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advice. but you can't follow
something that you know
goes against your beliefs. 1t
viii simply destroy your in
dividuality.
Il don't believe in con-
forming for conforming's
sake. I think the younger
you start developing your
own ideas and tastes, the
better OF you viii be. / have
a l0-year-old daughter, and
! encourage her to express
herself.
There is no substitute for
individuality" Polly insisted.
Begin by trying to get ac-
quainted with yourself. There
are so many things to find
out. Learn your limitations.
I don't believe in biting of
more than ! can chew.
But / don't believe in
playing safe, either. I go
along with the proverb moth
ing ventured, nothing gained
Before / left Hollywood, /
knew that the makeup men
knew more about glamour in
general than / did, but /
knew more about what was
glamorous for me.
After ] was out on my
own I let my hair grow back
to its true color and stopped
using all heavy makeup.
Fortunately I have good skin
and felt I looked better with
very little makeup. And /
played up my eyes which
are my best feature.
Il like soft eyebrow PEN
Gil to draw a line close to my
upper lashes. but I don't use
anything underneath. 1 like
black mascara, but I use an
almost dry brush so my lashes
don't stick together. I use
just a touch of shadow and
choose a shade according to
what I'm wearing.
Il have one basic rule"
Polly explained as we chatted
in her dressing room at NBC-
TV. Il never attempt to be
fashionable at the sacrifice
OF becomingnesS. ! think fol-
lowing a trend is great, pro-
vided it does something good
for you.
You can't go wrong with
simplicity. And you should
plan a wardrobe, which means
no impulsive buying. 1t is
hard for me to resist some
thing that appeals to me
momentarily but l don't buy
that way any more. When
I was on a limited budget and
couldn't afford to throw away
mistakes. it wasn't pleasant
having to wear them"
Energy Food
Polly works so hard in her
television series and other
activities that she is more
concerned with the amount
OF energy her food contains
than the number of calories.
Il find that a good. strong
beef broth is very stimulat-
ing" she said. 1T is easy
to prepare. quick to drink
and not fattening. I keep
a thermos of it in my dress
ing room and have a hot cup
in midmorning and late
afternoon.
Perhaps if more people
took a bouillon break instead
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Joan Crawford and eyebrows
like Janet Leigh's and I lost
me.
Be Open to Advice
II told them I felt uncom-
Portable with what they were
doing. but they said they
knew more about glamour
than / did. This" Polly said
with emphasis. was a big
mistake. l wasn't a success
and I didn't deserve to be.
you have to be open to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
River Study

During its June meetings
the Fairfax County League
of Women voters will begin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17

Hitler's Germany. During World
War II, he lost court action
when he, sued a johannesburg
newspaper for calling him Nazi
sympathizer. In 1887 DR.. YER
woerd gave up teaching and be-
came editor of Die Transvaaler, a
Johannesburg Africans daily
which has the reputation of be-
ing the most rabidly partisan
newspaper in the country. He
editorially boycotted the 1947 visit
of the British Royal Family to
South Africa.
He was defeated in his 1948 bid
for a seat in the House of AS
sembly but was sent to the Senate
and named to the cabinet.
DR.. Verwoerd has the backing
of the TranSvaal MP.s. the
largest block in the Nationalist
caucus. His election could mean
a hardening of racial policies to-
ward Africans and other non
whites.
Opposition to DR.. Verwoerd
within the Nationalist caucus
centers around DR.. T. E. Donges,
the Minister of the Interior, who
comes from Cape Province, the
home of Afrikaner liberalism.
Relatives in U. S.
This 60-year-old paunchy M. P.
is everything that DR.. Verwoerd
isn't: Suave, affable and a
keen cricket player. Like his
Transvaal opponent, he comes
from a family of Dutch Reformed
Church ministers. He has rela-
tiveS in the United States and
England. AS a Schoolboy, he
worked for 80 cents a month as
bookkeeper to a butcher. He was
educated at South African and
English universities.
Before setting up his law prac-
tice, he worked as q newspaper
reporter in Cape Town for several
years. He was elected to parlia-
ment in 1943 and has been recog-
nized as the leader of the Cape
branch of the National Party for
several years.
He widened his experience and
international reputation by lead
ing the South African delegation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17
Literary Flights to Moon Are Many

moonlight storytelling business
for about thousand years because
Holy Church regarded the plural
worlds doctrine as a heresy. The
church fathers abandoned this
view late in the middle ages, so
that by the early 18th century
Johannes Kepler was free to write
"Somnium," an account Of a
dream.
Trovel to the Moon
Travel to the moon was made
by spirits who Stunned the light
and crossed the void only when the
earth had the moon hidden in its
shadow-at eclipse time.
Probably the next moon story
was written by an English bishop
named Francis Goodwin under the
pen-name of Domingo Consoles.
In THE Man in The Moone"
Consoles hitched up a clutch Of
swans to a sky-buggy. They flew
him to the moon in IL days at
an average speed of ITS miles an
hour. Godwin's arithmetic was
nearly as bad as his spaceship
design; it would be necessary for
the swans to fly about 800 miles
an hour to cover the distance In
IL days.
The fiction writers were begin
ming to tire of ocean storms and
swan-boats as means of locomo-
ton, and started thinking about
more sophisticated things. Fran
cisco de Lana Terri came up in
1878 with the idea-ingenious but
impractical-of evacuating the air
from glass balls in order to make
them float upwards.
Cyrono Wrote About II
Cyrano de Bergerac, the long
nosed Frenchman who existed in
fact as well as in Rostand's play,
wrote two moon stories in the 18th
Century.
Bergerac suggested three ways
Of getting to the moon. Two were
ingenious but impractical. The
first involved dew bottles" In
which dew evsporating in the
morning sun would provide lift
for the space ship. The second
was q kind Of bootstrap opera
don-an iron car lifted by the
attractive power Of lodestones
(magnets) thrown upward.
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haps frozen in cracks far below
the surface. There is no at
mosphere except perhaps the
faintest wisps of gas in the
process of escaping from the
moons feeble gravitational field.
There is no fora, no fauna
nothing but rock and dust.
The question of dust provides
feod for thought for moon-trav-
elers. Some few scientists believe
the maria so-called seas of
the moon-are full to a depth of
hundreds or thousands of feet
with a fine, practically unpacked
dust. If this is the case, moon
landings will be anywhere from
hazardous to impossible, because
the seas are the best landing
places-and if they are full of
quicksand, what then?
A Cooting Of Dust
The prevailing view, however, is
that the maria may have a little
dust on them, but not much-say
a fraction of an inch, like the
coating on the parlor table of a
carelessly-kept house.
The features of the moon-its
seas, craters, mountains, walls and
the strange rays" that run out
from some points-have been the
object of much study in the years
since Calico peeked through the
first telescope and saw them. It
would be safe to say that larger
portion of the moons surface has
been accurately charted than OF
the earth's surface. And even de-
Quoting the watery portion of the
earth, the same is probably true Of
the land areas.
Cause of the moon craterS has
been of considerable interest and
controversy, some astronomers
holding to volcanic origin and 9TH
erS contending that meteors caused
the huge pock-marks. The former
theory is widely accepted. but
solely on negative evidence: In
nearly 400 years of careful moon
watching, no major changes due
to meteors have occurred, there
fore the meteor theory is unten-
able. Meteor adherents point out
that 400 years is an eye-wink in
the cosmic time scale and maybe
a new Greater just hasn't had time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17
Chance Of Hitting Moon
Slight, Oberth Says
BY JACK STILLMAN
Associated Press STAFF Writer

HUNTSVILLE. Ala.-In a clut-
tered little Office at Redstone
arsenal an aging German scientist
on the brink of retirement dreams
of the future.
The future. to 64-year-old Prof.
Herman Oberth, is man travelling
in space.
DR.. Oberth is the grand old man
of rocketry. He has been studying
space travel since 1920, and was a
key figure in the German rocket
program which almost won the
war for Hitler. Now he is an en-
ploye of the United States Army.
assigned to look ahead and decide
what will be possible in rocket
science in the next eight or ten
years.
DR.. Oberth and others at Red
stone are now barred from dis
cussing with newsmen the forth
coming moon shots. or any Of the
equipment related to the project.
But in his latest book, Man
Into Space" DR.. Oberth says:
THE space stations principal
purpose should be to make still
more distant space travel simpler.
have already pointed out that it
is hardly possible to reach the
moon. or any other planet in
our system, directly from. the
earth. but that it would be pos
sible with an easily reached filling
station in space where the space
ships fuel supply could be re-
plenished.
DR.. Oberth said it would be pos
sible to launch a rocket in the
direction of the moon by using a
ffth-stage rocket on already ex-
isting four-stage systems.
The possibility 81 hitting the
moon would be lit+le because Of
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the complicated m chinery
needed" he said.
The more complicated the ma
chinery, the more chances there
are that it will break down." he
added.
Nevertheless. he said there will
be means to determine how close
to the moon the first moon rocket
comes.
And later, perhaps there win
be q television camera on q rocket
which will move around on the
back side Of the moon which is
never visible to the EARTH" he
added.
DR.. Oberth. said. however, that
there is no reason to believe that
the far side of the moon would
be any different from this side.
except that u may appear to be
Of q different color.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17

ii tUite of things which I
hare neuer seen nor experienced
nor learned from another;
things Dhich are not and
never could haze been and
therefore ny readers should By
no means believe them"
-Lucian of Samosata: True
History, 160 A. D.
Men have been trying to get to
the moon-in fact or in fiction
for eighteen centuries. The first
attempt was in the second century
of the Christian Era when the
Greek, Lucian, told a fantastic
story of a storm in the Western
Ocean that lifted a ship and its
crew up to the moon.
Science fiction involving the
moon has just about passed out OF
existence, watch is always the case
with Science-fiction topics as tech
nology advances. But a catalog Of
fictional moon flights gives good
idea Of how mems minds have
been working for nearly 1000
years.
Lucian got his ideas for True
History" from reading. Plutarch,
who was one Of the first to sug-
gest that the moon was a small
earth" Plutarch thought the
moon probably was inhabited.
The Greek author of True His
tory" sent his fictional ship and
crew high into the air. After a
week of terror they landed in "a
great country in the air, like a
shining island" The country
the moon-was in the flower of
civilization: so much so, in fact,
that its king was preparing for
war Of determination against the
sun and had modified so million
infantrymen and supporting troops
including 10000 bird-riding
cavalrymen.
Flying Machine Envisioned
So well received was True
History" that Lucian wrote a
sequel, 'Tcaromenippus" in which
a young fellow fashioned a flying
machine from q pair Of bird wings
and took of on successful moon
trip from the top Of Mount
Olympia,
Things settled down in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17
BY SMITH HEMPsToNE

CAPE TOWN, South Africa.--It
appears likely that South Africa
win have a new prime minister
soon. The present premier, 65-
year-old Johannes Gerhardus
Strijdom. was seriously i'll at this
writing, and was not expected to
return to office.
Mr.. Strijdom has suffered from
a heart ailment for some time.
In last springs general election,
which saw his National Party res
turned to Office after 10 years
in power with an increased
majority Of 103 of 1853 seats in
the House of Assembly, Mr..
Strijdom travelled little and made
only three campaign speeches. He
was on hand for the first week of
last months parliamentary ses-
sion but did not come to his
Office after July IL. Later in the
month his doctors sent him to a
Cape Town hospital with orders
to take a complete rest.
On August Z, c. r. Swart,
deputy premier and Minister Of
Justice. announced that Mr..
Strijdom's condition had taken "a
serious turn" and that a blood
clot had developed in his lung.
Three Candidates
Mr.. Swart's announcement
focused attention on the question
of Mr.. Strijdom's successor. to be
chosen by the Nationalist caucus.
The most likely candidates are:
/. Minister of Native Affairs
Hendrix F. Verwoerd.
2. Minister of the Interior T. e.
Donges.
3. Mr.. Swart.
DR.. Verwoerd, although little
known to the outside world, is
acknowledged to De, after Mr..
Strijdom, the most potent political
figure in South Africa.
The jowly. 57-year-old Amster-
dam-born politician became DR..
D. F. Malan's Minister of Native
Affairs when the Nationalist de-
feated the late Gen. Jan SHUTS
in 1948. He has been responsible
for framing the Unions native
policy and is the architect of
apartheid, the doctrine which calls
for racial segregation in all as
poets of life between the country's
three million whites and IL mil
lion non-whites. He is regarded
? by English-speaking South Afri-
cans as the most extreme of all
Afrikaner politicians.
DR.. Verwoerd's father came to
South Africa from Holland as a
missionary when his son was two
years old. DR.. Verwoerd was
brought up at a mission station
in Southern Rhodesia and edu-
Gated at South African, Dutch and
German universities. On his re-
turn to the Union, he taught
psychology and sociology for eight
years at an Afrikaans-speaking
university.
Protest on Jews
In 1886, DR.. Verwoerd and five
other Afrikaner professors pro-
tested the admission to South
Africa of Jewish refugees from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17
Next Premier in South Africa
Gives Small Hope to Non-Whites

to the United Nations in 1850 and
1851 when the Union was attacked
for refusing to hand over its
League of Nations mandate on
Southwest Africa and for its
treatment of Indians. Despite his
reputation of being a moderate
Afrikaner, DR.. Donges has never
varied from the National Party
line. His election would mean
little change in South African
racial policies.
DR.. Verwoerd and DR.. Donges
are the two most powerful con-
tenders for the premiership. For
this very reason, neither may be
named. To avoid a split in the
party. it is more than possible
that the Nationalist caucus may
have to pick c. r. "Blackie" Swart
as a compromise choice.
Song for Supper
If he should become South
Africa's sixth prime minister, Mr..
Swart, who stands 6 feet, 6 inches.
will be one of the tallest chiefs Of
state in the world. He will also be
the only one to have had a Holly
wood career or to have sung for
his supper on a New York street.
corner.
Mr.. Swart, who was born on an
Orange Free State farm in 1894,
was confined to a British concern
tration camp as a child in the
closing stages of the Boer War.
He was a brilliant student. gradu-
ating from college at the age of II.
After getting his law degree, Mr..
Swart sailed for the U. S.
In America, he studied journal
ism at Columbia University. When
he couldn't get a newspaper job.
Mr.. Swart slept on park benches
and haunted Bowery soup kitch-
ems. On one occasion, he sang
Sonny Boy" on street-corner in
hopes of handout.
But I was a flop" he recalls,
"the crowd Just laughed at me-"
He made his way to Hollywood,
cadged parts as a giant and as a
sheriff in a silent horse opera. He
returned to South Africa, taught
high school and began his law
practice.
Brondished Whip
Mr.. Swart, who is gaunt and
severe in appearance, is ap ardent,
unbending Nationalist and the
senior member of the cabinet.
Once during a debate on the ethics
Of whipping Africans, he BRAN
dished a cat : and nine tails in
the House of Assembly.
Mr.. Swart is a compromise can
didate only in the geographical
sense that he could avert a split
between the Transvaal and the
Cape blocs Of the National Party.
In matters relating to race rela-
tons, his attitude varies little from
that of DR.. Verwoerd or DR..
Donges.
In any case, the choice will
neither affect the fate of the
Unions non-whites nor meet with
the approval of the tide of Afri-
can nationalism sweeping this
continent from the Gambia to the
Orange River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17

ton of the moons orbit? Look
at the moon and figure it this
way: The moons disc in the sky
occupies roughly half a degree
of arc; the inclination is equal
to 10 lunar diameters.
Actually, today there isn't much
moon to look at; it is only three
days off its new" phase. Noon
shooters prefer it this way if
they are to arm their lunar
probe" with a device to take pic
lures of the back side of the
moon. A moon that looked full
to people on earth would have
its back, hidden half in total
darkness.
Actually, the term hidden
half" is not completely accurate.
The moon wobbles in its orbit
"librates" is the astronomers
woodland this Iteration en-
ables earthlings to see something
more than half the surface of the
moon. But there is about AZ per
cent of the lunar surface that can
never be viewed from earth; lunar
probes with cameras-and later,
manned rockets-will have to tell
us what lies back there.
There is no reason to assume it
is different in any way; that the
back half of the moon, for in
stance, is more or less bright than
the front half.
How Bright Is the Moon?,
AS a matter of fact, the bright"
and brilliant" moon is pretty
shabby reflector of light. Astron-
omers calculate the reflective
quality of the moon and planets
according to their "albedo" A
perfect reflector-giving off every
last bit of light cast upon it
would have an albedo of /. Venus,
the brightest of the planets, has
an albedo of .73; earth's albedo
is "A. The moons is pitiful OF.
Deliberately choosing the moon
to act as a reflector would be
something like hanging up big,
dark rock to catch and reflect the
rays of the winter sun.
A big, dark rock is just what
the moon is. There is no water
on the moon except that which
may be locked in crystals or per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-17

The third Bergerac idea had
some lasting value. 1t involved
rockets.
Until the late 18th Century,
the science-fictionee oversimpli-
fed moon trips by dwelling only
on the problems inherent in get
ting there. In a book called "On
the Plurality of Worlds" however,
Bernard de Fontenelle suggested
that the rarity" actually the
absence, as we now know-of air
would make the moon uninhabit-
able.
But this was forgotten $50 years
later when one of the greatest
moon stories of all time was pub
lished, This was the famous Moon
Hoax" perpetrated in August 1885
by Richard Adams Locke and pub-
lished in the New York Sun. Locke
passed his story of as a reprint of
a professional paper in an i'm
peccable scientific journal pub
lished in Edinburgh
In the. moon hoax, the Sun said
the astronomical observations Of
Sir John Herschel at Capetown
had revealed on the moons sur
face such marvels as evergreen
forests, herds of brown cattle, bat
people who worshiped in gold
topped temples-even a unicorn.
One Mon Sow City
One of the truly classic pieces
of lunar science fiction was written
in 1865 by Jules Verne. In From
Earth to the Moon" he devised an
earth cannon from which q shell
was shot. Men in the shell went
into orbit around the moon and
bored each other stiff with long
discourses on science. Their pro-
jectile finally fell back to earth,
landed in the ocean. and they were
saved.
At about this time-the later
I80Os-Alexandre Dumas came up
with a moon trip in which he used
an anti-gravity material that was
repealed rather than attracted by
the earth's gravitational field. The
same trick was used by Kurd Lass
WITT, a German, in 1877 in a novel
called ION Two Planets" and by
H. G. Wells in THE First Men on
the Noon" in which the anti
b gravity material was named "caAs
orite"
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-09-25
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DEPARTMENT. OF

INSPECTION AND LICENSES
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.
Rockville, Md.
A public hearing on the fol-
lowing application for Zoning
Amendment will be held in the
Auditorium of the County Office
Building, Rockville, Maryland
MONDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1858
AT 8 PM.
or as soon thereafter as it can
be heard.
NUMBER CAS-, w. C. Nichol-
son, Agent for L. T. Mahurin,
Applicant, for the reclassification
from the R-60 Zone to the Rio
Zone of Lot 33, Block 2, North
west Park, located at 5001 Bat
terry Lane, Bethesda, containing
1859 acres, in the 7th Election
District, all as will be shown in
the application on file in the
Office of the Director, Depart
ment of Inspection and Licenses.
E. w. BUCKLIN
Director, Department of z
Inspection and Licenses
1t-4407-9-25
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ZONING NOTICE
DEPARTMENT. c

INSPECTION AND LICENSES
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.
Rockville, Md.
A public hearing on the fol
lowing application for Zoning
Amendment will be held in the
Auditorium of the County Office
Building, Rockville, Maryland
MONDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1858
AT 8 PM.
or as soon thereafter as it can
be heard.
NUMBER GAG, w. C. Nichol-
son, Agent for S. T. Robertson,
Applicant, for the reclassification
from the R-60 Zone to the RIO
Zone of Parts of Lots 80 and 81,
Block 2, Northwest Park, located
in Bethesda, containing 1884
acres, in the 7th Election District,
all as will be shown in the appli-
cation on file in the Office of the
Director, Department of Inspec.
ton and Licenses.
E. w. BUCKLIN
Director, Department of
Inspection and Licenses
1t-4408-9-25
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Organizations may list their pic
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This column at the rate Of Zoe
per line te pf. Iine) per week.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-09-25
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BE ASSURED of money for
Christmas shopping. Part time
work, no experience. Call imme-
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-09-25
Notice
Notice
Beer and Light Wine License
Notice is hereby given that ap
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bCCl anu A%ASHO NNhAC LhCClASC
Notice is hereby given that ap-
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William c. Hershberger
On behalf of Colorado Cater
ers, Incorporated, for a Beer and
Light Wine License, Class B, On
Sale, Hotels and Restaurants, for
the premises to be known as Colo
RADIO Caterers, which premises
are located at: 10257 Old George
town Road, Bethesda, Maryland.
A hearing on this application
will be held in the County Coun-
Gil Hearing Room, County Office
Building, Rockville, Maryland, on:
Wednesday, October Is, 1858, at
10:40 AM.
Any person desiring to be heard
on said application should appear
at the time and place fixed for
said hearing.
BOARD OF LICENSE
COMMISSIONERS
FOR MONTGOMERY
COUNTY
By: E. w. Bucklin
Secretary. 2t-4406-10-2
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and insurance to be adjusted to
date of ratification of sale. Con-
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at cost of purchaser.
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or
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