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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-15

T. j. McIlwaine. division sup
erlntendent told the board that
a resolution would have to be
submitted with the census for it
to be the official record at the
State Boards office. Otherwise
the census would be regarded
as a routine report and not al
ter the 1855 census which is now
out of date, the superintendent
added.
The board approved a reso-
luton to submit the census to
make the county's record an &C
curate one.
Mc1lwaine reported that the
school board now gets about
$4,000 annually. With the new
census, it could drop to $4,000.
The school board was told
that it need not fear any conse-
quences of reporting the new
census because if and when pub
lie schools are reopened in the
county, state funds would again
be based on the average daily
attendance and the number of
teachers engaged in the county
program.
Civil Defense Talk
Civil defense responsibilities
OF the school board and the sup
erlntendent, in particular. were
discussed at length. Under the
state setup, the superintendent
Is supposed to be the chief war
den for public information serv-
ices. McIlWalne told the board.
No action was taken Oh the
civil defense proposals pending
receipt Of additional plans from
the state. The use of idle school
buildings for fallout shelters in
the several communities was
touched upon.
The school board s attitude
was summed I'D by DR.. w F,
Smith, chairman, who said,
we want to cooperate in this
matter. but at the present we
don't know exactly what we will
be expected to do.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-15

taking orders for restoring vol
umes needing attention. A team
of craftsmen follows him up full
filling these preliminary con-
tracts on site
HandtoOIs Only
The team here. George F.
Darragh, a company associate.
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-15
NatiOnuINe1us Summary
BY H. v. LANCASTER, JR.

, MERGER DEFEATED; RICHMOND PLANS TO ANNEX
. US. USING AIRLIFT IN FIGHT AGAINST KATANGA
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-15

to annex and pass an ordi-
nance to that effect on Dec. 26.
Officials of both counties say
they will fight annexation.
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Evening star., 1961-11-26
Miss Caldwell
Briefs Us in
Her New Novel
A PROLOGUE TO LOVE. By

A PROLOGUE TO LOVE. BY
Taylor Caldwell. Double
day; $3.50
Carolyn AmeS is the worlds
richest woman. Financial en-
pireS rise and fall at a nod
of her head. Fat lot of good
it does her though. She lives
in an unkempt house near
Boston (she hates to pay the
help, and wears old black
bombazine dresses. Carolyn's
unwillingneSS to part with a
nickel of her dividends
springs from the fact that
she is an emotional cripple,
incapable either of giving or
receiving love until the last
thirty = three pages.
Miss Caldwell's approach
to us readers is that of the
old Army sergeant briefing
the recruits: first she tells us
what she's going to tell us;
then she tells us; then she
tells us what she told us.
The result of this verboSity
is 613 pages outlining the
dreary existence of Carolyn,
her unsavory offspring, and
her confusing collection of
relatives. It's like wading
through an ocean of cold
oatmeal. The author has pro-
duced 81 novels in % years,
though, and has spent a
frightening amount of time
on the beSt-seller list, so she
would probably be out of her
mind to change her formula.
Caveat lector.
RUTH HUME.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
Of LocuI Interest

There are some Washing
ton related books nicely
suited to giving and getting.
The luShest is ART TREAS
URES FOR AMERICA, pub
lished in connection with
the forthcoming exhibition
of the Kress Collections at the
National Gallery of Art.
CPhaidon; $12.50). Sumptu-
ouSly illustrated, the book
creams the crop of five CEN
turieS of European paintings
and sculptures given by the
KreSS Foundation to many
American museums and uni
verSities, foremost among
them the National Gallery.
Solid commentary by Yale
professor Charles Seymour,
jr., and interesting collection
background by Guy Emerson
and John Walker.
Washington art types will
remember the brilliant Cor
coran show a few years back,
THE AMERICAN MUSE, by
Henri Dora, then assistant
director at the Corcoran, now
in Philadelphia. The book of
the same name (Viking;
$10) records the Illuminating
juxtapoSitionS of paintings
with poetry and prose from
our national beginnings until
today.
A TREASURY OF THE
WORLDS GREAT PRINTS.
BY Stephen Longstreet. ISL
mon and Schuster. $15O Not
the definitive print book, but
a generous selection of Euro
pean and Japanese prints the
popular novelist and former
Left Banker has liked. Com
ments are sometimes rather
odd. but the story is more
than adequately told in the
reproductions.
THE EARTHLY PARA
Disc: ART IN THE NINE
TENTH CENTURY. BY
Werner Hofmann. CBraziller.
$251 Unlike many books Of
Evening star., 1961-11-26
The Book That Introduces
New Nobel Prize Winner
THE BRIDGE ON THE

THE BRIDGE ON THE
DRINA, a novel by Ivo
Andric. (The Macmillan
Co.; $500
Two Andric, Yugoslavia's
foremost novelist, was
awarded this years Nobel
Prize for literature. The
Bridge on the Drina," pub
lished here in 1859, appeared
originally in 1945, and is
Americas introduction to the
work of the author. Andric
was born in 1892, in North
ern Bosnia, and passed much
Of his childhood in Wise
grad on the Drina, the locale
of the present book. He was
a university student in Sara
jevo, the town that set the
spark to the flint of the First
World War, and entered the
Yugoslav diplomatic service.
Yugoslav Minister in Berlin
at the outbreak of the Sec
ond World War, he lived in
retirement in Belgrade dur
ing the war, and has devoted
himself since that time to
the writing of novels.
The present book, consid-
cred by its excellent transla-
tor. Lovett F. Edwards, one
of the writer's greatest, is not
so much a novel as a chron-
icle-the story of the life and
vicissitudes of a Bosnian city
over $50 years. There is no
family that serves as a blind
ing factor or-the unifying fig
ure of the book is a magnifi-
cent bridge built in the 10th
century by the Ottoman En-
pire, and which became a
focal point in the long strug-
gle between East and West.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

The writing is dark, somber
and powerful. There is little
lightneSS or change of pace,
but though the book is al
ways saturated with death,
cruelty and fatalism. 1t is
never morbid or depressing.
Andric will tell in a sentence
a legend the origin of which
is lost in the mistS of time
and then recount in detail,
in measured and inevitable
prose, the event that created
it. The stories are simple
and terrible-the live i'm
placement by the Turks of
a Bosnian patriot who tried
to sabotage work on the
bridge, the suicide of a girl
promised to an unwanted
Suitor by her father, the sui
eide of a simple soldier dis
graced in his beguilement by
a Turkish girl while he is
doing guard duty on the
bridge, the execution of in
nocuouS old man.
The background Of the his
tory Of Bosnia and the con-
flicts of the people are not
part of the common culture
of Americans. The book is for
this reason somewhat diff
ficult and strange, but the
profundity and sweep of the
authors style have their ef-
feet on any reader. They are
the judicious reasons of the
Nobel judges choice.
ID. T.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
GIFT BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
Art Volumes Take Lead
Among De Luxe Issues

leading artists Of our cen
tury. Included are some little
known still lifes and all the
big dream pictures. The life
is as fascinating as the paint
ingS.
BRAQUE. BY John Rich
ardson. New York Graphic
Society; $12.5O). Another
large and lovely presentation
Of a modern master by a
house that specialiZes in high
quality color. The career is
fully documented in a text
that is somewhat more srgu- :
mentative than it has to be.
GISLEBERTUS. SCULP-
TOR OF AUTUN. By Denis
Grivot and George Zarnecki.
(Orion and Trianon; S13.500
A rare achievement in both
art scholarship and fine book
publishing. Gislebertus is per-
haps the only 12th-century'
sculptor of great scope who
is known. The book shows his
work at Autun over a 10-year
period, a marvelously free
and enduring treatment Of
scripture and nature. Black,
and white gravure.
BREUGEL'S DRAWINGS.
By Ludwig Num-. (Phaidon:
$13.50) The last major work
of a major scholar. The CONF
plete drawings are repro=
duced, usually full-size, along
with copies and attributions.
The text examines and class
ifies them all, patiently trac-'
ing the development of a great
artist. .y.
PICASSO TOREROS. BY
Jaime Sabartes, (Braziller;
$17.500 The short text is
about bull fighting. The point
of the book is the 103 repro
auctions of drawings by Pi-
casso on the subject. En-
trancing as ever. Book in
cludes four original litho-
graphs. one in color. g.
UTANIARO. BY j. Hitler.
(Phaidon; $12.5O0 Instruc-
tive text and over 100 excel
lent reproductions of work
by the great 18th-century'
Japanese. None of the eroticI
material is included. The
prints show clearly the in
fluence Utamaro has had on
modern Western art. t
Evening star., 1961-11-26
BOOKS IN REVIEW
As Texas Seems
To a Foreigner
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE SUPER AMERICANS. BY John Banbridge Double
day & Co.; $3.50
Gould John cambridge write great book about New
Jersey say North Dakota? Is it his subject Texas
skill in exposition that makes his study of the largest
glamorous the good reading every
page it? (Whe there those who Alaska
biggest State point that size by
land the extent of which in Alaska largely
water indeerminate subject atistcsO
Evening star., 1961-11-26
De Luxe and Curiosu

LAROUSSE ENCYCLOPE-
DIA OF GEOGRAPHY: EU--
ROPE. (Prometheus PreSss1
$17.50D Gorgeous presenta-4
ton. Everything a geography
should be including urbane
style and top photography. ID
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
BY John Gay. Introduction by
Louis Kronenberger, musical
commentary by Max Gober-i
man. (Argonaut; $1O.) Hand->
somely bound facsimile edi-
ton of the 1923 version, plus
all the airs of the original
production. Sing along with
John Gay.
THE ANATOMY OF
GLORY: NAPOLEON AND
HIS GUARD: A STUDY IN
LEADERSHIP. Adopted from
the French Of Henry La
chouque by Anne S. K.I
Brown. Brown University
Press: $140 The title means,
exactly what it says. Splen-
did Englishing of a French
classic. The birth, glory and
death-at Waterloo-of theJ
Old Guard. Old style hero
worship beautifully done,
with maps and dazzling
plates of actions and uni-H
forms.
THE ARTISTS WORLD
By Fred w. McDarrah. IntroA
duction by Thomas B. Hess.
(Dutton Paperback; $2.45).
New style hero-worship.
Photos and fan-club com-ii
ment on painters and others
approved by Art News. =
MODERN ART AND THE ri
CHURCH OF ASSY. BY Will,
liam S. Rubin. columbia;
$8.750 Expansion and revi-@
sion of a Columbia doctoralo ,
dissertation, describing they
most interesting experiment
in ecclesiastical modern art
and the corrosive effects it
yielded in church-art rela-T
tions. ..
U. S. CAMERA '62. Edited.
by Tom Maloney. Duell.
Sloane & Pearce; $10O The
annual with its usual compile b
ment of great and near-great
photos. The editorship is still
not proof against pretension, 4
but its proportion is low. "
WINE, WOMEN AND TO-a.
ROS! BY Vincent J-R. Kehoe. 2
Hastings House; $12.500 Ex- y
cellent photos and enthusias-.
tic and instructive text about
bulltlghtlng in Spain. All as
poets. For the aficionado, es- ID.
sential; for the baffled, en- II
tightening. e.,
THE ART OF CONSTAN-l
TINOPLE. BY John Beckwith. /.
tPhaidon. $685. Workman
like and we'll Illustrated sur-'s
vey of Byzantium's art from s
the founding to the fall ofsO
the city. a
TUDOR HISTORY OF
PAINTING. Edited by Robert
Maillard. (Tudor. $10O Tiny ,
pictures, but 1000 of them all
in color. Text necessarily fast
moving, but for the price J
and the scope a good job. -b
Evening star., 1961-11-26
THE COLD WAR AND IT'S

AAAA NOAO "EAAN EAAND - -
ORIGINS. BY D. F. Flem-
ing. (Two volumes, Dou-
bleday; $15O
The reader had better start
with the preface to this tre-
mendouS and interesting ac-
count of the Cold War, en-
bracing nearly 1900 pages,
before he goes on to the re-
mainder. For he needs to have
constantly in mind the state
ment by the author, D. F.
Fleming, professor Of inter
national relations at Van
derbilt University, that he
sought at every stage to pre-
sent the other side, how it
looks to the enemy in the
belief that this is essential to
the avoidance of the final
grand smash" Otherwise the
reader may sputter with rage
over nearly every chapter
and in any event come away
with a very poor opinion of
American leadership. Be-
cause, after the departure of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Cordell Hull from the scene,
until June, 1860, when these
two volumes were completed,
American leadership in for
eign affairs is sharply con-
demned.
Actually it can be highly
useful to look at foreign af-
fairs as viewed by the Soviet
rulers. Perhaps our foreign
policymakers do less of this
than they should. While we
believe the SovietS are ag-
greSSive and would attack us
if they could do so without
risking their own destruction,
they may believe the same of
us and regard our far-flung
bases and alliances as proof
thereof. While we are con-
vinced the German Federal
Republic is peacefully in
clined, the Soviet Union,
twice invaded by the Ger
Evening star., 1961-11-26

1907, has been the social, cul-
tural, and even intellectual
arbiter of all Texas and
therefore more or less to the
country at large and even
the whole world. "All the
world loves a Neiman-Marcus
LABEL" stated a recent half
page ad published by the
store which among other
services has brought Super
Americans an exposition in
which the entire first floor
of the store was tranformed
into a three dimenSional
Place de la Concorde and for
which a swarm of celebrated
French citizens arrived direct
from Paris to celebrate
French Fortnight"-and has
also brought its customers
more than 1000 tickets for
the New York production Of
My Fair Lady.
There is a chance that
Texas, a country noted for
its generosity, may make a
gift of a Cultural Center to
the capital of its sister en-
pire, but Washington should
not be, too Sanguine since
Texas income tax laws dis
criminate against legacies
enjoyed by foreigners. At
home, culture flourisheS in
Texas. 1t is evidenced by
opera, symphony orcheStras,
and the most aggressive and
extensive art-buying known
to our civilization, although
Mr.. Bainbridge quotes a
knowledgable Texan who
gueSseS that not more than
16 of his fellow countrymen
would buy the SiStine Ma
donna if she were found in
a bargain basement. Frank
Getlein estimates that 16 are
one-half of all such con-
noiSSeurS in the United
States.
According to Texas law, a
husband is permitted to
shoot any man if "he has
reason to believe that the
man is committing adultery,
has just committed adultery,
or is about to commit adul-
terry on his wife" and in
Texas there is a far higher
murder rate than anywhere
else in the United States, al
though of course not all kill
ingS are crimes paSSiORelleS.
But Texas is unusually un-
derstanding about murder,
rarely invoking the death
penalty, frequently giving
suspended sentences if any
at all, and requiring, on
average, a person sentenced
to SO years in prison to spend
only ten years behind bars.
Perhaps this forgiving spirit
is associated with Texas OBJ
session with churches, of
which there are more per
capita than anywhere else in
the country, as there is also
more tithing-the donation
OF ten per cent of income
to the church. (Some Texas
millionaires tithe in reverse
they give ninety and keep
ten per cent?
These are only several of
Mr.. Bainbridge's vignettes of
Super-America. No less faSci-
mating are those of education
in Texas, of vacation in
Texas, of cuisine in Texas
teven the most in-glorious
Texan is inclined ruefully to
admit that eating is not a
local speciality, of society in
Texas. The authors laugh
ter is always good-natured
and always at least tinged
with admiration. His book
will appeal no less to aus
landers than to natives.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

Like television programs
and movies. art books go in
cycles. The present rage is
the ancient Middle East. that
cradle of civilization along the
TigriS and Euphrates RiY-
ers, between the Black Sea
and the Persian Gulf, the
Caspian and the Nile. The
area has been yielding more
and more of its once hidden
history and publishers of de
luxe books for consultation
and coffee table are bringing
it in strong this year.
This reader, perhaps be-
cause he's a sucker for the
higher history of art histo-
rian and bureaucrat Andre
Malraux, is particularly par
tial to the first two volumes
in the new Malrauvian Sc
ries, THE Arts of Mankind,
edited by Malraux and George
SALES. publishe d by the
Golden Press. SUMER, THE
DAWN OF ART (S20) and
THE ARTS OF ASSYRIA
(S25) are both written by
Andre Parrot, whose back
ground in theology, museum
work and active archaeology
gives him rare competence
to deal with all aspects of the
subject. The books are Law
iShly illustrated in color and
black and white, plus gold
where useful, plus occasional
photographs of, for example,
Romanesque sculpture e for
comparison. The texts are
lively and thorough, relating
art TO history and religion
and never hesitating to in
dulge in speculation where it
is permissible.
The outstanding book on a
modern artist is the new edi-
ton of VAN GOGH: A
SELF PORTRAIT New York
Graphic; $10) consisting of
the painters letters on paint
ing, selected by w. H. Auden
and illustrated by you know
who. AS always the dedicated
soul Of the artist comes
through and Auden's Selec-
ton emphasizes the power
fully rational side of Van
Gogh's dedication, an aspect
too often overlooked.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
Handsomely Printed

Two new volumes in a
mcdestly priced but beauti-
fully executed art series
merit anyone's attention.
BOTTICELLI, by Lionello
Ventura, and CEZANNE, by
Fritz Novotny (Phaidon;
S5.95 each) contain so color
plates of the work of their
respective masters and per-
ceptive essays on the art.
The color is among the best
available. The text is helpful
and the plates are annotated.
The Abrams series of reg
ular sized books on great
museums receives a distin-
guiShed addition in THE
HERMITAGE scum,
LENINGRAD (Abrams; S7.50)
with text by Pierre Descargues
Like the others in the series,
the book rounds out its Sc
lected color plates with a
great number of small black
and whites. Especially valu-
able since the collections are
superb and relatively mac
cesSible.
Two bonanza books re-
viewed here earlier deserve
recall: THE HORIZON
BOOK OF THE RENAIS-
SANCE american Heritage;
$l7.50, or de luxe $19.95) by
j. H. Plumb and various
scholarly hands, is a visual
and textual delight and en-
lightenment for all; PICAS-
SOS PICASSSOS (Harper;
$50; before Dec. 81, $24.95)
by David Douglas Duncan is
burdened by an effusive text
but triumphS over this flaw
in the authors top quality
color plates of the great
Spaniard'S private treasure
trove of his own works
through the decades.
Evening star., 1961-11-26


The answer is, I think,
that Mr.. cambridge could
make a travelogue of even
the least infectious part of
the world scarcely less inter
esting than his picture of
Texas. Nothing human is
alien to him-at least moth
ing human and colorful. He
has an extraordinary knack
for selecting the proper point
Of view and the conviction,
surprisingly absent in many
of the most prominent de-
scriptive writers, that, if you
can engroSS a reader at all
in your subject, the reader
will want to be told details.
Furthermore, and perhaps
most important, Mr.. Balm
bridge has no interest in
photographing Texas and
Texans. He turns his atten-
ton to certain specific fea-
lures of his subject and ig-
noreS others. The resulting
artistic foreshortening does
not diStort the great State
but rather puts it into sharp
focus. Mr.. cambridge does
not try to compete with Bae-
decker or the WPA Guide
book. 1t is probable that not
every Texan is a millionaire,
but the millionaire is a good
lens through which to look
on Texas.
Mr.. Bainbridge's argument
is that Texas is all America
in little, that a Texan is an
American bigger than life,
a caricature, an exaggera-
ton. He selects a dozen or
so aspects of his subject and
makes their particulars come
alive by setting them
against the generalities IA
miliar to the average Ameri-
can. This is the trick of the
TV pitchman, who says you
see :" "As you know .. E"
or The ordinary" potato
peeler -" and it is very
effective.
-
The topology of Texas, the
State which has everything
from the greatest blizzards
and dust storms to the finest
coastlines and vacation re-
sorts, is Of no greater con-
cern to Mr.. cambridge than
the Cadillac, for example. He
points out that it is not true
that Texans discard their
Cadillacs when the ash trays
need emptying- a matter
of fact, only 20 per cent of
the Cadillacs of Texas mil
lionaires are turned in when
one year old. But he quotes
Art Buchwald, who had no
trouble in understanding this
wisp of Houston conversa-
tion: Did you hear zeke
got a new carp" What
kind?" Dark blue"
Then there is Texas oil.
While the cattle millionaires
have a higher social position,
the oil millionaireS are rich
er and more numerous. The
speculators, the operators,
the merchandisers, and the
countless allied capitalists
are depicted, in all their
broad glory and intricate
dealings, in what is possibly
the most spectacular section
of the book. The whole
magnificent and far-flung
machinery is not precisely
"the oil game" but, as Mr..
Bainbridge'S Super-Sensitive
and discerning ear has dis
covered, "oil game" Egg: ut
can be rough. In oil game
you keep your eyes open"
Second in Importance only
to oil in Super-America is the
Nieman-Marcus department
store in Dallas, an institu-
ton which, since shortly
after its establishment in
Evening star., 1961-11-26
One-Mun Books

HENRI ROUSSEAU. BY
Jean Bouret. New York
Graphic Society; $3.50 Full
sized, full-color and black
and-white presentation of the
celebrated customs collector
whose strange dreams,
painted, put him among the