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- In Indianapolis By Ed Sovola o -
THERE is ‘a question in my mind whether breaking loose from the “ity for a week is half as enjoyahle as coming back. Anticipation seems to be greater than realization nine times out of 10. Let's suppose you met me on the street and asked: “What's the word from New York?” I'm loaded for that one. The word, to begin with, is “Be kind to people asking directions.” Also, don’t get impatient when foolish, obvious questions are. asked.’ From this day forward, if someone standing on the Circle asked me where the Monument was, I wouldn't laugh, think the man was a yokel or with my answer convey the impression that he should open his eyes.
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YOU MAY BE THE type. of person that never loses his sense of ‘direction, in the air, on land and sea or in a department store. I'm not. I can get lost on a train and never leave the car. The seats get twisted somehow, One turn and the entire train is going in the wrong direction. Right now some of the ridiculous situations I got'into are funny. They weren't funny in New York at the time they happened. ¢ + &
AT THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL, they gave me a room with"the ‘even number of “1450. The bellboy led me to the door. After four hours of running around the city, I was back in the hotel and charging out of the elevator on the 14th floor. The room numbers on the doors were checked nff—1445, 1447, 1449, 1451. Hey, where's 14507 Across the hall the room numbers were nowhere near 1450. The think machine began to whirl. I went back to the exit sign. A second try was unsuccessful. Beads of perspiration began to break out on the forehead. The key was plainly marked 1450. What happened to the room? Could it be that a spy ring, gangsters, had mistaken a poor Hoosier for someone else and the disappearance of the room was. just the beginning of disaster? > sb
IT WAS the right hotel. The Astor wouldn't be advertising Guy: Lombardo, that's for sure. Guy played at the Roosevelt. The carpets and the elevators were familiar. Just as I 'was going to go down to the lobby, a maid appeared. “Can you tell me where Room 1450 is, please?” Safe. The maid pointed to a sign which indicated to the guests that even numbers were one
It Hap By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Nov. 21—Today's best (copied off the wall at Leon & Eddie's):
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The wonderful love of a beautiful maid And the love of a staunch, true man, And the love of a baby unafraid Have existed since life began. °
But the greatest love, the love of love Even greater than that of a mother Is the tender and passionate infinite love Of one drunken bum for another.
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ROUNDING UP the “best wits’ hest wit” of 51, Pageant telis how an aging millionaire invited his three sons and their wives to dinner and told them he hadn't made hiz will because he had no grandchildren. He said he would give a £50 - 000 bonus to the first grandchild. Then he bowed to ask the blessing. When he looked up, he was alone at the table. * > & GENTLEMAN GEORGIE SOLOTAIRE tells of the fellow so nervous about being henpecked that when his wife said, “Good morning, dear,” he barked, “Quit nagging me.” o o> <> JUDY GARLAND--back at the Palace in the best health and voice she's been in in five years —has arranged to get every Monday off Checking up further on the rumors this past week, we're convinced Judy didn't have even one snort the day she got sick. She staved in the theater getting treated for-exhaustion and was maligned by folks who mistook her grogginess for something else. Judy reports that in the hospital she asked te see the papers with the headlines’ about her illness. Just as she was handed the papers, a nurse gave her a sedative and off she slipped to sleep, unable to read of herself. * > & HOT DASHES-- Frank Costello's friends laugh raucuously at the report he might be marked for early assassination The Perons have $10 million in Swiss banks, in case of a getaway. Ali Khan may be named the “other man” by a N'Yorker identified with Cafe Society who expects to divorce
his wife—They may soon nail Lucky Luciano Because of the jailing in Italy of his pals, Gene Boys Town 11 By Harman Nichols CHELTENHAM, Md. Nov. 21 (UP Boys
Town, Neb.. founded by the late Rev. Fr. Edward J.- Flanagan, is famous. but this place is a lot older. It is unsung. but has done a lot of good The “town” here is known as the “Boys' Village of Maryland.” a home for wayward Negro voungsters of the District of Columbia area. For the kids who run from 8 to 19 and who couldn't connect with a base hit and make it to first base on their own. Likely vou never heard of “Boys’ Village of Maryland,” located about 15 miles from the capi
tal. It was started as a school for Negro boys in”
1872. It was reorganized as a village by the Maryland legislature in 1949. o> & o IT IS SET in the middie of 1265 acres of good farmland. It's a state institution and has an annual budget of some $550,000. It isn't a denominational outfit, but chaplains of Episcopal and Catholic orders do their level best to put the love of God into the boys who come here. There are 350 youngsters in the village and .it takes a pretty penny to keep them well fed and equipped with athletic togs, amused, and keep them in school and church
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MOST OF THE CREDIT goes to an affable man named Lawson J, Veney, who had long experience in the operation of juvenile courts and social welfare enterprises hefore he came here Mr. Veney, a versatile, intelligent man, recognizes that he is “not a Father Flanagan—and I don't pretend to be. There was only one Father Flanagan. I do the best I can.” Mr. Veney has a staff of 114 Negro men and women who conduct the administration, education vocational training programs, and supervise the farm operations, Many of the staff have had university training. 4 &
EVERY KID has something to keep his hands busy. Some milk the cows, Others till the soil with tractors. About a quarter of the land is
Her Papa Could Play the Wedding March—
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way anc the odd the other. Gee, the room and the luggage and clothes Jooked good. BoD . ONE MORNING I had an appointment in a building at 41st St. and Fifth Ave, The man I was supposed to meet sald it was within easy walking distance of the hotel, He gave directions, simple ones. Out a door of the hotel I went and began picking them up and laying them down, Ten minutes of brisk walking and no Fifth Ave. Five minutes later a cop made with the directions, more complicated thig time. I was heading in the wrong direction. THIS KID was pleased as punch to get to the Battery via the subway without mishap. A lawyer was my seeing eye. On the platform in downtown New York we met. We got off at Bowling Green. He was a kind gentleman who kept insisting how simple it is to get around New York. Well, I found my way to the ticket window for the Statue of Liberty ferry. In a soft voice 1 asked.the man when the next ferry left for Bedloe Island. “Twelve o'clock,” the ticket seller snapped. He looked at me as if he didn't care whether.he sold a ticket or not. * A hot dog stand was a short distance away and it faced the ticket booth. With malice in my eye, I glared at the man behind the window. Above the bars was a large black and white sign with . these words: “Next sailing 12 Noon.” Hrrrmmmpph.
TWO MORNINGS in the hotel the coffee shop was easy to find. On the third morning the coffee shop was gone. A bellboy straightened me out. Awful. ’ To get to Grand Central Station from the Roosevelt you go through a tunnel. It's easy, just follow the signs. After a half hour at the reservation window, I started back to the hotel, Some monster practical joker had shuffled the tunnels during that half hour. There was no way out. I'm ashamed to tell you what happened. Strange as it seems to me, I'm back and pleading that we show more patience and kindness to folks who have lost their way. They're really not stupid when they ask what seem to be stupid questions. They're confused, that's all. . Let's be nice. The guy you help is somebody's favorite boy. - .
Gags. Gossip and Gaff And Maybe One Laugh
Giannine and “Pichi,” American hoodlums are expected to thlk-—Yvonne De Carlo manages to play a comedy role in "Hotel Sahara.” KATHRYN CRAVENS, who wrote the new novel, “Pursuit of Gentlemen,” has passed along a few rules for man-catching. I liked these: “Don't worry about what an evening gown does for vou: it's what it does to the man that counts. . The quickest way to check up on a man's love ig to check up on him. ... One subject of conversation .guaranteed to fascinate a man is himself. . , . Don't wait too long to marry a man—you may find out too much about him.” x - ” JIMMY DURANTE tells us his suit against Paramount for using “That's My Boy” as a title isn't aimed at Martin & Lewis. Only at the film company, which he says has cost him a movie by using the expression. Actor James Dunn continues his comeback on Jack Carson's TV show Elaine Gilda's one of the Gilded Cage beauties. The OPS is fining big cafes and restaurants which have been quietly reducing values of items to increase profits. . . . Tony Martin's in to plug “Two Tickets te Broadway.” . . . Milton Berle and top writer Hal Collins split. > eb EARL’S PEARLS | . | There's one thing to be said for late marriages, says Eddie Davis. They don't last so long.
Miss Gilda
o* Ba & THE MIDNIGHT EARL Some Wash'n sources insist the story about President Truman trying to get Ike to run as a Dem are true and that a certain lawyer's off to Paris to try again. oo oo ow TODAY'S TRUISM: “You can usually tell a wallflower by the stems.”"—Garry Moore.
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“EVERY WOMAN wants a man who can stand on his own two feet- especially when thev're dancing.’ Ad man Benton Berman) ... That's Earl, brother.
Home in Maryland Doing Lots of Good
planted in truck and grain crops. A herd of 94 pure-bred cows supply milk to the village The air is fine, the food is good. and the kids seem to be happy. Most of them. Mr. Veney is confident, will be good citizens when they come of age, > > > THE BOYS have radios, television and a library. If a boy wishes. he can learn a trade, and most of them do. Bricklaying. tailoring, carpentering and plumbing are taught. The villagers have a few things to puff their chest about, too. Recently they came up with 60 prizes for arts and handicraft. “We don’t have a stockade around the place.” Mr. Veney said. “I am proud of the fact that almost never do we have a boy go over the hill.”
Dishing the Dirt
By Marguerite Smith Q. While vacationing in Florida we brought home quite a few cacti. All the ‘small ones we are keeping in one howl of Florida sand for an
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
inside garden. We have lost a few already. Can vou give us any information on their care” Mrs. N., 1026 Dawson. A. Most cactus tragedies come rom too much water. Especially now, with winter's approach, give them very little water. This is the resting period for most of them, "A little water once a week’ is the closest to any exact rule. Better vet watch the plants carefully and give them just enough water to keep them from shrivelling. When in doubt, give less rather than more water, Do not .water them on cloudy days. Keep them in your sunniest window,
Send garden queries to Marguerite Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 8, Ind,
Boy Wants to Grow Up, Marry Margaret T.
By United Press gF OgUMBUS, 0., Nov. 21 of that I-want-to-be-a-cowboy-when-I-grow-up stuff for little Mark Nadel. He wants to marry Margaret Truman, Mark's dad, Norman
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sion, Nadel, to marry izen, revealed his 68-year-old son's
to a change in entertainment “I
tastes,
remark was made in all seriousness during a lunchtime discus-
“When I grow up, Margaret music critic for the Columbus Cit- Mark proclaimed. Like a good parent, Mr, Nadel ambition and thinks it may point tried not to act surprised. looked around the the newsman said,
The columnist for the Scripps- the meaningless chatter, Howard Newspaper said his son's
“Why do you want to marry Margaret,” Nadel said he asked his offspring. “Oh, because,” Mark replied. “Her father has lots of guns.” “Where did you get that idea,” MY. Nadel said he inquired. “He took them away from bad men,” was the reply. table,” It was then that “The other children brought out
I'm going Truman,”
the Nadel that they
Mr, Nadel! said his bov had two kids seemed entirely undis- had all seen and likéd Miss Tru-
#een the
when she appeared on Television were the most
President's daughter turbed by the statement, as if it man oh television.
natural in the! “Arlene said she was pretty"
recently with Jimmy Durante. world. Arlene 7, had nodded ‘ap- Mr. Nadel recounted. “David Miss Truman apparently was a provingly and gone on eating. thought she was funny. But Mark
big hit in young Mark's eyes,
David 9, just seemed irritated at was enchanted with her.”
A ih The Indianapolis
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Out at the Coliseum—
Samples Of Big Ice Revue Here Tonigh
al: A A a a Aes I cr Ss vei GLITTER—The big Dixieland scene is one of numerous produetion numbers in the 1952 Hollywood Ice Revue, opening fonight at the Coliseum,
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NEW STAR—Leaping away from Michael Kirby. is. Barbara Ann Scott, young
and lively new star of the show which has been an annual Coliseum event for many seasons. /
ENVIABLE—"Mike'* Kirby here has six attractive sidekicks in “Admiration,” another of the Hollywood Ice Revue's production numbers featuring the cover girl-and cover boy theme,
WHAM—Freddie Trenkler, veteran comic of the Ice Revue, slides to one of his characteristic sudden sitdowns. As in previous editions of the show, the ace ice clown works solo and in combos with the Three Bruises.
AGILE—Carol Lynne combines the grace of ballet with the agility of. daredevil acrobatic dancers in her routines on skates, Sd
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HULA Andra’ McLaughlin + * RISKY—-Jaan and Calvin Cook re the show's mast has the show's hula spot former«_ spectasular risk-takers, The 1952 Hollywood Ice Revue will continue ly taken-by Sonja Henin | nightly except- Mondays, through Dee. 9, antl .
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