Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1949 — Page 13
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I better explain that I'm not an antique col: lector. ‘About the only old items that interest me to any extent are 12 or more years old and come bonded. But, ignorant or not, interested or not,
my purpose was to investigate the antique busi
ness, not condemn or insult it. What is an antique? I looked around for someone I knew or recognized so they could try for $2. On a complete circle no one I could turn to crossed
my field of vision. Plenty of stuff crossed my ears.
‘l Just Love This’ Gets a Workout . THE WORD elegant was used with almost a careless abandon. Everything was elegant. An elderly woman called a piece of glass elegant that
Experience Joy Of Circus Day
I wouldn't throw at a howling cat. Of course, -
A + +. Miss Liverne Zahiler holds a rare China doll. Psssst , , , it doesn't say "Mama" or anything. =
Sharecropper
NEW YORK, Apr. 5—Well, it looks as if I
am finally forced to buy a farm, on which we hope to grow children. Desperation demands that this be done, or get out of the column-writ-ing dodge. I am sick ‘of being a sharecropper on Fred Othman's farm and a part-time kibitzer on Bob Considine’s kids.” Everyone knows, today, that a writer must have a farm or ‘kids Af he is going to stay in business. Subject matter] you know, Freddy's had more columnar mileage’ out of his farm already than he ever got out of the Patent Bureau, which is to say he has probably paid for it in pieces about it. As for kids—well, Bob was sayihg the other day that they were going to find another one,
“because the three they've got already have shot
their wad as typewriter fodder. And I’ve noticed, lately, that Othman is being a lot more closemouthed about his farm, while Considine won't let a competitor near his spawn, for fear a bright saying will be piifered in his absence.
| ‘Othman. at the Plow.
IT IS POSITIVELY not. true that Considine beats his brood until they provide him with a subject for his daily sermon. Nor that Othman owns no mechanized plow at all, but harnesses his Hilda to the shares when spring-plantin’ time comes on. . I say this despite the fact that both have run out on a bargain we made. . The bargain was as follows: In return for & half interest in Sherman Billingsley and Toots Shor, I was to receive secondary writing privileges on the Othman farm. In return for part-time literary custody of Mike, Dennis and Barry Considine, I was to allow Father Considine to have pccasional access to my deg, for as any fool knows, a pooch is as necessary to daily journalism as newsprint.
Next-Banana Chips By Frederick C. Othman)
WASHINGTON, Apr. 5 — Frozen chicken ple now is on the market. So is fried banana chips, or at least they will be soon, and obviously the tithe has come to report on my latest researches into the latest boons now bursting upon humanity. : The chicken pie is fine, when thawed out and heated. The banana chips I have not yet tasted, but an outfit in Miami, Fla., has gone into the business of slicing bananas thin, frying them in oil, and selling same in airproof paper sacks. Crispy bananas sound good to me and I understand they soon will be available across the nation. Milton R. Reynolds, the big ball-point fountain pen man of Chicago, has come up with still a new wrinkle: A transparent plastic pen which not only will write upside down under water, but which never will fall out of your bulletproof vest. This newest pen contains & powerful magnet. In a vest of chain mafl it is safe. Stays put. Mr, ‘Reynolds, of course, does not recommend the magnetic ball polit pen for that reason. He sugs that it-is the ideal pen to put by the telephone, because it will stick there by its own magnetism. 2
Devises New Mechanical Wonder
THE ADMIRAL CORP. uniike:so many phono-
graph companies still have not decided whether |
to go along with the slow-speed record of Columbia, or the not-quite-so-siow records of RCAVictor, has devised a mechanical wonder which plays any old kind of record with the same tone
arm. a __.=It rolls at 78 revolutions per minute for old--fashioned records, 33 for Columbia's discs and 45
for RCA’s. The arm has two needles and while it sounds a little complicated to me, the management
. says all you've got to do is push the right button.
The television companies are up to their elbows in thelr own private fight about whether the Fed-
‘The Quiz Master
Who is president of the American Red Cross? ‘Harry 8. Truman, as President of the United "States 1a president of the American Red Cross. 3 &® ’ “ i What is the origi of “Dixie” as applied to the
I Ditie, a synonym for the South, is & corruption
‘about his miserable little hard-scrabble
-names of the mills, but the National
Mrs. Claude Gilliatt, Franklin. “I run the Hotel Antique Shop,” added my new friend, “and I able to answer any questions you might
Perhaps. : iis “Let me show you some exquisite antiques,” suggested Mrs. Giliiatt. “Follow me.” ~ —
Over people's shoulders, through crooked olf
bows and while being pushed around, we looked at! Meissen, Dresden and Volkstadt pieces. I admitted, the workmanship and detail of workmanship was fine.- But, for $163, no thanks. :
doll with something called “Dresden rough” ts neck could be had for $200, “Does it say ‘Mamma'?” Miss Zahller informed me it did not say mamma Neither did it feel “resl” cry or wet its pants “It” she said, “is a fine piece of workmanship.”
how many have it. How Can anyone tell me? I the show again today.
By Robert C. Ruark
It hasn't worked out at all. I have upheld my| part of the bargain but Othman is as secretive
acreage it. He won't
ything I'm around. He's saving his best material thé opposition. About all I'm left with in the way of Fight now is Grandpa and Mama. And they just| aren't stout enough to lean on week in, week out. So it looks like a farm is the only answer. I can meet selfishness with selfishness, and I aim to teach ’em all a lesson. One of these days I will have a bigger farm than Othman’s. It will be posted against poaching columnists, and the hired man will have orders to shoot on sight.
Ruark’s Secret Weapons
AS FOR, YOUNGUNS, I intend fo raise more yo! Considin brighter younguns, and most of all, younguns. They will talk for publication to nobody but Father. They will not even be allowed to play with the Considine kids, for fear of a leak. The dog will be guarded as zealously as an atom foundry. If he lets out even one yip in the presence of the enemy I will take away his rubber cat with the squeaker in it. —— a © Out there on the farm, columns will breed like rabbits. Cozy anecdotes about the cow. Play-by-play on poison ivy versus juveniles. Dogs and fish and flowers and childfén and seeds and fertilizer. A million stories.
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i i] eral Communications Commission's expected de-| cision on ultra-high frequency transmission will
turn most current sets into model T's.
The Zenith Corp. says only its sets will do the trick when the rules are changed; the other manu-
SECO
Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer
facturers say this isn't so, while two of them are| 3
suing Zenith for talking that way. The FCC, I hasten to add, still has given no: indication of what its decision will be, or when. Let us hasten on to. the new microphone the size of a dime so that when a beauty starts to
warble in a night club, you can see her. She|
won't be hidden by a big black mike, A number of new automobiles are in the works,
including one with a plastic body for $1170 now| |
being made in San Diego, Cal. An oil company is putting stuff in its gasoline 40 keep the inside of your engine from rusting. Says next winter it's going to use the same idea in its furnace oil.
Seek-Wrinkle-Proof Pants .
FINALLY, there comes the problem of where! to buy the wrinkle-proof pants which I mentioned’ here last week in an item about the Maid of Cot-| ton from Memphis, Tenn. She had a dress, you
may remember, which was impregnated win IN
synthetic resins and which wouldn't wrinkle. She said that this summer men’s cotton pants would be manufactured of the same ee
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day has the added jurisdiction af standards, regulating all new Indianapolis building developments.
among others, makes the resins in which 'a number of mills soak their cotton fibres so that they are bent, they'll snap back. I
cil, which may That takes the query
222 Test Your Skill 77?
of the French.word “Dix” (10) printed on the,
A ans Bank's motes Rotors the Civil War. i * Which staté touches only one other state? | Maine is the only state in :
“hodge-podge” subdivisions being -iocreated here, City Council last) hools in any proposed subdivi-|
C . Jack Kammins, is to befter con- Farm Safety Week trol the division of lots in mew| CHICAGO, Apr. 5 (UP) —The\s, was an indevelopme: A
Union that ad- . He assured council
gE x J $s SE Fa : 2 Backstage, the Sherman Brothers, Chester and Joe, pile on the makeup for their clown act.
ew Development Control Bell Employee
Josephine: Berosini readies for a take-off for her high ‘wire ach.
Late Justice Cardozo Saves
Voted to City Plan Board °" Award Pin Ingen From Prison Sentence
The City Plan Commission toby raising health and safety msn With the Indiana Bell Tele-| ;..0, gaul 1. Rabb banged the assault and battery charge handed phone Co., has completed 30 years| vy) in Criminal Court 2 yester- down in Municipal Court... * Await Fesney's Action ~~ [PTVice With the company. day, but it was the late U. 8. Jus-| At that time, Judge Rabb up. Mr. Kammins explained that| A resident of ltice' Benjamin ¥. Cardozo who held the decision but suspended {under provisions of the ordinance, | C2TDY,.he start- kept: Harlan Jent. from going to the prison sentence and placed a long glance .at the ive commission has the power to/%4 his telephone the Indiana State Farm. Jent on probation. With Jent's |provide allocations for parks and |: cer in-1919 as A few days ago, Judge Rabb arrest late last ‘month on the a central ‘office had decided that Jent, 26, of 1024 Vagrancy charge, Judge Rabb [repatrman. for] 8. Belle Vieu Place, had broken/considered the probation broken THe ordi 8 ust. be {the former Cen- probation when he was arrested and ordered Jent sent to the a ul 2aa tral Union. Tele- by police on a vagrancy charge State Farm. : Lr Mayor Feeney before it goesiphone Co. here. after a fracas with his father-in-| Jet's attorney, John Daily, Object of the eas city books. Before his : law. |came up with the Cardozo-opinion. : new ordinance, promotion to re- Jent's father-indaw falled to All Judge Rabb could do was pair foreman in : testify on the vagrancy arrest and| order Jent to pay up his court February, 1048, Jent was not convicted. Justice! Sot now —— ting to $100.35, nts. National Safely ‘Councll sald to-| caller and PRX F: Drinkyt(Cordogo once had ruled 8 Jorier|
” {court canmot revoke probation eae pee en a E “With this ordinance we eah day that Prepident Truman has repairman. In 1940 he became @iyniess the accused ha heen British Publisher Dies i
coordinate streets in proposed sub-|nrociaimed the week of July 24 as member of Telephone Pioneers of prrested and convicted on another, MANCHESTER, England, Apr, divisions with existing streets andi, 1 poo sarety Week, The ATeTica. | > the city's overall master plan,” :
Mr. Drinkut ived th arES.: ria ; befor 3, OP-—domp. Kn i 4 : |. MAT. nkut receiv e com-| Jent originally came before chairman i ancl r - fetuen sald = accidental farminony's award of a jeweled pin to/Judge Rabb when he appealed an dian and Evening News, Ltd, died the new deaths in 1947 were about 19,500, commemorate his Po anniver- 180-day State Farm sentence and today at his home in Wilmslow, he eityios one-fifth the national tell, - * lsary. + ja fine of $100 and costs on; an Cheshire. : t