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— : ota'® Butler Solent 14 Local Students. Pledged at Purdue) Pos Noble rams ion Chimes By Ed Sovola : TAR ATER BE Fourteen] AY: Wilbur T. Dryer, 564 N. Be- Grands Association will have al; :

“THE TRICK. is to say the words as i mean them.” on

A master of the spoken word, gave me that

advice the other-day, Tried it and “There was &

time when meadow, grove, and stream, the earth, and every common sight, to me did seem apparelled In celestial light . . .” from Willlam Wordsworth's “Ode on Inttmations of Immortality,” sounded like I was ordering a pound of wietier at the market,

“<0f course, Charles (Captain Bligh) Laughton,

algo recommends long reading sessions before audiendes of 5000 or more to learn the art of giving “words life. Might be tough if a bloke (notice the - Laughton Inflyence—bloke) chargea admission. Free, there's a chance if each person attending received 10 or more pounds of coffee,

Quenched Desire fo Run Away

MEETING THE MAN who stood on the deck of the Bounty years ago and frightened the livin’ bejabbers out of me with his. nastiness and forever quenched the desire to run away to sea, was a study In contrasts. Speech and manner, forceful, sharp as a facet's edge on a diamond. Clothes, Mr. Laughton’s traveling attire, careless, carefree as a breeze on a pond in midsummer, It makes one think the man Jumped into a suitcase to dress. He doesn’t have to be reading the delightful “Pickwick Papers” to capture your attention. He can be saying, “Charlie, I want another chair,

Inimitable . . . Charles Laughton ‘suggests practice before audiences of 5000 or more.

Indianapolis ‘students at Purdue ville Ave; Arno Haupt,” 263 E Chiat home of Ne Fairy Armel, - rs University have been ‘pledged to/Towa St; Donald W. Hollings, 402 N. Tacoma Ave. an ordinary chair with no back to It, please,” and Pi Tay Sigma, national engineer: 5362 Washington Bivd.; John W.I" She will be assisted by Mrs,

it has more punch than the first two stanzas of ing fraternity, Ingersol, - 21 N. Whittier Placé;| “Invictus” you happen to be : Th ae Som appan. 10, be reciting Contingent Directed ey are; Lester H. King, 310 N. Mount St.;

Richard C. Allen,-2020 Sher Richard W. Lucas, 2254 N. DeleBy Prof. Schwartz brook Ave.; James B. Carr, 4520 ware St.

The faculty of Butler Univer Marcy Lane; Herbert J. Baker, Francis C. O'Hern, 242 8. ButRalph E.ler Ave.; Richard Phillabaum,

had many forceful words with the Englishman of| the mussed hair, When Mr. Laughton arrived and saw the setup on the stage, a straightbacked, red a 5928 N. velvet chair and a square table, things began to(Sity bas assigned 30 students in Mepidian’ St.; pop, old boy. It.seems that Mr. Laughton wanted a narrow dent teaching positions in public table, chest-high (his) and an “ordinary” chair, schools and kindergarte They (I could listen to him say “ordinary” “necessary,” an al TER f a “really,” “old boy” all night. Charlie wanted to doje under direction o An-| the best, as always. But, there aren't many narrow thony- Schwartz of Butler ena, tables as high as Mr. Laughton’s chest to be had./regular public school teachers. At least not at the Murat. Too bad, t00, because! qv. .o assigned include ise no one paid much attention to my reading. And Carol assign is. Joan. | it isn't often that a man has such an opportunity. i F018 »)arner, | | There was Mr, Laughton in the center of the Charles R. Delporte, Miss Doris stage saying, “No, no, no, 1 want ‘an’ otdinary Johnson, Miss Elizabeth Leeth,! | chair, Charles. No back to it, please. No that one Willlam A. McClain, Kenneth is much to high, Not very good, old boy, Does this'Murphy, Miss Barbara Patton! mike work? . , . “for who would béar the whips|Miss Auda May Perkins, William and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the Petranoff, Miss Joan Pfeiffer, Miss!

Baumheckel, 3044 Broadway: C.|5138 Park Ave, and Vaughn 8. the College of Education to stu- Phillip Bonham, 4159 Guilford | Perkins, 1000 Ww. 33d st.

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Mere In @ toy thet is REALLY DIFFERENT! A fost proud man's contumely’ , . , Charles, we need as Barbara Robins, Donald Sellmer, Ne gue tas inches ong. Con run for hows and $ )00 much light on my puss as possible .-, .” Miss Barbara Ann Sherow, Miss he Suing Seema The microphone wasn't on but it soon would be,|Lois Lee Weddell, Miss Alice An FLASHLIGHT botteries! Reverses itself ANDARD

sald Charlie, who wasn't having success with find-|drews, Miss Mary Ann Porteous ing a high, narrow table. My moving words,(and Miss Virginia Foltz, all of “Whispers soft in leafy towers lure me in my idle/Indlanapolis. | hours . . .” fell off Mr. Laughton’s massive shoul-| Qut-of-town students. assigned ders like dandruff as he whirled around backstage. are Miss Nancy Anderson, South]

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v MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY! : . Bend; Miss Margaret Chenoweth, | = 3 Finds His Own Table Union City; Miss Lulu Conn, New! INDIANA'S LARGEST CLEANERS : TOY MART ; o' in : 4 IN ONE of the dressing rooms, the great one| Castle; Mus bogke Duke, Koko 1) A | 74 I ( ROOM 502 © Send Post Pod, a ¥ Be f Hollywood discovered a plano bench and a mo; Miss Jean Holman; Kokomo; 1 : Mbrary table. You know, the long narrow tables Miss Mary Anne Hyman, Cam. ® A uk San Osconivipmnen | that have everything on them but books. den; Miss Pamelia Kahre, Peru; 7) Ui, MU. plus C. O. D. chorges. “Search no more, Charles,” shouted Mr. Laugh- Miss Joanne Mountain, Conners- C {¢ (07d Po) Please send sumemobiLes x ton. “I found exactly what I want.” ville; Miss Jean Pribble,, Law- Nea | By the time Charlie came into the dressing renceburg; Miss Esther Rumsey, There's A Davis Store Whereve Address B ’

room, Mr, Laughton had the piano bench on the Aurora; Miss Sue Schloesser, Lon- te _—_

library table. His personal manager, Hal Melone, don, and Miss Gwen McCracken, was hoisting one end and Mr. Laughton.the other. ‘| Attica. Charlie protested. He said it wasn't right for| the star; and oldtimer of stage and screen to carry his own props. “Out of my way, Charles,” boomed Mr. Laughton. “A great-grandfather is not carrying my pi- ¥ ano stool and don't refer to me as an oldtimer.” “Blow, O wind! and smite my head! Bite my cheek and freeze my tears! Summer's , ..” “Charles, white light is best for my face. No rose, please, I have a face like an elephant as it is. Don’t make it a pink elephant,” interrupted Mr. Laughton. He waved my recitation to a halt and ¥ motioned for me to come nearer. He was going to whisper something in my ear. Well, let us say that reading, good interrpre-| tation of the word. comes through practice and feeling. As it is done by Mr. Laughton, it's almost | perfect. Call it perfect. Darn, my eardrums are still quaking from the three words Mr. Laughton whispered in my ear. Sheer artistry the way he can make himself understood. - “Blow, O wind! and smite my head ,

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TT BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 — We Bave Just passed ‘a portion of his 35th birthday with San Francisco's top citizen and wish to report that Mr. Joseph Paul DiMaggio is sound in wind and limb, although a touch grizzled over the ears. The celebrated DiMaggio heel, which got a vaster public attention than a similar appendage belonging to Achilles, has responded cheerfully to rest and bedevils its owner no longer. The lean DiMaggio frame, depleted by a summer bout with pneumonia, has filled out and Joe can now climb the steep streets of his home town without resting on a Boy Scout's arm. It is a sort of miracle to see the suave, sleekly tailored, affable DiMaggio move about in his home city with the same quiet modesty and deprecation of praise that has marked his conduct on the ball field, He is besieged by clamorous bores and still manages to keep a firm hold on his temper and good manners without appearing to work at it.

Grew Up With Tough Crowd

I SAY it's a sort of miracle because, without something special in the man’s makeup to steer him, the chances are good that he'd be in jail now instead of making $100,000 a year with the Ya&nkees. He is most capably filling the job of being the country’s first real sports idol since Ruth, Jones and Dempsey. “I hung out with a pretty tough. crowd of kids,” Joe was musing. “They fought and stole and ganged up on strangers. I dunno why, but I never had much stomach for it. I liked the guys and I liked to hang around with them, but when they'd start to beat up some drunk and roli him for his dough I always sort of drifted away. “You might have thought that the other guys would have called me a sissy and kicked me out out of the gang, but oddly enough they didn't, They never tried to get me to join them in their major deviltry, and even appeared to respect me a little bit for having no part of it. I still don’t know why I didn’t—it wasn’t so much a matter of knowing it was wrong as that I just didn’t feel right about it. “I can see how lucky I-was now—me, the kid

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from Martinez. Most of the boys I ran i: XO aol with have done time since and there isn’t any| real reason why it didn’t happen to me, too. Just lucky.” Anyone who has ever seen the .graceful Di-| Maggio float wraithily backward after a deeply! hit fly, or run out a base hit with no apparent, effort, might be surprised to know that the young DiMaggio was probably the most awkward apprentice in the business. “I grew up too fast,” Joe says. legs. The owner of the club here said I was undoubtedly the clumsjest man he ever saw on a ball field. When I played a fly ball all you could see was legs, flying in.all directions. I fell down more than I stood up. That's where I got, that trick knee I brought into the majors.” | { |

Sees Little Night Life

"DIMAGGIO lives a quiet life when he is in San} Francisco—shooting a little and loafing around the house. Since he sold his interest in his restau-/ rant to his brother, Dominic, he sees little of the, city’s night life. Wherever he goes he is a natural target for noisy admirers and tongues buzz at hia

passing. The most constant question hammered at Di-! Maggio is whether he intends to be manager of | the Yankees when his playing days are done. This, is one thing he shuns out of common sense, if nothing else. For one thing, he “doesn’t know whether he will ever be asked to accept the job. For another, he would not commit himself if he had. For a third, he greatly admires Casey Stengel, the pres-

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wishes to become involved stresses and strains. People who meet DiMaggio for the first time f invariably go away muttering, in a surprised tone: % “Why, he’s such a quiet gentleman.” i

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3=—Economics és a wonderful subject. Nobody, econofiiists in particular, knows anything about it. Every time one of these babies comes up with some profound yak-yak about whether we're in for a boom or a depression, another says he's whistling through his slide rule. If I were an economist I'd keep it quiet and also wear false whiskers. But all the economists I know act like they-are proud of it; they don’t “even seem embarrassed when they get into one of their regular whango-pangos on the state of the nation. What brings on.these miélancholy “reflections about a science that seldom seems to come up with the right answers are the current deliberations of Congress’ Joint Subcommittee on the Economic Report. The niembers are supposed to decide whither are we going and what to do about it.

It’s an Inexact Science

CHAIRMAN is Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois who used to be an economist, himself. For years he was professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Now , .. well, read on: The lawgivers ealled up Russell Smith, the tweedy legislative secretary of the Farmers’ Union, to see what he .thought they ought to do. Mr, Smith, a distinguished economist, read a statement which included so many big words that I fear he hasn’t had time to do much walking behind a plow. I hate to say it, but his choice of English outgooked the standard federal gobble. The main thing he wanted Congress to do was put up gove.nment mone case of a depression. “Yes,” sald Senator-Professor Douglas, “that's exactly what you economists wanted us to do just after the end of the war. Appropriate money to combat a depression that never came.” Economist Smith went, ulp, and said some-

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SO THE legislators listened to some more economists, who didn’t agree with Economist Smith on steps to be taken. And then Sen. Ralph Flan-| ders, the Republican machine-tool builder from Vermont, said he knew one thing that ought to| be done: Save about $4 billion. Congress next session could lop off $2 billion from European Ald, he sald;-$1 billion from the armed services, and another $1 billion from assorted federal departments. Democrats Douglas slapped Republican Flan-

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