Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1951 — Page 11
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It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, July 10—With an angry toss of her famous figure, Mae West snorted, “ ‘Come up and sue me some time’ is the new American slogan.” ih Mae, who was In a low-sliced negligee (pink) asked me: “Have YOU been sued lately?” I 'sdmitted shamefacedly, sitting there in her Rotel suite, chaperoned by her brother Jack, that I hadn't been able to get anybody to do me the favor. © “I's a nuisance—a damn nuisance,” Mae fretted. The gag, “I'll be suing you,” is no joke to her, she said. ? ® ¢ o
SHE BEGAN counting on her be-diamonded fingers the suits against her. She sald the law should be changed to prevent just any publicity-grabber with a publicitygrabbing lawyer from suing somebody. “One sult against me,” she said, $10,000,000. _ “One of the fellahs suin’ me died and the other just blew away. Two other fellahs who sued me are doin’ time. ' “Then this girl that says she’s my protegee ... My God, I need her like you need a broken leg or somethin’, you know what I mean. “Yet I gotta go up there and hire regal legal talent and pay regal legal money for it. In England before you can sue, you gotta post a bond.” . * < o
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MAE, her sultry voice still as sultry as ever, even though she does resort to glasses to read, is now on the subway circuit, playing at the Windsor this week, the Brighton next week. She said she hoped to see her classic, “Diamond Lil,” made into an opera some time. “Of course I won't appear in it,” Mae said. “A lotta people don’t give much thought to the story when I'm in it—I guess I gen’lly detract from it. But I think the play can stand by itself.”
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& THE MIDNIGHT EARL: They say Gen. Ike is NOT urging. well-meaning friends to stop plugging him for President—isn’t that significant? .,. The
‘Americana By Robert C. Ruark
' NEW YORK, July 10—I swear to John, these women seem hell-bent to put themselves out of business. They have tampered with their basic attractiveness until you wonder if there isn’t some sort of plot afoot to depopulate the globe. This current craze to saw off the crowning glory at the roots is part of it. This is an old song, but I shall chant you another verse. Come here, little bristly headed baby, and pillow the crew-cut on yo’ daddy's chest. But give us no talk about let us take the hair down. There is more hair on poppa’s chest than there is on_ your little knotty knob. Buried deep in my personal lock-box is a brown-speckled = photo of your correspondent, taken at gunpoint when he was a fast 5 years old. His hair is cropped in a kind.of porridgepot bob, an inch above his adequate ears. Our hero also has bangs to go with his Buster Brown collar. : od A MORE frightful-looking. child I never saw. And you know something? I was prettier then than most of these. freshly shorn females are today. That particular hairdo looked just as well on a little, fat, freckled boy as it does on a mature woman. It would look just as well on a French poodle, fer that matter, : It is a peculiar thing, but short hair alway
: has beep associated with unpleasantness, and I
do not exclude Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads.
"=... For centuries. the mark of disapproval of female PLM:
carryings-on has been a lock=#ie emoiselie resembled a dandelion in a high wind: Head-shaving was common during the last war,
~In=France and Italy, as punishment for lassies
who went out socially with the Germans. Funny, how insanity, criminality and the close haircut go along together. About the first thing they do to mad ladies, when they clap them into the silly hatch, is to snip off extraneous hair. The new-mown sconce used to be the badge of the convicted crook. In both cases the barbers were shooting for sanitation, but the stigma was there.
Outside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovola
PARIS, July 10—Travel agents in the States don't emphasize the idea of traveling light strongly enough. Too many tourists are finding out the hard way. I realize a great many of their customers wouldn't take the advice if it were given with the aid of a baseball
Mae Sa ys Now Its ‘Come Up and Sue Me’
new Empire State building owners could sell for $60 million—$10 million’ profit—but foresee big TV rental coin and probably won't . , . Milton Berle’s about to hire Comedian Jackie Gleason's ex-writers, Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen, for big money. They just parted from Gleason, and with Berle and Gleason feudin’, it's a natural © @ : GOOD RUMOR MAN: Jacques Pils’ French crooning at La Vie En Rose is the town’s newest cafe wallop. John Jacob Astor and steady date Kay Kehoe cheered his opening. Likeéwise Jerri Higgins and her new romance, Arthur Brown . .. Elise Rhodes is a featured singer on TV's “Market Melodies.” > B'WAY BULLETINS: Casey Stengel insists to those who want to argue that Mickey Mantle DOESN'T need more minor league experience .. When Arthur Godfrey gave Herb Shriner advice about handling his Monday TV show while he's in Paris, he said, “Remember one thing--—don’t rehearse.” eld ALL OVER: Denise Darcel, the movie star, returns in triumph to New York next week after her big Hollywood success . . , Loyalty oaths are now demanded by landlords of some tenants on the E. Side near the United Nations . , . Lou Walters may reopen the Cafe Theater—just across B'way from his Latin Quarter. cS WISH I'D SAID THAT: “If clothes do rot make the man, why do the ladies spend so much money on them?” Leonard M. Leonard. & EARL'’S PEARLS: Maurice Turet says a wellknown tight-wad (not Jack Renny) surprised a Lindy’s waiter by giving him a tip. But even so, the horse lost!
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o> Sb GROUCHO MARX explained, “I met my wife at a travel bureau. She was looking for a vacation and I wag the last resort.” , . . That's Earl, brother. :
Crew-Cropped Women Give Bob the Willies
IN THE FRENCH Foreign Legion, they have a disease called le cafard. It means, literally, that the cockroach has burrowed into the brain, rendering its owner insane. It is a disease induced by boredom. One of the first symptoms of le cafard is a predisposition to shave the head, paint it red, white and blue, and describe oneself as a barberpole. I wouldn't be a nickel's worth surprised to see a red-white-and-blue daubed skull under a bonnet on Fifth Ave. any day now.
I have no real sentimentality about hip-length
hair, nor do I crave to trample barefoot through .
the locks of my beloved. As long as they make elevators I have no need for a Rapunzel, but it sure would be nice if they left enough up top to tell the hims from the hers. The close-clipped thatch has ever been the mark of the female misfit who wears dungarees, writes bad poetry in Greenwich Village, and nicknames herself Tony or Mike. .
dp. = BUT WITH the current close-cut fashion littéring barbershops with the sundered tresses of the debutante and matron, it’s tough to say whether the lady in question models for Powers or rows stroke oar for Columbia.
If I were a romantic youth, just burning to endow a damsel with lifelong board, room and tender conversation, I would fight a little shy of these cropped-skull cuties. I would go out and
./beat the bushes for a babe with enodigh frie fa { her sex to maintain at Jeast a formal amount of |
face-foliage. I am’ plump scafed of short-haired ‘women. They generally wind up smoking pipes and quoting Proust at you. : Come to think of it, I never knew an ironjawed woman’ executive or an acid-faced old maid who didn't take a dull butcher knife and haggle off her hair just above the Plimsoll line. The only romantic heroine I can recall who had a crew-cut was Hemingway's Maria in “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and the Spanish Fascists did it to her as an insult.
Tip to the Tourist— ‘Travel Light, Chum’
them every day and Joe Blows all look alike. What a fine feeling it is to be able to grab your bags, head for.the exit, hop a cab and wave to acquaintences as you pull away. You can be in your hotel before some have their luggage squared away on the
bat. If there is one bit of travel advice a person
er in Washington. She has been saving a long time to take a
platform. ¢ Pack a couple of shirts or dresses that you can wash in
ought to take to heart it’s this: If you can’t pick up all of your belongings and take off for a couple of blocks, throw stuff out until you can. For the man or woman or family with a suitcase full of greenbacks, where expense or delay does not matter, what I have to say can go in one ear taken over by a porter. Let me talk to someone who has a limited amount of time, modest folder of traveler's checks and who wants to get going as soon as he's through the customs, off a train or boat. People in England and on the Continent can spot an American a mile away, not by the way he walks, talks, gawks. They can tell him by the luggage he carries. = n o
AN AMERICAN'’S luggage is generally bigger, heavier, much more expensive looking, newer, ‘more numerous. In those bags is everything but the front porch swing, One guy will carry more clothes than some of these people have had for five years. The way we come over here you would think these ‘people are savages who don't know what hot water ig in the bathroom, never herd of soap, don't know what a pair of
socks are for and cure head: -
aches, scratches, aching leg muscles by waving a medicine stick.
I met a girl on the ship who carried enough pills, salves, lotions to start a pharmacy. There wakn’'t a day that she didn’t change her costume twice and never repeated. She had a “white, pure white, mind you, 1 coat. She also had a blue 1 coat. The blue one would have been adequate. If I was to make a guess, betting 100 bucks to come within one of being
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trip to Europe for a month, For that length of time she could have taken one large suitcase instead of the four. The gal admitted she “might have brought too much” just traveling from Washington to New York and getting on the ship. I hope she isn’t in tears right now on a platform somewhere. a zs on TOO MANY PIECES of 'luggage are a worry as well as a terrific inconvenience. Bring a lot of stuff and you're forever checking to see if it’s all there. Tickets, passport, money, wallet provide enough worry. Piling out of a train in a main station in Paris or London is a bewildering experience. You can find plenty of help there but the speed, the rush, the crowding and pushing can make an idiot out of you if you're not careful. Get your luggage on a truck and try to follow a porter
through a crowd while your |
hands are full of coats, handbags, cameras, tickets. Try it sometime when you can't remember the name of the hotel you're going to, can’t find the travel agent's list, don’t know how much the foreign money {s worth and you can't speak the language. Take a side junket sometime to a cute village you have heard about. There won’t be a porter, a taxi or anyone who gives a hill of beans whether you can’t carry your luggage or not. Possibly even if a man offered to help you'd decline. The guy looks like he could rob you blind and probably can while you powder your nose. Fine watches, expensive jewelry should be left at home. In the first place they're a nuisance because you're always worrying about losing them or having them stolen. In the second’ place, the more stuff you flash, the greater proportion of
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1 DON’T MEAN for you to look like a bum. Look presentable but don’t overdo it. You're not going to impress these peo‘ple. The porter doesn’t care
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the evening and have them dry in the. morning. Pack nylon things that need no pressing. A suit, sport coat, extra pair of trousers is all a man needs. I know from experience. A warm raincoat - topcoat outer garment is sufficient. Two pairs of shoes should be tops. Three pairs of socks will see you through if you don’t mind getting your hands soapy. Two neckties is one too many. These suggestions are for practical persons who, above all, want to see as much as they can with the least amount of strain. Forget a few of the habits you have acquired in America, It isn’t necessary to have your suit cleaned every week. The crease doesn’t have to be razor sharp. Clothes don't have to be in perfect harmony. Travel light, travel bright, chum. You don’t need half what you think you do.
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Ex-Hoosier Dies Of Injuries in
former Linton, Ind., resident, who freak accident. was
employee - here,
|smoking a pipe on the back porch
of his home. He fell onto a fence
way as he knocked ashes from his pipe against it. Mr. Knowles was treated by a doctor and released. However,
night, complained of
wards.
Princess Margaret Gets German Measles
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can see, the leading man in this group is Scott W.
Lucas, the tall bronzed lame
duck from Illinois who last year about this time was leading the fight for administration legislation in the U.'S. Senate. But the voters replaced the former Democratic floor leader with a Republican. Now the ex-Senator is a full-time practising lawyer in Washington. He is registered’with Congress as a lobbyist and is on the list of lawyers who have appeared at the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Also in the legal big leagues here, now that Maryland voters have retired him from public life, is former Senator Millard E. Tydings. Mr. Tydings has joined the flush firm of Davies, Richberg, Beebe, Landa & Richardson, one of the most formidable of the law factories in the capital city.
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IT WAS NOT a difficult trick for Mr. Tydings to vault from a Maryland constituency to this firm, since he is a son-in-law of Joseph E.- Davies, senior partner and the one-time ambassador to Russia. Mr. Tydings has not been conspicuous in doing his lawyer work before Congress or government agencies. His clientele flies higher and he is exceedingly quiet about it. Some of his associates, however, are registered as lobbyists. Then there is former Sena-
KOREAN COUNTRYSIDE—The knocked-out British Centurion tank and the packed belongings of a
TUESDAY, JULY. 10, 1951
They Keep Waddling Along—
tor Francis J. Myers of Pennsylvania, who was the assist ant floor leader in the Senate until his defeat last year. Mr. Myers has not barged out on the scale of his fellow casualties—Messrs. Lucas and Tydings. He has a small office here, with an office manager and a stenographer. And he gets to town only a day or two every couple of weeks. His main law business, Mr. Myers says, is in his home town of Philadelphia. He did register as a lobbyist to appear before recent Congressional hearings on credit controls. He was against them. =» o on
IF THIS WOULD seem to put Mr. Myers in the position of opposing legislation which last year he was helping prod through the Senate, the former Senator doesn’t see it that way. He says the credit regulations to which he objected were imposed by the Federal Reserve Board. And while this was done under a law of Congress which Mr. Myers had a part in framing, he says the actual regulation was not contemplated at the time. Mr. Myers says he is being cautious about the kind of cases he takes in Washington. And he cites examples of cases he rejected to back up his position. He recently turned down a large retainer, he ‘said, because he thought the main purpose
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PAUL V. McNUTT—he hired
a full floor.
was to enlist his senatorial influence rather than his legal ability. “Legal cases, involving question of law which can be argued on that.basis,” he said, “I will take. But I don't want anything which might give the impression that I am trying to throw my weight around or put in a fix.”
fF] o u OTHER EX-SENATORS who have stayed on to practice law
LONDON, July 10 (CDN)-—Be-|by Dec. 31 will depend on lots of tools to other pact countries in {connection with the military aid
died of injuries he received in a cause the U. 8. and other Atlantic | Pact nations can’t agree on how
Mr. Knowles, a construction moh everybody should pay, Westcompany
things.
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U. 8. Share? The failure to date is due large-
ern Europe's defenses are still ly to reluctance on France's part
hamstrung by a lack of airdrome rail when the porch railing gave that can handle jet fighters.
s|to pay the entire bill. for air-| |dromes which are for the use of| funds from its armaments budg-
program it should pay something less than 25 per cent of the cost.
Post-Election Spunk
While the haggling match continues France has made available
Jet fighters require runways the U. 8. Britain and other pactiet on a “provisional basis” so '8000 feet long compared to the countries.
5000 feef of the
he became ill again Sunday mid- bomber strip. stomach,
deputies has been arguing nearly
that some airdrome construction
old-fashioned! The North Atlantic Council of is actually going on.
With the elections out of the
{three morths about how much way the French government is
Plans for Western Europe's de-the 1, 8. and other pact coun- also showing a little more spunk
system France,
of super-runways Belgium,
West Germany. This involves the supreme
Headquarters,
pains and died shortly after- fense “in depth” call for a vast ries should chip in. It is one crit- about, condemning land needed in'jcal angle of the larger probHolland and jem on how all Atlantic Pact and Communist Party has made hay Allied among the peasantry by encour-
for the new runways. The French
extension of many existing run- Powers in Europe expenses should aging their naturally bitter re-
ways and the creation of some LONDON, July 10 (UP)—Prin- new airdromes. vile cess Margaret has the German! Scores of such runways should Uncle Sam to pay 80 per cent of uckingham Palace an- have been built in France by the the bill, with minor: contributions
lend of 1951.
. The 20-year-old Princess will be confined to her palace bed “for a total of 12 ready by Aug. 15— healthy contribution but feels than half of what was ex- that in view of its large contri
the time being,” the announce-|less Ww = pected. How many will be'eady butions of arms and
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sentment against “confiscation”
The French. appear to want of their land. ls
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The U. 8. i willing to make a
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Korean family trekking south are still familiar scenes in a country torn by more than a year of war—even
These airdromes have been pre-: pared by the U. 8. at its own ey
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SCOTT W. LUCAS — regis-
tered as a lobbyist.
include Claude Pepper of Florida, who in 1948 considered himself a candidate for Presi-
dent, and Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. Sheridan Downey, former
Senator from California who decided not to run again last year, is registered with Congress as a lobbyist for the State of California. But otherwise he is not conspicuous hereabouts. Mr. Thomas sits in a small office—part of a whole floor hired by Paul V. McNutt, the Hoosier who has been ambassador, manpower director, vice presidential candidate, etc., and rolled them all into a fine law practice. His main concern, Mr. Thomas says, is two books he
Freak Mishap 'Who-Pays Query Slows Pact Jet Airdromes
(UP)—Services were planried to-| day for Gilbert Knowles, 36, a|
While progress is regarded as a military secret by the public relations department of SHAPE and by the French ministry of defense, it is carefully chroni-
cled by the Communist Human-}
ite. No Argument The delay in airdrome construction in metropolitan France has not affected work in Morocco. Here the U. 8. has created two modernized operational bases at Rabat and Casablanca and is reported planning a third.
pense, without any argument.
split. The U. 8. now has the use
of eight bases es In England.
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MILLARD E. TYDINGS—rel-
atives got him in.
is writing, one on money and one on his “40 years as a-Leg-islator.” But he's open for law business, except, he says, at his age (74) he doesn't want any cases which take a long time,
“OKLAHOMA has a lot of business here and I thought I could help out,” he said. “I've been doing things for people out there for many years for nothing. I can do a lot of things here for my friends.”
When the long session of Congress ended last year, all of these then Senators looked gaunt and weary. Not now. Every one looks healthy, dapper and contented.
Including, in particular, Claude Pepper, perhaps the eagerest beaver of them ajl. And the most voluble—which makes it logical to deal with him in a separate article.
Mars Retouches A Pastoral Scene— -
though they talk cease-fire in Kaesong.
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Soviet Air Force
. General Dies MOSCOW, July 10 (UP)—Red Star, official armed forces publication, today announced the death
|of Lt. Gen. Vasily Georgievich Similarly there has been no! It is reported new strips are trouble about American bomber ready or nearly ready at Metz, bases in England. These are deStrasbourg and Luxeuil in the veloping as a joint Anglo-Amer-Vosges Mountains, Coulombiers ican operation, outside the At40 miles east of Paris and Cha-!lantic Pact, and the expenses are teauroux 100 miles soughwest of
Ryazanov, 50, noted air force commander and a rahking Ukrainian Communist. The cause of death was not given. 3 Nine | prominent Russian poet
Paviovna Sakonskaya,
Lame Ducks Clog Up Washington -
By KERMIT McFARLAND Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, July 10-—Senators neither die nor fade away just because the voters turn them out. Five of the Senators rooted out of their seats in last | year's election still are conspicuous on the Washington scene. All have set up offices here. From the standpoint of business, as far as a lay eye
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