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T0 ALL GENTLEMEN it may concern: The Jadies and their “new look” have been paid off fh full: : i You know what it felt like the first time your (air lady stepped out with you dressed in the Jatest fashion. And as you paid her the courtesies
n that are required in public, remember how un-
comfortable you felt, how hot your collar got and it seemed as if the “eyes of T! " and parts east were
pas been paid in full. If I were a ham I would ask you to sing my praises. Buf, no. I'm not a pam and -desire for acclaim from my fellow
sufferers stirs me not. The experiment proved a
point, my derby and new-look clothes are again in moth balls and leave us gloat silently. After all, ‘the ladies are dressing the way they do for us, you know.
Now-—Down to Cases
NOW, let us get ‘down to casés. I've argued, ever since my first encounter with the 12-inch hemline, that a guy gets uncomfortable in public with the “new look” at. his heels. People have a tendency to stare. Women, who don't have it, stare; women, who have it, compare; men, who are holding the “new look” by the arm sympathize and those, who are unencumbered, are thankful. That's my argument. - Until this style
THE FIRST LOOK—Model Dorothy Pearson greets "Mr. Inside” at her home. This was her first encounter with the male version of the "new look."
Political David ~~
RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 16—A young fellow named Mayne Albright is conducting a political fight down here which I find fascinating. With no formal backing, Mr. Albright hhs brashly taken on one of the most toughtest machines in the nation, and he says he figures he can lick it. This young David has rushed out to meet Goliath armed with nothing but confidence, a wife and a trailer. He wants to be governor of North Carolina, and he wants it bad. Ever since he was president of the student body of the University of North Carolina in 1931, Mayne Albright has planned on being governor. Some key to his character could have been found as far back as 1933, when his thesis for an M. A. degree was titled . "The Development of the Powers and Duties of the Government of North Carolipg.... . .. . Mr. Albright, a Raleigh lawyer, cashed a war bond last August and bought a trailer. In that trailer he has canvassed, already 66 out of North Carolina's 100 counties. Working the whistle stops “first and hitting the big towns last, using the old personal technique that Bob Reynolds emPloyed to lick Cam Morrison for the U. 8. Senate, Mr. Albright has talked to every man, woman, child and cow in those counties. Before the primaries in May, he will have driven 30,000 miles, talked to 250,000 people, and have made a minimum of 250 speeches. Mr. Albright and his new wife live off the country as they go, picking up a ham here, a mess of. fish if they're “canvassing the coast=or, as Mayne says, trading a two-bit speech for a dollar dinner in some citizen's club. Mr. Albright stops at filling stations, small general merchandise: storez and farm houses, selling his governmental gospel to anybody who will listen. ;
Mrs. Albright Shows the Trailer
RESIDENTS ofthe deeper rural sections hive found the trailer fascinating. Mrs. Albright, a recent_hride, spends her. working. day. showing. .the constituents through her home. Her husband says the trailer, all by itself, is ‘a sure-fire method of attracting sufficient crowds for the infliction of a Speech,
Pretty Fingers _
in Fast Moline, Ill, weren't so worried about preserving their manicures, that tractor I've wanted so long probably would be standing in front of my barn today. This tale of the dainty machinery makers, who didn't want to soil their little pinkies on dirty old steel, comes straight from John L. McCaffrey, the boss, The king-size Mr, McCaffrey is president of the International Harvester Co., whose firm would be the biggest producer of plows and cotton pickers In the world, if only the help wasn't so fastidious about its fingernails. Not all the help, you understand. . . Thousands of men who are members of 23 different unions whistle while they work for Mr. McCaffrey, he told the House Agriculture Committee. They turn out hay balers and over‘Ized motor trucks with a will and a vim, But over at East Moline he has this works geared to turn out 40,000 machines a year, mostly combines, which are big widgets using a lot of metal, This is hard to find. Mr. McCaffrey has agents all over, scrabbling for any old kind of tee] that can be stamped into. farm machinery. These fellows — he calls 'em expediters -— thanked their lucky stars a month ago when they came by a load of sheet steel, which they digpatched to East Moline.
It Wasn't, Either, Too Greasy
THERE a foreman and five of his helpers took one look at this metal, sniffed, and said it was too , greasy. ‘They refused to touch it. Mr. McCaffrey said it was not, either, too greasy. He pointed out that sheet steel is greased by. the manufacturers to make it easy to handle, so the workers can slide it around. And if there was
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How do’ neon. s! get their different colors? Neon’ is colo but it gives a reddish glow When an electric current is passed through it in a near vacuum. A few drops of mercury inserted in the tube of neon, produces m brilllant blue light, Which, in a yellow-tinted tube, appears green. > * < :
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becomes as common as continue to be my What's to be done? Only one answer. Wear | the “new look” yourself and see how la femme likes it. Tt:took some research to find what the comparable male style would have to be. I had to 80 back to 1908 A. D. to get it. | Jean Goulette, Jean's Fashion Service, said she had a model that would do justice with the
‘hemline. Symphony concert? Excellent. I was
referred to Dorothy Pearson. { “This Miss Pearson will have to stay for the whole concert and she will have to be my companion for the entire evening or the deal is off.” I specified. : Miss Goulétte said she would tell Miss Pearson to follow instructions within reason. I gave my
‘word, as a gentleman, the evening would be within
reason. Both ladies knew nothing about the “new look” I would be wearing. - It consisted of a derby, black and white checked, tighter-than-a-drum suit. ascot with a huge stickpin and a black topcoat cut In the best 1900 fashion. Oh, yes, the trousers were of the high-water variety,
You're Not Serious, Are You?
MISS PEARSON was ready at the specified hour, Just'as the contract called for. What was uncalled for in the contract, was the scream she let out when her pretty peepers got a load of my outfit. (Men, how many times have you screamed at the “new look.” See, what I mean.) “You're not serious about going to symphony at the Murat in THAT, are you?" ‘Yes, ma'am,” I said. “This is the ‘new look.’ ”
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Miss Pearson, dressed to the hilt in a velvet |
dress, taffeta petticoat showing in the latest style,, a green cummerbund around her waist, a sparkling pin holding the, velvet hemline in front to show more of the vivid petticoat and a fur coat wrapped around for the “cocoon” effect, fumed. But a job was a job—-shall we go? Under the’marquee at the Murat Miss Pearson vainly tried to look as if she were with anyone but this crusader. I held her arm as any gentle man would do. While I picked up my tickets at the box office, she became very friendly with a radiator. Patrons of the symphony and Yehudi Menuhin gawked unmercifully. Even I felt a bit uncomfortable. While Fred Kortepeter took our tickets, my lady of the evening was gasping for breath. We proceeded to our box. “Can't we sit in the back?” Miss Pearson asked. No. ma'am. Few, "mighty few words, passed between us. When the house lights dimmed and Fabien Sevitzky turned his back to the audience, Miss Pearson relaxed. At intermission time, I was ready for a cigaret. Miss Pearson was not. We sat on our respective “new looks.” The ‘stage cleared of musicians, the theater cleared of patrons before we cleared out. That was my first inkling that Miss Pearson had a “sick headache.” The evening was over. And that is what happens when the “new look” is on the other shoe. It fits different. (Ladies and Miss Pearson, forgive me, please. I really like the “new look.”)
By Robert C. Ruark
nomination are almost insuperable, but he is causing considerable worry among the old machine politicos. The state has been gradually involving itself in the greatest potential revolution since it! switched from a fusion government in 1900. There | have been some 200 recent changes in the 250-odd| administrations that make up the league of mu-|
by returned veterans. : Mr. Albright's presence means an almost cer-|
missioner of Agriculture, and Charles Johnson, the state treasurer, are avowedly in the race, and| both are potent men in machine politica. The
openly viewed with concern.
Old Control Is Cracking
NO CANDIDATE has gotten into the governor’s house without machine backing since 1924!
but the old control is cracking a little. And its 10 persons who stop at the tiny “Peanut
strong man, 0. Max Gardner, ]Jate ambassador to England, is dead. There has been reaction against! both the incumbent governor and the machine, | which is why the idealistic young Albright, with
"GRAN'PA" AT THE HELM—Little did William "Gran'Pa" Mabee think he was starting a life's work when he first tried pouring maple syrup over popcorn, -making the first caramel corn around Indiana. Here he is at work in his home-kitchen, where The odds against Mr. Albright's winning the, he turns out the caramel corn he has copyrighted and his 74 varieties of home-made
candy.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1048
Gran’Pa’s’ Been Pouring Syrup On Popcorn For 27 Years
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"LUCKIEST KID IN NOBLESVILLE"—That's what her schoolmates call Fairy Ruth Palmer, foster granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mabee, who exercises, her right by helping herself to a popcorn ball while "Grandmother” Mabee looks on.
Noblesville Cloudburst Started Barber On Long, Profitable Candy-Making Career
By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer 3 NOBLEEBVILLE, Feb. 16—Like the cigar store Indian arf the nicipalities, and the change has been spear-headed striped barber pole, the genuine old-fashioned candy store is rap idly vanishing from the American scene. It's possible that one of the last outposts of taffy and kitchen tain second primary, since Carl Scott, the Com-| made horehound in the nation is “Gran-Pa's” tiny cubicle at th
northern edge of Noblesville.
“Gran Pa’s,” like Topsy. just] rmeemmastmm—"— It started as a one- script telling the name of th split in votes and the Albright diversion is being| night stand and grew to an in- candy. | stitution so well known that the The
growed.”
identification cards ar.
Noblesville slogan of “Only one Nothing if not explicit. For in
Noblesville in the United States” stance, {is often appended with “and only
one Gran'Pa’s!”
there's one kind of a: peanut bar which Mr. Mabe: Imakes up for people whose sweel
It's safe to say that five out of tooth has a. cavity. 1t's. labeled.
bar (soft chewing).
gleamingly clean store on busy Another card on some coconu
Ind. 37 do so because heard of it many times. traveled by the way of Ind.
“ po top there. his “take it to the people” campaign, has thes Ea himself is gentle- is covered with gleaming white
slimmest of outside chances. No one expected
young Chop Morrison to slide into New Orleans as [voiced 73mayor, over the frantic efforts of the old and a man who never thought he ; It can be lend up as a candy store propri-|" etor. A whim of his wife, Fairy, Warm water,
cynical Long machine, but in he went. done.
Mr. Albright is a veteran, with four battle started him in the candy business
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United States Employment Service in the country. ber 30 years.
He is-a power in the American Legion, and he is! fn there kicking 24 hours a day. He is a bright
they've brittle They've Warned: “Coconut Brittle. 37 to ared).”
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He was the youngest state director of the after he'd been a Noblesville bar- |
which had crystallize
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-old William Mabee, | muslin to cover the candy stored Year 'd | in. large lard cans. Cn the heat:
ing stove--are kept-two -pans-of changed several times daily, in which the clerks must dip their hands and dr théifi before handling the candy.” Mr. and Mrs. Mabee still run
"SWEET TOOTH CORNER — This is a familiar corner to travelers of busy “Ind; 37. This is where "Gran'Pa" Mabee has plied his confectionery arts since the highway was opened. -; :
IT ALL started back in 1921 the store virtually sirgle-handed., :
young fellow, who has spent 20 years gearing him- when the new Ind. 37 was being
self for a big punch at politics..
I have always liked the long shots, which has decided to celebrate with a street
been. .disastrous .at the race track.
thinking what a wonderful picture Mr. Albright's who had a reputation as an amatin trailer would make if it drove up and stopped teur candy maker, to whip up right smack in front of that big house in Raleigh, some caramel corn to sell.
which goes with a governor's job.
By Frederick C. Othman
Mr. Mabee prepared enough to
with caramel corn and more
caramel corn.
tag much grease on. it. why not wipe some of it. off? ’
Lhe. ladies = were so disap-
His assistants glanced at their glistening didn't need to pay for it," Mr.
fingertips nothing doing.
(rosebud polish, - 1 guess) This - made
should be disciplined. Under the company's|
contract with the CIO. United Farm Equipment counter on the front lawn and °ATM®
and said; Mabee recalls. He was prepared the International to stand the loss but his wife had Harvester Co. so unhappy that it decided they an idea.
She asked him to put a plan
and Metal Workers’ Union it couldn't slap ’'em string a light out. She'd. try to on thé wrist, but it could lay 'em off a few days sell some of the corn to motorists |
without pay.
on the new highway. That night
“So we. sent 'em home for five days,” Mr. when Mr. Mabee came home from
McCaffrey testified. Then his troubles began,
Some Take Five Days More
WHEN the five days were up, some of their fellow workers decided they'd take five days off work. They did so.
the barber shop he had to hurry 'in ‘and make up some more to take care of the rushing business.
THE ONE-PLANK counter
Then the ones who didn’t Brew to a tent-covered stand. Mr.
quit the first ‘time took off five days, and all stil] Mabee had always liked to make
is confusion in East Moline.
candy and in earlier years had
The greasy steels still on the floor, everybody's traveled with his father-in-law, arguing with everybody else, the plant's closed George Hawkins, to set up Sondown most of the time and when it isn’t the cessions at fair and political ral-|
production lines operate™by fits and starts.
All lies over the state. They capital
opened. The ladies of a sorority,
But-I-keep dance. They. called.on Mr..Mabee,,.
feed half of Noblesville: On the Noblesville, night of the dance a _near-cloud-burst rained out the party and left the Mabees corn, .caramel
pointed anyway 1 told them they
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‘Carnival—By Dick Turner
the machinery that's been produced in East Moline ized on his candy-making ability | in the last 30 days could go in a boll weevil's eye. and Mrs Mabee's Aifable JSeragas Mr. McCaffrey said sadly, glancing at his own: ality with Mr. Mabee doing
not-so-well manicured fingers,
that if the boys kitchen work and Mrs. Mabee
didn’t change their ways, he might have to shut 40ing the selling.
the works permanently. Some of the congressmen sald wasn't this the union that was dominated reputedly by Communists?
He'd heard as much, Mr. McCaffrey said, but [De his lifetime
he didn’t want to denounce the whole union; just the fellows who thought more of their clean fingers than they did of their jobs, Fact of the
matter, he said, the same union was operating |P
another plant across the river at Rock Island and |
everybody was happy. He couldn't understand it! Neither could Congress. Neither could that tractoriess farmer, Othman.
|old-timers who |“one of the best barbers we ever
The sideline soon was a boom-
ing business and Mr. Mabee had to give up what he thought would
job, barbering. (Incidentally there are still a few still resent losing
ad” to the candy business.) In 1922 Mr. Mabee built a
{little salt box-like store on the corner of his lawn. It's been en|larged a couple of times but ba- | sically it's the same as the first
day it opened.
“I never allowed loafing in
They live in a huge, old-fash- time some years back known asion a trip to Delroit and decided|in Indiana which became locally loned home next door where Mr, the “graveyard episode.” Theto try it out. He wasn't in the famous as “Gran’Pa's cracker Mabee does the candy making in Placing of a streetlight about two candy business. then . but one jack.” He had to give up ihe his own separate kitchen. blocks from the cemetery created carnival day he set up a down- name after a firm copyrighted it RL tatrick lighting effect on a-monu- town concession: ? fas a trademark. He also wasthe ALTHOUGH Mr. Mabee is ment. Pretty soon hundreds of The night before Mr. Mabee first to try to sell new-fangled possibly better KBOWD as “Gran. People were lining the road Ly whipped up cake batter and he chocolate-covered candy on a Pa" than any real grandpa in the graveyard at night to witness made the mold for the cones. stick later to become famous as he. never was a the eerie spectacle. | Armed with the “new gadgets” a “lollipop?” ~ grandfather in real life. Their a. 08. and homemade ice cream he s:l| Most of his 74° varieties only daughter died in-her youth. MR. MABEE'S. store was ovar- Up his concession. After severul cream candies are those which Just the sgme as a granddaugh- run with out-of-towners inquiring hours and several hundred he has “dreamed up/’ In the days ter, however, is Fairy Ruth Palm: the way -to--the graveyard -and, suspicious looks. he, still hadnt.when he was making more kinds er. Young Fairy is the envy .of Wide-eyed persons.on their way sold the first cone. of candy than he does now he her fellow grade school pupils in back who wanted to talk about yn» {used to dream about a new recipe the -school-across—the—-street-for-the miracle” they'd seen... Tne, SLHEN cde WW girs raivd-get-up-the-next-morning -and—— having “Gran'Pa” as a grandpa. boom got so had that the cemetery knew standing there and 1 asked experiment on it, until he had Young Fairy was named. after Was being. ovértun. In despera- them if they were game to try new, product. Mrs. Mabee by her mother, Mrs. tion a billboard was erected high one if I gave It to them,” ne re- 0 «5» 3 Lucian Palmer, who as a girl enough to cut-out the light re-icalls, “Finally one sald she was| NOW, however, with the Mabees and be- flection until the monument cot.d{ game and the others took one too. scarcity of labors and materials be moved a few feét. | Pretty soon I was sold out.” |Mr. Mabee has closed down to | Another of Mr. Mabee's favorite] He similarly recalls making the| such standards as taffy, caramel Mr. Mabee's- years as a candy/ recollections is of the time he in-|first popcorn covered with syrup corn, popcorn balls and various maker are rich in memories. le/troduced the fice cream cone ‘0 ~~ TE "
reams. l 2 his first \ recalls as his biggest boom a'Noblesville. He saw his firs or Manual to Observe Although they always were ine
53d" Birthday terested in improving their ow
[store, the Mabees were never / {terested in expansion. 2 . fk Btudents and faculty of Man-! “Now what I've always called ' ual High School will observe the!a successful business is to make institution's 53d birthday Wednes- Shough to teh care of your day in the auditorium. tfamily comfortable and have a | A dance will be held after the ttle back, Mr. Mabee ex- | close: of school. * | plained. “When I had that I never The program has been ar. WAS One to go out after a lot ranged by Carl Hanske, chair. More. ¥
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What is the only state in the United States also several “no smoking” signs
whose laws are not based on the English common because Mr. Mabee feels smoke makes the candy taste stale.
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trator and an executor of a will?
sparkling big round jars which,
An administrator is appointed by the court hold the 74 warieties of candy
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| . om R. E. Neff to Attend day. : 24 Also attending will be Miss Thelma Hawthorne, assistant to
| Miss Dorothy Ellis, chairman {of the dance committee, will be | assisted by Miss Ione Colligan, | Finley Wright; Alice Hagan, John ‘Hospital Conference OF ANYTHING; ONE HAVING Robert E. Neff, superintendent [CHARGE OF AN ART GALLERY, of Methodist Hospital, will attend|| LIBRARY, MUSEUM, ETC. the annual meeting of the Na- . . . ¢ tional Association of Methodist » {Hospitals and Homes in. Cincine " ART by the superintendent and the Rev. Claude M. McClure, hospital chap-| lain,
* * * y Books Friday Meeting ==0 Coo |/ The annual meeting of the lycrcesany TO | Better Business Bureau, Inc, will lo THE {be held Friday noon in the In-| dianapolis Athletic Club. Direetors’ also will meet and a new board will be elested.
“Spare a quarter for a coupla bears, guv'nor, se a loyal fan can « oe see the home team win a game?" 14” fio " .
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