Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1951 — Page 9

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Serewy As a Skyrocket

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ED'S NOTE: Fd Sovola was in Columbus, 0, Friday selling “Monday Follows Tuesday.” Among the results of his trip is we have no column from him for you today, Ed was also taking part in a screwy enter-

prise set up by the usually sensible Columbus Citizen—a sister Scripps-Howard paper of The Times. Not satisfied with stripping a tree several weeks ago to prove our Ed w rong on his famous Q / COLUMBUS, 0. Nov. 26 Literary history was made here Friday. For the first time. so far 12 {8 known, all the commas were counted in a published book. The feat set up several other records: The largest number of people counting any ing in the same hook at one time A speed record of ten minutes and 50 second or free styie comma-counting

First time the lowly comma has heen meshed

inte the gears of scientific efficiency and “know how." & o- oOBJECTIVE OF THF experiment was to sun stantiate The Citizen's figures in the recent leaf

counting operation in Franklin Park Friday Columbus was plaving host to Ed Sa vola, Indianapolis Times columnist and author of a new hook. “Monday Follows Tuesday Savoia spent the afternoon signing autographs in his book at F. and R, Lazarus book department. There, under the rustling branches of a small tree, he met his fans and tried to explain his feud with Columbus ¢ One of ‘the main stories in the book concerns his claim to have been the t man in history to count’ the leaves of a tree. His figure was 354.563 leaves, The tree counted in Franklin Park to test his figures yielded only 11.321.

TASK FORCE TWO-—Here is the over-all scene at the comma counting comical.

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Task Force 2 Counts Commas in. Ed's Book

count, they set out Friday with another task force 1g scout the commas in his book—blitz fashion, We hope our Buckeye friends got great satisfaction from their enterprise for with a score of 0 for Ohio State and 7 for Michigan, a pall of gloom will hang over their fair city for a month. Without apology for our eccentric sister paper's project then, we follow forthwith with their report of the comma counting:

AS IN THE earlier experiment,.the test yesterday was an example of the scientific principle put to work on a difficult problem. It was conducted in the ballroom of the Southern Hotel, Citizen, Lazarus and Southern Hotel employees participated ized to count the commas in Mr, the shortest possible time in the book. The entire party

Sovola’'s book in There are 288 pages wag divided into four groups Each comma-counter counted eight pages. "The individual's completed total was reported to the Record Clerk in his group. then relaved by the Communications Department to the Central

IN THE AMAZINGLY short than 11 minutes the book was scanned from cover

to cover for commas

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those cute little punctuation marks which look like flying saucers with curled tails Special honors were won by Millicent Easter, publicity director for the Southern Hotel. She picked off 30 commas in her eight pages in the record time of two minutes and 15 seconds. Hers was the first total reported among the. entire 50 people. The tot al number of commas counted by Citizen Task Force Two, “Operation Comatose.” was 2926. That's an awful lot of commas in anybody's book. #

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COMMAS—Mr

Inside is shown with Antoinette Libster on the comma ecount-

ing staff of The Columbus Citizen. With them is Ben Hayes of the Citizen. Ben is to Columbus and

Dexter Cify, O., what Ed is to Hoosierland.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK. Nov. 26 -Not to brag—but 1 know less about fine wines than anybody When I study a wine card in a fancy resta rant. 1 say 10 me “Wilsor wi phonv--vou that were hrought

O hard! Ks wr at the 0cco We Kept n a crock in the cella When hinted it wag geing to

we dippered it

Fortunately, the wing

stewards know were mostly fakes “Georges, 1 =ay to le

sommelier at the Colony 1'1l let vou choose something for me , : ket him! HH he commanding him to bring the wine temperature and make sure the steak was well iced hefore serv. ing.- I get all confused about wine. And those fascinating fellows les sommeliers the wine stewards awe ‘me with their knowledge They always wear a Key the symbol of their profession.

I'd be me some room at

didn’t,

around their neck, It's supposed to

‘be a Kev to a wine cellar

So it's a key to their car or the men's room does it matter? They whoosh about =o expertly Bordeau and their Rurgundies, and thelr Chablis and their champagnes . , , at $5 to $2 It 1 had read Ted Saucier's hook, “Bottoms * 1 could understand all this thoroughly, 1've heen sn impressed with the wine stewards Angelo Gramone, who darts selling the expensive

serving their

that 1 even asked about Gogi's Larue =o husily French and Ttalian wines, what he likes to drink, Angelo, a native of Italy, brought up on those Italian wines, looked around carefully to see {f any customers were listening “Ah,” he =aid, his eyes alight, “my Ji He named a California wine “Dollar thirty-five a gallon,” he said. “I'm very mad at the company, though. Just raised the price five cents a gallon!” Next I asked my friend Georges at the Colony what wine he prefers, He is Austrian by birth, “I'm a Scotch man myself.” he said. THE MIDNIGHT EARL , . . Although there are rumors that the social and wealthy Dick Reynoldses may divorce, it's curious that Dick, on a recent trip back to N. Y., spent three nights in their Beekman PL. home. Somebody evidently a woman crank or maybe a rival--who phoned police that Dick thea tobacco heir was being “detained” against his will, must have heen embarrassed when Mrs, R, led police and two serv. ants to his room and exhibited him-sleeping peacefully,

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favorite

How to Choose Wines Not Clear to Earl

ARTIE SHAW was in Toots Shor's-—not with

the love of his life, Doris Dowling, but with her lovely sister. Connie. “She's 8 Riste gallantly explained . Bake ope an engagen t a AD n Harl Tuesday . Betsy Von Furstenburg's evidently washed up with Nici Hilt She's been writin Dick Poston (tt Stalag 17" actor) about

eturn to N.Y.

BEATRICE

next week, so

LILLIE returns from England look out. for her on r

tasia, they say, got exiled for trying to make

away with a $1 million drug shipment intended for the mob -. . Rocky Graziano, at the Sugar Hill cafe, promised that he'll “flatten Sugar Ray Robinsan’ hecause he doesn’t ke to go 15 rounds

The £200.000 Robert Walker estate skidded to $25.000 after taxes , .. Dolores Grav and designer Howard Perry Rothberg caught the Chas, Trenet Kirkwood & Goodman opening at the Blue Angel

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A fad means going in one and out the other Opinion EARL'S PEARLS Martha Stewart guotes that doctor who said it is more

Miss Stewart always te attack, able,

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Two gag writers

than chance that ulcers seem ambitious men

working for a famous comedian were asked whether they had been promoted on the -show. “The only way we can ever get promoted,” they agreed, “is to get fired.” WHAT THEY MEAN hy a dribbling idiot, fig ures Sarah Vaughan, is a bribed college basket ball plaver . That's Earl, brother,

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q Enclozed ix a sample of gome bushes in ow vard and the fruit they are full of right now We have quite a few of them and would like tn know what they are. Is the fruit good for human , use” Mrs, Helton Hite, Burns City. A--The sample was pretty well dried up and brown by the time it arrived. (I'd like to suggest that small samples of any plant taped closely to the paper \ with Scotch tape arrive in good condi-

Read | Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

tion for identification ) But the clustering of “the berries on the twig suggest that this is a sample of the rose-colored fruit of the coral berry or Indian currant. Botanically it's symphoricarpos, which means “fruits borné together.” The name refers to the clustered berries, Coral berry has a well-known relative in the white fruited snow-berry-—both of them attractive well into winter, So far 1 haven't been able to find out whether the fruit is poisonous or not. But now you've got ma interested. When 1 run down a couple of other clues 1 may be able to tell you in a later column,

Fifty persons were organ- '

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Fe MONDAY,

Music and Football—

AJC Is

JUST FOR THE KIDS—Jack Worley (center), a junior, conducts the Kiddie Kapers program, a

children’s hour heard from 6:30 to 7 p. m. each Tuesday and Saturday evening. Youngsters are always welcome at the studio and Charles and Marilyn Henzie take advantage of seeing Jack at work.

SPINNING A DISC—Miss Martha Bolte, a freshman, takes a hand at the turntable for the station's popular "Music by The Masters” program heard Monday through Saturday from 8:05 to 9:15 p. m.

SPECIAL EVENTS COVERAGE—Since the meiger of Jordan College with Butler University following the fortunes, of Bulldog football and basketball teams provides the WAJC sportcasting staff with much laboratory work. Broadcasting a recent grid clash are (left to right] John Highberger, South Bend sophomore; Bob Corbin, Kensington, Pa. senior; and Vic Tanguy, Logansport junior,

Via Your Imagination—

“ Quter Space Is Only 80

By RICHARD KLEINER Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 26-—Outside of a pair of argyle

socks, the rocket's outer was

Lrip to space very convincing

It's a 33-foot space ship that is moored on the sixth §

floor of Gimbel's departm store. It takes off several times But the children didn't seem a dav for an R0-gsecond cruize to to natice. There was only one

the Moon, Pluto, Jupiter, Satur thing about the trip that and points narth J hothered one little hoy, Ag it whizzes through” space Mister he said to none a voire tells vou where vou nlaneteer “this is ‘the sixth are, Through a plexiglass win loor, right? dow vou can see planets and Right meteors and if vou look close “And th witlding has a sev 1) the artist s gignature on enth: eighth ninth and tenth

act 1 . each picture floor. right

It is all quite authentic 1 “Right There's a gravity neutralizer =o at : vou won't fall up to the roof Well, how did we set out, when you leave the earth's then gravity field. There are whoosh- = . a 8 ing noises when you take off or “YOU SEE,” explained the

land. There are all sorts of in- planeteer solemnly, “this ship struments and switches and has a built-in, electronic, twinflashing bulbs, coil reducer that's tied in to 2 2 = the rocket propulsion mechaAND THERE ARE two nism. It's very advanced planeteers to guide you. They “What floor is the bubble-

wear what well-dressed spaceman Except that one planeteer had on ‘argyle

every Wears.

gum?” 1

Between voyages, the plan-

eteers bath youngyaspiring acsocks and suede shoes. Now {ars explained that the ship anybody who follows Chris doesn’t really leave Gimbel's at One youngster, wearing a Welkin or knows anything a). But the effect is produced cowboy suit and pistol, started

about life up yonder can tell vou that argyle socks and suede shoes are not de rigueur in the stratosphere,

by recorded voices, a platform that rocks gently. and a movIng panorama ouside the plexiglass window. 4

to"get on. But he was apparently stricken with a sudden longing for his hosx and the type of space that is wide-open.

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~The Indianapolis Times.

NOVEMBER 26, 1951

mall But Popular Station

[NDPIANAPOL IS music lovers and fans who follow the ups and downs of Butler University's Bulldog teams have something in common in their liking for one of the city's smallest radio stations. .. by students of the College of Music.

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to 10 p. m,, casts with a power of megacycles.

station WIRE.

day through Saturday

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attract remainder of programs for

games also the station's

OPERATING SEVEN DAYS the FM station now in its second year, broad700 watts on channel

Students of Jordan College da all. of the station's work under the watchful eye of Tom Carnegie, a member of the music school faculty and sports caster for radio

Most popular programs . , . according to listener response are the operas broadcast every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 p. m. and “Music for the Masters” from 8:05 to 9:15 p. m.

SPORTS CASTS of Bulldog football and basketball the attention of Butler fans. schedule includes a variety of both adults and children.

. TOP MANAGEMENT—The student station's "big brass” include (left to right) Art Van Allen, Logansport senior, the station manager; Bill Wandersee, Indianapolis junior, program director; and Tom Bauer, Logansport senior, one of two chief announcers.

WAJC which is operated

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each week” from 6:30

220, 91.9

heard Mon-

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FILLING IN—Joel Marsh, a senior, stands a watch on the controls of WAJC while the reqular engineer takes a break. Most of the equipment is automatic, but regulations require someone on

duty at all times.

OUTER SPACE, HERE WE COME is the cry, as two planeteers guide ‘wide-eyed youngsters on a rocket ship trip to some choice planets. The pilot .is checking the gravity neutralizer while the argyle-socked planeteer in the foreground describes points of interest as they flash past the plexi-glass window.

When the planeteer started to shut the door, the hoy started to cry, “T don't want to go, mother.” he cried. Mother hustled him out,

econds Away

as easily as™other people go. to’

another ride,

“THAT'S ONLY THE fourth refusal we've had,” one planeteer said. “Mostly, they come back for more. One boy was back 50 times, then we stopped counting. .He rode some more after that, then finally asked me Does this thing really fly" One girl came out with her mother, who asked her, “Where were vou, Marv? In the zkv?" said the child The twn planeteerz spice their

conversation with bits nf stra.

tnapheric jargon they wish each child spaceman’s ack ad they kick out nuisances with “OK, kid. blast off!” and

they express amazement with a mild oath such as. “By the craters of the Moon!" ” » » THE DISPLAY ATTRACTS a good sampling of ex-cowboys and ex-detectives and ex-base-ball players, because the trend in youthful dreaming these days i is to outer space. 4

Men like comic strip hero Chris Welkin, who fly to Saturn

the grocer, are fast replacing cowboys as children’s heroes. A square-jawed little boy emergéd from the ship and immediately went back in line for

“When I was a kid,” hs said, “TI wanted to be =a cowboy. What a fool I've been.” ” Be

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