Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1951 — Page 27
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HEATER
MIDIFIER—
J ‘side Indianapolis By Ed Sov ola
THE CHILDREN of School R4, 440 BE, 57th
gt., put on the best show I've geen for a long time. It's ®alled “Going Home After School.” I happened to be in the neighborhood Just as the best part of the day rolled around. There were plenty of seats and admission was free, I'm glad 1 waited,
The show began WHI the appeasifice of ‘three:
patrol boys who lowered the American flag and folded it. Spirited ‘lads, but*you should have seen them stand at attention saluting the flag. Our enemies shoule see things like that. A few minytes ‘later the school's patrol squad appeared and headed leisurely for ‘the stations. The boys are aware of their responsibility. Something happens to a lad when He slips into hix white belt with the shiny badge. He's the law, by golly. He's a guardian and when little Susie trips shyly by, the badge hecomes the sige of a billboard and Johnny becomes louder than usual... Things haven't changed mich. THE FIRST GRADERS, the little people, are my favorites. You can have the big ones who push, jump off the top steps to the sidewalk and vell. Say, did we have that much energy when we wera in grade school? Surely not. It just isn't fair to waste that pep on the young people. One boy tucked his books ‘under his echest, football fashion, and charged along the sidewalk. He came to a halt when he reached Central and a patrol boy. Caps, lunch boxes, sweaters are. things to throw on the grass and play catch with, Girls were made to bump and shove.
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SCHOOLS s our" it was a eheckle a cacand”
watching the youngsters scamper for home,
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Of courze, something new has heen added. Mothers and fatherz roll up in automobiles, Younger brothers and sisters wait patiently and gilently:until the “scholar”. appears with a precious drawing. Good stuff to fight over in the back seat, : v
AT SCHOOL 8% the older children leave first. Some wait ‘for younger brothers and aisters. Others simply tear away and try to. put as'much distance between them and the school as possible, The noize is deafening. “Hey, Marty, wait for me.” Business transactions involving a dime and a broken yo-yo are put over on the run. Then there is always someone who jumps and twirls and yells from sheer joy of living. No reason for the outburst, The tank is full of steam and it has to blow. : Most of the shoes are new and shiny right now, They won't be for long. A new pair of shoes ig quite the thing with a young lady of 6 or 7. She's careful where she steps, Her eyes are on her feet, Someone inevitably stumbles, Tt doesn't hurt. A little hand waves across the bottom and the pain is gone. It would be a different story if Johnny had run into her and knocked her down . ” ’
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I LIKE THE wide-eved expressions the first graders wear. Everything is new, They don't quite understand what .all this school stuff 1s about. An older sister holds out her hand and the little guy takes it automatically, without looking. Then he's jerked forward and finds the going difficult, The first graders go down the steps-one at a time, deliberately, carefully, often holding each other's hands, Three or four years from now they'll go down in one jump. ‘One little tvke with a book*in one hand and a
drawing in another had a difficult timeé pulling up .
his sagging trousers. He finally decided to*-lay his hooks on the sidewalk and work with a free hand. That was a mistake. He learned the hard way vou don’t come to a stop in heavy traffic,
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WHEN MAMA is standing at. the curb, Junior goes into a special act. He jumps up and down and tries to tell” evervthing that happened at
.&chool in one breath It can’t be done,
In 15 minutes there is peace and quiet in front of the school. Off in the distance you ran hear a shout or a high-pitched squeal. The halls are zilent and you can almost imagine them heaving a gigh of relief. It could he the teachers as thev leave their classrooms. : Yes: gir, I'm going to say “Thank vou” to the kids of School 84 for a stellar performance. It
"Was Aa Chuckle a second WHen THEV Went THIS ther
act. They're more fun than- a flock of young goats, ;
It Havnened Last Night Columnist Slinging
By Earl Wilson
SINGAPORE, Sept. 13 —“What is that stuff?" 1 said to Mickev Mouse, the waiter whoa brought us breakfast at the Raffles Hotel “Papaya.” said Mickey Mouse. I think he added, “Velly good.” It ‘was velly good. tno, served like cantaloupe, and quite OK td my farm boy taste. We've now come “15.897 miles from Broadway and lesz than 100 miles from the Equator to the land of papava . . . and the Singapore Sling. The Singapore Sling is a drink. It's got gin, cherry brandy, the white of an egg and soda in if. It's red, cold and delectable, I have tried this drink and found there's nothing to it. . “After drinking Singapore Slings all day™ I could say in a testimonial 1 waz not slung at all bv the Slingapore Slingz and I fling just pore. and...
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THIS, YOU KNOW, is “southeast Asia.” YOrient” iz nut of date. I found out, unfortunately, after using the word in a story. But here in “southeast Asia,” strange things happen. One American in this area quit wearing shoes, He believes in the Mohammedan idea that you ought not kill a living thing. Slippers, he feels, are all right. My beautiful wife doesn't like to wear Shoes, either, and this is the first time she got an excuse for it Ed Luckenbach of Park Avenue and Broadwav, New York, is one of the leading Americans in Singapore. Y Fd, heir to the steamship illions, and a former Broadway angel, is Asst 17, 8S Naval Attache. He has made one capture—one of the loveliest hrunettes anvwhere, Miss Jackie ‘Rurnett, horn here, of Australian parents. Fd -once the escort of Yvonne De Carle, and hefore that of stripteaser Sherry Britton-—is doing a congcientious job for_his country.
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FD GAVE the wandering Wilsons a party,
Everybody waz dizappointed. Not in the party, but that Jackie and Ed didn't announce their engagement, az had heen rumored. To look nice*in Singapore, I had to buy zome white pants, So T went to Change St. —-a narrow allev nf tiny shops—trying to keep in mind that 30 dollars i= 10 dollars, A "Straits dollar” (Malay Straitz) is 33 cents in American money. Fifty centz in Straitz money is about 16825) cents in U, 8 monev. “What—S$2.50 for a drink?” von may say «++. And then realize it's only 83 cents in States money.
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Sept. 13—Missus Baby Shor, a lady of deceptive. meekness, has. just mildly assassinated the character of her husband-—-if that be possible—in an essay for Collier's- called “My Life With Toots” —if this can be called living. I admire Baby's prose, whith was assisted in the comma. and semicolon department by Mr. Thomas Meany. And 1 admire Baby personally, if only for her, charm and stamina. Come to think of it, I do not hate Toots, But I sure do deplore the precedent that Baby. has set in becoming the intimate biographer of her old man. On the off-chance that most magazine editors are married, let us knock off this practice immediately, if only for mutual protection, Mr. Shor ig one of the few authentic phenomena of our time, ranking just behind the atom bomb in his impact on humanity, He runs a f2aloon in a sort of slipshod fashion, and he knows everybody who ever qualified for the title of erum-bum, which means everybody. He is shaped like a stranded whale which
has suddenly developed legs, and his voice is’
equaled only by his generosity: Certainly, he is worthy of enshrinement in print. But not by a wife, Heavens to Betsy, no man deserves such a fate. All wives have an amazing retention of intimate details of living with the beast she married, and they are sel-
dom complimentary. The good that husbands °
do may live after them, but fhe bad they get handed dally, together with their heads.
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IF A MAN ig ,no hero to his barber, then certainly a wife is a biased witness and should ndt be allowed access to print When the subject "of her. love slave comes up. Baby Shor, who admits playing second fiddle .to a gin mill, was most géneroug in ‘her appre: ciation of papa, but “the shudders develop when
vou think what she might have done ‘ta the bum
‘if an oversupply of candidness had fallen. upon her, f
mn 1 er gently when’ 1 consider the horrar + ro most wives leas Eousideride. than
Words in Singapore
I: found the white pants , . . $12 , . , four bucks back home , . . but by now the B. W., who earri2s the money, had gone to another shop to shop.
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1 COULDN'T find her. I went out wearing my white pants and carrving my blue ones, screaming. “Rosemary, Rosemary’ down the street, The clerk who sold me the pants thought 1 was trying to make off with them. I could: gee the headline. “Pants Bandit Strikes Again . . .”"—when she finally showed up and bought me my pants. Of course, T looked kind of funny coming into the famous Raffles Hotel with a pair of spare pant: under my arm. That's the lighter Side. The heavier side is the worry among the Americans that this will he the Russians’ next target. And what a heantiful city, and how rich . . . what a prize! But you don’t want to hear about that from me. I'm a Broadway columnist. I'm not supposed to know about such things,
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “I've seen ‘South Pacific’ so many times, I got malaria”’—Ralph Flanagan.
TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: When somebody ordered a Moscow Mule in Groucho Marx's presence, he said, “What's a Moscow Mule?” Gromyko?"” * u =”
GOOD RUMOR MAN: Peo-
Horace Dodge has pursued Gregg Sherwood to Hollywood. and That's On Again... . Low neckliner Marie Wilson comes to N. Y. Sept. 30 for TV “bow” and what a bow she could do! probably for Ed Sullivan. . Jack Benny confirmed that ‘he'll buck Milton Berle az a guest on Frank Sinatra's first Tuesday TVer Sept. 25. It'a part of the CBR-NBC war, .,. Frankie and Ava could he wed late next week
“Miss: Wilson
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KEARL'S PEARLS... “Did vou lick the races today?” somebody azked Jimmy. Ritz , .. “Did | lick them!” he zaid. “I licked them for every cent I had with me.’ It’s not a question of where civilization be gan—sgays Dorothy Sarnoff-—but where will it? , That's Earl, brother,
Let's Stop Ii. Men. While There's Time
Baby might feed to the eager millions If she really had a mad on that day and wanted to recall some of the less tender details of life with father, Some of his endearing little habits, like losing the rent money in a craps game, when the child was sore in need of being shod, while conducting an economy lecture over ma's purchase of a hat; or the episode of the wispy wrong-colored hair on the blue-serge collar, or the episodé of the rat stumbling home stiff - when the preacher had come to call, or all the other charming little ingredients that go to make a house a home. It is a potential of blackmail of the highest order, since each man's domestic past ig always checkered.
WHAT FEW SHREDS of independence we have left: az pantz-wearers are dissipated, If all the old lady has to do iz rear back- and zay “Ah, ah; Buster. be. a bad bov and I'll splatter vou all over the slick magazine field, and with What 1 know about vou, vou bum, circulation will leap that week, Now, Rover, down, boy, and be a good dog or mother will make vou famouz in Aa way to wreck vour credit with the bank and cause parents to hustle their children off the sidewalk when you pass.” There Is no, masculine redress to this rule by terror, bec ause a man is deemed a cad if he strikes back in kind, criticizing the bride's length of dressing time, and bad temper when last night's evening with the canasta group pays off in nforning migraine. The babes would boycott the rag that ram your rebuttal, and all’ the advertising contracts would be immediately cancelled. : Mr. Louie, Ruppel, who runs Collier's has laid the groundwork for the mass‘ wreckage of the American home, and 1 hope and pray he does desist in future, if only to _ prevent some rival magazine from bidding for a piece on “Life with Louie” by Mrs. Ruppel,, and 1 presume there is a Mrs. R. The picture of all wives, everywhere, running
to literary agents with spicy resumes of their
breadwinners' imperfections T= strictly too frightening to dwell upon, Ceagze thiz awful practice
immediately, men; while. there ia atill time, or we will all wind up in Singapore, wearing full
beards, “hunted. Springs # and Hpi names.
Local Pn pils Put.
he Indianapolis Times
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
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Life of All Sorts—
Bashy Camera In University Park
Photos By Lioyd B. Walton
COMFORTABLE HAVEN—Everyone likes easy tempo of University Park,
ple said it'd never happen —but’
PIGEON PARADISE—Young miss gets gleeful delight in feeding the docile pigeons,
Campaign by Mail—
DP’s Urged To ‘Sell’ America Abroad
for Freedom its funds through private 1} _ing and support from the
' campaign to combat REENWQOD, S. C., the Communist “ 13—A stenographer in Greenwood thinks refugees and displaced perAmerica are the 1A metica to their
be adapted to the battle against Soviet propabe utilized by the Freedom's, Radio Free Kurope and by
THE IDEAS ARE coming in from men, women and children all over the U. 8. in a contest Freedom. Originated by Chaun- : WITH STATIONS now
ating at Munich and Frankfurt, honds for $10 to
or small baby ' she wrote the Green-
“thousands of
propaganda broadeasts, a Chamber of Comin Winston- Salern, thinks every America should write an understanding letter to every mother in Russia and Red China. Picked at random, those are tha hundredz of
other communities in the U. § Hawaii and Alaska.
this year hopes to build at least two more broadcasting units by million Americans in the 1951 Crusade for FreeIn a national campaign the Crusade
wood committee, money would be obtained imme-
more taxes) for an all-out prop
wood group f J aganda campaign.”
three hest suggestions for pen etrating the Iron Curtain hy radin broadcasts, swinnera wi get a free trip to
during September. fz seeking $3.5 million in con-
a .couple’ of And the three KE. THE stenographer whn would nae refugees tn lea's ideas across, a
Unlike the Voica nf America, which is government-supported,
Gresnwond, which has heenme’
tar the originator of the best ~ : the headquarters for a pan i in. fn
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CALM REVERIE—Tree-shaded solitude good spot for dreaming.
man suggested enlisting some of the former Russians in this country who have ‘grown into the American way of life.” If they were to broadcast in the Russian language to tha Russian people, he thinks, it wollld provide ‘a message about this country that the natives of Rugsia could understand and accept.” aly i : On their free trip to Europe, the three winners will visit Voice of America transmitters, the World Kreedom Bell in Ber. lin. and the Radio Free Europs
station in Munich.
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