Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1950 — Page 11

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“SETTLE DOWN, baby, settle down. All right,

! baby, go to work, baby—now--now with that

right, baby.” You might call the above a trainer's prayer fo _ ~his boy. who is getting or giving a shellacking in

* the ring. Heard a lot-of that sort of thing at The

shoulders twitch and arms work

- Times-Legion Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament.

“It was my luck to get a seat directly under the red corner of the ring at the Armdry. Quite a break because I'm one of these guys who would walk a mile to see amateurs tangle. x

The Trainers Tell White Lies

THE LOCATION gave me an excellent opportunity to listen to trainers between rounds of the fast- -moving events. You'd be surprised what little white lies the boys listen {0 during the coufse of a_bout. 24 However, in the ‘trainde’s favor, it has to be said he probably suffers’ more than the man in the ring. Remember what John L. Sullivan once said. He insisted his concentration was so great during a fight that he never felt a blow throughout his boxing career. Trainers will groan and whine when a boxer takes a stiff jab. Their like" pistons, They win and lose with the boy in the ring. 1. rernember one little fellow Trainer Eugene (Tiny), Bland was coaching. For two rounds the kid was throwing punchtes, some effective, others

10 the four winds. The tiny chest was heaving, ~ thin legs weren't too steady when the setond

round ended. Tiny Bland, a huge man in all respects, hovered over the little form. -- With a paw the size of the. boy's head, Tiny _wiped a determined little face with a wet-sponge. He lifted a bottle of water to parched and bruised lips. Then he said quietly, “You've coasted two rounds. You're a couple of points behind. Get in

Jab, jab, jab . . . Trainer Eugene (Tiny) Bland builds a fire under a Golden Gloves fighter.

“to _his boy. I.would have placed him in the mos/quito class. When the boy plopped in the corner

“froin behind, the trainer got

- Has Chance. Coming Up

* on that body. Get out there and fight.” It must take a lot of guts to do that. IT mean|

- man in the red corner. is introduced. He's Duay:

him rest, Remember to use your left hand and get under’ with right uppercuts, Wear him out. Turn it on this round.” Nodding his head fn understanding, the boy shot out of his corner: with a burst of speed and energy that made the crowd roar. In a pig's eye he had been coasting for two rounds. And what would he turn on that he hadn't in the two previous rounds? Tiny cracked peanuts like a’ machine during the round and watched his boy win. Another trainer used the sympathetic approach

and a second worked.withi-a sponge.on his face wn on his knees. “Tiréd, Joey? Tired, boy?” “he asked. The fighter shook his head slowly. He

For several seconds they looked into gach other's

With his eyes the trainer was saying that if it were possible he would go out there and fight for Joey. He would take the punches. He would feel the pain. As the time was about to run out, the trainer began a chant that was hardly ‘audible just a few feet from the ring: “Make sure this round, Joey. Make sure, Joey, make sure, Make sure and hang it on ’'im this round, Joey." While Joey was trying to make sure, the trainer was going crazy beside me, Over and over he repeated “Now, now, now, now.’ Another man, another bout, another trainer, First round over. “You're missing with your left.

Use your right to the body. You've got him going|

—keep on him. Keep punching.”

Round two. “Stick it out in his face: What did]

I tell you boy?—use that right to the body-—oh, no—right to the body—back in that body—ooooh a down. boy. Ah, that was a good one.”

THE BELL. “You're chance is coming up. Play it cool. Don't wait, get in there and use that right to the body. Stay in that. body. Work, work, work

on the part of the trainer. Funny part about the whole thing is, the fighter goes out and usually turns into a whirling dervish. Where they get their strength is beyond me, Of course, then there’ s that punch that reduc es a I50'pounds of scrappy muscle to limp immobility. As relaxed as. fresh liver. Smelling salts instead of words are in order, The annouricer introduces the man in the blue corner who does a jig with uplifted gloves. The

flexing his muscles against the ropes. — The-crowd roars and leather flies. “That's the way, baby. Get on him, George—follow up—stay with him-—jab, jab.” .

This Friday night I'm staying away from the|

red corner. Another session listening to the trainers and I'd be in the ring. In and feeling no pain, bay.

THemior Ideas

" NEW YORK, Feb. 1—There is a student of the’ drama aroynd town, name of Ward Morehouse and out of Atlanta, I believe, who has recently come

‘ to our house to work, and ‘he héds a fine occupa"tional disease.

He combs his hair’ when inspiration fails to strike, and he is left barren and bereft in front of = the typewriter. This is a type of neatness I like to observe in writers. Most of us are so messy. Me, for instance, I ama mustache jerker and alm rubber and a knee er of subterranean tunes.

~ Budget a hair rumpler and a Each jouncer. Also a hum Wasson's -

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‘creep out ofthe corner.

When the stuff is coming tough I fight the foliage on my upper lip, until what is left ja sadly -atsarranged, like a wheat field laid waste by sleet. I notice I rub the palms most when suffering from morning malaise, and inspiration refuses to This is a habit I picked up in-1937 from a talented scrivener, by name Harold Kneeland, an owlish eye-glassed gentle-, man who could do anything thére was to be done on the Washington Dally News. ¢

Blister Rings Gong

MR. KNEELAND was the leading member of the Uriah Heep School of Journalism. His brains were evidently in his fists. ‘He would sit in front of -the infernal machine and wash his hands, dry, until blisters appeared on the palms. The first blister rang the gong for, the first

paragraph. If Mary Martin was able to wash that

man right out of her hair, Mr. Kneeland was able to wash many a sparkling piece right out of his palms. The head rubbers are common in my trade, ate ‘the hair-rumplers and the ey

bleeders, who sit and drip their life's blood into . the ribbon while awaiting the siren beckon of an -around the joint. They purse their lips and torture

idea. . The knee-jigglers and Jouncers are less common. There is one fellow I How who cannot write a line until he has bounced himself into a state of

- editorial frenzy.

He sits silently and soberly in front of the machine, and suddenly his knee begina to quiver.

, The -quivering. increases until the Kites is pound-

ing like-a piston.

keys.

Only when it bounches high enough to strike the desk and elicit a curse from its owner does the muse dance in and start him to batting at the This man, as do we ali; in. ope way or another, buys his art in bruises. The best rewrite man I know in New York has had to stop smoking in the day-time, because he is a cigaret lighter on a broad scale. Give this baby a really knotty piece to set before the king, and he has five cigarets going before he hits the end of the first page. . The high cost of fire insurance has compelled

him to abandon coffin nails. prior -to 5:30 p.m. | when he starts to chain smoké on his own time.|

One kind friend, also absentminded, once suggested that this bloke could cure himself of spreading lit butts around by putting his first cigaret behind his ear. It did not cure him of indescriminate smoking. It cured him of “putting cigarets behind his ear. ‘

Chuckle and Chortle

THERE ARE paper tearers, and paper-chew-ers, und the suckers of thumbs, but none are so oppressive in a city room as the laughers and the singers. . ~The laughers are convulsed at the delicious wit of their own copy, even if it be an obituary. They sit and chuckle and chortle and snicker at their own prose, until you are reminded of a vaudeville act which applauds. itself. Singers are worse. sometimes aloud, sometimes not, but you can always tell when they are singing. I knew one man once who could hum “tiddley winks, dash,! ~~ dash (denoting profanity) while dealing out a florid piece on the state of the ration. ’ - Also silent -whistlers are pretty tough to have

a thin piping, audible only to dogs and managing -editors, from their overladen brains.

I cannot imagine why I ‘have bothered you

with the by-products of my business, unless it is because recently I have rubbed palms, rumpled hair, plucked mustach-hair, whistled, sung, kneejounced, torn paper and smitten forehead. Evi-| dently I am heir to all the sins, but it is still better |

Pushbutton War

than working for a lying, i |

_By Frederick of] Othman va Hotel. at Fall Creek -——

_ WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—If Uncle Joe Stalin

; only will play. I think maybe we've figured out a

way to fight a war with little pink cards punched full of holes. This has advantages. For che thing, nobody gets hurt. What hrought this on. was the rhubarb last simmer over the B-36 bomber. Was it the mighti-

est war plane of ‘the age, or a fat duck wajting

to be shot down? You may remember that at the time’ some hot-headed Congressmen were about to order it up in the air for a battle with a Navy fighting plane. That was one way, certainly, to

Kind of dangerous, though. : Calmer citizens prevailed. They said the thing to do was evaluate it. They turned this job over to the weapons system evaluation group and the whole deal sounded gobbledegookish to me. I for got about it. Little did I know. —

All Done With Tickets:

THE MONTHS passed. And now America’s ‘leading aviation experts are on Capitol Hill, tellIng the Senators what they think this country needs in the way, of flying machines. I got to talking to some of 'em between sessions, the subject of the B-36 came up, and suddenly there was the “ magnificent idea of fighting wars with pink tickets, There is no reason, according to my specialists, why this wouldn't work. The evaluators evaluating the. B-36 are laboring in secrecy at Aberdeen, Md., but they have no * B-36 handy. Not even a picture of one. What

they're using is an ENIAC. Those are {initials

standing for electronic numerical integrator and computor. * This ENIAC thing is an electric brain of medium intelligence. It is better than most, not as Smart -as _some, but S008 Syough to tell about the B-36.

80 the boys — up how fast she flies, how| quickly she turns, how much gas she burns, what) kind of bullets she shoots (and where) and other, facts too numerous to mention—here. These they feed into the ENIAC via a typewriter keyboard. They also type up the same kind of informa-| tion “about each plane the B-36 is supposed to fight, give that to the ENIAC, and push a button.! Motors buzz, tubes light up, bells clang, and from| the other.end of the ENIAC drops the card say-| ing which airplane won the battle. That's over-| simplification, of . course, but not much.

* Same on Battleships MY MEN SAID the ENIAC could do the same

sort of job on a couple of battleships, or even al pair of opposing armies. But as I said, Uncle Joe| has got to co-operate. If he'll send over the statistics on his army, we can. stick In the figures an our troops, and the ENIAC will tell in a matter of seconds which side won. This would save a good deal of trouble, but that is not all, "The ENIAC doesn’t need real battlewagons, or even airplanes, to settle wars, It can do an equally efficient job with mete blueprints. The engineers simply have to design their warmaking apparatus on paper. That's plenty for the ENIAC, which takes it from there and reaches a décision in a hurry. That still isn't:all. The ENIAC is not too brainy. It is not smart enough to lie and whoever submits a fight to it for settlement can be assured of a square deal,’ i There's only one trouble with this superb, scheme, my engineers said. If the fellows get sore] at the way their war is going, wad up those cards| tumbling from the ENIAC, and start shooting each other with blowguns, all bets are off. | I'm sorry they. mentioned that, They ruined) a beautiful dream. .

Warrenefte Club in

~The Warrenette Club of Warren Padgette, Claudette Wise, Mrs. R. Central High School will hold its W. Cook, ‘Marlane Cook, Mrs. | members are: 18th annual Mothers’ and Daugh-| ‘Louis Dammrich, Mary Damm-|

Sponsor Annual Tea

Other committées and their

tons-—Joan Stapl ehatrman: Norma BS end

pr n, pain Bat Lemieux, Jackie. Fr ha

ters’ Valentinie Tea Friday after-rich, Mrs. Jacob Gumberts, De-; jane Humphrey, Joan Ashley. and’ Mrs,

‘noon in the school library. lores - Gumberts,

C. E. Eash, school principal, will Cormack, Rosanna McCormack, —give the welcome address, after|and Mrs. William Polk and Diana

. Joan Buckley, Warrenette presi- - dent, greets the group. “In the receiving line, headed by My ayrtle Rinjdes, club sponsor,

Polk. —

," Mrs. C. een Hergt and Paul’ a od Barn: and had “L. L.- Wilson, ton -will provide the aE ren Central PTA president. ment.© Claudette ‘Wise, - i

are Mrs. F. L. Buckley, Blgwers and

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7 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1950 = ent ah el oh "PAGE. 1

Life Dignity of Earlicr Day: erenely On In Marott Hotel

Valerie Ardner, 4-yoar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert

Mrs. A. H. Steinbrecher has the distinction of having lived the longest at the Marott Hotel of _L. Ardner, is the hotel's youngest permanent. resident.

all “residents. An accomplished pianist, she practices religiously every day. « i

a comin Tol

"< This case is one of many items Mrs. J. J. Cole Sr. has brought back with her from world travels. The case and its accompanying pieces are from ‘the Orient.

party for persons of ‘her circle] {in several years,

“Quieter Pursuits of Advancing Age . Replace Old Gay Whirl of Parties (10.0%, Mle sus E

|About People— mits,” they visit each other. J iliam F. Kuhn at 92, oi pe.

Parents Set to Devote 03, is the’ olest resident.” re Lives to Coma Victim

Te PETERSON I ft to confess her! A DIGNIFIED AIR of yesterday hugs the elder residents of Ct ns con her! Elderly Colorado Couple Plans fo Core : i For Son, 46, as Long as They Can woth

the Marott Hotel and their apartments. distinction [but wonder why they| They feel at home amidst their old familiar furniture, clagsic have been permitted to live to such! {paintings and ornate bric-a-brac, ages. The elderly parents of Leonard Parker, 46, Canon City, Colo, ¥ said today they will devote the rest of their 1 “We grew old with it and wouldn't think “of changing,” sala] ~ There BAD; 8 SOMOS ey I OOtore carol tor The. coma en eid digas es Mrs. Walter J. Huftoh, who has Tived the past 21 years at the swank |, oc © G0 ‘God ll some rea. accident 15 months ago.

Kuhn sald. Mr. Parker,.a rancher. and. his wife were hurt criticall [Parkway and “Meridian St. “ee TEL FC Tame (he" hard fn: Slams ee their car skidded and collided with a milk tr 6, 1048, Both the people and their pos- way. We hadn't beef T married), wholesale grocer and real es. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Park: 5g " SE Isessions have aged 'gracefully.|long.whea my hisband-gave me tate idvestor, agreed. She is a ef, both 69, took over his care in|- Leonard Hicks, former helper They are in keeping just as is $10 a week[ To run tHe house? Helyiw io) newcomer to the hotel, a bedroom of their four-room (of Houdini, "the MAGN. has ithe "conservative _ dress of the. always said if you couldn't PAY paving “been-in- —— only home; Mrs. Parker “never leaves) {been named -as:> : dwindling circle of guests around [outright for something forget it... So.a [the house.” Her husband leaves! SIStant to Albert. \which once revolved the hotel's) “Well, one day I saw the paint-I_ 0." 0 100ks after the family Only to buy supplies; |Pick Jr., presi{social life, ling and wanted it. It cost.$100, properties, -another-1s- fn husiness {dent of Pick Ho. As the years have passed more We talked about getting it, butli “tr “wort ine the husbands. Lauritz Melchior, "Metropolitan tels Corporation, and more have taken to the use Mr. Perry said no. For a “year of her two Nving daughters are {Opera _tenor, today threatened to Chicago. Known lof ¢anes,: Their tapping on: the/and a half I took $2 a week from, yotired. (nip Director Rudolf Bing's “Ger- here from havtile ‘and marble flooring of the| [the $10 he gave me. She. too. has interested Merself {man Season” in the bud by.ing served as lobby echo what once were flying “Mind you, I didn't always Keep|,, “trot et and has-made four trips Joining. Helen feet entering —into—the—spipit—ofthe-two. Lots of times-I-had toi pra rhe Net was to take Her Traubel in high society. |put most-of .i{ back, Finally I youngest . daughter to Paris to contract, "ou rhad the money and asked him if study art: While there, the daugh- {work walkout. AS HEALTH permits, some 12,!1 could have it. “He couldn't be- ter married and lived in the, Mr. - Melchior all that remains of about 30 who|lieve I had saved it from the French capital for 1 years. [appeared with once formed the nucleus of gay ‘house money, | Miss Traubel at events, take daily strolls about, “Dao it the hard way and you'll AND NO ONE. Yorks fn surprise IU Jan: 18 and the hotel, short walks in the fresh, appreciate: things,” Mrs. Perry when they hear concert-fuality a few years ago alr or rides in their limousines. {said with a positive air. piano music emanating from the gave a recital For several, uniformed chauf-| ®ve apartment of Mrs. A. H. Stein-| [in Indianapolis. fers wait in the lobby each morn-| - MRS. J. J. COLE SR., wife of brecher. . The .59-year-ing, assist their employers into he late creator of the Cole auto-| Beautiful renditions of the clas- old Danish singwaiting automobiles and. whisk qe“ lives among souvenirs of sics have come from her apart- er said Af he

The A, “E. Clarke apartment is is decoratively furnished in antiques, many of which Mr. Clark persanslly refinished. Both are avid collectors. i

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| Association, ‘Mr, {Hicks will assist with supervising |the operation of {the local Ant{ler’s Hotel, the Oliver Hotel, {Sor Bend, ard the Anderson (Indiana) Apartment Hotel. All {three are Pick -Hotels. Larry Gombs, manager of the Antlers Hotel and president of the Indiana Hotel - Association

Mr. Hicks

Mr. Melchior

them away, world travel. She dreams. of ment every afternoon since 1927. doesn’t “miss and the Indianapolis Hotel Asso- . But for -the most part these those . yesterdays but lives for The oldest resident in years at the swan. boat”. in “Lohengrin” ciation received the afinounce-gray-haited ladies of the Marott tomorrow .as well, . ithe hotel, Mrs. Steinbrecher came tomorrow night it will- be the ment, Mr. Hicks recently oper

spend the time .in their RpaFL ments, They are a _graci people . but strong-willed. are keen. they are refined. common they have their feet on today. the ground. | She ‘believes her travel years Many personally attend to busi- have passed” and now contents ness affairs and possess a shrewd herself with family affairs and! {understanding of the value ofa monthly tour about the hotel {money. Others remember clearly on sick calls.” i" their younger days when they had|- But the many paintings, wall! nothing, their husbands’ infant ple oa. and miniatures about the away. from the hotel at musical] industries encumbered by debt. |gpartment spegk-. eloquently of {vores and is her own most se-

MRS. C. C. PERRY ‘is such a Der 20 trips to Europe and herivere critic, penal, With - a single dynamo round-the-world trip in 1937. Ten| «Time has a way of taking tis] ts of foresight her husband Of the ships she has sailed onito]l 6f the fingers,” she said as foun ded the Indianapolis Power Were sunk in World War II. igshe-sat at her grand piano and hts Co. on Market St. just ¥ m8 played one of her own composi- | k ONE OF the most vibrant tions. “When the fingers don't, . “He had one dynamo and one'guests is: Mrs. Elizabeth C: Tim- go as they should, it is very dis-. Miss Shirley employee “but he got started at berlake, whose late husband biiilt! couraging. 9 A the time people needéd electric-|roads dver Indiana as the B. ‘M. These are some of the ladies at r.|ity,” Mrs. Perry said, leaning] Timberlake Co. 4 home. in the Marott, the fabulous crisp $100 bills and-a “guardian A Aued en cost Storsis Benas back ih a barrel chair and finger- Lively as a spinning top, Mrs. hotel which has ingrained itself ngel” for the rest of his life.|Jr, 95 cents and about 95000 Weller | Ing ‘her neck. choker. Timberlake ‘would “like to seeinia.th&life and.times of Indian-| | Lestle Lemmon Jr, 16, found -a shivers. He jumped at a Neenah, “We were fortunate, but Weifuch of the formality return to BS is a dwindling circle, Manila envelope containing $1500: Wis., auto company’s offer to sell Aor Sher Shia oa Ig of He: took it. td police Who turned|a 1932 car for 45 cents to the |saciety as brilliént as the gleam- lit over to Mrs. Elfrieda Heim, 69, first person at ifs door at 10 a. m, ‘rig lobby chandeliers under which who had reported loss of her lite yesterday. He ‘took up his vigil many gather every afternoon at SAVIN&S. Mrs, Heim handed Les- at 7:45 a. m. Monday. and shiv'5 to pass the time. of day, ~~ [lie the ¥ills and said: “F will ered for 26 hours and 15 minutes : Satis 3 ~lwatch over you for the rest of in “16-degree-below-zerg _weathep -

here. fropa Detroit where she was [final performance ‘of his 24-year ated the Casa Marina Hotel in 8] us so ef of the chief sponsors of the{career as the Met's leading Wag, Key West, Fla. and formerly was They in everything Cole do |syriphony. {nerian star. “He said’ Mr. Bing managing -director of the MorriIn| renin n_every 8 es She has done the same in In-/had given him a cold shoulder| son Hotel, Chicago. = idianapolis, for fine music has her instead of a contract for next ie NN {undying love. From 1878 to 1881 year. : - Greta Garbo has been offered & she studied piano at the famed . nn a leading: rele in , [Leipzig Conservatory in Ger- Anne Shirley, an Italian film : screen actress, version of the sald today she fg Classical Greek % poem, “The expecting a child Odyssey.” She'll “the first. week he offered the in September.” |part of Penelope, The blond star| Wife of Ulysses. was married fo If she “refuses, Katherine He pCharles Lederer, ihurn - or "Greer : screen wrtter, Garson ‘will be ; a Jast October. contacted, Aus Miss Garbo trian director- C. . 16 -y ear- “01d Milwaukee W. Pabst has been instructed. youth's honesty won. him two

Mrs, Steinbrecher is extremely] active, spends much “of -her time!

worked hard. My husband riever the Marott. She realizes, howhad time for foolishness. Hard] ever, that age plays-its part. work ” wear gels a “Person. pecently she recaptured some ahead. ; T Tot! the glamour of dressing for SHE POINTED. gh a scenic dinner when ‘she gave a party |

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pain above a wall-long boo r 30 in the hotel dining room. | ing. » 8. Kt was the first near- a)

yor life.” % io get the Berge. 5,