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VOL. 116 SATURDAY. DECEMBER Il, 1860 NO 281 !
Editorial
STEP FORWARD IN THE TRAFFIC SITUATION
THERE HAS Been considerable concern in this
corner about the mounting traffic violations in recent
months, and the suggestion has been made that those
public officials most directly concerned could take APP
propriate steps. The laws on the books seem to be ade-
quate enough. It is therefore a matter of seeing that :
these laws are obeyed'to the letter.
JUDGE WILLIAM MOORHEAD has undertaken a
significant and meaningful approach to the traffic prob
lem. Here, then is a clear example Of what can happen
when a public official sees his duties and responsibilities
in the light Of the broader and greater light. a judge is
an important public official. He has great responsibility
at his command, and he can serve his community most
effectively blythe way in which he administers the laws.
Knowing when to temper justice with mercy is the
quality Of judicial administration
TRAFFIC VIOLATORS coming before Judge
Moorhead recently have been made to realize the inpor-
lance Of traffic laws put on the statute books to protect
property and human life and limb. If these ~violators will
not understand that they havea responsibility to the
public, then they should be forced to face the grim reali-
ties Of their violations.
AGAR OR TRUCK can be most dangerous thing.
Imagine q machine which develops over a hundred
horsepower, and picks up so, 70, or 80 miles an hour.
Once out Of control such a vehicle can, and does, kill
people. And then there is the manning and injuring OF
other people, many Of whom are manned for life. Such
dangerous vehicles in the hands Of foolish and irrespon-
sible people become all the more deadly.
S OF THE moment, one public official is bringing
nroper pressure to bear in the traffic situation. As others
follow. careless and dangerous drivers will be reminded
that the full force and power of the law can, and will, be
brought to bear against them. All these people have to
do is obey the law. and in SO doing, they will enjoy oper-
ating their vehicles, and also have the satisfaction OF
knowing that they are not endangering their fellow
citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-25
OTHER TV
HIGHLIGHTS

500, WTTG (5)-Five Star
Feature. Little Big Horn" "
An attempted rescue of Gus
ter and his men at Little Big
Horn. Marie Windsor, John
Ireland Q95D.
1000, WMAL (0-The Detec-
tives. Adopted" An illegal
adoption of a baby by his
personal friends puts Cap
tain Holbrook in a bad light.
1900, WTTG (5)-Starlight
Thea ter. "Step Lively"
After many financial hur-
~ dies. a producer and his cast
land in the big time. Frank
Sinatra, Gloria De Haven
Q944).
11:15, WTOP (9) The Late
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-25

Show. Desert Fury" A
young girl runs off with a
notorious gambler. Lizabeth
Scott, Burt ancaste r
(1944.
1880, WMAL 1)-First Run
Movie. Three Men on a
Horse" A mild hammered
man has an uncanny knack
for picking winners. Sam
Levene, Frank McHugh
u936).
1:1O, WTOP (9)-The Late,
Late Show. you May Be
Next" A master criminal
perfects a secret and dam
gerous radio wave. Ann
Sothern. Lloyd Nolan
(1936).
Tomorrow
lis, WMAL az Football.
Army VS.. Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-25

attend screenings
scripts New York. Hollywood and elsewhere Their
opinions offered as a guide to area O'e0erS
Close UpThe Money Raisers Provocative study OF the
fund raisers who knock on your door for worthy
Since this venture is the fourth biggest
business the country it's had problems of organization
centraization duplication, occasional bouts with scandal
and an honest drive to perfect the execution
of this effort Producer Don Goddard has travelled to-
cities across the Nation interviews and Harvards DR.
Robert Hamns definive comments the part the pub
lie plays need for agencies to work together and the
creative role of the single agency adds dimension. pm
WMAL-7
Telephone Hour-"The Music of Romance" For the major
portion of this aTchaikovsky program, you'll hear the
orchestral music romantic and the
Tin Pan Alley treatments has inspired What makes
this show special is not only Pianist Grant JohanneSsenS
vruoso solo, Michael Rabins violin solo, Lupe Ser
and Jacques dAmboise's ballet, or Hostess Jane
Powes songs duets with Johnny Desmond but Helen
Hayes performance as Relationships patron and great
love. (ColorO pm, WRC-4
CHS RepOrts-"Harvest of Shame" An important social
document about the excluded Americans" some mil
lion migrant farm aborerS who are the most poorly
housed members society," and the most exploited
The CHS this story in various South
States and New Jersey You'll the squald living
conditions most migrants endure learn something OF their
eating habits and hopesf any-for the future; you'll
meet the head of household whose life savings
amount to $l45 and woman who's paid dollar for
10 hours work in the fields; while you learn something
about the difficulties of passing legislation that would
protect these aborers and their suffering children Vet
TV Producer David Lowe has turned out his best
work to date. $50 pmr WTOP-9.
Eyewitness to History-old Rush-960" CHS correspond
ents take look the reactions to depleted
gold reserve feature study of the recent directive
military families and an interview with Dr.
John Galbraith of Harvard 1890 pm, WTOP-9.
Mr. JOnes-The Storyvile Gang Best episode
since the opener hero gets involved in plagiarism
suit which has prove that Dxieland jazz artist
wrote music he never put down paper. Rex Ingram
is wonderful the musician and the whole show nicely
done. 1890 pm, WNAL-7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-25
TV KEY PREVIEWS

Tontghts top sho,DS preuie,Ded by TV Keys stat,
,ho attend rehearsaS match screenings and Gnalyse
scripts in Ne,u York. Hollywood and elsewhere. Their
opinions are offered as guide to area UteDerS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-25
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Evening star., 1960-09-04
THE TREND is UP. BY An.

THE TREND IS UP. BY An
thony West Doubleday &
Co.; $4.95). ' s.
English born Anthony
West proves in "The Trend
Is Up" that he knows a great
deal about America, at least
about that peculiarly Ameri-
can phenomenon, the young
man on the make. He has
mastered the idiom and the
atmosphere of the country
club set, and If his conclu-
sions are not heartening, they
are certainly plausible.
His hero is Gavin Hatfield,
a New Englander who goes
south to wiring gold from the
underdeveloped counties of
Florida. He quickly realizes
his ambition to make his first
million before he's 80. He
also realizes that he has not
made many friends and sets
himself rather doggedly to
the pursuit of happiness.
He purchases a Gothic
home called the Grove, think
ing to people it with a jolly
family. He finds him a wife,
who does not love him and
has an ambivalent attitude
towards sex-something the
author describes as between
passionate intoxication and
intellectual repugnance." To
Evening star., 1960-09-04
A Secret Language

School stories, if handled
with humor and imagination,
can be prime 'favorites, as
in THE SECRET LAM
GUAGE, by Ursula Nord-
strom (Harpers. $2.75.
There's the old dump!"
one Of the boys shouted as
the bus neared the Coburn
Home School. Victoria shiv-
cred. This was her first year
at boarding school and she
was hOmesick already. She
could not speak, even when
her roommate appeared and
shouted her name. It was
all rather frightening.
The setting Of 1.-THE Sc
cret Language" is old-fash-
ioned and a little nostalgia,
but Victoria and her ROOM
mate, their friendship and
their quarrels, are timeless.
These little girls, with their
secret language, their mo-
ments of rebellion, their
dreams and their loneliness,
have a down-to-earth re-
ality.
It's a surprise, even some
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Imoqine This!

Imagination is the, key
note in several picture books
which are still firmly rooted
in reality. No magic wands,
no fairy godmothers are nee
essary. In CLOSE YOUR
EYES by Johanna Johnston
(Dodd, Mead; So the Illus
trations by Dagmar Wilson
are the important factor in
carrying out the imaginative
theme.
The same dependence of
text on pictures is true Of
three delightful nonsense
stories: IT'S A DEAL by Paul
Stroyer. adapted from the
Swedish by Maria Cimino
Mcdowell, Obolensky, $2.95):
THE DIFFERENT DOG by
Dale Everson, illustrated by
Paul Galdone Morrow,
$2.75), and THE PIRATES
BRIDGE by Mary Stuart, il
lustrated by Winifred Lubell
Lothrop; $3.50.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
YounqMon onthe Make
As Mr.. West Sees Him

resolve the conflict she turns
to alcohol. In due time, the
Grove becomes a chamber OF
horrors, with the chatelaine
tippling while the governess
takes the children for a ride
on the yacht. Gavin turns
joylessly to other girls.
His son turns out to be a
cold-blooded businessman. His
elder daughter falls in love
with a homosexual friend Of
her mothers; the younger
one falls into the clutches Of
a sadiStic beatnik.
The point about the point
lessness of gaining the whole
world while losing the soul
has been made before. Mr..
West makes it here with per-
haps more competence than
compassion. While there is no
part of his Interpretation to
quarrel with specifically, the
fact is that his hero is a
rather passive fellow, whose
inner life is rather dim to
begin with. He decides at
moments in his life that it is
not enough to do good-that
one must also be kind. But
there is nothing particularly
engaging about him. and the
story of his financial rise
and emotional fall does not
seem to matter much.
M. Meg
Evening star., 1960-09-04
SeunO'Cusey
Has KeptUp
His Fight
SEAN O'CASEY THE MAN
AND HIS WORK. BY David

SEAN O'CASEY THE MAN
AND HIS WORK. BY David
Krause macmillan Co.;
$4.50).
For some 40 years, Sean
O'Casey has waged a war Of
ideas with his native ireland.
Although the conflict has, at
times, proved costly, the
playwright has never bar
gained for a cheap and easy
peace.
Nothing, in fact, came
easily for him. Born in the
brawling slums of Dublin and
self-educated, he was mixing
cement at the age of A when
the Abbey Theater produced
his first play and paid him
4 pounds. For the Abbey,
which had grown anemic
through the poetic dramas Of
w. B. Yeats, "The Shadow of
a Gunman" and Juno and
the Paycock" provided an in
vigorating TRANSMISSION.
Serio Comic Plays
In this biography, David
Krause of Brown University.
analyses the serio-comic
dramas in which O'Casey at
tacks the poverty and injus-
tice he knew in Ireland.
But when 1.-THE Plough and
the Stars" was staged in 1926,
public reaction exploded into
violence. Based on the 1916
uprising, O'Casey's characters
jeered at patriotism, religion
and the country's prudish at
titude on sex. The heroics of
war were not for these slum-
spawned, raffish types, who
were more concerned with
looting the shops to snag a
square meal and a bottle or
two. O'Casey, a Protestant,
ridiculed the authority of the
bishops. Spectators stormed
on the stage and broke up the
performance.
Shortly afterward, O'Casey
moved to England ito be a
good Irishman." But the ma
trix of conflict that hardened
about the playwright was still
unbroken. even in 1888 when
he withdrew a play from a
Dublin festival after an arch
bishop objected.
Through the years, pro-
ducers demanded that he de-
lete this or tone down that,
or actors baked at uttering
some of his lines. but he never
retreated an inch. Nor did
he hesitate to rake London
critics who praised the froth
of Noel Coward or Frederick
Lonsdale in preference to, for
instance, O'Casey's within
the Gates"
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
SOUTH CAROLINA: AN
NAILS OF PRIDE AND
~n0-rcr ~ xry.,I:

SOUTH CAkOL1NA: AN
NAILS OF PRIDE AND
PROTEST. BY William
Francis Guess. (Harper
and Brothers; $3.50
The earliest South Caro-
linians believed quite simply
in the principle Of govern
ment by the elite. Didn't
their own Charles Pinckney
write the Constitution of the
United States? OF course, a
ridiculous and ver-modeSt
pact of secrecy kept that fact
from being acknowledged by
history but all South Caro-
linians knew it. And it was
the same statesman who said
Senators should receive no
pay "since that branch Of
the Government was meant
to represent wealth." In later
years it was w. w. Ball, re-
vered editor Of the Charles
ton News and Courier who
complained that South Caro-
lima enjoyed arisbocratic good
health until the Carpetbag
convention of 1869 injected
the deadly poison Of democ-
racy."
South Carolina has come
a long way since then, by
Evening star., 1960-09-04
The Trials of q Female
News SIeuth on the Run
DON'T COME BACK WI

DON'T COME BACK WITH
OUT 1T. BY Gael Greene
IS i'm on and SchuSter;
$3.75.)
In modern newspaper lingo,
Gael Greene is an investiga-
tive reporter (New York
PoSt), or a sort of semi
sleuth.
Sleuthing for a newspaper,
or exposing mans designs on
man, can be a very serious
business. However, the light
hearted Miss Greene elects to
record her finest hours in a
cheerfully nonsensical vein.
You can't hate her for that.
Gael Zone feels free to call
her after a few pages) glee-
fully shares her most inti-
mate m o m e MT with her
readers. The notion prevails
that her most satisfying "in-
vestigation" was the night
she tucked Elvis Presley into
bed. Obviously beyond the
call of duty. it was accom-
plished on her own time.
The ups and downs of
Gael's weight problem and
rom a n c e S are thoroughly
probed while the reporter is
exposing the evils of hotels
for women, reducing salons,
fortune tellers, dancing
schools. dieting by hypno-
tism, city hospitals and call
girls.
If Gael's height (5-81a)
Evening star., 1960-09-04

other fields Of surgery-one,
the use of saline injections
in cases Of anemia.
Minute Work
He called himself a "cy-
clopean Individual" for, in
1908. strolling from an opera
ton. he had wiped his per-
spring eyelid on the corner
of a surgical gown, used dur
ing an operation. The eye
was infected and eventually
lost. He continued to oper-
ate, however, saying he had
never done more minute and
exacting work
There are references to the
friendship between DR., Matas
and the wild. erratic au-
thor Lafcadio Hearn. The two
would stroll the streets Of
New Orleans far into the
night, discussing whatever
held their interests at the
moment. The surgeons mind
was capable of total recall.
(He had seen the gunboats
when he was a little over q
year old.)
Sad Private Life
The book is of obvious in
terest to doctors. 1t is a
chapter in the history Of
medicine. For those who
might have known the great
surgeon slightly, the sad:
private life as pictured in the
biography may mean his
surgical exploits were all the
more remarkable. It is queS-
tionable, however, whether
the authors have captured
the mana man who once
said years before his death:
"The transition betiDeen
life and death must be
gentle in the tDinter of life.
Death must be INFESTED
lDith a certain grandeur
and poetry, If it comes to
a man tDho has completed
his mission. He has moth
ing to fear, nothing to
dread"
The book is a story Of a
man who completed his mis-
sion.
JOHN McKELWAY.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

leine is the main character.
She goes from one man to
another. Almost any man
will do. And we are ex-
pected to Sympathize with
her in her search for-what?
We never learn what, and
it's doubtful If she knows.
Kenneth, despite his splendid
qualities, Is presented as a
poor sap who is unaware Of
his wife's infidelities, though
they are common knowledge.
When he finally finds out,
he actually commends her
for her honesty in trying to
find an answer to the riddle
of her life. It's hard to care
what happens to her.
There's something Of John
O'Hara in Madeleine Aus
trian." Actually. ! think Mr..
Kirsch Is a better writer, If
not yet so adroit a novelist,
and I do not accuse him Of
copying O'Hara. But Mr..
Kirsch, who is book critic Of
the Los Angeles Times,
greatly admires. Mr.. O'Hara,
and Madeleine is a heroine
who might have infested an
O'Hara novel. I must add,
though, that I think even
Mr.. O'Hara would have
gagged at the promiscuous
Medicine.
Giorgio Bassani's at h e
Gold-Rim m e d Spectacles."
translated from the Italian
by Isabel Quigly. is a brief
novel about a doctor in Fer
rara and the period Of the
1930s when Mussolini had
recently come into power.
Another Sick Man
This DR.. Fadigati, an ear.
nose and throat specialist.
was highly regarded as a
physician and a kindly man.
Unfortunately the doctor
himself was a sick man. He
was a homosexual. This was
generally suspected when 1t
was observed that DR.. Fadi-
gait not only remained un-
married, but never went
around with women. And yet
he was so discreet (assuming
the rumor was true) that no
one bothered about it. But
when one summer at a resort
on the Adriatic his associa-
ton with a young man be-
came a scandal. people were
through with him. His life
moved toward inevitable
tragedy.
Mr.. Bassani has written
this unpleasant little story
as tactfully, if not so subtly
as Thomas Mann wrote
Death in Venice" The po-
litical backdrop, suggesting
the creeping, engulfing tide
Of fascism is adroitly painted.
The author has written
other books. He is the pub
lisher's editor who discovered
Lampadusa's 1.-The Leopard"
Evening star., 1960-09-04
The Last EIizobethon
In q Fine Biography

Sir Walter Raleigh has
found a splendid biographer
in Margaret Irwin. THAT
GREAT LUCIFER" Har-
court, Brace; $4.5O is a bril-
liant, partisan, literate effort
which combines a sense of
history with a sense Of JUS
tice.
Miss Irwin is the unblush-
ing advocate Of the last of
the Elizabethans, whom some
wrote off - apart from his
marine exploits-as a great
actor. She regards him as
a great man, and the reader
of her superb brief will prob
ably be too enthralled to ar
que.
Ups and Downs
Ralegh's life (she spells
his name the way he some
times spelled it in Eliza
bethan tines was one of
incredible ups and downs,
of dramatic, almost melo-
dramatic contrasts. Like all
Elizabethans, he was no spe-
cialist. He was a courtier
mariner, explorer, colonizer,
legislator, poet, scientist,
shipbuilder and historian.
He was said to be an oppor-
tunist. He certainly whee-
died employment from Queen
Elizabeth, who called him her
oracle and only reluctantly
let him go off on his voyages
of exploration. But he was
no schemer or cost-counter.
He braved Elizabeth, whom
he glorified in excessive poet
try, to marry Bess Throck-
morton. Elizabeth winked
at seduction among her cour-
tiers, but ragged at marriage
and banished the honey
moonerS to the Tower. It
took her three years to for
Evening star., 1960-09-04

give Raleigh, to the point of
letting him quell a sailors
>mutiny; she never forgot
that he had dared to achieve
married happiness.
Despite his exploits against
the Armada and at Cadiz,
Raleigh was despised by the
masses for his bloody pride"
He achieved popularity the
hard way. When Elizabeth,
his exacting companion, his
adored queen, gave way to
the shambling Scot, James
Raleigh easily fell prey to the
conspiracy launched by his
little, lame friend Cecil. His
trial for supposedly plotting
with Spain was one of the
outrages of English juris-
prudence. He was saved
from the block only by the
fear of James.
Idol Of English
But Raleigh, in Is years in
the Tower, became the idol of
the English, the most visited,
consulted and honored priS-
oner in the nation. The
Crown Prince Henry loved
him like a father. Raleigh
wrote, studied. planned in
the Tower. He was released
only to find gold for his
spendthrift monarch. It was
a fools errand to Guiana.
Raleigh lost his son. He
might have escaped to France.
He was too gallant. He came
home to face the headsman
with incompatible dash and
spirit.
Miss Irwin makes the
fiamboyant, high-h e a r t e d
Raleigh live again, and also
an era that had more than
its share of derring-do, scan
dals and high adventure.
MARY McGRORY
Evening star., 1960-09-04

way of "Pitchfork Ben" TILL
man and Cole Blease, to
name only two. It's once
aristocratic pride and stub
borness have become simply
pride and stubbornness. 1t
still exemplifies the Southern
compulsion to kick at the
traces of the national will.
The reasons why this is so
are explored in this new book
which is one in a series of
Regions of America" books
planned by Harper's. Its
author, a native of Rock Hill.
S. c., is now an English
teacher at Maryland State
Teachers College at Towson.
State Rights
South Carolina displayed
early and clearly its lasting
gift for individuality by
producing the most effective
rationale of States Rights.
It was in John C. Calhoun's
Fort Hill Address of 1881 that
the great Uplander in a mo-
ment of inspiration combined
the principle of States Rights
with the principle of minority
rights in an argument point
ing out that compromises
Evening star., 1960-09-04
PAPER BACKS
ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOLK
RELIGION Edited by

ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOLK
RELIGION. Edited by
Charles Leslie. (Vintage,
$1.65). A young American
anthropologist has collect
ed studies of primitive and
folk religion which will ap-
peal to both students OF
anthropology and compar-
ative religion and the gen.
eral reader interested in
myth, folklore, primitive
history and exotic manners
and mores.
WAGNER AS MAN AND
ARTIST. BY Ernest New
man. (Vintage, $3.50. Re-
print. Music biography
and criticism.
THE SHAPE OF CONTENT.
BY Ben Shahn. (Vintage,
$1.1O). A contemporary
artist sets forth his views
on both the practice and
the purposes of art and ex-
amines the social condi-
tions that shape the atti-
tudes of artists.