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NEW YORK, Aug. 7—I took off my clothes oftener than Gypsy Rose Lee on the third day of my “Atomic 3-Day Diet” which is supposed to cut off nine pounds.
Unfortunately, I weighed the first day in the . nude and every time I felt Tike I'd lost, I hag to strip. It was like Minsky’s Ta i * around our house on this Big . Day. I'd lost six pounds in Could I make it
Now I was getting scared. ‘Hopping doubtfully on the ‘scales, I saw I had dropped
With possibly a little over“confidence, I marched to the kitchen for “breakfast.” “% Was there some milk in “the {icebox? There was! I felt the need of some. So I took about a quarter of a glass—about 45 calories. Dope! I remembered later thai buttermilk’s about half as much in calories. I had added a vitamin pill to my breakfast. “Take your vitamins to make up the food you lose,” my doctor said. And then reveled in my delicious cup of black coffee with saccharine. The usual double orange juice, my pal for years, had been cast aside for this three-day experiment because it's 150 calories. And now, also, folks, I was beginning to get hungry. The first two days I had eaten my all-the-meat-you-can-eat meal late in the day. But on this third day, I wanted it about 1:30 p. m. I'd just about “had enough.” It was Lindy’s that I finally dropped into. Leo Lindy came over. “I came in to get just a steak,” I almost whimpered, “How about a double sirloin?” said Leo. “You wonderful man! I said,.sagging to my chair, That kept me going until 10 that night. when I had my two eggs with catsup, grapefruit and black coffee. At 4 a.m. (bedtime for a Broadway columnist) I'd dropped one more pound . , eight had been lost, I had a night's sleep to go. Next morning at 11 or so, I went humbly to the scales. This was it—the zero hour! I had hoped to
Harry Frets By Andrew Tully
Miss Davis
xt Happened Last Night
Chunky Ends ‘Atomic Diet’
hit 138 and make it 10 pounds. I weighed myself —I weighed myself several times. I didn't make the 10 pounds, but I did go to 139—or nine pounds in three days. Maybe you can’t take off that much. Maybe you can take off more. I didn’t put it back on afterward, either, It's a wonderful thing—now I can wear my 1941 suits. * * @ The Atomic 8-Day Diet: Ask your doctor first! half grapefruit, black coffee. Lunch: Two boiled eggs, black coffee. Dinner: All the broiled meat you want, black coffee, two plums. *
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Also allowed, one ordinary-size whiskey and water. Three days only—and don't go on this diet if you do manual labor, > 0 THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Who's News: Didn't the U, 8. send 15 ace cameramen to Europe to sneak a few behind the Iron Curtain? ... Mal Boyd, Mary Pickford’s partner in several TV enterprises, liquidates the corporation next week to
. register for the Episcopalian priesthood. i.
Vaughn Monroe will be this year’s rodeo star. ... Sign of the times? The Jefferson School's moving to smaller quarters. EARL’S PEARLS ... Jan Murray knows a two-headed girl who's as pretty as a picture by Picasso. od b MARLON BRANDO, on location for “Zapata” in Mexico, injured himself falling off a horse. . . . Julie Wilson was presented to Princess Elizabeth in London and was surprised to learn she knew all of her routines. . .. Joe Walcott’s being talked of for a life story film treatment. . . . Mae West (at Maison Mario) said she’s closing her “Diamond Lil” tour in Princeton next week. ... Jerry Lewis goes into Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Monday, thereby cutting the Martin & Lewis tour short in Chicago. . . . Huntington Hartford's new weekly paper, “N, Y. Review” goes on the stands Sept. 20. . . . Janette Davis of Arthur Godfrey's show left for Hawaii. woo bs f WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Hard work is yeast that raises the dough. Ye oe oo TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Lynn Gilmore tells of the fellow who got a black eye for kissing his friends’ bride after the ceremony—two years after the ceremony. Over at McCarthy's Steak House, Dagmar malaproped her order, “Steak and potatoes, au gratis, please.” , , , That's Earl, brother.
White House Repair Job Behind Schedule
the Elmer Leterman.
HARRY'S BACK YARD—An eyesore fo an orderly man.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-Now that they're in the home stretch in the $4.5 million job of re-
building the White House, Harry Truman is getting a mite impatient. He's anxious to move in and-start enjoying the. place. Up to" now, the President has been extremely patient—a model for all householders whose homes are being fixed up. But when Maj. Gen. Edgerton, in charge of renovation, reported that shortages had slowed up the job and that it probably wouldn't be finished in time for Thanksgiving, the President got a little edgy. Now they're talking about the Trumans being able to move in by Christmas. To which Mr. Truman’s response is a
cynical, “hm, we’ll see.” oe oo <>
Mr.
NOT THAT the Trumans are particularly dissatisfied with Blair House, their temporary abode
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across Pennsylvania Ave. Both like its early American charm and find it quite comfortable for their own wants. But when it comes to entertaining it’s much too small; all the big parties have to be held at a hotel. That bothers Mr. Truman. Like the typical small-town American he is, he figures, a man should entertain his guests at home. He says hotels are too impersonal, that they don’t give important visitors the “feel” of America. “What I'd like to do,” he has often said, “is take these folks out to Independence. Then they'd get an idea of what the country is really like.” Another thing that bothers Mr. Truman, an orderly man, is the eyesore the Executive Man-
Far and Away— .
sion has been sincé the renovating job was started. Everybody tries to be as neat as possible, but~the house and grounds look pretty sad. Burlap flaps from the glassless windows of the main house, and on both east and west wings the paint is flaking off and the windows could: stand a washing. Db THE GROUNDS are even worse. If there were
- a contest for the worst looking lawn in Washing-
lon, the White House would come close to copping t In the first place, much of it is fenced in to separate the contractor's working area from the rest of the grounds. In that space, naturally, are various materials and equipment used on the job. It's all stored in orderly fashion, but it's not pretty. As for the lawn, that once lush green rug has deteriorated into great patches of crab grass and big scar-like burnt spots. Mowers do a ragged job of trimming around the shrubbery and the shrubbery is dejected and poorly pruned.
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MR. TRUMAN, who has no official connection with the renovation—it's being run by a special commission—Kkeeps his eye on its progress. He inspects the job two or thre iimes a month, usually on a Saturday morning, and enjoys arguing about architecture—one of his hobbies—with Gen. Edgerton and William D. Hassett, one of the presidential secretaries. The President is pleased with the way the White House is going to look when it's finished —although if he had his way they'd do a few things a little differently. But the thing that bothers him most these days is that they never seem to have a man’s house ready when they told him they would.
Pennsylvanian Would Like to Be Fourth to Survive Drop Over Falls
HEAD OF A READING, Pa. ,|said the dog had killed some of 177th annual convention in Bos-.
window cleaning firm, Philip A./their ducks and stampeded their ton, Mrs.
Wessner Jr. 39, is preparing for cattle. .a trip over Niagara Falls in a ” rubber barrel like the one in] GORDON W, which William (Red) Hill'plunged ter, Mass., to death Sunday. Worcester, He said he'd
like to be
perience. |breakfast,
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housewife, |
divorce, saying she isn't master of her own kitchen. Her husband, she charged, hit her over the head with a rolling pin. (In Tulsa, Okla., last month, Edmond Walling did Ihe | fame thing.) Hampton,
Gikiads WEALTHY “PETROIT MAN tor failing to
wishes burglars had been bold enough to turn on the lights when they entered his swank suburban home. Fire started by :thieves who lighted their way “through the house with matches caused $10,000 worth of damgge to Sam Frontiera’s home.
Inhumanity—
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tor vehicle;
three children.
terms after they tied a dog to and
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Improper use of markers; Operating an unregistered mo-
Nonsupport of his wife and
Via .y How Dry We Ain't THE. PRESIDENT of the - TWO BROTHERS from Sha- Women's Christian , Temperance rator of invertebrate palesntology. | ano. ‘Wig,, are serving penal Union charged ‘today that radio Other staff television are turning Amer- New Mexico or fu foun Jalare. and kitchens into of fossils from the Permian era , Speaking a, Abeiin the world's s jsiory,
D. Leigh Colvin said [American drinkers are spending '$1 million an hour to consume! BROWN, Leices- 2903 million gallons of alcoholic
has sued the city of beverages a year. Mass., the charging ill-treatment during his| fourth person to survive the ex-/sojourn in that city’s jail. he said, him two pieces of bread covered bomber,
for $25,000, ATL FRANK SINATRA For Gardner were ready to whisk off}
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{Revenue office, ities to “try to collect” his income taxes. He hasn't paid his taxes for eight years, although he careWas arrested {has no property for tax collectors! to seize.
Or a fusuline? These and other sea-bottom and! pelagic creatures of 200 million’ years ago (give or take a year) , were collected in fossil form in the Glass Mountains of Texas fred summer by Dr. G. Arthur Cooper, Smithsonian Institute cu-|
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clusive series.
By EDAN WRIGHT Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 —In a class on homicide investigation the student G-
Men and myself are confronted with a corpse, or “stiff,” as it is called in the trade. The corpse is a slide photograph of a woman shown on a screen. The woman was the keeper of a rooming house in a large city and she was ‘“‘done | in” by a bash on the head. It's a police case—a real one. The slide nhotegraphs were taken on the crime scene in the morgue. Murder in itself isn't a case for the FBI—unless a federa! officer is the victim or it happens on government reservations or other government property. But it frequently figures in other crimes the FBI is
| empowered to investigate. Ou-
murder already-has been solved
At Navy's Helm—
Poker Player Succeeds
By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer { . WASHINGTON, -Aug. 7 | "With Adm. William M. Fechteler as its new 'Chief of Naval Operations the Navy gets a fearless, Yionesy, <nard - driving “man steeped fn thé tradition of the sea-going service and completely dedicated to furthering its best interests.
He takes the Navy's seat on the vital Joint Chiefs of Staff with the respect of the other members, completely wise in the devious ways of Washington maneuvering and as gne of the Navy's top ranking poker players, His personality is best described in contrast to that of the suave, keenly intellectual, sometimes solemn and almost prim former CNO, the late Admiral Forrest .P. Sherman, whom he replaces. Adm. Fechteler is big, bluff, good - humored, completely candid in all of his dealings and exudes a “horse sense” type of intelligence. Adm. Fechteler has just about the same reputation as a poker player as Adm. Sherman had as a bridge player, a neat delineation of the personalities | “of the two men.
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some in the Hollywood tradition of admirals, he has a square
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1951
| ‘Joined’ the FBle—
Sleuths Can Make Dead Men Tell Tales
THE FIRST WOMAN TO EVER TAKE A G-MAN'S TRAIN. ING—That's Edan Wright, Times special writer. There are no woman agents in the FBI but Miss Wright was permitted to gc through the difficult FBI course. This is the second in her ex-
by police. But we're the detectives now and we have to find the criminal. The instructor alternately guides us drags red herring clues across our path and takes the role of people we decide to question: As is our other teachers, he’s an expert in his field. He sets the scene with a bit of background, 5 a 5 POLICE were called to the home by a woman who lived on the first floor. Blood was dripping through her ceiling. Upstairs, police found the deceased hunched across the entrance to a closet. We see more slides of the woman — morgue closeups and apartment shots. The instructor quotes saying, “Dead men tell no tales,” and reminds us that a shrewd detective can learn much from the study of a corpse and can make a dead man tell tales. He also emphasizes that we
face with friendly grey eyes and an easy grin as its chief assets. He'sgnot quite 6 feet tall, stocky but not fleshy, with just
the trace of a stoop to his “bridge posture” from hours of leaning on the railing of a ship in a pitching sea. Over his crop of short, steelgrey hair he prefers to wear his cap at a very jaunty angle, one of Adm. Fechteler's personal. marks of identification in the Navy. He speaks with a deep, hearty voice and laughs from way down inside. Associates say he has a wonderful crop of funny stories and tells them well. When addressing men in official meetings he is completely down to earth. If Adm. Fechteler brings any shortcoming to his new job it's perhaps a sort of inbred impatience with the red tape and delays of shore duty and especially in Washington, He explains his love for a command at sea: Ed » s “A SHIP SKIPPER'S billet provides the greatest personal satisfaction and sense of accomplishment. When you are the captain of a ship, you are king and -you can see immediately ‘the results of your work. As an example, vou order right rudder, and ship and all hands ahoard come to the right immediately.”
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can't be too careful in our In vestigation “because we don't want ever. to send the mppeent
jail.” With this we start detecting.
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FIRST WE TRY to figure if
the woman was “done {n"” on the spot. “How do we know ghe wasn't moved?” asks the instructor, who then leads us into medical aspects. This“ brings out data on bloodstains and how long it takes a single drop of blood
and a big pool to coagulate—
on a dry surface, if soaked into a cloth, etc. Also discussions on rigor mortis and post mortem lavidity. This is the discoloration of the body due to the breaking down of corpuscles
and the settling of the blood in the lower surfaces. Because of the natural pull of gravity it occurs on the surfaces of the body that are in the “down” position. The stains begin to form within an hour and you can tell whether the body has been moved by the position of the stains We decide the woman moved. But we are reminded
wasn't
He claims that the toughest duty he has ever drawn in the Navy “was far and away the three years I spent as deputy ~ chief of naval operations for 3 personnel.”’
7 sea comes to him honestly
As a small lad he was able to.
make frequent visists to naval ships under the command of his
father, the late Rear Admiral Augustus F. Fechteler n » n HE HAS KNOWN practically
no other life than that aboard ship or on some U. S. or foreign naval base. “I have no recollection of my boyhood when I did
not want to be in the Navy,” he claims. : One of the big assets he brings to the Joint Chiefs of
Staff is a completely clean shirt
as far as any involvement in past unification fueding goes. The job Adm. Fechteler did during World War II in guarding the landings of U. S. Army
troops on more than a dozen beaches won him the unstinted praise of Gen. MacArthur many
times. The working unification -he helped create in the Parific with the Armv and Air Three fag. pected to stand him'in good stead for his bigger job of help ing to direct the administration
of unification
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How | Raised Myself From Failure To Success—
When You're Frightened Before Big Shots, Admit It
| CHAPTER FIVE SOMEONE ASKED ME the other day if I had ever been scared? Scared is no word for it. I was terrified!
It happened long ago when 1 was struggling along eking out a bare existence trying to sell life insurance. Gradually it dawned on me that if T wanted to become more successful, I'd { have to call on some bigger people and sell larger policies. In other words, I'd been playing in the bush. leagues, and now 1 wanted to try the majors.
The first “big-shot” call 1 made was on Archie E. Hughes, president of the Foss-Hughes, Co., of Philadelphia. He was one of the leaders in the automobile industry on the Eastern | seaboard, Mr. Hughes was a busy man. I had tried several | times to get in to see him. Finally I got an appointment. { | ! i
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came nervous. My voice trem- | bled as I began to speak. Sud-
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By FRANK BETTGER EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth of a series taken from the best seller, ‘How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success,’ published by Prentice-Hall. The author became one of America's topflight insurance salesmen after he had been a major league baseball player.
denly I lost my nerve completely and just couldn't go on.
THERE
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shaking with fear, Mr. Hughes looked up in astonishment. Then, without knowing it, I did a wise thing, ‘a simple
little thing that turned the interview from a ridiculous failure to success. 1 stammered, “Mr. Hughes . . .1 .. uh . . . now that I'm here I'm so nervous and scared I
can’t talk!” Even while I spoke, to my surprise, my fear began to leave me. My dazed head cleared, my hands and knees stopped shaking. Mr. Hughes suddenly
seemed to become my friend. He obviously was pleased that
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I should regard him: as such an important individual A Kindly expression came over his face as he said “That's perfectly all right. Take your time. I've felt the same way myself many times when I was a young man. Sit down and take it easy.” He tactfully encouraged me to go on by asking me questions. It was apparent if T had an idea which he could use, he was definitely going to help mse make the sale. I didn’t sell Mr. Hughes, but I gained something which later proved to be far more valuable than the commission I would have made on that
sale. TI discovered this simple
rule. Here it is: When you're scared . . . admit it! n un "
THIS FEAR compiex of he ing afraid to talk to important people, I thought, was due to a lack of courage. I was ashamed of it. I tried to keep it a secret, I have learned since, however, that many successful men prominent in public affairs, are haunted by the same fears.
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that while we have to know these medical angles for investigation we are to get cometent medical help. for the .final analysis and for court purpoges. ” ” WE GO ON to figure there wasn’t a struggle and that the murderer was probably known to the woman. But who was he?
We learn the woman had trouble with some of her roomers bgcause they didn’t
ante up on their rent. In fact she hauled two of them into court. We find that three of her present roomers are away on vacations—maybe sudden vacations.
But all our suspects turn out to be red herrings. This - is to teach us not to make up our minds beforehand but to dig for the facts. As the instructor puts fit: “Let the chips fall where they may.” We hit another red herring in the pipe wrench beside the woman, There's a tool chest in the closet and we think she was killed with her own pipe wrench. But no. It develops that the tool was picked up in
the shed
Bridge Player
THE ONLY SURPRISE of Adm. Fechteler's appointment as-CNO arose over the fact that he is not an aviator. It was the belief that The job should go to
equal’ terms “with the Air Force's Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg
on the JCS when the important subject of air strategy and tactics came up. He ended any fears at least on lack of fealty to air power in the first press conference after his appointment by saying: “The Navy without a topflight air arm is totally inadequate to the job the Navy has today. A concrete example of my attitude toward air is my selection for the post of vicechief of naval operations, Vice Adm. Donald Duncan, one of the foremost aviators in the Navy." The Admiral’'s promotion to this important job will make a welcome addition to Washington’s social life. His gregarious nature and love® of people around him make him a popular guest, The Fechtelers have two chil-
Aren, A 8ERPD.. SON and. daugh- in
SUEY. Mrs. ESenYeler was forme erly married to a submarine of Yicer who was killed" in an accident. Their son is-the Admiral’ s stepson
For example, at the Empire
Theater in New York I was astonished -to hear Maurice Evans (regarded by .nany critics as the world's greatest
Shakespearean actor), confess nervousness to a 1arge audience of parents and graduating students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Mr. Evans was the principal speaker of the occasion After saying a few words; he faltered
obviously embarrassed, then said “I'm terrified I didn’t realize 1 was going to speak to such<a large and important looking. audience. planned
what IT thought would be some appropriate things to say, but they have all left me.” The audience loved Maurice Evans for it. Admitting openly that he was terrified, seemed to break the strain. He regained his composure, went on and thrilled young and old by talking to them right out of his heart.
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AS 1 LOOK BACK on it now, 1 realize what a fool 1 was,
Indianapolis Listed
As Critical Area
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{the bureau, made it clear that the head and mouth. labor shortages have not yet re- |
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Indianapolis iz one of six ecxitfecal defense areas where man-} power shortages threaten , vital
production, the Bureau of ployment Security declar Washington today. Robert C. Goodwin, director of |
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production
ition is being eased by shifting Dombrova arrived sho [some workers - from civilian tolto turn off the gas
{defense output. Besides Indianapolis, he said,
{the most critical areas are Hart|ford, Conn.; Wichita, Kas.; San
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(and Moline, Ill.) and the vicinity
(of Aiken, 8. C., and Augusta, Ga. Director Goodwin's survey
_* showed a tighter labor supply in
Jing “ Ft. Knox,
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tion centers as a result of steppedJ4up defense hiring and seasonal
job openings in construction in, building and farming. :
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IN OUR HYPOTHETICAL canvass of the neighborhood we dig up a witness who had seen a man leaving the home with a suitcase. The instructor takes the part of the witness for our quizzing. We get only vague descriptions of the man so we focus on the luggage. When we get through with this we have a brown suitcase and its dimensions.
But the instructor isn’t satisfied. He quizzes us on the shade of brown, gets half a dozen reactions and says: “You mee just brown isn't good enough. You've got to be thorough.”
The class session closes at this point. Annie is still hanging over the cliff, so to speak. And we—the ‘“‘passel” of blood» hounds—are left baying below. No one ever thinks of missing the next session. To capsule it for you—some old receipt books lead us to a former roomer, down on his luck and hard up for cash. So we have a criminal—and the motive. Next: Things start popping in a class on explosives.
ADM. FECHTELER — H
He wears. his cap at a jaunty angle.
how many times I failed to take advantage of opportunities, because I was afraid to talk to important people. Calling on Archie Hughes was an important step in my selling career. I dreaded to go in to see him, and was terrified when I got in. If IT hadn't admitted I was scared I would have gone out of there whipped! That one experience helped me to get into a higher income bracket. It showed me that this man really was a simple, approachable man, after all There is na disgrace in admitting you are scared, but there is disgrace in failing to try. So whether you're talking to one person, or a thousand, if that strange demon fear, public enemy number one, suddenly steals up on you, and you find yourself too scared for words, remember this simple rule:
WHEN YOU'RE SCARED, ADMIT IT.
NEXT: The of Rehearsing.
Importance
Navy Man Kills
PLEASANTVILLE, N. J, Aug, 7 (UP)—A Navy petty officer, who saved his wife from suicide a year ago, shot her to death yesterday, then killed himself.
Chief Petty Officer Louis Dom29, of Natrona, Pa.” an javiation machinist, was found “dead in the kitchen of his apartment with bullet wounds in his
His wife, Katherine, 34, Peabody, Mass., lay on the bathroom |floor with’ a bullet in her head. {Police sald that a year ago Mr. e in time th which
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CHICAGO, Aug. 7 (UP) A patron of a swanky handbook in suburban North Lake Village brooded on fate as police raiders herded him and 3 other bettors outside. : i : “What a time for a raid.”