`EISENHOWER: CAPTIVE HERO'

of Me': Fannie Hurst Biography
Childs' Study of President 'Anatomy
In her autobiography, "Anat- came the symbol of her life on

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for Zionism and she tells about
Marquis Child newspaper against Israel. How much did omy of Me," published by Dou-
her visit to Israel. There is no
columnist, foreign correspond- his thinking affect the adminis- bleday, Fannie Hurst goes into the cover of the book.
It is evident, while she con- mention of the fact that for a
ent, and author who has traveled tration's atitude towards the every detail of her life's ex-
stantly refers to her Jewish- very short time she was aligned to
widely and who has made a Jewish State?
periences.
ness, that she had no Jewish with the Council for Judaism
deep study of
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Only child of a talkative and training whatever. In fact, she
(a vehement anti-Israel and
world affairs
The vacillating attitude of demonstrative mother and a tells about going to a • church anti-
Zionist group).
h a s written
the President on the Little Rock
quiet and re- as a child and there is a com-
She
tells about meeting many c44
the most criti-
incidents are especially criti-
served father, ment by her that "the syna-
of
the
world's most prominent
cal study or
cized by Childs. One incident
Miss Hurst de- gogue lacked pomp and circum-
people, the Franklin Roose- 54
Dwight D.
reported by the author of the
scribes her stance."
velts, Bernard Baruch, Fiorello
Eisenhower as
new Eisenhower study is of
childhood in
She relates nonchalantly LaGuardia, all the important
General as
special interest to Jews whose
St. Louis. Her about the late Daniel Frohman
writers and the leading per- Ch
well as Presi-
position has been affected in
relatives re- that he was "a Jew horn in sonalities of her time.
dent, in "Ei
the South by the integration
ferred to her Sandusty," who attended the
"Anatomy of Me," published
senhower:
issue. Childs reports, in his re-
as lonely. The churches of all denominations,
Captive Hero,"
view of what happened in Little
future novel- but there is no mention of his by Doubleday, is a long auto-
biography. It is too long, and
published b y
Rock:
ist herself suf- having stepped into a syna-
at times becomes boring be-
Harcourt,
"More than a hundred re-
fered from gogue.
Brace & Co.
cause of the minute details she
. .
porters had converged on Little
self -conscious-
Later, Miss Hurst tells of
rc
(750 3rd, N.Y. The President
Rock, among them several cor-
ness because having met David Ben-Gurion, describes. But out of the total
17). It is the
respondents from abroad, and
of her obesity. of his impassioned arguments picture Miss Hurst emerges as O
best available analytical work they, too, were the object of
a very interesting personality.
She was con-
on the man who is so beloved insult and slander and even the
scious of her
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in our land and who, neverthe- threat of physical abuse. Ben-
chubbiness
les, is now being viewed as a jamin Fine, education editor of
Fannie Hurst later, when
"captive," as the prisoner of the the New York Time s, was she went to New York to make
Presidency and the White taunted as a Jew by the shouting a future for herself as a writer.
Do you know that you, your wife and children actu-
House.
mob, and some bolder members The story is told about another
ally travel in a TWO TON PROJECTILE at the
This volume is a record of made as if to seize him and eminent writer who was be-
treacherous speed of 60 feet in each second when
the Eisenhower administration. carry him off. The ugly menace hind her on Fifth Avenue in
you travel at only 40 miles per hour?
It covers the domestic and for- of what was happening in Little New York. He caught up with
eign policies, indicating the er- Rock, reported in the press of her and said, "Fannie, I recog-
Responsibility to your family demands that you think
rors and the manner in which the world, could not be ex- nized you by your fanny." This
about your tires when you travel at the ordinary low
the President nevertheless re- aggerated."
story, of course, is not told in
speed of 60 feet in each second!
mained the idol of our people.
But the President, instead of her book.
Regrettably, the Middle East acting, "continued to try to keep
But she overcame that com-
AL STUTZ, Owner
question is merely glossed over. his vacation schedule" on the plex, labored hard sending
It could have been a much com- Navy yacht Barbara Anne, and magazines story after story,
pleter picture of actual hap- "he was said to have remarked until the . Saturday Evening
penings, especially as they in- to a friend that the best thing Post finally accepted one. Then
volved Israel and the Arab about golf was that when you magazine after magazine, pub-
states.
were playing it you couldn't lisher after publisher, was af-
But in relation to Israel there think about anything else."
ter her with fabulous offers of
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are some references of major
contracts for her stories.
importance.
Thus, the President vacationed
Until she attained her glory,
For instance: commencing his while many problems arose, and she worked as a waitress in a
review of "Domestic Affairs," he left matters in the hands of restaurant, in a department
There is no compromise with safety when
Childs describes the President's his associates, the Secretary of store. She never gave up trying
you choose U.S. Royal Safety 't st Tires.
appearance before the triumph- S t a t e, the Secretary of the to make her mark as a writer.
ant Republicans on the night of Treasury, the Vice-President.
Her marriage to Jacques S.
Dulles' blunders, too, are des- Danielson, a pianist, came after
his election and he writes:
"While he was still in the cribed in this book. Childs re- a long wait for him to return
Commodore Hotel in New York views Dulles' career, tells about from Europe during World
in New York recruiting his ad- his official duties under Presi- War I. They kept their mar-
ministration, the President-elect dent Truman and makes this riage secret until a Trenton,
had himself been recruited. An comment:
N. J. newspaper learned about
ambitious young clergyman, the
"Even when, in his campaign it. The news was a national
Reverend Edward Elson of the for election to the Senate in sensation, especially due to the
National Presbyterian church in 1949, he greatly angered Tru- couple having lived in separ-
Washington, came to sign him man by making slurring re- ate apartments. When asked
up. Eisenhower had never had marks about his opponent, Her- about it, she said about their
a church affiliation. He had bert Lehman, and the voters in frequent meetings that it was
rarely attended formal church the populous wards of New' "our way of keeping the dew
services. But now he wanted to York City, his (Dulles') pre- on the rose." The flower be-
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be a good president, to set a decessor, Dean Acheson, had
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the beginning of his inaugural
On several occasions, Presi- of a manufacturer on charges of
address."
dent Truman acted most graci- racial incitement was demanded
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The Rev. Elson is known as ously in Eisenhower's behalf, here by the Union of Political
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the master-mind of propaganda without the knowledge of his and Racial Victims of Persecu-
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successor. Yet Eisenhower per- tion, which accused Eric Spar-
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mitted an unfortunate enmity schuh, of anti-Semitism.
to arise between them.
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According to the charge, the
WHY IS THE
In many instances, President man told a restaurateur, Ger-
CITY OF HOPE
Eisenhower is described as lack- hard Kuhn, "our time will come
ing knowledge about the coun- back; soon, we shall hang the
UNIQUE?
try's affairs. He read his West- left-overs of Jews and half-
erns but was uninformed about Jews." Sparschuh is said to have
major affairs.
called Kuhn "a half-Jew" and
Unlike other medical cen-
But Childs, while enumerat- to have spoken of Jews exter-
ters in the world, the CITY
ing faults, nevertheless is kind minated by Hitler as "pigs." The
OF HOPE gives its complete
to the President. He states that organization of victims of Nazi
service and offers all of its
the "magnification of his per- persecution made its demand for
facilities — before, during
and after hospitalization —
sonality is s t i 11 in evidence ; prosecution of Sparschuh after
without charge.
rather like the tune of a song Kuhn filed a complaint with the
Treatment is adminis-
that persists long after the authorities.
tered to patients with a full
words have been forgotten."
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Childs' "Eisenhower: Captive
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By HERMAN LIPPITT, D.O.
ment, and if it will be read
the keynote of care at the
materials an d
Treadable
Editor's Note: Dr. Lippitt, the
by
the
President
and
his
as-
proc
CITY OF HOPE. Basic to
essing
author of this verse, loves to
Tire
the operation of the CITY
sociates it no doubt will guide write poetry. He is past 80 and
methods .
now
resides
at
the
Jewish
Home
OF HOPE is the philosophy
the administration towards for Aged. He was
2 FOR
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practicing
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that there is no profit in
more carefull handling of the .optometrist on 12th a Street
for
saving the body if in the
many years.
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affairs of our nation.
process we destroy the soul.
I worship a God I do not see,
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Disease can waste away the
Only his spirit, I feel it in me.
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Lags
soul, os surely as it wastes
He
has
no
image
that
I
could
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mental anguish. Every effort
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is made to heal the patient
will not be able to complete its When I see the circling, the
physically, mentally a n d
indemnification
program
by
the
spiritually.
moon and the sun,
end of 1963, as stipulated in the I know that they are guided by
Respectfully,
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Federal Indemnification Law,
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a power of One—
Al Winnick,
H.
Dahlgruen,
Secretary
of
Fund Raising
A power that is shaping the
Next to Eastman Kodak Bldg., thru Parking Lot
State of the province, told. a
Vice-President
world destiny.
Turn right at Grand River exit from Lodge Expressway
press conference here. He re- That is the spirit—I feel it in
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vealed that of the 588,000 in- me.
demnification claims filed with I believe in One God not in
Group City of Hope
the state, only 85,500 had been
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processed to date.
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