Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1951 — Page 20

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Outside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

Ed Sovola, Mr. Inside Indianapolis, recent! went to Europe on the SS America on Which Margaret Truman also was traveling. Im this article Mr. Sovola tells about Miss Truman's trip and what the other passengers thought

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SOUTHAMPTON, England, June 8 (By Airmail)—In one American's opinion, the Unifed States has the best ambassador it could hope to send to Europe—Margaret Truman, 3 I attended her press conference in Washington a week before she sailed for England on the SS America. En route, I talked to the President's daughter three times. She didn’t have to tell you she was enjoying herself. You could see the excitement in her eyes. Miss Truman did exactly as she pleased. > For six days she was as close to being just another Passenger, another tourist as the young lady lawyer I met. Miss Truman hoped there wouldn’t be too much fuss and there wasn't. At least she didn’t have to hide in her stateroom. Minutes before the ship docked here, Miss Truman and her friend, Mrs. Frank I. Wright, stobd at the windows of the closed deck and rubbernecked with the rest of the passengers. It's a thrilling sight to see England, so lush, so green and sparkling in a brilliant sun. We waited for this for six days. S> SB BUT IT WASN'T long before Miss Truman was in a packed room, answering the same type of questions she answered in Washington. British newspapermen, who can’t be flippant with members of the royal family, obviously were out to make the most of the first daughter of the United States. In a sense, they were disappointed; They found a charming young lady, completely composed and capable of answering all questions in such a way that she can safely claim every round. There was nothing in her manner or speech you could twist or color. Miss Truman gasped when she was told abcut the schedule that was arranged for “er in London. She hoped she could have a little time for seeing some of the sights in her own way. Whatever happens, you can be sure Miss Truman will take it in stride and win friends and admiration wherever she goes. I saw some of it aboard ship. Word got around the cabin class passengers

Jt Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, June 8 — They said Wilson couldn't do it—and they were right. Three Broadway shows were having their summer cast changes and -off through the rain went Wilson hoping to peek at three shows—and three new leading ladies the same night. EE) Everybody knows one leading lady is far more than enough at any given moment. : > 4

ON SUCH a night everybody becomes faintly delirious and giddy. To me, Miss Martha Wright, Mary Martin's blond successor in “South Pacific,” was the most excited, but I don’t mean upset. “I feel great!” she was exclaiming when I looked in her dressing room after her first show,

> & % “THESE ARE from Mary. Isn't she sweet?” She indicated flowers. “I'll have you know this is from the Mayor of Seattle!” “you were great tonight, you had it, you had it!” Director Josh Logan was shouting and gesticulating. Somebody else said, “You're a genius.” Who was a genius I didn’t get clear. It wasn’t me, though. Ray Middleton, her leading man, gave her a couple of big kisses for the photographers. <*

Martha Wright

* % . THROUGH the rain I also Went to see June Havoc follow Celeste Holm into “Affairs of

State.”

. I just had time for a be-tween-the-acts peck (one of those cold, journalistic kisses) on her cheek. Everybody else was kissing, why not me? June was bubbly and laughing with happiness. : “Where's Gypsy?” I said, re-

June Havoe ferring to her sister, G. R. Lee.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 8—One of the salient points of Dean Achéson’s recent testimony the hardheads flatly refuse to believe is that the Yalta concessions, which gave the Russians a firm foothold in Asia, were mandatory, or even necessary. Secretary Acheson has testified that we offered up the concessions because we , thought Russian intervention in the war against Japan was vital to our welfare; that we did not even know at that time whether the atom bomb would work. So we hauled off and sold out a flock of interests to allow a slew of poor relations to crowd in on the kill At the time of the Yalta conference the United States owned full title to the greatest land - air - and - sea force ever compiled. The Germans had blown. Apar from the polish-off, the Japs had had it too. Their navy was wrecked, and so was their servjoe supply. Their air force was down to semiobsolete planes, inexperienced pilots, and lastmoment bravado born of desperation. Their elite troops were either dead or .bypassed to semistarvation. And it didn’t matter, really, whether we knew the A-bomb would work or wouldn't. We had the alternate machinery, which we proceeded to use, to fry Japan to a turn. &

WE WERE NOT faced with the actual necessity of invasion, finally. We could beat Japan to death from the air, and we could blockade it into starvation, and wreck it coastwise with gunfire, and murder what little industry it had left. Believe me when, I say that after the late fall of 1944 the Japs had so little shipping our subs were cruising around on the surface, firing deck guns at sampans, for fun. We Americans were burly as bulls. Considering the millions of men under arms, we had lost but a handful. We had suffered no direct attack on our continent. Our economy was in much stronger shape than today. There was maximum war production at home. Russia had been cruelly punished by the

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Ship Passe Maggie Charming that IT had talked with Miss Truman. Several women were straining their seams to see her. They were determined to get in the first class section of the ship in hopes that they would. * * % AT MY TABLE were two Canadian girls, Margaret Leworthy and Helen Chrysler of Toronto. They were lovely, well-mannered girls but the ol' devil curiosity nagged them. It wasn't

enough that I would tell them Miss Truman was tops as a personality. They agreed that she was entitled to enjoy herself as she pleased without feeling like a goldfish in a bowl Oh, they didn’t want to bother Miss Truman, They just wanted to see her, talk to her and see what she was like, They understood what a trial it must be to have the public eye constantly on what you do. One night, I related what another girl told me on deck that afternoon. The girl, one of the gushy type, almost frightened me to death when she rushed up an announced in a loud voice that she had talked to Margaret Truman. . “1 saw her and talked to her and got her autograph,” the girl bubbled. “Did you get her autograph when you talked to her?” : ®« * ©

A SMUG GRIN covered her face when I shook my head, no. Ah, she had something on me. Then she said Miss Truman was “perfectly charming.” “I told you a couple days ago she was nice,” 1 said, hoping she would run throughout the ship with her news. She did.

Margaret and Helen listened in silence. Yes, it was silly to ask for autographs they agreed. No autographs for them. Days passed and finally Southampton was only an hour away. Crash gates. on all decks were down. I was standing at the rail wondering what England would be like when the two Toronto girls rushed up. “We saw Margaret Truman and talked to her,” squealed Helen. “We went right up and talked to her and she talked back. She's lovely and she said she was excited and she talked like anyone else. Gee, she's nice. Now our trip over is perfect, isn’t it, Margaret?” I feel sorry, for Margaret Truman. It isn’t easy to be the President's daughter. But she’s the one for the job, rest assured of that. We're going to have many new {friends because of her.

Wilson Goes Calling On Broadway Stars

“Poor Gypsy’s out there, crying twice as much as I am,” said June, who wasn’t crying at all. ood I HATED to leave—she was so good. I then trotted over to see Binnie Barnes and Robert Preston take over for Gloria Swanson and Jose Ferrer in “Twentieth Century.” It was at a party at Sardi’s later that I talked to Miss Barnes, the third leading lady. “I've been kissed by more men tonight!” she said. Me, I didn’t, as I'd just met her. She said her leading man, Robert Preston, asked her after the show, “How do you feel?” “I don’t know, I'm unconscious,” she said. They were running out to another party on Park Ave. and asked me to come along, but me ...I had to come home and write about how much leading ladies get kissed. oO oS THE MIDNIGHT EARL—Yul Brynner, the sensational new performer in “The King and IL” and his actress wife, Virginia Gilmore, have “separated temporarily.” Hope Hampton (who can't get insurance on her ice any more) told Colonyites she’s off to Cairo with boy friend Sinclair Robinson. . Gene Tierney, dining at Henri Soule’s Le Pavilon, denied separation rumors by pointing to her escort._her husband, Oleg Cassini. , . Can it be true that Rita Hayworth had to borrow 25G's? STR EARL'S PEARLS..A hep musician was defining a square to Dorothy Sarnoff and said, “It's a conservative sort of fellow—you know, an eccentric.”

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o> o> WISH I'D SAID THAT-—The difference between Broadway's pessimists and optimists (says Bill Gargan) is: The pessimist thinks all women are bad; the optimist hopes so. eo & TODAY'S BEST LAUGH—A customer in a Times Square drug store asked for a plow. The clerk said they didn’t have any. The customer snorted, “This is a helluva drug store.” That's Earl, brother.

"We Were Champs At Time of Yalta

Germans: How many millions of their best manhood was lost never will be accurately known. Its civilian population had fought as war as its military. Its earth was

rough a scorched and it had been kept alive, mechanically, by the aid that traveled first

through the North Atlantic and then through

the Persian Gulf. . Add it up for yourself; a depleted ally In Russia. Two whipped enemies. Maximum mobilization and maximum production plus minimum casualties for us, with the A-bomb up the sleeve like a derringer. Yet we back off from Berlin to let them in.

* And we give them footholds in Asia which they

don't deserve, and which they turn into weapons later on. It doesn't make sense. Any more than the crack about we didn't know the bomb would work. We didn’t need the bomb and we knew bloody well it would work. Science was too far along with it at that point for complete conjecture. > PS A HEAVYWEIGHT champion does not need to sell a part of his title proceeds to a midget, unless business is being done that is not based on the champ’s performance in the ring. And at the time of Yalta we were the champs, with the opponents groggy, and Russia was just about as groggy as the opponents. Ergo: Business was done. My intelligence stands not so high as a hill, but‘I hate to have it insulted. As a minor naval officer with an occasional eye on the inside even 1 knew the war was won as early as autumn, 1944. If I knew it, it is a cinch the top dogs knew it. And at no time after Normandy did the Russians figure too heavily into our practical scheme. I would never call the Secretary of State a Hiar but I can call him awful dumb if he believes what he is saying or believed what he was being told at the time of Yalta. Because even the average GI would tell you real quick that you don’t pay a dangerous premium for what you've already got stashed away in your hip pocket, unless you are shooting a cute angle. And when we gave the world sway at Yalta, somebody inside was shooting a cute + angle.

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Bus Strike Which Grew Out of Slaying Ends

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. June| Indianapolis 8 (UP)—Chattanooga’s 5-day bus| game hunt strike ended yesterday when| ....

Southern Coach Lines agreed to arbitrate the rehiring of a driver

Hoosier Safari The exciting story of an

Times . . . starting Sunday.

executive's bigin dangerous appear in The |hast will

Chopin and no casket.

Funeral of Man, 98, Held

In Atmosphere of Gaiety TOLEDO, O., June 8 (UP)— The funeral of Alvin B. Tillingtoday feature Bach,

accused of killing a Negro passenger, The AFL Bus Drivers’ Union, which asked that the driver William Crownover, be suspended pending his trial, called the strike after the company announced he would never be rehired. . Crownover, now free under $5000 bond, was accused of kiling Milton B. Sims when the Negro passenger went to the bus office to complain that the driver Tey

him standipg at. a ‘bus stop.

Gene L. Williams, 29-year-old vice president of Gaseteria, Inc. writes about all the dangers, the excitement, the fun and the veldt . . » just as he lived it. For top thrills in reading, be sure to see the first exciting installment of the big game hunt in Africa by one of your own Indianapolis neighbors . . . Sunday in The - Sunday Times. ol

Mr. Tillinghast, who died

Wednesday at the age of 98 wanted his friends to hive a good time at his funeral. So, according to a contract he made in 1936, a “reception” will be held in his honor at the Bennet Mortuary this afternoon. iF Mr. Tillinghast is to lie in state on a slumber bed. Cards will be passed out to mourners reading, “if you have any pleas-

dance orchestra for fun and ivory keyboard.

ville, another sophomore, on the trumpet.

GABRIEL'S RIVAL—Harold (Fritz) Turner, Bates-

"THE JAZZBERRIES' — Students at Butler University organize rising youn oroft. Dave Berry, 321 E. 474h St. a junior, fickles the

mosphere

U.S. A.: The Permanent Revolution—

CHAPTER TWELVE By RUSSELL W. DAVENPORT

IT WAS in Paris in the summer of 1948. Sir Stafford Cripps and ECA boss Paul Hoffman were talking about productivity. How, Cripps asked, did

the Americans do it? It was a question to delight a salesman’s heart. “Let's bring your people over,” Mr. Hoffman answered, “and we'll show them how.” So, with great vigor, we proceeded to do. Before long U. 8. firms, labor unions, and professional groups were playing host to scores of European “productivity teams.” By the end of last year more than 2750 had made the trip and returned home—somewhat numbed, but enthusiastic—to tell what they had learned. The result, in increased productivity, is now a well-known story—and a good story it is. But there is another story that is not so well known. What was conceived of as a technical measure turned out to be one of the most effective propaganda tools ever handed us. What was it the Yanks had over there? Was it, as people had said, the number of gadgets and gimmicks we had? Fortuitous national resources? Ruthleseness and overwork? We gave Europeans a chance to come over and discover for themselves. And gained ourselves disciples. Noa ” . HERE — in excerpts from productivity-team reports—are some of the things they had to say to their countrymen: “A visit to the U, 8. gives one greater confidence in the ability of democracy to solve its problems . . . The country is still . » « moving forward both culturally, . socially, and economically.” (Norwegian trade-unionists.) “Contrary to the impression gained from many American films only a small percentage of American workers apd their families live in tenements.”

ant recollections of me, please

_ (British trade-union officials) “The relations betweenyman-

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last article of a series. It ° is taken from the book, U. 8. A.: THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION, just published by Prentice-Hall. Mr. Davenport is the noted editor and author, former personal representative of Wendell Willkie.

agement and labor in the great majority of mills which we visited were excellent. There was often a sense of camaraderie based on mutual respect

(British cotton-spinning team.) “Sometimes we had to ask ourselves whether it was manufacturer or union member speaking to us.” (Danish ready-made clothing team.) “The big surprise to me was the importance American bosses give to human-relations problems. The American employer seems to be a psychologist aware that his prosperity is tied directly with that of the workers.” (French unionist.) “Both management and labor have taken steps to give greater efficiency in production and more understanding in relationships. When we. return to Belglum I intend to recommend better management-labor relationships be created In our mines. (Belgian coal-mining team.) . n »

IT IS DIFFICULT for an Ameriean to appreciate what revolutionary documents these are. The British trade-union officials’ report, for example, became a front-ps story and gave British labor a resounding intellectual jolt. : The Norwegian report, coupled with the report of a similar team that went to Russia, opened the eyes of leftwingers in a way that all the money in the world could not buy us. The technical-assistance teams are only one of the ways we have to go about the proselyting job. °° Thatks to the machinery set up in 1946 and 1948 by the Fulbright and nob,

FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1051

Butler Band Hits It Low,

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"REAL GONE'—Art Van Allen, junior from Loganspours his soul into hot licks port, gets soulful look as he helps create dreamy af-

on clarinet.

BOOM-BOOM MAN—Sophomors in name only is who provides the emphatic rhythm for young Re ouly iron Party at Press Club Saturday night.

How Can We Win Friends Abroad? |

ARM - BENDER — Warren Clements, unior, gets good workout on his trombone — particu rly during favorite racy numbers. She Sp

Here are ten German newspapermen starting a course in journalism at Northwestern University, They visited American newspaper and magazine plants. ' 3 hg

and to special programs for Germany, Austria, Finland, China, and Iran, the State Department is bringing over stu-

dents, teachers, professional people, specialists, and “leaders.”

The Defense Department is doing the same with Japan. Both State and ECA are placing foreign trainees in U. 8. industry, farms, and government agencies, Altogether, the government is now bringing over about 13,000 people a year for observation,

study, teaching, training and indoctrination. Cost: About $45 million.

But by far the biggest contribution of all has been made by private organizations. This year they have arranged roughly 40,000 .excharges of their own. The 4-H clubs have been exchanging young farmers; the Rotary clubs have .been bringing over students; the Girl Scouts, “youth leaders”—the list encompasses almost every kind of o tion in American life. \

MEASURED AGAINST the need, however, our over-all exchange effort has been piddling.

For instance, Koreans brought. to Moscow between 1946 and 1949: “2600. Brought to U. 8. in same period: 65. We have a tremendous opportunity before us. We, should seize it by expanding our total propaganda budget to at least $500 million a year—and of this devote at least $180 million to exchange. This is not merely a question of manufacturing ‘propaganda.” Nor is it merely a government matter. The problem encompasses all of us-—for it is only as the diverse groups that make up our society get involved in the job that our words carry real dynamism, The potential is tremendous. U. 8. business, for example, has already contributed to our communication effort, but there is still more to be done, For the one area that remains ‘virtually untouched is the one area for which U. 8. J ess is the pup in all the wonlde

best-qualified Get-

ting the American idea to European top manag It is hardly necessary to geat the means. There cout be seminars and international conventions -- organizations such as the Inte ®ational C. of C. are ready-made for this— trips and private exchanges of all sorts. As the success of the sales troupe “Red” Motley took to England suggests, some good. old - fashioned barnstorming will help. vi Tien Spe lee The more fields one thinks of, the more opportunities bee come evident. Labor, for exe