Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1948 — Page 11

MILLIONS of words are pouring out of and in a this week. In some respects it's a comfort to be 647 miles away and doing very little .. And don't think I'm pouring a case of

sour grapes, either. It’s just that there are enough experts coverpolitical skullduggery in Convention Hall. ‘That's’ my candid opinion behind today's headlines which were off-the-record announcements yesterday. : Of course, after perusing a stack of newspapers and the dispatches of our correspondents whom I know and trust, correspondents I know and don’t trust too far, correspondents'I just plain don’t know, I can see a possibility for some new angles in Philadelphia. How much these angles would contribute to the general fountain of information already in the mill is questionable. But, they're angles. For instance, I read where Gov. Thomas E. Dewey shook hands with Ti people at one standing, The angle? How much wear and tear did Gov. Dewey's mitt take?

‘I'm Happy Where | Am’

HERE'S another angle prompted by one of our sterling gentlemen of the fourth estate. Robert C. Ruark, who occupies the space below me and who you probably read before me, said yester- _ day: “There ain’t no facts in Philadelphia. Just

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hoopla and confusion and fuss and stuff.” I think it would be tun to try to find a fact in Philadelphia. Any kind of a fact as long as it was a fact. Maybe it couldn't be done but it would | sure be fun trying. That's a fact. Oh, there's just a lot of work a guy with two state conventions behind his belt could do but won't because he has plenty of stuff at his fingertips without traveling 647 miles to get pushed

drops to keep him warm. No, sir, I'm happy where I am. I'll let Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer, tel me about the “blitz” Thomas E. Dewey launched. Mr. Dewey, you know, thinks his chances for the nomination are pretty good. I'll let Daniel M. Kidney, Times Staff Writer, run his legs off so he can tell me that Rep. Halleck thinks his chances of getting the No. 1 Republican spot are good. I'll let Bob Bloem, a colleague whose ¢ is empty but not for long because my feet will be on it in the nonce, tell me that “our gang” is fighting in Philadelphia. Not with fists, understand, just feudin’ for control of the Hoosier delegation. i I'll take Mr. Ruark’s description of the convention as the gospel truth. He says, “It 1s a county fair, a Kentucky Derby, a champion boxer’s camp on the eve of a big fight.” I'll divide that statement by two and bring back fond memories of the state convention. When I tire of that, I'll multiply by two and get the national convention. Simple, from here, eh what? . As far as to figure out who will get the nomination, it can be done in Indianapolis as well as in Phiiadelphia. You can pick the candidate by reading between the lines of stories bearing the Philadelphia dateline.

Refuses to Go Out on Limb

MR. DEWEY, the dispatches say he's cheerful and confident, states he’ll get the nomination “on an early ballot.” Mr. Taft, the dispatches say he looks remark-

of getting the nomination. { Mr. Stassen, the dispatches say he’s in there fighting, hopes he'll walk off with the nomination. Mr. Vandenberg, the dispatches say he's shrewd and silent, opened headquarters but nowhere can I find, not even between the between lines, where he said anything. Now, what can we make of all this? Before we make anything, however, let's not discount the darkhorses. And let's not overlook the possibility of a “deal” in a smoke-filled room of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. I'm ready to make my final analysis of the Somebody, as sure as there are Re-

"My sources prevent me from going out any farther on a limb. There are too many people out on a limb already and are their faces going | to be red when .......... «« gets the| nomination.

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Tricky’ Televisi PHILADELPHIA, June 23-— A visiting lady reporter, Miss Rebecca West of England, just remarked that this convention seems to have been run for the express benefit of the press, the radio, movies and television—with the real point of the fandango being lost in the general hubbub. Miss West deplores this in well-bred tones, and so do I. If you rememBps away back in 1024, the introduction of to the conventions discombooberated - the speechmaking terribly. And it wasn't until years after that the orators had the ogre even semi-tamed. This television gimmick is going to be even harder to lick. It is not entirely unlikely that a principal qualification for a successful politico will be the man’s ability to perform for Seo more important, maybe, than his statesmanship, his political craft, his control of his ‘constituents. Television, from the brief glimpses I've had of its product here, can make such a visual flop of a speaker that the merit of his words is lost. Nor does the capering of a thousand photographers, technicians and dial twiddlers lend any marked emphasis to the message of an orator.

Embarrassing to Walch

I SAW Clare Boothe Luce last night, before she made her speech, and the lady was looking fine, if not downright beautiful. But on the television screen she came out awful—her face, hair and dress all one washedout color, and her ‘gestures seeming ill-matched and awkward. Her voice, as it ebbed and flowed with the odd current they have here, scratched and screeched. : It was ‘embarrassing to watch, and you lost a lot of continuity out of a speech that had considerable writin’ in it. Television is even rough on the old-time, professional radio gabbers—the boys who have India-

By Robert C. Ruark

rubber faces, and who warp them all out of shape for emphasis. They can't grimace and ripple their cheek muscles anymore, because it looks pretty horrible. So they control their athletic kissers at the expense of their voices, which crowd past their teeth in a mutter. The slightest bit of fatigue multiplies itself a hundred times, and a guy with just a mild hangover appears to be on the verge of death. Any fellow with a peach-fuzz set of whiskers looks like a Sicilian bandit. A guy with a real beard seems to be peering out of a bush.

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ANY DAME who marches before a television battery without first plastering herself with pancake makeup comes out looking like the Witch of Endor. So innocent a prop as a pair of fluttering white gloves can steal all the sock from the lady’s lines. And speaking of swiping the play from the speaker—you should have seen Sen. Kenneth Wherry. Sen. Wherry was gBing great, waving his arms and orating on eight cylinders, pointing with pride, viewing with alarm, and generally busting a gusset. During all the fireworks a stout lady sat stolidly behind him, placidly reading a paper. It took minutes to tune her out. But while she was in there, you quit watching Sen. Wherry. I presume television is here to stay, and if so, the politicking boys and girls are going to be forced to buckle down and whip it. Or else, they’ll be hearing something like this: “Joe's a good party man and fine presidential timber, but he stinks out the joint on a video appearance. Let's nominate Pete. He ain't too smart, but he shows up on the screen like Tyrone Power.”

SS Video Witches PHILADELPHIA, June 23—How television manages to turn beautiful Republican ladies into witches—with arms six feet long and dresses that look like lumpy old bathrobes—nobody seems to know, * What it does to the gentlemen isn’t any more complimentary, though I must say Tom Dewey didn’t look so bad with a full beard, something like Abraham Lincoln's. The trouble here, the experts explained, was television's X-ray eyes.

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even had sprouted. But the poor ladies. Tch, teh. If they could see themselves as the television audience does, they'd sit down and weep. Or flee to the South Sea Islands, never to be seen on the Speaker's stand again. Take Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, the Ohio Congresswoman. There was no handsomer woman than Mrs. B when she stepped under the spotlights in a ‘big green straw hat and a smoothly fitting silk print dress. I beat it downstairs to see how she looked on the machinery and, on-oh.

Her hat on the television screen somehow had turned into a blob of wallpaper crumpled on top of her head by a paperhanger who'd made a mistake. Her beautiful frock on the phosphorescent screen became a kind of wrinkled gunny sack with busted eggs smeared on it. This still wasn't the ” : worst, The machinery had flattened out her pleasant features, made her face wider by perhaps onethird, and turned her into an ancient female resembling nothing quite so much as the queen that Alice found in Wonderland.

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like she'd been, scalped. : When she made a gesture with her left hand, her bare arm stretched out by some optical illusion the engineers cannot explain until it looked

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; . [ By Frederick C. Othman * { | like a white flag pole fingers on the end of it. Extra short fingers. Each little line on her face was magnified into a deep gully. A shadow came down from her nose and lengthened her upper lip, while her chin jutted out like a caricature of the late FDR. "Tisn’'t fair. If I were a beautiful lady like either of the Mesdames Bolton and Luce, I'd shun television

Ag it was, I spent a good deal of my not-so-valuable time interviewing the embarrassed television producers. What did they mean turning out moving pictures that lied about lovely ladies?

Great Men Without Faces

THESE GENTS hung their heads. They did not want to be quoted. They wished I'd skip the whole thing for a while, or until television is better perfected. I%had no pity for '’em. Told em they couldn't do this to beauteous Republicans.

They claimed that Mrs. Luce's pictorial disaster partly was her own fault. She woré no make-up except lipstick, they said, and the powerful lights from one side only cast shadows that libeled her on every television set in America. Panchromatic make-up would have helped, they added, while propper lighting (impossible to achieve in Convention Hall) would have done the rest. The squashing of Mrs. Bolton's face they couldn't explain to my satisfaction. Something to do with camera angles. The engineers added that they were learning as they went along and doing the best they could. And that if Gov. Dewey kindly would submit to a deep tan powder puff they could get rid of his whiskers. . * Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois, they said, was ideal for their purpose because he seemed to have spent long hours under a sunlamp. The pink faces of Sens. Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg frightened ‘em. When these two countenances get damp they tend to reflect the lights and disappear, like ghosts, on the television screens, and when a famous man suddenly goes faceless, the television boys get the shudders.

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The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1948

‘Our Living Church’ Is Theme Of Daily Vacation Bible School

(Photo-Story by Emma Rivers Milner and Henry E. Glesing Jr. . § bh

EVERY HEAD BOWS — Periodically, Dr. John B. Ferguson, pastor, leads the children of the Daily Vacation Bible School in reverent worship in the Irvington Presbyterian Church. The chancel furnishings—cross, candles and communion table—all are explained as the children listen in utter quiet. :

THE BOOK OF BOOKS — Mrs. Robert King names a certain Bible passage and a rustling of leaves follows as junior boys and girls (9 to 12 years of age) hasten to located it in their Bibles. They are memorizing certain passages, storing them up for future reference in adulthood.’ Special emphasis is being given to the Golden Rule and all the other treasured sayings of Our Lord found in St. Matthew's Gospel.

"OUR LIVING CHURCH" —Have you. guessed that this is a hpuse of worship? Edward Tollefsen and

Carol Finlayson: are building it as part of their Bible School ‘course. ‘Through all the children's activities in

this summer's school runs the current theme: 'Qur Living Church."

"PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE" —The 120 ‘youngsters of the school regularly salute Old Glory, not shown, and the Christian Flag, above. Those pledging themselves with heads raised and hands on hearts are: Judy Shimer, James McNeely, Christine Dahl and John Clark.

MUSIC FURNISHES "AN OUTLET—Mrs! Harry Ware, pianist, and Mrs. Frank Plummer, director, right, -do not require the children to devote the entire singing time to serious selections. Phyllis Reilly, Billy Ricketts, Larry Muncie and Patricia Ault were "raising the roof" with "Mammy's Little Baby Loves Shortnin' Bread" at

i time this picture ‘was shot.” A religious song they are studying is "His Own urch."

Faces Four Charges

Tells of Patient Bleeding In ‘Reliving’ Beating as Child ec: four Charge:

British Doctor Recounts Fantastic Story (Style. “If they involved physicall pou. charges were . placed

. . i Of the case, the chiatrist|i . ic ( iIn Magazine, Cites ‘Nervous Memory’ eon, of what pressmabhe bat reer A82Inst John Neeley, 25, manager

: . x . writes: tion of what pre bl been | By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent “The patient who consulted me|the original GE a ean of a smoke shop at 1133 E, 10th

LONDON, June 23—It sounds like something from a horror|privately because of persistent in- appeared. Swelling, brui |St., after police raided the place story with a psy€hological twist—but .a distinguished British omare. whe a arog woman in| bleedin were oo ar ou last night. . physician says it happened. |her late thirties. She had an ex-|at least 30 occasions.” Neeley was charged with op The pretty woman, speaking from a hypnotic trance, told altremely unhappy childhood in| Dr. Moody said he called in a erating a lottery, gaming, keepstory of her sadistic father and of a terrible whipping he gave her. {which a sadistic father played a colleague to witness another ing a gaming house and violation Twenty minutes ‘later a red welt appeared on her shoulder, prominent part. At 17 she was treatment in which the patient of the slot machine law after of. Where “she said her father had] es {treated for a nervous-breakdown. relived-an- incident in—which she ficers said they found him paying British medicaligng after recovery she seems to was whipped on the palms of her off on pool tickets and pinball the Lancet, as further have widespread amnesia for the hands. machines. that night as it had when the proof of his recently advanced!unhappy events of her earlier life.] A few minutes later, he said,| Louis Deer, 52, of 1834 Come whipping occurred more than Z0theory that the nervous. system| “During treatment by me she both doctors saw red streaks be- merce Ave.nowner of the shop,

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