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Soviet 'Emerges' War Hero MARSHAL ZHUKOV'S GREATEST BATTLES, by Georgi K. Zhukov, edited by Harrison F. Salisbury. Harper Row. $6.95.

By SAM SPATTER Harrison E. Salisbury believes Russia's World War II hero Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov is probably the greatest military figure to emerge from that war. But Mr. Salisbury, a New York Times newspaperman, doesn't stop there.

In "Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles," written by Georgi K. Zhukov, Mr. a 1 i I I I I I. MARILYN MAYE At Civic Arena on Friday. CARL "DOC" SEVERINSEN Here Tuesdoy with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

states the marshal easily compares in greatness with the Allied commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr. Salisbury may not have selected the right West-tern general for the comparison.

A better choice would be a former Civil War hero and later President, U. S. Grant, or even the sawbucking George Patton, who led his tanks in a sweep through Southern Europe in World War II. The marshal's philosophy on winning battles paralled The author also tells how Stalin kept in almost dally contact by phone with him at the front, and often how he had to leave his headquarters and fly to Moscow to discuss strategy and problems with the premier. There's also the interesting point which the author repeats throughout his memoirs on how Stalin and supreme headquarters in Moscow controlled the reserves, moving them where they thought they were needed.

Often Zhukov had to frame his plan on where the troops were. Western observers will quickly see that Stalin was closer to Hitler, in controlling troop movements, much more than Roosevelt or a Churchill. Foes Ignortd There's more than Stalin's relation with Zhukov that the book reveals. It also discusses, with frankness, the marshal's dealings with other Russian generals or marshals and Mr. Salisbury remarks that military leaders whom Marshal Zhukov disliked, often fail to get their names in his book.

However, when lt comes time to reward units or generals who performed in the marshal's eyes with valor or brillance, the author heaps great praise on them. In fact Marshal Zhukov, in his usual military thoroughness, goes into great detail to list all the armies and units which fought certain battles, and their commanders as well. And here's something else for the war buff. The marshal gives graphic details of what Mr. Salisbury believes is the most crucial battle of the Russian-German conflict, the Battle of Kursk-Orel.

After the Russians had won at Stalingrad and thrown the Germans back, the Nazi high command was eager to regain the offensive, particularly in the Crimea and Southern Russian area. Kursk-Orel was the place they selected, and here the Russians won. And with it, started the wholesale retreat of the German forces. The Kursk-Orel conflict has not received the publicity of the battles for Leningrad, Moscow or Stalingrad. But to Marshal Zhukov, Ii meant victory over the Nazis.

"Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles" has already started a heated debate in Russia with many officials there discrediting his work. But the now 73-year-old marshal is still showing them how to win wars. His latest work gives him the last word on the Russian-German War. Severinsen Opens Pops Programs i i i ii -aeir ai an eanv aee. Ana mis wees uie Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra begins km nil wi Ml vuma MMMMniMfl.

ntUU i lim ists who know what it is like to get an early start in a musical career. isoin trumpeter uan -uoc aevennsen that of both Patton and Grant. ZHUKOV When a victory had to be won, the sacrifice of human lives was secondary, to these men. Western historians will find the marshal's book one which reveals many things which to date had been rumored but not verified. Perhaps the most significant is the role Joseph Stalin played in the directing of the war effort against Nazi Germany.

Zhukov treats the former Communist premier with respect and often credits him with giving him assistance in his planning. Order Reveoed But the marshal also relates the incident of Dedovsk, when he was ordered by Stalin to leave his vital post as commanding general of the Moscow front and recapture this unknown and unimportant village from the Germans. Zhukov found the town still in Russian hands. and ninper Marilvn Mavft thpir proiessionai careers as teen-agers. Spvprincpn lpff hiirh srhnnl rlassoe in site and sometimes serenades the horses by practicing in the open field.

Thus far the horses haven't kicked up any fuss about the practice. Maye In June While Doc Severinsen will be making his debut with the local orchestra, Miss Maye will be back for her second appearance, having been here before with Skitch Henderson. In the next few months, her schedule will take her all over the globe. Presently she is appearing at the He Kai Hotel in Honolulu. After Pittsburgh, it will be the Starlight Theater in Kansas City and then Sydney, Australia, for club dates and television shows.

Miss Maye, who records on the RCA label, won a Grammy nomination as the best new artist, and was named most promising vocalist by a national magazine. You have probably heard her voice on the Lincoln-Mercury radio and television commercial singing "Step to the Rear" from "How Now, Dow Jones." Anineion, 10 go on me roaa wnn 1Ta1 ITiAi-ifA'c Kan1 Ua hiaaaA hia Wnnhe M. CU KU. A HI 0 11V. 1 1 ll UIII.ll.I niviis.

iiunviki, cunt iiui uvu stutiiv enough to graduate with his class. miss maye oegan singing on a ues Moines radio station when she was only 19 an1 aiTA 1 urns fVi a ctnft anu ab age j.v Traa au cau ujc ataii Mincer un a ljuuisvuie rauio saauun. Best Of Recent Deluge Severinsen is now one of the world's It A A. tJ 1 A 1. i leaamg trumpet virtuosos, dui ne oei- ter known as director of the band on RFK xThe Man' Captured LT.

COL. GABRIEL Air Force conductor. and a boy, 13. There's plenty of room for them to roam on his 67-acre farm in New Jersey, He raises quarter horses on the wviiuhj ovu a iviviiaivu ouuni uv uw been with the show on and off since 1950 and before that toured with the Tommv Dnrupv. CharWf Rnrnitt anil Sensitive New Book Benny Goodman bands.

Severinsen is a serious musician, but he has no regrets that his band doesn't ROBERT KENNEDY A MEMOIR, by Jack Newfield. E. P. Dutton Co. $6.95.

By SYLVIA SACHS, Press Book Editor In the spate of books written about Sen. Robert F. Kennedy since his assassination, place high on the list Jack Newfield's "Robert Kennedy A Memoir." Sensitively written, it is both a clear look at the political Promenade Programs For Week picture of our country during the Kennedy era, and an inside study of the growth of one perform more on the TV show. In a telephone conversation from his home in Branchville, N. he said: "It's primarily a talk show and we can't seem to find time for band music." Besides, he finds outlet for his musical talent in numerous appearances around the country with Carson, in recordings, in supper clubs, and as soloist with the Air Force Band, and has appeared with the Minneapolis (now the Minnesota), Baltimore, Oklahoma City, and American Symphony orchestras.

Performs 'Trumptt Concerto' Severinsen has asked Lt. Col. Arnald D. Gabriel, conductor-commander of the Air Force Band, to come here and share conducting duties with him. As soloist, SVArine0n will alcn norfnrm "Trnmivsf man.

Or Sen. Kennedy moralizing about his rival, Sen. Eugene McCarthy, whose "laziness" offended Sen. Kennedy's Cal-vinistic approach to life. The young Robert Kennedy who worked for the Joseph McCarthy committee and who epitomized the parochialism of the Irish Catholic politician from Boston was certainly not Mr.

Newfield's cup of tea. It is the Sen. Kennedy who evolved into the beacon of hope to the blacks, poor and disenchanted who is the theme of this book. What Sen. Kennedy's death meant to this country, in Mr.

i 1 's opinion, is expressed in the closing line of the book: "The stone was at the bottom of the hill and we were alone." His previous book, "A Prophetic Minority," received general critical approval. Mr. Newfield's style is to observe, record, and keep interpretation to a minimum. He avoids idolizing the late senator, although his admiration for what Sen. Kennedy became is apparent.

Look elsewhere for gossipy family tidbits. Sen. Kennedy reading aloud poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson is the kind of revelation the author presents. The author is a member in good standing of the rad-i a 1 left, as witness his position as assistant editor of New York's The Village Oboist Heads Dpartmtnt Chauncey Kelley, 55, should have no trouble finding his way around when he comes here in September from Savannah to take over as assistant director of the Carnegie-Mellon music department. Mr.

Kelly was graduated from the university in 1935 and played oboe with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1936. After leaving here he was principal oboist of the NBC Symphony under Tos-canini, and later served as conductor of the ABC Symphony, as guest conductor in this country and in Europe, and as musical adviser to the Voice of America. In recent years he has served as director of the Savannah Symphony. In that capacity he initiated youth concerts throughout Georgia and also organized a youth orchestra. Goof: Pocono Pavilion The Pocono Art Center hopes to make a giant stride toward its financial goals when it presents the Philadelphia Orchestra in a benefit program at East Strouds-burg High School this week.

The art center hopes to construct a 3000-seat pavilion in the Poconos to feature the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony and Pennsylvania Ballet at spring and summer programs in future years. Harth Goes To Atptn Sidney Harth, head of music at Carnegie-Mellon, will again be teaching and conducting at Aspen, this summer. Also on the staff will be his friends, pianist Grant Johannesen and cellist Zara UlUVli .1... M.UW JV. IU1 11.

Concerto" written for him by Sgt. Floyd Werle. chief arraneer for the Air Force Voice. His Sen. Kennedy freelance articles also have appeared in Life and Playboy.

Faces Of Browning Studied Band. "I think Werle is as good as Aaron Copland and the rest," said Severinsen, "so you might ask what he's doing with the Air Force Band. Well, few composers can make a living at composing these days and few hear their works played. But with the Air Force he gets a steady income, has time to compose, and hears his works played as fast as he is finished writing them." Severinsen finds traveling and working with Johnny Carson to be pleasant. "He 1 1 A 1 I The programs for the Pitts-burgh Symphony promenade concerts at the Civic Arena this week are as follow: TUESDAY Carl "Doc" Severinsen soloist and conductor, and Lt.

Col. Arnald Gabriel, assisting conductor. Overture to "Candide," Leonard Bernstein in selections from "Billy the Kid," Aaron Copland; Overture to "School for Scandal," Samuel Barber; Concerto for Trumpet, Floyd Werle. "American Salute," Morton Gould; "Malaguena," Lecou-ana; Medley of Popular Songs; "La Virgen de la Macarena," Traditional; and "America the Beautiful," Ward. FRIDAY Marilyn Maye vocalist; and the Allegheny Good Tyme Singers, a group of 30 area barbershop quartet singers, will perform.

Henry Mazer will conduct. "Coney Island Baby," "Good Old Songs" and other barber-s songs; "You're Gonna Hear From Me," "Misty," "Watch What Happens," "I See the Rainbow Now," "Quiet Nights." Medley of popular songs. ROBERT BROWNING AND HIS WORLD: TWO ROBERT BROWNINGS? by Maisie Ward. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. $8.50.

By DANIEL J. HUGHES "Robert Browning and His World: Two Robert Brownings?" is the second of two volumes written by Maisie Ward on the subject of Robert Browning. The first volume which was well received by the reading Public explored the world The Pittsburgh Press Sunday, June 8, 1969 Page 15 Section 2 Ex-Painter In Bizarre 4 Port raits' PICTURES OF FIDEL-MAN, by Bernard Malamud. Farrar, Straus Giroud. $5.95.

By DAVID CALDWELL Arthur Fidelman, an ex-painter, arrives in Rome from America to study and write a biography of Giotto. He never makes it, and in the six bizarre "portraits" that comprise this volume, you find out why. First there is Susskind, an Israeli refugee, who plagues Fidelman for his extra suit, then steals his manuscript, then burns it, proclaiming it as an act of mercy. In the second story, he moves in with Annamaria, also an artist, whom he immediately loves with no return from her. Only when he paints her as virgin with child, and himself as a priest, does she, in penance, warm to him.

From there he goes to Milan, where he is a captive in a brothel, commissioned to paint a forgery of a Titian's Venus. On to Florence, and Esme-relda, where he tries to paint his autobiographical masterpiece, "Mother and Son," only to find it coming out instead, "Prostitute and Procurer." Then to digging holes as a new art form. Then to Venice, now again an ex-artist, engaging erotically in apprentice glassblowing. I trust Mr. Malamud is having some fun here, for though grotesqueness is evident on every page, what emerges is not madness or bitterness but brutish laughter laughter that seems to be laughing at all the pretensions of the Jewish people.

Historically Jews always of Browning up to the death of in his wife, Elizabeth. In this 1 the I Nelsova, who are husband and wife private life. author ex- muwb wnui ne wants, asKs ior iv ana you don't mind doing it" The trumpeter will be with Carson in Las Vegas this sum-mer and that does present problems. "You can't hope to top those topless waitresses," he said. Severinsen got his nickname in Oregon after his father, a dentist-violinist who was known as "Big Doc." So his son became "Little Doc." As a boy, Severinsen stubbornly held out for a trumpet rather than the violin.

He began to study the instrument at seven and at 12 was state champion. Severinsen has four teen-age daughters M7 4 1 1 the excellence to which he aspired escaped him. Sen A Spoiltd Boy The relationship of Browning to his son, Pen, is developed sympathetically and with compassion. Pen was overly spoiled in his youth and though Browning exerted every effort to bring the boy to face up to his responsibilities, Pen became a social nonentity who basked in the reflected glory of his father's success. In commenting on the poetry of Browning, the author says: "Taking Browning's poetry as a whole you find this is what he believed: Intellect is not the only (italics in original) faculty man should use the whole person must be involved in the approach to reality." A great deal has been written on this unique man of literature, but few biographies have been as entertainingly developed or diligently researched as this highly recom-mended book on Robert Browning.

Wojner Stage Dtsigntr The Chicago Lyric Opera has hired Wolf Siegfried Wagner as stage designer for "The Flying Dutchman" to kick off its 11-week season next September. He is the great-grandson of Richard Wagner, composer of the opera. adequately the two faces of Browning. Browning the profound thinker, poet, and Browning the sophisti ests. His literary shadow was to have a profound influence on the literature of his own time.

He moved in a world of letters and witty conversation. To the public, Browning was an eminently successful writer of poetry and the well dressed, witty conversationalist of sparkling parties. The other Browning was despondent and uncertain of himself. This uncertainty was often reflected in his writings. In commenting on Browning's literary efforts in his later years Maisie Ward advances the idea that the fire of creation, characterized in his earlier works, is missing and never is completely recaptured.

Though inspired and tireless in seeking poetic ex- Whafs New In PoduIot Music Al Hirt Plays Songs Of The Heart By WILLIAM K. TROSENE Al Hirt is on a romantic kick on his latest RCA Victor album "Here in My Heart" and he plays it just that way. cated, charm- Maisie Ward ing and much sought-after dinner companion. The author shows Browning to be a man of strong emotions. He is a poet who re-s sensitively to the realities of man and conscience.

His articulate verse has a universal appeal that captivated the reading public. Throughout the book the author uses many of Browning's poems to illustrate the character of this intriguing personali ty. Profound influence Robert Browning was a man steeped in intellectual inter tribute to lovo. The songs include the title tune and some real old ones: Lolita was kid stuff compared to Variety's bestsellers it's an RCA Victor disc. Capsult "Poinciana Revisted" Ahmad Jamal with a nine-minute rendition of Poinciana in his inimitable jazz style.

Other tunes: Call Me, Have You Met Miss Jones, How Insensitive, Frank's Tune Lament and Theme from he Valley of the Dolls. An Im-lulse release, division of ABC. "Windmills of Your Mind" Billy Vaughn's big orchestra playing Windmills, Promises Promises, Soulful Strut, Wichita Lineman, The Way That I Live and You Gave Me a Mountain. A Dot album. is more of the light swinging bit.

In addition to the title song, Perry does Beady Eyed Buzzard, Nobody But You, Hearts Will Be Hearts and Sunshine Wine. Turntable Talk: The Fifth Dimension's single, Aquarius Let the Sunshine In, has passed the two million mark in sales Anita Kerr flying to London to wax two albums for Dot Bobby Vinton out with a promising number, The Days of Sand and Shovels, on the Epic label The original cast album of "Hair," Broadway hit, is still in the top spot If I Didn't Care, I Apolo-g i Too Young, It's Magic, I'm Yours. All in all, a fine and 1 i a ble album for the quiet spells. RCA has a couple of I tv have been a persecuted minority who not only stood at lie gravesides of every one of their persecutors, but also gave to and enriched the culture where they were captive. Fidelman returns to America at book's end, having given nothing a comic failure.

Have the Jews now no more to give? The uninhibited memoirs of two Air Force nurses on very active duty! Hawaiian melodies: Song of the Islands, Hawaiian Wedding Song, Sweet Leilani, My Little Grass Shack and The Moon of Manakoora. A choir blends with their Spanish guitars. EJvf And Perry Elvis Presley and Perry Como two of RCA Victor's top Vocalists, are out with new separate albums. "From Elvis in Memphis" is a typical Presley album in which Elvis raunches it up in a rock 'n' roll style and then later settles down to the love portions. The songs include Wearin' That Loved On Look, Long Black Limousine, I'rr.

Movin' On, Power of My Love, Gentle on My Mind and Any Day Now. Perry's offering, "Seattle," AlHirt a novel by mm ROBERT KREPPSfwif A day in the life of a girl who ml London Suburb Scene Of Nove othor instrumental releases, one by pianist Floyd Cramer, the other by Los Indios Taba-jaras. Floyd's backed by a full orchestra as he plays songs like Little Green Apples, What the World Needs Now, Soulful Strut, Stormy, Seattle and It Never Hurts to Ask. The Brazilian duo gives a put me roar in ine Koanng Twenties. Come to an ernEi-sextrous sil-night party and meet the brainiest, most beguiling female ever to make the scene In Pittsburgh) Pa.

$5.95 at bookstores LITTLE, BROWN few SSL THE AVENUE, by R. F. Delderfield. Simon and Schuster. $8.50.

By CHARLOTTE CHENEY "The Avenue," R. F. Delderfield's saga of one street in a London suburb, is one of the most satisfying novels to come along in some years. "I have never been persuaded that history was made in new sound to traditional Soon to be made Into a major motion picture by the tents of the miehtv. says the author.

"Social develop This Week In Music Gemffli rum inc. It's fast, it's funny, and it's very frank new from the publishers of he centers his story around Jim Carver, an embittered veteran just returned from the war to face years of hardship and challenge as politics and economics change his homeland and his family. This particular story concerning the personal lives of the men and women who spent their lifetime in the terrace houses of Manor Park Road illustrates Jim Carver's "simple conviction that these people were important, and that their dreams were important, for it is their dreams that fashioned the civilization they fought to preserve." Coffee, Tea or Me? The two-tniras ot Britain population live in suburbs and he has chosen the families on the Avenue to chronicle the changes spanning a period of 28 years, from just after World War I to 1948. authors of that bestseller say: "Wow! And we thought airline ment, that most of us recognize as progress, together with the trends of thought and emotion that ultimately become the policy of a nation, have their origins in far less exalted places, the towns and villages of the governed whence they filter through to leaders standing in the spotlight." Mr. Delderfield tells us that S5r Today Pittsburgh Symphony Orchstr, Hnry Mazsr conducting, fr City concert, Syria Mosque, 8:15 p.

m. Monday Pittsburgh Symphony, free County concert, St. Benedict Academy, 8:15 p. m. Tuesday Pittsburgh Symphony pops concert, Civic Arena, 8:30 p.

m. Wednesday Pittsburgh Sym phony, free County concert, Moon Senior High School, 8:15 p. m. Friday Pittsburgh Symphony pops concert, Civic Arena, 8:30 p. m.

American Wind Symphony, Robert Boudreau conducting, Ta-rentum, 8:30 p. m. Saturday American Wind Sym. phony, Point Stat Park, free, 8:30 p. m.

stewardesses were the biggest swingers!" Illustrated, $5.95 at bookstores now. BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE LTD Perhaps more histroy was made in that generation than in any century that nreceHed it, thinks Mr. Delderfield, and.