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dianapolis, Ind. instead of Harrisburg, Pa/ as his address when he was caught up in the swim of In. dianapolis civic affairs. A complete list of his activities would run to Sears’ catalogue volume, It's sufficient to note that from 1945 to 1947 he's been named a director of the Chamber'of Commerce; director of the Merchant's association, director and treasurer of Associated Retailers of Indiana; director of Indiana Chain store cdincll; trustee of the Children's museum; director of Indianapolis Symphony orchestra board; chairman of the camp and hospital countil of Red Cross; chairmgn of -the "commercial division of the 1948 Community, Fund drive and general chairman of the 1947 Red Bross campaign. Just a couple weeks ago he was elected president of the Indianapolis Merchant's association,

Joined Sears in 1929

THE YOUTHFUL EXECUTIVE grew up in Oak Park, Ill, graduated from the University of Michigan where he was president of his junior class, the student council, and Alpha Sigma Phi, He worked for Illinois Bell Telephone Co. for four years after graduation, His decision to work for Sears came one night when he and some friends were playing basketball in a grammar school gym. His friends’ shop talk about Sears’ expansion got him enthused and he joined Sears’ Chicago offices in 1029.

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Looks Younger Than 44

PERSONS WHO THINK the terms “chairman .of the board” afd “civic leader” are synonymous with a bay window are in for a shock when they meet wirey. Mr, Duffield. He tips the scales roughly at 135, looks congiderably younger than his 44 years, He, looks even younger in photographs, in which his gray hairs are less noticeable than his flashing brown eyes. His pictures, incidentally have been published 80 frequently. in connection with achievement that his friends and family razz him oonstantly. His good nature automatically makes him a target for jibes about his loud ties, his golf, and his “skill” as an amateur cameraman, He favors Countess Mara ties, with the weird patterns rivaled only by the blinding color combinations. One friend says his ties look like “someone threw a paint brush and missed.” He fends off jibes by labeling his wife as the family tie purchaser. This brings claims from hecklers that he coerces her into purchasing>a few ties annually so that he can disclaim responsibility for all the rest. An occasion golfer, he shoots up “around the century mark. A frequent companion says Mrs. Duffield is the best golfer in the family, “Don’t tell him I said so, though,” the friend asked, “or hell want me to give him more strokes.” The crowning blow to his photographic aspirations came last year when he photographed the Cheyenne Prontier day on the same movie film he'd used to shoot Yellowstone national park. . It was especially amusing, in light of his reputation of being meticulous

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“IN THIS CORNER . . ."—Lightweight Hugh K. Duffield disproves the theory that "civic leaders’ and "bay windows" are synonymous.

Genius at Work

WASHINGTON, May 3.~Pred A Erhard of El Paso, Tex., has chopped down to size the bozo in the” bat-wing collar who stands in front of the movie theater and tells the customers that the feature’s just started. Usually the film's been on at least half an hour and Hedy Lamarr is in such a jam that Fred and million other people can't figure out the plot until they see the first half of the picture later, The rest of us have put up with the prevaricating gent in the fancy pants by the box office, but Fred has. done som g. about it. He has invented (U. S. patent NJ” 2410394) an electrical dingus hitched to the projection machine. This automatically shows on a red chart in the lobby exactly how much of the picture has flickered across the screen and how much is left to go. Wonders never cease in this marble-pillared headquarters of American genius. You may not believe it, but the ancient profession of beach combing, even,

‘is about to be mechanized.

Ice Cubes

* HAVING OBSERVED the beach combers of song and story bending their backs at his native far Rock-

_ away, N. Y, Thomas L. O'Brien produced an iron

beach comber with a comportable seat for the operator. This apparatus chugs downs the beach, sucking up the sand and automatically depositing diamond

“rings and 25-cent pieces in a handy compartment.

Another struggler with life as it is, who has-done something about it, is James E. Brennan of Lakewood, N. J. Never more will he battle the cubes in his

Success Story

HOLLYWOOD, May 3.—Film extras seldom become stars. When they do, they are reluctant to admit it, \ It is much more exciting for the studio publicity department to glamorize their sudden “discovery.” The years of struggling, disappointments, and heartbreak conveniently are forgotten, to interest moviegoers in a “new find” personality. . Clark Gable and Ty Power were exiias. So were Ginger Rogers, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Brennan, and Alan Ladd. And so was Lon McCallister. Lon was a kid extra. He grew up collecting $5.50 pay checks. He didn't become a star until he got out of his teens. Lon McCallister wasn't reluctant to give me the story of an extra who became a star. “It was a liberal education,” he told me. “My folks didn't mind’ when I cut classes to hang around the studio. They figured I'd learn something.” He learned how hard it was to get In,

He's a Native Product

LON WAS born in Hollywood. He grew up within @ stone's throw of the studios. That made him want to be an actor. He didn’t even mind when he discovergd the stone's throw was in his direction, with him on the receiving end.

“I triéd to figure ft out scientifically,” Lon re-"

called. “There wasn't any central casting office then and if you wanted to be in pictures you had to make the rounds yourself. I was sort of a personal sales-man-—selling me.” He' soon discovered ohORY would buy. He was

~ just a 12-year-old kid with no acting experience. So

Lon started the scientific approach. : %

We, the Women

NOW THAT some man has come out boldly in defense of the cluttered desk, perhaps a woman can get by with a defense-of the feminine equivalent, the cluttered handbag. i In answer to any man who has ever tried to be tunny at the expense of what goes into a woman's handbag—here’s our defense: ° A handbag is a combination: portable desk and dressing table. Its contents can be roughly divided Into two categories, beauty and business.

Bookkeeping Department ~~ ON THE BUSINESS side the essentials are something like this: A billfold and coin purse, a checkbook.and fountain pen, bills to be paid and sales” Bibs fof asiicien 0 be recumied.a. @rivers lisense, an address book.

‘He's an avid motorist, barely finishing one vacation ;

touring the country before he starts charting next year's. His timetable is more complicated than the atomic bomb formula with a chart of his destinations, time of arrival, place to stop, points of interest, mileage to next point, time of arrival, ad infinitum. It's as much a blow to his pride to be a minute early as to be an hour late, Sometimes his legs timetable-conscious wife and daughter, Diana 11, go by train and meet Mr. Duffield and 14-year-old son, Kirk, who drive. It's a warm personal victory when his home-made timetable proves more accurate than that of the railroad. As a seasoned scenic expert he’s not too sold on Indiana’'s general appearance. “They gan give the topography back to the Indians,” he says; “but the people are wonderful.” He does, however, cede to Brown county the honors for autumn foliage. “Coming here from Pennsylvania I thought I had seen everything in fall scenery and I pooh-poohed the Brown county raves. Now that I've seen it, however: I cede all honors to Indiana.” (By Donna Mikels.)

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By Frederick C. Othman

refrigerator, because he’s built’ one with a button on- top. Push it once and out pops an ice cube from a hole in the side of the box. Pust it twice and out pop two. And so on, as pictured in patent No. 2,419,154. I'm not too certain how it works, but I do know it contains an electric heater to loosen each cube from its frigid nest.

Synthetic ‘Fruit

LET US not ignore the Messrs. William Schloessinger and Alexander M. Zenzes of New York. They have carried the synthetically colored and flavored glace fruit to its ultimate. They have patented synthetic fruit.

Take a piece of sugar beet, carve it in the shape

of a plum, color it, flavor it and process it according to their method (patent No. 2,418,558) and you'll never know that it wasn’t a real plum in a lace paper cup. For those who like their eggs the way they want ‘em, Sidney Caplan of Chicago has invented a combination egg poacher, boiler and fryer. It does all three at once. Otto. Hoppman of Oak Park, Ill, has invented an eraser retriever. Tie the eraser to the string on his reel with concealed spring and you'll never have to crawl under the desk. The week's inventions include one small mystery. Why did the, Universal Match Co. of St. Louis buy from Richard Mayer of New Rochelle, N. Y, his combination. cigaret lighter and case? That is the question that will keep me awake tonight. Why?

By Erskine Johnson

“I decided I couldn't just offer me, I had to be clever.” He took tap dancing lessons. He banged on the 20th Century-Fox casting office door so many times that he was finally told to come around the next day and they would have a job for him in a Jane Withers movie. Low got all dressed up .to report for work. He was handed a pair of dingy track shorts and told to put them on. He wound up posing for a photograph used in the movie. He got $3.50. “By that time,” he said, “I was 14 and felt like a failure.” Then he joined the Maxwell Choristers.

Becomes $10 Actor

THE CHORISTERS were signed for a movie, which turned out to be “Romeo and Juliet.” Lon was one of three boys selected for a closeup. For that, he got $10 a day—and new hope. “Now when I asked for a job, I could say I'd been in a movie,” he said. “After that, it was sort of easy.” His first real part- was a Juvenile delinquent who turned out to be a killer. He sharéd his scenes with Walter Brennan. His first starring role was in “Home in Indiana,” which alsd introduced: June Haver and Jeanne Crain. Brennan was the top name again. June, Lon, and Walter are together again in “Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay.” It really burns Lon up to ‘hear anyone describe movie extras as lazy or unambitious. It takes more courage to be an extra, he says, than to be a ptumber or a lawyer. It's a decent, hard-working lite, and there's hope in it.

By Ruth Millett

On the peauty sidé are compact, lipstick, rouge, nail file, comb and maybe a small jar of cleansing cream and a few tissues for a quick facial. Also, if it's a rainy day, there may even be a change of nylons\in case those worn get splashed or water-marked. Of course; there may also’ be some extra bobby pins and a bottle of nail polish for touch-up work,

Bound fo Be Cluttered

DUMP ALL that into even the roomiest handbag, and it's bound ‘to look “cluttered to ‘anybody Din another woman, And that cluttered bag is as comforting to ‘as a cluttered desk is to a man. : Both figure that if they look long enough they're sure to find anything they ‘want or Jood

Photos by John Spickiemire, Times Star

DAY AT THE FAIR — For the (5th year, Tachnical high’ ak students will present the annual sketchbook revue at 8 p.m the Boys' gymnasium at the school. This year's show is' based on five days of an adventurous week. In "A Day at the Fair’ number are (le

to right): Patricia Dickman, Alice Dugan, Margaret Dale, Johnston, Janet Spall, Jane: Roberson and. Carol Moir,

LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE — The Tech show consists:of two acts and intermission numbers. Participating in the second half of the show are (left to right): Donna Dickinson, Mary Jane Ewert, Jamesine House, ‘Edith Bigelow, Carol Smith and Norma Hancock.

There's a Picture of You By Barton Rees Pogue

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HERE'S a picture of you on the mantel at home, A tiny snap-shot, or a large polychrome In a silver frame, the moderns adore, Or only a shell from the ten-cent store . . . IV's the latest they have of you they’ ve known As a happy child, now so grown And gone from the house, and the neighborhood scenes, - Where you played with your dolls or flying machines.

That house may be stately in doorway and hall, Or a grey little shack with no bearing at all; It may be rural and. far apart From the hurry of men in fact'ry’ and mart; There may be orchard and broad. fields about, Or hot pavement streets where you used to play out, But- wherever it is, and whatever its state, They've missed: you-so-much from-their-presence-of late.

Perhaps you're the head of some mighty concern, Or married to one who is able to earn Great fortunes for you——you may be the wife That never shall know but toil all yous life; You may be shiftless, a waster of time, Or a ‘hard-boiled driver of men in cFime, But whoever you are, whatever yow've done, You're a cherished daughter or a favored son.

They show your picture to the people who come, You'll forgive them, of course, if they brag of you some; And they look up to you, as they're moving around Wishing somehow they might hear the sound Of you at the door, calling “hello,” But missing that call, as in days long ago, It's good they may see, in the gathering gloam, That picture of yoy on the mantel at home.

West Coast’ Suspect Captured Here

City Detectives: Thomas Naumsek |town, police said. and two FBI men captured one of| The detective and the’ FBI men a pair of desperadoes fleeing from captured Tobias at the home of California yesterday after a cat-|Louis J. Bean, 19, of 554 Chase st. BE a Seslag home| Tobias and Bean were held in re

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IN THE DOLL SHOP — Seated are > Maddhne Park and Barbars Bober, and standing (left to right) Donna Wuerszburger, Barbara . Moore, Alberta Worland, Dofis Eileen Harding and Beatrice The annual student production is in charge of C. S. Stewart. |

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By MARGUERITE SMITH SOME DAY, when Mrs.’ Bruce Hanneman, 833 S. Whitcomb ave, i puts up" her clothes line she'll take

{a second look at her clothes line { post—originally a thorn apple tree ‘But she may not be too surprised to find that it's growing some 20|§ varieties of apples’ plus three kinds|§ of pears. She's already accustomed to rose bushes that produce five varieties of roses and fruit trees like the Hannemans’ apricot that grows three kinds of apricots. For Mr. Hanneman'’s garden specialty is grafting. He tried it first 10 years. ago when he wanted to improve a seedling apple tree whose natural fruit ‘was nothing to make apple sauce out of. He simply grafted ‘a couple of good varieties onto it. Now he does grafting Just | for the fun of it. » » ” “IT’S. REALLY very easy,” he says. “Of course, you must graft upon a root stock of similar type. An apple, for example, won't grow on a peach root stock. -But-appl pears and quinces, the small seeded fruits, will grow on .a stock like this thorn apple clothes post. The Stone fruits—apricots, peaches and plums—will grow on root stocks of other stone fruits.” Whatever method you use you have to get the: growing cells of the two parts—the cambium layers which lie just under the bark— i fitted close together so the wound (a whole twig when He's working FOR HIS suo can heal. Then you must tie the |with stone. fruits. And that is best he digs a good two sections together and cover|done in mid-summer. It's also a especially at the graft completely with grafting |bit simpler for beginners. wax to keep air out and prevent 2 = = i Jenst oRe-third drying while they grow together. HE SLITS the bark anywhere on io Ts sets With Neastmable attention to these], young tree, turns it back, inserts 1 ak alt recau pre fs wast Safle, will Go. a growing bud from a similar tree, i at GRAFTING A small branch onto ties it fn Place’ Ang Sovers with ge . a different stock; as distinguished : from budding, is best dene in early edhe y Tor oes: spring. It's a little late for it now | experimenting, too. If yow' becatise the scion, the plece you're {to garden on subsoil youll putting.ohto the rootstock, must be | terested in his tomato. 0 dormant. The rootstock tree can| “In Michigan I raised bé in any stage of growth, Was

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