Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1949 — Page 46

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., How o Begin Training "To Be a Taxi Whistler

» It Takes a Lot of Blowing and You ...May Decide to Forget Cab and Walk

By JACK MABLEY, Times Special Writer i CHICAGO, Dec. 9--Before wehegin, the gentlemen” must pledge, Scout's honor, not to use the following for anything but hatling, taxicabs. Ready, naw? Your equipment will ‘be a towel, a light meter and some bandages in case you bite your fingers. We're going to learn the two-fingered whistle for {little fingers on the tip of your, ! calling taxicabs. tongue, about seven-eighths of an| It seems that a Cleveland tax! inch apart. Take a deeeceep| company distributed 110,000. tin hreath. Ready? Blow! whistles to call cabs. They work Hear anything? Well, this taken] well on warm. sunny days, but | plenty of stamina, fellows, plenty| > is feared that sometime -they ., perseverance. Roll your tongue, might dissolve into bird calls, and | little. Take another breath. but, Attract many curious pigeons [Ready now? Blew : |

4 ho taxis ¢ Hear anything? OK, Rome! owever, the idea was Sug... built in a day. Let's keep)

gested to a Chicago taxicab baron | {those teeth a little closer, Inhale He replied, approximately, “our| co... qeep, deep. Better have drivers are trained to cast a ,,.. wife ready with the light] glance at a dihedral angle of 30 meter. When you begin to turn degrees to look for customers. pink, it's time for recess. Anyway, what's the matter with|" n°," goo peep, a tweet? | men? Can't they whistle for them- yoo woon trying, Fill up the old| selves? Aren't they virile? Where). Give ‘er a. real blast this is that old I will spirit?” time. Ready? Blow! { Shall we begin? Hold up your, All you're getting is a fine r'sht hand, Extend the little spray? Oh well, who wanted a finger and index finger. Fold the cab in the first place? Tet's walk thumb and rematning fingers nto Copyrizat, 19049. by [he Indisnavoils Times | the palm. and Chicago Dally News, ne { Some juvenile delinquents will POTATOES BEST | FEED | recognize this as the symbol for| The best results in feeding all baloney, but this is only coinci-|types of livestock, except hogs dence, can be obtained by feeding po Place the tips of the index and tatoes in fresh form.

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‘since 1938 when she stopped over

ito buy a modest bungalow or a abridged story of her younger in Italy. palatial home, you'll always find days in a new Rome weekly maga- But, she jokingly explains, the |» choice selection awaiting your zine she's editing. In it she ad- Washington authorities are be- | consideration in the Classified mits having beeh born out of wed- having more severely toward her | Columns of The Times, Consult lock, her father and mother not than the Italians. | them now. having been married till years CoPYrifhl 1948. by The Indtanapolis Times

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Timely Query of a Little Boy—'There Ain't No What?

Domenick Locicero, age ‘2. of New York, finds little cause to doubt the Santa Claus story, surrounded as he is by a whole platoon of sidewalk Santas. The merry men are part of a 24.Santa-Claus contingent sent out by the Volunteers of America to seck donations. Each of the old gentlemen attended a special three-day course in deportment before setting to work.

later Rrmare ah ut’ tYe book probably were due to that. Looks Like II Duce

Countess Besieged On Visit to France

By PAUL GHALI I found the countess little S Times Forelgn Correspondent changed since our 1945 meeting PARIS. Dec. 9 Paris police except for a bit of added weight were busy today on 3 unique as- which makes her look even more! signment and a tough one like her father than ever They were watching over the She has the Mussolini forehead faughter of the man who nine and heavy chin and her mother's| vears ago stabbed France in the large gray eyes. 1 back, the Countess Fdda Ciano. Fdda's magazine is strictly! They had to protect her against limited to nempolitical domestis curious reporters and-an equally problems and she came here un-! curious publie. der her own name with legitimate]

They had to see to it that Com-

accreditation as a newspaper: munigt demonstrations were

woman

She latighinglveommented: | “The best way to avoid publicity “18 to become part of the press. | Edda says her assignment here was to write articles about Paris. |

This is Edda’s first day here

for one hour on her way to Lon- ~~ don. In those bright Fascist days, -

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the daughter of Benito Myssolint However, her trip has been cur-| [Was not feeling too warm toward . ) tailed because of public curiosity, this town-—nor the town toward Countess Ciano which obviously Worrieg, the poher lice,

Things have been on dif- in political exile in Switzerland in She says rhe expects to go “fol

ferent this time. Reporters have 1945. I asked her if she liked the United States soon to fight| been besieging the countess for France. personally Tor the unfreezing of]

|Interviews; publishers from all Hef reply was: “I'm afraid I ner money, most of which came!

over the world with offers to buy do.” from the sale of the Ciano diary| the rights to her autobiography, gdda says it's all a mistake and royalties from the book pub-

| sald to ‘be called “What a Life!” ,phout the book, that she can't sell lished by Doubleday Doran, al

She Likes France something she hasn't got and she's 1946 best seller. And when I met her this week “too lazy to predict when the book Edda was whitewashed by the for the first time since I saw her will be finished.” Italian government and given Regardless of whether you wish She has just published an back part of the Ciano estates

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