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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola :

EAMS DO come true if you work hard enough. Next Sunday I'll be starting the ball rolling for a writing assignment in Europe. It isn't” necessary ‘for me to pinch myself to make sure it's true. The arms are throbbing from fnoculations and vaccinations. When the pain goes away, all I will have to do’ is open the passport and take a quick look at the picture. That shot would make little children and weak men cry. What it will do to'custom officials and interested parties in-the old country ¥eniains to be seen. oe oo o>» : - THE BOSS says I should stop first in Washington and talk to some of the guys who have worn seven league boots. Then I'm to £0 to New York and get fitted for a pair of long pants. May 26, when the America sails for Southampton, England, I'll be waving to Miss Liberty from the rail. Ne Arrangements have been made for me to have cabin space. Whether. the crossing will be: by rail hat, ; aos rs hag TE a RE kt This assignment is the roving - kind. ‘England will be the first stop. Instructions are to stay out of the fancy joints. I'm supposed to rub elbows with the working people. Somebody is hoping I'll take the hint and work. Gad. Son A week or so.in England and I'll be taking off for Francg. If the weather is right T may take a crack at"swimmitg the Channel to Calais. France should be fun, I've always wanted to be in Paris in June. My two years of high school French will come in handy. Right now

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK. May 15—HIYA. INDIANAPOLIS! Marion Ramsey. 1042 S. Belmont, Indianapolis, wrote to say she thinks Kkinescoping of programs would kill TV. “I like the idea.’ she wrote, . “that .the programs are taking place at the same time I'm viewing them." Groucho Marx took me out to the ball game, To be honest, he took a voung lady, and let me go along; to be perfectly honest, the Goodman Aces took all of us. So there we were in a box at the Polo Grounds watching the Giants and the St. Louis Cards. Cd eb “MAYBE YOU don’t like baseball—and if vou don't like baseball, the Giants are the team to watch,” Groucho told the voung lady. She was Anita D. Cotton, an attractive brunette receptionist at Batten, Barton, Durstin and Osborne, the ad agency. She told me how they met. Groucho came in to see Wickliffe W. Crider, the ad genius. Miss Cotton had never seen Groucho. “What's your asked him. “Marx. What's vours?’ he asked right hack, arching his evebrows and firttering them. So there we were. Groucho had four or five hot dogs and a beer. He mostly talked to the

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“I'M HAVING a good time.” he told her. 1 like the Giants and I like you. Not necessarily in that order.” “It's wonderful,” he rippled on, “having a beer. and lots of hot dogs, and being with you, and two Giants on base.’ ; “There's only eno Giant on base,” I pointed ouf. “That's funny. There are usually two Giants on one base, he said. 1t was Dagmar Day. One fan asked Groucho. in confusion, “Are you you?" It reminded him of being with Cary Grant once when a woman gasped, “There's Cary Grant!” Another woman with her exclaimed, “And it looks just like him!” Wickliffe Crider asked Groucho about a letter he'd got from President Truman. Groucho'd been erroneously quoted as saying. “We'd never be in this mess if Truman were alive.” He wrote the President denying he said it. The President replied he knew he hadn’t—that he watched his show and knew he could write better jokes than that.

Hay and Grease Paint By Harman W. Nichols

WASHINGTON, Mav 15--Gene Darfler iz a hayshaker—and once a shaker of hav always a shaker of hay. . : The 21-year-old kid from Naperville, Ill, learned to coax milk out of a cow at the age of 4, slopped

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Ed. the Lucky Stiff, Is Going to Europe

I can’t think of anything in French, but it should come back to me over there.

The State Department” says “the bearer has- |

been accepted for journalistic work in the United State Zone of Germany and Berlin and Austria.” Everyone I talk to who has been in Germany says it's about the prettiest country on the continent. We'll see, o* oN

ITALY IS NEXT on the list.- A friend told me all about Sorrento and Naplés and Rome. There's a hotel in Sorrento that overlooks the Mediterranean he recommends highly. He stayed in the joint during the war and found it extremely comfortable and fascinating. Might be worth lopking into if a man happens to be in the : + neighborhood. A whirl through Spain is contemplated. "However, if time is short that part of the plan may be d#bandoned, Passage has’ been booked bn the British steamer Parthia sailing from Liverpool Jy 7.0 The "BEES SAUSRE Yeattes be an it, when vas Fah SR ¥ oo CAO ; TE a Many of {fe details wilt" we Hished G0er In Washington. In general, though, I'm to report about people and things that 1 understand. You can be sure it won't be on the global level. The pattern will be the same that I ollow in Indianapolis. A guy couldn't ask for tter deal than that. , / Bh BB THIS IS my first trip to Europe and first ocean voyage on a nonmilitary ship. If 1 were going on a heavy cruiser, destroyer or an aircraft carrier, I'd know what to expect. Sitting on a deck chair instead of a gun mount or a torpedo

tube should he easy to take.

There are a lot of questions in my mind ahout packing, how much and what, that haven't heen answered by travel booklets and pamphlets. Does anyone have some practical suggestions that” would be helpful? A guy who is a little more scared than excited would appreciate help. Also, it would give my morale a boost if You would drop a letter or a card and tell me what you think of this junket. Close friends think it's

great, But I don't just write for my own amuse- °

ment and theirs. I'm thinking about friends whose paths I cross only through the column. They're the ~‘ones who count in this game. a SEVERAL persons who got wind of the trip asked whether my book, “Monday Follows Tuesday.” would be out before I returned. Some of vou remember that the publication date is early in September. I sail from England on July 7. Heck. I'll be back here to help print the books if necessary. Even if the Parthia were powered by a rubber band I'd be back in plenty of time to see the first editions roll. Now that I've told you, I'm going to run around the block a few times to wear off some steam. What do you think of this fine break the paper is giving me?

Hoosier Speaks Quit On TV Problems

WE TALKED of his high-rating radio and TV show. “Television has shown how low American taste is.” Groucho “said. “It's ridiculous . how

some shows get ratings.”

“But if the American taste is so Inw, how do vou explain that your-own show is so popular?” I asked. I surely thought I had him there. “That,” Groucho said, “just proves my theory.” Ss Bo THE MIDNIGHT EARL... A brand new deal to sell Warner Bros. to a syndicate (still including Lou Lurie) is on, despite the announcement the sale is off. (Warners could be persuaded .,, for more money.) <> <> <> ALL OVER , . Big crisis at the Persian Room: Thyra Samter Winslow and Radie Harris, sitting a foot apart, wearing identical hats. . . . Horace McMahon's back from Hollywood but'll return to do retakes for ‘Detective Story.”

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GOOD RUMOR MAN: Great Comic Herb Shriner became father of a baby girl. Since he’s famous as a Hoosier, it's suggested he call the baby. “Indie Anna” . . : Josephine Baker paid the Willie McGee funeral expenses and is helping the widow . . . Wasn't Paul Robeson refused a visa to India? . . . Dagmar’s making her first

record-— with Frank Sinatra—a song called “Mama Don't Bark” . “1 caught your television show,” write Irving Hoffman. “I hope

the Crime Committee doesn’t” . .. Jean Williams is the Scarf Girl or “front woman” for “The Scarf” movie. .

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B'WAY BULLETINS: The rich Ralph Bel lamys will freighter-travel to Europe for 5 wks. They love that simplicity . , . The Hanson Drug Store set figured out a way to make phone calls for 5¢ and is delirious. But the effort it takes isn’t worth it . . . Coming soon from Wash'n.: “Liberty gardens” .. With Martin & Lewis doing crazier and crazier stuff at the Copa and selling out nightly, Chuck Barnett would name the Copa “the Copacabellevue.” oe oo oo WISH I'D SAID THAT: "Beauty is often only skin dope." —ILondon Opinion. oo o» oe TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Mary McCarty, in a great opening at the Plaza Persian Room, satirized gal singers. She said that lots of chantootsies, who sing like birds, ought to—-they've just killed some Old Crow. Taffy Tuttle, the showgirl, was asked by her new boy friend if she'd die for him, and she up and answered, ‘No, sweetie, my love is undying.” “The feller with one litfle child.” Kin Hubbard said years ago. “is allus braggin’ about his family” , « . That's Earl, brother,

Aetor in Sea Play Frets About Farm

come ‘hack from the far 40 acres and hoot his lad to get him off a cattle bunk where he was “putting on a show” for the cows, chickens, .porkers and maybe a couple of farm hands. Then along came the 4-H business. And the Future Farmers of America. Gene did fine in the

hogs and forked straw under the livestock af 3. heifer and pig judging, but while he was at it,

leagues, playing in the road company of Broadday's “Mr. Roberts.” The 6-foot-3-inch boy does a good job in one of the supporting roles, but has a split heart. One side is there behind the footlights pumping like mad. The other beats for the wheatfield and the hog lot way out there in Illinois. Gene, being a cocky, ambitious lad, naturally wants to. see his name in lights one day and maybe he will. But what he worries about while making a name for himself up there behind the lights, all greased up, is-what's going to happen come hatvest time out home if he isn’t there to help. - Poy think I'll be there on leave,” Gene told me. “Dad needs me. I'm a good hand with a hay , fork.” Which is a far whoop and a holler from playing the part of a sailor during a “rough time” at sea in the play. “ & ob

GENE GOT into the acting buginess. kind of

' by aceldent. His folks always thought that, being

born close to a haystack, he might have sense enough te stay near one. They wanted him to be R horse and cow doctor. ;

But at a tender age he seemed to ve a talen! for acting. His daddy used to Mave to

“Now, guess whaf. Hes an actor “fRthe big We took part {rrsome-of“the-other-activities—ot

the organizations. One was public speaking. Our kid did very well. So one of the directors who apparently thought more of a good speaker than a good hog suggested the boy attend the American Academy of Dramatics.

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There was a spirited argument at the Naperville farmhouse supper table but one day Gene walked out from under a cow and went to school to learn how to act. In 1950 he graduated —vofed “most likely to succeed.” Most likely he will; or, let's say, already has. TL.ast June he went abroad to play in the T.ondon Company of “Mr. Roberts.” While he was in England, he browsed around in parts of other plays. After a decent length of time he came back home and, with a limited backlog of experience in the “Mr. Roberts’ thing, he signed on for a part in the road company.

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for all our scientific reports, “1 know a good fellow, a painter,” 1 said to Herman.

“He's a hig hefty chap who can play the guitar and is full of fun. He went through navigation school and sailed around the world several times before he settled down at home with a brush and palette. I've known

him since we were bhovs and have often heen on camping tours with him in the mountains at home. I'll write and ask him; I'm sure he'll come.” “He sounds all right,” Herman nodded, “and then we

want someone who can manage the radio.” “Radio!” I said, horrified “What do we want with that? It's out of place on a prehistoric raft.” ” n I 4 “NOT AT ALIL—it's a safety precaution which won't have any effect on vour theory =o long as we don’t send out any SOS for help. And we shall the radio to send out weather observations and other reports, “But it will be no use for us to receive gale warnings bhecause there are no reports for that part of the ocean, and, even if there were. what good would they be to us on a raft?” His arguments gradually gwamped all my protests, the main ground for which was lack of affection for push-

buttons and turning knobs. “Curiously enough,” 1 admitted, “I happen to have the best connections for getting into touch by radio over great distances with tiny sets. I was | put into a radio section in the {| war. Every man in the right | place, you know. But I shall | certainly write a line to Knut | Haugland and Torstein Raaby.” | “Do you know them?” i “Yes. I met Knut for the first time in England in 1944. He'd been decorated by the British for having taken part in the parachute action that held up the German efforts te get the atomic bomb; he was the radio operator, you know, in the heavy water sabotage at Rjukan. “When I met him, he had just come back from another job in Norway :.the Gestapo had caught him with a secret radio set inside a chimney in the maternity clinic in Oslo. The Nazis had located him by D/F, and the whole building was . surrounded .by German soldiers with machine-gun posts in front of every single door. - “Fehmer., the head of the Gestapo, was standing in the courtyard himself waiting for Knut to he carried down. But it was his own men who were carried down. Knut fought his way with his pistol from the attic down to the cellar, and from there out into the back vard, where he disappeared over

‘About People—

Rita Wants

Rita Hayworth does not want a penny’s worth of alimony from Prince Aly Khan, her attorney said today in New York. But Rita de;mands $3 million ae lin trust for their {6-month - old p |daughter Yas-§ imin, according to attorney Bartley

Crum. in return, she will keep a marital vow to

rear Yasmin in the Moslem faith of her father, i a Mr. Crum said the glamorous movie queen will enfer a suit for divorce in about five weeks in Reno,

Miss Hayworth

_Man About Town... cree time found §

In St. Louis, the expensive social life of 8-year-olds David Gutyman Jr. has prompted his mother to ask more alimony. \ | vy Frances Gutman told the {judge she needs $250 instead of |$100 a month since David has {taken to inviting his friends out

{for dinner and presenting party "lgifts. David n¥eds $5 .or $6 a

“month-to take care of candy, juke

box and ice cream expenses, and ‘his pet mongrel's food bill runs {$14 a month.

Double Entry

Francis J. Hartman, 22. became #0 indignant when a Rattle Creek, Mich., bartender refused him another drink that he drove is auto

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the hospital wall with a hail of ~ bullets after him. “T met him at a secret station in an old English castle; he had come hack to organize

underground liaison among more than a hundred transmitting stations in occupied

Norway.

y » ~ y “I MYSELF HAD just finished my training as a parachutist, and our plan was to jump together in the Nordmark near. Oslo. But just then the Russians marched into the Kirkenes region, and a small Norwegian detachment was sent from Scotland to Finnmark to take over the operations, so to speak, from the whole Russian army. I was Sent up there instead. And there I met Torstein. ‘Tt was real up in those northern lights starry sky which was arched over us, pitch black, all day and all night. When we came to the ash heaps of the burned area in Finnmark, frozen blue

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and wearing furs, a cheery fellow with blue eyes and bristly ‘hair crept out of a

little hut up in the mountains. This was Torstein Raaby. “He had first escaped to England. where he went through special training, and then he'd been smuggled into Norway somewhere near Tromso. He'd been in hiding with a little transmitting set close to the battleship ‘Tirpitz’ and for 10 months he had sent daily reports to England about all that happened on board. “He sent his reports at night by connecting his secret transmitter to a receiving aeria] put up by a German officer. It was his regular reports that guided

finished off the ‘Tirpitz.’ “Torstein escaped to Sweden and from there over to England again, and then he made a parachute jump with a new radio set behind the German lines up in the wilds of Finnmark. “When the Germans retreated, he found himself sitting behind our own lines and came, out of his hiding place to help us with his little radio, as our main station had been destroyed by a mine. I'm ready to bet that both Knut and Torstein are fed up with hanging about at home now and would be glad to go for a trip on a wooden raft.” “Write and. ask them,” Herman proposed.

” ” 5 SO I WROTE a short letter, without any disingenuous persuasions, to Erik, Knut, and Torstein: “Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands: were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back. but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.” Soon the folowing telegram arrived from Torstein: “COMING. TORSTEIN.” The other two also accepted. As sixth member of the party we had in view now one man

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some obstacle arose. low “iff tropical clothes .and, he could be squeamish. (Thor and Herman flew te when he took off his white hel- not even fmposing LA South America. While Herman : : could hide his placid nature and was bringing giant balsa logs met, it looked as if his flaming gay humor.

red beard had burned his face and scorched his hair thin.That fellow came from the wilds, but his place was clearly a lecture room. “Bengt Danielsson” I thought. “Bengt Danielsson.” said the man. introducing himself. “He's heard about the raft,” I thought and asked him to sit down, “I've just heard of the raft plans,” sald the Swede. “And now he's come to knock down the theory, because he's an ethnologist,” I thought. “And now I've come to ask if IT may come with you on the raft,” the Swede said peaceably.

Bengt became the sixth meme ber of the crew. For the first time for hun dreds of years a balsa raft was being built in Callao Bay. The ultramodern dockyard gave us wonderful support. With Bengt as interpreter and Herman as chief constructor we had the run of the carpenter's and sailmaker's shops, as well as half the storage space as a dump, for our equipment and a small floating pier where the timber was put into the water. Then the building began. 1

TOMORROW — The great adventure begins! And six men, alone on a raft in the . vast ocean realize that now there Is no turning back, that * their lives are now entrusted to a few logs of balsa woed and to the vagaries of wind and sea, : From the book,

down from the jungles of Ecuador, Thor was in Lima, Peru, negotiating with the government to build his raft at the naval yard in Callao Boy.)

~ ~ ” THE LIMA papers published a paragraph about the Norwegian raft expedition which was to start from Peru; at the same time they announced that 3. Swedish-Finnish scientific expedition had finished its studies among the jungle Indians in the Amazon regions. : Two of the Swedish members of the Amazon expedition had come on up the river by canoe and had just arrived in Lima. One was FLengt Danielsson, from Uppsala University, who “I'm interested in the migration was now going to study the theory.” mountain Indians in Peru. a. Rs 8 I cut. out the paragraph. and I KNEW NOTHING ahout the was sitting in my hotel writing man except that he was a to Herman about the site for scientist and that he had come building the raft, when I was straight out of the depths of interrupted by a knock on the the jungle. But if a solitary door, Swede had the pluck to go out

“Kon- os, the Pacific on a Rafts Dahracrons

Rand McNally & Company. 1050 by Thor Heyerdahl v. Copurighy . BY he Register and Tribune Syne

Nothing For Self—Asks $3 Million For Child

worked the pedals because he had been drinking and was afraid to drive. Lovitt was sentenced to 30 days

in jail. Hig companion, Russell Wireman, 22, received a suspended sentence, Groucho Pays Kay Marie Marx, 29, former wife of Groucho Marx, has the

last word in her marital tiff with the comedian, Although Groucho obtained the divorce a year ago on charges his wife 'w as indifferent foo him and refused to see his friends, final de- £¢ him willing to § a pay her $134,215% over a 10 - year period, and $1300 a year for support of 4-year-old Melinda, their daughter. ~

Forward Femmes

She-wolves are as dangerous as he-wolves in Hollywood, according to actor Gig Young.

Mr. Marx

“The gents get all the blame — equcation, economics and world

and the gals get all the men,” he complained. “And they don't care how they do it, nor if you're single or married. It's kind of embarrassing. “It's not only me.” he continued. “I'm no prize. It's just that Hollywood is long on single girls and short on eligible men.”

He's not sorry he did. Although his pappy is into the tavern. Police charged Cats Are Better? him with malicious destruction of 1

worrying ahout the harvest come summer and the

milking to be done and the hogs to be slopped. property. Gene frets a little along those lines too. | Frets enough to look forward tp a hay-shaking vacation, -

In Detroit, 18-vear-old Luther Donald got a divorce because she who teaches the Columbia. course Lovitt testified he let a, legless couldn't compete with 22 cats for as a sideline. Miss Erdman isn't’ comipynion steer his auto while he her husband's affections. ¢ . : a

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“My husband, Harry, kept buy- J ing more and more cats,” MrS ourney McDonald told the judge. “and

Scram, Please

Eugene Orm- Near Philadelphia, custodian

the more he got the better he gpdy, conductor Edward McElwee fo liked them and the less he liked of the Philadel- sleepi in th mE man me.” p hia orchestra SIGEPINg Im the master bedreont iff Crt Mt. Pleasant; a colonial aves 4 C mansion 6 Down, 4 to Go Jeay ramet once owned by Gen. Benedict ArAs Mrs. Henry Drabnik gave fulfill numerous Mold. The man refused to leave,

“What do you mean by disturb. ing me?” he asked Mr. McElwee,

“Don’t you know I'm Benedict Arnold?”

conducting en - gagements and spend, his sum- J

mer vacation in “pd . . Switzerland. He ark guards ejected the man

and his wife will after a struggle. He proved to be flv first to Paris. Mr. Ormandy from the state mental hospital.

~~ Works, By Golly

In Indianapolis, Harry Mares, 1029 E. Market St. lost his car

keys a month ago. They carried a plastic tag bearing his 1950 Hcense number, for which he had eeecndOnAated to thes ) y Just ‘wants to get her. students to Veterans in Cincinnati. x Ne Yesterday-—-long after the keys relax. seemed gone: forever—they turned “Someday the Army is going tojup in Mr. Marer’s mailbox. Now discover modern dance for condi-/he's waiting for the DAV to send

tioning,” thought 26-year-old Bobjiis 1951 tag~claims it's a good

Waite of Franklin, Pa., a music| student at Teachers College. !

Carol Curtis, 26, a tall new Spring Crisis Sieh

York housewife, clad in a one-| piece black outfit, enrolled “for Starts From Taws ;

exercise and just to get away : from housework for a while. | Spring and a new marble

“At the beginning. I sure was touched off a neighborhood crisig stiff the next day. But not now. at 402 S. Parker Ave. yesterday, It's great fun. I wish I could do. A police emergency squad was more.” "es r : The piano tinkled on. on Te pgtbore Ssembicd "Up down; up down.” €om- pennis Parks, 3. who had an arm manded Miss Frdman. “Now we stuck between the front steps and will line up hy- twos. Take two popen of the residence. , steps forward, running short steps * Dennis had reached through an ~—then let yourself fly through opening to retrieve a marble. He the ajr--release yourself ,,, one, is the son of Mrs. Dolores Parks, &

birth to her sixth daughter yesterday in Chicago, her husband declared they were holding to de

cision of 1941, when they were married. They still want a total of 10 daughters.

A New Wrinkle—

Expert Makes Tired People Jump Around to Relax

Times Special Service NEW YORK, May 15-—For two 'solid hours, one night a week. businessmen, professors, teachers, | students and housewives roll on | the floor and leap through the air at Teachers College, Columbia

| University. . | In nearby classrooms, there are serious lectures going on about

affairs. But in the dimly lit gymnasium, fa piano tinkles while 30 students take a course in how, to relax and forget about the ‘afy's headlines. “On the floor, legs in air, ‘hands touching the floor —- arch those feet,’ says the teacher. Thirty bodies move in a semblance of unison. a The teacher is Jean Erdman, an exponent of the modern dance two-—leap.” 120, of 1207 Broadway.

The floor creaked with theq af Dennis was freed short trying to turn out dameers. She fort. : ‘the arrival of the police squ