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Evening star., 1960-07-26
Clare Williams
JOshes Democrats

Congress which they control
2 to /.
He crossed frontiers Of
political expediency with a
voting record that attempts
to be all things to all men,"
Tall, blond Mrs. Williams,
a longtime Florida national
committeewoman, did not
name Kennedy. But she left
no doubt about whom she
meant when she answered
her own inquiry:
What frontiers have been
crossed by the young man
who spoke of them in Los
Angeles with such fiery
phrases?"
In her convention speech,
she said Americans are ready
to cross frontiers of today's
world "and with Gods guild
ance, Americans-men and
women-will make the right
choice - the Republican
Party"
A Convention First
Mrs. Williams, the first
major woman speaker on the
convention program, is head
of women's activities for the
G.. o. P.
She said she was proud
that the G. o. P.t has ira
ditionally accorded recogni-
ton to women. noting that
II top convention posts are
held by women and one
fourth of the delegates and
alternateS-"an all time high
for any party"-are women.
She started right out by
chiding the Democrats. who
she said had been wandering
starry-eyed through Disney
land" and at their Los An
geles convention 10 days ago
made the error of estimat-
ing the mental age of voting
Americans as somewhere
around II years"
The Democrats, she added.
"outdid Christmas by produc-.
ing not one, but two Santa
Clauses. both toting sacks of
glittering but empty platform
pledges"
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EXCLUSIVELY YOURS
Convention Starts to Hum
Party Pace Accelerated in Windy City

on the left was the Rockefel-
Ter box where the Cover
nor's entire family sat un-
noticed for most of the eve
ming until the Governor him.
self showed up. Then, far
back or not, it was the center
of attention from then on.
Entry Caused Stir
The terrific stir and ex-
citement produced by his en-
trance caused the comment:
1T seems that Nelson has
tremendous drawing power. ="
There's only one other guy
in this town who can out
draw him." replied a promi-
nent Republican dryly.
OF course, one couldn't tell
whether the surge Of atten-
ton and autographer seekers
in his direction was caused
by pro-Rockefeller sentiment
or simply the desire to get a
better look at that oddity-
one of the richest men in the
world who is also one. of the
friendliest and most ap-
proachable.
incidentally, there were SO
many of his family there
they had to take turns sitting
in the box. Mrs. Rockefeller,
wearing a sleeveless navy
blue dress with a white orchid
pinned to one shoulder and
a veil hat, sat in the front
row with her daughter Mary
and Mrs. Malcolm Wilson,
wife of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor of New York.
Ann Rockefeller Pierson
sat in the back row with her
husband, the Rev. Robert
Pierson, and Michael, twin
brother of Mary, until
brother Rodman took Mi
chael's seat. When their
father arrived the Persons
left and pretty Vicky Cole
man of Washington ap-
peared to keep Rodman COM
pany.
Sensational Demonstration
Biggest sensation of the
evening was the demonstra-
tion for Gov. Rockefeller's
conservative counterpart,
Barry Goldwater.
"It gives you a lump in the
throat" said Mrs. Goldwater
when the appearance of the
Arizona Senator sent the hall
into an uproar. She con-
Evening star., 1960-07-26

the receiving line that also
included the president of
Quaker Oats and Mrs. Don
Lourie, former Ambassador
to Brazil and Mrs. James S.
Kemper. the president of
Deere & Co. and Mrs. Bill
Hewitt, the chairman of
James K. Kemper & Co. and
Mrs. j. E. Magnus, and Fred
Gurley, former chairman of
the Santa Fe Railroad and
head of the group that under
wrote the convention, with
Mrs. Gurley.
Evening star., 1960-07-26
Pat Nixon Lauds
Her Counterpart

young granddaughter, Pat
Ford, when the girl snapped
her picture.
The Wiley Buchsnans were
also in the lobby to greet
the NixonS.
Mother Watches
Earlier, at the airport, the
two most important women
in Richard Nixon's life
shared the big moment of
his arrival, and both behaved
like mothers.
Mrs. Frank Nixon watched
her son with pardonable
pride and the detachment of
her IS years. Its wonder
full. It's just like a dream"
she said watching a little
distance away. People in
all this heat, waving and
waving" she continued, "it's
just grand. 1t must be that
they believe in his sincerity.
Look at them full of life
and zim! Look at that cute
little costume"
- She was speaking of the IL
young women in white dresses
with Nixon" printed in blue
all over them and all over
their white parasols. The
girls said they were the New
Workers for Nixon Committee.
The younger Mrs. Nixon
no sooner Rugged her daugh-
ters when they bounded up
the ramp into the plane, than
she looked at their dresses
and began to straighten them.
She had bought the dresses
in Washington and sent them
ahead for the girls biggest
public appearance to date,
the televized airport reception
and the motorcade through
Chicago.
Tricia's was a light blue
and-white checked gingham
with the new look ruffle
sleeves; jules a pale lemon
yellow cotton. Each had on
sparkling white, wrist length
cotton gloves, dictated by
their well-groomed mother.
Evening star., 1960-07-26

fessed she was a little sur
prised." Seated in the box
with her was her pretty
daughter Peggy, a page at the
convention, and her sister,
Mrs. Ray Prescott johnson of
Chicago.
Near the Nixon box sat
Secretary of the Army and
Mrs. WILDER Brucker. The
Secretary recalled with pleas
ure: "Twenty-eight years ago
1 seconded the nomination
Of Herbert Hoover in this
hall. / saw him just now and
he said, I'm glad to see
you're still carrying on. Keep
on"
Former Secretary to the
President Bernard Stanley
sat in a row seat and smil-
ingly watched his wife stand
and applaud when Senator
Goldwater took the rostrum.
The Senator also drew ap-
plause from Mrs. Arthur
Summerfleld, who was joined
in her box later by her hus-
band, the Postmaster Gen.
eral.
Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton sat in a box
with his wife and Mrs. Will
liam Rogers. whose husband,
the Attorney General, has,
like himself, been suggested
as a vice presidential possi-
bility.
In Ringside Seats
American Ambassador to
NATO and Mrs. Randolph
Burgess, the latter in a chic
black feathery hat from
Paris, occupied ringside seats
with former Ambassador and
Mrs. Clifford Folger.
Secretary of Comm cree
Fritz Mueller shared a box
with Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Benson, while Under
secretary of Commerce Philip
Ray sat in a group with
Arthur Middleton Hill, chair
man of Greyhound Bus
Lines, and Assistant Secre-
tary of State and Mrs. John
Hanes.
Others in the better seats
were COP. Chairman and
Evening star., 1960-07-26
BY BETTY BEALE
Star staff Writer

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 90
''It started out to be a low
voltage convention, but it's
turned out to be high VOL
tage," said permanent Chair
man Charlie Halleck last
evening.
He was speaking at Sem
ator and Mrs. Styles Bridges
extremely successful and
merry party at the Black
stone. but he could have been
talking about the scene later
In the convention hall.
The battle between the lib
eral and conservative forces
of the G.. o. P, represented
by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
and Senator Barry Gold
water, has given it stimula-
ton. And both men were at
the Bridges supper and at
the first evening convention
session last night.
Also the gay, mad, sociable
feeling caused by the gather
ing of so many prominent
and familiar figures under
one roof has added fiZz.
Everybody Was There
Indeed, it looked like a re-
union of everybody who's
anybody in the G. o. P.
when former President Hoo
yer mounted the platform
in the international Amphi-
theater.
Even if the two main Re-
publicans were absent. their
families were there, and they
and all the other VIPs were
in boxes where they could
be seen.
What a contrast between
the accessibility of every
body in this convention set
ting and the difficulties of
Spotting or visiting anyone
i'll the steep rows of chairs
that comprised the Los An
geles Sports Arena and Coli
scum:
There was DR.. Milton Eli
senhower, brother of the
President, and his daughter
Ruth sitting in a box on the
left side of the hall facing
the platform. Almost directly
across from them was Mrs.
Frank Nixon in a box with
her secretary, Mrs. Evelyn
Dorm, and in the next box,
son Donald Nixon.
Quite far back in the hall
Evening star., 1960-07-26

CHICAGO, July 26 (AP).-
Senator John F. Kennedy's
new frontiers" slogan came
In for a joshing and ridicule
at the Republican National
Convention last night.
Boys talk about frontiers.
Mature men and women
cross them" said Mrs. Glare
Williams, assistant chair
man. of the G. o. P. national
committee.
She declared the Eisen-
hover administration had
crossed many new frontiers,
including that of scientific
achievement, with a dynamic
program she said is steadily
wiping out the missile lag we
inherited"
Embarrassing Position
She accused Senator Ken
nedy, Democratic presiden-
tial candidate, of crossing a
new frontier of blundering
by using his position in the
Senate to barge into the
French-Algerian dispute, 10
the embarrassment of the
entire free world" She con-
tinued:
He crossed a new from
tier of double talk by indors-
ing a platform. which holds
out to the American people
planks already repudiated by
his own party through their
votes in the United States
Evening star., 1960-07-26
The Stars Convention Bureau

The Stars Convention Bureau
CHICAGO, July 26.-Mrs.
Richard Nixon arrived in
town yesterday with her hus-
band amidst a fanfare one
couldn't help noticing and
promptly paid tribute to her
De m ocratic counterpart,
Jackie Kennedy.
'I think she's glamorous."
said Pat when asked for an
opinion. She knows her, of
course. from the Senate Red
Cross ladies' get-togethers.
Mrs. Nixon looked pretty
glamorous herself when she
stepped off the plane at
O'Hare Airport yesterday.
She was wearing a silk suit
dress of a heavenly blue
shade with matching turban
of tulle.
all it Mediterranean
blue" she said, quickly ad-
mitting. II just made it up"
The dress, she said. was
whipped up by a Washington
dressmaker.
Asked if she knew who
was going to be Vice Presi-
dent, she replied, "I don't
think it's been settled yet"
Children Excited
All this was taking place
in the lobby of the second
floor at the Blackstone
where the Nixon suite is To-
Gated. Squeezed practically
against the wall were Mr..
Nixon, his wife, his two
daughters and other men,
bers of their encourage.
The children, said their
mother. are getting really
excited" There were "just
gobs of people on the street"
and they had to be moved
away from the car by hand,
Mrs. Nixon embraced Mrs
Leonard Hall, who was
waiting in the second-f1oor
lobby when Mrs. Nixon
stepped of the elevator
Pat said, Hi, sweetheart,
how are you?" to Mrs. Halls
Evening star., 1960-09-18

Dorothy" natural and un-
posed in effect.
A crayon portrait of Henry
Olson, club president, is a
speaking likeness by John
Landry. who also shows a
beautifully painted brown still
life. Elizabeth Curtis, too,
shows several portraits, a
particularly appealing one Of
a child; and a good marine.
Odell Wooten's portraits are
more modern, particularly
the stern outline likeness of
himself against a dark
background.
Virginia Riley's watercolor
Summer Home" 10 Allman's
Swamp" with its miasmic
glow; Doris brakes street
scene and flower and still
life paintings by Ethel Pear
son, notably her "Old Apostle
Pitcher" increase the shows
variety and interest. The best
Of several sculptures is Eliza
beth Kormendy's Crucifixion
in cast steel.
Open daily II to S, through
September 80.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

himself, perhaps-conquering
the harpooned seal. It may
be a woman, sheltering the
youngest of her young with
in her parka in the Arctic
wind. 1t may be a bear,
caribou or seal. 1t might be
Nu-le-ak-juk, the spirit of
the sea.
The Eskimo knows that
their presence lies within the
stone, awaiting his skill to
free them from the cumbrous
rock.
Our own artists have no
such certitude. They are un-
sure. At best they think that
they are creative" in vague
areas of self-expression. Few
of them are humble, believ-
ing as they do that they are,
somehow, leaders. Leaders,
although without a creed,
without conviction, without
clearly stated aims.
The carver's craft, in the
Arctic, is more humble and
it is, therefore, more proud.
Purposes of Art
We will not, overnight,
learn this lesson and apply
it to our own arts. We can
not, overnight, forget the
Evening star., 1960-09-18
NEW OPENINGS

Art FROM AMERICAS CITIES.
Jefferson Place Gallery, 1915 Com
necticut Avenue NV. Tuesday
through October Is.
PRINTS BY ALFRED SESSLER. Divi-
sion of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian
Building. Current through october
SCULPTURES BY GEORGE LIAUTAUD.
Pan American Union. Current
through October 5.
PAINTINGS BY ALMA THOMAS. Du-
pont Theater Gallery of Art, 1882
Connecticut Avenue NV. Tuesday
through October.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES R. BLACK.
George Washington University Lii
brary.. 2023 @ Street NV. Tomor-
row through october %.
PAINTINGS BY BETTE HARTNELL.
Circle Theater, Goth and PennSyl-
yania Avenue NV. Current
through october s.
PAINTINGS BY CoRNWELL. PACHE
OF CERAMICS. Lees Gallery,
5000 Mt Vernon Avenue, Alexandria,
Va. Current through October 8
EXHIBITION BY RUTH GILL. Color
Center. ~ East Montgomery Avenue,
Rockville. Md. Current through
PAINTINGS BY AUDREY sAIKIND.
Randy'S Restaurant, lll3 Fifteenth
street NV. Current through
October.
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D'Artois Solo

Arthur D'ArtoiS has a large
retrospective exhibition in the
Occidental Restaurant, Capt.
tol Room, 1411 Pennsylvania
avenue NV. through next
Saturday. DAILY and Sun
day, 2 to 8 PM Born in
Cornwall near Montreal on
the st. Lawrence River, Mr..
D'ArtoiS has lived in New
York City for several decades.
But he continues to paint the
Canadian woodland scenes of
his youth in all seasons, also
paStorals and marines, urban
scenes in Quebec and other
places with Old World
pictureSqueneSS.
His paintings are natural
iStic in two techniques: one
smooth, the other heavily
pigmented. He builds up
foreground forms with lay
ers Of paint, while receding
planes and perspective are
executed in thinner applica-
tions. These works resemble
baS-reliefS.
Mr.. D'Artois is a Fellow Of
the Royal Society Of Arts,
England, and a member of
the American Artists Profess
sional League. He is a lecturer
and teacher. and demon
StrateS his methods.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Corter's Sculpture

Thirty new sculptures in
several materials and a few
drawings compose Dean Car
ter's one-man show at The
Artists Mart, 1851 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV, through
October 8. It will be formal
ly opened this evening from
5 to 8.
Mr.. Carter'S new work is
akin to that with which he
is regularly represented at
the Mart. Oval faces with
Stylized features and atten-
uated figures, are character
istic, whether they are ex-
ecuted in welded steel,
bronze, brass, walnut, oak,
apple or rhododendron wood.
There are also a few poly
chromed plastic bas reliefs.
of heads in outline. Some of
his smaller works, Girl in
a Swing" and Girl With
Clown" are more individual
than the larger pieces.
Mr.. Carter's versatility in
use Of materials must be val
liable in his teaching, in
Blacksburg, Va, where he is
associate professor of the de-
partment of architecture at
VPI. Besides figures, mostly
in wood, he is showing welded
metal pieces in the round.
such as Quaker" and fiat
open work. e.g. Elizabeth"
in which space plays as i'm
portant a role as material.
A native of North Caro-
lima Q922), Mr.. Carter stud
led at the Corcoran School
and got his ABB. at Ameri-
can University (1947). Among
his awards and mentions is
one from the D. c. Sculptors'
Group.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Associated Artists

Washington has been hav-
ing population explosion"
in the art gallery field these
last few years. Still another
gallery will open early in
October - Associated Artists
Gallery, 2156 Florida avenue
NV, a nonprof1t institution
for exhibitions and programs
for understanding art. The
inaugural exhibition October
5 will be a group show by
four artists who organized
the new gallery - Dorothy
Goldberg and Lillian Gold
man, painters; Harvey Moore
and Marilee Shapiro, sculp-
tors.
The gallery is a converted
carriage house which for
many years was the Phillips
Gallery's school. Besides eX-
hibitions, Associated Artists
Gallery will offer such spe-
cial features as conducted
tours to artists at work in
their own studios. Among
those already listed are Mimi
Bolton. recipient of The Eve
ming Star award in the cur
rent society of. Washington
artists annual; James Gu
poll, Katherine Hobbs, Jacob
Kainen. Gladys Milligan and
Helen Rennie. There will be
similar tours to the studios
of craftsmen Of the recent
creative crafts exhibition at
the Natural History Museum
last month, and many other
programs.
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Pointer Members

Nine new members Of the
Arts Club of Washington
have opened the season with
an exhibition of their paint
ings and a few sculptures, at
2017 I Street NV. About
40 exhibits indicate that the
Clubs membership in the
painting classification has
gained substantially.
Each member is repre-
Sented with several works. In
some instances. a group re-
veals different facets Of the
artists talent, e.g. Jules
Eboli's little Gothic fan
tastes, with their overall
medieval design. and his
simple modern Dunes. In
others, the artists works are
in similar vein. for example,
Mildred Keith'S excellent
portraits of her sister and
Evening star., 1960-09-18
By RICHARD HIRSCH

Director, Allentown Art Museum
The Arctic night recedes.
The Arctic dawn, insiStently,
six weeks, proclaims the ris-
ing day. And suddenly day
arises for the mortal sport
of hunters.
From igloo or snoW-domed
hut as sun, arisen, forces ice
and snow to trickle, run and
leap upon newly uncovered
rock, the hunter issues forth
to Arctic tasks of skill and
strength and pride.
The animals are now
abroad. He must kill them
for the long night implicit
in these four months Of day.
Magic
His work by the oil lamp
is now forgotten. Night
alone will remind him that
there is magic in every stone,
magic in every stroke of
knife or hatchet upon the
stone, magic in the eye that
"sees" the shape held prison.
er within the stone. magic
in the hand that frees the
figure from the formlessness
of rock.
And night, quite early,
comes to the Arctic barren
ness.
The artist now, anew,
takes up his task.
A clear and fortnight
task, even for the Eskimo Of
our times. We have, as yet,
forced on him so little Of
our ways that, still, he has
unlearned but little also OF
his craft, the immediacy Of
this vision of his world, un-
learned but little of his nat
ural function as a maker Of
images endowed with magic.
Their Secret
And so he carves, in soft
or hard stone, in walrus ivory
or bone, by the orange glow
of a seal oil lamp which he
carved also, lovingly, from
that same stone.
Fashioning the image Of
the bear, the caribou, the
seal, the carver gains power
for himself as hunter ovel
the creature he brings out
Evening star., 1960-09-18
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
How Arctic Soul Ptors
Translate Into Stone

of the encasing stone. The
secret lies here. 1t is an
equation of power. The
hunter never underestimates
the power or the cunning of
his foe.
The carver-hunter, then,
endowS his carved creatures
with every curve of strength,
every tautneSS Of power that
reveals the drama of the
battles ahead.
This keeps his creatures
from being pretty or grace
full, the cliches of the artists
eye which sees the bear, the
caribou, the seal, as charm
ing shapes to be realized
as mere rhythms in stone.
Naked Power
To the Eskimo, as the wind
roarS around his igloo lost
in the Arctic night, the bear,
the caribou, the seal, are
powers to be challenged, con-
fronted, conquered. They are
not esthetic formulae, alb
StractionS chosen for their
efficient gracefulness. They
stand as naked power which
need not be exaggerated or
romantically emphasized.
They stand, compelling,
carved by the hunter, not
by some bloodleSS artist
seeking to express himself"
through them.
This is the lesson of the
Eskimo arts and the secret
of their style. 1t is a lesson
for these times of ours when
our artist has no idea of
what he is supposed to do.
The Eskimo holds the block
of stone within his hand. He
ponders, trying to "See"
within the rock the form he
positively knows must lie
within.
Bring Out the Hidden
He has no thought of being
a shaper of pleasing forms.
He sees himself only as a
revealer. The form, for him,
lies living within the stone.
His function is to cut away
what hides that form, what
obscures its life. 1t may be
the image Of a struggle
Evening star., 1960-09-18

verbiage piled upon our arts.
the theories by which they
are undermined.
We cannot expect our art
lists to find within themselves
either the fortnight vision or
the humility Of the Eskimo
carver. What might be looked
for, however, is that in the
presence of the Arctic carv-
ings, we should rediScover
the purposes Of art and the
place of the artist.
We might learn from the
Eskimo what Egypt and
Greece have failed to teach
us well enough, a central
fact.
The artist is a voice and
what he says, clearly, is reve-
lation.
(coryright, 1860, Gen. Features Corp,
Evening star., 1960-09-18


Louise Nevelson, New York
City sculptor; these jurors
also made the awards and
mentions.
The Evening Star award
of 500 and the society's
medal for the exhibitions
best painting were given to
Mimi Du Bois Bottoms large
abstract "Black, White and
Red" composed of rectangu-
lar and curved areas of red,
orange, black and white,
grays and yellow. with a well
defined mass extending hori-
zontally through the center
of the painting.
The society's award of $50
for second painting prize was
bestowed on NeSta Dorrance's
large abstract expresSionist
"Pencrugmaw," in black and
dark blue areas of varying
surfaces illuminated near
the center with a flash Of
white.
Pietro Lazzari's Vertical
Form" a plaster abstraction,
fetched the Frank r. Jelleff
award of $50 for the best
sculpture; it resembles a ray
fish with expanded fins bal
anced above the slender
tail. Robert Kuhn's welded
steel Medieval Horseman"
which won the society'S
award of $35, second sculp-
ture prize. is far more inter-
eSting. Semi = abstract, of
curved hollow metal, it sug-,
gestS convincingly a knight
with plumed helmet astride
an armored horse.
Other Prizes
The remaining five prizes
carry $25 credit certificates.
The Franz Bader BookShop
and Gallery award went to
Helen Rennie'S Little
Wheel" abstraction with a
strong effect of movement in
its mass of Pickering pre-
dominantly red pointed leaf
shapes; Jules Eboli award
to C. H. Szabo's Blue Lady"
modern flgurative, cool and
serene; Ursell'S, to Bent
Lanes "City No. %, Christ
mas. an abstract mosaic of
sharply defined forms red,
black and green. an urban
panorama in feeling: the
Artists Mart award to Lee
Deffebach's Lantern and
Sea-" abstraction of large and
small globes of contrasting
fiat colors, and the George
E. Muth award to a lovely
little sculptured head Of
marble by Sonia HodSon.
Honorable mentions were
given to four paintings and
two sculptures. The paint
ingS are Samuel Bookatz'
large "PacifistS," Shadowy,
introspective heads; Merry
Ellen Fosters Motion" an
abstract expressionist work,
composed of thin vari-
directed threads of paint
on a lighter ground; Rose
Goding'S "Interlude," a fun
mel shaped mass of colors ex-
tending across golden space,
and Marietta Bingham's
large Pink Ballerina," a
simplified undetailed figure
naturalistic in form. The
sculptures are Marion Lu-
kens' "Owl," a direct carving
Evening star., 1960-09-18
ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA
Society Of Artists
Has Annual Exhibit
By FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The Society of Washington Artists 67th annual exhi-
bon of paintings and sculpture which opened last evening
with reception for the artists and their friends is view
to the public through October to 4:30 day Sew
enty paintings selected by DenyS p Myers assistant
director of the Baltimore Museum and 81 sculptures by
Evening star., 1960-09-18

of black basalt, and Lorette
BoisSonneault's little angular
maple figure "Suzy Wong"
The 9th annual is pre-
dominantly abstract, as the
Society'S ANIMALS have been
for the past decade or long
er. About two-thirds of the
paintings are abstract ex-
pressioniSt and non-objec-
tive; the other third includes
both modern 11gurative and
a minority Of representa-
tional work.