Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1948 — Page 14

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NOTRE DAME IS ready to beat the pants off the Boilermaker football machine this Saturday at South Bend. That's my opinion. It's a studied opinion, too. What gives me the right to pop off like an expert? Listen, friend, before you turn to the sport pages, 1 t you to know I stood on Frank Leahy’s tower—yes, with the Old Man —and helped him (in a way I did) map out strategy for Sa y's big game. : Mr. Leahy, I must admit, isn’t as optimistic as I am about the outcome of the opening game of the 1948 season. He's worried. So worried that he said he would be satisfied if his team won the majority of the games this season. I hope the Irish win all but one of their games. That game happens to be with Indiana. As a loyal son of dear ol’ I. U., I'm afraid I won't be pulling for Mr. Leahy's team that afternoon. Of course, I didn’t tell him. Everything at Notre. Dame is geared and tensed for P. U. You can feel this tenseness all over the campus and especially on the coaching platform. (Never mind how I got on the platform.) Mr, Leahy insists there are a lot of question marks about Saturday's game. Terry Brennan, Ernie Zalejski and John Panelli have bum knees. That's no secret or heresay, they really have bum knees.

Trainer Brings Sad News - EMIL SITKO has a bum leg. While the assistant coaches limbered up the small army of football players, Trainer Hugh Burns brought us that news: Frank Tripucka's ability as a field general

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"NOTRE DAME IS READY" —Coach Frank Leahy {left Jand "Mr. Inside Indianapolis” study the 1948 edition of the Fighting Irish during a practice session at South Bend.

Calorie Killers

NEW YORK, Sept. 21-1 cry a pox on the current diet craze, which has unsettled the gastronomic life of the nation, and turned into a bigger bore for the non-participant than a conversation with a stamp-collector. I have met few: people lately who are not verging on, in the midst of, or just completing a

They all wear an air or spurious nobility, rather like the smugness of people who take cold showers in winter. They attempt to convey a superiority of the soul, which has enabled them to joust singlehanded with the temptations of the table, They have a public contempt for the potato that is like the séur intolerance of the reformed drunk for people who still fancy a martini. The dieter is not content to strut afid preen himself before the non-dieter, counting the other's ching and making snide remarks about belt measurements. But he seems to think that his ordeal with a high protein prescription or some such nonsense is a fascinating experience—one that should be shared with every passerby. He will back you into a corner, seize you by the lapel, ‘and give you the complete play-by-play, from initial lettuce leaf to the box-score on lost ‘pounds. In my time I have listened to windy expositions from parents concerning the genius of their spawn. I have examined a few thousand pictures of cross-eyed kids and bucktoothed brides, proudly whipped from. wallet and waved under the nose,

Dieter Tops Ali Bores

I HAVE been bored by birdifanciers, dog-own-ers, wishful novelists, world reformers, sport experts and punmakers. But the chronic dieter tops them all. He is tops because he not only wants to tell you all about it; he wants to force you to take it, and he gets mad if you refuse. A terrible thing happens when one member of a household is dieting to chop the heft and the other is not. Once firmly in the claws of a caloric-killing prescription, the abstemious member completely loses interest in the base cravings of the nonstarver,

Fateful Days

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—These are. fateful days for the dollar-down-dollar-when-I-catch-you boys. From now on they've got to do business with money, ‘ The Federal Reserve Board's new regulations restrictingecredit on automobiles, furniture, television sets, electric ice boxes and numerous other costly items now are in effect and the long-time credit, just-bring-an-honhest-face geniry are in a stew. Take the new-used car lads. Last week they were selling 1949 Fords, for example, for $3000, or about $1000 above list price. This took a minimum of cash at any one time, because they allowed their customers’24 months, and sometimes more, to pay. Now the buyer of, this same $3000 automobile must plunk down $1000 in hard money as down payment, and he's got to cough up the remaining $2000 in 18 months. This, with finance charges and Hnsurance added, will cost him $120 a month.

Reduces Prices, Crosses Fingers THAT'S THE rub. All the Americans who can afford $120 monthly payments on their new sedans you can put in your left eye. Or so claims the new-used car dealer down the pike from my house. He's reduced his prices from $200 to $300 and crossed his fingers. What happens next he doesn’t know. He's figuring on going easy on the high-priced new cars for a while and getting in a stock of 1940 and 1941 models. But numerous other péople have the same idea and the price of seven and eight year old jaloppies in reasonably good condition has leaped to around $1200. Even 50, says he, more would-be motorists can fork over a $400 down payment than $1000.

The Quiz Master

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steady chatter of helpful hints in ! described as a friendly but re, | One of the assistant coaches was Wally Ziemba who was in high school at the same time I was. It's always pleasant to see someone from mond High who made good. I yelled to Wi: who was named to several All-American while playing center for N. D., a couple of tim but - he just stared or yelled at the linemen So let it go.

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liams, Frank's understudy, isn't a slouch, either.} There are so many boys who have it on the ball} that I can't see why the Old Man has to worry. | The strategy:we talked about can’t be talked} about here. Mr, Leahy’s strategy, that is. You! see, I was witnessing what is commonly called a secret practice session. Very few people are allowed to see a secret session. In fact, I don’t|d think I'll-be able to get in again. :

He Didn't Say Much i AFTER MR. LEAHY'S dicussion of a few bits of strategy which I approved of highly, I offered two plays that I was sure would click with the mentor. Mr. Leahy didn't say much. He just looked. You have to think about these plays awhile before their true worth comes out. We all know the point in football is to surprise your opponent and get the better of him. It doesn’t make much difference how, so my first suggestion was to have each member of the Irish squad put a false mustache on while in a huddle sometime during the game (preferably when a touchdown is needed) and face the Purdue linemen who would be laughing themselves silly. It would be a simple matter to go on from there as you can plainly see. |i The other play also leans heavily on the surprise element. Instead of the linemen bucking each other, my suggestion was that the N, D, line offer no resistance at all. The P. U. bo would be so shocked they would probably fall on their faces. In short order a solid Irish wedge could be

BUMPS OF KNOWLEDGE—This year the freshman class ‘at Indiana University boasts 120 High school valedictorians. These two, preparing to major in psychology, study a cross-section model of a brain. They are (left to headed for the goal line. Mr. Leahy can be a| ah) Myra Jean Fox and Ruth Graves. ; quiet man at times. i

For three hours Mr. Leahy and I watched the|f boys prepare for Purdue. My opinion may not be the best in the world but I say they're ready. (There are an awful lot of guys out for football at |? Notre Dame.) Mr. Leahy's opinion is that he doesn’t know for sure what his team can do. i “Purdue is supposed to have a real team this year,” sald Mr. Leahy as we turned toward the stadium. “I'm worried.” \ “Our boys will win,” I said cheerfully. Mr, Leahy groaned again from worry.

KEYBOARD CLASSROOM-The subjact interests of the braintrusters almost are as numerous as the students themselves. Evelyn Dawson’ plans to follow: a ‘musical career and ‘specialize in piano. She is the 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and’ Armon Dawson of Carmel. Co-valedictorian with Miss Graves, the two had iden

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By Robert C. Ruark(§

That is going on in my house at the moment even since mama took a horrified look at her hips| and succumbed to the blandishments of a dieting|® friend. There was a time when we had hot corn-en-the-cob, dripping butter; hot biscuits, also soaked in same; asparagus with hollandaise; avocados and plenty of potatoes dwelt in my house. W were fat but happy. 3 A man didn't get sneered at if he rassled up another batch of martinis to tickle his taste buds. He didn’t have to hide behind the barn to chomp a roastin’-éar. There was no guilt complex tied to food. : But now things are becoming very taut. Mama is doing the dieting, but I am losing the weight. She has been pointedly, scornfully noble about fixing nutritious snacks, while she lives on skim| Si milk and hay, but I don’t get any comfort out of eating any more.

Hate in Mamma’s Stares

WHEN I am rubbing a pork chop daubed with mashed potatoes around my features, she sits and stares at me as if she hates me. For awhile she resembled a hungry child peering into a bakery, but now thepe is a wolfishness about her expression that reminds you of a Communist staring} into a banker's club. ’ There was also a time when mama did not shriek and flee if someone suggested a little noggin of something to ward of germs. But since they told her how m calories lurk in a sup of Scotch she is on brink of attacking my modest bar with a hatchet. And she sniffs scornfully when her peerless knight softens the rigors of modern living with a little snort. It is my guess mama is a secret consumer of ¥ chocolate creams, and will tumble off this dietwagon shortly. I am helping that along with a 4 war of nerves, involving anecdotes about people] SEES who drop dead from diets. DY But if her high resolve doesn’t crumble, I suppose, in the interests of peace, I'll have to-go on the damn’ diet with her. Although I don’t recall that the preacher said anything about shared starvation when he was reciting the clauses in the contract.

OVERCOMES HANDIC AD:lan, Tomblaton. Bedford (right), reads to John Preston Ward who fopped his class this year at the Indiana School for the Blind. He: will study pre-law.

FUTURE DOCTOR — Wayne Merri man, Mooresville, will see a lot of these anatomical charts before he finishes his pre-medical study.

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By Frederick C. Othman

The new car fellows profess not to be worried about the credit restrictions. Their national association contends they'vé got so many millions of orders on the books that even if some of their clients are forced out of the market, there'll be plenty left to take their places. The credit furniture men, who advertise for newlyweds three complete rooms of furniture for $347, with nothing down and three full years to pay, are out of luck. If the bride and groom also buy a $212.50 electric refrigerator on the same § CH terms, and they usually do, their total bill is $559. : i

The:'re Just Guessing ak ers ’ NOW THEY'VE got to pay down 20 per cent, OF SGIENTIFIC BENT—Mazes of. chemistry equipment will .be-

or about $120 (including extras and interest) andy COMO familiar to (left to right) Jacqulyn Starken, Plainfield, and Lela

get rid of the whole bill in 15 months at around} -Canganelli, Pittsboro. Miss Canganelliuwill use her science to prepare whether to enter the teaching profession or not. i $35 per. How many can wangle that, and an auto-| f4. ig 9 prep g prote or'not. The picture was taken

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WATCH YOUR GRAMMAR—Margaret Ann Wates, Zisvills: High. School, has chosen English as her major. She has not decided

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