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NEW YORK, June 7—Frank Sinatra was the happiest I've seen him in years —and also in wonderful voice-—~when he opened a one-week engagement at the Latin Quarter.

Nancy's decision to give him a’ divorce so he

can marry Ava Gardner had seemingly put fresh

bounce in his songs—especially some of the love songs that some of us romanticists thought might have reminded him of Ava. Frank — who was bending those notes beautifully—told a friend, rather proudly, that when Ava's next picture, “Showboat,” is released, she'll be one of the outstanding movie actresses of the world. ode ue FABLE: A Macy's employee wanted a day off, but (according to Phil Sharp and Bob Schiller) the department manager retorted, “Don’t you know there's a war on.” Phil Baker figured out that a man obsessed by wealth is just “an egomoneyac.” . eb WE MET Hilda Taylor, the ex-Miss North Carolina who wrote the new novelty song, “The Three-Handed Woman.” What's a three-handed woman? Well, according to the song, she's righthanded, left-handed, and under-handed. “Did you pave any particular woman in mind?” I asked er. “That’s every woman, honey,” she said. e o> @ “A LOT of people sweep into places they ought to be sweeping out,” says Songwriter Peter Windsor, author of songs sung now by Mabel Mercer, Lee Wiley and Sylvia Sims. He adds: “Broadway columnists are people who put one and one together and get sex.”

Frank Sinatra

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 7—There is an intelligence at hand from Genoa which has intrigued me to the point of mumbling. It says briefly: “When

we were in Naples last month we went to a gangster movie, and who do you think was sitwith

ting next to us? Lucky Luciano, himself, his new wife—a very good- -. looking Frenchwoman. They were enjoying themselves over the movie story and the final shooting up of the gangsters by the police. Lucky is very popular in the south of Italy.” Here is the end of the saga. The forces of good operate so well that a deported gangster, out of sheer nostalgia, must pay admission to remember the good old ys, and the con- ==’ verted crook winds up applauding the triumph of the cops over the hoodlums. I once had a small hand in the hounding of Luciano, who certainly was little less than a short-order murderer, dope-trafficker, : bigtime crook and convicted panderer, but in a way 1 felt sort of sorry for the exiled character. Divested of his—old associates,"no more lonesome man ever lived. 4 »

WE USED to watch him at Capri and in Rome, He was surrounded by his local rods, and there was always a bevy of fetching females in his wake. He ate good and drank good and went to the dances, but there was one bum who was pining for New York. I never spoke to Luciano, although we lived on the same floor in two hotels and used to ride down in the elevator together when we both dwelt in the Albergo Mediterraneo in Rome.' He knew very well that I had caused him a lot of trouble by stirring up a ruckus that got him bounced out of Cuba just when it appeared he was about to break into the States again. He had all sorts of eause to hate me. But once in a while I figured he would have liked to sit down over a vermouth and yak a

About People—

‘Men Are Bigg

Tt Happened Last Night

Sinatra’s Si y Happy Tune Now

THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Frank Sinatra or Dinals Shore will be the CBS choice to buck Milton Berle on TV in the fall. The U. 8; retail grocers, willing to spend heavily, think Miltie can eventually be dethroned. * © 9 ¥ . BROADWAY BULLETINS: Albert Turner, the clothing tycoon and No. 1 host, outdid Hollywood at the wedding of his son Robert to beautiful Rosemary Porter, at Katonah. Dinner was served to a mere 200 . . . With Paramount and other theater chains going into TV merges, they may try to get exclusive rights to a big fight or other spectacle, and telecast it exclusively to their theater audiences. * & GOOD RUMOR MAN: A night spot operator has been promised a machine gunning . . . Eddie Cantor was dining at the Little Club while rumors were flying he was dead. He went back to Doctors Hospital, but is to be released. . . . He faces a slight operation later . . . Andre Pagani's new Brussels restaurant, opening on E. 54th in August, will be the town's showplace . . . Julie Bennet's on the Kings Row CBS radio serial. On radio? What a waste of girl! ® © WHO'S NEWS: Roberto Rossellini has a new $11,000 red Ferrari racing car with five forward speeds—the last for 150 miles an hour or over « + « The Giants-Red Sox night game June 11 for benefit of GI amputees will be the first time the Red Sox ever played at the: Polo Grounds . . . Comedian Doodlés Weaver who starts on NBC TV will get three salaries—as writer, producer and actor. eo So BOB HOPE didn’t blame his golf failure in England only on the small English ball when Bing Crosby asked him what happened. He answered, “Small ball and big head” . , . That's Earl, brother.

Big League Luciano In B-Grade Finish

little about New York, Lonesome Lucky was his name, and very possibly the worst punishment you can inflict on an adopted New Yorker is to send him back where he came from and force him to stay there. Luciano even found small comfort in the paroled crooks who got sent back with- him. He hung around a fellow expatriate named Ralph Liguori, but you could see that both would have had more fun in Dannemora than they enjoyed in a nativeland become strange, ¢ > @ I RECALL a young lady who was laboring for a radio firm at the time. She timorously rapped on the door to interview the great pariah. He dismissed his gun-boys and busted open a case of Scotch. “He was so lonesome,” she said later. “He asked me for a date for breakfast, and so help me, in California, nobody ever asked me for a breakfast date before.” There is no reason for sympathy for a guy who should have wound up dead, and unpleasantly s8, a long time past. But there is a certain grim humor in the fact that an outcast crook must expiate his sins by paying admission to watch a Jim Cagney or Eddie Robinson play hoodlum in a flea-bit theater in Naples. This is the true example of criminals returning to the scene of the crime. odd IN A way it is a pretty sweet piece of object lesson, too. Crime does not pay, children. If it did, the criminals would not wind up in Naples looking at outdated gun operas and wishing for the dead, dear days of Brownsville, when things

were exciting, Acute boredom, be it in jail, out

or wherever crooks go to when some other crook scrags them if the eventual wage of the man who bucks the law. I like the final moral.

hands.

er Wolves at 50 Than at 25,’ Says Actress in Bald-Headed Row Survey

If you are a majorleague hood, if you corrupt politicians, if you have all the money and influence in the world, where do you wind up? You wind up in Naples watching George Raft flip a coin, and when the cops kill the villain, you find yourself clapping

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HEADWAITER —. Call him Mutt,

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Vaudeville may be dead and] burlesque dying, but the baldheaded row goes on forever, according to actress Elsa Lanchester. She says the leering lads with naked pates have moved into night clubs, where their degree of baldness is a direct indication of their degree of flirtiness.

“Men are bIg- no... yanchester

than at 25” Miss Lanchester pointed out. “And as men Brow older they grow balder. There must be a connection somewhere.”

Paris-Bound Bartley Crum, attorney for Rita Hayworth, left New York for Paris last night to confer with

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lightbox parade in Alton, Ill, last|against the government and al~ lowed them a refund on income taxes erroneously collected on 1942 income.

To Adopt Child

June, she begged her parents to build a box and let her take part this year. They consented. But Angie went to the hospital

* |Apr. 2, where doctors unsuccess-

fully tried to reach a cyst caus-

Titled Tearle

New York-born actor Godfrey Tearle, 65, became a British

In the Doghouse

dogs for a living, faced non-sup-

Prince Aly Khan about a divorce.

knight today when an honors list was issued for King George VIs official birthday. He won the title |: for his portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt some years ago in the film, “The Beginning or the End.”

Singer Helen O'Connell's estranged husband, who trains show

from being completed.

Old Home Town

ing home today to see Brucetown,

Buxom film actress Jane Rus-

{ing pressure on her brain. The sell and husband | annual parade was held last _ Bob Waterfield! night but Angie—now blind—|

today said they | will adopt a! baby, “probably this month.” Childless eight years of marriage, the couple expressed fear that “premature publicity” might prevent details of the adopfion

Miss Russell

A young Navy seaman was fly-

He said Prince Aly already has po1ywood today falling be-

agreed by letter that Rita may |e...

have custody of their 16-months- |i. 4 in “see the old hometown once payments - o%4 gaTgnier; | Yasmin, /of $1400 monthly. gain oT es Qaklane,

Pride and Prejudice In New York, radio station] WNEW nursed its injured pride and considered whether to lift its ban on Xavier Cugat recordings.

Clifford Smith

nent Boston family, was arrested

Tenn.

tumor that probabl will fatal in three weeks. He is 21.

Union Official

Seaman Jim Vowell begged to

prove

“After they took offense at his

“anti-radio attitude” during a TV program. Seems he grimaced expressively when the word “radio” was mentioned. T

Co-operation Dean Wendell the Indiana University School of Education, has been placed in charge of IU cooperation with other educational institutions, While retaining his deanship, he has acquired the title of director of administrative studies and institutional rel a-

W. Wright,

Dean Wright

‘Dance, Ballerina’

lhe made false representations

last night. The: «J & The Latin bandleader apolo- . -' grized to station officials last night Souple have three Miss O'Connell Back in Jail

Ballerina Maria Tallchief has asked a New York court annulment of her five-year childless marriage to George Balanchine, ballet choreographer, on grounds

A window washers union official, who failed to appear May 22 for trial on a malicious trespass charge, today was cooling his heels in jail. Harold R. Mitten, 32, who said he was secretary-treasurer of

when he sald he wanted a family. Miss Talichief said all her husband could think about was, “Dance, Ballerina, Dance.”

‘Mutual Benefit’

Movie actress Martha Vickers today said she will sue pint-sized actor Mickey Rooney for divorce within a few days because it will be “the best thing for both of us.”

Gun-Shy

Motorist Harold T. Atkins, 39,

Local 224 of the Building Service Employees International, surrendered to police last night. He was arrested Apr. 11 after a number of downtown office windows had been smeared with acid. Released on $500 bond, he was slated for trial May 22. But he failed to appear and was ordered rearrested.

Also his bondsman, Frankfort, reported that the de-

service was no good. Judge Alex Clark, Municipal

Marty

fendant’s $35 check for the bond

tions.

Love Didn't Die in Savannah, Ga, seaman John B. Croker vowed he would follow a pretty colleen back to Ireland if immigration authorities refused to let them marry in the United States. The 31-year-old sailor said it wasn't true that the love of Teresa Dunleavy was smothered in the fertilizer-filled hold of a freighter where she stowed away with his help.

Darkness When 4-year-old Angie Hani leh say the Optimist Club

fic.

will think twice next time before waving. a revolver to clear traf-

While driving yesterday, Atkins was blocked by a parked tractor-trailer. jumped out and gestured with the gun, but the truck driver and helper grabbed it and presented Atknis with abrasions and contusions. Police charged him with pointing firearms.

$35,825 Richer Mr. and Mrs. Jack Turner, Kansas City, Mo., were $35,825 richer today after a federal Judge ruled

in Pittsburgh of jgsuing a fraudulent check.

He » Tricky WITH 7TH DIVISION, Korea, June 7 (UP) —A ricocheting bullet slammed into the open mouth of Pfc. Eugene T. Lucas, Edwardsville, Pa. ' He spit it out. “It’s a good trick,” he grinned, “but it's tough on the molags.” ’ . He lost two teeth.

Court 4, today set his new trial date for Monday. He also boosted the bond to $1500 on the original charge and the additional count

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CHAPTER ELEVEN By RUSSELL W DAVENPORT

IT MIGHT one day be written that the free world destroyed itself because of a myth. 1t would not be the Big

Lie of {he Russians; only

the fools believed that. It would be something much more inexplicable; the myth that for all our bathtubs and our cars and our skyscrapers we are without moral purpose; that we aré the New Carthage—all money, no spirit; that we are, in short, a country without a soul.

Make no mistake; if we do not destroy this myth, it will destroy us. Already it has sapped the will of our allies and made those who benefited from the ECA cynical of its purpose. Each month it grows more in virlulence, ready to attack at each crisis. But even more terrihle has been the effect on us.

For when we hear it played back to us, we grow petulant and dismayed. In our anger many of us can think of nothing but to pull down the pilJars on a world that does not understand. Yet the West is desperately eager to listen, That it tragically misunderstands us is not easily explained by the accusations that come ‘so readily to American minds.

Nor is it simply a matter of slicker gimmicks or extra kilowatts or more pamphlets. The failure is not technical: It is national. We have sold the world many things— sold them so well half Europe would pack up and come over if they could. We have left unsold the ideas that would destroy the myth. » rr » 2 WE TALK of “A Campaign of Truth.” This, certainly, is in order,

But what is “the truth?” Speeches? Statistics? ‘A day in

PICTURES COVER WALLS—Waiter Roy Noble is 71. U.S. A.: The Permanent Revolution—

We Have Left Ideas Unsold

tempting tray:

“Sorry, but I've a date with a steak in Indianapolis,

U.S. A

The gentleman had boarded the plane in Paris and

collecting on a tip he'd pick up from another interndtional salesman. “For a real steak,” he had been informed, “just try this address when you're in Indianapolis, Customs cleared, the bigtime drummer boarded a plane for Weir Cook Airport. At a local hotel, he had his bags sent to his room and approached the doorman. “Which way is 127 8. Illinois 8t.7” he asked.

“Going to Joe Stahr's for a steak? Just about two blocks south on the left. The sign reads ‘The 8t. Elmo,’ ” the doorman replied.

Such is the fame of St. Elmo. . » ”

ONCE THERE, the visitor

produced the card given him by another traveling man when they met over a Sazerac in “Charles’ American Bar,” the

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the eleventh article of a series. It is taken from the book, U. 8. A.: THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION, just published by Prentice-Hall Russell W. Davenport is the noted editor and writer, former personal representative of Wendell Willkie. the life of a Wisconsin farmer? Our congenital dislike of abstract thought has at last come home to roost. We have failed to determine what it is we wish ‘to communicate. Once we knew very well what we were and what we wanted to be, and we have thought it out into some of the most contagious prose of all time. But we went on to become the great pragmatists, so eager to be on with the job, so impatient of theory and reflection, that we worked ourselves into a moral isolationism.

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night béfore he left the Continent. The noted card came back to Carl Burk, head waiter who has served the well-worn and wellknown tables for 26 years. Less than two weeks before, he recalled, he'd given it to a customer who mentioned something about leaving for Paris in a few days on a buying trip. (He doesn’t remember the man's name, but chances are that he will welcome him back for a steak medium rare; they usually come back to St. Elmo's.) Actually, the restaurant was opened by Joe Stahr in 1806 and is no longer owned by its founder. Five years ago, he sold out to the three Roth brothers, - Samuel, Ike, Harry, and retired on well-earned laurels. The Roth brothers aren't concerned that most of the traveling world that touches Indianapolis and a great majority of Hoosiers still refer to the place as “Joe Stahr's.” They #re much too busy keep-

Times Photos by Bill Oates, The back bar a ripe 79.

Why analyze America? It worked, didn’t it? Curiously, by keeping our philosophy so tacit, we have managed to show ourselves to the world as little different from the Marxists—seeming, like them, to believe that material prosperity is an end that in itself will bring all the other qualities.

- ” » INSTINCTIVELY, we know better, but we have never bothered to articulate for ourselves what we take for granted, much less cunvey it to others. And so we have talked of the manifestations of our success rather than the causes. Not for us wooly-headed theories or impractical idealism: instead down-to-earth, hard-rock facts: The miles of cement, the telephones, the cars laid end to end—all the things, in short, our friends have envied and our enemies have conocaded. But what made the telephones and the cars possible? When we have tried to explain, it has been in a lazy man's shorthand that has obscured our national character rather than illumi-

A Date With a Steak— THURSDAY, TRL

St. Elmo Has Widespread

Shrimp Sauce, Service and Steaks

Attracts Greats and Near-Greats

By ED KENNEDY © A PERT overseas airline hostess was taken aback

when the distinguished looking passenger refused a

nated it. Thus have we parted of “individualism,” when we have;

achieved the most horizontal, co-operative of all societies; of “competition” and “incentive economy,” when we have achieved the kind of security that socialists everywhere hunger for. And we wonder why the audience is confused. And not only have we failed to define what we are to say; we have failed to define why we want to say it. Of all the ‘many aims of our propaganda, which is to be primary? Almost every private organization that has thought of an overseas propaganda of its own has stumbled on precisely this question. More to the point, so has the government. ° . y ” ” WHAT IS the aim? Friendship? To many Americans this {s the end-all. And nothing has done us more grievous harm— : ¥

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MEAT TAGGED-~Chef W.

ing up the tradition of fine food set by their predecessor.

” ” . CHANGES IN fare, even improvements, they will tell you, are often hindered by protests of customers who outrank the owners in menulongevity, having eaten there long before the brothers were born, Ike Roth recounts that one day not long after they took over management, he was discussing some minor changes with a contractor. A customer of long standing overheard some of the alterations dis-

cussed. “You just can't do that,” he protested. “It won't be the same.” . The minor change was never made. “By working at night, we did manage to slip in an air conditioning system some time ago,” Ike Roth recalls. “So far, we've got away with it, but you never know around here.” He whispered the last statement in case a 20, 30 or 40-year patron should be nearby. Anachronistic at the steak and seafood house, which has gained fame as widespread as Gallagher's in New York or Henri’'s of Montreal, are the pix formal clad waiters, a reminder of turn-of-the-century impeccability. BS . » WITH DIGNITY and aplomb, 71-year-old Headwaiter Burk presented the card that made

a two-week tour to Paris. He

service that makes or breaks a

meal—and after 50 years of service, 26 at St. Elmo, he is an authority. ' St. Elmo's started as a gathering place for sportsmen and the walls are still decorated with a great collection of photos of champions and near-champions in the sporting world, Its original fame was as a seafood house and its original name was for St Elmo, associated with sailors. As famous as the steak is the shrimp. The recipe for the shrimp cocktail sauce is not trusted even to the 79-year-old safe next to the Brunswick back bar of the same vintage.

for we are offended terribly when love is not forthcoming from others. That’s quite impossible anyway. We have only to look at India. Since their departure, the British, who nevér gave a damn whether anyone liked them or not, have become increasingly popular, while we, who did our best to expedite that departure, are becoming increasingly unpopular. The fruits of leadership do not necessarily include love, and we would do well to take the fact in our stride, Is our aim to Americanize people? No one ever puts it quite that badly, but. there lurks deep in some American breasts the

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C. Peterman checks.

That recipe is retained only by veteran Chef W. C, Peterman. He refuses politely if you ask for it, but he has agreed to give, for the first time in public, his recipe for “Thousand Island Dressing,” cut to home tions: >

to 2 tbsps. fine chopped celery 2 tbspa. fine chopped green pep-

per 1 tbsp. fine chopped dill pickle Dash lemon juice (Reduced from 12-gallon recipe) Not so secret are the celebrie ties served at St. Elmo's. Head= waiter Burk, who is known to patrons as just plain “Mutt,” remembers such well - known

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Cuts of meat and the various seafoods are cooked right out in the open where customers can, if they desire, supervise des ° tails of broiling and such. Steaks are displayed in a refrigerated showcase and the customer may select his future dinner from an assortment of choice and government-ap-proved meat. From the old-time ring champions to the international trave elers of 1951, a steak or shrimp at the St. Elmo has been not only an adventure in good eat- 3 ing, but usually the guarantee : of another trip to Indianapolis and Joe Stahr's—by any name, it tastes so good!

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feeling that there is a mystical ly beneficent quality in certain of our folkways, and that if only they could be exported, the chasm in understanding would be bridged. | Again, we have a failure to 3 isolate the particulars from the iit principles. After all, what was so Japanese as baseball? Do we want to refute Communist Hes? Obviously, this is an important part of any propaganda program, but as the primary aim it is a defensive course that would foredoom us to a constant shellacking. They'll always be a lie ahead. |

® & » FURTHERMORE, we must '| recognize that anti-communism | does not fill vacuums, nor is it necessarily pro-U. 8.—indeed ous biggest problem les in those people who think we are as bad as the Russians. Is it our purpose to enlist support for American foreign policy? This is

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mutuality of each country’s interest with ours; thus have we pushed ECA, North Atlan= tic Pact aid, the idea of national freedom, survival of the West. Is that enough? These icles are so’ the common interest that ‘standards of logic be galvanic. Yet and the very people Z benefit view them trust, Why do they? The that we must ask ourselves question helps answer

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