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THE PLATFORM, printed on modest bond promised: Sn A
paper, 3 3 “Free bus services to and from meetings. “Elimination of dues. _° Mr . “Free medical service for indigestion from Scientech lunches. : “Cocktails before lunch. “Bonus for meetings you attend. - “Equal distribution of extra butter and rolls. “Bonus for meetings you don’t attend. “Salary and expense account. for club officers. “Payment of fees for directors. “Pensions for retired broken-down officers. . “Non-interference by club officers of private conversations being carried on by members during speaker's talk. - : “Free gas, water, electric and telephone service to members. “Elimination of noises disturbing to sleeping members, such as the bell and alarm clock. “No fighting in line to get served. “Dessert with every meal. . “Water pitchers on every table. “ Christmas cards for every member, “Five-minute maximum for every speaker. “Ventilating system to carry off ‘hot air.’ “Different dining room every meeting. 3 aii playroom for all children accompanying nt. : “Elimination of finger prints on butter patties.” ® & @ PRESIDENT Paul F. Helm said a faction opposing the Nicolai machine collapsed when the Utility program was circulated among the mem-
I noticed a half-hearted boo and an occasional ery of “Down with the Utility Ticket” while we walted in line for chow. It was buffet style. There were no fights, just an elbow in the ribs or a shove here and there. I stationed myself near an exit, should trouble develop suddenly. ode de THE MEAL was eaten, and it was significant that the Scientech Club didn't have dessert. Mr. Nicolai brought that to the attention of the assembly and received a spirited ovation—from
You have to give credit to the Scientech Club and say their meeting doesn’t lag. Before the dishes were cleared, Mr, Helm announced the first order of business was the election of new officers. Secretary ‘E. 8. Hildreth said he hadn't received an opposition ueket, : ®
.» 3 “I MOVE the nominations be closed,” someone shouted. “What happened to democratic processes?” asked another. “Question! Question!” demanded Mr. Nicolai. The gavel rapped for order, all those in favor said “aye,” all those opposed didn’t say anything, and before you could wipe a spot of salad dressIng off the Japel of your coat, the new officers and directors were being introduced to the members.
It Happened Last Night
By Ear ilson
NEW YORK, Dec. 21—Artie Shaw told Milton Berle, “You have more ‘trouble with one wife than I've had with five.” William Faulkner was.in Toots Shor's with Bennett Cerf. “Who knows?” said comedy writer Coleman Jacoby. “Out of their dinner may come the first time a man has had a BOOK stolen.” TV star Jack Carter was saying he might have to go back into the Army. = “What're. you complaining about?” snapped the same Coleman Jacoby. “You've had a nice five-year furlough!” > ? * & !
* FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: Martha Raye plans a big Sunday night NBC TV show—directed by Milton Berle, 5. . Reporters are checking a rumor Mme, ‘Pandit Nehru'll resign from the United Nations. . . . Washington also hears Stuart Symington, head of the National Security Resources Board, may quit. : Although Fred Allen “quit television” Sunday night and flew to Delray, Fla., for two weeks, his last show won praise and he may be back. However, when Doc Rockwell, a guest star, told Fred he liked TV, Fred said, “Now I've lost a lot of respect for you.” The show's singing and dancing chorus called Fred back afterward and sang to him, “We Think You're Wonderful.” He was very touched . , , and was touched several more times at the stage door.
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RITA HAYWORTH, on one of her visits to New York, carried a copy of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” “That's dull reading,” remarked an acquain-
"SUE Jools guads ® *
OHIO STATE Prexy Howard L. Bevis, look-
-ing for a new football coach, said, “We want a
genius—a man who never makes the same mis take once.” is Genius? Until now that defined a bachelor! * So
THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... Many cops—seeing no lush financial future any more—will resign right after their Christmas presents . . . t Truman, who returns to Ed Sullivan's
TV show Jan. 14, explains, “I like television.”
“And it likes you,” we responded wittily . . .
Americana By Robert Ruark
"NEW YORK, Dec. 21—The oldest axiom of simple economics is that you cannot control a part of an economy, while allowing other: parts
.to run free or impressing the citizenry with the
the necessity of an “honor system.” The weakness, so far, of our “emergency declaration,” is fts raggedness of control and limitation. } ERY BE ‘ The Economic Stabilization 00,
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directors included: Retiring “president, Paul F. Helm, George O. Jackson; J. B. Wilson, Harvey P. Rockwell, Joseph I Perrey and Howard M. Stradling. : The founder and charter member of the Scientech Club, Willlam Insley, smiled and settled back in‘his chair. He was the only guest attending the meeting. I gathered it was one of his rare
Spipearances.
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BEFORE the rumbling of the election died away, Robert B. Annis, program chairman, darkened the room and announced another “challenging little test” was going to be given with the aid of slides.
Paper was distributed to each member while the election was taking place. The technical men lost little time or motion. The first slide flashed on the screen. “You would use the B. & S. gauge to specify” and there were four choices. An Indiana University man reeled. “Pyrethrium is used as ..."”
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A VOICE in the back wailed, “I thought this was a relaxing hour.” ‘ Mr. Annis’ last slide wished the members a Merry Christmas ana a Happy New Year. Applause followed, Papers were graded, the new officers were congratulated and everyone left to get pyrethrium and B & 8 gauges, I suppose. It was the darndest meeting I ever attended. At least the platform was good.
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Deluxe platform . . . N. A. Nicolai, new
president of the Scientech ‘Club, broke the -back of the opposition to his ticket.
The Humor Boys Cite Some So-Called Gags
Rumors that HST wrote’ to Helen Traubel are untrue. That parting was friendly . . . Although Ted Briskin and Betty Hutton split, Ted flies to LA for Christmas with the children; meanwhile Kirk Douglas is in New ‘York for same with his kids . . , Nicky Blair opens his fancy “Blair House” saloon Jan. 17 . . . Guess who was midnighting at El Morocco: The Duchess of Windsor, n Webb and Jimmie Dona-whew! . .. Eddie Duchin is about recovered .. . Kenny Delmar is off to the coast for radio and TV , . . Priscilla Callen’s one of the gasp provokers at the Latin. +o
BEAUTIFUL Arlene Dahl, who's announced her . Sd ig engagement to Lex (Tarzan) Barker, was a chorus gal at Tou Walters’ Latin Quarter Just a few. seasons ago -—and left when both she and Lou agreed she'd Browntoo chunky. She slimmed, and made good, but today she still describes herself to Walters as
Arlene Da “Your little fattie.” . * > o ~~ EARL'S PEARLS: A debutante, claims Lew Parker, is a gal with a very high nose and a very low dress. : ® & & B'WAY BULLETINS: Jack Frye presented bride Nevada Smith with a 10-carat diamond ring for Christmas. . . . Residents of some tall hotels have moved out for fear of atom bomb attacks. . . . The Post Office reports holiday Job Spplieations from unemployed actors more umerous ever. . . . Friends bet the Ga Coopers will reconcile, > 4 nce there was nothing new under the sun: Frankie Marlowe fears fat soon there'll be nothing under the sun , . . That's Earl, brother.
Let’s Face It. People Are Shy of Nobility
keep it from going completely crazy. Our cost of living at the moment is considerably higher. than wartime, as I remember it, which argues something for the wage and price ceilings that were slapped on the nation by OPA. * oo
YOU ARGUE a basic nobility of all mankind when you put him on his honor not to raise his prices or scramble for more salary, and time has
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By ANTON
on Christmas Eve.
‘his journeymen had gone to bottle of ink and a penholder with a rusty pen in it from the master’s chest and, spreading a rumpled piece of paper in
front of him, began to write.
by the shelves holding the las
“Dear. grandfather Co wrote. “I want to write you
Vanyka looked over at
possible.
bleary eyes.
beats his gong. Behind him walk. the old Vyun who got his name because he is all black and as long and slim as a weasel. Vyun Is always tremendously respectful and friendly and casts equally benevolent glances on his own people as well as on strangers; but he isn’t liked just the same. Behind his respect and his friendliness lurk nothing but sham and meanness, No one else is better at sneak-
ling up behind someone at the
proper moment to bite that someone in the calf, or letting himself get locked up in the ice cellar where the meat is kept, or pilfering a chicken from a peasant. More than once his hind legs have been broken by a club thrown at him; twice they have hung him; almost every week he is beaten half to death; but stil he is alive. 2 Now grandfather probably stands in the main gate, squint-
A Christmas Carol
room, or else teases the cooks; at night, however, he makes his rounds about the buildings, bundled in a sheep coat, and
ing over at the broadly lit win-|a beating. He dragged me by my dows of the village church, and hair into the yard and beat me gabs with -the servants, hopping with his belt because I was supfrom one leg onto the other iniposed to rock the cradle and fell
CHEKHOV
| VANYKA SHUKOV, a 9-year-old boy apprenticed for the past three months to cobbler Alyochin, didn’t go to sleep He waited until: master Alyochin and.
early mass. Then he got a
Before tracing out the first letter, however, he glanced furtively several times at the door and windows, squinted up at the dark icon on the wall, flanked to the right and left
ts, and sighed. The paper lay
flat on the bench. He himself knelt on the floor before it.
nstantin Makarytshch,” he a letter. I wish you a Merry
Christmas and everything good from God. You know, I haven't any father or mother, only you alone in this world.” €
the dark window which mir-
rored the flickering flame of his candle, and conjured up the picture of his grandfather Constantin Makarytshch, who was nightwatchman for landowner Shivariov, as vividly as
» - ” » » » HE IS a small, emaciated but unusually quick and agile old man of about 65, with an always gay face and somewhat During the day he sleeps in the servants’jasleep instead. And last week the boots. Or perhaps I could herd|God's sake, I beg you to take me
dog Kashtanka and the hound
| their heavy felt boots. He rubs his| hands, shivers with the cold and, with a lusty old-man giggle, pinches first the cooks and then the maids. !
2 8 KR ; “YOU CARE for some snuff?” he says, offering his snuffbox to the women. The girls take some and sneeze, Grandfather considers that uproariously funny. Even the dogs must take a pinch. Kashtanka sneezes, snuffles, and walks away in a huff. Vyun on his part does not sneeze —out of respect, of course—and merely wags his tail. The weather is ruagnificent. The air is still clear and refreshing. The night is dark, yet the entire village with its white roofs, the clouds of smoke belching from the chimney pots, and the silver frosted trees are all clearly visible. Vanyka sighed again, stuck the pen in the inkpot, and continued. “Yesterday the master gave me
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950
tree, grandfather would stand around for a long time, finishing his pipe, taking a thoughtful pinch of snuff, and teasing the shivering Vanyka. The young hemlocks, all covered . with frost, would
stand motionless and wait to see who must fall. And suddenly, like
If w
an casa «ea To + On. praise Thee,» Oh
: an arrow from nowhere, a hare Bo-me na ne-6s - oul would rush through the snowin the ‘Mase, _ rifts Then grandfather would
always cry: a “Catch him! Catch him! The . long-eared rascal!” il
» = ” THEN GRANDFATHER carried the felledéree into the manor
house, and there it was trimmed. Olga Ignatievna, Vanyka's special friend, always did most of the work, When Vanyka's mother Pelagaya was still alive and a
housemaid for the gentlefolks, Olga Ignatievna often gave him.
es, FE xy wecms 003 Jorow Lovd, lt w sing
mistress told me to clean a herring's head and I started at the)
ter. But then the master beats me with anything handy.
” » - “THE FOOD is no good at all
“{In the morning, bread; at noon,
groats; and at night bread again but with tea or broth—which they eat up all by themselves. I have to sleep on the floor. And when the baby cries I can't sleep at all because I must rock the cradle. “Dear Grandfather, for God's sake do me a favor and take me away from here, home to the village. I can’t stand it here. I beg you on my knees, take me away from here. Otherwise I must
Vanyka pulled down the corners of his mouth, rubbed his eyes with a dirty fist, and sobbed out loud. “I could grind your snuff,” he
About People—
Top British Film Stars
Man Accused of Being Moonshiner Dresses in Tuxedo for Federal Hearing Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger, two of Britain's foremost motion picture stars, honeymooned in Tucson, Ariz, today on a
leisurely motor trip back to Hollywood. i They were married by & Methodist minister last night at the home of T. K. Shoehalir After returning to Holly wood Jan. 1, Miss Sim mons, 21, will go & to England fo Ls a picture. Miss Simmons
Man of Distinction
Toby Husser, 59, accused of
a0
“I always try look my best before city folks,” said Husser. Stand-In
that the divorcee refused to go to the hospital, requesting instead: “Just kiss the bumps and that will make me better.” t
"|. “That,” Omcer Gould said, “I
refused to do.”
No More Films
said goodbye today to a movie career that lasted 19 of her 22 years, so she can devote herself to her new husband and -daughShe married Charles Black, 31-year-old television executive, last week-end in Del Monte, Cal. “I've made pictures long enough,” Shirley announced. “I want to be free now to go where Charles goes and Linda, my little girl, needs a lot of me—a lot of both of us.”
Miss Teen-Ager ‘Contest Voting To End Jan. 2
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@ The climax is in sight. Local high
+ Ballots will be accepted until Tuesday night, Jama oY)
'Honeymooning i
Movie Actress Shirley Temple| P00
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No Showers for Shah
The Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, has requested that there be no expensive celebrations for his second : : marriage, this time to. beautiful, 18-year-old Soraya Esfandiari. He suggested, instead, that money be donated to the Tr. Temporary postponement of t he ceremony - was announced . : in Teheran yes- Shah Pahlevi terday due to illness of the darkhaired daughter of an Iranian
Predicts Change In Defense Bill
Taft Says GOP Wants Powers Clarified
WASHINGTON; Dec. 21 (UP)—
tail end. So she took the herring’s stand it, it is so terrible. I wanted| here, all of them, and I am alhead and shoved it under my to run back to the village before, nose. The journeymen tease me, but I have no high boots and it js|that I must aiways cry. And the and I must get vodka for them very cold. But when I am big I'll|other day the master hit me and steal gherkins from the mas- take care of you and nobody willj over the head with a last so hard
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wrote on, “and pray to dear God/ What a beautiful day that had al- . for you. And if something goes ways been! Grandfather croaked|or his cap and ran out into th wrong you must beat me as hard/and the snow croaked under their his fur coat over his smock. as you can, But if you think I'd/feet, and when Vanyka listened ; be of no use there, I'll beg the to that he had to croak, too. I inspector to let me clean his! Sometimes, before he felled the Story, by Feodor Dostoevsky.
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some sweets and, out of sheer boredom, taught nim to write and read, to count to one hundred, ' and even to dance the quadrille. But when Pelagaya later died, Vanyka was shoved into the servants’ quarters with his grandfather and finally apprenticed in cas-gal caa - eal Moscow.
Savval Sa: + al “Come here to me, dear grand- : father,” Vanyka wrote on. “For
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the sheep instead of Fedyka. laway from here! Have pity on a “Dear grandfather, I can’t poor orphan boy. They beat me
ways so hungry and it 1s so sad
do you any wrong, and if you die|that I fell down and could hardly {I'll pray for you just as I do forget up again. My life here is {my mother Pelagaya. Moscow isjworse than that of a dog. And I ‘a big town. Nothing but tall fine/send Alyona and one-ey Ya|houses and many horses, but no gorka my regards, and the coach{sheep, and the dogs don’t bite/man, too, but you mustn’t give (here. The children don't go/my harmonica to anyone. I relaround with the star and in/main your grandson Ivan Shukov. ichurch you are not permitted to Dear grandfather, please come {join in the singing. and get me.” | . 8-8 Vanyka folded the letter and | “DEAR grandfather, when thestuck it in the envelope which he presents are given out at the had bought yesterday for a manor house, take a golden nutikopek. And after some thinking {from the tree for me and keep ithe stuck the pen once more into {in your green chest. Ask Miss Ol-ithe inkstand and wrote the {ga Ignatievna for it and tell her|gdqdress: lit is for Vanyka. “Po Grandfather in the village.” “Vanyka heaved -a- great sigh! hen he thoughtfully scratched {and looked at the window again.ihis head, pondered again, and {He thought of how grandfather|aqded: : : {each year had fetched the Christ-| “Constantin Makarytshch.” mas tree and how he had always Glad that nobody had disbeen permitted to go along also.y, eq nim while writing, he put’
street without bothering to put
TOMORROW: A Christmas
By Charles Dickens
LAT) rE
i kere |} WY meme \ 4: : Meeting the two philanthropists, whom he had only yesterdoy pushed out of his office, Scrooge them a donation to charity oO thot made they heads swim.
w 5 a : & w tribal leader. She suffered a ~ For En neers lapse after a bout of typhoid >
fever. oa . . ai Quiet Wedding War Crisis Exhausting Purdue U. Supply
Hollywood Songstress ate Service
Durbin married ‘ Times French Movie LAFAYETTE, Dec. 21—The war crisis is exhausting the supply of Purdue University engineering students scheduled to ‘gradui late at the end of the current Purdue officials said
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Deanna
David today in S ar r eguemines,
Residents of the sleepy Alsatian town were singularly unconcerned about the ceremony. No crowd gathered to cheer or throw rice as Wiss Durbin
Deanna wed for the third time.
today. Prof. F. Lynn Cason, co-ordi-nator of placement service in the technical fields ‘at the university, said almost all of the expected 500 or more engineers graduating in February are now either employed or have had satisfactory employment offers. Many employing officials are _ already looking to the June and August graduates, Prof. Cason
said. . Personnel officials of many manuf!