Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1951 — Page 23

- . . a ta ; | Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola po

It's also big day at home in Hammond. I'd like to be there, . ; Funny how a guy thinks of home and family when he smacks irito good fortune and ‘wants to smile, or when he skins his shins and wants sympathy. v Last Saturday and Sunday I was home. Everybody is excited that “Monday Follows Tuesday” goes on sale today. My stepfather, John, my oldest brother, his wife and my niece and nephew

her cagey self. Bernice and the kids gave me the dope on her, . I went home Saturday to be on the Northwestern University Reviewing Stand bdver WGN Sunday morning. Had to listen to a lecture about that. I wasp't in the house two minutes before Ma was giving me the dickens for not coming home more often. ; oo & oe

“IF IT WASN'T for this program you probably wouldn't have been home until Thanksgiv~ ing,” she said. .

that he had something for me to see. He did. Just what the doctor ordered. We wished each other good luck. . : “You're not planning on going out tonight, are you?” asked my mother. “If you have to go to Chicago in the morning you better get a good night's sleep.” Ah, home sweet home. - Saturday night I stayed home and’ listened to my mother give me her analysis of the news 1 had about autograph parties that will be held in Indianapolis, Columbus, O., Dayton, radio and TV shows in the two Ohio cities, Louisville and New York. ; ! “You're going to run arouhd until you ruin your health, You've lost some weight, didn’t you? Why do you have to go to New York? When are you going to save some money, get married and settle down?” shagged Pa and me to bed. she made sure all my clothes were not in need of her touch. Pa's protests were vetoed. Sunday morning, bright and early, Ma racked me out of the sack. One of her lumberjack-type breakfasts was staring me in the face. “You behave yourself at the station. We're all going to be listening and I don't want you lo sound like a smart-Alec, The neighbors are going to be listening, too.” . . “I know what I'm doing, Ma." “Fat your breakfast or vou'll be late for the train.” Late? An hour-and-a-half before train titne and I'll be late? She certainly is casual about .the whole thing. +The big breeze session with the entire famfly began Sunday noon when I returned. Everyone had a comment about the sound of my voice, the psychiatrist, the professor of dramatic literature, the introductions, subject matter. When they were all through, I found out they gave me a passing grade.

BEFORE SHE

: i» DINNER WAS relatively peaceful as dinners » go at our house, John gave me figures on how

It Hap By Earl Wilson :

NEW YORK, Nov. 1—When Secretary of the Treasury Snyder was given a testimonial dinner, Harry Hershfield told the crowd: > 2 “It .was nice of the Secretary of the Treasury to leave us enough money to buy tickets to ie honor him.” y 3 > oo 2 : MARIO: LANZA, miffed at the criticism of his plumpness, retorted to a Hollywood execu3 tive, “I was signed for a starting date... not P - a starting weight.” LA * A CERTAIN B'Wayite went to an ear spe- ) : 4 eialist and told him, “I think I've got a dime ; : in my ear,” i “A dime in your ear! who examined him, and added: “Sure enough,

exclaimed the doctor

nu og there's a dime In your ear. How long has it. : been in there?” a In | “Oh, about thres or four months” ar ime : z “Well, heavens, why didn't you get it out h of i before this? ?

“I didn't need the money before.” 2 : > 4 » a HOT DASHES: Linda Christian (Mrs. Tyrone 4 Power) will make a film comeback at 20th. . . . Frankie and Ava may make their first Mr. and Mrs. appearance at the Hollywood premiere of his picture, “Meet Danny Wilson,” Nov. 16. . . . Joe Louis escorted Sara Lou Harris and Cleo Hayes to Sugar Hill he ® * ROCKY MARCIANO & B.. W. f(a purty blonde named Barbara, married to him 10 months) visited the Copacabana last night to see a man with practically the same name as the one of the man he knocked out—Comedian Joe Lewis, “What's he here for?” the comedian asked Writer Eli Basse, who replied. “He wanted to see what a Joe Louis looked like standing up.’ Sa Te A MOVIE COMEDIAN Jules Munshin, just back from Paris, wal in Toots Shor's where, after a look around, he said: “Everything's lower in Paris—except the necklines.” Clare Booth Luce told the ANTA Ball crowd how she once got Bpink little boar pig as a bonvoyage gift on ship and presented it to Elsa Maxwell, who gave a party for it. “It was the first

one of her’ parties!”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 1—The other day I crawled out of the sack to congratulate myself on being a dweller in the greatest city in the greatest country in the world, and suddenly decided it would be more desirable to be stranded in Pat- * agonia with a broken back. We don’t need the A-bomb to tear up the town.

We can do it more simply in go YOU fw our own time : JOE On the record that day

thers was no milk in the house and a milk strike going that put milk in the same blackmarket category of wartime beef. People who don't get into fashionable restaurants twice a year. were calling up the tony hash-houses to see if there was a spare pint of the’ white fluid about, so that baby , could feed, and people who never get to fash-

the jonable restaurants at all were flocking to edt cquntry with an eye on hijacking heifer. bam. | Well, scotch is getting scarcer and scarcer, Jetfire and will momentarily be vastly more expensive, stock “and I note that this desperate state of affairs has Enjo not been leavened by the fact that the docking 2 strike caused return-shipments of that lovely * Eye peverage back to Scotland. They couldn't move nging it off the docks; they, shipped it home again, trans- alas, and when it returns it wears a new price | your tag. NL > s THAT WAS the day when a man who needed

{recut couldn't get a haircut, because the ¥ haus were striking, too. The land of milk-and-honey was in a flop. 1 didn't check with the bees, but assume that if there were no milk, the chances are thé honey was on strike, too. There was a great big hassel in progress over the rude reception of Miss Josephine Baker in the Stork Club, where she seemed not to be entirely welcome as a member of the Negro race. That was also the day they couldn't move the ambulances destined for Korea, because of the doek tie-up, but in New York it didn’t seem as {mportant as snobbery in the Stork. The traffic was snarled up everywhere, of course, and ‘the {llegal parkers were being abetted * hy the double and triple parKers. The busses piled up, and pulled out of line. and the taxidrivers cursed everything and each other, A new 15 per

WE HAVE had no transportation layoffs lately, apart from the docking strife, }ut this

THIS 18S a big day for me in Indianapolis.’

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: High. Pressure Football—No. 4

Can Notre Dame Is Always At Home-

By HARRY GRAYSON from St. Benedict's Prep of

. . oo Times Special ; Newark, N.J,, turned up at not as large as you might think, OUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 1—Knute K. Rockne built well Kentucky.” but there Be 17.000 i Mak, v & at Old Notre Dame and spread its fame. The contention: here is that Ing list; and they are highly . : . : a long list of linemen and active. For years Notre Dame The Fighting Irish are as much the home team in swivel-hipped back§ who pre- had fewer than 3000 students, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, ¥£ast Lansing, Chapel Hill ferred Notre Dame were cor- expanding to its present 4500 in

and Los Angeles, where they ralled by faster talking prosely- World War II. But the subway

Pa rescued me by yelling from the kitchen .

ned Last Night

time,” she said, “that Elsa ever had a boar at,

cent boost In the Teit is atom to become reality,

HOME FOLKS—"Up or down, they're with *

you, all the way."

many of his friends will buy the book. Dwayne, who is in her first year of high school, said she would tell all her teachers and chums. Ronnie, who is'in the first grade, wasn’t satisfied with my explanation. of why Monday follows Tuesday. My mother thought it was “nice” that so many people were going to give me radio and TV time in various cities. A copy of the hook was passed around at the dinner table until Ronnie dropped one corner in the gravy, : Bernice mentioned that Dwavne and Ronnie pray every night about 10 minutes longer so God will bring me good fortune with the book. “Oh, mother.” was Dwayne’s comment. = “I pray real hard, Uncle Eddie,” shouted $onnie. :

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THAT'S®WHEN the roof falls in on you. That's when the food sticks in your throat and you look around the table silently. You want to hug them all. : What can a man say”? Can he say that he's

not worthy of so much pride? That what he has ione is nothing? That the effort isn't commensurate with their loyalty and pride? It's an awful shock to realize the family is so vitally concerned with your actions and everything you do is so directly related to them. Makes you think ‘hard. You're not flying solo. Up or down, they're with you, all the way. I'm a lucky character.

Cash Enough Lelt ~ For a Celebration

THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... The “usual stories” about the Duchess of Windsor and Jimmy Donahue are coming from Paris and, as usual, we believe they're rot. Roberto Rossellini's shooting his Ingrid Bergman picture, “Europe, '52,” without a script, ac-. cording’ to. Alexander Knox, the leading man, who told friends, “This is the first time I ever worked for a genius.” > z

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GOOD RUMOR MAN Frank Sinatra has lined up Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, in addition to Jack Benny as his TV. guests . . . Monte Proser, who used to drink double gin in his breakfast orange juice to make it palatable, has been on the wagon 38 days and has found to his amazement that all girls arent beautiful . . . Sophie Tucker's Life Story, possibly ¢ Judy Garland’s next movie (in °'52) would be a natural—except that Judy'd have to. get fat again. Ld

Sophie Tucker

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EARL'S PEARLS ... . Winnie Garrett's diet directive: ‘Never exceed the feed limit.” ¢ * 2 : TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Milton Berle's writer Arnie Rosen, now feuding with and suing comedian-Jackie Gleason, charges: “Gleason ruled rehearsals with an iron head.” ¢ + ALL OVER: World-traveler Irving Hoffman's home after buying his own geisha house in Tokvo. .. . Fred MacMurray flew to England for a command performance, Daily Doubles Gloria Manning and Bob Olin. Ruth Cosgrove and Robert Preston, Helen "Forrest and Lou Suritz. : SS @ WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Taffy Tuttle isn't dumb But after looking at the letterhead she tried all day to dial EStablished 1897."—Seaman Jacobs. ¢ 9 ANSWER to the famous gauestion, “What's on the radio?” given by Murray Dale is: “Dust.” .,% . That's Earl, brother.

An Overcomplicated Civilization Mourned

seems a likely time for Mr. Michael Quill to rear his head. That and a water shortage would be all that .is necessary to make New York the asphalt jungle it occasionally becomes, through the contrivances of civilization. The city as we know it has become prostrate before the whims of its own organization. It is a sprawling baby that can be rendered helpless by a momentary interruption in the rhythm of its daily life—interruptions that more and more frequently are used to prove political and economic points by organizers. This i= a fine town, New York. It has nearly sverything to make a man happy in his habitat, from wonderful restaurants to the best theater to (Central Park, from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the Met. But damme, sir, it seems more and more we

. try to spoil it as a home town for humans. , . >

¢ 2 IF THE last week was an example of civilized living, I personally wish to go back to the farm, where you can reach out and drain a gill of milk off a handy cow; where you can fabricate your own booze from a backyard still; where nobody is overly concerned about who is treated handsomely. or otherwise in a gin mill I can use a- locale that can get ambulances sent to fighting troops abroad: a place where an unobtainable haircut Is not so necessary that a pot and a pair of scissors won't solve the problem until the chair is free in the local snippery. Autumn in New York is supposed to be a great adventure. This fall so far it has seemed to be more of an experiment into the desperation department of overcomplicated civilization.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—How shall I take care of gladiolus bulbs

‘after they've been dug?—A. E. C. .

A-—~Cut the tops off close to the corm. Dry

them in'a cool place where they will not freeze. , "If you want to imitate some of the experts, wash . the bulbs before spreading them to dry. This

(theoretically) gets rid of disease and insect pests that might otherwise winter over on the stored roots. Before you store them at least clean the. bulbs by removing the dry hugk-like covering.

‘Then to get rid of overwintered thrips (the pest

that makes leaves and flowers dry up in summer) dust the bulbs With 3 or 5 per cent DDT dust. Amateurs find paper bags easy way to dust and store small quantities of "bulbs. '

happen to be playing this fall, .. as they are at Notre Dame Stadium, They come closer than any other outfit, professional or college, ‘to being the nation’s football team. : But high-pressure football throughout the/ land started catching up with: Notre Dame in 1947.

Frank Leahy, the biggest winner ever to come out of Winner, 8. D. sounded the

alarm, but no one paid the slightest heed. He'd cried wolf

_ oftener than Gloomy Gil Dobie.

But the Master wasn't fooling when he said Notre Dame no longenywas getting the Class A boys, that fine lads who ordinarily would come to South Bend were: being enticed elsewhere. * Last fall proved:Coach Leahy was correct. .

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REPLACEMENTS were not there when Notre Dame graduated 23 members .of its first three teams. The record threevear unbeaten string snapped at 39.. The Irish took it on the chin. four times and were tied for their worst record in 17 vears. “It used to be that we only had to get freshmen here.” says Director of- Athletics Edward W. Krause. “Now we. practi-

cally have to keep them under, lock and key.” “A half dozen or more fine prospects who enrolled this fall are now in other * schools,” cuts in Backfield Coach Bérnie Crimmins. “About half of those switched, or had their minds changed for them, told one or more of the coaches about it,” explains ND’s AllAmerica runnning guard of 1941. up and left. “These boys weren't discouraged by tough competition, mind you, for they could make any college team in the country.” » 2 ” ILLINOIS SUFFERED for the lack. of a sharpshooting passer last fall. The Illini have one now in Tom O'Connell, who attended Notre Dame for two semesters, from September, 1948, to June, ’49. His scholastic average dropped below 77, mak-

ing him ineligible. He required

summer schooling, but had no yen for it, and packed up.

What puzzles Notre Dame officials . is how come Illinois. three years later, classifieg O'Connell as a sophomore. Ralph Poalone, a Notre Dame halfback as a freshman and last autumn as a soph, is now a transfer student at Kentucky. Young Poalone of New Castle (Pa.) High was sought by

Cracks in the Kremlin Wall—

Russians Are Eating Le

CHAPTER 10. By EDWARD CRANKSHAW IN FEBRUARY, 1946, Stalin proclaimed the highest recorded ambition of % ; the Soviet planners: The trebling of the prewar output. He said: | : + “We must achieve a situation whereby our industry is able to produce each year up to 50 million -tons of pig iron, up to 60 million tons of steel, up to 500 million tons of coal;.and up to 60 million tons of oil. : “Only under such conditions can we regard our country as guaranteed . against any accidents. This, I think, will require.

perhaps three more Five-Year:

Plans, if not more.” ’ A great deal has happened since those brave words were spoken. > 5 » = AT THE beginning of 1946, Stalin still expected to receive heavy reparations from Germany ahd still hoped for American credits. The Cold War can have been nothing more than a wild dream of the more arrogant members of the Central Committee. When a year and a half later, the great decision was taken, it added greatly to the burden. A larger proportion of the total resources had to be earmarked for rearmament. In addition. the shift of the Soviet Union's center of gravity from the industrial area of the Ukraine to the Urals and beyond had to be accelerated greatly for reasons of sectirity. - . ® AT THE SAME TIME, those truly heroic figures, which even when they were first conceived admitted the vast superjority of American production for fifteen years ahead, were thémselves made to look ridiculous. What made nonsense of the

Soviet ambition -was the mobili-

zation of American industry to fight the Cold War. In three vears' time, for ex-. ample, the present American

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id ~~ 7 EDITOR NOTE: Mr Crankshaw is a distinguished. British historian and editor who has studied Soviet Russia for many years. This is the tenth of aseries of twelve articles from his book, CRACKS. IN THE KREMLIN WALL, just published by Viking Press and rapidly climbing to the bestseller list.

“The others just picked

. vania,. » moved to Villanova.

Steel containers.

steel capacify is to be expanded by an amount greater in itself than the total British steel capacit,. or about two-thirds of the entire Soviet capacity and this on top of the present production of 90 million tons. And the fantastic aspect of the whole enterprise is that this colossal output is reckoned. to be only a third of what America could produce in time of war. It is te this that. Stalin has been brought by Soviet diplomacy in five short years,

A GREAT POWER cannot rest on ‘steel alone. It also needs food. . Food in Russia, for the

_ Frank Leahy

innumerable universities. His uncle. a priest, wanted him-to atténd Notre Dame, but players and coaches here say the youngster didn't seem to like. the place. if Bill Hollenback, Joe Leichweiss, Kevin Cahill Schenk registered as freshmen this fall, but are no longer on the premises.

“HOLLENBACK of Scranton, Pa, was best freshman tackle we had.” says Crimmins. “He said he was. going to PennsylLeichweis, a guard, A New Jersey boy, he spent last year at Marianapolis: Prep, Thompson, Conn. Cahill, an excellent end out of West Branch, Iowa, left without saying a word. Schenk,

masses. still means bread, black or white, wheat qr rye, and buckwheat porridge, with sunflower oil for fat. Meat, milk; butter, fish, fresh vegetables, are extras,

In 1949 it was officially stated that the output of grain ‘and potatoes had at last surpassed the pre-war ‘level. But from a careful study of the Soviet press alone it can be demonstrated that this claim was untrue.

The official returns of the 1949 harvest were afterwards, in district after district, found to have been inflated by falsification to a greater or less degree. later publicly exposed. But the re-

By IAN KEITH TOWER

Times Special Writer

OSTON, Nov. 1—The Atomic Age may not be here yet, but already it has influenced one new building

in Boston. . :

Cancer Research Clinic, where radioactive material is being used for research. Again, because of the danger of working with things radioactive, the structure has some unique architectural features. Radioactive isotopes—thg material used in cancer research—

. 1s shipped in from Oak Ridge,

Tenn. It first goes to the Preparation Room, where it is stored in a massive concrete vault with a lead door. — It is here that the isotopes are prepared for use. Skilled personnel take the highly-con-céntrated material and dilute it into required strengths. Then they put it in storage chambers—enclosed with inch-thick lead doors — inside stainless nn " v

THESE STORAGE chambers

‘are pass-through compartments.

They open at both ends. The other end is in the Issue Room,

“where the radioactive isotopes

are distributed as needed. Perhaps the biggest problem facing the. Clinic's designers was how to get rid of waste

_ isotopes. Previously, they'd al“ways been

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buried

in ‘the earth

The New England Deaconess Hospital built a new

or carried out to sea and sunk in places where they would be covered with silt. But the laboratory. enclosed in 12-inch thick concrete, is located in the hospital's basement. It was deliberately placed close to the ‘sewer system. Contaminated waste can thus be sent directly into the sewer without being carried through pipes inside the building. Before it reaches ‘the main sewer systefh, however, the waste goes through a careful de-contaminating process. All active materials are first combined with inactive materials. Then they are diluted three times. ly

- x » ONE DANGER in radioactive materials is

using the

possibility of the isotopes com-

ing in contact with the walls or floor. That, of course, makes the walls or floor. contaminated and dangerous. r

The Clinic's walls are painted with a special paint. While difficult to apply.

plastic base this paint can be stripped off

. easily. The floors have two lay-

ers of tarred felt asphalt tile which is

with re-

and Jim:

ters. Particular sore spots are Gene Donaldson, Kentucky's 203pound junior guard from East Chicago, Ind.; Maryland's Lynn Beightol and Ohio State's Doug Goodsell. Goodsell, outstanding freshmen halfback from Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus,

couldn't resist Ohio State's Front Liners. = » ”

WHEN HE first felt that he might be pinched for material, Coach Leahy mapped off-field screen plays. When he rounded up John Lattner, standout 18-vear-old halfback and safety man. from Fenwick High of Oak Park, Ill, for example, he landed the kid a job with an atomic project on the outskirts of Chicago. . “Nobody could get in to talk to Lattner there,” beams Moose Krause. When Leahy tossed the net over Bob Toneff, 6-foot, 2-inch, 235-pound tackler from Barberton, O., High, he got the boy a job in Chicago, where the Ohio State Front Liners were less likely to get. a shot at him. Bob's brother, George, was playing with the Buckeves and a third football - playing Toneff went south for his higher education.

turns were never publicly corrected. Dr. Naun Jasny, in his monumental book on Soviet agriculture, has proved conclusively that the official crop statistics have been consistently overestiinated since the early days of the collectivization, In

“the early Thirties, by some-

thing like 20 per cent, This has been done by the simple process of abandoning the old and accurate method of computation based on ‘the amount of grain actually harvested and stored in favor of

. estimating the weight’ of the

crop in the field. The same sort of thing is done in industry, too,

movable. All plumbing 1s easily accessible, too.

‘. Many of the ideas for constructing the $575,000 Clinie

are those of the director, Dr.

Shields Warren, pathol to.

and director of the Atomic ergy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine,

... TO ANOTHER ROOM—The Issue Room—whers technicians distribute them as'needed. They the other through pass-through Sh with inch-thick lead doors.

alumni swelled to hundreds of thousands. Kickoff luncheons annually are held from coast to coast. Hundreds ‘of Notre ' Dame men coach high and prep schools, each of them a feeder, There are the ultra-active ‘alumni such as Chicago's Judge Roger Kiley; Joseph Brynes, insurance man and commissioner of the New York and New Jersey Port Authority; Pat Canny, Erie Railroad attorney who as an undergraduate was Rockne's equipment. man; Charley Rohr, Cleveland restaurateur, and Jack Lavelle, New York foot. ball. scout and after-dinner speaker.

» = = ~ FREDDIE MILLER, the Milwaukee: brewer, does an awful lot for Notre Dame football, Captain of Rockne’s 1928 team, he flies to the campus twice a week or so as a volunteer assistant coach. Larry Gernon, Michigan laundryman, is typical of the tremendous army which adopted Notre Dame as its alma mater, Aroused, the Notre Dame chain, comprised of real and make-believe Old Blues, obviously went to work, for the new hands are more like they were before the last bumper crop went out into the cold, cold world in June, 1950.

BUT EVEN allowing the official figures, the equaling of the prewar yield in 1949 is not an impressive performance. :

Inthe last three years befors

the war there was Jlessavailable per head of tion than in “1928, before

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Since 1938 the popula the Soviet Union, in spite o tremendous wartime losses, believed to have increased something like thirty millio partly owing to the very

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mentioned in the Soviet statis

hasic foodstuffs in the Soviet Union plus the three Baltic states, Lithuania, Esthonia and Latvia, plus a slice of East Prussia, plus the Polish Ukraine and the Transcar-

surpassed the 1940 produetion of basic foodstuffs for the Soviet Union without these additions. °

The allowance per capita is thus considerably lower than it was in 1940, and lower still than it was in 1928, which itself had just about reached the 1914 level.

TOMORROW: How K Much Can the Soviet People Stand?

(Cogyright. 1951, by Ed Distributed by ir Syndicate, Ine.)

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