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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

house when he was home
alone. He told me to walk in,
so of course / did. He shocked
me. He was all dressed up in
his mothers clothes! He said,
"Take a look at me-" Then he
said it was ''fun", and /
should get dressed up in la
dies clot h e S, too. / said,
Drop dead if that's all you
have to do in your spare time.
l will see you later" ! walked
out of the house. l am won
dering now-iS he sick? What
should I do about it? I'm sure
his parents don't know. I am
all shook up over it.
SHOOK UP
Tell your parentS-but no
one else. The boy apparently
is "Sick".
Il 4 \ II
DEAR ABBY: That ''Dr.
K" who said that there were
only two cases on cord
where women over as have
given birth to babies has a lot
to learn. / was the last of nine
children, and my mother was
so when she gave birth to me.
And I'm sure l didn't make
medical history. IncloSed is a
recent clipping reporting that
a 7O-year-old woman has CIV
en- birth to a baby in Eastern
Nigeria. Sincerely yours,
CHICAGO
Tell your troubles to Abby
in care of The EUning Star.
For a personal, unpublished
reply, please send a stamped,
Selt-addreSSed envelope.
Getting married? For Ab-
by'S booklet, "How To Haze
A LoDely Wedding, send so
cents to Abby.
(McNaught Syndicate)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Big jefferson Nickel
Identifies q Bank

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP).-
A nickel may not look very
big to most people these days,
but it certainly looks big to
customers of the new Jeffer-
son State Bank here.
A huge 225-pound replica Of
the Jefferson nickel, made of
cast aluminium and S feet in
diameter, adorns the main en-
GRANGE to the bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23

Asthma Requires
Care, Not Knife
- BY DR.. PETER J. STEINcRoHN

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: My
wife has been suffering with
asthma for many years. She
has had many severe attacks.
For immediate relief she uses
an atomizer or nebulizer with
medicines to ease her breath
ing. She is SO and relatively
healthy otherwise, except for
occasional rise in blood
pressure.
Recently l was told there is
a Massachusetts doctor who
can cure the severest asthma
by operation. Do you know of
any operation that is a posi-
tive cure for asthma?-Mr. B.
I KNOW of no such opera
ton. If / were you l would
not raise any false hopes.
Just be sure she is in the
hands of a good family doctor
who will come as quickly as
he can during her attacks;
and under the supervision,
occasionally, of an allergiSt.
A knife is a knife is a knife,
but where asthma is con-
cerned operation must take
second place Cor, rather, no
place at alb to purely med
ical management.
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: Is
there a specific cure for
psoriasis?-Mrs. N.
l AM SORRY to have to
continue in this negative fash
ion, but the answer here, too,
is no. Psoriasis is one of the
most stubborn skin diseases.
In spite of an occasional howl
Of disagreement from some
doctor who claims he has the
cure for psoriasis, l must still
stick to my belief that we are
still searching for a definite
cure. However, if your doctor
is conscientious and keeps
trying, better cooperate with
him. In many cases, though
not completely durable, the
patient can be helped Signif-
icantly.
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: l am
rs years old. When l first get
up in the morning l expert
ence a general feeling of
malaise. After l take my
morning bath, eat my break
fast, and move around it
leaves me and l feel like 40
most of the time.
l haven't a gray hair on
my head, look so, and l have
2O-2O vision, using glasses
only to read with. never
get tired, and can walk up
grades without getting out Of
breath.
Is my trouble due to endo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
JIM BISHOP

Fame is the wink Of a star,
dead at dawn
Everyone remembers Ben
Hur. It's a famous movie.
How many today know that
Lew Wallace wrote Ben-Hur-
and without ever having visit
ed the Holy Land?
Some men are born with
talent. Wallace had it, almost
from the time he first saw
light on April 10, 1927, at
Brookville, Ind. When he was
small, he drew caricatures in
charcoal, and landscapes. He
didn't like school, and used
the enormous affection be-
tween him and his mother to
prevent his father from COM
polling attendance.
Lew was still a little boy
when his mother died. At
once, his mind turned from
art to adventure. He took to
the woods, carrying gun and
rod and such books as he
could carry. He would read,
but not study. He was 10 when
his father, David W ALA e,
was elected Governor Of In
diana.
The boy read everything Of
value in the State library. By
the time he was Is, his hand
writing was so Spencerian
that Lew was paid to copy
public records. At II, he was
State Capitol reporter for the
Indianapolis D lily Journal,
and at the same time, began
to study law.
SOM EO NE ASKED him
what book made the deepest
impression, and Wallace said:
"Prescott's Conquest of Mexi-
CO." This was the key to the
boys character: Adventure,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Movie Outshines
Ben-HurAu

soldering, law, and literature.
He was only 20 when the War
with Mexico began. At once,
Lew Wallace raises" a COM
pany Of volunteers and went
off to fight. It was over before
he reached Vera Cruz.
He had time. He practiced
law and by 1856 had been
elected to the Indiana Senate.
Peace could not deny Wal
lace a m ilitary life. Four
years before the Civil War be-
gan, he organized a company
Of volunteers and drilled it so
well that, when war came, al
most every man in the ranks
became an officer. Wallace
was appointed adjutant-gen-
eral Of the State.
After Sumter, the Lincoln
administration asked Indiana
for 60 companies. Of soldiers.
W allace delivered 13O. He
would not stay home, and was
made a colonel. He fought at
Harper s Ferry. Within a
year, he was a brigadier; aft
er the capture of Fort Donel-
son, Wallace became a major
general. He was IS.
Wallace was a disciplinari-
an. His men liked him, but
some of his seniors didn't APP
preciate his flash. In 1868,
Wallace saved the city of Gin
cinnati from being captured
by Gen. E. Kirby-Smith
Lincoln gave him command
of the VIII Army Corps, a
depleted group at Baltimore.
On July 9, 1854, Wallace'S
leadership was tested. He had
$500 men and was attacked
by Gen. Jubal A. Early with
$4,000. Wallace was beaten,
but saved the City Of Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
DEAR ABBY
Adoption Agency
Twice Blessed

DEAR ABBY: Regarding
the letter from Mother Of
Five" who took you to task
for calling a woman with a
prefabricated family a moth
er in the highest form: She
asks, what does a woman
who has adopted four children
know about the joy Of first
learning that she is to bear a
child? What does she know
about the beauty Of carrying
a child under her heart? What
does she know about the thrill
Of h caring a child's first
cry?" l would like to answer
her, Abby:
l have known the joy of first
learning that I was to bear
child five times, only to lose
them all near the end of my
time. l even had the thrill
once of hearing my child's
first cry, only to be told three
hours later that l had lost
her, too. But l did experience
the fulfillment of motherhood
because, thanks to an adop-
tion a gency, we were
blessed" with three healthy,
beautiful, well-m a nm err e d,
well-adjusted and loving
children. We could not love
them more if they had been
born to us.
MOTHER"
To the adoption agency goes
the credit for blessing" you
with healthy, beautiful chill
dren. But they became we'll
adjusted, well-mannered and
loving because Of you.
4 4
BEAR ABBY: l am a boy
who is going to be Is soon. l
have a boy friend my age.
One day I went over to his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23

Monday: Humidity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Travellers Snake
JoIts Airline Clerk

Buffalo, N. Y. (AP).--Air-
line Clerk Norman Beltz, re-
moving a bag from the con-
veyor belt, heard a sound
''hke the buzz Of an angry
rattlesnake."
Field police, quickly sum
moned, moved the bag to an
open area and PACED the
owner. He denied any knoWl-
edge Of what it might be until
he suddenly realized that he
had packed his battery
powered electric razor. The
razor's switch had been &C.
tivated when the bag was put
on the conveyor belt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Teens Borrow
Dads AirpIune

HURLEY, S. Oak. (AP).-
Fathers who have trouble with
their kids wanting to use the
family car should be able to
sympathize with Max Ray
burn.
His children, Carol, II, and
Don, 16, have been keeping
their fathers airplane in al
most constant use since each
soIoed at the age Of l6. Now
their flying farmer father is
lucky to get it even when ne
needs it for business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14

bursts through the paint con-
ventions he has picked up in
last dozen years.
The paint itself is interest
ing: Broad bruSh.strokes,
flicked back and forth, color
woven with contrasting color,
large area placed against
large area. On top Of these
areas, Mr.. Colevatti draws
apparently with black paint
right from the tube, using
that container like a pastry
cooks squeezer. The sum Of
all this is a lightly cynical
view Of man and society. The
Next Coup d'Etat" is a bunch
Of officers, wiggly in their
black, confectionery lines,
looming in the bold color
contrasts. General In Action"
is fire-red on a rocking horse,
going like mad.
Besides the military. Mr..
Colevatti examines religion,
old age, the political right and
wealth. The conclusions are
familiar but what's oft been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
ART AND ARTISTS
MY. Armory Show That Changed
Art in America Is Revived

prize winner and the en-
try of the Juror. Mr..
Peterdi's choice for first Is
Alfred McAdam'S Gorge"
a theme he has often
used. Glistening water pours
through dark rocks pressing
on 1t from both sides and ex-
plodes in brightness at the
bottom. Mr.. Peterdi's own
work, a wash drawing, "Sea-
scape," is very far from q
conventional marine, SO far
in fact that in addition to
being a very lively abstract
movement Of ink strokes, the
drawing also embodies the
lifting force Of the sea.
From around the country
but mostly from this area,
the show has pulled together
no less than $50 items worth
looking at. Many are notable:
Andrew Bucci's austere view
Of the Anacostia, in which
the whole river is implied in
the marsh grass; Robert
Burkert's skeletel winter
woods; PrentisS Taylor's ex-
tremely sensitive differentia-
ton between trees, sheep
and rocky cliffs mostly
through textures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14

that 1t can. Had cubism been
no more than such an appli-
cation, it would merely have
been a new variation Of the
old representation 1t replaced.
A great deal Of the Amer
lean section is pallid and
pointlesS, but much survives
with great strength. Maurice
Prendergast does so In a
glowing run Of patchwork
painting: so does John Sloan
in one of his best, the women
drying their hair on the road.
Still bright with life are
paintings by Glackens and
Edward Hopper, by Bellows
and John Marin.
The lesson Of the Armory
Show finally Is in two parts:
one, that the European
"modernist" art so decried
then has great merit; and,
two. that American realist
painting can also have great
merit even when one has
learned lesson one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
BY EDWIN HOAG
Tulane University Reports

Journalists and talent scouts
to help improve education in
the South?
Both were prescribed recent
ly, among other things. by one
Of the South's outstanding ed
ucators.
DR.. Robert M. Lumiansky of
Tulane University, chairman
Of the American Council Of
Learned Societies, outlined the
two proposals this way:
1--WE need to make the gen.
eral public aware Of how much
we are not doing in Southern
education which we must do If
we are to move forward prop
erly In all aspects Of the re-
gion's activities.
az would like to see so able
and well-edueated persons Sc
lected for a years intensive
study of education in the Unit
ed States, and then the chance
for these so persons to present
through Southern newspapers,
radio and television q large
scale program about education
in the South.
Perhaps after five years of
such a program, the general
Southern public would have
been made fully aware Of the
principles, procedures and
funds necessary to bring edu-
cation in the South to the
needed level of excellence.
las to the search for and
encouragement Of talent, we
could profit greatly from a
central regional agency with a
large staff to comb the South
steadily for outstanding young
people.
Further, having found such
individuals, the staff member
Of this agency should be In O
position to do something about
helping to provide high level
educational opportunities for
them.
"This search for talent
should involve regular visits to
schools, college and UNIVERSE
ties, and should make use of
the best devices for identifying
outstanding ability. Great
stress should be placed on early
Identification so as to insure
as fully as possible the devel-
opment Of a solid educational
background for the individual
involved"
DR.. Lumiansky said two spe-
cific important needs of South
ern education are a better Sc
lected and better prepared
corps of elementary and high
school teachers and the devel-
opment of graduate schools Of
distinction in the South.
I'VE need to attract into ele-
mentary and secondary school
teaching a far larger percent
age Of the outstanding college
students, and to educate these
prospective teachers far better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
Smithsonian

Meanwhile, back In WASH
ington, the seth Annual Ma
tional Exhibition Of Water
Colors, Prints and Drawings.
presented by the Washing
ton Water Color Associa-
ton has opened at the
Smithsonian.
The show has been very
astutely put together by the
people In charge. The mix
ture OF prints with the water
colors lends a great deal Of
strength TO the overall view
and at the same time sets
off the water colors In their
own particular strengths.
The second shrewdness was
10 have a single juror for
both awards and selection.
The third was TO have as that
man the artist oabor Peterdi.
Thus, not only Is there q
uniform taste. with no COM
promises. there Is Q very high
level Of quality throughout.
The top pieces are what
they should be: The first
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Dickey Gallery

The latest art gallery in
town is the Margaret Dickey
Gallery of Art at 2l33 Penn
Sylvania avenue NV. The
new venture is affiliated with
the D. c. Teachers College
and has as its main purpose
the assistance Of art pro-
grams in D. c. public schools.
The opening show, Then
and Now" compares the
present work Of IL we'll
known Washington area art
lists with their own paintings
Of earlier years.
The biggest Jump is that
between Pietro Lazzari's 1927
angular guitarist and his
present tastefully placed blob
Of colors in the upper center
Of @ field Of orange. Less
drastically, Prentiss Taylor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
Whitney Museum

The relation between merit
In art and fashion in art Is
made clear by a number Of
Armory related revivals
around New York. OF these
ancillary exhibitions. the
most important has been the
Whitney's Decade Of the
Armory Show" a look at
advanced art In the United
States from 1910 to 1920"
The show at the Whitney
has the virtue of including
some Of the pioneer Ameri-
can abstract artists who were
absent from the Armory
Show itself, most notably
Arthur Dove and Max Weber.
The Whitney also docu-
ments, as the AImory does
not, the continuing develop
ment of such Armory men
as Stuart Davis and Charles
Sheeler. Finally. sculpture
gets a better break at the
Whitney: although. as old
photographs attest. there
was sculpture all over the
Armory in 1918. there Is Q
lot less in 1868. The Whitney
makes up for that among the
Americans, with works by
Lachaise, Laurent, Nadel-
man, Zorach and even two
bronzes by Weber.
The American conquest Of
cubisrn can be studied in
many Of these artists. It be-
came a different thing here
and when it didn't the artist
didn't amount to much. The
change is dramatic In Weber.
His famous Chinese Restau-
rant" Is a model Of cubist
style, even to punning with
the little squares of tile. Yet
the spirit Of Weber scars
much higher as the figure
begins to reappear among the
geometry. Applied to cracked
eyes and dislocated faces In
Weber's paintings. the de-
vices Of cubism entered the
language of the heart with
out leaving that Of form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
DIMENSION EDUCATION
Talent Scout System
Urqed for the South

than is now the case" he said.
THE corps Of elementary and
secondary teachers in the
South certainly includes many
competent. Woodworking peo-
pie. But by and large the Sc
lection and preparation Of
these persons have not been
such as to insure within the
elementary and secondary
schools the kind Of atmosphere
suitable to the fullest intellec-
tual development of the pupils,
particularly the most intelli-
gent pupils"
On the matter Of graduate
education in the South, DR..
Lumiansky, for nine years dean
Of Tulane's graduate school,
had this to say:
Another specific need Of
Southern education is to de-
velop graduate schools Of. high
distinction. Graduate educa-
ton in the South has made
great progress since the end Of
World War II. But the South
still produces only IL per cent
of the annual output Of over
10000 persons with the doctor
Of philosophy degree.
I'm the increasingly sharp
competition for distinguished
teacher-scholars, the South
cannot as yet participate fully
and win not be able to do so
until the region manages to
develop at least half a dozen
graduate schools which are out
standing by national stand
ards"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
Cor 81 Policemen
To Sell Bonds

The two madcap make-be-
lieve policemen Of "Car 81,
Where Are You?" will be at
the Departmental Auditorium
Tuesday helping the Treasury
sell savings bonds.
Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne,
who are Toody and Muldoon
when on television In uniform,
will appear in q comedy skit
at a rally for Federal employees
at 1890 am.
The program win open the
1858 payroll savings campaign
among Government workers.
After the rally, the comedi-
ans will receive letters Of COM
mendation during a Washing
ton Advertising Club luncheon
at the Presidential Arms. The
advertising club is promoting
the Districts seven-day Free
dom Bond Drive to encourage
the sale of bonds here May /
through July 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV Daily, 10 am. to 4:30 pm;
Saturday, 8 am. to $3.50 pm; Sun
day and holidays. = to pm;
closed Monday.
DUMBART0N OAKS RESEARCH IL
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 100
Thirty-second street NV. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive S.W.
Daily, Q am. to 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ART. Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily. Q am. TO 4:30
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con.
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily, 10 am. to 5 pm; sunday, 2
pm. to 10 pm.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
Daily, 10 am. to 8 pm; Sunday,
to 3 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1919 Twenty
first street NV. Daiiy, II am. to
9 PM; Monday, 2 TO z pm.
WASHINGTON GALLERY OF MODERN
ART, 1903 Twenty-first street NV.
Tuesday through Saturday, IL am.
TO 0 pm; Sunday, 2 TO 5 pm;
closed Monday. Admission so cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
Modern Museum

Back to back with the
whitney, the Museum Of
Modern Art. for It's share OF
the Armoryfest. contributes q
brilliant exhibition Of one Of
the giants Of the single mod
ern movement ignored In the
Armory Show. The move
ment, Of course. was German
Expressionism. The artist Il
Emil Nolde. The exhibition,
organized by the Modern's
Peter SELF, traces the career
from the very earliest works
through the birth Of an in
dividual style 10 the glowing
achievements Of the flower
pictures. the landscapes and
the religious paintings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
Adums-Moroun

The other newcomer of ex-
ceptional interest is Juan
Carlos Colevatti, an Argen-
tinian now living in Rich
mond and showing at the
Adams-Morgan. Mr.. Colevat-
It's manner is much more
conventionally current than
Mr.. Olney's, but the spirit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
Public to Heur
Science Assistant

DR.. Jerome B. Weisner, spe-
cial assistant to the President
for science and technology, viii
speak at $3.50 pm. next Sum-
day on living with science"
The public meeting, spon-
sored by the Federation of
American Scientists and the
Washington Association Of Sci
entists, will be held In the
Sheraton-Park Hotels Cotillion
Room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14

has moved from q lonely
wartime dancehall to the
clean structural lines Of q
viaduct; Jacob Kainen from
a store front Of 1910 to a
massive and melancholy
seated figure in blue.
Although q gimmick in in
spiration, the show is inter-
esting in several Of its COM
parsons. Other artists are:
Jack Perlmutter. Sa muel
Bookatz, Richard Dempsey,
Dorothy Goldberg, Richard
Lahey, John Chapman Lewis,
Leonard Maurer and Andrea
de Zerega.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
ART NOTES

Pop Art pops again start
Ing Thursday night at the
Washington Gallery Of Mod.
ern Art with the Popular
Image exhibition. The show,
here for seven weeks, will be
punctuated by appropriate
events: A John Cage concert
on Friday; a Happening by
Claes Oldenburg April "a, IS;
a dance concert May 8. a lee
ture May Is by Robert Rosen-
blum, and a movie program
May %. Tickets for all events
are $40 for the public, IS for
members.
Today from / to 6 pm. is
the last day of the Potomac
Area Festival OF Arts spon-
sored by the Northern Vir-
ginia Chapter Of the Virginia
Museum Of Fine Arts, at the
American Legion Post, Ar
lington.