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TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT JUNKER
'State Senator' Ballot Designation
-A Ttle of Value?
The Fish Didn't Keep Wel
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FACULTY RECITAL:
'U' Baroque Trio
Performs in Conference'
THE MICHIGAN UNION BALLROOM was the scene of the second
concert of the summer by the University's Baroque Trio. The group,
composed of Marilyn Mason, Nelson Hauenstein. and Florian Mueller,
performed as a feature of the current Band Conductors' Conference.
The past two days have witnessed a great deal of Baroque music in
Ann Arbor with the Brandenburg Concertos of Bach on Sunday and
this program the following day. However, one of' the finest results of
this has been the realization that music from this period does not
belong in the textbooks or in the private chambers of musicologists,
but can be and is enjoyed by the public in a very real fashion.
The Baroque Trio has made a great effort for many years to present
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little known, but
sentative picture
era.
interesting music
of the Baroque
ALTOUGH it happens every election time,
disputes over candidates never seem to lack
verbal participants.
The traditional election time controversies
has even hit Washtenaw County for the forth-
coming Aug. 5 primary.
Mrs. Beth Milford, seeking the Republican
nomination for state senator, said last week
that incumbent Sen. Louis Christman (R-Ann
Arbor) is taking an "unfair advantage" in us-
ing his title on the ballot.
At least from a legal viewpoint, the designa-
tion question was actually settled last week
when the State Supreme Court upheld a 1957
legislative act permitting state senators and
representatives to use their incumbent desig-
nation on primary ballots.
ASIDE from the legal question however, there
remains the ethical and even practical
doubts about the use of titles by those seeking
re-election. In bringing the dispute to the Su-
preme Court, Richard Kuhn, a candidate for
Adams Can't Quit
Too Soon
RUMOR has it that Sherman Adams is go-
ing to resign. Over the Labor Day weekend,
the inside sources say; and his resignation
won't come any too soon.
The resignation of Sherman Adams will put
an end to naive arguments over whether
Adams was "guilty" or not of accepting bribes.
In his own mind, Adams may indeed be as clean
as a hound' tooth.
But as th Senate Sub-committee on Legisla-
tive Oversight unfolded the story of the Adams-
Goldfine friendship, it must have appeared to
the public that Adams and Goldfined belonged
more to a mutual remuneration society -
Adams getting expensive gifts while Goldfine
got, or thought, he got, Adams' influence in
important cases.
F ADAMS is "not guilty," then he very ob-
viously lacks that brand of common sense
which has led wiser public officials to exercise
extreme caution in what they accept - even
from "friends."
In a way, the Adams case is sad, because
Adams is undoubtedly not the only one who
has accepted "gifts." Too, he is the political
sitting duck of the year, not an enviable posi-
tion for anyone, and one certainly far out of
aline with what his deeds warrant.
But In politics, appearances are nearly every-
thing, because of the opposite political party
and because the unsubtle mind of the nation
cannot grasp all the facts and nuances of a
case like that of Adams. His case is a sad one;
we only hope that the lesson in political moral-
ity is well learned by others, too.
-LANE VANDERSLICE
the Senate from Pontiac, contends that the
lawmakers passed the measure in a "move to
self-perpetuate themselves in office."
While the statement may be an over-evalu-
ation of the designation's power, it does point
to its effect. With presidential, senatorial or
congressional races attracting most of the at-
tention, the legislative contests probably re-
ceive the smallest portion of voter interest or
thought. Any designation here probably gives
the legislative incumbent a disproportionate
advantage, Kuhn estimates it's 25 per cent of
the vote. Even Sen. Christman admits it's free
advertising.
The whole tone of the law is that of "stacked
cards," for in effect, it is the Legislature which
sets the rules and this rule evidently is to
the advantage of those already in office. Sen.
Christman comments the privilege of designa-
tion is a matter of law, and "if the Legislature
so decreed, it is their business."
IT IS THIS arrogant attitude and its implica-
tions in a theoretically democratic state that
makes one question not only the concern of
certain legislators for the people's business but
also whether a member of the present legis-
lature can find practical value in being labeled
as a "state senator" or "state legislator."
Sen. Christman, in admitting that the desig-
nation is free advertising, said "it seems a
shame for a candidate to have to go out and
spend money. I'm trying to practice the same
economy here as I do in the Legislature."
The economy, as practiced in the Republican
controlled Legislature (Sen. Christman fol-
lowed the party's austerity line) resulted in
numerous' setbacks to the state's institutions
of higher education. Here, in Sen. Christman's
home district, the University received a mil-
lion dollar cut in its budget and is forced to
reduce the staff by 207 positions. Research is
being curtailed in some areas, completely
stopped in others, the proposed Institute of
Science and Technology was shelved and the
faculty-teacher ratio again is rising,
MEANWHILE, despite the quick approach of
the "war babies" who are about to reach
college age, the recession-caused low in build-
ing costs and the realization that it takes a
couple of years to begin and utilize class and
laboratory buildings, the Legislature appro.
priated no funds for new construction.
Sen. Christman says, "I am a Senator. Why
not let people know it?"
Sputnik III is visible over Michigan's skies
this week. Perhaps Sen. Christman should
look up and answer his own question.
In view of the Legislature's actions in cut-
ting back higher education at a time when it
is needed most, one wonders whether the des-
ignation "State Senator" or "State Represen-
tative" can be used either proudly or practi-
cally.
-MICHAEL KRAFT
Co-Editor
(Herblock Is on Vacation)
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
k2 'I'm Against Bugging Rooms'
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON - Here's more
on that bugging of the Sheraton-
Carlton hotel room in the Gold-
fine case.
After the microphone was dis-
covered, Lloyd Purr, the private
detective hired by Goldfine's at-
torney Roger Robb, handed his
card to my assistant Jack Ander-
son.
"The next time you want a real
professional job done," he said,
"give me a ring."
He was right. Purr is a skilled
professional and it now develops
that both he and Mr. Robb were
involved in an eavesdropping case
in a hotel room on behalf of
commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.
Mr. Robb was quite indignant
the other night when he an-
nounced to the press that the
Harris committee had placed a
microphone next to the door of
Goldfine's public relations man,
Jack Lotto.
"We are going to show you that
the committee has engaged in
electronic eavesdropping," Robb
announced, his cigar cocked at a
jaunty angle.
APPARENTLY he forgot the
electronic eavesdropping in which
he had engaged at the Burlington
Hotel, just a few blocks away from
the Carlton, in 1953. At that time
two Maryland Republican leaders,
Joe and Abe Weiner, were lured
into a Burlington Hotel room by
the same private detective Lloyd
Furr, and an associate, Leonard
H. Harrelson. The room was wired
and Robb eavesdropped on their
conversation in an adjoining
room.
Mr. Robb, asked for comment
on the bugging of the Burlington
Hotel room as against the Carlton
Hotel room, said: "That was
Furr's own room he put the
microphone in. All Purr was do-
ing was making a record of what
was said in his own room."
"But you were in another room
listening in."
"That's right," replied Robb
frankly.
Lotto, the ex-INS newsman
whose new job it is to glamorize
Goldfine, has an interesting rec-
ord. He has written much of the
record himself and it showsthat
those who live in glass hotel
rooms should not throw stones.
IN AN interview published in
Editor and Publisher, Dec. 22,
1956, Lotto told in detail how he
and two other newsmen. includ-
ing the late Bert Andrews of the
New York Herald Tribune, bugged
th Hotel Commodore room in
which Richard Nixon was holding
a secret conference between Whit-
taker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
"To this day Nixon probably
doesn't know how we knew what
was going on inside," said Lotto.
"We got a hearing aid used by the
third reporter, pressed it to the
door, turned up the volume, and
tuned in on it, play by play. The
papers had the story by the time
Nixon came out of the room."
Note - This puts three of the
Goldfine group who protested the
Sheraton-Carlton microphone in
the same bugging category. Jack
Lotto, the third, once boasted of
putting a -microphone to the door
of Richard Nixon's room at the
Hotel Commodore in New York.
Two wrongs don't make a right,
and I'm against bugging people's
rooms at any and all times.
Jack -Anderson, my assistant,
was present when the chief in-
vestigator for the Harris commit-
tee bugged Lotto's room, which I
regret. Unfortunately, this isthe
kind of atmosphere which per-
vades Washington.
(Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
The program opened with the
Trio Sonata in D by Alessandro
Stradella, which was featured on
their program of June 24. The use
of the cello on the continuo in
that concert proved that this in-
strument is vital to the proper
ensemble in Baroque trio sonatas.
After having heard it then, its
absence in last night's perform-
ance was even more noticeable
than previously. However, it had
been explained to this reviewer
that circumstances prevented its
inclusion in this program. It is
the intention of the trio to in-
clude the cello whenever possible
in the future.
MR. MUELLER was featured as
the soloist in Valentine's Sonata in
F for Oboe and Harpsichord. This
is a charming piece which gives
the soloist opportunity to display
his talents in slow ornamented
music as well as the fast move-
ments requiring dexterity. As in
the past, Mr. Mueller proved that
he is a very fine artist.
The oboe often proves to be a
difficult instrument to deal with.
Mr. Mueller has overcome all the
obstacles and performs with a
beauty of tone, flawless technique,
and splendid musicality that are
unique with this instrument.
Mr. Hauenstein performed as
soloist in Reid's Sonata in C for
Flute and Harpsichord in the last
half of the program. Aside from
a breathiness of tone, his perform-
ance was excellent. Perhaps the
acoustics in the ballroom account
for this tone quality.
Miss Mason, performing in every
number at the harpsichord, again
revealed her dependable talents.
Since the other two artists are
featured as soloists, would it be
out of place to hear Miss Mason
alone?
- Robert Jobe
Ike on Adams
Eisenhower Press Conference -
May, 1956: "If anyone ever comes
to any part of the Government
and claiming some privileges for
even as low as an introduction to
an official he wants to meet on
thc basis that he is part of my
family or of my friends, that he
has any connection with the
White House, he is to be thrown
out instantly . . . I can't believe
anybody on my staff would ever
be guilty of any indiscretion. But
if ever anything came to my at-
tention of this kind, any part of
this Government, that individual
would be gone."
Eisenhower Press Conference -
June, 1958: Ike to Sherm. "I need
him."
-Sen. Pat McNamara
in a Newsletter
which demonstrates a more repre-
MOTHER GOOSE:
Old Rhymes
-Updated
THE SPACE CHILD'S MOTHER
GOOSE. Verses by Frederick
Winsor. Illustrations by Marian
Parry. 85 pp. New York: Simon
and Schuster. $3.50.
A VERY delightful collection of
45 long and short rhymes thor-
oughly illustrated with care and
precision, The Space Child's
Mother Goose is a clever book of
parodies on those verses that ev-
ery child is taught, the Mother
Goose rhymes.
In the pages of this up-to-date
version of the timeless verses,
Little Jack Horner is not "eating
his pumpkin pie," but "extracting
cube roots to infinity." Replacing
"this little pig went to rmarket"
Is "this little pig built a space-
ship." And the pumpkin-eater
who "had a wife and couldn't
keep her" has become "Peter Pa-
ter Astrogator . .. ."
All the familiar favorites, from
Solomon Grundy to Bo Peep, from
Little Boy Blue to Margery Daw-
all have their futuristic counter-
parts in Winsor's book of verse.
Some of them end up happier,
too, than they did in the original
rhymes. With the aid of a time
machine, Humpty Dumpty is
"good as new." Little Miss Muffet,
with a "force field around her," is
no longer bothered by Mr. Spider.
In (this way, Winsor does more
than mimic Mother Goose; he
creates his own verses with theiy
own meanings and ironies; he
sometimes sets things straight,
but when he does so, he pokes fun
at Mother Goose in the manner
of the best satire.
He has still more fun with his
own verse by taking one of the
rhymes, "Probable-Possible, my
black hen ...," and translating it
into French, German, Greek,
Swahili, Chinese, and hieroglyph
ics at intervals throughout the
book. Accompanying the Greek,
Swahili, and Chinese versions are
literal translations back into Eng-
lish - with remarkable results
that show very different concepts
and ways of reasoning in the for-
eign cultures.
Scientific terms used in the
verse are footnoted with riddles
and defined in the answers sec-
tion - the Space Child's Diction-
ary - at the back of the book.
A major part of The Space
Child's Mother Goose are the
delicate illustrations by Marian
Parry. The mouse-like, fineline
figures that skip and float in
space above and below the verses
are often as intriguing and as en-
joyable as the rhymes.
Both illustration and rhyme,
throughout Winsor's book, have
fairy-like and realistic qualities
that insist upon being read on
more than one level.
Space and the future come to
represent, for Winsor, those same
universal qualities that make
Mother Goose timeless for all
children everywhere; space and
the future bring Winsor's verse to
this pinnacle, too, for those who
have learned their Mother Goose
well.
-Vernon Nahrgang
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
In Holland .. .
To The Editor:
THE Netherlands may be going
places and doing things, but
your reporter John Weicher is just
another innocent abroad, who
does not bother to learn anything
as he goes places.
American popular culture made
its way into Holland (for better
or worse) as early as the late
twenties, but Mr. Weicher's dis-
covery of Du Maurier, Spillane
and Gardner on the book shelves
has blinded him to the rows of
works by Hemingway, Faulkner
and Steinbeck on others.
So the Dutch remember "the
part the U.S. played in two great
wars in liberating Holland"?
They're overdoing the gratitude,
since Holland remained free dur-
irig World War I.
.
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AT THE MICHIGAN:
New Faces at Monster Rally
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Coup Rocks west's Position
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
CONSOLIDATION of the Arab nationalist
coup in Iraq would be a tremendous vic-
tory for international Communist policy.
Since World War II that policy has. en-
visioned the eventual interdiction of European
access to the raw materials of Asia and Africa,
and the most important of these is Middle
Eastern Oil.
By that token, quick action of some sort by
Britain is a foregone conclusion, and pres-
sure for cooperation by the United States will
be terrific.
The urgency is even greater than in the
case of Egypt's nationalization of the Suez
Canal two years ago.
IN WORLD WAR II, when a Nazi-inspired re-
volt threatened Britain's position in Iraq,
Britain threw her army into the balance with-
out :equivocation. In peacetime, however, a
similar reaction against Egypt's Nasser drew
world condemnation and the British-French
expedition to Suez was withdrawn.
There is a difference, however, when the
West faces the possible loss of the entire oil
production of the Arab lands.
That is not to say that the British reaction
will be military, although she has treaties with
Iraq which might offer better excuse than did
Egypt.
Nor does the Eisenhower doctrine or the
Editorial Staff
MICHAEL KRAFT DAVID TARR
Co-Editor Co-Editor
ROBERT JUNKER.............. Night Editor
EDWARD GERULDSEN................ Night Editor
SUSAN HOLTZER ..........Night Editor
LANE VANDERSLICE . ......... Night Editor
RICHARD MINTZ..............Sports Editor
FRED SHIPPEY ................ Chief Photographer
Baghdad Pact cover a situation produced by
an internal military coup.
Incidentally, one of the great surprises for
Western diplomats is the fact that the army
has spearheaded the attack on the pro-
Western government. Premier Nuri Said was
believed to have the army under control.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S sudden con-
ferences with Secretary Dulles and the mili-
tary and financial leaders of Congress, how-
ever, indicate a canvass of all the possibilities.
As yet, reliable information from Iraq is so
meager that nothing is known of the remain.
ing capabilities of the pro-Westerners, if any,
All of the news comes from the rebels.
The developments in Iraq are, of course, a
great boost for the rebel forces in Lebanon,
where up until Sunday strong hope had exist-
ed that an eventual compromise would be
reached.
If the Iraqi revolt is consolidated it is hard-
ly conceivable that the Hussein regime in Jor-
dan will be able to hold out.
Nationalist forces in Saudi Arabia, already
shaken in its allegiances to the West by ad-
vancse of the Nasser doctrine, can be expected
to burst into the open.
It is doubtful that even the invasion of
South Korea threatened the West's strategic
position as much as it is being threatened
today.
New Books at the Library
Miller, Max-Shinny on Your Side and Other
Memories of Growing Up; N.Y., Doubleday,
1958.
Rush, J. H.-The Dawn of Life; N.Y., Double-
day, 1958.
' San Lazzaro, G. di-Klee: A Study of His
Life and Work; N.Y., Praeger, 1958.
Soldati, Mario-The Confession; N.Y., Knopf,
1958.
Rlolrnrlrat, T ha n man in +he Wrnds:
FRANKENSTEIN has done it
again! Another monster has
emerged from the settling tank to
plague the world. What can one
do, confronted with this seem-
ingly endless parade of patchwork
people, assembled from odds and
ends from the dissecting table,
and activated by lightning bolts.
Although the original Boris
Karloff monsters are remembered
with a gruesome tenderness, it
must be admitted that this new
batch adheres much more closely
to the original monster, written
up by Mary W. Shelley so. many
years ago. The modern monster,
like thc modern Republican, is
sensitive, sincere. even philosophi-
cal.
Medical students may wince at
the sight of human brains tossed
around like so much raw meat,
delicate operations undertaken
without antiseptic precautions,
while Doctor Frankenstein collects
spare parts from his ward pa-
tients.
But granted a few preposterous
assumptions, it does follow, re-
motely ,that a brain could be per-
petuated by an occasional re-
planting, if it's watered carefully
and packed in well.
"The Revenge of Frankenstein"
is somewhat revolutionary, since
Dr. Frankenstein himself returns
as the "monster," only not look-
ing very monstrous at all. The op-
erative technique has improved
with the change inafilm com-
panies, so that the Creep walks
and talks quite naturally.
"The Revenge" is a valuable
documentary film for those inter-
ested should not be missed by his-
torians in the monster tradition,
and neo-gothic novelists.
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SUPERSTITION dies hard, ac-
cording to an old saying, and the
motion picture industry is doing
its bit to keep superstition alive.
Vampires, werewolves, sea mon-
sters, and assorted curiosities all
owe renewed vigor to over-imagin-
ative and sub-intelligent script
writers.
"Curse of the Demon" is anoth-
er in the lvil-wnrshin series.
this plot, but with a series of un-
wholesome additions including
such extraneous matter about
hypnotism, psychology, extra-sen-
sory deception, and similar non-
sense.
Dana Andrews, lonely without
the horse and badge, plays a
young psychologist-skeptic who
almost provides the main course
at a monster picnic; the inevitable
pretty girl is Peggy dummings
(probably spelled wrong; and
the demon is played by Greta
Pftong, Dean of Demonic State.
-David Kessel
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-Daily-Charles Lott
AT RACKHAM LECTURE HALL :
,Brandenburg Concerti Excellent
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DIFFICULT if not impossible is
it to carry ones instruments
into a hot Rackham Lecture Hall
and attack the opening Allegro of
the first Brandenburg Concerto
without a warmup.
A school of music group essayed
this feat last Sunday with much
success. A little r agge d n e s s
plagued for a few bars; but there-
after all was fine.
The first, third, and fifth con-
certi were presented in the after-
noon; the sixth, fourth, and sec-
ond, in the evening. This curious
order was presumably chosen so
that the two most brilliant sound-
ing concerti might end the re-
spective programs. The works
were presented with very small
ensemhle - rnrity anda Dnea-
body of strings simply cannot ar-
ticulate so rapidly as a single in-
strument.
For those who savor the larger
string tone, ample and adequate
recordings are available. Which
approach is more appropriate to
the composer's intentions is a
matter for much discussion else-
where; suffice it to say that the
stage at Rackham would not hold
a large group anyway.
THE FIRST concerto suffered
somewhat from sluggish articula-
tion through the use of French
horns in'the concertino. The play-
ers are to be commended for their
efforts, but the instrument just
does not move - its very sound is
THE FIFTH congerto received a
stunning performance. The key-
board concertino' part was given
to a piano, to which some may ob-
ject. Mr. Benning Dexter, how-
ever, was particularly successful
in not overpowering the small en-
semble. Further the available
sonorities of the instrument en-
abled him to make rather more
of the first movement cadenza
than is usual; his was a highly
individual, rather romantic treat-
ment.
Conceivably it might not wear
well on repeated hearings, but
that is not the point: one goes to
a concert rather than listening to
ones records (again) precisely to
hear a different interpretation -.
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