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NEW YORK, June 22—“How’s your heart?” 1 asked Joan-Crawford, 8 “It’s whole. Not a crack in it!" she said. ie I had Plioped from the lobby of her hotel. ome on up ou can s n . she'd said. “I'm oan and Su.lc0k Bt me, She was packing to return to : Hollywood. Some romantic rumors about her and Yul Brynner, the king in “The King and 1,” had upset her, From Brynner, the exciting fellow who was born of a Mongol father and a Romany Gyp8y mother in the Far East, I knew they weren't true. I wondered if there was anything I could do.
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THE RUMORS were that Brynner had chased her to the coast and she had chased him
was trying to make up his mind between Joan and Marlene Dietrich, Joan sank down on a big divan, looked at me through her dark-tinted glasses, and said with a laugh: “What can a woman say about things like this? People are calling me up asking me if I am all right, “Why, he never had an opportunity to make up his mind between any other woman and me. I was never alone with him. “But he's a man, and you Joan Crawford can't blame him for trying.” I could see the beginning of the whole thing. Sometimes a gossip columnists sorry he. has to pry around in people's lives.
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, June 22—The late John Sorrells was .the greatest man I ever knew, in most respects, and I have waited several years since hie death to do a piece about him. The ‘excuse is only that I am leaving for Africa shortly to fulfill an assignment he gave me just before he died of a heart attack in 1948. I am going to Kenya and Tanganyika to fetch home a tush for Johnny. John was as big a kid as I, even though he was executive editor of the Scripps - Howard Newspapers for a long time, and a rough customer when he had to be, as well as a mush-hearted senti-
sich a marvelous feel for people that vou suspected him of built-in radar. John said one time, in the weekly luncheon devoted to fatherly advice on such burning questions as whether yofi could take a drink of whisky before hreakfast without a written excuse from teacher, that all his life he wanted to go to Africa and shoot him a lion and an elephant dnd see the sights. eS oP»
“I DON'T expect I will ever get the time.” he
said, “but I will pass the obligation onto you. You
go-to Africa and bring me home a tush for my mantelpiece.” Mr. Sorrells was referring to the tusk of an elephant, which as an alumnus of Arkansas he felt obliged to pronounce “tush.” This is a trip to get a tash for John. 1 never wrote an obit on Johnny when he dropped dead off a chair one night; because I
* didn’t trust myself not to become maudlin over
a guy 1 loved better than my own father. Sorreils was a hard man to put together in a piece. He had a tough, ribald, poker-playing brain, and the insides of an artist. He was the man whp could make the budget trip and ruthlessly lop off extras while spending five hours with a cub reporter to tell him the facts of life. He could cuss like a stevedore and he liked to paint delicate water colors.
About People—
signment demanding to know if there was actu-
There're No Cracks In Crawlord’s Heart
TWO WEEKS ago I heard that Brynner had broken up with his actress wife, Virginia Gilmore. Now those things are supposed to be news on Our Street, Nothing to do but go ask him. I got him in his dressing room. He said it was true. 8o I printed it, Next thing I knew he was supposed to be romantic with La Crawford and La Dietrich. “You're the new threat to. American womanhood,” I told him when I asked him about all the stories, He, too, said he'd never seen Joan alone, So that was all there was to it-—a romance in which the two parties never saw each other alone. Sometimes I stop and wonder how these things get so bullt up from nothing. TT, oo @ THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Freelance Diana Lynn's CBS-TV contract (for an “Egg and 1” series) “permits” her to do two movies a year. It's the first time TV has reversed it and dictated to the films—but not the last. ; Nancy Sinatra's divorce hinges on Frank's agreement to a trust fund for the children’s education. bb GOOD RUMOR MAN: Tucky French Astor and Frederick Lewisohn are a (Colony romance. Bert Wheeler's likely to join Bing Crosby's radio show regularly next vear . . . Jack Eigen's new
disc show has 36 sponsors in three hours—one
every five minutes. 0B WISH I'D SAID THAT: When he saw singer Virginia Walker show up ag a blond, brunet, and blond again in the same week, Ridge Bond of “Oklahoma!” cracked, “She's the only girl I ever met with a convertibie top.” e © &
EARL'S PEARLS: Dorothy Sarnoff says many fathers propose a toast to kids before disciplining them, to wit: “Bottoms up.” That's Earl, brother,
A Trip to Fetch A Tush for John
He sternly forbade me to do any work outside the column and then confessed he learned to write for newspapers by selling popular short stories. He was a former fullback and looked like one in miniature, When the mood struck him he was meaner than a snake and would take both sides of an argument just for fun. He was the only man I ever knew who could be jovially surly, or cruelly gentle,
He wrote a textbook on how newspapers should be run when he was a comparative youngster, and it is still a classic of the trade today. Yet he would violate his own tenets if the situation asked for it, and he had an eye for the'in-
formal unusual that makes great news, He was az meek as a dead dove on .demand and stone nard the next minute. His curiosity was insatiable, > &» o
HE ONCE SENT me 3 formal, letterhead as-
ally a Mr. Adler who made the Adler-elevator shoes, and, if so, in case there was a Mrs. Adler, was she taller than he was? He once gave me a 10-minute lecture on the evils of drink and then pulled a flat pint out of his desk drawer and tossed off a neat snort. :
“I disapprove of drinking before lunch,” he sald. “Let us go to lunch.” Then he put the pint back. ’
He had a face of an early Christian martyr and the shoulders of a young stud bull. He strutted when he walked like a bantamweight boxer, and wore a hat that seemed to have been predigested. His choice of words was both impeccable and pointedly vulgar, and he could cry into a typewriter like an evangelist shouting come-to-Jesus when he wished. 3 And he was the kindest man I ever knew for too short a time. . I hope he likes his tush. I am a touch late on the assignment, but a tush he asked for and a tush he gets. Nairobi is a far cry from wherever he is, but he sent me to Casablanca once,
on a hunch, and Sorrells was ever generous with
his reporters’ legs.
Errol Flynn Passes the Buck |
EROLL FLYNN'S secretary got the blame in Hollywood today for the actor’s failure to answer a traffic summons, Mr. Flynn was slated six weeks ago for running a traffic signal and not having a driver's license. He failed to answer charges June 15, But his agent, Arthur Park, said the ticket was turned over to a secretary to handle and apparently was misplaced. A munigipal court warrant was issued for the dashing screen star yesterday. Now he must post $61 bail or appear in court.
To Be an American The U. 8. Senate has voted unanimously to alJow novelist Arthur Koestler, an ex-Communist to become a permanent resident of the United Btates.
Cruel Thief
Several days after a collie disappeared from the Chicago home of Edward Fredricksen, a woman telephoned and said she was calling for the man who had stolen the dog.
Mr. Flynn
“We know how much the dog means to you,” ’
she saids “How much will you pay to get it back?” “I'll pay anything—anything I can,” Mr. Fredricksen replied. The woman hung up and hasn't called since. But the family keeps hoping for another call, because the collie belongs to Suzanne Fredricksen, 6, a polio victim who can’t walk without crutches.
Judy's li
Actress Judy Canova was confined to her Hollywood home today after she collapsed while appearing-in the Los Angeles Home Show yesterday. Her doctor said Judy had been suffering from laryngitis for 24 hours prior to the show.
Away From It All
Actor Howard Duff is drawing $2 a day as a crew member of “The Mike,” a commercial fishing boat, because he “tired of glamor girls.” The bachelor star was attending a Hollywood party last week when he decided he had had “enough of night light” and walked out, He'll be gone a month on the fishing trip,
Pilots’ Strike Due To Hit American
CHICAGO, June 22 (UP)—A American after 1 a. m. Monday 10 Job; Dispute Still On | pilots strike that halted all flights in each time zone. |
of United Air Lines will be ex-
At Washington, meanwhile, the! tended Monday to at least Se meerotas of the National Media- —Coal diggers at the Snow Hill |
Return to Friendship Francisco J, Morales, 67, said today he will re- | turn from Detroit to Tacoma, Wash. to “spend the rest of my life’” with®friends who stuck by | when, they learned he was a fugitive from a 1936 fatal stabbing charge. Morales settled down in Tacoma 10 years ago after wandering the country. When the law found him, his neighbors and fellow workers signed petitions urging leniency and contributed funds for an attorney. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty in Detroit and was placed on five years’ probation.
Fire Suit
Norman H. Moore, Franklin, Pa.., has filed a $14.500 damage suit in Buffalo, N. Y.. for loss | of six horses and harness racing equipment in a fire June 7 at Buffalo Raceway. It was the first legal action resulting from | the $250,000 blaze, in which 31 horses perished. |
To Each His Own
Former actress Jayne Regan, 41, had a Holly- | wood divorce today from her husband, Jarrell E. | Gose, 49, whom she accused of drinking too much.
But Mr, Gose won the right to keep his portable bar, |
Who's a Star?
Actors Equity and a summer stock theater |
whether British actress Sarah Churchill is or is not a star. In Norwich, Conn., the thespian union told manager Her- | bert 1. Kneeter that the daughter of Britain's wartime prime minister, like other aliens who | “aren't ‘established stars’ is prohibited from playing in stock. The ruling will force Mr, Kneeter to’ lop a week off his planned 11-week schedule and deprive 12 actors of a week's work. “Anyone who packs ’em in like Sarah Church-
ill is a star,” said irate Mr. Kneeter. “Why the discrimination?" y
Famous First
Dr. Alfred Worcester, Harvard's oldest Hving graduate, and the first man in medical history | to have his appendix removed surgically..observed | hig 96th birthday todav in Waltham, Mass, |
Miss Churchill
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Coal Diggers to Return
| TERRE HAUTE, June 22 (UP)
type of airplane flown by Ameri-|tion Board, Thomas E. Bickers, Mine agreed today to return to| can Air Lines, the pilots" unionisaid he was still hopeful of an|their jobs, But their dispute with |
said today. The AFL Air Line Pilots Association posted notices at New York directing pilots and copilots to refuse to fly DC-6B planes for mediately.
Average Work Week, Ethan Show Dias ee
WASHINGTON, Juhe 22 (UP) Workers between mid-April. and
“Reduced consumer demand tor Mid-May,
goods and restrictions on non-
early settlement of the dispute although President Truman an-} . nounced yesterday that he would| Some 300 United Mine Workers take no action concerning it im-|{who
management was not settled.
walked off the job] | Wednesday, closing the mine, de-| "lcided to return on the second shift tonight. President Roscoe McKinney of
The Labor Department said the) UMW District 11 said the union years ago, his retirn was the average work week fell a half Would’ take up its grievance
defense use of metals resulted in hour to 40.8 hours. Gross aver-| through proper channels” later.
a drop of the average work week age
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By PHIL BERK / What's wrong with Hoosier women?* Why hasn't Miss Indiana ever gone tn Atlantie City and become Miss America since 1921 when the national beauty contest began? “Approximately $5000 worth of publicity.” Is the candid answer of Robert L. Johnson, pag: eant director of the Miss Indianapolis contest to begin at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Murat Theater,
THE FIRST Miss America in 15 5 feet 1 inch, but the composite average ‘then hag been 5 feet 53. 7 ery As far as beauty and talent are concerned, Pat was first in line when those attributes were passed out. i "The late Mayor Al Feeney, who was ; neighbor-across-the-alley, once sald, “If I'd ever married I would've wanted a daughter like Pat.” Unfortunately, Miss Berry believes in ] wholesome practice of letting fresh air into bedroom at night—and the Atlantic Coast breezes last year put a laryngitic kink in her loveiy singing voice, », Pat, incidentally, was not Miss In poli last year——simply because s city hasn't had a Miss Indians
0 @ THE FOLLAWING figures are a “matter of record,” Mr. Johnson said: Alabama spent $5000 last year to get their first Miss America winner—a beautiful brunet from Mobile named Yolande Betbeze.
te Hn as spent. on Requirements apolis contest sina Jus. sng ampajgn for rd-place : was 8 winner Janet Ruth wht Can an Indiana girl meet vas Mise Jake 0 the one from St. Petersburg, Fla, But these? crown. . 2 Arkansas put up five grand on COMPOSITE MISS A half-dozen years ago the their favorite daughter, Mary AMERICA contest had a pretty bad repu~ Jennings of Hot Springs, who (1921-51) tation — prior to 1945, too
came in fourth. Mind you, that money is not spent on bribery—it's used
many undesirable characters were entering. etc. according to contest officials. But in
Height: 5 feet 53; Weight: 120
legitimately for promotions, Bust; 353) 1045, new rules were formue publicity, state floats, litera- Waist: 254, lated which placed as much mre for the audience and the Hips: 35 stress on talent and personals press (there being more mem- Calf: 1314 ity as how a girl looked in an bers of the Fourth Estate at ais evenin own or a bathing the Miss America contest than Age: 19 . suit. 8. Hair: Brown owe at any other single sporting Eves: Blue .
FIGURING =a girl should have a brain as well as a body, the national committee installed a $5000 scholarship, which, since 1945 has increased to $26,000 worth of education to the nation’s favorite. y This year’s candidate for Miss America hon ors at Atlantic City next Sept. 2 to 8 will be chosen at the Miss Indiana contest in Lafayette Aug. 1 to 4. Indianapolis never has played host to ths Miss Indiana contest, but cities that have include Michigan City, Terre Haute. Bloomington and Gary. : To return to our first question, what have the Atlantic City judges got against Indiana femininity? a Maybe we need a national judge's panel com« posed of Paul V. MeNutt, Red Skelton, Phil Harris, Wayne Coy, and a few other gentlemen distinguished in government and entertainment —apd, incidentally, of Hoosier birth. ,
event in the world) and, last but far from least, several bucks are earmarked for “entertaining the judges.”
SH » A CASUAL LOOK around Indiana will prove to anyone the beauty of our Hoosier gals. Some of the top talent of the entertainment world has come from our Midwestern state. But never have the judges declared an Indiana girl the winner over 53 other contestants from 45 other states (Wyoming and Utah abstaining) —as well as New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, washington D. C., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Canada. Take last vear's Miss Indiana-—Miss Pat Berry, Indianapolis. The only possible “defect” of the talented Hoosier miss was her height, a dainty 5 feet 3 inches, which for some vague reason isn't “majestic” enough for the traditionally tall Miss America.
YOLANDE BETBEZE What's she got . . .
|” PAT BERRY
« « » that she had not? HOOSIER HONEY—Eight contestants for the ‘Miss Indianapolis* beauty pageant.
A Look Into Our Future Defense— | ¢
‘Sky Platforms’ Held Possibility
By WILLIAM B. BERGEN Vice President and Chief Engineer, Glenn L. Martin Co
BALTIMORE, June 22—Fifteen y=ars from now, if an enemy makes a sneak attack against this country, retaliation could land in his front yard in less than an hour. This‘ quick answering blow would be possible through earth satellites with warheads, speeding around the world at 17.900 miles-plus-an. ~———— EE ——— hour and controlled from hour. Slightly more than four
. timeg this speed will be suffithe ground by radio. cient to establish the rocket in The realism of earth satel-
an orbit around the earth with lites within the 15-vear period
enough velocity to counteract is possible only if a concerted the gravitational pull of the program of development is car- earth-—and the rocket becomes ried out. a satellite, These predictions are based This is exactly the same on the findings of scientists who Principle that keeps the moon have been experimenting with in its much larger orbit, prerockets and rocket propulsion Venting it from falling to the for a number of years, and my arth under the pull of gravity. own experiences with the U. S. Peacetime as well as war poNavy’s Martin Viking rocket, tentials are envisioned for these the most successful high-alti- “man-made “platforms” speedtude rocket yet built in this ing around the earth nearly 400 country. miles up. Rocket men would These predictions are my per- naturally get-a great deal of sonal opinions, as the Martin satisfaction just for the mere Company is not working on any accomplishment of making a satellite project. satellite, ” ~ ou
THE VIKING already has at-
"™® ing the surface of the earth and reporting on a scope what is going on. No one anywhere could start anything within view of the satellite without that fact being instantly relayed to viewers at the receiving station. The present Viking rocket,
After that comes the earth satellite development. Such a rocket may have a weight as little as 20 tons (which would provide little payload) or go as high as 100 tons with propellants now available and using techniques which have with which I have been associ- already been used in the laboated since its inception, is an ratory. outgrowth and improvement of 8» the German V-2 used during the THE SATELLITES, speeding war. It is being used by Navy around the world at 17.000 scientists to explore the upper miles per hour, would always be atmospheric regions and obtain less than an hour from amy valuable data about a little- target and could be directed to known region, that target from a control a oa station. ; THE VIKING has on two At the proper time the hombs occasions reached an altitude of could be released, or the satelmore than 105 miles above the lite itself might be the bomb. It earth's surface, a record for an could be guided to the target by American designed and built any number of methods, such single-stage rocket. A V-2 has as homing on a picture of ths gone slightly over 114 miles. target or on the heat of a Rockets, like airplanes and city. automobiles, are evolved rather Later, human beings could be slowly and each step must be shot aloft in a satellite, remainmade in proper order to reach ing up as long as there is food the ultimately dreamed-of goal. and oxygen, and return safely I envision the Viking rocket to earth, next as being a ballistic missile, While these ideas have a equipped with a guidance sys- strong “Man From Mars” flaver, tem and fitted with a warhead, the man-made earth satellite capable of striking an enemy is a real possibility in the nots target hundreds of miles away. too-distant future.
William B. Bergen « +. gives expert opinion.
vision relay station, entirely eliminating the need for coaxial cables or microwave relay stations. A single platform could relay a TV program to one-half of the world at a time. Similarly, a satellite could be on constant reconnaissance duty, with radar scanners comb-
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Let George Do lt— :
Gls Italian In-Laws Want Miracles
By JULIUS ‘HUMI NEA Staff Correspondent
jdled down, George found that a millhand in New Bedford, iz at/is painstakingly teaching Nina |July. That is, if the film will be /there were many unexpected prob- home. English and she is catching on finished by then. SALERNO, Italy, June 22 ems. To the vilagers of Passiano,! The fet that Gearge owns a fast. But any attempts to explain| “A million lire iz nofhing to be
y % , i the real facts of life in the U. 8. sneezed at,” says George. —When George Fortin, a 35- where George met and later mar-/1940 Studebaker probably “els are usually interrupted with ques-| y ge year-old ex-GI from New ried Nina, the former tank trooper him above the ayarage Italian in'tijons about skyscrapers, de luxe |U Fellowships Go Bedford, Mass., returned to|seems like a knight in shining their eyes. Even Nina, whose automobiles and movie queens. |
the village of Passiano in|armor. (farthest trip has been 50 miles| A recent letter from a Roman 10 3 Hoosier Students
to Naples, is convinced that she] Gh f , {movie company to the newlyweds, Times State Service te southern Italy to marry the Already all members of the win go to live in a country where | fort op y o Qn Aid BLOOMINGTON, June 22 — {Farano family, both male and fe-|milk and honey flow freely. She Clering them one million 2 Bir he net. String NS VRE he mdle, have given their portrait|/believes that George, whom she ($1300) to appear ih a feature Three Hoosiers have been awarda os A g photos to George with strict in-/first met as a soldier whose pock-(short entitled “The Soldier Re- ed fellowships for the coming “It can happen,” they whis- Structions to get them published Sis bulged with candies and hose turned” only confirmed the vyil-|School year at Indiana Unive pered, as they rushed to search|in U.S. papers, with the news that ry In he InduDy oe in to lagers’ opinion that George Fortin| James J. Overholt, a. for American addresses of long they were willing to go to America) Bedford, as he indubitably is to 15 indeed. & shan of great nA student from North ter, foréotten soldiers fon the slightest invitation. They|Passiano. is in great influence. iy oy 0 chosen as the best 3 8 iia a, ' . all fondly believe that “George Only one thing worries the) But George is optimistic ‘thatiat Uf and awarded a $1000 fe But to tiny, doll-like Nine Far- wii see to it.” jbride: “Is ft true that American Nina will adjust herself to her ship by the National Theatre ano, who wag a child of 10 when " x x reporters and photographers are new life. They will live for aiterence. : : %
she kisse » by se 3 : : i tt ns?" y : . : she kissed George goodby ven THE FARANOS, who own a more insistent than Italians she while with Groiges mother at| 1, the School of Business. most normal thing in the world. small grocery store in Passiano, am" a | The State Department has just ¢
“He promised, didn't he?” she would be hard to convince that GEOR is perplexed and IW Ct that the papers for explains. : [they are at least as well off ‘in happy with’ the idea Nina and his wife are coming through, & After the initial citement| their mountain village as George, her family have of erica. Heithey hope to sail sometime
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