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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-13

JOHN II. COSTELLO
Sf22 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, Nd.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
has issued Letters. Of Administration
eta. TO Michael 4. Keogh in the Estate
OF
ALFRED J.. NADER
late OF Montgomery county deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased ere hereby warned to present the
same on or before the 18th day OF May
next: they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefit OF said Estate.
All persons indebted 10 said Estate are
requested TO make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this nth day OF
November, 1862
MICHAEL r. KEOGH
1850 Garfield Street. NV.
Washington. ID. G.
Administrator alta
ot-4o2o-17-2o
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-13

DAVID MACDONALD
1885 Fent0n Street
Silver Spring, Md.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
has issued Letters OF Administration 10
Melvin NJ Cough in the Estates OF
HORACE ARTHUR HART
MABEL ESTELLE WATERS HART
WILLIAM ARTHUR HART
JAMES WATERS HART
late OF Montgomery County deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to present the
same on or before the 18th day OF MAY
next; they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefit OF said Estate
All persons indebted 10 said Estate are
requested 70 make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 9th day OF
November 1862. -
MELVIN N. COUGH
14716 WeStbury Road
Rockville, Md.
Administrator 6t-4O32- 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
Sir Walter Raleigh,
A Notable Man Indeed

Raleigh was q conspicu-
ously notable man even in
the age which produced more
outstanding figures versed
in almost every human en-
deavor than any other age
England has seen. He was a
lyric poet of genius and an
epic poet at least Of talent;
he wrote brilliantly Of his
adventures as an explorer
and a coloniser; awaiting ex-
ecution in the Tower, he
wrote q history Of the world.
On the seas he was the
scourge Of the Spanish sec
ond only to Drake. If his set
tlement of Virginia was o
failure and his exploration Of
Guiana unsuccessful, he new
ertheleSS was one Of the first
white men in these lands.
AS a courtier, he won by the
brilliance of his intelligence
and the charm Of his COM
pany the lasting love Of Eliz-
abeth, who was herself an
intellectual, and who often
diStruSted Raleigh'S judg-
ment even when fascinated
by his wit.
The reader of Prof. Rowse's
book has the advantage Of
the background and knowl-
edge Of one Of this genera
TONS greatest Elizabethan
scholars. He may be puzzled
by a curious whim Of Prof.
Rowse's American publishers,
for the first third Of the
book Is not about Raleigh at
all, but Is concerned solely
with Throckmorton and mis-
family. The English reader
would not be disconnected,
for the original title of the
work, when it was published
in England, was Raleigh and
the Thockmortons."
The ordinarily well-in-
formed reader may wish
that Prof. Rowse had not
considered his audience as
made up of other Elisabethan
and Jacobean connoisseurs.
The book is full of names,
incidents and illusions ap-
probation of which, the au-
thor takes for granted; the
story he has to tell is Of such
breadth and interest that
the volume could well have
been expanded to three times
its present length for the
sake Of the general reader.
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Prophet Of Changing
NucIeor-Wor Policies

Western powers make sweep
ing concessions there and
points out, truthfully, that
there is no way NATO forces
can save the city without
starting a nuclear war that
could we'll ruin the United
States. Mr.. Kennedy replies
with the threat of a doubled
or quadrupled defense bud
get. Such an acceleration of
the arms race, dangerous as
it is, could still be less dan
gerous (for America) tn an
either an attack or an &C
commodation," the President
says. Mr.. KhruShchev will
either have to fall behind in
the race or damage his tight
economy. The threat makes
him back down.
In a small way this was
done last year, but Mr..
Kahn's scenario is, in eff
feet, an outline of a holder
plan for handling a future
life death crisis without
the war Mr.. Kahn-and the
rest of us-hopeS to avoid.
This is an important book
and an excellent opportunity
to see one of the nuclear
ages most influential minds
in action.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
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Elizabeth Bowen:
Her RecoIIections

Elizabeth Bowen's Seven
Winters and Afterthoughts"
Knopf; SO is both pleasing
and disappointing. 1t is pleas
ing because the first section is
a sensitive recollection of her
Dublin childhood. AS a mem
Der of the Irish "aScendan-
cy," she lived a sheltered life.
Her governeSSeS varied, but
there was always her loving,
wonderfully original mother
and a swarm Of doting
uncies. >
The "Afterthoughts" are
disappointing in that they are
prefaces to collections of her
own and other writer's works.
Miss Bowen is a most just
and reflective critic. But the
preface is not a form in
which greatness is easily
achieved. These pieces are
fair, but not memorable like
her novels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24

highly successful federally
financed college housing pro-
gram-two areas where high
er education and the Govern
ment have established use
full co-operation-the authors
call for: Cd Greater coher-
ence in Government through
the creation Of a stronger
Federal agency to act as the
educational conscience" and
(2) a realistic set of prior
tiles for action from educa-
tors who should pursue their
interests within the political
arena" more effectively.
Church and State
In addition, the authors
perform a valuable service
by stripping away much Of
the fiction from the thorny
church-state issue and ar
que that "a fuller and more
candid discussion" of this
problem, as well as that Of
segregation, would lead to
more constructive Govern
ment policies.
GEORGE w. CAKES.
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Baldwin Novel: A Sex Shocker

tiers into a passionate en-
tanglement with Vivaldo, a
white novelist, who was
Rufus best, or only, friend.
In Paris we find Eric, the
white son of a wealthy South
ern family, who had had a
homosexual attachment with
Rufus, and who is now living
with Yves, the son of a pros
titute in whose establishment
even he as a child had had a
role. Life for Eric and Yves
is, one might say, idyllic, but
Eric comes back to New York
to take a part in a broadway
play, promising Yves that he
will send for him soon. Back
home he soon enters into an
adulterous liaison with CaSs,
the white wife of Richard.
The marriage of Cass and
Richard is at a crisis. Mean
while, Ida has become the
mistress of a white theatrical
entrepreneur, and Eric and
Vivaldo sink happily into per-
versity. Richard has an erotic
affair with Ida-at least I
think so, but I had difficulty
in keeping everybody sorted
out as the lechery became
more involved.
The incidents Of the novel
are almost all concerned with
some aspect of a sexual act
or of racial tension-Rufus'
suicide and Ida singing in a
night club are the only major
exceptions I recall, but there
may be others. The CONVERSE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
GENERAL

A CRUISING GUIDE TO
THE CHESAPEAKE. Gin
GLIDING the Passages from
Long Island Sound along
the New Jersey Coast and
Inland Waterway By
Fessenden S. Blanchard.
Dodd, Mead; $500 IRE
vised Edition.)
THE THOMAS WOLFE
READER. Selected with an
introduction by c. Hugh
Holman. (Scribners; $7.50O
All four of Wolfe's novels
are represented in order of
publication with several
fully self-contained pas
sages from each and in
cluded also are eight short
stories and in its entirety
1.-THE Story of a Novel"
DIARY OF THE CIVIL WAR,
186O-1865. BY George Tenn
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ton is consistently filthy
throughout. I use the adjec-
tive not in a perjorative
sense but simply as a means
of description. There are sew
eral extended pictures of
masculine homosexuality that
are certainly somewhat I'M
usual in their explicitness.
What is the result? IN
questionably the unrelieved
nightmare theme could be the
basis of a work of art in which
the relationships of a sordid
society are infused with a
veracity that has little to do
with reality. "Tropic of Can
Ger" comes to mind immedi-
ately. In that book exagger-
ated indecency is a sort of
sardonic backdrop to the
portrait of genuinely aching
and questing humanity.
In Mr.. Baldwin's book, on
the other hand, there is no
humor whatever, and very
seldom does the reader feel
that the author is conscious
Of standing behind his pup
pets intelligently pulling the
strings. 1t is not so much
that he is dead in earnest,
dead serious, as that he him
self is wildly attempting to
cap shock with shock, what
ever the purpose or the pro-
priety. The characters squirm
Unfortunately trying to re-
lease themselves from paSts
that the reader never is made
to see, and to envision fu-
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could be summed up in the
two lines of w. H. Davies:
What is this life, If full of
care
We haze no time to stand
and stdre?"
He believes that we should
not stalk pleasure with a
manual, nor yet converter
Subvert-it into usefulness.
He wonders what causes
us to send our children out
tricking and treating on
Halloween with UNICEF col
lection cups in their hands"
Not that he is an Epicu-
rean or a HedoniSt. He
simply feels that fun and
enjoyment are in themselves
splendid things and not to
be cluttered up with other
considerations. He thinks for
instance, that climbing up a
creased pole is a good idea.
He is against purpose par
ties" and "do-it-yourself."
Mr.. Kerr quotes from Aris-
totle, st. Thomas Aquinas
and from Charles Darwin to
show the need for q merry
heart and a light mind on
occasion. He derives exam
Piles from a baby and from
a theater audience to de-
scribe the origins and the
need of pleasure.
Today's admirable" chill
dren seem to him to be the
ultimate expression Of this
unitarian philosophy. Fact
finding youngsters give him
pause. "He is no wool-gath-
er; he is a fact-gatherer. His
habits are his own, obviously
not the result of indoctrina-
ton: Instead Of being the
victim Of pedagogical tyrantS
determined to teach him use
full things, he seems to have
reversed a too indulgent
pedagogical system and set
about informing himself. E.
He is soberly devoted, for the
most part, to what you and
I still call work"
Mr.. Kerr is against "all
work and no play" He makes
a most graceful plea for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24

education, and DR.. Rosen-
zweig is assistant to the
United States Commissioner
of Education.
More than Is per cent
Of the total educational ex-
penditures of the Nations in
situations of higher educa-
ton comes from Federal
sources. This figure is bound
to increase to meet the dou-
bling of college population
expected by 1870.
This Thoughtful, informative
and clearly presented discus
sion, viewed against the back
ground of the relationship
dating from the early days
of the Republic, examines
both the present situation
and the major problems
added that the Government
and higher education must
work out together.
Research and Housing
After explaining the ex-
traordinary dominance Of
Federal support for univer-
sity research (73 per cent of
the total in 1859 and the
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ANOTHER COUNTRY.

ANO1nEh W u ~ L n 4, 8
novel by James Baldwin.
(The Dial Press; $3.50
James Baldwin is a young
Negro writer, born in New
York City, who has published
two previous novels, Go Tell
It on the Mountain" and
"Giovanni's Room" and two
volumes Of essays, one Of
which, Nobody Knows My
Name" was selected by the
Notable Books Council Of
the American Library Asso-
citation as one of. the out
standing books published in
1861. Edmond Wilson has
written recently that Mr..
Baldwin is one Of only three
younger American writer's of
fiction whose work is of inter-
est to him. Mr.. Wilson's
catholicity Of taste and the
keenness Of his literary per-
ception assure Mr.. Baldwin of
a curious and well-disposed
audience.
In this story, Rufus is a
successful Negro trap-drum-
mer who takes as his mistress
0 derelict Southern white girl
VINO has left her husband and
come to New York. Their
mutual love is expressed in
sadistic beatings, and when
Leona goes to Bellevue and
then back to the South, Rufus
jumps off the George Wash
ington Bridge. His beautiful
sister, Ida, who has hated all
white people, thereupon en-
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pleton Strong, edited by
Allan Nevins. Macmillan;
$10O The third volume,
covering the years 1867
1865 of the original four
volume edition of the Diary
of George Templeton
Strong, published under the
editorship of Allan NevinS
and Milton Halsey Thomas
in 1852.
EVERYONE'S GUIDE TO
ISRAEL. By Joan Comay.
Doubleday; $4.95O A COM
plete guidebook for the
traveller visiting the Holy
Land, covering the history,
the economy, and the gov
eminent of Israel as we'll
as detailed travel informa-
ton for the whole country.
INVITATION TO MATHE-
MATICS. BY William H.
Glenn and Donovan A.
Johnson. doubleday;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
SIR WALTER RALEIGH:

SIN WALLER hALEAUns
His Family and Private
Life. By A. L. Rowse. liar
per & Bros; $685.
The most durable story
about Sir Walter Raleigh is
certainly the one concerning
his, cloak, but the best Is from
John Aubrey's Brief Lives"
and is quoted by A. L. Rowse
in his new biography, "Sir
Walter Raleigh, His Family
and Private LIFE:
Sir Walter was OF an ex-
tremely amorous disposition
and once Seduced a maid of
honor attached to the retinue
Of Queen Elizabeth. The gall
lantry took place in a wood,
and, as Aubrey tells the story,
the damSel seemed q bit fear
full of her honor. Modest,
she cryed, Sweet Sir Walter,
what doe you ask me? viii
you undoe me? Nay, sweet
Sir Walter! sweet Sir Walter!
Sweet WalterI At last g..
she cryed in ecstasy Swisser
Swatterl Swisser Swatter!'
She proved with a child, and
I doubt not but that this hero
tooke care Of them both, as
also that the Product was
more than an ordinary
mortal"
This vivid little anecdote
was set to music by Henry
Purcell and was in this mu-
steal guiSe the source of con-
siderable merriment. It fig
ures again in Mr.. RowSe'S
book because of the recent
discovery of one of the full
est Elizabethan diaries known
that Of Sir Arthur Throck-
morton, Raleigh's brother
in-law. We learn from this
dairy that Raleigh did in fact
have a child by Elizabeth
Throckmorton before he mar
ried her. Elizabeth was a
maid of honor of Queen Eliza
beth, and her secret marriage
so angered the Queen that,
when she discovered it, she
had both husband and wife
incarcerated in the Tower of
London for a short time.
Raleigh was soon released,
for his services were needed
in the naval engagements
against Spain, but Elizabeth
was in prison for several
months, and she never re-
gained favor at court.
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Clifton Fudimun
Graceful Essuyist

In Enter Conversing"
(World Publishing Co.; So
Clifton Fadiman offers a
series Of essays. They range
from a personality study Of
Artur Rubinstein, the effer-
vescent Polish pianist. to
accounts of a trip to England.
Mr.. Fadiman is a graceful
esSayist, If somewhat didactic
on occasion. Far and away
the most winning entry is
Notes on a Brooklyn Child
hood" a funny and very
spirited account of the drama
behind the counter in his
fathers drugstore.
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on the jacket Of ''Franny and
zooey'' in a pawky parody Of
his own literary excuses
thus shaming his admirers
and making exult his de-
tractors.
He has other notable quail
ties. Nabakov is not averse
to proStituting a nymphet-
one Of the original and bril-
liant creations Of our time
for the partial redistribution
Of Hollywood's wealth, but
Salinger refuses to send
Holden Caulfield to the
movies although it is clear
that Catcher in the Rye" is
worth at least a million dol
lars to moviedom, even
though the resulting picture,
like Lolita" would bear only
a nominal resemblance to the
book. OF the many reasons
for choosing writing as a life
work, making money is as
valid and as honorable as
any, but If therefore Salin-
gers refusal to debase his
young hero does not fill us
with respect and admiration,
it certainly maintains our
interest in a man who turns
aside a fortune as coolly as
Caesar spurned q kingly
crown.
What writer since young
Eliot with The Waste Land"
"Prufrock" and a few pre-
cocious essays has melted so
fat a body Of exegeSis Of so
slender an oeuUre? For every
word that Salinger has pub
iShed there is already q
whole page Of explanations,
hosannas, and dark reserva-
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tons. Henry Anatole Grun-
valid, an editor Of Time
Magazine, has brought to-
gether in the present volume
a large sampling Of the best
essays on Salinger, the man,
the work, and the phe-
nomenon. Among the many
writer's represented are
Arthur Mizener, Alfred Ka-
Yin, John Updike, Granville
Hicks, Leslie Fielder, Max
well Geismar, and Donald
P. Costello. The collection is
by no means an adulatory
love-fesSt, several of the
writer's being sharply critical
not only Of the Salinger cult
but Of many aspects Of the
writing itself. It is note
worthy that the obseSSion
with Salinger has infected
even his detractors, who, by
and large, find themselves
as inextricated from the
Glass family as any Of the
indubitable worshipers. Also
remarkable is the fact that
there is no normal" image
Of Salinger-he is seen as
variously as Henry James or
as Mark Twain.
The best piece in the book
is the only original contribu-
tion-the long Introductory
essay by the editor. OF its
many felicities the most ar
resting is the favorable re-
appraisal of Seymour, an
Introduction" Salinger's
most extreme attempt, and
one that has caused misgiving
among even his staunchest
followers.
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THINKING ABOUT THE
UNTHINKABLE. BY Her
man Kahn. (Horizon Press;
$500
Americas nuclear-war pol
ices have changed radically
during the past year, and
Herman Kahn has been the
prophet of that change. The
bible of the new and
dominant nuclear school is
his book, ION Thermometer
War" which has sold an
astonishing 10000 copies
since publication in 1860.
That bible was written for
the priesthood, however, and
its great length and difficult
new language has kept the
broad public from under
standing just what Mr.. Kahn
and his fellow thinkers about
war are driving at.
This new and most welcome
book, Thinking About the
Unthinkable," is designed by
Mr.. Kahn to do three things:
o First describe his basic
ideas in more simple Ian
guage.
. Second, tell about the
strange techniques used by
professional military analysts.
. And, third, stimulate more
thinking about "unthinkable"
modern war.
Someone Must Do 1t
Mr.. Kahn, director of the
Hudson Institute, is a happy
extrovert who likes his work.
This seems to infuriate a
number of persons who at
tackled him personally after
his first book for his failure
to affect the long face of an
undertaken. But Mr.. K a n
points out that someone has
to think about nuclear war
just as someone has to think
about cancer and polio. No
rational person can fault him
on his logic, though his ideas
might sell better if he started
each chapter with, Heaven
forbid it should happen,
but. -"
The techniques of strategic
analysis are the most fasci-
mating part of the book. He
gives many examples of men
tai gymnastics such as war
and peace games. scenarios"
and abstract models" which
simply serve to force analysts
to think of all possible
dangers and opportunities in
various strategies and meth
DDS of crisis management.
These "sophistications,
which could be overlooked in
the old days without fear of
losing a civilization, are re-
garded by the administration
as necessities in the nuclear
age.
Future Ultimatum
One rather casually pre-
sented scenario" is alone
worth the price of the book.
This is a brief story about
one way in which some flu
ture ultimatum over Berlin
might be handled. In Mr..
Kahn's little drama, Chair
man Khrushchev tells Presi-
dent Kennedy that he will
seize West Berlin unless the
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cab point of view and is able
to profit from his own ex-
perienceS in the field, espe-
cially from his errors.
He can start this double
process before he leaves
home by reading this book.
If he still has time left, he
might then go on to read a
book whose inspiration goes
back to Foster, Charles j.
Erasmus: Man Takes Con-
troll; Cultural Development
and American Aid" (Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press, 1860.
CARROLL QUIGLEY.
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A Study of the New Unrest
In the CoIored Race 7 oduy

and sit-in demonstrators. can
be seen clearly. Some parts
are not so apparent. But
they all add up to the Negroes
current mood of militancy
and unrest.
What is happening today,
as Mr.. Lomax points out, Is
more than a revolt against
the white world. 1t is also
a revolt of the Negro masses
against their own leadership
and goals"
Mr.. LomaX, a Negro him.
self, is most valuable when he
writes of the protest move
ment within his own race.
He describes the Negroes
deepening doubt and disillu-
sionment, accompanied by a
decline in faith in the Negro
leadership organizations.
Decline In Faith
In part, Mr.. Lomax ex-
plains that decline in faith
this way: Negro leadership
organizations, composed Of
middle-class Negroes and
dominated by white liberals,
lost contact with the colored
masses. The organizations
also remained welded to a
belief that legalism is the
only weapon of social change.
And they failed to make
room for the younger, edu-
Gated Negroes coming to
power in the community.
AS for the South, where the
revolt began. Mr.. Lomax
writes:
"We-particularly those Of
us who were Southern born
had faith in a class of white
people known to Negroes as
good white people. These
were the respectable white
people who were pillars Of
the Southern community. =.
1t never occurred to us that
professional white people
would let poor white trash
storm the town and take it
over. Let ME state it in
terms of typical Negro mai
vete: 1t was incredible to a
Negro woman who had been a
servant in a white home for
20 years that her employers
would cringe and hide while
white trash threw bricks at
her grandson on his way to
school,"
In writing of the Nations
Capital, Mr.. LomaX is in err
ror on two points. He says
the Negro population in the
District increased some 58.8
per cent since 1850 while the
white population increased
only 1873 per cent" Actually,
the white population dropped
from 521, 900 in 1850 to 345,-
600 in 1860. MI Lomax is
also wrong when he says
"a per cent of the Negro
students in the District are
integrated. The public schools
are, of course, integrated.
Eighty per cent of the stu
dents happen to be Negro.
These are minor errors, and
they do not detract from Mr..
Lomax' achievement, which
is considerable. He has writ
ten what is far and away the
best book on the Negro of
the present that I have read.
He is honest, realistic, forth
right, moving and, at times,
profound.
HAYNES JOHNSON.
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Other Books of the Week in Brief

$4.95O Over 500 puzzles and
problems as you learn
about classical and new
concepts in mathematics
and examine their practi-
cal applications.
KINGS OF THE HOME RUN.
By Arthur Daley. put
nam; $3.75.) A close per-
Sonal glimpse into the lives
of the greatest home run
kings of all time.