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By Ed Sovela
IT IS difficult to avoid, at this late date in 1951, the forecasters who peer into the future and tell you exactly what will happen. = If the predictions: work out, the listener or reader is reminded that so-and-so told him®so. If not, who cares? Who remembers the past anyway, it's the future that is important. + One of the most interesting
stems from Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Radio-Electronics magazine. Mr, Gernsback, a gciente prophet for several decades, gazed into his electronic crystal ball and came up. with |
bride and groom of tomorrow. He says they will be able to walk down the aisle knowing exactly how much chance their marriage has of succeeding be- . Th cause they will have taken an electronic compatibility test. Ns
«Sb MR. GERNSBACK doesn’t stop there. When the honeymooners drive off they will ride secure in the knowledge that their car has been collisonproofed by electronics. 2 Oh, there's more. When the couple settles down in a dust- and noise-free love nest, it will be equipped with a three-dimensional, full-color “telebiovision¥ set which will relay not only sight and sound but odors, tastes and sensations. One would be tempted to stand up and cheer for the millenium if one had been completely isolated from the facts of life, With electronics, scientists have done many remarkable things. If they want to keep going forward, they better not mix woman and electronics. . 3 What or who can predict how a woman will think, act, feel from one day to the next? From ane hour to the next? What advantage is there in knowing, if such knowledge were possible, that the knot just tied has a 60-40 chance of staying tied? . iad 3 WOULD A bride-to-be trip down- the aisle
believing the electronic scoresheet she is wearing
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Dec. 27—Anything for culture— I always, say—so the other night I toox “Caesar and Cleopatra” for 2% hours on an empty stomach. : Amid hunger growlings, caused by going without my dinner, caused by a 7:30 curtain, I watched Laurence Olivier and his missus, Vivien Leigh, perform the George Bernard Shaw play at the Ziegfeld—against some slight competition. _ “Bpz7227272227222222%, bzzz, bzzzzz,” the gossips in the audience were whispering.
For this was the night that Billy Rose and °
Joyce Matthews were on the fourth row, making their first public appearance together since Eleanor Holm sued Billy for separation.
Photogs popped up, snapping in the aisle. Joyce looked exquisite and her jewelry was nice. They appeared happy. : . “It's sort of like their unveiling,” one awed fellow said. Comedian Milton Berle, Joyce's ex-husband, sat not far away with his steady girl, Ruth Cosgrove, the pulchritudinous press agent. Sn
I WASN'T the only hungry one. To get to the theater at 7:30, you about have to eat at 6, which isn’t chic, At intermissions some celehritiee mentioned steak, fried potatoes and onions which they planned to devour as soon as this here thing was over. &
Margaret Truman and French movie star Jean Pierre Aumont (whose wife, Marie Montez, died a few months ago) were among the couples who made for backstage afterward to see the Oliviers—and I went, too. Caesar was in his undies. : “How good of you to come back,” he said. “How did you make out with the grub department?” I asked. : “He'd barely had am hour and a half to eat and rest after a matinee. “Oh, my friend here”—he indicated a maid— “brought me a couple of eggs.” Cleopatra was in her undies, too, and in her dressing room, so I didn't see her. But she’s a beautiful thing. Se © &
. WITH JENNIFER JONES, Roz Russell, the Tyrone Powers, Lynn Fontanne, etc, there, it was a great spectacle for the hangers-on when the show was over. “The mink coats are all gone and the balcony’s coming down,” one young cynic said. “I guess we can blow now.” “Wait’ll I see how many chauffeurs we got 1éft,” replied a chum. “Only two. Yeah. We can blow.” So -they blew, Most people liked it. Although one movie mag-
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—In the middle of the usual Christmas flurries of too much turkey and tinsel, I find myself a touch haunted by the front-page pictures of Wilfred Burchett, the Communist correspondent whose testimony in Korea has more or less guaranteed the existence of Maj. . Gen. William Dean, lang-missing commander of the U. 8. 24th Division. The pictures of Mr. Burchett look the same — happy chipmunk grin, not too much chin, glight' little fellow who was mostly more timid than not excépt when he had a load aboard. 1 used to know him, back in the old war. That was when he was an ordinary correspondent covering the war for one of the British press combines. That was before he turned Communist — before he blossomed on the scene in a quilted Oriental jacket, writing the war in Korea for a French Communist paper, as a high shot with the Red forces.
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MR. BURCHETT and I used to share a room, from time to time, in the Moana Hotel in Honolulu, together with Lyle Shoemaker of the United Press and Bud Foster of the radio. It was Bud's room, I remember, and Burch usually slept on the floor. Even then he was sharing other people's wealth, for a hotel room on Oahu, in 1944, represented plenty money. It seemed to me that Mr. Burchett did his job well, and as I recall the pieces I censored for him, they were not filled with doctrine of any sort, but were mostly straight-away stuff that incurred shall wrath among the guardians of security. This was not true of some passionate American citizens who tried every dodge to sneak forbidden information past Adm. Nimitz’ harassed watchdogs. > 24 5 I LIKED Burchett.” Ran around with him a whole lot in his native Australia, when he switched to coverage of the Australian-based British Pacific fleet. He was a very neat little man, in his American officer's uniform, with the press brassard on the arm. It was cold in Australia that winter, and Mr. Burchett was snugger in an officer's short melton overcoat than he seems to be in Korea, where he re the quilted jacket of the Red army whose pet has become. { We did a lot of frivolous things that year in ustralia. Burch had a pretty, plump gal who inly would not fit into the workers’ scheme of stanch Red femininity. She was, you mignt say, a highly dangerous example of the frivolity
. of the bourgeois. She wore dainty silks and sheer
stockings and high-heeled shoes. She loved to give fancy dinners with lots of ne, and she ldved to go to the races and to t at the cocktail lounge of the better hotels a few martinis with Mr. Burchett and his ends. She had a pipeling into the black market; was never short of grog or cigarets at a time when both were premium luxuries.
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under her borrowed garter? The word “forever” is still widely used. . . : Wheh stardust has speckled two lovers’ eyeballs, can you fathom Prine Charming saying, “Darling, the electronic compatibility test shows you will be throwing rocks at me next week. It fs hard, I know, but I must seek another or wait until you make a higher score. The risk involved is too great.” Poof. ’
~ I'd like to know what happens to the couple who can’t afford to drive off on their honeymoon in an atitomobile which has been collision-proofed by electronics, How does a couple ride in a bus? Mr. Gernsback speaks of settling down in a dust and noise-free love nest which is equipped with a three-dimensional, full color ‘‘telebiovision” set. .
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Two friends of mine, a boy and a girl, recent-
ly took off on the matrimonial track and it wasn’t until three days before the wedding that they landed a three-dimensional place to live above a grocery store. I THEIR LOVE nest will have sight and sound and odors, tastes and sensations. In that neighberhood, I doubt whether it would help much to have a collision-proofed automobile. The science of electronics hasn't reached the state of perfection yet, : I would like to have Mr. Gernsback predict what chance a youhg couple has starting out from scratch with very “little scratch in the pocketbook.
Mr. Gernsback would do well to offer a word of encouragement to the kids who are smart enough to take the couple hundred bucks they have and sock it for some furniture and take their honeymoon on the two days off they have and report to work on Monday. Quite happy, too. What about predicting for the bride and groom
of tomorrow that it takes a heap of work, understanding, sacrifice, patienge, love, faith and horse sense to-have a marriage succeed? My Mamma don’ tol’ me that. She doesn't know a thing about electronics br compatibility tests. She just knows what it takes to have a home and family. .
‘1¢ Happened Last Night ‘caesar and cleopatra’
On an Empty Stomach
nate said, ‘Course I liked it. Think I'm gonna have people say I'm an ignoramus?” I-whooshed right out to chow afterward—to Chinatown Charlie’s next door. Eleven o'clock dinner. If that wasn't a cultural evening, I'll eat my hat—in fact, I'd have been very glad to— about ‘the second act. oS THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... “The King and I” has two subs—Constance Carpenter for Gert : Lawrence, Leonard ' Graves for Yul Brynner, They got bravos the other night. Miss L. telegraphed the audience asking its forgivéness for her pleurisy. Radie Harris’ article in Glamour says Sir Laurence Olivier calls Vivien Leigh “Puss” and she calls him “Bunny.” Marianne Reynolds’ poliostricken son is out of danger. Dick, her absentee husband, sent a message saying he couldn’t do anything about it. . .« Irving Berlin went to his dtr.’s school for the carol singing — and they didn’t sing “White Christmas.” Joan Crawford arrives soon to make a film in Li'l Ole NY... . Margaret Truman and Jean Pierre Aumont were among the very late diners at the Colony. ... . Ed Reid makes war on the Mafia in his new book. Anybody got any secrets to contribute? , , . Jane Morgan is a big hit at the Pierre.
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SOD EARL'S PEARLS . . . Comedian Joey Adams mentions that whenever he hears a rustle behind
him, he hopes it's Jane. o>» o>
RUTH COSGROVE, who bought her own mink coat, says it isn’t fair to call her escort, Milton Berle, “Uncle Minky.” . .. The Olivier-Leigh series is NOT sold out. Ten pect. of the seats remain to be sold. . . . John Roosevelt's working out in the Park Sheraton Health Club to help his leg operation. L > 0 WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Modern girls like everything neat—especially their gin.”—Henny
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: - Denise Darcel's going to play a nurse in a picture. Naturally, when she takes a man’s temperature, she’ll have to subtract 10 degrees. “a A HOLLYWOOD actress told her actor husband, “In my opinion you're the handsomest man in the world. And that’s not just my opinion. It’s yours, too. . . . That's Earl, brother.
What Makes a Man Sell His Birthright?
1 was certainly not aware at the time that I was palling around with the embryo darling of the Communists—a man of such firm Communistic conviction that he since has completely divorced himself from the Western world by appearing in semiofficial position at top Red headquarters. » Personally there was no inkling that Mr. Burchett was dissatisfied with the world as he saw it from the other side. I would say he brooded no more than the average rollicking correspondent whose first thought was perquisites and facilities —meaning booze, babes, steaks and lodging. It intrigues me, at least, to reflect on what might have happened to a man of seemingly eminent normality, with a background of freédom and a wide view of the world—a man of above-average intelligence and social adjustment—to drive him into bondage as a spokesman for mass slavery, for complete denial of individual rights. . o oo
A MR. BURCHETT is much too sophisticated a fellow, much too- smart a man, to go for the thinly masked ideologies that the Communists peddle today as an excuse for totalitarian conquest. He has seen the other side, and has enjoyed the fruits of freedom. But there he is, self-sold into slavery as a journalist, and condemned forever to espousal of a world-dominating: scheme that makes Hitler's look meek and mild. You merely wonder, bétween the giblet gravy and the cranberries. You knew him when, and still don’t know what turned him off hig path.
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—Would you please give some informativ on the Christmas rose? I understand it blossom: in the winter. When is it planted? Will it grov here? Any other information. North Side.
A—The Christmas rose, helleborus niger (literally black hellebore) thrives for many knowledgable local gardeners. It does blossom in the winter. Whenever there is a mild spell the buds open up. The flowers then stand up remarkably to snow and severe drops in temperature. They make delightful cut flowers for the holidays, usually to float in a rose bowl, since the
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column - in The Sunday Times
stems are not long. The flowers last well indoors. The plants can also be forced indoors. Foliage is evergreen. Plant them. either in spring or fall, about September, preferably under shrubs or in a bed of ferns. They need rich, loose soil and should not be disturbed once you have them planted. The flower is much like a wild rose,
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T THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1951
Fourth of:a Series ~ By HENRY BUTLER
N UNCLE of mine in Denver around 1921 used to say,
of 'em.”
“Why should I worry about expenses? I have plenty
That gag, undoubtedly current in vaudeville 30 years
ago, has a kind of left-handed applicability to present-day problems of the amateur mealplanner.
These stories don’t have to tell you anything about price levels. Prepafing for a small dinner party a month ago, I got a rolled rib roast at City Market. The price was such I was about to hand back the handsome chunk of late steer for. my initials engraved at no extra charge.
Fortunately, you don’t have to confine yourself to rib roast, or leg of lamb, or T-bones or chops. The latter two small items, like everything else easily prepared by a young couple both employed, are out of all reason. Officially, it's because of the old law of supply and demand. But nobody ever digs up much on price-rigging and collusion, as in the great coffee swindle. = n o BUT THAT'S beside the point here. We're concerned with what you can do to take the curse off marketing and mealplanning. Some day when your super-market is not crowded, watch your average housewife casing the meat counter, looking at the familiar, easily cooked items and wincing at the prices.
You'll note she usually does not investigate things like beef heart, ox tail, pork hocks (pigs’ knuckles), kidneys (veal, lamb or beef) or the cheaper roasting cuts«f pork, either fresh or smoked. That's not even mentioning really delicious things like lamb shanks (when, as and if you can find them whole, and not cracked, so that they're suitable for roasting). » » » PORK HOCKS will help keep you out of the hock shop. You can braise them as yeu would ox tail, following, of course, the directions in your favorite cookbook. Or you can stew them with sauerkraut, good old German or Pennsylvania Dutch style, to make a real hearty and tasty dish for brisk fall weather. My favorite cookbook says you should stew hocks with sauerkraut in a 350-degree oven for four hours. I would add the suggestion that you start cooking your pork in canned sauerkraut juice, adding canned or packaged kraut for the last hour or so. Sauerkraut juice, spelled backwards, is one of Nature's most potent Serutantilizers; so don’t swill it. In any dish involving sauer-
INDO-CHINA . . . No. 4—
Uncle Sees What Reds
By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
HANOI, Indo-China, Dec. 27 —Americans too often look at the war in Indo-China through Red-colored glasses and—without realizing it—see what the
Reds want them to see. i We accept, Tp for instance, the thesis that the war in this part of the world is Dbetween French colonialism and Indo - Chinese nationalism. That's only partly true. Even the most hardened French colonialist—and he’s an- unlovable figure—reluctantly concedes the old days are gone forever. Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny has infused new hope into the Viet Namese—a strongly nationalistic people. Under his direction the postal and communications systems have been returned to the Viet Namese. Viet Namese customs officers check your passport when you land in Saigon. ” = 5 DONALD HEATH, U. 8. minister to Viet Nam, told me recently of a visit’to Dalat where graduation exercises were held for officers of a Viet Namese military academy. “The French didn’t even play ‘The Marseillaise’,” he said. “They played the Viet Nam national anthem.” Politically, great strides have
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been made under General de Lattre. He has promised—and the record indicates his word is
good—that sovereignty will be returned to the people of Viet Nam as soon as the common enemy is put down. Of course, the carrying out of this promise will depend on the French Parliament, not on the General. The big question mark in
‘At the Ingot With the Boys'—
‘Men Of Steel’
By CHARLES LUCEY ‘Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
GARY, Ind., Dec. 27—There’s a verse over the bar at the Ingot saloon in the shadow of U. 8. Steel's big mills— When furnaces are roaring, molten steel hot, Orange flames soaring, men’s nerves taut, It’s a pleasant thought I'm
thinking, Mid the clatter and the noise, In a few hours I'll be drinking,
At the Ingot with the boys. Talk today with -the boys along the Ingot bar, jammed for payday check-cashing, and there's bitter griticism of Washington among workers who long have voted the Democratic ticket. Talk with them even at headquarters of the biggest C10 steel workers’ local union in the country and, although there's some defense of President Truman, there are men who say the Democrats &e icked if he’s nominated again. 8 » ”
“RIGHT NOW Mr. Truman is cooked,” says George Ferhat, machinist in the “big mill” who was elected a Gary city council man last fall. “Even the Democrats criticize him for being loose in national government affajrs, He hasn't got good leadership. : : “This corruption in Washington isn't doing us any good. People don't like the way the war is being run. Let's face it —public opinion is against us. It’s a Democratic defeat if. they don't get rid of Truman.” Another steelworker says: “Let's get the war over one way or another. Gen. Ridgway apologized for something a pilot
did the other day—why are we
apologizing to these people? You should ‘have heard them (steel workers) griping about taxes this morning when they got their paychecks. They say the taxes are needed to pay for the war—but why don’t we really go at it and hit these Reds?” » - »
| A STEEL WORKER'S wife gomments: “I don’t think scandals are getting so much attention, but war and high prices are. The stuff about. mink coats was a good television gag, but not many workers’ wives buy mink coats, Every mother is interested in her boy, though, and the Korean War. We all have a problem feeding our families. 1 don’t think we're getting the right “story on the war. Our manpower is being used up in Korea and we won't have it if we need it ourselves.” Down the street a sailoonkeeper who talks to many steel workers expresses a view: “I %lon’'t hear so many people #Ming about the tax scandals, but they're in the papers all the time and they know about them. There's a lot of feeling there should be a change —-high taxes, too much spending overseas. The Democrats are losing ground here and I think the Republicans would win nationally if there were an election today.” : ss nis
HERE ARE typical remarks among the steel workers: “If Truman would clear out the Internal Revenue Bureau he'd be all right . . . they're begging for revolt down there ... prices. and wages should have been frozen long ago . .. I'm trying to get a veteran's pension for injuries but all I can
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Word of caution:
"Why worry about expenses—he's got plenty."
kraut, don't forget the useful caraway seed. That's the dingus
about the size of a mosquito larva you find on those heavily salted and twisted rye rolls
Viet Nam is its chief of state, Bao Dal. » » ” BAO DAI is known to the world as an irresponsible playboy. It's said that at sometime
or other he’s been all things to all people. He has been an absolute monarch, president, an abdicated ruler and now chief of state. He even served six
that make anybody forget diet resolves. Caraway seed gives a sort of salty-licorice tang to sauerkraut, plain cabbage, Brussels
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sprouts and, ‘1'imagine, though I haven't tried it, to stewed and creamed turnips. x 8 0» 8 CARAWAY SEED also 1s good in cauliflower, especially it you give the vegetable a squirt of lemon juice just before serving.
And speaking of lemon juice (see how everything is connected with everything else in this endless game of cooking?), you can make a whiz-bang substitute fof that. cook's long nightmare known as Hollandaise sauce as easily as you can fry an egg. Take a Half cup or so of mayonnaise, depending on how many you are serving, put it in a little saucepan and stir over moderaté flame with juice of a lemon. Stir and keep stirring, so as to prevent curdling. Season with paprika and curry powder. You'll find this goo does wonders with broccoli, sprouts, cabbage, 'caulifiower and asparagus. TH Xa . CHEAPER CUTS of meat present one big problem: Time. You can shorten the cooking process with a pressure cocker. Maybe your cookbook tells you about that device. But don't ask me or anyone else working in a newspaper city room anything about pressure.
job. Tomorrow: “Take Your Time.”
Want Him To
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last of a series of four articles about war in IndoChina and the strength of the anti-Communist forces in that area by Scripps-Howard staff writer, Jim G. Lucas.
months as an adviser to the Communist leader, Ho Chin Minh, immediately after the end of World War II. . Bao says he served Ho because he thought Ho was a sincere nationalist, and quit when he discovered’ he was a Communist. There are other explanations in Indo-China. Mr. Heath has a relatively high opinion of Bao Dal, He says Bao is honest, patriotic
and genuinely anti-Communist.
Bao has promised — and Mr. Heath believes he is sincere— that as soon as the civil war is ended Indo-China will have a chance to decide on’ its own form of government. . o ” ”
BAO'S major contribution as far as the Indo-Chinese are concerned was to wrest from the French the rich southern province of Cochin China where Saigon is located. Before he consented to become chief of state, Bao demanded Cochin China be joined with Annam and Tonkin to form Viet Nam. Bao is not a dynamic figure and makes little effort to become one. He is essentially an old-world type monarch who enjoys semi-royal prerogatives and makes no bones about it. He prefers hunting to politica. He would rather swim or listen to his favorite records than meet people. : “We would like to have him
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get is a runaround and I'll never vote for Truman again ++. I don't care how much they take out of my check for taxes if they'll just let us live and work . . . They give a guy six months for stealing a loaf of bread but those guys in Washington pull anything and get
away with it . . . Sure, I know there's talk about scandals but the Democrats are giving away more that the Republicans ever would so I think the people will “keep them in there . . . Taxes are tough enough today without all that graft...”
But most steelworkers don’t
get out in the rice paddies more often,” an -American official told me, “but that’s not his way and he’s stubborn.” o # s BAO LIVES at a Dalat mountain resort and spends the rest of his time at a watering place on the coast. He receives visitors in state, but has made little effort to be associated with his own people. : “We have-no one to counteract Ho Chi Minh,” a French captain told me. Bao is involved in a number
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We get enough of it on the
of political feuds. He and Tran .
Van Kuu, president of Viet Nam, are bitter enemies. There is little official contact between Bao and the Viet Namese gov-
ernment—not a healthy state
of affairs. Fox all his many weaknesses Bao is not an unpopular figure, Nor is he the incompetent wastrel he’s been pictured. And he is too frequently condemned by people who don’t know the facts. He has given ground neither to the Communists nor the French. He is essentially a Viet Namese nationalist. ” ” = THE FRENCH also are a problem. French colonialism never has been a pretty thing. All over Boutheast Asia antiCommunists are watching developments here anxiously. They want to see the Communists defeated — if IndoChina goes to the Reds so goes the rest of Southeast Asia— but they aren't too keen about the French. Among all western powers in the Far East the French are the most disliked. It will be all General de Lattre can do to counteract this feeling.
Cool Toward Truman
vote Republican easily. Although talks with many workers in Gary and elsewhere indicate a turning away from the Truman administration, it is too early to say this means great political gain for the GOP. Interspersed with many Dbittef
' comments about Mr. Truman is
a line to the effect: “But how can us working guys go for that Taft or anyone else on the Republican ticket?” “ LJ »
CRITICISM of Mr. Truman isn’t confined to high taxes, conduct of the war and the Washington scandals. Now and then someone says the President seems to spend a lot of time vacationing at Key West. Another says he saw Mr. Truman on television and didn’t get a good impression. There's criticism by name of some people close to the President. The censure heard among workers is duplicated in nearby fdrm states which went Demo cratic in 1948, There is some evidence that many farmer: still think they'll fare better, ir terms of price supports anc benefits, under Democrats than under Republicans. But many also think the slide-off of cattle prices, the tax scandals and the higher income taxes will
swing enough farmers to give.
these states to the GOP next year—that 1952 will be different. - Yet repeatedly there is this
caution on a political change
nationally:
“The Republicans can't win
just by saying they can. do it better. something positive or they'll be licked out here again.” NEXT: Taking government crookedness for granted. 2
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