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MIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllMIIIIIIIIIMIBIIllllllllllllllllMIIIUIIIlllllUIIUIIIIIIISUMMIIIIIIIIMlIIIUIIUUIIIUIIUlllUnUIIIIIlIllllUlllllUUMIllMllllllllMMIllllMIIWMIBIIIIMMIMIlllieilll IIIIMIIlimProfile Frederick Pohiw =O s X = Q%u00ab =%u00ab E Progressive Historianby Dan IcolariI first met Frederick Pohi at acommunity meeting on OrangeStreet. When I heard himspeak, the words to describehim came easily - too easily,because Pohl%u2019s life and workdefy first-impression characterizing. He%u2019s a fighter, a mandeeply affected by and concerned with his immediateworld and the larger one aswell. But as a student ofhistory, a prolific researcherand writer (and as one who haslived through much of thechange and conflict of thiscentury), he appears to haveevolved a calm overview of menand events.Though his mother was bornin Brooklyn - in Fort Greene,on South Portland Avenue -Frederick J. Pohi lived inDurham, Greene County, NewYork until he was 7, %u201cwhich iswhy I love grass and hatecement,%u201d he says. He has livedin Brooklyn since - on Cumberland Street, Pacific Street (%u201c Iwas an amateur beekeeperthere,%u201d he says) and, for thelast 40 years, on ColumbiaHeights.Pohi started out as a playwright. His play, %u201c BrittleHeaven,%u201d appeared on Broadway in the twenties, with LillianGish in a starring role. But hismajor work has been historicalresearch and writing. Hisbooks have been published inEnglish-language editions inthe United States and GreatBritain; and in French, Italian,Spanish and Portuguese editions. Some of the titles are%u201c Amerigo Vespucci%u201d ; %u201cTheLast Discovery%u201d ; %u201c AtlanticCrossings Before Columbus%u201d ;%u201c The Viking Settlements inNorth America%u201d ; and %u201c Like tothe Lark: The Early Years ofShakespeare.%u201d Pohi is nowreading the page proofs of hislatest book, %u201c Prince HenrySinclair: His Expedition to theNew World in 1398.%u201d%u201c I%u2019m afraid it won%u2019t be verywell received in the Italiancommunity,%u201d says Pohi. %u201c Yousee, most people will tell you,like parrots, that Columbusdiscovered America in 1492.Well it just didn%u2019t happen thatway. One hundred years beforeColumbus, Sinclair built a shiphere and returned to England init. My book attempts to set therecord straight.%u2019 %u2019 %u201c PrinceHenry Sinclair%u201d will be broughtout in June by Clarkson h).Potter, Inc. in the United Statesand concurrently by DavisPoynter in Great Britain.Pohi has witnessed fourdecades of change in BrooklynHeights. %u201cThe most spectacular, I suppose, was thecreation of the Promenade.%u201dBut he%u2019s worried about what heregards as runaway growth andthe astronomical rise in commercial rents. %u201cW e%u2019ve gotdozens of empty shops in theHeights - nobody can afford tooccupy them. My shoe repairman says he doubts he%u2019ll beable to stay much longer; theservice businesses are particularly hard hit.%u201dAs temporary president ofthe Columbia Heights BlockAssociation (which covers theentire stretch, from PierrepontStreet to Vine Street, on SquibbHill), Pohi sees security as thetop isue on his organization%u2019sagenda, followed by an aggressive tree-planting program,notably in the northern tip ofColumbia Heights.As to the proposal that afederation of Heights blockassociations be formed, Pohifeels there%u2019s little need foranother large organizationwithin the area. %u201cThe HeightsAssociation functions well on acommunity-wide basis on issues that affect the entire area.But within the Heights aremany obvious regional differences that may preclude thepossibility of consensus. I justdon%u2019t think it%u2019s practical, ornecessary, really.%u201dPohi would lend his suport toan alternate scheme, however:%u201c What I%u2019d like to see is anexecutive board of block association presidents who wouldmeet periodically to determinethe issues on which a unitedvoice would be helpful andappropriate. Each member ofthis executive group would thenconfer with his constituencyand lend the block association%u2019ssupport - or not - as hismembership dictated.%u201dAs I prepared to leave, hehanded me my jacket, saying,%u201c Be sure you spell it right -Frederick, with a %u2018k%u2019 on the end,and with the middle initial %u2018j.%u2019There%u2019s another Frederic Pohi,a science-fiction writer, andthey%u2019re always getting us confused.%u201d....................................................................................................................................................................B R EA K M S T , L U N C H .D I N N E R y & C O C K T A I L S ^ ^ C o r n e r of Atlantic t h ir d____ %u25bc TEL 625 0063 OR 625 0904- RESTAURANT OPEN 7 CAYS A WEEK j330Wto frMt>NlQHTQueenRestaurant98 Court St.M A 4 -9 62 1finestItalian food in our areaM ore Police W antedContinued From Page 2know just how the men are assigned-to what types of duties, at which locations, at which hours. We were given a great deal of statistical information, which really helps us understand just how it all works. But when we asked whether the 84th is getting adequate allocation of manpower in relation to other precincts, we were told those decisions are made by a police planning board in Manllilh i5 TO to P, M, mO l d d l / l e x i z oc J ^ z i b a u x a n t115 MONTAGUE STREEThattan. Similarly, when we asked about the possibility of our reviewing deployment and staff priorities, we were told this isn%u2019t possible.%u201dButcher and Tracy told community representatives that twelve additional policemen are being assigned to the 84th, pending their graduation from the Police Academy. %u201c But when I spoke to a policeman on the b e a t,%u2019%u2019 said Zimmerman, %u201c he told me five or six experienced officers are leaving or being transferred from the 84th. This means we may actually be netting only six additional people. And these twelve will be new-both to police work and to our community.%u201dCommunity Relations Officer Murphy told The PHOENIX he%u2019ll know the exact number to be assigned by May 3.Visit thePromenadeRestaurantfor steaks, chops, seafood, soda fountainHome-style Cooking is our specialty.With our expanded facilities, we have added a service barserving cocktails, wines, and liquors. a a aVOH m o r u u g u e o t ., { c o r n e r or H icks )Open til 2 a.m. 5 2 2 -7 4 3 3m up m i u c a o pA l d f a V t f k l J T V IPhilharmoniaSchedules18th CenturyM arathonUnder the baton of Lukas Foss, the 20th Anniversary Season of the Brooklyn Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra - one of New York%u2019s most varied and imaginatively planned seasons - will come to a close Saturday, May 11, with yet another one of Foss%u2019 acclaimed Marathons, an 18th Century Marathon featuring music from C.P.E. Bach through Haydn, Mozart, early Beethoven and some rarities by Mozart%u2019s son Xaver Mozart.This past season, which consisted of five Major Subscription Concerts and the new %u201c Meet the Moderns%u201d Series of four concerts, mingled choice masterpieces of the repertoire with over ten premieres, for which Lukas Foss received the coveted Ditson Conductor%u2019s Award of Columbia University for his contribution to American music.This grand finale concert, the 18th Century Marathon, which will run from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on May 11th, and will take place in the Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, features a variety of outstanding artists and chamber groups: Susan Bellingand Gloria Johnson, sopranos: David Bender, tenor; Ruth Ray, mezzo-soprano; Bruce Abel, bass. Other participating artists include: Julie Holtzman, pianist; Gerardo Levy, flute; The Boehm Woodwind Quintette and The Hoffstra String quartet. Also the combined choirs of the Collegiate Chorale, Richard W estenburg, Director; and the Brooklyn Philharmonia Choral Society, David Aurelius, Director.Major works to be performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonia Orchestra with Lukas Foss conducting are: Haydn%u2019s %u201c Lord Nelson Mass%u201d - a highlight of the evening will be Mozart%u2019s delightful comic opera, %u201c The Impresario,%u201d for which Lukas Foss has composed Mozartian-like recitations to replace the spoken dialogue.A Concerto by Mozart%u2019s son, Xaver Mozart, which received its world premiere in London in 1970, with Julie Holtzman at the keyboard, the English Symphonia, Neville Dilks, conducting-will be repeated by the same artist with the Brooklyn Philharmonia under Lukas Foss, in its American Premiere. In the Chamber Part of the Marathon, which precedes the Orchestral Part, Julie Holtzman, the talented young Canadian pianist, will also render a performance of %u201c Four Polonaises Melancholiques%u201d op. 22 (1820) by Xaver Mozart in a world premiere.All concerts of the Brooklyn Philharmonia Orchestra are broadcast by WNYC/FM and heard live on the air the night of the performance.Plymouth Steak Sl Lobster House78 CLARK STREET(Opp. St. George Hotel)Brooklyn Heights%u2019 Only Fresh Fish RestaurantLobster Fiown inDaily from MaineSelect Your OwnFrom Our TankCall MA4-5263for ReservationsEstablished 1933