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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
LARRY MYERS, Ward 1118, Billings Veterans Hospital, wrote a letter “To the 'Editor” and requested that it not be printed. Larry Myers, after many kind remarks to the boss about this writer “for the enjoyment his
column has given me,” asked one favor: “Would you ask Ed to change this $5 into dimes and put them in *The Times Mile-O-Dimes?’ ” This is the season for remembering. Much too often we find ourselves too busy to remember beyond the perimeter of close friends and family. You read the letter several times. You carry the five-spot to a bank, pick up the roll of dimes. FEach step along the way produces a new thought, new question.
THAT SORT of a man is Larry Myers? The roll of dimes feels good in your hand. This is
the time of the year folks do things for the hospitalized, if there is time and inclination. The five bucks will go a long way in buying some shivering youngster a pair of shoes or a warm jacket. A fireman reaches for the donation and smiles when he feels the roll. It is cold on the sidewalk. - Is that the way Larry would have handed the 50 dimes in? You can tell from the letter he isn’t the kind who would make a show of a Christian act.
Words cannot express how privileged you feel to be part of such a deed, to be singled out to be the arms and legs of a sensitive heart and soul,
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% LATER you're horrified when you realize how Larry's request was filled. . The. fireman's smile was for Larry. You had no right to be the recipient of thanks or feel the warmth of the gift. That's Larry's exclusive right. Another trip and more thoughts along the way finally erase the embarrassment of the oversight. Should a man write or visit? I called the hospital. Larry was in an isolated ward. You can call him on the telephone.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, N. Y. Dec. 18—In the saloon world I live in, there's good news: Gout's Out. Gout's gout to go.
You'll be reading of the rout of gout soon in
" stories written by people who know what they're
writing about.
But I, as a friend of man (I also like women) must tell you that the so-called champagne-and-caviar ailment suffered by kings, edlumnists and crumbums is now being relieved by doctors who should be blessed by all mankind. You see—to get ‘medical ‘with"you—Dr. Alexander Gutnam and Dr. T. F. Yu of Mount Sinai Hospital have done a disappearing act with a tophus. Now don’t stand there and tell me you don’t know what a tophus is! Honestly, you surprise me sometimes. It's sort of a growth or deposit onthe big toe or ear. Two of 'em are tophi. They hurt so, that Stalin shouldn’t have more than six or eight of them,
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I LAID OUT two bucks for a copy of the ‘American Journal of Medicine to read about it. Then I couldn’t understand what I read. Y'oughta case that magazine sometime! Regular tabloid journalism. Flashy headline says: “Mobilization of Gouty Tophi by Protracted Use of Uricosuric Agents.” And short journalistic words, too, such as the names of the new agents being used: “Carinamide (carboxyphenylemethanesulfonanilide) and hQenemid (p-di-n-propylsulfamyl)-benzoic acid.” eo 2
ONE GOUT sufferer with 18 years of hell behind him had numerous tophi, the article said, and was given ;carinamide and then benemid . ..
“By February, 1951, the patient began to note that his shoes were becoming too large, and the number of tophi on his ear lobe were decreasing.” Dr. Gutman (medical note-—his secretary has a nice voice) was too ethical to discuss it further, “I'm refractory to newspapermen,” he said. So's Frank Sinatra only he doesn’t know the word. . $ Dr. Gutman’s a hero who's causing the gouty to toss their canes in the air. So is- Dr. William P. Boger of the University of Pennsylvania, and also Sharp & Dohm, of Philadelphia, who came up with: benemid. ; Personally, I never had gout like some of my rich acquaintances such as Bernard Baruch. However, gout also afflicts those who live on rotgut and beans. One time I pretended to have gout to a boss of mine, hoping to get a few days off, “Iisten,” he sald, “I know what I pay. you. You haven't got gout. You've got a sore foot.”
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL .,. The wealthy Dick Reynolds’ small son Patty has polio. The child's with his mother (the former Marianne O’Brien) in Miami Beach, . , . Linda Christian (Mrs, Tyrone Power) landed a great movie role—that of the maid in “The Happy Time,” to be filmed by Stanley Kramer. "Tallulah Bankhead, noted for her husky. voice, got one wire from a well-wisher who sald, “Lick ’'em, Tallulah. You're the man Hat, can do it!" , ,. Uta Hagen and a member of her “Saint Joan” cast’ Miss Fader ere romancin’, . . © The Wendéll Coreys expect
their 4th. , , , Lynne Fader's the singing star
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TIED UP BY STRIKE—This group of sergeants, trying to get home to Puerto Rico for Christmas after 13 months on the fighting front in Korea, congregates in the Pan American Airways lobby in New York City as their flight is delayed by striking mechanics who are seeking an 18-cent hourly wage boost.
Hospitalized Veleram Helps Mile -0 -Dimes
Larry's voice is pleasant over the phone. “I knew you would do it for me,” he said. “Last year a friend of mine from Evansville came up here and I got him to drop my contribution to ‘Mile-O-Dimes.’ ” You ask questions. Larry is hesitant, He didn’t expect to hear anything about the letter. Just the knowledge that his wish was fulfilled is enough. He’s apologetic that he can’t do ‘more.
“You know, a guy can't do too much in this position. But I have all I need and some left over. A lot of people don’t have any left over.”
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LARRY is a native of Newburgh, Ind, He used to work for the regional office of the Veterans
Administration in the city. He spent three years in the Army during the last official war, He has been in the hospital since July, 1950.
“These people out here are wonderful. I'm hoping in 1952 we can win this fight out here, The good Lord takes care of His own.”
Ever since Larry came to the city in 1948, he always “made” the ‘“Mile-O-Dimes.” He is 35 years old, unmarried, but ragged and cold children distress him. Since he feels he has all he needs with “some left over,” Larry takes part in ‘a community effort to clothe the needy. As simple as that. LE
FINALLY you hang up and stare a long time at the telephone. In your ears are Larry's words of caution. “If you really want to write something and you feel that it might do some good for the ‘Mile-O-Dimes,’ take it easy, will you? I'm wondering right now if it was such a good idea to have asked you to.put the dimes in the line for me.” I think it was a great idea, Larry. You, better than many persons, know how many thoughts a man can think in five minutes, an hour, a day. > Nb IT IS AN honor to have had your deed to think about, talk about for days. Thank you. I hope this doesn’t embarrass you too much. You said the good Lord takes care of His own. Next year, what do you say we make it a doubleheader on W. Washington 8t.? Would you object if I rang the bell? Not loud or long, just a couple dings for a great guy?
Rout of Gout Makes Him Shout
at Old Knick Music Hall, , , . 8. N. Behrman's
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TODAY'S WORST POEM: “Speaking of Lillian and Dorothy Gish, I can’t remember whish is whish.”—Lewis Nemerson.
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B'WAY WAS HORRIFIELD hy the Walter Wanger-Jennings Lang story. Phil Silvers, who knows Lang well, said, “I'll bet my life there was no romance between Lang ‘and Joan Bennett. He was merely a conscientious agent,” . .. Denise Darcel’'s here but Chas. Isaacs, Eva Gabor’s ex, phones from L, A. . . . Taffy Tuttle poem . at Majors Cabin; - “Pinks and minks, Washington stinks.” ood uh
EARL'S PEARLS . ., “What suit'll I wear?” Taffy Tuttle’s boy friend asked Taffy (says Lisa
Ferraday). Taffy said: “Wear the one with the checks in it.” > * H-b
‘WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Thé average husband is 42 around the waist, 42 around the chest, 92 around the golf course, and an awful pest Sround He house.” —Lee Graham. ane Piczens was at Larue with Prin - jadze. (Nice Pickens!) . , . Tallulah, a Dis. her frial, skipped her pal Joey Bushkin's opening at the Embers .. . Mata & Hari, the dancers, will - grab $78,500 for their 16-week concert _tour, making them about the highest paid . . . “Quo Vadis" Is beating “Gone With the Wind” in six cities , , Midnitem: Joy Hodges and Jim Drum, '
¢ > CONSIDERING THE STATE of the nation,
Kathi Norris wonders if it would have been better
If Plymouth Rock had landed on th That's Earl, brother. SPgTims. .
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith ]
Q—Have recently purchased a few rhizomes of the aril iris, Susiana, an oncocyclus species native to Palestine, Two of these I have planted
outdoors in raised beds that will be we p and have ‘mulched them with an inch J! Svajued culite and several inches of straw, One 1 have planted in a pot and now have in the dark (has been there for about four weeks) and it shows
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
growth of about two inches already, even though in the semidark. I am wondering if there are any other oncocyclus grown in central Indiana and if so, how they are grown and what success in this climate, A New Jersey dealer says
. they are best handled as a plot plant. A breeder
from the mountains of northern California says they are perfectly hardy here. with mulching. Which is correct?-—AE, Brightwood. ; A—Oncocyclus iris are raised outdoors here and are hardy, Mrs. H, J, Elbourn, 5725 Broadway, wintered hers successfully without mulch. C. W, Paine, 5015 Carrollton, mulches his after the ground has frozen, chiefly to keep them from_ growing too early. He uses four to six inches of . straw. (Note to AE—if you will send your name and addres I will give you more detailed information.) iC Re -
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# JOSEPH IS ENLIGHTENED
IN HIM was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the dark-
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By PAUL GUINNESS Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass that, when Elisabeth heard the
salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost, and she. spake out with a loud voice and said: “Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.”
” ” ~ AND MARY said: “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For He hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His name. “And his mercy is on them that fear him frem generation to generation. He hath showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the
EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is told the wonderful, old story of Christmas in a new, dramatic recital. Paul Guinness was a British
.Army chaplain during the war.
Captured by the enemy, he was imprisoned for twg and a half years in German“camps. uiring that time his only possess sion was the New Testament. From it he laboriously blended the four Gospels into one running, harmonious story of the Life of Christ. After the war, his remarkable version was printed in book form. This is the second of six chapters from his book, THE CHRIST OF ALL NATIONS, recently published by the Association Press, Mr. Guinness is now on the staff of the World’s Committee of the YMCA at Geneva.
imagination of their hearts. He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. “He has filled the hungry with’ good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. He
More Murders
CHAPTER TWO By JACQUELINE BERKE and VIVIAN WILSON N SEPT. 21, 1938, a major hurricane swept across
southern New England.
Its force and velocity sur-
passed anything the area had experienced for more than
half a century. In some places the wind’s speed reached 80 miles an hour; communications were broken, sturdy trees crashed to the ground, and property damage was finally reckoned in the millions. At the height of the storm the freshman class at the Massachusetts Institute “of Technology met to take an intelligence test that had been scheduled weeks before. The students huddled over their papers while the wind outside howled a noisy accompaniment. But the hurricane did not prove to be a distracting influence — quite the opposite. . Normally, the school ranked in what is known as the “seventy-fifth percentile” among colleges taking the test. But this time its rating abruptly zoomed to a top place — the ninety-fifth percentile, Why this unusual reaction?
The only possible explanations might lie in two factors,
according to Prof. Ellenorth Huntington. First, ‘the barometric pres-
sure was erratic; there was a swift drop in pressure followed by a swift rise. Second; there was a rapid increase in the ozone content of the air (ozone is a modified form of oxygeh). So much ozone had entered the air, in fact, that two chemistry professors at the Massachusetts
State College reported they could actually smell it. » ” » THERE ARE times when weather is the stimulus that
makes you “perform at a superior level that you'd never dreamed you could achieve, At other times weather bogs you down. As far as temperature is concerned, you do your best mental work when the weather is cool and invigorating. To prove this point, Dr. Clarence Mills, professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, cites an experiment, conducted on three groups of laboratory rats which were made to work their way through a maze at different temperatures,
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The authors began to study the weather and its effect on human—and animal—life at Columbia University. . Here they describe the influence of weather on human beings according to scientific data collected with the help of Amerian meteorological authorities. This the second of a series of five raticles from their book, WATCH OUT FOR THE WEATHER, just published by Viking Press.
The first group performed at 65 degrees, and each animal
. needed only 12 trials to reach
the food reward at the end of the labryinth. The second group was tested at a medifm temperature of 76 degrees, and the results were not nearly so good: About 28 trials apiece to reach the goal. The third group, working at a stifling 90 degrees, needed an average of 48 runs, and many of them gave up along the way.
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THREE MONTHS later the test was repeated on the same animals under {identical circumstances. Rats in the first group remembered the intricate maze accurately and dashed through with no hesitation. In the second group, the animals were a little slower; they made some errors but eventually found their way.
In the third group every single rat had fprgotten the maze, and not one was able to repeat the run and reach the goal.
Seasonally, you do your best mental work in late winter, early spring, and fall, and your worst in the summer. The grades of students at West Point, Annapolis, and colleges all over the country, show that students get their lowest marks when they take tests in the summer, Prof. Huntington collected material on many kinds of mental work. He studied the records of people taking Civil Service examinations, the applications filed for amendments to patents, the statistics of circulating libraries, A
CHRISTMAS
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hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; as he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.” And Mary abode with her
about three months, and returned to her own house, ~ ” » NOW WHEN Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she found with child of the Holy Ghost, Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying: “Joseph thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary pithy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the prophet, saying: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name “Emmanuel,” which, being interpreted is, “God with us.” Then Joseph being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son. (Copyright by Association Press) TOMORROW: John.
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Happen In Hot Months
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According to the facts he uncovered, you do most of your reading in the winter and spring, least in midsummer. But if you do decide to pick up a book during July or August, it is probably a novel or a collection of short stories. Statistics show that reading of ponderous factual works of non-fiction falls off sharply as .
the - temperature rises. You shelve such books until you are a little more alert; that is, until the weather is cold and stimulating. : ” s ”
IF YOU plan to take a Civil Beryice exam, try to hold off until the spring or the fall; you'll have a better chance of passing then. Figures collected
ORDERS FROM THE COMINFORM—
‘Crush NATO With Sabotage’
By LEON DENNEN Times Staff Writer PARIS, Dec. 18—Cominform orders which may give some clue to Moscow's latest strate gy in the hot-cold war have been issued to all Red parties in the West, according to French Communist sources. : “The fate of the dying capftalist order
been sealed,” the Kremlin's instructions to its fifth cols umns state, “The relation of forces on the inter national arena is becoming Increasingly unfavorable for the imperialist (Western) camp.” Faithful Reds are therefore urged to speed the ‘“‘disintegration” of the North Atlantic Treaty countries through political strikes, violence and increased .acts of sabotage.
Frachon
The orders were the main topic of discussion at a secret meeting of the Cominform. in East Berlin Nov, 15. To encourage Western Reds, they listed four “major defeats’ already “suffered by the international reactionaries”: * : ONE — The creation of the Chinese People's Republic and the “historic victory” of the Chinese people.
TWO-—The establishment of the pro-Soviet German “Democratic” Republic. THREE -— The ‘victory of communism” in the countries behind the Iron Curtain, FOUR-—The “national liberation upsurge” in Korea, Iran, Egypt, North Africa and other “colonial and’ dependent countries.” Moscow {is obviously econvinced that “the undermined position and growing weakness" of the West “add to the rage of the imperialists.” Western Communists have been ordered to exert every effort to cripple the armament program of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Above all,
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CR in Massachusetts show that 45 per cent of the people who take educational tests for Civil Beryice jobs pass in April. November is almost as good: 73 pér cent make it. But August rates show high fatalities: only 58 “per cent come through. The probability of “mad blood stirring” on hot days has been established statistically. Studies all over the world have shown that year after year crime rates soar upward in the s 3 and reach their peak in the summer, : More murders are commlitted in the hot months of July and August than at any other time of year. There are also more acts of violence, more crimes of passion. v One criminologist studied the incidence of crime in France and Italy. He found that in the warm southern sections of both countries crimes of violence and sex were twice as numerous as in the cool north. And they always reached peak proportions in the hottest, most oppressive summer months, . . NEXT: Bad Weather Can Kill You.
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they must prevent at all costs the integration of West German troops. A similar policy was recently outlined by Benoit Frachon, French Communist trade union leader, at a meeting of the proSoviet World Federation of Trade Unions. , » » 8a ADDRESSING top WFTU leaders who met immediately after the Cominform session; Frachon callgd for the infiltra= tion of Red agents into nons Communist labor groups. . The way to do this in coun tries where the Communists are weak is to encourage political strikes for higher wages, Frachon indicated. ot 8 ” ” HE IS the undisputed leader of the CGT, strongest trade union federation in France, and. is said to have more than 50,000 agents entrenched in the most strategic industries. y With the ‘capitalist West™ already “doomed,” to their way of thinking, Soviet strategy i to use all means to push jt along the path of destructiom:*
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