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By Ed Sovola HAVE YOU had trouble finding an appropri. ate Faster greeting card? Can someone please

tell me why a person has to dig through uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, wives, sweethearts, secret

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‘Where are the cards that express a simple Easter wish of happiness and felicitation? A faithful reader brought this problem to my attention the other-day. The poor man was shaking with emotion. Between 8Sobs, this usually robust individual, explained he had searched for an Easter card that would wish someone a Happy Faster and all he could fing Was specialized cards, ‘ wa NOW, I'm not a card sender. But the sight of a grown man quaking with frustration did something to my Hoosler dander. “Go home and take a hot bath, friend, and lie down.” We'll see what gives,” I said. It took a bit of shoving and elbow-work to reach a card counter in one of our houses of retail values. Women seem to be taking their equality literally, Gentle pushing gets a man nowhere. X ch >»

DJSREGARDING a heavy purse in the small

of my back, I scanned the cards on the rick.

There were cards to sweethearts, darlings, sev-

eral in bright colors saying, “Hippy * Easter,

Honey.” “Happy Easter Greetings Just Because You're You” sent me reeling backward. Perchance was that the little number that reduced my friend to

-a jabbering weakling?

A few minutes later I decided it-couldn’t have been “Just Because You're You.” .On display wese

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EASTER CARDS—The designeis are blowing

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

AMARILLQ, Mar. 23—I'm now practically a Texan. I've got me one of those big hats like the Texans wear when they come to N. Y. to spend an oil well or two.

This ‘is not a 10-gallon model, just six or seven gallons. Not a sombrero, but a nice dress hat. Wait'll you hear how dress.

I was enjoying the hospitality of this fastgrowing city in the Panhandle and happened to mention I admired Texas hats.

Yippee, the bosses of the Amarillo Times, S. B. Whittenburg and T. E. Johnson, bought me one « + » pronto: | “de ¢ I SHOWED the hat off to folks I met. They'd look inside, and whistle. “It’s got seven Xs in it,” they say. “What's the. seven Xs do? Tell the size of the hat?” I asked the first time I heard about it. “Nope. The size of the pocketbook. Seven Xs mean it's a $50 hat.” : It was my turn to whistle. For the first time in.my life I owned a hat that cost as much as one my wife wears. ht cd THE TEXANS are used to spending more for hats than Park Avenuers and Hollywood stars such as” Pittsburgh's Adolph Menjou. But a $50 hat added new worries to my old worries. , First, how to hold it on? Because it gets cold here. They say when Adm. Peary got to the North Pole he shivered and said: “Why, this place is almost as cold as Amarillo.” Hats are always blowing off in' this wind that sweeps across the plains. They allege that when a Texan's hat blows off, he just reaches up in the alr and picks out another one. ¢ © &

THE MIDNIGHT EARL: spot on a brand new TV political panel show .., . The Al Capps positively deny the divorce gossip . . . Greta Garbo and white-mustached Baron Hoffman were in Kubie’s Health Shop eating yogurt and blackstrap molasses . . . Justice Douglas is going moun-tain-climbing in the Hima- i layas . . . Monte Proser cancels : out “Billion Dollar Baby” Apr, Lynn Merrill 1. But will continue his Theatre Cafe with a new show , . . Rumor that beloved Eddie Davis collapsed is urttrue. He's fine,

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Kefauver’'s

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 23—Morality has busted out all over, since Mr. Kefauver’'s voice is

heard around the land. It has suddenly become popular for people to find little right with wrong, and even in New Orleans, the old free-wheeler, some concessions ofa purely lip-service variety have been made to the new fad of broad disapproval of sin. Since the committee paid a visit to the town, gambling has become against the law. This is to say it has moved from Jefferson Parish to St. Bernard Parish. Either parish is about 15 minutes from the old absinthe house, and about a buck's worth of cab fare.

Mr. Frank Costello's tidy little investment, the Beverly Country Club, is folded flat. But i most of the other boys have extended themselves to the new parish. The weekly tourist poop sheet, “This Week in New Orleans,” carries full-page advertisements. One says: “While the original Club Forest is closed, the management and personnel of the club are now at the new Crescent Club, 6979 N. Peters 8t., in St. Bernard Parish. Your patronage will be appreciated.” .

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THIS OF course means merely that the same old faces are to be seen over the green baize pool tables where the dominoes dance . . . and

that the odds on “come” or “don’t come” in the diceries remain the same. The same tired devotees of chance and choice make the same trip out of town to lose the same money. One odd facet is that a sort of poor-man’s gambling hell, the “Hi-Lo Club,” now is catching the class trade, when it used to be as unfashionable as A beanjoint located across the street from “21,” if that be posgible, which it ain't, . ~All ‘of which proves very little bxcept .one premise: People like to gamble, people will gam-

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Simple Easter Card Is Hard To Find

“get-well on Easter” greetings. “From Our House to Your House, Easter Greetings,” didn’t seem to be doing so well, The corners looked like pages in a library book. :

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DAUGHTERS in all age groups and levels of endearment were well taken care of with Easter messages. Side by side were cards announcing, “Happy Easter to Daughter;’ “Happy Easter to

Dear Daughter,” and “Happy Easter to a Dear

Little Daughter.” There were red hot numbers® “for my sister” and “to my sister.” The casual approach to one’s kin read, “Hi, Sister, Happy Easter.” 4 If Sister had a husband, he didn't have to be left out. There were a batch of greetings “For Sister and Her Husband:"” gs + @ * NEPHEWS and nieces were well taken care of, too. “For a Fine Nephew” and “Happy Easter to -a Dear Niece” cards were in the, low-priced field. I don’t know about your relations with cousins, After seeing the “Happy Easter, Cousin” cards, I broke out in a cold sweat. If any of my cousins received ,an Easter card, by next Wednesday I'd

have long letters telling how the landlord has

increased the rent, how much ‘sickness there was in the family all winter and there would be in-

cluded a picture of a wolf licking his chops at

the front door.

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THE DEAR, sweet. spouse, male and female,

received a lot of attention from the high-domed

artists and poets. Maybe you bought a card with _

one of these titles: “For a Sweet Wife at Easter”; “Happy Easter, from Your: Husband”; “Happy Easter to the Gal ‘Who Rules tHe Roost,” and “Easter Greetings to a- Sweet Wife.” You name it and they've got it. No one fs left out this, Happy. Easter. You can“get-a card for baby’s first Easter, a good little boy, teacher,

. friend, secret pal, special friend, gran’'ma, gran’pa,

uncle, aunt, mom, pop, mother, father, good little girl and “From both of us, Dad, with Easter Greetings.” : . > >) FRANKLY, I'm going to avoid meeting my friend. The best way to handle his problem is to wait until the middle of July when the card business is at low ebb. Then talk about the Yankees or the Indians or his golf scores.

When the greeting card industgy gets to the point where special works of art are dreamed up for secret pals, good little boys, baby’s first birthday on Easter, the situation is hopeless, It's beyond help except for legislative actiom. I say let them go a few hundred steps farther, Let the card makers put put greetings for Monay and the rest of -the days in the.

3 And AN Front 285 2 tomy 3vorite cour tlt ; favorite. firefm#n: darling African :violet;" new Secretary; to ‘the blonde who rides the Central-Broad Ripple bus;

Let them ‘blow their stacks.

The fuse is short now. :

Finally Gets a Hat As Costly as Wife's

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Scores of New Yorkers stayed home from work to watch the Kefauver TV show. Phil Silvers called his agent, whose secretary said he was home sick. “Well,” being boomed by a B'way agent for a regular said Phil, “when the committee takes a recess, have him call me.”

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GOOD RUMOR MAN: B'way bookies are eyeing Montreal . . . (No Kefauver there) . . . Elliott and John Roosevelt and brides were at El Morocco; also Ginny Simms and Ernie By-

field Jr. . . . Daily Double . . . John Agar and starlet Elaine White . . . Ben Blue's wanted back on B'way Open House TV . .-. Silvano Mangano stars in “Bitter Rice” now at the World Theatre. o A db

EARL'S PEARLS: A girl used to blush when embarrassed . . . now, says Lynn Merrill, she's embarrassed when she blushes. SD

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B'WAY BULLETINS: Ex-King Zog of Albania will try to make NY his permanent home. . . . William Morris’ Fred Elswit was killed in the crash of his private plane. Errol Flynn, weary of heavy alimony, would like to mhke a cash settlement with Lilli Damita. Pat DiCicco and Dawn Addams are a Coast midnitem, “Good time” Charlie Freeman, who managed Primo Carnera in his boxing days, will be in Max Baer’s corner at the Garden when he wrestles Carnera.

Nancy Donavan tells about the voung Hollywood couple who decided they were seeing too much of each other--so, they got married. SSD

EX-DETECTIVE Johnny Broderick, famous for fists, stormed down to the Senate Crime Committee, burst in, called Sen. Tobey a few names, added, “You've been pushin’ people around, but you won't push’ me around’—and demanded and got public explanation that he'd never steered anybody to gamblers. (Mr. Broderick felt he'd been implicated when Mr. Tobey mentioned a “Patrolman Broderick.”) Johnny, when he wasn't put on, yelled out his angry statement from the back. What Mr. Broderick told Mr. Tobey can’t be printed.

“ ab A WOMAN who has a charge account always

knows there's a lot in store for her, suggests Lionel Hampton . . . That's Earl, brother.

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What Good's Probe Minus Punishment

ble, and the Senate investigation {fs of nil value unless some heavy legal implementation makes it stick. It boots us little to close up the Club Beverly, if the neighbors run wide open next door. It's an odd stand to take, but you-hate to sée the Messrs. Dandy Phil Kastel and Francis Costello lose dough if the dough is being taken from the suckers around the corner. >

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SAME WAY, a historic gambling family named O’'Dwyer—no relation to our ex-mayor-— now serves steaks and prdvides dancing for folks who used to buck the tiger high and handsome. No dice, I admire the light that has been shed on illegal businesses by the Kefauver Committee, but fail to see where the light profiteth anyone if reform does not accompany the light-shedding. What I mean, there are two family-type gambling concerns which have recently been closed here the Old Southport Inn and the original Old Southport—where the housewives used to go to play a little keno or wager an odd dime on a horse or risk a quarter on the dice. . All closed for the spiritual benefit of the locals, while you can bet a million elsewhere. . > &» Up to now I see little emphasis on law enforcement—enforcemeént that will stick—as a result of the inquiry into national crime. Frank Erickson has gone to jail, true, and ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer is embarrassed, and Virginia Hill was’ pretty cute. Some people—a very few people—are hesitantly hiding out, but the structure of illegality around the nation remains much the same. . You have to face one tough thing: A Kefauver Committee is great if punishment follows accusation, if the committee contthhues to.smoke out the miscreants, if something aside from political prestige and heavy-handed ‘vaudeville develops from the investigation. But I co right back to New Oflesne fo my sermon. at good was it all if the kids just change stores in order to sell the same wares? Rid J

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Sabbath ‘Day Close o& Hand

Matthew led to its disuse and neglect until, when the four gospels were collected and pubs lished, about A. D. 115-120, only a defective copy of Mark could be found for the purpose, oo» WE CANNOT be too thanks ful that the publishers of the collection nevertheless included it with the other three. Two different conclusions have been - added to it, in later manuscripts, but they. are evidently of no great antiquity or aue thority, for they ‘say nothing about the reunion of Galilee. This ‘wis not a new idea; as they were leaving the upstairs - room after the Passover supe’ per, Jesus “hads told them, ¢ “After I am raised to life again I will go back to Galilee befors you,” and the apostles had def» initely in mind the mountain in Galilee that He meant. For the lost ending of Mark fs unmistakably preserved for ug in the closing paragraphs of the Gospel of Matthew.

Matthew, we can see, is faiths ' fully copying everything of sig«, nificance in Mark; he has dona 80 from the very first, so that we. can actually find fifteénsixteenths of all Mark says reproduced in Matthew,

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Joseph of Arimathaea Takes Body of Christ for Burial

CHAPTER TWELVE By DR. J. GOODSPEED

WHEN THE captain in charge of Jesus’ execution saw how He expired, he said, “this man was certainly a son of God!” Perhaps the captain was a follower of Stoic religion, like Epictetus, who believed the great legendary heroes of Greece, like Hercules, by their unselfishness and heroism achieved sonship to God. To bury the unclaimed Jewish dead had long been a pious practice among the Jews. The Book of Tobit, two hundred years before Christ, tells how "Tobit had done it at the risk of — his life. : : There were still men of equal devotion in Jerusalem, and one of them, Joseph of Arimathaea, a highly respected member of the Jewish council, now: made himself responsible for’ Jesus’ burial. 3 :

EDITOR'S NOTE: The drama of Christ's last days on earth, *climaxed by the- Resurrection, “1s full of lessons for the world today. AL . t A new interpretation of Christendom’s classic story has been written by Dr. Bdgar J. Goodspeed, outstanding New Testament authority; «

HE BOUGHT a linen sheet, had Jesus taken down from the cross and wrapped in it, dnd then laid Him in this tomb, which probably had room for two or more bodies, for it was entered by a doorway in the . rock, before which a circular stone was rolled to serve as a door. : The faithful Galilean women * who had followed Jesus from | Galilee, Mary of Magdala, and and Mary, Joseph's mother, witnessed Joseph's. action and followed Jesus’ bddy to the Ne A RR Ang tomb. They noted the spot, for ED : 4 ; —t Pa they meant to come back after 2 Nd

the Sabbath to bring spices and (Original woodcut is owned by the John Herron Art Institute.) anoint His body.

» = ~ HE APPLIED to Pilate. for His body. Pilate could hardly believe that He was already dead, and sent for the captain to ask him whether it was really so. When he found out that it was, he gave Joseph permission to take the body. Joseph wag probably all the more anxious to receive it, because at sunset ‘the Sabbath would begin, and to have a dead Jew hanging on a cross by the high road on the Sabbath would be ‘highly offendive to Jewish sensibilities. The Jews also had strong views, as we

have seen, on the: defilement 2 8 a : BURIAL—Duerer carved this scene of the first Good Friday. much to add, he is meticulously produced ‘by contact “with the FOR A LITTLE WHILE the A. D. 50, for he regarded it as sion of his conversation, for he Incorporating into his narrat dead. - cruel death of Jesus must have the most. important thing he goes on to include that in the all that Mark affords. From The Jews were accustomed to seemed to those who loved and had to telt—how Jesus was list of. such experignces. But Matthew 27:1 on, except .fot-

, bury their dead immediately, on REISE Aen they ANI Gi Was in haste, ‘therefore, and without the {isual Anointing that Jesus was tRken down from the cross and carried off _to burial. The Sabbath, moreover," was close at hand. But . Joseph had a rock-cut tomb in the broken ground north of the city and not far from the place "of the crucifixion.

four . or. five scattered . hardly a clatise oF even § Be phrase’ of ‘Mark's accotifiv-¥8 =~ left out by Matthew. - ia 2 And ‘where our Mark breaks off, Matthew goes right-on with the story Mark has been leads ing up to —- the reunion with Jesus at ~their rendezvous in Galilee,

finteres® attaches to the mite to the 12, for the Gospel of Mark evidently ended, and culminated, in an account of it; just as Matthew dees, It is on the’ eve of the account of this that the Gospel of Mark breaks off abruptly. J suppose that its complete ab sorption in the later and re‘ligiously superior Gospel of

‘followed Him thesbittep. chilling wha wea (reld BORER: Tt 1% ‘one ‘of the paradoxes of Wigtory, indeed the chief such. paradox, that it was just the opposite. Our earliest account of the = amazing sequel is from the hand of Paul, who twenty-five

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SUNDAY: Hé Is Risen.

Long Arm of U. S. Defense

B-36 ‘Atom Crew’

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. id oY b; Than Few Miles From Plane 3 : : By DOUGLAS LARSEN ; ! d 1 ’ « bo CARSWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Tex. Mar. 23 (NEA) Let's i leavesdrop on the unusual lives of 13 men who fly a B-36. The whole | lexistence of this crew is keyed to the instant that World War III | starts. Yet their very existence is staving it off. | The crew will get a chuckle when they read those words. They | don’t quite look at it that way, Take Sgt. Gerald W. Wieman from (Tomah, Wis., 24, tall, good-look-)— — {ing and easy-going. He's a gun- service wife. You're busy with [ner and was recalled to duty after the kids. And there's always . the Korean War began. He says: something going on on the post.” “It’s just an interesting kind of ® x =» ; {job to me. I guess we would take LT. GEN. CURTIS LEMAY, i loft to drop the bomb on Russia famed boss of the Strategic Air [right away if war should come. Command, has ordered that each . [But that's really the last thing B-36 crew live and fly together as {any of us worry about.” a unit, completely adjusted to | The other 12 say just about the each other's personality quirks. : [same thing. : He believes that will make them Only 15 days a year, all at the completely confident in each lsame time, can any B-36 crew|other's ability to do his job. The |shed the heavy mantle of its pri- wives and families are part of |mary mission: To provide instant {this unique way of life. [retaliation if America is attacked.| The wives of our sample crew | a2 2 have an organization known as THEY CAN NEVER be more the “flying hens.” They bowl tothan one hour's driving distance gether. They've organized a nursfrom their airplane. That means ery on the base. They have bridge {350 days each year confined to the parties together and organize | base, nearoy Fort Worth or may- group entertainment for their hus|be Dallas, if they make special hands. Husband's rank means plans. Most of the crew We've nothing, A sergeant's wife is cap- i chosen for this closeup have been {ain of the bowing team and runs § |a unit for about a year and a half jt with an iron h {and know what this means to = [their lives and the lives of their KEY MAN in t { families. is the “AC,” the “9.9 _ imander. He is Maj. FIRST LT. EARL HAYDEN; waiter Jr., 32, a native of Chiflight engineer from Tyler, Tex, cago, holder of the DFC, the air

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THIS IS AN "ATOM CREW:"—Lined up beneath the nose of their B-36 are 13 Air Force

men whose unique military way of life is described in the accompanying story.

|says: medal with two clusters and a ; “You don't chafe under those yaifqozen other awards. His Most of it is centered around) Actually, the crew numbers 16 at Point, are married. All the mare restrictions. You know you've got geryice record includes four years the base, movies, bridge an oc- times. They can smoke and read ried crew members have children. [to stay close and you just ge as an enlisted man. During the casional crew beer-bust. The while off duty on a mission but All are at least high school grads.

All but four have had some ¢ol= lege. There are plans under way to get, crews even more closely knit than they are now, at the possible expense of their home life. Before a major mission a crew will gather at a special recreational build-

{used to it. There's plenty to do on| a¢t war he served in the Pacific. crewmen have a hot golf team playing cards is forbidden. land off work and you don't even «peg just hot,” is the way his Which is as good as any on the There are changes being made |think about it.” crew describes him. They claim base. in the new B-36s coming off the | Lt. Hayden, 37, is the oldest!) ;; name {5 close to the top of a line providing ice boxes, cooking {member of the crew. He was an “Gen. LeMay’s ligtle black book KEEPING 13 MEN living and utensils and two small electric lenlisted man in World War “II| ¢ {} pest AC's working together like this is no stoves, fore and aft. At present chance business. Each man geis the crew sticks to liquids, and the

{and served in Alaska, He and his ia. A ! [petite wife, Maxine, have two chil- HE'S MODERATELY a careful psychological screening gnlid favorite. corn flakes.

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dren. They live in a cozy house good. natured. He can do the job before getting assigned 14 Ere. 2 0 =» ing. A day or so before take-off \in a government project just off or any crewman, including that of 1nen he's got to make the grade . .., SUOWAETER'S CREW, they'll get together, play cards, the base. Mrs. Hayden has this to pilot. under pressure. which ig part of the 98th Bomber or just read. They will hit the

Last item of business after each long training mission is a bull session on how it went. Not long ago a member was accused by several others of griping too much on flights. He was transferred to other duty. . Each member of Maj. Showalter's crew is convinced that each other member does his job better [than the way it is done on any other crew. Quite naturally they think the pilot, 1st Lt. James H. Seely, 32, of Riverside, Cal, is : “plenty hot.” “If he wer# at the controls I'd be willing to try to fly a destroyer,” is one of the remarks, ” n ” IT. SEELY claims it’s just as easy to fly a B-36 as any other plane as soon as you get what he calls ‘size perception.” His attractive wife has a special concern about her husband-pilot. “I actually worry more about nim] |racing home on his motor scooter {through the heavy traffic than I ldo about him on missions,” she |said. {| Training missions take place ‘three or four times a month and| % [last from about 15 to 20 hours.|& |The wives don't know where the! |husbands are going and how long [they will be away. Between the 4 long missions there are shorter p#s {hops.

sack 12 hours before actual takeoff time. The purpose of this plan is to insure they are in best possible physical shape before a mission and will be ready for that vital teamwork and co-operation needs ed in the air,

{say about the life: But his chief assignment is “I have a premonition about keeping them all working together {Earl that he'll always come home smoothly. He has the rare quality |safely. It may sound funny but I of outstanding leadership. He and never worry when he’s up, unless his wife and 7-year-old son have |we hear there's an accident. Then a house on the basé and live just (I bother the tower a little until about the same kind of life that (his plane is down. But it's no dif- the rest of the crew and families ferent than the life of any other do,

Squadron, is composed of seven officers and six enlisted men, now called airmen. Sergeant is the lowest rank. The average age is about 32. All but two of the crew, Sgt. Wieman and 1st Lt. Jefferson A. Simpson, 26, just out of West

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| ca ad ; Iter keeps the men on a rigid . . hi ‘ on + FAMILY LIFE for “Atém Crews" is closely tied to duty. Here schedule. It's general four hours| NERVE CENTER of B-36 gumplicsted Tnachinary a1 jo. oe + | Pilot Seely is greeted by wife Frances and daughter Jan, 8, as he ‘on duty and four hours off. There gineer s control statiog. Here Flight Engineer Weldon, ¢ Re

« arrives home on motor scooter after day's duty. |are two ten for every operation.| throttles, tells the pla commander he's ready to-go.