlewit," though
in some of the other books he
had more Of q head start.
The notes which the authors
have dug up-briefings Of
characters. outlines Of chap
tiers and other memoranda
pertaining to some OF the
novels have not been print
ed before and should be Of
great value not only as Dick
ensiana. but to students Of
fiction In general and the
Victorian novel In particular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
BEHIND BARS
Leopold
Tells His
Own Story
LIFE PLUS NINETY-NINI

YEARS. By Nathan Leo
pold. doubleday; $500
Someone once remarked
that If you wait long enough
your luck is bound to change.
At last, after a wait of 80
years. this seems to have hap
pened to Nathan Leopold,
one Of the perpetrators of the
1924 Loeb-Leopold "crime of
the Century" In a single
month he has % published
what should become a nom
fiction best seller and (2) has
been assured of his release
from prison on parole. Leo
pold scarcely mentions the
crime for which he was sem
fenced to Life Plus Ninety
Nine Years." And hardly more
than CLOSES over the cele-
brated trial in which his de.
tense was handled by Clar-
ence Darrow. He concent-
rated on his life in prison-a
life, he contends, which was
spent in contrition, humility
and good works.
Leopold is a persuasive
pleader for the penitent. Well
he might be-he is well edu-
Gated. he is brilliant and he
has had a third of a CEN
fury to think about his sub
ject. In this thoughtful book
Leopold has raised the highly
pertinent question whether
society in imposing overly
long sentences - really is
seeking anything but revenge.
It is a question which leg
islators. jurists and penolo-
giStS might well study.
Not the Same Man
But one who has never
served a term Of Life Plus
Ninety-Nine Years" reserves
the right to question neither
his logic nor his motives. In
one of his pleas for parole
Leopold told the authorities
that he was literally not the
same human who was SEN
tenced-that every atom of
his 1924 body was changed.
Granting this contention
supported by science-that
the body composition regen-
crates every seven years or
so, does it follow that no
criminal should serve more
than seven years? Or, in
lieu of capital punishment,
should a murderer be given
seven years penal therapy
not servitude-and then be
released?
The question is. does Leo
pold seem ripe for freedom?
Is his book q true portrayal
Of his present character?
Apparently the parole board
thinks so.
A foreword by whodunit
writer Erie Stanley Gardner
accompanies "Leopold's au-
photography"
WILLIAM HINES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

SClInulaCe the STUDY OF nlSCOry
another book in this cate
CORY:
Is DAYS TO GLORY, by
Lon Tinkle (McGraw-Hill;
$3.50.
This is the story of the
Alamo. often told, but too
easily forgotten in significant
detail, like many another
historic moment. Mr.. Tinkle's
newly researched, wildly
written account is a welcome
addition to the growing Ii
brary of history's most in
teresting dramas.
Symbolic Heroism
There was never q more
courageous incident in the
long saga of fighting men.
That the sacrifice of the 1872
Texans who defended the
Alamo against some 5000
Mexicans under Santa Anna
was unnecessary. could have
been prevented. was due
largely to the laundering Of
those trying to claw to-
gether q Texas republic that
spring Of 1886. is beside the
point. Their heroiSm could
not be called futile, because
It rallied all Texas to q spirit
Of independence that pre-
vailed and has come down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

on's return from Elba and
Waterloo. The storyteller is
a Partisan youth whose
father is an ardent republican
and a leader in the secret
movement to bring back Ma
'poleon and GUST Louis XVIII.
Not that all the ex-revolu-
tionists love Bonaparte-
some dislike him cordially
but they regard him as the
lesser Of two evils and as the
only man who can unite OPP
position against the hated
Bourbon king. The narrative
ends with a letter from the
young man. Paul, now a SOL
der, to his Marjolaine writ
ten on the morning Of June
Is. 1915, as Napoleon's army
is about to attack at Water
loo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

Seldom do Washington
ians have such opportunity
to see contemporary sculp-
ture as now, with two major
one-man shows by long
established sculptors, and a
smaller show by a gifted
newcomer. Hugo Robus,
whose exhibition at the Cor
coran Gallery was illustrated
in these columns February
Is, is an expreSsionist with
uniquely individual work.
Both Mr.. Robus and Mr..
Manship were born in the
Middle West in 1885, both
had thorough training in
their native cities. later in
New York City and Phila-
delphia, respectively, and A.
nally in Europe. Both speak
clearly to the public. But
whereas Mr.. Manship's work
is based on classical sculp-
ture, Mr.. Robus' is in modern
idioms, generally flgurative
but attenuated, sinuous, full
Of rhythm and movement. re-
duced in some instances to
the barest essentials, yet
never beyond the layman's
comprehension.
Mr.. Robus' career from
1929 to IS is represented by
16 works at the Corcoran
(all but one, bronzes) They
reveal that he has used dis
tortion from the outset, to
emphasize meaning. The
earliest work on view is his
delightful Summer After
noon" composed Of only the
head. shoulders and arms
Of a sleeping girl. The most
endearing sculpture is MA
ternal" (1936, the only
marble). Outstanding, too,
Is "One and Another"
His vulgar Laugh" Is the
embodiment Of coarseness,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Il heyWere
The Heroes
OF the Air
AMERICAN ACES. NV

AMERICAN ACES. BY Ed
ward H. Sims. (Harper;
$3.50
This is the exciting story
Of the top fighter pilots Of
World War II. The author
himself was q fighter pilot
who few 80 missions over
Germany.
Mr.. Sims points out that
no less than IL out of our %
most successful pilots were
killed in action or have died
in line-of-dut crashes. The
author interviewed all the
survivors who could be
reached. His story of their
exploits includes the princi-
pal theaters of war-Euro-
pean. Pacific and China
BM.ma-In
The highest-scoring Amer
lean ace, the late Maj. Rich
ard I. Bong, was credited
with 40 victories. A number
Of others came close to this
record.
In discussing tactics, Mr..
Sims says lit should be re-
corded that teamwork was
the key to the one-sided VIC
tory totals United States
fighters began to rack up in
the final months and years Of
war"
The Surviving Dozen
A chapter is devoted to
each Of the IL surviving
pilot aces whom the author
could interview or concerning
whom he could obtain suffi-
Gent information-Maj. John
! r. Alison. LIST 1t. John d.
Landers, Col. Bruce K. Hol-
loway. LIST 1t. James A.
Goodson, Capt. Jay T. Rob-
bins, Mai. Francis s. Ga
breski, LIST 1t. John T. God
frey. LIST 1t. Robert s..
johnson. Capt. Henry w.
Brown, Col. Charles H. Mac
Donald, Col. j. C. Meyer
and 1t. Col. Joseph L. Thury.
There is a foreword by Gen.
Nathan F. Twining, chief of
staff of the Air Force.
/ Mr.. Sims is a Washington
journalist. He is a syndi-
Gated columnist and air COM
mentator and is editor and
publisher Of Editors Copy.
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
No Little
Women in
This Book
THE DAUGHTERS OF JAs-

Ik1E DAUGHTEHS OF JAS.
PER CLAY. BY Lucille
Fletcher. Henry Holt &
Co.: $3.50
The daughters Of Jasper
Clay are four. but they are
no Little Women" To a
girl they chafe under tyranny
Of their widowed father, a
Self-pitying mossback who
can play King Lear to per-
lection when anyone Of his
children threatens to get out
Of hands.
His grip is surest on Eliza
beth, the eldest, who tries to
take her dead mothers place.
But the others defy him.
Gladys wants to marry q
Puerto Rican artist; Lillian
wants to go to medical
school: and Ann the baby,
the wanton-nobody least
Of all Ann, knows what she
Is after.
Through Their PAGES
In a series of well-realized
scenes, with excellent dia-
logue, Miss Fletcher takes
the daughters through their
respective romantic crises.
Her novel goes of the track,
however, when Ann fees to
California and takes up with
a decadent health temple
priest. Miss Fletcher tries to
present Ann as a budding
poet, but she comes OF as
a dim-witted delinquent.
It is, except for this over
long Hollywood sequence,
very readable, If a little un-
solved at the end. You never
know what ails Jasper Clay
or how he got that way. And
as for the girls emotional
life, you have to take a great
deal Of that on faith. too.
Since Jasper is difficult, but
not impossible, q little touch
Of melodrama might have
speeded things UP a little.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Jackson Solo

Vaughn jackson, who has
been a Washington area ar
fist for more than a decade,
is having his second one-man
show, at the Colony Lounge,
1877 De Sales street, through
March IA. 1t is an ingratiat-
ing exhibition Of 10 works,
mostly watercolors, executed
not only with competence.
but with animation. He
painted some Of them in
Maine last summer, including
"Schooners at Wiscasset," re-
produced here last Sunday.
Mr.. Jackson's first local
one-man show was at Del's
Gallery a couple Of years ago.
That included both abstract
and naturalistic paintings,
whereas the Colony show is
nearly all representational,
sparkling reports on pleasing
subjects. Much as he enjoys
abstract painting, Mr.. jack
son says that painting as a
purely personal emotional ex-
perience for the artist is not
enough. It becomes neces-
sary for him to communicate
with those who view his work
if it is to have any lasting
meaning for them"
Now assistant art director
Of Operations Research Office,
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Mr.. Jackson has
had a commercial art career
for two decades. He studied
art at the Corcoran School,
also with Eliot O'Hara, Hans
Holman in Provincetown,
and is presently attending
American University evening
classes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
From the Forest
A baby tiger as a birth

A baby tiger as a birthday
gift! BIN could not imagine
anything more wonderful. In
GIFT OF THE FOREST by
r. Lal Singh and Eloise
Lownsbery Gongmans. $3.75,
reissue), the authors have
interviewer the contrasts Of
village life in India. the SUI
perstition Of the evil-minded
Suk and the faith of Bins
grandfather. Few people are
brave enough to look a hood
ed cobra or a full-grown tiger
in the eyes, but it is fasci-
mating to read how BIN and
his grandfather make friends
with all the little people of
the jungle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Polish Sculptor

Hanna Kwiatkowska, a
newcomer to Washington.
Joined the teaching staff of
Sculptors Studio. 1927 Wis
consin avenue, at the begin
ming Of its new term last
month. She is having a solo
exhibition there through
this week.
It includes IS sculptures,
ranging from well-done ira
ditional portrait heads to
distractions in metals. Her
versatility in use Of mate
rails enables her to teach
not only traditional tech
niques, but also work in pew
ter, wire. lead, wax, etc.
Nine. Kwiatkowska, whose
husband was in Poland's
Diplomatic Corps before
World War II, studied in
manys countries Of Europe.
Subsequently he was at
tached to the Polish govern
ment in exile, and she joined
her family in Brazil. The
Kwiatkowskis have since be-
come American citizens. and
her husbands career has
brought them to Washing
ton.
Presenting a painting show
in conjunction with one of
sculpture, as heretofore,
Sculptors Studio has 8 large
abstract expressionist works
by Thomas Downing, also on
its faculty, as well as that Of
the Georgetown Day School.
He recently made his debut
as a set and costume design
er in a program of dance
dramas presented by Ethel
Butler at the Washington
Hebrew Congregation three
weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Star Babies

THE MIDWICH CUCK-
COS, by John wyndham
(Ballantine; $500 might be
called science fiction by some,
but seems to me too seriously
and carefully contrived to At
into the category.
1t concerns some incredi-
bic. supernatural happen
ings In a quiet English viii
lage. The most startling OUT
come of what comes to be
called the Dayout, when all
the people were suddenly
stricken unconscious, tenn
porarily. is that virtually all
the women Of suitable age
became pregnant. The babies
born of this immaculate Wis
itation from some other
world obviously have no real
relationship with their par
ents. Their eyes have a
golden CLINT and at the age
Of 8 they have the appear
ance and mentality of adults.
Further, these children"
have a strange power that
threatens not only the COM
munity. but all England.
The story is developed
slowly-the middle boys
down, to an extent-but the
last part is highly dramatic.
Mr.. Wyndham writes very
well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

TO us through the interven-
ing century as q symbol of
brave men who valued honor
and obligation more than
life.
Such episodes have made
q profound impression ever
since (and probably long
before) a handful of Spar
tans under Leonidas held OF
the Persian army of Xerxes
at the pass of Thermopylae
in 480 BIC.
Bravery Not Futile
It could be- said that
Pickett's men were sacrificed
to somebody's error when
they charged up a slope Of
Gettysburg and that Custer
and his men were allowed
stupidity to be caught in q
cul-de-sac at Little Big Horn.
But these after-refiections
detract not a fragment from
the honor due men who met
death head on.
Mr.. Tinkle, who is book
editor Of the Dallas News and
professor of French and COM
parative literature at South
ern Methodist University, has
brought in sharp sketches Of
Col. Travis, Of those two
IA bulous characters, Jim
Bowie and Davy Crockett, Of
the ruthless and tempera-
mental. yet strangely COM
pick, Santa Anna, of others
in the cast Of this drama Of
Texas independence. It's a
stirring, yet deeply-felt book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Bitter Feuds

DEEP SEA SILVER by
Gordon Caldero little.
Brown. So is a story Of
racketeering among the sar-
dine fishermen on the West
Coast. The young news
paperman who set out to
find the facts" is caught
in the crossflre Of a water
front feud.
The Island Of Skye is the
background for another Bit
ter feud in STORM OVER
SKYE by Allan Mclean
(Harcourt. So. Could there
be a thief among all these
honest men? Neighbor turns
against neighbor. until the
mystery nearly wrecks. the
township.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

achievement, range from gill
bronzes q few inches high to
the Corcoran Gallery loan
Dancer and Gazelles," ap-
proximately 6 feet in height
and length, and others nearly
as large, most Of them ir
bronze or marble. There is
also an extensive collection Of
drawings not catalogued.
This superb exhibition Il
presented by the secretary ant
the regents Of the Smithsonian
Institution, Of whose art COM
mission Mr.. ManShip has beer
a member for more than q
quarter century, and chairman
for the past IA years. Fol
several years prior to World
War II he was a sculptor mem
Der of Washington's Fine Arts
Commission.
Warm Appraisal
Thomas M. Beggs, director
of the National Collection Of
Fine Arts has written a
warm appreciation in the IL
Illustrated catalogue Of the.
show; he not only surveys
Mr.. Manship's life and ca
reer, but also appraises his
achievement and quotes en-
thusiastic critiques Of earlier
decades. including one by The
Evening Star critic Leila
Mechlin when Manship had
a one-man show at the
Corcoran Gallery in 1897.
Beauty Of conception,
knowledge of forms. admir-
able design, sense of spirit
and movement. masterful
execution and superb sur
faces of these works coincide
with the ideal mental concept
Of sculpture doubtless held by
most art lovers. Mr.. Man
ships sculptures are complete.
free of fumbiing, cropping and
ambiguity. They are a far
cry from much that is offered
in the name of sculpture to-
day: Chunks of stone with a
few incised lines; blocks Of
wood with holes gouged out
here and there; clay battered
into misshapen Jumps. If
the results of such mayhem
are not appreciated by the
bewildered observer, he is dis
missed as stupid by the avant
garde.
Nearly go of Mr.. Manship's
sculptures here represent
neurological and legendary
subjects. Their beauty will
speak even to those not &C
quainted with classical myth
ology. Allegorical figures. por-
traits in relief Tin terracotta)
and in the round, full Of
character and individuality,
some of them likenesses Of
well-known people, present
and past. and a large group
of bird and animal sculptures.
combine to make an exhibition
Of great variety and interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
The 100 Dogs

so BRIEF A SPRING, by
Claude Manceron. trans
lated from the French by
Humphrey Hare putnam;
$4.95) should be a success
full historical novel. 1t has
all the elements which afic-
cionados seem to like: q good
love story. plenty of fights
and other excitement, even
inordinate length.
It's q story Of the 100 Days,
the period between Napole-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Adventures in Arctic
Ice and Jungle Heat
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Special Writer for The Star

Almost every week. newspaper headlines record another
camper lost in the woods another plane crash in the Wilder
another ship lost at Year after young read
ask for books about mountain climbing and exploration
These outdoor adventures shift from glacier jungle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Paul Monship Show
Is Highly Rewording
By FLORENCE s. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The rewardng Of nearly 40 temporary exhibitions
currently Washington and nearby galleries is
the large retrospective show Of sculptures by Paul Manshp in
foyer Of the Natural History Building Constitution avenue
at Tenth street, to remain through March is.
ITO cataogued sculptures representing 20 years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
In the WiIdness

It is only a short step
from these "true-to-life" adj
ventures to the true adj
ventures Of a man named
John Muir, whose boyhood
ambition was to wander in
wildnesS to his hearts con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
The Siege Of the. Alamo
Is VividIy Recalled
By CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

There's reason-there never was-why the dramatic
moments of history should be recalled separate book
length portions The tendency in toward the
vivid portrayal Of episodes which, for another
have survived the Indifferent excellent way
stimulate the study Of history in general This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

and his Girl on Swing" Of
clumsineSS. More abstract
are the musicians, the Girl
Washing Her Hair" with a
fine architectural arch, and
the waltzing couple, who
have only three legs between
them, which are all they
need.
This exhibition remains
through next Sunday.