Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1948 — Page 19
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mentality. , And that mentality can rarely be protected, because it is a cinch to be swayed, eventually, by the more pungent: crime-sex-strife anecdotes of the sensation journals, the movies and the radio.
Smut From Shakespeare
AND, THINKING backward a score of years, (verted into a female deer. Fo rthis bloody esca-
cap, and = pair of fleet shoes. He Dis } Nn spd» puir of fest shoes. He fri At Disappearance of Tumor “He then engaged in a brawl with a magician, = eta: wy “who was exercising his enchantments on a beau- ("You have rendered a real service to medical science," Henry tiful lady,” and cut off the magician’s head. He Em; sheer, perverse sadism, he chopped off another giant at the kneecaps, before killing him, and lopped the nose off another, just for laughs. Sir Jack then stabbed him in’ the back, and] divided his wealth with his friends. He booby-| trapped a bridge for Giant Hundel, him with a rope, and then sliced through his neck.
In a final orgy, he slew. another gian wizard to be blown away in a hurricane, and married a duke's daughter who had been con-
most of my remembered violence accrues, not Dpade, the state rewarded him with a large prop:
from penny dreadfuls, but from the folk-tale and the classit. Also I carried away more smut from Shak than from the two-bit awful-awfuls, I just checked through the saga of Jack the Giantkiller, supposedly a cradle standby and as vital a portion of the formative years as a diaper. It is a horrid tale, told deadpan, a story to fill the baby skull with creeping monsters and raise a bumper crop of curious .complexes. In a dozen pages, young Jack ‘committed 10
Poor Fellow
erty, and he lived happily ever after with his society wench, ; I could be wrong, but I do not believe that the offspring of generations fledged on that heady fare has much to fear from the comic book. For sadism, sex, and black- magic, the old boys can still give pointers to the new. Ed Sovola, author of Inside Indianapolis, is on vacation, .;
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, ‘Aug. ‘5—If my piece today sounds like a soap opry script in which the dirtynecked Communists wreck the career of a fine young man and then ruin his marriage, I can’t help it. William ‘W. Remington swore every word He’s the ‘white-lipped young Commerce Department worker charged by the U, 8: Senate with slipping war sécréts to a middle-aged female spy, who held ‘trysts with ‘him at my favorite soda fountain at 14th and Pennsylvania Avenues. So the blond-haired Remington in the ill-fitting summer suit told his tale of passing War Production Board information over the ice cream sodas to Miss Elizabéth Bentley. He was 24 years old at the timé and how he came to meet such a woman was the question. I squirmed in embarrassment listening to him
and I feel & little squirmy even writing down the
facts, but it turned out that he married a girl in Croton, N. Y., when he was 21. Pretty soon one Joseph North, a Communist leader, began hanging around his mother-in-law’s house. First thing you knew, the old lady herself joined the aprty.
Brought Bride to Capital
SOON THERE were Communists all over the
néighborhood. Y: Remington brought his bride to Washingtolh, where he got his job with the WPB, while she around with the town's
liberals. Patronized a' perative grocery. Joined a Commie book club.* Gave contributions to a Communist-front ‘refugee outfit. And every time she'd take her groom back to Croton to visit mother, the house would be full of Communists, Sen. Herbert R, O'Connor of Maryland interrupted here to ask if any of Remington's relatives today
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AUT ‘man n , gritting his teeth between pb 5, “if you mean my blood relatives, 1 say no. are all Republica. But if you
must say, ves.
Is It Fun?
_ LONDON, Aug. 5— Why do you think the United States is steamrollering the Olympics?” "That's what Fve been trying to find out from other 1 gniers hére at Wembley Stadium. And this seems to be the general impression: ‘Many of our 'shapely-girl and muscular-boy contenders are really as much amateurs as Joe Louis. : The American sports-training program .is by far the world's best. . Americans take sports as seriously as assembly nes. “You Americans take an up-and-coming young athlete and make sure he gets a free college education,” a Dutchman told me. “If there's an important event taking place, you pay his transport to go there and you feed and house him during the meet. By your standards, he’s still an amateur. By our standards he's a professional.” That statement is pretty typical. I don’t thing it’s cry-baby stuff. It is true that in many countries anything like a scholarship or subsidy to a well co-ordinated teen-ager is unknown,
Like Break We Give Children
EVEN THE BITTEREST foreigner, who has seen the Yankee caravan. slay his boys, admires the break the poor kid gets at U. 8. sports stadiums, though. Cliff Webb, ace sports writer for the London Herald, told me: “Over here, sports is the property of the oldschool tie. I like the way you chaps push a kid along. We're 40 years behind the times in sports. Up until the war began, a poor boy left school at 14, even if he was an outstanding athlete.” The fact that American firsts are as consistent as London's bad weather has caused the present outbreak of discussion on “How come the Yanks are terrific?” One cigar-chomping fan from New Mexico said: “They've been playing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ so often today as a victory sign, I am getting embarrassed.” ,
Stars at Auction
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5—With many ~movietowners preferring death to using their furniture a second year, auctions keep the antique fourposters and gilded what-nots shuffling through this village like musical chairs, + The stuff is a cinch to sell to people who thrill to the touch of a chair shined by the seat of the Crosby pants, or a bed which owes its sag to Maria Montez. Movie stars’ beatup furniture is the only mer-
chandise outside of autos that's-worth more. than
when it was new. : The stars even buy each other's furniture. It's nothing for a star to go visiting end sit on his own chair, thrice-removed. : The institutions charged with this expensive brand of juggling are the auction galleries on Wilshire Boulevard. They say they can sell anything that belonged to a luminary.
_ FDR's Ship Clock Sold for $400
A 14-YEAR-GLD gir} tourist spied Alan Ladd’s piano xt the Lewis S. Hart Gallery last week and simply had to have it. Mamma consented, and the piano was shipped hore to New York. The Hart @ailery, having just sweat_d through a Bing by sale, now is launching an auction of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Harrison's furniture. The Harrisons are importing new finery from England. Mr. H. having been in the public eye recently, the gallery éxpects the sale to be a cinch. Mr. Hart had to cali the cops to quell the
like to discuss it. And they won't be related to me very much longer, sir.” Anyhow, he conti , fubbing his eyes against the movie spot-lights, Communist North introduced him to one Jacob Golos, who asked him to give government information to his literary assistant, Miss Bentley. He met her in the drug
store, on park benches and once in the art
museum, to answer her questions about the inner workings of the WPB. He said he was careful not to give her any real war secrets,
‘Can't Understand Why He Did It
NOW THAT he's 30 years old and more ex-
perienced in the way of the world he said he
couldn’t understand how he allowed himself to get mixed up in such folderol. He di not explain
how so callow a youngster as himself ever re-|
ceived a position of trust in the government; the Senators did not question him about this. Remington said he just supposed that he was naive, meaning (in my translation( dopey. He was sorry for what he'd done, yet he didn’t think he'd done his country any real harm. if his mother-in-law hadn't been bitten by the Communist < bug, everything might have ' been different. He might still even be in love with his wife. The Senators were bitter. with changing his story time after time, of twisting the facts to suit himself, and of being much too intelligent a man to expect them to believe him. They called his story preposterous and they hinted
that if he didn’t come clean (their words) he
might find himself in serious trouble.
Remington continued calmly to call each one of He kept on insisting that he's told opine to him all day! ‘eareral notes, 1 don't!
them Sir.” them the truth. Ha and taken « dozen 8"
know what to think about him. I doubt if anybody, except possibly a fan of the radio's dramas
of ruined love, could reach any sound con (Copyright, 1948, by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.)
By Fred Sparks
I must say I found myself rooting for nonAmericans in many of the swimming contests just to break the string of Yankee victories. So did a lot of other Americans. As my chum from New Mexico said, it's been getting down right embarrassing. J Hohamed Shemeis, sports writer for Cairo's daily Akhabr Elyon, said: “You Americans approach sports like you approéich big business. Very, very serious. Take the case of weight-lifting. Twenty years ago, when I was champ, no American ever won the title, This year you will be first several times. . “When you decided to go into weight-lifting, you studied it as if you were going to buy the business. Bob Hoffman, American weight lifter, wrote me for many books on weight-lifting. He studied techniques. “That's why you are good. “But still you are very American. You are in such a hurry you. are only good at short sprints— at 5000 to 10,000 meters you are no good. You are in too much of a hurry.”
They Work So Hard, But—
“A SPORTS WRITER for the Paris newspaper, Franc-Tireur, said:
“I doubt if American athletes every have fun. We do not take sports so seriously. It is not big
business.
“You Americans are perfectionists—la-la. They! “pital are perfectly trained. They work so hard— but’
is it fun?”
Foreigh fans are not as gentle as polished I circulated with a; silver-tongued friend who can order dinner in six! languages. He quoted two Danes a# saying: “The Americans spent $4 million to train their team. Of course,
diplomatic sports writers.
Each winner is getting a $1000 price. they are good.”
But to all the rumors I wish to add this one, ,
spoken by an Italian:
“Marshall Plan money has been allotted to! The Americans consider it vital! propaganda to win the Olympics by a big margin.” |
help athletes.
By Aline Mosby
crowd when it auctioned some of the late Presi-| dent Roosevelt's furnishings a few years back.! of ‘coins and that he agr One ship's clock, o (of coins an p riginal cost about $70, sold for, McCormack that having a w coin, in between the nickel
The, American Art G: ne Si : EE ro htaiand the dime, would be 4 saving ‘A model farmstead, complete
about as frisky a time when it auctioned the Tate A0 on ne Giass * aslitrays is Rep. McCormack’s prin-| ci argument. He says makers I merchandisers ‘of numerous ture of the Purdue University ex-| y items could meet in- hibit at the Indiana State Fair, costs under inflation bY: Sept. 3-10. - - a them at seven cents, instead of raising them to a dime|
John Barrymore's belongings.
that the Profile picked up at a drug store for!
10 cents brought up t6 $3 on the auction block.
One bidder achieved national fame when he everyda Barrymore's frayed girdle for $750.1 Coa sed Auction hounds feverishly bid up to $250 for
Barrymore's worn-out suits.
Jean Harlow Auction Got $100,000
THE AUCTIONEER THERE, Arthur B. Good, explains that furniture of stars who are dead is!
at quite a premium.
“The Jean Harlow auction was our most valu able collection—$100,000 worth,” Le recalls
Harry Warner, of the brothefs, once went his Cinema City furniture seilers one better. He aue- piece. tioned his household goods on a sound stage at billed as a “Real Life: 3%
his studio. The auction was Hollywood Premiere.”
As a star's name sells furniture, even second- p : at» i hand, one gallery recently advertised: “M. C. coins have been authorized in the Levee, manager for Joan Crawford, Gree’ Gar- past to meet special conditions son, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Franchot' Tone and serve i and other celebriiies; has commissioned us to sell without disturbing the basic pat-'and H. R. Knaus of the
his $100,000 villa . , ,” *
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Noble Hall, writer and lecturer, was told by research men at New York Memorial Hospital, after he agreed to become a guinea pig “for the study of the velue of radic-active iodine in combatting cancer. He himself recalled, in his book, “| Have Cancer." that his stay in the hospital was "remarkably pleasant.” But there were other complications to hurdle in his long fight back to an active life. Here is the fourth article of a condensed version of his first person
. By HENRY NOBLE HALL TWO DAYS AFTER Christmas I was moved down from the eighth to the fifth floor to the research ward. The four beds, originally set aside for this work, had been constantly increased and I found myself one of about a dozen human guinea pigs. I was placed in a four-patient room, now the Damon Runyan ward, given a choice place near a window where I was able to set up my typewriter.
Instead of six weeks as intended I remained as a re- | search patient at Memorial Hospital for more than two
outgo of liquid. Then five times a week for nine Towards the end my veins were getting pretty tired. The blood taken was used for all sorts of sereological analyses for sodium, potassium, calcium and phosphorus, pathological and other tests, some of it was sent to Harvard for special blood-iodine analyses which are
now made at the Sloan-Ketter-ing Institute. » » » “THE RENAL FUNCTION tests were particularly thorough, indeed anything having to do with my kidneys or liver was most carefully watched for things which meant little or PREEEE AES Shothing ‘tomy
all these do-
possible, why I had such an unusual affinity for radioiodine, N ot only had I “picked up” a record amount-—35 per cent of my first * big dose, but my blood had apparently been little affected by the atomic energy and my count of red corpuscles had remained very high. Then efforts were being made to ascertain whether certain drugs might not increase the potency of the radiofodine, or augment the rate of absorption. There was also the question whether if the 70 odd millicuries of radio-iodine I had already been given had really arrested the degeneration of my pelvis as the radiographs | seemed to indicate; injections of certain hormones mig t not wake up the cancer to fresh aetivity in which case it might | absorb more of a further heavy dose of radio-iodine about the necessity for which there was | general agreement. , i x ¥ { AFTER I had been in the hosa little “more than five | weeks my doctor showed me as | Exhibit A to the New York
Mr. Hall
‘weeks, I had blood drawn.
Of course, | the object of
discover, if:
months, in all from Dec. 22 to Feb. 28, 1947. To attempt anything approaching an accurate day by day description of the amount and variety of research work done on me would need scientific knowledge I do nat possess and ‘make very dull reading. Suffice to say that for nine weeks 1 had two Basal Metabolism recordings and one electrocardiograph. taken every week, daily urine analyses, blood ‘counts, blood-pressure records and I was weighed at exactly the same time each day. In addition I tested my urine for sugar before every meal and kept an hour by hour record of the intake and ~
Surgical Society, a case of car cinoma of the thyroid with metastasis to the bone treated by atomic energy. A nurse had divested r.e of coat and vest, removed my tie and opened the collar of my shirt so that a number of surgeons were able to feel my throat and put me through the familiar motions: “Bend your head please, now swallow.” Of course they found no trace of any tumor but could plainly see where it had been because’ my windpipe was deflected more than an inch to the right of its proper place. These men were all thyroid specialists and it
was clear ‘they had some difi- ~
culty in believing their own eyes and hands. I know of one distinguished who was
even given my first 55 curies of radio-iodine. It was evident from the attitude of doctors and nurses that my’ case was an unususl one, and that radio-lodine had produced secondary effects not previously noted. The doctor in
have learned a lot from you, and you have rendered a real service to medical science.” ~ - - ONE DAY he came in with a broad smile to announce that in a day or two I would be given “a big dose” of radio-lo~ dine as soon as a fresh supply was received from Oak Ridge. Wher several days had passed without any change in my routine, I braced the doctor in his tiny office and asked, “How come the promised dose has not materialized?” Busy as he was, he pulled down a book from a shelf apd quickly found a chart of the atomic elements. He put the point of a pencil on the fo« dine atom and said: “You see this is next to tellerium on the chart. In order to get radioactive lodine, they have to transmute tellerium into iodine. “That is done by bombarding the tellerium till a small amount of radio-active iodine has been formed. The radio-iodine is then
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Holding her shielded carafe at arms length, a technician pours Mr. Hell his" radio-active prescription.
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a human being dies of tellerium there is nc antlpoisoning. It sent shivers down = dote for minor pains and dismy spine, ; somforts Sun having somesen a of 90 want All through the remainder of ¥ March and part of April, I re« curies of radio-lodine, which ' tyrned to: Memorial twice a really tasted like nectar. Abbut week for Geiger counts until
48 hours later the big Geiger
puld slow down my thyroid and if ever I had another dose of radio-lodine, it would be better absorbed by vis
an Feb, 28 1 went home, Every two days I returned to Memorial for a count and on March 4 the
give you another 30 millicuries.” received When I returned two days later, “an instinctive feeling of repug- penicillin. he seemed somewhat d .nance. Just as I had been sure cleared up, by the readings got. The that 1 was hot fatally nfuted the ¢ research doctor supplied the an- when I broke my at it.
was lying on the floor, I had a dis tinet premonition that this, New York.
swer, T had picked up only 12 per cent of the dose of 30 milli-
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Bill for New 7-Cent Coin Has Strong GOP Backing
Speaker Martin Favors Proposal, Pledges To Support It at January Session
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers { WASHINGTON, Aug, 5—The bill to provide for'coining a new 7i cent piece, introduced by Rep. John McCormack (D. Mass.), has ' strong Republican backing, it was learned today. Speaker Joe Martin said he favored the proposal. | about it before it was introduced and will do all T gan for | next session in January,” he said. Mr. Martin said he saw “noth. ~~
ing sacred” in the present order Moclel Farmstead
To Be Exhibited
with life-size house, ‘dairy barn
“I knew it at the
and outbuildings, will be a fea-!
lout that the United States has|u¢ility ‘room. Next to the home
{had a number of small going 1h ithe past which aren’t in use { ' oe. amis of them were a silver beyond that a double granary. 20-cent piece, a silver five-cent a silver three-cent piece and .a three-cent piece of copper alloy. a bronze two-cent piece and
a copper half-cént.
‘tern of coinage.
painted out that new
public convenience,
The dairy barn will feature a
“milking parlor” and *
loafing pen” for dairy cattle. The barn
will algo be equipped with a modern milk house containing wash-
ing ‘tank.
ing facilities, utensils and cool-
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The farm home will be a in’ the northwest corner of the! _ lexhibit building. It will contain Representatives pointed a fully equipped kitchen and
will be the ‘aying house and just|
Construction of the exhibit is
being directed by W. F. Graham Purdue ‘Extension Service. i
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