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movements if you want high scores. - The

secret 1s

in your elbow. i -

Take. for instance the “Midget Racer” game, If

you play It the ordinary way-—flip-the-plunger-and-watch-the-ball-go-anywhere-it-pleases’ sort of thing, chances are all you'll get will be about eight laps, 20,000 points and very little response from the lights and bells. : 3 It was just yesterday that I was playing without “zing” and chalking up miserable scores. Oh, if I happened to be extremely sloppy maybe the score would be as ‘high as 32,000 and 12 laps on this particular machine. Other scores on other machines also were mediocre until & pin ball sharpie took fhe in tow, “It's the zing in your hips. Make back when you're on the firing line, I finish your game,” this sharpie said. . Amazing. He paid particular attention to the pl r and its gauge. His hips bore to the right slightly. was shooting for the number one bumper on the left side of the pin ball machine. I had failed to hit it in 12 consecutive tries. He pulled the plunger out easy-—easy—and then PING the steel ball shot out. With both hands on _ the sides of the machine and his hips following the back and forth bounce of the steel ball, he ded it right smack against bumper number one,

like a halfWatch while

and I don’t mean the one

hip slightly to the and forth his hips moved: and the bells were ringing pellet around hitting most of the bumpers. zing stopped when the ball finally hit the

‘You Gotta Have Feeling’

“SEE-IT'S the zing. You gotta have feeling. You gotta put you're heart and soul in the game— | otherwise you're & Dixie,” he scoffed. Dixie? Gad not a Dixie. Walt a minute—what'’s a Dixie? The. sharpie explained that a Dixie was an old army word for anything bad. He had been stationed in the south and anything below par, off the beam was~Dixie. 0. K. with zing I can get out of Dixie. Cranking] up about as much zing as I thought I needed for the last shot I let go. Number three bumper was knocked off first. Bells and..lights went on Shift to the left, right, left—woops—more left—Ileft—a double zing back to the right and the midget racers were fairly screaming around the lighted track above the playing part of the machine, . - Out of ‘Dixie’ Class IT WASN'T long before I was out of the Dixie class. My new exhuberance for the and an ‘extra amount of zing made the' “tilt” light go on. Foiled—just when I was well on the way to: 80,000 and 17 laps. Being a good sport I asked repairman Martin

. Joachim to check the machine. Thefe couldn't have

been that much zing in the play, Mr. Joachim took the top off. The carbon pendulum in the metal ring worked perfectly. It would register tilt only when

* the machine was tilted. Infernal gadget was too effi~

cient. Well. how about the condensors, relays, trans-

formers, flasher contacts, motors and stuff? All !

EO K.

The 250 feet of fine wiring was in good working order. He took the back of the machine off and checked the top half with its relays, kickouts and holding units. Check. *The scoring device in the lower half of the machine was O. K. It all boiled down to the fact that the pin ball

Bk machine had been tilted—fair and square. Too much

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IT TAKES ZING—Martin Joachim can fix it mechanically but the score is up to you.

Accounting

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—~The big white doors of the sergeant-at-arms’ office are locked to hungry congressman. In front of these doors is an iron grille It is locked, too. Around the grille is ‘a steel chain. It's also locked, with the biggest brass padlock this side of Oak Ridge, Tenn. Put your ear to the crack, where many a congressional ear likewise has been placed the last few lean days, and youll hear click-clickety-click-click-ing. ‘Adding machines. The expert accountants of the comptroller general are making the first audit in memory of the oldest member of perhaps the weirdest banking establishment in America. It just growed. No congressman can get his paycheck until the suditors balance the books. He cmt get a small advance against his salary, as per custom immemorial. -. or can he collect the money it cost him for a railroad ticket to get here. The odd thing is that the same congressmen who passed the strictest kind of laws for everybody else's bank, set up the federal reserve bank board and established the deposit: insurance corporation, never bothered ‘about rules for their own bank.

Temporary I. O. U.’s THE IDEA in the first place was that the ser-geant-at-arms would keep track of congressional salaries and mileage accounts and dole out the money as it came due. That was in the early days of the nation. Then came the first temporarily émbarrassed congressman. He received a sawbuck .against his forthcoming salary for which he deposited an I. O. U. That wag fair enough. One thing seemed to ledd to another. Sometimes a well-heeled congressman would let his pay accumulate in the sergeant’s till. Then he'd draw

Shooting Stars

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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9.—Even if husband Glenn Ford doesn't fully approve, Eleanor Powell is serious about resuming her career. ‘She has rented a Hollywood dance studio, to rehearse her new fotitines for a night-club . tour starting in Philadelphia late this month and ending in Chicago. During her recent trip to New York, Freddie Bartholomew's Aunt Cissy lived for six weeks in & hotel just three blocks from where Freddie is living with his wife. .But they didn't see each other. Auntie and Freddie have been feuding ever since his marriage. %

Director Tosses a Big One

HOLLYWOOD is still talking about Director Mitch Leisen's New Year's eve party. The affair cost him about $30,000, what with a dance studio converted into a night club, two orchestras, baked pheasant and champagne, and breakfast at 6:30 a. m., for 500 guests. Paramount has written a new ending for “The Road to Rio,” leavin@ the. audience up in the air as to which lover, Hope or Crosby, gets Dottie Lamour, “In the final scene, Dottie says, “I love you both,” and the picture will fade out on a romantic shot of Niagara Falls. Hope, by the way, cleaned up on the Rose Bowl game. “I saw Illinois play Northwestern,” he grinned, showing us a wad of bills big enough to choke Sinatra. (Not a bad idea.) Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd are playing rough again in “Saigon.” In one scene she bites him on the

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We, the Women

IT 1S WORTH a cross-country trip by automobile Just to see what a comeback oourteous, considerate service is making, Whatever else your money will or will not buy in the year 1947, it looks as if it is going to buy more of that precious commodity, considerate service, than it

has in many a year.- For once again those who serve the public are trying to please.

Have Pleasant Manner

IN GRATIFYING numbers’ are waitresses who have a pleasant manner, apologizes for mistakes, anticipate wants, try to be helpful. / It's the same with hotel clerks, filling-station- attendants, salespérsons, ete. ; The bored, indifferent attitude that made life so

full of petty annoyances during the war years seems -

to be well on the way out. And what a difference that

“getting a high score. . The only thing that can bel

zing. Mf. Joachim cleared up a questios which had bothered me at times ‘when I was playing Dixie pin ball. There's no way that a’ machine can be fixed mechanically to prevent a skilled player from

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' FUNNIES TIME—Both Senator and Mrs. William E. Jeriner get a lot of reading the comics to son, Billy. an ardent "funnies fan. morning procedure. at the Jenner home. -

done if the machine is perfect mechanically but needs a little toning down to make the game more 'interesting, is to change: the rubber rings which bounce the metal ball back and forth. If the rubber rings are too live, deader rings are installed and vice versa. No there's nothing fixed with this indoor sport— it all goes back to the hips. If you have the zing you'll have the score.

It's a routine Sunday - clutch grocery bags as thay. An! to their: Washington apartment,

By Frederick C. Othman

against it. That led to checks on the sergeant-at-arms, written by the members.

No Penalties Attached

| SOME OF them deposited their own money ; the sarge, because he was handy and demanded none of commercial banking's rigamarole. He made no

_ charge for services rendered; assessed no penalty

for checking accounts under $100. If a member's check bouficed (and there have been reports in the long ago of this happening) he was discreet in putting on the bite. So the Republicans moved in, appointed William F. Russell as their own sergeant-at-arms,- He took one look at the books and said he’d disburse not one nickel until they'd been audited. He wasn't charg ing anybody with monkey-business, you understand,

but he said he merely a following, sod busipess principles. ‘Only there wasn't any books.

Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren said he'd be glad to do it, but congress never had empowered him to audit the congressional bank. Congress had to say preity-please, formally. Mr. Warren then sent in his crew of bookkeepers. Of rumors there have been plenty, but nobody in authority, Republican or Dem@crat, has said one word. Mr. Russell sent a letter to each congressman, which he closed: “Regretting that I must communicate with you in this manner.” He also let it be known that he could introduce stony legislators, if any, to a kindly banker downtown who'd come through with a small loan. The comptroller expects to finish his audit in another week or so. In the meantime and because of my humanitarian tendencies I'll gladly take to lunch (and try to sneak the chit onto my expense account) any congressman who lacks the 15 cents for .a bowl of the congressional bean soup. . J

TWO TRAIN FANS—It's hard to tell who's enjoying Santa's gift to the Jenner household more, Billy or. issue of local option will be sh the senator. Senator Jenner spent most of ‘a Sunday morning helping five-year-old Billy lay out tracks and get the to this. committee

train in running order. : —Photos by Times Staff Photographer Victor Peterson. u i : ;

Rehabilitation for America’s Civilian Casvalties— New Retraining Center Restores Them to Full Confidence, Handicapped Find Happiness in Living and Working |...

ition and sanvaloscent’ ceptors B11 Aer aomAr Hiatt . . on and conva | O, : Institute in New York most afr forces hospitals. head the

There are several million civilian casualties in the United Me also had a’ guide book’ pre) ! Shows Path to Nation | states—all victims of accidents, disease or congenital malfunction. pty ao hi hha airs couten

They have neter had the benefits of an integrated rehabilitation : : il Fea follow cure or correction with retraining and physical Hue nppled and disabled. And bl. se aug peyenslogical preparation for gainful employment or a pists; physics) 3 Vyicians, thera Inancing, : uller life. . instructors, Vays : A model rehabilitation institute is opening this week at the - | FR Jeachers and yolunissts and; The New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical Center. It will c hospt A 8B mammoth . ; be the paitern for many other communities all over the land in i a where the patients were establishing such centers for their own areas. 15 rom dawn {0 The Scripps-Howard ASSINPELS signed aS Wxiier Aan busy ey dusk. er to study this problem a a es © ge Rr thd phate of medicine—rehabilitation and retraining. HIS FIRST This is the first of the series.

. First of a Series) By Erskine Johnson : ! By ALLAN KELLER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The woman Mrs. Jones left the hospital with two new artificial legs, |: one attached above ‘the knee, the other below. She was in her 30s, married and with two school chil« dren waiting for her in the little

flat on New York's West side. three had won her|and the research centers to heal When. she tried to pick up herig.p¢ oui she and cure. Then the patient is sent duties where the automobile acci-| “moq,y she gets breakfast for her| home well but crippled, his wounds dent had interrupted them shel,.. children and herself, packs|healed or his disease vanquished, found she was unprepared, their lunch, sends them to school,| but the man as an entity still unShe stumbled and fell. 'The|., 4 then riding the bus, goes| prepared for the rigors of life unshiny new limbs were sinister traps) 5, oun and works an eight-hour| der physical handicap. famous for cattle, will now be famous for corn that lured her from bed with high day in an office. ’ On the great shield of our naThe invitations said formal, but there's always a hopes and led her to disaster. At the end of the day she re-|tional achievement in -controlling 8 a turns home, helps the children with| plagues, eradicating contagious dis-

rugged individualist. We saw one fellow in the lobby R HUSBAND walked out on! discovery of wonder wearing a brown suit, a blue-and-white checkered), B= | their lessons, cooks and washes a enses and he disso Yi pag

. her and the children. t d keeps the house in or-sport-shir} and no tie, . Days went by, grew into weeks ig She is it and blood trib=| cover the abyss from bed to job is Sack io Preval-normalcy igote: reat for SThter- and months of abject terror and| er CET LT LIE oO era great bar sinister, shame: that national will sponsor a beauty con or hens, w until Mrs. Jones tried sui- | tribution. help ballyhoo “The Egg and 1.” Contestants will be SOHD care and retraining of America's|cries for re

failed, and found instead of - . nn Judged on the basis of charm, personality ahd sex Slge, an unexpected path to hap- | forgotten casualty — the disabled STRONG, ENLIGHTENED steps appeal, and the winner will be named Miss Slick piness. givilian, 8 ” are beirig taken to end this paraChick of 1047. At Bellevue hospital there is a 1 and|dox. The program is to establish Movie Czar Eric Johnston, convalescing from |,aw and embryonic division of re- UP AND DOWN the. length ix | community centers throughout the pneumonia in Arizona, will return to his desk in|pahilitation where physicians, phys. breadth of the land there ties of|nation where the “rich and poor Washington late this month. , . / Miriam Hopkins | ca) therapists, occupational the- and a half million casualties .0 alike, the badly crippled and the and her recently-reconciled husband, Ray Brock, are rapists and psycho-social therapists] this type alone. thopedic victims| slightly incapacitated man, woman forming a Broadway repertory company. . . . Raymond strive to ‘cope, with extremely Some are the or Specie Yak un and child may go to learn how to Massey will co-star with Roz Russell in “Mourning limited means, with just such| Who have Jost limbs or ihe: use.o use the functions that remain to Becomes Electra.” He's the husband she poisons.» problems. Shem in accidents, them so that they may" get around,

ti | These experi took Mis: Jones In Infection, like rheumatic fever, the|care for themselves, hold. jobs a hang 48 soo n as oy congenitally unsound; the sufferers|help enrich the nation financ snd wedi from degenerative disease, such as/and spiritually. ; the stumps of her Jags. heart disease, of arthritis, the vic-| Tomorrow in New York city’s THERE WAS exercise in bed|tims of crippling ills like infantile |Bellevue hospital, the Institute of when she was too weak to get up, paralysis and encephalitis and the |Rehabilita Physical Medi» and at'the earliest opportunity she|sufferers from neurological and psy-|cine will he opened 88 Alo . was made to leave the bed and ex-|cho-neurotic malfunctions, vision of the New Yuk niversi ercise in. a chair and then on her| Add these millions to the in-|Bellevue Moment , ton ts artificial lags. jured or unsound veterans of the| This Institute of Rehabil om 8, She “was never allowed to be|last three wars and the total|in the main, the gy idle if she had the strength to reaches 8,000,000 who live| man’s dream. He is Dr. : through her paces: S |a sort of pat Existesce, die Sispiried, Ruski wh A pec When she. was physically tired unhappy, and who 0 No Longer Sus ! et she studied stenography, account-{be normal income-producing citi-|ing Division of the Army Alr forces a BT mn IS different today. The one-time cus-|ing and Sotvebirial work. J gens. i Nadi forms si pattern, .* mer ng treated considerately again. He is no}, Psychiatrists talked with her and bi : : longer suspect. gave her hope; imbued her with the| THEY LIVE IN this twilight sone| DR. RUSK, as a solong} on mt That in itself is going to make life far more |fighting spirit that any crippled |of life, some helpless and some|air surgeon tafh > ¥. shousahids —-— A pleasant in the future than it has been in the recent !person must have to face life. able to help themselves, but inca-|of air forces on oun AL A past. wt 8 » pacitated for work. America haé| growing weary ospitals Ning : : : Sg After our experience with shortages we are natur-| BY SPECIAL arrangément with| fallen down on the job of offering for ‘recovery; unhappy, _ i j ally interested in/ knowing what our money will buy (the Institute for Crippled and Dis-| the “third phase of medical care” and 9 often Nn TH, Lie in 1047. But no single item is more important than abled Mrs. Jones was taught to to its civilian casualties. aking ag sh ) ‘courteous service. : ‘walk up and down sidewalk curbs,| The surgeon uses his tal : spends 10 And it looks as if there is not going to be any 'to get in pain shortage of that. : : grueling

wrist—girl bites Ladd. . . . Joan Caulfield’s sister, Betty, arrives in Hollywood late this month for a film career of her own. . . . Guy Madison, who has been going places with Gail Russell, has gotten around to Cathy Downs. :

Notes From a Program

NOTES from a “Duel in the Sun”. pi gam? Lusty and, bawdy. Howard Hughes'd better not see. It makes “The Outlaw” look like a taffy pull. (Where were the censors?) You don’t have to have a story to spend $5,000,000 on a movie, but it would have helped. Gregory Peck gives a great performance . ®A sock climax, but much too long. Texas, long

of virus pneumonia patients into two wards, he found that those men who just remained in bed t for recovery required an av of 45 days convalescence. He also 30 per cent of them had re-|, curing attacks and had to be’ readmitted to hospitals. 1 The men in the other word un-

By Ruth Millett

fact makes to the tired traveler, the hungry diner-out, the harried shopper. i All too often during the past few years no one but the steady customer was treated with respect. The person out-of his own territory was out of luck.

l fo save in and out of buses, It was|lifé and the medical man uses

toil for her, but Within! the rich harvest of the laboratories] a b .

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