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Evening star., 1960-03-20

The Quinn correspondence in
cludeS letters from such figures as
Joyce, Conrad, Pound, Eliot, Hous-
man, Yeats, Roualt, Picasso, Saint
Gaudens. Matisse and de Segonzac.
John Quinn was born in Tiffin,
Ohio. Of middle-class Irish par
ents. He was healthy youngster
who early developed love of
reading. After studying for a year
at the University of Michigan, he
became private secretary to for
mer Gov. Charles Foster Of Ohio,
whom Bejamin Harrison had ap-
pointed Secretly Of the Treasury.
The job brought the young man
to Washington and for three years
he attended law classes at George
town University. He later went to
Harvard, where he took his de-
gree in 1895, and then entered law
practice in New York and even
tually founded his own firm, spe-
cializing in corporation and finan-
cial law.
For a while. politics attracted
him. He was a delegate to the
Democratic conventions in Den
yer in 1908 and in Baltimore in
1912. He also supported the Irish
Home Rule movement, and it was
this that led to his acquaintance
with and advocacy of so many
Irish writer's. During several trips
to Dublin he met James Stephens,
Arthur SymonS and John Milling
ton Synge, heard Joyce read, dined
with Yeats, walked the streets with
George Russell, admired the Ma
net and Degas paintings of George
Moore and became a favorite of
Lady Gregory.
Friend Of Walt Kuhn
In America, Mr.. Quinn's awak-
ening interest in art and artists
was famed by his meeting with
the artist Walt Kuhn. The two
men spent much time in each
others company, visited artists
hangouts together and discussed
modern developments. In Europe,
Mr.. Quinn's principal guide was
Augustus John, the celebrated
British portrait painter. John
showed him through France, Wis
iting art dealers, churches and
cafes, and introducing him to the
most important artists and deal
ers. The result was that in addi-
ton to his Kuhns and Johns, Mr..
Quinn began to buy Cezannes,
Gauguins and Van Goghs.
In 1913. Mr.. Quinn was the
lawyer member Of the New York
group which arranged the famous
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hensive disarmament plan for the
record. with emphasis on one or
two immediate, practical steps Of
Importance which would become
the center of discussion and of
world attention.
What in fact emerged from the
Western strategy conferences be-
fore Geneva fell considerably short
of this ideal. The West prepared
a comprehensive plan. to be sure,
and it included steps which could
be taken Immediately; but these
immediate steps were so limited
and of so little basic significance
that they not only did not catch
world attention, they were almost
overlooked.
They consisted mainly Of:
Notifying an inspectorate when
space vehicles were to be launched.
Freezing Soviet and American
manpower under arms at roughly
present levels.
Storing some arms in inter-
national depots.
Taking an unverifled census of
armed forces, each country count
ing its own men.
There was little in this to cap
ture mems imaginations and put
Soviet peace professions to the
acid test.
What many would have liked to
do, and what at one point was
seriously considered. was to pro-
pose that from cutoff date for
ward, no more atomic fuel be put
into weapons-that 1t all be used
for peaceful purposes. under strict
inspection.
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John Quinn, Patron of Artists and Writers,
Remoins Their Leost-Known Benefoctor

armory show of modern American
and European paintings and
sculpture. The showmade a more
profound impression on America
than any other art show before
or since. Mr.. Quinn stood near the
center Of the controversy which
ragged over it. vigorously defending
the modernistS. He also bought a
lot of the paintings exhibited.
concentrating on the most radical
ones from abroad. For about
$4,000 he acquired paintings whose
value would double, treble and
quadruple in a few years, among
them works by Redon, Segonzac.
Brancusi, Derain. Duchamp and
Matisse.
Along with paintings, Mr.. Quinn
had begun to collect manuscripts
and to encourage and assist many
writer's. For a while Ezra Pound,
the eXpatriate American poet,
acted as a sort Of relief broker
for Mr.. Quinn, providing him with
continual advice on how to spend
his money on needy artists and
authors, all of them Pounds
friends. Pound arranged for Mr..
Quinn to help pay Joyce's medical
bills and to buy paintings from
Wyndham Lewis and statues from
Gaudier- -BrZesca. Mr.. Quinn was
the first to place any of Pounds
own work with an American pub
Usher. He also printed private
editions of the plays of Lady
Gregory and Synge before any
American publishers would take
them.
Collected Artists
At first, it seemed, Mr.. Quinn
collected artists and writer's as
much as he did their works. If
he bought a manuscript from an
author, that was his way of pro-
viding the writer with both money
and encouragement, as the pur-
chase of a painting would sustain
an admired artist. But Mr.. Quinn
coupled shrewdneSS with his gen.
erosity and with his superb eye
for unrecognized genius. The man
uscripts and paintings brought
him good profits in later years.
In the winter of 1923-24, Mr..
Quinn auctioned off his manu-
scripts and books. They brought
about 100000. OF the total, by
far the biggest single item was
the $4,000 for the set of Conrad
manuscripts. Mr.. Quinn had for
years brought the manuscripts Of
everything Conrad wrote.
Mr.. Quinn kept his art collec-
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light reflected from bits Of ice in
the air. A 12-knot wind honed
the polar cold to q keen edge that
quickly cut into any unprotected
flesh. A two-mile walk to the
actual Pole and back was enough
of a polar journey for me.
Plones Bring New Era
Now that jet-propulsion engines
enable heavy cargo planes to land
and take of on skis at the Pole,
a new era begins for the station.
To those of us who rode to the
Pole in the big, squat C-130 Lock-
heed-Hercules, it was plain as the
icicles on a polar scientists beard
that these jet-turbine propeller
driven planes will lop years of
the time required for the explora-
ton and mapping Of Antarctica.
In the rarefled air of the Pole
at $500 feet, ordinary airplane
engines deliver only a fraction of
their normal power. Successive
compliments of Navy men and
scientists have come and gone by
two-engine ski planes which some
times can muster little more than
20 knots in their take-off run.
Invariably they have to be booted
of the snow runway by the ex-
plosion Of JATO bottles.
For heavy supplies the station
has been wholly dependent upon
air drops by giant C-124 Douglas
GlSbemasters, which circle the
Pole and dump load after load
by huge, costly parachutes.
No four-engine transport ever
landed at the Pole-until Janu-
ary %, 1860, when Air Force 1t.
Col. Wilbert Turk Of Murfrees-
boro. Tenn, touched down the
white-shod steel skis of the plane
he calls Frozen Assets" To the
resident scientists. it looked like
belly landing. Close to the ground
for easy loading and unloading,
the Hercules suggests an enor-
nous fat bird with big fiat feet
and no legs at all.
In sharp contrast to painting
piston engines. the roaring Jet tur-
bines that drive propellers thrive
on thin air and altitude. The c.
130 leaps into the air in is or
20 seconds, even when fully loaded
with 7h2 tons Of cargo. Extra fuel
tanks inside and out add range
for the l.600-mile. round-trip
flight between the Ross Ice Shelf
at McMurdo Sound and inland
Byrd Station or the Pole.
Marble Brought Out
Before the end Of this year the
Navy expects to have its own Her
cules jet-prop planes, even larger
and more powerful. With these
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ton. Like his books and manu-
scripts. his paintings had never
been put in storage but instead
Uttered his bachelor apartment.
In his battles for modern art,
he won some substantial victories.
Almost singlehandedly he persu-
AIDED Congress to change the tariff
law so that modern art, as well as
old masters, could enter this
country duty free.
Mr.. Quinn was a sensitive man
and his relations with his artist
friends sometimes were strained.
When Ezra Pound repaid his gen.
erosity with a published sneer at
American collectors, Mr.. Quinn
took it personally and wrote an
elaborate defense. When he had
a falling out with Augustus John,
he sold off almost all of the art
lists paintings in his possession
not all, however, and the quarrel
was later patched up). And he
irritated James Joyce by his
rather timid court defense Of
Ulysses" but Joyce's gratitude
for his many kindnesSes was new
ertheless undimmed.
Left Fortune in Art
When Mr.. Quinn died, at SIS, he
left about 500 pictures and 300
sculptures. They were sold at auc-
tion two years later for $750,000
nearly double what he had paid
for them, but a small fraction OF
what they would bring today. His
executors disposed Of them hur-
riedly, partly because the paint
ings embarrassed them and partly
because Mr.. Quinn's family wished
to be removed from the limelight.
His family has remained out Of
the limelight since.
The only Old Master in the
Quinn collection was El Greco's
Christ Driving the Money Chang
ers from the Temple" 1t, like the
others, went on the block. The
only paintings Mr.. Quinn made
special disposition of in his will
were two portraits of himself by
John Butler Yeats and Augustus
John, which he offered to the Met.
ropolitan Museum, and Seurat's
lie Cirque" which he left to the
Louvre. The paintings from the
Quinn collection today are to be
found in some OF the finest gall
leries. Many of them were bought
by dealers, who held on to them
until public taste had caught up
with John Quinn'S anu then sold
them for enormous profits.
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midst of enough fascinating his
torical relics, strange wildlife, and
spectacular mountain scenery to
make a great national or inter-
national park.
Standing here, one can easily
envision the day when planes
plying between the continents of
the Southern Hemisphere will be
landing at Marble Point, and pas
sengers will be stopping over to
see such sights as the Taylor Dry
Valley, the Ferrar Glacier, and
the colony of comical Adele pen
gums at Cape Royds. All are only
a few minutes away by light plane
or helicopter.
In Taylor Dry Valley the
tongues Of glaciers look as If they
had receded only last year. Yet
scientists have found evidence
that this spectacular valley has
been ice-free for fully 1,500 years.
Among its curioSities are 50-odd
mummified seals, preserved appar-
emily for centuries by the dry cold
Of this natural icebox.
A top attraction for visitors
would be the old camps of Scott
and Shackleton at nearby Hut
Point, Cape Evans and Cape
Royds. From here these doughty
British explorers set out on some
of the most amazing Journeys and
glorious triumphs of the human
spirit in the history of exploration.
Preserved by the Antarctic cold,
their hutS and supplies are little
changed. Food they left on the
shelves more than half a century
ago is still edible.
The stumbling block to build
ing a dry-land airport and ship
mooring pier at Marble Point is
the cost, many millions of dol
lars. But the cost might not
prove insuperable if the problem
were attacked on an international
basis. Admiral Dufek has pre-
dicted the eventual coming Of
cruise ships and tourist flights.
Most important of all, such an
airport would end forever the
isolation Of Antarctica, cut of
entirely from the rest Of the
world for six months Of the year,
and would speed its scientific
exploration. -.
Overall Impressions
What impressions strike a man
most forcefully when he returns
from months in Antarctica?
Warmth. water and women
not necessarily in that order.
That warmth should stand near
the top of their list may not be
surprising. On a typical day at the
South Pole in February-one Of
the Antarctic summer months
Evening star., 1960-03-20

Frederick G. Vosburoh, Uice
president of the National Geo.
graphic Society. is UiSittno the
AmundSen-Scott scientific sta
ton at the South Pole. The
station, built and manned By
American scientists and United
, States Many men three years
ago, SerUeS as reservoir OF
fuel and supplies for exploring
the UdSt blank regions beyond
the Pole. This article is COM
posed of parts OF reports Mr..
Vosburgh has sent back to the
society.
By FREDERICK G. vOSBURGH
AMUNDSEN SCOTT SCIEN-
TIFIC STATION, the South Pole.
On a recent visit to the Pole,
we found the 3-year -old stations
new complement of scientists and
Navy men busily strengthening
and expanding the little hamlet
for the winter night.
Bearded faces beamed with
satisfaction as the first fout-en-
gined planes to land at the Pole
brought fuel oil, new prefabricated
buildings, and heavy timbers for
snoring up huts being squeezed
by the pitilesS ice.
All the original buildings have
long since been buried to the
stovepipes in drifting snow. Some
had become unsafe, and new ones
were essential If the base was to
be maintained through another
months-long night. These were
duly delivered to both Pole and
Byrd stations by the new cold
weather propeller-jet workhorses
of the Air Forces Tactical Air
Command.
Most important Of the new
buildings is an emergency shelter
in which all the men who winter
over can take refuge in case OF
fire. A 14-foot fire wall Of snow
separates the shelter from the
main working and living area.
To help the permanent resi-
dents unload the half-hourly ar
irving planes, Rear Admiral David
M. Tyree, commander, United
States Navay Support Force. Ant
arctica, asked for 10 volunteers
from the crew OF the Navy supply
ship Arneb and the Coast Guard
isebreaker EaStwind. At least
so Immediately clamored for the
chance, though the assignment
meant days Of hard work in the
thin air Of the polar plateau.
Even in the Antarctic summer.
the well-dresSed visitor to the
South Pole wears some 30 pounds
Of foul-weather clothing. Though
he may not need it all for a
Evening star., 1960-03-20
BY HARRY BACAS
Star Stan Writer

John Quinn, the New York
lawyer who fought many battles
in defense Of modern art and
literature, would have been tickled
by the present controversy sur
rounding his name. When he
died in 1924. he left to the New
York Public Library, his fabulous
correspondence with painters and
writers, with the stipulation that
the letters could be inspected by
scholars but could not be copied
or published before 1888.
Recently an Irish scholar named
Peter Kavanagh threatened to
bring out a pirated edition of the
highlights Of the Quinn corre-
spondence, which he prepared by
visiting the library daily for
weeks, memorizing selected letters
and going home to set them down
as well as he could. 1t was legal,
he said, because he didn't copy
the letters directly, but relied on
his memory Of them. He says the
Quinn correspondence is 1.-The
absolute key to goth century art
and literature" The library sued
to stop him and at the order Of
the State Supreme Court Mr..
Kavanagh destroyed the copies he
had printed.
A Prodieious Memory
John Quinn would have enjoyed
this fracas for several reasons.
The memory feat of Mr.. Kava-
nagh would have charmed him.
for he had a similarly developed
faculty. when T. S. Eliot sent
him a first copy of "The Waste
Land" he summoned a lady to
read the long poem to him while
he was shaving and thereafter
could recite it perfectly0 He also
would have been pleased by Mr..
Kavanagh'S Irishness, for he was
proud Of his own Irish ancestry
and was led by his interest in
Irish politics to an appreciation
and vigorous support of Irish lit
erature and drama. Finally. John
Quinn would have burned under
his high stiff collar to do battle
with stuffy authority and the dead
hand of the past. A role he liked
especially to play during his life
time was that Of defender of the
new or different. He defended
James Joyce's Ulysses" in New
York against charges of obscenity
and defended the Abbey players in
Philadelphia against charges Of
performing immoral plays.
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the thermometer showed 26 below
zero, although it was late Janu-
airy and thus only a little past
the middle Of the Antarctic sum-
mer. The air overhead glittered
with "ice needless" tiny points of
Evening star., 1960-03-20
ButIer'sL Lives

II ever national chairman Of
q major political party were
blessed with nine lives, Democrat
Paul Butler is the man.
For five years, he has been in
and out Of more hot water than
a school of Maine Holsters. Many
powerful party leaders have sought
his scalp-unsuccessfully He has
from time to time angered every
wing of the party: Southern con-
servatives, the moderates and the
extreme liberals.
He has criticized the Demo-
cratic congressional leadership Of
Senator johnson and Speaker
Rayburn as too moderate. He has
continually castigated the South
ern wing Of the party and has
again threatened to bar them
from the convention unless they
agree beforehand to support the
nominee selected.
Then last week, he stirred up
the hornets with of ff-the-record"
statements to a group Of Wash
ington reporters. According to
published reports, which he has
declined to confirm or deny, Mr..
Butler predicted that Senator
Kennedy Of Massachusetts, would
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Continued From Page B-1
ment of joy or thanksgiving. What
he said, in fact, could hardly have
sounded more ho-hum.
81 always follow the practice Of
not commenting on statements by
the President. even when they in
volve me-" he said. That was that.
While Mr.. Nixon may be for
given If he feels a bit inclined to
look on the Eisenhower indorse-
ment as somewhat belated, he can
only regard it as a powerful thrust
to his candidacy, once he has OBJ
tanned the Republican nomination.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17

who attended really got some
good information concerning the
demonstration.
Congratulations to Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Gore on their new
arrival. A baby boy named JET
fiery Thomas, bornci FEB. 9Th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Layton Ross Of
Burlington, N. c. and MIR. and
Mrs. Rhonc Anderson of White
willie were wcek-c guests OF
MIR, and Mrs. W. T. Anderson
and family.
Happy Birthday to-MrS.
Casper GanuS, Feb. 18th. Mrs.
w. N. Ward, Feb. 22nd.
To all who still have the tlu
we wish you a speedy recovery.
Helpful hints ami time savers.
Glue miniature calendar to
the inside cover of a check book.
1t saves time and presents cr-
ror when dating checks.
Attach two pot holders Ia your
apron with snaps. When needed
during the preparation of q meal
they are always al hand.
Hang shoe bag at the end Of
the clothes closet and use the
pockets for gloves. mittcnS and
ScarfS. then you Will have no
trouble IN finding these articles
IN hurry
Jot down the important thirgS
you want To say on a long dist
ance call. and it will prevent all
that humming and having that
costs money.
When cooking eggs wet the
shells thoroughly with cold wat
er before placing them into boil
ing water. This will insure
against cracking
Always add boiling water to.
boiling vegetables as cold water
will tougher.
Old nylon stockings make
good Stuffing for childrcn'S toys.
When washed, the toys will dry
moro quickly
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17
BY MRS. LLOYD HINsON

The Bethel Community Deve-
lopment group met Wednesday
night February 10, 1860 at 7:3O
O'Clock at Bethel Methodist
Church. Lloyd Hinson Chairman
presided. Seven farm families
were represented. Mr. Pat Woot-
en- ana Mr.. Cameron GarriS
were guests. Mr.. Wootcn gave u
report from our County Council
meeting held in Whitcville dur
ingthe month of January. He
urged all members to back up
each officer and try to make all
communities one large one in
the County. He is chairman of
our County Council Community
Development for this year. His
talk was very Informative and
interesting. Mr.. GarriS gave a
talk On top dressing for small
grain and gardening. He also
showed some slides.
W. AaN-NA illtNbilAs Will Dt on
March 9th and our program will
be Income and Social Security
Tax.
There will be a Tractor Main
tenance School at the farm Of
Mr.. Tate SoleS February 23rd at
1000 o'clock. All interested
farmers are urged to attend this
important meeting.
The w. S. c. S. will meet We'd
neSday night 7:3O o'clock at the
church.
MRS. ESSic Powell had an up
holstery meeting at her home
last Thursday Feb. 18th. Miss
Earlinc Gibson was advisor. All
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17
BY JGGS POWERS
WaCcamaw "A PubIiciSt

WHlTEVILLE - 4 3O-gamc
schedule has been released by
President John T. Sasscr for
1860 baseball play among Wac
camaw Athletic Association
teams.
The slate was approved by tn,
organization AT the recent meet
ing here. Each team will play 10
games in the loop; consisting Of
homc-and-home series with each
.ot the other five foes IN the
WAA. Contests Will be played
.on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
All home games Of Tabor City.
Bladcnboro, Chadbourn. Sha.-
.lCtte will DC played at BIS IN
the afternoon. while those uf
ElIzabethtown and Whitcvillc
will begin at 7:45 y. m. The
schedule opens. April ;. with
games at Chadbourn. Shallo,.c
and Whitcvillc.
Whitcvillc's Wolfpayk. de-
lending champions. have won
Titles in the WAA both years
the loop has been IN operation.
The 1860 Waccamaw "A base
ball schedule:
April 5-Bladcnboro AT Chad
bOurn. EUzabcthtown AT Shall
'lottc, Tabor City at WhitcvIllc;
. 7--WhitCcvillc at B!adcnboro
IChadbourn at Elizabcthtown
ShalIottC at Tabor City: -
Tabor City at Bladcnboro. Eliza
BEETHOVEN At WhitCvillc. Shar-
lotto at Chadbuuru. Baden
'borr a. ShalO'tc. Tabor CITY ri
Elr1sbcthtown. Whitcvillc al
IChadbourn.
April 10 -- Elizabethtown AT
BladCnbOrO. Shailottc at White
vile. Chadbourn at Tabor City.
I2l--Chadbourn at BladcnbUro
ShailOttc at ElizabCthtOwn
Whitcvillc al Tabor City: 26-
lBladenboro at Whitevillc. Eliza
.bethtOwn az ChadbOurn. Tdbul
City at ShalOtte: 28-Bladen-
tbOro at Tabor City. Whiteville
!at Elizabethtown, Chadbourn al
Shallotte.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17
WAA President Put
80 Games On Sluse

May 3-Shallottc AT Baden
n"r". ElI2abcthtown al Tabor
.l'y. Chadhourn al Wh.,cvillc.
D BlaG"nburo al Elizabeth
town. WhitcvIIlc at Shallottc
Tabor City AZ Chadb,urn -
CJIGGS POWERS).
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17
Carers
Column
By-w. Horace Garter

COINCIDENCE: Judge Williams has come up with abou,
as unusual coincidence hear about
lac dropped by the office where N license plates
being sold and JOknEy told the he
l license plate 90" have t. sell them
turn W. ana can pick special number
TIE lazy SAID L just kidding anyway" Al Said"
PACK before The G"aGnc L. get license
went back I" purchase tie Still
Gus conversation he had the he
My / without any ado the lady turned
up the top license plate And clerk Strangv
enough the tag read follows. My
Al just to make his license plates than
cicf Al VII" IS tn" VIC fertilizer
tag his other with the numerals We
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17

ONE or THE EASIEST
THINGS for a man TO forget is
a promise he made to God dur
ing a period Of difficulty.
Selected
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17

" hlIENlLLE - \ 3O-Eamc
schedule has been released by
President John T. Sasscr for
1860 baseball play among Wac
camaw Athletic Association
s..r,,r
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-02-17

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