52 Friday September 3; 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Geometry, Starwberries, Flowers By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) Pauline Chotzinoff, who has just passed away, had music all-about her. She was the sister of .Heifetz, the violinist; the wife of the music critic, Samuel Chotzinoff and she herself was good enough a pianist to evoke the praise of Toscanini. Once she- found herself sitting beside Einstein -- and to make conversation she said she had heard he was interested in arith- metic. Einstein asked her if she was interested in mathematics. "Well," she • said, she "had studied geometry." "Plane geometry?" asked Einstein. - "Is there fancy geometry too?" she asked. Her husband, Samuel Chotzinoff was probably- the best known music cri- tic in America. Later mus- ical director of the Na- tional Broadcasting Com- . pany, his first fame came to him as music critic of the New York World. The World was an ex- ceptional paper. Its edito- rial page was regarded as the best in the country and its staff had many star- writers of national fame. For the last word in wit, people turned every morning to The Conning Tower, edited by Franklin P. Adams. Adams was more com- monly known by his ini- tials F.P.A. As he wrote of himself: "For the purpose of re- cord in history's book I was bo..n in Illinois, county of Cook." He was Jewish, but as far as I know never iden- tified himself with any Jewish cause. Originally F.P.A. had been an insurance sales- man. He became a writer because he liked straw- berries. He had gone to the home of George Ade, a popular writer of that day to sell him an insurance policy, and found him eat- ing strawberries. It was winter. Imagine a man rich enough to have strawber- `ries for breakfast in winter. On the spot he de- cided to become a writer. The days of the New York World were the days of Fiorello La Guardia: La Guardia always made himself heard plenty. More than that, despite his short stature, he made himself seen. - As a member of COn- gress, he drew out of his .pocket a steak, then a roast lamb and asked what workingman could afford to pay three dollars for a roast lamb of that size. During prohibition days, he manufactured beer - on the steps of the Capitol in Washington and challenged the police to arrest him. 0 Fiorello — Little Flower we miss you! And speaking of little flowers of that day — there was another interesting little flower — Billy Rose. He was not only short- legged but 'derived his first fame for his shor- thand. He won the natiohal, prize year after year as the fastest shorthand writer in the country. One day a woman told him - of the fortune Irving Berlin made writing songs. He dropped the shorthand business, want How the _Soviets Saw Entebbe • to the public Libra,.• and began studying popular songs. He indexed the songs for -rhymes and sounds and came to the conviction that the only important line if .popular songs is the first line of the chorus. Sounds were important and the best sound was oo. So he wrote Barney Google which was a popu- lar hit and followed that with "Would You Like To Take A Walk?" and others. All of which goes to prove, I guess, that one should not under-rate geometry, strawberries and flowers. German Magazine Recognizes Jews Notable JeWs of German descent gained recognition in the recent issue of Ger- man International magazine. .4 Kissinger • Einstein Gertrude Samuels' Mottele,' an Exciting Adventure Novel BY HEIDI PRESS Children were important to the partisans who fought the Nazis from the forests because they could help in the camp and be used on missions owing to their diminutive size. The story of one such child, based on fact, is recaptured in a new novel, "Mottele," by Gertrude Samuels. In her Harper and RoW-published volume, Ms. Samuels makes use of ac- tual quotes, writings and interviews of a major par- tisan camp leader, Moshe Gildenman, whose family now lives in Israel. As a former writer for the New York Times, Ms. Samuels used her reporting expertise throughout her world travels, talking to Jewish partisans of World War II, to gain information for her work. "Mottele" is an historical adventure which is easily read in one or two sittings since the excitement of the boy's mission would be lost if the book were laid aside. Twelve-year-old Mottele (nee Mordechai Shlayan) was a fair-haired, blue-eyed survivor of a German Ak- tion against the Jews in a small Ukrainian town. He escaped the attack with his violin which he played as a virtuoso. The violin helped him gain entrance to the Ger- man officers club in Ovruch. There, his curiosity led him to some unused closets in the building, and he der;-od a plan, which the part accepted, whereby he could store explosives unnoticed in the closet and at a specified time blow away the building. The plan worked and Mottele's credibility as a fighter gained recognition throughout the camp. In time he he would be sent on more dangerous missions. Historically the novel is important because it provides a corollary to the tales of the Jews who did fight back. As an adventure it provides the leisure reader with enjoyment as the hero succeeds in sub- duing the enemy. Although its simple presentation is geared for a younger reader, adults will find Gertrude Samuels' "Mottele" another important addition to Holocaust literature collec- tions. Pictured on the cover are U.S Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Albert Einstein, father of the theory of relativity. In a Educators Issue major article for the American Bicentennial, the High Holiday Tape magazine recalls the major NEW YORK — The contributions of Germans or Jewish Education Board those of German descent to of Greater New York has America. produced the second in a series of holiday-melody CJF Aid Asked cassettes, "High Holy Day and Sukkot in Flu Shot Plan Melodies." NEW YORK—The U.S. The cassette contains Department of Health, 20 selections performed Education and Welfare by Hebrew school stu- has requested the coop- dents with the music for eration of the Council of Rosh Hashana and Yom Federations in Kippur based on tradi- Jewish carrying out its influenza tional Askenazic tunes,. immunization program. and the Sukkot melodies The CJF is sending including both tradi- •each of its 215 member Buber's W. German Home tional and Hasidic federations a packet of melodies. materials prepared by Saved From Demolition For information on the Center .for Disease cassettes, write Eileen G. the W. BONN (JTA)— A house Control which gives all re- Roth, Board of Jewish levant data including in Heppenheim, West Education, 426 W. 58th lists of local contact of- Germany, where Jewish St., New York, N.Y. 10019. fices Martin philosopher . general and Buber lived for 22 years, on the prog- Jerusalem to Host background has been temporarily ram. saved from demolition, Film, TV Festival The federations are thankS to protests by a JERUSALEM — A being asked to make the citizens' action group. total of 20 TV networks, information available to - including the major their local community -.. The Cultural Ministry of the -FreVill 'State -of broadcasting organiza- centers, schools, - homes Hessen has declared the tions of the Western for the aged -and hospi- house a •national monu- world, will be among the tals, ment but the town council many participants at the of Heppenheim, a town of First World Jewish Film Poems Published 24,000 residents situated and TeleviSion Festival 30 miles south of . NEW YORK — The which will take place in Frankfurt, is appealing young, committed gener- Jerusalem- from Oct MARTIN BUBER the decision. The council ation of Jews, has found a 24 to 30. has owned the house memorative plaque out- champion in poet Daniel At least 15 countries since 1949 and used it as a side. have ,.submitted entries . Siegel's work. Buber lived in the youth center. It plans to The Department of befo-re an -international erect a new district ad- house while a professor at Youth Activities of the panel of experts which ministration building on Frankfurt University. met recently in United Synagogue of the site as part of an During that period he and 150 America has just pub- • Jerusalem. Son urban renewal program Franz Rosenzweig, the films and TV programs lished Siegel's second Germ-an Jewish phi- in the area. were screened, from book of poetry, "And God completed In an effort to.appease losopher, -which 40 were selected to Braided Eve's Hair." The poems, illustrated the_ protesters, the Coun- an Old Testament trans- compete for the first, sec- by Allan Sugar-man, cil has offered to dedicate lation from Hebrew to . and and third prizes. a room in the planned German which won wide cover the Holocaust, the building as a "Martin acclaim, as well as several Students in Israel struggle of Russian Buber" reading or memo- other books and p.P m- Jewry, as well as Biblical Receive Assistance and Talmudic stories. • rial 140(1W...with.. 4 . Apm- phlets. • NEW YORK — Some 70 percent of teenage immigrants who attend a college or university in pression of the political chairman of the Israel Israel remain in the TEL AVIV (JTA) — illness infecting present Football Association, had Israel was ousted, as ex- country after five years, applied for, and was re- day sports. according to figures re- pected, from the Asian fused, an entry visa by ,Yadlin denounced the leased recently by the Football (soccer) Confed- ouster-move as an "act of Malaysia. Central Census Bureau eration by a unanimous Che Hin of Malaysia, discrimination against in Jerusalem. vote of the 21 delegates- Israel, contrary to the the Confederation's gen- Of this percentage, the attending the Confedera- regulations of the Asian eral secretary, said that statistics indicate, a tion conferences at Kuala Football Confederation he had received a cable majority received assis- Lampur. Israel helped to and the principles of the from Almog demanding establish the Conference tance from the Student International Federation that the Confederation in 1954 and participated Authority of the Ministry of Football Associations discuss his proposal for in all subsequent Asiatic -of Absorption. There are and contrary to the spirit Saadon to be dismissed currently 5,600 young soccer tournaments un- for presenting the ouster of sports." people studying at vari- der Confederation spon- proposal,_ but the cable ous universities through- sorship. The ouster motion was was not read at the meet- out Israel with the help of made by Ahmed el- ing. Education Israeli the authority. There was a possibility Saadon, a member of the Minister Aharon Yadlin The vast majority of Kuwaiti delegation. In an- that Israel might be ac- said, in the first official these people emigrated ticipation of the ouster ac- cepted by the European reaction to the ouster, from the U.S.S.R. and the tion, Michael Almog, regional soccer group. that this move was an ex- West. Israel Voted Out of Asian Soccer uMewAyHavoAkioe rpm)* Tenb-aelieckwx nriparos. _PAK., .E4Nemaie. This political cartoon, published in Izvestia and obtained by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, depicts the Soviet version of the Israeli rescue at Ugan- da's Entebbe airport. Though the planes destroyed by the Israeli forces were Soviet built MIG-interceptors,' they are depicted as passenger liners. No mention was made of the 103 hostages rescued by the Israeli forces.