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“BACK | IN ‘rE SADDLE again.” What a wonderful way to spend a bright, brisk morning. A trusty, spirited steed, the wind and sun in your facée—man, oh, man, it does something to you to wijch Clyde Sheffield, instructor at the Indianapolis Saddle Club, ride a horse. Of course, I rode, too. But a little ride 10 years ago is too fresh in my mind to go jumping on a horse and galloping off.. That's why when I put my stamp of approval on Lady, a dun mare, I was pretty sure she'd behave. . ~ When I.explained in detail. what type of a horse I wanted, Mr, Sheffield sajd without hesitation: “Lady is the horse you want.” He led me to her stall. stroked her mane and I knew I was safe. exactly what the name implies. Lady was saddled in a jiffy. She was led out to the door of the stable and was told to stand there. Without batting an eye Lady stood at a nice, easy attention ' Mr, Sheffield chose Messenger, a black ghlding. Didn't eare much for him -- too frisky, prancing around the stable just because a saddle was being put on his back. “Ever have any instruction?” “No, I haven't, but Tve béen on a horse before,” I answered. I thought- I noticed a tremor from Lady. Might have been the brisk air.
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HORSEPOWER—Clyde Sheffield, Indianapolis Saddle Club instructor, shows how it should be done.
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Lady's Very Gentle
“FHAT'S AN English saddle — no horn” knew that but in the excitement I forgot. I swung on to my horse. The stirrups were too long and the saddle was too slippery. Clyde adJusted the stirrups and we were ready for the paddock. “Now don’t worry about a thing. Lady is a school horse, Hundreds of children have ridden her. Why she's so gentle that if—I say if—-you should happen to fall off, Lady will pick you up and put you back in the saddle again.” Going through the paddock gate at a fast walk was tricky. I almost felt my shin bones against the wooden posts. “Keep your reins up. Don't put your whole shoe in the stirrup—on the ball of your foot so you can get more’ balance and sit up Stewight,” Clyde instructed. I did as he directed. Round and round the paddock we went—-Clyde doing all he could to hold Messenger in check and I
horseman. “Ease up on the reins and keep youi* toes pointed straight ahead in line with the horse.” Check. My nervousness began to leave me. Occasionally I would look up and around the countryside.
Let's Go Faster '
LADY WOULD respond to the slightest touch of the reins, A horse after my own heart. “Say Clyde, can't we go a bit faster than this?” “Think you can ride faster already?” . I thought I could. - Haven't fallen off yet. Clyde
told me fo follow him — we were going out on the .
bridle path: * We made it to the Fall Creek blvd. bridle path at the same slow walk. Messeriger began ‘to- get friskier at every step. I'm glad Lady doesn’t get upset. easily. “0. K.—we're ready to trot. Kick back with your heels and stay alongside of me,” Clyde called. Obeying instructions I found myself going onetwo, one-two, one-two in perfect rhythm. A’ fine change of pace. My hat got loose. =I hesitated tod let go of the reins. I belieye in two hands on the steering wheel—or reins. Just when my hat was ready to fly off my head I batted it down. That threw me off rhythm and I paid for it. The saddle suddenly became very hard.
“You're not ready to trot,” Clyde informed me. as
he brought the horses to a walk. “What about a good fast canter?” “Nope—let’s just walk until you're absolutely at home in the saddle.” Back to the paddosk and the walk. For some strange reason m9, knees began to shake. I felt I had enough. “I think I'll call a day, Clyde.” “It's up to you—I'm going to give Messenger a little workout.”
Sure is fine to ride on a bright, brisk morning|
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, March 19.—There are so many bureaucrats trying to build houses with so many kinds of hammers they don't seem to be doing much except smash each other's thumbs. That's me talking; not Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. He's 8 little more diplomatic. He says the government's emergency housing program was a fizzle. It’s subsidy scheme to get!more bath tubs and building bricks a failure. One trouble is too many boss carpenters in Washington. Senator Taft was appearing before the senate banking and currency commitee to urge passage of the Wagner-Taft-Ellender housing bill. ‘This document turned into a 112-page book, largely because the law-makers had to explain which of the agencies, administrations, corporations, associations, departments and bureaus were to do what. The main idea of the bill is to get one boss, or at least a commission, which will toss out some of the government's assorted housing experts and force the others to hammer planks instead of each other. It is a complicated bill “In fact,” the senator confessed, “this slum clearance section when we first wrote it was so complicated I had to study it an hour or two on the mornings of those days I was called upon to explain it So we re-drafted it.” (It still ain't simple, senator.)
Persuasive Witness
SENATOR TAFT made a persuasive witness, though some of the Democrats wondered whether he wasn't trying to spend too much money. He. said the bill would cost about $150 million a year for the next 50 years. He said he thought we could afford this, if it gave us all decent living quarters.
He didn't accuse any of the government's housing experts of being dopes. There simply are too many of them, he said. I made a count of those outfits having something to do with housing (I probably missed a few) and no wonder the housing shortage in Washington is critical.
Lots of Specialists
THE HOUSES are full of housing specialists. The treasury, war, navy, interior and agriculture departments worry about houses. So do the federal housing administration, the farmers ‘home administration, the federa] home loan bank administration, the war assets administration, the veterans’ administration, the federal loan agency, the federal works agency, the national housing agency, the federal farm mortgage corporation, the federal public housing authority, and the national capital housing authority. The OPA spent much of its effort on housing. The CPA still does. For a while the office of hous-
ing expediter wouldn't even speak to the reconstruc-| .
tion finance corporation, because the latter wanted to go slow con prefabricated houses. The office of education has to do with housing for veterans in college, the defense home corporation is thinking about closing shop, and the RFC mortgage corporation does what you think. The federal savings and loan insurance corporation is a busy institution. So is the federal national mortgage association, Fhe home owners loan corporation is on the job. And let us not forget the federal home loan bank system, nor the federal reserve system, which makes decisions on what the housing specialists call the policy level. You know where I can buy a tent, pending a couple of dozen mergers’ by Senator Taft & Co.?
In Hollywood
By Erskine Johnson
"HOLLYWOOD, March 19.—~We can't let you in today on a secret Charley Chaplin has been guarding zealously for months—the plot of his new movie, ‘Monsieur Verdoux.” Charley plays a man who kills women for profit. His leading lady, Martha Raye, plays a gal who kills men for profit. Charley and Martha meet and spend six reels trying to kill each other. Charley says it’s a* comedy. More, fuel for James Mason's feud with Hollywood. In. a forthcoming magazine’ story “he’s quoted as saying: “I don't like Hollywood, because Tife doesn’t go on, out there.” Whatever he means! There will always be an Prgland-f it can have a cup of tea in its hand.
Angela Lansbury went to New York for some -
interviews ta plug the movie, “The Affairs of Bel Ami.” The interview routine was pretty gruelling for her, but she found a way to heat fatigue—brewing tea as black as coffee in her swank Hampshire House
“Only one shocked employee of this plush hangout has caught me working over a hot stove,” she writes. “But I have to have my tea. It gives me a lift, about half way to_ the ceiling.”
Shirley Temple in ‘Comic Role
IT IS Dennis Morgan who récalls that when he made a debut in the “drama” at Carroll college back in Wisconsin, a play doctor was called in to view
* JUST AS in most colleges ‘and universities today, large numbers of the students at the New Brunswick Theological seminary are married. ‘With that in mind the newly elected president of the seminary has announced that he hopes to introduce a program for training the students’ wives for their duties as helpers in their husbands’ calling. That sounds like an idea for universities. “Many of the young men jraining for professions. today are married. 80 why not offer “these young wives a course planned: to ‘help them become assets.
An Idea of Life
FIRST OF ALL, they could be given some idea / what to expect their lives to be- like, ‘What opporney should
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their efforts and see what he could do to brighten things up. The play doctor looked at the first act, stood up as he wearily shook his head and said: -“Is there an actor in the hose?” Roy Rogers, a widower, will take his two young daughters on his rodeo tours this summer. . . Sneak reaction to “The Bachelor and the BobbySoxer” indicates that Director Irving Reis has turned ‘Shirley Temple into a light comedfénne.-
PRODUCER BENEDICT BOGEAUS will release “Christmas Eve” in July. That's Hollywood for you. Jack Haley is doing a 16-mm. color movie, “How to Boss Bossy,” for the 4-H clubs. It's being filmed at a cattle breeding ranch in Escondido, Cal. Sudden thought: Clarence -Brown,- famous for directing all those stories on family- life, “National Velvet,” “The Human Comedy,” and “The Yearling,” has no family of his own. Ray Milland tracks down a murder suspect in’ his latest picture, “The, Clock.” The suspect turns out to|® be himself. Tyrone Power gets the lead in “Nightmare Alley.” It's a ehange of pace from his usual celluloid heroics. He'll play a bum. Guess we're wrong about L. B. Mayer selling all those nags because he figured, along with other movie moguls, that racing will be outlawed in California next year. Harry Warner, who wrote a check for $365,000 for ,three of Mayer's best, ought to know what he’s doing.
By. Ruth Millett
know how long a struggle they will probably have getting started, the advantages and disadvantages of their jobs. THese,.are all things the wife of a professional man has to learn sometime. But she usually has to learn them through trial and error, often through mistakes that are costly to her husband.
Too Late for Advice
IN “THE PAST, professors and college presidents frequently handed -out advice as to the kind of woman a man should marry if he wanted her to’ be a help in ‘his career. For many of their students today it is too late
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ORIENTAL SCENE—Joan Brown (left) and Barbara Clifton 4re two participants in the act titled "Days to The annual show is expected: to be a sell-
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NEW YORK, March 19.—John like the top 10 tunes in the nation. Pan Alley’s unofficial czar. Some popular songs make Mr. hold His nose.
quietly and takes this medicine like a little man. For it's Mr. Peatman’s poll— whether he listens to their. music or not—that tells the song publishers if they're laying eggs or making with the money. “Publishers used to get mildly tough, now and then, if their songs didn't show in my ratings,” Mr. Peatman recalled today with a grin. “But nowadays very few of them try it» He's. a Psychologist
Mr. Peatman, a small, pleasantvoiced man, is associate dean of the. liberal arts department. of the College of the City of New York. He's
“I think it's-really to’ my advantage that I don’t care too much for popular music,” he said, leaning back. .in- his chair, “After —allmeans. that I'm bound to be impartial.” xa Mr. Peatman got into the songranking business back in 1041. Today both “Variety” and “Billboard”. depend upon his listings. Publishers used to tabulate songs ori ‘the basis of how many times they were played a week,” Mr. Peatman explained. “Any - advertising man will tell you that doesn't mean a thing. It's How Many That Counts “So I pointed out to some of the larger houses that it was not how often their songs were played- that counted, but how many people heard them. “There are two. things,” Mr. Peatman -explainéd, “that make a popular song popular. Familiarization, and performance under prestige. conditions. “It's simple. The more people hear a song, the better they like it. And if a big star, like Bing Crosby or Kate Smith, for instance, sings it— they're apt to like it even better.” No: 1 on his hit parade last week was the “Anniversary Song.” “It's got no business being there really,” he said. “It’s a waltz, and written in a minor key. I'm a psychologist, but I can't explain it.”
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in Gloccamora?” is thé biggest “comer.” It was seventh on his list this week, but Mr. Peatman thinks it'll hit the top by next Friday. “Open the Door, Richard,’ never did very well on my survey,” | said, somwhat proudly. “It was the novelty hit, but the top artists barely
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Notre Dame Layman's Retreat to Be Resumed
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NOTRE DAME, March 19.—~The annual laymen's retreat which was| suspended after 1942 because of
wartime transportation difficulties will be resumed at University of Notre Dame in August. The Rev. Pr. Michael A. Foran, @. 8. C., director of retreats at the University, has atinounced that SIMMess. taoaday ‘retreat will eld Aug. 21 to 2. Z
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HOUSTON, Tex., March 19 (U. P.).—Two young research the Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research are taking part against the great killer with a study of how a vitamin ing new body tissue. Dr. Fritz Schlenk, a nospital biochemist, and his assistant, Aline Fisher, report an important discovery concerning how vitamin = functions in protein synthesis, or more simply, how worn-out body cells are replaced by new growth. Dr. Schlenk said science had understood how only three of the 12 known vitamins worked in bodily processes, but this recent discovery in Houston adds a fourth along with vitamins Bl, B2 and nicotinic acid, The Anderson Hospital research~
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