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Evening star., 1962-05-29

muroereo - nung, because ne
was concerned about our coun-
try becoming sociahstic."
Communications similar in
lonesome also implying that
news Of the death had been
suppressed-have come to other
publishers and editors in such
widely separated states as Flor
ida. Tennessee, Colorado, North
Dakota and Washington.
Post Cards Received
Post cards mailed from about
30 cities in 20 States have beer
received in California by Gov
Edmund G. Brown and several
others. They bear the single,
mimeographed question: Dear
Comrade-did your Communist
friends murder Newton Arm
strong. jr.T
Postal inspectors have de-
clared the cards libelous and
defamatory to those addressed,
and are investigating.
The authorities here have
concluded that young Arm
strong committed suicide or
hanged himself by accident.
Shortly after midnight March
81, his parents, returning to
their Coronado home from a
visit across the border to tt
juana, Mexico, found him
hanging dead from a beam in
their bedroom.
The father, a retired Army
member of the John
Birch Society and a candidate
for election to the San Diego
County Republican Central
Committee, declared his son
had been murdered. He ex-
pressed belief it had been done
by Communists to terrorize
right-wing political elements in
this area"
Young Armstrong had been
a member of a right wing stud
ent group at State College, and
Evening star., 1962-05-29
College Receives
DuVis Letters

LEXINGTON, KY. (AP). =
jefferson Davis, the president
of the Confederacy, attended
Pennsylvania College in Lexing-
ton from 1921 to 1924, before
entering West Point.
A grandson, jefferson Hayes
Davis, Colorado Springs, Colo.
donated 101 books covering
many phases Of the Civil War
to the college in 1862. Two
years ago. he gave q complete
collection of his grandfather's
remaining letters to the college
Evening star., 1962-05-29
DEAR ABBY
An Old Mistake
Huunts Him

DEAR ABBY: After we
were married. my wife talked
me into letting her retain
her maiden name because she
was a school teacher and
wanted to be known as Miss.
This has created some en-
barraSSing situations over
the years. After 20 years,
I have had it. She positively
refuses to use my name and
call herself Mrs. because, she
says, it will confuse things
in the school system where
she has been known as Miss
for so many years. What is
your advice?
WITHOUT A MRS.
Your SchoOl-teacher wife
has q lot to learn. But you
were the foolish one to have
let her get away with 1t for
so long. You can't teach an
old horse new tricks. And
you'll never teach a mule
anything.
- -
DEAR ABBY: We have a
large family that includes
many grandchildren. They
are intelligent, active young
sters from 2 to IL. The
minute they set foot in our
home they start wrecking the
place. My husband says,
We'll, here comes the demo-
lition crew." Abby, they jump
on the furniture with their
shoes, tear up everything they
see and in general act like
wild animals. All the while
their parents sit by and say
nothing.
I think we should borrow
some wild kids and repay our
children's visits. My husband
Evening star., 1962-05-29
BIueCross
Drafts Aged
Medical Plans
By WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

If the King-Anderson bill
fails to pass Congress, Blue
Cross plans to offer a broad
program of medical insurance
to the aged next fall.
1t would provide wider coy
erage than the administration
King-Anderson social security
plan.
The non-profit Blue Cross
plan would cost about $ll a
month per person for persons
IS or over. In contrast, the
King-Anderson plan would be
paid for through higher social
security taxes. paid before re-
tirement.
A spokesman said in a tele-
phone interview from the Blue
Cross headquarters in Chicago
that officials should have the
plan fully "jelled" by the enc
of June.
Also ready by then, he said
will be a smaller insurance plan
to be offered if King-Andersor
does pass. This plan would not
compete with but would sup
plement the King-Andersor
benefits. Together, the spokes-
man said, the insurance and
King Anderson benefits would
provide realistic care"
$4 or S. a Month
This supplement to King
Anderson probably will cost
about 81 or IS a month per
person, he said.
Either insurance plan would
have to be approved by the n
Blue Cross groups selling in
Surance in various areas Of the
country. In Washington,
Group disqualification, Inc, is
the area Blue Cross plan.)
The supplementary plan plus
King-Anderson, or the larger
Blue Cross plan alone, are likely
to provide:
l. First dollar" benefits,
thus eliminating the 500 de-
ductible feature of King-And-
erSon.
2. Lengthy post operative
nursing home care.
4. Hospital room, board, tests.
X-rays.
S. Those physicians services
usually paid for through the
hospital. Surgeon and most
other doctor bills would not be
covered.
Subsidy Proposed
The Blue Cross officials have
suggested that the Government
Subsidize this program for re-
tired couples with annual in
comes Of less than SIS, 900 a year.
The subsidy would increase as
income dropped so that couples
with less than $1,000 annual
income would receive payments
from the general Treasury
covering most or all Of their
insurance premiums.
No bills are before Congress
to do this job specifically, the
spokesman said, but Represen-
tative Bow, Republican Of Ohio,
has proposed a bill which would
subsidize all approved insurance
for those 65 or older.
The Bow bill would permit
persons a tax deduction Of $125
$3.50 per couple).
Persons with smaller tax
liabilities would receivce Ger
tificates to pay for their insur-
ance.
Under the bill, q near rela-
tive could pay for an aged per-
sons insurance and take the
tax deduction
Mr.. Bows bill does not fit
the Blue Cross plan exactly,
however, he would Srequire in
surance to provide for surgeon
fees and physician benefits in
order to be tax deductible.
Evening star., 1962-05-29

Oear Dr. SCelncrOnn. WndL
is meant by a mild coronary
attack? Our doctor diagnosed
coronary thrombosis m my
husband and advised that he
be in bed for at least four
weeks. All he had was what
seemed like a slight attack
of indigestion. The pain
lasted only a few hours.
Why should he have to
stay in bed so long? Our
neighbor told us that there
is a difference between the
treatment of a mild attack
and a severe one. Will you
explain?-Mrs. T.
MY FEELING is that this
distinction between attacks
should not be made. If either
the patient or doctor think
they are dealing with a So
called mild attack, one or the
other may become careless in
management. The result may
be needless catastrophe.
Only the DIAGNOSIS is i'm
portant. Is it or isn't it an
attack of coronary throm-
bosis? Once the diagnosis has
been made, I think precau-
tionary measures and treat
ment should be the same.
whether the patient looks
very sick or we'll.
Many's the case Of a So
called mild attack which,
when treated without the re-
spect it deserved, turned into
a sudden emergency severe
enough to endanger the pa
tents life.
In the typically severe at
tack of thrombosis, there is
excruciating chest pain which
may last on and off for
days, q sharp and sudden
fall in blood pressure, weak
and irregular pulse and other
manifestations of weakness.
In the mild attack, the con-
dition may be diagnosed early
by the alert doctor only with
the help of electrocardio-
grams.
Be thankful, Mrs. T, that
your doctor thinks all kinds
of coronary thrombosis
should be treated with re-
spect and care. Don't listen
to your neighbor's sugges-
tions, even though they are
well meant.
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I am
Sc and had a coronary
thrombosis in 1857. I have
had no pain since. But one
thing does bother me. I have
had a persistent cough since
my attack. Medicines don't
help. I've been to doctors and
had at least nine different
treatment. I still cough.
After four years this is be-
coming monotonous.
Yes, I smoke. I started
when I was 10 or 20. For
years it was two packs a day.
But I've cut down to a pack
and a half. When I was in
the hospital a nurse asked
what was my brand. When I
told her, she said 1t was too
harsh and recommended an
other. I changed, but I still
cough.-Mr. M.
COME NOW, 'fess up! Just
why did you go into a de-
tailed history Of your smok-
ing habits? Wasn't it be-
cause you know that ciga-
rettes aren't doing you any
good? You just can't stop,
and want someone to act as
referee to blow the whistle.
Well, consider it blown.
You'll have to make a choice
between the rnonotonous
cough and your cigarettes.
4 \ = =
A painful heel can be a
stubborn complaint. AL
though it's quite often due
to a spur, don't go rushing
into operation unless you
have given conservative
Evening star., 1962-05-29

May, 1885" on the copyright
page. A fine copy in the dust
jacket is worth around $50
to $35 at retail.
Mrs. F. S. Js Your Lew
Wallace's 'Ben-Hur" New
York, 1880) is a first edition,
first issue, if it has a dated
tite page, a six-word dedica-
ton C"To the Wife of My
YouthD, IL pages of adver-
tisements at the end of the
book and a light-blue bind
ing with floral decorations.
The words Who Now Abides
With Me" were added to the
dedication in later issues of
the book. Al fine copy for the
first issue is worth $3.50 or
more at retail.
Miss G. N: The first edi-
ton of Edgar Rice Bur-
roughs' "Tarzan Of the Apes"
Chicago, 1910 is scarce and
sells at retail for $40t o $50
if in fine condition.
D. M. c.: There is no hard
and-fast rule for identifying
first editions. A general rule
of thumb is that if the date
on the title page is the same
as the copyright date. the
chances are the book is a
first edition. There are many
exceptions, however.
DR.. F. N: Your Joseph
Hodgson's THE Cradle of the
Confederacy" Mobile, 1870
is a first edition of a scarce
book. A fine copy should re-
tail at around SIS.
Miss E. P. and others: In
listing books (eigher for this
column or for book dealers)
please give the following in
formation: Title, author, date
of publication (from title
page) place (from title page)
copyright date (from back of
title page, description of
binding, description of con-
dition.
\
Selected reader questions
DiH be GnSDered In this COL
uD1n. Address Van Allen
Bradley in care of The Eue-
ming Star.
Copyright 1862, General Features
Corp.
Gold in Your Attic oppeors Tues
Evening star., 1962-05-29

held. The district attorneys
report closed the case.
Mr.. Armstrong. ST.. told news
men he still thought his son
was murdered and that he
would seek support for aNpri-
vate Investigation. He denied
having any part in the mail
ing of the anonymous post
cards to Gov. Brown and others
receiving them. He said he felt
they would weaken his cause.
Evening star., 1962-05-29

won't receive the grade he
has earned"
Thus, some accelerated
classes are defeated before
they start and, ironically. the
failure lies not in the system
but in the teachers who carry
it out.
4 + \ =
II you hare a question.
aDrite to DR.. Mason in care OF
The EUening Star. He DiI
discuss in his column those
OF most general interest.
Thursday: Theme.
Evening star., 1962-05-29
Mail, Attack ON Verdict
InStudent Death Probed

SAN DIEGO. Calf. May 20 tAP-The letter Alissis-
pp newspaper publisher asked Are the communists
full that they conceal murder Of who patriotic?"
1t referred to the death Of Newton Armstrong, jr 49,
political science student at San Diego State College.
This young about age the writer added was
Evening star., 1962-05-29

Copyright 1862, General Features
Corp.
Gold in Your Attic oppeors Tues
doys.
Evening star., 1962-05-29

A painful heel can be a
stubborn complaint. AL
though it's quite often due
to a spur, don't go rushing
into operation unless you
have given conservative
Evening star., 1962-05-29

Selected reader questions
tDiH be GnSUered In this COL
unn. Address Van Allen
Bradley in care of The Eue-
ming Star.
Evening star., 1962-05-29

Thursday: Theme.
Evening star., 1962-12-16

has his nightly hour of re-
Election and of oblivion. At
last, when the young man
has won a certain measure
of respect and has stimulated
the interest of the other, he
learns the curious love-story
of a man who has never
touched woman, whose one
emotional experience, making
the prospect of any other
tawdry and unappealing, was
an affair with a mermaid
fifty years ago. When the
professor speaks of his mer-
maid, his auditor Corbera
does not for a moment ques-
ton her reality; the reader
of Lampedusa's story is also
certain that the female crea-
ture he is introduced to is
as genuine as the Wife of
Bath. Lampedusa himself
compares her to the PAN
there's in Balzac's "Une Pas
sion dams lie Desert" and
dares to express what the
professor says Balzac dared
not express-an erotic love
that is not human, super
human, nor divine. His mer-
maid, he remarks, is a beast
but also an Immortal. She is
Life.
Evening star., 1962-12-16

words how the leap was
made"
All Personal
Mr.. Ernst, fighter of CEN
sorship, bigness and apathy
from the springboard of a
New York law office, touches
base with an astonishing
variety of personalities,
places and issues. Some of
his comments are deep, some
are trivial; all are personal.
From the morality Of de-
ception in the cold war to
homely items about life on
Nantucket, Mr.. Ernst says
what he is thinking and
shields little, If any, of him
self from the reader.
Potential Enemy
He notes there are liberals,
not his brand apparently,
"who really cannot get them
selves to enjoy victories" At
one point, he calls govern
ment "the main potential
enemy Of man (which)
must be put to its proof
every inch of the way"
Mr.. Ernst hands out hard
knocks for some of the press,
criticism of former President
Eisenhower, comments on
past Cuba policy, his ideas
about love and what is i'm
portant, and other thoughts.
Civil Liberties
Long a stalwart of the
American Civil Liberties Un-
ion, he displays his concern
for individuals, even those
who write him with tales
about real or imagined griev-
anceS.
Most are off balance" he
says. Few have even a pre-
tense Of a sound legal posi-
ton but - this is a damn
able part of my use of time
- I can't refrain from re-
viewing each one, for what
if by chance one screwball
happens to have a good legal
grievance?
Law is not a mass of
statistics or even averages or
mediums - it's uniquely per-
sonal for each and every hui
man being"
One delightful diary Sc
quence recalls how Mr..
Ernst, who won the legal
Evening star., 1962-12-16

atmosphere of the period of
which he was writing. With
detachment and understand
ing he accomplished the same
goal in MY Life"
Democratic Principles
But these memoirs are no
disembodied record of Mr..
Bowers life and times. An
uncompromising Jeffersonian
Democrat he wrote and
spoke for the principles for
which the Democratic Party
is supposed to stand. He was
: the keynote speaker at the
1928 Democratic convention
which nominated AL Smith
for President and in a mem
orable address, drawing on
his studies of Jackson and
jefferson, he urged the
party to stand by principles
and not mere expedience in
its platform and actions.
MY Life" takes the reader
behind the scenes in other
Democratic conventions, in
cluding the 1892 gathering
which picked Franklin D.
Roosevelt as the nominee.
In Mr.. Bowers thinking,
F. D. R. and Woodrow Wilson
Evening star., 1962-12-16
The Old Story
Home or Career?
A WOMAN'S PLACE. BY Ann
Helming. Coward Nc =
Cam. Sd 05)

A WOMAN'S PLACE. BY Ann
Helming. Coward Nc
Cam; $4.95.)
That old question Of Home
VS.. Career is the theme Of
this slick and efficient story
about three girls who wanted
to have both. Ellen, already
married to a successful en-
gineer, yearns for a career
on the stage. Marty, married
to a jerk, has for years been
bringing home the bulk of
the family bacon. Leigh, who
would like to be married but
isn't has a solid career as q
newspaper feature writer.
This is clearly not enough
for the poor girl, though, as
she Keeps forming alliances
with fellow members Of the
Newspaper Guild: Editors,
reporters, copy boys-it's all
the same to Leigh. None Of
the girls can be said to come
out on top of the situation,
although two of them end
up way ahead in the career
department. Their home
lives, however, would battle
a whole convention Of mar
riage counsellors.
R. III.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial pOse Of The
Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"The Core Of the
Eorth." by Russell Lord. tNelson.J
WEDNESDAY, BorderlOnds." by
Della and FerdinOnd Kuhn. tKnOpfJ
FRIDAY-"St. BorthoIomew's
Night" by Pierre Erlonser. (Pon-
theon.)
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Paris Divided
Bridge by Bridge

PARIS ON THE SEINE,
by Blake Ehrlich. (Athe-
neum; $685.
The city OF Paris is divided
geographically into quarters
and ACCOMPLISHMENTS, but
there is no reason why the
partitioning cannot be done
as Blake Ehrlich does it
bridge by bridge. The Seine
is crossed by thirty-two
bridges each OF which, from
the oldest, the Pont-Neuf.
begun in 1873. TO the Pont
Carrousel OF 1899. Is stamped
with the character OF tradi-
ton or Of the localities II
connects.
Paris on the Seine" Is
neither a guide book nor a
history. Mr.. Ehrlich chats
about the city he knows very
we'll, sometimes entertaining
the reader with accounts
from the past, sometimes
with stories Of the present
day. Pitures too are contem-
porary photographs or re-
productions OF old prints and
engravings.
Illustrations and text are
delightful, and physically the
volume is far above average.
even among art books. Lay
out, typography and printing
are all excellent.
Evening star., 1962-12-16

and those they can't help. is
as certain as ever. The book
disappointS with a solution
through the years most far
fetched clue. But the special
charm Of the series, never
caught in last years televi-
sion show. is sustained.
FIND THE WOMAN. BY
Doris Miles Disney. (Dou-
bleday & Co.; $500
Mrs. Disney never writes
an ineffective book. but this
is less appealing than some.
Insurance claim adjuster jeff
DiMarco wants to know what
happened TO DR.. Chandler,
dead in Moosehead Lake in
Maine and leaving behind a
100000 policy for his wife.
The doctors reputation as a
medical man is good, but
there are women and wine in
his private life. His good
looking widow, ladies at his
Maine fishing haunt. even a
bitter old crone are candi-
dates as killer. The plot is
sound, the solution believ-
able. the characters unat-
tractive.
\
THE NOSE ON MY FACE.
BY Laurence Payne. (The
Macmillan Co.; S4.50.)
Inspector Sam Birkett, a
welcome newcomer, investi-
gates the murder Of a girl
who may have been both a
nymphomaniac and a dope
addict. The scene is London,
the action pleasantly swift,
the style ingratiating. The
author is an English actor.
SNOW JOB. BY Malcolm
Gair. Doubleday g. Co.;
$500
No one took rich, spoiled,
22-year-old Whit Ruysdael
seriously. but he knew justice
and his own integrity de-
pended on proving that his
favorite aunt was murdered
at the Austrian ski resort
where she sought his help
and was turned angrily
aside. Whit asks detective
Mark Raeburn 10 help him.
Cosmopolitan ran a con-
densed version OF this good
novel.
Evening star., 1962-12-16

battle for general sale Of
James Joyce's Ulysses" ex-
plained the books dual
streams of consciousness to
the judge.
Mr.. Ernst said he told the
juriSt how, while earnestly
arguing his case, he also was
thinking Of the judges slip
ping robe, his gold ring and
a picture of Washington be-
hind him.
The judge, an antique COL
lector, said he understood
because, while he had been
listening intently to Mr..
Ernst, he also had been
thinking about a Heppel-
white chair behind the at
torney.
A July entry, midway
through his 72nd year but
looking ahead, said Mr.. Ernst
plans, however much time Is
left him, to ride life for all
its worth" Thus, there should
be more diaries.
DANA BULLEN,
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Samuel Butler Letters
Shed Liqht on Conflicts

to keep it would have main
tained him on its interest
alone.
Butler was a writer, a
painter, and also in a small
way a composer. Neither
his father, nor anyone in his
family read his books, but
that Canon Butler took
a perverse interest in Ere
whom" is attested by the fact
that he told Butler that the
book was the cause Of his
mothers death by cancer,
and by his statement: "As
for expecting us to feel any
vanity or triumph in your
success, it is wholly impos-
sible. We should heartily re-
joice to find it as ephemeral
as I am disposed to hope and
believe it may be-" OF Tom,
Sans brother who went to
Belgium with a prostitute,
Canon Butler said that the
only news he wanted of him
was that of his death.
-
All his life Butler tried to
mend the family rift. He
longed for an approval he
knew was inconceivable. He
would send his father re-
views of his books-books his
father boasted he never read
and would write him all
kinds of engaging literary
small tax about his life in
London. The reader of the
letters would feel an uncom-
Portable embarrassment If
there were not now and then
a stroke of pathos, as when
Butler pleads with a young
niece, a child living with his
father: "Maysie-please see
how my father and your
aunts take the review of my
book in the Academy and do
tell me what they say. .
If you will do this I will
tell you anything that I
know. 1t occurs TO me that
perhaps you will be kind
enough not to let this let
ter lie about"
Evening star., 1962-12-16
The Cones
Of Baltimore
AsCoIIectors
THE COLLECTORS: DR..

THE COLLECTORS: DR..
CLARIBEL AND MISS
ETA CONE. BY Barbara
Pollack, with a portrait"
by Gertrude Stein. (BobbS-
Merrill; $3.50
The best known part Of the
Baltimore Museums collec-
tions is surely the Cone Col
lection Of goth century
painting, especially the ex-
traordinary group Of works
by Matisse. The Cone sisters.
who assembled the collection,
did so on the spot, on their
own judgment but with the
appreciation of their old Bal
timore friends, Leo and Ger
trude Stein.
Miss Pollack's text does not
add much to our knowledge
Of the avant-garde art of
Paris in the early years of
this century. But 1t does give
an enchanting picture of the
now lost German-Jewish So
ciety of Baltimore at the end
Of the 10th century. Out Of
this society the Cone girls
sprang into the wider world
and assembled the pictures
that have made Baltimore
artistically notable. The af-
fectionate, informative ac-
count places the girls within
that extraordinary. self-con-
tained society, follows their
progress out Of 1t and de-
tails their gowing love for
the art they collected.
The book is illustrated
with one signature OF photo
graphs beginning with the
girls in the late 1880s and
ending In the Cone wing Of
the Baltimore muse m.
There is also an incantatory
description Of the two girls by
their friend Gertrude Stein
in her usual manner. 1t is in
teresting to observe how, as
distance lends disenchant-
ment, 1t becomes clearer and
clearer that Miss STEMS true
literary ancestor was Arte-
mus Ward.
FRANK GETLEIN.
Evening star., 1962-12-16
MY LIFE: The Memoirs Of
Claude Bowers. (Simon &
Schuster. S6.50.)

MY LIFE: The Memoirs Of
Claude Bowers. (Simon &
Schuster; $6.50D
In MY Life" one is taken
on a journey through so
years and more of American
history. 1t is an intimate and
rewarding journey.
Claude Bowers, whose lit
erary achievements were out
standing, was not only a
historian and diplomat
of distinction; he also was
a man who stood high in
the councils of the Demo-
cratic period in a remarkable
period of transition.
Moreover, he had a zest
for life and numbered among
his friends not only the
country's leading politicians,
including Presidents, but
also writer's, artists, busi-
nessmen-the great, the near
great and merely the pre-
tentious.
A Shifting Scene
For this reason, the mem
oirs Of this outstanding stu
dent of American political
institutions presents a broad
and entertaining new view of
life in the first half of the
goth century. In no sense is
MY Life" an autobiography
in the usual sense of the
word. Mr.. Bowers was far
too modest and too gifted
a writer to burden a reader
with personal vital statistics.
What he did was to use his
life, his remembrance, his
associations and many sto-
ries untold until this time
to reflect in his incompar-
able way the stream of life
and thought in the country
from his youth until his
death in 1857.
In Party Battles Of the
Jackson Period" THE Tragic
Era" and other books Mr..
Bowers, an indefatigable re-
searcher. immersed himself
in the history Of the period
and succeeded. as historians
seldom do, in recreating the