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Heard in the Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEVIN

(Copyright, 1947, Independent Jewish Press Secvice, Ine.)

Celebrated Jews
Robert Capa: The writer's cooperative slick paper magazine, '47,
celebrates its latest issue of gifted and famed Jewish-personalities.
There is an interesting article on the Internationally famous photog-
rapher Robert Capa, "the man who invented himself." This article
tells you, if you didn't know, that Capa, like that other famous
Hungarian, the writer Arthur Koestler, is Jewish. His true name is
Andrei Friedman, and he struck the jackpot by inventing, for French
newspapers, "a famous and wealthy American photographer, Robert
Capa." French newspapers, eager to obtain the work of a man famous
in the U. S., paid for Capa's work three times as much as they would
have paid for Andrei Friedman's work. When he found that the
French had temporarily cooled off to - Capa, Friedman wrote to
American newspapers offering them the work of the famous, wealthy
"Frei ch photographer, Robert Capa." However, Friedman would
have attained fame sooner or later, even without resorting to brilliant
salesmanship. The ace war correspondent John Hersey, author of
"Hiroshima" and "Bell for Adano, ' and by-liner of '47's article on
Capa, says that little Andrei Friedman is "credited by his colleagues
and competitors with having taken the greatest pictures of the
second World War." Capa's talent is "compounded of humaneness,
courage, taste, a romantic flair, a callous attitude toward mere tech-
nique, an instinct for what is appropriate, and an ability to relax
. (he) has deep, human sympathy for men and women trapped
in reality."
Artist Levine: The same issue has an essay-interview on Jack
Levine, 32, one of America's leading younger painters. Levine,
Eastern-born, one of a shoemaker's eight children, received his first
art lessons when he was ten at the Roxbury Jewish Welfare Center.
He is, primarily, a self-taught artist. The museums have taught him,
Levine insists. Levine's work is "Jewish" in its moral aspects—"age,
fatigue, the erosive effect of time and toil can be presented sym-
pathetically, because they prove visually the indestructability of
the human spirit amidst hardship and privation," Levine insists.

British Free 2 Mayors, Hold 1,
But Refuse to Give Explanation

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Pal-
estine government released May-
or Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv and
Mayor Abraham Krinitzi of Ra-
mat Gan from the Latrun De-
tention Camp, where they had
been held for more than six
weeks. Mayor Oved Ben Ami of
Nathanya, as well as the heads
of several smaller municipalities,
were not freed.
With no more explanation than
was given at the time of their
arrest, Roback and Krinitzi were
informed that they were to be
released.
In an interview with the JTA,
Roback described the events of
this afternoon as "not a release,
but a kidnapping." He said that
the Acting Chief of the Criminal
Investigation Department, Brig.
S. B. Johnson, arrived at Latrun
this afternoon and invited Ro-
kach outside the enclosure, where
Johnson announced that he was
being released. Rokach asked:
"Where's Krinitzi and Ben Ami?"
Johnson replied that Krinitzi was
also being released, but that Ben
Ami would remain.
Rokach then said: "I am also

remaining. We are as guilty as
he." The CID chief replied' "You
can't do that." He asked Rokach
to enter his car. Rokach's belong-
ings were left behind and. he was
not given an opportunity to say
goodbye to the other detainees.
Johnson promised to convey Ro-
kach's and Krinitzi's protests at
Ben Ami's continued detention to
the authorities. Rokach pointed
out that he was never charged
with anything and police and
camp authorities never replied
to his queries as to why he was
detained,
The police car that brought
Rokach home entered the city
without any fanfare, and none of
the residents, aside from his im-
mediate family and top officials
of the municipality, knew that
he had been released. He ap-
peared to be in good health.
The Consolidated Oil Refin-
eries plant in Haifa was blasted
by four bombs, but the damage
was slight, and there were no
casualties.
The government announced the.
Sept. 15-Oct. 14 immigration of
1,700 persons

AMP

Psychologists
Go to Work on
Anti-Semitism

SlaxonNan of 1000 Miracles,
Detroit's Latest Magic Addition

By GERHARDT NEUMANN
It is time to deal with the
Jewish News Staff Writer
problem of anti-Semitism on a
Slaxon is here, the "man of a
scientific level, the '2,000 psychol- thousand miracles", the man - who
ogists who gathered in Detroit eats razor blades, produces rab-
last week for the 55th annual
meeting of the American Psy-
chological Association were told.
One paper presented by Abra-
ham F. Citron and John Harding,
of the Commission on Comi- nun-
ity Interrelations of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, reported on
"An Experiment in Training
Groups of People to Answer An-ti-
Minority Remarks in an Effective
Fashion."
"The Effects of Intergroup At-
titudes of Participation in an In-
ter-Racial Play Center was the
topic of a paper presented by
Russel Hogrefe, Mary Catherine
Evans and Isidore Chein, also of
SLAXON (G. KOHBIETER)
the C.C.I.
bits and has many other tricks
Margot Haas and Stuart W. upon his sleeve . . . the man of
Cook, of the same research three worlds . .
group, reported on "The Use of
You never heard of Slaxon?
the Community Self Survey in But that's just . the point. We
Combatting Discrimination," and want you to get acquainted with
a fourth paper by John Harding, him. He is a very fascinating
Abrahm F. Citron and Claire guy who recommends that you
Selltiz dealt with "Personal Inci- don't fool yourself but let him
dents: A Study of the Effective- do it.
ness of Various Types of Answers
Yes, a man of three worlds. The
to Anti-Minority Remarks."
first world, that of Germany
At a conference with represen- where he was born, was a mat-
tatives of the Jewish press, Dr. ter of destiny; the second world,
Alfred J. Marrow summarized that of China where he emigrated
the results of the studies made in order to escape the Hitler
and stressed the importance of hordes, was a matter of choosing
the fact that psychologists are at- the lesser evil; the third world,
tempting to . approach the prob- that of America where he arrived
lem of discrimination from a about two months ago, finally
was a matter of free choice.
methodical angle.
How does one become a magi-
Experiments with thousands of
He remains pretty vague
people are being made to deter- cian?
about it, but he believes it all
mine the best ways and means started when at the age. of 10 he
to counter derogatory remarks, was given a $2 magic set which
and it is interesting to note that so captivated his imagination that
it has been' found in these ex- he decided to join the great fra-
periments that the cold-shoulder ternity of make-believers. But,
treatment is the most ineffective of course, he also had to learn it.
answer to insults. On the other He was initiated into the secrets
hand, militant reactions don't of magic in Germany, and then,
produce favorable results either. on his way around the globe,
The experiments prove that the picked up French and Chinese
best method is to answer in a tricks. A magic library of about
quiet way, setting the facts right, 200 books, too, helps out, and
thus destroying the first impres- he carried it with him wherever
sion which the anti-Semite made he went.
on the group. (The gist of these
In Berlin, where George Koh-
experiments was published in the bieter (that's Slaxon's prosaic
September issue of Magazine Di- unprofessional name) was born,
gest under the title "How to life was rather uneventful. He
Leave a Race-Baiter Speech- just had time to finish 'high
less.")
school to turn his back on Ger-

many in 1939 and to go to Shang..
hai, China, the country of mys-
tery and spook shows. Thousands
of German Jews found refuge
there, but not all of them did so
well as Slaxon. He worked in
Peking, Tsingtao, Tientsin, Tsin-
anfoo, etc. And, of course, he
did his acts in Chinese, and he
says it took him quite a while
to get used to Chinese audiences
and reactions. (Or was it the
other way round?)
His acts were successes in
China, and his scrapbook shows
scores of favorable reviews in
English, Chinese, Japanese and
Russian. He writes his own skits
around which his acts are built.
The range of his tricks seems
to be very wide. They vary from
snatching dozens of lit cigarets
from - the air to—horrible to say
—cutting people's hands off. How-
ever, it seems that so far all of
his patients survived this "oper-
ation".
Children's performances are
his specialty. He has made quite
a study of child psychology in
order to arrange programs' that
are particularly fit for - children..
When Slaxon arrived in San
Francisco from Shanghai, he
could go to work there immed-
iately. However, for some rea-
son, he left the west coast and
arrived in Detroit a short time
ago to make this city his home.
Not being endowed, as Slaxon
is, with the gift of hypnotism and
mind-reading, we did not bother
much to find out why he came
here. But it did not take much
mind-reading to predict that he
will be a success here, too. His
English is far advanced, and his
art is timeless as man's delight in
seeing himself carried away by
tricks and illusions which make
him forget this world—for re
while, at least.

Attlee's Treason Teacher
NEW YORK (Palcor)—"It may
be significant that Attlee was
once secretary of former Prime
Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald,
who betrayed the Labor Party of
Britain and almost destroyed it
two decades ago," Albert Deutsch
writes in PM. "It may be that
Attlee learned from MacDonald
the art of betrayal, and refined
it to the essence so manifest in.
the saga of the Exodus 1947."