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Evening star., 1960-02-05
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Vice PRESIDENT Richard M.
Nixon is going to put a
nostalgia touch Of yesteryear
back into this falls presi-
Dental struggle.
He will revive the old
fashioned campaign train. He
will not use 1t to the exclu-
sion Of the airliner, Of
course. But he will use it
enough to extract all the
advantage Of that method Of
going through the country
side.
And he will 60 into many
second-sized cities which of
recent years have been
largely neglected by cam
paigners in their preoccupa-
ton with the very biggest
places.
The Nixon people will not
describe this as actual plan
ming" For they take, dead
pan, the position that since
Mr.. Nixon isn't nominated
yet for President it would be
"preSumptuous" to talk al
ready Of campaign plans.
Anyhow, and paying all due
heed to such formal atti-
tudes, all this is actually
what Mr.. Nixon is going to do
when the time comes. And it
Is an interesting illustration
OF how q political pro works
endlessly at the seemingly
small things, when he is free
to do so, to get the best
possible total effects.
Mr.. Nixon will try to offer
one central and dominant
impression of himself. This
will be a picture of a man of
unhurried solidity, a power
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Mcdonald: True-Born Democrat

on the unions. This is both
possible and legal.
The truth is that the hazy
labor situation reflects the
view of the whole party that
there is not too much to
choose between the candi-
dates and that anything can
happen at Los Angeles. The
primary risks being assumed
by Senator Kennedy may
alter that view-some observ-
ers feel there is an excellent
chance that they will. But
so far they have not done so.
Evidence has been accu-
mulating in recent years that
labor does not follow its lead
ers politically, anyway, as it
did when times were lean.
statements OF their personal
support mean little. What
counts is when they put their
trained organizers on the Job
to get out the vote. Few labor
leaders are willing to under
take that in a primary fight;
the commitment is too risky.
So they save that stroke for
general elections.
Most labor leaders reassure
Democrats that they will be
on hand when the election
struggles against the Repub-
licans start. But this repre-
sents not so much personal
hostility to the Vice President
as it does deep-dyed suspi-
cion Of the Republican Party.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
An Appeal for Aid to Schools

children. So do the two
Dakotas. But the greatest
need is in the South.
Under the CED plan for
low-income States, Federal
aid would be granted on a
basis Of the States average
income per student so as to
prevent a State from collect
ing Federal aid by permitting
its own effort to support
schools from dropping below
its ability to pay. (The full
report is available at 50, and
the summary at so cents,
through CED. Til Fifth Ave-
nue., New York 22.)
We can give our children
half or full loaf opportunity.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Major Business-Industry Group
Indorses Federal Aid Proqron

cision against discrimination
is at issue. Georgia presently
is. nearest to a moment Of
truth in this category.
It is possible to have al
most any kind of education.
It is up to the people in po-
litical power.
In Virginia one county,
Prince Edward County, has
abolished its public schools
and set up private classes
in churches and private
buildings. 1t is at best a
sort of "half-loaf" school,
ing for its white pupils, a
mere 1,500. It cannot expect
to be fully accredited. Nor
is there any claim that its
graduates will be able to en-
ter f1rst-rate engineering or
professional schools. It is
properly described as a half
loaf and this is what the
parents there have chosen
rather than accept a pupil
placement law. This is a legal
choice. The effect on this
generation of children and
on the community itself will
not be possible to evaluate
for years to come. How long
the community can bear the
financial strain Is also some
thing for the future. But this
presently is the sort of edu-
cation they offer their chill
dren.
In other States small
school districts seek to main
tain high schools for hand
fuls of pupils. They offer,
too, a half-loaf opportunity.
A legislative committee in
Georgia, for example, re-
Gently reported, after months
OF study, that entrance work
at the States technical insti-
tute and the university was
already beyond" a dismay-
ing number of graduates of
inferior high schools. This is
a story which fits other
States as well.
CED'S research reaffirms
this fact. Maine, for example,
has a problem of small, rural
high schools which are offer
ing a "half-loaf" to their
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Nixon Is Planning to Use the Railroads
As Well as PIones-After Nomination

fully entrenched figure Of
success. The sedate train
provides a much better frame
for presenting such a picture
than does rushing about in
jet planes. 1t is also a far
better way of transportation
for any candidate who wants
to keep continuously in touch
with his advisers. And, even
more important, 1t is the best
way of getting from city to
city when the problem is to
touch many middling cities
rather than a few vast ones.
The Nixon purpose not to
center so much on the great
metropolises has psychologist
cal reasons. The Vice Presi-
dent has long since decided
that the biggest of cities have
become so familiar with ma
tional politicians-including
Richard Nixon-that they are
quite blase about who visits
them when.
He thinks they are a bit
tired of his face-and will
before long become tired of
the face Of his Democratic
antagonist for Presiden 1t,
whoever that may be. Mr..
Nixon has simply taken a leaf
from television. That indus
try discovered years ago that
even the most popular per-
formers tend to create bore
dom If seen with great regu-
larity on the screen.
Such a tired response
Evening star., 1960-02-05

GAO said the extra cost will
result from a $797 ,344, 900 bor-
rowing by the Federal National
Mortgage Association in Jan
uary, 1858.
FNMA is a Federal corpora
ton created to stimulate the
housing market by buying
mortgages from banks and
other lenders. 1t issued notes
at 3as per cent interest to back
up the private loan, which ma
lures August %, 1860.
Taking issue with this ac-
ton, the GAO said "the inter-
est rate would probably have
been about seven-eighths Of l
per cent less If FNMA had
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Campaign Train Coming Back

sometimes comes even in the
legitimate theater. When that
happens, the managers will
make preparations to take
the show on the road" out
of the New Yorks and Chi
Cages and Los Angeleses and
into the second-rank cities
which are not tired Of drama.
In this sense, therefore, the
Nixon show will be taken
much on the road-pretty
much as President Harry S.
Truman took his show on the
road in 1948.
The mere fact that Mr..
Nixon can give attention to
such details, if important de-
tails, points up the initial
advantage, at least, he holds
over his Democratic oppo-
sition. He is able to think
about campaign trains. But
the Democratic aspirants
must grapple with an in
comparably more urgent
question, the bald question Of
survival in the nominating
convention over the next
fellow.
So Mr.. Nixon can so into
nicely psychological tactical
problems while they have got
to sweat over the whole basic
strategy of how to get at him.
There is a general Demo-
cratic view-not unanimous
but nearly so-that the give
'em hell" technique toward
Mr.. Nixon won't do, if only
because people have heard
1t all so often so long. But
what to use in place of give
'em hell"? That is the rub.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

Another general speaks up
N dissent. He is q former
member Of the Joint Chiefs
Of STAFF. Since he now Is re-
tired, he can talk freely. He
has long held the view that
there Is a nuclear stalemate
in the world and that the
next war will be fought on
the ground. So he wants to
see more money spent for
mobile ground forces.
These views, expressed by
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, until
recently head of the United
States Army. serve to EN-
phasize the kind Of problem
that nowadays faces the
President of the United States
as the Commander in Chief
Of our armed forces.
Gen. Taylor, like Gen.
Power of the Strategic Air
Command of the Air Force,
is sincerely dedicated to the
defense Of the United States.
The ideas and advice of both
generals have previously been
laid before the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff, the Secretary Of
Defense and the President.
So they are not new. But
what is new is the prodding
Of such generals by Demo-
cratic leaders in Congress who
seek to publicize an impress
sion that the defense of the
United States is imperiled.
even II 1t means telling the
enemy more details of our
defense preparations.
One would think that in a
matter Of such vital con-
Germ to the Nation the orderly
way would be for the COM
mittees to receive testimony
in private. and for the COM
mittee chairmen thereafter
to express themselves to the
Secretary of Defense or to
lay their views in confidence
before the President. But the
trouble with that procedure
is that 1t would not get the
headlines so necessary to
assist the Democrats in their
efforts to discredit the ad-
ministration.
What Gen. Taylor says
Evening star., 1960-02-05
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike honors Navy men who went miles under the
Their bravery is matched only by their questionable
judgment-in deciding to back times like these
Jack Kennedy fights Hubert Humphrey in West Virginia
Democrats not only intend to keep personalities this
campaign they're fixing to abandon the only they've got
in the mountains.
Gov Meyner eS defense program is as orderly as
spaghetti That's using the old noodle gov.
Russia invites Fdel Castro for visit Khrushchev has
decided to ionize the beard in his den
Washington Hostess Perle Mesta backs Lyndon johnson
for President Perles slogan the time for all good
parties to come to the aid of the man."
Changing her mind is woman's prerogatve. Changing
her husbands is q sacred duty.
Text Of Senator Estes Kefauver investigating high drug
prices: More balm for q buck"
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Retired Member of Joint Chiefs
Wants More Ground Force Funds

about the need for ground
forces, on the theory that
nuclear war will never be
fought, Is, Of course, realis4
tic. 1t is something the high
est military advisers of the
President took into account
a few years ago when they
favored the new look" A
decision had to be made as
to how the available funds
would be spent. The policy
finally laid down by the
President called for a mas
sive retaliatory power, with
manned bombers, missiles
and nuclear weapons of all
kinds, to deter any aggres-
sion by a potential enemy.
Gen. Taylor, however, feels
that the real danger lies in a
possible encroachment by the
enemy on our Allies by land
operations. This is what is
called limited war" 1t can
readily be conceded that such
a contingency might arise.
The natural conclusion is
that perhaps preparations
should be made for both
limited war" and unlimited
nuclear war" But this would
add at least $l4 billion a
year to our SAL billion budget
for defense.
When a man who has been
Chief Of Staff of the Army
makes a declaration to Con-
gress that our defense setup
is inadequate" it naturally
gives the members something
to utilize in their assault on
the administrators policies.
This has always been a tough
problem for democratic gov
eminent. Thus, today in the
midst of a "cold war" when
delicate diplomatic situations
are created by the summit
conferences and the ex-
changes of visits by heads of
state, it is not desirable for
the President Of the United
States to engage in a public
debate about what a poten-
.tial enemy might do. If he
feels that tensions have been
Evening star., 1960-02-05
RALPH McGHL

For the first time in the
Nations history. we have a
major Endorsement of Federal
aid to education by a national
organization representing the
top corporations Of business
and industry.
The CED COMMITTEE for
Economic Development) has
published a carefully docu-
mented study Of the Nations
educational needs, and rec
concentrations, titled, 1--WE
Can Have Better Schools"
The CED is composed of 1870
men, most of them represent
ing large corporations and
universities.
Chief among their recon-
mendations is Federal aid in
1ow-income States and q
drastic reform Of the school
district system. There are
$4,000 local districts, a ma
jority of which are much too
small to provide good schools
at all or to provide any kind
Of schools effectively" The
report recommends reduction
to 10000 districts, none serv-
ing less than 1000 pupils.
This report. which is his
torically significant in that
corporate business formally
reveals not merely its find
ings Of the desperate educa-
tional plight of the Nation
and the great waste Of young
talent in inadequate schools,
but its grave concern. State
boards especially should find
it interesting.
The urgent recommended
ton that $500 million in Fed
eral aid be spent in the
low-income States certainly
should interest both parents
and educators.
Mississippi is at the bot
tom Of all percentage find
ingS in the low-income States.
There are altogether IL States
which are well below nation
al standards. -Four are non-
Southern. The Deep South
States of South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and Geor-
gia are included.
The report serves to spot
light the problem of the
States where the court de-
Evening star., 1960-02-05
GAO Assai|s
Housing Loan
BY the Associated Press

The General Accounting
Office reported today that the
Government may have to pay
an extra $18 million in interest
because a Federal housing
agency borrowed from private
investors rather than from the
United States Treasury.
In a report to Congress, the
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Evening star., 1960-03-22

band Peter Shaw would like to
buy the Pacific Palisades home
Of Deborah Kerr they are now
renting. There's a lovely gar
den. swimming pool, bath
houses" says Angela. "But
we'd need three servants !"
They would also need S97, 900
-Deb's asking price.
Pretty ZiVa ROdann, Israeli
actress, tells me she is going
from College Confidential" for
Al Zugsmith at U-I, to Brazil,
Ito act in Naked Love d"
what a titleD Then I may
fly to Haifa to see Otto Prem
niger about a part in Exodus. "
George GObels once-upon-a-
time writer, Hal Kanter, is now
preparing the Down Home
series for comedian Pat But
tram, who used to toll as side
kick to Gene Autry.
Lucky that George Sanders
has no immediate intention of
returning to Hollywood. Some
OF his comments about the
movie stars in his book, Con
fessions of a Cad" have several
members Of the industry seeth-
ing. Incidentally, Mama Jolie
Is furious because Zsa Zsa's
Evening star., 1960-03-22

"Gallileo" on Broadway, Brecht
is known best as a theorist in
theater.
His neurotic Marxism, his
"alienated" performance, his
"epic" theater set him up as a
figure atop a fascinating and
often impenetrable jargon
Ironically. Brecht himself at
tracted the attention that his
poems and plays never did.
4 y =
THE ARTIST: Brecht is a
subject as elusive as he is ex-
citing in Mr.. Esslin's book.
Mankind aroused his pity,
man his exasperated diStaSte.
From his brutal experience as
medical corpsman in the
German army in World War l,
he hated authority. Com
muniSm attracted him, phil
oSophically, as a means of TAX
ing power from the hands of
the few and putting it into
the hands of the many.
Practical Marxism, it's opera
tive bureaucracy, antagonized
him as much as any other
political setup, however. He
distrusted it with anarchial
fervor. He accepted the theater
the Russians offered him in
East Berlin because he wanted
theater, nothing more.
Politicians of any creed were
types with which he was al
ways prepared to match cum
nings. AS. before accepting his
East Berlin identification, he
put control of all his copyrights
his source of income-in the
hands Of a West Berlin agent,
and armed himself with Aus
trian citizenship. Or. as when
he matched wits here in Octo-
Der l947 with the Un-American
Affairs Committee then on the
trail of communism in Holly
wood.
On his way to being praised
by the chairman of the COM
mittee as good" witness,
Brecht cast himself in the role
of the hunted man. shamed
his pursuerS with a display of
dialectic that made the ex-
perience a triumph. And IN
English, a foreign language, to
make the duel livelier.
The same quick hostility
showed itself in Moscow in
1855 where he had gone to
accept the Stain peace prize,
Evening star., 1960-03-22

offered by his would-be mas
ters as a placatory gesture. AS
honored guest of the Soviet
Union, Brecht lacerated his
hosts with an endlessly scorn-
full estimate of Russia's arts
and culture.
THE THEATER: Brecht's
Befliner Ensemble, as his
famed East Berlin repertory
group was, and still is, called.
was an act of faith. AS his
autobiographer appraises its
revolutionary theory and prac-
tice, the Ensemble represents
Brecht's faith that mankind S
hopes are better placed in the
hands of artists than of his
torically established governors.
From his restless. middle
class boyhood in Augsburg, he
Evening star., 1960-03-22
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Arena stare The Icemar
cometh." 8 pm.
NatiOnal-"Look Homeward
Angel" $3.50 pm.
Catholic University-"Othel.
TO-" $3.50 pm.
Screen
AmbaSsa dOr-"The Bramble
Bush," l:55, 4;25. 6:55 and 9:25
pm.
Capitol THE Gazebo. :
HAS am, las, 3:45, 5:45,
7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Dupont - Ivan the Ter
rible," Part I. 2:25, 5:35 and
S:45 pm. Part II, /, 4:05, 7:15
and 1925 pm.
keith's - who Was That
Lady?" 1l:l5 am. t:2O. 3:25
$3.50, 7:35 and GAS pm.
Macarthur Tiger Bay"
6:15. 8 and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan = The Bram-
ole Bush" ll:40 am, 2:05
4:35, 7:05 and $40 pm.
Ontario-"Our Man in Ha-
vana," l, sos, $40, 7:25 and
e:40 pm.
Palace Home From the
HILL" II am, 1886, AIS, $50
and 9::25 pm.
Playhouse - Circus Stars"
1910, l:50. 3:2O. 4:55, 6:35
$40 and 9:40 pm.
Plaza Nude in a White
Car" 11:45 am. l:15, $50,
4:30. $40. sos and $50 pm.
Town The Wind Cannot
Read" 1910. 2:10. AIS, 6:l5,
$40 and 1920 pm.
Trans-Lux - Suddenly Last
Summer" 1915 am. 1890
2:50. $40, 1880 and $50 pm.
Warner - Ben -Hur," 8 pm
Evening star., 1960-03-22
HOLLY
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM
Two for q Musical Journey

HOLLYWOOD CNANA.-
It's all set for the signing fol
Cyril Ritchard and David
Wayne to star on Broadway
for the Mike Todd musical ver-
sion Of Around the World in
80 Days" What ever hap
pened to David Selznick's plan
for a musical play of his smash
movie; Gone With the Wind? ?
|. And what about MARY
Magdalene" and Tender Is the
Night" that David was plan
ming for wife Jennifer Jones?
There was a lot of talk and
publicity, then silence.
jeanne Dru is hoping Lew
Ayres will make up his mind
on popping the question.
Joanne's ex-mate, John Ire
land, is of to Puerto Rico "for
eight weeks of stock with Two
for the Seesaw'." Coming later
is a TV series, Empire" which
Ireland will shoot on the fabu-
lous King Ranch in Texas,
With Texas Finance. Them s
the best kind.
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Newest fad in Hollywood /:
Chewing sunf1ower seeds, for
quick protein energy. This has
been done for centuries in the
Middle and Far East. Cary
Grant took MadeIyn Rhu. an
Operation Petticoat" beauty,
for a date. He called for me in
his Rolls-Royce. took me to a
drive-in theater." Madelyn re-
ports. I'VE had a five-course
dinner, champagne. and I was
home safe and sound by IL"
Did I hear Darn it!"?
Tony Curtis. who can make
a million dollars and more from
each Of his percentage pictures
today. still has three more
movies to make for Universal
international at his old price
Evening star., 1960-03-22

Sl0n 10 one OF Jnelr meetings
pleased him, and his own fertile
mind could hardly have fancied
one more ironically right. At
such meetings, his contempt for
the minds of his associates often
equalled that of the doorman
for his own, personal appear
ance.
This is a small, yet signifi-
cant, detail of the portrait of
Brecht as man and artist in
Martin Esslin's "Brecht," just
published by Doubleday.
Brecht, farthest out of the
avant garde figures in GOTH
century drama, is a dramatic
biographical subject. Mr.. Esslir
like Brecht a refugee from
Adolph Hitler, writes of his sub
ject with appreciation for his
gifts but also with an admirable
lack of awe.
such biographers, self-re-
specting artists in their own
right, always seem the more
readable. Mr.. ESSlin definitely
Is one of these.
THE PARADOX: "Brecht ."
Mr.. Esslin's explanatory title.
deftly capsules the paradox of
his subject. Brecht was a name.
a word; a dramatist- director
and revolutionary artist whose
works were known to rela-
lively minute audiences.
In America, where he paused
as a bird of passage in fight
from Hitler's tyranny until the
establishment of the Commu-
mist brand in East Germany, he
is known chiefly through THE
Three Penny Opera" Other
wise, save for a brief run of his
Evening star., 1960-03-22

book comes out ahead Of hers.
She believes in age before
beauty
Evening star., 1960-03-22

Iof $4,000. And If someone had
told Tony in 1913. when he
sarted at the studio on a salary
Of SIS a week, that the day
would come when $751; for 10
weeks of his services would be
q studio bargain - well, I
wonder if he would have be-
lieved it.
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Back to Mike Todd, jr.: He's
a nice young gent to work for,
passing out percentages to the
people who helped make
Sweet Scent of Mystery" even
to the production designer,
Vincent Korda, brother of the
late Sir Alec.
Angela Lansbury and hus-
Evening star., 1960-03-22

was a reformer in need of a
platform or rostrum. BY the
time he acquired 1t from the
Russian conquerers of his
native land, the obsessive ide-
alism of his youth had settled
into a cynicism which nullified
his opportunity to use it.
As a portrait of an artist
reaching through power for
power Mr.. Esslin's is a study
OF a restless. rude, rebellious,
ruthless, and dramatic man.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
THE PASSING SHOW
Did the Cynic SIoy
The IdeoIist Brecht?
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

1t delighted Bertolt Brecht day turned away
from the door of Communist cultural meeting Berlin
byA guard who judged such badly dressed figure
impostor
Brecht political artist despsed the intrusion of politicians
-ofcial cuturalsinto the arts
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
THE BLUE ANGEL"-Dramatc study in degradation with
Mae Britt the cause, Curt Jurgens the affected
THE LAST ANGRY MAN"-Pau Mun bids for an Oscar
with a fine portrayal Of a wise family doctor
LII ABNER"-Peter Palmer Stubby Kaye and scads of
girls IN . free wheeling, foolish musical frOIic.
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED'-VastIy funny account of a
tiny duchys against the United States
"ON THE BEACH-Dramatic story of worlds last yhm-
per, after a totally destructive nucIear war
OPERATION PETTICOAT"-Cary Grant as a belea axuered
sub skipper visited by a plague of girls
SAPPHlRE-YvOnne Mitchell and Nigel Patrick in first
rate British whOdunt, tidy and suspenSefuI
some LIKE 1T HOT"-Jack Lennon and Tony Curtis AZ
pair Of spurious girls, Marlyn Monroe as real one
in q lively comic Of speakeasy days,