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face Of the sun, and the rarer
TranSits of Venus, and ex-
plains how these transits pro-
vide visual proof that Mercu-
ry has no atmosphere but that
Venus has.
He tells us about the thou
sands Of planetoids, or little
planets" that swarm In the
gap" between Mars and Ju-
piter, and theories that the
probably nonexistent intra-
Mercurial planet-Often lob
served" and even given a
name (Vulcan)-is undoubted-
ly merely a planetoid whose
orbit is eccentric enough to
swing it, periodically, between
the earth and the sun.
Another Planet?
He suggests that Pluto, so
aStoniShingly small to be or
biting way out there beyond
mighty Jupiter, Saturn, IRA
nus, and Neptune, may &C.
tually be an escaped satellite
of Neptune; and he tells us
about today's continuing
search for a possible extra
Plutonian planet.
He locates our suns posi-
ton as an average star in an
average galaxy; points out
that all stars are essentially
atomic reactors converting
hydrogen into helium; and fl
nally-inevitably IS to
grips with a question that
man has pondered since the
Golden Age Of Greece: SIS
there life elsewhere in the
universe?"
He estimates that, In "our"
Milky Way Galaxy alone, with
its Is billion sun-type, or
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Washisstos, D. c.
December 9, 1868

LADY OF FRANCE. By Paul
Lewis. Funk & Wagnalls;
$4.95.)
Gabrielle distress was a
light-minded beauty with
whom Henry of Navarro fell
in love at first sight. It was
not mutual. Gabrielle was
having an affair with one of
Henry's mobiles and her treat
ment Of her monarch was at
the beginning cavalier to the
point Of leSe-majeSte.
Henry, a hard-bitten war
rior 20 years her senior, had
been all his life profligate.
But for Gabrielle he suffered
the pangs Of first love. Having
been kept waiting in vain for
days, ne writes plteOuSly In
July, 1892: when will you
learn to be true to your
world"
Worthy Helpmeet
In time, Gabrielle came to
love Henry with an exclusive
and profound passion. And
love made her not only pune
tual, but a worthy helpmeet.
She presided over Henry's
conversion to Catholicism, &C.
cording to her present biogra-
pher; she negotiated the
reconciliation with some of
the most implacable mobiles;
she pleaded successfully with
Pope Clement for his accept
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
Who Was Born
399 Years Ago?
SHAKESPEARE.

SHAKESPEARE. A Biogra-
ply by Peter Quennell.
. World Publishing Co.;
: $685.
For many years Peter
Quennell has been one of our
soundeSt and most entertain
ing literary biographers and
historians. His first and great
est popularity came, I think,
from his books on Byron, and
his ''The Profane Virtues"
studies Of Boswell, Sterne,
Gibbon and Wilks, is a vivid
picture of late 18th century
England which can remain in
the readers mind for 20
years or more, when the mat
ter Of more exhaustive and
ambitious works Is forgot
ten. So the announcement that
Mr.. Quennell's latest re-crea-
ton is william Shakespeare,
his life and works, is reasona-
BILE cause for anticipatory
pleasure. The book itself is in
some ways a disappointment.
Mr.. Quennell is a Stratfordi-
an; he believes that the STRAIT
ford landholder and the Lon
don playwright are one man.
It is a conclusion at least as
reasonable as that any of the
other claimants of authorship
was the poet, but it is one
that, in my opinion, a serious
and responsible biographer of
Shakespeare cannot make as
an aSSumption-he can dis
prove, discount, ridicule, be-
little or illuminate against the
anti-Stratfordlans but his cho-
sen subject is one which
makes it imperative that he
not ignore them.
However Mr.. Quennell no
tees the anti-Stratfordians
only In passing. He says that
he is convinced that not Der
by, Oxford, Bacon, nor even
Marlowe wrote the plays, but
there are many reasonable
people who agree with him
yet who find no reason to be-
lieve the Stratford Shake
speare did 50 either. He says
that the anti-Stratfordians ar
que "that only an ariStocrat
could have depicted aristo-
Gratis, a statesman have de-
scribed the doings of states
men, or a cultured traveller
written Of foreign countries.
But then, Stendhal, Balzac
and ProuSt were bourgeois
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FICTION
PAPERBAcKS

MAKING FRIENDS WITH
THE STARS. BY Arthur J.
Zadde. Revised by Theodore
A. Smits. Barnes & Noble;
$1.25D An everyday hand
book Of the stars, designed
for beginners. A good one.
NEGOTIATIONS ON QUIx-
OTE. BY Jose Ortega y Gas
set. Translated by Evelyn
Rugg and Diego Marin. Nor
ton; $1.55) This book, which
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it is, is not markedly superior
to the other eight tales in the
collection. There is the wom-
an who, deSpising the life Of
Paris, escapes to a new and
unknown country, only to
discover that the inhabi-
tantS hibernate In leather
bags. A poet, in another story,
is taught Persian, writes
three poems in the language,
discovers that his teacher has
instructed him, not In Per-
sian, but a language Of his
own which he has further
more now forgotten, and that
he himself is left with his
masterpieces that can COM
municate to nobody. In still
another story, Giovanni, a
tenor, sings perpetually, COM
pletely, and in a way perfect
ly out-Of-tune, but his wife
does too, in absolute unison
with him. However, she dies,
and he is alone.
Landolfi, born In 1903, has
published more than a dozen
books In Italy since 1887, In
addition to translations Of the
classic Russians. He lives in
complete isolation, sees no
one, and says nothing. If the
stories in the present volume
are typical Of his work, he is
a master, and as we congrat-
ulate New Directions on the
perSpicacity Of its editorial
eye we also ask them for an
nfhnF honk
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
Italian Stories
Of Sober Fontosy
By DAY THORPE
Star Beck Critic

G0GOL'S WIFE and Other Stories. By Tommaso LandOh.
Translated by Raymond Rosenthal John LOngrigg and
Wayland Young. New Directions; 81
The epithets "a modern Kafka" and "Kafkesque" are
bestowed Unfortunately these days that is not too
impressed when his publishers call Tommaso Lando whose
first book to appear in America, "Gogols Wife, is out this
week the italian Kaka" Nevertheless, the association
justified
LandoM like Kaka is writer Of extraordinary imagna-
ton who tells fantastic tale with the utmost clarity and
though the events related the most ordinary and expected
in the world To wake up the morning to find yourself bug
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
GENERAL

MY LIFE AND LOVES. BY
Frank Harris. (Grove Press;
$12.5O.) This Is the complete
and mexpurgated edition of
the Harris memoirs, all five
volumes in one. Its publca-
ton is something of a land
mark since the book has long
been considered too gamey
for general circulation. In the
light of recent bookS-espe-
cially the unabashed sex nov
els-it is pretty tame. Harris
was a man of spirit, all right,
but he was a very Indifferent
writer and, what's worse, as
revealed in this book, some
thing Of a bore, too.
POETRY AND SELECTED
PROSE OF HENRY
VAUGHAN. Edited and with
an introduction by L. C. Mar
tin. oxford University
Press; ST. The work Of the
18th century Welsh poet,
along with some prose selec-
tons. A volume in the Ok
ford Standard Authors Series.
ENGLISH POETRY. A
short history. By Kenneth
Hopkins. q. B. Lippincott
Co.; $5.95.) An excellent sur
vey Of English poetry from
Chaucer to Auden by a Brit
ish writer who has taught at
the University of Texas. This
is not extended criticism but
rather an intelligent story in
chronological form.
A PATHWAY TO THE b.
BILE. By Rabbi Samuel Umen
and the Rev. Mark B. Strick-
land. philosophical Library;
So Summaries of the books of
the Bible, Old and New Tesla
ments, with added notes on
the generally accepted mean
ingS of the books.
A BOOK OF FRENCH
QUOTATIONS WITH ENG
LISH TRANSACTIONS.
Compiled by Norbert Guters
m an. Doubleday; $3.50
Quotations from French au-
thors, statesmen and hiStori-
cal figures arranged by name
and given with translationS
on facing pages.
SCIENCE AND SECRETS
OF EARLY MEDICINE. BY
Jurgen Thorwald. (Harcourt,
Brace & World; $12.) A sur
vey Of early medical history
in six ancient civilizations:
Egypt, Babylonia, India, Chi
ma, Mexico and Peru. Excel
lently illustrated and with
maps.
FROM SMER TO
CHRISTIAN nee: A
Short History of Mental Heal
ing. By Frank Podmore. (Uni-
versity Books; $1O.) The au-
thor was a British writer who
died in 1910. He devoted him
self mainly to books on men
tai conditions. This is one of
his best.
MICHELANGELO ANTONI-
ON, by Pierre Leprohon, and
LUIS BUNUEL, by Ado Kyrou.
(Two volumes in the World of
Film Series, Simon & Schu-
Ster; $3.50 each.) The work of
two world-famouS moving pic
ture directors dissected with
scenes from their films used
as examples.
THE COMPANION GUIDE
TO THE SOUTH OF
FRANCE. BY Archibald
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LINCOLN AND THE FIRST
LOVE, LET ME NOT HUN
GER. BY Paul G allico.
Doubleday; $4.75.)

LINCOLN AND THE FIRST
SHOT. By Richard N. Cur
rent. (Lippincott; $3.50 A
day-to-day account Of the
tense weeks between Lincoln's
arrival in Washington in Feb
ruary, 1861, and the first
shot of the Civil War in April.
The author traces the way by
which Lincoln arrived at his
controversial April policy.
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served at various times as
critic Of music, art, drama.
and books. A man with a
sparkling style, he was much
admired by H. L. Mencken
and George Jean Nathan.
This biography is easy to read;
the power and pungency of
the man are shown best in the
quotations, but that Is inevi-
table. Few men write like
Huneker.
FICTION
40 STORIES. By John
0'Hara. "a Modern) Library
Giant; $3.50 ALI the stories
from two 0'Hara collections.
Assembly" and 1.-THE Cape
Cod Lighter"
U. S. A. By John Dos Passes.
(Houghton, Mifflin Co.; $1O.)
A reissue Of one of the most
powerful of modern American
works of fiction, the three vol
umeS by John Dos PaSsos
1.-THE And Parallel" "Nine-
teen Nineteen" and ''The Big
Money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
The Calico
Touch Truly
Felt Here

FeIT nefe
LOVE, LET ME NOT HUN
GER. BY Paul Calico.
Doubleday; $4.75.)
It is doubtful il anyone but
Paul Calico could have
brought this story to life,
breathed reality into its odd
assortment of characters,
made even the worst Of them
not wholly villainous but with
some excuse for whatever
they did that was mean or
graSping.
1t is not that the story is so
fantastic. It is not, like some
Of the novelist's more whim-
steal tales, beyond ordinary
experience. My point is that
the situation and the people,
without his distinctive touch,
some elusive gift that lifts his
stories q little above their
superficial semblance, prob
ablV would descend IN
bathoS.
We are concerned with a
small English circus, owned
by a humorleSs, hardboiled
fellow named Sam Marvel.
The Marvel circus, playing
the smaller English towns,
has not done well, a failure
Sam blames on televiSion. But
he has an idea. He'll strip ex-
penSes to the bone, keeping
only the best acts, and take
his circus to Spain for the
summer season. This he does,
and the gate is fine,
until, on the plain Of LaMan-
cha, under a fierce summer
heat, a terrific storm comes
up. There is wind, hail,
then lethal lightning, which
sets the big top on fire. The
audience has left but the cir
Gus is destroyed, its remnants
and its personnel left stranded
while Marvel goes to Englnad
to collect insurance.
We have Mr.. Albert, the ag-
ing keeper Of the animals and
general factotum, who is dou-
bling as ringmaster; Rose,
the pretty London waif, who
has come to share the wagon
of Jackdaw Williams, who has
the marvellous bird act; Toby,
the handsome young member
Of a famous equestrian fam
lily; Jamos, the dwarf and
clown, others. But the ami
mails are as real as the peo-
pie. Mr.. Calico has not given
them human attributes, as in
"Thomasino," the tomcat,
from whose viewpoint a book
was written.
And yet Judy, the elephant,
who loves Mr.. Albert and
Toby but cannot tolerate
women; the lion, the tiger,
the leopard, who know their
friends and purr like house
cats for them; the monkeys
and the horses stir as much
sympathy as they face starva-
ton in the little Spanish town
as do any Of the acrobats, rid
ers or clowns. The MarqueSa,
immensely wealthy and capri
ciouS, who eventually comes
to the rescue Of the circus aft
er making her own peculiar
bargain, is grotesque but
somehow not Incredible.
It would be easy, with criti-
cal scorn, to point out weak
neSses in what little plot there
is, cliches in characters, such
as the self-sacrificing old man
and the tramp girl overflow
ing with kindness. But there
is a difference in this story.
Paul Calico wrote it.
CARTER BROOKE JONES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08

Lyall; THE COMPANION
GUIDE TO PARIS, by Vim
cent Cronin; THE COMPAN-
ION GUIDE TO THE GREEK
ISLANDS, by Ernie Bradford.
each published by Harper
& Row at $4.95.) A new
series Of guide books, light in
weight, attractive in appear
ance, they furnish a general
background and give some
very practical hints for the
tourist. One of the best of its
kind.
ART
MIRO. BY Jacques Las
saigne. (World; $685. An
other in the excellent Skira
Art Book series on The Taste
of Our Time. The reproduc-
tons Of the paintings are small
but very good, all in color.
PAINTINGS OF THE
WESTERN WORLD. BY Cas-
per De Jong. Barnes & No
BILE; $1.75.) A concise guide to
the development of the art of
painting from Gothic times to
the present. A paperback with
illustrations in black and
white.
BIOGRAPHY
JAMES GIBBONS HUNEK-
Err: Critic Of the Seven Arts.
BY Arnold T. Schwab. (Stan-
ford University Press; $8.25D
A biography Of the American
critic who led the way to crit
ical appreciation in this coun-
try of European dramatistS of
the 18th century. His versatil-
ity was shown in the fact he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

~ IhE WOrl0 OF alc0h0llSm jan
uary is the cruelest month. Next
month, in the wake of the Holt
days, a steady stream of disturbed
persons will 60 through the doors of
the Family and Child Services
Building at 929 L street NV, to a
suite of offices in the rear on the
ground floor. There at the Washing
ton Area Council on Alcoholism and
its Alcoholic Information Center,
they will ask questions, reveal Sc
crets, request help.
I'VE see 300 people year." says
Mrs. Theresa Abbott, acting director
Of the Council. January is by far the
heaviest month. Il is the result of the
Christmas and New Year holidays.
Christmas seems to stand out as a
holiday that causes much disturb
ance for those who are troubled, in
Guiding alcoholics"
Actually 800 people a year is a
deceptively small number. The
Council estimates that all together
there are something like 100000
alcoholics in greater Washington.
This metropolitan area ranks fifth
in the nation in the rate of alcohol
ism-behind San Francisco, Boston,
Los Angeles and Cleveland.
The only persons who come to
US are those who have become
aware of their problem and seek
help, or relatives of those with a
problem" Mrs. Abbott says. There
in lies the rub. Most people with an
alcoholic problem like the man in
the mouthwash ADJ are the last to
know it. In fact, the National Council
on Alcoholism, with which the Wash
ington Council is affiliated, puts
recognition of ones problem as the
18th step in a dOwnhill 13-step pro-
gression that begins with the first
drink.
The feeling now" Mrs. Abbott
says, sis that alcoholism is primarily
a mental health problem, that a
person has a predisposition toward
alcoholism as a result of his emo
tional structure. Principally the root
of alcoholism seems to be in the in
dividuaPs unconscious pathology,
something we can generally label as
immaturity."
Mrs. Abbott, born in Washington
and educated at American and
Howard Universities, last summer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
BY BILL FUCHS

S'~@ SSahS
attended the Rutgers School of
Alcoholic Studies, the world-famous
center which formerly was located
at Yale.
Zone ofthe things stressed there
was the fact that it is not just alco-
hOlism, but GIcohoIiSmS," she says.
There are different types. Take the
housewife or businessman between
80 and As years Of age who suddenly
develops overt symptoms of alcohol
ism. You wouldn't type them in the
same category with the chronic alcO-
hOlic who has been a repeating
court offender and who has never
been able to be responsible in our
society since an early age. The
chronic early-age alcoholic never
has been able to function"
Changing the public concept of
alcoholism will 60 a long way to-
ward prevention, Mrs. Abbott be-
lieves. Most people still think of the
alcoholic as q guy on skid row." she
says. "Yet, only 3 per cent of the al
coholics are on skid row. You can
deteriOrate in silk sheets; you can
have your skid row in a penthouse.
he Council primarily is a con-
sulting and referral agency. 1t does
not treat alcoholism. There are q
number of places in the Washington
area directly concerned with treat
ment and the Council refers its
Clients" to whatever agency it feels
will do the individual the most good.
Sometimes immediate hoSpitali-
zatiOn is needed. I'VE get quite a
few calls from people who are des-
perate," Mrs. Abbott says. I'm this
state they are not necessarily drunk,
but on the verge of withdrawal
symptoms. We refer these people to
one Of the hospitals, like the alco-
holic ward at d. C. General, or to his
private physician.
when a person comes in we try
to determine which resource would
be most helpful to him or her. Per
haps the person may be amenable to
psychotherapy or Alcoholics Anony-
nous or both. Maybe alcoholism is
part Of total picture of family prob
Continued
Alcoholism Information Week,
sponsored by the National Council on
Alcoholism, starts today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-03

MARROW BEI0HTs-Bruneh
Ave. at So. BGrnabGs Rd.
Open MondaY through FRI
days 10 70 $780, Safurdays
10 70 8.
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Columbia Plaza papers about
two months ago.
at was asked for some IN
formation by q committee staff
member on the Hill and I
couldn't find the file that had
this information" the assistant
engineer commissioner said.
Col. Adams said the papers
disappeared before he was as
signed, to the District Building.
Col. Adams said that he does
not know Of any formal IN
vestigation being made by the
District government into how
the papers vanished.
The House committee staff
members repeatedly are try
ing to find an original letter
sent by John McShain, Phila-
delphia builder and main finan-
cial hacker Of the Columbia
Plaza project to the District
Commissioner regarding the
project.
They have not found Il 90
far and viii repeatedly resume
their search tomorrow ct the
District Building.
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mails from controlled access
highways.
Directing the Division Of
Motor Vehicles to release 70
newspapers on q regular basis.
and to other news media upon
request, the names and ad-
dresses Of persons whose opera
tors licenses have been sus-
pended or revoked, with the
request that the lists be pub
hshed. This Law also would
grant immunity for suits for
unintentional erroneous publ
cation provided the error is
suitably corrected.
Requesting that the State
Board Of Pharmacy study the
need for additional laws 70
prevent the Illegal sale Of dan
gerous drugs to motor vehicle
operators.
Directing the vALC to con-
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Naval Reserve Unit
Wins National Honor

Commander Louis H. Glass
man, USNR, an associate pro-
fessor Of engineering at George
Washington University. yester-
day was awarded the National
Noel Davis Trophy for his Navy
Reserve units proficiency.
The trophy was presented
during ceremonies in the Naval
Air Reserve Training Unit
hanger at Andrews Air Force
Base. Comdr. GlaSSman's unit,
Bureau Of Naval Weapons
Training Unit 661, won the
award for the third time in six
years.
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tinue the study Of all phases
Of highway safety.
The use Of prior records be-
fore setting sentences was
brought I'd In the discussion
Of chronic offenders. The
VALC said while We do not
believe the operator should be
prejudiced while his guilt Is
being determined for any par
ticular offense with which he
Is charged. we do believe the
punishment for the chronic Of
fender should be set after q
review Of his prior driving rec
ord BY the court or jury, as
the case may be-"
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the office Of urban renewal,
that two or three Of the Is
folders Of Columbia Plaza
papers kept In his office were
found to be missing approx
mately since last March. They
were described as working files,
not official records.
I'VE searched through the
District Building, but we have
never been able to locate them, !"
Mr.. Croker said.
Couldn't Check
Mr.. Croker said that he was
not in q position yesterday to
check which records were miss
ing, since those not borrowed
by the House committee staff
members are now kept in q
locked cabinet. Previously, he
said, these documents had
been stored In Q cabinet with
out Q lock.
THE missing files were not
necessarily extremely impcr-
tant," said Mr.. Croker. II Just
don't recall exactly what they
covered. As far Is I can re-
member the documents did not
deal with the eligibility Of Co
lumbia Plaza for urban re-
newal.
He said that when the House
staff committee members were
told Of the disappearance of
the records they had said other
agencies have reported similar
disappearances Of Columbia
Plaza documents.
Officials Of the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency and the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission, when asked If any Of
their Columbia Plaza records
had disappeared, replied that
nothing was missing from their
files on this subject.
Learns Of Disappearance
1t. Col. Edwin C. Adams, as
sistant engineer commissioner
in charge Of urban renewal.
said that he first learned of
the disappearance Of some
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Bethesdun to Tell
Of DonviIIe Agitation

Mrs. Anne Karro. q Bethesda
housewife. win discuss her en-
perienees as q civil rights DEM
onstrator in Danville It 2
O'Clock tonight at Washington
Fellowship House. s45 L street
NV.
Mrs Karro served q jail SEN
tence In Danville last summer
as q result Of her participation
In q protest demonstration
there.