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By Ed Sovola

- IF A NURSE at St. Vincent's Hospital ever has doubt about whether she is coming or going, she merely asks Mrs, Eulalia Dickerson, Mrs. Dickerson -is in charge of desk In the lobby of the Nurses Residence.. I had the pleasure of riding herd on the girls one evening with Mrs. Knows-All-Tells-Little. Anyone who has ever been ‘th a hospital knows how indispensable nurses can bé. Sometimes it is difficult for us to remember that- off duty a nurse has the same outlook on life the rest of us have. ; THey enjoy a date, good time as much as the

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portant place in their lives. Phone calls, letters and flowers give them a shot in the arm.

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BEHIND all outside interests and activities, however, there is the soft arm of discipline. It is necessary and even the girls will admit it but not to Mrs. Dickerson. They love to tease her.’ During the -early evening hours the front desk buzzes with "activity and Mrs. Dickerson wishes she had three arms. on each shoulder, four sets of legs and .four mouths. She monitors the Executone public address system, telephone, log book; memo pad, packages and majl” and a constant stream of young male callers, : Her moods must change with the individual. For example, a bright-eyed little gal rushed up to the desk pulling off her cap.

“Did I _get a. telephone call, Mrs. Dickerson?” The girl was -excited, hopeful, breathless. “You sure did and he'll be here in nalf an hour,” laughed Mrs. Dickerson, matching the girl's zest. Swish-—the nurse was gone.

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BEFORE Mrs. Dickerson stopped nodding her head at the energy of the youngster, another nurse was in front of the desk. = “You didn't have any phone calls or mail. I'm sorry. Maybe you'll ‘hear something tomorrow. You can sleep tonight, Honey,” Mrs, Dickerson said wistfully, Slowly the girl turned and walked to the elevator. I could see the lobby turn blue, The floor wasn’t resiltent and the corridor suddenly became quiet. Sleep would be difficult for that girl. - Hn “Nurses Residence.” Mrs. Dickerson listened for a moment, flipped

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MISS CONNIE KELSO, the lovable character .

of the present crop of 8t, Vincefit nurses, appeared in the side—entrance. With great difficulty, almost on her hands arid knees, =zhe ascended the stairz to the lobby. She performs for Mrs. Dickerson nightly,

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Oct. 1—A strange thing happened to me the other day on an airplane , . {Don’t look so happy. I didn’t get killed.) I'd taken my boy Slugger. out to see Mother and Dad in Defiance, 0. Evervthing was fine till we changed planes at Cleveland on the way back. Slug and I had visited with the folks. And eaten my mother's chicken dinner. And taken some pictures on the lawn. And then taken a plane from Ft. Wayne to Cleveland. So now from the front of the plane the pilot spoke to us. “We're in a slightly embarrassing position.” hea. zaid. “We have 52 seats, But we've. sold 53 tickets, “We can’t. take off till one passenger gives up hiz reservation , . .” . There was a collective groan from 53 people one of whom was’ standing up glowering: ‘here's a plane tomorrow morning” —this was now abont 6:15 p. m.—"“and we'll pay all hotel - expenses, ete., and S$10° extra expenses besides. - Will somebody volunteer?” > & EVERYBODY SAT more firmly in his seat. The pilot looked around hopefully. Then he spoke increasing the ante to $25. “I ‘could stay.” whispered Slugger, anxious to put that £25 in his piggy bank ‘ang maybe miss school a day. besides), “SSSH! I have to be back tonight!" 1 said. “I'd stay for two world's’ series tickets” somebody ‘sajd. z

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There won't be any- world's series in Cleve land, retorted a Yankee fan. One passenger called out, “May 1 Suggest that rather than inconvenience 52 people you inconvenience one by asking the last persqQn who got a reservation to leave?” ‘ “I guess I've no alternative,”

said the pilot—and now as everybody sat there grimly, determined not to be budged, the pilot booméd _ out, “Mr. Stouter.” ' Mr. Stouter, a sailor in

uniform sitting behind me. protested: “But I have to be back on my ship in New York at 30 a. m> a And he fumbled with papers to show he'd had reservations for 10 days. He got up obediently, however, and surrendered his seat. And then the slightly rebellious mood of the passengers changed.

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK... Oct. 1—Something frets me vaguely about the government going into the

advertising media to attract brave young men to join the forces by baiting them with expensive radio broadcasts and the big house ads you see in the slick magazines, the military life. a It ig sort of like spending (Gu> money to plead with people not to encourage cancer. It seems to me that the whole military procurement scheme is awfully fouled up, and should be unfouled into some kind of simplicity intelligible to all us dumb guys who pay for it. " Certainly. a military career for the young and strong is a necessary nuisance today, {if the voung and strong wish to achieve old age. Certainly, you should not need to inflict the taxpayer with sigar-coated enticemente to simple duty, any more than we advertise to induce people to pay taxes. Fver since we had a draft act we have kicked {ts administration around shamelessly. We haul back the retreads from World War IT while allowing certain percentages of fresh specimans to escape their hounden duty today. Politically we have bounced Universal Military “Training from ope ‘palm to the other, always fearful of the Mom vote, which caused the wreckage of our Armed Forces at the end of WW II. “* Ba - . T GRIND NO personal ax here, I did my time overseas in the last one. I am not a member of the Reserves, and if I were, I have certain disabilities that would keep me out of the Boy Scouts. But it sours you to see the delicate way we approach our manpower problem, out of pure political fear, ‘when our masters arbitrarily rule our lives on other counts without so much as a FRARKYOM, oo. ei It fs a little sickening, too, fo ef a 3R-year- . pd general resigning-at a time of international

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Off Duty Nurses

OVER THE "ETHER"—S¢. Vincent's nurse Martha Riester adds her bit to the nightly activity in the lobby of the nurses’ residence.

When she. finally reached the desk, Miss Kelso became super-charged. “Did 1 get a phone call? I'm on three if I do.” : Mrs. Dickerson missed getting a smudge of lipstick by a fraction of an inch. She waved _the girl away and pretended to be irritated which was exactly what Miss Kelso wanted. 7 .- Alice Britton, social director for fhe nurses, took the girl in tow and tried to talk her into joining the volleyball group. in the gym. They could. use her energy. Miss Kelso would have none of it. She was expecting a call. Ah, girls will be girls and. nurses, too. “ «@ ao o> YOU COULD ALWAYS tell a regular caller at the residence. The regular didn't look around the walls and the ceiling. And the second he hit the landing, Mrs. Dickerson was on the Executon. “Miss So-and-So; you have a guest.”

SEG E5005 CLLR Ser LR Br RIE S50 30 (ter Fh ent Poetry dawn dressed to go out.’ Sometimes it was a coat, blue jeans, sweater and babushka. but the caller was always delighted, which is all that matters anywav. A nurse in the long distance phene hooth put on a special show for anyone who cared tn peek. Another girl was headed for a restless, sleepless night. Her reason would be different from the nurse who didn't get a call or a letter. The voice on the other end of.the line would linger through the night : Ain't life wonderful?

53 Passengers, 52 Seats on a Plane

They wanted to help that sailor! A Providence woman discovered that by taking another plane to New England she could get. home faster than on this one. She gave up her seat to the 53d passenger. The saflor returned to his. We took off half an hour late. The story ended happily for evervone but Slugger. who could have used .that 25 bucks. Some airlines "oversell” to make sure they'll have a respectable load. They shouldn't, of course : ONF. REASON THEY do this is that airlines get confused abhnut ticket sales because so many people forget, or are tog lazy, to cancel reservations they're not using 5 1 thought mavbe people might.be more careful about it if they realized how they could louse up some service man's short, well-deserved furlough. Sermon over $ S& » THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Barry Gray's been tagged for Big Money by NBC. Besides giving. him “Author Meets the Critics” starting on TV Sunday noon, it's setting up a t;-hr. radio show, “Barry ~Gray’s Investigations.” Manny Sachs and Ted Cott signed him, explaining, “NBC is "buying excitement.” He may leave Chandler's in June.” Celeste Holm's new escort (at the Colony) was Bob Spafford of Skyline Productions . [ . Hope Hampton named her new house at Greenwich (where she can hide away from nasty old atom bombs) “Hopefair'” ... Warren Giles would take the National League presidency if he could stay in Cincinnati (he wants to be near his sons) --and don’t be surprised if that condition- is granted him. oe «% oe

GOOD RUMOR MAN: “Bare-bosomed burlesque” (as in the Paris Folies Bergere) will be on .the Miami Florida Besch menu this winter, Philadelphia's Jack Lynch'il try it at the Beach“comber which’ll be renamed “Jack Lynch's Beachcomber” . , . Johnny Meyer's trying to woo his wife. back. 'Twas a little misunderstanding about a vachting party, He forgot to take her along. Comedian "Jackie Gleason—whose TV guest star fee is $8500-—declined a $3000 offer from Frank Sinatra who befriended him last year. Gleason, to keep ‘his $8500 fee up there. will appear for Sinatra however—for free! .. . Peggy Dow's coming to N. Y. to boost “You Never Can Tell.” ;

Raps U. S. Plan on Military Recruiting

The boys in Washington have cried doom at us "until I am convinced there are Russians in the lobby as I write, But we still handle the problem of amassing a strong and constant fighting force as if we were issuing invitations to tea. $ “Do, pray do, come join our delightful forces,” the ads seem to say. “Come get comfortably cultured at government expense. Listen to Rill Stern on the radio and acquire a new sense of responsibility to your lovely land.”

oe < oo NUTS. If the world is so fraught with peril as it seems, duty to country shotfld be bevond the decision of the individual. If you need him, “take him, and take him fairly under one scheme. Military duty is unpleasant for any man with a mind, but if it's necessary, it's necessary enough to allow the reaching out and grabbing of enough youth to keep you strong. But you sure don't have to plead with the boy and cajole him and offer him sugar plums to get him to work for the common good. » As a sidebar to the blundering futility of Army building, we have a desperate shortage of whole blood and plasma now, and are turning public relations handsprings to shake the citizens into the contribution of an odd pint.in the interests of national security. The citizens aren't cooperating heavily, and the need is vital, We bombard the air with slogans when the simplest thing in the world would be to order all men with a draft status other than 1-A to drift in and bare the old arm a couple of times a year.

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LET 'EM drip a few gills of corpuscles into .

the national blood bank. But no, sirree. Let us plead with the people, and possibly do a’ television series starring Rita "Hayworth to get the people blood-conscious, . . We must be a great nation, hecause we sure «do everything the hard way, ‘and still’ manage “to survive. But expensive blandishment, unless you offer every man a Dagmar as a door prize, is no way to build an armed force. If you need

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The Auditorium Boom—

PART 1 3 By HENRY BUTLER - HE current auditorium

......boom is one of a series

that have recurred here like the cycles of climate. Auditorium booms have been symptoms of local growing pains ever since days pebyond recall. The arguments pro and con have bfen the same

And the forces quietly work. to defeat each auditorium proposal seem almost to. have been coached by the same master mind. 5 ” 2 THE NEED DOESN'T CHANGE. Back in 1924, Laura A. Smith, in a newspaper article

on the fabulous May Festivals:

of music held here in the 1890's, wrote that the promoters had explained the failure of the festivals as due to inadequate ‘housing. Tomlinson Hall, they found. . wasn't big enough, hadn't enough good seats. And those promoters sadly concluded, in words that have a familiar ring. “Indianapolis people would rather go to Cin-, cinnati, Chicago and New York for their music than to. ART NOR es osm an Since 1913 there - been at least four major auditorium booms, plus some minor boom-

--letg, All have been enthusiastic

on, the surface, but criss-crossed with politics, . obstructionism and feudin’' and fussin' underneath. : Former Mavor Charles Jewett, one of a group to whom Indianapolis owes the conception and. realization of Memorial Plaza. started campaigning in June, 1919. for an auditorium as a World War Memorial. In mellow, reminiscent mood, Mr. Jewett will explain how the auditorium part of his proposal met defeat. Much of the explanation is off the record. After all, you can't

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sons of mischief who may well have thought they were acting wisely, = = 2 BUT EVEN a short talk with Mr. Jewett and a Iqok through his voluminous scrapbook of material on the whole Memorial plan convinces vou the raal story is like the proverbial iceberg. What you actually see is only a fraction of what's under the surface. From the start, you find economy and resistance to higher taxes bucking each au-

support.

HYPNOTIC—The white; dreamlike beauty of this

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~ MONDAYs OCTOBER 1, 1951

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winning design by Walker & Weeks of Cleveland for the World War Memorial may have turned Hoosiers’ minds from earlier proposals for a memorial auditorium.

ditorium - plan. Mayor, Jewett suggested a “coliseum.” or as

newspapers often spelled it, “colosseum.” Objectors insisted it would cost. too much,

wouldn't pay its way. Whereupon, the late J. Edward Krause, then- president of the Washington and Edward hotels and no mean word-sling-er, said, “If questions of economy and profit-making are to enter into every piece Jot public property, it is time that Riverside Park be turned into a cattle pasture and University Square into a ghicken park. On the same basis, the Monument could be made into a bakery. with the gigantic shaft serving admirably as a smokestack.”

= x on MR. KRAUSE ALSO said. in support of Mayor Jewett's proposal. “TheColizeum has been on imaginary wheels and dragged and hauled over town;

And Red Ostrich, Too—

Green Suede Shoes For Men Are Here

By RICHARD KLEINER

* Times Special Writer . NEW YORK, Oct. 1—If you believe what you see in the men’s shoe showrooms, by next Spring men's feet will

. be wearing the gayest things this side of a hallucination.

Personally, I'm inclined to think of the whole thing as a

bad dream—I cannot picture myself in green suede. t's that” the shoe designers Rave gone overboard. There are no open-toed -mocassings or 'wedgie bhrogues—yet. But there are a few new styles that look more like Christmas tree ornaments than the usual ‘men’s shoe, Lester Morse, director of store merchandising for a shoe chain {Tom McAn), took me on a tour through this clodhopper fairyland. He was very careful to explain that the extreme in shoe fashions make up only about 20 per cent of the sales: the rest of the 80 per cent prefer the old stand-bys to stand in.

BUT, FOR THAT showy 20 per cént, the shoe architects have come up with some nifties. Tliere ‘was a black patent leather creation with laces that were tipped with tassels. There was a shoe made up of half maroon and half black patent leather, There: were shoes with buckles, shoes with the laces at the side, shoes with no laces at all.

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= » ~ They all shades of brown, ranging from mustard through raw: liver tb sirloin steak, well done. And blue and greens and maroons and blacks. and grays, to boot.

Morse pulled out a shoe in a light shade called tawny. It had a sole that stuck out at the

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side, coming almost to a point.

It looked like a ping-pong. paddie with. uppers.

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“THIS,” HE SAID, the spade last. Now we'll sell a few of these any place. But in the Pittsburgh area, this will be the best seller. Almost a quarter of our gales in Pittsburgh are shoes with that type of last, It's strange how sections. of the country take to different styles.” He turned to -another shoe, which was a reddish color like a frankfurter. That color, he explained; and colors similar sell in St. Louis. And there has to be a stitched line up the side, the front of the heel, called a “threatineedle.” Without that line, the shoe won't sell,

“In the Pacific Northwest,” Morse said, taking down a shoe with thick sole, “they like their soles big. This one is the thickest we make. Yet somebody in Tacoma or Portland will buy this, then go across the street

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other sole right on top of this one.”

” ” ~ MORSE HELD UP a coppercolored shoe with a quilted effect, green welting around the side and green ‘laces. “Here's a funny thing” he said. “We always make what

we call a ‘window shoe—you know something to stick in the

in fact, located everywhere with the exception of Crown Hill, and 1 doubt not that some few of the well-to-do but stin-gy-pursed ones right now would like to see the idea interred there.” He waz less accurate as a prophet when he said, “The parking of automobiles is a mere phantom and not calling for special consideration.” n = ”n MAYOR JEWETT, in a fine burst of idealism, wanted the “coliseum” to, dominate the Plaza. He wanted it called Liberty- Hall and made a community center, with auditorium, music hall, offices for the Legion and other patriotic organizations and space for recreational agencies. Today he thinks he was wrong in 1919 in wanting to combine utilitarian with com- ' memorative functions in the

FANCY FEET — Shoeman Lester Morse looks properly nonplussed at alligator, lizard and ostrich shoes for men.

window andgattract attention, This was a ‘window’ shoe, but people bought it. We. had to make more. You never know.” There's a trend now, he said,

toward print leathers. That's plain leather ‘made to look fancy. It can be a simple grain

THE RECORD—Former Mayor Charles Jewett looks through

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the scrapbook full .of clippings concerned with his 1919 proposal of a memorial auditorium and the pro and con storms it raised.

Memorial. “Just look what's happened to Tomlinson Hall, and you'll see what I mean. A memorial in usé decays. A memorial not in use. like our World War Memorial, will last forever,” he says. Back of the fragile, yellowing press clippings in Mr. Jewett’'s scrapbook is the human story that never gets into print. Miss Elizabeth Ohr, of Central Library's. music and art room, who provided much useful material for this brief survey, recalls how her father used to storm against the Plaza project. Houses had to be, torn down, lives uprooted. And always there was the specter of debt, a whole new set of irksome taxes.

ANOTHER STORY that nev-

er will get fully into print .is how farmer legislators in the

effect, or vicious looking lizard or alligator or ostrich. He pulled out a blue lizard, a brown al-

General against any costly memorial project which might be useful

chiefly to Indianapolis residents,

One active lobbyist, who bit« terly fought Mayor Jewett on every point of the Memorial, promptly changed his tune when the dedication ceremonies rolled around. On the big day, he was right up there with Gen. Pershing and‘ the other dignitaries.

He was there on the plate form, though Mr. Jewett, father of the scheme but no longer mayor, had been sent no invitation to sit with the high brass. 5 Not easily daunted, Mr. Jewett says he ‘straight-armed his way past the four-flusher, who was examining tickets, and took the place of honor he had earned. '

“Men are funny,” Morse said, fondling the red ostrich shoe, “You can't make them go from

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one color to a much different. . shade. You can only nudge them one shade-at a time.”

‘Skater Breaks Leg; ‘Man Hurt in Fall

25 : Two victims of separate mise $ 000 Winn r haps were reported in fair cone I e dition .today in Methodist HosMUNCIE, ‘Oct. ‘1 (UP)—Six Pital aio. x & men who came from the ‘East Miss Mary Balta, 248 N. KeyCoast to hand Mrs. Nita Parks a Stone Ave, suffered a broken arm $25,000 check for winning a na- when she fell while’ skating at tional jingle contest postponed Rollerland. 926 N. Pennsylvania their presentation ceremony for St. last night. 24 hours today. Clifford Harvey, 47, fell down

¢ i They walked beaming up to the Ihe back steps at his residence,

address given on Mrs. Parks’ con- sig; estan Dr., yesterday test blank yesterday, expecting to haa hear her scream with . delight . o when they told her the happy Two Killed in Crash

news, But nobody was home the Of Plane Near Auburn blinds were down and the furni- AUBURN. Oct. 1 (UPY—A ture was gone. Mrs. Parks didn’t light, two-seater airplane crashed live there any more. in a landing near here yesterday, Créstfallen, the committee rang Killing the two occupants, neighbors’ doorbells and finally State police said .the victims learned ®Mrs. Parks moved _to were Elford Kikly, 38, tne pilot, Bloomington, Ill., last week. and his wife, Elizabeth, 24. "AuThe committe got her new ad- thorities said the plane's propeller dress and contacted her by tele- pitch suddenly changed and the phone. : engine appeared to have conked “We have a check for you,” said out. the spokesman. The craft plunged nose down 4 into the ground across from the Kiklys' farm héme. we

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call on her and deliver the check. Child Hurt Critically Committee. members disappoint- . g edly registered at a hotel and In Accident Here

planned to drive to Bloomington ‘A {.year-old traffic victim Wil. today. liam Harris Jr. was in critical

said

Mrs. Parks, described as a “pro- condition in General Hospital tofessional contest enterer” by ac- day. He suffered head and neck quaintances, won first prize in a injuries in a twp-car collision at lingle competition sponsored by Alabama and 24th Sts. yesterday. William lives at 501 W. 26th: St,

the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.