`Obsession Novel'
a Good Mystery

Elliot West calls his novel "The
Night Is a Time for Listening,"
published by Random House, "a
novel of obsession." It is all of that.
It also is a fine mystery that will
delight lovers of this type of fic-
tion and will hold the attention
of all who enjoy good novels.
This one is a story about a man
whose wife was murdered by a
Nazi, who enters_ into a deal with
the Russians in Berlin to do some
sabotage work for them in England
in exchange for an opportunity to
meet face to face with the Nazi
murderer—with the understandable
purpose of vengeance.
And so Marco Darsoss goes to
England, becomes a party to the
plot, cliscoVers that some valuable
data is about to be stolen from the
British for use by the Russians..
The man who possessed the sec-
rets dies, his wife, who assisted in
the plot, apparently was unaware
of the espionage involved. Darsoss
gets hold of the spy's data and
destroys it.
Then - it develops that the Rus-
sian offer was a hoax, that Dar-
soss was being watched, that the
man he believed to have watched
him in behalf of U.S., Intelligence
was himself involved in the plot
and dies in a scuffle. •
Darsoss saves the situation, goes
into the service of the U. S. in
Vienna, comes to terms with the
British spy's widow with whom he
falls in love.
It is a well motivated mystery
and an excellently written. novel
which, marked by obsession, nev-
ertheless has many good angles to
commend it to all readers.

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'Run Away, Little Girl,' Mother's

How should parents react to a four children, jubilahtly expected
child's serious ailment? How much the fifth child. The youngster ar-
courage is needed to ward off des- rived, but under difficult circum-
pairs when an infant reveals a stances, prematurely, and soon the
brain injury at birth?
parents learned that Debbie was
Marilyn M. Segal, the wife of a brain-injured.
surgeon, already the mother of
The courage of the mother who
exerted every ounce of energy to
train the child, to care for her, to
The expression "maggid" came to lead her to an understanding of life
be associated with the itinerant around her, is described in a deeply
preacher who was a distinct type moving story, "Run Away, Little
of Jewish professional from about Girl," which has been published by
the 16th Century on. The ex- Random House.
Debbie still is struggling to
pression meaning "to tell" is de-
learn to walk. She is 5, is a hap-
rived from a biblical phrase "Mag-
gid Mesharim" (Isaiah 45:19)
which is translated as a "preacher
of righteousness." It somehow
came to denote the popular type of
preacher as compared to the schol-
arly lecturer. Such types of addres-
ses were apparently popular with
the masses from early times. Such
activity especially flourished in the
16th and 17th centuries,
possibly because of the
various persecutions and disper-
sions that made the Jewish people
hungry for optimistic and comfort-
ing words to restore their hope
and bolster their confidence in
their future as Jews. One of the
most famous of the maggidim is the
famous Dubner Maggid, Rabbi
Jacob Kranz, known for his many
parables, of the eighteenth cen-
tury. Not all maggidim were itiner-
ant preachers. Some were resident,
having received permanent ap-
pointment as such from the com-
munity. Whatever they were, the
maggidim enriched Jewish litera-
ture with many colorful exposi-
tions-in the form of sermons and
parables.

Maggid

in Aiding Brain-Injured

py child, but her affliction is
serious. But she has a good home
life and the story told by her
mother is a lesson to others sim-
ilarly afflicted not to despair, to
have hope, to provide a home en-
vironment for those in need.
It was because Debbie, who is
helpless, once said to her mother
she'd run away that the author of
this story replied to her—how
painful that evidently was !—"Run
away, little girl," and that formed
an excellent title for a good book.
While this account is a tribute to
a mother who made such sacrifices

and displayed such courage, it aLso
describes how the Institutes for
Achievement of Human Potential
in Philadelphia, where the child
was taken for training, rendered a
great service to this youngster, as
it does to others.

Debbie had an eye operation. Her
cerebral palsy aggravated her
problem. But parents and children
labored to solve a serious problem,
and they are struggling with it now
to make a happy home for Debbie.
Mrs. Segal has written a good med-
ical work that reveals a mother's
bravery.

with tangy smoked salmon!

Disease Discoverer Thomas Hodgkins
Lies Buried in a Jaffa Cemetery

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In a small graveyard in Jaffa,
Israel, buried just near an English
girls, school, lies the body of
Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of
Hodgkin's disease.
How he, an Englishman, came
to be buried in this remote ceme-
tery among approximately one
hundred other graves, mostly Eng-
lish, few Arab and none Jewish,
Is a question that was researched
by Dr. W. B. Bean and chronicled
in the April '66 issue of Internal
Medicine as a result of a trip he
had made there with his daughter,
Margaret, and two comrades,
Joshua Leibowitz and Morton Bog-
donoff.
Of significant interest is the
close relationship between Hodgkin
and Moses Montefiore, who in-
scribed these words on the doc-
tor's tombstone: "This tomb is
erected by Sir Moses Montefiore,
Bart., in commemoration of a
friendship of more than 40 years
and of many journeys taken to-
gether in Europe, Asia and Afri-
ca."
It would seem their friendship
was almost one of destiny.
Born in Tottenham, now part of
London, in 1789, Hodgkin's family
were devout and concerned friends.
He had some early medical train-
ing at Guy's Hospital then studied
in France under some outstand-
ing physicians of the day, later re-
turning to Guy's as pathologist-in-
chief. Holder of three key positions
in the hospital, he not only record-
ed cases of the disease which
bears his name, but made clear
the original descriptions of the
clinical and pathological processes
of appendicitis, and studies into
heart murmurs.
After much work and excel-
lent history at the hospital, he
applied for the position of as-
sistant physician at Guy's, but
was turned down for various
:petty reasons. He resigned and
•departed in disgust, eventually
working at charity and good
deeds.
A factor possibly related to his
warm friendship with Montefiore
is that he was a deeply religious
member of a minority religion, as
was Montefiore; a Jew. Also, both
were involved in helping others.
Montefiore eventually achieving
wealth, fame and distinction as

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one of the well-known Jewish phil-
anthropists of his time. At an early
age, he became a Hodgkin's pa-
tient, probably seeking out the
doctor for help.
Whatever the reason for their
ties, the patient-physician contact
deepened and became a very close
friendship.
As the inscription indicated, they
were fellow travelers throughout
Europe, Asia, and Africa for a
span of more than 40 years.
Though not too many people
know of Hodgkin's tomb, interest in
it is constantly revived as it keeps
being rediscovered. In modern
times, Emanuel Libman, wild' . visit-
ed Palestine in 1927 because of his
interest in the. new Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jerusalem, found the
tomb and placed a wreath there in
special ceremonies which he ar-
ranged. The following year, the
Israel Society of the History of
Medicine heard a paper on Hodg-
kin and visited his grave.
More recently, pilgrimages have
been conducted by the World Con-
gress of Jewish Physicians in 1950
and by the 7th International Con-
gress of the History of Science
in 1953, after which it was dis-
covered again by Bean's entour-
age.

Appliances In Israel
About 10 families in every 100
in Israel own an electrical re-
frigerator, and 85, a gas-cooking
stove; 24 in every 100 families own
washing machines, 89 in every 100
families own radios (24 of these
own more than one radio set), 21
in every 100 families own gramo-
phones; four in every 100 have
tape recorders; 14 in every 100
have electrical mixers, and 10
electrical carpet cleaners. Seven
in every 100 families own a car,
and four in every 100 a motor •
scooter. The humble bicycle is
most popular at Nahariya, where
no fewer than 4,000 licenses were
issued in 1964, by the Municipal
authorities. This number exceeds
that in the large towns, such as
Jerusalem, Ashkelon, Petach, Tik-
vah, Ramat Gan and Herzlia.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 20, 1960-17

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CERTIFIED
KOSHER

by Rabbis
S. Reichman
and
1. M. CharlOP

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