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made him "a guinea pig" she
said, and brought him back
to health in three months.
The Pugas were conse-
quently in America during
the election when their
younger son proved to be a
prophet. -Four years ago my
14-year-old son said Senator
Kennedy is going to be the
next President He thought
he was wonderful, she said.
DR.. Magnuson revealed
that he saw Americas next
First Lady take the jumps on
horseback at Merrywood a
few years ago, and she was
superb. She didn't even use a
saddle, but hoped onto the
horse bareback, slapped him
with her hand on his haunch-
es when she got to the jump,
giving him q few words Of en-
couragement at the same
time, and over they went like
a dream. The jump was
about 31a feet high, said DR..
Magnuson.
FOR THE LYNDON
JOHNS SONS things have
been comparatively calm Of
fate compared to the hectic
past months and the frens
zied existence they will
plunge into in Washington
on January 3. a..s
In fact. Lyndon who put
on weight during the cam
paign because he worked 80
hard and got so little sleep
he had to eat o lot. has been
taking things 50 much easier
he's been able TO reduce.
In a telephone conversation
with one of his stan who's
inclined to overweight, he
said from Palm Beach yester-
day, aeTell your husband to
keep you on Metrecal. / have
lost 90 pounds" He added,
however, that it wasn't en-
tirely the concentrated food
that had done 1t. He had also
cut out everything fattening.
Mrs. johnson got on the
phone and described the
mornings activities. "It was
a beautiful morning and we
were sitting on the beach
with Caroline" she said,
Evening star., 1960-12-21
BY AMELIA YOUNG
star stan Writer

The outgoing Chief Of Pro-
tocol Wiley T. Buchanan, jr.
accepted with relish last
night what he called "the
first good part about my be-
ing fired"-a decoration from
the Philippine Government.
Philippine Am b a Ssa d or
Romulo conferred on Mr..
Buchanan his country's Le-
gion Of Honor, rank Of Com
mander, at Q $3.50 ceremony
in the embassy.
In presenting the gold sun
burst medal on red-white-
and-blue sash, Gen. .Romulo
read o citation commencing
the protocol chief for his
services to Philippine Presi-
dent Garcia before and dur
ing the latter's visit here two
years ago.
Two years may seem q long
time to wait for recognition,
Ambassador Romulo said, but
it's . measure Of the decora-
tion's Importance. Some, such
as this one, require the full
approval Of the Philippine
Cabinet.
Anyway, he added, 1T
shows that we in the Philip
pines do not forget"
He then praised Mr.. Bu-
chanan for giving protocol
in Washington new dignity
and new meaning" and said
he regretted to see him 'leav-
ing the State Department"
Grinning, Mr.. Buchanan
thanked Ambassador Romulo
for describing his departure
that way. 1T puts it in q
delightful light" Although
it wasn't his choice. he said,
some things are worthwhile
(about stepping DOWN. You
know, working diplomats
can't accept decorations"
He told the several hun
dred friends present. most of
them diplomats, that he
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Coribbeon's S 'Poorhouse'
Treasure Island Now

colonial Spain maintained
for centuries a fortress
guarding the riches of the
Indies.
The author is an unblush-
ing admirer of Gov. Luis
Munoz Marin and his unique
Commonwealth" system, by
Which Puerto Rico governs
itself in large measure. He
lists with praise all the ac-
complishments of Opera
ton Bootstrap" and the Wig
orous, corruption free indus
trial development program
that has made Puerto Rico's
prosperity the envy of the
West Indies. But in the full
ness Of his praise (Mr. Han
cock knew the island well
when it was indeed a "strick-
en- land") he has not over
looked the many problems
remaining.
Americans in every State
would do well to know the
facts of Puerto Rico's ex-
traordinary transformation.
Mr.. Hancock's book is well
written, we'll organized, and
full of fascinating details Of
a truly fascinating story.
FRED THEROUX.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
The Mighty BottIeship
Ends Her Days in Glory

opment early in World War
II. But the second great war
also saw its decline, under
the impact Of airpower -
especially that of the huge
aircraft carrier. And, after
that war and the Korean
war, the battleship at last
became totally obsolete. Over
shadowing it now are the
intercontinental ballistic mis-
sile and the nuclear-powered,
nuclear-armed submarine.
Captain Macintyre has told
in great and colorful detail
the major actions which fea-
tured the hundred years Of
battleship domination of the
seas. His book not only is a
valuable reference source for
the student of naval history
but absorbing reading for all
who love the sea.
REX COLLIER.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
READING AND WRITING
Englishwomon Brings Back
Another Gem From Africa

galvanizing repertory Of mill
itary commands.
Madame la Gouvernuer.
Generates one spasm Of
charity brought Miss Motley
to the dispenSary, where
Madame Varney single-hand-
edly fought OF disease in the
natives. The dispensary of
fered Angelo. who tried to
kill himself because Miss
Motley once took another
African child on her lap.
The LeOpardmen 90
All these tentative steps
took her to an acquaintance
with fetishism, cannibalisn1
and other phenomena Of
African life completely un-
dreamed Of by the colonial
ladies. She met evil in the
person of a French official
who had Joined the cult Of
leopardmen.
Miss Motley wisely writes
only of what she saw herself.
Africa brought her boredom.
Illustration, disgust and won-
der. She is not sentimental
about it, even across the
years. Africa to her was like
a plain woman waiting to be
loved" Her book is a delight.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
A MADISON AVENUE WAKE
Death Of q Big Magazine
Dromotized by I'll. White

The suspense comes during
a few weeks before Christmas
when Ridge was making
frantic efforts to save the
magazines. especially Trum-
pet, which had, he felt. a lot
to say to several million
Americans.
We find on the board one
or two men sympathetic to
Ridge and eager to help,
and others, like Morrissey,
who was a stock operator.
Morrissey cared for nothing
except the money he might
make from this company's
stock if it jettiSoned the big
magazines and left the profit
able properties. He wasn't
interested in the hundreds of
employees, some with 80 years
or more of service, who would
face a bleak Christmas.
Then Ridges eStranged
wife, Mary, few in from
Paris. not to see him, but to
visit her parents in Cleve-
land. Inevitably she and
Ridge did meet; she had even
left word how he could reach
her.
Approaching Climax
Their problem and the
company's crisis reached a
climax, together, as Christ
mas approached.
Mr.. Whites story opens at
a fine pace, building increas-
ing interest. Unfortunately,
as the pages pile up, 1t
becomes like most contem-
porary novels. wordy, over
long. and it thus loses some
Of its suspense. But is it
sharply written and the char
acterizations-there are per-
hapS, too many-are carefully
built. The View From the
Fortieth Floor" is a Literary
Guild selection.
Evening star., 1960-05-22

"THE THUNDER OF THE
GUNS" by Captain Donald
Macintyre. r. N. (W. w.
Norton; $3.50
Captain Macintyre Of Brit
aims Royal Navy has written
a fascinating story of the rise
and fall of that one-time
monarch Of the seas, the big
gunned battleship. His book
is a splendid tribute to the
mighty dreadnoughts of yes
terday on the rugged breed
of men who lived and fought
and died in them.
The ironclad capital ship
was born a century ago. in
the Civil War era. 1t grew in
size and firepower In the early
part of the Goth century, at
tanned primary feet impor-
tance during World War I and
reached the peak Of its devel-
Evening star., 1960-05-22
THE PASSIONATE SIGHT

SEER. BY Bernard Beren-
son. (Simon g. Schuster-
Harry N. Abrams, Inc;
$1oO
1t was the habit of Ber-
nard Berenson to travel in
the early summer months.
AS befitted a man who had
successfully defied time, he
did not let his age interfere.
Hence. we have this travel
diary Of a philosopher at 90.
The years are from 1947 to
1856. The entries are frag-
mentary. the itineraries
whimsical. We have only to
be thankful for this last
literary Towering of the best
art critic of modern times
and one Of the last of an
always small race Of men
who dedicate their lives to
educating themselves and
passing along their expert
ences among the MASTER
pieces of living to the living.
Berenson appreciated all
art, he loved some and wor-
shipped a little. In the last
category are the Greek mas
terpieces and the early Ro-
man. They are all here. In
one of the glorious churches
Evening star., 1960-05-22
PUERTO RICO:

PUERTO RICO: A Success
Story. BY Ralph Hancock.
(Van Nostrand, $4.75O
Much has been written in
the past few years on the
almost phenomenal achieve
ments in Puerto Rico. A lit
tie island, almost totally de-
void of every resource except
people (and there were far
too many of these) has been
able, in less than 20 years,
to transform itself from
"the poorhouse of the Carib-
bean" to a show window for
all the peoples of underde-
veloped areas of the world
to see.
Rexford Guy Tugwell, an
appointed Governor of the
island during the Roosevelt
administration, was sympa-
thetic but without much hope
when he wrote his book
called THE Stricken Land"
Poverty almost beyond de-
scription. disease, ignorance
and one of the highest
mortality rates in the West
ern Hemisphere character
lied this beautiful island
where the mighty power of
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Why Is There
Still Poverty?

THE POVERTY OF Ma
TIONS; Presenting a New
System Of Econ m c
Thoug hit. BY Gilbert
Goodman, Ph.D. (Ann Ar
Dor Press; $3.50)
DR.. Goodman is professor
Of economics at Wayne State
University. Detroit. He shows,
in the course of developing
his economic theories, that
we are able in this country
to use any favorable phase
of production and distribu-
ton of a Communist society
without relinquishing con-
troll of everything to the
state and wiping out indi-
Vidual initiative.
There are closing chapters
on poverty-why it still oc-
ours. even though it has
greatly decreased, in an
America at the peak of pro-
duction and living standards.
&C. B. ].
Evening star., 1960-05-22
By CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

losing its life blood, advertis-
ing.
Warren (or Ridge was
more than a businessman,
however. He was still young
with a background of am
baSsadorial rank in the Mar
shall Plan administration in
Europe and an earlier writ
ing career. He cared about
the two old-line magazines.
He wanted to save them if
possible. But creditors, such
as paper and ink suppliers,
were pressing the company.
He had to raise a million dol
lars at once, another million
in a matter of weeks. And the
company's bank not only had
shut down on further credit,
but was calling in 81 million
Of the company's paper.
Frantic Efforts
1t was a bad outlook as
Ridge set out to raise the
money-somehow.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
PAPER BACKS

THE METAMORPHOSES. BY
Ovid. (Signet; $.75). Pan
Drama of the Greek and
Roman myths.
EYEWITNESS THE. CIVIL
WAR AS WE LIVED 1T.
By Otto Eisenschmil and
Ralph Newman. (Univer-
sal; $1.95.) Writings of
generals who directed the
battles, the newspaper cor
respondents who reported
them and the soldiers who
fought on each side.
MY LIFE. My Leon Trotsky.
Universal; $2.45.) IRE
printO
A PLACE WITHOUT TWI-
LIGHT. BY Peter S. Fei-
bleman. (Signet, 50c). Re-
print. The story of a young
girl who searches for love
and understanding In New
Orleans.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Mr.. McGinnis
Talks ItUp
McGINNIS SPEAKS.

N1cOlNNlS SPEAhS. BY
Frank Rooney. (Harcourt,
Brace: So
The trouble is that McGin-
mis- speaks too much. 1t is,
indeed, a talkative novel
Frank Rooney has written,
with more dialogue than
doing. George McGinnis, the
chief figure, we meet as his
shiftless. alcoholic father
leaves him and his brother
in an orphans home. Later
the father brings the boys out
to California. where they
grow up. George is troubled
all his life by, among other
things, his religious faith,
which he comes to reject but
can never forget. George is
a character developed with
great care, but what he adds
up to 1t is hard to say, He
Is a poet, but calls himself a
laborer, because poetry is not
a way Of making a living.
Mr.. Rooney's two previous
novels, THE Courts of Mem
ory" and The Heel of
Spring" were more conven-
tional in form and, in my
opinion, more effective than
'McGinnis Speaks" which
would be more appealing if it
were less determined to be
literary. &C. B. J.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Good Advice
On Modelling

MAKE YOUR NAME IN
MODELLING AND TELE-
VISION by Candy Jones.
(Harper, $3.50
AS head of a career girls
school, we'll known model and
TV mistress of ceremonies,
Candy Jones is in a position
to give the girls a first-hand
look into what it takes to be
a successful model.
Before leaving home to
tackle New York single
handed. a girl needing "a
friend in her corner" would
find this book a perfect an
swer. 1t would tell her how
to be fully prepared with
clothes, money and tricks of
the trade to tide her over un-
til she becomes established
with an agency. Candy covers
every phase of the modelling
profession and shows what is
expected of the girls who
wish to specialize in each
field. But still, she suggests.
that when the ticket to New
York is purchased, it is bet
ter to make it round trip,
just in case.
-JERI MANWEILER.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Of colonial and garrison life.
1t was dominated by the
dreariest trif1es and by the
Governor Generals bizarre
lady, who established a peck
ing order among the other
wives and made all pet her
dog and watch her lantern
slides. The stultifying round
is reproduced with wonderful
asperity.
Miss Motley, or Madame
de Reneville, escaped BY mod
est measures. She took an
early-morning walk in the
bush each day. She adopted
a jackal, who brought her the
friendship Of Sergt. Khamis,
an African with healing
hands. She gave shelter to a
parrot, Coco. who shared her
horror Of snakes and had a
Evening star., 1960-05-22

On the basis of two pieces
Of evidence. it seems possible
to venture this generality:
Send an EngliShwoman to
Africa, and you get a good
book. Last summer, there
was Elspeth Huxley's en-
chanting THE Flame Trees
of Thika": and today we have
another gem from the Dark
Continent. Mary Motley's
DEVILS IN WAITING CVi-
king; $4.50).
Miss Motley has a dis
tinguished lineage. A mem
ber of the Churchill family,
she also is a descendant Of
the great American historian,
John Lothrop Motley. More
important than her pedigree,
however. is her tart humor,
her sensitivity and the power
Of expression that is the hall
mark Of her race, not to say
her clan.
In French Africa
Her chronicle Of two years
in Brazzaville, where she
went as the bride of a
naughty, aristocratic and fas-
cinating French career off,
Ger. Guy de Reneville tells
a great deal about French
Africa 20 years ago. 1t also
is a poignant. first-person
narrative about a spirited
woman who from the most
doubtful materials. scratched
up an existence that was not
only tolerable but quite in
teresting, and assembled a
winning household, both ami
NAL and human.
Brazzaville's official society
combined the worst features
Evening star., 1960-05-22
THE VIEW FROM THE
FORTIETH FLOOR. BY
Theodore H. White.

THE VIEW FROM THE
FORTIETH FLOOR. BY
Theodore H. White.
(Sloane; $4.95D
In recent years our novel;
lists have been dredging all
the drama and suspense pos
sible out of big business. es-
pecially advertising, pub
fishing, the stock market.
corporations in process Of
manipulation.
Not that business or in
dustry as source of material
for the novelists is new.
William Dean Howells was
writing about it, to an extent,
but it took, some years later,
Frank Norris and Theodore
Dresser to develop the busi-
ness novel more fully and
adroitly. Then, in the 'i0s
and sos, younger novelists
began to discover Madison
Avenue, advertising and pub
lie relations, and news maga-
zines as fresh fields.
Losing Life Blood
Theodore H. White, author
of The Mountain Road"
Fire in the Ashes" and other
successful novels. writes in
THE View From the Fortieth
Floor" about the president
and chairman of the board
of a company that publishes
two magazines which have
been favorites for several
generations, Trumpet. a sort
Of amalgam of the Saturday
Evening Post and the late
weekly, Golfers, and Gentle
woman, which will suggest
several women's magazines.
John Ridgely Warren
(Ridge to his intimateS) took
over the executive post Of
this company two years ago
at a moment of slowly deep
ening crisis. Now the COM
pany had a number of trade
publications which were max
ing money. 1t would have
been solvent except for its
two magazines of largest cir
culation, especially Trumpet,
which had an enormous
number Of readers and yet,
for some baffling reason, was
Evening star., 1960-05-22

effort to duplicate that hu-
manitarian's gentle and re-
firing nature.
Some times called the
splendid American" DR..
Dooley more than hints that
his personality includes a
short temper, a talent for OBJ
tanning money for his cause
and a streak of stubbornness.
This is the story of his
return to Laos as part OF
MEDICO, a non-profit or
ganization which sends doc
tors and medical help to
under-developed countries,
and the tragedy which over
took him, during this second
tour of duty with two other
Americans at the primitive
village of Muong Sing. DR..
Dooley received an injury
which resulted in melanoma.
a nearly-always fatal form Of
cancer.
1t must be remarked that
If DR.. Dooley had followed
the medical precepts Of his
learning, he would not have
let that suspicious lump go
so long. His companions.
learning later that he had
cancer concealed it from him
and forced his return to the
United States because they
felt his stubborn streak would
have brought a refusal by
him. AS doctor -in-charge of
Muong Sing, DR.. Dooley's
Evening star., 1960-05-22
A TEACHER SPEAKS. Ry

A. ANAANAAOA@ - ~ ~
Philip Marson. David Nc
Kay; $3.950
THE NEW PROFESSORS.
Edited by Robert o. Bowen.
CHolt, Rinehart and Win
ston; $685.
These two unrelated works
complement each other in
discussing Americas chang
ing educational scene. Both
the practical and philosophi-
cal aims Of colleges and sec
ondary schools come under
scrutiny.
"A Teacher Speaks" is the
more direct and the more
dogmatic. The author, Phi
lip Marson, taught Al years
in secondary schools, 81 Of
them at Boston Latin. He is
a fortnight opponent of pre-
vailing methods and attacks
them vigorously.
Nine young men who came
into the teaching profession,
largely since World War II,
when major changes were al
ready under way, outline
their experiences and obser-
vations in The New Pro-
fessors."
Mr.. Marson found teach
ing at Boston Latin a re-
warding career so long as the
school maintained its unusu-
ally rigid academic stand
ards. Most of the graduates
of its classical curriculum
entered Harvard.
But changing conditions
swept away the old norms.
The tenets of John Deway
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Changing Educational
Scene Is Given Study

gained headWay in the early
1940s. Systematic grading
was doomed. Social promo
tions advanced everyone. re-
gardlesS Of academic qualifl-
cations. New criteria were
established for college en-
trance which had little to do
with academic achievement.
Mr.. Marson eventually re-
signed his teaching post to
crusade for restoration of old
values.
Nationwide Contributors
The contributors to THE
New Professors" range across
the country from Princeton
to San Francisco State.
Perhaps their only mutual
idea is to ridicule the image
Of the educator as an UNDER
paid figure living in an ivory
tower in retreat from the de-
mands and responsibilities Of
other men.
They tackle each topic as
academic freedom, pressure
by big business, methods of
reaching students, vocational
counseling, exile Of political
non-conformists, the struggle
for power in academic circles
and racial segregation.
THE lack of regularity
shown here" comments Rob-
ert o. Bowen of the Univer-
sity of Washington who
edited the volume, suggests a
variety of opinion that some
observers feared no longer
exists in the American uni
versity."
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Other Books of the Week in Brief

found that the price was
more than she could pay.
GENERAL
HEREDITY AND HUMAN
NATURE. BY David C. Rife.
(Vantage, $4.500 Presents
information for the lay
men who want to under
stand, and who seek un-
biased factual data on the
underlying causes Of our
differences and the effect
OF the biological basis of
human behavior on human
relation.
ARE UNIONS NECESSARY?
BY Irving Auerbach. Gold
den, $3.50 A searching
study of organized labor.
FREIGHT AND THE ME-
TROPOLIS. BY Benjamin
Chinitz. (Harvard; $4.50)
The impact of Americas
transportation revolutions
on the New York region.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
FICTION
THE MARRIAGE BROKER.


BY Tashrak. putnam,
$500 A new book based
on the stories of Shulem
the Shadchem.
NOTES FROM UNDER
GROUND AND THE
GRAND IN QUISITO r.
Fyodor Dostoevsky. CDut-
ton, $3.75O With relevant
works by Chernyshevsky,
Shchedrin and Dostoevsky.
THE SARAGOSSA MANU-
SCRIPT. By Jan Potocki.
(Orion, So A collection Of
weird tales.
MOTHER WAS ALWAYS IN
LOVE. BY Philip Van Rens-
selaer. (Duell, Sloan g.
Pearce. $3.50 The story Of
a New York society beauty
of the 20s and 30s, who
sought a carefree life in the
Fairgrounds and pleasure
resorts Of the idle rich but
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Lady Astor
Going Strong

We have also this week a
biography of another re-
markable and more celebrated
woman, Lady Astor. Her story
is told by Maurice Coils in
NANCY ASTOR, AN INFOR-
NAL BIOGRAPHY. Dutton:
$500 Mr.. Coils work is, I
regret to report, on the wor-
shipful side, but the finished
product represents something
of a victory of material over
approach.
Lady Astor is a perennially
and durably interesting
human being. even though
perhaps not quite the daz-
zlingly superior human being
of heart and humility whom
Mr.. Coils portrays. Her early
days are chronicled here
the carefree girlhood on the
Virginia farm, the introduce
ton to a New York society
that dotted on the beautiful
Langhorne sisters, the disas-
trous first marriage to an
alcoholic, Robert Gould Shaw.
her more felicitous union
with William Waldorf, Vis-
count Astor.
Enlivened British Politics
Lady Astor was beautiful,
high-handed and outspoken.
In her seven terms in Parlia-
ment, she greatly enlivened
the British political scene.
Her contribution may not
weigh so greatly. as she was
most passionately interested
in temperance. A leading
political hostess, she was
wrong about Hitler, but so
were many others. Mr. Coils
Indignantly refutes the con-
temporary legends about the
"Cliveden set" She was Ger
tainly kind. certainly enter
tanning, and if neither a great
intellectual nor a devastating
wit, she could hold her own
in the mans world of Parlia-
ment and with the hecklers
in her constituency.
At 80. it should be noted,
she is still going strong. Mr..
Coils slavishly recounts all
her many mots, some Of
which are good and others
Of which were perhaps a
better idea at the time.
There are excellent photo
graphs.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1960-05-22
THE SPLENDID AMERICAN
A Beloved DR.. Dooley
Returns to Laos
THE NIGHT THEY BURNED THE MOUNTAI

THE NIGHT THEY BURNED THE MOUNTAIN. BY Thomas
A. Dooley MD. Farrar, Straus g. Cudahy; $3.950
In another age, DR.. Tom Dooey might have been
ddae for canonzaton because he combines the in
gradients of ascetc devotion to humanity with irascby
latest book demonstrates with nnay that DR. Dooey
has bones and he makes clear that although he is
admirer of the great Albert SchWezer he makes no