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“THIS IS WHAT we call a press in weight lifting." . A loud grunt resounded around thé gym of the Indianapolis Bar Bell Club, 143 E-Ohio St. Bob Higgins, world's champion featherweight weight lifter, was démonstrating the technique which won him’ his title In Philadelphia last September. . Unfortunately I wasn't watching the little fellow— 132 pounds, 5 Teet 3 inches.tall. My eyes were glued to the pictures of superb musclemen on the covers of the Strength & Health magazines which lined the walls, » Muscles, muscles and more muscles, What man, whose dimensions come with his suit, hasn't thrilled to the thought of having the real McCoy? “How did those guys get so many muscles?” I asked Bob. > * “I'm trying to show you," Bob answered setting his bar bell to the platform. “They got those bodies by weight lifting and hard work.” That did it. “How much iron do you have on that thing?" e

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BOB SAID HE HAD 220 pounds. toward 289 and possibly 300 pounds.

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champion in his class he stands a very good chance of making the Olympic team. “Step aside little man.” They laughed when I stooped to pick up the bar bell—how was I to kngw it was bolted to the floor? “That's the trouble with you guys,” Bob said. “No patience. When you get the idea you want muscles,

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enough bar bell to hang himself. | «If ¥ were you I'd take that 15-pound bar bell and work up gradually,” Bob suggested,

“It's not the a4 amount of ‘weight that you can. lift ‘but it's how you lift it. ‘That's what builds you up." , Wi Four racks of bar bells lined the wall. I:rushed|

over and grabbed the ones marked 125. They would | not come loose. The 100 wouldn't come loose. Imagine| how I felt when I finally lifted the 65-pound bar bell off the rack. 3 “Let's get to work,” I said. lifts again?” J “Clean and press, snatch and clean and jerk.” Bob demonstrated with his 220-pound jumbo. It wasn't welded to the floor like I thought.” The clean! and press goes from the floor to the chest and a grunt takes it above the head. The snatch is a bit more complicated. You're | supposed to lift it over the head and then sneak under it before the bar bell comes down, The legs, are supposed to do the rest. That is, straighten the| body and lift the weight higher. The clean and jerk is a slight variation of the press| and snatch. The weight is yanked to the chest and then hunched from the chest above the head. I did all three lifts, My muscles rippled. Bob said it was nothing but a nervous reaction. “It would take you a month of *work before your| dimensions would change,” he said. “By month I| mean three, one-hour workouts a week.” : “How long did it take you to develop all the stuff] you're carrying?”

A Slow Upward Task

“I STARTED IN 1941. Look, fella, can't you get it through your noggin that you have to ‘work at this| stuff before you can reap any benefits?” The rack of dumbells caught my eye. The weight of iron” is deceiving. A bright red dumbell the size of a loaf of bread wouldn't budge from the rack. It weighed 100 pounds. | Every Mr. America on the magazine cover seemed | to be smirking at me. Dumbells. Muscles. Health. ' “Say, I've got an exercise you might like,” Bob | said. “It's.called shower.” “Now you're talking my language. the soap weigh?”

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| Confusion Increasing By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 12—Things have been a touch more confused, lately; illusions a mite more easily shattered; suspicion a little more fertile, with hope not quite balancing the strife, This is the finding of the monthly Ruark report on the state of the Union—a dispassionate poll if there ever was one. In Oklahoma City, a young mother confessed that

she killed her pickup lover when her husband stood her up on a prearranged holdup date because he couldn't find a sitter for their 8-months-old daughter. There you have it; too much complication, In the old days, the tryst would have been kept, the sucker fleeced, and the happy couple would have been able to buy. a new dolly for daughter with the loot. The appalling shortage of baby-sitters may yet uproot the nation. Things are not looking any brighter in the battle between the sexes: A hotel in New Jersey advertises that spending a few days with them is cheaper than getting a divorce. I am unclear as to just what is intended here,.but it sounds baleful. The old concepts are tottering, one by one: The Army Medical Corps has just announced that nose-blowing is bad for colds. “Forceful inhalation” or sniffing, is just the ticket. I am willing to offer odds, however, that forceful inhalation will never replace Kleenex in the affection of our people.

Returns Mail Order House

YOU CAN'T TRUST anybody anymore. Out in Idaho some petty larcenist made off with a 20-ton bridge in the dead of night, while the good folk snored in their cots. In Oregon a former GI bought a mail order house for $6000, but when it arrived ‘he didn't like it. He is sending it back, presumably under a oplain wrapper. In the Lansing, Kas. jail, James S. Payne, inmate, complained of a misery in the stomach. When they operated, the surgeon came up with 401 nails of assorted sizes, two safety razors without blades, five metal washers, a three-inch screw, two stove bolts two inches long, a two-inch nut, a large brass washer, 11 thumb tacks, a quarter-inch screw, and 60 paper clips and safety pins. As the prisoner recovered, the warden said he gave no reason for his bizarre taste in nutriment. The solution is

ridiculously simple © Obviously the man was, trying to comply with the food-saving program. | Science is marching right along, I am pleased to! announce. The Department of Agriculture is. be-| ginning a campaign to remove the sticky quotient from peanut butter. A slick peanut butter, which| The boy and girl are neighbors of Mr.

refuses to adhere to the teeth, is just what we need The camera used was a Ix 12 em. Zeiss Mirrorflex. Exposure was

to win the peace. ; L It's not the trouble you see coming that you worry | and f. :32 with a red filter.

about. It's the stuff you back into. Western Union| is «being sued by a lady on grounds that the com-| pany’'s delay in delivering a message cost her $209.73. The message contained a tip on a horse which won,| paying $5.80. The lady is suing for her profit on| a $10 bet, $19 for tout’s commission, and 73 cents! for the cost of the telegram.

HONORABLE MENTION-—Halloween party win ners Tommy Darrell and Barbara Ann Falconbury, 394 S. Olney St., ate the models for this honorable mentio entry by John L. Coomler, 5943 Rawls Ave. The cdmer was a Kodak Medalist,

PRIZE WINNER — "Friends" is the title of this week's prize-winning picture in The Times Amateur Photo Contest submitted by John G. Hale, a local mailman. Hale, Sara Eickhoff and Jackie Beidelman. | /50th second

Brightens Dog's Life

AS WE DASH MERRILY off to unravel the ; troubles of the world, we are not forgetting our | dumb friends, the dog. After 20 years of studying dog psychology, a dog food manufacturer has come | out with a five-course meal which will nuture the | stomach and gratify Towser's soul. | Each course is a different color, to keep the dog | from being bored. The meal comes in black, Yellow |

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green, brown and beige biscuits, The inventor says it . is disheartening for a high-spirited pooch to! romp in, full of vinegar, only to sit down to a! dark-gray repast. The Supreme Court has begged the question about whether nudists are covered by the Constitu- | tion, as well as film actors and other odd fauna. A' woman's school for politics has opened in New York:| A cow refused to give coffee flavored juice, after al steady diet of java-beans and sugar lumps. { A new set of pilgrims, seeking their fortune in! a fresh land of opportunity, have just landed on our shores. They came from: England, just as our| ancestors did, but’ with one slight concession to the! modern age. These Standishes and Aldens char-| tered a Clipper from Pan American. | Hopes for a successful United Nations appeared| dimmer after election day in New York, when some| delegates charged that closing the United Nations bar was an infringement on their international immunity from. everything. They say drinking is necessary to peace in our time.

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BEST OUTDOOR PHOTO — This Adebe village won laurels fo Luther C. Boatman, 3308 Graceland Ave. It was taken with ai Agroflex using Plenachrome film. Exposure was |/100 second at fH A K-2 yellow filter also was used.

A MAILMAN 21 YEARS, Mr. Hale | Indianapolis

RUNNERUP — One of - the-best-of-the-week .was this entry by Robert Johnson, 254 Routiers Ave. The camera was an lkoflex Il. Film was Super XX. Shutter speed was 1/10 second at f, 3.5. Two No. 2 photofléod lamps” provided the lighting. The only restriction for entry is; The deadline for each week

By ART WRIGHT photo was taken in 1941 and the that the picture-snapper must not Friday midnight. Photos may

models were Sarah transferred to

Jickhoff, now was ; : , Bc } 3 ! : eo at T |receive his chief source of income brought to The Times or po a seventh grader at School 62, and from the postal service a ampa, | photographic work. Ahy size marked by that time. Jackie Beidelman, a sophomore at Fla. 20 years ago. He always has picture is acceptable but all prinis|. On the back of each pict

John G. Hale, 60-year-old mailman from the E. Michigan St. station, is the 14th week's winner in

By Frederick C . Othman

Out of This World

Cathedral High School {had “a passion” for photography. must be in black and white, {should be writtén the pho

. S— The Times Amateur Photo con- - The mailman-pnotographer ‘has{ Mr. Hale says he used the. first| on» {rapher's name, address, .telepho WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—A couple of in-_ gnitched from the press tables test. won many laurels for his amateur money he ever earned—while 2!" THE BEST’ PICTURE of the number, type of camera and j § s, squatted i : { i tense little gents, looking ilke men from Mars With gjlence 18 bright A men a A Teapot Mr. Hale, who lives at 634 N. Photographic work and has been a grade school student—to purchase week éarns $5 for the photographer. used, shutter speed, diaphrag

oversized ‘earphones, microphones attached to their chins and spyglasses with lenses sticking out two feet, focused their television widgets on America's elder statesmen.

These machines resembled overgrown movie cameras; they whirred gently and blinked small red lamps like warning signals. In the back of the great caucus room, where the blue-white spotlights of 1947 were hidden in the 1896 chandeliers of French crystal, sat a local high school class getting a free lesson in applied electronics and world ‘economics. The scene somehow was appropriate; electric eyes and youngsters watching ‘the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ponder the chances of building a peaceful and prosperous new world with dollars for mortar. The committeemen, Sens. Vandenberg, Capper, White, Connally, George, Thomias, Barkley, et al, were gray of hair and lined of face. Only exception was Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Mass., the baby of the group. He sat the the foot of the table.

Try to Ignore Trappings ; THE VETERAN LAWGIVERS, trying to ignore the electrical trappings which seared their eyeballs, called for questioning Secretary of State George C. Marshall and his chief assistant, Robert A. Lovett, on how much money we should spend this fiscal year abroad. Mr. Marshall strode in between two cops, revealed a freshly-shorn head when he doffed his rain-

spattered hat, and sat directly in front of his inAt his. left was the completely bald Mr. Lovett, looking like the diplomat of fable in a dark suit, blue shirt and hard-boiled white collar. There

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consistent entrant in The Times his first camera. {In addition to the winner, several opening, type lighting. . : : , st. i 5 18 his st t ontes i , , ) ) tos b-| All entries become the proper ! these v un : " : contest. While this is his first top| The contest will continue weekly honorable mention photos are pub-| young ‘uns puffed brier pipes, as the ambassa- for a picture of two neighborhood winner in The Times contest, Mr.'as long as suitable entries are re-|lished in The Times each Wednes- of The Indianapolis Times and.t

i fe a men’s fashion magazines. They didn’t! .p.;14ren sitting on a haystack. ‘The Hale has won honorable mention, [ceived. day. /decision of the judges is final.

Chairman Arthur Vandenberg, white-thatched, . * ; s was announced officially today. | " 9 pink-cheeked and jaunty in a blue bow tie, turned Siamese King Advised King Phumiphon, a minor fuling | Knickerbocker Duranty the glisten of his spectatcles upon Messrs, Marshall In Advance of Coup under a two-man regency, is at-| ' and Lovett. He said the question wasn't the billions! BANGKOK. Siani, Nov. 12 (UP)— tending school in Switzerland and | they wanted spent in Europe over the next 10 years, 'King Phumiphon Aduldet was in- will not reach his majority until] but how much cash did they expect from Congress formed two months in advance of his 20th birthday Dec. 5. | between now and next July? |the anticipated military coup d'etat Col. Luang Kas BSougkhram, a : lysts H. R. Knick- Forum: | Baltimore *ship-breaking plant co Answer at Fingertips which overthrew the Siamese gov- government spokesman, sald the| Top forelgh ale ® Durably will] “I suppose my friend Mr. Duranty tinued as workers at eight oth WELL SIR, said sr. Marshall, that was a hard STnment last Sunday and set up a King was informed of the intended erbocker and Walter

| has been filling you with all sorts| company shipyards returned to wo ‘e > ay ; { fI tonight ina debate on ! one to answer, He counted off on his fingers: $597 reform government in its place, it'revolt by a secret code message, jiiuare 0 Ain Policy Leading tolof noxious poison. An old friend of {under a new master contract. million for Europe, $500 million for the army in| his, Alexander Woolcott, once sald | The formal termination of tl

. . an . Peace or War? Germany and Japan, $60 million—maybe—for china, Carnival By Dick Turner In a two-pronged interview today to him: |20-week walkout by 30,000 en and a few millions here and a few there. Uh : lie _was apparent that the corre- “‘Duranty’s the only man I know ployees was announced yesterda “Anything for Latin America?” demanded Mr. | , II be the who can sdy one thing, write an< Only the Baltimore plant dispu ; spondents believe peace will be : Vandenberg. ea other and think a third. remained unsettled. ;

outcome. “No necessity for that,” replied Mr. Marshall. Mr. Knickerbocker looks upon

. {| Mr. Knickerbocker and Mr Du- ET PR All this time Mr. Vandenberg was scribbling down lranty are old friends, having de-| Russia as a definite menace to ASKS GRAIN BAN EXTENSION

ment, each with an overstuffed brief case. Many of Riley Ave. received the top. prize

Bethlehem Ship Plant . . . Still Strikebound ’ | , Nov. (UP)—N Differ Basically on Russia FE Et

By VICTOR PETERSON’ ‘opening sesison of the Kirshhaum [strike at the Bethlehem Steel Co

the figures, using a trick plastic pencil the‘ Seriate| {bated with each other numerous peace unless America remains A WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP)stationery store sells thé employees for 15 cents. {times over the years. strong and alert. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O.), urge The whole works added up, he said, to $1,300,000, { | Interviews, however, are con- “If we are willing to match arms today that brewers and distille; “Oh no, sir,” protested Mr. Lovett. | | ducted separately, for as Mr. Du- for arms with any Russian threat, in all “Marshall Plan’ nations” 1 “More than that,” agreed Mr. Marshall ranty said’. they will®back down, They do not restricted in their use of grain

The gentleman from Michigan smiled. He apol- s ‘have the strength for war now.” [ih the United States

ogized. Like many another man without an adding machine he'd gotten tangled in the naughts. One of the millions on his scratch pad should have been a billion, ) “Something better than $2,500,000,000," said Mr. Lovett, “is about right.” So be it. Mr. Marshall left in a few minutes; Mr.

“All we do is get into argument, | This is no act. We've been arguing about Russia for 20 years.” Duranty Sees Trouble | "Technically, Mr, Duranty will The also believes

{argue the American foreign policy that recent |is leading toward an atomic WAL l..,.,tiona]l eruptions” by Soviet

i, | However, he feels that war by Rus- | moials both here and in Russial HYPEROPIA i

Sees Threat Mr. Knickerbocker, however, does see a definite threat of a Commu-| nist coup in Italy, if Moscow dares give the OK sign.

~ WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

Lovett answered questions on the details. The high| sia upon this country is an impos-| . . —_—) Ae =p was one other odd thing about the scenery: school class looked hopeful and the men from Mars| bility at the present time and that err: a e asylestatians o tha. ( h i ! per-o/pi- a. )Jvoun - Behind the head men, on ice cream parjor chairs fiddled earnestly with their dials. | there is no danger of such actionl/ "1 othe United States. A CONDITION OF THE EYE IN 04 | for at least 25 years. Both Mr. Knickerbocker and Mr. | WHICH VISION FOR DISTANT A

Feud for Thought

OBUECTS 1S BETTER THAN FOR NEAR OBJECTS SO THAT THE INDIVIDUAL 18 SAID TO BE FARSIGHTED

| He bases his belief on the fact Duranty said that the latest story {that Russia has been too weakened on atomic bomb tests by Russia in |by the recent war which cost that Siberia was “too pat even to be a ination seven to eight million mill {ood fake.” There were entirely

By Erskine Johnson |

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HOLLYWOOD, Noy. 12—Ann Miller and Marie MacDonald are Hollywood's latest feudists. It started when Marie cut in on Ann's dates with Harry Karl and then' married him. Ann's new heart is Louis B. Mayer's nephew, Gerald Mayer, James Craig and Joan Leslie wound up their love scenes in “Northwest Stampede” ready to cut each other's throats. Too much attempted scene-stealing.

To Those Valiant Door Knockers RED SKELTON’S “The Fuller Brush Man” will carry this dedication: “To those valiant individuals with the flashing smiles and the flat feet—The Fuller Brush Men.” 3 Margaret Lindsay is having X-rays on her head. { She was thrown from a horse at Victqfville.

[tary dead, 22 million civillan dead |y niany specific facts to lend the

Prediction: Betly Garrett will be the screen's next big sensation in “The Big City.” Her husband was last year's sensation. His name is Larry Parks.

‘Diamond Lil’ Outmoded |

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MAY WEST opened in “Diamond Lil” in Man-|

chester, England, with critics agreeing that the pro-

duction was “outmoded.” . “A Connecticut Yankee” is Bing Crosby's 30th picture. Hit songs of 10 and 20 years ago are having a revival in new films. Headed back via films are “Sweet Sue,” “You Were Meant for Me,” “Good News,” “My Wild Irish Rose,” “It Had to Be You,” “Body and Soul” and “Dancingein the Dark.”

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land a country one-third devastated. | 4, the air of authenticity, they |® | Until recently Mr. Duranty felt | gaid, {that our foreign policy lacked a

positive attitude and he expressed ill ae] by Train After

the hope that the Marshall Plan|_ =~ | for Burope has not arrived too late. Visit to Funeral Home | However, as devastated Europe RUSHVILLE, Ind. Nov. 12 (UP) {slowly patches the wounds of the Mrs, Sarah Borders, Rushville, | war, he feels that communistic in- was killed yesterday when she fluences will gradually recede. walked into the path of a freight “The Red tide has pretty well run train. % {itself out in Burope today.” | “WJust before she was killed, Mrs. | In the following interview with Borders, who was 83, stopped at a |Mr. Knickerbocker, he said jokingly| funeral home to pay her last re-, of ‘his opponent for.onight in the spects to a friend who died Mapday.

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