Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1952 — Page 11

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Inside Indiana By Ed Sovola

ARE YOU a chocolate squeezer? 0 You don’t have to pinch a chocolate to know what's inside. Really, all you have to do is look at the top. I could tell you how to buy chocolates without pawing and hem-hawing. I cold make it sound as If L hadn't left Paul Heim. manager Candy Store, five minutes ago The honest way, of course. is to say that Helm told an old chocolate pincher how at chocolates and tell what kind they ing ‘new. Chocolates have been m fore Hector was a pup. Mr. Helm showed me the light and dark chocolate, and the swirl on top. The information is being passed along with a feeling of sadness neighbor, becduse the thrill of choosing chocolates by: the hit-and -run method is gone, No more will I stick my paw in a hox of chocolates, pinch, and if fts the wrong kind of squishy feeling, move to another. And there won't be any more moments of tingling surprise at picking a chocolate that is appealing to the palate. Mr. Helm flapped my hand and opened my eyes. It's like reading the brand on a steer,

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THE SHAPE of a chocolate often denotes what if inside. Mr. Helm handed me a mint” patty. That swas easy. He intended it to be The top was smooth. In my time I've eaten a million. Then Mr, Helm held out his hand. and in his palm was another patty. Mint” On top was the “string,” the decorative swirl you see on choco lates, in the shape of an M. “Mint?” I asked, with my fingers crossed “The M indicates it has a marshmallow, mintflavored center. Where the shape of .a chocolate is duplicated, the string becomes the identifying mark,” explained Mr. Helm. We started in on the creams. Mr pulling out chocolates fastel than them. The vanilla cream (at

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CHOCOLATE LESSON — Know the inside of bonbons by looking at fhe outside. It's like reading the brand on a steer, .

It Happened Last Ni By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 —One night recently, about 8:40 o'clock. I walked down Seventh Ave. to the Winter Garden stageédoor, and tugged at the door—but it didn’t open. I noticed a doorbell, and rang it. While ringing it, I saw a sign: “No admittance during the performance.” Just as I was hauling off to kick myself for not coming earlier,.a peephole opened. An eye surveyed me, A voice spoke through it. “Just a second till the girls get offstage,” the voice said. > Then the door opened. I saw the derriere of a girl going up a stairway. Some other girls’ derrieres were going upstairs ahead of hers. “If you'd come in as they were coming offstage, there'd have been a traffic jam,” the stage doorman said. ’ o> >

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I'D MISSED the opening chorus, but that was all, of the Phil Silvers hit, “Top Banana,” here in’ the theater where Al Jolson used to do his great shows. I'd always wanted to see a whole show from backstage. So I slipped into the wings now, and stood there, concealed from the audience by the folds of the curtain. I was right on the ‘edge of the stage, 10 or 15 feet from the performers. Phil Silvers soon came on stage and the laugh bombardment started—the first big one when Phil told his barber, who'd been trying to tell him how to tell gags: “I don’t tell you how to cut hair.” “No, but if you had any, you would.” Phil rushed over in one of the brief periods when he was offstage to make a change in his “change room,” which is just off stage. “Hi, Shorty!” said Phil. “Why didn’t you tell me you were coming? Want a chair?” I said I'd stand.

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o> PHIL trotted back again. “I'll be busy chang-

ing all the time,” he said. “In about four minutes,

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 6—We have been singing a pretty song of earnings-and savings at a new high around the nation, but all the people I talk to are pulling a poor mouth about ready cash. Everybody seems broke—big broke, medium broké, or little broke, but busted all the time. The steady soaring of liv-

ing costs, tied to largely stable incomes and - fresh ‘taxes, seems to supply the answer. The day of the big splurge is past, and the bales of loose money aren't apparent any more. People |

seem to. be counting money again, instead of throwing it, and the consciousness of taxes tops any other convggsational topic... & ; I hear tell that the winter mecca of Miami is somewhat less than its old

“lush self this year-—that there are beaucoup

rooms to let and the big night spots, no matter what the attraction are having a reasonably rough time, The boom is apparently ovér down there, and competition has set in.

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ONE OLD-TIME hotel man, Walter Jacobs of the show folks’ Lord Tarleton Hotel oh Miami Beach, has been spotting trends for a longetime, and he reports that the constant keynote is carefulness. People are scrupulously toting up checks again-—scrutinizing totals. They still have some money but not to burn. Luxury cash is tougher to come by. ‘ An assortment of housewives report that husbands who never used’'to question the domestic budget are beginning to peer at grocery bills and snarl gently at the high cost. of staying alive. The tendency here is to grumble, an- admission of mild despair at making ends touch. An airline pilot summed the general beef for me. “I'm making more dough than I ever made in my life,” he said. “But I never been harder pushed for cash. , There just doesn’t seem to be enough of it to do what I have to do with it.” Bb ; THE announcement of Mr. Mike DiSalle's intent to contemplate decontrol” of prites meets loud and raucous laughter on all sides. Mr. DiSalle’s statement before Congress, in which "he claimed a sharp check in inflationary pressures, is greetéd with a general sneer. “Prices paid by consumers,” Mr. DiSalle said, “have not receded

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Craig's newest piece is made of crushed orange pulp. The shape is square. To the man who doesn’t: know, it would pass for a chocolate . covered caramel, Ah, but the piece has a swirl in the shape of an O. So, it's crushed orange pulp Pecan and maple creams have a pecan on

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peaks during the last four months—but their advance has been substantially slowed.” This may mean something to Mr, DiSalle, as he departs his job with the Office of Price Stabilization’ to run for the Senate, but is double-talk to the hausfrau with a surly husband. : “+I have recently seen the purchase of government savings bonds ‘sharply criticized as an

. economy measure, ‘even though the - patriotic ‘appeal

still persists. Ohne Congressman has claimed that the $75 paid 10 years ago for a federal bond are actually” werth -just over $58

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creams are called Jersey butter creams) has a naturdl curl on ‘top. The candy dipper simply makes a circular motion when he lets go of the freshly dipped chocolate.

ow o The chocolate butter cream has its mark put on almd§rin the same way as the vanilta cream. The normal swirl is made, and as the dipper sets the chocolate down, he pulls the swirl apart. CREAMS ARE simple. The coconut cream gets a fancy C on top. Mr. Helm held a cre ith an 8 «swirl. . Strawberry. Right. Lemon creams had L-shaped swirls. Orange creams had O's. You have to, use your imagination sometimes, but not often. : a Chocolate covered butterscotch faffy pieces were rectangular in shape and had a swirl that looked like two 2's connected and one on top of

The Indianapolis

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1952

ENGLAND'S ROYAL FAMILY

A Story Of Lilibet In Pictures— From Childhood To The Throne

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the other, The swirls are the same throughout the candy industry, Caramel pieces are identified by size and . shape Most chocolate chip candy is flat and rec.

tangular in shape. The swirls, if any are put on, are decorative marks. Craig's has vanilla and chocolate grain pieces that are specialties of the house. In the candy industry, Craig's vanilla and chocolate grain pieces are the firm's outstanding product. When vou think of Heinz. you think of catsup, don't you? Same thing with the grain pieces and Craig's. ‘ The vanilla grain is square and has a Vshaped swirl. The chocolate grain is diamondshaped and has a straight line across the middle Are you paying attention to all this and trying to visualizé the different shapes and swirls?

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PEANUT BUTTER crispy pieces are identified -By their shape even though the swirl resembles a bent bobby pin. The shape of a butter crisp piece reminds me of a small loaf of bread Pineapple wedges look like wedges. Almond paste. chocolates have one end dipped and the other plain. In this case, shape and color are the identifying characteristics.

top. There is a beautiful affinity between maple and pecan. Easy to ‘pick out. The same with raisin and peanut clusters. Chewy pieces are not covered with chocolate on top for decorative purnoses. Roast almond crumbles covered with milk chocolate need no swirls. The crumbles are enough for the customer to tell what the pieces are. The chocolate covered whipped ereams have one straight splash mark across their tops. Old candy customers know them hy sight. Craig. vou know, opened the door in 1873.° j Right now there is a swirl in my tummy. Mr. Helm *i=s a generous teacher, too much so. Don't pinch.

For Once. Silvers . Is Ready on Time

youll hear one of the biggest musical comedy laughs you ever heard.” : ; I glued my eyes on stage. Shortly a well. stacked girl bounced across stage. Phil Silvers, playing Jerry Biffle, the famous TV comedian, a la Milton Berle, snapped his fingers and said: “I just remembered the props we need for the night-club scene.” “What?” asked a stooge. ; “BALLOONS!” Phil threw the line forceful at the audience. It answered him with a roar.

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PRINCESS ELIZABETH-—Upon the death of her father, King George VI she became reigning sovereign of Britain,

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ON IT WENT with the same precision. Broadwayites I knew brushed past me not knowing I was there. The showgirls who looked so underdressed from the audience went past me so close that I tould have pinched them. I didn’t, however. Actually, close up, they seemed to be com= pletely, if not too warmly, dressed.

I went along upstairs, trailing some chorus gals again. In Phil's dressing room, he got out of his pants, down to his shorts, and sank down in a contour chair to rest from the strain of that Mur and a half of “punching.” “Have you. been sick during the show?” I asked Phil as he lay there. “I've been sick—but -I haven't missed,” he said. “I have an understudy—Jack Albertson. But I told him: he'd never play the part. I told him, ‘I'll crawl on if I have to. “This is the first show,” Phil confessed, “I was ever completely ready for. I used to think it was sissy to make plans. Now...” TODAY'S DAFFYNITION: “A kidnaper,” explains Margaret Phelan, “is a .guy who steals overcoats with people in em.”

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The trouble with some people who stop to think—they forget to start again.”—Winnie Garett. , , , That's Earl, brother.

Ready Cash Getting Searcer and Searceer

With new taxes added, Rep. Fred Busbey (R. Ill.) arrives at the interesting figure of $54.70 in buying power for a bond worth 75 bucks 10 years ago. If his figures are anywhere close to correct— and they must be, in terms of dollar worth and prices paid-=he has painted a dismal picture in favor of thrift.

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o* oe AS I RECALL IT, “inflation” used to be a vague term that applied to some bankrupt European nation, or some Latin-American quarteracre where they print the money to suit the mood of the dictator's mistress. I keep hearing it today in common talk—talk that used to be devoted to baseball and dirty jokes. We have been raised with annuities and life insurance as our household gods of security, ‘but vou hear the worth of insurance-buying questioned more and more. “Back when the dollar was really worth a dollar” is a constant cliche. A_few people have realized for® a long time that the unforgivable sin of wilful currency deple- . tion and, in some instances, callous inflation, have been visited on the country. But it had not sneaked broadly into ordinary small talk until . the last few months, when taxes ran a dead heat? with the expensive outlay of everyday living. They may announce in Washington that emplov= ment is at peak, and savings at a new high, and income greater than evel. But ask the next.man you meet how he’s making out and he'll chant you . a sad, sad chorus, in which profanity and the word “busted” mingle equally. :

Dishing the Dirt Buy Marguerite Smith

Q—I am trying to beautify my yard this year for .my fathér who has tuberculosis and will spend a lot of time in it.'I have never tried to grow anything before and want to ‘raise tuberous begonias. But any other” suggestions will cer= tainly be welcome. V. B. A—Blessings on your attempts to raise tuber ous begonias. (I sent you the free leaflet. If oth er readers want it be sure to enclose a stamped,

ROYAL WEDDING—Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip pose for their official wedding’ picture Nov. 20, 1947.

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column i The Sunday Times rr —————— aA ———— - — P—————— self-addressed envelope), These will -take special .care. So for.theé rest of your flowers rely chiefly on easy things. Buy as many petunia plants as your budg@et will allow. They are so indestructible and will bloom all summer, But they're difficult for a beginner to raise from-seed. You will find zinnias and marigolds tops forswesults. Be sure to prepare your soil well. Mix in well rotted manure if you can get it. Of some other water holding soil conditioning Stuff like compost or ground corncobs: Then use somepehemical fertil--

plenty of flowers an@- not all tops. Do have some roses. Floribundas or cluster roses will be easier than hybrid tea, And by the end of the year

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