Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1951 — Page 21

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“at the seamy side of Indianapolis entertaining and somewhat startis it difficult to keep hosiery seams

wl’ § checked the figures of the straightseam hosiery survey several times and find it ‘hard to believe that 12 ladies with crooked seams . passed my station before one with straight seams appeared. To the many friends who stopped and said hello or waved a greeting in front of the Canary Cottage, I want to say, thank you. To everyone, 1 want to\say it was great to get back into harness and start dipping into the bag of harmless foolishness again, ;

: 2 » * AFTER a long absence from the local scene, I didn’t know what would happen when my call for help went out. Often, for projects like the straight-seam survey, props are needed. A call to my ol’ friend at the Wm. H. Block Co., George Madden, produced results. quickly. In fact, I had a feeling that George was happy the sidewalk shenanigans were starting again. George arranged for a pair of shapely display legs covered with Schiaparelli “Gay Intrigue” hose and even a sign. , “For old times,” George said.

eb oD THE CANARY COTTAGE responded by sending one of the waitresses out with a cooling drink. In the winter the Cottage supplies hot coffee. Thanks, buddies, one and all. In the back of my little head I've always had ap idea that the fair sex tramped around in crooked seams more than in straight. Being possessed with a pair of rather sharp eyeballs and a penchant for appreciating the little things that make up an immaculate woman, crooked seams continually got my undivided attention. We need not discuss what straight seams on a good-look-ing pair of gams received.

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THE SURVEY proved one significant fact: Women are interested in their appearance and ° respond quickly if enough interest is shown. We can conclude from this that the prevalence of crooked seams is due to the fact that men have lost interest in details. . I will go one step farther and say that men are responsible for 99 per cent of the shortcomings of women. Anyone want to dispute that? © For three hours and 15 minutes seams and nosdams afid bare legs passed in revue on the Circle. Anklets were completely ignored. The hair on the back of my head bristles at the sight of a woman wearing a pretty frock or a suit and anklets, That ought to give you an idea how I feel about anklets. i During that period, 512 women were classified. Probably twice that number went by, understand. It was Impossible to do justice to every pair of seams. There were many distractions. y oo» ONE YOUNG LADY who wiggled excitedly by and was classified in the straight-seam column, threw me for a loss of a good 15 minutes’ work. The memory of her still {fingers in my mind. When she turned on E. Market St. I couldn't get my eyes to come back.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 24—1I find an unholy fascination in the carryings-on of the titans of the glamor group, and wait breathlessly for bulletins from the press agents of the Ingrids and Ritas and Robertos and Alys and Orsons. But occasionally I begin to wonder about the souvenirs they leave behind as mementos of their brief enchantments. It will be an interesting sociological investigation, some years hence, to run down the respective” lives. of little Pia Lindstrom and Roberto Rossellini and Rebecca Welles to see how they're doing after such colorful intro-

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liant parents. They have been rather accidental sidebars to unions founded more on-flashbulbs than' intent of permanency, and constitute a sort of lost battalion of their very own. I note now that young Yasmin, the fruit of =the brief and blissful arrangement between the glamorous, if balding Aly Khan and the beauteous Rita Hayworth is the subject of a headline quarrel over how much Rita really needs to raise the youngun’ according to Hollywood standards. Her first and mild asking price was only three million bucks -— she didn't want anything for herself--which seems cheap enough for a global tour which was consummated by marriage. oe D3 o> BUT THE Aly Khan seems to figure this high rental on a wife who left him for no publicized reason save boredom and dislike of “safaris, even though it was a very small safari. The junior-grade Khan is a Moslem, and does not regard females as terribly important, and he figures that about eight grand a year is enough to: keep his daughter fed, watered and diapered. This despite the fact that Papa Khan occasionally gets weighed in diamonds, and the old boy’s income is such that even the.accountants have only a spiritual idea of the annual take from the faithful. So the latest bulletin is

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ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 24 —You'd have had plenty of laughs with us on our round- the-world tour . . . especially at what others think of singing American movie stars. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and other crooners are very unpopular, for example, in Beirut, where movie-goers don’t like singing unless it's got a good dramatic story with it. “Pictures that advertise ‘10 Big Song Hits’ scare the people,” the two MGM representatives, Edward Sasson and Antoine Shoueiry, said. “It's better to say. it only has four big song hits.”

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oe oe oe AVA GARDNER is Beirut's favorite sexy star, also Esther Williams, “especially when she looks bare in a bathing suit.” Ingrid Bergman’s big too, but singers Kathryn Grayson and Judy Garland—no! An American bobby-soxer who wanted to get two Seats at 9 o'clock to see a Frank Sinatra picture was told by a theater manager: “You only want two seats? You can get 200!"

o < oo A SWISS being given an intelligence test was asked, “Who was the first man?’ He answered: “William Tell.” “What about Adam?" demanded the quizzer. “Oh, well, all right,” said the Swiss, “if you want to bring in foreigners.” ob BS THE ARABS are noted for being bargainers. An Arab boy, when asked at school the sum of two and two, said: “First, tell me, am I buying or selling?’ oe o> oo KING FAROUK has a reputation of an-nouncing--when playing poker—what hand he aolds, but refusing to show it . . . in fact, throw:ng it out the window and picking up the chips. “You can believe a king, can’t you?’ he says «f anybody doubts his word. sacky Luciano tgld me he heard that once the King insisted he held four kings and thus should get the pot over somebody holding four queens, Pressed to show his hand, Farouk counted out only three kings ... “Three kings . « » and myself . ... King Farouk . . . makes four kings, so I win,” he said. “I wouldn't Jet a man like that gamble if I had a place,” Lucky said. alee I THOUGHT for a minute here In Istanbul that I was in Brooklyn when I heard the word “youse" all over the. city. Turned out it's the word for “hundred,” but spelled yuz. When we changed 100 livre and then wondered

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whether we needed all that, a waiter who krew eh said: : _ “Youse ean always use your yuz tomorrow." oo * %

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LEG WORK-—A straight-seam survey revealed the ladies need more pull and not on the legs, either.

The. reakd " Jai Toll Next week, Aug. 26 to too much. Actually, the cow > 4 : st Straight makin on he 512 in at vam. | Sept. 1 is Farm Electrifica- = tralner seeps the cow standing less, 53; no stockings, 119, and baggy, 5. tion Week-— a seven-day Over a gutter through which oe tribute to the achievement Pollution is carried, away by an g you CaN =e Sl gin how Jong You of putting electricity on the automatic barn cleaner. And ave to wa efore s raig seams appear. eh arm. the caw’s stationary position the survey began, I didn’t have a “baggy” classi- | , 5 = 2 fication. It was with great reluctance that | . in allows use of longer stalls, “baggy” was included. But what are you going WORKING hand - in - hand which are more comfortable to classify a pair of hose that sag at the calf in with the power companies are and less hazardous to the ani-

billows? There is a great difference between a twisted stocking and a baggy one. The ladies with the seamless hose usually grinned from ear to ear. Th. ones with bare legs were either happy about their state or a trifle self-conscious. The fastidious creatures, those rare individuals | who wouldn't consider, stepping out of the privacy of their boudoirs unless they were ‘positive they moved in a state of perfection, gave the setup a cool reception. They seemed to ask: Does anyone have. crooked seams?

| going ww have a chance to toot | their owa horns a ‘little;

FRIDAY,

Salute to Hoosiers—

Push-Button Farmin

Experiments at Purdue University and the electrig farming aids used by a Marion County farmer get hational recognition today in a Collier's article by Arthur Bartlett. With Collier's per- . mission The Times publishes a synopsis of their story.

THINGS are getting easier down on the farm. For that, thanks are due the good old American idea of mass production. ~~ Now it's being applied to farming. are using electrical gadgets like

mad to lift food production to . Hi er” in stall, just

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new higns. It's assuming the every size gh icultural So the cow's shoulders. It's a n agricultural revolu- .,w. trainer, carries a slight

tion. current in it to teach ‘‘Bossy” With one big job—getting how to stay in position. electricity to the farms—almost "nn finished, those responsible are THE SOCIETY for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals doesn’t worry about the gadget

agricultural colleges, industrial mal i researchers and farmers But all sorts of chores around y 3 » > the farm can now be dispatched all trying to find py a finger-tip on a button. Amid the headache - raising frosts. of Michigan a low-tem-perature, lead-covered electric cable is being developed to ward off chills, It had speeded up plant growth as much as 50 per cent in testing. Texas peanyts are being dried

themselves, new ways to utilize electricity. Purdue University agricultural scientists, for are doing research on fighting the European corn borer, one of the farmer's worst enemies. experimenting with

instance,

ET They're in their sacks with portable YES, DEAR, there are crooked seams in great | Mercury vapor lamps which electric driers. Mississippi tonumbers. Yesterday, I venture to say, many were lure the borers’ moths into mato and pepper plants are bestraightened. Today, let's hope more corrective | electric ‘traps. ing raised in electrified hotmeasures will be, taken, There are people who ; : beds. Soon this will mean more

truly appreciate simple pleacgures. Figures don't lie. One might ask the question: Is it different to keep a stocking seam straight? It “seams” so.

Fate of Offspring of Glamor Set Mourned

battery has declared intent to take Aly for all | the traffic allows, even if it means opening up | the ancient Khan's books to see how much the bloated old spendthrift can afford to pay for junior’s fun. The chee-ild is only the gimmick, because her mama can rack up half-a-million a year in the films if she wants to work.

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IN ALL these things the baby seems to be only a*token of past infatuations gone ashen. I recall that the lovely Rita dragged her first daughter, by Welles, around the world when she and Aly. were defying all for_love. The gorgeous Ingrid seemed to care somewhat tess Oanrnitl mg for her daughter Pia’s position among the schoolmates, and wilfully inflictéd the brand of illegitimacy on the prgduct of her deathless idyll with the scant-haired Roberto. The paths of these people seem littered with casual offspring, who serve beautifully as the focal point of gaudy court battles, but they have lost their identity as kids in ,order to become juvenile stooges for their elders. I am not generally in favor of unionizing but it seems to me the get of the greats ought -to band together in some sort of tight organization for self-protection against exploitation .by. their parents. A child has certainly as many Tights as an animal; yet there is no SPCA to insure kids against embarrassment and deprivation of privacy. It is possible that the flighty transients from one amour to the next actually love the biological souvenirs they have collected en route, but they demonstrate it oddly. More true consideration is generally paid to a pet poodle. Being no moralist I care no single whit who lives in rosy bliss with whom, but it does seem as if the kids might be allowed to sue, retroactively, for early abuse of personal dignity, and to select a name at random to disassociate themselves from the reeking reputations of their flamboyant sires and dams.

Earl Brings Laughs

From Across the Sea most of the time. He got them anyway, not Knowing the language. A diner at the next table uttered the word “‘repetez” (“repeat”) to the waiter and got fish. The Turk therefore said “repetez’’—and got more beans. “Why is it,” he finally demanded, “that everybody else’s ‘repetez’ is fish but mine's beans!”

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corn-on-the-cob for Hoosier tables—and to ship for sale to

” " ” EDWIN J. KENDALL, a Marion County farmer, 7400 W. 38th St., has a unique system for getting better hay He has an “electric

mow, and an electric fan and air duct system to cure it. The leaves, which are the hay’'s best part, don't crumble and fall off as they do when hay -is completely™dried in the

Mr. Kendall keeps his cow barn dry and comfortable with a ventilation system operated by electric fans. He also has an electric feed grinder and automatic, self-filling waterers. » n u » ONE OF HIS PRIZE gadgets is an electric calf-dehorner

cutting tools or caustic solutions. That's only a start on the

“pushbutton” farming. A lot of research is being done at the Wisconsin Electric Research Farm, just outside Madison, which the University of Wisconsin runs in co-opera-tion with the Wisconsin Utilities Association. Their dairy barn alone uses electricity 15 different ways. There's an electric ‘‘coat-hang-

TUNNEL IN HAY—Edwin J.

Gambling Fever—

“AUGUST 24, 1951

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DEATH 10 CORN BORERS—Dr. Howard O. Deay of Purdue and J. C. Taylor, U.S. Department of Agriculture inspect death lamp.

Kendall inspects dryer vents,

OFF COME THE HORNS—Edwin K. Kendall uses electricity.

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Suckers Flock To Nevada Casinos

CHAPTER FIVE

EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the last of a series which

two per cent tax on the operators’ gross winnings. Thus Nevada gambling casinos rake in gross profits of about $75

THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK— | analyzes the make-up of the 5" 5 © Prince d’Avallon, the Ali Khan's cousin, will | habitual sucker for gambling Is legalized gambling the come here soon to visit his Park Avenue ro- | games. answer? Some observers be-

mance, who's divorcing her husband . ; . Anatoli Gromyko, ‘the walker’'s” son, has corresponded for three years with L. I. co-ed Jeahne Saverson. He's just written he’ll see her in the fall, Freddie Bartholomew's currently a TV director at WPIX , . . Venezuela's trying to promote a ‘Miss Universe” contést in which winners of the “Miss America, Miss S. America, Miss World, etc.” contests would compete . . . A new Police bookie chase is on . . . Four more baseball managers may lose their jobs by the end of the year.

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B'WAY BULLETINS: A wedding’s just about due between /Pier Angeli and Brazilian money man Francisco Martarazzo , . . The Tony Dexters are expecting . .. Could be that Willie Sutton’s living on a Cuban plantation? Lex Thompson's divorce settlement on Jean. Sinclair will be close to $100,000, including taxes . .. Nina Foch’s pew interest is socialite Dayid Sieniges. She's on the Coast and he's here . . . Capt. Peter Terranova, new head of N.Y.’s Narcotics Squad, will marry B'kyln Eagle reporter Jeanne Toomey Sept. 28 . . « The fall Copa show (Sept. 6) will include Joe E. Lewis, Connie Moore, Peggy Ryan and . Ray McDonald . . . Rusty Arden’s co-mistress of ceremonies on CBS-TV's, | “Telephone Game.’

Miss Arden

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “When a man gets angry at his wife,” points out Gene Williams, “he's usually fit to be tight.” CE : EARL'S PEARLS . , . Sid Luckman told Robert Q. Lewis that his position as vice president of the Chicago Bears football team entails nothing at all. “Why should you be different from any other v.p?” asked Lewis, - * 3 ¥ * a, bay LENNY TRAUBE suggested the Jew Capitol movie in which Greer Garson plays garrulous Lady Loverly, be retitled My Lovenys Chm

By MURRAY ROBINSON

Beldon Katleman is the suave, college-trained operator of a hotel with gambling casino attached, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He recently offered solid advice on how to win at his place and similar ‘establishments in

lieve that legalization, at least in the form of off-track betting, is a step in the right direction. Yet even Mr. Katleman refuses to come out flatly for legalized gambling outside Nevada. “I can’t guess how it would

Nevada, where gambling is work in any other state,” he | legal: says warily. : { , “All I know about is Nevada. Ordinarily, if you don’t It's working there.”

gamble you don’t lose, but you don’t win either. But in Mr. Katleman’s hotel, El Rancho

He conceded, however, that Nevada's gambling industry Is

i built on tourist trade, not Vegas, you beat the game, he home-grown habitual gamsays, by just living there. blers.”

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ity doesn't breed contempt, It breeds addicts, For example, women were

barred from the betting ring in the old days of illegal, but tolerated, bookmakers at the New York race-tracks. ‘Result

Few women bet on horses, and they were mainly society dames. ’ But when the mutuel machines opened in 1940, women were as welcome as men at the windows. Thereupon women flocked to the New York tracks, got the gambling habit, and when they couldn't get to the tracks, many of them bet their house money with outside bookmakers. > Thus given the opportunity to bet, female habitual horseplayers in New York today are more rabid, if not so numerous, as male addicts.

accommodations which cost $50 a day in Florida resorts may be had at El Rancho Vegas for $10. Similar bargains prevail in food. And $10,000-a-week attractions may be seen in the hotel's night club for the price of 4 cup of coffee. A check averaging $11 a per- | son at a top New York night | club runs about $3 In Las | Vegas, it is estimated, ¥ “Many visitors to Las Vegas,” Mr. Katleman said without even

| the hint of a tear in his voice,

‘take advantage of this. They get the benefit of our low prices |

-and then don't go near the

gaming tables.”

This Wild West windfall is mentioned because it points up the tremendous profits in gambling enterprises. ¢» Mr, Katleman couldn't offer such -rockbottom prices in‘ his hotel if he didn’t know he'd get it back, many times over, in hia gambling casino. x 8 = NEVADA'S legal gamb

“brings the state AE Hon year in ihe, form ot 5

NEW YORK gambling experts differ with Mr. Katleman when he says that people brought up with gambling, as in Nevada, ‘think nothing of it.” The New Yorkers say familiar

The moral is that opportunity to gamble i§ an important factor in creating habitual or “compulsive” gamblers, Legalized gambling would obviously ‘widen this opportun-

2 Persons Killed,

10 Hurt in Crash WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UP)

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Aug. -The Emergency Court of Ap24 (UP)—Two persons died and peals presumably will" receive the; 110 others were injured. in a two- dispute between Price Administra[car automobile collision in near- tor Michael V, DiSalle and four {by Egg Harbor Township yes- big food chains over the general |terday. price freeze order. The dead were Fred Hackney, The court is a special one set 67, and his wife, Freda, 51, of up to handle cases “involving price | Linwood, N. J. control regulations. Yesterday Five-year-old Anna Loveland Mr, DiSalle rejected an appeal by| was in critical condition at Shore | the food chains against the price Memorial Hospital, Somers Point, freeze. N. J. She was one of the couple’s| The dispute, first major cha four grandchildren riding in the|léenge to the freeze imposed last rear of a coupe Mr. Hackney had|January, involves Safeway Stores,

Court Expected to Rule On Price Freeze Case

converted into a truck. The other|ine., Colonial Stores, Inc. First|a 20,000-acre children were less seriously hurt. National Stores, Inc., and the timber. A crew of 1000 men Was (, {he racetrack.’ 22, Pittsburgh, Grant Union Tea Co. They filed|tryi

utomo- ate protests with Mr. DiSalle| mo ; Pa., driver of the other auto separ ov Rs Slat: at ol

Detorit dam

Robert Hall,

bile, and five male passengers,last month complaining they had

at'Atlantie City race caught in an thevk, ateo were injured. i ve hy

Mega! Creek near the

ity. Besides proposals to make off-track betting legal are invariably unrealistic because they assume horse-players will bet on only races within the state, n ” n IF, BY SOME legislative miracle, authorities should kill all horse-racing throughout the country (and dog racing, too), gamblers would plunge more heavily on other so-called nongambling sports, The logical step, then, would be to halt all sports to kill gambling—then parchesi, euchre, spin-the-bot-tle, and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. The prospect becomes absurd. The solution of the nation’s staggering problem of habitual gambling would seem to be along the lines indicated by Alfred E. Johns, Ph. D., consultant psychologist. “To solve this probkm, which Is as great as that of compulsive drinking in this country,” Dr. Johns declares, “we must cure the compulsive neurosis of the habitual gam-

Forest Fire.

Takes 2 Lives

PORTLAND, «Ore, Aug. 24 (UP)-—Scattered showers and dying winds gave 12,000 weary firefighters some hope today that |they may be able to bring under control some of the 300 forest and brush fires ravaging the Far West

However, the biggest and most| 1- | dangerous

of the blazes, the

Umpqua River fire in Oregon, still roared out of control over stand of virgin

project caused We deaths.

wh Soutiel it with a pincers!

horse-player sighed. The | wrote him out.

bler. It must be done through treatment, education, and the substitution of worthwhile interosts for his vicious habit.” Until that happy, far-off day when the last habitual gambler has shucked his last neurosis, he will remain among the psychologist’s most fascinating studies. And among all habitual gamblers, the horse-players rank at the top in eccentricities. They persist in bucking a game in which operators and taxes nick them for 17 cents out of every dollar. The per=centage against a bettor in a house dice game, for purposes of comparison, are only 1.414, In roulette, they're only 5.519. » " ” SO ADDLED are the horse players that they frequently don't know when they've won, Despite detailed instructions for cashing tickets, which are printed in the track programs,

New York horse-players have failed to cash a total of $1,185,756 in winning tickets

in the last 11 years! They presumably toss them away with« out realizing they were worth money. But even Dr. Johns finds a trace of encouragement in the sorry picture of gambling. “Gambling,” he concedes, ‘is not entirely evil. It has a grain of hope in it.” And horse-players even make grim jokes about their afflic~ tion. Like the one who was speeding to the track. recently,

only to be flagged down by a

motorcycle cop. The cop asked the usual questions. “I'm on my way to the doce tor,” the horse-player groaned. “I'm sick.”

“Sick, eh?” the cop sneered.

“I think you're on the way

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