Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1947 — Page 15

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i where A re one offices And judging from the results of my survey any credit due a dentist-doctor y offiee will have to go to the dentist,

(By doctor I mean the M, D. variety, of

DOCTOR~—It's a sad state of affairs but it's true, urse.) After visiting 25 dentists’ waiting rooms and 30 doc--. tors’ waiting rooms I have conclusive proof that it's

_better to have a toothache than an ingrown toenail.

While you're waiting to get into the inner sanctum for relief you can enjoy better reading maiter—in a dentist's office, " The resson I checked 30 doctors’ waiting rooms was because I wanted to give them a better chance after what I saw, Would you believe it that 20 out of 30 doctors do not have comic books in their offices? The 30th office had James Thurber's book, ‘Men, Women and Dogs,” which is a redeeming factor. ° By no means should this imply that an office was rated solely on comic books although I do feel they have an important place in halls of misery. One of the saddest conditions of the survey was found in a spacious, modern and well staffed doctor's office. Sole reading content was two Life magazines

and a Parents magazine, The Dec, 9th edition of

LUCKY IT'S A TOOTHACHE Jine Sterling (above) can take slight comfort from the fact that a survey shows there are better literary pickings in a dentist's office.

No Directory

WASHINGTON, Jan, 3.—A fine book review this is going to be.. No book. The authors, dang their argumentative hides, never made the deadline. For many years it has been my custom to review for the lovers of literature on this day in January that magnificent compendium of wit, humor, high adventure, tragedy and statesmanship (self-writ by the statesmen), the congressional directory,

This volume should have been on the desk of

every senator and representative this morning so he could have seen his own literary endeavors in print. It wasn't, No telling when dt will be, either. “unless the lawmakers take in hand their quill. pens (they've got the pens$, all right) and scratch down their copy. Public Printer ‘Augustus E. Giegengack is sitting on his idle printing press; even as many a- publisher before him, waiting for his writers to cut out the conversation and turn to the creative muse. He's all set, but how can he print the.book when the authors haven't decided who's going to sit on the committees? They haven't even decided what committees there will be.

Price—$1.25

PRINTER GIEGENGACK hopes they'll make up their minds and write their prose in time.for him to publish the book around the first of next month, maybe. All I know for sure is that the directory of the 80th congress, complete with autobiographies of every lawmaker, will be bound in red, sell for $1.25, and be widely circulated. Everything else seems to be set for an auspicious session of congress, The supply department con-

Glitter-Glitter Land

HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 3.—Hollywood no longer is the glitter-glitter land of movie stars—the cinema capitol of the world. The tinsel city has rusted. Ten years ago you could walk down Hollywood blvd. and rub elbows with the famous. You could lean on a lamppost and watch the searchlights sparkle on thé film palaces. You could ogle at the stars cruising by in their limousines. Or you could stroll through the swank niteries, the smart hotels, the rich shops. - Now.if you get cozy with a lamppost, the law might pick you up as a bookie. The searchlights still play on the theaters, but every gas station has one, too. Cheap music and street wanderers fill the bars, The hotels are homes for old ladies. Every other shop is an emporium: for junk jewelry. The Hollywood of movies has drifted from the Hollywood of business. Now, most of the studios churn out their flickers on the outskirts—in Culver City, or the San Fernando valley. has taken over Hollywood, the. city, and given it a new main stem-—Sunset blvd.

Hawks Newspapers 13 Years ASK THE doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater, now peopled with the bourgeoisie. Or ask the maitre dee at the Vine St, Brown Derby. There radio stars eit below the dusty pictures of the film great. Or ask Angelo Rossitto. If you've ever been in Hollywood you've kriown Angie. He's been hawking newspapers on Hollywood blvd, for 13 years. If 'you haven't, you know him anyway, He's been in movies off and on for 20 years.

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Magazines Unsanitary

FLABBERGASTED, 1 searched every possible niche for something a misery-laden patient might console himself” with, - Behind a chair and a lamp table stood a bookshelf with .a copy of the “Year

Before I left, the receptionist informed mie that mag. azines are unsanitary, Tch—tch. ? There were several doctors’ offices which did give 8 patient a decent selection of current reading mat-| ter (even three Esquires—they were February, April and October editions in one particular office). Not; bad but hot good either, For the address of this, my idea of a , good waiting room, send a self-addressed and stamped postcard if you like good reading with your dental work, Al] long table with neat piles of magazines to suit every taste and degree of pain or impatience. Latest editions of Life, Look, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker neatly .displayed so you know what youre getting into. Comic Books, Too THERE WERE Reader's Digests, Popular Home and educational magazines. Included in the stacks were several religious publications for spiritual strength. Last ‘but not least a super selection of comie books graced the batch of magazines ranging from Captain Marvel to Looney Tunes. Here's a dentist with a soul. Just to be fair and picking at random the statistics on a doctor's waiting room, what do we find? One of the better offices but here goes anyway. I sald this would be fair, This M. D.'s office had 25 Nations! Geographic magazines showing a terrific amount of wear and tear although they were piled neatly. Two Life magazines (September and November), “Our City,” New York Advancing, four American Legion magazines and three copies of “The Hoosier Motorists.” What would you read? The doctor-dentist combination clearly shows the influence of the dentist and statistically speaking it's pretty safe to say that you'll find something to interest you. Only sad feature is that in not one of the combination offices did I find any comic books. But scanning this. formidable list in M, D.-D.D. 8. office number 34, comic books can be overlooked. There were six stacks of magazines on a large table including Time, Life, Look, Reader's Digest, American, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, Charm, Junior Bazaar, Hygeia and six copies of not-too-old National Geographic magazines, Does

* Plotted, multiplied, subtracted, divided and added, figures do not lie. This week’s survey puts the dentists by two to one ahead of doctors as far as wait ing-room literature goes. Doctors—1947 is still young enough for you to make a resolution. Time really does hang heavy with a 1038 Year Book of Medicine and no pictures.

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By Frederick C. Othman i tinues to be somewhat embarrassed by a lack of the special black sand that goes into the silver-topped ‘bottles senators are supposed fo‘use when they want

to blot their signatures. This sand was a war casualty and it still isn’t on the Foarket,

Snuff Dippers

THE BOY filled the bottles with iron filings,’ which look like blotter sand, all right, but positively |

are no good for blotting purposes, ebsorb ink. They smear it.

The twin boxes which flank the dais in the senate, 1 am happy to report, are full to the brim with al fine quality, specially-powdered, aromatic, flue-cured snuff. ~ A Philadelphia tobacconist, who long has catered to snuff-dipping senators, got in a new shipment barely in time for the opening. - And kindly do not sneer at these remarks. Senators do sniff snuff. Or at least some of 'em. They ease over to the snuff] box, take a pinch, and sidle away. The furniture movers, who had to shove many of the Republican desks over to the Democratic side of the senate chamber a few years ago, hauled ’em tack again. Then they gave each desk, which is a schoolboy model in old mahogany, a good polishing job." The resultant sheen is soft, satiny, and a joy to a housewife's eye. The ceiling, unhappily, continues to be held up by iron girders, painted gray. Somebody forgot to dust ’em. Ah, well. If the last. congress hadn't spefit most of the summer arguing, architect David Lynn would have remodeled the while joint. He only hopes the 80th congress won't be so talkative.

They do not,

By Aline Mosby

Angie is a midget. He's a little guy with big eyes who doesn't miss a thing on his street. They never come around any more, he said.

Played First Movie at Warner's

THE MIDGET played in his first movie at the old Warner Bros, studio on Sunset. Farther down the street were mansions where dwelt the rich and the famous. Both the studio and the stars have moved to the San Fernando valley. The Warners’ sound stages where Morte Blue and Mary Astor clinched are bowling alleys. In front of the fancy homes are signs that read: “Six photographs for $20"—or “Electrolysis treatments.” In between these sections is the new Hollywood— the Radio City. Angie knows a lot about this town. He knows so much in fact that he ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1941. And he got 1964 votes in the primary, “I remember when the big radio studios, and Earl Carroll's and the Palladium night clubs were big parking lots,” Mr, Rossitto said. The present parking lot next to Earl Carroll's used to be a quiet truck farm. You still can see the farm house and its dingy picket fence. It is almost hidden by bushes and billboards. Hollywood blvd. is “so jammed with radio song-| pluggers and bookies and trafic that you couldn't) find the movie folk if there were any, Angelo sighed. |

“But I hate to leave this town,” he added, stack- | ing the final editions into neat piles on his stand. |

“Might move down to Sunset. . . . Those radio people maybe aren't so different from movie stars after all,”

By Ruth Millett

+ AMERICAN WOMEN use cosmetics because they want to be as attractive as men, says Dr, Ivor Griffith, president and research director of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. That, according to the scientist, is why women this year spent 8 billion on cosmetics, If that is why women spend money on lipsticks, rouge, creams, wrinkle-removers, etc.— they. don’t know {t. : Here is why they think they buy and use cos=" metics: In the teers and 20's—to compete Successfully with other girls for the attention of men.

Helps ‘Maintain Pride

IN THE 30's and 40's—to keep ‘their husbands’ interest. In the 80's and 60's—to help maintain their own - pride ‘in being well-groomed women, and to keep their husbands and children proud of them. The women who resign themselves to single

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young and attractive-looking, so that they can meet competition from younger women in the business and professional worlds.

Looks at Other Women

SO IT IS going to be mighty hard for any man, however scientific his training, to convince women that their interest in cosmetics is an attempt to be as attractive as men, Whom does a woman compare her beauty with, when she goes to a party, Dr. Griffith? With the handsomest man present? No, indeed: She carefully looks over all the cther women there, and if she is-satisfled that she is just

as good-looking as any woman in the room, she is:

completely happy and at ease. So long as that is true—and every woman knows it is—nobody is going to convifice women that their daily struggle to be beautiful results from their wanting to be as attractive as men. They know good and well they are trying to be as attractive—and more so, pein. + the other Women who offer bem Sompesition,

GAVEL INSPECTION—Rep. Joe Martin TR Mass.), new Pelee of the house of

representatives, shows Indiana's Rep. Charles A. Halleck, new house majority leader, the

FAMILY ABFAIR — Mr. and Mrs.

Jess Murden,

Peru, take a refreshing pause .in the diner of the

"Jenner Special,"

on the way to Washington last night. Mr. Murden is chairman of the Associated Railways

and long- time ardent Republican. -

Halleck Astute Strategist

And No 'Strings' Bind Him

Hoosier Congressman, Starting 13th Year, Holds Respect of Colleagues in Both Parties

By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan 3, — Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, new majority floor leader in the house of representatives, is one of the most astute strategists in the Republican party. : The wavy-haired, 46-year-old congressman from Rensselaer, Ind. is a tough opponent in a political scrap. The Democrats have known that for .a‘long time. His Republican colleagues acknowledged it formally when they chose him to

{ guide the party's legislative program

through the house. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, but not the bookish-appearing type. Hed just as soon throw the book at an opponent as read it. Charlie Halleck, who 1s aboutsto start his 13th year in the house, has been tagged a “Dewey man” hy his political antagonists. Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York indorsed his candidacy for the important floor leadership post. But Mr. Halleck wants it known he is nobody’s man. “I'm Charlie Halleck's man, if

anybody's,” he recently told a

friend. Mr. Halleck has been actively mixed up in politics since 1924 when he was elected prosecuting attorney for Jasper and Newton counties in Indiana. This was just after he was graduated from Indiana university Law School at the head of his class, His first love is politics and he has ambitions that encompass a broader range than service in congress. His second love is law. That's a family trait. Both his father and mother were lawyers. 4 He likes to consider himself a middle-of-the-road Republican. He has voted pretty much as a party man during his last 12 years in the house. Mr. Halleck got into big-time politics in 19040 when he helped put Wendell Willkie acfoss as the G. O. P. presidential nominee at the Republican national convention. He made the nominating speech for Mr, Willkie. But later, when Mr, Willkie began to play ball with the Roosevelt administration’s foreign policy, Mr. Halleck broke with him.

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British Renew Albanian Issue

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Jan. 8 (U. P.).—Great Britain's complaint that Albania is an international troublemaker will go to the United Nations security council in a féw

days. At a signal from London, British delegates were prepared to-ask the

| cotmeil to take action against the

Albanian government, a protege of Soviet Russia. Specifically, the British are indignant over the explosion of Albanian mines last October in the Corfu straits of the Adriatic. Forty one British sailors on two British

.| destroyers were killed in the ex-

plosion and several others were InJured, The British delegation reportedly was anxious that the couneil find Albania responsible far a “situation” likely to endanger peace in the never-quite-peaceful area in| and- around the Balkans.

(left) Franklin, 7th district Republican chairman, and |puaget. Walter N. Ringer, Farmersburg, secretary of the state |the budget athletic commission, find conference quarters a little one : Bu cramped aboard the caravan train to Washington, Senate ' ¥ see tha Los Angeles Strike “fri ren » Closes Food Stores |ioversiat social

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 (U. P). ~—Only 500 of Los Angeles’ estimated 2500 food markets opened for the busy week-end biiying today. The A. F. of L. Retall Clerks unjon carried its walkout for higher wages into a second day.: » Joseph De Silva, secretary or local 770, said four out of five stores ) in the metropolitan ares remained

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