Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1949 — Page 17
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, Yours sincerely,
CL n.3, zest - . Second Secretary oy Covels, 1594 ed Todtanapelis. Ss Indiana .
The second secretary to the first secretary Margaret.and..'Mr.. Inside"... . don't have a date.
80, WHEN I heard about all the plans being made for her to come over to the States, my curi-
-ticlans get? That's when I asked to temper her “business of state” with some American ideas on how to have fun, Right here in Indianapolis. Weeks and weeks. of anxious waiting come to a bitter conclusion with “While the Princess greatly appreciates your invitation . . . . ” She appreciates the invitation so much she doesn’t even bother answering it herself. Heck, I can’t even consider myself a Pen Pal, No more asking foreigners for dates. When you ask over here, there's no second se.vetary tell ing you to shove off, You know where you stand. Princess Margaret and I are through. Forever.}" ® o_o
“The Wallaces are sending in four requests fi “You, Too.” Don’t be discouraged, you'll have 30,000 before you know it.” Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wallace, 4127 Otterbein Ave. wrote that encouraging nots. With 18 requests today, it's 951. Folks, make it a| 1000. requests. and Ll start writing Th 29,000 jets. MALLY ne :
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“By Robert C. Ruark’
NEW YORK, Aug. 11—For one more boring, time I see some undistinguished French dame with an ax to grind in the papers has launched the old standby that Americans are lousy, lazy lovers, inept husbands and gauche kneepinchers who do all their pinching in the night clubs. I have wondered for many years just how this base libel began, and why it continues to be popular. I have wondered also why we dignify the senseless remarks of visiting spongers as to the vanity of our women, the flabbiness of our men, and the of our central heating. It just must be the old Ameriéat love for tooth-marks on
What's the Matter With Gable?
AMERICAN MEN, says this Lili dame, who is - hustling - space-to- sell some. new. and doubtless fashions, know less about love than high school boys in France. What American men? Clark Gable? Joe DiMaggio? Sonny Tufts? Cite “me three -
ge French address, who are expert in boudoir dawdling, and
stein; rss 0Yb8 1080 beat the bushes around Kansas or FF tas and come Up With three of Off owr=who
. can spot these nymphic prodigies 10 points and
American men spend all their time in night clubs, says Lili, whose last name nobody has bothered to print. What men spend all their time in which night clubs? How many .people do you know who can afford to spend all their time in night clubs, and how many night clubs have we per capita? Enough to hold all the American men? Frenchmen, says this bim, marry for companfonship. Y’ever been to France? Frenchmen have nade a career of sitting at sidewalk cafes, strictly stag, ogling the passing fluff, and they don’t go home until they sweep ‘em off the sidewalks. In France the petite‘amie is the accepted soclal cus—tom; since it is recognized that a great percentage of marriages are made on a cash and carry business. Between the cafe and the cutie around the corner, the French is uses his home base largely for, complaining about the cost of food and sleeping. 3 mr gn : : Let us look, now at the romantic Spaniard; at
Funeral Boss
boys, by name and taste
home and" in Latin America. Latins are the greatest conversational lovers in the world, but it is about nine parts conversation and one part performance. The boys sit at the corner bodega and whistle at the ninas sabrosas; but a lot of them would run like thieves if the girl whistled back. ‘They are great oglers but with the chips down I will back any towhead from Minnesota against a squadron of grease-pated laddybucks with sideburns. . As for married love, in the pure Latin concept as soon as the ring is on the finger the formal romance ends. The mamacita runs the household accounts and provides as many heirs as the _papacito thinks he needs in his business, but when he is looking for fun it @in't In his own houses. The Britisher is largely a more moral man, in the frisky sense, but when he is in search of com-
_he finds it in the pub, at the cricket] |
pan field, in his club. Anyone Who has ever been to London knows it strictly as a man’s town, with its shops and amusements tailored to a masculine
Italians Are Too Hot Sie “THE ITALIAN talks a pretty good fight in the} amour depagtment, but he is essentially a singer “#hd an exter and &- pharacter; himself, and: after the bloom is off the lily he too likes to hang around the wineshops and romance himself into thinking he is the reincarnation of Don Juan, except it's too hot and it's easier to sit and sip. F I realize there are some pretty sweeping generalities here, for which I fault the opposition,
and there are some fiery Englishmen and some ©
faithful Cubans and some ardent French hus-| bands and some Italians full of zing and sipperoo. But I will stack the average American against the average anybody for. consideration ,of his lawful wedded spouse, and when it comes to the deep-dyed Romeo, that is purely a case for the individual and you can’t rig any statistics on it. If you could, I'd be inclined to pick the American over the field in the informal romance--league,
since I have seen some of the lads at work in|
places like England, France, Italy and Australia. And they did real good. . :
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—John Maragon’s bald spot is growing larger rapidly, and ne wonder. The Greek immigrant boy who rose to become friend of the gréat and the not-so-great in Washington, habitue of the White House, and mystery man of the capital, is being investigated The Senators want to know just how much inflilencé he Had in high places and what, if any thing, ‘he was paid for it. ' Not one cent, said John, a neighbor of mine, over a beer in McLean, Va. He handed me a Greek cigaret, which smelled - like burnt chicken feathers, and went on with the somewhat cockeyed story of his life. Yesterday I reported how he had risen from Kansas City shoe shine boy to. government official, thanks to a’ boost from a Senator for whom he'd taken the rap on a prohibition day liquor _charge. Now: he was working on the payroll of Gen. Hugh. (Iron Pants) Johnson's NRA, the old Blue e of depression times,
Hired Top ‘Amateurs’ ‘ . JOHN'S principal job there was to organize a baseball team which could win some games for the general, who-was a rabid fan, in the Federal Amateur League. John hired 16 of the best baseball players he could find and put 'em on the payroll as government clerks. They won almost every game they played, to the general's great i delight. In their spare time they worked for the t.
John took a couple more federal jobs and then his big opportunity came; he went to work as al director for the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad. His title was that of Special passenger agent; his job was to persuade the committee in charge to hire a B. & O. special train whenever a deceased Congressman was to be huried.. . During the five years he was on the job, the B. & 0. hauled the mourners out of Washington on more than 70 of the 80 sad occasions. John takes full créflit for this. : nels He met Senators on thése trips, and Congress-
men; gave cocktail parties for them in the dining | v
car. One of the proudest moments of his life! was when he rode with a contingent of federal officials over the same Union Pacific track on which, 20 years before, he'd served water to the road gang, The trouble was thit the B. & O. paid him only $3000 a year. 3 When the Albert Verlays Co., of Chicago, im-{ porters of edsential ofls for perfumes; offered him $12,000 a year to travel in Europe, he grabbed the job. Here his story gets complicated. The Senate's investigators want to know more about the really substantial sums of ‘money that passed through his bank account. John says merely that these were advances to buy oils for the firm, As for his hank account in San Antonio, TeX. while he’s on the subject of money, that represénted bananas,
They Had No Bananas i
8 ‘ ’’ : TWO GREEK boys, born on the same island] |
from which he came, operated a fruit stand in
front of a bus station in the capital With the |
war they could get no bananas, on account of the shipping shortage. They learned that some of their: competitors were hauling up Mexican bananas by rail. Would John help. them" do) likewise? > 1 He said he'd be delighted. He took them tol }8an Antonio, opened a bank account for the | purchase of bananas, and-that-according-to-him ~-was that. % | John also found time to do favors for friends all over. He got himself a brief government job in “Athens withthe elect
101 S. Bradley St.
Jerry Brooks, 2 975\/2 Hesbrook St.
] Noel Robertson, 11/3 Sie, 13 | 1225 Burdsall Phwy. : 215 S. Oriental St. |
Claudia Ball, 3 : 3317 W. 22d St.
Anne Hunter, 4
a i Fillmore, Ind. .
A William Franklin, 3 | Lene Milam, And, ~ Mary Kurtz, 4; " R.R. |, Tipton
David Urbain, 11/5 1028 N:Dearborn St.
Gerald Holle, 4 "5615 Guilford Ave. |
Jacqueline Roel, § 3102 Madison Ave.
3 stion-watching mission there, but claims he wasn’t fired. His special pal— a wonderful gentleman; he said—was Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, the President's military aide. And I guess that about takes care of my after-
noon with John over a cold bottle. The rest of| :
the story will come as sworn evidence; it will be interesting to see how well it jibes with what I've written here.
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