Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1949 — Page 19
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ONE EXTREMELY significant thing about the type of people who attend such affairs was
people attend cooking schools, * ..As the women filed into the auditorium I sort of checked them over. If a composite picture of the typical woman attending were being painted, it would have to include these characteristics: Round face; straight hair combed back and tied with a ribbon; flower-heavy sailor hat; short clean fingernails minus red polish; comfortable, Jow-heeled shoes and holding either a large handbag or a shopping bag. In other words, the kind
Fried chicken . . . Martha Logan whips up. in record time, a batch of crispy-crunchy fowl a la cooking school. .
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routine. The way she got the chicken ready was sheer c. No fuss, no bother and ladies... so tender if you use you-know-what. It was a good show ‘all right, but it got me to wondering how
Logan took up peanut butter in corn fritter batter. The point to remember is that a little peanut butter in the fritter bitter . . , butter batter . .. britter ... I hate fratters.
Bubbling Over a Range DOROTHY FULTON, home service director of the gas company, came on the stage just bubbling over the Roper range her outfit sells. Why she wasn't juggling a range, I'll never know. Miss Fulton's theme was “Gay Nineties Cookery.” From one who just eats what lodks and tastes good and doesn’t ask too many questions, any resemblance to the gay 90's was purely coin-, cidental. And there wasn’t much coincidence.. | Dressed in a trim pink cotton dress, Miss Ful-| ton produced as if by magic “Dixie pork chops,” “champagne ham”. (actually ginger ale was used), cream puffs, Hawaiian pineapple cake and the miracle frosting I spoke about earlier. The clue to all the speed and efficiency was| planning. Planning, of course, meant getting pot roasts ready to the point of sticking into the oven, seyeral assistants behind curtains with baked cakes in their hands and ready to receive used utensils. Most educational. It's good to see how other people do things once in awhile, It's good unless you get frosted, right, Mom?
Scalped
4 By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, May 26—While I stand stanchly . sword for. But getting sore at a man who deals in qualifications at the Speedway. Dixie also got a bit of a sunburn.
for motherhood and deplore all crime, in addition to loving dogs, cats and children, I have had a real rough time “working up any indignation over the theater ticket-scalping “scandal” which has shaken our town to its whatever you shake a town to. Gad, Abercrombie, I even failed to register alarm when the sacred names of the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Union League, University, Racquet and Tennis,” River and New York Athletic Clubs were swept into this unsavory mess which has managed to dwarf world news for a good three weeks. Can it be that my indignation corpuscles have shrunk? i The snide suspicion is that the legitimate theaters which have hit plays on their lucky little hands are doing business with ticket speculators, who in turn peddle priceless tickets to jays at priceless prices. 4 rageous that they threatened to close “South Paeific” and now make threatening gestures at “Kiss Me, Kate.” The investigators also want to know how come the members of the aforementioned clubs can just call up a ticket spec and get seats for the hits merely by paying a markup. Formidable!
" Braggadocio: $200 per Brag
THE MAN who sells me my theater tickets (at a reasonable margin of profit) tells me that the special performance of “South Pacific” given a week or so ago commanded $200 per seat, and the customers were crying for the privilege to pay. I do not think this is really wicked, somehow. Anybody who is sucker enough to pay 200 bucks for anything he can't take home with him deserves his trimming, and power to the trimmers. The purchaser is only buying braggadocio, and he will get his money back 20 times fn boastful recapitulation. Anything you want to say about a guy who speculates in food, clothes, rent or even seminecessity I will indorse double, and sharpen the
This is supposed to be so out-,
in expanded entertainment tickets is roughly comparable to knocking a jeweler for upping the! price of green diamonds. Or tilting the price tag on yachts over 100 feet long, | Boy and man, I have hung around the show shops for years, and never did I see a customer forced a* gun-point to enter a theater. heard of a ticket spec who forced his client to buy two on the aisle for Bobby Clark or Tallulah Bankhead. “Oklahoma!” was a gem, but it had! very little bearing on the state of the nation's food, shelter or defense. : | A brace of ducats for “South Pacific” today is more than two seats for a musical play. It is the exhibitionist’s identification. Man wants to brag a little, wants to preen his plumage in front of the girl, wants to impress a client, wants to cut a big figure in the nightclub sector—pays al fat price and flashes two for “S. P.” makes him a big man in his own mind. Why cheat him of the thrill of paying a yard for a ticket worth four bucks?
Price Tag on Prestige
I REMEMBER, very clearly, the Louis-Conn M fight that old Mike Jacobs sold for a $100 top.
The customers to that one didn’t come for a! prizefight. blow a hundred bucks on an hour’s entertainment made them big stuff in the smoking car, in the barber shop. It was a lousy fight, but its quality had nothing to do with it. The buying prestige.
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Goliath, but that’s just chinchiness on my part.|¥’ ’ I certainly am no man to spoil the fun of a fel-| low who gets a charge out of being suckered. ¥
There are so many other things you could investigate in New York that I wish the idealists would leave the ticket-bandits alone. This is at least one #ituation in which the thief can claim equal nobility with the victim,
Inquisition, 1949
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, May 26—Down in the gloomy, limestone depths of the U. 8. Capitol is a cubbyhole lined on one side with a double tier of ancient iron vaults. A fine place for the inquisition of an alchemist, . And, so help me, that's what went on. The 4nquisitors, being Senators, wore sack suits instead of black robes. The alchemist, being atom boss David BE. Lilienthal, squirmed not on a rack, but on a plain wooden chair. He suffered just the same. Everybody, seemed like, was investigating the pecretive manufacturers of atom bombs. How come they: Jost some atoms in Chicago? Why did they hire a scientist who was a fellow travelér? Why did it take ‘em three months to discover the loss of two chunks of uranium, which one of their own cops sneaked out of the West Coast factory to see how long before they'd be missed? Why were they shipping atomic isotopes to Europe?
Give Him the Works
IN THE midst of trying to answer all these questions for assorted congressional investigators, Mr. Lilienthal and his atom splitters showed up before the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask, please, for $740 million. The Senators grabbed Mr. Lilienthal by the ear, hauled him to their subterranean hideaway, and gave him the works. The place was so hot and so muggy that an atomic scientist's pants were inclined to stick to his chair, Cigaret smoke swirled under the chandeliers. The balding Mr. Lilienthal was showing his @ge. What hair he had left was turning gray; Js greenish summer suit was wrinkled; his expression was worried. He hardly resembled the bright young New Dealer I used to know years
‘ago at the Tennessee Valley Authority. So he sat there and reluctantly, it almost seemed, tried to defend himself. ! Yes, he was responsible for the lost uranium in Chicago; at least he was in charge of the 60,000 people who manufacture fissionable material by the tens of thousands of pounds. Somebody pulled a boner and somebody else pulled another by not calling in the FBI when the stuff first was lost, Theoretically, Mr. Lilienthal was ened
And then he made the understatement of 1949: “I should be criticized,” he said.
“And, indeed, it appears that I am.” |
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only laugh of this distressing day. Mr. Lilienthal didn’t smile; he didn't seem to realize he'd said| something funny.
What Is an Isotope? WITH HIM he had his counsel, his general manager, and his director of general research, all youthful and almost boyish-looking in the) artificial light. They told about the isotopes | they've been shipping to Europe. ! And here at long last I learned what an isotope | is: It is a piece of synthetic radium, Good for| treating cancer, among other things. a But could it also be used for building bombs? That's what the Senators wanted to know. The! chief chemist doubted it, but he wouldnt say| for sure. The leading scientists, though, thought | there was no danger in selling certain isotopes! to laboratories in Europe. The Senators pounded] long on this theme, and Mr. Lilienthal finally | blurted out an appeal. “I beg you not to let this become a matter of public excitement,” he cried. He sounded anguished. But then, so did the Senators. As a citizen, I feit a little queasy, myself.
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Who made the first flight across the Atlantic?
Lieut-Comdr. A. C. Read In command of the “It is fun to be in the same decade with you”?
United States Navy seaplane NC-4 made the first trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Portugal by way of the Azores in 1919. ; ® o ¢ How old is the Guido scale? This scale of musical notation was invented by Guido @’Arezzo, a monk in the Benedictine Mona~ stery of Pomposa who ive In the 11th century. ® “ Is there any place on earth where thunderstorms never occur?
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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949 PAGE 19
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. Race Day Preview by Victor Peterson
Seven-month-old Larry and sister, Roberta, 2, got their first look at the whirl. ing race cars yesterday. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Delong, Paoli, the enjoyed all the noise and excitement which goes with a day at the track.
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Senior Week came at just the right time for these Washington, Ind,, high school students. | made it possible for Lewis Alexander and Dixie Colbert to take
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Not everyone gees to the Speedway to watch the cars. Mrs, W. C. Balsley, 53 W. 32d St., turned her back to the track and lost
herself for the day in one of her favorite novels.
apr IHD * - ; a resenting the latest mode of chapeau for race enthusiasts . . . Railbirds find the sun hot and protection needed during a long day at the oval. Decked out are (left to right) Herbert Rand, 3557 N. Gladstone Ave.: T. G. Wall, 3531 N, Chester St., and Claude Adair, 3160 Winfield Ave.
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3 } -. - Dor Sue Brown, R. R. 10, Indianapolis (left), and Edith Byroad, 2440 Talbot Ave., found "a million things to look at" on their first visit to the giant race course. They perched on a rail for a better view.
J. B. Young, Lawrence, Kas., forgot his hat in his car. Nine previous trips to the 500-Mile taught him to protect his eyes from the glare. The paper cup, his soft drink came in, served double duty as a shade.
Local Spelling Champ Scans Dictionary Before Finals
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