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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

SINGLE men can expect a safe, cool, business

as-usual Ledp Year. The gals 3 I g are not getting off Several days ago,’ when the. heart was es pecially heavy and the atmosphere a deep blue I raised a question about the lackadaisical the unmarried gals were bheginning the New Year. ol’ Well, the news from the precincts came in and it isn't =, good. Married and unmarried i females reported in a manner @/ which makes a man‘ wish a had never mentioned a hair shirt, growing a beard or acquiring a straw mattress if the response was lukewarm, SSD

WHILE 1 stroke ‘the beginning of a Van Dyck, read what Mrs. John R. Stevens had’ to say. -

“Your article about Leap Year is very interesting. (Slow start and a fast finish.) Now that you realize that women are not going to jump at the chance to marry, perhaps you could advise the gentlemen readers of. the fact. Men may be scarce, but who cares? Ohviously not the women. “Perhaps men now realize that the women in the world are not going to fall at their feet or pursue them into marriage. Perhap# now that women don’t have to depend on men for happiness, the men will make themselves more attractive to the fairer sex. - oooh

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“YOU MUST ADMIT that there are a lot of lovely young ladies here in town who are unattached and seemingly have. no desire to marry at this time. (I'll admit nothing of the sort, Mrs. Stevens.) They will probably marry (ah, na), but not the first man who proposes, unless, of course there is a good reason. “And so, my dear Mr. Sovola, Leap Year Is here. So what? Maybe you haven't heen leapt a‘. Again, so what? Why don’t you try leaping [qr a change?” 2 No comment, except, does a hair shirt scratch very much? : : 4 @ & &

SOMEONE signing a letter, “Evelyn.” threw another curve. Lo! “In your article on Leap Year proposals, you gave every indication of a happily married man. (I did?)

“Single men are too afraid of getting, shall we say—hooked?’ if (they even hinted about

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Jan. 15—Greta Garbo—in a 57th St. antique shop—got the proprietress so excited that she kept calling her “Miss Dietrich.” As she left, Gee Gee told the lady, “Apparently you haven't looked at my legs!” Jennifer Jones will make B'way news , Marcelle Edwards, Tommy Manville's 4th, who got $200,000 is now a postal clerk ... The Duke and Duchess, still happy despite the sniping, go to Tallahassee next week to shoot . . . Joe E. Lewis, once “the boy comedian,” is 50 Saturday.

From the Cleveland Hotel Hollenden, he approves the idea of reader Don Barrett of Oreland, Pa. Which is that for his birthday all he wants are a few gift certificates to the $50 window.

When the Lambs Club, after 77 years, had a ladies’ night, some of the bachelors weren't im-

° pressed. Writer Les Kramer told Bert Lytell (the

“Shepherd”): “It was a great idea. We ought to hold one every 77 years.” ' & i RONALD REAGEN asked Congressman FDR Jr. to urge a law allowing actors to “spread” their taxes when they suddenly hit big money after years of poverty , . . Stripsy Rose Lee's spouse, Julio De Diego, is joining her in Barcelona. Just like we always said . .. The King Committee hears Frank Costello got “kid glove treatment” from income-taxers here and will ask Somebody why . .. Denise Darcel said her poodle haircut made her very popular. “With poodles” . . . Elaine Dunn, the shapely 17-year-old Cleve-land-born pop singer at the Copacabana, will be a big new star.

Lou Walters has tossed in the towel on his new B'way cafe, the Gilded Cage. Walters, operator of the world-famous Latin Quarter, sent word from Florida to close the 4-month-old Gilded Cage Saturday, Jan. 19.

Harry Truman tells’ friends he thinks Labor might beat Gen, Ike ... A glamour doll doesn’t know about her hushand and that model Faye Emerson can’t dig all the rumors about her TV show. Sponsor's happy and will continue . .. Margaret Truman. liked the way Script Girl Margaret Halbert read lines as a “stand-in” for an actress, as yet unhired,” while rehearsing for the Pinza NBC show. Margaret urged the script girl be given the part. She was! . . . Dorothy Dandridge, the beautiful Negro gal, is headed for a NY engagement. ” Confusion in Russia as reported by Columnist

Jazz Fan

By Virginia MacPherson

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 15—The town’s hottest jazz fan is a tiny 60-year-old widow who joggles 80 miles into Hollywood on a bus every time she gets a chance to hear “that knocked-out stuff.” That's the way Mrs. Marie Milner describes the music of Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong and Lionel Hampton. “It really sends me,” she twinkled. “I ride in from San Jacinto for every opening. My grandchildren just get hysterical about me. But I love it,” Mrs. Milner has brown eyes and gray hair and tappin’ feet. She hops those buses so often every head waiter of every. night club in town bows her to a ringside table the minute they spot her, oY $. > 4 THE STAR performers always plop down at her table between shows. If they don’t invite her’ back to their dressing rooms, that is. Grandma Miner's a fegular hep cat, too. Sits there bouncin’ with-the beat every minute, “That's the trouble,” she chuckled. “I don't know I'm 60--but my bones do. I actually jiggle my way into sciatic rheumatism. That slows me down some.” = : At her home near the Palm Springs. desert Mrs, Milner has records stacked all over the house. Last time she counted there: was. over .2000. And when she’s really in the groove she keeps two radios going at once . . . both tuned

"in to disc jockey shows; natch.

; o + ® gl #1 CAN'T resist that knocked-out stuff,” she smiled, “but it has to be good. I don’t like those : Ive = . schmaltz)

D1 N “tha Li H U t

stuff. Most of it’# too corny. . : “My favorite vocalists are Nat Cole, Billy tine, Sarah Vaughn, Champ Butler, Fran and Perry Como. Perry wrote me two

letters last year. In his. own writing. 1'almost. SWO on ed!” peat oj ’ Xt Cia a .

way 0 see my viewpoint.”

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Girls Arent vU sing Leap Year ‘Breaks’

marrfage, while married men can tantalize us,

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8 Non gals with delight. .

y you really intend to grow that beard? I do love big he-men with beards. I can’t very well sropose to a man who is already married. You

Not through this beard, I can't. ee

“THOUGHT I'd take three minutes and express my regrets that I cannot offer you a proposal at this time. (Nothing like getting to the. point, The writer signed the letter— ‘Cordially yours for buffoonery.’)” : “To go into all the reasons why I can’t offer a satisfactory proposal would take more than three minutes, but if at the end of the year you're wearing a hair shirt and beard, you might contact me at the above address to see if cirumstances preventing By oer of a proposal may have

changed.” That's cute, The above address is ‘“Wherever-My-Hat’s-Off, Ind.” I can be reached at “Hair-Shirt-On, Ind.” eR THE BROW became warm while reading one letter. It turned blue at the end. Cruel, cruel Meme. . “My dear—for that is the way I always think of you. At last I must tell you all the things that have been in my heart so long. “To me you are wonderful . . . blah, blah . my ideal . .. my admiration for you knows no bounds . . . I have watched you, loved you silently. You do not even know that I exist much less suspect that I feel for you what I have felt for no other living soul. . . . “This is not a proposal. It cannot be, for 1 am married, don’t you see? And nothing can change it, woe is me! Stay as silly as you are. We love you at our house.” : du THERE are more but we might as well end with a bit of poetry. I can’t go on tormenting myself —sniff. “To have lots of girls must really be fine, To dine ‘em and dance 'em and feed them a line. As for me I care nothing for more than one, The right one, not just any mother’s son. Why should we not have one good fling Before the bells of. doom shall ring?” You see, Mary gross income tax is coming along and the bills from Christmas are still outstanding and my dentist wants to see me. I just can’t afford to blow $5 for a good fling at this time. Sorry. Thank you, girls.

Garbo Is Mistaken For Great Marlene

Art Buchwald, just in from Paris. Three prisoners were talking. “Why are you here?” . ., “I was for Slansky” ... “Why are you here?” . .. “1 was against Slansky.” They turned to the third and said, “Why are you here?” , .. Said he: “I'm Slansky.” ; > > 4 EARL WILSON Thursday celebrated his 16th year of good luck in being married to Mrs. Earl Wilson. We did it Jan. 10, 1938, at the Municipal Bldg., on the B.W.s lunch hour . . . Joe E. Brown's about to start his own TV show, playing a small-town widower with 3 kids . . . Grandma

- Joan Bennett's dtr., Melinda Markey, 17, has two

guys fighting for her. Jess Cain of “Stalag ir appears winner . . . “Drop dead!” is passe now. New way is: “Turn blue.” Henry Morgan and Eddie Mayehoff’ll both appear in the B'way play, “How to Fly With One “Feather,” Mayehoff portraying “the richest man in Texas.” When Life magazine erroneously reports his fortune as only $128,000,000 instead of $131,000,000, he sags down and sighs, “You see now, a thing like that takes all the spunk ou of you.” J < > * 2

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Lee Graham, the authoress, asked by -a mother how to stop children from listening to conversations, replied: “Address your remarks directly at them.” Wish I'd said that: “I wasn’t like other little boys. My home ran away from me, I lived in & trailer”—Hal Goodwin.

So Pb BD EARL’'S PEARLS: Dorothy Sarnoff feels, “It's the surly worm who gets the bird.”

Doris Dowling tells friends she and Artie Shaw are still engaged . , . Adelaide Moffett and husband Maj. William Cravens have split... Personally I think the Heart Fund's Re Mystery Queen is Ann Hogan’ Doris Dowling . . . Sun Valley, twosome: Gary Cooper and Ilsa Bey . . . Barbara Payton finds movie jobs few now and will turn to saloon singing ... Howard Chandler Christy, 80 today, is ill.

As Taffy Tuttle said when she event on the diet, “No more candy and .sweets—that's all behind me now” , . . That's Earl, brother.

- 60-Year-0Old Widow Likes Hot Music,

likes an entertainer she buys a long-distance bus ticket. i HS»

TO HEAR Lionel Hampton four years ago she bounced 3000 miles to New York. Took in his opening and then zoomed down to Philadelphia and Washington to catch some more hot jazz.

Never misses an issue of Downbeat, Billboard or Metronome, either. Marie can recite you the box-office records, poll standings and salaries of practically every big name in the business.

“I go to all the openings,” she beamed. “One week I made ‘three trips into town. I just sit there until 2 a. m. and sip a bourbon .and sevenup. I kind of nurse it along, you know. After all, you have to keep the management happy.”

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Please give some information on gloxinias. Do not use my name. ‘“Reader.” A—Start the tubers any time from now on through spring. Most experts recommend peat moss or other humusy soil for starting. But differént gardeners have told me of losing roots from so much moisture. So you'll be safer to follow a successful grower I know and use vermiculite. Once you get the roots started the plants are not too difficult. General culture is much like African violets except that they take more light

: Rbad Marguerite Smith's Garden Column © in The Sunday Times =~

and they demand a rest period after late summer. loose, Tich, and full of humus. Water—water thoroughly right .after planting tubers. Then keep soil a little on the dry side rather than too ° wet until leaves start. Temperature-—warm (85

to 75) until growth starts. Then cooler. Fertilizer—It soll was not to start with, give oo pr nek 1f you in 1 . pi oo

#not jump to conclusions.

“THIS WILL KILL YOU—

Exercise Good?

= CHAPTER TWO . By CHARLES FURCOLOWE

It is curious how many more octogenarians were in the old clubs that had davenports instead of hand-ball courts.—Dg Logan

Clendening. " CONSIDER the tortoise worshipers.

and the hare, you exercise-

The tortoise just loafs his way through life, and has probably never been inside a gymnasium.

The hare, on the:other hand, is a bounder from away bacl. He sees no reason for walking when he can run. His life is one continual round of nip-ups.

Turtles have been known to live more than 150 years (which is tops in the animal kingdom), and some people claim they live a lot longer. How, many

. old rabbits do you know?

Does this mean that exercise is bad for you? Now, now, let's Let's not do any jumping at all, in fact — there are many other forms of exercise which are much safer, especially if you're over 40. Of course you can exercise— provided your heart and other organs are OK. Just see to it that you don’t overdo it. Let moderation be your guide.” If you must exercise, be sensible about it. Forget those furious handball contests in the club gym. And take it easy in those Saturday afternoon tennis matches. instead of five. If you're one of those trackminded imbeciles who enjoy a pre-breakfast run through the park, skip it. Hire a horse and let him trot you around.

Do Your Surviving In the Bathtub

If you like swimming, do it in the bath-tub. If you in-

Also, play two sets .

Editor's Note: These articles give you accurate directions for a shortcut to the graveyard They also explain how you may postpone your funeral indefinitely and have fun doing it. Your way of life—the things you do that are cutting down your span of living—are here

- analyzed with rare good hu-

mor. These installments were prepared under the critical eye of a distinguished physician. They are taken from the book, THIS WILL KILL YOU,

just published by B. C. Forbes

& Sons.

sist on something larger, then spend most of your time float ing, or doing the dog-paddle or a slow crawl (the word is crawl”), Leave the speed stuff to the young folks. The same thing goes for distance swimming. If you want to cross the channel, take a boat.

One of the insidious things about exercise is its ability to lull you into a false sense of safety. For instance: It's bad enough to exercise to a point where you're nearly ready to drop from exhaustion, but fit may be more dangerous to continue your exertions when you don’t even feel tired. How can you tell when

you're getting too much exercise?

SILENT CANDIDATE—

By BRUCE BIOSSAT Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 15—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's civilian statements on major issues— delivered from 1948 through 1950—take on fresh meaning today because it is now clear the nation if not to have any new declarations on these topics in the months leading to the national conventions.

Since he became European defense commander in early 1951, the General has been silent on domestic matters. But in the period before, during his tenure as president of Columbia University, he touched specific "issues frequently, though: always rather lightly.

The views he expressed reflect his endless attention to the aim of preserving individual freedom against both internal and external foes. His overriding concern is to protect the ordinary man from the encroachments of power-hungry government. Here are his opinions on many specific issues:

Spending “If the times demand a sudden and tremendous increase in the budget for defense, reckless extravagance, selfish grabbing, heedless spending of dollars we do not possess will make American citizenship a mort-

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PRESIDENT ?—Ilke's backers need

gaged existence rather than a joyous privilege. “If solvency and/ security are not synonymous, they are so closely related that the difference, if any, is scarcely discernible.” . (Pittsburgh speech, Oct. 19, 1950.)

Taxes

“How far can a government

go in taxing away property

DIPLOMATIC DAMSELS—

UN Women Are All In Favor of Women

CONGRATULATIONS—Chile's Ana Figueroa thinks women

should rank "at least" 50-50 among United Nations General As-

sembly delegates. Norway's Arne Sunde gives her best wishes after she became first woman chairman of.a main committee.

By ROSETTE HARGROVE Times Special Writer - PARIS, Jan. 15=The female

delegates to the General Assembly of the United Nations, whether you call them madame, senora or miss, have one thing in eommon. No matter which side of the Iron Curtain they

- come from, they're all in favor

of further advances for womanhood. : . ‘Of the more than 300 Yegular delegates only 15, are women. That's ona big figure the diplo-

dams ould cnang

“It should be at least 50-50,”

said Ana Figueroa of Chile, with’ an eloquent shrug of her shoul“Hven today, it is a

ders, 4 matter for comment when a woman gets appointed fo a ke

A ot a, the

women should no longer be a subject of controversy, anywhere.”

sn 8. WHEN SHE talks about the reaction, after a woman gets a key United Nations -post, she talks from experience. She is the first woman to be elected chairman of a major committee. She heads the “Third” Committee, which is thé social, humanitarian and cyltural group. Long a ‘leading figures In " Figueroa startled ‘her dignified . eo-delegates by taking time off

couturier, - She ‘dresses in the

latest style and. thoroughly enjoys Paris. She occasionally

plays h . in the Bois

hookey to row on the lake do Boilogne. ~~

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the first week to visit a Parisian

~The Indianapolis

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1952

If you must exercise,

There are several ways. If you fall flat on your face from exhaustion during a tennis game, for instance, it might be wiser not‘to finish out the set. If your arms or legs begin to ache that's another indication that you've exceeded your quota. Pain in the chest, or anywhere else, is also a warning signal. The best and simplest test, though, is your breathing. When you start to wheeze, rest. In fact, rest before you begin

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rights and still not leave the government the master of the

people instead of their serv. ant?” (Ft. Worth, Tex. Dec. 15, 1949.) Profits “When shallow critics de nounce the profit motive in-

herent in our system of pri-

vate enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic sup--

JUST ONE—Only woman ‘to head her delegation is Mrs. Sekaninova Cakrtova, of Czechoslovakia.

country’s delegation is Mrs. Sekaninova Cakrtova, of Czechoslovakia. Llke the other Commu-

‘nist spokesmen, she talks first

about peace.- But she manages to bring up the question of (women without too ‘much trouble. . - a". - “IN .MY country,” she says, “everything is geared for peace. It is an integral part of our daily life. But we have not yet achieved economic equality and, women work, that is also very important.” :

~ She says the Czechoslovakian

women are primarily interested .

in internal politics and lving conditions. - = - “But? she adds, with an expressive gesture; “it, was the

domestic

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> : — Bert Kirchheimer be sensible about it.

wheezing, when you're merely : breathing hard. Better yet, rest before you begin exercising— and then don’t exercise. How can you lose? Obviously, you shouldn't exercise right after eating, particularly if the activity is one requiring much energy. Neither should you exercise just because you think you ought to, as so many of us do. If you hate the thought of it, don’t think of it—and don’t do it. As long as you do a little

" port of every human right we

possess and that without it all rights would soon disappear.” (Inaugural address, Columbia University, Oct. 12, 1948.)

Capitalism

“A capitalist, far from being someone to condemn, in this country is one who by his own efforts in the past has made it possible for this country to be what it is today.” (Philadelphia speech, Oct, 6, 1948.) &

Personal Security

“I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he had perfect security. Life is certainly worth while only as it represents struggle for worthy causes, and there is no struggle in perfect security. I should think the best example of it would be a man serving a lifetime in a federal prison.” (New York, 1949.)

Welfare

“As we strive to devise measures intended to lessen the shocks and*privations incident to old age, to sickness, to unemployment, to natural disaster, let us choose among the several proposals that which best protects our heritage of freedom.” (New York Herald Tribune Forum, New York, October, 1949.) :

WORKING PEACE—It depends on the women's attitude, says Mrs. Ulla Lindstrom, of Sweden.

of our first Five Year Plan possible and who will assure the success of the second.” ; ” 5 ” . MRS. ULLA LINDSTROM, of Sweden, was one of the first women to hold office in that country. She, too, ' links the problem of peace and feminism in her thoughts. “War may be a man’s -job,” she says, “but a working peace

certainly depends on the womQn the other.

en's attitude. 3 a, La () Le .as to precipitate another con: flict and, that is where the usefulness of the United Nations'comes in. - “o :

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“It 1s one place where na- ; . tions can argue, even quarrel,’ around a. table, which is far.

brisk ‘walking every day you can alone—the darn thing is liable to cripple you. :

leave that medicine ball

Some Fallacies About Exercise

ONE: “A certain amount of

exercise every day will ward oft disease.”

It sounds good, but it's bunk.

Abundant eyidence of the inability of exercise to build up resistance to disease came during the first World War. It was the" farm recruits and not the city rookies who succumbed to attacks of measles, chickenpox, etc. It's significant, that Army trainees who are given stiff doses of calisthenics don’t seem to wind up with any more stamina than those who go through most of

their setting-up drills lying down. TWO: Exercise will make fat people thin.”

Not unless they're on a diet, Even if they -are, exercising will only make {it harder to stick to the diet. Spend a couple of hours in the gym some af-

ternoon and see. how hungry you get. THREE: “A regularly fol-

lowed course of exercises will help you live longer.” 1 haven't been able to find any evidence of it, and apparently nobody else has, either, If .it ever turns out to be true, though my Uncle Wentworth will certainly want to know. He has never lifted a finger unnecessarily in his life, but I'm sure he'd start exercising if he thought his indolence might be shortening his life. He's 97, by the way—what Wentworth calls “middle-aged.” NEXT: When to say “when” at a party.

Here Are lke's Opinions As Civilian

Duties of Citizenship

“Stop shrugging off politics as only the politicians’ business; stop banking on Ameri can luck to get us good government and good policy—sometime it will run out. Stop using the alibi, ‘one vote doesn't count.’ It won't only if not used.” (Also from Forum speech, 1949.)

Civil Rights “Insistently reject any doce trine that acknowledges dis« parity of right based on class, race or creed.” (Speech tp DAR, Washington, 1947.)

U. S. Communism

“Neglect could be as damaging as attack against us. Moreover, I believe that any among us who embraces communism or its purposes thereby becomes an enemy of America. By no juggling of words or twisting of ideas can a citizen of this country justify an alliance with the forces of dictatorship and communistic enslavement. . . .

“Because disloyalty is an offense of the most profound import, we must be especially careful to avoid hurling the charge of Communist against any who may merely disagree with us.

“Respect for our own free system requires that we speak and act against others with restraint until factual evidenca establishes guilt. But in fighting disloyalty we must not let restraint degenerate into indifference to the offense.” (Boy Scout meeting, Valley Forge, Pa., July 4, 1950.)

UMT “This service will be performed as an obligation . . , It will’ demand sacrifice. But can any sacrifice be considered too great, if it can. guarantee a lifetime of freedom?

“Qn the other side of the

- coin, the least we owe to these

young men in advance is a clear understanding of our problems, aims‘and plans, with the assurance their sacrifice will ceas?® the instant the necessity passes.” (Pittsburgh, October, 1949.)

Subsidies

. “A paternalistic government can gradually. destroy, by suf. focation in the immediate advantage of subsidy, the will of a people to maintain a high degree of individual responsibility.” (Inaugural, Columbia, October, 1948.)

Labor

“Some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between "those who hire and those who are employed. . . . Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene. . . “American workingmen are principals in. the three-number team of capital, management and labor. Never have they re-

garded ttiemselves as a servile.

class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.” .( Speech to American Ba ssociation, St, Louis, Sept, 5, 1849.) . - These are representative sam-

‘ples of the ony civilian opin- " lower -has ever bad . _ a chance to express. They are

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