Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1949 — Page 11
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4 Wedding rehearsal . . . I's a rough, long road to the altar, brothers and sisters,
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thought the groom and the best man should their dppearance a teensy-weensy time “ ] music started. Finally (and I honestly don't know’ how this was acomplished), everyone was standing in front of the preacher. Another half hour and several changes in the arrangement of ushers and bridesmaids later, only half of those present were satiswith the rehearsal. AMY was che of ‘thoge | ‘who was satisfied. His step; however, began to get steadier by the quarter )
Kept Changing the Arrangement ON ONE of the } runs, Junior announced to: the assembled faithful, “Everytime we go up there! = they change it {atrangement),” This produced a weak smile of approval from the preacher, who| had given up it and a sharp, Gisap-| proving glance from his mother. When the fourth battle of arrangements ended,
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Aj pointe Two-man Caucus. . . . Sens. Show Time. i. , One night ab he-folles is. mustfar many: Hg an Makowski and Baldoni exchange Hoosier lawmakers. Sens. Mekowski-and-Baldoni appraise the lobby... pg patter in hotel room, .....__- photoes, " - Ci is
... Sightseeing. . . . Sen. Judson West inclignapafis) polis ns ues, Sens. ouhita “Baldoni {D:" Edmund da te sds owski (D. East Chicago).
planning to drive Kentueky that “night “dnd” really throw a monkey wrench into the works, a female voice announced, “That's all, very “Do you think this wedding will go off all right?” I asked my custodian friend. “It will go off like clockwork,” was his answer. “Don’t judge a wedding by the rehearsal. Everyone will be on the ball tomorrow.” “How about the old man?” \ “He'll be the best in the bunch.” OK. You know, weddings are so beautiful,
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Genuine and Gl
By Robert C. Ruark,
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NEW, YORK, Feb. 14—The best bad book, or truest description of lowercase combat that I've maybe the worst good book, that I have read on read. i the war is a thing called “To Hell and Back,” shortly to be published by Henry Holt and Co. wn oole- ie supposedly written- DY -Audie-Mur--few teeth: The man- sent --him over there -to- kill: ‘phy, a youngster who lacked some weeks of being Germans and stay alive, if possible, and Mr.! 21 when V-E Day arrived. Mr. Murphy was our Murphy's treatise concerns itself with the art of most decorated soldier—he got 21 gongs, altogether, including the big casino, or Congressional Medal of Honor. He was wounded repeatedly, and sdrama of his own conduct a little bit, out of def-! was created a pe uisnant in the field.
Naturally, Mr. Murphy came from Texas.
He worked for the 3d Infantry Division. While toiling for his Uncle, he personally killed, captured or wounded the staggering sum of 240 Germans, or krauts, as we used to call them in unbridled anger, Mr. Murphy was about the size of an understringbean, but he was big enough to heft a carbine, and he could knock off a gnat's nostril with it. A handsome young chap, Mr. Murphy, still short of 24, is now a motion picture actor, and Ieeenlly Wel a alan ‘This should make him the. total embodifnent -of the idealized -American- GI. crear dPRCE ITO. MY. admiration. for his bravery and, proficiency as a hastener of the peace, I was prepared to read just three ‘lines of Mr. Murphy's book, and then throw it at the cat. Books entitled “To Hell and Back,” concerning.the author's heroism, written by movie actors —with the aid of a nameless spook-—are generally suitable for cat-crippling or fire-starting, and not much else.
Still Another Strike on Him
"LITTLE AUDIE had still another strike on him. His literary assistant evidently ripped off the book with an open copy of “All Quiet on the Western Front” -beside him, since the prose is pure , ersatz Erich Remarque, and at times appears to have been translated from the original German. Now, though, having slugged the net effort with all my mental muscle, I will say I couldn't drop the book. - Despite the Remarque-able prose and the uneasy literary lacework, it is the best and
‘characters in the 10-pouRd “tour de Torce war
Mr. Murphy, even with his handicap of some- ] body else's style, manages to gnash Jemakebly ;
killing Germans and staying alive. . 1 think perhaps he downplays the personal
erence to Mr. Remarque’s flat technique, but he certainly flaunts no “this-is-it” histrionics; no. bragging, and no conscious hint at heroism. You get the impression that Muryhy is a, substitute streetcleaner, sweeping up an especially| untidy alley.
Audie’s People Come Alive AUDIE'S awkward dialogue, differing from the! polished chit-chat or the sharp-honed hoopla of the professionals, makes his people come alive.’ They are the men who wrote the silly, stilted let-| ters back home, who worked a simple joke to death, who conversed coarsely and often tritely on the same beat and battered subjects. - J They live beyond, and way beyond, the stylized
books like “Naked and the Dead” and “The Young Lions.” There was not enough bad writing in pi . Clerk Nat Smith displays flashy tie for Sen. All Alone. . . . Rep. Joseph Klein (D. Gary) those books to convey the idea of raw young ‘D,le : gy [o- Young America) whe spends Afttrmoon shopping. adjourns. Long after the other representatives ary! fetes
over one bill after another after the House gone: fo hic hatai.. Rap. Klein usually sifts
America at war. Audie’'s boys become unbelievable only when . through # the day's bills end answers his voluminous mail ATE * he drags them out of their mudholes and into one Tvrrakars Hove Variety of Interests; R world ideology, and even then he is very little less M tl Ab t P apt than the more accomplished authors. Listening to Lobbyists Popular Pastime | OS y ou eop e. So long as he keeps them drunk, scared, stupid, By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Lau corny. inarticuately heroic and AY. he is a grea, "__1Jke most other Hoosiers, Indiana's lawmakers find “all work Maj. De Don A. Masen of French [past few years, Mrs. MeDonough, Bloomington and winners from author in the sense that Ernie Pyle was a great ,;,q 16 play” is dull. "Lick, Training Officer, G-3 Sec. has made her home With her six other cities visited the Week author the day he wrote the story of the death of pui- judging by their off-hour behavior, no one can justly , or g Army Headquarters, | daughter and son-in-law, Dian/of the show for a possible placs a captain who came down the hill on a mule. accuse them of being dull. They work a jot, but they play a lot, too, ‘| Manners and Johnny Clark, both!on the NBC coast- t broad. Ultimate triuniph over stupidity, hasty prepara- "co. hing the Senators and Representatives off guard in Indi-| Philippines Command in Manila, well known in film and radio|cast on the following Sunday tion, borrowed techniques and even faulty leader- ,., 0s will surprise no one. They behave exactly like the people recently recelved his commission | girojeg, from Louisville, Ky. . ship was the GI's final prideful accomplishment, who voted them into office back] to the permanent rank of Major| sgee Barbara Sims, thatintia Cpl. Henry ©. Cosby, son of and Mr. Murphy, stilted syntax and all, gives you, = "_ A few of the lawmakers “go in the Regular Army. olis student at Indiana Univers- Mrs. Scrilda Cosby, 1334 Hoyt that GI as he was in his best moments of hot, un-; The Hoosier legislators spend at! out on the town.” This, -in some His wife, Marcia, and two chil- ity, Bloomington, recently won al|Ave., recently Hf in Wiese conscious heroism. * [least two nights a week gracing Cases, mignt include one night at| dren, Robert and Patricia, have piace on the Horace Heldt “Pa baden, Germany, for a three-year
Beefs on Beef
|dinners, ban /the local burlesk, a trek to aljoined him in the Philippines and | pade of Stars” amat o ts quets and othe mateur program|tour of Army duty with the First “must” affairs. Occasionally théy|night spot, or on week-ends, the naw are Hing at the 3any 40 in competitive auditions held in {Constabulary Brigade Headquar« By Frederick C. Othman take in a hockey game, wrestling|$ymphony. tam McKoy: located a few| Bloomington. ters. Currently assigned to the match, basketball game, or a 8 2 am Mc ney cated, | A soprano, Miss Sims will sing Air Section as a truck driver, | movie. THERE are some legislators miles outside Manila. on the'7 p. m. show on Feb. 26,|Cpl. Cosby has beer with
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 —I know a fellow A ‘buying ‘all the “grade “A™ beststeais
he wants for 26% cents per pound.
He wanted a lot. Last year he bought from one international butcher, alone, 8.5 million pounds of first-quality beef at less than you have to pay for gristly hamburger. My man is thé Army's Quartérmaster General. He bought his beef by the refrigerated shipload in Argentina for feeding the hungry in Germany and
Greece, but he finally had to stop.
The yammering in Congress got too loud. The boys though he should have patronized his homecountry butchers and thereby helped hold up -the price of cattle, For a week the members of the Senate Agriculture Committee had been lambasting one administration bigwig after another .over this South American meat deal. The proceedings were almost over, . Chairman Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma was about to bang his gavel, when up jumped a plump little man with a rich Latin accent, Who was he? Manuel Rodriguez of New York
City, he said. And what did he want?
He’ was an importer and exporter and he intended to tell those Senators about the Army's meat. What did he know about that? smiled.
‘Senators Sit—Ker-Thump'
IT JUST happened, he said, that he sold the Army more Argentine beef last year than did any-
body else. The Senators sat down, ker-thump.
He hauled out one of his contracts with the Quartermaster General, calling for the delivery at % cents per pound in Bremerhaven last July of
A on pounds of Argentine beef.
“Had the Army bought this same beef in Chicago on this same day,” Rodriguez continued earnestly, “and had the bone removed and the meat
’ “to buy our autos and tractors and railroad cars? legislators wife
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o fe. Cail T. Louden, son of Mr. t availahle to the Who take ‘homework” back to| P to be given at I. U. She will com-| First Constabulary Brigade dressed, it would have cost 90 cents & pound, plus | Free duce s wy 3 eir families, CNeIF Hotel FOOME. Tr the qutet of {and Mes. Carl-T. Keune hi- w [pete with-eight others chosen a since’
5'¢ents for freight=- [compliments ¢ of the management. FEReIF- FOO they write lettery tn;
“B-but . . ." began several Senators. constituents, read bills and talk 2 radio mechanic Fo The AIF] 100, Rodrigues was not to be stopped. The savings! pop the tired jegislator, there “policy” with colleagues. Force Communications School at Campaign Planned
on this one order, he said, amounted to $1,275,000. |, always the soft comfortable Many lawmakers entertain Scott Air Force Base, Ill. He enHe was proud for having arranged it. And as a, .... in downtown hotel lobbies. visting hometowners and a few|listed in the Air Force Nov. 5,| Fo 5 rt $ S taxpaper, happy. That's where the majority of them others go sight seeing. | 1947. | r up Ppo Lo) ymp on
But it couldn't have been fine, tender meat, iyius Git at night. Like other visitors - -to— the! — Mrs, Mary - MeDonough, - forcoming off the South American plains like that,| Other not- i jawmakers Hoosier capital, the Indiana legis- merly of Indianapolis and sister Drive for Small Contributions Opens Feb. 2; 7 sald Sen. Milton R. Young of North Dakota. The i. 4. ~ounds of the other/lators find a variety of off- -time of the late Dr. E. M. Ryan, is! Orch esa bouncy senor was. prepared for that one: he'd | yi... tne railroad lobby, police in{érests—and; like others, make seriously ill in Hollywood Hos-| esfra Directors Institute Th brought along a meat expert who testified that lobby and liquor lobby to mention the mo most of them. } ‘pital, Hollywood, Cal For or the! Plans for a campaign to stabilize the Indianapolis Symphony's Bh ‘the Argentine beef was comparable in every way just a few. These also are in pp financial situation were announced today by ‘the orchestra's board to Chicago good-grade beet. Petes 1n viusny sues. ere 's CARNIVAL By Dick Turner of directors. I'am very much surprised.” said Sen. YOung. grey Senator or Representative . Jin the slogan “Buy a Share in Your Symphony's Future * . . 'can quench his “dryness.” . oo undreds of meg.and women volunteer workers will offer Whereon There Are Bristles Ana lobbies also get a big \ coupon-type shares at §5 each, Feb, 28 to Mar. 21. Fhe pubtia AND another thing, countered Rodriguez. Here play i . m—— The object of the drive, accord- PE ———————— we get a bargain in beef from Argentina and we EVERY oncé in a while some |[ ing to Dr. G. H. A. Clowes, pres- A series of popular concerts at quit buying it. And how are the South Americans, '" * comes to the / ident of the Indiana State Sym. POPUlAr prices, formerly a feature
phony Sociefy, is twofold: First, Of the orchestra's season, will on. Wik be i to raise $100,000 or more to cov. resumed, the board : er this season's difference be- Possible reduction of a: tween the symphony's operating Mission prices to regular con. cost and its revenue; second, to certs will enable more people To to stimulate public interest in shar- attend more concerts, the hoard ing responsibility for the arches- added. in g tra's future.
Mrs, Easley R. Blackwood of Man Rensacking Home \
{the Symphony Society's Women's Committee will lead the women Wounded
{warkers. Leonard Solomon, In! MUNCIE, %eb. 14 UP) —
| dlanapoits merchant, has been! Burto ¢ {named head of the men volun- Charlég n, 22, Winchester,
{ 3 ly puts a crim | International trade, he said, is a two-way street. capital. This usuall) S| “You exported automobiles and farm machin- in his le. “He hen Ind ray or J’ ny | $EY 0 Arention} asked Sen. Edward J. Thye of all-night bull sessions and song | “Yes, sir,” replied Manuel. fests, “While. we couldn't buy these things here at
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used the words, black marketer, Manuel
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* Anyhow, said the gentleman from Minneso it was just such deals as this Argentina beef ing Death dealt another grim hand
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that were ruining America’s cattiemen. early today in “murder” on the : was in a critical Not so, cried Manuel. He sald, and he had the highway. | teers. Memoria n condition in Ball | | | to prove it, that the Army's purchases Two Anderson children were | Foomomies Pledged al Hospital here today {
The orchestra’s board of direc- after He was shot ‘while ransack- ; tors, currently conferring with Ing & home Saturday night. = | local business leaders on ways, Burton was shot n id and means to keep the Symphony | |Bheriff Bert Osborn in the home |going, have made extensive econ- of Leonard Hoover. Mr. Hoover
figures south-of the border amounted to ‘only a fraction killed, a sister and their mother of the American beef business. (seriously injured. The father “Amazing,” commented Sen. Young. * |escaped injury. That's the end of my tale and I don't know Over the week end two other what to think about it. Amazing, I guess, is right, persons died in highway mishaps. The dead are:
The Quiz Master
| omy recommendations for the and his wife saw a t burn | Symphony's 1049-50 season. |in the house as they Jt, burning . Operating costs will be reduced & drive and called the sheri's |an estimated 23 per cent, the office.
" | ‘Walter G. Rughes, 11. 22? Test Your Skill PPP) SLA "
entone.
What event is generally considered to mark
the beginning of the French Revolution?
The seizure of the Bastille by the people of
Frank Viekers, 41, Shelburn, Nil [board has announced. The sub-| Deputy Osborn said He he entered
i . Are there ary all-aluminum drawbri in! y 1 scription series will be cut from the house and saw io dges In bt The Siar County Hospital [the present 14 to 10 pairs of con- into the bathroom apd Jock Button ip An _allaluminum drawbridge, sald to bé the Hughes, 9, and Mrs. Lizzie certs. ‘Soloists will be engaged on door. * He sald he ordered the . first of its kind in the world, will span the 90-foot Hughes, 490. a strictly box-office basis, “Iman to come out. When Burton entrance to the south docks of the North Sea port The Hughes - family apparently The orchestra’s tours will be, ‘refused, a, Otbyrn » a of Sunderland, England. ‘ / Ing 0 AN erson from AF . &% bi . revised s0 as to have short, eco er io ho * i Brie Indiana wheh their au-| 5 7 nomical “jumps” between ee Mane ma “How long did it take to contrac the Colosus {nan sae on. 5.4 north o* onsen fn Tm hi with consequent lowering of ex-| Deputy of Rhodes? of Speed. .The father, Paskell © - SLE pense. Tour income, hitherto _ About 12 years. This h bronze statue of the Hughes, was out of the car at- Al This rey in Washington: about the people's ability to werk” ‘for {important part of the symphony’ sun-god Helios soa shout t 110 pot high. tempting to make repaigg. their medical care! wish they d ask me my opinion revenue, thus may sree {
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