Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1951 — Page 13
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By Earl Wilson
PARIS, June 18—Sugar Ray Robinson was speaking French all over the place when I went up to his suite at the Claridge Hotel on the Champs Elysee. “Garcon, q'est que c'est?” he sald, when a waiter rolled in a table laden with
food, According to my poor French that would be “Waiter, what is this?” It turned out to be dinner for his manager, George Gainford, and some of the boys. Sugar and his French and’ his Flamingo Pink Cadillac convertible are part of the big show here, especially the fla~ mingo pink job. “How did you pick that color?” I asked him.’ “Nobody else ever asked me that,” he said. “I got the color from a necktie that I saw on Willie Pep’s manager, Lou Viscusie.” SE SE “I TOLD HIM to take that tie off and give it to me or sell it to me. I took it to the Cadillac company and had ’em make me up a sample. Well, I've never seen any car like it. “The only other man in the world that could
get away with a car like that is Rocky Graziano,” Mr. Gainford said.
Speaking of Graziano reminded Sugar Ray to tell the boys, “I'm trainin’ tomorrow. I ain't boxin’, but I'm trainin’.”
+ “I had a fight in Belgium last night and my nose Is a little swole from a cold,” he said. “I don't want to box on it.” He was phoning New York to see whether it was true that he and Graziano meet Sept. 6. < < © IF IT IS, he wants to hasten his disbursement of Damon Runyon Cancer Fund checks and re-
Sugar Ray Robinson
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, June 18—The most damning condemnation of the destruction of our old values that.I have run into lately rests in the experience of an advertising executive I know. This fellow, who works for a major outfit,” argued the sum of $75,000 from his budgeters, said dough to be used to hire three salesmen. The man wanted top-grade guys, which meant that he went shopping among the opposition. He waved a fat $25,000 salary under the noses of some first-clasg fellows he knew, None was making more than $15,000 a year. And he got no takers.
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THF. ANSWERS they gave "him were the same: They did not feel that a raise of $10,000 a year justified risking their established security with a new firm. They were unwilling to gamble, they said, because their new net income after taxes would not be enough more to offset the risk they would face in switching jobs. Here you have the practically unparalleled example of a man with both bold hands‘full of riches, who is unable to find takers.
There was a time when an annual salary of 25 grand represented the wildest dreams of ordinary avarice. Twenty-five thousand clams put you in the yacht-and-town-house class. Two bits’ worth of thousands averages out to 500 bucks a week, and for that kind of scratch you could wear mink overalls.
Even a few years of that salary would allow a man to store up enough security to keep him comfortable while he lived.
But in the case of the frustrated ‘executive you have several men turning down $10,000 raises because, as the most common cliche of our time runs, “you can’t keep it.” This amounts to depriving money of its worth, and the end result is a destruction of initiative, a crippling of ambition, You eventually wind up with lethargy, the translation of which says let George do it. Letting George do it works two ways—either even-
About People—
Film Jobs ‘Chase’
All Hollywood seems to be fight-| through and his socks in rags.
ing over Carl Brisson, the singing grandpa who wowed ‘em recently in “The Merry Widow” at Los An-| geles Auditorium. After MGM plunked down $15,-
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In San Diego, Cal., Mrs. Amer-!Chicago police he is “very happy” T. Cloyd Jr. tomorrow.
Sugar Ray's Car Same Color as Tie
turn home after his London fight with Dick Tur-
pin to resume training: . “The fighters in Europe are in better condition than home,” Sugar Ray said. “Very. seldom you see one of ‘em out of gas. You know, get tired.” Sugar Ray is really lionized here. “In fact, they
. resent it sometimes if we have to turn invitations
down,” he said. . CE a THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.-FElla Raines and her husband, Lt. Col. Robin Olds, expect a little jet pilot.in December. , ... Hedy Lamarr'’s new husband, rumba maestro Ernest Stauffer, used to be Rita Hayworth's boy friend, before Aly, s . . Movie scripts will be submitted to Rita in July. Her selection will be kept secret till the deal is closed; otherwise the price would skyrocket, . , , Patricia Neale (Gary Cooper's choice) is about with the State Dept’s Stanley Claybaugh. . . . June Valli, pinch-ginging on Stop the Music, is the hottest new singer around. Just recently worked in a lingerie shop. eS dB TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “I always have too much month left at the end of my money" — London Opinion, * * & EARL’S PEARLS: Taffy Tuttle mentioned to Peter Donald that she went into a store to buy some DDT but forgot how to spell it, . ¢ & ALL OVER: Gene Tunney police commissioner? One party likes him, , . . Ex-fighter Bob Olin’ll wed Shirley Wyman, . . . Gypsy Markoff met a Frenchman in Cairo and reportedly will give up her career to marry. , . . Paul Hartman ducked to Europe to avoid his wife Grace's divorce action, now being moved to Mexico. . . . The price war, says Bill Diamant, sent prices crashing down to sky-high. LO SE AND AS WILL ROGERS said once, “I always like to hear a man talk about himself, because then I never hear anything but good.” ... That's Earl, brother.
—And They Won’t Gamble For a $10,000 Raise!
tual communism or fascism, which means that in any case the control of his personal existence is out of the hands of the individual. : PS A MAN JUST BACK from the Argentine tells me simply how Peron clinched his control. He merely encouraged collectivism, to such point that when he pulled the drawstrings at the top he had all the trade unions in the bottom of the sack. He then was able to use them as a blackjack, to where a dictatorship as fine as Mussolini's is now in ‘operation, with Juan and Evita squatting at the top. Whatever we have in this land was not founded on a desire for static security. The original settlers took a great gamble when they took’ off from England. A great many rugged men and women wound up porcupined with arrows in order that Hollywood and Vine might become possible. Many of our mighty moguls of industry today will speak with an accent that is not local to the scene. The vast fortunes that built the know-how that let us win wars were mainly built on gambling, and I don’t mean crap shooting. The development of new industries rests on the availability of risk capital. Our national health rests on a man’s willingness to take a chance. Db I DO NOT understand this sudden apathy, this non-craving for adventure, which seems sud-
denly to have afflicted us. The young men crave security; they ask about retirement age before they ask about the possibility for advancement. Men offered increases of $200 a week refuse them because they are not willing to take a chance.
I remember I changed three sets of jobs, once, for
a cut of two bucks on one and a raise of three bucks on the other, merely because the prospects seemed brighter at the time.
Maybe we are watering down our stock as we water down our currency. But when a man loses interest in making money, you have just
deprived him of his power. And that goes for a nation, too.
Singing Grandpa
‘Happy in Jail
James C. Lindsey, 23, today told
remarry Arthurito be in jail because he was al-
{ways afraid police would come
LY says “this is what we will do,” and then goes on to explain why.
Point.
Japan step smartly from his car and disappear into headquarters.
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He Wishes To See
By CLIFF McDOWELL
covered a lot of territory.
Korean front from time to time, and has already made three trips. As 8th Army commander he often marched alongside the battle columns and visited practically every command post, His inspections are thorough. When he flew to%a large Army installation in Northern Japan, he had nis pilot circle the area for three hours before landing so
he’d have a firm picture of the entire layout. Eventually he wants to visit every command, activity and installation" that SCAP controls,
What Do You Think?
At staff discussions Gen, Ridgway has each officer present the various aspects of the problem involved, questions them closely, then asks them, individually, “What do you think we should do?” If an officer parries the question
do you think we should DO?” After hearing from all hands,
Such tactics are quite different from those of Gen, MacArthur, He doesn’t regard the Supreme Command as a one-man job. “This is the result of the work of the team,” he said recently, when he got his fourth star and became a full general, 34 years after graduating from West
» » » CROWDS STILL gather every
day to watch the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in
he Indiana
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1951
What Goes On—
and EDWIN HOFFMAN
Times Special Writer
TOKYO, June 18—In the nearly two months he has been wearing the four hats of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has
He likes to see for himself what's going on. Like Gen. MacArthur, he believes in getting to the
The Japanese had become accustomed to an aloof Gen. MacArthur. Gen. Ridgway is making noticeable efforts to be easily available, not only to his own staff, but to Japanese officials. | The Japanese have discovered they are likely to see their occu pation ruler a lot more often— and a lot more places—than they saw Gen, MacArthur, Gen. Ridgway is in his office ‘at 8 a. m. on the dot and tries to leave by 5, a schedule which has enhanced his popularity with the GHQ staff and, incidentally their wives, Gen. MacArthur, who is 71, usually arrived at 10, worked three or four hours, then lunched and napped and went back to work until 9 or 10 p. m. There is now a telephone on the Supreme Commander's desk. Gen. MacArthur never had one. |Gen. Ridgway’'s number is listed lin the Occupation Force phone book. When he calls somebody
'he usually starts the conversation Gen. Ridgway snaps: “Now what with “this is Ridgway.”
News photographers never were allowed inside Gen. MacArthur's private office.
When Gen, Ridgway’s press advisor told him the photographers would like some inner sanctum pictures, Gen. Ridgway said “sure, invite them here for tomorrow morning.” Gen. Ridgway has no basket marked “hold.” A hard driver he can't see any reason for postponing action. In North Africa, when Gen.
‘Ridgway was planning the first|
big-scale airborne assault in U. 8.
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000 for a Brisson screen test, two| Mrs. Frances Cloyd, .25, an-along and shoot him while he was| other studios went after him too.|P0unced she will wed the 27-year-phygy at work, cracking safes.
. th .jold auto mechanic she divorced The Coconut Grove and thasMo-/ ago. She has discovered
‘all men have faults but I've de-|
cambo, night spots, want him behind the floor show microphone. He can take his pick of three TV shows, and Dallas wants him for a performance Of Widow.”
On top of this, the handsome,
sonal appearance in Denmark in gut of August, He was knighted by that he made.
after women began wilting as be Mitchell, crooned.
Surprise
In Cleveland, comedian Artie Dann, 39, was taking a shower in his hotel last night when he| stopped to answer the doorbell 'e8arded as and “all I saw was a fist coming|
Flattery
toward me.” Mr. Dann awakened to find $385 . missing. Battery. 4 y U. S. Snobbery ‘her look good,” he said. In Adelaide, Australia, Capt.
George Mitchison, personal: representative of the dress designer for Queen Elizabeth, was refused admission to a restaurant because he wasn't wearing a necktie. He said the incident reminded him of “American snobbery.”
Off Again Globe-trotting Supreme Court Justice William D. Douglas will leave Monday for India and a pack trip of geveral Hundred miles in the Himalaya
Smart Dog
honeymoon.
|gree.
Cincinnati. mooning today.
cided to get along with the faults) of the father of my children.” “The Merry She is mother of three.
The Bitter Half
In Centerville, over-50 Dane is slated for a per-| Gossett, after sawing his way half . jail, got stuck in the hole, Chain Reaction He struggled for three country in 1945—just 25 years hours, then called Jailer W. D.|¢p who removed |year-old prisoner's pants, soaped {his body and pulled him out of|g the 8-by-10-inch gap.
| Film Director Charles Hollywood's “woman director,” said he gets| along with movie queens by using at
“I let each star know the most {important thing to me is to make
(that’s all she’s worried about any-thow-—looking beautiful.”
Pal, a Seeing Eye dog, became Dartmouth College's first female| graduate yestérday—and immedi-| ately left Hanover, N, H, on a,
She received a certificate giv{ing her all the rights and priv-| lleges of a regular graduate at traets total in history for any {the same time her blind master, n,,nth was reached in May by {Edward L. Glaser, Chicago, {ceived his Bachelor of Arts de-
The day before, Pal had led Mr, Glaser to his wedding with {the former Anne Sims McIntyre,| All three were honey-|
glaries, Sometimes, ne said, {took him 10 hours of whacking
a safe. He was captured by a cruising police squad while busy
James| i, an Evanston -hardware store.
Tenn.,
Samuel C. Hafner, manager of e Three Sisters, the 28-
{troubles that all
show window. | The first slip made Mr. Hafner ol {bump his knee. As he left the Vidor, window he stumbled and fell, best | wrenching his shoulder painfully. The shoulder required treatments Methodist Hospital for five or
the world’s oldest lady-killer— | gio weeks. As he left Methodist
after the last treatment, he slipped on a newly-painted curbing and fell, breaking a bone in his left hand and wrenching his | shoulder again. He is in Methodist Hospital, | trying to keep out of more trouble and recover from his numerous ‘mishaps.
U. S. Construction Sets New Mark
“And
re-
reported today.
thigh for all 48 states because the May figure, $2572 million, rates (far ‘above the previous high of $1548 million reported last Au-
mountains, The 52 - year-- |gust, old justice said Found Dead Three new atomic projects he doesn't expect a, Mcintyre Honolulu - BOR oy $980 - million of the May to do any moun- sira leader, whose [record figure, but even without
tain climbing but expects to Mr. Douglas talk with India's Prime Minister Nehru as he did last summer.
Hotfoot
known composition was “The One| Rose,” was found dead yesterday at his New York home. Intyre, 47, was believed to have died of a heart attack Saturday.
In Thanksgiving Impulsive Willie Gerro, 49, wis) Because Lt, Comdr. Ed Henslee
charged in Oakland, Cal, with|Jr., came safely through World “riding upon any portion of a car| War II and got home again to
these contracts, May would have topped last August's mark by at {least $44 million. The construction during May was mainly non-residential contracts aiding the defense drive.
Gets DePauw Post GREENCASTLE, June 18 (UP)
Mr. Mc-
not designed or intended for the Dickson, Tenn, his father fulfilled DePauw -University alumni
use of passengers.” Gerro's trouble started with an argument with” his girl friend, Carrie Carrington, 46. When he pulled a knife, she jumped in the car and started off. Byt Gerro grabbed the door handle &nd ran alongside the car—for two turns and 13 blocks-—-before he letigo,
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la vow and built a Catholic church elected John 'R. Emison of Vinto show his thankfulness.
|cennes of | versity in mail balloting. Mr, a member of the Day Indianapolis.
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women’s ap-| |parel store here has continuing] began with a| {slip of the foot while trimming al
| Lindsey had cruised aoout the country in a battered sedan for| {two years and admitted 65 bur-| it|
{ with an ax and hammer to crack |
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This automatically means a new|
to. the joint board of .Ed Henslee Sr., general counsel trustees and visitors of the unifor American Brotherhood Railroad Trainmen, refused to ac-|Emison succeeds James M. Ogden, cept funds. But churches of other Indianapolis, denominations chipped in to buy board the last 40 years. His term fixtures, and men of many faiths!is for four years. Mr. Fmison is took ‘part in the Father's Boles of ‘his shoes were burned] dedication ceremony.
The highest construction con-|
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the 37 states east of ‘the Rocky] {Mountains, the ¥. W. Dodge Co.,|
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What Happened to Scopes?— Famous Names in News
day at some of the “big names” that captured public notice in recent decades is proof enough that fame-—and notoriety—are transient.
but you don’t hear them often any more.
headlines a few years ago have slid back into relative obscurity.
created more U, 8. public contro-
versy than did a Tennessee school an attorney who once practiced inteacher, John T. Scopes when he was tried and found guilty on
‘Operat
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Eniwetok Eyewitness— ;
in Korea.
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atomic bomb tests at Eniwetok, written by Rep. F. Edward
Hebert of Louisiana, ranking
member of the House Armed
Services Committee and a former newspaperman. By REP. F. EDWARD HEBERT WASHINGTON, June 18—Thirty-five-cent haircuts, free movies, rent-free cabanas on the beach, Scotch,
bourbon or mixed drinks at and “food out of this world, extra charge!
Utopia? No, Eniwetok,
tested. : The magnitude of Eniwetok’s “Operation Green-
house” is almost as staggering as the atom bomb itself. Estimated to cost in excess of $65 million plus the millions covered by daily routine military operations, approximately 8000 men are involved. Unlike the popular conception, which is easily anderstandable, somebody doesn’t just pick out a tiny island in the vast expanse of the Pacific, select a day on which io drop an atomic bomb, invite a lot of people to look at ithe detonation, drop the bomb and run like hell. Joint Task Force Three which runs the atoll, Is one of the finest examples of co-op-eration between the military and civilian branches of government. Planning and preparing for an atomic test at Eniwetok is a day in and day out affair over many months. This is the permanent proving grounds for our atomic weapons. It offers all the opportunities necessary for experiments without endangering the lives and homes of thickly populated areas.
» ” ” KEEPING 8000 MEN happy and maintaining morale on a high plane is.a major undertaking, but Lt. Gen. Elw2sod (Pete) Quesada has done It well, “In my 27 years In the Army I have never seen morale so high,” he says. Eniwetok and the surround-
3 By United P ’ CHICAGO, June 18—A look to-
The names still sound familiar
a
Fven many who made banner|
Few petsons, for example, have
a
come on his return in 1927 from setting a long-distance. non-stop
2 cents a drink over the bar "” as part of the job with no
where atomic weapons are
ing islands of the atoll are thriving communities. On Eniwetok are located a wellequipped air strip, two athletic fields, two moving picture theaters, chapel, clothing store, beach clubs forwofficers and enlisted men, library, hobby shop, electronics buildings, general's quarters, maintenance hangar, personnel pier, mess hall, dispensary, post exchange, post office, laundry and power plant. There are 90 baseball teams participating in 10 organized leagues. One of the recreation fields is named after the hangman of Nuremberg, M/Sgt. John C, Woods, who was electrocuted accidentally on Eniwetok while working as an electrician. The telephone exchange on
Eniwetok handles approximately 6000 telephone calls each day.
One of the mess halls alone serves 9000 meals a day and such food—5500 calories daily!
" ” » THE DAY I left Eniwetok I pitched my diet out the window and had the best roast beef I think I have ever eaten. I topped the meal off with a super-duper strawberry shortcake with the works—ice cream and whipped cream. During the days I spent at Quesada's headquarters I had fried chicken, stripped sirloin steak and filet mignon for dinner. And the chow was not something special, The same grub was being served the same day to very man on the atoll.
The enlisted men's club is
July 21, 1925, of teaching evolu-| tion. Mr. Scopes’ counsel was the famed criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow. The prosecuting attorney was William Jennings Bryan.
Mr. Scopes, who was fined $100 and freed, later studied geology|
ily in Shreveport, La., working as! a geologist for the United Gas Co. He doesn’t like to talk about the trial. Clarence D. Chamberlin, who received a hero's ticker tape wel-|
Ridgway Easier Going But He Won't Take Gen
LON hy
TABOOS TUMBLE—When Gen.
MEET THE FOLKS—Gen. Ridgway signs a : reporter as they leave he ho Chapel
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for Japanese Tokyo after
Ridgway movd in, news photog.
raphers finally accomplished an iflasion, -
Now there is little opportunity for hill-climbing. : But Gen. Ridgway makes up for this with brisk 15-minute walks
reenhouse’ —A K
This is another account of the recent
‘himself afte getting up at 6 la. m, § | Gen. Magi {social functins and his contacts
history, he liked to work off ex-in the gardens of the U. 8. Em- with Japan#e leaders and forcess steam by climbing hills in the bassy in Tokyo, where he livesieign evening. He did the same thing with his wife and 2-year-old son, rare,
[Matt Jr. Usually he walks byl Gen. Ridgmay feels that certain |General hen!”
emissales in* Tokyo were
ATOMIC "UTOPIA"—Aroune this native chief's house on one of the islands in Eniwetok atl, palm trees wave. At atom test headquarters, though, no vegetation remains,
known as “Duffy’s Tavern” and neon lights show the way. There is a choice of moving pictures at either the “uptown” or the “downtown” theaters on Eniwetok ard a third theater on Parry. Mail is delivered regularly through two special post offices. The post exchanges bulge with goods from Japan and Hawali. Fresh water ig distilled from the ocean at the rate of 30 gallons per man per day. There's no prison. There has been no court martial held since the occupation of the atoll by Joint Task Force Three, Only five accidental deaths, none connected with the actual atomic experiments, have been recorded since Joint Task Force Three took over.
A radio station operates
flying record between New York and Germany, in 1932, lives on a farm in Shelton, Conn., whers he is an automobile distributor. Whittaker Chambers, former
Time magazine editor who made headlines when*he admitted acting as a pre-war Communist spy
{at the University of Chicago and|courier and later was key govern{lives quietly today with his fam-|
ment witness against Alger Hiss, also lives on a farm now, near Westminster, Md, He is reluctant to discuss his affairs. Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan got little money and only short-lived fame from the flight in which he “mistakenly” took off in the wrong diréction from New
or -
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tiroughout the day. All the top mme programs heard in the Inited States are recorded and mnt to Eniwetok. In addition, tiere are disk jockeys with the litest recordings. And no commercials! » » #® A BUS TOUR of Eniwetok vith a barker rivals a Chamber if Commerce discourse in any fommunity., Busses run on a tegular schedule to all sections af Eniwetok and nearby Parry. There is no time for idleness and recreation periods are tightly filled in. Navy vessels in the lagoon house additional personnel. The Air Force is responsible for a safety patrol of the sky for more than 200 square miles. The Navy. is responsible for safety on the seas. The security
of Yesteryear Slip Back Into Obscurity
York and ended up in Ireland instead of Los Angeles. Eight years later he got back in the limelight briefly by running
‘for U. 8, Senator from California
on the prohibition ticket. Now an unemployed test pilot, he has no future plans. Eden Ahbez, mystic follower of the Yoga cult who burst on the |public scene by writing the popullar song “Nature Boy” in 1048, apparently still does what comes naturally—lives in the back yard of his California home, wearing flowing robes and sandals, subsisting on nuts, fruits and raw vegetables. aT One of the most successful of
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find Gen. ur avoided all giderate of the
children while his wife talks to &
social functions are a part of his job. Since his family is also a major : part of his life, Mrs. Ridgway, a pt black-eyed widow he married in 5 1946, shares the spotlight in the new social SCAP social life. A former secretary to a Na commit , Mary “Penn A i an her way around military circles, and handles the social problems and many of the semi-official functions for her husband, ’ ; American correspondents sels dom saw or talked to Gen. Mac~ Arthur, but Gen. Ridgway has made it a point to know them and help them get accurate and complete information. Gen. Ridgway likes to get to oed by 10:30 when possible, and spends what leisure time he has 8 with his family. He manages to ch do some swimming, play badmine it ton, see an occasional movie, and read (non-fiction is his prefer. ence). Every Sunday when
he at-
enlisted man, one aide observes, “but he sire can
LT. GEN. QUESADA—"1 have '
never seen morale sa high."
of the atoll itself is in the hands of Military Police. Certain sections are heavily restricted and only key persons’ nel are allowed to enter. Everybody wears an identification badge. Accepted attire is khaki Army shorts and short-sleeved shirts, with a mixture of pith helmets and overseas caps. Off duty the officers wear multi - colored Alohoa shirts from Hawaii and vie with each other for the gaudiest colors. '
” » [J THERE REMAINS no vegetation on Eniwetok, although attempts are now being made to restore some of the tropical | attractiveness. | The island is rimmed by steel | derelicts, remindful of the as- | sault by the Americans, who | destroyed more than 3500 Japanese troops when the atoll was captured. ; / Eniwetok has everything except one thing: Nothing that I have mentioned wears skirts not even grass skirts! It is strictly a man’s job. Some families are in Hono= lulu but the vast majority of families have remained in the . United States.
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the “big names” has been Tom Harmon, popular All-American halfback from the University of Michigan in 1940, He later bes came a World War II hero, a pro» fessional football player. for the Los Angeles Rams and now is west coast voice director for the Columbia ast! 1 : Ruth Elder, one of the $ colorful personalities of the golden 20s after she became the firs woman to try to fly the Al grew tired of the Spotlight : in vs tr (
and the
“the advertising has been since an
ary