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“BUS RIDERS, happy days are’ ahead 16 youl And you who don't indulge in the sport wil be

: JAnterested, too.

From now on you don't have to sit and stare out the window. From now on you can sit (or stand) and feel much closer to the monster that whisks you around the city. >

Why? Simply because you know, for example, that the bumper on your General Motors Corporation diesel bus is 84 inches wide. Did you know that? ; : I spent a half a day with a ruler And a tape measure going over a bus at the W. Washington St. garage. Exciting information. When I ride . pow I i know ‘my GMC bus is 9 feet and 3 nches high. That's from the street level to the top of the roof. 2

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<> THE BUS weighs 17,820 pounds. With the driver, gas and oil, a bus will weigh 18,160 pounds. The fuel tank holds 85 gallons. Imagine how much friendlier commuters can get exchanging such information, v ‘How many times have you stepped into a bus? Do you know how high it is to the first step? It

is exactly 16!4 inches from the street to the first

step. The second step is 12!, inches. The width of the step is from 20!4 inches to 221; inches, Sort of tapers, A person over 74 inches high has to duck to get in the door. A person wider than 28 Inches must go in sideways. . fede ’ iT SAY you're sitting in a bus sometimes, just

casually thinking that the windshield-wiper is 14 inches long, the windshields are 21 inches high -and 33% inches wide when the man next to you asks: “How large are the rear-view mirrors?”

Know your bus . .. A survey reveals all the facts except the amount of standing room.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 14—My greasy notebook's smoking from some words by Louis Calhern, the John Barrymore of today without the whisky breath.

Like the Buffalo Bill he played 'n “Annie,” Louse-em-up Lou blasted B'way actors , who sneer at Hollywood, and ‘even fired a round at the sacred, theater-owning Messrs. Shubert “They burn me up, these muggs around here,” said Lou, speaking of actors. “I'm sick of these snooty - - -” (eight letters left out here) “who haven't been invited to Hollywood lately, panning the joint!” Strange that these words flowed from:a tall, lean, mustached, dignified 54-year-old who's back from making eight films to appear on the stage as—"“King Lear.” : % * > B “MOST OF" these jerks” (hew now, King?) “won't give Hollywood credit for doing anything good. “Once it WAS a ridiculous place, but not now, “Once there was a Broadway producer who heard mention of ‘Omar Khayyam' and suddenly said, ‘Everybody knows it's Omar OF Khayyam! “If that'd been Goldwyn, it would have been in every paper.” Calhern spoke of the Theater Guild's “pretentiousness.” He said many Hollywood people have humility. I felt that he has. Speaking of his movie employment, he said: “Tomorrow they may not want me around at all. , “So you don’t get a swelled noggin if they want you, and if they don’t, you don't ‘let that crush you to earth.” : > o> & CALHERN MADE me nervous when he got to the Messrs. Shubert, who are the Messrs. ’ pa Theater around here. I want it understood his sentiments are his. I love the © Shuberts, every millionaire of i them, including Johnny and Johnny's nice wife and any I fl haven't met—and not just be- : cause they have a show called “South Pacific,” either. Calhern should love ’em, too, as “King Lear” opens in their National Theater. “I don’t know them,” Calhern said. ? ; “But they're the richest men in the theater. Why don’t they

: “Why don’t they "help a Louis Cathern jy titution? y have reserved the buildings for us—perhaps they'd been too altruistic the buildings would

-__have been lost.

“But some kind of benevolence would be Very

" becoming to them Rere—and in the hereafter.” LR

THINK ra b-b-better g-go n-n-now,” I ama quaking in my oxfords, “for they may b-b-bar me from their theaters.” 2 :

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

YORK, Dec. 14—The wondrous custom of NE giving, like many another ancient habit, seems to be increasingly losing considerable of its original intent while taking on aspects of

. ogee ‘mean to knock Santa Claus, or the

feeling that makes a man wish

i eck his maid with diamonds “ya yp 2 Se his kids a train so Papa Long ) will ‘have something to. play ( DU

. 1 was thinking. more of a business, especially in big cities, which leads even casu acquaintances to expect gifts as a delayed bribe for services rendered in line of duty. "The new Commissioner of . Police, Tom Murphy, is trying to. pust up-the old police racket of putting the Yuletide squeeze on

‘bus is 26 feet and 3 inches.

endow an experimental theater?

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About City I

You answer, “Thé mirrors are 8 inches long and 4 inches wide. oT ale two.” BY THAT TIME your companion thinks you are enchanted.; He asks again: “What is the diameter of the wheels?” : wer You answer, without hesitating, “The diameter of the wheels is 41% inches. The eter of the steering wheel is 22 inches.” The brake pedal is 10% inches long and the accelerator is 11%.” How many times have you wondered about the height of the coin box off the floor? Wonder no « longer, ride in peace, it's 38); inches and the opening is 2% inches by 2%. ! > "AS ONE PASSES the coin box one encounters two shiny pipes. The space between them is 33% inches. The two front seats facing the center of the bus are 54% inches wide and 165 inches

Some Vital Facts | Busses |

deep. There are 25 seats facing the front, 34 inches wide and 17! inches deep. Between=the seats one has an aisle of 20%; inches. In the rear of the bus are two small side seats, 33 inches wide and 16!; deep. The rear seat is 91 inches wide and 171: deep. Remember, the bus is | 96 inches wide, There's amr uneven number of windows due to the-exit door and of the 21 there will be an average of two’ that won't-open. - LE CE "THE BUZZER CORD on the left side of the On the exit side it ia 27 feet. The handrail on the back of a seat is 281% inches. Each seat has a total of 211 inches of pipe around it. This is a fact to remember. A bus is practically a pipe factory on wheels. Advertisers will have 21 blurbs for you to read. And you can look out of 20 small windows when you get tired of looking at the ads. : A driver has 17 plugs and switches to operate. A bus is lit up, if you'll. pardon the expression, with five lights on top at the rear. two turn signals, two “stop” lights and one taillight. In the front there are two turn lights, two headlights, five marker lights and four reflectors on the sides. Imagine what a cheerful bus you'd have if the driver was slightly aglow, the passengers were lit up and all these lights burning. Gad, what a Christmas picture. LI 3 WHAT I have given you probably wouldn't be called vital information. - Regardless, I think .it has a place in our way of life, In this day of fact and information and quiz shows, a man who rides a bus every day ought to know a few vital statistics about the vehicle. Before I forget, the seating capacity of a bus is supposed to be 45. - The standing capacity is a separate study. Dare somebody to ask you about a GMC bus of the Indianapolis Railways. Go ahead.

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Slaps at Broadway's, Sneers at Hollywood

: A h : hing, Volt 2 lem - tow di « grand Dieu ) da door was flung open and my four “II might even cite many examples of this, but then I would phim Ho « ver high “boo the might - 5 Lewd of assistants entered, dragging the : : 1 3 ; i nl } N aN z : crazy woman. Lo run the risk of arousing your indignation and of lessening -—g4 r 5 eta EF ei 55 soon as ber eyes fell upon the effect of my story. gx Ferg Mh, iT the shining lights, the blazing ‘ =. vr { ——— I shall acknowledge at the start that, though not rT — Dors, Roi des anges, dors! Shoth, the Zeioen J2%uracle & and convinced and converted by what I witnessed, I was, to love. Slesp, King of an-gels, sloop!

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| rounded by their screens of great trees powdered over woman listened, pale as a ghost, could not believe it human.

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A CHRISTMAS STORY By GUY DE MAUPASSANT DR. BONENFANT was cudgeling his brain, repeating to himself, “A Christmas story? a Christmas story?” when all at once he exclaimed: “Why, of course, I know one,

"ws % le bof o& Tin - ir, Dos, dom, v and a very strange one, too; it is a fantastic tale. I saw ‘Twit ge «the ox ond a pe pong Steep br for the Success ” the experi & ' : : : . AS we ii Sy SL : = ment. I chose the instant followa miracle! Yes, ladies, a miracle on a Christmas Eve. : “hgh ENE F=}—3—g—t ing the communion. All the peas It astonishes you to hear me speak thus, me, who > a ants, in the hope of tempering : : wl peas CT soartd 1 © 3 mei His severity, had been ta receive believe in nothing. And yet, I saw a miracle! I saw it, dr Ui Nw Evin Cs ADE A Shiga saw it with my own eyes, I tell you, as plain as could be. on Thy bed of hy; Thow-sand cher - u « him, thousand se - ra. DesSS reigned over all while the

priest was terminating the sacred . | mystery. 1

» od Ld AT A given signal, the church

. Was I greatly surprised? No, not in the least, for, although I do not take much stock in your doctrines, I still believe in faith, and I know that it can move mountains. *

, so fiercely that she nearly slipped vk away from us. She shrieked so shrilly that everybody in the church trembled, and many even took flight in terror. My patient no longer ‘had the semblance of a woman, drawn up as she was, her body twisted around, her head thrown back and her eyes wildly staring about her. We dragged her to the steps of the chancel, and there held her squatted on the floor. The priest. was awaiting us at the altar, As soon as he saw the woman somewhat quieted, he took up the monstrance with its bright golden rays encircling the snowwhite host in its center, and, com‘ing forward a few steps, he raised it with both hands above his head, presenting it to the wild gaze of {the shrieking she-devil,

- ” » | THE WOMAN Kept on screams-

say the least, deeply moved, and I will try to relate to you the whole occurrence with the artless simplicity of a credulous native of Auvergne.

Entre les voses of les bys, Dors, dors, dors le petit fils! Mille anges diving, mille siraphins, Volant 4 I" entour de ce grand Dieu amos. Dors, Roi des anges, dors!

* Tutxt roses red and Lilies white, Sleep, sleep in God's oum Light! Thousand cherubim, thousand seraphim Hover high above the mighty Lord of love CAE. 8, yx 8. Sleep, King of angels, sleep! I WAS at the time a country doctor, inhabiting the little market town of Rolleville, Normandy. That year we had a most awful winter. Toward the : : » \y Volent & I'ntour de ca grand Dieu d amour. Hover high above the mighty Lord of love, end of November it began snowing, after a week of heavy wil rll or Sleep, King of angels, steep! frosts. ‘The dark clouds were seen from afar, coming from _ - ; En ca beau jour 5i solemn, this, wondrous light, the north, and shortly after the fall of the white flakes Dern, dors dors le pelt iL) Slee, ira ihr, Mills anges divins, mille sivaphins, Thousand cherubim, thotisand seraphim

. : . Volent 3 I" entowr de ce grand Dien d amour. . Hover high above the mighty Lovd of love, A single night was sufficient to cover the whole Denes Rei dat anger, sovsl Sloe, King of angels, sivept y

country as with a shroud. . X [tell his wife all the news he had distance and listen to the mad The farmhouses, isolated in their square yards, sur- picked up on his journey. The woman's voice, 0 strong that one

Entre les deux bras de Marie, Dors, dors, dors le petit fils! Mills anges diving, mille sivaphing,

In Mary's arms enfolded warm, ‘Sleep, sleep beyond all harm! Thousand cherubim, thousand sevaphim

3 + 3 : : : with fright. “Surely,” said she, “I! The village curate was notified. with rime, seemed slumbering beneath this thick but light heard that whistiing myself, the He was a plain old priest. He

froth-like substance. {other night, and it even seemed to came in haste, his surplice on, as No noise resounded across the lifeless plains ‘The | Me to come’ from the chimney.” [if to administer the last sacra-

“Oh, BOY!” said Calhern, laughing. “I wonder what they'll do to my dressing room!” - LS

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . , . With weather

‘not good in Florida, many NYorkers are coming

back not with a Florida tan but a Florida pale . . « What a gang of datable beauties in Hollywood now! Add Betty Hutton to thé list of divorcees or near.divorcees that includes Shirley Temple, Joan Crawford, Jane Wyman, Ava Gardner, Ginger Rogers, Martha Vickers, Evelyn Keyes. and Joan Fontaine. Curiously, for such glamour-pusses, there's not enough men to go around] . . . Frank Kingdom leaves Dec. 20 to join his B. W, Marcella and baby in England, then proceeds to Israel . .. Van Johnson and Evie went to take their second peep at “Peep Show” , . , Looks like plastic surgery may be necessary for Billy Daniels, He's anxious not to prosecute, but may have to . . . Jane Russell had to cancel a date at Glen McCarthy's Houston Shamrock, so Carl Brisson subbed and killed ‘em . . . Edith Piaf is contributing to the support of her late Boy Friend's (Marcel Cerdan’s) widow and children, : : * odd EARL’'S PEARLS . . . Some Hollywood studios have shut down, but Jack Carter reports that Warner Brothers are busy. Both of them are working. "ob ; ¢ oo dad JAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Ha Truman is now a Man of Letters”— Practically ‘everybody. : > © WISH I'D SAID THAT: I heard of a - chiatrist who made-so much money he. can , ond to go to a psychiatrist.”—Ed Gardner. * Oo @ Rin SISTER KENNY-—who's ill—announced her retirement to this reporter. - She says farewell Saturday and sails for Australia, “for the twilight of my life.” Past 60, she leaves as her “legacy” to the women of the world the continuation of her work. Here the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation, Ine, just launched by Socialite Mrs. Edward Douglas Madden, and including Mrs. James A. Farley, Mrs. John Jacob Astor and Mrs. George Harris, will raise funds for the first Kenny institute in New York. Sister Kenny declined a farewell testimonial, asking that the money instead be spent for research. : il . "WAY BULLETINS:

New

up in some spots. . . . Colette

Mrs. Madden Lyons ig off .to Europe to enter-

“tain troops. . . . Eddie Foy III, 16, was offered a

stage part, but spurned it. . . . Three Deuces had an $1800 robbery. Seymour Sussman asked it, “Is this the pokerface that launched a thousand chips?”’—That’s Earl, brother.

Christmas Moochers Are Around Again appear as a red-ribboned gift. eB

THIS BRAND of business, which seems to be on the upswing, sort of steals the fun out of

Christmas. It is possibly corny, but I still think”

that Christmas is a time when you go broke buying trinkets for people you love, like and admire, instead of a payoff date for past or future favors. There. is considerably more blackmarket than

magi in it, and Mr. Claus dispenses his bounty

“with a gun in his back. : About the nicest Christmas story I ever read was the O. Henry one, “The Gift of the Magi,” in which the wife cut off her treasured hair to get the money for a watch chain for her husband's treasured watch, The husband, in turn, hocked his watch to get

|A Christmas

Years Eve prices will be ‘way |

: : v : {ments to a dying person. Extend-| crows alone gave evidence of life as, moving in flocks,| THEY SAT down to table, Ing his hands he*thundered forth IE: her staring eyes fixed on the

: € ! {shining object, while the priest they described long festoons across the sky, ineffectually where, after finishing the soup, the words of exorcism over the) {od so still that one Tp a . : the blacksmith buttered his bread, foaming, writhing woman, held| ~ seeking food, and swooping ooo strange voices, shrill whis-|while his wife took up the egg and down in bed by the united [ACR Bi or hho his down . all together on the ties, or unearthly shrieks. |examined it suspiciously. |strength of Jour TL oot be! The ES woman now ghost-like fields, pecking a oe, Moises se anbAealy | “Suppose there was something! a ‘ he Bye [seemed stricken with fear. She the snow with their big bills. [ine in the twili : - in this egg?” | (gazed steadfastly at the mon- . > { ght toward the, 2.x A i morte. south. But it was useless to try “What do you want there to be TMAS CAME around! 2nce: trembling violently and NOTHING COULD be heardto explain this to the terrified in it?” | SRLS A a 4 shrieking all the time, but in a but the uncertain sound made by peasants. Every one seemed | Do I know?" : 3 weather. And this jr por noing. the continued fall of this icy dust, scared to death and all thought “Well, then, eat the egg and "0 “oh Loi oo mye, the priest time ong. ‘ong dropping without intermission, ; |something extraordinary was go- don’t be making a fool of your-| =o 0 1. saving, “Doctor, 1 One: would have supposed she |For eight long days this weath- ing to happen. Jeli. feel like having that unfortunate ould no longer close her eyes, so v > ‘he! l's § y was situ-| : . . , i tonight. | er lasted. When the avalanche! Old Vatinel’'s smith it She broke the egg. It looked = 0 =" iiend service EMt.iriveted on the: host: wi th ceased the earth was covered with ated at the farther end of the just like any other egg and Very Maybe God will work a miracle mpor che began to ed joy a pall five feet thick. {hamlet of Epivent, on a highway fresh. Besant in her behalf at the very hour in i044 hogy A to unbend .” During the three weeks that Which is now abandoned and lost A She hegan to eat it with some iyo; ne was born of a woman.” oyu. wave ' followed, a sky as clear as a blue tO Sight. As the bread was giving hesitation, tasting it, laying it! y repjjed, “I approve your PAD] @oery being in the church 'w crystal during the day, and. at Out, he resolved to take a trip to aside and taking it up again. |ryjy father. If her mind prostrated BE to the ¥ Was night all. sprinkled with frosty- the village. After remaining some The husband asked. “Well. gyryck by the holy rites, and The Bd woman pon. belooking stars, extended over the NOUrs, talking in the principal What taste do you find to that nothing is more likely to make he . Nouses of the place. h Kk egg?” { {gan to drop her eyelids rapidly hard and glistening bed of snow. place, he took up Eg lan impression on her, she may be J. ise th ; his provisions, and chock-full of She did not answer, but on fin- cured without the aid of any "|G °C raise them again immediFields, hedges, elm trees, all hows h lishing th h 1 | » |ately, as if she were unable to : news, he set out for home before ishing the egg she suddenly stared other remedy. | : seemed dead, .killed by the cold.|,, ’ lat her husband “ {bear the sight of her God. She : dark. | husband with a wild, fixed, The old divine murmured, “You | Neither man nor beast dared) fs n |terrified look, and, raising her|are no believer, Doctor: still you had become quiet, and all at once venture out, and the chimneys of | ALL OF A sudden, while plod- arms, she twisted them around will assist me, will you not? Youll noticed thal her eyes remained Ne et he nidden (Ing along by the side of a hedge, and then rolled to the floor in|will take charge of the poor crea. yotat, Fie Wap Tb & somunamiou: life below by the thin streaks of ie thought he spied an egg on the|

|convulsions, shrieking in the most ture and bring her to me?” istic trance, hypnotised. 1 beg ou |horrible’ manner. All night she promi ; v \your pardon, she was conquered smoke which they sent straight S00; Yes, an egg, lying there, all 70) OF, TOTUOR AO TE aie When evening gave. way to PY the persistent contemplation of whit t lik thi a pasms, {| When evening gave way to up through the nipping air. My ie, Jost Le dp Hg atu en by a frightful tremor and al-|night the bell of the church began From time to time a tree was most deformed by her hideous ringing out its doleful notes,

{the monstrance with -its golden rays, overpowered by the victoriheard to snap, as if its wooden |T€ally an egg. Where did it come, =o 1qi0n0 : “4 y : from? What hen could have left .

ous Christ.

sounding through the gloomy

” » 8 Hanh Nelo bieaking Devesth ihe the hen-house to come and ® = = space far over the frozen white] THEY CARRIED her out, an branch broke off and fell to the !aY in such a place? The black- THE blacksmith, unable to spread of snow. inert body, while the priest re-

_|smith was astounded; he could not manage her, was at length obliged = = = turned to the altar. ground. ihe Irresistible Soi solids make it out at all; still he picked to tie her down. : DARK FORMS came slowly| The agitated assistants intoned fibres asunder, {up the egg and he carried it to| And she yelled at the top of her|along, obeying the belfry’s brazen a Te Deum hymn of thanksgiving. * (his wife, voice, never ceasing to cry out./summons, The wan moon shed] The wife of the blacksmith a. = ; i . “Here, old lady, here's an egg 1 “The devil has got me! The devil her soft light over the landscape, slept during forty whole hours, THE DWELLING houses set found in the road.” {has got me!” ‘rendering the pallid desolation of and when she awoke she had not down, here and there throughout| The woman shrugged her shoul-| The next morning I was called the fields more visible. [the slightest recollection having {the fields, seemed distant a hun- ders. “An egg in the road? In in, I prescribed all the anodynes| four men with. me I been possessed with and delivered |dred leagues from each other. L this weather; pshaw! you must be known to the profession without went to the forge. The bedeviled Of a devil, Ly ; {alone, would go out occasionally drunk.” {obtaining the slightest result. She woman, tied down to her bed, This, ladies, is a true account to see my nearest patients, run-|. “No, indeed, old woman. I found was insane. 'shrieked continuously. Notwith- of the miracle I saw. = {ning the risk at every step of be-|it near a hedge; it was still quité| Then, notwithstanding the standing her strenuous resistance; Dr. Bonenfant ceased speaking ing buried in a snowdrift. warm, not chilled at all. Here it depth of the snow, the news we dressed her neatly and car- for awhile and then added in a I soon noticed that a mysterious'is; I put it inside of my shirt to!spread from farmhouse to farm-!ried her away. islightly irritated tone: terror hovered over the country. keep it from freezing. It will. do house that the. blacksmith’s wife, When I arrived at the cold-| “I could not help attesting the Every one imagined that such a for your dinner.” was bedeviled. From every direc-'looking, illuminated church, I truth of the occurrence in writscourge must be supernatural.] The egg was slipped into the tion people came, not to enter the found it full of people. The as-/ing.” Some even pretended that, at pot where the soup was simmer- house, for this was more than sistants were chanting their mo-| TOMORROW: The Carpenter's night, they would hear out of ing, and the blacksmith began to'they dared do, but to stand at a'notonous notes; the brazen horn! Christmas, by Peter K. Rosegger.

Carol By Charles Dickens |

one to his guests: What wos | a disagreeable, sovoge, | IP PO A) nT Sr ion | (ft 2). <p ¥N Za oy ond wos ollowed to run Fred's riddle puzzled his guests for only x loose? y : & moment. About People—

‘Margaret Asset To Show Business,’ Maestro Says

Meredith Willson Sure Miss Truman jest in the dratt, aPParsuily had tied 18 vey Nina's a Sweetheart ; | : i i : : : * | Teen-ager Nina (Honeybear) . Has Real Future in Musical Field \Airy Christm . . : os r Warren, daughter of Gov, _Orchestra Conductor Meredith Willson, who directed Margaret! ” iv Erma Teach. 25: deen Long Live the King {Warren of om has’ veil Truman in a radio appearance Dec. 3, defended her in Hollywood Carey Ie sitters rodas said Princess Margaret postponed chosen “Sweetheart of the Class” as y : inst critics who Say she can't sing. ne ter 8 celebrate-Ch rist- her air trip to Malta today and, of 050%, Boston University's C I : 3 Shes 2 ie Wi b “She Police said the owner was only MAS from her perch 60 feet above Instead Reipeq Xing Seotse Ye Bo esas sent Miss : business, said Mr. n. e| / celebrate his 55th birthday in

8an Francisco. ; has personality slightly injured, She’ broke the world's vesord Warren, who is recovering in 8

London. ? : and 199k®. 293 New Draftee? for flagpole sitters yesterday by| Flags flew: famento from an attach of Io better | Gen. Dwight. D. Eisenhower, staying aloft 134 days, but sheifrom England's flette . srs i president of Columbia University, was less concerned with that feat public buildings, ED ig Po think she} as bid his stu- _- ~"'lthan with what her Christmas royal salutes "We tho mT

The orchestra dents a tenta- stocking would contain. Ermalwere fired at

Yel said Mar-| tive farewell, said none of her presents so farinoon, and the little Jewder “definitely, ‘If my wife looks like what she really wants'Royal Navy fide Tentivities Just 2 family. art ~ future iniand I could be —a fur coat. k “dresséd” it s T Si » yt/sure of being . js : ships with flags. eheat- here next year, Boy and His Dog Meanwhile,

Four-year-old Allen Ingle died inear Mooresville, N. C., because his pup just wasn't big enough. Allen was found frozen to death yesterday by members of : KS a 500-man search party which iy was the small, nondescript he loved,

our Christmas her Would be a happy one indeed,” ~ (he tod a school

Prime Minister Clement Attlee scheduled a "fireside” broadcast f or Saturday Rh evening from his country home to| tell Britishers about his efforts in