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{ Inside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovold”
ANY GIRL who works with rats all 0a. Se. their blood pressures, Ry know more about. A tip like that demands action. One side, you rat.
1 was still practicing fancy greetings (how many times a week does a man have a chance to snarl. “Hello, you rat?"), when I stood in front of the proper door in the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research, 960 Locke St.
The ddor responded .to the touch. A charming redhead turned a pair of charming blues eyes my way. I was charmed and almost at the point of blushing. Whatever possessed me to tie the bottoms of my trouser legs with heavy twine? The young lady in white was looking at my covered
rubber-lined holder which is inflated and eventu-| ally produces a reading. The rat's tail is used like | a human's arm. The rats, Mrs. Cherry said, get the best of care. There are 150 rats in that department. Special food, special cages, air-conditioning, ultra-| violet lamps are used to protect the rodents. A | rat's life, I believe, is better than a dog's life.
Mrs, Cherry handled the rats as a spinster
would her favorite cat. She admits she likes rats. “I was scared to death, ready to cry, ready to quit,” she added, “when I first came here four years ago.”
Things are different now: Favorites, who ave!
outlived their laboratory usefulness, enjoy a life!
- ankles. Casting a furtive glance at her ankles, 1° °F °aSe and comfort. Poochie and Squeegee are
explained that a bicycle was my means for transportation.
‘Not Afraid of Rats’
DON'T THINK it's because rats frighten me.” We laughed. “You're om “Yes,” he redhead answered. “And you ,.. ? “Correct.” The reason a conversation of that sort made sense to us was because of a previous phone call. Laboratory Technician Mrs. Phyllis Cherry knew I was coming. “I would have baked a cake,” smiled Mrs. Cherry, “I knew you were coming but it's difficult over a Bunsen burner.” We could have laughed longer than. a. half hour but there was work to do. Why would a rat's blood pressure be of any consequence to...ah. well, a redhead?” Mrs. Cherry said the laboratory is searching for substances that will be developed ultimately to cure hypertension. Eh? My moving pencil having writ, stopped. Cure what. “High arterial blood pressure is another way of saying, hypertension.” “Proceed.” In’ order to test various compounds that are
--developed; -something with hypertension must be
used. Rats seem to fit the bill better than humans in testing.
Besides that, hypertension in rats is laboratory produced. Doctors have a pretty good idea how nerveous their little patients are. The case histories of the rats are as free of errors as is humanly possible.
I was rolling right along. The rats, with blood pressures from 200 to 240, get injections. Elaborate charts are kept on the progress and effects of a particular drug. The process involves hundreds of injections and constant observation. Mrs. Cherry’s main job is to record the blood pressures, up or down, makes no difference.
Almost the same principle of blood pressure taking used on humans is used on rats. Of course, humans don’t have to wear a wire mask, be shoved into a stainless steel holder with only the tail protruding, don’t have the tail placed into a
star boarders. Poochie is big and fat and likes’ lettuce and chocolate candy. And Mrs. Cherry. Squeegee is big and fat, likes to play and bite a string tied in his cage, laughs and “licks his chops funny,” as Mrs. Cherry said, and also thinks highly of his keeper,
Rats Like Children
MRS. CHERRY believes rats are somewhat
+ like children. They can be mean, jumpy, curious,
sweet, doefle. They have to be handled gently but firmly. You can’t let them get away with anything. | She never has been bitten and I'm not surprised. It would certainly take a dirty rat to bite the hand that fed him. Besides, Mrs. Cherry has nice hands. “How do you feel about mice? Here comes a mouse across the floor . . . yoweeee.’ She doesn’t like mice. Can't stand mice. End of interview. That was no joke, son. I don’t understand women.
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. Mrs. Phyllis Cherry prepares to take the blood pressure of a little
Lady and a rat.
A Grisly Trophy
patient. All day it's rats, rats.
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Apr. 29-—Time magazine said it rather well, I thought, “In the beginning,” Time said, “he was 16 million. He was the U. 8. Army and the Air Force; and he was the Navy, the Marines and the Coast Guard, outward bound for battle in World War II. Then he was the 400,000 U. 8. dead, and later—as overseas grave registration teams sifted out fragments of identifications —he was. the -8000-‘unidentifiable.’” Time was speaking of the newest man of distinction, the current candidate for unknown soldier. Six guys get brought back from six theaters. Six guys get juggled around like peas under a shell, to preserve the myth. Then they take the six guys to Philadelphia and choose up one of them for the job of being the unknown. How they choose the sixth man I don’t know, nor care to. It’s a grisly trophy, a sad ‘souvenir, a pagan custom, and a monument to a stupid conflict the sixth
man never made. ein ie
Dead Lie Shrouded in Honor
WE DO NOT have to honor the nation's war dead with an approximation of a beauty contest, performed with post-mortems. The dead lie shrouded in their own honor, and the lucky living accorded them all the credit they would crave. -.. Everybody who was connected with a war has his own sixth man, securely enshrined, and I doubt we need the corporeal reminder to bury in a cemetery. I never knew one GI who expressed a desire to be fetched back if he happened to catch the big bullet. The: were a remarkably unsentimental bunch, where they themselves were concerned, My personal unknown soldier would be a lad named Jimmy Queen, whose LCI exploded off the coast of Sicily or Italy, after enough tough trips bearing ammunition from the base in Bizerte to win him a posthumous decoration. A Jerry dropped one down the stack and that was the end of Jim's boat and the people aboard it. Queen was a big guy out of Waynesville, N, C., an old roommate, an old fraternity brother, an old courter of my gals and the other way around. He was a handsome guy with infectious dimples and
nutritious whisky and was doing fine when some-
a talent for falling over furniture in such a way! as to make every dame in the joint want to comfort him. He got bounced out of law school for nondevotion to torts, worked for the WPA, decided that was stupid and went back to the law to graduate with honors. He married a swell dame and set up a swell practice and went fishing and drank some
body brought him a war he was not even vaguely responsible for. He could have beat the draft on 3-A, and he could have beat it on a trick knee that made him absolutely 4-F, and even without those two gimmicks he had enough pplitical connection to stay home and get rich while the other boys did it. So, when the Japs hit Pearl, Queen went down
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No Trace Ever Found
SO, SURE ENOUGH, they blew him up and he was listed as missing and presumably dead and they never found so much as a speck of tarnished braid from his sailor suit and a lot of people, male and female, wept, and they eventually put his portrait in the Court House and that was the end of Jimmy Queen. I think I would like a Jimmy Queen for my unknown soldier, for only the people who fight in wars or are concerned in wars, like wives and widows and mothers and fathers and friends, are entitled to unknown soldiers, and very few of us want any more souvenirs from the last mess. I consider the cold selection of a dead body a form
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High-Priced Service By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Apr. 29—How Frankie Erickson, New York's portliest bookie, manages to make $100,000 a year gambling on the ponies, I'll never know. He can’t even read a horse race
chart. -He- doesn’t “know what -all--those funny--
looking figures and abbreviations mean. Yet the beefy Erickson, who was suffering from a cold, croaked out the word that it was a sorry year when he didn’t take in a hundred grand for himself. This is net. It doesn’t include the $20,000 a year he pays his little brother, Leonard, for carrying the money to the bank. Little Leonard, who has not yet acquired a bay window or a third chin like Frankie, sdt in the back of the room, beaming, while his big brother
. told the Senators as little as he possibly could
without getting cited for contempt. They'd called him in to see whether they could put him out of business with a bill outlawing hoss race news via telegraph.
Capehart Baffled by Race Charts
SEN. HOMER E, CAPEHART (R. Ind), a peculiarly innocent lawgiver, couldn’t understand how the bookies worked from racing charts. He couldn't understand the charts. He whipped out one for the eighth at Jamaica and asked Frankie if he knew what all those squiggles meant. Frankie said they were a mystery to him. The Senator said what did this word, effervescent, mean? Frankie wasn’t sure, but he believed it might possibly be the name of a horse. “What does this ‘PP’ mean?” demanded the Senator. » “What ‘PP'?” inquired Frankie. Sen. Capehart invited him to the bench for a closer look. The bald-headed and pink-faced Erickson snapped a pair of heavy-rimmed glasses in front of his small blue eyes and lumbered forward through the press of photographers. He and the Senator communed with the last
‘race at Jamaica.and agreed, finally, that ‘PP’
“And what did he do with the money?
must mean postponed. Erickson testified that he'd been a bookie, mostly wholesale, taking bets from other book-makers-in-all-the-48-states; for 30 years. Before that he was a bus boy in a New York cheesecake | joint He also said—and this was what amazed me—| that no matter how little he knew about racing charts, he earned $100,000 a year wagering with his customers. I guess he has been lucky, maybe.
Erickson said he put it in the bank, of course, The Senators wondered what bank? He said he refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. Sen. Ernest W, McFarland (D. Ariz.) said that couldn't incriminate him, unless his bank dealings were crooked. Frankie looked aghast. The Senator said name the bank, or be cited for contempt. Frankie said he'd have to ask somebody the name. He couldn't remember details like that, Who? His little brother, Leonard, he said. “So he moseyed to the back of the chamber, whispered to his little brother, and returned with word on where he deposited his money.
Senators Interested in Leonard
THE SENATORS were interested in Leonard, who sat up straight and smiled broadly. Frankie said Leonard carried the money to the bank. He did not write checks. He did not spend the money. Just carried it. “And what do you pay him for carrying the money?’ asked Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H.). “Twenty thousand dollars a year,” Frankie replied. That's de luxe service for you hoss race betters. You may lose your money to Frankie, but you can be assured it is being toted to the bank by the highest-paid Messenger, in America. Should be a consolation,
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