Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1947 — Page 9

fey

8 = 5

EEfiEs

50 » :§ ih

5 ection is use

M R "ROUND )TECTION inter storms, ummer sun. omplete DeCall

1.3377 rite for Free * Literature

IL VENT NG CORP.

ssstssennense

1sssssssscesen ll,

vessssersrm

ABA bie

ings

WATCHING ANN LYNCH decorate cakes beats pressing one’s nose against a bakery window any time, TH tell the ‘world. The best part about watching Miss Lynch in her “studio” on the second floor of the Roselyn Bakery No. 2, 1629 Prospect St. is that she doesn’t mind being watched. She can squeeze an intricate butter cream rose in about 15 seconds whether she's alone in the room or someone is looking over her shoulder; With my moutly. a little on the watery side (it gets that way in a kitchen or bakery) I started things’ off with, “Whatcha doin'?” Politely, Miss Lynch said she was just putting the last few leaves around a Thanksgiving cake and as soon as her white frosting was ready she’d finish the wedding cake. The wedding cake was practically under my nose. “That's a dummy,’ she remarked as I crooked a finger on the second layer. After we straightened out the dummy remark (Miss Lynch meant the cake was cardboard) we settled down. She, with her waxed paper decorating bags, and I just watching and drooling. A birthday cake with a holiday touch was next. I was informed that four ladies in the next room put the first coat or first frosting on all cakes. Then the ‘cakes come into Miss Lynch's hands for the final treatment.

IT'S A SQUEEZE—The finishing touches go on a holiday cake but for Ann Lynch there's more where that one came from.

Thank You

NEW YORK, Nov. 26—I haven't slain any Indians this week, or strangled any turkeys with my bare hands, but I know how the old boys felt when the last Thursday in November rolled around. This is the first fan letter I ever wrote to readers and I will probably be stammering like a new bridegroom, but I would like to write it anyhow. I am a very grateful boy, indeed, and I would like to thank all those folks I don't know. ‘The customers with Bice, Who buy newspapers, thereby keeping me in ood I expect-I've got about the best job in the world, which makes it easy to be {hankful—especially if you were 22 years old before you bought your second pair of shoes. I get to travel on the cuff and meet thugs and cops and congressmen and generals and movie stars and dogs and gangsters and crooners. In my job you can kid the trousers off things that, strike you as ridiculous. You can-stick pins in stuffed shirts and twist the tail sacred cows. Most people are nice to you, even if they don’t like you. ii's All Meat for the Column ANTHING THAT happens to you is meat. for the column, I can even be thankful for Gen. Meyers, because he is worth a couple of pieces. I am very fond of Lucky Luciano—he kept me in’ material for weeks. I've got a sori of private Thanksgiving every day, due largely a vast herd of people I don't know—whose response induces the papers that hire me to keep running the stuff I write. This is my love letter to those peeple. I'm sorry I don’t answer all the mail. T would dearly love to answer all the mail, except if I did, I would have no time for writing columns, and would soon cease getting any mail to answer. It wouldn't be too hard to phony up the thing

res revere

Soft Whoosh Turns vs Trick ‘WITH A SOFT WHOOSH Miss Lynch put a scroll effect around the top and bottom of the cake. Another bag of icing, a few well placed jiggles and squeezes and a turkey took form. “Happy Birthday, Betty” couldn't have been written faster if she were using paper and pencil Looked so easy I began to strain at the leash to try my. hand with a wad of icing.

very much like vaseline. - That's what I thought it was until she said it was neutral piping jelly. “VASELINE? Heavens, no. The jelly makes the message shine and stand out better.” Well, I can't know everything. Miss Lynch figures it takes two and a half minutes

to decorate one of those family-sized cakes. From:

the number in the racks waiting to be squirted on’ I|} could tell she can't afford to use any more time if she wants to go home at night. : The frosting for the roses on the wedding cake was right. With a small thing-a-ma-jig she calls a

pin wheel in her left hand and a Bag of icing in the |S

other, Miss Lynch proceeded to turn pastel yellow roses out on a production line basis. She transferred the completed roses from the pin wheel » the cake with a flat spatula. “May I try my hand with the last rose?” 1 “naked, “After all it’s a dummy cake anyway.” Ah, finally my turn. I knew what to do. A squirt in the center of the pin wheel for a base. A few

squirts on the up and down for the center and then Rt

the petals with that wavy, side motion, Samples Sample for Proof

AFTER 1 CLEANED the frosting off the work|$

table, my hands and a big blotch on the front of my coat and a smaller .one on my shoe, Miss Lynch filled another decorating bag and completed the

dummy cake. That young lady is certainly clever with cakes. “Do you ever . shall we say, sample any of this stuff?”

Miss Lynch shook fer head and said during the day she never touches any cake. It was a nice gesture on her part to go in the back and ‘offer me a piece of white cake. I was a fool for not bringing a quart of milk along. Colors and decorations change as the mood strikes Miss Lynch. And if a particular color doesn't happen to suit her she merely dips a spatula into a color jar and mixes a new shade. The standard red, pink, baby blue, pastél yellows and light greens she had pliee high on plates. To the question whethér she practiced at home| evenings Miss Lynch had an emphatic no. She claims she gets all the practice she needs at Whe bakery. “You can see for yourself this goes on and on nd ' she remarked after placing the umpteenth cake _ the rack. But that’s life. If it isn’t a bowl of cherries it's a bowl of icing. You just can’t win.

By Robert C. Ruark

and get a lot of printed cards saying thank you for the letter, but I think that any letter you don’t write yourself is worse than no letter. I know one editor who keeps three secretaries on the verge of nervous prostration, and he only has to worry about one city. I work for a lot of cities. I am very thankful for the time that people take to sit down and bare their hopes and fears in letters to me, because there is nobody alive who doesn’t get a kick out of response to his personal brainstorm.

Communist Dog-Kicking Tramps FRANKLY, I AM prone to discount the criticism, because there again nobody breathes who doesn’t think that what he says is right. I will not go so far as to call the critics a bunch of Communist, Fascist, mother-beating bums, but if, those Communist; Fascist, dog-kicking tramps think they can... oops. Sorry. ' What I purely love are those letters which say: “Buster, you are just putting words in my trap, and furthermerse vatatavatava ” because that way you know you are apt to keep eating if you can stir up even a small portion of the people. You would be surprised how many ideas a° wordplumber gets from his readers. If enough guys get| mad enough, or pleased enough, to sit down and track up a sheet of paper with thoughts, you can’t miss getting some free hunches out of the product.! I don’t print many letters verbatim, because I think that’s cheating on the firm. What I started out to do was unhook myself for | not being able to answer everybody, and just to say, | simply, thanks. Thank you, patrons. Publishers and readers alike, | I thank ye one and all. Even the 300 old ladies who | tried to pray me to death.

Money to Burn

WASHINGTON, Nov, 26—Come with me, brave friends, to never-never land, where the more money you've got the less you have. And vice-versa. And the only way to be prosperous is to get rid of the extra cash. Don’t'spend it. Set a match to it. 1 hope Marriner 8. Eccles, the good gray chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, won't be sore about this. But TI didn’t understand him any better than some of the puzzled congressmen on the joint economic committee. * The lawmakers called him in to learn what they could do about the inflation that’s plaguing us all Mr. Eccles hooked his tortoise shell glasses over his ears and said first we had to know what caused it. said—and I know I heard him right—that the more money the government borrows, the more money the taxpayers have to spend. This sends up prices. And if the government will pay back the money it borrowed from the banks, there will be less money for the rest of us. Thus lowering prices.

Makes Mr. Eccles Gloomy

KINDLY DO NOT ask me why. Address your inquiries to Chairman Eccles, who has made a study of these esoteric matters. The more he studies ‘em, the gloomier he gets. Something, says he, has got to be done before business goes bodm and we're selling apples to each other. Anybody who thinks differently, he adds, isn’t only blind, but also foolish. Mr. Eccles sat there in a big leather chair, at ease, spelling off for the senators and representatives all the unpleasant things he believes we should do to keep American dollars from turning into Jap yen. First off, he said, the revenuers have got to collect the biggest possible income taxes, so the people won't have so much money in their pockets. Then the government must use the taxes to pay off its debts, so there won't be so much money to go into

the pockets.

Altar-Bound?

OLLYWOOD, Nov, 26—Lew Ayres and Audrey T are reported altar-bound. I asked him about it. - He laughed, and would only say, “She hasn't asked me yet. ‘ Jerry Wald and Sylvia Fine have written an outline for a Broadway musical 40 star Danny Kaye. It's titled “Barnum Is Right” and has a college background.

Quinn Boomed for Congress ANTHONY QUINN'S neighbors in the 16th district are booming him as a congressional candidate.

Peggy - Cumming just had a nervous collapse in London.

"Lou Busch has almost completed a musical for

“his wife, Janet Blair. They hope to present it on

‘Bréadway.at the termination of Janet's contract with Oolumbis in seven Mouths.

By Frederick C. Othman A

The turkey took a neat pfft in the head and he ; nad an eye. ‘he comb took two pffts. Around the lettering Miss Lynch squeezed something that looked :

photographer outside of Indianap-

he Indianapolis’

SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1947

PRIZE WINNER—Richard Kuonen, of Darlington, Ind., won top laurels in The "OLD TIMER'—This hono Times Amateur PhoYo Contest with this indoor picture. He used a Vigilant Camera and Verichrome film. The shutter speed was 1/10 second at f. :16. One No. 2 photo

flood lamp and daylight from a window provided lighting.

634 N. Riley Ave. He used

BOY AT WORK—Terry O'Haver, 5258 English Ave., was caught by his photographer-father, 5. R. O'Haver, at his favorite pastime of taking things apart. The picture won honorable mention. The camera was a Kodak Medalist No. 2 and the film was Super XX. Exposure was 1/100 second at f. :18,

By ART WRIGHT For the second week in a row a Marion county.

mention, He used a 35 millimeter Argus _ was taken in early morning.

have been from Indianapolis and judging just completed. Richard,

{olir won top laurels in The Times most prominent models for contagt; sulstnitted photos that could have|bring or mail the photos to: Ama-|

And finally—weep with me, all ye who don't un-|Amateur Photo Contest.

derstand money with extra zeros on it—Mr. Eccles| said: ONE: We've all got to work harder and longer produce more stuff. TWO: We must be prohibited from hitting the] boss for a raise in pay.

Richard Kuonen, of to| Ind. A Martinsville picture-snapper | taken indoors. won the 15th week's first prize. A| Greencastle entrant was the fourth|and 14th weeks came through withlof the week earns $5 for the pho-

been top winners in other weeks. |[teur Photo Contest, The contest, which is constantly Times, 214 W. Maryland St. attracting more entrants, will be] May Submit Several Pictures continued as long as suitable en-| An, individual may submit tries are received. The best picture number of prints in any week and|

pictures. Mr. Kuonen's entry was The latest winner—the 16th—is|of a curly, golden-haired youngster Darlington, | |asleep in a chair. The picture was

First place winners of the 13th

week’s winner and all the others honorable mention entries in the] tographer. Prints may be of any size but

“Picture Of Sleeping Youngster Prize For Darlington Entry

rable mention picture was

submitted by the winner-of another week, John G. Hale,

a Ziess Mirroflex camera,

Super Pan Press film and yelow fiter,

i

OUTDOOR SPECIALIST—Richard Shufflebarger, of R. R. 4,

Martinsville, won again with an outdoor scene—~this time, honorable

camera and-Plus X film.

Shutter speed was 1/50 second and.the diaphragm opening, f. 9. It

The contest is open only to ama- must be in black and white to pro. Shufflebarger of Martinsville and|teurs. There is nothing to buy and|vide for the best possible repro« Youngsters continued to be the{John G, Hale, 634 N. Riley Ave, [nothing to do to enter, except tolduction.

On the back of-each picture must

Indianapolis) be written the photographer's name, |address, {camera and film used, shutter speed, any diaphragm opening, type lighting.

telephone number,* type

All entries become the property

may enter any number of weeks. of the Indianapolis Times and the they !decision of the judges is final

THREE: The Agriculture Department should Guit| slipping billions to farmers to hold up the price of food. FOUR: The Treasury must high-pressure us into | buying more savings bonds. FIVE: Bank credits must be restricted and the | government has got to quit guaranteeing mortgages | on houses that sell for twice what they ought to. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the chairman, wasn't| so eure that banks were loaning too much money. | Sen. Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, wondered dbout| getting tough with housing loans.

Not Living With In-Laws MR. ECCLES SAID easy money for ‘high-priced houses was about the worst piece of inflation we have. He said the government must take responsibility for a large part of this lending spree. Too many people, he added, are buying too many houses with nothing °° down and $80 a month for the next 30 years. i “You're evidently not living with yqur mother- -in-| law," remarked Sen, Flanders.. “No,” snapped Mr. Eccles. gets slapped with a foreclosure may have to go back to living with her.” He said we might as well not Rid ourselves. We, can't have full employment and low prices, too. Not| unless the government regulates everything. Sen. Flanders said that sounded discouraging. Mr. | Eccles said it wasn't as discouraging as the prospect of letting the boom run its course. And if I thought it would help, I'd light my cigar with a dollar bili if I had (1) a cigar and (2) a dollar.

“And the fellow who,

|

By Erskine Johnson

Donald O'Connor heads for Europe as soon as he! completes, “Are You With It?” [.

That hilarious woodpecker laugh on the Jack | Dliase

Benny show is rapidly beconting a new national laugh. Teen-agers all over the country are imitating/ it. Gig Young just puchased a drive-in restaurant in Burbank.

Errol Flynn's Book Is Out EX-GOLDWYN girl shirley Ballard and Michael North are an item. Errol Flynn's first book, “Beam Ends” book stalls as a 25-cent paper-backed edition,

When better detectives appear, they'll be found been accused of it many time. He|

working for the Hollywood postoffice. A letter adSrensed 1 Capt. Ragnar G. Lind, Hollywood, was deiiveied to Jeffrey Lynn. That's hia Toul name, which used during the war.

{phrases these days but Lexicographer Clarence L. Barnhart, 47, has|

| example, take ‘iron curtain’ We

| associate intimately with the citi-|

Pin-Up, Snafu, Ya-Ta-Ta Fe. 5, 70m, Break Into New Dictionary | |(UP)—A resolution was before the

|city council today that would proBy ROBERT RICHARDS, United Press Staff Correspondent hibit barbers from charging more |

'Doughnut-Dunking Machine Hobby Outlet for Comedian

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (UP)—Albhert O. Bassuk is never surprised

NEW YORK, Nov. 26—The ‘world is filled with new words and! ih... 25 cents for cutting the hair | "hen a woman friend mails him a chicken bone instead of her business

rd,

|of a bald-headed man, “After all,

| made a valiant effort to keep up with them. Random House, Inc., is publishing a new dictionary edited by Mr. | Barnhart which tells us, for instance, that a “pin-up” is American slang Councilman R. J. for the photograph of an attractive girl hung on the wall “usually by who is bald

sonally unknown admirers.” ry — . "Mr. Bambart, a Carnival—By Dick Turner

Wilkinson Jr.Mr today he was busily at work at the | National Hobby Show in Madison

Mr. Barnhart, a six-foot 210- e

it's her hobby,” he explained The resolution was introduced by | why should it bother me? She saves the ‘wish’ bones, dries them out, ~|and inscribes her name across the surface.” Bassuk is editor of the magazine

“It keeps her happy se

“Fun With, “Hobbies”

ven Nas a tiny motor concealed

and

pounder, started spade work in his | square Garden deep within It. search for the 132,000 words most | “Don't ‘get the idea that odd -1 doesn't do anything and commonly used by the public back hobbies belong only to people you've 06s0°t mean anything, Bassuk 1943. never heard about,” Mr, Bassuk said "Because of this, Burgess calls na sometimes had difficulty | addled. it the ‘talking woman. in. deciding the correct origin of a “Por example, Comedian Joe Another hobbyist, is Fanny Hurst,

Cook owns an elaborate device 1or| | dunking doughnuts. It has springs,

word or phrase,” he admitted. “For |

define it as a ‘state or rigid censorship and secrecy’ and credit it to Winston Churchill. There are many people, however, who claim the | phrase was coined by Nazi proga-| gandist Paul Joseph Goebbels and

bewildered steam shovel. He gets a | kick out of sitting down at the! breakfast table and watching the machine as it bounces up and down.”

wheels, and looks something like A | ess

the novelist, who collects calla lilly | designs.

“WORD-A-DAY

By BACH |

later lifted by Mr. Churchill.” The 1472-page volume contains approximately 5000 new words. Among them is the term “fraternize” which he politely lists as “to}

{Buck collects pojson arrows while [Crooner Bing Crosby goes ancient golf balls, | “There are two types of hobbyists,” Mr, Bassuk said. “You got }{| collectors and you got craftsmen. (| But the two are never mixed. A) collector may go from one type of | | collecting to another, but he’ll al- |

“|| Prank (Bring 'Em Back Alive) | : for

|

zens of a conquered country.” | * The discreét lexicographer listed | also the U. 8. Army's dearly beloved | ‘spafu.” He says it is based on the

ADMONISH

( ad-mon’ ish) vers TO REPROVE GENTLY; WARN, ESPECIALLY OF AN ANTICIPATED FAULT; (INSTRUCT: CAUTION \ DAD, MEET MY

apn

#

. 4 ’ “situation normal, all fouled | most never build anything. And the ] HUSBAND - AND up” and as an adjective means con- |atme Sots I We buliders, they, DON'T LAUGH! ditions MY “in disorder, or out of Mr. Bassuk believes “The builders %) \ r= control. aré usually of a creative tempera. 7 v ! The dictionary also includes such! h | ment. - G PH. as foxhole, buzzbomb, de- | | “Its especially good for a frus-| ( Se WE | nasty, genocide, hubba-hubba, and y | trated guy,” he said, “If he wanted ||| hedge ’ ya-ta-ta. | to write a book and failed, or tried “Many people tell me they have ay { painting a picture but nobody liked | 3 never heard of ‘Ya-ta-ta,’” said Mr. | > | it, then he turned to building houses is in the|Barnhart, “and this surprises me.| J } Sa | with matches or putting sailing It means ‘empty conversation’ I've| { (| — ‘ | boats into glass jars—first thing you — A : SJ | know, he’s happy. ” identifies a “sad- sack” as “an in- : 24 a Mr, Bassuk is exhibiting a maeffective person who always blun- rn, ETHY NOS AL chine built by Gelett Burgess which ders,” and “huckster” as U, 8. slang| "Now then or the eit: impogh ant part of this holiday lectures | consists of a hodge-podge “of tooth-|} for an advertifing man, , - the remova)/éf the white meat!" » picks, buttons, sticks, pistons. w Jo Band

A

S * 2 ak hi