Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1951 — Page 13
“Ameriéana Irobtadl.., By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK; uly 4-We have recently mo from a neighborhood which was too ly Hivjed blood to a little dirty dead-end street in ‘Greenwich ‘Village, and it has been a howling success. Already I have wageds-and Jost-—a battle with the neighbors. That is what T like about the Village. People seem to enjoy fighting, Inthe midtown East Side. they just sneer at eachother and maybe kick each other's French poodles. Down here they holler and cuss and belt each other in the eve. The edged wit is not practiced, and tnere is no dainty dueling. > & > FOR EXAMPLE, I was playing the t pewriter with the window open the other mornidg, about 2 a.m. and it probably sounded like a team of draft horses clattering over a tin bridge. A loudmouthed dame across the court stuck her head out of the window and bellowed: “Shut off that thisandthat typewriter!” “Aw, drop dead,” said I, ever the little genileman. “Muzzle thaf suchandse machine or I call the theseandthose cops,” remarked this demure bundle of fluff, in a voice easily audible in Newark. “Call the theseandthose cops,” tinuing to. pound. * SS SO SHE CALLED the cops. The cops came. They flashed a light into the office window. I made a rude remark about cops who flash lights into the office windows of sober, industrious citizens. We then have a fine argument. on civil liberties, the result of which is still pending. . It seems to me that a man who is working in his own home on a hot night has just as much right to run a mill with the windows open as, say, a drunk has the right to bawl obscenities on the sidewalk at 3 a.m. This was a nightly circumstance back on H4th St., as Bill's Gay Nineties regurgitated its boozy customers. The hackies
said I, con-
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, July 4-1 may be a gents’ room journalist, but on a recent trip to Paris I went to the most famous ladies’ room in the world. Yes, I, country boy that I am, trod the sacred tile floor of the enormous bathroom where the late Elsie Mendl used to serve coffee to prime ministers and even a king. Sir Charles Mend! invited me in. My Beautiful Wife wasn't invited, Maybe I had better be honest and say that I wasn't rea'ly invited, either. I invited myself. As soon as I blew into. Paris, T phoned Sir Charles at 10 Avenué D'Ienna and asked myself over. “The bathroom is not kept up quite the same by my new wife, but you shall see. it,” Sir Charles, a bridegroom at 81, said when he discovered my passionate interest in educating myself by a firsthand study of the snootier bathrooms. “By the way, I guess in America they thought me marrying a girl of 35 was a bit thick, didn’t they?” he chuckled. “I'm sure Elsie would added, speaking of the first Lady Mendl wouldn't have wanted me to be lonely.” a & <> oo
THEN Sir Charles said: “Give me a hand up, will you? For he uses a cane now and has not been well. And off we went to the bahth—and I'll ask vou to bear in mind that we were now in the roof apartment of the one-time palace of Prince Roland Bonaparte. Pretty good for a boy from Ohio, hey? Of course the new Lady Mendl wasn't In the hahth when I went in, not that there'd been anything wrong with such an idea, for it was like a gitting room. . The new Laay Mend Just happengd fo be out “I,can’t keep track of her! Sir Charles said. She isa shapely Belgian brunet named Yvonne Reilly, or has lived -in Hollywood, where Sir Charles now has a home that he has leased to Pat Di Cicco. “Here we are, entered. I stopped and gasped. “A fireplace vet!” I said. There was a long lew couch, once covered with zebra skins. Artificially aged mirrors with black dolphins and merma’ds on them. The faucets and water taps were the graceful heads of swans,
have approved,” he “She
ar
sir!” Sir Charles said as we
Outside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
Defends Typewriter Clatter at. 2 a. m.
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cursed and screamed, and the drunks hoHered and
bickered, but no cops ever came, : + |
DOWN HERE in the Village the lushes litter the streets, and the happily married people battle into the dawn, andthe radios blare and the lovers quarrel and make up on the sidewalks. We have just had a religious festival in which they touched off blockbuster-sized firecrackers, until it sounded like London during the blitz. There is a garish |
-carrousel running around the corner. And there
are at least five million love-starved cats. We have one neighbor who throws pails of hot water on people. We have another who plays nothing but Italian opera recordings for hours. We have a loud plano player. We have an endless parade of panhandlers and bums and slummers. They all enrich the general din, > > »
NOW I CLAIM the right to hit a typewriter as my contribution to the babel. I have as much
right to clatter the keys as’ a man has to own |
tomcats with delusions of Tito Schipa. I am every bit as good as a panhandler full of canned heat; every bit as good as a fancier of Italian opera; every bit as good as a firecracker shooter, as a piano player. as a merry-go-round operator, or a lady who profanely drenches passers-by with | steaming water. I pay taxes: I gob rights. So I intend the slap those keys unti! 5 a. m., it I desire, with the window open, if I wish, because it is hot in the summer and I earn my oats with an Underwood. I will write columns, novels, short stores, biographies, poems. magazine articles, radio scripts, plays and dirty limericks, if I feel in the mood for it, And the next cop to show up around here gets the hot-water treatment. Not from the lady next door, either. Clatter-clatter-bang-crash! The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled ’ peppers! They'll never take me alive.
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Country Boy Visits A Famous Bathroom
THERE WERE EASY chairs there, one of which King Fuad of Egypt. Winston Churchill and others had squatted in while having coffee with Lady Mendl . “But what about the ... err... .err...2" want to know. It was there. Along the side wf the wall was a large deep bathtub of marble. Behind a screen was the plumbing, both American and French style, part of which had come down from Marie Antoinette. “She loved white flowers” Sir Charles said. “Had the bahthroom filled with them.” The new T.ady Mendl seems to prefer red flowers. There was a little telephone stand and a fat Paris phone book in reach. Lady Mendl, one of the most famous of decorators, had designed such an exquisite bathroom that dignitaries heard about it and begged to he shown it after dinner, Thus it was that she and her guests used to sit around and chat about this and that just as though they were in a parlor. Perhaps the new Lady Mendl will become famous for other things. Already she has created a stir by gold dust on her nude shoulders at a ball. “And now I'll show you where the poor peogle live.” Sir Charles said. He led me down a hall. “Here ig my bahthroom.” he said. It was I'ke most bathrooms except that its window looked cut on the Eiffel Tower. “I ean sit out on my here and think I'm in California,’ FE *
YES, IT Ww AS one of the most elegant places I've ever seen. On the mantel w the living room, =1 saw pictures of Sir Charles’ great friends, Joan Fontaine, ahd Arlene Dahl and Tex ‘Barker, who ‘were his guests recently, However, it had a“ certain American touch: On the way out, I noticed, on a stand in the foyer, a bottle of a well- advertised American air freshener.
you
wearing
terrace on a warm day ' he =aid.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: An alcoholic, says Kirby Stone,
is a fellow to whom two pints make one snort.
Snob TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Donald Richards says that fools rush in where angels fear to wed. . . . That's Earl, brother.
Does Iron Curiain
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Hide Dirty Linen?
cies and put out attractive and
Continued From Page One BUT WHAT I= the matter : him you'll try to stay in hi® | with the countries behind the appealing pamphlets welcomcountry at least three months: Iron Curtain? ¢ ing the visitor? And then there are the north : wl rx A = countries, the low countries. It Don’t the Iron Curtain coun- SURELY the Russians and
is absolutely - fantastic how much pride these people have for their homelands. On the way over I met a German, gofng back to his birthplace in Western Germany. “How can you spend so manw weeks in Europe and not visit Germany?” he asked. All these people want me to gee the beauty of their countrv. They want to show off what their people are doing, the heritage that is theirs, the
| ing on? cult, they hide?
enjoy Ukranian
seeing
tries have anything to show us? Are they proud of what is go-
Why are they so diffiso suspicious?
If life is supposed to be so good in Russia, if are so well off, why don’t they invite the world in to see? I'd like to know. Maybe you would
wheat charm”of Bucharest. What is the food like in Mos-
their satellites have something they would be proud of showing the world. The Kremlin is trying hard to sell or force on the rest of the world commu- -
nism. There are a lot of things in Europe that I wouldn't give you an inflated nickel for. I think we have these people beat .a thousand different ways. We may not have tradition of a sort, we may not have priceless works of‘ art painted by world famous artists who lie
What do
the people
the the
Moscow, fields,
beauty of their land, the | cow? What about the trans- yy.jeq within walking distance warmth and friendliness of portation, the hotels? Why | of your hotel. We have a lot their people. don’t they set up tourist agen- to learn, true. but what we do,
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what we have, our merits and | our faults, the world can see and judge. The way 1 see this Iron Curtain or Blind Curtain, whatever you want to call it, it's up because there is dirty linen
| hanging on the line. Dirty linen in itself is not a crime. You can see it hanging in the best "of homes. But when that gate or that so-called neighbor won't invite you in, then he's no neighbor and he's up to no good. { We've tried to be neighborly | during World War II. Many | American boys lost their delivering help. What thanks [| do we get for it? Are we invited for a cup of tea? Do we | get an excuse for not being invited? | ~ » n | LET THE COMMIES talk | and rant and rave_all they They still can’t explain they won't let anyone In Why don't I.see in New York, or in Cleveland, Peoria, Toledo, the fabulous Russian worker on a holiday? Why can't I answer his questions as to direction, help him find his way?
| want, | why or out,
Englishmen in France, Greeks, Italians, Swedes, Irish tourists on the Continent. Where is the | Russian? I see American tour- | ists, driving American cars | everywhere. And believe it or | not, whether it's the buck or | not, they're welcome. { On Independence Day, 1951, | I'in asking myself some of these questions, You can’t make me believe there isn't something
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the Iron Curtain. If there ian't,.
ai | why don’t they pull it away so }
I ean see? Or is it so ugly after Mayor LaGuardia closed up formers to cut off the set when I! girl. "because I they know free people would: 'the leading temples of the bump, | turn their Beads? ~ "and grind. |up.
lives.’
1 see Frenchmen in England, |
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Troops of 3st Infantry Regiment use makeshift span they constructed over a small river on Korea's
Your Years After Forty—
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L CHAPTER FOVR “
By JANET BAIRD
Executive Director.
Foundation for Forty-Plux Living
A patient in his sixties, with a chronic heart condition, recently askéd his physician for advice about his
marital relations.
His question and the fact that his doctor could find
no satisfactory answer for cates how rapidly our ideas Medical text books, written no more than fifteen
years ago, do not take into account either the need or the possibility of mature men and women expecting guidance in sex activities, following the onset of what too many of us still call the ‘diseases of old age.” In the past we have tended to write off such diseases as “just a natural part of growing old.” In too many cases little has been done to correct them. Doctors themselves have | often told patients: “Well, you've got to expect these things when you get along in years.” " n o BUT NOW, many men are themselves reaching the age of 65, 70 or even 80. They have little taste for the dull sedentary life they once prescribed for their patients, So their attitude is changing. In hoth medical and econom-
medical
je thinking we have tried to lump “older people” together as a special group, ‘different’ from other people, not subject
to the same physical and emotional needs. We have tried to make them conform to our ideas of what they wanted and needed, instead of trying to find out the truth about what happens to all of us as we mature. We have acted as though we
it in medical literature,
indiabout old age ‘are changing.
NOTE: This is the fourth of six articles directed to men and women of forty and upward,
thought of age itself as a disfase, On 3 recent trip to Florida J] met a 76-year-old friend of mine who might have been committed to an empty, useless life 10 years ago according to former medical thinking. At 66 his physician might have told him, “you're gettting along in years, give up most of your activities, plan to take it easy.” Instead, he gave him a careful physical overhaul, checked the danger points and established him on a sensible health program. When I met him last winter he was on a motor tour with his former college sweetheart, who
had recently become his 75-vear-old bride bd n » HE SAID het had never heen 0 happy, and it was evident that they were having a glorious time,
As human heings we all want ton live a long time. but, none of us wants to grow old. It is indeed strange that we view the process with such alarm and that maturity seems to come to us with such a shock. We start aging from the mo-
central front. Allies pushed Chinese Reds back across Nangang River, 26 miles north of the 38th Parallel,
wi, PRP i ment we are born, The DTOBRSS goes hand jh handwith the attainment of knewledge, skill and experience. It is a process that should continue all our lives. Age is not something that ‘sets in” at any given time. It is going on all the time. It can and should be a process of enrichment and fulfillment.: Americans over the age of 65 will soon number 20 million. They are now approaching their harvest years with the greatest expectancy for healthy, productive maturity ever known in human history. With modern medicine as their staunchest ally they can enjoy an active, interesting life for years to come. ” ” ~ IN RELYING however, IT am not suggesting they become “hangers on’ in a doctor's waiting room. Hypochondria—the exaggerated concern about one’s health can be as injurious to a person as an actual disease. The wise thing to do is to have regular physi-”~ cal checkups, follow the -program your physician prescribes and let common sense be your guide, Take the “Case of the Morgan Brothers.” Kd Morgan is a big blustery hail - fellow - well - met type, a magnificent salesman, His brother, James, was a morose lonely fellow, wha never allowed himself to enjoy anything wholeheartedly. He devoted all his efforts to “taking care’ of himself. Fifteen ‘years ago Fd was warned that he had high blood pressure. It was suggested he modify his schedule so he could get more sleep. He was put on an easy weight reduc-
on ‘medicine,
‘So That's What Happened to Burlesque?’
Televiewers Flood FCC With Complaints About Programs
By JAMES DANIEL Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 4
the unexpected effects of
vision upon American home life quaint old
that custom writing letters. Angry
is a revival of
out their complainis to the Fed-
eral Communications Commission here in volume which has top TV
moguls worried.
Complaints about liquor
| however, are believed to
(organized prohibition faction,
“,. 4 $ TOPPING the list of apparently
spontaneous complaints is the cry
One of tele-
televiewers are pouring
ad{vertising hold a slight lead. These, reflect the activities of a small but well-
Thev're on television, the writer said, Used to be, he went on, that a growing boy couldn't-see this kind of stuff until he got big enough tn earn himself the price of a ticket, Now, says the writer, junior gets it served up with the
Blurbs about hreakfast cereal. » ” ”
SCANTINESS of tuming on television is a repeated complaint. One lady saw evidence in a female comic's garb of a “complete failure of the cotton and flax crops, and a plague among the silk worms.” An old codger in Pennsylvania said he'd been hanging around
female cos-
stage shows for 50 years, without ever- seeing as much female anat-
that there is entirely too much omy as he had observed on tele-
indecency, obscenity or profanity What may be funny in a night club is apt tyme as the
in the TV programs.
to be just plain dirt in the home, the wrifers say.
+/did not have on,” he sald.
vision shows. He and his cronies now speak of a certain star's cos“dress she almost
A Georgia father wrote:
A New Yorker wrote that he have two small children and it's A had always wondered what be- come to the point that T try ta ethics or good taste. came of the burlesque performers keep one jump ahead of the per-
crank or narrow-minded. But it
THE TELEVISION commer.
ing diet. Hé followed his ane tor's orders but kept right on with his work, happily sélling scores of tractors. Poor James, horrified to learn that high blood pressure ran in the family, worried more than ever. He foreswore all exercise, gave up all interesting and. well seasoned food and even abandoned his one love, his pipe. He literally pampered himself to death ten years ago.
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FOUR YEARS AGO Ed married for the second time, and a new generation of Morgans has started. 3 a Every doctor's files have cases like these stories of the wise men and women who have come to terms with their limitations and are living satisfying, productive lives, and the frustrating accounts of other patients who fail to see all of life a= a constant and everchanging pattern of personal growth and development.
... In the introduction to the recent book “These Harvest Years” Dr. Martin Gumpert,
the internationally known medical authority, sets= forth six simple suggestions avoiding the dangers and capitalizing on the advantages that the years can bring. Dr. Gumpert Keep up physical and mental activity without intermission. Acquire new skill, new interests, new knowledge all the time. Our greatest danger lurks in the habits of stagnation and resignation. Never let it be said that yon are doing more and mare things for the last time. Reverse the process so vou are doing more and more things for the first time.
says:
etrist was ception of man with a
and a most expensive type of voice who lied like a trooper with.
out uttering a
Indignant at the de“a handsome gentle-
very sincere manner
single false word all for the. purpose of selling me his brand of toothpaste.” The same writer wanted a con-
ference with the FCC to discuss
curbs on TV advertising. The
airways are public property, he said, and “the twisting and turning and weasling” which could!” be tolerated in private media] have no place in television. The great increase in murger| programs, accompanied by a decline In educational and public
affairs programs, gets under the|
sking df many parents. One father counted 40 murders which
his moppet was exposed to in|
one week, He was inclined to
«yp apepars that the networks and helieve the story of the little, ithe local statione have lost anyihoy who
when
night, asked, “who shot him?" A woman writer, obvl-
sense something smutty coming clals cause about one-third of the ously from somewhers west of 1 don’t consider nyset &jcompiaints, Ady IN Voie Mississippi, was incensed at
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informed. that grandpa had passed away in the
cross ‘Bridge’ In Korea
in an important action, threatening the enemy's last major east-west highway network south of Wonsan.
The Danger Is In Stagnation
Save vour enfrgy possible. Try to reach the same’ goal with a smaller expenditure of effort and physical strength. Heed the danger signals of overfatigue, drowsiness, ness of breath, perspiration and
headaches The older person can do what the vounger can, but he may need a little more time. Get rid of the idea that retirement is vour aim in life. We should never retire. Aban don a boring or overstrenuous routine job if vou like, but put a better and more stimulating activity in its place ” n n PLAN TO lengthen vour Intervals of rest and shorten the periods of exercise. l.ater on yon may want to divide vour
day into equal periods of energy output and rest but don't overdo either. Too much rest can be as damaging as too little. Avoid a monotonous and tasteless diet. Give vourself a period the way
“warming up” trained athletes do to make the
most of your physical energy. Don't neglect the common sense rules of godd health and good hygiene Above all 2yolq boredom..and monotony Ma iin the standard of your personal appearance and improve vou manners with age. Be generous and tolerant Watch ont for POLE On on vest or hlonse! Sloppine 3 often the first ign of a de - teriorating personality Next: "Age 40—Size [K." Some tips to Forty Plussers on how to dress by Svivia Hamilton, fashion consultant for the Foundation for Forty. Plus Living. (Copyrigh 19 Fea °
the cowboy
programs. She asked whether children are to conclude that there was nothing else in the building of the Weat except gun fights, posses and crooked sheriffs.” : A numher of letter writer avy they can't undsrstand why the FCC tolerates the degrading antics,” “vulgar double entendres' and “downright indecency” which comes over their television sets.
If the situation doesn't improve, many. add, their sets are going back to the fiance company.
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