THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September 29, 1961 — 20

Dr. Raven Is 1st
WAC Medic to
Wear 'Eagles'

`Look Back, Mrs. Lot!'

sraeli Satire

Kisho n's

The sub-title of the new and ing on the people in Israel who
One of World War II's first` highly entertaining book, "Look stem from so many countries,
"lady doctors" to be admitted to Back, Mrs. Lot!", by Ephraim shows that "from the lin-
the Army, Clara Raven, recently Kishon, (published by Atheneum, guistic point of view it has
became the first to wear the sil- 162 E. 38th, N.Y. 16-, is "Any- created such chaos that compared
to it the Tower of Babel must
ver eagles of a full colonel in thing can happen—in Israel."
The reader learns the truth of be considered a flat-roofed mud
the Army Medical Corps.
hovel." Punning at the expense
Col. Raven, a pathologist, is this claim on every page of this of officialdom, he states: "In
chief of the Laboratory Service book. Kishon, a satirist of note, dealing with officials, it is to the
of the 323d General Hospital, a long ago has demonstrated his citizen's advantage to speak the
Detroit Army Reserve unit. She ability to interpret his fellow-men official language, so that he can be
received her promotion while on in Inimorous but unoffending understood. The only thing even
a two week active- duty training fashion. He does just that, in his more advantageous to him is not
of the Israelis, in
mission at Fort Sam Houston, interpretation
to speak Hebrew and not to be
his charming book.
Tex.
"Look Back, Mrs. Lott!" can be understood." The story he re-
Col. Raven is currently a
lated, "Operation Babel," is one
Wayne County deputy medical viewed as satire, sarcasm, wit, of the most entertaining in the
humor.
_Whichever
way
it
is
examiner. She is called upon _
book.
to perform postmortem exami- judged, it emerges as a most en-
"Look Back, Mrs. Lot!" is
nations to determine the causes tertaining form of dealing with
of death in many undetermined a people that has emerged from equally entertaining when the
author deals with marital rela-
cases, and she often gives pro- a galut to a medinah.
There are 38 sketches in this tions, education, medicine, job-
fessional testimony and evi-
seeking, experiences on Israeli
dence in court. She knows of book.
Even the prefatory note con- buses, rumor-mongering, "the
no other woman to serve in a
tains the salty humor that is Israel brand of murder," and
similar capacity.
the score more of topics which
One of tht first six of about expected from the title which is benefit from the caustic Kishon
based
on
the
quotation
(Gen.
75 women physicians admitted to
pen.
the Army in July, 1943, Col. 19:26): "But Lot's wife looked
* * *
back
from
behind
him
and
she
be-
Raven served for four years. She
To
illustrate
the pungency of
has continued in the Reserves came a pillar of salt." Upon Kishon's humor, here are a few
which
the
author
comments,
since then, and has over 12 years
of the footnotes to his delightful
"Mrs. Lot could safely look descriptions of Israel:
of active duty to her record.
back
nowadays.
On
the
site
Her rows of decorations in-
"For the benefit of those read-
clude ones for overseas duty in where sinful Sodom and Go- ers who do not know: Israel is
morrah
stood,
we
would
see
Chalons Sur Marne, Paris and
sprawled out on the shore of the
Berlin during World War II, and only the Dead Sea Potash Mediterranean in such a w. that
Works,
whose
sole
sin
is
that
in Tokyo and Osaka during the
hcilf an hour's dri
om
they are losing money."
Korean War.
take y
And so, as he commences his point in the c
e s hore or int
She holds BA and MS degrees diagnoses of Israelis, as he scruti- either to
t the hands of t•
in bacteriology from the Univer- nizes his countrymen, Kishon captivit
sity of Michigan. Subsequently tells you in advance: that his Arab
she obtained her medical degree book is "a bold and unprece
We are no
from Northwestern University dented experiment . . . to draw of a
is war.
too tl
School of Medicine in Chicago.
: a nucle
a picture of Israel without filling for
roPP
She has the proud distinction it with Zionism."
on
Aviv wool•
•lit
of being possibly the only woman
It is fraught, he writes, with Cair nd Da
to command a medical unit. This great danger, for "Israel with-
el boundless re
was in 1959, when for six weeks out Zionism could well disinte- everyth
• u tur • abr
she was Post Surgeon at Camp grate spiritually, as would the There ar
•ated rea
Breckinridge, Ky., a summer United States without baseball. sons for
: a)
inbred in-
training area for Reserve units. So when we say that we intend feriority -
plex esulting from
to write a non-Zionist book, we centuri of
sion in the Dia-
Largest Antique Show only mean that the reader will for spOra; ) the
erior qualit of
once be spared the customary forei
products."
in Midwest Opens Here hymns
C
of praise, and will be
r kibbutzi
An 88-dealer antique show,
to hear only the best ally ere comp
the largest of its kind in the privileged
about
Israel."
char er, grad .
midwest, will open 7 p.m. today
Not everything he says may be into
er economic
for a five-day run at the Light considered
that complimentary, which have facili es
as-
Guard Armory, 4400 E. Eight but out of the
pages of this book sembli
tractors, ui
ridges
Mile, announces promoter E. A. emerges a wholesome
people
at
as a pr
le sid
oth
Steiner, Jr .
whom one can laugh, and who
Featuring 75,000 different can laugh with those who may manufacture s,
said that one kibbutz i
items valued at over $2,000,000, jeer.
south saved itself
the show will be held 7-10:30
The variety of humor in
rvest by
p.m. today and 1-10:30 p.m. Kishon's book is immense. His ruptcy after a
interpreting dr
-Saturday through Tuesday.
satire on the names of streets
"Aguclat
ad is e party of
Highlights of the show in- is hilarious.
the bearde ultra-orthodox Is-
clude an "Old-Time Beauty Con-
There is nothing especially
are our Jews."
test," slated for 8 p.m. Satur- funny about "the Ingathering of raelis. Th
day; the "Sorta Quaint General the Exiles." It is a serious busi-
Store;" paintings, coin, stamp ness to welcome people from
and gun collections, glass, china all parts of globe and to pro-
and jewelry, a 1906 Runabout vide a home for them in Israel..
Alan Ger en , son
and a 1902 Holly Motorette.
For instance, Kishon, comment- of Bruc
Mr.
d Mrs.
illia
Ger-
shenson,
ill obse e his B
Mitzvah a he Saturday m
-ing service
Temple B
BY HENRY LEONARD
on Oct.7, at 1
ecep-
tion will be hel
he Great
Lakes Club, 2411 W. E i g h t
Mile Road, on Oct. 8, from 2 till
5 p.m.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Shiffman,
19712 Hartwell, announce the
Bar Mitzvahs of their sons,
las and Donald, will be obs
Oct. 7 at Beth Abraham
gogue. An open house
their honor will be
Oct. 8.

.

N.Y. Federation Sets
$22,500;000 Goal

Beitman-Bernstein
Troth Announced

NEW YORK (JTA)—A record
goal of $22,500,000 has been set
by the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York,
which opened its 44th annual
maintenance appeal.
Fifteen thousand volunteer
fund-raisers are participating in
the campaign on behalf of the
Federation's 116 affiliated agen-
cies, now serving 800,000 New
Yorkers of all races and faiths,
it was announced by Joseph L.
Mailman, of the drive.
's mai nance ap-
, topping last..
s Federa-
tion campaign by
illion, is
being conducted
ltaneously
with a thre ear
ital funds
drive forte 104,3 ,000. The
for funds
MISS SHIRLEY B
y-to-day op-
Federation's
Dr. and Mrs. Max
Beitman
s, social serv-
of Afton Rd. anoun
the en-
ion agencies.
gagement of their
ughter,
Shirley, to Newton
Bern-
stein, son of Mrs. Jacob
stein of Collingwood Ave. an
the late Jacob Bernstein.
The bride-elect attended the
University of Michigan and is
now a student at Wayne State
University. Her fiance is a grad-
uate of the University of Mich-
igan's School of Business Ad-
ministration and Law School.
The engagement was an-
nounced at a cocktail party Sept.
24 at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Max Schrtit
Beitman.

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