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Outside Indianapolis By Ed Soveola COVENTRY, England, Aug. 1—Lady Godiva's home town is known as the Detroit of England. The English tell you that. : Coventry may be the automobile center of the British Isles but most of people engaged in their manufacture ride bicycles. Shocking situation to an American. : I had the good fortune to visit two plants of the Rootes Group which produce the Humber, Hillman, Minx, Sunbeam:Talbot, Commer and Karrier. > Hb "
PEOFLE who should know production figures don’t want to talk about them. They tell you it isn't fair to make a comparison with American production figures. Uncle Sam is the biggest producer in the world, they know it, we know it, and let's let it go at that.
Not being a production man, the attitude is all right with me. Besides; I was more interested in the number of bicycles parked on the grounds of the plants. > : Under tin-roofed shelters, leaning practically upright on the hind wheels, were long rows of bicycles. Thousands of bicycles. The sales ° representative of Humber, Ltd.,, who was acting as my guide, laughed when I expressed my surprise In good old American slang. I told him in Detroit a, car for the worker was almost a necessity. - The first thing a guy wants when he goes to work is a car. That applies for the worker in an automobile plant and for the meat packer, firemun, railroader. > > WHY DO SO MANY ride bicycles? There were several reasons, In the first place, the laboring man can’t afford to buy a car. Secondly, if he could afford the price, he couldn't get delivery. For the sake of an argument, if the two above conditions could be met, the laboring man, the so-called average man, would find it very
It Happened Last Nig By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Aug. 1—Joe DiMaggio’s home runs—just when the sports writers were saying he was through—got Joe's roomie, Gentleman Georgie Solotaire, all excited. “When they start burying Joe,” said “Georgie, “Joe starts burying them in the stands.” oo o < .
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BERT LAHR, famous as a worrier, is in a, big hit tow, “Two On the Aisle,” but, according to a story going around, when he was congratulated, he groaned and said: “Yeah, but what am I going to be doing next season?” @ 4S , JACK E. LEONARD (of B'way Open House TV) tells about a glib B'wayite who came homé late and told his wife he’d been sitting up with
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“What was his name?” demanded his wife. ° Replied the husband: “He was too sick/ to, tell me,” . . ; iS oo < o&
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JOE FRISCO, now at the Latin Quarter, was sitting around the Pickarib, a swell hangout for rib-l1overs, talking about that cynical city, Las Vegas. ; Two skeptical citizens, considering the purchase of an undertaking parlor, looked it over. They found 11 dead persons being embalmed. “Pretty good business,” commented one of the cynics as they left. “Eleven corpses.” “What d’ya mean 11?” demanded the other. “Only one was dead. Ten of ’em were shills.”
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difficult to operate an auto because of the taxes, high. cost of petrol, insurance. : o Should you want to carry the reasons for the bicycles further, the wage earner doesn’t have a place to park a car. Until the present time, Eng- - lish homes have been jammed together and no provisions have been made for cars. Newer homes have garages. Even an Englishman would think a long time before he put out the equivalent of 35 weekly paychecks for ‘a small car only to have it set out in the open and rust: The. sales representative "said ‘the average weekly paycheck for the worker th the Rootes Group was 10 pounds ($30) and that was above the average scale for the country at large. In one of the machine shops I asked a worker if he owned a car. The man laughed and
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IT IS TRUE an American can buy an English car. It also is true that If you are coming to this country, you can make arrangements in New York with an English representative to have the car waiting for you in England when you dock. It will be. full of gasoline and ready to ‘drive away. How come? England needs to build up her coffers and the only way she~can do that is by exporting ther goods. She needs the dollar, us Production methods are like ours, In fact much of what the English do has been patterned after Detroit. But for the life of me, I can’t see why a guy in the States would want an English car for anything except the novelty value. That's exactly what I told my guide. Reluctantly he agreed. Dollar for dollar, whether you want comfort or economy, in the States you're ahead of the game. Maybe I'm too pro-American. Could be if you overlook the factor of competition. When you bring that in, the English are standing still.
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL... How'll Dagmar’s fans: ever survive if B'way Open House goes off TV soon as now seems likely? Maybe NBC’ll build a new late show to use that hour—and Dagmar’s proportions. . . . Joe Walcott, broke, is being pressed to cash in on the title with personal appearances, etc, and not risk his title for a year. He's being urged to stall off a winter fight on the ground that no indoor arena would hold the crowd. ,
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GOOD RUMOR MAN: Gregory Ratoff, now in Europe, has put on so much weight he’s a manmountain. . . . “Two on the Aisle” is already in the B'way Big Five (on a ticket scarcity basis). .. . Nancy Kelly plays a gal younger than she is — first time in her life—when she stars next in ’ “Twilight Park.” ... Skater Carol Lynn is now at the Roxy. ... Peter Donald goes back on TV this week. . . . National Airlines’ annual report will .show it made five times as much this year as last. : - . s oo a oe 2 } TODAY'S: WORST PUN: “America Is God's Country and Russia is Guards’ Country.”—Joe
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DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS, well on their way to breaking Jack Benny's all-time record ‘at the Chicago Theater, gave each other new Cadillacs for their fifth anniversary. . . . The Tom Ewells are adopting a baby. . .. Sewing machine heiress Helen Whitney Bourne (former wife of Stanton Griffis) and cafe socialite Jimmy Stewart are a midnitem.. That's Earl, brother.
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zerne County, Pennsylvania, was NEWS said today the .Senate/jured nerve in his left leg. Condienroute ‘to the British Isles today |Crime.Committee is investigating tion—"good.” : to hand out $70,000 left to rela- a $1 milion let- ... a ££ tives by a Presbyterian minister ter of credit rewho ran his small savings into a ported - to have
aa. ERROL FLYNN said today, jeep travel over rough roads in| {Korea had almost cured his ailing |back.. Back after entertaining |GIs, he %aid the- ailment had] |“kept the doctors guessing.” .
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Clerk Olin Evans is executor of sador William the estate of the late Rev. John| O'Dwyer prior to § D. Thomas of. Warrior Run, Pa. his testimony be- § whose favorite Bible theme was| fore the commit- § “Cast thy bread upon the waters, tee. It added a
for thou shalt find it after many source said the | ED KEANE, disc jockey turned days. ? je) fer Mig mys- u lcotton picker, went on a “fuzz-| . J Gan & |free” diet today in Harlingen, | Crime Ye Lays Tex., to bolster his efforts to - v after he testi-
Wm. O'Dwyer |pick a bale of cotton this week and win $1700. He ate -peach-| plums guaranteed ‘fuzzless,” vi-| tamin pills, salt tablets and| chicken sandwiches. Yesterday | he picked only 205 pounds, after, a 321-pound pace set Monday, but remained confident.
THERE IS no law in Camden, fieq. Committee I % BgameL Seale BOD ny {wants to know where he got the e doesn’t get a | # : : work, Attorney ‘Anthony Marino, | ati RE Sed) a ap who' admitted making such os [mittee he was a friend of Irving San emer Se {Sherman, alleged political lieuim a y W { Ge . Sinnocent of disorderly conduct | {oan of Gambler Frank Cos yesterday, | ¥ 8. # ; : ear { MRS. RAY DORMAN asked MRS. VIRGINIA HENRY, 2 $55,000 damages today from a turned on ® an her, | Detroit bar she said served her when police Tie oy hurled | husband drinks while he was She kicked two OflCers, drunk, resulting in his meeting
a pail at another and sent one|. h , 3 25 the hospital with-a bitten arm. |d€ath When Sl k by a car.
é ffed foot and hand, she d a for ‘drunk and dis-| ADDISON THOMPSON'S paint ndutt, disturbance, brush battle for “the honor and Se a | glory of the South” was cut short
cursing, resisting arrest, assault- a Re - jng an officer and public in- by a New Orleans judge. Painting jnqustry, “Vote Dixiecrat” on an overpass
Setency. | without permit cost him $15. "Reds Indicted A 60-YEAR-OLD Atlanta, Ga. |pye 1 | TWELVE Californians which tenant farmer told police ne Right Billing the government called the Reds’| opened up with a shotgun after| , pyRy ESQUE advertised as| “second team” in the U. S., were, a neighbor “heatd some People|, «gi sine new edition of thrills” indicted by a federal grand jury! down in my pea patch pulling. "iyo yottest in Oakland, Cal./in Los Angeles yesterday on peas.” Officers said Willie Parks | io 4ay Fire forced 16 swivel- charges of plotting violent over-
severely woulged Wires youths, ‘hipped striptease queens to dash|throw of the government.
- _linto the street wearing nothing MRS. BATHERINE BROWN but their working wardrobes. Full Schedule of Detroit was on two-year pro-.. . .. . "|" THE MONTE ELLIOTTS of | bation today aor ling a sales: With Princes Monmouth, Ill, will alternate beman a hou v tween jail and baby-sitting for rang her doorbell. The bit PRICE IGOR TROUBETZ- their family of five. That's their 10-day sentence for leaving their small son parked in a car while they went to a tavern.
» Recovering REP. JOHN TABER (R.N. Y.), |T1, 1s recuperating from bronchial pneumonia at his home in Au-| burn, N. Y.
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FRANCIS P. MATTHEWS, new ambassador to Ireland, turned over former job of navy secretary| to Former Undersecretary Dan A. Kimball, native of St. Louis.
s n on ~ REP, ED ‘GOSSETT (D. Tex.) | said his Congressional seat was] too costly when he resigned yes-|
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accused her of selling them prop- | court order today to set aside erty she-didn't own. | Heiress Barbara Hutton’s quickie — — | Mexican divorce, Lawyer Victor . e . Velaquez said hé’d ask for the Civil Aircraft injunction in a “new approach”| (that would attack legality of Fatals Down Mexican divorce mills. 28 8 A 57 per cent reduction in fatal | PRINCE MAHMOUD PAHairplane accidents in ‘non-sched- LEVI of Iran got his driver's li- Ses———————————————— uled civil flights in Indiana for cense back today in time to drive Woe Is Woerner, ’ ths of this year to Ann Arbor, Mich., court to the irs} 31% mon by th Ys face his seventh traffic charge in Pulled a Boner was reported today y ? three years. He's a senior at the diana Aeronautics Commission.- University of Michigan. [ Caution is costly these days, at Col. C. F. Cornish, director of |least to some people. the commission. said total civil Mourned . |, Police were in the 400 block of gircraft accidents in Indiana also| . | fell 63 per cent for the first nai By Aviators » a faz pulisd Ay on Srp and a of 1951 as compared with the BENJAMIN MAHONEY, 50, if Bagge Bs ward nem Be same period last year. i h | man ) -. |who built the plane that carried wag too- drunk to drive and reFour fatal aircraft accidents Charles Lindbergh across the At-| i acteq they take his car home resulting in eight deaths “"dc- lantic, died yesterday - in Stuato) The obliging police took his ear curred during the January- €ity, Cal. He arranged financing! 4 the Plaza Garage. They also through-June period this year, iand huilt the famed “Spirit of , 0 40 | Paul Woerner, 41,
dents and 14 deaths were report- Atlantic flight. + lquarters,”. where he is ‘charged
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By PHIL BERK VV HAT does a beauty queen do after her coronation?
Many of them reign over one-shot affairs, then fade
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Atlantic City—and wearers of similar state and city titles
—the coronation is only the beginning. A typical beauty queen is Miss Indianapolis of 1951, Virginia Ann Johnson. Since she won the crown Miss Johnson has made speeches, led
parades, posed , for pictures, dined with civic luminaries, at-
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FIRST NIGHTER—Opens Star.
light Musicals season.
Listen — Silence
By FRANK BETTGER CHAPTER TWO : A FEW YEARS ago I made a six months’ coast-to-coast lecture tour with Dale Carnegie. We addressed audiences of several hundred people five nights every week — people anxious to improve themselves and their ability to handle and deal with others. They were in varied occupations: Stenogra-
phers, teachers, e Xe cutives, homemakers, attorneys, salesmen,
I had never made a lecture tour before, and it was the most exciting adventure of my life. When I returned home, I was eager to do two things: Get back to selling again and, tell everybody about my exciting experience, . 8 8 8 THE FIRST MAN I called on was the president of a wholesale and retail milk and dairy products company of Philadelphia. I had previously done considerable businegs with him. He seemed genuinely happy
to see me. As I sat down oOp-
posite him at ‘his desk, he of‘fered me a cigaret, and said, “Frank, tell me all about your trip.” ie o “All. right, Jim,” I replied, “but first, I'm anxious to hear
tended a wedding reception, and traveled so much that one immigrant editor calls her “one of those ubiquitous Hoosiers.” = un n
NOT ONLY DOES the 18-year-old queen get around geo-graphically-—she also has- versatility to spare. She'll switch from singing to playing the piano in the Miss Indiana competition starting today in Lafayette. Not only that—but she’ll play a medley of her own composition, “Wabash Boogie,” and an all-time favorite, “Dark Eyes.” “It’s not unusual when a contestant changes -numbers from one contest to another,” :said ome admirer. ; “But when a girl is so versa: tile as to completely change her talent presentation -— ‘that’s really something!” Miss Johnson doesn’t have time to worry about anything +—she’s had to turn down twice as many engagements as she’s been able to keep = = s A SUMMARY of highlights in her social whirl since Miss Johnson's coronation in the Murat Temple June 23 includes: June 26 — Officially opened 1951 Starlight Musicals at Indiana State Fairgrounds. July 6-8—Helped boost Police PAL Club Circus with radio interviews and personal appearances. July 10—Opened City Parks Department amateur series with a song in Broad Ripple
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July 14—Put honorary. “Cap'n Andy” cap on Gov. Schricker and did radio show if connection with M-G-M’s “Show Boat” Defense Bond drive. July 24 —Presided over PressRadio Baseball game in Victory Field. “Virginia's. been so busy;” said a "friend," “that she still
hasn't found time to round up
This is the second installment of the personal experiences of one of America’s most successful men. Bettger was a major league ballplayer who became a top salesman,
I listened with eagerness as he talked about his business and his family. Later he got to telling me about a poker party he and his wife had been in the night before, They had played “red dog.” Well, I had never heard of “red dog,” and by that time I would much rather have told
. him about.my lecture tour and
done some bragging about myself, ! But I laughed with him as he explained how the game is played and how much fun you can get out of if - ; He seemed to have a grand time and when I started to leave he said: “Frank, we've been considering insuring the superintendent ‘of our plant. What would $25,000 cost on his life?” kK never did get a chance * to talk about myself but I © left there with a nice order which I'm pretty sure some - other salesman had sold,
but probably talked himself - + out’ of. Xone This t me a lesson
which I've had to learn the ~ important—being a good
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2, ” ” o A WEEK AGO she spent two days in Chicago—another prize which she finally acceptéd— and spent a restful week-end in the - Edgewater Beach Hotel, saw, “South Pacific” and’ en"joyed Lake Michigan's breezes. When. the Myrat Shriners
were in New York, Virginia and |
her mother flew there to join the head of the family, Everet A. Johnson. Greeted at LaGuardia Field by a Shrine float and brass band, the Hoosier beauty joined the Shrine parade down Manhattan's busy streets. Sunday she reigned over the Shrine. Horse Patrol’'s Horse Show and awarded blue ribbons and trophies. The next night she led the 11th District's delegation in the American Legion state. convention parade.
Ld ” un BUT EVEN a queen has to rest—and last night was Miss Johnson's first day off in many ‘weeks. It was early to bed and” early fp rise, for this morning found Virginia on her way to Lafayette where she’ll compete in the "Miss Indiana contest. The winner will be announced Saturday night. A close observer of the Miss Indiana and Miss America pageants pointed out that Miss Johnson is running far ahead of previous personal appearances and other activities of beauty queens.
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BATTER UP—Throws all kinds of curves at first batter in PressRadio baseball game.
“Virginia's a real live wire,” said one former contest official. “She never seems to sit’ still. She's definitely of Atlantic City caliber. And I think she'll have
little trouble passing the La-
fayette competion.”
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listener, showing the other person you are sincerely interested in what he is saying, giving him all thé eager attention and appreciation that he craves and is so hungry for, but seldom gets! . Try looking straight into the face of the next person who speaks to you, with eager, absorbed interest (even if it is your own wife), and see the magic - effect it has both on yourself, and the one who Is doing the talking. There is.nothing new about this, Cicerp said, 2000 years ago: “There is an art.in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.” But listening has become a forgotten art. Good listeners arc rare. ” » ~ ALL OF US would profit by uttering this prayer every ‘morning: “Oh Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut, until I know what I am talking about . . . Amen.” There were many times when Y.could have kicked myself in the teeth for talking on and on, when I should have been able to see the man wasn’t listening, but my mind was so intent on what I was saying that it took too long: for me to get it
Many times there is a parade of thoughts passing across the mind of a man, and unless we give him a chance to do some of the talking, we have no way of knowing what he is thinking. Experience has that it is a good rule to make sure the other fellow does a liberal share of the talking in
the first half. Then when I talk I am more sure of the facts and more hkely to have an attentive listener, We all hate to be out-
smarted, outwitted, interrupted, cut off before we finish, by some flannel-mouth who knows what we are going to say before we say it. You know the kind: He throws his mouth into high gear before, his brain is turning oveg, cxplnine to you where and why you are mistaken, and 'straightens you out’’hefore you can make yourself clear. : By that time, you feel like straightening him out—with a left and right uppercut to, the
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‘KOREAN WAR BRIDE—Mrs, Insook Choi Mosher, first Ko. or , sails for Japan aboard an Army rotation ship. She’ mar.