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character. “You they call Paul Roberts, . WFBM has him ; payroll.

on As In the past, I headed toward the sofa where Paul Pd much of his time when on ‘duty.

Mich to nly surprise he wasn’t there. was cold to the touch and the impression of his . hulk wasn't there. ‘What happened? Where's the

- Monster? Who? The Monster, Paul Roberts. She Said He Was Working THE RECEPTIONIST, a ing stranger ‘who should have given me an inkling of things to

come, informed me "Mr. Roberts” was in the tele~ vision studio wérking. What's the gag? This a man had to see. Something was moving behind the curtains in the TV studio and I quickly assumed it was Paul getting comfoftable for the afternoon. Arming myself with a length of stout electric cord, I tore the green damask (might have been cotton) apart and charged. For a moment, a teensyweensy moment, Paul cowered and flung his hands in front of his face. Twenty pounds lighter, patches grayer; Paul was no sight for sore eyes. In the old days (two months ago) a gimmick like ‘that would have provoked laughter on a grand scale. Many a holiday was proclaimed for less. A sad tale followed after I led him into the studio. He told of his 20 years of radio work:

When he tossed records and scripts to the four

Listen, you guys .

Symphony M Musicians Must ummer Jobs To Make Ends Meet

You bouid Dave samme 10 TA ater ‘Harry gave me the word,” sniffed Paul, listlessly, “Look, all this furniture, which I arrange, and two hours’ work, goes for a one-minute show," sald Paul. “Dick Pittenger sells frankfurters. ‘He's on the television screen. Nothing happens to me.” Ah, ha. The ham was still there. A TV show is supposed to be about six times as complicated as a radio show. To sell weiners, for example,|Paul, the conductor, so to speak, directs the action of five men. 4 A word or gesture will put into action Al Lovell, monitor switcher; Charlie Smith on audio; Lyle Ludwig, announcer; Bob Hite, projectionist, and Bert Brouse, shadow box operator. Choking back a sob, Paul went on to tell of| the days when his heart was gay and Maggie was a great deal P, “Many

times 1 went on the air with my hat and coat on,” he whispered, bowing to his masters, the five television cameras in the room. Buttoning the raincoat tightly about my neck, 1 did my best to stay as dry as possible. The teafs were coming in torrents. It seems that four hours of preparation are required to begin TV operations for the day. * Monitors and cameras have to be warmed up for an hour before being turned on. In radio you push a button and you're in business.

Really a Very Simple Operation WHEN operations begin for an evening of + television, Paul sald all he's required to do is to keep his eyes on the shadow box monitor, off the| air monitor, film prevue monitor, any one of the three cameras, volume indigator, projection ma-| chines and identification cards. His thinning gray hairs stood on end when he! tossed a card reading, “We regret the interruption | in program service. Telecasting will be resumed as soon. as technical adjustments are made.” “That is the most hated card up here. There | isn’t a guy that wouldn't take a cut in wages! rather than hang up that ca Cameramen Kelly Robbins and Mac Higgason, who were poking around with their babies, shouted approval. I found myself biting a kleig! light.

With an eye on the backstage clock, Cheri Simkins, a member of Fabien Sevitzky's second-violin section, decides it's time to take her place on the stage.

In the last few minutes before Symphony rehearsal in the Murat, Saul Bernat, the orchestra's personnel manager, seats himself at the celesta to look over some music. The doll-sized, pianolike | instrument with its bell tone occasionally takes Mr. Bernat from his regular post in the viola’ section.

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Bald Facts

‘By John poser |

NEW YORK, Jan. 3—The toupee has come inte its own during the first half of the century, a discreet inquiry disclosed today. Science, which had contributed the airplane, the automobile and the key to the atom, appeared to have overcome the annoying and often embarrasing Jpertections of the manufactured hairline,

These were the reported developments: ONE: Toupees are now almost impossible to detect (from front, side, rear or top views), TWO: They do not slip with a quick turn of the head. THREE: They. ¢an be worn in bed. FOUR: Neither water nor climate affects + them. ‘ FIVE: They can be styled to please the ladies. (The crew cut is particularly appealing).

Mother Nature's Rival THESE DISCLOSURES were made by “Louis

years, ‘has probably run second-only to Mother

masculine cranium. “Until a few years ago,” Mr. Feder revealed, “It was easy to spot a toupee. By looking directly at it, the lace holding the toupee in place on

usually fit an inch below the normal hairline. Then, too, toupees had to be taken off every night and could not be worn while swimming or showering. “Also, if a man were walking down the street and turned his head quickly to look at a pretty girl, he was apt to find himself looking through locks that normally fell at the nape of the neck. ’ “Climate created anothér problem. In warm climes, toupees stayed on all right, but the sun faded them. Where temperatures were very low,

Half Century? -

. under water.

Feder of the House of Feder, who, in the past 35

Nature in the matter of putting hair atop the.

the forehead was visible because it was bulky and.

it was almost impossible to keep tr the toupee in| place.” These circumstances, he said, caused greut] anguish among the toupee wearers of the nation. | “Thanks to science,” Mr, Feder said, “we have| now developed ‘a plaster formula that holds the toupee to the scalp under all conditions. At my|. shop, we have a forehead lace made from human | hair that is worked into the shape of a receding] hairline and is invisible and natural in appear; ance. It is also possible to wear the toupee for six months without hs iJ it, and to wear it] | “Toupees can be styled any way—widow's| peak, crew cut, Hollywood—and given any shade. ™ In addition to sales negotiated at his swank Fifth Ave. salon; Mr. Feder claimed a brisk mail} order business.

New Outlook on Toupees “BALD-HEADED men have a new outlook in| regards to the toupee,” he said. “Science was mostly - responsible. However, the ladies had a good deal to do with it. The men saw that a wives and sweethearts were not disturbed when | ‘movie stars like Charles Boyer revealed they wore | toupees. And with the new improvements, they were encouraged to investigate their possibilities.” | Mr. Feder said he averaged 3500 sales a year| at prices ranging from $75 to $200. He said some of his customers, particularly | factory workers, had formed toupee clubs in various parts'of the country. “Usually factory workers wear hats while!

Kenneth Glass (left), violinist; Francis Fitzgerald, flutist, and Harry Michels, French bon player, are three more of Dr. Sevitaky' s aatmest musicians tuning and = td

Violinist Works as Interpreter, Others Get Into Various Fields

Democrats Take 2% Peer’ 1 a Local Church Worker working and leave their toupees home so they! By HENRY BUTLER Over County Rule won't get soiled,” he said. “In New Haven, HOW DO Symphony musicians earn a living? |

Bridgeport and Waterbury, Conn., Atlantic City | Sai 4 Is fo r | n di i a Ja n. 29

and Pittsburgh they have formed clubs. They | The question is anything but frivolous. . | Allison Unseats Ayres, Miss Dawson fo Be Missionary i in Bombay; ’

wear their toupees and meat Saturday nights.” Like members of other major orchestras, Indianapolis Sym-| As Commissioner | 4 He predicted that by the end of -this next phony musicians are employed only part of the-yedr. The remain- ! Dr. Totten Becomes Head of Flint College Miss Blanche Dawson said goodby to old friends for five years

A Democrati inist; decade no male head would be: uncovered. ing six or seven months, they must find work elsewhere. £. administration William [at the open house given in her honor Sunday at Southport Methodist

i assumed political control of MariThat work isn’t always music. In a city this size, or even in on County today as ! : much larger cities, there aren't replaced Church. --She will sail Jan. 29 for Bombay, India, to serve as By Frederick C. Othman a Republican, riissionary.

Allison, a Democrat, anywhere near enough musical Olymp Too Speedy

noodling back of orchestra shell on Murat's cavernous stage just before practice, Frequent rehearsals s keep the orchestra i in tiptop. shape for its strenuous schedule.

sa ——

William T. Ayres,

“WASHINGTON, J Jan. 3 “Have we we just ¢ completed the first 50 years of this century or have the boys who whooped it up with gala celebrations, men of the half century, and special editions of their magazines, missed the date by about a year? This question I have made a valiant attempt to answer, but about all I got was my ears bent “back. You'd be surpriséd how many people can get so sore when lured into an argument about what year it is. Reminds me once when a battle raged around my head in a flying maehine passing the international date line over the Pacific Ocean. I claimed it was Tuesday. The other passengers said it was - Wednesday. Just before the fists began to fly (it being a calm day climatically) we called back the pilot to settle.the argument. Having studied our calculations, he said it was Monday. He barely escaped with his life. If we hadn't needed him, we'd have tossed him out the window. Same thing with the first 50 years. All fs yam-mer-yammer.

Senators Always in a Haze

- YOU'D THINK a U. 8. Senator, who-knows all, would have the answer.' There are 96 of these gentlemen, but I'ignored 'em. They don’t even know what month it is. When they knocked off work last’ November, it still was September on their calendar. One day in October (when they claimed it was August) it was a Friday. The Veep banged his gavel and suddenly it was Saturday and the poor old sergeant at arms had to rush out for the chaplain to pray over the gentlemen for the second time in 30 minutes. It wasn't a bad prayer, either, though hurriedly - composed.

|as County Commissioner. Miss Dawson's grandmother, Mrs. Katherine Dawson, is the I did bump Into one Senator. however who jobs for a symphony's 85 instru- Off Court, Fined The shift in political control oldest living member of Southport Church. She was 93 Oct. 6 pondered whether the century reached the half- mentalists. was not expected to have an im- and joined the church in 1898.

reported to have 118 grandchily dren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren living in the same village. s = = An’ aged Chicago couple did a family of 11 a Christmas kind-. ness and thereby saved their own

forward of the portant effect on the operation of Mrs. the county.

Dawson lives with her son 01} s, profes- . and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Frank sional DO ry hians rt o Mr. Ayres’ departure leaves B. Dawson, Banta Road, R. R. 1. _ sl § é Willlam (Bud). Bosson Jr: the Miss Dawson joined Southport Jan. 1. A colt born yesterday, said he, i tof-towners, like Miss Cheri Sim n po old tomorrow. y. said he. is a year) kins, Philadelphia violinist, gen- buked today for showing too sole Republican on the three-man Church Mar. 27, 1932. She has Another expert on the passage of time said the [erally go home and seek work much speed: iSoverning Sort; Fréd W. Nord- [served as assistant organist and way to figure out about this century business is there. “Fast moving is fine on the S¢!%, remaining Democratic mem- taught Sunday School classes

to go baek in history a little and count on your | | basketball floor, but it doesn’t (Per: assumes the chairmanship. [there. The church, with the Rev.

way mark in 1950 or 1951. He said the way he, Members of Fabien Sevitzky's' Carl Shaeffer, figured it, the problem was something like that of ensemble solve the problem in.a yndjanapolis race horses, all of which become a year older on |&reat variety of ways. The out-

® x MISS SIMKINS,

: Democratic balance of land Mrs. W. N. Burton in charge, lives. fingers,.beginning with the year 1 A. D. He said! incidentally,iwork on the streets, 80 please, a ur g i he did not mean the year zero, because there who says music is her * “heart’s hold it down,” Judge Joseph power in the county, coupled with thonored her previously with a FC ia Me Mrs John ahuring, wy wasn't any. hove. Howard declared when Mr. complete Democratie admin-| {ognition service, Her parents were, 20d 67, gave Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

” is lucky enough to know] {and speak fluently five languages: (English, French, Spanish, Portu-| The athlete, who lives in 1918] guese and Italian. Though she’ al” Leland St. was arrested last

much prefer 10 be Playing in or. Wednesday, charged with driving a ie Sp {46 ‘miles- an hour in a 30-mile

{working as an interpreter in| lzone.

Tanner and their nine children a “real Christmas.” To repay ‘thém the Tanners did their housework each day. Yesterday the Tanners went to the Thuring home and found the - aged couple unconscious. Tanner

a istration in the city, gives the hosts at Sunday's affair.. county Democratic’ machine a| Miss Dawson is completing work {heavy municipal flavor on -the at “Kennedy. School of Missions, eve of the 1951 elections. Hartford, Conn. She is a graduSilent on ‘Changes’ late of Southport High School and Mr. Ayres, whose term officially Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky. {expired yesterday, said that the ’o

By his calculations, 1951 is the year and all hands who have spent their money for radio programs on an era and photographs of ladies in funny hats wasted every cent. They've got to do it all over again next New Year's.

Final Specialist's Opinion

Schaeffer ‘pleaded guilty speeding charge:

on

MY FINAL specialist on this subject was an courts, psychological clinics and" lprevious. county administration Italian Film Director Roberto called the fire department and . income tax collector, by the name of Irving Perl- hospitals. ‘I'm sorry, I know I was going <did not have the opportunity to! Rosselini admit-.an inhalator squad revived them, ; meter, who remembers back to 1900. | Only a few of the ‘musicians! too: fast,” the Olympian said in make any spectacular advances.” ted that he re-'Doctors said they had been overs

That was the beginning of a whole new cen- who've settled here can earn all COUrt.

Mr, Allison declined to predict! ported actress come by coal gas.

tury. Or was it? “It brought happy memories to of their living from music. Sam Judge Howard levied a $1 fine ‘sweeping changes” in the. future. Ingrid Bergman x ow - Mr, Perimeter’s old eyes. Bernat, Dr. Sevitzky's personriel plus costs of $6.75. In a brief ceremony yesterday in a state of Mayor William “We had the same controversy then as now, manager, who also” plays viola, in the commissioners’ chambers, nervous exhaus- O'Dwyer began only bigger because we weren't considering any celesta and piano, is one. A char- I. Woodmansee Mr. Ayres recounted some of his tion io. N° his second fourmere half century, but -a whole 100 years of prog-'ter member of the, Symphony, experiences as a memifer of the could be“left in year administra~

ress,” he said. . “So we celebrated in ‘1900. With Mr. Beinat has built up a private Dies in Hospital board for the past nine years. peace of the hol- tion today with

such a celebration as nobody ever saw before.’ [practice in teaching. Despite-long } He outlined: ‘Some of the more. idays,” the Rome a promise ‘to “By 1901 we decided that we had made a seri<'po rc of work he finds time to! 1Tuman- -Woodmansee. 6047 important gains of the administra- Daily American forgive everyous mistakb. There was only one thing to do. continue important ventures in Crittenden Ave, - died today “in tions he served in as the installa- said today. -He body.” Celebrate again. We did. And a good time was composition. General Hospital, where he was ton of the planning and zoning was quoted’ cas ® He “added a had again by all.” ommission, construction of new saying that Miss lea for wholes i # & head of the chemical lahoratory Mr. Rossellini pea. for : All I can add Is the same to you and many, KENNETH GLASS, another an surfaced roads and initiat- ~~ Bergman actual- hearted co-ope-of ‘em. of Ell Lilly & Co.'s laboratory jngta program to build five new !Y Was. “in fine health.” ration on behalf

‘The Quiz Master

veteran of the original Symphony for clinical research. founded by Dr. Ferdinand Schae-

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Lafayette placed third in the con-

He was 32..county bridges. Greathouse Takes Office Another county administrative

of the city's 8 O'Dwyer million people.

Employed the last nine years finds ‘between-season musical by Eli Lilly & -Co., he was named

Mr.

tor was to.vote for two men, and the candidate with the second highest vote was to be vice president. The Twelfth Amendment set up separate electoral balloting for Presideit and vice president. ¢ & @

May a person make a patented scientific instru~ ment, if it is: solely for his own use. Neo. It is very commonly believed that a person may freely make any patented article; provided it is only for his own use. This, however, is not correct, and unauthorized const on or , use of ‘a patented article may constitute Wtringe,—meht, even If it Is wot sold. a . <

What is a Martello tower?

A circular part of coast defense. These ‘forts were popular about 1800; but have been discontinued. as they. ry found to. be of iti practical vale, :

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{employment steadily decreasing. head of the laboratory last change took place day when est in Reno, Nev. 19 Soleet the, police Officer George Bjick of ; | [An Indianapolis resident since MONA. (Charles Greathouse, 8 Democrat, 15 (ne and Eleanor Fulstone of Kankakee, Ill, waved down Roy : In the song “Yankee Doodle,” what does the Is there an animal called the eyra?. 1911, Mr. Glass, a member of Dr. Born in Marion, he was gradu- "chiaced Louls W. Fletcher, a Re-|g oH Nevada Smith of Detroit. “Where's your 3 word “macaroni mean? Yes. If is a wild cat, found in South and Cen-| \Sevitzky's second-violin section, ated with a chemical degree from| Publican, - as County Treasurer. coeds, won the contest. More Wife?" he asked. It means a pretentious fellow, a fop or a dandy. tral America, from southern Brazil to northern \now spends the summer in sery- Purdue University in 1939. He Mr. Fletcher's term expired yes- {than 2000 sets of twins partici] The indignant Smith pointed to . ¥ @ Mexico. Though it is about as big as an ordinary ice-station operating for Modern|Worked a’ year for American terday. pated. the rear seat. “Back there, " How did the: Constitution provide. for the elec cat, it has an elongated body and is reddish In Fuels, Inc. {Rock-Woo]l. Corp. before joining The new political alignment asleep,” he sald, tion of the vice president? color. It is said to attack fowl, | Francis Fitzgerald, second flut- [En Lilly & Co. (Ba re as reg hat Dr. W. Fred Totten has resigned| Then he looked, His wite was Originally the Constitution made no provision . * *.0 ist, besides doing some teaching, | He is survived by his wire: ho 8 On exp as director of admissions at Wa. not there. a. a for a separate ballot for vice president; each elec- 1s it a fact that the cutting off of a man's ear es. “You'll find her back at Dwight,

masonry fort designed to form as

caused a war? spent last summer selling and] |Susanne, and a 5- year-old County Council's bash Callege to accept the presi-|

seven - man 3 ‘Mr. ‘Bfick told him. The War of Jenkin's Ear was the popular name supervising for a. commercial | daughter. to board, the group that controls dency 3 Fist Tusier © lege ay RB] th told Hi: akensd apd given to the war between Great Britain and Spain aj" ndblasting rm. ‘. ‘Mrs Ed H fF: Ie Sauiity's re strings, 18/5. 4t at Flint, “ "7llet the car to go to the rest room in 1739. Spain was giving rough treatment to HAKRY MICHELS, French) . na 0 man B oy oa, Sean Cote Dr. Totten went to Wabash in When ber husband stopped af a English smugglers, and when one Capt. Jenkins, y unc e [service station.

1945 from Marion where he was Not Hotei she lsenfor high school principal, ‘Hel had lett MR. Smith got in the {taught previously at Bloomington [Car an ve 0 : ® High School, in the Indiana Uni- Mrs. Smith telephoned police at i ip versity School of Education, and, Kankakee to stop him, He want : at New Augusta.” He is a gradu-! back for ber. il ea # ate of DePauw and, has a doctor “ox ow “lot. philosophy degree. trom I. U. President Elpidio |

‘Elect came home with an ear torn off by Spanish offi-| {horn player now in his 15th. sear ed Commandant mains -intact until 1951 and in-|

cials, there wis a rage excited which nothing put 800 with the orchestra, says he| Mrs. Edna Hoffman was recent- cludes John (Jack) "Innis, chair-| war would appease. Pow idoes-—“a little bit of everything” iY. shold sandant 2 the{ man of I County R ’. v0 {to supplement his Symphony sea- d ry, n- y

fanapolis N. | Demo Where is the longest straight stretch of Faflway | son earnings. For several sum-| bo 0.42. crats privately fear

Other new officers include Mrs. [council will now launch line in the United States? imers, he's worked for the Park Oljve Stamm, senior executive of-| “economy” drive ‘to harass

The longest strétch of line without a elirve Is Dept. in the maintenance divi-| ificer; Mrs. Golda Miller, junior,ministration efMcienc : the 79 miles on the Seaboard Airline Rallyay sion ZA | executive officer; Mrs. aor Another Jstaney.” yesterday. Moscow Radio broadeast from (Chilippints will ay 4a a between Wilmington v4 Hamlet, N. C. | Nobody else wants anybody ‘H. Wann, paymaster; Mrs, Ruth occurred at Police Headquarters J ondon today that Mahmud Eyva- ical treatment at , J Fs (for Just seven months out of the Anderson, chaplain; Mrs. Helen {where Joseph Howard was sworn $ovy collective farmer in the moun-' Hospital in Baltimore. Which country leads in the production of em- | year, Mr. Michels explains, sum-. Draga, historian; Mrs, Alma Col-| In as Judge of Municipal Court 3. tain village of Pirasurs. Azer- With him on. ‘the eralds? — : ‘ming up. the problem of sym-|lins, _conductress; Mrs. He Howard was renamed to baijan has Jeashad the age.of 240, 15 persona. inclu J og oiombln, South America, the. world’ arg pho ch hestea Mrs, Juanita, oe post’ by. Goi Schricker two |

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