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FIFTY YEARS AGO the: Soldiers’ and Sailors’ .-Bverything At perfectly. Mr. Schulte received the

Monument was being completed. Citizens pointed > (many still do) with pride at a work of art con-

structed in ‘memory of Indiana's “Silent Victors.” F. H.»Langsenkamp, presidente of ‘the local canning plant equipment ‘company which: bears his name, remembérs 1901 well. F.H, is 78 and, in my astimation, is’ doing better than the 'Monument whi¢h he helped complete. Dropped ove’ to se 'F. H. Langsenkamp the other day to, get a personal account of the candelabra work he did... F, H, is a genial, sprv man who has never been afraid of work. Young folks of today should know him. F. H began to work for his father when he was 13. William Langsenkamp, a ° coppersmith } from the old country, established the business in 1868. Brewer's equipment and copper ‘and brass kettles for farm home use were production items for the new Indianapolis firm. Young Langsenkamp learned well and fast under his father's eye. There wasn’t a Job in the plant he couldn't or wouldn't tackle,

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THE LANGSENKAMP firm did many of the castings for the Monument. ¥. H. saw swords, guns and other decorative pieces turned out. One day a Mr. Schulte, who was in charge of the candelabra installation, came to the slider ‘Langsenkamp with a problem. ‘The job wasn't going right. Mr. Schulte; a native .of Berlin had troubles with the English language. He couldn't speak it. The: two men talked the problem over in German and F. H. was called into the office. He The job of installing the candelabras was his. Mr. Schulte retired for

.the afternoon to the old Schuler's Wine Cellar.

¥. H. was to report if “anything interesting” de-

. veloped in German.

¥. H. had 15 men working for him. To begin with he installed one candelabra to test the accuracy of the pieces which were cast in Germany.

It Hap By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept, 25-—Sometimes when Toots Shor unties my leash, I go over to Dinty Moore's and eat hamburger with sugar on it. Dinty’s 83 now. He leans on a cane when he's not pointing it at a waiter to rebuke him for -S0me error. He proudly shows you his gnarled fingers that got that way from handling a baseball—oh, 50 years ago. “Sugar in a hamburger?’ mentioned that recently. “Sure!” And with all fresh vegetables and in all stews, and when I make gefulte fish, I stick a little sugar in that. “I had two micks in here drinkin’ ale one night and I asked 'em to try the gefulte fish without tellin’ what it was. “They ate $4 worth. I didn’t charge ‘em for it because they already Swed me $30 for ale.” * HE CUTS THE vinegaf with sugar, and sugars the sauer kraut and the grapefruit—and incidentally, he squeezes some grapefruit on the sayer kraut. “I got a special trick with my grapefruit, * he sald. “I put sugar on it and then take half an orange and squeeze that over the grapefruit. It's hard to beat.” Dinty, who is known as the Terrible-Tempered Mr. Moore, and famous for having fights with hig son Willie, and even throwing a steak at him once, ig proudest or Jamhurger.

J said when he

MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE asked i for the recipe.

“First” he snfd; “you: buy, the.bast meat, and <

grind it four times, “Then your. chopped onions, and salt and pepper, and a small bit of water—a tablespoon for a half a pound . .« and one egg. “Mix it loosely,” ‘he continued, lovingly, “and shape it into patties—and again a nip of sugar. “Then in your fryin' pan-—a tablespoon of water-—a plece of butter—and the more you turn ‘em the better! “When you touch them they should feel like the back of your hand on top. “Oh, yes, and eat it quick as you get it. As quick as you get it, I said!” He brought his cane up and pointed it at me accusingly—as though I might dally over a hamburger! “You do find some people who don’t like onfons with it?” I asked, for I'd remembered how he used to throw people out who refused onions with hamburger. He thought they were being sacrilegious. “How can they eat hamburger without onions?” he demanded angrily, waving the cane again. “Besides,” meat.”

"he added, “onions are cheaper'n

* > > THE MIDNIGHT EARL-—A well-known judge predicts that police-protected bookmaking (which has already started again in a small way) will

Doll Girdle By Elizabeth Toomey

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reports at Schuler's with satisfaction. pCa

EVERYONE WAS HAPPY with the work. Mr.

Schulte was so delighted he offered F. H. a chance

to go to Berlin ‘yith him and study. It. was a

great compliment to the youth. Papa Langsenkamp put his foot down. There was work to be done dt the plant. He was grooming his son to take over the business, a growing

‘ ‘business. Mr Schulte bid farewell to the Langsen-

kamps and to Schuler’s Wine. Cellar and went back to Bern, " F. H. recalls the days of the candelabras with pleasure. He was a young man then, only 23, and the opportunity to have a hand in completing Indiana’s most famous landmark made him feel as happy as if he had spent an afternoon at Schuler’s. I told F. H. that quite often one heard uncomplimentary remarks about the Monument. His pipe threw ‘out gusts of smoke as he lowered his head and looked me squarely in the eyes. “Fifty years ago we thought it was a work of art and we stifl think it is," he said. SP IT WAS TIME ‘to change the subject. I was interested in F'. H.'s working habits. It just seemed to me that after 63 years of work a man ought to take it easy. Everyone at the plant knows F. H. is one of the first to come to work and one of the last to leave. Did he hear of this retire-at:65 ided?

F. H. heard of the thing but he hasn't given it any serious consideration, A man should work as long as he is able and has an interest in what he is doing. ¥. H. has plenty of interest. “If T hadn't worked I probably wouldn't be around now. Work is what keeps s man healthy,” laughed ¥. H. ‘He has something there and it should be sold to the coming generations. When you stop and think that during his lifetime, America has grown from a rough youth to full manhood, you also have to think that somebody did a whale of a lot of work. It must be a avonderful feeling to look back

and consider yourself a part of that working herit- .

age, It's a privilege to at least talk with someone who was a part. :

Diniy Moore Likes Sugar on Hamburgers

soon be wide open in N. Y. and won't be interfered with for yvears-—not until ‘the next inves-. tigation.” Harry Gross (if he was “hought off") | made his deal, B'way feels, the day he disappeared. Maybe that was why he disappeared. After his jail term, he's expected to return to bookmaking. Now all the bookies are just wild about Harry. LE :

GOOD RUMOR MAN: Best-seller author Gene

Fowler has recovered after a heart attack ...’

The NY opening of the Ginger Rogers show was postponed. .+» Is former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. marrying a wealthy French widow? , . . Marlene Dietrich was probably kidding, but when discussing Conde Nast Publisher Iva Patcevitch with - friends, she said, “He's a darling. I promised to marry him.” . . . Hollywood reports: There's no doubt about it—Denise Darcel will be a big star. > 2° : B'WAY BULLETINS: GI Vie Damone, the crooner, has been sent to Germany. . .. Fred Allen’ll send out his passport pictures as Christmas cards. . . . A big man in the pulp magazine field plans a divorce. to marry his secretary. . . . Parking’s so tough mow in NY, you can't even find room to park in a No Parking zone.

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TV TATTLE: Jimmy Durante “Ethel Barrymore as his 3d guest star. + Hard Kurnitz had to withdraw as writer on ‘the Fran Sinatra show due to a movie deal. . . , Jerry Lester'll do five half-hour Sunday night shows for Chesterfield . . . Jackie Gleason now asks and gets $8500 for a guest show performance. eS » AlLL OVER: Florence Chadwick's father is ill. The strain of her swimming the Channel was too much. . . . Mario Lanza got a bonus when he réturned to MGM, way down to 185 pounds. . The China Doll will reopen as “Sugar Hill,” operated by Harry Steinman, husband of Fran Warren, featuring a big Negro revue. . . . Ticket speculators are paying $5 premium to get Brooklyn series tickets. The new sales method averts hoarding.

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* * * TODAY'S DAFFYNITION: “Cigaret holder— a man who goes shopping with his wife” —Burt Taylor. : ¢ 2 EARL’S PEARLS:- Beatrice Kay reports that a certain mother calls her baby her little bawl and change. ode TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Where there's smoke there's a bride cooking” —Gas Flame. A friend of Lou Levin spent hours in a dentist's chair without a whimper—just yelling and screaming. . . . That's Earl, brother,

Tiny Foundation Has Big Stretch

NEW YORK, Sept. 25—The case of the disappearing girdle is about to come to the attention of American women, From the days when a whalebone corset was sturdy enough to stand by itself to the present season when one new girdle measures five by seven inches—well, if the girdle isn't disappearing, it’s getting mighty hard to find in a crowded bureau drawer. A man thought up the tiny girdle. “I've been thinking about it for several years,

as a matter of fact,” said Richard Kops, president

of the Nemo Foundation Co. “But we were hampered by lack of the proper kind of elastic yarn

until very recently.” * > &

THE FIVE - BY «- SEVEN two-way stretch is knitted of a very fine denier nylon yarn and a

‘© special long-stretch U, 8. Rubber elastic yarn, Mr.

Kops explained. It stretches 300 per cent sideways and just over 100 per cent from ‘top to bottom. And the company hasn't given up yet. “We could,” Mr. Kops said, smaller girdle, though we haven't developed one yet. On the other hand, if you get much smaller

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AT THE FIVE BY SEVEN SIZE, the company is banking on the vanity of the average woman to make her a ready customer. “Women are very strange psychologically,” Kops sald thoughtfully. “It is very flattering to them to think something that small will fit them.” The larger a woman, he added, the smaller ghe wants to look. Though a 300 per cent stretch

' has its limitations, and Kops admitted that any i woman measuring more than 30 inches at the

waist and 42 inches at the hips better hang on to

her present girdle. bw eo @

"THERE ARE some women who still cling to

"the old front lacing, and Kops doesn't expect to

convert them. “Our company was founded on front lacings and heavy whalebone 57 years ago.” he explained. “We still make a few, except we use corset steels instead of whalebone.” :

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1951

The Girl Who will Be Queen—

Liz Meets Her Tall, Young

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Chapter Two

By ARTHUR J. MATHERS Times Special Writer

ONDON, Sept. 25—In August, 1939, a year of great personal significance for Princess Elizabeth, she sailed with her parents and sister on the royal yacht for an official visit to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth,

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¢ “Captain's Doggie" at the college was a blond naval cadet named Philip, who had to en tertain Elizabeth and Margaret as part of his orderly duties while the King carried out inspection. Obviously impressed with the tall young man. whom she had met several times at the Lord Mountbatten house, . Blizabeth proceeded to feed him a reyal luncheon such as only a hungry young seaman could tackle, Her iinstinet was accurate. When. the visit was over and the King ‘and his party set sail again, Philip rowed his dory so far out into the Channel in the wake of the royal cht that he finally had to be ordered back. Elizabeth was 13 when World War II broke out and for the next five years, the young Princess gave herself to “the task of fitting herself to take her place and responsibilities beside her father. With the aid of highly qualified tutors, she had achieved in

her 16th year a standard ex-

pected only of university students, not only in formal subjects, but such extra-curricular studies as economic and consti-

tutional history and agrieultural theory. Before her 16th birthday

Elizabeth had an honors rating in her knowledge of Muzzy’s “History of the United States.” Her essays on French history were written, in French and corrected with severe precision by two tutors—for both French and history.

- » = A CONTEMPORARY has observed: “The result of all this hard work is exactly what was intended (and demanded by the Queen Mother), Elizabeth had an amazing store of information ' about ' every conceivable subject which might

-become part of official or diplo-

matic discussions.” Most of this really important work had been done at Windsor Castle, where both Princesses spent the greater part of the War years. Senior advisors to the King — and many personal friends, too ~-had been urging him to send Elizabeth and Margaret to either the United States or a Commonwealth country. hut the King refused ent: 8 vith gthe tace a common peril.” ! By then, Elizabeth had paid a penalty for her intensive

study. She had temporarily lost her easy charm and became shy and diffident just at a time when it became important for, her to take on a more adult’ social life. Young Guards Officers, stationed at Windsor Barracks, were invited to tea and occasionally to supper. But at 17, Elizabeth was inclined to scare them off. Only a few very close friends knew how she fought to cover her shyness with a natural and retugning graciousness. One young: and eligible Guardsman who danced with her at a small formal party sighed: “She dances beautifully and is very sweet. But what does one talk about to a Princess?” » » »

IT WAS just at this difficult period: of KElizabeth’s young womanhood that Prince Philip reappeared at Windsor. He had progressed through various schools, where he had ‘become more notable for athletic skill than for book-learn-ing. Long holidays abroad had made him self-reliant, broadminded.and familiar with European affairs. : When Philip entered Royal Naval College, he was inspired by the -seagoing achievements of his uncle, Lord Mountbat= ten, for whom he has deep affection. Against stiff competition, he: won the two top awards for seamanship and leadership. At 18, he had won the King's Dirk=—equivalent to the Sword

of Honor at Annapolis——and be-

gan attive service as a midshipman aboard battleships in the Mediterranean. Philip was on promotion leave when he again met Elizabeth, and-the romance began in earnest. The romance of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was not just roses all the way once they had discovered they were

in love.

At first, there was the war. Philip went back to battle service, this time in the “little ships.” At 21 he was first lieutenant on a destroyer, one of the youngest men in the

‘Royal Navy to hold down such

a responsible wartime job. There were letters, but Elizabeth wanted a bigger share in

,the. War, Finally, she broke ! down her father’s opposition and, at 18, went to camp in the

Auxiliary Transport, Service.

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NAMELESS PRINCE—While Elizabeth was having ner first. social season, Philip was in Asia on he staff of his Uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten (right), who inspired his naval career.

WITHOUT ballyhoo, she learned to take apart, repair and drive a three-quarter-ton truck. Under

4 liberal coating of grease smudges, - Elizabeth thoroughly enjoyed her new role and. felt she had honestly earned the right to her uniform, To celebrate the finish of her driving test, she drove her truek to London with her

‘instructor, After circling Pic-

cadilly Circus twice, she roared down the red-macadamed Mall and through the main gates of Buckingham Palace with the klaxon blaring full blast. The armed guard didn’t know whether to shoot or salute. “He did &_ lovely double-take before he presented arms,” the Princess recalls. ri When V ay brought Britons, Americans and other Al-

lied personnel to the gates of Buckingham Palace to cheer ’

the Royal Family, Elizabeth and her sister appeared on the balcony with their parénts. But when another vast throng gathered in front of the palace on the night of VJ-Day, the princesses slipped out by a side gate of “Buck House’ and joined the erowd, unrecognized. Elizabeth declared later: ‘It was marvelous! . t

shouted for mummie and papa,

then we cheered them when they came out.” ®

» ELIZABETH and Philip had seen each other fairly frequently in the last few months of the WAT. Philip had acquired a fast black automobile, referred to by his American Navy friends as

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ROYAL ATHLETE — Philip was more of an athlete than a scholar before his days in the Naval College. Here he's fixing his spikes before a high jump contest in 1935,

“The Royal Hot-Red,” and when- dividuals among «a crawit bf ever he could wangle leave from

his temporary duties as instructor, he would buru up the road to London or Windsor to visit with the Royal Family. It was obvious to the family that Elizabeth and Philip were in love, but the subject of possible marriage between them was never openly discussed. The King and Queen admired Philip for his gchievements as a Naval - Officer, for his keen mind, and perhaps most of all for his integrity i: maintaining strict silence—even among his closest friends--about his feelings for Elizabeth. : Nevertheless her parents were conscious that Elizabeth had

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IT WAS ‘Not UNTIL after VI-Day, when she was 18-—-—and Philip had been reassigned to duty in Southeast Asia -- that Elizabeth was allowed to take part in London's social whirl, She was able, for the first time, to dine in a public restaurant. Even 8p, wherever ghe went, het Jady-In-waiting was with IP

Elizabeth was ' starry eyed

about that first short social season. After the drab tweeds and plaids of her war-time "teens, the party dresses (made over from formal gowns bought by the Queen in a pre-war trip to Paris) seemed like dreams of elegance.

When = Philip sailed home

early in 1946, due for three.

years of shore duty, he khew a new hurdle had to be faced before he and: Elizabeth could openly avow their love. : The King, never a robust type, was drawing deep on his reserves of energy, and was ordered to conserve himself for a scheduled Royal Tour of South Africa. Thus there could be no question of Elizabeth being married before the royal party returned from South Africa at the end of May, 1947,

= ” ” SINCE PROLONGED royal bethrothals are traditionally frowned upon (“A change of mind would be bad for everyone concerned”) Elizabeth and Philip, head-over-heels in love and longing to tell the world about it, had to behave as mere acquaintances, Acting such a part had heen tough enough for them when Elizabeth was in the public view only on official occasions, Now that she was in the social whirl it was worse. Only as in-

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young socialites. could: they be , together at all. on ‘At that thisp he had to id to snpess Completsiy - distmia rested. Even a privately shared joke had ‘tg be treated with decorum. For a couple to whom laughter was as natural as breathing, tf in itself was a major proble On - the : rare occasions they dared dance toget] Elizabeth and Philip would me it through one of their intimates for the band to the “Oklahoma” hit tune “People Will Say We're an Love.” £ That lyrie—which both knew by heart—became the theme song for the sad little Princess and her Prince -A-name, Tomorrow: “We're Moving in with the In-laws.” :

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TRIBUTE—Princess Elizabeth, in her uniform of the Grenadier Guards, salutes at annual cere. monies honoring Britain's "war dead in 1947.

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