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Cabbie an Author By Elizabeth Toomey
NEW YORK, Aug. 6—Unsuspecting passengers who climb into Reuben Hecht's taxicab can be divided into two classés. Those he tells about the stories he's had published, and those who tell him stories he can jot down on a pad he carried in the front seat. “It is an accident and a bewilderment to me that I am now a successful writer,” the chubby and cheerful hackie insisted. “Me who never went past the fourth grade.” A ride in his cab, however, makes the whole thing seem more than an accident. “Got somethin’ here for ya to read,” Mr. Hecht is likely to say to a passenger, handing him the latest magazine to publish one of his articles. “Look on page 76.” “I spot a guy by lookin’ from the tip of his nose right up to the forehead,” he explained, denying he hands out his articles to passengers at rahdom. : > + > THEN COMES thg conversation in which Mr. Hecht explains how he became an author. “I used to tell my wife stories about people I'd met in the hack,” he says. “She indirectly
. sort. of encouraged me, She'd say she liked the
story and for me to write it down so she could show it to her friends.” Two and a half years ago he mailed his first story of driving a cab at night to a national magazine, which hought it. Since then 13 other stories have been published.
‘Never Went Past The Fourth Grade’
“Before I realized I had somethin’ I'd practically throw the scripts away after I finished.” Mr, Hecht confessed. “Sometimes another cabby would drive up next to me and say ‘Ruby, got anything to read? And I'd toss him a story I didn’t have another copy of.” Now he saves everything in the overflowing | filing cabinets in the foyer of his three-room Bronx apartment.
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“I GOT 50 magazine scripts makin’ the rounds now,” he says, ducking his head modestly. “Mrs, Roosevelt and I got the same literary agent now, too. T sold most of my stuff without an agent, though. I'm a natural writer,
“I write it first in longhand, then poke it out with two fingers on the typewriter. Not much good on those dots and dashes, though. I pay a girl two bits a page to put those in for me.”
There's only one dark spot in the literary success of the cabby, who still drives his cab three nights a week. His wife, he explained, died a year ago, so he now lives alone in their apartment,
“She used to get me in the mood to write. Now I use records... you know, mood records. Wacky ones for funny stuff and that kind of thing. I gotta player that changes 12 records, but it isn't the same,” the literary cabby said slowly. “I don’t write quite so much anymore.”
Ed Sovola, “Mr. Inside Indianapolis” is on Vacation
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Aug. 6—=Up in Danny Kaye's suite at the Hampshire House, there was so much noise that, by comparison, the Shriners’ convention was quiet. Three or tour phones were ringing. six or 10 friends were waiting in another-room, and two of five bellboys were rushing in and out. “Well, I'm a traffic cop again!” said Mrs. Kaye, opening doors and answering phones. “It was nice and quiet here while Danny was in England.”
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DANNY was on one of the phones ing. “For gosh sakes, don't Danny was telling somebody. “How is it that Danny is always such a terrific hit in England?” I asked Mrs, Kaye, the former Sylvia Fine.
|scream-
take a nembutal!”
<> - <> SHE WAS SITTING on a couch beside me, feeling her eyes. It seems they'd suddenly become puffed. She'd gone to a doctor. He'd told her to think back over everything she'd eaten and drunk for several days, and give him a list. An allergy test. Danny was still talking to the mysterious somebody - loudly. | 2 —, id | can't, syeetie,” Danny as Aeiling the, guy. TC Provabbiws rer FEet ba oR “The same thing wil happen here,” Mrs: Kaye told me, “as happened in London, when he goes on his American tour . , .” oe oh oe “WHEN'LL that be?" 1 uproar “Probably
asked above the when 1 get through with Hollywood.” replied Danny, who'd finished the phone call. “Maybe in the spring . . ."” "Mr. Kaye, Eddie Dukoff is calling from Los Angeles,” somebody said. (Eddie is his manager.) “T'll take it in here,” Danny said, en route to the hedroom. db SYLVIA said he'll do a big American tour for Sof Hurok, playing auditoriums, etc., of not more
Africana By Robert €. Ruark
SOMEWHERE IN TANGANYIKA, Aug. 6 — The time hag come to render a progress report on the White Queen of Tanganyika, otherwise known to me and the boys as Memsaab-—Mama. Mama is pretty impossible. She shot a Tommy ram. which ig within three-eighths of an inch-of the world's record, and apart from
Danu is hard to translate, Means roughly that Mama is a cross between Pollyanna, Flor-
ence Nightingale and Lady Bountiful. Means that everybody likes her because she
doesn’t complain or confuse the African veldt with the WaldorfAstoria. She also passes out cigarets rather lavishly. The reason Mama does not beef about bugs and hardships and the lack of refrigeration is that she is almost constantly in a state of suspended animation, due to being scared stiff. She has heen charged by a‘lion and a female rhino. Elephants have walked through the eamp. leopards have yowled within a few feet of her cot, and hyenas have played a sort of Jovial tag with her. “I love nature,” says Memsaab Danu, this close?
“but not
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WHAT MAMA really likes are giraffes and anthills and baby baboons and ostriches. What she does not like are snakes and buffalo and rhinos and lions and elephants, especially elephants that scream at her from spitting distance, Elephants are so BIG. It i= an open secret that Mama is consider2bly less brunet than God intended originally. This interference with basic pigmentation calls for a trip to the beauty parlor every Friday when she is back in the States, Unfortunately, we have no beauty parlors available, but Mama has remained persistently blond. She has conjured certain mysterious unguents from her secret valise, and has enslaved Juma, the headboy. Juma is now a fancv hairdresser.
You Welcoms Bellevue Aitrr Pay With Kaye
than 5000 capacity, to show America what it is that England went delirious about. “When’ll he go back to England?” I asked. “At the inside it'll be two years before I go back,” said Danny, reappearing from the bedroom. “If you go back too offen the kick will be lost. And besides, you have to gather a lot of new things.”
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THEY SAID the tour will offer a two-hour tor more) show, and that Danny wouldn't ¢ven appear in the first half. “In the first half we'll try to get people as
good or unusual in their acts as Danny is in his,” Sylvia said. “I'll probably thought, “Oh, I doubt if that many,” Sylvia remarked. Several more people came in. “There must be eight or 10 people back there,” Danny shouted— “How many are there?’ he asked me. “I can’t count that high.” I said. “I want to build the tour into the kind of a thing I can return to year after year,” said Danny, sitting down momentarily and stretching out hig long legs, - ““Does, this rule opt teledision ANG Fal Tina CHU w hers abe XPRESS TV will here for a while. I hope I'm going 10 bé here for a while too.’
have four or five acts,” Danny
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THE DOORBELL hadn't rung for nine seconds. It did now. In came two more people. ore large (the nurse), one small (Dena. the daughter, 413). r
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“How ahout a kiss for your crazy old man’ said Danny, leaning down to her. She climbed up onto his neck. In another minute a dozen or so people trooped out of the suite. I trooped off to Bellevue. do al WISH I'D SAID THAT: “What is a psychiatrist but a mind sweeper?”~asks Geene Courtney. . That's Earl, brother.
It’s Time (0 Report On Doings of Mama
Every Friday is Hair Day, and through some sort of witchcraft, the old lady turns up blond. &» * J THINK it is of historic value to record the formula by.which Mama remains blond. Instructions, in Swahili, were delivered as follows: “Juma.” sald Master Selby, ,our guardian, “Kuja hapa. Nywele wa Memsaah yake hapana
myeupe, ne nyeusi, lakani ku-tia dawa,-mpaka kuwa myeupi. n > “Nido,” says Juma. - ’ “What in the name of goodness did - you tell him?” 1 ask.
“I "just said ‘Juma, come here’,” Harry answered. “Then I said: ‘Memsaab’s hair is not really white. Tt is black. But she puts medicine on it until it becomes white.’ Juma said ‘Okay'.” oe oo og SO EVERY Friday Juma puts Memsaab's hair to turn it white, taking great care to dab it carefully on the parts, and ‘not getting any medicine on the ends of the strands. The local natives regard Mama as a kind of sorwith: Juma as her intern, and I will not
medicine in
ceress, be surprised if she becomes a goddess. What this makes of her consort I cannot imagine, but I am holding out for the title of Prince. After all,
MY hair is turning white, too, but for different reasons. One of the things that has outraged Mama's delicate sensibilities ds the plight of African womanhood. She bitterly resents the term “Manamouki,” which is the general description of all things female, including wives, who are not married so much as bought. She even more bitterly resented the implication of Chabani, the car boy, that she was too old to be married to such a blithesome youngster as IL. +> i ab AND THE LOCAL equivalent. of Pelion piled high atop Ossa when her faithful slave, Juma, murmured that she might have fetched a nice price in the marital marts before senility attacked her, considering that she was fat enough to be practical. As I said, Mama is bearing up. "But once in a while you can see a look in her eye that Mainly Buspenks ; a Jonging | for the Stork Club.
Atterbury Nurses 100 Men of 28th Join 30
To Join War Games In North Carolina
Times State Service CAMP ATTERBURY, Aug. 6— There's a good gamble ahead for 10 Army nurses from here,
cooking,
They're going to “Exercise South- represented in the chow-chasing Soon their adopted sons were ; Pi " the Army's huge North crowd. too many to handle, so they ern Pine, the : ge The servicemen tied on the farmed some out to their friends.
Carolina maneuvers, where they'll be outnumbered by odds of al-
most 2000 men to one girl. “Tt sounded pretty exciting at
hite, Piles of
all. iret,” said 1=t Lt. Opal Johnson. tor the impromptu event Mr. While Mrs. Antrobus recruited “But on second thought. I Cjitfard Antrobus, 2242 8. Penn- friends and neighbors, Mr. An: wonder.” sylvania 8t., sent out an SOS to trobus collected donations from
Face Busy Period “We're going to be too busy working in a field hospital to give! a hoot about dates.” i Members of the 900th Mobile conquered, Army Surgical Hospital unit, the 10 nurses will be the only women! from- Camp‘ Alterbury at the
the 28th Division joined 30 Indi-
ing In Gartield Park yesterday. In addition to the 28th Division, activities.
the three nearby pitals znd other armed units were
feedbag with the
ther terest in until"they couldnt hold ano | trobus’ decided to make yester-
i lay the largest of heaped on the tables, so chairman day's food displa Best 0
{the Servicemen's Club for more merchant friends, soldiers to surround the food.
Dance and Swim
When the food objective was] the soldiers brought itheir other talents
| dancing with the girls, playing | ‘soft ball and swimming. tL] heir mouth mouths,
Local Families at Picnic
Stuffing themselves with their and Mrs. last helping of Hoosier home 28th Division first came to Camp| more than 100 men of Atterbury. The couple, who have son who is a Navy veteran, got. into| lanapolis families in a picnic 0ut- {he habit of Inviting a few sol|diers to join them in their sociuk|
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into play,
The men of the 28th got mist maneuvers. Some are novices— ,veq when the ry a id 20 More More Casualties
Others saw action in World War ja. night. They IL ele local friends this week for Th The unit's chief arse, Maj. 2 ono dene in “ olin, identified 20 more American ba
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citizens After 10 months of increasing inthe An-
including the’ who \ fs ‘came across’ nicely with fresh
Antrobus named the party a success, assured that) most of her adopted “sons” were, {leaving here with a “good taste”
Il be leaving] WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UP)—| pred x
MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1951
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The Future Is Bright— :
Business Tycoons Get Early Start
ADDING UP Four “young bysinessmen named Rondjdes sihebt Asrght) Fines Giada Ee * By -PHIL. BERK =n
LL A BOY nedds is a vivid. imagination, , several good friends--
dramatics
a sense of and parents to back
him up—and he can become a successful businessman,
even at the age of 9.
Take young Michael Wood, for instance. A few years ago he started writing “books” to finance his club's treasury. In the G-Man Club are several boys from the neighhor-hood-—-Ronald Finkbinder, Ronald Gentle and several others not named Ronald. There's another branch run by Michael's cousin, Ronald Galvin, son of Mrs, Ann Galvin, 2971 Station St. ® n ”n » MICHAEL, who will be in the fifth. grade at School 51 next fall, started dreaming up stories years ago. He bought some art paper zand crayons and started printing 10- to 15-page stories about vacations on his farm between Lebanon and Crawfordsville. “He has a pretty good. imag=" ination,” said Michael's proud mother, Mrs. Myron Wood, 3324 E. 25th St. “And his choice of words is wonderful, even if his ideas are pretty wild sometimes.” Michael's favorite short story
will probably never hit the pages of Collier's or Satevepost, but it was exciting enough for his readers — his parents, other relatives and friends.
Ed » ~ HE TOLD about. visiting his grandfather, fishing on a big lake, spending the night in the woods and hunting bears. (“He
| ‘Joined’ the FBI—
First Woman Takes Agent's Training
: ols eh dhvwed husiness
SAW some foxes: on the farm once,” smiled Mrz. Wood). Proceeds from the book sales go into the club treasury to buy supplies and equipment for more hooks and for their soft drink stands. “They don't on candy or Mrs. Wood said. little businessmen.’ Michael and Coysin Ronald run the soft drink stands throughout the summer. Of course, their mothers act as “chief cooks and bottlewashers,” but the. boys do the sell-
ing.
refreshments,” “They re Yeal
» ” ¥ “ICE COLD DRINKS i= BK nickel!” rings out- around “the block in ithe nostalgic reminder. ventures of ‘older neighbors and passersby. Michael's Wood, ia™a ‘Post office inspector—and he's highty proud of working for a government in a land where his boy can use his imagination, run his own business and figure out what to do with the profits-—instead of in
dad, Myron
some other countries where a 9-vear-old boy is taught to follow orders, drill in military formations and often wonder
where his next meal is coming from. “Michael's a good example of the American way of life,*-his teachers say.
Edan Wright, who recently wrote a series on Calumet City, lll, honky-tonk row's wild goings on which was published in The Times, has scored another first. Now she gives a closeup of an FBI agent's training. In this new adventure she is a G-girl. There are no women in the FBI, but Miss Wright was permitted to take the G-man's training—first woman ever to do so. This is the first
article in an exclusive series.
By EDAN WRIGHT
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 ] wag standing in a sea of male faces—clean-cut
American faces, reciting in unison the oath that was to make them agents of the FBI. It was a solemn moment for 51 new agents who had come to the nation’s capital from farming communities, small towns and cities across the country. The hush of that moment was
still with them as they sal down Kven “Agent” Wright felt it, We were In a classroom In
the old Post Office Building, a
few blocks from the Justice Building, nerve center of the FBI. Beside each chair (writing
arm style) was a huge, brown brief case containing the badge and manuals which--with the later addition of a gun were to be part and parcel of the new agent. The inspecior in® training had administered
charge of the
FBI oath. There was no apparent difference in the men afterwards. But something in-
tangible had been added. As the inspector pointed out: “Yesterday you were just Bill Jones. Now you're Bill Jones of the FBI. You have more responsibilitiés. and = Liijutetion which You must 'shoulder.”
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wir WERE a fine looking
old and at. east 3 feet 7 inches tall the minimum bureau requirement, They had passed rigid cal exams and aptitude Fvery phase of their from birth--had been gated, Also, thev had been handpicked for education. They all had college degrees and most of them were graduates of law or accounting schools. Even so—they would be on probation for two years. And directly ahead of them was 14 weeks of intensive study, six days a week from 9 a. m. to 6 p- mi. The class-day schedule wasn't counting the midnight oil that was sure to be burned, They had 121 different subjects to absorb and if they didn't make an 85 mark in each they would be sent “home to mama.”
physitests, liver
investi
Recanuse of the careful screening, few “wash out,” And each man--more than anything else haz wanted to he a G-man. He haz come (0 Washington at his own expense, and his salary | -—-beginning when he takes the oath—is no more than $5000 a year.: Sixty to 75 per cent are mar-
ried and at some time or other |
they probaby will have to risk their lives in gun battles with criminals, ¥ Z ®'" = - ON THE FIRST ,day the agents took a tour of the justice building and one of the high spots was meeting the director,
-J. Edgar Hoover,
There was no monkey busi-
spend a penny
| Navy and Air Force had asked.
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" So the Youngster
As these Twigs Bend the Tree
Moulds the Man
Henry Glesing and John Spi
DREAMING IT UP—Founder of the youthful enterprise, Michael Wood.
“His parents know how to concerned about crime in Indianmake democracy work.” apolis .” =a ~ Since many criminals grow BUT IT'S more than building from juvenile delinquents, Mr. their son's independence that wood feels the hest way to weed motivates the Woods, out undesirable traits is to start Mr. Wood's job throws him into with the child. And the hest way frequent contact with lawhreak- (n keep a child from delinquency ers. Only recently he appre- is to keep him busy with conhended a bad check artist. So he's structive work
Classes
were eight hours there are ultraviolet ravs tn every day, generally hroken bring out invisible laundry into hour-long sessions with marks and locale bhloondstainz 10-minute recesses. But thers on clothing that has been were some that went on for washed three hours or a whole day. There are X-rays and gamAt the FBI Academy in ma rays to locate bad welding Quantico there were four-day In metal that might mean sabo sessions. In Washington they tage in a defense plant were held in the old Post Office Infrared’ rays. can develop and the Identification Building : writing on burned or charred There were shuttle husses tn : Carry us to the classes in paper. An X-ray: defraction “Ident” and to Quantico spectrometer analyzes crvstalOne of my first courses wa line zubhstance A apectongraph the organization of the bhurean determines the elements in In this we learned the personnel paint by breaking down light getup the crimes that came ’ under the investigative juris into itz component parts A diction of the FBI and those spectrophotometer -tellz if two that are delegated to other PAints have the same density government organizations. of color. Fae ” Our instructor gives us an exy : FRY . ample of>the use of these inSOON 1 GOT into “Physics gi, uments. Police sent In a in Crime Detection.” Sherlock- chip of paint found on the ing by® G-men--1I soon found scene of a hit-and-run acci-out-—~is quite a scientific busi dgut ness, In the ¥BI laboratory After a spectrograph analy-
House Group Asks Record $56 Billion For Military
By United Press group said this was. the way to WASHINGTON. Aug. 6--The build toward peace. {House Appropriations Committee. The committee warned that,
{recommended today a record $56 big az it was, the bulging bill in{billion military budget—all but cluded neither costs of the Ko-
[$1.5 billion of what the Army, rean War nor that of a $4.5 bil[lion global bhase-building program
of the three armed services. The committee said the funds | Neither does it include the cost for fiscal 1952 would support a ,r mjjitary aid to America’s allies, 3,572, 000-man force and assure al In a security-conscious 158-|
defense {aster and to successfully retall- gpry) |ate in the event of attack.”
appropriations group dislclosed far less than usual about
The House will begin considera- what the defense money ill buy.'N. C., where it will be used $19,854, 128.000 wash the clothing of men.
{tion of the measure Wednesday. | Of the total, Although the huge outlay would go to the Air Force, The,
would not put the military on a Air Force will he built to 95
war footing, fod provide a base for rapid almost sure later The . Army
the comngttee said wings, with an even ghee
of both the armed and war ey Ta
“sufficient to avert dis-ipgge report on the bill, the pow-|
The Lb
“Maybe Michael doesn’t have aa free run as some other children,’ said Mrs. Wood, “but he's not a prisoner in his own home, either.” We just believe in showing him the right way. Most boys are enough to take it from and turn their activ intn-ghod work." That's how Indianapolis family works for America.
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sig and a comparison with the automobile paint file in the lab, they were told the paint was like that on a 1947 Ford.
located a 1947 sent a chip in to with the first, A test on the spectrophotometer said it tallied—and police had evidence on their hit-and-run driver. We learn. the through
Police later Ford and compare
importance of to get a i ample. for analyzia scraping up bloodstains,
cutting paint workable and of
My head this
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time But I'm utterly fascinated NEXT: A class in murder,
Crippled Children Get $1251 From Shrine Game
The Marion County Society for Crippled Children has received a
check for $1251.85, proceeds from the Shrine benefit baseball game July 17. It was turned over at
the Sahara program in night, Lather Shirley,
Grotto entertainment Garfield Park last
chairman of the,
benefit game, made the presen. tation to Roy, Patton of the zo. ciety. The program waz attended
hv RON perenne
Gls Adept ot Washing Equipment by Hand There were “rough, red hands" ia the 658th Quartermaster Laundry Co. at Camp Atterbury last lweek. Members of the com washed by hand after their equip ment was shipped to Ft. :
[ticipating in "Exercise Pine.” {Te E up, A° P