Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1950 — Page 17
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Insid. I By Ed Son Indianapolis
+ ASK A SIMPLE question like “What makes ~ snow white?” and you get answers that would fill willl DOOR green or purple? Frankly, I'm tired of the stuff already and even if it fell in color combinations I wouldn't clap my hands. Green and red snow on Christmas Eve would be pretty. We could have green and red snow if someone knew how to get protococcus nivalis. I'm throwing in protococcus nivalis to show you we're now dealing with a simple subject. You don’t answer the question of what makes snow white by saying. “The Seven Dwarfs.” You don't
find the answer just anywhere. I tried that. For the real lowdown you go to an expert. Weatherman Wallace Bertrand, local prog-
nosticator who hangs out on the fifth floor of the Federal building, almost dropped the weather vane he was holding when I popped the question about snow. : LE “HOW DID YOU get in? Get that snow out of here. What makes snow white? Say, I've heard about you.” rumbled Mr. Bertrand. Obviously a man of energy and force. We got squared away and put the ball of snow (basketball size) in a wastepaper basket. My new friend said he didn't need to look at snow to tell me why it's white. Furthermore, snow isn’t always white. There are red, green. gold, brown snowfalls on record. “Why is snow. white? "If you will please answer that question I'll be happy.” The weatherman said the explanation was simple.. Snowflakes are formed by condensation of vapor, The water molecule contains three
d Why white? . . . If the Eskimos can have : red and green snow in the Arctic, why can't we? No protococcus. nivalis.
it Hap By ay Bene
NEW YORK, Dec. 13—We wish to state that our policy toward GIs and home-fronters during the emergency Will be, “Keep 'Em Laughing!” : So . .. A Manhattan movie marquee says: “Fancy Pants—No Way Out.” Louis Mizer observes Russia and the U. 8. are playing “Truce or Consequences” . . . Henny Youngman saw a strange sight—a man buying a radio . . . Poor William Faulkner! He i only won the Nobel Prize for Literature--the i Author-of-the-Year is undoubtedly Harry Truman. br Leonard 's new jobis smuggling asbestos ‘ stationery into the White House. { * PP ! * VIVIAN BLAINE, beautiful blonde of “Guys
& Dolls,” can hardly sit. She's been taking shots
to increase her weight. “Why in the sitter?” I asked her ... “Today, she said, “that’s the only part that a girl doesn’ : show.” Chuck Greéen, N. Y.s No, 1 California-bater, heard Attorney Sam Becker relate that he once visited California--and that it took him 15 years to recover. “You got over it,” FAST"?
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asked Green, “THAT ee FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: A move to bar Joe Louis from boxing because “his reflexes are gone” was started by Pennsy Boxing Commissioner John (Ox) Da Grossa . .. For poss evacuation needs, the U. 8. took over 25 cargo planes from airlines . . . H. 8. T. decided to write That Letter while in a card game with Harry Vaughn and two others . . . Liz Taylor's been weepy since the Nicky hustup, leading friends to bet on a patchup . . . Jimmy Durante’s burned at Producer Ted Richmond for starting the marriage rumor which Jimmy says isn’t true, and .expects to give him a blast. Se > Louis Calhern told Harold Gary of riding with a cabdriver who knew he was going to be in “King Lear” soon. “I saw the great Jéwish actors, Rudolph Schildkraut and Jacob P. Adler in it,” the eahbie said, “but te tell you the truth, I have my doubts how it will go in English.” : ’ La scene SAMES KEVIN McGUINNESS, the Irish film-. maker whe just died, had great humor. A fellow spinning -a tall tale halted ‘once to ask McGuin-— ness if he believed it. McGuinness answerer, “1 would never insult an Irishman’s intelligence by believing a word he said.” Groucho Marx and Tallulah. Bankhead had a skirmish while timing Taliulah’s radio script. Groucho, burning under Tallulah’é bossism,
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Dee. 13—Mr. George McCadden, an American newspaperman who works in Australia, and who has not been home since before the war quit, just checked in like a man from Mars, and is not too impressed by the United States. The criticism, I think, is refreshing. . George has three or four prin. ar CHILDREN cipal objections to us. One we're too smug. Another, de A move too fast. Again, our children are presumptuous, pampered little brats. Moreover, television is pretty mediocre. Remem- - ber, now, George has been away. has been a friend for a whole heap of years. He works for the United Press, He is neither Communist nor Fascist. Loves America. Family fellow. Usual number of normal vices. Good man in his: job. I think maybe his opinion is worth some- __ thing. For instance, the smugness. George says we are beginning to believe our own press notices about the almighty importance of the dollar, and to think that so long as we hdave fistfuls of cash at everybody, everywhere, we can buy an immunity from trouble, The week's news from Korea might tend to mak make him right.
HE FETCHES forth a Mexican ueaking wheel.”
proverb:
atoms. of an explosion when a person makes a snowalt) With the three=atoms={wish Fd --never-
pened Last Night
. everybody going so fast?” asks George.
w Green or Purple?
heard of them) in there pushing around, the for-
mation of triangular or hexagonal crystalline |
forms is favored. . > D> - NOW, THESE snow crystals owe their white appearance to the light they reflect from the brilliant facets. That didn’t make much sense to me. Why is snow white at midnight on a black and cloudy night? Mr. ‘Bertrand said there is still light reflection. In a lightproof coal bin at midnight snow would be black. What wouldn't? Why isn’t ice as white as snow? Ice is formed by solidification of liquid. Of course, snowflakes actually were same as ice except that the crystalline formation gives snow its color, My top was rocking slightly by then. Mr. Bertrand was leaning back in his chair, thumbs hooked in his vest saying, “the columnar forms comprise the hexagonal columns and the long, thin, needle-shaped columns while the tabular forms include all those, either solid or branching, which form on a thin tabular plane.” The years flashed back and I felt as if I were once again listening to a chemistry lecture in college, The feeling, in case you have forgotten, makes your head a vacuum, legs numb, there's a
‘tendency to yawn and it's difficult to keep one's
eyes open. ; : ’ “lh 0 “CAPT. JOLIN ROSS discovered green and red snow _in the Arctic region in 1818,” continued Mr, Bertrand. Out of my reverie I snapped.
called protococcus nivalis. colored snow deposits in the region.” On Feb. 27, 1877, golden snow fell in Peckeloh, Germany. in nearby forests caused the golden tint.
up Feb. 25. 1936, and saw brown snow falling.
was analyzed and the snow was found to contain |
generous portions of dust. Great areas of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas were going up into the atmosphere, you remember, at that time. The dust in the atmosphere simply got mixed with snowflakes as they were formed when - the vapor condensed. Result, brown snow. The size of snow crystals depends on the temperature at which they form and the type | fall.
The higher the temperature, the larger the
- snowflake because there is more vapor available,
I asked him about using snow in cheer libations. g The weatherman doesn’t recommend even though each tiny flake is a work of infinite beauty. : “Cubes,” said Mr. Bertrand.
“Don’t mind if I do,” said I. “And about two fingers.” “Beat it,” said Mr. Bertrand.
Too bad all Ihat snow melted in the wastepaper basket.
Keep. Em Laughing —Wilson’s War Policy
cracked: “We should call this ‘The Timing of the Shrew! ” Gag writers on Tallulah’s “Big Show” program are promoting the idea Tallulah and Bette Davis have a feud. Newest dreamup: Tallulah gave a child her autograph and tore up one given the child by Bette Davis, Tallulah explaining, “You don’t want the copy now that you have the original.” CE A ; THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Veronica Lake and Andre de Toth are celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary at Ed Gardner's in Puerto Rico «+ «+ Milton Berle and Joyce | Mathews are together more than | married couples , . . Joey Adams: is getting the Poor Richard award in Philly . . , Howard ‘Hughes and TWA may make airline history with a radio show tetarring Cary Grant) . .. Exsilk salesman Myron. Cohen will get $4000-a-week at Chicago's Vine Gardens . . . Sally Rand's becoming a TV commentator in Houston . . . Isabel Bigley, new hot gal in “Guys & Dolls,” goes to Lindy's with her bachelor boss, Producer Ernie Martin . .
. Gypsy Rose Lee and husband Julio de Diego gave Paula Kelly her son Erik a birthday party (he's 6) with Julio doing magic tricks , . . Paula Kelly's one of the Modernaires over CBS. ¥ > SP
EARL'S PEARLS . . . Joe Adams, guest starring on Frank Sinatra's radio show, said, “any time you want me on your program, just say the word—Money.” : > B'WAY BULLETINS: Tallulah said, “I didn't read Truman's letter, but I adore him for writing it” . . . Ex-Batting Champ Harry Heilmann of Detroit, now in radio, told how Ty Cobb had retired on ‘Coca-Cola stock. “Coca-Cola wanted to make ‘me a millionaire, too,” he said, “but I outsmarted them!” Abe Attell had a friend who paid a $1.45 bar bill with a $2 bill, and got back A.50c. piece. and. nickel.change.. He left. the nickel. as a tip. The bartender smiled and said, “That’ 5 “all right; IT FEET Tost” > B'WAYITE Soll Violinsky, offered an acting job in a gangster film, was told to pick his gang. “To show how lucky I was.” -he says, “I plexed the gang that got killed off the first day.” That's Earl, brother.
Reporter Comes Home, Slaps at Smug U. S.
concept of being the biggest, the bestest, the mostest. “The world,” says he, “ain’t Texas. There are a lot of people outside who are just hankering to fnake you prove how big, how best, how most you are. Anybody’ll take your dollars. Capturing other people's imagination takes more
work.” > + CONCERNING MOTION: “Where the hell is “I am beat to the chops just trying to keep up with a normal routine of looking at New York for the first Hime. What do you do with the time you save?”
Children: “I met some. They seem to think
the world revolves around them. The progressive -
educational system seems like it was built especially to insure that they don’t do any work; only have fun. s Whatever became of readin’ writin’ and ’rith‘metic? All I run into is special programs to develop their personality. Isn't there any labor In education any more?” Television: “The most overrated medium 1 know of, generally. I have seen more bad entertainment, just to fill space, than I ever thought possible. Honest to gawd, I saw a movie on TV the other night that must have been the next
picture they made when they finished “The Jazz |
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COSETTE
| By VICTOR HUGO THE inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife When she heard her husband’s s step she turned over and said to him: “Do you Kkiiow, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors tomorrow.”
bed, but she was not asleep.
Thenardier replied coldly: “How you do go on!”
They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle was extinguished. * As for the traveler, he had deposited his cudgel and ‘his bundle in a corner.
“The color is caused by minute organisms | There are extensive ‘himself into an armchair and remained for some time
buried in thought.
He traversed a corridor
breathing of a child.
He followed this sound, and came to a sort
Fi recess built under the staircase, or rather formed This recess was nothing else than There, in the midst of all sorts lof old papers and potsherds, among dust and spider's and thickness of the cloud through which they webs, was a bed—if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallét—so full of holes as to display the straw, and No sheets.
ithe space under the steps.
a coverlet so tattered as to show the pallet. | This was placed on the floor. In this bed Cosette was sleeping.
The man approached and gazed down upon her.
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Pour Ripple Seniors Enter Miss Teen Contest Together
All Members of ‘Booster Club,’ Girls Will Vie for Times Competition Support
Planning to keep the vote counters busy in The Times “Miss Teen Ager of 1950" contest are four attractive Broad Ripple iasses.
The Tandlord once gone, he threw
Then he removed his shoes, took one
Everyone was excited until some of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, clever comedian found the pollen of pine trees | land quit the room, gazing about him like a person who is
Citizens of Northern New England states woke lin search of something,
and came upon a staircase. | There he heard a very faint and gentle sound like the
The Spirit. took Scrooge to the home of his nephew, Fred, whose invitation to He
uncle said that Christmas believed
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950
was in
of tri-
shoes. { A door which stood open near at all, {Cosette’s pallet permitted a view look. at. _|of a rather large, dark room. The this one, there was not even! Tomorrow: A Christmas sof. \stranger stepped into it. At the ashes; but there + was something by Guy deMaupassant.
By Charles Dickens
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she was fully door, he saw two small,
in order that p.qe and half hidden, uncurtained wicker
There
“My
+ AN seniors and good friends, their names were entered at the same
I time. | They are: {5702 Carrollton Ave.; |George A. Stassus, 5521 Primrose Ave.; Judy Trittin, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. R. €. Trittin, § 8151 N. Illinois St.; and Janey Zaiser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William H. Zaiser, 8400 Sargent's Rd. The girls in the “Booster Club” may have . difficulty in deciding who will get their votes. All four candidates are members. Nancy, Judy and Janey work | on the staff of the weekly newspaper, the Riparian. Janey is editor, Nancy is associate editor, and Judy is a reporter. Sue is associate editor of the yearbook. Fi
y basis. The ola hope the winner will be one of’ the Broad Ripple candidates since losers will get to be i watch her TV. : : A 16-inch Philco telivision set S2Y 2 3 is the prize for the girl in the city getting the most votes. The Marion County winner will get a Philco radio. é The victors will attend. the presentation of three TV sets to Camp Atterbury soldiers. Voters may cast as many of the Times ballots ,as they wish by filling them out and. turning them over to any Philco dealer. ¥ The Miss Teen Search is co- § sponsored by The Times in codperation ‘with the Radio Equipment Corp. and Philco dealers of Marion County.
Sue VanSickle
Nancy Stassus :
Sue VanSickle, daughter of Mrs. Thelma VanSickle,| Nancy Stassus, daughter & of Mr. and Mrs.
his New Year eople— es New Year 4 Detroit Mon Likes Life
In Clink, Wants Back In Tells Judge He Enjoyed Prison So Much 3
hog He Stole Bond to Insure His Return
A 25.year-old Detroit man, who developed a liking prisons before he was old enough to vote, happily faced the prospect
Our New Home’
Optimist Club to Honor. ‘Office Wives’ Friday
“Office wives” will be recognized presence.” officially by the Indianapolis Optimist club at 12:15 p. m. Friday Monied Merger at the Hotel Severin.
‘reads: & i | “Why be bashful? We all know, 1 {you have a girl in your organiza{tion who does ‘your thinking for you and makes you as smart as you seem to be, Isn't it time to § give this little lady a little recog"inition? “Bring her Friday. Let° her meet the secretaries of other op [timists.” Dick Mills, humorist, will speak on the e subject of “Coffee.” I {
‘DIES OF OF INJURIES { WABASH, Ind., Dec. 13 (UP)—| {Theodore Hause, 31, died today in {Wabash County hospital of in-| both ries suffered when his car color with a truck and then Big-Dime Spender skidded into a semitrailer outfit | yesterday.
COSETTE WAS in a pro- further extremity, through a glass ashes and dried mud. . found sleep;
dressed.
did not undress, she might not be so cold.
Against her breast was pressed which the little boy who had cried | the doll, whose large eyes, wide all the evening lay asleep. open, glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a this chamber connected with that deep sigh as though she were on of the Thenardier pair. the point of waking, and she on the point of retreating when strained the doll almost convul- his eye fell upon the fireplace— {sively in her arms, Beside her bed one of those vast tavern chim-! there was only one of her wooden neys where there is always so [little fire when there is any fire and which are so cold to was no fire in|
very |
white beds. They belonged to Epo- hood, which can always be In the winter she nine and Azelma. Behind these y ae
stood an placed her shoe on the heat cradle, =
in
The stranger conjectured that!
He was| wooden shoe.
which attracted the gaze, “tiny children’s shoes, in shape and unequal in size.
graceful and immemorial in accordance with which children place their shoes in the chimney on Christmas Eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling gift from their good fairy. Epo-
the hearth.
{known anything but despair is’ >
{of a wolf.
stranger's nevertheless. It was two Soquertisn |
THE TRAVELER recalled the custom
nine and Azelma had taker care = not to omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on
The traveler bent over them. The fairy, that is to say, thelr mother, had already her visit, and in each he saw a brandnew and shining ten-sou piece. The man straightenea himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth. he caught sight of another object. He looked at ii, and a wooden shoe, a frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dee lapidated and all covered with
It was Cosette’s sabot. Cosette, : * {with that touching trust of child-
ceived yet never discouraged, had
stone also, Hope in a child who has never
sweet and touching thing. = There was nothing in this
The stranger fumbled in waistcoat, bent over and pila a louis d'or in Cosette’'s shoe. = Then he regained his T chamber with the stealthy tretgt,
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Realtors. Circle Tower. MA-8571
® With pride and joy you'll say these greeting words! What better time than the coming holidays to welcome guests into the |sentencing him, home you've always wanted! ® Above is just one:of the hundreds of homes you will find advertised For Sale today in the classified pages of The Times. | There are homes of every description, singles, doubles, - duplexes, cot. tages, estates and all kinds of farms. Turn NOW-to-the- classi fied section, choose several homes that seem to meet your needs and arrange to inspect them right away,
of another sentence today.
stealing three letters. Harry's Latest
Hand on: White House:
———— Allen, of Rocky Hill
tunes,
Mrs. Roosevelt
MISS TEEN-AGER OF 1950
Sponsored by the Radio Equipment Co. and . Philco Dealers of Marion County...
Indianapolis city,
This is my vote for the following 8 student in an or Marion Sounty He Schou}.
James Norris walked into a police station last week, displayed a government bond he had stolen from the mails, was arrested and = pleaded guilty. Yesterday, he told U. 8. District Judge Theodore Levin he enjoyed prison life so must he stole the bond so he; Pa., Yesterday and won—by a could return. Judge Levin delayed margin of one thin dime. 5
Five years ago Norris first Was | 1 inimum bid of $3400, drew two {checks. One came from Joseph
tried twice to return, and finally Koslowski for $3400. Filotéi's succeeded by pleading guilty to ‘check read $3400.10.
sentenced to two years for forging government checks. Last year he
William J. Vendetta proudly
would be unable to attend his wedding Saturday to Miss Lucille Mr. Vendetfa had invited the Trumans,| telling them the ceremony “would | ‘not be complete without your!
: Mrs, Ethel DuPont Roosevelt, i The program note to members divorced wife of Franklin D. {Khan suffered _ Roosevelt Jr. and minor facial inheiress to one 4 of the world's greatest for- When a car he will wed was driving colBenjamin 8, Warren, wealthy Detroit attorney, “shortly after Christmas.”
A marriage license was issued to the couple Monday in Wilmington, Del, It will be the second marriage for
Antonio Filotei outbid a com- | petitor for a home in Russelton,
The Times Search for the Most Popular High School Girl | |!in Stockholm.
{ing station attendant who won a showed friends in Hartford, Conn. Carnegie Hero medal and a $500.
today a letter written in long-
“payment on a $6000 house, saying
Blind Aly?
career to become an
for federal
The property, advertised for a
‘No Cash for Home
Jmmy Walker, Cincinnati fill
stationery: anes It didn't threaten anyone, Mr. from his “flaming
{Vendetta said, but merely stated
{the money to buy a house, is Carnegie Fund trustees vetoed
the building needed repairs Mr. Walker couldn't afford. The Fund requires its winners to use their {money to buy things that will ‘permanently benefit” them. . °
Prince Aly {juries yesterday |
lided with anYiother near Al-
glers, Algeria. His wife, Rita Hayworth, escaped injury.
One of Us ee Mrs. Ellen Hedvig Ryan. ! who forsook a Swedish =
housewife, was naturalized
Philadelphia yesterday. “The blonde beaiity, ones to thousands in marricq. wi as me :