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THE LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS No Surprise He NEW YORK—There is a weekly high-stake gin rummy game in London, played by film executives. Last week’s participants included Sam Spiegel, producer of "Lawrence of Arabia," Mike Frankovitch and Kurt Frings, Elizabeth Taylor's agent. At 3 a.m. Frings announced: "It's late, I'm tired —and since I've never won so much money in my life, I’m go ing home.” Frings went to his room at I the Connaught Hotel and got into bed. He couldn't sleep. He tossed and tossed, then dressed and walked around Berkeley Square. But the walk didn't make him feel sleepy. On the contrary, it made him feel re freshed. He hailed a passing cab and returned to the room where the gin game was being played. Frings knocked on the door, and heard Frankovitch call out: “Come in, Kurt.” »* * * THEATER NOTE: Richard Cbndon, author of “The Man churian Candidate,” is welcom ing another writer into the family. Next week his daughter; Debbie will marry Kenneth Jupp, the British playwright. Condon said: “I’m not losing a daughter; I'm gaining two house seats.” «* * * MUSIC NOTE: After Tony Martin finished his routine at the Eden Roc in Miami Beach, a woman asked his autograph for her niece. She said: “Make, it to Beatrice.” Martin obliged .. . “Write something personal,” she persisted. The singer wrote, “With sincere wishes.” The woman looked at his script and said: “But I can't read this" . . . Martin apologized for his poor hand writing. “Never mind, never RIB ROOM The Very, Very Best of y ROAST BEEF SJw cMatjf&wer Conn. Ave A DeSales St. DI. 7-3000 Parking in the Hotel Garage IMMM ' WMMM i Now thru Apr. 1 I Washington Coliseum Formerly Uline Arena —3rd A M Sts.. N.E. I ALL-NEW 1962 EDITION I / ! | SHOW TIMES Sat. 10:30-2:30-8:15 t Mon. thru Fri. I P.M A 8:15 <■! Sun. 2:30 & 6:30 ALL SEATS RESERVED ? $1.75, $2.50, $3.00, $3.85 | Tax incl. 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(6) PBX Switch (7) Stenotype. mind,” she said. “A Perry Como you ain’t.” ** * * BOOK DEPT.: The ABC-TV team preparing the President Roosevelt TV series visited the home of Leon Henderson, the economist, who held high war time jobs under FDR . . . Hen derson was asked if he planned to write about those New Deal years. “No,” he said, “but if I ever do, I’m going to select items from the works of Morgenthau, Farley, Hull, Ickes, et. al—and my title will be, ‘That Ain’t the Way I Re member It'.” »* ♦ * MOVIES: James Harris, pro ducer of “Lolita.” met Vladimir Nabokov, the author, soon after he'd bought the movie rights for $250,000. They met at an author’s luncheon, where the producer was introduced to Nabokov: "That is James Harris, who just bought your book” . . . Nabokov replied: “I hope you enjoy reading it.” ** * * MEMOS: The Diners’ Club magazine has put David Mil ford-Haven, the Queen’s cousin, to work. He’s writing a story comparing baseball and cricket . . . Nugget magazine will publish part of James Jones’ new 'novel "The Thin Red Line” and a chapter from Davis Grubb’s “Voices of Glory" . . . Steve Lawrence will make his legitimate theater debut in “Pal Joey” this summer. ♦♦ ♦ ♦ TV NOTE: Charlie Conerly, I who ret ired as Giants’ quarter- i back, flew’ home to Mississippi last week. He said his most em barrassing experience here was when he and Frank Gifford appeared on "Masquerade Party.” Conerly was to throw a pass to Gifford in the bal cony. At rehearsal they did it seven times in a row. But with the theater lights dark at the telecast, Conerly hit a woman upstairs and almost knocked her from her seat. ** * * DRAMA DEPT.: Two New Yorkers wanted to see “Oh, Dad. Poor Dad. Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feel ing So Sad," the avant-garde comedy at the Phoenix Theater, which recently moved to East Seventy-four Street from its former quarters on Second Avenue—now the Casino East . . . The men told the cabbie. "Phoenix Theater, please.” He took them to the Casino East, where Ann Corio is starring in {"This Was Burlesque.” ! "They call this avant-garde?” said one of the men later. “I saw this stuff 25 years ago.” *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«* : opera: : yr society: ? ry I ♦ of Washington ♦ : Strauss' t ♦ ARIADNE auf NAXOS’: ♦ Ariadne Joanno Neol ♦ t Bacchus George Shirley ♦ ♦ Zerbinetta Reri Grist t ♦ Composer Helen Vanni ♦ ♦ Fri. & Mon. Mar. 30 ♦ t Apr. 2 at 8:30 ♦ t Sun. Apr. lat 5:30 ♦ ♦ LISNER AUDITORIUM, GWU ♦ ♦ Tickets 3.30,4.90,6.90,8.90 ♦ ♦ Opera Society of Washington * ♦ 1745 K St. N.W-RE. 7-0700 ♦ ♦ Talbert Ticket Agency t Willard Hotel NA. 8-5575 ♦ ... » ■w ■x'x a 4* w ... MUSIC HATH CHARM Harvey, a poodle pup belonging to Mr, and Mrs. B. H. Hartman of Asheville, N. C., cries himself hoarse when left alone. To solve the Problem, the Hartman's tried psychoanalysis. hey finally discovered that if Harvey had music—in this case the radio—he was per fectly content to be alone. Now his crying days are over.—AP Wirephoto. ftxDEAR ABBY ... By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Librarian Cites the Record DEAR ABBY: What do you mean Tarzan and Jane were NOT married. They most certainly were! For your in formation. they were mar ried on Page 312 in “THE RETURN OF TARZAN” by- Edgar Rice Burroughs. Pro fessor Porter, Jane's father, was an ordained minister and he performed the cere monv. LIBRARIAN. Many thanks to you (and to the hundreds of other Tarzan fans) who informed me of my error. Many other librarians have written me that, since that letter ap peared in my column, there has been a run on the Tarzan books. ** ♦ * DEAR ABBY: Your Italian correspondent is wrong. NO ONE eats pizza with his “fingers.” It is eaten with the mouth. SON OF ITALY. ** * * DEAR ABBY: The letter in your column, from the wife who worried because her husband mentioned ladies’ names in his sleep, reminded me of my own experience. We had been married only a few months. My husband was a receiving clerk on the docks. It was a busy time of year and his responsibilities were very burdensome. One night he was exceptionally restless. He tossed, turned, moaned and muttered. Sud denly I heard him say, “But Ruth is coming in tomorrow and I have to be ready for her!” My heart sank. I very quietly whispered in his ear, “Ruth who, Charley?” He re- How to |h| STOP KILLING fjFt YOURSELF 6y DR PETER J STEINCROHN This Patient Is Confused At some time in their lives many patients suffer from indecision and frustration. Innocently, we doctors are the direct cause of this un happy state. It hinges on the fact that doctors can honestly dis agree. Mr. Smith goes to one doctor who says you’ve got this, better do that. He goes to another who says: No, you’ve got that, better do this. Opposite diagnoses; op posite opinions. What is the bewildered patient to do? Consider this short note received today: Dear Dr. Steincrohn: A couple of years ago my sur geon discovered that I have a rather large gall stone. He is of the opinion that it should be removed. I am in my 60s and he says that if it should trouble me when I am older, my chances might not be so good. My family doctor does not agree. He says if the stone has not bothered me to leave it alone. How am I to know which is the right thing to do?—Mrs. M. IF I WERE to judge this in court my decision would be that all parties concerned were “not guilty.” The patient is right in being indecisive because he has received two diametri cally opposed opinions. Who wouldn't be confused when one good doctor says one thing and the other advises against it? The surgeon is right—ac cording to a great deal of accepted medical opinion— that it's better to have such a gall bladder out (symptoms or no symptoms) because there's a chance of cancer of the gall bladder, and because the time - »- tion is 'viit,- you aid ..n gw a physical ondition. However, hear this! The family doctor is right in his decision, too. For it is also true that a large body of medical opinion says: Leave well enough alone. Why have this patient undergo an op eration when he has no plied, "Ruth Alexander, with all that grain." I went to sleep chuckling The “Ruth Alexander” was a ship of the Pacific Steamship Company, then in service up and down the West Coast D. J. •* * * DEAR ABBY: I have the world’s worst liar for a hus band. He has been seeing another woman for a year now and, you know, you can't get away with that stuff in a small town. Everybody knows it, but he denies it when I question him. He "hides” his car in her garage and pulls down the garage door, but the crazy fool should know that people see him coming out of her garage at all hours. The woman is divorced and he isn’t the only one she sees. Should I find myself a sweetheart, too? Maybe if my husband got a taste of his own med icine it would cure him. CHEATER'S WIFE. The kind of “medicine” you are considering has never cured anyone. Someone should collar your husband and try to make him see the light. It's a man’s job. Get one of his friends to talk to him. ** * * Stop worrying. Let Abby help you with that problem. For a personal reply, write to Abby in care of The Evening Star. Inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. For Abby's booklet, “How to Have a Lovely Wedding," send 50c to Abby. Box 3365, Beverly Hills, Calif. • Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.) symptoms at all? He may go along into his 80s and 90s and never be bothered by that stone. But how about the danger of the stone Irritating the gall bladder and causing a can cer? These doctors answer by saying that the danger of cancer (which is very un likely) is canceled out by having an unnecessary oper ation which in itself may occasionally turn out to be dangerous. Now, Mrs. M., I can’t skirt your direct question any longer: What would I do? I lean toward the conservative treatment in such a case. If it were my gall bladder I would let well enough alone. However, at the first sign of symptoms (indigestion, pain, belching, gas pains, inability to eat without discomfort) I'd call for the surgeon and have the gall bladder out. ♦♦ * * Dear Dr. Steincrohn: Will you explain what is meant by prothrombin time? My mother has had a coronary thrombosis, and I overheard the nurses say she has to go to the doctor for this test. I' haven’t asked them or my doctor because I don’t like to but into their affairs— Mrs. W. DON’T LEAN over back ward too far. You have the right to ask your doctor such a question. It is a test used to determine the clotting time of the blood. In the be ginning, the doctor takes a prothrombin every day; later, once or twice a week. This influences his treatment. He will know how much dis coumarol or heparin to pre scribe to prevent further complications. <Bell Syndicate Feature) Dr. Steincrohn’s leaflet, "How to Ston Killing Your self, ’’ will ’ -nailed on re ceipt of a stamped, self-ad d .ssed envelope and 10 cents in coin for handling. Address Dr. Steincrohn in care of The Evening Star. Tomorrow: Nervous heart. NASON ON EDUCATION 'New Frontier' Seen in Textbook Style By LESLIE J. NASON Protestor ot Education, University ot Southern Ctllfornl* The old freeze in textbooks is thawing!. Stimulating new textbooks that reflect and interpret the age in which we now live are replacing the old ones that featured rockbound ideas and cover to match. There is also a variety of new supplementary materials and teaching aids—educa tional films, talking records, teaching machines, self teaching books, paperbacks. For about 30 years, text books were chosen too often on the basis of colored pic- r II • A.l • FAMOUS FABLES Gold in Your Attic » yEEEpG * R By VAN ALLEN BRADLEY O. Henry's 'Four Million' Scarce The chances are that O. Henry is destined, because of the slickly mechanical quality of most of his writ ings, to remain more of an interesting phenomenon than a giant of letters. Yet his first editions are still collected and command respectable prices. About four years ago 1 recorded prices of S3O and $35, respectively, for ‘Heart of the West" (1904' and “Cabbages and Kings” (19071. Just recently I have seen the scarce first issue, first edition of another O. Henry title, “The Four Million,” of fered by an Eastern book seller at $35. The title page of this first issue of 1906 reads as follows: THE FOUR MILLION BY O. HENRY Author of Cab bages and Kings (pub lisher's seal) NEW YORK MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMVI. An important point: To qualify as the scarce first issue, the book must bear the "McClure. Phillips” imprint on the spine. Copies lacking this imprint are worth around $5 retail. A Book About Books Collectors in the crime field have an inva'uable tool for their bookish pursuit in Thomas M. McQuade’s newly published “The Annals of Murder” (University of Okla homa Press, sls).The author, a former FBI man, lists 1,126 books and pamphlets on American murders from Co lonial times to 1900. arranged by the name of murderer or Important Medical Discovery Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery Stops Itch-Relieves Poin Preparation H®—The Only Hemorrhoidal Remedy In World That Contains New Healing Substance. Every Claim Verified By Doctors and Proved By 4 Leading Clinics. For the first time science has tute. This new healing substance is found a new healing substance with offered in ointment or convenient > the astonishing ability to shrink suppository form called Preparation hemorrhoids, stop burning rectal H. And Preparation His the only itch and relieve pain - without sur- hemorrhoidal remedy in the world gery or painful injections. containing this truly magical heal- W. In one hemorrhoid case after ing substance. ■■MW » another prompt relief was reported Magic Healing Power -also a ‘striking improvement’ in Discovered By Accident W from 2to 4 days. These reports were Like many great discoveries—the 9 verified by a doctor’s observations effectiveness of Preparation H was and proved by four leading clinics, also discovered quite by accident. Pain and itching were promptly ] n the laboratories of a famous relieved. And while gently relieving research institution in Cincinnati, this distress - actual reduction Ohio-renowned scientists were (shrinking) of hemorrhoids took conducting advanced medical tests. place. Most amazing of all - this During an ether-extracting pro- hemorrhoid remedy is so success f u l improvement was maintamea in cedure.therewasasuddenexplosion. —Preparation H promptly relieves cases where a doctor’s observations An assistant was severely burned. pain and burning rectal itch, were continued over a period of As an emergency measure, large Shrinks hemorrhoids without sur many months! quantities of an ointment (still gery . H ea ] s j n j ured tissue back to In fact, results were so thorough in an experimental stage) were normal and helps prevent infection that sufferers were able to make smeared on. To everyone’s amaze- c f hemorrhoids. such astounding statements as ment-pain ceased immediately and Every claim made for Prepara "Piles have ceased to be a problem 1” the skin healed remarkably fast tion H has been verified by doctors. And among these sufferers were a without scarring. This is the only hemorrhoidal rem- wide variety of hemorrhoid condi- Latertests revealed this ointment edy containing Bio-Dyne. Just ask tions some of 10 to 20 years’standing, was full of a new substance which for Preparation H at any drug All this was accomplished at home has the astonishing power to heal counter in ointment or suppository without surgery, injections, nar- injured skin. This substance was form. coties or astringents of any kind, then scientifically combined with The secret is a new healing sub- other effective medical ingredients stance (Bio-Dyne*)-the discovery into a product called Preparation H. of a world famous research insti- And here’s why this remarkable PREPARATION H 'Canv.ni.rn Io us. whan away from homo) tures, readable type and strong binding. Parents and newspapers share a good deal of the credit for the change. Newspapers carry stories about new materials and methods. Parents demand up-to-date textbooks and materials for their children. Perhaps even I have played a part. After writing "You Can Get Better Grades,” I submitted the basic manuscript to three publishers. All turned it down. It was not written "in textbook form.” they said. It would have to be rewritten and suspect. Many of the titles are extremely rare and little known. Have a Question? Mrs. F. S. B.: John S. Williams' “History of the In vasion and Capture of Wash ington” (New York. 1857» is a mildly scarce book and sells at around $lO to sl2 at retail if in good condition. Miss J. H.: The rare first issue of Palmer Cox's "The Brownies: Their Books” (New York, 1887) is undated on the title page and ap peared in pictorial green boards. It bears the De Vinne Press seal just below the copyright notice. Retail prices have ranged in recent years from $22.50 for a "nice” copy lacking dust jacket to as much as $250 for a “very fine” copy in original jacket. Mrs. A. G.: Your Lieut. Charles Brand's "Journal of a ‘Voyage to Peru’” (Lon don, 1828) is a scarce book. A good copy should be worth around $35 at retail: your damaged copy would be worth less, depending on the condition of both text and binding. Mrs. G. E. H.: The limited edition (110 copies) of "Poems from the Desert: Verses by Members of the Bth Army” (London, 1944), signed by Gen. B. L. Mont gomery, who wrote the in troduction, is indeed a fine collector’s item of World War 11. Copies have recently sold in the $25 to S3O range at retail. L. C. W.: Your second edi tion of “Masonic Constitu tions," edited by Thaddeus THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. Tuesday, March 27, 1962 lengthened to fit into the required format. Why Ponderous? But there was no reason for the book to be long and ponderous. It was addressed to students. In textbook form it would have lost its appeal. In the Spring of 1961, about 400 newspapers printed articles based on “You Can Get Better Grades" and of fered the booklet to their readers. In six months more than 400.000 copies were or dered. and they’re still being ordered. The booklet has CHALLENGE: Sir Wintson Churchill, whose fondness for drink is well known, was to make a speech recently before a small gathering. The chairman introduced him by saying: “If all the spirits consumed by Sir Winston were poured into this room, it would reach up to here on the wall.” He drew a line with his finger at a level with his eyes. Churchill got up to speak. He glanced at the imaginary line on the wall. He looked up at the ceiling and made a mathematical calculation on Ijis fingers. Then he sighed and said: "Ah, so much to be done, and so little time in which to do it." Mason Harris (Worcester, 1798, is scarce and worth around $35 at retail if in good condition. Miss H. J. S.: Book prices in the collector’s market varj widely from dealer to dealer and are affected by many things, such as condition, supply and demand, etc. In this column, an average price for a good copy is the usual aim: actually, some dealers have said the prices are high, while others have said they are low. D. Q.: Your William Che selden’s "Treatise on the High Operation for the Stone” (London. 1723) is a rare medical book. It sells in the SSO to $75 range at retail. Selected reader questions will be answered in this col umn. Address Van Allen Bradley in care of The Eve ning Star. (Copyright 1062. Gen. Feet. Corp.) Gold in Your Attic appear] Tuesdays. Features-Amuse. been adopted as supplemen tary material by school dis tricts, and purchased and used by teachers and coun selors. The experience of a young teacher friend illustrates the advantageous use of extra materials in a classroom. She teaches first grade and this year she was assigned a class with the lowest potential in school. She presented the first gj ade reader to them. They were wholly unable to grap ple with it. She obtained a set of bright paperbacks that were easier reading. The children had fun reading these for a few days. Then the teacher switched back to the reader. When that palled, she tried another set of paperbacks. Children’s minds, like their muscles, grow by overcoming obstacles. But this wise teacher knew that success brings success: that we must win in order to gain strength. Plan Succeeds Her pupils are now the best first-graders in the school! Another friend, who teaches eighth-grade science, bought pamphlets on reptiles, birds, plants, volcanoes, storms, ocean currents and the like for supplemental reading. His class showed increased interest each time pamphlets were used. Their grasp of science extended beyond the confines of their textbook. These teachers presage are the frontiersmen of the new age in education. Check your childen's schools to see if they , too. are abreast of the times. Thursday: Fraternities. NASON SERIES NOW BOOKLET A booklet reprint of the "Help Your Child Succeed in School" series now is available ot The Star. Send the following coupon to Room 415, The Evening Star, 225 Virginia avenue S. E., Washington 3, D. C. Please send me the complete booklet on "HELP YOUR CHILDREN SUCCEED IN SCHOOL" (Enclosed is $1 in check, money order or cash.) Name - State City Zone —. State . A-19