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Austin
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: The First Annual Record
Breaker for Multiple Sclerosis will be held April 28 and 29
in the Austin Municipal Coliseum. Applicants will take
pledges for each hour of an activity they will perform (flag
pole sitting, bicycling, etc.) and attempt to earn as much
as possible to help fight the disease. For more information
call 512-458-1361.
ICE CAPADES: The famous show will come to the Spe
cial Events Center for six performances from April 12
through April 15. Included in the show are such prominent
skaters as Olympic silver medalists Gail Hamula and
Frank Sweiding, who are making their professional debut.
Tickets are $6.50, $5.50 and $4.50. For more information
call 477-6060.
Dallas
POMPEII: The museum staff will be busy in April restoring
the eight galleries used to house the Pompeii AD 79 ex
hibit, and a permanent collection will be installed by the
opening date of May 2. Until then, the pre-Columbian and
African Galleries will be open, along with the museum
shop. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Monday. For more
information call 214-426-2553.
San Antonio
INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES: The institute pres
ents the history of the state through oral and visual
methods, and brings some historical events to life through
special demonstrations. It is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesdays through Sundays for planned or just relaxed
tours. Admission is free. The institute is located on the
southeast corner of Hemisfair Plaza downtown, at the in
tersection of Durango Street and Interstate 37.
Elsewhere
ROUND TOP: The 12th Annual Winedale Spring Festival
A member of the Lamanite performing group
and Fourth Texas Crafts Exhibition will be held April 6-8
on the grounds of the Winedale Historical Center, off FM
2714 in Round Top. The festival will include traditional
music on the grounds, such as blues, Irish fiddling, gospel
singing and bluegrass. The East Texas String Ensemble
of Nacogdoches will also perform. There will be demon
strations of spinning, weaving, blacksmithing, soapmak
ing, fireplace cooking and various crafts. Crafts for sale
will include pottery, wood and metal works, silver, stained
glass, jewelry and others. A ticket for the entire weekend
is $2 for adults and 50 cents for children. For more infor
mation call 731 -278-3530.
ANDERSON: The Anderson Trek will be held April 7 and
8 in and around the town, which is in Grimes County. It will
consist of guided tours of homes built during the Republic
of Texas days (1836-1845), a street dance, western
parade, arts and crafts booths and other displays. The trek
will be held from 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday, 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more information call John
Gudelman at 845-6551.
SAN ANGELO: The Second Annual LAMBLAST World
Championship Lamb Cook-off will be held April 21 and 22
at San Angelo’s Fairgrounds. There will be three cooking
divisions, Media, Collegiate and Open, and teams will be
judges on both recipe and showmanship. Activities in
clude horseshoe pitching, leg judging, dancing and lots of
fun. For more information call 915-653-3162.
MAGNOLIA: Auditions for next fall’s Texas Renaissance
Festival will be held April 21 and 22 from 2-5 p.m. at the
festival site, halfway between Magnolia and Plantersville
on FM 1774. Needed are singers, dancers, musicians,
jugglers, actors, actreees, wenches, beggars, cutpockets,
thieves and royalty from the Renaissance period. For
more information call 713-529-7924.
WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS: The Star of the Re
public Museum, located in Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park near Navasota, is hosting a multi-media exhibi
tion of crafts and craftmaking through next September.
Included are quilting, beekeeping, metal work and
pottery. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ROBERTSON COUNTY: The Seventh Annual Robertson
County Historical Commission Pilgrimage is scheduled for
April 7 and 8 from 1 to 5 p.m. It will feature 10 homes in the
Calvert, Hearne and Franklin areas that will be open to
visitors. Many other turn-of-the-century buildings can be
found in the towns. The pilgrimage includes a barbecue,
live music, arts and crafts, flower show and bake sale at
Virginia Field Park in Calvert, and a walking tour through
Calvert. For more information call 713-822-1523.
ALABAMA-COUSHATTA: A rare East Texas tour by the
Lamanite Generation, an internationally known performing
group from Brigham Young University, will include per
formances May 4 and 5 at the Aiabama-Coushatta Indian
Reservation near Livingston. The performances will be at
8 p.m. in the 1,600-seat Sundown amphitheater. The acts
will include both contemporary and original songs and
acts, and features the colorful native dress of American
Indians, Polynesians and Latin Americans. Advance tick
ets are $4 for adults and $2.50 for children, and gate
tickets are $4.50 and $3. For more information call 713-
563-4391.
BOOKS
Tributes to Einstein
Einstein: A Centenary Volume,
edited by A.P. French
Albert Einstein: The Human Side,
edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh
Hoffman
Once there was a motion picture directed by and starring
the late Fred Allen, a wit with a devoted following. The
critic of The New Yorker magazine reviewed it with admir
able economy. In its entirety, the critique read: “It’s a good
picture if you like Fred Allen. If you don’t like Fred Allen,
the hell with you.”
Einstein admirers (the man really became a cult during
his comparatively fallow years after the world discovered
what he had done to it and for it) will need no egging on
from a review about these two volumes, published in the
year of celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Both are lovingly done and delightful.
The thin one (167 pp.) on “the human side” consists
mostly of quotations from letters written by the greatest
scientist of the time. Aphorism: “In order to be an immacu
late member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a
sheep oneself.”
Or, to a student who wrote to him that among other
things she was a little below average in mathematics and
had to work at it harder than most of her friends: “Do not
worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure
you that mine are still greater.”
Or (three years before his death at age 76): “One is
born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not
trampled underfoot before one’s time.”
The “centenary volume” (332 pp., illustrated, including
a Herblock cartoon showing the earth lost amid a host of
cosmic bodies but tagged with a sign, “Albert Einstein
Lived Here”) is a comprehensive collection of writings
about and by Einstein.
The main purpose, editor French writes, was to
“provide something of a picture of Einstein the man, of his
scientific work . his role as a humanitarian and world
statesman.” The book is a remarkable achievement of
that goal, in explanatory articles and personal reminis
cences.
—H. D. Quigg (UPI)
Bestsellers
Fiction
1. War and Remembrance — Herman Wouk
2. Chesapeake — James Michener
3. Overload — Arthur Hailey
4. SS-GB — Len Deighton
5. The Matarese Circle — Robert Ludlum
6. Good as Gold — Joseph Heller
7. Hanto Yo — Ruth Beebe
8. Dubin's Lives — Bernard Malamud
9. Dress Gray — Lucian Truscott
10. The Stories of John Cheever — John
Cheever
Nonfiction
1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet —
Herman Tarnower
2. Lauren Bacall: By Myself — Lauren Bacall
3. Sophia, Living and Loving — A. E. Hotch-
ner
4. Mommie Dearest — Christina Crawford
5. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad
Years — Howard Ruff
6. A Distant Mirror — Barbara Tuchman
7. Linda Goodman’s Love Signs — Linda
Goodman
8. American Caesar — William Manchester
9. In Search of History — In Search of History
10. Nurse — Pessy Anderson