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colt fights what to him is
sloth and lack of concentra-
ton. Time and again he sets
himself schedules which he
does not live up to. Once he
gives his secretary a note for
a $1,000 forfeit if he fails to
have so many pages written
by a certain date. AS he
chideS himself continually
for lazinesS we consider the
hundreds of books he has
read and made digests Of, and
the wide range of subjects he
has analysed in selecting the
field for his first history,
and we smile.
Prescott thought about a
history of Spanish literature;
he wanted to write a history
of the Roman empire. but
the shadow of Gibbon
darkened his page. He
finally decided on Ferdinand
and Isabella"
zone of the amusing things
in the journals is Prescott'S
simultaneous admiration and
dislike of Gibbon. He is con-
stantly reminding himself
not to be influenced by
Gibbons style.)
His first book was followed
by the Conquest of Mexico"
the Conquest of Peru" and
Philip H." All the books we're
extraordinarily popular, not
only here and in England.
but also in translation
throughout the world. Two
distinct translations of Con
quest of Mexico" were
brought out in Mexico City at
the same time. Unlike his
contemporaries, Whitman,
Melville, and Thoreau, Pres
colt. was we'll paid for
literature.
The reader will discover
little in the journals of Pres
colts daily life and associa-
tons. The death of his young
daughter caused him to inter-
rupt his work for an extended
inquiry into the credibility
of Christianity. Otherwise
most of the journals are
true to their title-"Literary
Memoranda"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10

olrCnday greetings, as did a
little troupe of poets and
poetry lovers organized by
Prof. Norman Holmes Pear
son of Yale.
In that poem, there was a
promise:
Peacocks will bow to you,
Little boys sing.
That has not been the case
with Mr.. HodgSon. who has
lived in obscurity and lately
close to restitution in a ten
ant-farmer's house. For 10
years he has not been able
to leave the house and in
the past year he has been
virtually bed ridden. His
American wife has had to
give up her job at a nearby
factory in order to take care
of him.
If poetry paid as well as
press-agentry in the modern
world, or men were exactly
rewarded for merit, Mr..
Hodgson would be living out
his years in plenty, for he
is, says Louis Untermeyer, the
newly designated consultant
in poetry at the Library of
Congress, lone of the purest
lyric poets of his age"
Mr.. Hodgson has the rare
gift of shattering simplicity,
soaring originality aid song.
Eve" and 1.-The Bull" will
stand with any lyrics written
in this century. If he has
been forgotten, his poetry
will not be.
The critic Van Wyck Brooks
mentions Ralph Hodgson in
the third volume Of his auto
biography, From the Shad-
ow of the Mountain" Out
ton; $4.50). Although 1t is a
glancing reference, it is very
much in the context Of his
book. For Mr.. Brooks has al
ways complained of the iso-
lation of the artist in Amer
lea and has tried in his best
work to create a tradition
that will sustain him.
Mr.. Brooks "reminiscences
are literary rather than per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
Strange and ProdigoI
Life of Citizen Hearst

hour day, union labor, and
the income tax. He fought
the trusts. He was completely
free of religious bias, stating
many of his papers with Jew
ish and Catholic editors.
There have been other
books, but Mr.. Swanberg by
some miracle persuaded
widow, sons, and intimate
friends to lift the veil. The
result is the definitive work
on Hearst, at long last.
Though sometimes edite d
with a shovel-there are en-
tirely too many documents
quoted at endless length
riddled with footnoteS, it is
complete and often fasci-
mating.
Mr.. Swanberg thinks a cog
was missing in Hearst make
up, lack of emotional bal
lance. The author documents
in clinical fashion how
Hearst kept one mistress
eight years, then married and
fathered five sons, then sepa-
rated and began the long
friendship with Marion Da-
Vies.
Some of Hearst's political
judgments were appalling.
He espoused the Germans
during much of World War I,
attacked the League of Ma
tions. found MuSsolini eff
ficient, posed with Nazis, and
openly squandered millions
on castles while fellow Ameri-
cans stood in breadlines.
Why did he act this way?
Mr.. Swanberg suggests that
Hearst was not one man but
two. a genuine Jekyll-Hyde
who sometimes retreated in
to a medieval mentality. Be-
hind Hearst's shy, formal
manner and high-pitched
voice hid an exhibitionist,
a treckless spender, a frus-
trated politician with fierce
ambition for the White
House.
Even if the author cannot
explain all the answers, he
has made the life of Hearst
a fascinating study of an
American original. His most
telling chapters are the last,
when he shows Hearst, re-
buffed in politics, his pub
fishing empire shrunken,
spending his pitiful last days
watching old movies each
night, the lonely Khan of an
empty Xanadu.
TRUMAN TEMPLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
CITIZEN HEARST. By v

CITIZEN HEARST. BY w.
A. Swanberg. (Scribners;
$7.50O
who but Citizen Hearst
could have set himself up as
king, owned seven castles,
fought for the common man.
looted the world of art.
squirrel a bevy of actresses
through Europe, chartered a
plane to fetch shrimp, car
ried on a one-man war with
France, rescued a toad and
bewailed the death of a
mouSe?"
Thus asks w. A. Swanberg
at the end of Citizen
Hearst" after a scholarly, de-
termined struggle through
SIS pages to understand the
riddle of the late publisher.
Hearst never made it easy
for anyone to understand
him. He remained a puzzle
to politicians from Bryan to
AL Smith, to his most init
mate friends, even to his
wife, who once asked-look-
ing over a vast warehouse of
Grated treasures Hearst had
acquired and forgotten:
How could one man buy
all these things?"
Hearst was born in 1863 on
the eve of the Battle of
Charlottesville. He died in
the midst of the Korean
War. Between those dates he
lived as strange and prodigal
a life as any man in history.
Pampered as an only child.
given an income in manhood
from mines and ranches es-
timated at SIS million a
year, and gifted with an I'M
canny understanding of the
early Goth century mass
mind, he built a newspaper
empire. The Hearst press
shocked and Infatuated many,
but never bored.
He is blamed almost ex-
clusively for a war - our
Spanish American affair in
1898. Mr.. Swanberg lays bare
the trumped-up propaganda
stories, the drive for circula-
ton that colored HearSt's
patriotism.
But the biographer is at
pains to show another side
Of Hearst, too. In his younger
years, wv. RS" papers ex-
posed municipal graft, and
daringly backed the eight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
THE LONG GAMER. BY

THE LONG GAMER. By
William Manchester, Lit
tie, Brown a. Co.; $4.950
william Manchester's new
novel is the very long story
of a gubernatorial campaign
in an imaginary New Eng
land State. The Democrats
have so little chance of beat
ing the machine that there
is some question of their even
running a candidate. At the
last minute they file the
name of Doc" River, presi-
dent of State University.
Doc is neither a politician
nor an educator. He is a pro-
moter, an executive. H e
started out as a legendary
football player, became a leg
endary coach, and finally a
legendary college president,
who transformed a little ag-
ricultural college into a gil
gantic university, notable for
its football team, its multi
erouS vocational courses and
its low scholastic standing.
The great successes in the
life of Doc are always tainted
by unhappy anti-climaxes.
As a player. his career is
furnished by the imputation
Of professionalism, as a
coach. his great game is lost
through an offside penalty,
as a college president, his
vell-equipped school is far
from achieving scholastic &C
creditation. He is a good
man, honest and humble, OPP
posed to alchohol and sex,
an advocate of buttermilk
and long walks.
His campaign for Governor
is a lurid one. involving,
sometimes unbelievably, all
the cliches of American pol
itics. There are the dishonest
opposition newspaper whose
Vaccinations are foiled by
an idealistic reporter; the
slick campaign manager and
the adroit machine candi-
date. There is scandal involv-
ing a football star and a
coed, scandal involving for
mer bootlegging activities of
the rival candidate (which
the newspaper naively at
tempts to wipe from the rec
ord by the simple expedient
of destroying its old file cop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
ACoIIt Face Challenge
Of the Communists
AN END TO MAKE BE-

AN END TO NAME DE-
LIEVE. BY Edgar Ansel
Mowrer. DUEL, Sloan e.
Pearce; $685.
Mr.. Mowrer has been writ
ing about world affairs since
August. 1914, when he be-
came a war correspondent
for the Chicago Daily News.
His work has carried him to
the far corners of the world,
and he brings to his latest
book a wealth of first-hand
experience.
In this book he has taken
a hard look at post war
developments and he does
not like what he sees.
According to Mr.. Mowrer, the
Communist world has IN
creased in strength and
prestige during the past Is
years, while the Western
world has continued to lose
ground.
All the observation-disclosures
welt, Truman, and Eisenhow-
er - made mistakes, Mr..
Mowrer says, and the worst
mistake, he thinks. was al
lowing" the Communists to
take Eastern Europe and
China. Since the United
States had an atomic monop-
oily in the early postwar
years, it should have made
it's views known by force if
necessary, he argues.
This was not done, he says.
because rhe Nation suffered
from "self-deception" about
Red motives. To turn the
tide, the United States must
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
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the first time. While they
will probably be of greatest
interest to students of Amer
lean letters, there will be few
uncommitted readers who
fail to succumb to their grace
and honesty.
Prescott was 81 when he
started his journal in 1923.
He had prepared himself for
a career in law, but his sight
had been impaired when his
right eye was hit by a crust
of bread during his Harvard
years, and, fearing eventual
blindness. he decided to turn
to literature-Specifically his
tory. For the rest of his life,
in fact, his eyesight did fluc-
tuate between bad and near
blindness.
Prescott compensated for
his infirmity by developing a
phenomenal memory. During
some periods he was able to
read, otherwise he was read
to; sometimes he used a me-
chanical writing continuance
for the blind Ia photography =,
at other times he dictated.
The volume Of writing and
the extent of reading during
the time covered by these
journals would be amazing
for a man with good vision.
That Prescott achieved them
is simply astounding.
When on the very first page
the reader comes en- the
statement, The reflections
IN this DOCK snail be mace
carefully, for it is obvious
that superficial & obvious
considerations are not worth
recording" he must not con-
clude that Prescott's habit of
perfection win make his
notes still. solemn, o. lacking
in apparent spontaneity.
Prescott was a scholar, he
was not a pedant. His
thoughts he expressed mod
estly, clearly, and with fetch
ing charm; he remarks at
one point that his histories
are not notable for tfcir pro-
fundity but for their value
as entertainment.
In the early journals Pres
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Will Durunt's
New Volume
Is Impressive
THE AGE or REASON BE

THE AGE OF REASON BE-
GINS: The Story of Civili-
ZatiOn, Volume VII. BY Will
and Ariel Durant. (Simon
& SchuSter; $10O
Last week saw the publica-
ton of one of 1865 most
eagerly awaited books. This
volume of DR.. Durant's mas
sive and impressive history
of civilization goes through
the years from 1858 to 1648
just less than a century.
1t covers the smallest amount
of time yet recorded in any
single volume of the series.
The reasons are clear: AS the
author approaches modern
times the story becomes more
complex, and this is a period
particularly dear to the
philosopher in DR.. Durant.
Like its predecessors. this
book embraces statesmen and
wars but tells its story no less
in terms of artists and peace
full pursuits. The combina-
ton is particularly readable
and gives a balanced picture.
In this particular volume. the
parade of philosophic ideas
offers the author a chance to
express himself happily and
to include such figures as
Shakespeare, Bacon, Mon
taigne, Descartes and Calico.
The only regret-a mild
one-the faithful may have
over this particular volume
is its cumbersome and
slightly misleading title. The
era it covers is just before
the 18th century which is
universally known as the
Age of Reason.
The seeds of modern times
as they were Sown in this
era make this perhaps the
most revealing of all the
Durant series. Here we see
the rise of the challenge to
the church, the growing re-
sistance to the authority of
kings, the first really sweep
ing migrations of peoples
the growing Importance of
science.
Perhaps only the greatest
authorities can pass Sufff-
GENTLY intelligent judgment
on the emphasis which DR.
Durant has placed upon GER
tain movements and people
in this period. Perhaps only
they could tell wherein any
facts have suffered by being
told in a bright. witty, cpl
grammatic style rather than
at the usual historians plod-
ding, pedantic pace. But for
the reader who is simply
trying to understand the
present a little better by try
ing to know the past, DR.. Du-
rants History is the best
thing of its kind in exist
ence.
Two more volumes are to
come: THE Age of Louis
XIV" and THE Age of VOL
taire." Both these will be
signed-as is this volume
by both DR.. Durant and mis-
wife. EDWIN TREBLE.
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FourChiIdren
TeIIofShume
OF Poverty
THE CHILDREN OF SAN
CHEZ. BY Oscar Lewis.
(Random House; $7.50O

CHEZ. BY Oscar Lewis.
(Random House; $7.50O
The language of poverty
and despair is never so ex-
pressive as when spoken by
the poor and despairing. Mr..
Lewis has captured this Ian
guage as spoken by the chill
dren of Sanchez who have
lived out their lives in the
slums of Mexico City, the Bit
ter taste of poverty and
hopelessness always in their
mouths.
The four children, sons
and daughters of peon Jesus
Sanchez, eloquently tell in
their own words of their
bleak lives and the frustra-
ton of never having enough,
of the utter lack of hope of
escape from the one-block
square tenement that has
been their only world since
childhood. But, far more i'm
portant, they speak of the
shame of poverty everywhere.
For those of the North
American continent who have
never known continual hun
ger, whose comfortable lives
remove them far from the
bitter world of the Sanchez
children, the life of these
Mexican peasants is too often
dismissed with time-worn
aphorisms ranging from the
bliss of ignorance to the true
unwavering happiness of the
deprived.
DR.. Lewis, both as an an
thropologist seeking facts and
as q man involved in the
struggles of his fellow men,
is determined that this shall
not happen. There is no ro-
nance in the humble lives
of the Sanchez family.
Consuelo, Roberto, Marta
and Manuel Sanchez tell the
story of their struggles in
their own wordS-and often
in the brash, vulgar slang of
the Enthusiastically record
ed on tape in a series of
interviews with DR.. Lewis
stretching over a number OF
years.
There are 700 people liv-
ing in a square block housing
project that is called the
Casa Grande. They live in
marriage or free union, they
help one another or desert
their families in time of trial,
they believe in God and the
Catholic Church and retain
the superStitions of their In
dian ancestors, they dream OF
the shining world on the
other side of the drab cement
walls, and they sink ever
deeper day by day into the
mire of poverty they long to
escape.
DR.. Lewis compiled his book
from the tapped interviews,
with a careful avoidance OF
self involvement. But the
sympathy and understanding
that motivated him and the
sheer force of the four chill
dren themselves projects to
the reader not only the plight
of these four individuals but
also every individuals re-
sponsibility to them.
The story of the Sanchez
family is at once the story
of four very real poor peo-
pie and the story of all very
real poor people everywhere
The taste, the sounds and
the disappointment of the
life in the Casa Grande re-
mains with the reader Ions
after the book is closed.
NORMA ENEIM.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
A New Light Shines
On Historian Prescott
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

PRESCOTT Edited and with introduction by c. Har-
vey Gardiner Two volumes. University OF Oklahoma
Press; $12.500
For IS years Prescott who according to his present
editor c. Harvey Gardiner continues to be this Nations
frequently widely published historian kept jour-
devoted largely reflections teratureto his
progress and also the hundreds of books of
categores read The u notebooks are published
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
READING AND WRITING
Kennedy Sends Poet
Birthday Greetings
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

tai
Yesterday the goth birthday Of Ralph HodgSon
of the great minor British poets of day. who wrote:
Time you old gypsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your
Just for day?
President Kennedy, who may well subscribe to that
notion in the rush Of events Mr. Hodgson
Evening star., 1961-02-19

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our New York Life Agent called and asked
what plans we had for educating this young
stcr. We told him that was long way off and
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with feeding and clothing him. He pointed
out that the years would soon slip past and the
boy would be ready for college. He asked five
could put aside small sum each week, and
we said we could. Then he discussed an in
surance policy.
The other day, we paid the last premium on
The Nee FORK Life Agent in TOm
Evening star., 1961-02-19

this policy, and we now have money ready for
our son when he goes to college next fall.
only wish the Agent had sold us two policies
SO that we might have doubled the amount.
would earnestly recommend that every
parent be told of the importance Of this or
some similar plan, for l am sure that other
wise we never would have put aside that much
money. Of course, we also had the insurance
protection on his life all that time, too.
Most sincerely, H. IRE.
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funds for an education, call your New York
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Evening star., 1961-07-15
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity - Scat
tered thundershowers tonight,
low in lower 70s. Some cloudi-
ness tomorrow, continued hot
and humid with scattered thun-
dershowers.
Maryland - Variable cloudi-
ness, quite warm and humid
with scattered showers and
thunderstorms tonight and to-
morrow except mostly cloudy
with showers over Eastern
Shore. Low tonight, IS to 10.
High tomorrow, IS to 80 ex-
cept lower 80s in the mountains
and on Eastern Shore.
Virginia - Variable cloudi-
ness, quite warm and humid to-
night and tomorrow with scat
tered thunderShoWers occurring
mostly during afternoon and
evening hours. Low tonight, 65
to u. High tomorrow, S6 to "a
except lower 80s in the noun
tains and on Eastern Shore.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Mostly southwest
winds 5 to IS knots over south
and southeast to south 10 or is
knot winds over north tonigat.
South to southwest winds 10 to
is knots tomorrow. Consider
able cloudiness, scattered show
Evening star., 1961-07-15
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For Medical Practice

RICHMOND, July Is (AP).-
The State Board of Medical
Examiners announced yester-
day it has issued licenses to
356 persons to practice in Vir-
ginia.
The board said 2S5 persons
were licensed to practice either
medicine or surgery as the re-
suit Of examinations given
here in June and that similar
licenses were granted to 68
other persons through indorse-
ment of credentials from other
States.
In addition, two persons were
licensed to practice chiropody
as a result of the June exami-
nations, and one person was Ii
censed in naturopathy through
reciprocity.
Evening star., 1961-07-15
SLAYING

Continued From First Page
her to come upstairs to discuss
money in connection with her
planned trip to Georgia.
Shots Were Heard
Shortly after Mrs. Malek
went to the upstairs apartment,
her sister and Miss wilkins
heard several shots and a
scream.
The sister ran upstairs but
was unable to enter the locked
apartment. Miss wilkins and
other neighbors called police.
A neighbor said the young
couple had quarreled and sepa-
rated briefly twice before the
argument on Wednesday. They
had patched up their differ
enceS as recently as last Sum-
day, when Mr.. Malek brought
home q television set.
Police said Mr.. Malek had
been in the United States for
nearly four years. During that
period he had served with the
Army in Fort Benning, Ga. He
was employed by the. Mutual
Life Insurance Co. here.