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SOME GUYS CAN BEST recall their college days by going to a football game. There are those who ber the “old days” best by visiting the profs.
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wo waiters at the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority must have thought: me completely out of my mind as I stood at the back door showing my credentials and asking to relieve one man just so I
, could bring back “memories.”
Lou Toth, Butler University senior, said it would be OK with him. He could stand a night off but he'd have to ask the housemother, Mrs, Julia Sweet, before he took off his white coat. The other waiter, Richard Eherenman, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity pledge and sophomore at the university, didn't have much to say to Lou, who is also 8 Phi Delt In fact, Richard didn't have any question in his mind about who was going if Mrs, Bweet allowed me to stay. iy My references and experience were satisfactory, Mrs. Sweet said, but she thought my request was rather unusual. It was up to the boys to’ work it out. Everyone agreed Lou was the one to get the ight off, . ' : I slipped into a white coat and walked into the kitchen. Cook Mary Roberts had all the food prepared just waiting for us to set the tables, It didn't take long to get into a system with Richard. Just like the old days. I put the plates around, 29 in all, Richard took care of the silverware,
"HAVE FUN, BUDDY"—An unexpected night off pops up and Lou Toth, Butler senior . Jo "reluctantly’’ leaves Sophomores Richard herenman with sorority kitchen duties and a new waiter.
Tonic a La Godfrey
NEW YORK, Oct. 16—Once a year, when the old lassitude sets in, I don't take sulphur and molasses, I go and set and jaw with Master Arthur Godfrey. On the off chance that there is anybody around who has never heard of Arthur, I will say simply that he invented radio. Or at least, he invented a heavy portion of what you hear today. In his spare time he was in the Navy and the Coast Guard. He drove a hack, was stickman in a gambling joint, clerked in assorted fleabags, sold cemetery lots, acted on the stage, had a turn at vaudeville, and flew airplanes. Currently he is a gentleman farmer—well, he’s a farmer, anyhow. He is making for this year's effort a tidy little $550,000, which even without the last gero is middlin’ money for a guy who used to fetch #5 a program peddling birdseed in Baltimore, The redhead owns Columbia Broadcasting, or that is the impression I get, because after Arthur takes his cut each year there can’t be much left for President William Paley. Mr, Godfrey still peddles his tonsils from cockcrow to lunch, both local and network. He is still running a network thing called “Talent Scout” on Mondays—a separate deal which operated a year before the redhead graciously condescended to accept & sponsor.
Makes New Record
NOW AND AGAIN he will knock off a movie short, as he once allowed someone to shoo him onto the Broadway stage. He has just made a record called “The Too Fat Polka,” which will make him another mint. This, however, is not the point. “I have always wished to be an artiste,” says Mr. Godfrey. “I am now an artiste.” My man Godfrey has leaped more hurdles in his striped, spotted and checkered career than a practicing steeplechaser. He might have been a bum, a gunman, a bookmaker or a thief, because his early days were about as rough as early days can be. He is, I think, about the best illustration around of working Americana, which will allow a man to be as good
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Reach for the smelling salts, fellow taxpayers; here we go again with the sorry tale of a kindergarten class keeping track of #2 billion cash money. Ours. : The kiddies meant well, but their bubble Jemmed the gears of the accounting machines. Nobody knows exactly now where all our billions went. The comptroller general, it turns out, couldn't make sense of the books of Federal Public Housing Authority, which spent the billions on hurry-up houses for war workers. So he hired Price, Waterhouse & Co. the celebrated accountants, to see if they could discover precisely what happened to the $2 billion. They tried, but they found so many mistakes that they gave up. They said last year’s accounts weren't much better.
Ferguson Cries ‘Fraud’ S80 THE SENATE executive expenditures commit tee called an investigation. Senator Homer Ferguson
¢ of Michigan cried, “fraud.” But when he said it, he
) had not heard about the toddlers in the hair ribbons tinkering with the adding machines. Herbert Emmerich, a bald little man with rimless eyeglasses and a hurt expression, was defending himself when I dropped in. As war-time chief of the FPHA he said he was so busy building houses— including $25 million worth of trailers which may eventually be accounted for—that he didn’t have time to keep track of his bungling bookkeepers. “Why didn’t you fire some of 'em?” asked E. B. Van Horn, the committee counsel, “I never knew whether I could replace them,” Emmerich said. “Whole floors of accountants in
Babble of the Stars
HOLLYWQOD, Oct. 16—Exclusively Yours: Brian Donlevy’s stage appearance in Detroit—he’ll get $10,000 for 10 performances—will help pay the $20,000 he spent on those detectives. L. B. Mayer just gave Lorena Danker a 15-carat diamond
Linda Darnell will- continue with that blond (Forever Amber) hair in her new film, “The Walls of Jericho.” :
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Then I got the water glasses and the ice cubes and he drew the napkins and so on. Always -Something Missing JUST AS IN THE OLD DAYS there's always something missing at the last minute. A place lacked silverware, or water and milk glasses and “how did we miss putting a napkin there? eo. Since I was a post-graduate waiter, Richard thought I should have Mrs. Sweet's table and he'd take care of the other two. That was just dandy. There I was out of practice and drawing the head table. At least there wasn’t any soup on the menu. Dick gave the dinner gong a few melodious taps. The cook had the meat platters ready to go and was working on the potatoes and the spinach. I was busy getting the waiter’s plates ready. Food is a big item for students while they're in school. “You ready?” asked Richard. I Jooked down at the huge platter and sald, “Good luck. Let's go.” I felt as if every person in the room was looking at me, That's the impression a new waiter has at a sorority house. Imagination too. Every head I passed seem: tents of my platter on it. I could just feel that rug come ‘up an inch and then a reached for a quivering main course.
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better. The hands were steadier but still not to be trusted. . As we sat down to the typical waiter's helping (double of everything) and were congratulating ourselves that we hadn't forgotten anything, a table bell rang. Richard recognized the tinkle. My table.
Things That Were Forgotten!
SMALL ITEM. I forgot the salt and pepper
it, I had all that stuff ready. Too eager to get to the fruits of my labors, I guess. All quiet on the dining room front. We had just time enough to eat before it was time to clear the tables and serve the dessert and coffee. Those were anxious moments. Only three girls had to duck when I started to clear. That isn't bad, considering I was out of practice, ° Next, the most distasteful part about working in a kitchen—dirty dishes, We flipped to see who was to get “dishpan hands.” Richard lost the toss. I grabbed a dish towel with my lily white mitts. We set a deadline for getting the dishes done. Mrs. Sweet might be happy to know we only broke two cups trying to make the deadline, Where I come from that’s a good record for one evening. My old kitchen pal and I used to think nothing about having 10 or more “slips” a meal. After the dishes were put away we indulged again. Two pieces of cake apiece. Just something that was “left over.” Yes sir, those college days were all right. I don’t know why Richard is in such a hurry to get out of school. He'll learn,
By Robert C. Ruark
as he wishes, with a little luck and determination tossed in. Among other things, Godfrey is indestructible. He survived an automobile accident in which he collected 27 fractures in his midships section. He broke both knees, both hips, fractured his skull, and punched large holes in both his heart and lungs. Mr. Godfrey, with his customary obstinacy, refused to die, because he was just beginning to get rich and he wanted to see what it felt like. Mr. Godfrey today is a reserve lieutenant com-< ménder in the Navy. This pleases him, too, because he put in a lot of time as an enlisted man in both Navy and Coast Guard. I forgot to mention earlier that he once held one of the boxing championships of the Mediterranean fleet, in the 20s. Mr. Godfrey got his start in radio in 1920 while he was a chief radioman in the Coast Guard. He developed a splendid talent for holding a bibulous governor in front of a microphone, and in gratitude the governor got him sprung from the service so he could pursue the dollar in civvies,
Started With Birdseed Program
THE PURSUIT STARTED with the birdseed program, in which he was billed as “Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist,” and Arthur became an announcer. He felt it was a step down.” Godfrey is the inventor of the currently popular stunt of kidding sponsors. Arthur was driving sponsors nuts before Henry Morgan unswaddled himself. Arthur invented the business of early morning programs—and for my money is still all by himself in the field. He popularized the scriptiess show; the spontaneous question-answer stuff, I wish I had twice as much space to run on, because everytime I bump into the guy I find out new things about him. Such as the fact that the big tramp reads little but physics and tomes on meteorology, for fun. I suppose that’s what happens to people who make half a million clams a year,
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THEY'RE OFF—A horse-handler leaps swiftly aside as a
2050-pound load. This was the first time the contest had been held in Hoosierland and it attraé¢ted the largest field ever to enter such a contest. More than | 10 teams from states all over the nation competed during the daylight hours and under the lights at night. Drivers are allowed to urge their teams on with lusty shouts of direction but cannot
SIDELINE HAWKER—"Just call me Mrs." said this cowgirlarbed woman who was selling a liniment guaranteed to cure almost all ills from head to foot. "Get the large family size for one dollar. The smaller individual bottle is 50 cents," she hawked to curious bystanders
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947
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GO BOY, GO—Nearly a ton and a half of prize horseflesh strain i mightily at the bit during the recent world championship horse and :
loaded with stone that once characterized the event. In place was a pull. The truck is called a dynamometer. Fritz Frussman of Rushville
urges his team on as they drive to complete their first pull of 1550 pounds the required 27 and
CAPACITY CROWD—La Fontaine bulged at the seams to take _ care of the hundreds of. cars and thousands of people who jammed the
fans of powerful horses
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Trumans Ban Fancy Fetes; Capital Socialites Moan
State Dinners Cut Out to Save Food;
There'll Only Be Punch, Cake at Receptions
By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—The capital's winter social season
lon a glum tone today after a presidential announcement that the White
House will forego all state dinners to conserve food,
Hosts and hostesses with plans for customarily elaborate dinners cast wary eyes toward the residence of the President—who normally
Rehabilitation Plea Made by Feeney
A program of help and rehabilitation for the underprivileged children of the city was pledged by Al Feeney, Democratic candidate for Mayor, in a speech to a crowd of Democratic women in the Claypool Hotel last night.
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sets the social pace for the capital each fall and winter,
our building went off to war and it was very difficult others to follow his lead in calling| After one large party during the
off elaborate dinners which usually wilson administration, the disapuse up calories by the thousandipearance of more than 400 pieces
to get new ones.” That exasperated Van Horn. He said #t took no great mind to make a little mark when a dollar came in and another little mark in another column when a dollar went out. “Elementary high school stuff,” Van Horn shouted. “These simple little errors were made to the tune of millions of doltars and yet nothing was done except | conferences and more conferences.” Emmerich flushed. He jumped up, waved both hands and cried: “If it was a high school job, we had to take kindergarten people to do it. We couldn't get qualified people. We had to take youngsters, young girls, anybody, to try and get the job done.”
Calls for Details HE SAT down. He said he objected to Van Horn’s words—and Senator Herbert R. O’'Conor of Maryland called upon accountant D. F. Saxton for the horried details, Horrid, that is, to a certified public accountant. The tall, gray-haired Saxton said the books were chaotic. Most of the time he couldn't tell who'd paid
The big unanswered question was gold and silver forks, knives whether President Truman expects|spoons,
per place setting. of sliver was reported after
President has preached about saving food, have decided tp cut out{House social affairs reached a
{the elaborate dinners which once peak —or low — last winter when |some of the Historie gold service vanished with the dinner guests.
led off the social season here, Only Punch and Cakes
Instead, they will hold only five receptions which use up a few bowls
MRS. TRUMAN RETURNS
and candies. There were six dinners
last season, plus five receptions. Mo.
state dinners probably will be beneficial to the White House supply of
The Trumans, practicing what the |souvenir-loving guests departed. Souvenir - collecting at White
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UP)~— of fruit punch and assorted cakes| Mrs, Truman returned to the White
House today from Independence,
“The women and children of the city have suffered a great deal because of the breakdown of many functions of the city government,” he sald. : MY, Feeney proposed the assignment of more policemen to walking beats instead of riding in cruiser CATS. “Policemen walking beats would relieve the feeling of insecurity and fear now prevalent in many neighborhoods.” The Democratic candidate said he would sponsor projects to aid the underprivileged families of the city “for by helping them today we may prevent them becoming our problems of fomorrow.”
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It is impossible to estimate accurately how much food the Trumans will save by not having the usual
state dinners this season. The guest list at a formal White House dinner usually runs between 60 and 100 persons. Last year the Trumans served
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for what, or when. He held up a 100-page typewritten list of unpaid bills from the New York regional office; 40 items to the page, about $2,500,000 worth, It Included a $7500 gas bill and $150,000 worth of paychecks owed to clerks from 1943. “But they were paid?” asked Senator O’Conor, Probably, sald Saxton, but nobody’'d ever know it from looking at the books. “And there were 10 regional offices,” sighed the senator. “This was just one of 'em.” There'll be more later about the kindergarten. If you'll give me a sniff from that ammonia bottle, taxpayers, I'll try to keep us informed.
By Erskine Johnson
Edward Robinson asked Eddie Cantor to be technical adviser on his new film for U. I. “What's the name of the picture?” asked Cantor. “All My Sons,” replied Robinson, ducking.
Lassie’s Competitor
FRANKIE CARLE'S new novelty tune, still unpublished, “The High Cost of Living,” may be adopted by the Republican national convention as its theme
song. Columbia will beat the publicity drums for an
their @nner guésts a fruit appetizer | course, soup, a fish course, an entree |of meat or fowl, vegetables, a salad, dessert, nuts, three wines and liqueurs. But these first post-war dinner menus seemed pale in calories when compared with- some of the eating of former Presidents. A typical menu for a cabinet dinner during the Wilson administration included: Sherried Caviar in Ice Toast Green Turtle Soup Cheese Straws Hock Steamed, Stuffed Rock Bass Oyster-Crab Sauce Champagne Mousse of Wild Duck Mushroom Saute
Vanilla Ice Cream Maple Sauce with Nuts Hamburg Grapes Marrons, Bonbons They'll Save Silverware, Too The receptions, as against dinners, present an entirely different problem to the White House. The | list Yisually runs above 1000. Some- |
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Government, Farmers Get Blame for High Prices
Opinions Not All in Accord, However, * As to Solution of Food Problem
United Press Grainmen, politicians and government officials offered contrasting
explanations today for current high food prices and several groups
offered the Citizéns Food Committee more advice on how to improve the food conservation program. Grainmen testifying at Kansas City, Mo., before a congressional subcommittee blamed the government, the farmer, and world conditions for the high cost of wheat and corn. {hungry and then make sure that Fig Prank A. Theis, presiient of the the food actually will be given to E Kansas Oity Grain Co. said that|those needy.” A “farmers, who still own fully half| The association said that the 8 of the wheat produced, are show-| American people are not “con- E ing & marked reluctance to sell” |vinced that the food conserved will ot | Mr. Theis and other grainmen actually be received and consumed i {sald that record-breaking harvests by the really needy.” |this year put farmers into relatively| At San Francisco, the American "high income tax brackets. [Federation of Labor's national con- |" To sell this year would increase|vention considered a resolution |those taxes, but to hold the grain which would demand lower prices lun next year may result in o} Without aking for Juoning sd Siteentiad saving to .the HE manded by the CIO convention in yesterday. pee plan Cua Mayor William O'Dwyer of New , {York telegraphed Luckman last
lof the Farmer's Union Jobbing As- | night, requesting an immediate resociation, denied that speculation in} statement of food price cone
grain had caused the current price) upsurge. {trols and rationing. “To me $8 wheat seems no high- (AOA MECHANICS LAID OFF er than $30 cattle,” he said. “There } NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UP)—The is no futures market in livestock,| american Overseas Airlines laid off id but nevertheless as of Sept. 15,1500 employees, most of them mewheat was selling at 116 per cent | hanjcs, today as the strike of 178 of parity while cattle was selling at jiots for higher wages entered its 160 per cent of parity.” 1th day. g Attorney General Tom C. CIAIK, | pse————— ?
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sharp issue with that point of view. By BACH
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lators, saying that those who in|dulged in it endangered the lives of A AJ rosie as A PAIR OF ES FIXED yA HANDLE INTO
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“They take food from the mouths of starving babes, They en-| danger the lives of milliohs of people. They take a toll of death greater than that of German [slaughter,” Mr. Clark said. | Carroll Reece, Republican na{tional chairman, offered still another! = (explanation for the nation’s price| | problema. |
Reece Blames Truman In his monthly “News Letter,” Mr. Reece blamed high prices on the| Truman. administration's “stubborn | refusal” to mateh its foreign sid a program with compensating cuts in| {the cost of government at home. | He accused the administration of = “unbelievably bad management” In| purchasing foodstuffs for Europe. | Meanwhile, the National Association of Retail Grocers told Charles |Luckman, chairman of the food committee, that the food econservauon program will fail unless the govern: ment “learns . authoritatively r : requirements for feeding the really 1 Ovmiehe 1847 Bun snd Thom |
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