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THE WAR: A CONCISE

hG VHAbs IA SoLNSxoL
HISTORY 1939-1945. BY
Louis L. Snyder. (Messner
$7.95O
Scope and. paradoxically,
brevity combine to make this
a great history as we'll as a
fine reference work. 1t is
wonderfully readable and in
teresting, moving along like
a story should with a cast
of exciting characters. The
historical processes are con-
stantly bathed in sidelights
and backlights bearing on
the march of events.
Seemingly well-known cpl
sodes of history here achieve
a sharper clarity even for
those who fancy themselves
experts.
The book is concerned with
other matters than mere sup
ply, combat and eventual vic
tory. Controversial subjects
are explored without preju-
dice, giving space to spokes-
men for both sides. To name
a few: Roosevelt's alleged re-
sponsibility for American in
volvement and the attack on
Pearl Harbor: the "sellout"
at Yalta and its influence on
United States military dis
perSal; accusations that Gen.
Eisenhower "mishandled"
and prolonged the war, and
charges that needlessly per-
miSsive secret agreements led
to the spectacular spread of
communism after Berlin fell
and atomic ruin rained down
upon Japan.
There are complete appen-
dices; a 32-page gallery of
fine war photos; 20 cam
paign maps very easy to un-
derStand.
The author is professor of
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Other Books in Brief

women and their role in
the social order.
ASTROLOGY FOR EVERY
ONE. BY Edward Lyndoe.
Dutton; $500 Example
and step-by-step instruc-
tions shows how to con-
struct accurate astrologi-
cal maps.
AROUND THE WORLD
WITH ELMER BACK
WARDS. BY Elmer Wheel
er. (Fleet; $4.95.) How to
haggle in II countries.
THE LAUREATES. BY Tina
Levitan. (TWayne; $4.50)
Jewish winners of the
Nobel Prize.
LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRA-
TION. Compiled by Albert
Mordell. (TWayne; $4.50D
Selected essays by Gideon
Welles.
M MOIRS OF A KEN
TUCKY BOY. BY F. M.
Lincks. vantage; $3.75O
Adventures of a big-game
hunter.
HOW TO WRITE, SPEAK
AND THINK MORE Eff
FECTIVELY. BY Rudolph
Flesch. (Harper, $4.95).
Textbook.
THE STAGES OF ECONOM-
&c GROWTH. BY w. w.
RostWo. (Cam bridge,
$1.45. A non-Communist
manifesto.
WIDE MEADOWS. BY Jean
Bell Mosley. (Caxton, So
Stories of the authors
chlldhood on a farm.
NARROW ESCAPES AND
Will DER NESS ADVEN-
TURES. BY Ben East.
CDutton, $4.50.) Twenty
one true stories of men
who battled for survival
against nature on the ram
page.
CREATIVE SELLING. BY
Charles F. Lohse. (Scrib-
ner, $4.95). A new tech
nique to inspire ideas in
statesmen and to produce
greater sales through the
application of applied
imagination.
FREE AND LONESOME
HEART. BY Emory Hollo-
way. Vantage; $4.50). The
secret of Walt Whitman.
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READING AND WRITING
Federal Prose Artists Can Still
Learn q Lot rom This Lady

Lincoln and Walter Hines
Page to show that the grav-
est matters can be discussed
in the most lucid fashion.
She pleads for "ShortnesS,
simplicity. strength and sin
cerity." Let us hope that
her exhortations will be
heard, so that in the fulneSS
Of time no one will open q
letter that begins like this:
Eve understand that your
application to US Dus oc-
cdSioned through your desire
to effect an income savings
BY haUing t1T-deducttble
charges added to the cost of
your annual premium rather
than having the premium
made as is required Dher
monthly payments are made
to the carrier"
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Here is a classic beginning:
Receipt is acknowledged of
OF your letter dated June "a
regarding the unpaid balance
in your account In the
amount OF $4.16."
Miss Sheppard admits she
doesn't know what comes
over an executive when faced
with a pile of correspondence
and a secretary. She just
knows that often he fights
like a man possessed against
simple communication and
goes rushing blindly off into
passive constitutions, foggy
phrases, labyrinthne senten-
ces and what she rightly calls
"inhuman expression"
She encouragingly quotes
from letters by Abraham
Evening star., 1960-08-28
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

Mona Sheppard is the in
trepid lady who braved the
jungles of Federal prose five
years ago and led out the
civil servants who had been
trapped there for a century
or more. Thanks to her study
and her manual on how to
be a writer Of ineligible
communications although a
bureaucrat resulted in such
reforms as this:
Formerly, the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue, not every
ones favorite correspondent
to begin with, used to send
out this obfuScation:
Preference Is made to
your income tar return to
Form 1040 or 1040-A for the
year 1852. The return Uas
receiued in this Office 1Uith-
out the required form Isl
W. attached to SubStantiate
your claim as to amount Isl
lDithheld from your WageS."
Now, if you forgot, you get
this simple message:
your withholding state
ment, forms W., are miss
ing from your income tar"
Dark Territory
In PLAIN LETTERS
(Simon & Schuster; $4.5O
Miss Sheppard is Drawing the
dark country of the business
letter.
Her book is aimed at busi-
ness-letter-writers but pro-
videS entertainment for the
average reader who has suf-
fered at their hands. 1t is
replete with horrible exam
pies.
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Other Voices
On the Hill

II the oratory in the cur
rent special session has dis
appointed you. you may want
to look into BOLD VOICES"
by Richard L. Grossman
Doubleday; $3.50.
Mr.. Grossman has collected
II speeches from legislators
of the past, all of which were
made before the mimeograph
machine was the dominant
instrument Of the Congress,
so that no one knew what the
speaker was going to say until
he actually said it on the
floor of Congress.
Memorable Oratory
Represented are such cele-
brated orators as Henry Clay
(on the uses Of government)
and Daniel Webster (on the
Union). But there are also
more obscure figures such as
Thomas Corwin. who made
such a slashing attack on the
Mexican War while it was be-
ing fought that today he
almost surely would have
fallen afoul of the Un-
can Activities Committee. His
is a denunciation of expan-
sionism that universally ap-
plies to empire builders in any
age.
Mr.. Grossman explains in
his introduction that the IL
selections were not chosen
because they are necessarily
the best" They were chosen
because they may reveal
about the best uses Of the
consultative and deliberative
process in Congress"
In his rather contentious
preface, Mr.. Grossman Won-
ders aloud what happeneG
to great debate and the love
Of it." He notes, accurately,
that today speeches in Con-
gresS are seldom reported
and seldom praised" The
reason, he thinks, that "a
citizenry that loses it's faith
in individual effectiveness
will not have representatives
who believe in it,"
You may not agree with
all his selections or even his
conclusions, but it is good to
read at least. some full
blooded oratory Of the sort
you no longer hear on Capt.
tol Hill.
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THE LAST BLUE NOUN

THE LAST BLUE NOUN
TAIN. By Ralph Barker.
doubleday & Co.; $685. y
A determined group of
three Englishmen, an Ameri-
can and a New zealander
had forged above 10000 feet
in their attempt to scale
Haramosh in the Himalayas
when an avalanche swept
down upon them.
So successfully has author
Barker limned his noun
taineers that the reader feels
he knows each man as an
old friend. Thus it is possible
to feel the wind and suffer
from the altitude and the
cold right along with the
climbers.
A life and death struggle
ensues high on the noun
tain. The men had lost their
ice axes. their mittens, climb
ing irons, food and drink.
For three days and three
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collaboration by which the
coalition of the United States,
Great Britain and the Soviet
Union had achieved victory.
In this book, written with
the help of documents which
the State Department will
publish later this year as
The Potsdam Papers," Mr..
Feis continues the story he
began in "Churchill-Roose-
velt-Stalin: The War They
Waged and the Peace They
Sought" In the earlier work,
Mr.. Feis made it clear that
the wartime leaders often
had strong disagreements
with each other on policy
decisions, but to keep a
united front against Hitler,
these differences were usu-
ally CLOSED over.
A Summit Failure
At the Potsdam conference,
which was to lay a founda-
ton for postwar Europe,
however, these clashes had to
be resolved, but were not. Mr..
Feis carefully goes through
the conference. point by
point. argument by argument.
to show how the split between
East and West became a re-
ality.
BY all rights, Mr.. Feis
states. the Potsdam confer
ence should have been one of
eXaltation. The h a t e d foe
had been destroyed. the
United Nations was being
formed, and Japan was but a
month away from defeat.
Yet, as Mr.. Feis demon
strates. the Potsdam con-
ference was the most sober,
severe, and disheartening of
all the wartime SUBMITS.
Yielding to Stain
The Western leaders, Win
ston Churchill and Harry
Truman. had to decide
whether the alliance was
worth saving If it meant
yielding to Stain on all his
demands. and Stain was
never shy with demands.
On some issues, the West
could not prevent the Rus
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'PEACETIME' EUROPE
Bitter Cold War
Born in Potsdom

BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE: The Potsdam Conference
BY Herbert FeiS princeton University Press $650)
Terminal the given by the allied powers to
the Posdam conference which held outskirts of
Berlin in july 1945-two months after Germany surrendered
Terminal meant to symbolic the successful transition
from peace in Europe but Herbert F points out
the Potsdam conference marked instead the Of the
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slams from doing what they
wanted, such as when the
Red Army had physical con-
troll, as in Poland and in
other areas Of Eastern Eu-
rope. On other issues, how
ever. Mr.. Feis shows how the
West did not allow the Rus
slams to extend itself in North
Africa, Turkey, and Iran.
To Destroy Germany
The crucial issue even
then, was Germany. Stain
indicated that he wanted to
crush the defeated enemy
until it had no economic
strength at all. He was so
ruthless in his demands for
reparations that it became
clear to the West that the
choice they faced was a weak,
Communist-prone centralized
Germany, or a permanently
zoned Germany, In which the
Western sectors could be
built up economically and
politically so that West Ger
many could join the Western
democratic community.
Between War and Peace"
is a complex book, for the is
sues themselves at Potsdam
were complex. They ranged
all around the world, and
included the political, eco
nomic. and social fate Of
millions of people. The confer
ence was not a complete fail
ure, and in some cases, happy
solutions were achieved. But
as Mr.. Feis says sadly, Ter
minal was a bleak ending.
The major accords made
there soon began to break
apart"
Mr.. Feis allows himself a
brief conclusion, and there.
the idealist shows himself.
He states that nations must
invalidate the historic lessons
about national behavior that
were illustrated during this
period. The capability of
men to respond to reason
and to master their passion
ate purposes and fancies-is
undergoing its ultimate test.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN
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novel around some soldiers
who dragged themselves out
Of endless mud to face the
worse but not-much-more-
dreaded menace of bullets
and shells. AS in that mem
orable novel, THE Silver
Bacchanal" treats war simply
as war. 1t could be any mod
ern war, pre-atomic, when
armies still faced each other
with artillery, rifles and gre
nades.
No country is named,
though it obviously is Europe
and probably Eastern Europe.
The atmosphere of Mr.. Fulop-
Miller's novels. in fact, is so
completely European that
they probably battle a good
many American readers. Fun
damentally no doubt people
are alike. but they do differ
in detail, such as customs
and ways of expressing
themselves.
Army in Retreat
In 1.-THE Silver Bacchanal"
the author starts with an
army in retreat from a disas-
trous defeat. Remnants con-
verged on the large, thriving
town of Drohitz, hoping to
rest, reorganize and strike
the enemy again.
The story is told by a SOL
dier named (perhaps symbol
ically) Adam Ember. Adam
has been an ordinary soldier
at the front, assigned to a
medical unit as a gravedigger.
During the recent disastrous
battle he dug countless graves.
After they've cleaned up,
the defeated soldiers are re-
celved with tumultuous &C
claim by the townsmen. Their
retreat is forgotten. They're
heroes; next time they'll win.
Nothing is too good for them.
They are fed and feted; the
girls block their path.
Adam is assigned to a hos
pital where there are many
wounded soldiers. But the
medical officer in command
IS absorbed with the countess
who owns the chateau which
has become a hospital and he
assigns Adam to represent
him at the mayors banquet
to the officers.
At the elaborate banquet
Adam. rating as an officer,
though he is still a private,
watches all the men get
drunk. Afterward they de-
mand girls. and the mayor
takes them into the swankiest
bordello in Drohitz. which
has a silver reception room
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Forthcominq:

Scribbling Senators: SEN
ator Mccarthy. Democrat of
Minnesota, is the author of
FRONTIERS IN AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY, an inquiry
into the nature, problems and
future of American govern
ment; Senator Kenne dy,
Democrat of Massachusetts,
contributed a 60O-word biog-
raphy of Lucius Lamar to the
Encyclopedia.
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How Alexander Bell
Invented Telephone
THE CHORD OF STEEL. BY

4AlG SAAOASO Va y L AAAs oJ
Thomas B. Costain. (Dou-
bleday; $685.
This is the story Of Alex
ander Graham Bell and how
he invented the telephone.
1t is not, however, a BIZ
ography of Mr.. Bell, as Mr..
Costain quickly points out,
though there is quite a lot
about the life of the inventor.
Nor does it pretend to be de-
finitive account Of how the
telephone was devised.
Mr.. Costain instead has
pointed up the more dramatic
phases of Mr.. Bells career
and Of how he developed the
new marvel when he was still
a young man. In this under
taking Mr.. Costain, a skilled
hand at narrative, as his
widely read historical novels
attest. has succeeded very
well.
Knew the Background
Mr.. Bell was born in Scot
land in 1847. His gifted fam
lily. cultured and musical,
moved to Canada after his
two brothers died of what
then was called consumption
and he was threatened with
the disease. The Bells settled
IN Brentwood, Ontario. and,
as it happened. Mr.. Costain
grew up in this town and thus
knew all the background Of
the mans genius and as a
young reporter interviewed
him many years later.
Graham Bell, as he usually
signed himself, moved to
Washington a few years after
he demonstrated the tele-
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completely walled with mir
rorS.
During the festivities at
the Silver Hall some one be-
comes suddenly ill. Others
fall as abruptly. There are
deaths. A doctor quickly di-
agnoses the cause. 1t is the
plague.
The bordello district, which
includes a number of houses,
is quarantined. But this does
no good. The devastating
disease spreads into the town,
sweeps it with a lethal
Scythe. Adam is appointed
Commissioner of Diseased
Persons for the whole area.
1t is hard to find ground
enough for all the graves
needed. Eventually what's
left of the army retreats
again, knowing the enemy
will take Drohitz and the
plague.
Obviously this is a macabre
fable. And yet it is told so
matter-of- f-factly, with such
a minimum of grueSome
detail, that it is less grisly
than it sounds.
Clearly, too, the story
means more than it says on
the surface. 1t could mean all
that has happened to Europe
in the last 40 years. But
you can make your own in
depreciation. AS for Mr..
Fulop-Miller, he simply tells
a story and leaves his readers
to guess the symbolism.
Adam has something in
common with the articulate
gravedigger in H m ] e t."
The silver Bacchanale,"
suggests comparison with AL
bert Camus' The Plague"
which was widely interpreted
as a version of the NaZi in
feStation.
Crumbling Civilization
Perhaps Mr.. Fulop-Miller's
previous war novel, The
Night of Time" was more ef-
fective in its stark simplicity.
The Silver Bacchanale" is
diScurSive at times. And yet
it adds up to an eXtraordi-
nary picture of a civilization
crumbling under the charge
of one of the Four Horsemen.
Rene Fulop-Miller, born in
a Hungarian town which is
now in Romania, has lived in
II countries. At present he
lives in WeStport, Conn. and
teaches sociology and cultural
history at Hunter College in
New York.
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FANTASY AND REALITY
ASymbo|ic Novel
OfWorondDeoth
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

THE SILVER BACCHANAL, by Rene Fulop- Miller trans
lated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston
(Atheneum; $4.50).
This novel the second successive narrative in which Mr.
Fulop-Mer deals with war in symbolic. ronic way.
In "The Night of Time" published 1885, he wrote
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REMBRANDT'S BEST STUDIES FROM LIFE

This red and black chalk drawing entitled od Man With Caspd
in mbrandt Daughtsman" by Otto Bensch Phadon Book
$595 which Doubleday will publish month In this
than 100 drawings reprOduedgures portraits
andscapes-and great
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GENERAL

SECRETS OF CHECKER
BOARD STRATEGY. BY
Tom Wiswell. (Simon &
Schuster, $500 A COM
plete guide to opening mid
die and end-game play.
THE CONNOIS SEUR'S
HANDBOOK OF ANTIQUE
COLLECTING. Edited by
Helena Hayward. (Haw-
thorn, $685. A dictionary
of furniture, mics.
glass, silver, fine art and
etc.
SATURDAY SCIENCE. Ed
tied by Andrew Bluemle.
Dutton, $3.50 Glimpses
into the future of scientific
research by scientist of the
Westinghouse r scare h
Laboratories.
CHESS PUZZLES. BY Comins
Mansfield and Brian Har-
ley. (Sterling, $2.50D 101
puzzles of the game and
how to solve them,
ON THE SHOULDERS OF
GIANTS. BY Eleanor Chap
pell. (Chilton, $2.75.) The
. Bea Wright Story the
woman who while doing
volunteer work for the Ma
tional Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis became
stricken and was told she
would never walk again.
AN AFRICAN TREASURY.
Edited by Langston Hughes.
Grown; $500 Stories
poems, articles and essays.
FEMININE SUPERIORITY
AND OTHER MYTHS.
BY Arnold H. Kamiat.
(Twayne; So Analysis Of
tbs myths, f1ctions and mis-
conceptions concerning
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Lasker Foundation

Although Lord & Thomas
prospered, Lasker closed out
the business at the age of g..
With more leisure, he and his
third wife worked earnestly
for a government health in
surance program. Largely as
result of the persistence Of
the Laskers and a few aSso-
ciates, Congress approved
bills expanding the National
Institutes of Health. The Las
ker Foundation was estab-
lish ed d to bestow annual
awards in various medical
fields.
Lasker's interests broad
ened immensely in his later
years. From a Midwestern
isolationist he became a
staunch internationalist. His
friends represented all hues
of political and economic
opinions.
His approach was in
veterately personal" writes
Mr.. Gunther: What counted
was whether he liked a man
or not, no m natter who or
what he was"
JOSEPH O'KEEFE
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Mustermind
OfAmericun
Advertising
TAKEN AT THE FLOOD. By

TAKEN AT THE FLOOD. BY
John Gunther. (Harper &
Bros; So
When Albert D. Laskcr was
% years old in 1903 he was
earning $4,000 a year, and
he had scarcely begun the
career which was to trans
form the advertising business.
In the ensuing years,
American buying habits un-
derwent a profound change,
and LaSker, more than any
other individual, charted the
direction in which these
changes moved. He was a
genius of mass merchandis-
ing. To list just two of his
accomplishments; He per-
suaded women to smoke,
thus booming tobacco sales:
he vastly enlarged the tooth
paste market because he
knew thousands of men had
learned to clean their teeth
regularly during World War
I service.
Household Words
John Gunther has written
a big. meaty biography, rich
in revealing anecdotes, about
this imaginative individual.
Stories concerning him range
from accounts of conversa-
tions with Presidents Of the
United States to gosslpy
tales of spats with Mrs. Las
ker. Mr.. Gunther has tried
hard to capture the essence
of tine personality of a capri
cious Chicago executive.
Relatively few Americans
could have identified Albert
D. Lasker in the Twenties.
But millions learned to iden-
ify-and buy-Lucky Strikes,
Pepsodent. KleeneX, KoteX,
Palmolive, Puffed Rice.
Puffed Wheat, Sunkist
oranges and Van Camps
pork and beans. These were
some Of his key accounts.
Big Time Radio
When radio came along,
Lasker reluctantly agreed to
test it with a comic pair
named Amos n Andy. Pepso-
dent sales tripled. For better
or worse, LaSker'S Lord &
Thomas agency was respon-
sible for putting on the air
soap operas, Bob Hope. the
Hit Parade, In + orm a t ! o n
Please, Bing Crosby, Judy
Garland and many, many
more.
Despite his devotion to
business, Mr.. LaSker took off
nearly a year to to try to help
Leo M. Frank. a young Jew
accused of numbering a IA
year-old girl in a celebrated
Georg ia case. Politically.
Lasker backed Hiram Johnson
for the Republican nomina-
ton for President in 1920.
After the party picked War
ren G. Harding, Lasker be-
came an assistant to the ma
tional G. o. P. chairman.
Later, he was chairman Of
the United States Shipping
Board.
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FICTION

BODYGUARD AND FOUR
OTHER SHORT NOVELS
FROM GALAXY. Edited by
H. L. Gold. Doubleday,
$685. Science fiction.
1T HAD BEEN A MILD,
DELICATE NIGHT. BY
Tom Kaye. (Abelard-
Schumann, $3.50 About
the heat stricken streets of
London and a few of the
people who travel these
streets.
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ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1960-08-28

'StondIng Week Ending August ls, 1860
Arizona sun., 1960-06-23
Unifed First Aids
Of Phoenix

Earlier this month very important
group was formed to provide service
for this community. At Mt. Calvary
Baptist Church, Mr.. Robert Sutton
organized a group of women from 4
major churches. The churches are:
St. Johns Baptist, Mt. Calvary Baptist,
New Home Baptist, and Church of the
Living God.
Officers of the organization are:
Mrs. Flora Ruffin, president; Mrs.
Thelma Mitchell, vice-president; Mrs.
Emma Hudson, secretary; Mrs. Ida
Jones, treasurer; and Rev. Hudson,
advisor.
The group has distinct goals or
services: CD To donate one can of
food per month each for the needy.
C2) To provide Thanksgiving dinner
for single pensioner. (O To help city
wide usher board on scholarships. (4)
The rest of the time they will work
as Nurses Aids replacementS. (5) They
will render first aid whenever needed.
This group was trained at the Red
Cross. Their next meeting will be
July d, 1860, 8 pm. at Mt. Calvary
Baptist Church.
Arizona sun., 1960-06-23

MEMPHIS Officials of Radio Sta
ton VIDA were assailed by the local
NAACP Branch for the proposed seq
regated seating arrangements during
the stations annual Starlight Revue,
scheduled for Crump Stadium, July /.
The protest was lodged in telegram
signed by Jesse H. Turner, of Tri-State
Bank and chairman of the NAACP
executive committee. The letter was as
follows:
The NAACP is familiar with the
contributions made by VIDA Cd The
Goodwill Home (2) Transportation of
crippled children (3) Its athletic pro-
gram for Negro youths and (4) Pho
neering, locally, in providing employ
ment opportunities for Negro radio
announcerS: However, the local branch
cannot reconcile these contributions
with the stations proposed racially
segregated show.
''WDIA's presentation of this racial
ly segregated show becomes more