Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1949 — Page 11

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THE BIDDING was lively. It was none of my ‘whispered in Mr. ¢

to browbeat a person. Just tell them in a nice way that... Don’t browbeat your partner. Very good rule.

“What do you know about Mr. and Mrs, Droke?” I asked Mr. Blackwood once while he was dummy. § was tough in that room. So

“Well, I know now Mr. Droke is a bold businessman but a timid bridge player,” answered Mr. Blackwood. “Mrs. Droke loves a fast game and will not hesitate to bluft.”

“Humanics-—ssshhh.” . Later while Mr. Blackwood masterminded a grand slam, my observation was that he had hu-

* manics working to perfection. : :

“That wasn't humanics, that was brute strength,” said Mr. Blackwood. As the evening progressed, the words of Mr. Blackwood and Mr. McComas became clearer. Here were his rules in action. Bridge isn't a matter of life and death. The object is to win, true,

but not at expense nerves. But the problem of. keeping Brags of a mathematical chal-| White River and Fall Creek withlenge. ‘hand is different, presenting pew|in their channels is a year around problems. Every new blaye: 4s 3 hurdle that ean project: for membars of the City be overcome in spirit of compe- Control Board. The supertition. ; 4 i 5 : vision of six municipal golf He showed me the hand he wa holamg. L curses, 13 major PRES and thought he might want to know should | some ov do with it. Instead, Mr Blackwood informed me|in the jurisdiction of the Park

that a similar hand would not appear for

6000 years. The combinations are infinite

Rare Treat for Spectator os HIS COMMENT about perfect hands bears re-

peating, It convinces me perfect hands are when someone is out in’ the kitchen getting a

Mr. McComas explained why no one the ceiling during the game. He said when

Mr. Blackwood stressed the point that bridge is a game to be played by people for fun. People are more important than bridge. Know your partner, know your game and start winning the easy way, he added. Imagine, a whole evening of bridge without getting all riled up. A couple of my friends are going to get some of the principles of “Bridge Humanics” if I have to ram them down , , , no, better to do like Blackwood suggests.

Mr. Diamonds

By Leo Turner

construction of the W. St. bridge, is nearly complete. It will be dedicated next week In ceremonies to.be held by Mayor Feeney. 4 au Besides activities conducted. at parks for children, the Park Board maintains adult recreational programs and is charged with the upkeep of several miles of boulevard not assigned to the City Street Commissioner. Community centers are also maintained by the board. .

NEW YORK, Nov. 14—The Hope diamond, Jewel of disaster, is going on a nationwide public tour, its owner, Harry Winston said today. If it wasn't for the farmer's daughter, the world’s ‘diamond business would be in a bad way, Mr, Winston said. ‘So he’s lending his famous collection to various charities for public exhibition to show the

' people who buy most of the world’s diamonds the

big gems that everybody talks about but few people buy. . Winston’s collection, including three of the five most famous diamonds in the world—the 126 (carat Jonker, the 100 carat Star of the East and the 441% carat Hope diamond—will go on public display first, Nov. 22, at Rockefeller Center with the proceeds going to New York's united hospital fumd, ~ “We have 5000 applications from charity or. ganizations extending from Boston to Los Angeles. and Duluth, Minn., to New Orleans,” Mr. Winston said.

Wears Dark, Conservative Clothes THE MAN who is “Mr. Diamonds” to most of the world, is a short, stocky, polite, unassuming individual who likes dark, conservative suits and gray neckties. He sits at a large desk covered with black plush in a big, but modestly furnished office, beside three constantly ringing telephones. The front windows of the six-story building housing Harry Winston, Inc., look out on St. Patrick's Cathedral. A mammoth guard swings open the heavy steel! barred door for visitors. The 250 employees in the building design, manufacture and sell ‘at both ‘wholesale and retail Harry Winston's products,

What is the average size of diamonds sold in this country, which buys 80 per cent of the world’s supply? “One-quarter carat,” Mr. Winston said. “The era when wealthy people collected expen-

sive stones began passing in the early 20's when!

taxes began going up,” Mr. Winston said. “Then there were hundreds ‘of jewelry stores. Now jewelry stores are really department stores.” Who buys the fabulous stones? : “People who get a break. The average person doesn’t understand that the man whose income is $1 million a year pays 87 per cent taxes. He doesn’t have the money to buy $100,000 pieces of Jewelry without digging into his capital. “So the people who buy the big pieces are those who buy for investment; oil men, mining men, women who suddenly inherit their husband's wealth, or people who receive money tax free.”

Gem Buying Runs in Sprees "WHERE are most diamonds sold?

“No particular place. Buying runs like an epidemic in one area, then another. Texas buys

a lot. But so does Colorado. Victoria, Tex., and

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or a peniten plant of the Westcott Packing Co.

were the causeways over them the animals deyoted to slaughter passed blindly to

the Midland-Odessg. oil field area of Texas buys!their doom.

a lot of diamonds. Oil men get a tax consideration on the depletion of their wells.”

Mr. Winston frequently lends part of his collections and his new creations to retail jewelers, who display them in their stores or have prominent people wear them at social gatherings. “Diamonds, for the most part, sell themselves,” he said. “And the farm girl and the sweetheart of the small clerk and mechanic are the big buyers in America.” ins ain]

What Next?

+ By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1i—A Seattle, Wash, machine tool company now is advertising in the funeral parior trade press history's first automat: fc grave digger. :

This portends a revolution in an ancient pro-

fession; I fear it also will spawn a new crop of grisly jokes, It indicates further that in this mechanical age nothing is safe. Every hour on the bour comes up something new. 3 Now we've got tablets guaranteed to cure colds, maybe, Razor blades your fade cah't feel. A ma+ chine that lays bricks. Paste that keeps holes from growing in teeth.

Shoes With Built-In Socks ALL OVER the country suddenly there's a rushing business in shoes with built-in socks. Or maybe it’s socks with shoes attached. These consist of leather soles with knitted uppers. How to wash same I would not know. Neither would my laundry man. He says he doesn't think they're supposed to be washed. : On the market is a wrist watch with an outpide regulator; if it runs too fast, don't go to the jeweler. Just fix it yourself and not a bad idea, either. Cuff links come with compasses built in and, for the de luxe trade, with watches. One of the biggest shirt outfits has a white dress job without buttons; a concealed zipper does the trick. : A leading textile firm has gone into mass production with black pajamas for men; these are trimmed with dragons embroidered in metallic golden thread. They sound a little scratchy to me. The coffee shortage has been good news to

-ting paper sacks. On sale is a hand warmer about

The Quiz Master

the size of a cake of soap for $3.50. A luminous bottle opener for those biblebs whose lights have gone out is available, A while back I mentioned in these precincts the Los Angeles inventor who was marketing the self-heating hot dog. This was not all. He sent me a box of his products, which included coffee, cocoa; baked beans, hamburgers, beefstew and, of course, those dogs, I lined the cans up on my desk and punctured same, as. per. di-

5. Immediately they began to sizzle. No newspaper reporter ever had a bigger banquet, quicker or hotter. My only complaint concerned the coffee. Black, I like mine with cream. A wholesale haberdasher has developed ‘ the hangover hat. This has an ice bag on top, ear flaps lined with cotton so the sufferer cannot hear, and a blinder s0 he can’t see. Widgets which make round ice cubes instead of Square are

+ It must be that round ice is colder t the straight kind. han

Only the Cars Look the Same

.. A RADIO manufacturer has developed and is about to place on sale the all-white television set. tig A Jot ue in te kitchen, What it will do to al er to think. 1 Jaeulls n had a sneak

. These at least I could reco, ize. Fact is looked almost the same as the 1040's. si

k The big thing in autos, the man sald, is au-

tomatic transmissions, Some shift the gears th - selves. Bome have no in

couple of 1950 automobiles the other a

It was late in the day. A handsome car slowly coasted the packing house area: a convertible roadster, built for luxury, all | deep upholstery and flashing chrome, its color a polished apple green. At the wheel of the car was a girl In a white silk dress with a swirling’ silk scarf on her head

matching the shade of the car [that in effect she wore the $5000 automobile as a part of her costume. She was Gilda Holme, Todd Westcott’s only daughter, and she gazed at the plant with Interest, for she had not seen it for two

Before the administration building “she brought the green car to a stop and stepped out, standing still for a moment, dainty as a camellia in the grimy surroundings, She was tall, 25 and over-thin from dieting, so

was saved from harshness by wide, dark eyes with sweeping lashes and a magnicent cascade

Gilda Holme had just returned to Jericho from southern California following a sojourn at Reno, In the divorce courts of] which she had obtained her freedom. A hint of ennul and discon-

‘| tent was in her eyes.

She had come to pick up her father and take him home to

Robbie,” easy-going rector, has left an opening

From the yards two roofed!

{ “Neither. Just waiting for my JJIIL” His eyes were fond.

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_|to dinner, and I've got off on the (wrong foot with him already.

CHAPTER TWO . Synopsis: Jugtown in Jericho has two important institutions: ashionable but unfinished church and the Westcott businessman,

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for a new will be as amiable and Now go on with the story—

breasts and revolvers at their belts, It resembled a prison tiary, whereas it was a picking house--the

He swung around and grinned.

“Mind waiting a minute? We're taking someone with us.” The door opened and the priest entered. He closed the door behind him and made an embarrassed little bow, “I hope I'm not late,” he said in a deep voice. “Not at all” said Westcott heartily. “Right on the button.

here at the plant to be as prompt. Like to have you meet my daughter, Mrs. Holme. Gilda, this is Fr. Carlisle, the new rector at St. Alban's.” The new rector! Why, Gilda asked herself, hadn't someone told her there was a new rector, and especially that he was coming to dinner? She might have who he was, instead of giving him the chill-off treatment downstairs. . With surprise Gilda saw that her father was trying to make an impression-—he who rarely sought to impress anyone. It increased

formed dislike for the. priest. . FATHER Carlisle, she thought. He's one of those that like to be called Father. We never called Little Robbie that. He's coming

But in spite of that she was curious about him, and as he conversed with her father, she secretly studied him.” He seemed rather young—about 30, she would guess, Light from the big window sharply etched his thin, suninirnt face. A decisive nose and chin and heavy eyebrows which formed a continuous line across the bridge of the nose accented the face. molith and eyes interested her

almost stern, but its corners drooped and faint lines about it suggested to her some sort of

Mobile TB Uni Nearly 300,000 Hoosiers under went chest X-ray examinations last year and they revealed 322 cases of active tuberculosis, the Indiana Tuberculosis Association announced today. The surveys were made In 73

of the state's 92 counties by eight mobile X-ray units, :

‘Wish I could depend on my people |

not?” Shani

most. The former was wide and pt

It was a relief when Todd Westcott, having sufficiently expanded on the esoterics of meat packing, took his hat and led them down to Gilda's car. # » »

THE REV. John Carlisle had

rector of St. Alban’s only a week. Gilda greeted the guests in the big living room one¢ by ope, because she had seen none of them since her return. Algeria Wedge, her aunt, smiled and kissed her; Wistart Wedge clung to her hand with his moist palm rather longer than she cared for; the Timothy Coxes murmured conventionalities; and their daughter, Mary Agnes, drew her off into a corner alone. “Gilda, darling!” she cried. “You're looking simply “wonder ful!” : “Thanks, dear,” sald Gilda, without cordiality. “But why

+: 40f course. I don't. mean to say you're gaining weight, but that dress does look as if it were cul for you when you were smaller.”

Gilda could smile in a sweetly poisonous way too. “Wrong, darling. I've lost pounds.” Again Mary Agnes gave her wintry little laugh. “You're such a precious,” she said. She walked away, Gilda glanced around the room. Near the fireplace at the end was a group of love seats and chairs, where Timothy Cox, who had a

Ex-Convict Saws Way to Freedom

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 14 (UP)—Robert Allen: Metcalf, 46, an ex-convict who sawed his way

County Jail, was sought today by Sheriff Harry E. Jackson and state police. \

day by climbing down a rope fashioned from strips of a mattress cover after he sawed the bars 11-4 Jail restroom. A turnRey discovered his Hight at dreakfast roll call. Sheriff Jackson believed he cut the cars with a smuggled hacksaw blade. ; Metcalf was awaiting trial Nov, 28 on a check forgery charge. In a statement made at the time he was arrested for passing two bad checks in Lafayette, Metcalf admitted cashing forged chécks in Sturgis, Mich, Connersville, Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis, Ind. Police said Metcalf was ‘paroled from Indiana state prison in 1947

tendency to fall‘ asleep in company, already was stifiing yawns as he gazed morosely through his nee-nez. Gilda felt a helpless rage at being forced to partake in this, spectacle of boredom. This Is what Jericho calls entertaining,

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after serving seven years of a

17-year sentence on conviction of |

robbing the Yeoman, Ind. bank in 1940. :

$75 and 10 Days For Drunk Driving

Alvord St, was fined $75 costs, given 10 days in jail and

his drivers’ license suspended on}

his plea of gulity to driving while drunk. It was his. first offense. James F. Smith, 58, of 426 W. 16th St, was at liberty in a $250 bond after pleading not guilty

to freedom from the Tippecanoe|

Metcalf escaped early’ Saturs o

man started serving a 10-

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