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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-30
Ohio State, Bonnies, Duke
Lead Way in Tournaments
Buckeyes Edge
St. Johns After
Trailing by Is
BY the Associated Press

The national college basket
ball rankings likely will be
shaken up as a result Of holiday
week tournament play, but so
far top-rated Ohio State, st. /.
Bonaventure and Duke have
escaped with nothing worse
then minor tremorS.
The shook-up state is Moth
ing new in basketball, q sport
in which coaches experience
nightly agony. Here's what !
happened during the dizzy
whirl of tournament COMPETE
ton last night.
Indiana, ranked No. 4 in the
latest national listings by the
Associated Press, st. Johns.
IN. ". the No. Z team, and
North Carolina State, No. 10,
were among the losers, two of
them in real upsets.
Ohio State, BOnnies Win I
Kansas State. which missed,
a top 10 rating by a couple Of
notches, emerged as one Of,
last big winners. Both Ohio
State and st. Bonaventure had
some uncertain moments before
they came through to the finals
Of the ECAC Holiday Festival,
in Madison Square Garden be-
fore 18,499.
The tournament competition
is highlighted by such glamor
events as the Holiday Classic,
the long-established All COL
lege tournament at Oklahoma
City, the Dixie Classic and the
Sugar and Gator Bowl Journeys;
Briefly, here's how the more
important one shaped up:
Champions: Big Eight Tour.
nament-Kansas State; Hurri-,
cane Classic-Miami (FlaD.
Finalists: ECAC Holiday
Ohio State VS.. st. Bonaventure;
All College-Baylor VS.. Wichita; :
Sugar Bowl-West Virginia VS..
Memphis State; Gator Bowl,
Navy VS.. Georgia Tech; Gulf
South ClasSic-MisSissippi vs.,
South Carolina; Richmond In
vitation-Richmond VS.. William
and Mary; Los Angeles Classic
-UCLA VS.. Iowa; Far West
ClaSsic-Seattle VS.. Orego
State WCAC at San Francisco
st. Mary,s (CalifO VS.. San.
Francisco.
FirSt-round winners: Dixie
ClasSic-Duke, North Carolina,
Marquette and Villanova.
Close Victory
Kansas States cliff Hanging.
victory over Kansas in the final
Of the Big Eight preseason,
tournament established a pat
See BASKETBALL, Page A-23.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-30

ahead. 60-48, Ingram went OIL
a rampage, hitting on six
straight shots. The splurge
brought CIV to within three
points Of Marshall. and a pair
of goals by Ralph Kunze sent
the Colonials in front, $685.,
with $40 left.
Two goals by Jon Feldman
gave George Washington a 70-65
bulge with 1850 to go. but Mar
shall caught the Colonials at
74-all on a Jump shot by Mickey
Sydenstricker with so seconds
lafk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

store Hours daily; $3.50 am. TO 6:4S pm.
7 Corners open tomorrow untiI $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

Pieces illustrated,
from left: Nine.piece
martini set, track not
shown 1850
Ten.piece highball set,
including tray, 1875
Carafe with warmer
stand, $50
Double snack set, sos
Chip.and.dip tray. 6.05
Not shown: sets-of.eight
highball, old.fashioned or
cocktail glasses, ZOO set.
Eight double old
fashioneds, $50
Walnut lazy susan,
glass bowls, 1895
Also others to be
seen in this collection.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Why the West Loses
Influence in Asia

Europeans and, despite their
regulations, anxious to avoid
domination by Communists.
But the Europeans did not
cooperate. Almost all Brit
ons there retained their old
philosophy of domination
and aloofness. Mr.. Edinger
mixed with the Asians and
grew to appreciate them for
what they really are: Ninety
five per cent plain human
being and 5 per cent for
eigner." He avoided the mis-
takes of his countrymen and,
by bringing his knowledge Of
the history Of colonialism to
bear, avoided also the mis-
takes of Americans N that
part of the world whose
minds are happily open but
too often empty Of the neces-
Sary facts of local culture
and language.
British and Western in
fluence is fast dying, Of
course, in Malaga and Singa-
pore. 1t need not have been
that way, and Mr.. Edinger's
book tells why. 1t Is a uni
verSal lesson.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
ALook at FoshionIond
Behindth theL LoceCurtoin

FIGLEAF, The Business Of
Being in Fashion. BY Eve
Merriam. q. r. Lippin-
colt Co.; $4.95.)
This is the kind Of a book
many people actively engaged
in the business of being in
fashion will say, II wish I had
written it."
With wit, wisdom and q
scapel-like incisive approach,
Eve Merriam, who says she
was born into the women's
wear business, examines the
mysterious, ephemeral, and
sometimes downright phony
business of FASHION.
The adjective crowd Of
copywriters, account execu-
tives, motivational experts,
clients. fashion and beauty
writer's may raise an eye
brow as the chiffon curtain
is lifted on FASHIONLAND,
but the reader, male or
female, curious about who
"They" are, and what gives
with all the hoo-ha attend
ant on a business that says
one season something is "in"
and the next season it's
"out," will love the book.
Fashion Answers
Her everyman's guide to
the fashionese language, is
an appendage to the rest
Of her entertaining book
that attempts to answer
questions everyone asks about
Fashion, but seldom gets an
answer to. Here are some of
Eve Merriam's definitions:
BASIC Noun, a simple
black dress that costs more
than $50.
CHILD: A youthful con-
sumer.
EVERYBODY: Certain
people, some, a few, as in
EVERYBODY IS TALKING
ABOUT THIS CLEVER
NEW ACCESSORY.
EXCLUSIVE: A product
offered to the broadest pos
Sible mass market.
FUN: A total state of be-
ing, as THE FUN OF BE-
ING IN FASHION. Also an
adjective; A FUN BLOUSE,
A FUN HAT, A FUN FUR.
INTEREST: pound
word with BACK, as NOTE
THE BACK-INTEREST OF
Evening star., 1960-09-18

Farnboro working on the
mathematical problems of
guided missiles and earth
satellites. He won the Royal
Aeronautical Society's Award
for work on the theory of
satellite orbits. He, therefore,
is prone to see more of the
scientist in Shelley than the
usual literary critic sees. But
even the scientist he finds in
the poet is quite a small one
by today's standards.
The pre-occupation of a
working scientist in a ro-
mantle poet is in the great
British tradition. It's a
pleasure to see the two worlds
meet.
meet. EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

called Torch" hopes to re-
place British imperialism by
fruitful togetherneSs."
Henry is dispatched to be
the Trinidad correspondent
Of the magazine, via a ship
called the Silver Belle. He
gets his first taste Of the
Bungaloids when a group OF
enlightened representatives
issue invitations to senior
passengers for a Christmas
party which is supposed to
break through the artificial
barriers or age and outlook"
Island Life
Henry also gets his firSt
Whit of island life from his
tablemates. There is Father
Pink, a jolly monk; Morgan
Lal Bose. @. c., who is hurry
ing home to defend q client
who has drowned an uncle
in a barrel Of rum In the
presence Of IA witnesses.
Father Pink complains to
Henry that everything in
Trinidad results In larger
population, elections, cricket
matches, Empire Day, Eu-
charistic Congress"
Girls Make Rum
Once on the island, Henry
begins to understand. Be-
musedly, in line Of work, he
follows in the footsteps of a
visiting marchioness, who
writes Of an orphanage where
the senior girls distill their
own rum in the laundry and
sell it to the junior girls by
the glass. methods wise, Or
ganization impressive"
Henry lodges one Of the
ships leading do = gooders,
Wendy Perrowne, who
thinks that anyone who does
not agree with her has a
great deal to learn. He
happily trails around after
a splendid calypso singer
named Candida Firebrace.
Candida belongs to the An
glican Church, the Roman
Catholic and the Pilgrimm
Zeal. She desires equally to
be a Servant Of God and a
Society Lady. Most Of all
she wishes to visit Mime
apolis, Mimi, fountainhead
Of the cult of Pilgrim Zeal.
Miss Tracy amiably jeers
at everybody. While it lacks
the lunatic unity of THE
Straight and Narrow" it is
as entertaining a study in in
ternational tactlesSness as
you are likely to come across.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

found murdered. Saxby died
in prison after being con-
victed of the crime. But
Gilbert Fowler finds his pa
per on late 10th century
writer's languishing as he
pursueS crumbling clues for
a new construction of the
crime, inspired by his love
for the picture and legend of
a long dead lady in the case.
+ 4 =
MURDER BY REQUEST
by Beverley Nichols (E. P,
Dutton & Co., $3.50. Psy-
chiatrist-detective Horatio
Green is .lured out Of retire
ment by Sir Owen Kent, a
financier whose life has been
threatened. An anonymous
caller has said he would die
around Christmas. The holi-
days find Sir owen and DR..
Green in Harmony Hall, an
English health resort run by
Sir Owens brother-in-law,
being massaged within an
inch of their lives and wait
ing for death. Readers can
predict significant develop
ments. effortleSsly, down to
and including the hows and
why's of a killing that of
course occurs. But the tell
ing is pleasant and dignified.
CLOSED CIRCUIT by
William Haggard Gives
Washburn, Inc, $2.95). The
author Of the admirable
Venetian Blind" is less effec-
tive in his story Of intrigue
in the mythical South Amer
1can republic of Candora, in
trigue that finds its most
complete expression in far
away London. Britisher
Francis Mason goes to Lon
don to try to save his land in
Candora from a hostile gov
ernment there and finds a
network Of friends and enc
mics of the regime waiting
to ensnare him. The expoSit-
ion is too indirect, the devel-
opment too subtsryanean for
our taste.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

corded the traits and loves Of
characters in the hotel.
Much Of the future prom
Use of Lawrence Durrell is
shown. There is some beau
tiful phraSing. Yet the book
is harder to follow than
"Clea" or any others of the
Alexandria quartet, which re-
quire close attention. THE
Black Book" too, contains
much unnecessary scatalogy,
words which were considered
daring in the sos but now are
printed (still unnecessarily
without repercusSion.
"The reader" Mr.. Durrell
says in a preface" will dis
Germ the influence Of 'Tropic
of C ancer' in many pas
SageS :"
Henry Miller's "Tropic Of
Cancer" and his "Tropic of
Capricorn" published e d in
Paris, still remain unpub-
lished in this country, though
a number Of other books by
this author have appeared
here. &C. B. ].
Evening star., 1960-09-18
DurreII Book Finally
Comes to America
THE BLACK BOOK. By Law

THE BLACK BOOK. BY Law
renee Durrell. Dutton;
$4.95D
This is an early novel by
the author Of the widely &C
claimed Alexandria Quar-
tet," four novels set in the
Egyptian seaport in modern
times.
"The Black Book" was
written in 1886, when Mr..
Durrell was "a, and, while it
was published in Paris, it has
not been available in England
or the United States.
Though the narrator in
"The Black Book" is Law
renee Lucifer, who has moved
into a shabby London hotel
for the winter, much of the
book is made up of the re-
Elections of a man he never
saw. This is Herbert Gregory,
who left behind his "black
book" a diary, in the base
ment room which the mar
rator occupies. Gregory re-
Evening star., 1960-09-18

THIS DRESS WITH A
BUSTLE.
LIFETIME: Two or three
years.
MATURE: In whisky a
good thing; in humans, q
taboo word.
TIMELESS: A style that
remains fashionable for more
than one season.
WONDERFUL: The most
common adjective, denoting
anything run of the mill.
synonyms are: Terrific,
amazing, sensational, fabu-
lous, astounding, adorable,
cunning, charming, lovable.
slimming. slenderizing, thrill
ling.
Inc First Dress
Eve Merriam'S book title
was chosen from the original
Adam and Eve fashion.
Somewhere she insinuates
somebody came up with the
"serpentine thought" Of two
f1gleaves in every wardrobe.
Now look at us. She main
tains the prevalence of
fashion, with its conformiSm
and Snobbery on as mass
basis, accords with our pre-
vailing philosophy: The pur-
suit of happiness in the
shape of merchandise. "The
face of the smiling American
is coming to resemble the
slap-happy expression of a
punch drunk fighter" she
adds. ELEM
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Eerie Novel
Wins Praise
TWICE LOST Bv phvlIi,

TWICE LOST. BY Phyllis
Paul. (W. w. Norton;
$3.50
Phyllis Paul, the author
of psychological suspense
stories df the present sample
is representative, has been
much praised in her native
England. Rebecca West, an
exscting critic. says she has
IAN entirely individual tai
ent."
American readers may not
know exactly what to make
Of her weird story of a sly
child who disappears from an
unhappy home. The tone of
the account is grave, the
writing is f1rst-class, the in
sights profound and leisurely
as in novels of an earlier gen.
Grafton.
Her characters are vividly
and deeply realized, their re-
lationships studied in long
passages Of exposition which
are admirable in themselves
but do not always lead any
where.
Miss Paul's attenuated
novel describes the effect of
the disappearance of Vivian
Lambert, an unengaging
child, who is escorted home
after a tennis party by a
gentle young girl named
Christine Gray. Christine
reproaches herself, as things
turn out for years, for not
having seen the child to the
door. The parents are un-
caring. One consequence is
that Christine marries an
elderly novelist, whose career
has been created by his son.
1t is a doomed marriage.
They separate. Christine is
living aimlessly in London
when a girl who says she is
Vivian reappears. There is,
unfortunately, no sharp res
olution of the mystery or
ChriStine'S dilemma. But as
she had never wanted the
truth, but only comfort, so
she now had not found it,"
this eerie book concludes.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
GENERAL

SEIN6NHI
PLAGUE FIGHTERS. BY
Herman Styler. (Chilton,
$500 An account of the
age-old struggle against
the scourges Of disease
that have harassed man
kind throughout history.
EDWARDIANS AND LATE
VICTORIANS. Edited by
Richard Ellmann. (Colum-
bia, So English Institute
Essays, 1859.
SEA BEARS. BY Fredericka
Martin. (Chilton, $3.50,
The story Of the fur seal.
SCIENCE CIRCUS. BY Bob
Brown. (Fleet, $4.5OO
Transforms basic scientific
laws into pure parlor game
fun.
THE FAITHFUL CITY. BY
Dov Joseph. (Simon g.
Schuster, $3.50 The siege
of Jerusalem, 1948.
THE LEAN YEARS. BY Irv-
ing Bernstein. (Houghton-
Mimin, $7.) A history of
the American Worker 1920
1888.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

oAA4AlAd1 1O1Co.
1t should not be supposed,
though, that this is simply a
story Of adventure on the
playing field, or the lighter
type of sports novel which
several of our novelists, be-
ginning with Ring Lardner,
have written about baseball.
Inside the Game
David Storey writes dra-
matically of the inner life,
the emotional problems of a
young rugby league player
named Arthur Machin. While
the atmosphere of the club
and the sport - the inner
jealousieS, the ways Of own
ers and trainers, the attitude
of the public-is sketched in
vividly. there is relatively lit
tie about the games.
Following the absorbing
account of Arts problems,
which Of course involve his
club and prowess on the field,
his good games and bad ones,
we don't know or much care
which team wins from time
to time. Mostly we are away
from the stadium or the
clubhouse.
Love and Misery
Arts private life centers
for some time around his
landlady-and he's the only
boarder-a young widow with
two children, who seems
starved emotionally and
frustrated otherwise. Valerie
and Art have a love affair,
of a sort, but they quarrel
more than they make love
and they finally split up
both of them miserable.
Valerie was jealous Of
Arts renown around the city
and suspicious of him from
the first, SuSpecting him of
other conquests of which he
was entirely innocent.
Meanwhile Weaver, princi-
pal owner of the football
club, at first Arts sponsor
and champion, sourS on him,
presumably because there is
a report that the young ath-
lete has dallied with Weaver's
susceptible wife. There is
nothing to the report, though
it is not the wife's fault that
the affair failed to develop.
Weaver is still skeptical, and
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Novel Set
On Eastern
Shore
THE SOT-WEED FACTOR.
By John Barth. Double
day & Co., Inc; $7.50D

BY John Barth. Double
day & Co., Inc; $7.500
Much of THE Sot-Weed
Factor unfolds in a 17th-
century setting on the fer
tile Eastern Shore of Mary
land. The strange and comic
characters who enliven its
pages reap a bumper harvest
of bawdy humor after extern
sive cultivation of intrigue,
drug addiction, prostitution,
smuggling, piracy and bur-
lesque courts of law.
The threads OF this 806-
page narrative become
nightly entangled at times,
and by way of initial clari-
f1cation, a sot-weed factor is
a tobacco peddler. John
Barth, a Cambridge native,
treats serious subjects In
terms of comedy, and some
times weaveS notable his
toric figures into his story's
background.
Poet Laureate
But the main protagonist
Is a gangling, head-in-the-
clouds young man named
Ebenezer Cooke, posseSsor Of
a forged commission naming
and poet and laureate of
Maryland. Ebenezer wanders
through the story reaffirm-
ing his status as poet and
virgin and stumbles into in
credible adventures. He es-
capeS assassination, survives
after walking a pirates plank
and outtalks savage captors.
But he abSent-mindedly signs
away his fathers estate on
the Choptank and pays griev-
ously to regain it.
Sometimes Ebenezer is
merely a foil for a more
aggressive personality, Henry
Burlingame. The worldly
Bulingame often rescues the
poet from one dilemma only
to steer him into another.
Repeatedly, Burlingame bobs
up in varied disguises, i'm
perSonates well-known per-
sons and stirs up a confusing
furry of mixed identities.
For all its far-fetched
condolences and smutty
Snickers at mortal frailties,
the Factor presents some
trenchant comment on hu-
man motives. At one point,
for instance, Bertrand, a ras-
cally man servant to Ebe-
nezer cautions his naive mas
ter, More history'S made
by secret handshakes than
by battles, bills or proclarna-
tions."
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
CRIME AND MYSTERY
By BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

Much Of the measured in
evitability of day to day liv-
ing, where dreaded days do
dawn and trouble can lead
to more trying times, per-
vades Julian Symons' quiet
classic, THE PROGRESS OF
A CRIME (Harper & Bros,
$3.50.
The underplayed title is
precisely right. For Mr.. Sy-
mons immensely readable
story, written with the irony
and compassion any intel
ligent observer would feel,
simply tells what happens
after a British teddy boy is
involved in a murder-what
happens to him, to his fam
lily, to the police and to the
reporters covering the story.
One of the years best.
4 \ Il
KEPT WOMEN CAN'T
QUIT by Erie Stanley Gard
ner civilian g. Co., $2.95).
Here is one of the brightest
Donald Lam-Bertha Cool
mysteries by Mr.. Gardner,
who introduced the series
under the pen name Of A. A.
Fair. Avaricious Bertha Cool
happily is kept in the back
ground as her partner tracks
down the missing half of
100000 heisted from an
armored truck outside the
Full Dinner Pail Diner.
Donald is in trouble with the
law after the murder of a
suspect whose trunk he ap-
propriated because he be-
lieved it contained the miss
ing cash, for which an in
surance company will pay q
reward. Brisk and breezy.
4 i \ 4
DARK LADY by Doris
Miles Disney doubleday &
Co., $2.95). A must, as Dis
ney books consistently are,
is this story of a young
assistant English professor
who rents the cottage where
the wife of the 10Th century
naturalistic writer he ad-
mifed, Deane SaSby, was
Evening star., 1960-09-18

mendous influence which the
FBI and Scotland Yard have
had on the police of other
countries.
He reports that many po-
lice departments over the
world send their men to the
FBI to study its organization
and methods of crime fight
ing. The FBI, he reports, has
. become a symbol of efficiency
and integrity for many pro-
fessional police officers who
hope that, with time, they
can achieve the same results.
OF course, he points out,
the FBI and Scotland Yard
are hardly comparable. The
FBI acts only against viola
tionS of Federal law and has
no jurisdiction in local
crimes. The Yard is more
like the New York City police
force in its duties and opera
tons.
In practice, however, Scot
land Yard invariably takes
over the investigation of ma
jor crimes in Great Britain
at the request of local au-
thorities. That's because the
locals have to pay the ex-
pense of the investigation
unless they call in the Yard
within 4S hours. Mr.. White
head says they always do.
This book is essentially a
reporting job but that's the
work Mr.. Whitehead is most
qualified to do. A former
newsman in Washington, Mr..
Whitehead is now turning
out columns for the Knox
papers.
JERRY O'LEARY, JR.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

running narrative which in
cludeS salient facts of his
biography. AS such, 1t is we'll
organized and well-written.
1t contributes nothing of
startling originality in in
depreciation of the poems and
it certainly does not stop in its
fast-tlowing narrative for any
distinctive Interpretation Of
the poets life. Put it down
as a sensible, rather impress
sive and distinctly earth
bound introduction to one Of
our most stratospheric poets.
It may be that the point
OF this book is hidden in the
identity of its author. Mr..
King Hele is a principal
scientific officer at the Royal
Aircraft Establishment at
Evening star., 1960-09-18

finally Art is dropped from
the team.
But the player stages a
comeback, and 10 years later
we find him still a rugby
star and still wondering why
he goes on with it, allows his
body to take such a pound
ing. week after week, aside
from the ample spending
money he makes. He longs
for security and love, but
: somehow he always does the
wrong thing to obtain these
blessings.
Arthur is a physical type.
He calls himself ian ape"
There's not a thing wrong
with his mind except that in
stead Of thinking out his per-
plexities he usually faces
them briefly and then says,
the hell with them.
Builds Suspense
But despite the relative
simplicity of his makeup, his
story Is fascinating. This is
not because anything very
unusual happens to him, but
because the author has writ
ten simply and clearly and
built up suspense. Much of
the story is>told in very natu-
raj dialogue. It is a clean
book, with sex merely i'm
piled, never described, and
none Of the dirty words SO
many novelists use.>
You may think Art does
some pretty dumb things, but
somehow you care what hap
pens to him. And the fate of
his Valerie, which I won't dis
close here, is memorably
poignant.
Professional Himself
David Storey, the son of a
Yorkshire miner, became q
professional rugby player at
10 and thus paid his ex-
penses through an art school.
His first one-man show of
paintings is to be held in
London next month.
This Sporting Life" has
been published in England,
with considerable success. It
is Macmillan's second an
nual $500 fiction award and
is vastly superior to the first.
John Bery's "Krishna Flu
ting" published last year,
was almost unreadable.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
BOOK OF ROMAN TREASURES
Don Whitehead KEEPS
Hot on Crime TroiI
JOURNEY INTO CRIME. BY
Don Whitehead. (Random
House; $4.95).

JOUhNbI 1NIO CRIME. BY
Don Whitehead. Random
House; $4.95).
The author of the cele-
brated "FBI Story" presents
q chronicle Of crime gath
cred on a 3O,0O0-mile trip
around the world that will
fascinate all who have an
interest in criminals and
their apprehension.
His stories, collected on
the eight-month tour from
police departments over the
world, are about 81 true
cases INCLUDING: The Japa-
nese who invited 18 people
to a lethal tea party; the
San Franciscan who robbed
banks to keep up his credit
rating; the proper Britisher
who liquidated his victims in
acid: the Chinese secret So
ciety which pirated a ASST
ton ship and II other fasci-
mating occurrences.
The most significant thing
discovered by Pulitzer Prize
Winner Whitehead Is the tre-
Evening star., 1960-09-18

or governments whom she
cruelty calls "Bungaloids"
and the world in general
where virtue and vice are
superseded by good public
relations and bad"
Miss Tracy's hero is q man
who is Lamb by name and
lamb by nature. Henry, an
Englishman, has written q
frivolous book which is taken
seriously by the critics and is
himself taken up by a tycoon
named Sir Hector Bunce,
who through q publication