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By Ed Sovola Outside Indianapolis

LONDON, Eng.—My room at the Mount Royal Hout dk SRSountsdy the loneliest room in the e wor ou could have first n in England for 2 cents. ny ie The first thing to do is hit the sack. Right now I don’t want to go to bed. I don’t know what I want to do. Does everyone feel this punk when they arrive here? - of course, it's been a hectic day. Getting off a ship isn't as simple as getting off a streetcar. Patience, laddie, that's what you have to have. : In the first place, you don't get off the ship. In six days you have made friends. Good friends. It would be worth 20 bucks to have one of those friends listen to your troubles. The ship was a hi part of the States. Aboard you didn’t have a knot i in your stomach, you had a glass of beer. g The rat race began when you left the ship and hit the waiting room on dock. There were a million things to think about. Where were the keys to the luggage? Where was your passport and English money, train ticket, the ounce of sense you thought you had? * © 9

A PLEASANT surprise was the conduct of British officials. Ask a uniformed person anything under the sun and he gives the impression it's the most important question of the day and should get undivided attention. The slightest doubt on your face and he Hac If you understand. Means a lot. 3 1 was dying for a cold drink and asked a customs man if I had time to get something refreshing at the soda bar. He said there was plenty of time because the baggage had to be sorted. “What would you like, sir?” he asked. “What would you suggest?” He said a lemon cordial would pick me up. It was supposed to be better than a carbonated drink. Sorry to say, he was wrong. The lemon cordial consisted of lemon syrup and plain water. I don’t know what it cost. The girl took a coin from my hand and counted out the change. She looked honest.

GOING through’ custome ‘was disappointing. You wouldn't belfeve it but the guy who checked me through didn’t even open my bags. He asked how long I was staying in England. I told him. Do you have any whisky? One fifth. Any cigaretts? Two cartons. Did you bring any gifts? No. His chalk scratched a mark on my luggage and he started to move away. “Just a minute,” I said. “Aren't you going to open my stuff?” “No need, sir,” he said.

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, June 11—I want to be the first columnist to come out—this summer, anyway— for collarless, comfortable men. I'm entitled to sound off about men going around feeling comfortable (like Bing Crosby did up in Canada) because, after all, there was once a collar called “the Earl & Wilson”—and that makes me an expert. You old-timers will remember the famous “E & W” high stiff collars and shirts, back when Neil Hamilton was the “E & W” collar-ad man. © ¢ THE STIFF collar disappeared from practically everybody's neck (even Herbert Hoover's) so why couldn’t we go a little further and do away with the collar in the perspiry summer time? Neil Hamilton and I talked this over while watching him rehearse for the “Hollywood Screen Test” TV show on ABC. : “It was about 1918 when I did something like a dozen of those E & W collar ads,” he said. ee © © WHEN THE SOFT COLLARS came in, the stiff collar faction said they'd never last. “They’ll bend and look untidy,” the stiff collar crowd argued. (The stiff collarites wanted to stick to the large, round, yellow collar boxes that Dad used to keep around the bedroom—remember?) And, of course, before that had been the celluloid collar. : “I remember wearing those to school and washing them with soap and water at night and wegring them again the next day,” Neil Hamfiton said, with a ‘smile. ® & WELL, why not more tolerance by the fancy restaurants for the guys with open-throated shirts?

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 11—Went to a good ball game on a fine, sunny Sunday recently and noticed you could have shot off the fabled cannon with minute chance of maiming a spectator. Noticed too that the usual number of apartmenthouse peepers, who used to free-load from roofs and windows, weren't in evidence. Read also that the Joe Louis-Lee Savold television rights have been sold to a group of theaters. All of it must add up to the possibility that the TV-set owner has about run his course as a free spectator of stuff he used to trouble himself financially to attend. There is no mistaking the truth: on a reasonably good screen, baseball, boxing, horse racing and football come more clearly to the client than if he had the best seat at the scene. Apart from the dublous benefits of fresh air and the high price of beer at the outdoor sports, there is no real eXcuse for attendance. For the indoor sports, there is no excuse for breathing smoke at all if you can wangle a View >= J fair-grade set.

SO SIMPLY, then, television is murdering outside entertainment as a paid-admissions business, and so entertainment has a simple choice: take over television and become purely show busiriess “via a fresh approach. This means that the emphasis is off the box office and on the TV advertiser. If the weight is heavy enough on the advertiser he must find some way to shrug it off onto the consumer, I think that in the case of most big sports events you will see them eventually in theaters or else some hero with a big budget who is peddling bulgies will conclude that his audience will be grateful enough fox his product to absorb the difference between box-office profit and sponsor fee. On the moving-picture side, theaters have been closing like crazy, and there, too, the boys must work out something in the way of compromise with the frightening convenience of the TV set. A lot of the entertainment via video is bad, but so is a lot of entertainment via what I choose to call the silver screen. Difference being that there's so much entertainment for free on

‘Ladylike’ Jobs?—

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 11-—Col. Geraldine P. May stepped down as head of the Women's Air Force today amidst a smouldering squabble over

to WAF officers, centers on whether the WAFs should be given “ladylike” desk jobs or al‘lowed to get their hands covered with grease like the men. Col. May, who helped create the WAF and was its first director, has insisted that her women . should be treated as equals, and * trained to take over all possible

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It Happened Last Night

the role of petti- fi new boss, Miss jas a “good coated airwomen. 3§ Mary Jo Shelly, 'friend” of Miss The behind- doesn’t have the | Shelly's, wants * the - scenes dis- same idea off} {to make the pute, according “equality.” Miss |{WAF an ‘elite

Shelly is a former commander | of the WAVES and is now ong leave of absence

from Bennington miss Cochrane College where

she is assistant president. But the WAF officers were rep- cler Floyd Odlum-—“wants to run resented as not so much afraid the WAFs. of their new director as they are|as a special consultant from last \wWifh Blessings? of Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran.November until February on The command shuffle, they feared, board which studied problems of papa’s permission to marry Prince might mean the introduction of! women in the Aly Force.

First Night in England UIs a Lonely One

“How do you know I'm not carrying diamonds or trying to smuggle some dope in the country?” “Your not, sir,” he laughed. : And yet I saw customs officials go through luggage and even handbags of passengers who arrived on the same snip 1 dia. THE TWO-HOUR train ride was relaxing. At Waterloo Station passengers went mad again. A porter grabbed my bags. He was a little fellow but he could tote, I had a hard time keeping up with him. He slammed my bags in the open front end of a taxi. I held out a handful of English coins. He took one and was off. The cabby nodded when I told him my destination and lurched forward. o For a brief moment I thought the guy was nuts. He was driving on the left side of the road

and a big bus was heading right for us. Then I

realized he was supposed to be ‘on the left side. The man must have learned how to drive in New York. There were two slight differences. He didn’t swear or toot his horn. * HS. S WE WOUND AROUND and around until I was ready to yell that I didn’t want to go sightseeing, I wanted to go to the Mount Royal. The cab whipped around a corner and there was the hotel. Those English cabs steer like a Model-T Ford, I asked what the fare was just to look good. Again it was necessary to trust God and an Englishman. A charming young thing said she had a reservation. She shoved a long blank in front of me to fill out. Passport number, age, sex, date of birth had to be given and other insignificant details. She handed me a key and a holder that weighed a half a pound at least. A bellboy would bring the luggage. hag to find the room myself. . <* IN A FEW MINUTES the luggage arrived. Instead of the boy sticking out his paw, I stuck mine out. He picked a coin. I asked if he took enough. I didn’t like the way he laughed. The door closed and there I was, alone, in London. Beat, tired, bewildered, disgusted, hungry, scared. It was enough to make a man twice my age cry. You don't feel like unpacking but you do. You don’t want to take a bath and shave but you do. The bottom of the tub is round, the shaving mirror is two feet away from the basin and the lowels don’t have the name of the hotel on them. uts,

All right, you big correspondent, do something.

Wilson’s Neck Out, Wants It Uncollared

Or better yet, why doesn’t some clothier invent a shirt that looks like it has a collar on but doesn’t. They said Bing Crosby looked like a bum when he was turned down at the Canadian hotel. I think he just looked like an actor being comfortable, Down with collars in the summer’ time. Faye Emerson and Dagmar don’t need collars. Why do we? a dd THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Thé applause for “President Truman” (Irving Fisher) in “Call Me Madam” is very loud again— since the MacArthur furore slackened—indicating that HST's bounced back a lot in New York. .. Robert W. Sarnoff, thirtyish son of Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, is being promoted to an NBC vice president.

ALL OVER: Bing Crosby passes up his annual New York visit for an Elko, Nev., vacation with the family . . . Bob Hope phoned comical ship-to-shore congratulations to Golfer Jimmy Demaret during a party for him at Toots Shor’s. Toots told Hope: “Everybody enjoyed your jokes—they're all drunk” , . .“Away We Go,” Jackie Gleason's practically trademarked expression, is being burgled and is Jackie blazing! . . . Bosomy Joan Diener of “Season in The Sun” is wanted for an RKO picture by Jerry Wald. ¢ © o

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “You're as welcome as an income tax refund”’— Chas. Thomas, Frog Town, St. Paul. ® © © KIRBY STONE suggests the department stores switched their slogan to read, “The customers always riot” . ., .That’s Earl, brother,

Entertainment — TV Get-Together Needed

the TV that some of it, like the Garroway show, must be good. And some more, like the Kukla, Fran and Ollie job, is classic. And it's there for the price of a beer in a saloon or a small down payment and a sharp but frequent installment. © © MISS ROSALIND RUSSELL was saying the other night that the movies have deglamorized themselves considerably because of the cessation of aloofness by the stars. This seems to be true: you cannot twist a TV knob without seeing some Hollywood hotshot making what passes for conversation as a.guest on somebody's dog-food extravaganza. The moom pitcher queen ain't a queen any more. She's right there in your living room, with her hair hanging down. There are more picture people in New York today than there are pigeons in the park. And they're all—

not the pigeons—shooting for a TV spot. Movies |

forthwith got to suffer, You do not stand in a queue to hear Frankie sing or see Marianne Velour in a picture when you got Frankie right in your house and Marianne is as familiar to the family as the milkman. I will take Miss Eileen Wilson on TV as a singer rather than pay for her at the Paramount, because she is closer to the eye and ear, and Miss Margaret Whiting comes more deeply into my affection if I can see her as well as hear her. And for free. For free Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca keep me out of night clubs, mostly, and it is merely a matter of time before my boy Bushkin will play his piano steadily for the cameras. This will keep me away from Bushkin’s company, which will turn out to be a boon to us both. At least I'll get to bed earlier. The crisis that the whole business of professional entertainment faces is not the extinction of any art form, such as rassling, or the passage of the “B” -movie ffom our ken, but just how can they get together with television to insure that the consumer pays as much as he useter. I trust the American business sense; be sure that the boys in baseball, boxing and Hollywood will find a way,

WAF Head Resigns in Policy Tiff

jobs except flying to release men for combat duty, Her resignation was effective today. WAF officers were reported afraid that their

some of Miss Cochran's ideas o what a WAF should be. Some feel that

{Miss Cochran, : ‘who is described

lcorps” doing _ |“ladylike” jobs {such as secre- . Ml taries or ‘‘per- ; sonal aides.” They also asgerted that Miss

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Africa

out on safari.

In the cab of the truck and on top of the load rode the

other 10 native boys. As we drove south out of Nairobi, we left on a fine asphalt road and I began to wonder if Africa was very wild these days. Fy However, we ran out of asphalt road within 35 miles, and after that were on the standard African § road, consisting of two tire ruts going across country. BEFORE WE GOT out of Mr, Wiliam Kenya Colony (in which I did not shoot because I had no Kenya hunting license) we saw many kinds of plains game, such as Thompson gazelle, Grant gazelle, giraffe, ostriches and others.

We also saw a rhinoceros and came upon three cheetahs feeding on a kill they had hidden in the bushes. I managed to get the cheetahs on a few feet of movie film, but they were the only ones we saw during our trip. When we got to Loliondo I bought my Tanganyika hunting liense for 1600 shillings, or approximately $210, which entitled me to shoot common game, an elephant and a rhino.

We left Loliondo and headed out across the Screngetti Plain, great areas of which are simply loaded with common game. It was not uncommon to drive along through the middle of the plain and see 10,000 head of

About People—

Ingersolls of New Castle, Ind. ~Three Ingersoll brothers,

class of 1908, president of Borg-Warner Corp., was pre-

G. Ingersoll, class of 1911, president of Ingersoll Steel Division of Borg-Warner, was named a college trustee.

Honor Local Student

At Culver Military Academy, Indianapolis cadet Edwin S. Robertson was appointed lieutenant and regimental mess officer in the school ROTC for the coming school year. He is the son of Dr. Ray B. Robertson, 7605 E. Washington St.

Off for Holland

In London, Margaret Truman wound up her nine-day visit to, - England with a splurge of shop-| ping before leav-| ing

tonight for Holland. Her visits

ish upper crust became complete | yesterday when | she had dinner

Miss Truman Clement R. Attlee at Checquers, husband, a captain at Ft. Tilden, of the manpower shortage. All

| their country home.

Fiasco Scores of San Francisco residents were relieved yesterday

at 9:30 a. m, as forecast by a self-proclaimed “earthquake forecaster.” Whereabouts of Reuben Greenspan, of New York, were unknown following the quake that {didn’t happen. But many persons living in the Golden Gate area drove away to escape the temblor, and the police switchhoard was swamped with calls.

Ugh! Ugh! In Elbowoods, N. D., an Indian with the name of Norman Many Ribs, suffered bruised ribs and a broken leg when his horse stumbled.

f Out of Trouble

Ronald Yinger, 25, father of Brooklyn's famed mid-century twins, shook off nearly 18 months of trouble today and went back to his old job as a dry cleaner, He popped into the news Jan. 1, 1950, when his wife, Vergie, gave birth to the first twins born in New York City in the new halfcentury. But the news led to his arrest by Missouri prison officials, who took him back to serve an unexpired prison term for passing bad checks. He was released on parole Friday, a month early, to nattend the funeral of his brother, |Robert, who was killed in a St.

Miss Cochran served 1 ouis motorcycle accident.

8! “Actress Joan Fontaine has

MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1951

Common Game still Ample—

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(The Times today publishes the second of several excerpts from “African Safari” the story of a big-game hunting trip through East Africa, made last fall by Gene L. Williams, 29-year-old vice president of Gaseteria, Inc.) AFRICAN SAFARI Part Two . ON THE MORNING of Sept. 15 we loaded our three-

ton truck and our shooting car full of equipment and started

Bill Jenvy, my professional hunter, and I rode in the | front seat of the shooting car. In the back seat rode our two gun bearers, the head boy and a personal boy.

game at one time. The number would include great herds of zebra, topi, wildebeest, and giraffe. ”. » » WE CAMPED on’ the edge of the 8Screngetti Game Reserve, about 200 yards from a water hole known to be frequented by game during the night. As soon as it got dark we could hear lions coughing. We estimated there were four lions

{making the noise, and, while we

didn’t see any of them, we knew they were close around camp. The next morning we broke camp and drove to a point 40 miles away, outside the game reserve, Enroute to the point we came across a male lion that had the finest mane of any lion I saw during the whole trip. Since he was in the reserve we again did nothing but take moving pictures of him, After another quarter of a mile, we saw a pride of five lions consisting of one old male, a young male and three females. They were resting and sleeping under some low bush so we drove the car to within 50 feet and took a lot of pictures. = » » SOMETIMES, a car can be driven within 15 or 20 feet and lions won't move. { However, if you try to walk up on them they would almost surely move away from you. If you continued to walk after them and they didn’t feel like walking, chances are they would stop in some bush and as you kept com-

{tebrae in animal went down, got up and:

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KING OF BEASTS—Gene Williams and a flon with a bullet hole between its eyes.

camp meat and the other for leopard bait. A topl is an antelope weighing 400 to 500 pounds. I wanted to| experiment to see if my 257} caliber rifle would do a good job.!

heart at 225 yards. The shot did not knock him down and he ran| 300 yards, during which I hit him twice more before he died of the

first shot.. 1 The second iopi I shot through the base of the neck at 200 yards and apparently just tipped a ver-| the neck because the

ran off. I had a long, difficult chase after him and befdre the!

ing, they would charge. During the afternoon we de-

tipped off a retilly,

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animal was finally put down for,

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‘State Fraternal Week’

Five in Hoosier Family Honored by College

In Galesburg, Ill, the Knox College commencement ceremony yesterday was turned into a family affair by five

Diek, 24,.Bill, 23,-and Jack, 22,

were awarded Bachelor of Arts degrees, graduating in the |same class because of time spent in service by Dick and Bill;

[their uncle, Roy C. Ingersoll, | France, any time she feels like it. | “ByJove,” said | Walter De Havil-

(land, father of sented an Alumni Achievement]

Award, and their father, Harold

Joan and her ac- | tress-sister, Olivia De Havilland, in Victoria, B.C., “4f she does marry him, I think I'll send Aly my congratulations. eanwhile, Aly

porter in Chan- ape Fontaine France, that “Double Rose,” a 5-year-old mare which he gave Rita Hayworth as a honeymoon gift, was in foal. Rita left the horse behind when she left France for Reno, divorce-bound.

Cadet Sgt. Willlam Earl Lockwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Lockwood, 2314 Kessler Blvd, Indianapolis, was awarded a scholarship pin at Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, Tenn., for an average grade

A lonely woman patient in an

Proclaimed in Indiana A proclamation by Gow. Schricker has marked this week as “state fraternal week” in Indiana. “Nearly the entire world is embroiled in a bitter struggle involving the fundamental rights . . of free men,” Gov. Schricker said. “It is the duty of fraternalists to bring their message -of brotherly love into the hearts of men.”

316 Attend First

Indianapolis’ first police promotion training school since 1943 began today with 316 men attending two sections, one for detective sergeants and one for uniformed sergeants. Another sec-

tion for uniformed sergeants will

begin tonight. A Chief Rouls addressed the opening session for uniformed sergeants, Inspector John O'Neal, chief of detectives, was to speak to the| first class for detective sergeants this afternoon. The evening class for uniformed sergeants, largest of the three .sections, will have 106 members. It will begin tonight at Arsenal Technical High School because of lack of space at the police station. Capt. Michael Kavanagh is directing the schoc!.

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Army hospital ‘solation ward at

with Prime Min-|Ft. Jay, New York, watched aby a state law in 1035, was ister and Mrs. television screen yesterday as her scrapped in World War II because

Mass., narrated the First Army's; weekly show, “Headquarters, New| York,” over NBC-TV. : “I was too excited to talk while

| he was on the screen,” said Mrs.

husband for seven weeks. “Al-

if he was talking to me alone.” |

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Aly ‘Khan, her constant gate in

police promotion school.

The police merit system, set up|

promotions since then have been | on an “acting” basis. The school is part of the requirements for permanent ranks.

Tests, service and interviews with

when an earthquake “worse than James Chapman, confined with athe Police Department Board|president of the International the 1008 disaster” failed to occur lung ailment. She hasn't seen her also will be comsidered.

Two schools, one for leuten-

though he was taiking about antl- ants and one for captains, will aircraft guns, it was almost as start June 25 and run for two|CeSs by financial gains was

weeks.

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The first topl I shot over the + so 100k for

WE HUNG one of the topl 15 feet high in the branches of a tree a mile from camp, but ho leopard appeared in the vicinity to eat on it. We got up before dawn the next morning, Sept. 18, and went buffalo, but did not see any. On our way back we shot two zebra. After breakfast we went out and shot a few partridge, When we broke camp, Jenvy and I decided to head for a point two and a half days drive away. A hard, dusty drive carried us to Lake Victoria, down into Tabora and 180 miles south to a place called “Lumbe Umbago.” It is a large grass pl which becomes a swamp during the wet season. We camped on the

then drove in looking; for

3708 Seniors

ly 3708 new degree holders into the labor market this week, fol-

‘lowing commencement exercises

yesterday and today. ; nual commencement today,’

families and friends were ad

Honorary doctor of divinity degrees were conferred upon Fred-

Police Promotion siarie: i . (Classes Since 1943

cises today at Butler Bowl. Dr. Gordon H.

J... Holcomb award of $500

Dr. Clark for his contribution to the welfare and progress of the university during ’ the ade mie year 1949-51. Mr. Anderson “yp owe Is executive secretary of the PhelpsStokes Fund, New York City. Mr, Anderson is pastor of the First Christian Church, Bloomington. Dr. Clark, an author and lecturer, is on the Butler faculty. Baccalaureate services yesterday were highlighted by an address by Dr. Marvin O. Sansbury,

Convention of the Disciples of &r

Christ.

The fallacy of measuring suc-

pointed out to Jordan College of

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At Butler University’s 96th angraduates and faculty members, n

Clark was named Tirey recipient of the |

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Graduated

by Dr. James Francis Co tion and editor emeritus of music magazine, io

experience in music on, ri ceived an honorary doctor of mi sic degree. A similar honorary

erick L. Hovde at the 97th’ commencement exercises ye . day in Purdue's Hall of Music, ceremonies,

to facilitate seating, included SWANS of 1045 Occalauratia dhe grees, octor y degrees, 215 degrees oF mar oi im science and one professional de. | Rh HL

ee. i i In special week-end ceremonies 217 ROTC graduates at y were commissioned as second leutenants or hie

Alr Force, Navy and Marine

Hungarian Ex-Diplomat

udapest, University of Mun and University of Chicago. was a member of the : legation at Munich and Paris. tween 1945 and 1048. Prof, Rago was a men Hungary's world water polo

national AAU swimming

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