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By Ed Sovola + .

NEW YORK, Nov, 15—Three surprise autograph parties "were pulled off in this surprising city by a Hoosier who.is enjoying himself startling these cosmopolitan people. Actually, New Yorkers were startled to begin with, They still can’t believe their ol’ alma mater, Notre Dame, lost to Michigan State last Saturday. You hear the score discussed almost anywhere two male heads get together,

But football isn’t on. my mind here, I'm a book worm. A worm with his first book is a pretty excited fellow. Try to imagine the feeling in my little pigeon chest when I strolled into Macy's book department. and saw “Monday Follows Tuesday” in a prominent spot on the - “Humorous Books” table. The buxom lady behind the counter acknowldged my presence with a nod. A girl passed slowly by the counter and almost stopped. She was looking right at my ‘book. The ticker gave a ast pump. She was just looking. ‘

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“CAN_I help you, sir?” asked the saleslady. “I'd like to autograph some books. if you don't nd,” was my unthinking reply. The pen was * and ready to go to work. “What for?” demanded the saleslady. It is impossible to recall the clumsy answer I ve to a difficult question. Remember, I'm new this game. . We finally got the thing straightened out, wch to the delight of the saleslady. She even led a girl from the next counter to see a re author.” “You look fatter on the picture,” was the rI's comment. “Whatsa matter, haven't you sen eating?” a Before I could answer, a voung lady stopped the counter. She was interested in sending ymething to her boy friend in Korea for Christ1a8. “Something to make him laugh.” Laugh? With about 500 well-chosen words, I tald her she eedn’t search longer. But the girl remained firm. WITH GESTURES, with feeling. with genroug helpings of Indiana corn, I read one of the hapters in the book. Two people in the crowd +f seven applauded mildly. The girl took the hook. Two elderly ladies bought another and the crowd was gone. I left my friends in Macy's. At Gimbe!'s. arch-enemy of Macy's I went to the book department on the sixth floor, found

'¢t Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson -

NEW YORK, Nov. 15—This is Jack Benny Week hereabouts . . . the voung fellow seems to be getting known. They practically called him the best loved man in show business when the Friars gave him a banquet for his 20th year on the air... and then they gave him a ribbing befitting such a celebrity. Fred Allen lad off, calling him a lousy fiddler. “He's the only violinist who makes you feel

. that the strings would sound better back in the

cat.” said Fred.

WE HAD all “dressed formal” for the tribute. Fred, struggling with his black tie and stiff shirt, observed that he seemed to be auditioning Then he recalled earlier days with Benny. “1 first met him in vaudeville in Centralia, Ill...’ Fred said. . : “I was playing the big house and Mr. Benny was playing a suburb. The theater was so far back in the woods, the manager was a bear. He used to pay the acts off in honey. Sd & &

“JACK WAS in the war.” Fred continued. “and was the first sailor in history to get seasick in the recruiting otlice. “He had to take Yacht Club Boys. . “Well, about this dinner tonight. there is only one Friar who would travel 3000 miles across the country to get a free meal . . that's Jack Benny.” “wb

WILLIAM PALEY

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CBS BOSS Benny similarly. “We said to Jack when he came to work for us, ‘You can have anything we have,’ ” said Paley. “To his everlasting credit. he hasn't taken advantage of that. We sfill have pur building at 485 Madison Ave.” And so it went with more “tributes” from Toastmaster General George Jessel; Milton Berle, Abott of the Friars, and others. It was Jessel who introduced Mayor Impellitteri. He did it this way: “And now I give you New York City’s most ditinguished citizen . . . and other comedians will tollow.” :

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 — The phone jangled dolefully. “This is Pete.” the voice said. “I just called up to tell you that I'm ragged but right. Off to be a hero again, same deal. Been reclassified. Same deal. Captain-navigator. Baker twonines. For a bit I thought I was going to improve my position. Until I told them I know from npthing about radar, I was captain-bombar-dier, Same deal. Baker-two-nines.” Pete is 37 years old. Wife, with baby.” Pretty good business going out in a little town in Ohio. Television set and money in the bank. Home of his own. Pete is now going to war in the B-29s, flak war, MIG war, Korean war, at the same grade he quit the last war.

Pete was by no means a desk aviator. He fle\ the B-29s out of Saipan to Japan, when Iwo Jim: was active and nobody knew whether you wer: going to make it off the strip at Saipan, let alon: make it all the way to Japan and back. DOR oo PETE'S RECORD was pretty good. Forty eight combat missions. Nearly 400 hours of fly ing time—not training time, but combat time The usual medals, Then home to the girl nex! door and a'budding business and a baby and » mortgage. A brief spate of peace, and whoom back in them same old tired B-29s. Pete is not pleased. Pete is real off-brownec Pete has no enthusiasm for flak anymore, fo enemy fighters, anymore, Pete is a family ma with worries on his mind. Pete Is hating his fate. He figures 48 mission are enough for anybody, even when they're young and footloose and full of foolishness. For Pete is not a professional military man, He is just a young guy who went to work in a war and heave a sigh of relief when he lived through it, “Some punk buck sergeant tells me I am i great shape,” Pete says. “Some young majo. tells me we cannot do it with the youngsters, we need the seasoned personnel, old Baker-two hands. So I fold the business. It can't make it without me, while I am in the wild blue. I am an Air Forcer from when we still wore khaki instead o this Postman Blue. You remember the take-off at that field in Saipan?” o> oo» oo

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THE FIELD in Saipan was too short for B-29, Us Navies used to call the heroes ‘reluctant birdmen.” The long planes took off, and sank from sight over the cliff that left them alone in the air, Sometimes the wheels bounced off the rocks, and then you would see the lean,’ cigarshaped bombers pop into the air and level off for that long, mean road to Tokyo and back. They used to say that if they did get off, the interceptors at Iwo had a crack. If they got to Japan, the interceptors there had a crack. If they weren't shot down over Japan, the boys at Two had a return belt at them, And it they were lucky enough to skin through

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copies of my baby standing upright on ‘the-top shelf of a table. Excellent. .Just®as I began the first flourish on.the flyleaf, a tall man tapped. jne on the shoulder and~ asked: “What's the idea?” Gulp. The arm became paralyzed. Lucky the tongue functioned. Five minutes later I was talking to the assistant buyer of the book department. The old gentleman explained Gimbel’'s is particular about people’ scribbling in books on the counters. He realized an exception could be made in my case.

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“IT'S UNUSUAL to have an author walk in and start autographing,” hé-laughed. Needless to say, we also departed friends. Everyone in New York who can read Knows about Brentano's. It's a huge and popula® book store. I decided to use more diplomacy since every salesman, mostly men, looked like a col: lege .professor. The slightly-built, scholarly-looking gent near the table that captured my interest imediately, smiled as I approached . “May I autograph some books for you?” “If you wish ” he answered with a British accent. “Do vou have a pen?” Well, T was shaking with joy until T discovered he didn’t know me from Adam. What a blow. We exchanged polite smiles after I showed him the book and proved my identity. The buyer was called. Would I wait? Certainly. A charming woman, who said she was from Boston, had overheard part of the conversation. She thouglit the incident was amusing and asked several questions about the book.

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. OB “PLL TAKE IT,” she said, much to the surprise of the two salesmen who were watching what must have seemed to them unorthodox merchandising. One of them, however, took the money in an orthodox manner. The book buyer, with the bearing, poise and demeanor of a college president, appeared. With the go sign from him, I autographed hooks as if I was signing the Magna ‘arta. He assured me his salesmen would he instructed to give the autographed copies preference. As 1 was leaying, salesmen looked in my direction, put their heads together and began talking. Boy, that shellacking Notre Dame got from Michigan State has these New Yorkers talking.

Big Stars Turn Out to Fete ‘Young’ Benny

THERE WAS a telegram from President Truman, a cable from Gen: Ridgway, and about all Jack could say was that the ugly rumor that he left NBC because they had charged him 35 cents there to park his car was untirue., He said he left because they raised it to 50 cents. : Aside from the ribbing there was so much praise and laudation that Jack said to friends later, “They all spoke so highly of me that fur a while I thought I must be at my funeral.” o % <> THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Battle of the fe; Liz Taylor vs. Marlene Dietrich for Michael Wild ing . .. Dagmar’s probable NBCTV show will be “Dagmar's Canteen,” Saturday nights, with servicemen guests . .. Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane are achin’ to

marry. It may come about real soon. About Judy Garland: Al-

though it's being whispered that Judy had been drinking when she got sick at the Palace, a druggist who sent her medicine, and others who know her habits, insist flatly that she wasn't. Vivian 3laine, who courageously went on tor her. was pulled out of ths first row by a performer. Fo the record, Judy lately has bee acclaimed by some in the indu try as “greater than Jolson.” Rudolph Halley's TV spons renewed the option on his sho If he definitely decides not to continue, they bid for Sen. Keiauver or Sen. Tobey.

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GOOD RUMOR MAN: Mayor Impellitteri real worried about the threatened indictment of a good friend . . . Dave Chasen’s here from L. A. to visit his quite sick old friend, Joe Cook . .. Ted Briskin, far from rowing with Betty Hutton over their children, will officiate at daughter Lindsey's 5th birthday Nov. 23 while Betty's getting a needed vacation in Honolulu. .

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Pete the Papa Going Unhappily Back to War

all of it, it was still a sad bet that there wouldn't be enough gas to come in on. The word “ditch.” which means the plane goes down at sea, was painfully prevalent in those days. IT WAS EASIER after we moved from Saipar to Guam, and easier still after we knocked out Iwo before we took it. but it was never real easy. because that Japan was a real heavy haul from the Marianas. I can remember one evening when we rooted home a B-29 with all props gone except one, and the whole island cheered when he flopped into the. field. Ran remember Saipan and Tinian when the Japs were still bombing us. Especially ne Christmas Day. So does Pete, the papa. So does Pete, the old ired married man, the worried businessman. Ye! rack he is, strapped into a chute over his flak wit, to go out and play war while the college ids are home free. ov BB PETE THE PAPA has fought himself a war ete is not enthusiastic about fighting another His reflexes have jammed. His enthusiasm ha: waned. He worries now, while he should be re weting with a youngster's carefree approach t« ‘eath and disaster. The situation continues, all the time, with the etreads taking the bruises. A reluctant airman § not a capable airman. A bitter airman is not \ functional airman. A worried airman is not s eak performer, But back they go. these civilians, robbed of heir maturity, to play a young man's game ‘1gged but right, Pete said. I would say ragged

Dishing the Dirt "y Marguerite Smith

Q—Do sweet william plants need a wint wulch? How about August lilies? I reset son iT both these plants just before the temperatu iropped -and am afraid I will lose them if I « 10t cover them. Mrs. A. C. L., Park Ave.

A—Newly set plants do need more care! vinter protection than those that have th: roots well established. Wait until the ground really frozen, then spread whatever kind mulch you are ufing Do not cover the tops « iweet willlams. They stay greeh practically a winter (and the leaves are nice to use for a tab Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column ~ in The Sunday Times centerpiece, incidentally). So just tuck the strav or leaves or whatever you use, up around the neck of the plant. August lilles are hardy without protection. But watch your plants when ground thaws after a hard freeze. 1f they get their roots heaved out, step gently on the plant to get it back in place. A mulch helps, of course, to prevent this heaving by keeping the ground frozen until spring, > : Send garden queries to. Ma rite Smith, _ The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9, Ind.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951

Woman's Case Against Man—

The Orgin Of The Species

By JANE WHITBREAD AND VIVIAN CADDEN HERE must be:some reason why a perfectly pleasant

male child should turn out tobe unpleasant, stubborn, unkind, unfriendly, and pontifical in his relations’ with

the opposite sex. There i& not'one reason, there

are dozens. Popular opinion notwithstanding, his wife is rarely an im-

portant one. Modern man has a split personality.” His feet are in the present, but his mind is in the past. This doesn’t make for any kind

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of personal peace and quiet.

Here and there, you will up man who is just being himself but for the most part, men are so cowed by stereotypes, dating back to Biblical times and earlier, that they hardly have a moment’s peace. = = = The principal fictions live by are three: (1) They ‘protect women and children. They keep the family alive’ by providing the food supply. They are the conductors through whom the main currents of civilization and culture are passed on from generation to generation by way of the male children, Starting. from these simple premises, the average man builds himself quite a .dream world. From the historic fact that men once guarded and protected their families with their bare hands, it is a simple step for them to reach the conclusion that men are always alert,

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quick-witted, ‘physically powerful, and require a heavy diet,

un ” on IT ALSO FOLLOWS that, since woman can't live without them she owes man everything. She is eager ‘to serve him in all departments and considers any little thing she can do for him well worth the backache. The man naturally reacts to this attitude by treating his mate as one who, for services rendered, should gladly be his slave for life. This is all very well, but there's a hitcn. The male discarded his shield and buckler centuries ago and has never worn one since.

2.8 #8 HE DOESN'T EVEN protect

himself, let alone his family. In

the course of a number of centuries, the protective functions have been taken over by such various and unrelated mechanisms as the Yale lock, the storm

window, the policeman, the fire-

man. the telephone, the oil burner, the children’s court, and the

new drugs. So modern marriage becomes a kind of stylized Japanese shadow play in which characters. act tradition rather than out of the needs of the moment. The result off stage is even worse than on.

® Ld J HE PRESERVES AN outgrown picture of himself as a creature who by sheer muscle power and gray matter Keeps the family intact, the earth revolving, the reproductive cycle alive, and .the future secure. Thus he has taken on an assignment far beyond the realms of either his imagination or ability.

For Prisoners a Paradise—

Spain Sends Exiles To Tourist Mecca

TOURIST

PLAYGROUND—In luxury hotels like this one in

Majorca, visitors can have a room and bath with ocean view and three meals (including: wine) for the equivalent of $3.50 a day.

By ALLYN BAUM

Times Special Writer

ALMA, Majorca—Twelve hours by boat from Spain

1s one of Franco's Siberias. islet of manana,

isle,” the

It is also the “golden the loveland of Frederick

Chopin and George Sand, and the present day delight of

European tourists Majorca ‘lies in the Mediterranean between France and Spain: a 30-by-50-mile paradise of green mountains, rocky cliffs and white beaches where the sun shines all but 12 days in the year It’ may soon rival Cupri as an international playground But few tourists know that Majorca is an island of exile to at least 500 former political prisoners of Franco. After long years in jail, these men have been sentenced to resettle in Majorca at the end of their prison terms never to return o their mainland homes again.

= n n TRAVEL and communicaions controls to and in Majorca are rigidly enforced. The sland crawls with the hated ruardia Civil and hundreds of val Franco troops.

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Despite . close surveillance, opposition to Franco exists, even flourishes—but is doomed to failure because of Majorca's insular position. Criticism of Franco is outspoken here. than other place in Spain. cheers the sloppy, ill-equipped Spanish troops which parade through the streets of Palma. Majorca's capital. Spectators drift away when the national anthem is played. Unlike the mainland, - there are no blatantly pro-Franco posters plastered over Palma's walls. They would be ripped down as soon as darkness fell. = = » EVERYONE GRIPES about the radio: “Only bad records and worse propaganda,” they say. Hardly anyone ever reads They prefer

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the Whole Town's Behind Her—

By BRIAN COYNE

Times Special Writer ARKANSAS CITY, Kas., Nov. 15 — A misty-ey¢ ung girl stepped out of a car in front of the big VF\ emorial hall in Arkansas City. While people held the reaths, she walked—alone—up to the building and int

e big dining room. Rita Hammer, 14,.was walkg without help for. the first me in two years, and her slow ut sure journey into the VFW all was to pay back those who 1d helped her lick infantile aralysis. » Across the street, in pits dug n a couple of vacant lots, a barbecue simmered. The beef for it came from six yearlings Rita's father, H. H. (Earl) Hammer, had cut out of his herd in Jearby Dexter. The trimmings—beans, potato salad, bread, coffee—came. from

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the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis for the $20 hospital bill the foundatic picked up when Rita wa stricken two years ago. Befor he got through, the whole tow: pitched in. » ~ ” AN OLD FRIEND, Harry Derry, local VFW commander, got the veterans’ organization to provide the hall and line up the rest of the food as a community service project. Local butchers volunteered to slaughter Hammer's yearlings. A couple of barbecue experts the * Flint Hills Coon Hunters Association présided at the pits, ie ii :

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This leads him to act less intelligent than he is. So it is easy to explain the man who collapses five minutes after he gets home from work, rousing himself only to drink, eat, and go to bed. He is too tired from. protecting his family and keeping them alive all day to have enough energy to read to a child, even if it weren't effeminate for him to do anything but hunt, shoot, and fish. with same.

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This also explains a man who plans some day to build a vacation’ lodge with his own bare hands, but in the meantime lets his wife manage the household repairs unaided = = = THE MAN WHOSE job never takes him five minutes away from a desk is the one who can’t sit down to a nor-

mal dinner table without stripping himself of his business clothes and -swaddling

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himself in work pants, work shoes, and a work shirt. This makes him feel comfy in his skilled craftsman role, even if he is asleep when it's time to empty the garbage. The fact that the entire culture is behind this daily performance makes it harder to alter. There isn't a wife alive who hasn't. said to someone out of habit, “Don has to have his dinner on the table when he gets home,” as if he were the village smithy. Or “Don's just teo tired for company during the week.” Or “Don’t ask me what Don does, it's way over my head.” The man’ whose wife can't create the impression that he could outwit a dozen bandits armed with tommy guns without flexing a muscle is just not as creative as the radio, the comic books, television, and the movies. = - =

THE ONLY TIME a man can escape his miscast role is when he is alone with his kind at an American Legion, Shriners, Elks, Odd Fellows or Knights of Pythias convention. But despite the fact that he is at times a consummate actor, with the entire world for a supporting cast, he can’t quite still the fear that some day the show will close, the curtain will fall and leave him unalterably a man without a function. This is an unpleasant thought, from which the only escape is a private one. Sometimes it's women. Sometimes it's alcohol, or “the boys.” But most often it can be achieved very cheaply at home by the simple expedient of taking it out on the wife and kiddies. Tomorrow: Beautiful.

Why Life Isn't

CHANGING THE GUARD—When Franco's soldiers march down the streets of Palma, capital city of

Majorca, nobody cheers. Spectators even walk away when the national anthem is played.

the more expensive foreign papers which arrive a week after original publication. So intense is the anti-Falang-ist feeling that Majorca's inhabitants stubbornly call streets for Franco war heroes by their original name. Franco's method of breaking up opposition to his regime is primly efficient. When an anti-Falangist finishes his prison term, he is “exiled” to the province or to the Ballearic Islands of Majorca or Minorca—as far away from his original home as possible. Once there he must report monthly to the police who have his name on file. Any irregularities and the exile is returned to prison. ” = = ONLY IN Majorca does this method succeed completely. A political exile here told me that on the Spanish mainland many

RITA HAMMER — After a big day in town, a big day in school.

On the big day that Rita walked alone again, Red Cross canteen workers hustled plates from the pits to the dining hall from 10:30 a. m. until 7 Rm.

ex-prisoners have managed to return home and reorganize their underground because of the inefficiency and corruption of Franco's government and police. As more anti-Falangists and political prisoners are shipped to Palma and Majorca, travel

controls tighten. All shipping to and from MaJorca must go to Spanish ports. There is no maritime traffic whatsoever with Southern

France or North Africa, the nearest foreign ports. Naval

patrols enforce this blockade. There are only three air flights weekly to foreign countries, two of which are on Sunday when Palma's airport is jammed with Falangist secret

service agents and Guardia Civil carefully checking all passengers.

to feed several thousand people who had donated $1 to get “a big stack of barbecue” and help the polio fund. = ~ » a OTHER THOUSANDS sent in: money—some from distant states—and wrote ‘‘don’'t send

‘us a ticket; just add this to the

und.” When the last plate had been mptied, and Rita had been bundled up in a car to watch the giant Arkalaiah Fall festival parade down Arkansas City's main street, Hammer and his friends started adding up the returns. They feund théy had more than $5000 to turn over to the’ polio foundation to repay the $2000 bill for Rita's recovery. “We know that people are good,” Mr. Hammer said, “and, we have received hundreds of letters from all over the country telling us Rita's recovery from polio has given new hope to their own sons or daughters

ALL OTHER air travel during the week must go through Barcelona on the western coast of Spain, All telegrams and telephone calls also must be routed through Barcelona. This entails fantastic delays. A call to Paris from Palma takes a minimum of 11- hours. In any other country in Europe, contact can normally be established within 30 minutes.

As “Siberias” go, however, Majorca could hardly be more

pleasant. Food, rent and wines®

are cheap, the scenery is magnificent and the weather stunning. But while delighted tourists and visitors sun bathe and swim in the clear blue Mediterranean Sea, the exiled men of Majorca dream only of when they can get away—back 'to the mainland and their homes and to what liberty is left them in Franco Spain.

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Rita Walks Alone To Repay Polio Fund

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who are suffering from the disease now.” ~ » . RITA SPENT six months in a Wichita hospital, and another year. and a half at home in braces and casts. There were later expenses, including a spinal operation, that Mr. Hammer paid for himself. The polio fund's $2000 had no strings attached, -but Mr. Hammer felt it was a “moral obligation.” And the people of Arkansas City thought the town had a share in that obligation, too. The barbecue was a big day for brown - haired, dark - eyed Rita. There was an even bigger one a few days later. She

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