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Evening star., 1961-02-12
American Litteroteur
Is Finally at Hand

POETRY AND EXPERT
ENCE. BY Archibald Mac
Leish. (Houghton Mifflin;
$4.)
When Archibald MacLeish
was appointed Librarian Of
Congress in 1888, H. L.
Mencken determined he
would give his books to the
Enoch Pratt rather than to
what would surely become q
Communicative Deal prop
aganda agency" Not only
has time discredited this re-
mark by the Sage of Balti-
more, but since those years
the same Mr.. MacLeiSh has
attained a unique literary
and public eminence.
Now, paradoxically, "the
American litterateur"- the
lack of which Mencken de-
plored-iS at hand. Mr.. Mac
Leish would serve admirably
as the public man-writer
suited to the honorific task
Of. say. greeting foreign
dignitaries in the name Of
American letters. Now that
we have recognized at least
an Inaugural laureate. per-
haps by an act Of internal
diplomacy Mr.. MacLeiSh
could be appointed something
like Debarker and Deplaner
Plenipotentiary.
OF Art and Verse
1t seems that Mr.. MacLeish
knows his chances: "The
very last qualification for ap-
pointment to public office by
and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate-and I
am speaking with some per-
sonal knowledge-iS, in the
eyes Of Senators the practice
Of the art of verse"
Nevertheless, his own ca
reer would not prove the
cause to be hopeless. Not
only was he distinguished as
Librarian Of Congress, Assis-
tant Secretary of State, Di-
rector of the Office Of Facts
and Figures. and the first
American UNESCO board
member. He also edited
Fortune Magazine: he has
written plays for radio. tele-
vision, and Broadway: and
for a decade he has taught
humanities at Harvard. For
his literary achievements he
has garnered three Pulitzer
Prizes: For the epic Con-
quistadores," the play u. b."
and the Collected Poems"
An Exhilarating HumOrist
His own service in national
and world affairs nothwith-
standing, Mr.. MacLeish does
not construe the Expert
ence" of his title, and at the
core Of his disquisition on
poetry, in such narrow terms.
He is rather an exhilarating
humanist, celebrating the
crucial perspective and syn
thesizing powers Of the aes-
thetic mind. He sees the
potency, like the range, of
Evening star., 1961-02-12

self in many postureS, at
tempting consciously to be
the French Goethe, the man
for whom his own homosex-
uality was q welcome curse
and an oppressive liberty.
has never ceased to be q
fascination and an aversion
for Mauriac.
Albert Camus, who was
killed in an automobile acci-
dent a year ago, prepared,
shortly before his death, a
collection of articles from his
three volumes of "Actuelles,"
published during the last II
years. Resistance, Rebellion,
and Death" is a forbidding
and ponderous title, but the
translator says that "actu-
elleS," the feminine plural Of
the adjective present" eur
rent" is untranslatable. "At
Present" would at least be
brief.
The essays are all or most
Of them concerned with some
aspect Of individual liberty
freedom from the expressions
Of society, state. church, Gus
tom. They are all appar-
entity cut from the living
heart Of the author, for whom
freedom was not in the least
a hackneyed subject which q
subtle and imaginative writ
er could put by for more
unusual m a terial. CamuS
writes Of the war, the liberia
ton Of Paris, of the authori-
tartan government Of Spain,
Of Algeria, Hungary, and the
responsibility Of the creative
artist Of today. The longest
piece Is an overwhelming
argument against capital
punishment. which Camus
thinks is not only evil in it
self, but, instead Of being q
deterrent Of crime, really an
inciter of criminality.
Many have called Camus
the finest writer of postwar
France: this volume makes
him for me something more
a man, not Of convictions,
which are for fanatics, but
beliefs, which are for the
intelligent. Perhaps he was
a saint.
Evening star., 1961-02-12
THROUGH FIELDS OF

+ II R OU GH FIELDS OF
CLOVER. A novel by Peter
De Vries. Little, Brown
& Co.; $3.50
Books have robbed us Of
one Of our wittiest writer's;
Peter De Vries has been ira
duced by novels. Ten years
ago Mr.. De Vries created
little vignettes that were
stylishly balanced on a very
special type Of humor. They
were wry and funny stories
concerning a suburbanite
commuter with a wife, a job,
q complex, and a taste for
cocktail parties and their
casts Of characters. The
stories turned upon verbal
bubbles, some ridiculously
elaborate and all adroit, and
each was laced with a comic
d e a dly-e earnest persiflage
that became the identifying
characteristic Of Peter De
Vries.
Success suggested expan-
sion into novels, and the first
of these, which were little
more than concentrations Of
his short stories, were good.
But then the novels began to
appear as entities, as units,
and it was, sadly evident that
Mr.. De Vries' genius lay with
witty and artificial baga-
telles, not with protracted
novels, some of which had
messages and other signifi-
canoes, but all Of which were
more or less overblown and
u1npleasantly prete n tious.
rather than delightfully."- con-
trived.
In his latest novel,
Through Fields of Clover"
there are still the old verbal
isms, the old sly locutions,
but how their pungency is
disSipated! Mr.. Marvel is "a
stout advocate Of regular
exercise; the fee of the
country club is nominal in
name only; and. to cite one
last really horrible example
-"Oh, mother, what griev-
ance were you nursing when
you should have been suck
ling me?"
A far cry from the early
De Vries, who would say cas-
ually "Penicillin is a drug on
the market" or the memora-
bic preacher who, after a
disastrous hurricane, i'm
plored divine deliverance
from further such acts Of
God" That I quote from
memory is flattery rather
than laziness, for I have not
read these jokes for years.
But, alas, things are quite
different in the present novel.
The writing is arch, and in
tolerably long drawn out.
The atmosphere is that Of
portending hilarity, a great
wow. a smashing boffo. The
scene Is a Massachusetts, re-
sort where a clan is gathering
to celebrate a 40th wedding
anniversary. The characters
are all types-a real-estate
man who, as a transplanted
Southerner quotes Elinor
Wylie in a Louisiana drawl;
two TV comedians with their
retinues Of writer's and yes
men: a Swede who is mis-
taken for a Jew and offered
the services Of q Civil Lib
Evening star., 1961-02-12
Forthcoming
SKETCHES FROM LIFE

SKETCHES FROM LIFE
OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN,
by former Secretary Of State
Dean Acheson; SOME PEO-
PIE, PLACES AND THINGS
THAT WILL NOT APPEAR
IN MY NEXT BOOK, by
John Cheever, who won the
National Book Award, with
"The Wapshot Chronicle"
and from another NBA win
ner, for "The Travels of
Jamie McPheeters";; Robert
Lewis Taylor, A JOURNEY
TO MATECUMBE, and from
Andre Maurois, a new life
Of the Marquise de La Fayette
entitled ADRIENNE, based on
a mass of new papers recent
ly turned up in an old cha
teau,
Evening star., 1961-02-12
TWO FRENCH AUTHORS
With an Ear
For RebuttoI
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

MEMORIES NTERIEURS. BY Francois Mauriac. Trans
lated by Gerard Hopkins. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
$475)
RESISTANCE REBELLION, AND DEATH BY Albert Camus
Translated by Justin oBren. (Alfred A. Knopf; So
These two books united in single notice only be-
cause they appear almost simultaneously and written by
two Of the most eminent contemporary French writer's Neither
are they particularly in conflict yet do they compile
ment each another Both good examples Of writing by
passionaey involved authors who nevertheless speak their
Evening star., 1961-02-12
PAPERBACKS

PAPERBACKS
THE BANQUET YEARS. BY
Roger Shattuck. (Anchor,
$1.45J The origins Of the
Avant-garde movement in
France from 1885 to World
War Ia reprint.
A COMPOSERS WORLD. BY
Paul Hindmith. Double
day; 95 cents. A study Of
a composers relation to his
art-reprinted.
THE WELLSPRINGS OF
LIFE. BY Isaac Asimov.
(Mentor: so cents.) The
story of natural life on
earth and a history of
biology.
A FEARFUL JOY. BY Joyce
Cary. doubleday; $l.45.)
Avant-garde life at the
turn of the century.
Evening star., 1961-02-12

AGING IN THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON. Edited by
William S. Hopkins. (Uni-
versity Of Washington, So
A study Of geriatric prob
lens.
SHERPA ADVENTURE. BY
Shovel Styles. vanguard;
So Two youths attempt
a Himalayan rescue with
limited equipment and ex-
perience.
RATVAVAE. By Donald
Marshall. Doubleday:
$4.95.) An expedition to a
mysterious Polynesian is
land proves that life under
the missionaries is not as
colorful as in ancient
pagan days.
THE KING OF THE NOUN
TAINS. BY M. A. Jagen-
dorf and r. S. Boggs.
vanguard; $4.95D A treas
ury Of Latin American
Folk stories.
THE SOCIAL WELFARE
FORUM, 1860. columbia
University Official pro-
ceedings of the 87th ma
tional social welfare con-
ference.
INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT IN THE
COMMERCIAL BANK. BY
Roger A. Lyon. (Rutgers;
$4.500 A Rutgers banking
series outline of a flexible
investment policy within
the confines of a flexible
bond market.
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC AD-
MINISTRATION. BY James
l.. McCamy. university of
Alabama; $500
Evening star., 1961-02-12
Other Books Of the Week in Brief
FICTION

FICTION
A BATTLE is FOUGHT TO
BE WON. BY Francis
Clifford. (Coward-McCann,
$3.95.) A study of the fear
of a bank-officer- turned
commando captain in the
savage Burma jungle Of
World War II.
DAYS OF GOLD. BY Erwin
R. Blacker. (World, $4.50D
Intrigue and romance in
the Yukon country.
Evening star., 1961-02-12
A LIVING BILL OF RIGHTS,
by William o. Douglas.
doubleday; $l.50.)

This little book, as Justice
Douglas candidly says in a
foreword, states a philoso-
ply or point of view This
ownJ concerning the Bill of
Rights" And since the book
is directed primarily at
younger citizens" this is a
point which the reader should
keep in mind. For other men,
men who are not less quail
fled to discuss the Bill of
Rights. would disagree and.
in fact, have disagreed, with
many Of the views which
Justice Douglas expounds.
Nevertheless, this is a lucid,
stimulating and provocative
discussion Of those hard-won
American freedoms which too
Evening star., 1961-02-12

bious virtue. since "The
Mar : Eater Of Malgudi"
seems. in the last analysis,
to be merely trifling.
Evening star., 1961-02-12
READING AND WRITING
Mr.. Noroyon Depicts
Village Life in India
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

India is much chroncled fiction these days Some
times through ireland used TO- rather cute
country, inhabited by whimsical amess people who hustle
about good deal attempting to make impression without
really doing anything.
R. K. Narayan who has won much acclaim for his
Evening star., 1961-02-12
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Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
Pa. Governor
Praises NAACP

The freedom loving Americans
"could not have made the progress
we have achieved in the field of
civil rights without the strong and
determined action of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Pennsylvania
Governor David L. Lawrence de-
clared in an address welcoming
the delegates to the Association
Sind annual convention viii C n
closed here today.
Speaking at the opening public
session at Tindley Temple on July
10, Gov. Lawrence paid warm trib-
ute to the work of the NAACP.
The actions of the Association, he
said, "have been rational and
calm" The NAACP ''has chosen
as it's battle-ground the enforce
ment of the Constitution and il
has not wavered in its legal strug
gle"
The Governor recalled his Ions
association with the NAACP, as
Mayor of Pittsburgh and later as
Governor, in working for the ex
tension of civil rights to all seq
ments of the community. He citeC
particularly FEPC and fair hous
ing legislation.
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
Chairman Calls For
More Freedom Fighters

Philadelphia - In a r0uSing key
note address opening the SIND an
nual convention of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Bishop Stephen
G. Spottswood called for "a
phalanx of freedom fighters
to join in the drive to a victory
that has been made sure by the
varied and brilliant tactics and
the steady pounding of our NAA-
CP." The week-long convention is
in session here July 1O-July 16.
Bishop Spottswood, new chair.
man of the Associations Board Of
Directors, recounted current and
recent activities of the organiza-
ton and reviewed its long history
of achievements in the field oi
civil rights.
Dramatic exposure of segrega'
ton practices" he said, are use
full in focusing attention on this
evil and in jarring complacent
public opinion. 1t is important tc
dramatize the right for freedom
by such feats, but that is moi
enough. "Sure-footed and solidly.
based progress is achieved moi
through occasional spectacular
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
Kennedy Urges
(Continued from Page One)

Continued from rage OneJ
ing on behalf of the delegation,
told Mr.. Kennedy: "The concern
of your administration for basic
human rights is as encouraging
as it is unmistakable. You left no
doubt about where you stand on
civil rights and the recognition OF
all persons on the basis of indi-
vidual merits.
"Your directives to your depart
ments and agencies and your
fortnight action to establish a non
discriminatory employment policy
for firms holding government con-
tracts, as exemplified in the Lock
heed Aircraft case, have won the
applause of anation that believes
deeply in fair play for ALL
However, the NAACP Board
Chairman continued, 1.-The absence
of a clear call from you for en-.
actment of civil rights legislation
has been a source of dismay te
those working for civil rights. Ir
view of the specific and unequi.
vocal announcements of the plat
form on which your were elected
and in the light of your own pro
mise of last fall to employ legis-
Bative action, also, to achieve
civil rights goals, there is grave
concern over the prospect that
without support from the White
House, there may be no Congress
sional action on the urgently need
ed bills now in various stages o.
unreadiness."
Expressing awareness of the
gravity of the International crisis
Bishop Spottswood assured the
President of ''our understanding
and our support for you as vol
face the challenges to our security
on the international stage"
A very representative group
consisting of board members ant
branch presidents was received b!
President Kennedy.
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
NAACP HONORs TOP CHAPTERS

Baltimore, the Associations fifth
largest branch conducted a voter
registration drive that resulted In
20, 600 new voters in rs days, rails
ing Negro voting strength to 104,-
600. The branch also supported
extensive youth demonstrations a
gainst discrimination in depart
ment store facilities and reStau
rants.
State conference citations went
to Florida, for fighting intimida
tion by state agencies; to Virginia,
for withstanding harassment by
state legislative agencies; and to
North Carolina, for school desc
gregation work.
The Ike Smalls Award, for mem
bership increase, went to Memphis
which moved from 5000 members
in 1859 to 6,182 members in 1860
Top branch and state conference
publication awards went to Jamai
ca, N. Y; Cleveland; Central Long
Island, N. Y; and New Haven
Conn.
Also cited were Elizabeth, N. Y.
Schenectady and Rochester, N. "
Seattle, Wash; Berkshire County
Mass; and in the state category
New York for Focus" Florid;
for "The Freedom Fighter" ant
New England Regional for "Th'
Communication"
The awards were made at tn
annual Freedom Fund Dinner.
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
TV MOUies
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Paul Douglas
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1O3OKTVK (3)-Theare After Dark"Tarzan And She Devil
Lex Barker, Joyce Mackenzie.
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Arizona sun., 1961-07-27

forays," the prelate pointed out,
''but through unrelenting and un-
ceasing pressure on all fronts
across the years, in every year.
Directing a challenge to the D.
600 delegates and visitors, the
NAACP Board Chairman called
''for a phalanx of freedom fight
ers that will win the war, not
Just battles. We have shed too
many tears of both despair and
Joy, we have sacrificed too much
blood of too many pioneers and
martyrs to be carried away In
this late day by the euphony of
new slogan, or by the symptom
ic repetition of old and enduring
truisms We are too old in
the ways of the long struggle that
has engaged our fathers and fore
fathers not to realize that wars
are won by using every available
military resource and not by the
employment of raiding parties
alone"
Among the forces seeking to
stay the NAACP drive of equality,
Bishop Spottswood named the
John Birch Society which he call
ed ''more of a threat than iron
pipe mobsters in Alabama, for
the Birch Society wears the robes
of responsibility and does not
conduct its campaigns in gut
ters and alleys. But be not de-
Iceived. It's No. 1 objective is the
| impeachment of Chief Justice Ear
Warren of the United States Su
preme Court for handing down the
school segregation ruling :. the
John Birch Society is much more
than a kissing cousin of the State
of Mississippi
/ While hailing the Kennedy Ad
ministration for its concern fol
civil rights, as indicated by it:
executive action, the Bishop de
Iplored the legislation so neces
sary to back up the pronounce
lments and actions of the Execu
tive Branch of government :. ]
is to the enduring law that the
citizen must look for protection o
his rights and for redress of hi
grievances, not to passing per
sonalities, no matter how uprigh
or courageous.
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27

Philadelphia, Pa, Eleven MA
ACP chapters received Thalheimer
Awards for outstanding program
activities at the Associations Sind
annual convention ending here this
week.
Memphis ranked first for num-
erous integration activities includ
ing lunch counter break thrOughs,
registration and voting, public &C
commodations and other successes.
Second prize, for branches with
out paid staff, went to Jamaica,
N. Y, for voter registration, pick
citing, leadership training and cult
ural activities.
New Rochelle, N. Y, received
honorable mention in this category
for its support Of parents seeking
to integrate the New Lincoln
School there.
Greensboro, N. c., was cited fer
defending As arrested Sit-in stu
dents and for work in the area OF
expanding job opportunities, and
Richmond, Va. for selective buy
ing.
The awards bear the name Ol
DIR. Ross Thalheimer, their donor
Among branches with paid ex
ecutives honored was Detroit, the
Associations largest unit with 25
600 members and a highly varied
program. Cleveland, Ohio, reach
ed its highest membership in his
tory, $1,000, and fought housing
discrimination and police brutality
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
New Membership
(Continued from PAGE One)

CONTINUED from Page One)
gional Secretary who designed the
program has stated that National
leaders will be advised of the pro
ject for the first time when dele
gates attend the National Con
vention in Philadelphia July 10
18th. Many Branches will bring
their Freedom Chain to the Con-
vention for display. Membership
chairmen were urging the public
to hurry and renew their mem
bership in time to have their name
placed on a link in the Freedom
Chain to be sent to this important
National Convention.
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
REPORTERS COLLIDE

Competing television reporters
John Smith and Bob Manning,
of Nashville, Tenn, we're driving
into town in separate ears when
an ambulance raced by them in
the opposite direction. Both start
ed U-turns to follow. Their cars
collided.
Arizona sun., 1961-07-27
IT'S THE TRUTH.

If all the cars in the country
were placed end to end there
would be someone who would pull
out and try to pass.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Cost of Auto Lot
Under Square Put
At $3.2 Million

The planned four-level park
ing lot under Farragut square
will cost about $3.2 Million
about 81 million more than
previously expected-the Con-
necticut Avenue Association
was told last night.
William Hampton, deputy di-
rector Of the Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency, said the esti-
mate was made recently by a
Chicago firm hired to draft
plans for the lot.
Mr.. Hampton said the firm
also suggested the possibility
Of an entrance on K street west
Of Connecticut avenue with an
exit east of the avenue. Earlier
plans had suggested an en-
trance on Connecticut avenue.
The parking agency has not
yet acted on the proposal,
which must ultimately receive
the approval of Congress.
Mrs. William r. Connole,
president of the Connecticut
State Society, presented Christ
mas window display awards to
Connecticut avenue merchants.
The Joan Roberts Store was
cited for the most artistic large
window display. Scandinavian
Airlines received an award for
the most artistic small window.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Mrs. Price, IS,
Active Baptist
In Bethesda

Mrs. George H. Price. rs. q
church visitor and former
choir director at Bethesda First
Baptist Church, died yesterday
at Sibley Hospital.
A native of Washington,
Mrs. Price attended District
public schools and was active
in Baptist affairs all her life.
Mrs. Price was a member Of
the Executive Board of the
D. C. Baptist Convention, an
executive of the Baptist Home
in Georgetown and for IS years
a member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Florence Crit
.tenton Home.
Widowed several years ago,
Mrs. Price leaves two daugh-
ters, Mrs. John Mccullough Of
the home address. 1904 Hardy
avenue. Wheaton, Md, and
Mrs. David Whitten OF Balti-
more. She also leaves three
grandchildren.
Services will be at / pm. to-
morrow atsBethesda First Bap.
tist Church, 5033 Wilson lane.
Arrangements are being ham
died by the Pumphrey Funeral
Home. 1857 Wisconsin avenue,
Bethesda. Burial will be In
Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Moscow Claims
U. S. Destroyer
'MoIested' Ship

LONDON, Jan. 18, (AP)-
Moscow radio said the Soviet
motor ship Andreyev reported
by radio 1t was molested in the
Arabian Sea yesterday by the
United States Navy destroyer
Ingraham.
"The destroyer molested the
Soviet vessel for 25 minutes.
twice approaching to within
one cable length" the broad
cast said. "The crew Of the
Andreyev expresses its pro-
found indignation at the ac-
tions Of the warship."
In Washington, the Navy de-
clined to comment except to
say that the Ingraham was in
the area Of the Western Ara
bian Sea yesterday. It refer
red questioners to the State
Department.
A State Department spokes-
man said this is Just a con-
tinuation Of q campaign Of
accusations Moscow has been
carrying on for months.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Nelson PurtIow,.
Retired Merchant
At Ashburn, Va.

ASHBURN. Va. Jan. ls
(SpeciaD Nelson Partlow, So,
q retired Ashburn merchant,
died at the District Nursing
Home in Warrenton yesterday
after q cebral hemorrhage.
A native Of Prince William
County. Mr.. Partlow came to
Loudoun County in 1880 and
operated a general merchandise
store in Ashburn for l8 years,
retiring in 1948. The store is
now operated by his two sons,
Calvin N. and Melvin L.
Mr.. Partlow was q member
|of the Ashburn Masonic Lodge
and Calvary Baptist Church.
His wife died in 1850. Besides
his sons, he leaves two brothers,
Murrel Partlow Of Aldie, and
w. e. Partlow Of Manassas,
and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services win be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the Muse
and Reed Funeral Home in
Leesburg. Burial will be in
Leesburg Union Cemetery.