Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1949 — Page 25
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States were | of his own rs old) last . Martin Co. ustry. : ssociation of having. The r education, nobile Asso-
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baseball team. It takes 11 to give you your mone worth. Three of the 11 i ] pal . don’t even get to go in the My curiosity about Robbfhis and
They Do ‘As They'ré Told - YOU MIGHT think the men car
h they 1 For example, say the sitting below and wouldn't mind in the least to be turned into little gray lines, Can Mac squirt oF,
tive proflucer, tells him to, which is-unlikely. But, that's another part of the story and besides, he's ..out of the ball park. We're up in thé camera booth.
= puis Bergenroth, foreman of the crew, happened to be fooling around béhind the cameras, doing nothing, so I asked him what his job was. He said he relieved the men at.all stations
Boss, where's the sound? Where's Dick Pitten. -
Ber, the announcer? How come the ‘want to talk to me? : Well, on the walk behind the press and radio booths on the roof of the Victory Field grandstand, Joouis-explained that Dick-Pittenger-was-in-the sound booth, It's located two booths to the right of Ownie Bush's private layout and two to the left of Times Sports Editor Eddie Ash's. Fair enough,
guys don't
“Can't you see Kelly and Mac are too busy to
chéw the fat?” — With, his forefinger across his lips and under his nose, Louis opehed the screen door to the WFBM sound booth. It was obvious Dick was the only one allowed to do any falking in there. Notes were peifmissible providing the pencil didn't scratch. Dick had a television set to his left, a micro phone an inch or so from his mouth, Statistician Georgia Conneley to his right and next to har was
..Charlle Robinson, handling the audio contraption.
“An answering note, handed to me if at any moment the thing. might explode, told.me that Dick usually talked about the action appearing on the television set The same action that was going over the air. Dick had nothing to do with the image. All he does is talk and jiggle his right leg. When he lights a:cigaret the leg stops jiggling. Miss Conneley keeps-im full view all pertinent statistics of tle game. Without moving his head Dick can pick up side notes of the game in progress. Under the microphone is a complete tile on
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i an V aw 3 ef . ¥ D > - * "Squirting" . : . Robert (Kelly) Robbins draws a on a rampaging Indian_at Victory Field. Outside the pall park; ir the WIFBM hus, ts where the signal calling is done. Gene Starbecker. does the talking in there, : : Gri To the newcomer it sounds like incoherent “Jabbering. i “Take 1—give me the scoreboard, Mac—-take 2 -—give me the pitcher's mound and lock it—take 1 i-gwitch to your 8-inch, Mac-—take 2—taaake 1." The -above, ali sorted out pretty like, means! Kelly on camera 1 has the action, Mac, not on the alr, ‘squirts the scoreboard and when it's right] goes on the air. Meanwhile, Kelly picks up the'l: mound and wails’ The pitcher winds .up and throws, camera 1 ison the air, Mac is switching to the 8-inch lens and just in time to get the swing of the batter. a Poe aa John Guion monitors the camera controls while Clyde Geary punches the buttons which cut one, camera off and put another on ‘the alr. i
I's Really Very Simple
GENE WATCHES three receiving sets constantly. One set shows the image going out and the other two receive from the ‘cameras. If there were five cameras on the roof, Gene would have Ax screens to watch, pick the best action from all { and send it out. ® % .. It's really pretty simple. You see. the cameras pick it up, Dick's words are cut in someplace along the line, Gene sorts the action out and tells the camerameén what he wants. Then something hap-| ns to the whole business and it comes out or your set. | - I think I'm going out and take another look around when the Indians get home Labor Day.
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00 students each player of both teams on the field. The in-nd-the-wheel formation includes about everything but the num- it when it's written. Oh, and published. Fourteen s joined the i ny b ol By Robert c yi ye on Ezzard red at 1301 : " = NEW YORK, Aug. 6--It is with concern that —and lend-lease, but he called his shot well in adide Associa- as Evil-Eye, the Eye, the Orb, or the Beam, has vance of Pearl Harbor. ww there was I see that Mr. Benjamin Finkel, otherwise known . too, that when the Eye, later an elderly soldier,
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Jbeen given. the heave by the handlers of a Mr. Ezzard Charles, who is to fight a Mr. Augustus Lesnevich next Wednesday for the heavyweight championship of the National Boxing Assn.’ Things being equal, I cannot see how Mr. Charles can possibly avert some horrid tragedy, for Mr. Finkel is a very proud fellow, and possessed of tremendous vindictive powers. While Mr. Finkel spends his time these days putting the hex on fighters, there was a time when ) You would not believe
* sad-eyed little man in a creased suit." He said
It. fs a matter of record,
reached the European continenf, Mussolini was kicked to death in the streets. The Eye turned up in Washington in 1938, a
he was a manager of fighters, but he had no fighter to manage. At the time the Eye was eating off Mr. Goldie Ahearn, a boxing promoter. It happened. Mr. Ahearn was seeking for a! setup to go against one Benny Brown, a talented | fighter who worked for a charming character | named Sam the Mumbler. When he located his|
me, 5. og ME Tg wah ¥ area ug gs N — ~ a. it, . maybe, but Finkel TinKTe WAS PersOHATY EIT, SEI SHY HET HG mEnAger, and “Gola gave I
responsible for the hurricane of 1926 which blew Miami flat.
Became Annoyed at Miami
THE STORY was, as I recall it, that some ‘ignorant official placed Benjamin behind bars for some trifling offense, causing te Eye to. become annoyed at Miami. —Afte¥ directing his beam on.
* ihe bars. ong SHOUGH Lo, cause them to meit, just from prelims fo a ehampionship, the Eye himself
i. just as a practice cwing, he then turned his horrid =
glare on the town ‘itself. The heavens darkened and the winds came, and ere long Miami was a twisted shambles. Mr. Finkel stalked haughtily from the ruins, dusting off his whammy. A Httle frightened at his own power, Mr. Finkel temporarily retired "his eye, until the Hitlerian - legion. began. to roam Europe, This also displeased Mr. Finkel, and one day in 1939 he
announced that Hitler was through.
“yunnerstand,” the Eye said, * dis could take some time. Dis is what I call a slow eye. Long distance operations take moré time than direct contact. But you can quote me, the bum is through, even if he don’t know it.” ‘ All" the - world knows what happened afterward. The Wehrmacht was crushed, Hitler killed himself, and his evil associates either suicided or were hanged or imprisoned. “I am not suggesting here that the Eye vas unaided by the infantry
WASHINGTON Aug. 6—1 guess the patriotic thing to do is drink more bourbon, or, if you're a prohibitionist, develap-a taste for corn pone. The trouble séems to.be that the tall corn is growing taller by the minute these hot August days and every inch it rises adds to the consternation of the Federals in charge df same, ’
Barring disasters, which aren't liely now, they figure we are about to find ourselves with 1,300,-
--000.000-bushels.more.corn. than we can eat, drink,
or feed to the pigs. That, as Sen, Hugh Butler of ~ corn-heavy Nebraska pointed out, 1s a lot of corn, what to do with it is the horrid question. The poor old Agriculture Department is bracing itself for the avalanche, It thought for a while it had the solution: burn it. The idea was to run
—the ‘corn through §13—milllen—worth-of wartime.
distilleries in the midwest, mix the resultant alcohol -with gasoline, and use it in automobilés. Eureka! - Fill ‘er Up ‘THEN A KILLJOY ‘who shall be nameless here got to thinking what might happen if every filling station in - Anferiéa had a pump full of pure grain alcohol. ‘What if a motorist poured same into himself instead of into his carburétor? The . chemisté, said that was easy. They'd
denature the. alcohol. They're still trying. They haven't yet discovered a chemical that will Poison
: a motorist. without also ruining his engine. All
the toxic fluids that corrode the innards of a
human. being; it develops, also etch holes in steel
cylinder blocks, i So the Agriculture Department now is trying to get rid of its alcohol plants, each with multi~ million-gallon capacities, at Kansas City, Omaha * and Muscatine, Towa. The Munitions Board is’ 'lukewarm;.it would like the government to keep the distilleries in case of war, but adds in the
ng Finkel ‘Twinkle, what-earthly chance of survival }
the stiff to thé Eye. This Bum, whose name has fled, was no better than a 20 to 1 shot against Brown, but to the astonishment of all, he beat the ear: off Brown. Mr, Finkel's whammy became §. famous. -"
Watching Over Lesnevich
IT BECAME so famous that, after his violent) Ray had steered a boy named Joe Archibald.
acquired -a manager, ‘This was the late Lou Diamond, who was knowh as the honest brakeman. He was calle« the honest brakeman because’ he never stole a boxcar. On his deathbed, the honest brakeman beseeched the Eye to keep a benevolent ‘glimmer on Gus Lesnevich, of whom the brakeman owned a little piece. That is why the Eye is now in New York, bending his baleful beam on Ezzard Charles. "" The Eye has never become ricH, but he.has never needed money, since it “is regarded in some }- fight circles to feed the Eye. Oniyjone man ever won a decision over the Eye when it came to paying a tab, and he only won once. That was the aforementioned Mr. Ahearn, who just got up and walked out of the restaurant, I think Mr. Charles made a mistake in booting Mr. Finkel out of his fight camp. “If Miami, Hitler and Mussolini were powerless before the
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By Frederick C. Othman
same breath that it can buy elsewhere more alcohol than it needs. : Just keeping the three mighty alcohol stills ready. to do business is costing the Agriculture] Department $15,000 a month. The. Kansas City distillery, fortunately or otherwise, according as to whether you are a Federal Agent or a mer Taxpayer, is a wreck, : John 1. Thompson; one of the officials In charge of what to do with all the corn, said it ‘Was. poorly engineered and built of pasteboard #nd chewing gum. The other stills, however, are high-pressure jobs, ready to go.
Brought to Tears
..- "WELL, why don’t you lease ‘em and sell some of “this surplus- Corn; ever If you have to take af 1085?" {inquired Sen. Butler. AF Thompson almost wept. The best offer he'd had from anybody willing to fire up the distilleries. was 16 cents a bushel for torn delivered at the front door. He, turned it down. “Then what are you going to do with all this corn?” ‘asked the Senator. : rE “Store it,” said Thompson. That's not so easy, Sen. Butler said, when dll the elevators, cribs and even a fleet of freighters already are full of wheat. So I got to talking: aftérward to. same experts who said that no matter what they did about corn, they'd be wrong. Even if they find bins for better than a billion bushels they can't keep! it indefinitely, because it is inclined to spoil. | At the moment they said they were thinking| @bout a new scheme whereby they'd supsidize| the. fd¥mer to feed more corn to more steers! and, hogs. Maybe that would bring down- the price of ‘meat, anyhow, They left, shaking their heads. They looked to me like they were going for a drink. I trust they took bourbon, . 1
The Quiz Master
27? Test Your Skill ???
What is a madstone? * “This is a light porous stone of greenish color to which is wttributed many stupernatural It is ‘sald to possess the ability of drawing venom from the bite of a dog: ¥*
| What ts ‘the name of the mechanical man disRE the seven-foo-tall mechanical built by engineers, “thinks” with a 60-pound brain
. made up of a photo-cell, 82 electrical relays and a'{ ‘signal
He can smoke cigarets, count up to speech.
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Where did bock beer originate? : | To a small village near Hamburg, Germany, according to legend, belongs the distinction of having originated bock beer. The village was
* | _Is the whipping post in existence in any state | in the country? ' . i Delaware retains the whipping post as a pun-| *ishment for eriminaly wader A law enacted in 1771.
Which planet is nearest the sun?
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