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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
Maestro Is Feted
Warmly by Johnsons
by BETTY BEALE

neither and stay on the job
here.
Justice and Mrs. Arthur
Goldberg took In both the
concert and party afterwards
where they had a dance to-
gether. DR.. and Mrs. Leonard
Carmichael were there. and
fish Baldrige, Representative
Edward Boland of Massachu-
sets, Mr.. and Mrs. Abe For
tas, Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Hayes, Scott kirkpatrick, the
Donald MacArthurs, and
others.
At the end of the supper
the Vice President. at the head
Of one table, caught his wife's
eye at another and she rose
to make a warm and charm
ing toast TO the Leinsdorfs.
Although she was leaving this
morning TO fly to their ranch
in Texas, Lady Bird did Moth
ing to stop the party early
and it continued until 1880
am.
So
WILLIAM MCCORMICK
BLAIR and his glamorous
wife Deeda are coming to
Washington next week and
stir up a furry Of entertain
ing. The United States AM
bassador to Denmark and
Mrs. Blair are already in New
York. Monday, they will ar
rive in Washington for a five
day stay. Their schedule is a
full one.
President and Mrs. Kennedy
will have them to dinner on
the 9th. The Newton Minows
will give a cocktail party for
them on the 26th. The Philip
Stems will be hosts at a din
ner party in their honor later
that same Tuesday evening.
Presidential Assistant end
Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger will
give a dinner for them on the
18th. And on the 29th, their
last night in Washington,
the Sargent Shrivers will en-
terrain for them. Last year
when they came to town the
Shrivers feted them at a gay
dinner dance which both
President Kennedy and Vice
President Johnson attended,
following the Chief Executives
stag dinner for King Saud.
= =
CHARLES WILLIS, presi-
dent of Alaska Airlines, is re-
sponsible for the most sur
prising dance ever witnessed
in a Washington hotel. He
wasn't even there but it was
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EXCLUSIVELY YOURS

the Air Corps when Col.
Mitchell died.
SENATOR TEDDY KEN
NEEDY was there minus Joan.
who is taking things rather
quietly in anticipation of the
arrival Of their third child.
The Senator had a discus
sion with DR.. Leinsdorf abe ut
the acoustics in Boston's
Symphony Hall versus other
concert settings. The maestro
said the acoustics in Sym
phony Hall were the finest
in this country and were only
equaled by two places in
Euorpe, one of them the
concert hall in Vienna.
But DR.. Leinsdorf took issue
with one guests reference to
"the little known science of
acoustics" He said it was
known and understood. The
failure, he said, lay not in
our knowledge Of acoustics,
but in the failure Of the mu-
stefan, who knew what was
needed, to make it clear to
the architectural engineer.
Very often, he said, a board
Of directors made the deci-
sions and the resultant con-
struction represented q series
of compromises not conducive
to acoustical perfection.
FEC CHAIRMAN and Mrs.
Newton Minow dropped by
and Newton was showing off
the unique st. Christopher's
medal given to him by the
Catholic Mass Media organ
ization at his telecast with
Msgr. Sheen. On the back of
the silver Catholic medal was
the six-pointed Star Of David
in his honor.
Newton chuckled as he re-
called what he said on TV. 1t
might seen. a little unusual,
he told the listeners, for him
to be introducing Msgr.
Sheen, but a lot of unusual
things have been happening
lately. Since the newspaper
strike began, Cardinal SPELL
man has been getting his news
out of the Christian Science
Monitor"
Chairman Minow had no
news to divulge on his future
plans. He was amused to hear
that in addition to the rumor
that he was slated to join Bill
Benton on the Encyclopedia
Britannica, there was a new
one that he would join a
prominent law firm. He was
being urged last night to do
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The Lyndon Johnsons Just
don't give stuffy parties
They have proved 1t before
but last night they passed
the acid test. The acid test
is a midweek party after an
evening concert. Very often
the conversation is limited to
such stimulating comments
as, What did you think Of
the scherzo?" and II adored
the staccato in the first
movement"
Since so per cent of many
married couples attending a
concert and party afterwards
don't know an andante from
an allegro and can't wait to
go home and get some sleep.
this sort of thing can pail
very quickly.
But not so at the john
sons.
THE VICE PRESIDENT
and his wife entertained last
night for Erich Leinsdorf, the
new music director of the
Boston Symphony, and guests
were greeted by the dance
music Of a four-piece Marine
orchestra when they walked
into the couples home.
Champagne was served dur
ing the mixing period when
the hosts saw to it that
everyone present had met
everyone else. And later there
was a delectable, seated buff
fet that was a full dinner.
The Johnsons had first
gone to the Boston Sym
phony's concert and occupied
the Presidents box in Con-
stitution Hall. Seated in No.
Is with them we're Mrs. LENS
dorf and Austrian Ambassa-
dor and Mrs. Platter.
Erich Leinsdorf was an
Austrian before he came to
America in the late '30s.
He was doing guest conduct
ing for the Metropolitan
Opera when Hitler moved into
Austria and he decided not to
go back to Austria if he could
help it. He did help 1t and the
name Of the help wa Lyndon
johnson, freshman Congress-
man from Texas, whom he
met at the home Of Mrs.
Charles Marsh.
Mrs. Marsh, now Mrs. Rich
ard Kirkpatrick of Boston,
Va, was there last night with
her husband, Col. Kirkpat-
rick. The latter served with
the renowned Col. Billy
Mitchell and resigned from
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that is one Of the less expen-
sive benefit balls In town
1885 per couple, and Mrs.
Atherton Macondray is in
charge of reservations, Mrs.
Philip Amram. invitations and
Mrs. Leonard Car
Michael, treasurer.
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A BOOK REVIEW
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\OOnlIuuCu dSC ~
suggests that 1.-THE true protagon-
isl of this account is not Scott
Fitzgerald, who forms only a focal
point of reference, but the age
itself"
Maybe so, maybe not. The re-
viewer watched for the entry of
the Zeitgeist, and found only the
wise boob who thinks he is
smarter than he is. Don't know.
A boob hunt is generally sopho-
moric enterprise.
Consistent is the passage which
saws: For descriptive gaudiness
Fitzgerald's prose outshines that OF
the public relations promoter,
mountaineering at the height OF
the Florida boom" Yeah? Good
wise-crack. Sounds just like the
Smart Set of the 192O's. But not
particularly true.
Edmund Wilson saw Fitzger-
AIDS fiction as "jewels, in a hand
full, lying loose" The short stories
were:
Flawed amethysts; the moon
stones milk blues;
Chill blues of pale transparent
tourmaline;
Opals of shifty yellow, char
treuse green,
Wherein a vein vermilion fleeS
and flickers-
Tight phials of the spirits light
mixed liquors;
Some tinsel zircons, common
turquoise.
With such comment from Ed
mund Wilson, who was closest in
the group to Scott Fitzgerald, no
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like to tell you of couple of things which make normal
adjustment bit difficult-yeS just bit difficult
Recently while visiting lady of the Old South, she
looked the headlines of the newspaper then turned to
and said ut just tckles to death that they're haV-
ing those Nigra demonstrations up North!"
Yes said, when I'd stopped stranglng from the
coffee had in my mouth at the moment of her great
pleasure land me, too neighbor of mine once had an
ncurabe cancer, and enjoyed anything SO much
in my life"
She did not think that to be funny at ALL indeed she
considered sarcastic all hell Well Father reckon no
coffee with that lady
Now I've said the above represents attitude to
which unable to adjust; So the following rep
resents it to the maximum degree
On the day after the Kennedy infant died, Lady
And what else could she have been) overheard in
grocery store to say WELL thank the Lord that's one
less Kennedy we'll have to put up with"
do thank the Lord that can't adjust to the above
did, I'd be sick that poor May God help
her-even if He forgves her.
And, of course, Father Merton there few more
things which contribute to the need my soul has for
Band-Aid Indeed there many things all which
lend themselves to the hole in my soul quite we'll To
late them all would be another book, I do think.
With admiration and respect
D.
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wonder the quest for the wise
boob" is so inconclusive.
H. L. Mencken was an older and
colder man, who reviewed Fitz-
gerald with critical reservations.
They saw each other occasionally
and exchanged numerous letters.
Yet Mencken wrote:
"A prudent man, remember
ing that life is short, gives an
hour or two, now and then, to
critical examination of his
friendships. He weighs, edits
them, tests the metal of them.
A few he retains, perhaps with
radical changes in their terms.
But the majority he expurges
from his minutes and tries to
forget the cold and clammy
loves of year before last"
Such prudence" governed Menck-
en- in his relations with Fitzgerald.
Ring Lardner considered the am
bition of the parvenu as hopeless
ly unattainable. What the preda-
tory social climber is pursuing
does not exist, except as an ideal
in his own pathetic imaginings.
Fitzgerald's sad young men with
their concern for social supe-
riority, refinement, magnificence
merely want acceptance, in Lard
ner's phrase, amongst the high
polloi." And when Fitzgerald took
his pen in hand and turned out
precious phrases, Lardner was
nauseated.
fitzgerald and Hemingway
have their closest points of
affinity in three themes which
figure prominently in their
works during the nineteen
twenties and early thirties.
Those themes I shall designate
the alien outsider, the modern
woman, and the ruined writ
ter
And Fitzgerald turned out to be
a ruined writer.
Professor Goldhurst, born in
New York City, has degrees from
Kenyon College and Columbia
University, and from Tulane Uni
versity, where he took his Ph.D
in 1862. He is now assistant pro-
fessor of English at the University
of Puerto Rico.
w. w. STOUT
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RAOST SIMS OF CHRISTIANS
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! Since newspapers seldom carry
controversial material, the nom
Negro public is only vaguely in
formed. have seen the same bru-
tally in New York City that have
seen in Mississippi, I have seen
the same lack of communication
! between Negro and white citizens
in Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles,
Rochester, and Buffalo that l have
seen in Alabama.
UNIFORMED, the national con-
science cannot manifest itself We
remain two groups of citizens with
two different sets of information
who do not trust one another and
who cannot discuss our problems
at sufficiently profound depth.
LIVED AS A NEGRO IN
THE SOUTH
My information about and atti-
tude toward the crisis today are
deeply influenced by an expert
ence three years ago when I had
dermatologist darken my skin,
and l lived as a Negro in the Deep
South. Behind this sociological ex-
pertinent there lay the profound
conviction that unless Americas
most corrosive problem of racism
were understood, it could destroy
us.
In my teens, as a medical stu
dent in France, l had seen the
extremes to which racism could
lead when I helped smuggle Ger
man and Austrian Jews from the
NaZi final solution" l had seen
men and women of great quality
destroyed because they were born
of Jewish parents. Later, in Amer
lea, | had made studies of crisis
community patterns in areas
where racial prejudice subverted
justice. These studies showed ap-
palling parallels to the growth of
racism | had witnessed in Ger
many. Mental attitudes were sim
liar. In Germany, man was con-
demned, not by his qualities as a
human being, but because he was
Jewish. In America, skin pigmen-
tation was enough to condemn a
man to second-class citizenship.
The folly of racism which dis
eliminated against man because
OF the color of his skin was dra-
matially illustrated to me during
ten years when I was blinded by
a brain injury. The blind learn
to judge an individual by quail
ties as human. To the sightless
we are all human individuals, more
or less good, more or less Guilt
waited, more or less intelligent. Our
physical attractiveness, lightness
or darkness do not enter the pic
ture.
When l was blind it seemed to
me grotesque abuse of the gift
OF sight to prevent any man from
fulfilling his human potential
merely because his skin was dark
Yet we were doing this in Amer
lea and bringing up our children
ture time, he makes his second adj
vent to the earth, as some Chris
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day denouncing concepts of racial
inferiority or superiority. Listen
ing one evening to the Beethoven
Opus 1872 Quartet, one of the sub
FINEST utterances in all music, I
realized that if Beethoven lived
in the South today, he would be
considered Negro, second-class
human. I, as a white man In the
/ South, could not sit down at a
! restaurant table with Martin of
! PORES or Benedict the Moor,
though I could eat there with the
most derelict white.
l decided that the only way to
demonstrate what racism does to a
human being was to become Ne
gro and experience it from the
side that no white man can really
know. had a deep concern for
! the Negro as a victim of racism,
but I had an equally deep con-
Germ for the white who, whether
he realized it or not, was also a
victim of racism. Obviously, the
situation that warps and handicaps
the Negro child must - perhaps
] even more terribly - warp and
handicap the white child.
On a chilly November night in
New Orleans, after ten days Of
! treatments by dermatologist, 1
was ready to enter the world as a
Negro. 1 was evenly dark from
head to foot, and l had shaved
my head. Otherwise, I was the
same. retained my name, my
credentials, my speech pattern. I
decided that if I were questioned,
would answer truthfully. In the
next seven weeks, no white man
asked my name; no one questioned
my identity as Negro.
The full impact of it hit me
that first night when | was direct
ed to the best hotel accommodate
tons for Negroes. 1t was a
wretched little place in the ghetto
area. I asked for the best room
and paid in advance. The pro-
prietor led me up rickety stairs
to the second floor. My "best
room" was a cubicle scarcely
larger than a double bed. It had
no windows. locked the door
and began to undress. Noises of
talk, laughter, and juke-box jazz
from nearby tavern drifted
through the thin clapboard walls.
turned out the light and crawled
into bed. A dog yowled some
where in the distance. lay awake
in the oppressive closeness and
felt desolation spread through me.
For the first time, statement
came from my lips that l have
heard Negroes utter countless
times since: 1T doesn't m ke
any sense"
| What sense did it make? Here
was, the same John Griffin who
had often been an honored guest
in New Orleans. I had been there
on concert tours with the French
pianist Robert Casadesus. I had
been received in the finest homes,
the finest hotels, the finest res
taurants. I was that same man,
with the same characteristics, even
the same wallet and the anne
money. But because my skin was
black, all of those doors were
closed to me. No amount of money
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letters
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have been deleted, slanted or sup
pressed in some areas. This article
could use about rour-page intro
duction, but l am cutting it short
to save space. Also, this is biitz
job, so, it may contain few gram
NAUTICAL errors - but l hope the
reader will do his own research,
and won't be so confused that he
won't be able to see the forest for
the trees. The article follows:
"In the pictures and portraits of
Christ by early Christians, he is
uniformly represented as being
black. And to make this the more
certain, the red tinge is given to
his lips; and the only text in the
Christian bible quoted by orthodox
Christians, as describing his COM
plexion, represents it as being
black. SOlomon'S declaration, II
am black, but comedy, o we daugh-
tiers of Jerusalem" (Sol. 1:5), is
often cited as referring to Christ.
According to the bible itself, then,
Jesus Christ was a black man."
Kersey Graves, Worlds Saw, p. Sc
The most ancient pictures and
statues in Italy and other parts of
Europe, representations of the Vir-
gin Mary and the infant Jesus, are
black. The infant god, in the arms
of his black mother, his eyes and
drapery white, is himself perfectly
black.
Higgins: Anacalypsis, Vol. l, p 1873
Higgins states: There is scarce
ly an old church in Italy where
some remains of the worship of the
BLACK VIRGIN and ACK
CHILD, are not met with :"
Higgins Anac., Vol. l, p 1873.
Higgins, on whose authority the
above is stated, informs us that, at
the time of his writing (1825-35),
statues and paintings of this kind
were to be seen at the famous
chapel of the Virgin at Loretto;
the cathedral at Moulins; the
church of the Annunciation, the
church of ST. Lazaro, and the
church of St. Stephens, at Genoa;
St. Francis at Pisa; the church at
Brixen, Tyrol; church at Padua;
church of ST. Theodore at Munich,
and in the last two, the white of
the eyes and teeth, and the studied
redness of the lips, are very OBJ
servable.
Higgins, op. cit, p. 1873.
DR.. Conyers Middleton, speaking
of the statue, Virgin of Loretto,
said:
1.-THE mention of Loretto puts me
in mind of the surprise that was
III al tnC lAoI SISHl VI Ll1c I1OIy
Image, for its face is as black as
a Negroes"
Letters form Rome, p. "a.
DR.. Inman said
ITO this we may add, that at the
Abbey of Einsiedlen, on Lake Eur
ich, the object of alteration is an
old black doll She is called,
apparently, the Virgin of the Swiss
Mountains. My friend, Mr.. New
ton, also tells me that he saw, over
a church door at Ivrea, in Italy,
twenty-nine miles from Turin, the
fresco of a BLACK Virgin and
child, the former bearing triple
crown"
Ancient Faiths, Vol. ii. p. 264.
Mr.. King, in Gnostics, p. II, said
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ture time, he makes his second adj
vent to the earth, as some Chris
tians anticipate he will do, and
that he comes in the character of
sable Messiah, how would he be
received by our negro hating
Christians ;? Would they wor-
ship negro God? Let us imagine
he enters one of our fashionable
churches, with his trough and
ready" linsey-WoOlsey, seamless
garment on, made of wild sea-
grass, and what would be the
result? Would the sexton show
him to seat? Would he not rather
point to the door, and exclaim,
Get out of here; no place here for
niggers"?
Kersey Graves, OPP. cit, p. Sc.
Sincerely,
ROSS GROVES
Milford chronicle., 1963-08-02

Later in the evening, homemade
ice cream and cake were served
and enjoyed by all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Berry OF
Phila., were Tuesday guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Belts, Sr.
and son. Mrs. Ethel Hessert,
who has been visiting relatives
here, returned home with her
children, the Berrys.
Joseph Flanagan, Sr. IS pa
tient In the st. Francis Hospital,
Wilmington. He has our best
wishes for a speedy recovery.
Let's all remember to send card
of greetings to him while he Is
there, to Room 306 3rd floor. Pm
sure he will enjoy hearing from
any who sends card.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Langreu
of Pompton Lakes, NJ, spent
the weekend with his mother and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Donovan. They were Saturday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Langrell at their summer cottage
at Dewey Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hagey and
children Of High Point, N. c., are
vacationing with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Langrell al
Dewey ? Zach.
Milford chronicle., 1963-08-02

Nefbert and family entertained
out of town guests.
Monday, Mrs. Lawrence Ste
venson of Georgetown was a call
er of Mrs. Elizabeth Filings
worth, Jr. and family.
Many from this community at
tended the Fair at Harrington.
During the weekend Mr.. and
Mrs. E. D. Coverdale and Mr..
w. M. Atkins of Glendale and
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Johnson
of Lincoln enjoyed trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Mitchell and
son spent last week vacationing at
the beach.
Miss Bessie M. Warren visited
friends on Sunday.
Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. David
E1lingsworth were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Reese Jester at their
cottage at Slaughter Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Shockley
had a delightful motor trip during
the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Lowery en-
ltertained guests on Sunday.
Last week Mr.. and Mrs. E.
L. Hayden of Dewey Beach were
guests of Mrs. Clarence E
Abbott, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis King OF
Georgetown were dinner guests
| Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Sam
mons on Sunday.
Mrs. Hazel D. E1lingsworth
is on the sick list at this writ
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Ennis
and family are vacationing al
lBroadkiln Beach.
Last week Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Ennis, Jr. and son of Lincoln
were guests of MIR. and MIS-. c.
w. Ennis, Sr. and family.
Friday, Mr.. Clarence Derrick
son of Philadelphia was guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Derrick
son.
On Saturday Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
lyn c. Hoyt and family left for &
motor trip to West Virginia anc
while there will visit Mr.. ane
Mrs. Howard Meek and other
relatives and friends.
Glendale Methodist Church
Rev. Thomas H. Dahl, pastor
Sunday, August 4, 1868
Sunday School services at II
am. Worship service at II am
Mark your calendar this spe-
Icial date. Chicken and dumping
supper on Saturday, September
26th at the Fire Hall by the
New Market WSCS. Adults 81. 81
and children 65c.
Watch for details on CHECKER
and Dumping Supper at the Fire
Hall on October 26th sponsored
Iby the Glendale WSCS.
McColley's Chapel
Rev. Thomas Dahl, pastor
Sunday, August 4, 1868
Sunday School services.
Inc W.S.C.S. Of McColley'.
will meet on Saturday evening
August 8, at the Church House
Mr.. and Mrs. Ware are host aft
hostess. After the business meet
Milford chronicle., 1963-08-02

ing delicious home made ice
cream and cake will be on sale
to the public.
Don't forget the W.S.C.S meet
ing on Saturday evening, August
81, when Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Price will entertain. Delicious
homemade ice cream and cake
will be for sale to the public
after the business meeting.
The people Of McColley's are
well noted for the delightful ice
cream and cake socia1s, so mark
the two dates on your calendar
Aug. 3rd and Aug. 81, 1868 and
try to make a special effort to
be present.
Chap1in's Chapel
Rev. Thomas H. Dahl, pastor
Sunday, August A, 1868
Sunday school services.