Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1949 — Page 37

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Inside Indianapolis

ONLY ‘A'T this time and to a boy who has been good/all year would such a thing happen. Honest. A little gnome, one of the many in the L. 8. Ayres toy window, made it possible for me to spend a night in the department store, Can you imagine how much fun you would have? Befriend

a gnome, they make such wonderful playmates.

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cheer had anything to do with my making friends with a gnome. Heck, I always thought stories about the fittle people were false. Not at all like stories about Santa Claus.

Smooth Operator

80, THERE I was in front of the window wishing shoppers would quit shoving and go home, when all of a sudden this little guy winks. My first impulse, to throw a rock through the window, was crushed immediately. The second, to return to the quiet haven from whence I had emerged earlier, for a very silly reason (financial), had to be mastered. I winked back. Shortly plans were made for Ringading to get’ me past the watchman when the store closed. My’ friend was smooth, I'll tell the world. At the appointed hour, under the very nose of the uniformed member of the security staff, we skipped. Couldn't walk or run. Skip. Almost refused until Ringading convinced me no one could see us since we were invisible at the moment. Into the toy department we rushed, if that's possible when one is skipping with a gnome. Ringading operated all the trains on display while I listened to a talking top. A real talking top. No stuff. There were so many wonderful things to play with that a mere mortal man couldn't take everything in. Ringading used me for a target as he shot Roy Rogers guns, a six-shooter that smoked and finally toppled me off a tricycle with a Buck Rogers shooter, ~ To give you an idea how new this gun is, I quote a few words from the directions: “Buck Rogers aims through a tele-radar sight. He presses neutron release trigger. This frees neutrons in cyclotron chamber , . .” Gone are the days of plain “bang-bang.” Ouch. ‘Ringading played me a game of Foto-Electric Football. He's been watching Notre Dame play. The score: 82 to 0. We only played one quarter. I took the Buck Rogers gun on the field and ended the game. . Santa Claus was throdgh working in the store, but we did see some of the presents he receives from youngsters during the day. I was all for eating a hunk of candy or two but Ringading shook his head. Sissy. : : We tried on sport coats, .Pendleton shorts (Ringading is a whiz at pinning shirts back up) and hats. Cuff links and other jewelry we let drip through our fingers like sand. On the way up to the third floor, where fashion is the keynote for milady, we remarked how lonely and lifeless the store looked withotit lights and people. Christmas glitter and sparkle and sound

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Carl Freyn, senior member Freyn Br , Inc., India; S| plumbing, heating and air condi{tioning firm, will demonstrate an improved type of vacuum plunger) this afternoon in his home in| Edinburg. : Rubber manufacturers from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana are |scheduled to attend. 4 Mr, Freyn's invention is a flat rubber disk. with attachments which, when fastened inside a regular “plumber’s helper,” Increases the vacuum and suction properties, i Mr. Freyn recently formed a company to manufacture his plunger. First shipment of the household appliance was made from the company factory in ‘| Paoll last week.

36,000 Pelts Sold SIONTREAL. Wuebec, Dec. | +B creature was stirring." (UP) The Hudson Bay Co. auc- song : 5 were gone. ng ever on the alert to Dust Tony 00 Jrits today to b al Proposed new Decatur Central High School (architect's sketch, Daniel C. Zimmerman) to be erected on High School Road, south of y loose with words of Wisdom, said the reason was it first sale in Canada since the| Mars Hill, if a $585,000 bond petition is successful. Only the assembly hall (left wing) and classrooms (right) are to be built now. The takes people with love in. their hearts to make COMPany Was sranted a royal } Christmas a joyous occasion. _ |charter in 1670. Previous sales 4 “Do you think this hand-fie Pichel handbag Were in London or New York. | would make a young lady scream with joy, Ringa-| ding, if love was in my heart when I gave it tog r? -

Night of nights . . . a gnome lets a “good boy" play in a department store when “not a |

large rear section, planned as a gymnasium, may come later.

Ringading thought a young lady might scream. He flipped a Lloyd Kiva original handbag on the display case. If one didn’t do the trick, two might.’ Indeed, sir. ! We fingered matched accessories, ogled sheer evening blouses. Ringading’ modeled a $129.50 robe by mysteriously rising from the floor about three feet. In my mind's eye a wonderful creature (girl) replaced Ringading. We scattered compacts as one does flowers in May. In a playful mood, I splashed a dram of Stradivari perfume on Ringading. He retgiiated with two drams of Tweed. |

Christmas List AN IMAGINARY Christmas list was drawn up.’ We spent money as if it meant nothing. Come tog think of it, that’s what we. were spending. Leather chairs, comfortable sofas, coffee tables, television sets and desks by the dozen went on the list. “This will be the happiest Christmas ever,”

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By Robert C. Ruark

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10—I dunno what ft is about cities that hits you hard or soft, or whether the town molds the personalities of its pedple or the other way around. All I know is that when I am in a place like San Francisco I own it and when I am in L. A. I am scared to death. 1 can hop Off the plane in Denver or New Orleans and I am home before they dump the baggage into the claim room. Before the wheels touch at the San Francisco airport I am already a voting member of the community—ready to rassle for marbles or chalk. But the city of the turkey-furter and the gentian-violet sunglasses makes me wish for a mother to hold my hot little hand, or at least a seeing-eye dog to get me safely across the streets. You can pick up a phone book in Casablanca or Honolulu or Havana and enter into combat with the operator with no fear or at least small timidity. I hate to approach the directory in Los Angeles, because I have never really known the difference between Hollywood and Beverly Hills or where the devil Burbank actually is. Also all I ever get is somebody's secretary, with the information that Mr. X's number is not in the public domain. :

Always Sensitivein L. A.

THIS IS THE TOWN where you feel that everybody must have unlisted numbers and that all houses are surrounded by charged wire and - flerce mastiffs. I always feel sensitive because I am not a movie character or at least a gossip writer, and I wouldn't dare walk into Romanofl's unless I was flanked by at least two grade-A producers. All the people I do meet in Los Angeles are as pleasant as people elsewhere, but the strange people stare at you hostilely, as if you intended to cut into their racket. . I am abashed before the drugstores, which seem to be dressed up for a premiere, and even

tion. All the burlesque dancers look like Hedy Jf Lamarr and they seem to be sore because they aren't. Everything I run across in public is a production and the only simple folks I meet are actors and directors and writers. They mostly stay home, because I think they are as scared of the place as I am, i What frightens me most is the Cadillacs. There J} may be other brands of automobiles in greater Los Angeles, but I haven't seen them. If you drive a Ford or Chevvy or a Buick into a parking lot, the attendant doesn’t want to give you an identifica-| tion ticket. But if you sail in with a Cad, a dog-| tag is mandatory, to keep the drunks from going off with the wrong car. |

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THE ONE HOLLYWOODIAN I know who! owns no Cadillac is a busy young man named, Richard Widmark, a slight, blond fellow with a pleasant giggle that comes out most sinister on the screen. Mr. Widmark is a mild man, but he was once cast as a hood who giggled while he] pushed an old lady down the stairs and since then has slain literally hundreds of innocents for 20th Century-Fox. ’ Dick is not a good example of a non-Cadillac-| owning actor, however, since he is a shy actor who tells his son that he really is a sailor on a ship. He also forbids television in his home, because he » is afraid of the impact of its blood-lettiig productions on his child. Mr. Widmark figures one professional villain is enough for one house. There is an off-chance I may conquer my fear of the town on this_visit, even though I have no Cadillac; because I know two chit-chat columnists, Bing Crosby's producer, three actresses, two actors and one script writer. And, of course, Mr. Widmark. If things get too rough I aim to buy me a sailor suit and sign on with Dick in his nonexist-| ant ship. It will at least give me professional standing in “he community.

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By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—The question now seems to be whether the inhabitants of this nation are doomed to opening a sanitary, sealed envelope each noon and extracting a small, white and energy-packed pill for lunch. Dinner may be more elaborate. sist of a dark-brown-and lukewarm mush containing every known element for the fueling of mortal man. Henry Wallace experimented with such a goo, you may remember, but after six months of eating it three times a day, he gave it up. Somehow he'd lost his taste for scientific gruel. This has not discouraged other home economists and nutrition experts from going forward with their plan to fill the human void with the cheapest and most economical hay possible. They say this would make us a healthier race. And cause us to quit wasting so much time at the dinner table.

He Wants Food, Not Fuel

AND THAT brings us to Henry B. Arthur, a ssciehtist with a receding hairline and a suspicion of a second chin, who functions as an economist at Swift & Co., the Chicago purveyors of beefsteaks, the best creamery butter, genuine eggs laid by genuine hens, and other allied products. He's being investigated again. Mr. Arthur said he didn't mind the Senate Agriculture Committee looking into his firm’s profits, which he said he could prove were small, or its efficiency, which is high. He welcomes investigations. They give him a chance to tell what a fine job the meat packers are doing. What he told Sen. Guy M. Gillette of Iowa & Co., are those nutrition specialists urging people to eat mysterious-looking gooks, not because they taste good, but because they keep the human animal alive. A fine thing. “I always felt,” said Mr. Arthur, who had don-

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A Part of Good Living

OF COURSE they would, Mr: Arthur mourned. | Only good thing about 'em, from his viewpoint, is that they taste no better than they look. | “Take the so-called yeast steak,” he sald. “This analyzes exactly right in the test tubes, with the, proper amount of proteins, vitamins, and fats.| But it doesn't work out so well in my stomach.” | He grimaced. So did Sen. Gillette. Lately, Mr. Arthur said, the Department of Agriculture has | begun emphasizing the value of the high-protein diet, meaning beefsteaks, eggs, and cheese, Be. I latedly, he added, but all to the good. { “Because,” said he, “good eating is a part of good living.” -He left then to absorb a plate of] satisfaction at lunch. ~ T had the Senate's special 85-cent stew, myself, Just medium satisfying.

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