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\ Jioe’s granddaughter, Mrs. Josephine DeLuca ho used the masters’ original recipe for a benefit spaghetti dinner at the Little Flower Roman Catholic church, didn’t hear “Benissimo” ‘Wednesday night but she did hear plenty of “Excellents” from the 400 who twirled the delicacy around their forks. And Mrs, DeLuca and the ladies of the Altar and Rosary society earned every excellent that came their way. I know, because I was there from the time the first bread crumbs hit the pans until all’ that remained were the dirty dishes—nine hours later. 1 Promp at 10 a. m. Mrs. DeLuca and Mrs, Ione reported for kitchen duty at the Little Flower ghurch. Both of the ladies are members of he Holy Rosary church but volunteered their services
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for a good cause—the spaghetti dinner from which
the proeeeds would go towards building a sisters’ home, ; Mrs. Giovanoni's daughter, Mrs. Otto Faenzi and , Albert Gough, chairlady of the dinner, reported $ 10:01; : ’ Comfortable shoes were slipped on (very important ning hours of work in a kitchen), sleeves were plled up, aprons tied on and the bread crumbs, shopped onions began to roll. An occasional tear nade its appearance over the onions. . Pots and pans clanked merrily as the spaghetti ork went full steam ahead, At this point Mrs, D became the .unofficial field commander bep she had the “know how” on the sauce snd p meatballs. ; I asked Mrs. DeLuca: to give me her recipe for a
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DOUBLE BENISSIMO—Mrs. Josephine DeLuca is ready with four meatballs oy spaghetti,
Landlady Trouble
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—I am having landlady rouble. I don't mean with my own landlady, who a woman of noble character, generous to a fault
nd also beautiful. The landladies threatening to mop up the marble halls with me, because they didn't admire an item did about ‘em a couple of days ago, are the milint ones now bending the collective ear of the J, 8. senate. : ‘One testified that she’d rather die in her chair do any more business with the OPA rent conrollers. She shed a tear. Another said if she only hould get rid of the bums noweguining her apartments, she'd give a month's free rent to decent nants. As for Othman, the ladies said, nudging im with their reticules, he’s obviously a Communist, pf maybe worse. o I got out of there alive because I am fleet of foot; mention my own small troubles with the landladies bnly to point up the fact that no matter what conress does about rents, itll be wrong. Or as Irwin , Hoff, former director of the OPA in Seattle, told he senate banking and currency subcommittee: “I'm glad it's your problem and not mine.”
Experts Couldn't Agree
THE SENATORS sighed. They've got a few milon renters in the country who want rent ceilings ept on and who have indicated, in fact, that rents too high already. The lawmakers also have a ew million property owners, including the lady who ants to die, who insist their buildings are falling nto ruin along with themselves. The committeemen thought they might get some ood advice by calling in some leading real estate ents, but the experts couldn't agree, either. Arthur W. Binns, portly real estate man from
orst Dressed Stars
HOLLYWOOD, .Cal,, Feb. 7.—You can win money petting that M-G-M will never again cast Keenan Wynn as Van Johnson's best friend. Despite his outyard calmness, Keenan is plenty mad over Evie's Mexican divorce and marriage to Van. He didn't think they would go through ‘with it. And despite hat you may have read elsewhere, the two Wynn hildren, Ned and Tracy, aged 5.and 3, are still living fh Keenan. There may be legal fireworks over heir custody. Start screaming, ladies. That nasty man with the list of the 10 worst-dressed feminine stars in Hollyyood—and why—is here again, Remember him?—fashion designer Ray Driscoll. [Ray proved he was the bravest man in the world last lvear, when he gave us his idea of the 10 worst-dressed glamour girls of the screen. Having suffered no dire flects, he’s back now with his 1947 list.
Bad Boy Designer RAY DESCRIBES himself as “the bad-boy designer” of the international set. He formerly designed for the Duchess of Kent and Magda Lupescu in pre-war Europe. Now he does clothes in Hollywood for such names as Carmen Miranda, Mrs, Joe E. Lewis and June Haver, ‘ His worst-dressed list last year caused a near-riot over the cocktail tables of. Hollywood and in the fashion salons, In fact, we suspect, certain Hollywood
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SE . A 9-YEAR-OLD California boy ran off to Reno the other day to “divorce his parents.” And he had about as good a reason as many husbands and wives today have for getting divorced. Explained the 9-year-old: “I'm mad at my folks because they won't take me anywhere, and my hobby
is traveling. A kid of 9 today knows that is incomptability, pure and simple, yn
Home-Wrecking Boy AND IF A grown man and woman can for a slefish whim call it quits—break up a home, leave a kid to
grow up with one parent or two half-parents—why can't a kid do a little home-wrecking himself? We have come to accept calmly the idea that grown-ups have a right to be happy in. marxiage and
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spaghetti dinner serving 12 persons. “Housewives seldom have occasion to use a 400-serving recipe calling ‘ete, : ’ “Sure, 1 give you thie recipe,” Mrs. DeLuca sald “but it never tastes the same When anyone else makes it. Even ‘my daughter says, ‘Mama my spaghett! doesn't taste like yours’ and she's’ watched me make it many times.”
Here's the Recipe
ANYWAY, HERE'S her recipe for 12 servings: Dice two onions and fry them in butter, Add three small cans of tomato paste adding spice, pepper, salt and sugar and begin cooking. . Start your meatballs with two pounds of ground beef and pork, half a pound of grated cheese, two and a. half cups of dried bread crumbs, four eggs, parsley, . pepper, salt, two onions (clove of garlic if you like the taste), and water. Mix a}l the ingredients and shape into meatballs which are ready for frying. . x , When the sauce is half cooked put the fried meat--balls into the sauce and continue cooking until the sauce is ready. This procedure works two ways, The meatballs get flavor from the sauce and the sauce gets flavor from the meatballs, The actual spaghetti is no problem. Just toss them into boiling water. Anyone knows how to toss spaghettl into boiling water. That's it, and if you have the “touch” you should have a “benissiino” dish. The afternoon wore on and the women were wears ing themselves out. Help with the tables, dishes, salad and coffee arrived from other women on the committee and several high school girls. An occasional sample of a meatball and sauce revealed everything was shipshape., Every new visitor or helper raved about the aroma and immediately announced that it made them hungry. I said nothing. I just drooled and waited for six o'clock to roll around so I could eat. When the first paying customer walked in on the far side of the hall—-he was second in the cafeteria line.
At Last—Spaghetti
FINALLY-—FINALLY, Mrs, Elmer Cassidy passed me my plate. Bix o'clock had come. I picked up my coffee, salad, piece of white cake and retired to a neutral corner. Anticipation is supposed to be better than realization but not in this case. As I unloosened my belt I murmured “Benissimo.” The room was full of people. It had been several minutes since I had looked up from my plate. I sat in a dreamy trance until I thought it would be safe to move. Mrs, John Waltman, another lady on the spaghetti line, said she felt like she had served 4000 instead of 400 but the end of the line was in sight. When the last guest walked out, all the women agreed that the dinner was a huge success. What should they plan for next month? Someone suggested they plan on washing the dishes and going home. Good idea. “Mrs. DeLuca,” I said before I left (I hate to wash or to watch dishes being washed), “why don’t you open up a spaghetti house?” No—she loves to cook but she'd rather let someone else be the boss. In fact, the idea of working in a restaurant appeals to her.
By Frederick C. Othman
Philadelphia, said he thought all rent controls ought to come 0 ately, but not to get him wrong because he never has had any troubles with the OPA. “This is off the record,” he said, lowering his voice, “it is just between you gentlemen and me. “I...” “You mean it is just between you and the rest of the world,” suggested Senator Glen W. Taylor of Idaho, glancing at the ladies and the gents of the press.
Painful Memory
“WELL, ANYHOW,” said Real Estate Agent Binns, “we actually have made a great deal of money under rent control in my office.” Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas wondered how come. Mr. Binns said that was easy. The OPA made so many house owners so sore they quit renting same and turned ’eni over to him for sale. He made his money on five percent commissions. The commissions kept getting bigger. “Houses have been sold and resold and resold again at an ever increasing price,” he said. “Don’t get the idea that we men in the real estate business are going to die under rent control.” Senator Taylor, who ‘once kept his wife and two children in hotel rooms here for nearly six months while he hunted for a place to live, said he would not get that idea, Later in the day Mrs. Marie Codd Cook, Baltimore, one of America’s most suc cessful realtors, disagreed with Mr. Binns. ' She said keep rent controls on. If rents go up, so do property values and that, in her opinion, is inflation. “I'm afraid of inflation,” she said. The assembled landladies didn't exactly boo. Let's just say they looked down their noses. Then they converged on me. All talking at once. The memory is too painful for me to say more.
By Erskine Johnson
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Gray Ladies’ War V
NUMBER, PLEASE—Mrs. Fred Abernathy, 4625 Cornelius ave., dials a call on a portable telephone for Chester Everett, Brownsburg, Ind. She is vice chairman of the Gray Ladies corps and is in charge at the Veterans hospital, Mr. Everett served as a coxswain in the navy, About 70 Gray Ladies donate their services to the hos-
pital every week. . navy.
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ON THE WAY—Part of the services offered by the volunteer women is the moving of the men about the hospital. Here Mrs. Robert Potts, 4320 N. Illinois st., wheels Dorman Sowders, 4312 Fletcher ave. He was an army radar operator and
served in the Pacific theater of war. . .
ladies are still looking for him with well-sharpened
hat-pins.
Mr. Driscoll’s List
BUT RAY says he can't take it. So here is his 1947 list of the 10 worst-dressed feminine stars—and why: ONE: Judy Garland—because she still dresses like a tired clubwoman. TWO: Greer Garson—her clothes suggest a Kew-pie-doll complex. : : Deanna Durbin—her clothes look like the first grab in a grabbag. FOUR: Jane Russell—she doesn't realize that it's better to conceal. FIVE: Diana Lynn—she’s grown up, but she dresses like a teen-ager in distress. SIX: Joan Fontaine—she aspires doggedly, rather than beautifully, to the mode. SEVEN: Jeanne Crain—she dresses so badly you'd think she did it on purpose. EIGHT: Dinah Shore—she tries to dress like a perennial ingenue. NINE: Maria Montez—the Montez manner is always overdone. If she wears any more feathers, she should be able to fly by herself. © TEN: Constance Moore—she’s the most-dressed. instead of the best-dressed. . And remember, ladies, the list and the quotes are Ray Driscoll's—not ours.
By Ruth Millet
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justified in going their separate ways. Why. shouldn't kids have the same right? Certainly they must often feel that they and their parents are incompatible, and that they themselves-oc-casionally suffer from mental cruelty, loss of dignity, etc.
Have Equal Right WHEN THINGS like that happen to grown-ups, they run to Reno. The 9-year-old who tried the same thing evidently has a logical mind i reasoned something like this: . be. 2 If men and women can get by with that kind of spoiled-brat behavior, why can't the kids? After all, why should people expect kids to put up with in~ comatible parents, when the parents so often won't put up with a little incompatibility for the sake of the kids? 4
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GRATEFUL VETERAN—Avery Lee, R. R. 3, Box 196 L, Indianapolis, accepts a tube of tooth: paste and a brush from Mrs. Pansy Alexander, Greenwood. Gray Ladies make the rounds offering
free such needed articles to the hospitalized men. Organized in' 1941, Gray Ladies must serve at
least 150 hours a year. Employed volunteers usually donate their time during the evenings and weekends.
Alumni Plan Founders' Dinner
Plans for Founders’ dinner of the University of Wisconsin Alumni club’ of Indianapolis to be held 4 Feb. 17 were discussed at a recent meeting in the home of Miss Mildred Black ~
Specimen From South African Limestone Cave Spurs Probe Plans of Scientific Task Force
By Seclence Service BERKELEY, Cal, Feb. T—A scientific task force, equipped. to pick lidge, 3250 N. New | the lock of what may be a most dazzling evolutionary treasure chest, Jersey st. is now making detailed plans to embark this summer from the Univerpreci Bind Mo gs. sity of California for South Africa. club led the dis- Fragments of a man-ape, as provoking as a couple of sample bussion. -Other| doubloons to a Capt. Kidd, lead the Berkeley scientists to believe that members ‘present |in the hard limestone caves near|™ ~~ were Miss Ger-|Johannesburg they may find an an- ithe best equipped of its kind ever trude Brown, Mrs. | cestor to man. This ancestor could to be organized, will be prepared to | Walter Hubbard, Miss Kate Huber, |be three million years old. drill into the hard limestone de|William Florea, Dan _Flickinger, : Specimen Unearthed | Morris Crain and Stuart Bishop. Two skulls, an ankle bone, a|of the man-ape, if they exist. ; femur and a finger bone were re-| They will also attempt to find TRIESTE PRINTERS STRIKE covered by Dr. Robert Broom of the evidences of fire, artifacts, fossili TRIESTE, Feb. 7 (U. P).—This Transvaal museum. During mining seeds and leaves of plants, ‘and city was without newspapers today operations at one of the cave de- skeletons of othér animals, as 1500 printers on six dailies and ‘posits, blasting uncovered the speci-| With such information it may be |13 weeklies struck for cost-of-living |mens. °* Ipossible to assign the man-ape a | The Berkelry expedition, one of place in the scale. of mén’s evolu-
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posits to extricate whole, specimens
TO WHOM?—The war's end has not decreased the duties of the Gray Ladies corps, Red Cross. Daily they work at the Veterans, Billings and the Ft. Harrison station hospitals. Here, at the Veterans hospital, Mrs. M. 5. New Jersey st.,
Phillips, 3126 N. writes a letter for Owen Musser, Connersville. He served in
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY—No one is forgotten by the Gray Ladies when another year rolls around. W. A. Meeker, Chicago, has just open to receive gifts from Mrs. Henry C. Howes, 5935 Central ave. The presents are brought in on a musical turn-table.
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YOUR: PLAY—Bedside games are daily features performed .by the Gray Ladies. Mrs. H. C. Block Sr., Columbia club, is about to discard a card as George Williams, 935 H st., looks on. Activities of the group are sponsored by the Red Cross whose fund drive will be Feb. 27-March 29. : fea a ie
Fox Heads Alumni o Of Lambda Chi
“Veteran Explorer Bh: Dr. Charles L. Camp, eminent paleontologist and director of the [& university's museum of paleontolo-| gy, is supervising all scientific || phases of the expedition. He is a veteran of South African
scientific exploration. Ten years ago he brought out of the Dark Continent what is probably the best col- "Mir. vated there: - : ; {0 be held If the specimens are pre-man By types, Dr. Camp says, it may be; possible to’ trace back another step { VLU] toward the ape or .ape-like type| ATY
glacial epoch, Dr. Camp states.