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Evening star., 1961-03-19

by a desire to adorn their
cities and leave a legacy Of
beauty; clearly recognizing
as perhaps it has not been as
fully recognized since then
that art and architecture are
pursuits in which only art
lists can excel.
Here, too, is the infamous
ly appealing Lorenzo ("The
Magnificent") de- M dici,
one of the most polished and
civilized tyrants ever to add
SAVIOR to the history Of art.
Lorenzo died in the same
year Columbus discovered
America. But he lived for
three years after he brought
Michelangelo into his pal
ace school in Florence as a
l4-year-old apprentice.
1t was to Lorenzo's desire
that a new generation of art
lists be trained that the
world owes its debt for the
earliest release of Michel
angeles powers as a sculptor
and a Platonist.
A Work of Years
In Lorenzo's tradition, his
protege was magnificent too.
In the tradition Of them
both, this is a truly magnifi-
cent novel-a sweeping work
that takes your breath away.
To write it. Mr.. Stone had
all the existing 495 Michel
angelo letters translated into
English. He spent several
years living and working in
Italy. He engaged in re-
search in Rome, Florence
and other Italian cities. He
worked in a marble quarry,
and apprenticed himself to a
sculptor to give himself an
understanding of the enV-
ronment in which Michel
angelo spent his life.
The resulting 664 pages are
clearly well documented. II,
at times, the action tends to
suggest soap opera - whip
saving, as 1t does, from one
crisis to another-there Is no
need to cavil. For this Is q
story from life.
ROBERT J. LEWIS.
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a mystery. Who is he, where
is he, what has he done?
They are obviously pertinent
questions, never asked, never
answered. Nine. Vienot her
self is an energetic, capable.
middle-aged woman. Her
background is upper-claSs.
She abhors letting rooms,
but she is a good hostess,
intelligent and friendly,
thoughtful. But not really
thoughtful-she doesn't really
hear what's said to her.
There are the matters Of the
double bed, the hot water,
the bicycle. She Is definitely
somewhat sharp in financial
matters. She is q friend, an
experience to come to France
for, but do you want to get
away from her or know her
better? The Rhodes are
never sure, although in her
letters home Barbara is more
enthusiastic about Beaumes-
nil than her husband and the
reader knows she really is.
Then there is the wealthy
couple whose aloofnesS is
pierced momentarily by q sort
Of French game OF Scrabble;
there is the young couple
Eugene and Alix, so mercurial
that their happy friendship
changes to apparent gloomy
dislike overnight. What is
it? Are the two malajusted?
Is 1t a triangle, or simply
that Eugene is furious be-
cause he doesn't have the
dinner-jacket he needs that
night. Are they jealous Of
the Rhodes, or contemptuous2
There are many more
characters. None Is quite
usual; on the other hand
none is boldly drawn in the
grand manner-a Baron de
Charlus, a Julien Sorel, an
Emma Bovary, an Albertine.
The Rhodes seek them all and
find them only momentarily:
they all are involved with the
Americans. too, but even the
usually older and invariably
more experienced French
never achieve either contact
or final separation.
But is it all so inauspicious,
so inconclusive, so terribly
and unrelievedly natural? No,
Mr.. Maxwell is y novelist,
and at exactly the proper
moment he brings Art to be
the catalyst Of life.
The book closes with .
50-page epilogue-A CONVEX
sation between author and
reader, who observe a rela-
tionship something like au-
thor and reader in Belloc's
THE Path to Rome" "Is that
alp" asks the reader, What
were the mysteries? What did
really happen7"
The author is polite and
helpful but a bit unintereSted.
80 many things could have
happened, wouldn't it be fun
to draw your own conclusions,
fabricate your own explana-
tionS?" Il paraphrase him
rather than quote him. But,
II you want, all right, I'll tell
you everything. although in
some cases there are several
mutually exclusive possibili-
ties. For example. I don't
really know whether Nine
Vienot's daughter married q
Polish, Hungarian, or Spsn-
ish refugee. But generally
speaking, the things that
happened that the Rhodes
didn't see or couldn't under
stand were these. -"
The author continues, fill
ing in what was left out Of
the book, and sketching in
what happened later. He
counters objections by the
reader. GIVE really had
enough Of those swallows
skimming the rooftopS." -
For some reason I never
grow tired Of them" replies
the author mildly.) He ex-
plains, he discusses. In these
so pages Of retouching in
scrutable life he causes q
great shock Of recognition. a
flood Of comprehension, to
sweep over the reader. The
Chateau" isn't a miscellany,
after all. but a work Of art.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Du Muurier Tells
Of the LuckIess
Brother Bronte
THE INTERNAL WORLD
OF BRANWELL BRONTE.
By Danhne III MaIrier

ne lint EhINAL WOhLD
OF BRANWELL BRONTE.
BY Daphne Du Maurier.
Doubleday & Co.; $4.500
Miss Du Maurier, having
created a few of her own
Is something of a connoisseur
Of Gothic heroes. Patrick
Branwell Bronte, the luck
less brother Of the Bronte
sisters. outdid any Of her
creatures. AS wildly imagina-
tive as they, and in their
youth as productive Of bizarre
chronicles of death and
doomed love, he suffered
from a fatal lack-he had
no self-discipline. For a while
he tried to be a railway clerk,
but he failed even at that.
The supposed romance with
a married woman which led
to his drug-taking and con-
slant drunkenness was in fact.
Miss Du Maurier feels,
another figment of that sadly
over-heated mind, agitated
further by epilepsy.
Miss Du Mau'ier cannot
make much drama Of this
miserable, brief life. Too
much Is speculation. But, Of
course everything about that
fantastically tragic family is
fascinating, and she contrib
utes an insight about Bran
well that is worth it all. THE
truth is that Branwell Bronte,
born and bred in Yorkshire.
was not a Yorkshireman at
all. He belonged by blood
and temperament to the first
feckless group from across
the water which might
beckon him; to the eloquent,
unpublished poets Of many a
Dublin side-street, to the
painters with canvases un-
touched, to the musicians
with notes unscored, to the
fierce arguing politicians of
the Liffey-side pubs who had
failed in their exams for
Trinity College. He belonged
to the great company Of
gifted, wasted Irishmen who,
in their mother country. are
content to fail and dream,
but transplanted to another
break in body and soul"
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Thriller Takes You
Along With the Cops
BY BETTY MILES
Star staff Writer

THAT NIGHT 1T RAINED. BY Hillary Waugh Doubleday
& Co.; $2950
A fine story of police procedure in the murder of
friendly farmer death with dumdum bullet In his
doorway rainy night The killer to be stranger
the community his motive unknown his murder plan i'm
pressve The wife lovely and suspect The story
contriYed vet the denouemen is dramatic and
Evening star., 1961-03-19

was The Stars reviewers
Judgment.
The non-fiction award was
no surprise to anyone-except
its author. Mr.. Shirer had
heard reports that it might
win but was under the i'm
preston that 1t didn't stand
much chance because it was
at the top Of the best-seller
list and he thought the
awards went to more-or-less
unnoticed books. Everybody
was happy Especially It's
publisher, Simon & Schuster)
that he was wrong.
Mr.. Jarrell's book-"The
Woman at the Washington
Zoo" published by Atheneum
Books-reflectS the two years
he spent here as poetry con-
sultant in the Library Of Con-
gress. 1t inspired also the
judges to poetic flights them
selves: ". a book in which
fantasy opens out into terror
and the effervescence Of wit
subserves the seriousness Of
thought"
Books 10 Grind
Helping out in the cele-
brationS for the winners and
near winners were many
others with books to grind
Elizabeth Spencer, whose
"A Light in the Piazza" was
the underground fiction
favorite Of many critics,
down from Canada (where
she's living with her British
husband) or up from Car
rollton, Miss. (where she
came from and bearing the
good news that she's writing
another novel. This one will
be short, too. she says, being
a firm believer in the virtues
Of selectivity. She's not sure
what a "noVella" is but thinks
that's what she's writing ,
Maurice Hindus, just back
from a trip to Russia and
putting the last touches to
House Without a Roof"
the story Of Russia in the
last 43 years Ilka Chase
who has a new travel book
coming out to be called THE
Carthaginian Rose" the title
being from Edna st. Vincent
Millay, It's about travels
everywhere. E. T.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
O'CONNOR LOOKS BACK
A Patron Saint
ForDoy-Dreomer
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

To say that Frank OConnors new book is an ishrnans
memories of his mother is true but hardly descriptive
AN ONLY CHILD Knopf 450) is in fact knife through
heart anyone pain bewilder-
men of growing up ghtened only by the Love Of
petely satisfactory parent.
Mr. OConnor's case, it his mother who made it
possible him in Cork Slum in poverty
father whose drunkenness periodically stripped their
little home Of every movable object Mr.. OConnors mother
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Readers Are the Real Winners
THE BOOK AWARDS

The emphasis at the Ma
tional Book Awards events
in New York last week was
on neither publishing nor
writing, but instead, on read
ing.
The book industry assem-
bled its own leaders and an
impressive list Of authors but
the deepest bows were to the
unseen and unpresent read
erS. Speaker after speaker
went back to the fundamen-
tai: We must be read.
William I. Nichols, editor
and publisher Of This Week
Magazine, said: II think that
all Of us could cheerfully
take an oath to support the
printed word. First, because
1t is the source and basis Of
our existence. In literal
truth 1t Is the word we live
by. But second = and less
cyrically - the word, the
printed word, deserves our
support because it is essen
tial to the health and sur
vival Of our society. The
spread Of literacy, the devel-
opment of a better read and
better informed population,
is, in my opinion, the great
est need Of our democracy"
The goal Of literscy is
never really met; but there
are hopeful signs. Mr.. Mich
OILS saw nothing less than a
revolution in our reading
habits in the fact that nearly
a million paperback books
are sold a day. But virtue
resides not in numbers but in
quality. From now on our
concern should be not with
more books but with better
books not more reading,
but better reading :"
Quality in Verse
The plea for quality ran
also through the words Of
Randall farrell, winner of
the book award for the best
volume of poetry in 1860. In
sharper words she recalled
an event in Washington on
last January 20:
II think all Of us are CRATE
full that, for the first time in
the history Of the Republic.
a great poet was invited to
help inaugurate the President
of the United States. The
President made his invitation
not as a friend, not as a poll
tician, but as a reader: Any OF
us who heard the President
talk about Frost and read
some lines Of Frost's poetry
on television a month after
the Inauguration, will re.
member that he spoke as
only a real reader Of Frost
could speak, and read the
lines almost as Frost himself
would have read them. It's
good to have Frost and Ba-
lanchine around the White
House. 1t is good to have
Fred Waring in the juke-
boxes, but 1t was sad to have
Fred Waring, nothing but
Fred Waring, in the White
House too. 1t is a pleasure
to think that for the next
four or eight years our art
and our Government won't be
complete strangers.
A still sharper criticism
was made by William L
Shirer whose THE Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich" wa'
this years non-fiction award
winner. II realize" said he
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helped him through his la
borious efforts to learn a for
eign language, to find poetry,
completed the conversion.
Mr.. O'Connor's chapters on
the Trouble, and on the Civil
War which followed are bril-
liant and ironic.
AN Only Child" brings the
author only up to the age of
20. We trust there will be
more. If Mr.. O'Connor sus-
tains this flawless writing,
this powerful emotion, his
memoirs will rank with those
Of Sean O'Casey, whose saw
age and lyric "reminiscences
up to now have been the best
Of a very good lot.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
His Fame Grows
From Day to Day

THE AGONY AND THE
ECSTASY. BY Irving Stone.
Doubleday & Co., Inc;
$3.50
Michelangelo Buonarroti
was to become the fiercest,
most frustrated, most famous
artist in the history Of man
kind.
He was forced, against his
will, to excel as a painter.
But he sucked into bone and
spirit an ambition to be a
sculptor, a shaper of burn
ing beauty"
Almost from the time he
was put to nurse. as a child,
with a marble workers wife,
he strove to break the marble
spell" and bring forth images
he saw within the rough
hewn stone.
Yet his greatest work was
undoubtedly the magnificent
frescoeS on the ceiling Of the
Sistine Chapel in Rome.
There he created, while
painting on his back-high
in a scaffold during four
and-a-half long years-his
great masterpiece in the me-
dium he never preferred.
Novelized Biography
In this sweeping novelized
biography. Irving Stone un-
folds Michelangelo's triumphs
and disappointments, his
loves and dalliances, his road
to eventual glory as the un-
disputed transcendent genius
Of the Italian Renaissance.
In the 397 years since his
death at the age of SO,
Michelangelo's fame has
grown almost with each pass
ing day. AS Granacci, the
friend Of his youth, once
said:
Art has a magic quality;
the more minds that digest
it, the longer it lives"
AS Of recent count, the
astounding number Of over
2,400 publications deal with
Michelangelo's life and work.
Most recent is this novel by
Mr.. Stone. an enormously
successful writer whose repu-
tation was established 81
years ago with publication
Of Lust for Life" the en-
during work on the life of
vincent van Gogh.
The Agony and the
Ecstasy" spreads before us
the Machiavellisn world Of the
Italian princely states. 1t let's
us penetrate this age, wide
eyed as tourists and ready to
experience JOY and suffering,
along with Michelangelo, as
his life and genius unfold.
70 Punctuating this story, but
hushed and unaccented. are
fratricidal wars between CITY,
states, religious struggles, the
panorama Of a culture in
turmoil. Taking precedence
in the foreground, and pulls
ing with life, are the men in
painters studios and sculp-
tors gardens.
A succession of Popes are
here, and princes, transfixed
Evening star., 1961-03-19
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS
TheSpecioICroft
Of Mr.. Maxwell
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE CHATEAU. By William Maxwell. (Alfred A.
Knopf: $4.s5)
What would happen II novelist decided it would be
interesting discard number Of the desdirata of his
colleagues and write good book in the Of endless
ones2 Suppose that instead Of developing the pesona
Evening star., 1961-03-19

THE AGONY AND THE
ECSTASY. By Irving Stone.
Doubleday & Co., Inc;
$3.50
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30

About 100000 acres of Kodiak and surrounding islands will be opened for state selection under an order signed Tuesday by Sec retary of the Interior Stewart Udall.
 The acreage is part of 2.5 million acres of public lands set aside by executive order 8344 of February 10, 1940, for classification.
 Under the release order, which is public land order No. 2417 of June 26, 1861, 18 million acres of the original withdrawal will con tinue to be a Kodiak bear refuge, John Carver, assistant secretary of the Interior, told the congressional delegation.
 Any acreage of the opened land not selected by the state within 90 days as part of its statehood land
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
Council Told Road Construction
 Should Get Underway By Mid-August
at Old Harbor.

The City should get started on its program of road surfacing by the middle of August, the City Council was told by City Manager Bill Poland at its meeting last night.
 Starting of the work, he said, has been hampered by lack of skilled labor in operating heavy equip ment, and suitable equipment it. self, as we'll as breakdowns. An op- orator has been brought in from Anchorage, and rock breaking is in progress, notices for removal of trees, etc. on right-of-ways have been sent out, the planning work near completion. With few good breaks we should begin paving by mid-August," he said.
 The City Council lent a sympa- thetic ear to Ray Albrecht, who ap- peared before it, offering a plan for remodelling his home on Res anoff Drive. His original plan for the remodelling did not meet with the approval of the City's Planning Commission. Objection was that the house would be too close to the street. His revised plan calls for approximately 12 feet of land from the house to his property line, as against five feet before. Council voted to recommend ap- proval of the revised plan. The de- cision was based mainly on the fact of the partial construction of the home, and the necessity of complet- ing it, and the fact that other homes on the street project out even further than Albrecht's home.
 No decision was reached on a protest by Mrs. Archie Lewis, who appeared before the Council, on a revision of her property tax on buildings at the corner of Benson Ave. and Alaska Way. The property has not been used for several years due to the proposed road to be built by the State which would cut off part of the building. Decision
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
Protest City
 Land Acquisition

Considerable discussion arose at the Council meeting Thursday on the City's request to the Bureau of Land Management to acquire the land which embraces the area from Mill Bay Road to and including Ab- ercrombie. It is planned to set this area up as recreational area.
 Protests have been made 10 Councilman by individuals owning property nearby. A total of approx imately 400 acres is involved, which includes the watershed area.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
Have Chutes, Will Jump, Say NC Men Spectacular Display 4th Of July Event

weather on the fourth, the jump will be delayed until 1O:3O A. M. on the fifth. The best places to view the jumps will be the Stand ard Oil Dock, the Small Boat Har- Dor, and the extension of Marine Way that runs between them.
 During the afternoon of the Fourth, Company D will hold open house in the Kodiak Armory, where the Parachute Club will display and demonstrate it's equipment. Three types of parachutes will be on display. At 200 P. M. there will be a demonstration showing how parachute is packed.
 The public is cordially invited.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
7000,00O Acres Released On Island
 Executive Order No. 8344 Revoked

grant will be available for entry under usual public land regula- tions.
 The Kodiak Area Chamber of Commerce, through it's Lands Com mittee, sought and obtained SUD- port from the congressional dele gation to have the original execu- tive order revoked.
 Revocation of the executive or der affects Kodiak, Uganik, Spruce, Sitkalidak. and Aiaktalik Islands, including, with certain exceptions "all adjacent islands, rocks and pinnacles within two miles of the shores thereof comprising approxi- mately 2,500, ,000 acres"
 A portion of the order continues as follows: "Of the areas released from withdrawal by this order, an
 Continued on Page 9)
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
City Awards Bids

Kodiak Oil Sales and the Union Oil Company were successful bid ders for supplying stove and fur mace oil and gas and diesel oil to the City.
 Kodiak Oil Sales, consignee for Union Oil Company, with low bid of .183 won over Thompson Trans fer's bid of .191 for stove oil, and the latter's bid of .176 for furnace oil. They bid .175.
 Bids for supplying gasoline were each .28. Policy of the Council is to award a company other than exist ing supplier when bids are the same. Low bid of Union of PA for diesel beat that of Standard Oils .25.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
Group Of Scientist Arriving Here For Early AIeut Study On Island

from the University of Wisconsin. These two will work at Sitkalidak most of the time, but will also spend some time at Nicolski, Um- nak Island. Others already here are pr. Edward Beals, U. of Wis consin Plant Biologist, who will be making studies of animals on Sit kalidak; Richard Nelson, Henry Lundsgaarde and Joel Hubbard. The latter three will collect fish and invertebrates in the Old Har- Dor area.
 Arriving today are Dr. Erik Shel- Ter, Ophthalmologist from Copen- hagen, Sweden, who will make study at Old Harbor; and Dr. Al bert Dahlberg, from the University of Chicago, Senior Dental Surgeon of Public Health Reserve, who will also work at Old Harbor. Mrs. Dahl berg is accompanying him.
 Keneth Taylor, of St. Andrews College, Scotland, also arrives to- day, as does Morgan Usadel and William McHugh, the latter two from the U. of Wisconsin. These three will work on diggingsite at Rolling Bay. Carter Denniston, from the U. of Wisconsin, also ar rives today. He will do blood typing at Old Harbor.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30

will be made following a formal protest upon receipt of tax evalu- ation notice, which Mrs. Lewis stated she had not received.
 Three members of the Council will assume the role of Solomon in an attempt to resolve differences between Bob Acheson and City Wharfinger Jack Metzgar. Acheson appeared before the Council pro- testing an action by the wharfinger, who, he said, refused two parcels for shipment on the Expansion be cause they arrived after closing hour for freight acceptance. Delay in getting the shipments aboard, Acheson said, was due to the freight's arrival a half-hour before the time, the repacking for ship ment Westward. Since the wharfin- ger would not accept them, the par cells were taken aboard the ship, but were removed by Metzgar and were later taken back to the store.
 The committee, consisting of Wilton White, John Patterson and Bill Criss, will bring the two to- gether in an effort to iron out the differences and set policy.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
Fourth Of July
 Events Scheduled

Independence Day July will be celebrated in the traditional man. ner again this year with events scheduled for most of the day.
 A pre-Fourth dance, open to the public, will be held at the Elks Hall the evening of July 3rd, be- ginning at g.
 At 9:3O on the Fourth, there will be parade. Beginning at the Post Office, it will travel via Main Street, Shelikof, Marine Way to the Small Boat Harbor. The parade will be followed by a flag raising cere- mony at the Harbor at 10 a. m. Reeves Read is in charge of the parade and Walt Kraft the flag raising ceremony.
 At 10:3O the first of 20 parachute jumps by members of the Anchor age National Guard will be staged. Landing is on Near Island. M/Sgt. Archie Zehe is making local ar engagements for the event. Chil- drens races are scheduled for p. m. This will be followed by an ice cream give-a-way for the chil- dren. Arrangements for these events are being handled by Walt Muller.
 At 4 o'clock, the National Guard will stage parachute exhibit at the Armory From to 8, a Com munity Bar-b-que will be held. The event is being arranged for by Jerry Redick. It is being staged by the Jaycees, and will feature bar becued beef sandwiches.
 The barbecue will be held at the downtown school playgroundS.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-06-30
Ernest P. Graves Dies In Seattle

Ernest P. Graves, 46, died of pneumonia on June q at the Marine Hospital, Seattle, Washing ton. MT. Graves, who was born at Avoca, Minnesota on February 10, 1915, had been ill for nearly two years previous to his death.
 MT. Graves, commercial fisher man, had spent most of his time here since he first came to Kodiak in 1886.
 Survivors include his wife, Irene; his mother, Mrs. Ida Graves of Battle Lake, Minnesota; two broth CTS, John of Seattle, Washington, and Elmer, of Portland, Oregon; two sisters, Mrs. Loretta Bjork and Elmira Graves of Seattle, and four step-children.
 Services for the deceased were held in Seattle last week, and at the Community Baptist Church in Kodiak on Wednesday, June 28. In torment followed at the Russian Cemetery in Kodiak.