Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1951 — Page 22

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sevola Tn

. A NEW twist to an old All Fools’ Day trick proved a fool and his money are quickly parted,

I lost a buck.

The Apr. 1 question was: Will people fall for - the wallet-and-string gag if it's plainly marked as such? As a TeWard to the person who would disregard the warning and put his finger on a

longshot, I slipped.a dollar bill in the wallet.

In front of the Canary Cottage, I dropped the old wallet, placed the double-faced sign with “April Fool” next to it and ran the string as far as a doorway: I was ready for laughs.

For eight minutes the wallet remained in the niiddle of the sidewalk. The old and the young passed up an easy buck. Some of the pedestrians walking in both directions, looked as if they never

saw the sign or the billfold.” * * 9

THE FIRST person to walk past saw me

idea of the sign He chuckled No one

rigging the trick. Evidently the appealed to the middle-aged man. and seemed quite satisfied with himself. was going to fool him, My heart gave a flutter.

then at me. thread from the spool. “Please, mister, scram,”

breath. ‘Holy cow, a man ought to have a chance to get set up at least. /

Satisfied finally that he would gain nothing

EASY PICKING—The dollar inside the billfold lasted eight minutes. You can't fool some people,

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 31—Bless us all for living -to see the Pill Age. How thankful we should be, one and all and Frank Costello, too, for living in an era where anything can be accompli¢hed by taking a pill— if we can only find the right pill among all the pills we have to clutter up our medicine cabinets with nowadays. Have you :aken an Inventory of your pills lately? I wouldn't. Just looking may make you sick enough td need a new pill. Already ‘those pills for colds--they all have t word “hiss” in them and you can hiss them if you want t6—it's a free country—are old stuff. Now the big rage is the Hangover pill. “Thiamin chloride” is the pharmaceutical rame for the mixture they give vou. “For the treatment of severe Vitamin B-1 deficiency,” it says on the bottle. db

IT'S ALL PART of the jargon of the Pill Age. The boss says to me, “Wilson, your colmiun smelled vesterday,” 1 say learnedly, “I had a good excuse. I had a severe Vitamin B-1 deficiency yesterday.” “In fact,” I continue, “all day yesterday I was taking thiamin chloride for it.” It may fool your boss, but probably not bhecause bosses generally have hangovers that are grandparents of their employees’ hangovers. . Of course, if you don't want to take a pill, you can get some ampoules and get needled in the hip, and only $4.10 for the bottle, too. Plus the doctor's fee for the prescription and the injection.

Some people, upon getting suspicious that they might get drunk, take pills before they “drink. The ‘idea is that they never get any Vitamin B-1 deficiency, see, Sam?

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IN FACT, PEOPLE will do about everything to avoid a hangover, but not drink. Down South, they have a great new vitamin thing called “Hadacol" which is supposed to help Your Vitamin B-1. On a radio show in Ios Angeles, the owner of “Hadacol" was asked: “What tx Hadaeol good for?™ “Well, it was good for about $4 million last Year,” he said. ° My druggist told me he's got a new reducing pill that contains the vitamin and minerals that replace the food you're not going to eat while reducing. This is a 2-in-1 pill. I was able to resist buying any of those pills because we have more pills than I can find my way through now. The only illness I've had this vear was due to a pill. I had a little headache, and rushed to the medicine closet and took a pill.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark”™

NEW YORK, Mar. 31—All men make mistakes, and I concede I just made a beaut. A nice secondhand piano has come to live at our house, and between the piano and the dogs very little getx done. Having béen raised simply, 1 a scale as something that grew on a fish, and a measure was a round wooden bucket that vou doled out grain in, When fhe music teacher referred to “four heats to a measure” all it told me was that we had substituted vegetables for oats. But, as Master Joseph Bushkin, the mad genius, says, I love a piano. 1 feel a fine way about a Steinway. A piano is a pretty shiny thing, and it fills up space, and anyhaw, I never owned one before. sidering taking an ax to it.

What has happened is that the house seems forever to be hip-deep in musicians. Nobody gets any sleep any more. If anybody had ever

always regarded

And I am con-

..Buggested that X_ would sit up until 10 a. m,

listening to Mr. Bushkin wage a private cat fight with Mr. Buck Clayton, on piano and trumpet, I would have regarded them as mildly nuts,

“But this has happened. You step out for a stroll and a short beer and wind up with a sixplece band combo, and the other tenants scream and the work goes undone and the dogs become psychotic. Especially our dogs. They hate music. I mentioned before that they treed Arthur Godfrey and et up his ukulele one night, which may be an indication of good musical taste, However, I am learning music, the hard way, From mustctans.—Since Mr. Bushkin selected our plano, he regards it as his own, and frequently shows up to see if it is in tune. This. works a hardshipion the house, because Mr. Bushkin does not generally finish his night-club chores until 4 a. m., and then needs a couple of hours to relax before he seeks the muse again,

The second man to approach the buck hesitated for several seconds. & First he looked at the bilifold and the sign and - :

I was still unwinding the black

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finger in my face.

“I know you and I'll bet you a dollar there's

something in the wallet,” she said.

I shrugged my shoulders and told her I never "bet less than $10,000. She had me worried. Any instant I expected her to dash into the middle

of the sidewalk and rin the trick.’ “As sure as I'm standing here I know there _ is money in the purse,” the woman sald again. My mouth stayed shut. ©: Conversation was the last thing I wanted. J ! Two young girls glanced at play and didn’t bat an eye. show of interest; they proceeded around the Circle

deliberately stepped on the wallet,

was pretty flat. The woman walked on.

the sidewalk disSilently and with no Just when I began to think the April Fool stunt would last all morning, a lone woman Except for the dollar bill, the wallet had been emptied and

"A RAILWAY EXPRESS driver carried a package into the Canary Cottage and laughed about

the wallet.

He appeared just as the porter from

Figure the Long Skots ; * Day ‘by picking yp thé wallet, the old man went on.

My spirits soared. Two women poked one an- | other but neither one would risk, being fooled. in

. "SECONDS LATER a handsome woman.walked right up to me in the doorway and waved her

Reed's Shoe Store walked toward the middle of

the sidewalk.

Pedestrians snickered as he picked the thing up and opened it. The snickers left their faces when he pulled out the greenback.

out a buck.”

ear to ear. old billfold against a building. “That’s what the gamblers do,” laughed the porter. “They figure the long shots.” oo <

I PICKED UP the sign and wound the thread on the spool. In eight minutes -the April Fool trick was over. There wasn't a thing to be done. The people who saw what happened were laughing at me. . On the corner of Meridian St. and the Circle, I really took a low blow. Without thinking, I hastily picked up a thin, folded piece of leather, At first glance it looked like a wallet. The thing was empty, “A kid picked up the wallet,” a stranger said, “after that guy threw it away. Then he threw the inner compartment here just a minute ago.” It was a revolting development. Be careful today, it's All Fools’ Day, chum.

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Attention Centered On ‘Hangover Pill

I was laid up for a day because by mistake I took a pill the veterinarians had prescribed to our dog, Cookie.

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GOOD RUMOR MAN: Bill Veeck asked the Russian Embassy to-permit his Harlem Globe Trotters basketball team into the Soviet-—and was astonished when they look#d on it Kindly. Director Jed Haris. at the (Nicky) Blair House op. ning, was glad his TV show is over. “I feel,” he said, “like a school kid on June 30.” ... Today's Daily Doubles: Society's ‘Tucky Astor and Craig Mitchell, Sen. Kefauver's niece Nanette Criper and Nat (Police Gazette) Perlow . . . Redhead hat chick Dolly Manon of the Barberry Room weds Edward Hesse Apr. 14 . . . Bebe Shopp, the personable vibraharp-play-ing Miss America of '48, has a great TV show idea about ready. She's managed by Ken Greengrass, nephew of Barney, the sturgeon king.

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Rita Hayworth, we hear, will return to the good old Plaza, where she lived briefly when Aly was wooing her, on her arrival next week. . . . Isn't missing Frank Costelo in Florida buying a retreat there? . . . A personality (male) was Redchanneled out of TV. ... Jose Ferrer's giving a birthday party for Gloria Swanson (she's 53). Mrs. Tommy Manvile sent word to Tommy not to have detectives watch her. But he denied throwing money after a lost wife.

4 ¢ EARL'S PEARLS: Discussing a middle- . aged woman, Peggy Lee sald, “She was 35 on her last birthday—the last one she admitted.” * + 4 ’ WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Two psychiatrists

are mad at each other—they're Freuding."— Marion Carter.

Miss Shopp

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ALL OVER: Senate Bank probers are here snooping into the way, racketeer-politicians hid their wealth. . . , Ten cops will watch betting

Railway Express Driver Ernest Jones groaned and said, “Well, I've seen everything now. I was too cagey and clever to fall for it and now I'm

Porfer Clarence Grenshaw was grinning from He pocketed the dollar and threw the

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remote Brown County cabin,

On Midwives

By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Writer

NASHVILLE, Ind., Mar. 31—The wooded hills and hairpin trails of Brown County are scenic fare for artists but a poor thorough-

fare for the stork. - That's why this rustic South-

i_ern Indiana community Is one

| of the few in the nation where | babies still come from the black | satchel of a circuit-riding mid-

wife instead of the antiseptic ward of a hospital.

But, just as Brown County is”

a blend of modern and primitive—the same horizon often outlining a television aerial on

{| the housetop and the familiar

slanted-roof - structure at the rear of the lot—so is its nurse-

|. midwife, Mrs. Catherine Lory,

a combination of both the homey virtues of the old-fash-joned community midwife and the ‘modern know-how: of a

| skilled, trained nurse.

- nw ~ = MRS. LORY is no self-ap-pointed mountain granny. She's a registered nurse, assigned to her unusual job by Indiana State Board of Health. The old - fashioned midwife used to carry an axe or a sharp knife, to put under the bed to “cut the pain.” Brown County's modern nurse-midwife $arries with her the latest products of medical ingenuity, to give the back-

| woods homes she yisits all pos-

at each NY ball park. ... “Affairs of State” was |

practically sold to Hollywood for 125 Gs and per cent. eo vo TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: All the gamblers

have left to fix now, figures Eddie Condon, is their bail. y

George, Shearing fears that ere long poor Virginia Hill will be crying over “the dear deported.” , , . That's Earl, brother.

Bob Has Baby Joins Be-Bop Band

WE ARE complimented that Mr. Bushkin, who is possibly the best jazz piano player in the nation, or maybe the world, would honor us with free performances, but Mr. Bushkin always arrives with friends, ‘and the friends eat, and drink, and play- until day after tomorrow. In the last month, since the baby (grand) came, I have failed to write three. books, four plays and a critical history of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. But-we-beat outa helluva musicat comedy the other night, between the hours 6 and 9 a. m.

Nobody wrote down any notes, but it sounded real cool.

If a man hangs around musicians; his speech changes. One calls everybody “cat” or “pops” and goes around humming “beep-boo-be-bop-boo,” which causes people to stare at you on the streets. I used to claw my mustache in time of mental strife, and now find that my fingers and toes drum nervously. in perfect tempo. It has been said lately that Ruark has one of the best right feet in the music business. I can play “Honeysuckle Rose” like Fats Waller, using only four toes, , SS aa THIS BRIEF association with Mr. Bushkin, who looks like a: cut down Dr. Fu Manchu, has forced me back into the arts, because Mr. Bushkin and Miss Tallulah Bankhead are close cronies, and somewhere we lead inevitably to Godfrey. Mine eyes have beheld a sight unknown to ordinary mortals—a vocal duet between Bankhead and Godfrey, with Bushkin on the p-f-a-n-o. Bankhead sings one octave lower than Godfrey. Mine ears have suffered in the process, too.

The good Lord knows where all this will end, but there is a short hunch that I will wind up as an underpaid sideman in St. Louis/wearing a be-bop beard. and puffing heavily a stick of tea. Tkhat means marijuana, L-#hink.

The only other alternative is to send the piano back to Steinway and take up the typewriter again am an art form, .Heavens to Betsy, ax us

cats say when we are really flying, you can't

make a career of both, pops.

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sible conveniences and sanitary provisions of a hospital delivery room.

Brown County where even the back roads have. back roads. A 16-by-20 mile stretch of rugged terrain, inaccessible hilltops and gullies, and roads which disappear overnight into. swollen streams.

The remoteness of the complus a war-produced shortage of physicians, caused the Indiana‘ States Board of

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Health to send Mrs. Lory to Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service training in 1946 to learn modern midwifery methods. Since then she’s been spanking life into an average of 24 new Brown County-ites a year.

s = = A FAMILIAR sight al] over Brown County is Mrs. Lory jumping into her mud-splat-tered blue coupe, black ‘‘baby” satchel in one hand and a portable delivery table and nurse's kit in the other. The coupe is but part of her

transportation. A mile _hike on foot through flooded lowland or a climb up hills tog, steep for a car are part of her day's work. Oné Christmas Day she was called out in a blinding blizzard by the neighbor of an ex- . pectant mother. After driving some 12 miles, walking through a field kneedeep with“snow and breaking

Views of Circle and Speedway Favorite

Selections of Visitors

to Indianapolis

By CLIFFORD THURMAN

“HAVING wonderful time,

Wish you were here.”

How many times have you scribbled a message like that on a post card while vacationing away from home? What was in your mind when you stood before the rack of’ gaudy colored post cards and made your selections? Were you

thinking of art? Did vou Perhaps just picked out pretty pictures. In any event it is a good bet that almost every adult who can write among the United States’ 150 million has sent a post card from some place to somewhere several times during his life. ~ " " POST CARDS-—-the colored variety used largely by vacationers, those atteriding con-

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ness in American cities and Indiamapolis - ranks ‘high on the list. Newsstands, hotels, the bus and railway stations, do the biggest business. Four dealers were unanimous in saying they couldn't possibly estimate the number sold in a year. “The racks. are filled one day and empty the next,’ one dealer said, ‘then the distributor comes along and fills the racks again. I never tried to keep an exact count on the things.” . The dealers do have soma idea about what visitors in Indianapolisi buy, however, They watch as" shoppers turn the

consider . historical background, a

TOPS—Cards picturing Monument Circle are best sellers in Indianapolis, :

racks 'round and ‘round while trying to decide on selections. 8» POST CARD pictures of Monument Circle are the most popu-

soap and a back stooy s wash-up ro

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through a frozen stream, Mrs. Lory entered to find the mother alone in the fireless cabin, al-

ready in labor. The neighbor woman who had helped Mrs.

Lory carry in the ‘equipment

took one look, set down the bags and left. It was a disheartening moment, Mrs. Lory admits. But there are moments of achievement to make up for these ... moments like this fall when Mrs. Lory instituted a dental inspection program for first graders, One of the first subjects was 6-yvear-old. Lillian Merrick, the first baby Mrs. Lory delivered as Brown County’'s official nurse-midwife.

THERE have been other achievements.” Mrs. Lory was chosen as one of Indiana's delegates to the White House con* ference on child health this year. Last year Indiana's social workers picked her -as the state's outstanding woman in

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lar sellers, dealers agree. The Circle and historic monument seem to depict Indianapolis than anything else, a clerk at a hotel cigar stand said. Next in popularity are scenes the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Speedway post cards are particularly popular aound 500-Mile Race time, On race day itself, dealers said, thousands of cards picturing the big oval are sold. Some of the cards are mailed awdy and hundreds of othérs are purchased as souvenirs by those attending the big motor classic, There is a rush on the ¢ard racks during every big convention—and Indianapolis has a convention of some sort going on almost every day and week in the year, o » ~ * STATE FAIR week is anoth-

-Lr..period. when. pest cards. go...

like hot cakes. More sell in summer than winter because of more vacationers,

There .is a wide variety of cards from which to make selections but. dealers say after Monument Circle and Speedway cards the others range about

Pictures of the home of James Whitcomb Riley are good sellers, one dealer sald, ‘“because. everybody knows about the Hoosier poet’. Post cards showing public buildings such as the State House, Post Office, Court House and War Memorial are frequently selected,

Many visitors..chooss scenes of the downtown areas while

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the field of health and welfare. Right now the greatest dream of her career is nearing realization — construction of a health and community center to replace the cramped Nashville storeroom that now serves as her office. “When we have nine pregnant women in here we haven't got room for the doctor who examines them,” says Mrs. Lory of the monthly clinics.

The national sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, became interested in her work for underprivileged children and contributed $6500 toward a building fund, a sum which the state and federal governments have matched. = ” ~ THE COMMISSIONERS have donated land just outside Nashville and the plans are now on the drawing boards.. Rising costs have forced Mrs. Lory to

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give up some of the cherished features of the dream health center — the presemt money doesn’t cover a kitchen nor room to house a dental unit that has been contributed. But there’s enough optimist in Mra Lory that she's sure eventually these things will come. Mrs. Lory, a mother and grandmother herself, has ne idea’ how many new Browa County residents she’s deliw ered. When she first started the service a Nashville while tler made a “notch .s# - carving a notch for each

However, the stick has hung -

untended on the wall of hee office for three years since the whittler’s death. ral The Brown County midwife hasn’t"had time to bring it up to date . . . she’s too busy earvw ing a niche for public health in the community to take time

out for notch-carving. .

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LET'S SEE NOW-—SFC Earl Fisk of Ft. Worth, Tex., of Army Finance School at Ft. Harrison, selects Indianapolis

cards for the home folk.

others hunt out photographs of Weir Cook Municipal Airpert,. the various golf and country clubs or Indiana rural scenes,

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