Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1951 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis - By Ed Sovola

Fe PEAS are a down-to-earth subject and just what the doctor ordered for someone who has been chasing around hither and yon for a couple of weeks, . Right now I can’t remember exactly where it was—Chicago, Columbus or Dayton—peas caught

‘my attention, On the plate, they weren’t alike.

. big Persian Room opening was

Are they alike in a pod? You know what the subject is going to be today. ® Before we take caliper in hand, however, we should say that the pea has a long and glorious history, which often is overlooked at the dinner table. Do you know that pea seeds were found in a tomb at Thebes”: That's someplace in Egypt (nos use getting too involved). ‘Th peas were in sad shape. Frozen foods came later. 9 a THE DISCOVERY indicated that peas were cultivated long before the Christian era. In the Old Testament peas get a mention, Peas didn't get much publicity until the 17th Century. Frenchmen were the first to go nuts over peas. Madame De Maintenon, a, favorite in French court circles, wrote to a friend in 1696 (I wasn't the friend), “This subject of peas continues to absorb all others. The anxiety to eat them, the pleasure of having eaten them and the desire to eat them again are the three great matters which have been discussed by our princes for four days past (They had a lot to think about in those days). “Some ladies, even after having supped at the royal table and well supped, too, returning to their own homes, at the risk of suffering from indigestion, will again edt peas before going to bed. It is both a fashion and a madness.” nightcap.

* 2b AFTER the Norman Conquest, Englishmen began raising peas. In season. Englishmen eat peas every day. I was there in season and got a bellyful of Leguminoseae. (We're scientific today, man.) Food value of peas is tremendous and they're loaded with vitamins A. C, G, and if you're a vitamin Bl swallower. peas are full of it. You can imagine how eager I was to find if peas are alike in the pod to supplement all the

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Nov. 27—Today I salute Comedian Jack Carter whose clowning at the Copacabana establishes him as one of our finest funnymen. In the new show with Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane, he’s under a slight handicap. because Miss Llane wears a gown that's remarkable. and it would be natural if nobody remembered anything else, But Jack stood out (not that Abbe didn’t, too). He announced that while in England, he had discovered a British radio program: “Break the United States Bank.” “Milton Berle was here tonight.” “but I hardly clothes on.” Jack then spun the one ahout the tough kid playing with garbage. A cop who asked him what he was doing got furious when the kid said. "“"Making a policeman.” A fireman got just as mad when he told the fireman he was making a fireman. Up swaggered a comedian who boasted he'd take care of the brat. “What are vou doin’, an?” he taunted. “Nope. Ain't got enough garbage.” kid. Now don't bother telling me how long ago you heard it. But Carter brought down the house with it—and that's good. > <> <>

NEWEST POLITICAL FORECASTS: Gen. MacArthur to run for veep if Taft gets GOP nomination . . . Gen. Ike to run as Democrat if Taft sews up nomination by March, and Gov, Dewey to stump for Ike even if he's nominated as Democrat—with Dewey becoming Secretary of State if Ike wins!

Carter said, recognized him—he had men's

kid? Making a comedi-

said the

IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED: A RB'wayite was explaining where a friend was to be buried. “It's not far.” he said. “It's the first cemetery on the way to the racetrack.” * oS 5 &

HOT DASHES—We hear that Allen, Jerry Lester, et al. agree that the halfhour Sunday night TV show shouldn't continue past January--Just one of Bob Levitt's phone bills to Linda Darnell when she had valler jaundice in London was $200— Rudolph Halley's attractive brunet companion at Celeste Holm's Janice BroshMartin's “Two

NBC. Fred

at Tony

Were we embarrassed

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 27—A sketchy survey of the arts and crafts of the last few years has finally convinced me that the eagle is no longer the symbol of America. Our national emblem is a sweater, well stuffed with woman. The female chest has become the standard by which everything from autos to safety precautions in the Air Force are judged, 1 feel no hesitancy

in attacking this subject,

since all mystery has been stripped from the bosom by television, stage, Hollywood, the press, advertising and economics in general. One man

even hag a successful syndicated column devoted mostly to chest measurements. He who studies television carefully enough must wear slit goggles to escape snow blindness. - > >

I WAS talking not long ago with Julie Harris, an English actress, who professed some amazement at American preoccupation with the mammary glands. “In England,” she said, “acting is etill done with the face: Over here I am of the impression that the female profile has been freshly discovered, and is the sole property of the Americans. I am only surprised that the Statue of Liberty has not been replaced with a statue of Dagmar." We must not conclude hastily that I am knocking a very pleasant portion of the female facade, but as an old legman I claim that too much emphasis on anything. spoils its general long-term effectiveness. Some years back we insinuated that a very functional and pleasant sector of the ladies had degenerated into little more than costume jewelry, and the insinuation stands. > <> <> THE FRESH point here is that while the bust is interesting it is not news, yet we treat it as such today. I have a clipping here from the United Press whose headline says: “It's her gasps that draw gapes to Dagmar's rival’—the

gist of which is that the dame can knock your °

eye out with a special brand of exhalation. This did not strike me as earth-shattering, but then neither do the. dally stories—mostly from Hollywood-—which deal almost exclusively with over-abundance beneath the neck, I have seen, lately, in a sneaky peek at Mama's ladies’ magazine, pictorial essays devoted to the brassiere-and-girdle trade that made me gasp and brought the roses to my cheeks. Lately the models have adopted a general abandon of stance that suggests strongly that an old-fashioned orgy is just around the corner, I am remii ded of old etchings on fe Sumbiing wally of Pompeli,

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Now For u Few Words On Subject of Peas

above infodmiatfast City Market-had the peas. All T' needed to begin the investigation was a micrometer and someone who knew how to use it, I wound up in the basement of Vonnegut Hardware Wholesale Division, 402 W. Maryland St. Wade ad DANNY SULLIVAN, a young man in sales training, tried to duck out when he €aw the sack of peas and the glint in my eye. Danny wasn't fast enough. “I don't have much to do ‘this morning.” Danny sighed. “And my boss won't mind if I measure peas. In thing I'd rather do this morning than measure peas.” “Let's get started.” Danny huffed and steamed as we cracked open pea pods. He grumbled about “a scientific character” who couldn't: read a micrometer. I didn't argue the point. It was trouble enough to learn simple addition, multiplication and subtraction. “eo.

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ON THE AVERAGE, there were eight peas to a pod. We found nine quite frequently and an occasional pod had 10 peas. Most peas measured about quarter<of .an inch in diameter. Danny explained that for my benefit because a measurement of .2626 of an inch meant little. Careful examination revealed the color of the peas didn’t vary in shade. The shape did. Peas are not like marbles. Without a micrometer, a man would say peas are alike. With a micrometer, here is what he would say about nine peas in one pod: No.1-—-.2968; 2.2812; 3.2967; 4—.3125; 5-— 2974; 6—.3125 (check pea No.4): 7.3281; 8— 2968 (check pea No.1) and 9-.3042. Amazing. Two pairs of peas alike.

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ONE OUT OF FOUR pods had one or more sets of identical peas. "The greatest variation was observed from pod to pod. They came as small s .1718 and as large as 4687. not quite half-inch ACPOSS, : Danny was surprised to find so many identical peas, Well, so was I.. A pound of peas in the pod makes quite a mess on a counter. But the mess iz a small matter. Danny didn’t mind cleaning it up. The important thing is, when vou say, “They're alike as two peas in a pod,” vou know now there is truth in the old saying. In this day and age, truth, even in a pea pod, is something.

Jack Cartier Wows Them at the Copa

Tickets to Broadway” party at Toots Shor's! Went up to Rose Marie to tell her everybody was confusing her with Margaret Whiting —and

it was Margaret Whiting. Greatest look-alikes in Show Biz. & o a HENNY YOUNGMAN menfions the wife who. when she threatens to go home to her folks, doesn’t have far to go—just to the living room. THE MIDNIGHT EARL , .. The Time & Life building needs space so much it's offered fgome tenants two vears rent to move out, , , . Wayne Coy may quit the FCC: Ill health. . .

Dan Topping's wife, Kay Sutton, gets their Palm Beach home in the split. Radio and TV writers who dig up old jokes are now called “miners’™ by their colleagues. . . . Ethel Merman and Bob Six were an El Morocco midnitem. And Betty Dodero was therenot with hubby Alan Curtis. , . . Bernie Kamber's niece, Barbara Michaelson. and Sandy Kessler announced their engagement. * ¢ & EARL'S PEARLS . .. The nasty story's going around that Tallulah Bankhead bought a parrot —but that in one week it died of frustration. < Ld <* TODAY'S CORN: Eddie Garson, a real ventriloquist in the new Copa show, asks the dummy, “What does the word ‘straight’ mean?” and comes the answer: “Without ginger ale.” . Bb

GEENE (MISS CHEESE CAKE) who lost all those furs in two \ robberies, has had them replaced by an eager Texas suit-

COURTNEY,

or .,.. The Army's enlarging it K-89 Corps . . . Mike Todd talks of taking over a NY movie house for showing his revolutionary new filme in February Jack Topping's

worried about his 260 pounds . Lena Horne and Harvey Stone will tour Israel Hildegarde's mgr. Anna Sasenko, ways said TV would ruin stars, now Hildegarde opens at the Pierre Dec. won't go near TV as it is today, > +

Miss Courtney

who has alrepeats it 11 — and

POKER. contends George Savitr, is merely waiting for a chip that never comes in... That's Earl, brother. .

An Old Legman Wonders What the Fuss Is About

Since the last war, when much overimportance was placed on the pin-up girl, it has been impossible to identify the GI with any operation unconnected with the ogle. At a jet air base recently I saw a flock of safety-stressing comic strips involving a Maj. Somebody, crash inspector. The major has a secretary who never says a word, but walks In and out of the episode, playing a mute Jane Russell It occurred at the time that this was a poor way to focus a young flier's attention on safety regulations,

The commercialization of the buzzoom has reached & peak, in the last couple of years, to where jit is broadly hinted that if you buy this kind of car, ride this plane or that train, eat

this sort of food or drink that kind of beverage, vou will not only become healthy, wealthy and wize, but will automatically develop a 38-inch chest measurement, This, 1 believe, is carrying it a little too far, dew THE FEMALE form is reasonably divine, in most cases, and I would admire to keep it out of the domain of a butcher-shop carcass. Grant a modicum of mystery, maidens, and remember that faith, not a D-cup, moves mountains. You might also reflect that allure is sometimes hased on underplaying a valued possession, rather than hitting the consumer market over the head with an already obvious fact.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

QI had a beautiful bleeding heart 1 had to move. Should we cover the plant with anything for. the winter? Do you think moving it will hurt it?—Mrs. A, W. Seal, 560 N. Gray St. A—If you moved it carefully the plant will not be hurt at all. Be sure you have not pressed it so firmly into the ground that you have left

Read Marguerite Smith's Gorden Colum in The Sunday Times a saucer-shaped depression around it. You want to allow for settling of ‘the soil and be sure winter rains drain away, not toward its crown. I suspect this is one reason g0 many gardeners have trouble with their fall transplants. As tc covering — ordinarily bleeding heart needs no special protection, But since this is newly planted, cover it lightly. Two important points—1. Wait “until the ground is frozen. 2. Use some light material like straw that lets air through. Do not cover the crown with leaves or anyfying else ‘that will hold moisture. frig

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Blended for Each Buyer—

Scores Success On A | Rhyme And Tea

“The bleat of the lamb “And the fruit of the bee “Spell the name of the man “Who is speaking to thee.” By JEANE JONES HIS RHYME introduced P. J. O'Mahoney and. his line

of imported tea to Indianapolis residents 75 years

. made

A Lot of Hot Air—

ago.

Since then, the name of the Irish immigrant and the

O'Mahoney store in City Market have become synonymous with fine tea and coffee far three generations of Hoosier families, The aroma of roasting coffee, the faint fragrance of blended tea, the tang of freshly made peanut butter and the exotic perfumes of spices and herbs invite countless gourmets and particular hoppers into O’'Mahoney’s. ® 2 - PARTICULARLY famous for the fine coffee he sells, J. Fs O'Mahoney. present owner, himself mixes -the blends to suit each buyer's taste. then grinds the blend to accommodate the method of coffee-making. For the blends. he uses 10 varieties of imported coffee. The freshness and combination of flavors please coffee drinkers’ palates and also, the coffee larders, since one-third less coffee is needed for average

strength. As more and more Hoosier cooks learned the epicurean

pleasures of herbs and spices in cooking, O’Mahoney’s added a complete selection of every herb and spice used in this section of the country. The personal service even includes advice and literature on how to best use many of the more exotic seasonings. Mr. P. J. O'Mahoney began selling tea from house to house here in 1876. Deliveries were by hand and by foot” for several vears, = = Ld AS BUSINESS IMPROVED, he purchased a horse and wagon and in 1880 opened a store at Shelby and Cottage Sts. He was the first to introduce Ceylon tea in Indianapolis, When Tomlinson Hall at City Market was completed in 1882, Mr. O'Mahoney opened a store room there and O'Mahoneys have heen there ever since. It was then that spices, coffee,

baker goods, extracts, crackers and similar lines were added. In the early years, Schnull and Co. roasted coffee for the O’Mahoneys and Mr. O'Mahoney supervised the purchase of tea for Mr. Schnull. “It was a good arrangement;” says J. F. O'Mahoney. “Dad didn’t ow much about coffee and Mr. Schnull, a German, didn’t know much about tea.” But Mr. O'Mahoney learned. n = » AS NEW coffee roasting and grinding equipment were introduced, he was always the first to install them. Today the store carries more varieties of coffee” than any other retail establishment in the Middle West. Many coffee customers have their own formula for the blend they want. Others prefer to grind and blend their own and may purchase several varieties for experiments. But the O’Mahoneys have never forgot that it was tea that gave them their start. There are 15 varieties on the shelves today. s .n = PEANUT BUTTER IS another O'Mahoney specialty. It's ground in the 35-year-old mill that also has a section for grinding grains, Through the years the O’Mahoney store has become famous for dried fruits imported from all over the world and the store was the first to use cellophane for packaging. ‘There’ ve been a lot of changes in the grocery business in my lifetime.” J. F. O'Mahoney 8a ys. “Canned nfl course meant expansion, but the dried fruit and many vegetanles we once imported are grown here in the United States now. “The tea iz better, too. There's more know-how about processing and packaging it.

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COFFEE TIME—J. F. O'Mahoney dips coffee beans from 69-year-old display bins built when his father established his store in city market. }

“Cooking and eating habits "have changed, too, and people are using more spices than ever before, They're drinking more

coffee and tea. tod.” And P. J. O'Mahoney & Sons is Keeping up with the changes. It's this spirit of experimenta-

tion and pioneering that have made it one of the biggest little businesses in Indianapolis to-

day.

Big. Machine Used To Test Jets In Lab

” . xe Times

test cell R-12.

JAY HEAVILIN

Special Writer CLE ELAND;Nov. 27—"“Central Control Room ?' the voice on the other end of the phone.

' asks “This is

We'll need some air Wednesday morning

for a turbo-jet run; two hours of wet stuff, 3200 pounds

per minute, 660 degrees Fahrenheit. 150 pounds .per square inch.’ “Okay. We'll schedule it." With the nonchalance of a grocery clerk listing a housewife's week-end food order, the dispatcher scribbles a note on the huge pad before him.

x = 5 THE SCENE 1S duplicated approximately 35 times a day in the Central Control Room at

the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland. The control room is the push-button

center of the nearly 200-acre reservation which the govern ment's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has dedi-. cated to jet engine research. = Equipped to supply air at temperatures from 700 to minus-70 degrees Fahrenheit and at pressures ranging from 10 to 450 pounds per square inch, the control room enables physicists, aerodynamic engineers and highly trained mechanics in a score of buildings to test tomorrow's sky weapons under simulated altitude conditions.

» = » SEA LEVEL AIR, encountered at any to 70,000 feet, is room's specialty up 24 hours week,

or the kind altitude up the and is served a day, five days a

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Control room employees pride themselves on the efficient way in which they keep track of who is getting what and when. Nine hundred red. green, white and blue lights on a wall map of the reservation, and 60 gauges with fluttery needles, enable the four men who man the amphitheatre-shaped control room to keep track of their air-dispensing operations. But for all the gadgetry, the business of sending scalding hot. high-velocity air shrieking into the nose of a ramjet engine revolves about an old-fashioned electric clock. Because 50 test chambers are sometimes “aired” simultaneously, operations must be conducted with the split timing of an amphibious invasion. = = =

WHEN A LIGHT on the wall map indicates a far-off test chamber is ready for air, all control room eyes turn to the clock. ‘At the appointed minute, thihgs begin to happen. Electricallyv-controlled valves are twisted, buttons are pushed, levers on a giant monitor board are flicked and phone contact is established with the test project supervisor,

Air, sucked from the atmosphere by 5000-horsepower compressors in the control

They Loom for the Looms—

Experts Say New Fabrics To Cut Costs

ALBERT R.

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Times Special Feature

EW YORK, Nov.

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1s 40 vears since the first

man-made fiber was introduced to the public, and it has taken almost all of that time to have synthetic fibers

become accepted. It has taken nearly that long, too, for the public to realize the important job synthetics have ~-to help and strengthen natural fibres, to serve as a balance wheel in the supply-and-demand picture; and to realize that synthetic fibres are not substitutes, but specially-cre-ated fibres to fulfill needs no natural fibre can possibly meet. It has taken a lot of teaching, a lot of actual experience on the part of the consumer, but that goal has been reached. Back in 1911, when ravon, the first synthetic fibre was introduced, the consumer had for generations been used to just four materials: Wool and cotton for most uses; for a few special uses, silk and linen.

~ ~ ” INTRODUCING anything else wag almost like heresy, and in-. evitably ravon came to he considered a ‘'substitute.” rather than accepted on its own standard, It took years to overcome that prejudice on the part “ the consumer, but it was ove

come, and ravon today is accepted in preference to other fibres in a multitude of uses.

We now use it in varying mixtures with almost all of our upholstery. Viscose rayon has proved a boon to tire manufacturers, giving tires strength which natural fibers could not give. Acetate ravons are especially good for

women's wear, men's wear, draperies, and other textiles where a soft, warm feel is important.

The need for strength found in animal fibers-—wool, silk, and mohair-<spurred research work toward a synthetic fiber with all those qualities and some special ones —— and nylon was the result. . ~ » ‘ACCEPTANCE of nylon was immediate and enthusiastic. In fields like stockings. for example, it replaced silk .quickly, and did a better job. Its great strength and elasticity lend themselves to many uses but sometimes only after a lot of research and experimentation,

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PLENTY OF AIR—Project engineer (right) inspects full-scale ramjet engine prepared for tests at a hypothetical altitude of 30,000 feet at NAC A's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland. ~During test, air will stream through inlet pipe (right) at 5200 pounds a minute.

room's basement, begins to whistle through iron and steel pipes ranging from three to 72 inches in diameter. Some are buried eight feet underground: others are suspended. 40 feet high, between buildings. These pipes direct thesair to whatever refrigeration, heating or moisturizing chambers are necessary to condition the air to test requirements,

= = = SECONDS AFTER THE first

valve has been turned in the control room. the machinemade air blast screams through

Albert R. Jube

In the case of nylon for upholstery, our own. company spent almost $3 million in the development of Nylon Candalon fabrics for automobile seats and furniture, and its accept-

ange, likewise, was almost immediate. In fact, the pendulum today

is swinging the other way, The magic name of nylon as tempted many manufacturers

the nose of a rocket or jet engine, mounted in a test rig or chamber. This simulates flight conditions at any desired level and saves testing in actual flight. Other valves make certain the fiery. 3300-degree exhaust is piped through a gas cooler, A 5000-horsepower exhauster finishes the job of reducing the air to 120 degrees and discharges it into the atmosphere. - » = = FLABORATE SAFETY cautions instantly warn of

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EDITOR'S Note: Albert R dube (left), who wrote the accompanying article on synthetic fabrics and their role in your life, has had a long clireer in the textile business. Since 1920 he had been with Collins & Aikman Corp, ,one. of the nation's biggest weavsy ers of upholstery fabrics, and has been president of that company since 1949,

offer the new fibres in items without sufficient research to determine if they offer improvement over accepted fibres: or if they also present hindrances which in some cases outweigh the advantages. The danger today, then be sure the public does not come to look upon manufactured fibres as magic ones which can do anything and everything. » n ” THEY CANNOT, and aren't intended to perform miracles, but they can do things, in many cases, which natural fibres could not do. And, most important, the prospect of blending synthetic and natural fibres, to gain the best from each, is what holds a bright future, More -and more synthetic fibres are being introduced today, and production is increas-

is to

functions along any air line. Automatic alarms, expansion joints and safety valves further reduce the risk of fire or explosions during a test, which may last only a few minutes or the better part of a day. “About the only danger now" says the Chief Dispatcher, “is using up too much electric power. Once in a while, when all of our 5000- horsepower equipment is going at once, the city power plant asks us to take it easy for the sake of homeowners.”

1911, pounds has a

Ing tremendously In ravon had a million production. Today, it quarter billion. Dynel is another new syne thetic fibre that promises much, especially for clothing, pile fab. rics, and such uses, Dacron, stronger even than nylon, may prove the ideal fibre for men's wear,

Saran is a heavy duty fibre good for industrial fabrics.

- MANY MORE ARE on their way from laboratories all over the country. Most of them will have special qualities of their own, perhaps complete enough for a wide range of uses in themselves. The upholstery industry 1s also aware of another advantage which synthetics offer them and that is a stabilizing influence on runaway costs of raw material. ‘Within the past year the rug industry. by using synthetics, has found thig to be true, and piiblic acceptance has been much better than was expected. In fact, synthetics, whenever they are introduced, have &

habit of gaining in i prov the Jubile appraised Sa