Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1952 — Page 13
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By Ed Sovola
THERE will be screaming and gnashing of,
teeth in kitchens and 1 won't be suprised if a poisoned pie or.two appears‘in hopes of silencing a voice that intends to correct an evil in that department. But duty to my fellow man, the married man, goads me on, Let the consequences fall where they may. > .- It is high time that cook books throughout the land be dusted off, They have cost the old man hard-earned cash. He can't eat a cook book although there are occasions when the printed pages would.be preferred to the fare placed on his platter.
THE STANDARD complaint is lack of vaiety. It seems huhby, after two or three years f breaking bread with his spouse, knows what he Is coming home to on any day of the week. ,orse than that, he knows what the pork chops on Wednesday and the meat loaf on Thursday vill - taste like. “Can't women do anything different? They 'earn to cook one thing in one way and heaven and husband can't change them,” growled one gentleman. ’ “I cook breakfast Sunday mornings,” said another. “One day a week I'm sure of breaking up the montony in our’ kitchen. No tire patches aver light for me on Sunday morning.”
ON THE SHELF—If is high time cook book ‘throughout the land be dusted off.
it Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Feb. 19—“How're you, Jimmy?" I said to James Stewart—a real witty remark, vou must admit. “Fine as silk,” he answered—an expression that must be middle-western, for I learned it as a hoy. “Do you still go to Dave Chasen’s so much? 1 asked, for in his bachelor days, Jimmy was always
‘at Dave's restaurant..
“I have my own restaurant now,” Jimmy said. “The boys are 7 and 6, and the twins are going an 9 months. You know, I invented a play pen for the twins?” Jimmy in this role was hard to imagine, especially for anybody, who remembered him back in his bachelorhood. But now, sitting there in the Pierre, he drawled out the story convincingly. “The twins refuse to be apart,” he said. “They vant to be together. Bit ‘when they're together, they beat each other up. “I said to myself,’ ‘Now I'll- put a little partition in their pen, but you defeat yourself that way. For they're not together. “I know a fellow whose company makes heavy slass for airplanes. It's supposed to hold 3000 nounds per square inch. I thought that ought to be ‘Imost strong enough for my kids.” cde JIMMY grinned as he thought of Judy and lelly beating the glass with their fists trying to hammier’ each other. “They can see each other, but they can't understand why they can't beat each other” Jimmy said. “The glass is standing up very well. I give it a couplé more months.” : With a sigh, Jimmy said, “This is. one of the vicissitudes of being a parent. And I've got another one coming up. , “When they start walkin,” he said, “and if the two go in different directions—each danger-aug-—-which the hell one you gonna go for first? What yoil gonna do? * “I'm gonna put ’em on leashes.”
JIMMY SAID each of the two boys picked out a sister and now that sister is supposed to be his, “But’T notice there's a little larceny going on lately,” Papa Stewart said. “The older boy is trying to con his brother out of Judy who is a blond. But he didn’t get far yet.” Jimmy's also trying to “hustle” Cecil B. De Mille out of the clown suit he wore in “The Greatest Show oh Earth”—as this would make im a great hit at home.
His picture-taking of the kids so far hasn't
{ourage By Ernie Hill
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb, 19—Dr. Stephen Penrose, president of the American University of Beirut, is a braver man than most college administrators in the turbulent Middle East. Dr. Penrose, a native 6f Walla Walla, Wash., and a nephew of the late.Sen. Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania, has issued an edict to his university students, who number 2500, In less violent parts of the world, college presidents are.always issuing ediets to students, But in the Middle East, it is the students who give orders to the college presidents—and back them with strikes, bombings, pistol play and a display of tommyguns, classroom-wrecking and professor-flogging. 80 in laying down the law to AUB students Dr. Penrose has not only taken -his life in his hands but has challenged the traditiongl right of stiidents to use their institution as the base for political rioting and protest demonstrations. > HD “
‘DR. PENROSE has made all studemts reregister pledging themselves to refrain, individually or in groups, frm any activities violating the good-conduct. rules of the institution, “In taking this pledge,’ says Dr. Penrose; “students make themselves eligible for immediate AMsmissal if they resume such activities as bring liseredit on the school.” This sounds reasonable enough in American arma hut in the Middle East it is just as good as ~utting out all extracurricular activities. Political lemonstrations and riots here are as important
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_“IN 85 YEARS of its history,” says Dr. Penrose, (“the university has never interfered in the
political affairs of the country or the area. We
will not now abandon this line of conduct.” The reason behind Dr. Penrose’s action stems’ from riots at the university on Jan. 26 and 28. Police entered the university grounds on Jan. 26 for the first*time in history as students wrecked classrooms and manhandled a few professors. The reasons behind the strike and riots were obscure. Led by Moslem students who insisted that Christians join them in the strike, the “uni-
, ‘versity boys were demonstrating agaist the jail-
ing of several students in Syria. A Ein : & 3 * PS . THE UNIVERSITY fook the position that it had nothing to do with Syria's new military gov-
_gynment or its treatment of students. In fag, it
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| It’s Time We Dusted The Old Cook Book
He was surprised to learn: there is on’ the that boasts 448 unusual and “economical dishes prepared with egus.” +."My wife has five «cook books, ‘two that I bought,” he sniffed. “I don't know, maybe they're too heavy for her.” . He needed sympathy and T could give hig plenty. Over the years 1-have come to the conclusion that women take a delight in throwing a helpless egg into a frying pan full of hot grease and watching i burn, until it loses its identity. Or, they beat the eggs mercilessly and call them scrambled, : ds o> IT HAS BEEN said, let it be said again, that “no other article of food «ffers more amplitude for the inventive genius of a creative cook than
an egg.” I know a book that can,” with little effort, instruct the reader how to prepare beans 59 different ways. The baked - beans - and - cheese
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recipe makes one's mo'rth water. A popular volume w.ich I have seen on many a shelf in the living room, has 150 ways of preparing beef, 20 different ways of preparing apples. Ma'am, how long has it been since you baked apples with cheese and sausages?
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HOOSIERS take pride in speaking of fried chicken... They speak of a dream never realized in most homes. It is too tough, too dry, undercooked or overcooked. What man can ever forget the day, so rare, that he had chicken the way it is supposed to be fried? Potatoes are boiled or fried or mashed. Meat is fried and apologized for. If a dish happens to be edible once, it is edible again and again. Macaroni and cheese, # good example, never is perfection and never reaches. the heights it is entitled to.
TELL a woman you. like a certain dish.and nine times out of 10 you'll have.it until you're ready to switch to C-rations and be happy. Strong men have expressed themselves in this manner “My wife didn't know how fo cook when I married her and she hasn't improved after five vears.”. What an awful condemnation of our natural heritage in the culinary arts, From all sides vou hear of Swedish, French, German, Mexican, Romanian, Hungarian, Jewish dishes; Who doesn’t thrill at the mention of oysters a la Rockefeller? Who goes to the trouble of investigating and preparing a delectable dish with patience, inspiration? What woman accepts a mistake and resolves never to make the same mistake again? T
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WHAT HAPPENS to the enthusiasm and fullblown promise that bubbles when a new recipe, a cook book, a magazine. picture finds its way into a blushing cook's hands? Before the saliva stops flowing, the chops are in the pan, the potatoes are in the pot and the lettuce is being hacked. Tomorrew, my lord and liege, tomorrow. Tomorrow? Meat loaf, French fries, peas and lettuce and tomatoes. Ach,
canned
Jimmy S. Invenis Play Pen for Twins
bought one of the baby Minaxes and carefully “took pictures* for two weeks to use up 50 exposures. He didn't risk opening the camera himself —sent it back to the store to let experts open it and get at his masterpieces. The store was rather suprised. “No film in the camera.” said Jimmy. dW Bb THE MIDNIGHT EARL .
made him a hit. He
. . Humphrey Bogart
wired Katharine Hepburn: “I went to see Chris‘topher Fry's play. I have cuit seeing Christopher
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Fry's plays”... Eleanor Holm hopes to build up her lost A weight in Florida. Billy Rose's §. 38 “*& i $750 temporary alimony clecks now ‘arrive regularly = each week, . Margaret Truman is NOT engaged now to anybody. Miss Truman said so herself when she lent prestige and charm to Juliana Larson's glossy singing debut at the St. Regis Maisonette . . . In congratulating Joey Adams on his marriage to Cindy Heller, opera star Robert Merrill intimated he and Met singer Roberta Peters will have a June wedding. Walter Winchell went right to the Hotel Taft barbershop for a shave when he. returned to N. Y. The boys thought he’ didn't look good . . . Frank gp es Sinatra arrives Mar. 12 for his Miss Peters Mar. 26 personal appearanae at the Paramount. Twentieth is about to sign him for another movie. oe oo oe TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Some Pennsylvania farmers who've got ielevision sets are already complaining, reports Bernie Kamber. “Some nights I sit up ‘so late watching, I sleep right through till 5 o'clock next morning,” said one farmer. Director Wm. - Wyler, who'll star Audrey Hepburn in the film “Roman Holiday” next summer, right after her play closes, agrees to give her “a week-end off” so she can marry James Hanson . . . Peggy Yancy, after flying in from Nassau, moaned with Alan Curtis at Armando’s. “mie better to have loved and lost,” says Bob Hawk, “than have to do home work for six kids" . . .» That's Earl, brother, :
Saga of American
In Middle East
was difficult to. see how a demonstration in Lebanon would affect anything in neighboring Syria. © Had there been something to protest against here in Lebanon, it might have been another matter. But the university did not want its students to start demonstrating every time some obscure event took place in foreign countries.
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WHETHER Dr. Penrose will be able to make his’ edict stick is a matter for speculation. The college head is well aware of the hysterical force he is trying to control. As a young professor here, he married a relative of the university president and showed such abilities that he eventually succeeded him in office. Dr. Penrose has had no easy time trying to instill American college ideas into a student body that is as turbulent as the Middle East. The &tudents come from Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and other countries that are experiencing violent upheavals at this; point in ‘history.
Dishing the Dirt
Bn Marguerite Smith Q—I am enclosing a sample of grass that 1 have in my yard. Would it be possible for you to tell me what kind it is? It grows very well in some shade and looks like a carpet on tHe ground. Sometimes in very dry weather it turns yellow but mostiy is very pretty. We have read the TIMES for 26 years. Yours for flowers, J. Dill, 315 S. Gray St. 3 : A—QGreetings, Mr. "Dill, for that quarter century plus 1! The grass sample was rather dried up (it isn’t enough that my mail is buggy. you send me hay, yet!) But from what I could
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times.
tell of it plus your description my guess it that
it is some kind of fescue. Especially if it grows somewhat bunchy. Fescues are fine bladed, ,
bunchy in growth habit. Though when the
.bunches grow close together they make a grand
thick turf carpet. They do well in shade and ih rather poor soil and can stand considerable dry-: ness.‘Shady lawn mixtures usually contain a good deal of fescue. Somgtimes I think more lawns
could ‘use them rather than so much blue grass. |
For blue grass demands much higher "fertility-
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A ,TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1052 :
NOZZOLA
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“If | learned how to pronounce the big words, 60 of my pals would be out of work the next day, includin’ myself.” —From the
Sdyings of Mr. James Durante.
THE KEY word to.Durante's character, one might
say, is simplicity.
Simple in his religious faith, simple
in his way of living, which is that of a plain American
citizen, the man never changes.
to be artificial or “smart.” Durante’s outsize nose kept him wretched in mind for a long time. . Of the, frustration that cast a shadow across his childhood and lasted into middle age, Durante has .said,-'I was hurt so deep that-I fade up my mind never to hut anybody else, no matter what, I never make jokes about anybody's big ears, their stutterin,’ or about them being off their nut. “Once 1 said something on the radio about people in Oklahoma not: wearing shoes, a thoughtless joke. aqfnd an editor down there wrote in his paper-—not mad, but just patient and kind to me--and he said lots of people in Oklahoma listened to me, and that 1 came into’ their homes each week like a welcome friend, and that mayhe I'd like to know they do wear shoes, just like the rest of us Americans, “Well, the editor was so right; and I'll never do it again.”
. ” » ” THE ASSUMPTION that Durante is a modern Grimaldi rests upon evidence drawn from the memoirs of that early 19th Century star. A year after Joseph Grimaldi's death in 1837, Charles Dickens, under the nom “de plume of “Boz,” edited these memoirs and acclaimed “Little Joe” a genius of merriment. would not. Like Grimaldi, Italian parentage. Grimaldi's father. was a dentist and a_ dancing master, and Durante’s a barber. The physical characteristics of Grimaldi were similar in many ways to those of the Schnozzola, even as to size. Durante stands five feet, seven inches and weighs 157 pounds, with Grimaldi an inch or so
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He has no inclination EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the second installment of the Saga of the Schnozz', penetrating life story of one of America's top entertainers. Gene - Fowlér, the ‘author, is the biographer of John Barrymore, Jimmy Walker and others, : . These installments are from the best seller book, SCHNOZZOLA, recently published by The Viking Press. and a few pounds this side of the Durante marks on rule and scale, Grimaldi had extremely strong legs. When his shanks became enfeebled, he forever put aside the cap and bells Durante’'s legs endure enormous strain,
~ » - WITHOUT sound legs a clown becomes static, Grimaces, gestures, posturings lose their projective quality when the comedian totters upon an infirm foundation. The late W.C. Fields found out this was so, and sturdy Red Skelton takes care of his legs first and his scripts second. Durante, © upon awakening each day (which he says he “starts out with a song,” but
actually with a prayer) stays on his back, thrusts, flexes, stretches, twists his legs,
threshing the air for perhaps five minutes. Then he calls out in his sandpaper voice for hot water, prune juice, and a vitamin pill. Breakfast follows half an hour later, say, about noon. Jimmy may read as few as two or three of his many letters and telegrams at breakfast time. Most of them he puts aside until the first of the next month. He tears up some of his correspondence absent-mind-edly and frequently loses or
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destroys paychecks, causes his bankers a Worry. : ” ” " ¥ TO ENLARGE upon comparison of. Grimaldi to Durante-great clowns born more than a century apart— each was inclined toward a moderate way of living. Grimaldi was abstemious, as is Durante, neither one ever having been intoxicated. A glass of ale with a biscuit was Grimaldi's casual refreshment. Several years ago Durante
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UP FRONT IN THE TWILIGHT WAR. . . No. 1—
Korea Air Lift Gives Soldi
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
Times Foreign Correspondent
EIGHTH ARMY FRONT, Korea, Feb. 19—The Korean air lift today is the
big margin of difference
that's making this current crazy war tolerable for the men who are sweating it out. It's getting fresh vegetables to the men at the front. It's delivering their mail to them promptly. It is bringing some of the comforts of civilization closer to the front lines than they have ever been brought in the history of warfare.
It is bringing the wounded back to good hospitals in record time, and men at the front who need emergency leave to get home to sick parents and wives are only a few days from their home in the states. As far-as the actual tools of war go, the lift is making a fabulous record in reducing the time of delivery from the bottlenecks in the U. 8. to the battlefield here. It's keeping the
EDITOR'S NOTE: Behind the stalemate at Panmunjom, there's plenty of human news on the battlelines of a conflict that's now be- 4 come a “twi- FiRAEeaOEE myn light war.” Up } a. y 7 front to tell those stories is © ace NEA re- § . porter Doug- § las Larsen, fresh from his § coverage of the defense bottleneck picture on the home front. His three-part series on the fabulous air lift supply line, of which this is the first, will be followed by other human reports from up front in the twilight war,
fighting status of the front line forces . razor sharp by constant]ly rushing in the latest in weapons and equipment and instantly relieving shortages. : ” ” ” THAT SHARPNESS of the United Nations combat forces is considered one of the -big reasons for the present relatively peaceful front. The enemy knows too well how deeply they get cut when they hit this sharp edge. :
By providing the maximum. meager comforts of war, the lift is helping to keep morale of the men unbelievably high in a war that could otherwise ‘be terribly demoralizing. Credit for this superb job must go to two friendly rival outfits, ‘the Military Air Transport Service, which is handling
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the Pacific air lift from the U. 8.
to Japan, and the 315th Air Division, Combat Cargo which daily delivers tremendous tonnage ‘of all kinds of ‘supplies and personnel from Japan to Korea. tie . ” ~ o » . A VISIT to a combat cargo air base just outside of Seoul, which ranks as ope of the world’s biggest air freight terminals in terms of tonnage handled, suddenly makes sense out of a briefing given a couple of months ago in the Pentagon by Col. William. Westlake,
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COMBAT CARGO AIR BASE—Bi
Biggest base, just outside of Seoul, oi 4 as one of the world's
spokesman for the Munitions
Board. He was explaining how the board was. working ‘ hard to break . bottlenecks on such
items as jet engines and tank parts. He predicted that in a couple of months the flow of these things to’ Korea would be stepping up considerably. Two months“later, just as he predicted, here was a big C-54 being unloaded by a swarm of puffing South Koreans. The cargo was a jet engine and miscellaneous tank parts, among a wide variety of other things. . Two other C-54s8 were expected in within a matter of minutes with identical loads. It was. a' marked step-up in the delivery of, these crucial items.
HISTORICAL HARRY — Will Truman Follow Adam’s Fo
By WADE JONES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -— President Truman, whose fav-, orite other president is John Quincy Adams, is reported strongly .drawn to the idea of moving up Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House back to Congress, as did Adams. Granted that Mr. Truman could do it, the similarity between their two cases would just about end, then and there. Mr. Truman is a President still in office and with a powerful political machine behind him. Adams, spectacularly independent in. his politics and with virtually no organized support, was electedsto Congress after - he had been soundly beaten for re-election as President in 1828. : Mr. Truman, it is reported, would. run for the Senate, where he served previously. Adams, elected to the House of Representatives, also served in thé Senate before becoming President. ei
» ” ” DY WHILE listed in some places as an independent Federalist, Adams; sixth President of the United States (and son of the second President), had just about every organized segment
. of voters mad at him sooner or
later, including the Federalists. ~ He voted the way he thought and he treated party lines as if
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WITHOUT the air lift the delivery of this vital cargo would have been at least a month later. That difference in time could easily have resulted in two or three more MIGs being shot down or the lives of many men saved by a tank being in use, Not many days ago the very boxes that are being unloaded from the planes at this airport, for immediate delivery to the front a couple of hours away, were stacked on the loading platforms of factories in Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha and New York. J Maj. Leonidas C. Bradley, a peppery, lean redhead from Dallas, Tex., who is commander of combat cargo’s 6127th air terminal group at this station, tells
he'd never heard of them. And he might as well have been from South Carolina for all the favors in office he ever did for his native Massachusetts.
Adams was all for improving the lot of the people and he
didn’t care “what politicians’ toes he stepped on doing it.
In his presidential inaugural address he startled everyone by outlining plans for government pfomotion of arts and sciences, a national university, an astronomical observatory (the present Smithsonian Institution and various scientific enterprises.
MR. DURANTE AT THE AGE OF 3—His father was a barber.
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JEEP CONVOY—Silkouetted against an overcast sky in Korea, a single base
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would sip an Old Fashioned to be polite, ‘but for some time now has not tasted so much as a glass of wine, In Durante's Beverly Hills house-—a comfortable though inconspicious residence for a Hollywood personality — a clothes closet off his den is stocked with liquor. If a guest is a moderate drinker, Durante will set out a bottle; but if Jim finds a lush in the house, he will not unlock the door to the liquor supply. For a man otherwise so generous it might seem
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that Jimmy is downright stingy with his whisky, as well as with his food, Mike & on ’ HE ENTERTAINS at restaurants on 4 come-one-come-all basis and allows no one else ta.
pickip the check; but in his"
hme, except for several quarts f milk, soft drinks, and boxes
" of candy—which he cares for
only when the sweets are very cold—the Durante refrigerator has the aspect of Mother Hube - bard's cupboard. : Durante is short-sighted In business if it touches personal loyalties, forgives to a degree that he has been the victim of robbers whom "he .could - have identified to the police but would not, . These traits cause: a nevers, ending turmoil in Jim's affairs, When he tries belatedly to resolve matters, he behaves as though he were colliding with himself. The frenzied frustrations he portrays in his comical roles are but a parody of .his own confusions In everyday life. = ; In April 1951 the Schnozzola
“won the annual George Foster
Peabody award, the most prized honaor among television performers, The judges proclaimed his work the best entertainment in the field of televised comedy. ny ~ » HISTORIANS of the stage have made us familiar with the names of its great actors—from David Garrick, to Edwin Booth, to, more. recently, John Barrymore. However, a few men of lesser theatrical genius than those immortals stay on in the minds and affections of a mercurial public, These men have haa so much love for mankind in their own natures that they could project it with electric {mmediacy across circus rings or stage aprons, and they have become “institutions.” Joseph Jefferson was one of these outstanding dispensers of personality, Will Rogers another. And now we have with us Jimmy Durante, the Schnozzoia, whose only enemy is the
King's English. " (Copyright, 1962 by Gene Fowler) NEXT: The Little Shaver and
the Old.
Lift
C-54s, filled with priority freight cover an airfield in Korea as they unload precious cargo.
busiest air freight terminals in terms of tonnage.
items he handles. Way over at the corner of the crowded strip, he explains, is a big load of special gelatine explosive which he is eager to have moved. » »
5 IN THE enclosed storage yard just off the dusty field he points out big packages of new-’ type winter clothing, smaller cartons of pharmaceuticals, a - big pile of packaged propaganda leaflets, all kinds of perishable food, wing tanks for jets and innumerable. ordnance supplies. Such stuff doesn’t stay long at the freight area. Usually there are trucks from units at the front already waiting for the cargo before the plane touches down.
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So little of the politician was there in Adams that, as President, he removed no one from office for political opinions in general, nor for opinions against him. Adams was defeated for 're-_ election to the presidency largely because he didn't have a political party of his own to fight the well-organized opposition. But, and here's a happy portent for Mr. Truman, when
Adams went back to Congress as a representative after his presidential defeat it was to begin some of the greatest work of his life,
the Panmunjom conference site for the United Nations Command
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A FEW MILES away from this strip, at-his I Corps head= quarters, Maj. Gen, “Iron” Mike O'Daniel, crusty hero of World War II, gives his opinion of what the steady air supply of his troops has meant to their morale and ability to fight: “The air lift to Korea. is one of the greatest'developments off this war. It gives a command er advantages he has never had in wars before. The Korean air lift is doing a magnificent job in helping to keep us supplied and in preventing shortages. And I think that they are just
beginning to scratch the sure .
face on what they are eventually going to do. It's great.” :
Cpl. Key gets his brake linings.
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.He served ‘in eight succes. sive Congresses for a total of 17 years as representative from Massachusetts Plymouth Dis. rict. : s During most of these years he fought almost singlehandedly in Congress the battle against slavery, :
So persistent was he in this
fight that Congress finally adopted a rule that all slavery petitions should be a’ittomatically tabled, without their being read or printed, which of
course effectively cut off de«
bate and discussion. This gag Jesclution was finally overruled n 1 ; 3
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