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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

. “IT'S THE cleanest sport in the world.” One of the five young Indianapolis «Athletic Clb swimmers made the pun early in a by-the-side-of-the-pool breeze session. I don't remember whether it was Betsy Turner, Betty. Watson, Judy

Roberts, Ann Morrison or Mary Anne Marchino. The remark, however, stuck. It ,.. ma

could be used to promote == swimming. ba With the Olympic tryouts Se

coming up early in June in the

Broad Ripple pool, local swim- == mers are treading water more ie seriously than ever before. = They're a big deal in a swim- z= mer’'s life. A retired Indianapolis Water Canal swimmer is looking forward to the event, too. 8 It was a job rounding up ‘the five stalwarts who Coach Jim Clark likes to point with pride. To get Ann Morrison. within speaking distance I thought it would be necessary to jump into the pool. “Do you want to talk to a drip?” she asked, dripping water. -Ann is the comedian of the team. S@ THE MAIN question in mind was how a youngster can get so proficient at 14 to establish a National AAU 200-yard backstroke record, Betsy Turner, 14, freshman at Shortridge, the record breaker, was asked.

“You just swim as fast as you can,” answered Betsy. The record is for women and Betsy dismissed her achievement in the true manner of a teen-ager. If you have ever attended a swimming meet, been around boys and girls with aquatic inclinations or run into a swimming team on a diner of a train, you know playful chaos and fun accompany them. The only time a swimmer is a grim workhorse“is when the starter’s gun goes off and the cool water envelops his body. Another characteristic of swimmers is the power they can generate in their lungs. They're also a happy lot. we oe . BETSY BEGAN to swim when she was 9. She swims at least four timés a week and tries to keep from swimming more than one and a half miles each time. Close attention is given to Coach Clark. That's the secret of her success.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson NEW YORK, Feb. 20—Here they are ,,. a little collection I'll call “The Ten Greatest Ad Libs in Show Business” , . . if 1 may be so bold. Most ad libs aren’t good enough to be remembered since last night. But star comedians, under the proper influence, can remember ad libs back to the days before they were even called ad libs. Way back in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh, home from his flight to Paris, went to “Artists and Models.” Jack Pearl recalls that Little Jackie Osterman, the late great comic, had just stepped on stage as “Lucky Lindy” started to his seat. For three or four minutes, Lindbergh’s ovation was so tumultuous that Osterman couldn’t speak. Finally Osterman held up his hand and said to the audience: “Please, ladies and gentlemen, this is very encouraging, but don’t applaud me so much till you see my act.” 2 oo oP AROUND 1948—so what if we do skip 21 - years?—Milton Berle, at the Banshees’ luncheon, batted, the smoke away from his face as he began to speak. “Please,” he said to the guy smokinga cigar in front of him, “don’t you ever inhale?” “Not when you're in the room,” said the guy, Hugh (Woo Woo) Herbert. hd oD DURING World War II, Groucho Marx, Claudette Colbert and others were on a tour entertaining for troops. Finally, Miss Colbert met her husband, Dr. Joel Pressman, a naval officer. They had been apart, and they promptly disappeared to enjoy each other's company for a few days. When Miss Colbert reappeared, Grouch ‘said: “Claudette, this is ‘carrying naval relief too

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Miss Colbert

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ob B 2 FRANK FAY has always been celebrated for his titantic self-confidence. Once when Monte Proser was operating the Copacabana, he tried to hire Fay to star there: But Fay—riding the crest as star of “Harvey’—declined. Proser “threatened” him. “If you don’t come in,” said Proser, “I'll get Bert Wheeler.” Bert and Fay were rivals. But Fay only said: “Fine. Why don’t you do that, and I'll write the little man something funny to say.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 20—Gen. Eisenhower is a fine man, to be sure, full of charm and high dedication, but the folks I talk to lately want him on the full record ‘as a candidate, and they want ‘him now, -before he is nibbled to (death by doting amateurs and well-meant meddlers. The concensus on Ike is that he can beat anyone to face—if he get$ the nomination. That is “followed swiftly by the tag... “but if he doesn’t come home pretty son and tell the people what he’s for and against I dofi’t think he can rate the Republican nomination.” The big television demonstration for Gen. Eisenhower of “recent week was met by mun Ly led moans from a lot of Eisen- 7 Ee admirers, ‘This was the Mr. Ruark big love feast of actors and notables that was skippered by Tex McCrary. Songs were sung and a lot of glittery notables got up and declared out loud for Gen. Eisenhower, 2 “I'm interested in what Ike stands for, one cynical gentleman remarked. “But, Oh God, do 1 have to have Humphrey Bogart or Jackie Cooper to.tell me what he stands for?” APART FROM signifying that he was willing to run if wanted, Gen. Eisenhower ha®8 dropped the future political hassel from his obvious schedule, and continues to labor full time at his NATO chores abroad. This is deemed admirable, like _ motherhood, but is viewed as slightly separate . from a campaign for the nation’s No. 1 job. Ike has already been a soldier; to date he has giver the country no glimpse of Eisenhower the embryo President. The longer Gen. Eisenhower clings loyally to his military tasks, the greater opportunity is created for the publicity seekers and political latchers-on to festoon themselves from the Eisen-

_____-hower coattail here in America. Such attachment

can remove him from serious consideration if it goes on long enough. RT : . . +». ONE-MAY ADMIRE actors and saloonkeepers and song writers without buying their hearty indorsements of potential Presidents. All the cute songs and personal appearances and snake dances * go fine.at football rallies and picture premieres,

‘Taken to Cleaners’ In Olympic Tryouts

< “Do you girls hear the screams of encourage-

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ment during a’ race All five answered with an ear-splitting shout, “No.” Later the negative answer was revised to the extent that a backstroker can hear teammates and sed the wild hand-waving. | “You don't have time to listen” sald Betsy Turner. “Sometimes. I have a big argument with myself when % race is close and 1 need more strengh, If I argue well enough 1 get it.” 1 consider this informition quite exclusive. Many swimmers have been observed but it has never occurred to ‘me that they argue and paddle. Betty Watson, 14, Betsy's classmate at Shortridge, had. a surprise statement about the coming Olympic fryouts. She's working six days a

week now but her eye is on the 1956 games more

than the 1952. That)s looking ahead over the waves, oe o >

COPPED

the 400-meter National

BETTY

‘Junior free style event, 100 and 200-yard free

style events in Indiana for 14-year-olds and was fourth in National AAU meet in Detroit. Judy Roberts, 17, Broad Ripple High School senior, is the 100-meter National Junior free style champ. Ann Morrison, 14, Tudor Hall, won the 1951 National Junior 1500 meter free style eyent, She also wears the emblem of the National Junior Olympic meet. It's like pulling teeth, getting information from the girls about themselves. They'll brag about their teammates until the subject is red in the face. Mary Anne Marchino, 14, St. Joan of Arc freshman, who swims seven days a week, ‘is typical. ° . In the All-City swimming me#t, Ann walked— swam off with the high point trophy in all events. She is the Indiana 100-meter, 100 and 200-yard backstroke champion,

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FROM THE spectator standpoint, swimming meets don’t draw tremendous crowds. Betsy Tur: ner was mentioned in sports columns for establishing a new AAU 200-yard backstroké record. Those associated with her are proud. Betsy {is unperturbed, The men and women in all parts of the country, parents for the most part, who travel with the girls, keep score, do the timing, arranging and running the meets, deserve a big slap on_the back. Without them the fun wouldn't he possible ‘in the cleanest sport in the world.” More parents and youngsters should give swimming a try.

Some Ad Libs That Lived

TOOTS SHOR'S line spoken during the war-

time .curfew, “Anybody that can’t get drunk by midnight ain’t tryin’,” is a cTassic. “oe oe oe SHOW PEOPLE love to tell how Nicky Blair, now operator of the Blair House, got accidentally invited to the Palm Beach mansion of the late multimillionaire, Otto Kahn. Blair - was then looking around for a shoestring to start on. He'd gone to Florida without a trunk, and found himself amid wealth. Otto

Kahn enjoyed his charm and said, “Now if there's .

any fine cigar you want, any particularly excellent wine, any specially prepared food, just let us

know.” “How about some spending money

Blair.

?” said > a STUTTERING JOE FRISCO is the man quoted in every ad lib* conversation. Bert Lahr remembers that Charlie Foy, operating a cafe in California, complained one night to his “east” that he was suffering from thieves. “I've just lost .a whole chicken,” scowled Foy. “I d4-ddidn’t take it” “W-w-weigh me.”

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o> o> MILTON BERLE seems to get into many of these. Once when Jackie Gleason weighed about 275. Berle cracked, “There are three of my favorite comedians.” Gleason shot back, “I wish you were one of mine.” Bob Hope was touring Army bases during the war and often got up close to the front; nevertheless, there was always somebody troublesome in.the audience. One night a soldier yelled at him: “Why aren't you in the service?” “Don’t you know?” said Hope. “I'm 4-X." “What's 4-X?" % “Coward,” said Hope. : > oD HAL BLOCK of “What's My Line?” was on the program when Eloise McElhone said, “Where would you guys be if.us girls weren't around to sew buttons on your pants?” Hal retorted: “If it wasn't for you girls, us lows wouldn't have to wear pants.” Fat Jack E. Leonard is regarded as the greatest young ad libber. He told one unappreciative audience, “You've been a grand bunch of seats.” Milton Berle is a pretty good ad libber, himself. Years ago, he had on his radio show Charles Atlas, the muscle-builder, who muffed a line. “How do you like that?” ad libbed Berle. “The strongest man in the world—and he can’t pick up a cue.” That's Earl, brother,

Some Folks Are Tired “Of Waiting for Ike

Eisenhower's organizational job in Europe. I can't believe that he isn’t free to shélve it when he feels it’s running pretty well. He is a declared presidential candidate. And he cannot speak as a candidate so long as he wears a uniform. r : * The immediate answer is pretty simple, then. He either stops being a candidate, or he stops being a soldier, since he obviously cannot be both simultaneously. And ‘he must give up one or

retorted Frisco. .

the other, pretty soon, or he is apt to be neither.

“ie de de IT’S MY. opinion that the people are eager to vote for Ike, if Ike will give them half a look at his thoughts on taxes, labor, foreign policy, domestic economy and a few other items of mass interest. But the longer he puts off his declaration of purpose, the less favorable will be his assessment by the people as a whole. It's like the man said: “We are not electing Jackié Cooper or Irving- Berlin or Tex or Jinx or even Ike's pal, George Allen. I like Ike, but I would like him over here.” The General has -ahnounced himself as a candidate on the Republican side of the fence, which argues a certain starchiness of principle. I sure do hope he comes home and organizes his following. and delineates his feelings, before the tap dancers and press agents take over to make him ridiculous by unbidden association. “I like IKe” is

‘a nice slogan, but awful easy to change to “no

like” If the eager bandwagoners cute up Mamie's old man too much. :

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I understand it takes about three years to raise African violet plants from seed to the blooming stage. Right?. Are African violét seeds available locally? Mrs. W. 8. Ruckle St. A—Helen Van Pelt Wilson in her book “The Complete Book of African Violets,” which readers’ enthusiasm for violets has driven me to read

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column i in The Sunday Times

in self-defense, says that violet plants will bloom from seed as soon Xs they will. from a leaf cut-

‘but leave something to be’ desired in a political «tinge Sometimes sooner. That means a matter of:

buildup, 0 5 You must assume that -Tke wants to be President. This constitutes a large desire, surrounded by spadework. It is not a job that. you must accept if somebody flings it"at you and nobody else wants it. It is a kind of job that demands a dossier of qualification and a full statement of “Intent. Ahout all we have from Ike today is a. reflection of personality “and an assumption’ of competence as a soldier-organizer. You need a little more, for a pl yun tor the money.” . .. 1 DO NOT believesthat an extra month or. so, bow, means a great deal of difference in Ger

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only months sometimes. It depends as she wisely points out, on variety and cultural conditions how long it takes a young plant to come into bloom." At least one local dealer will have African violet seeds in a few weeks. Q—Tuberous begonias Seem to be so hard to

water "every day? Maxine Lewis, Bridgeport.

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SCHNOZZOL

“In all the nights my pop stood guard on the elevated, nobody ever stole a girder off'n him.” —From the Sayings of Mr,

James Durante.

JIMMY DURA lived to be 93 years old.

By GENE FOWLER : NTE'S father, Bartolomeo the barber,

In good times as well as bad, the younger Durante saw to it that his father had “something for the pocket.”

The spry old man with the white hair and the long, white mustache, this blue-eyed eld gentleman would tip his hat to the men as well as the women. A stranger or,not, he would offer you a present or a coin. When Jimmy began to make his thousands jn -nightclubs— beginning in 1923—he gave his father as much as $50 at a time, The smiling old gentleman passed out these bills severally to the first persons he met on the street. Jim devised a more sensible plan: He made his sis-

‘ter, Lilian, the banker. She doled out the pocket money to her father in quarters and dimes.

Jimmy Durante was born at 90 Catherine St.. in Manhattan’'s east side, Feb. 10, 1893, a short time before Grover Cleveland began his second admiris"tration as President. An Italian midwife delivered this fourth child of the Durantes. The others were Michael,” Albert. and Lilian. He was baptized at St. James Catholic Church on Oliver 8t., near the birthplace of Alfred E. Smith.

on ” n WHEN Jim reached the eighth grade—as far as he got in school—hig parents decided that he should take piano lessons, The boy wanted to be a

ragtime piano player, but his

parents thought he should learn classical music. Bartolomeo engaged Prof. Fiori, a small Italjan with :a big blick mustache and an air of authority. The professor gave his students such compositions as “Poet and easant,” and “La Paloma.” “We used to have concerts,” Durante says. “You played two hands, four hands, and wore a Buster Brown collar, and had to sit with a little girl. Holy good pight. How many blue notes I Prof. Fiori fell in love with a woman much younger than

EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the third ‘installment of the Saga of Jimmy Durante, the factual, life story of one of our great entertainers. Gene Fowler, the author, is one of America’s noted biographers. These installments are from the book, SCHNOZZOLA, recently published by The Viking Press,

himself and composed passion. ate letters in Italian which he had Jim rewrite in so-called English. Durante also translated the girl's replies, reading them aloud to the professor. The girl would send footnotes to Jimmy. In one of them she said that her sufitor’s December was too great a contrast to her own Maytime, She also hoped to meet young Jimmy in person. The professor suspected Jim's translation of this postscript. “What she say there?” “She says,” Jim answered, “I'm makin’ up my mind to give in this December.” » n » THE PROFESSOR shrugged. “There's nothing left to do but wait.” “The girl finally met me,” Jimmy recalls. ‘She took one look and dropped me out of her affictions.” Jimmy Durante had brief experiences as a prize fighter and a labor leader. One of the larger boys of the district used to torment Durante about his nose. Durante fought the bully for two and a half hours and received a broken nose, a mishap that did not improve the appearance of the Schnozz. : - Across the street from the Durante barbershop a politician named George owned a saloon frequented by sportsmen and prize fighters, Florey Barnett, a well-known referee, drank there daily. “Jimmy,” said Barnett one

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day, “we got a fighter from Brooklyn, and we'd like you to try out with him.”

THE 16-year-old Durante was

‘not eager to take on this vet-

eran mauler, known as “The Kraut.” But several of Jimmy's cronies were present, and Jimmy, -who often did things out of pride, said. “All right.” Saloonkeeper Horhe staged

UP FRONT IN THE TWILIGHT WAR . . . No. 2—

Wings Send Tanks Back To Battle

’ By DOUGLAS LARSEN

s Foreign Corresponden

EIGHTH ARMY FRONT, Korea:

. Feb. 20—At an ad-

vance ordnance depot just behind the lines, Cpl. Thomas H. Key of Rockford, Ill, a tall, quiet lad, deftly breaks open a box containing brake linings for a huge tank stand-

ing nearby. He says to his buddy working with him: “Thank God this thing arrived just in time. They must really be hurting to get this tank back in the line, they way they're screaming for it. Now that we've got these linings we can shut them up in a hurry.”

Just a few days before that incident took place, Maj. Binford M. Cartledge, cargo traffic officer at Travis Air Force Base just outside of San Francisco, stood in a huge air freight hangar with his foot propped up on the very box Cpl. Key eventually opened, and ,explained: “Picture Travis at the small end of a huge funnel, into which is pouring, from all over the

U. 8., the hottest priority items _

for the Korean War, Each piece has a'number which determines in just what order Military Air Transport Service carries it out. “As soon as the stuff arrives here we begin scheduling it on .the specific aircraft that will haul -it. Before it is actually loaded itis marked with the special section of the plane in which it is to be placed. That's so the weight in the plane will be distributed correctly.”

” ” » A FEW hours after that Capt. Carl Bruce, veteran United Airlines pilot and pio-

neer Army Air Force flyer,

" stood in his .C-54 as it winged

over the Pacific on its first leg of the trip, toward Hawaii. His elbow was resting on Pvt. Key's box of brake linings. In addition to that box the cargo this

"A SOFT LIFE—

. in, Honolulu. The plane w

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of three dispatches on the fabulous air lift supply line to Korea by ace Times “Foreign Correspondent Douglas Larsen, now in the battle zone after his coverage of the defense bottleneck picture at home. His three-part series will be followed by other human reports from the Korean front.

trip was mostly blood and mail. Capt. Bruce explained that his crew; copilot Lyle Knoll, veteran of Pacific flying from "World War II days; Bud Curtis, navigator, and stewardess Peggy Stengebee, would turn this particular plane over to another crew which is waiting in the air again twg hours after it landed. Bruce and his crew rest 24 hours _and pick up another plane which is fed to them. ot os

IT WAS the same ‘procedure at tiny Wake Island, next stop.

At Tokyo, after another 24-hour rest, the flight goes back, this time loaded with wounded or passengers, or maybe jet engines going back for repair. The stewardess does all of the paperwork and takes care rc’ any passengers. Each leg is between an eight to 12-hour flight, depending on the weather. One way, Travis to Tokyo, is about 6500 miles. All you have to do is see the increasingly haggard look of the crew at each successive stop to know how much they need the

Industry Foams At The

By RICHARD KLEINER Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 20—Look around you. Chances are you'll

* see something that is at least

partly made out of foam rubber,. If not, it will be in a year or so. Because industry is foaming at the mouth with excitement about the fabulous rubber product, and is. using niore of it every day. “This relatively new fruit of rubber research,” says A. L. Freedlander, president of the Dayton Rubber Co., “has now given new employment to thousands,” helped stimulate hun‘dreds of new businesses, and benefited consumers with scores of fresh, ingenious products that make life easiér — and

raise. Do they need to be away from flowers yoy softer?

"A—No, just the opposite, At least in hot dry weather. One way to keep thém happy is to spray them off with a gentle hose spray morning and afternoon in hot dry- weather, They don’t like be crowded however. So it's well to have them

pe a Tel

+ In the furniture'and bedding ‘industries, the largest users of the bouncys stuff, the trend is all foam; . “Ninety per cent of thing on the floor has foam it,” said

oper

owner of the Nassau Hi-Way Furniture. Store, in Paramus, N. J., one of New York's big suburban distributors. “The customers demand it.” ’

” » = . AT NEW YORK'S bustling Furniture Exchange, a building which houses the wholesale showrooms of most of the nation’s manufacturers, an official said foam rubber is “pretty near standard equipment.” He said” the product started as a luxury item, but now it’s included in the low price brackets—even in $20 chairs. Tank The pillow department in Gimhel's department “store in New York reports that 99 per cent of all pillows sold are foam rubber. : Transportation is a gigantic

. consumer of foam. It's used in

busses, trains, planes and passenger cars. Most truck seats ‘and backs are foam upholstered.

So are crash pads around the

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taken, this crate of brake linings

END OF THE LINE—A few days before this picture was

A Prize Fighter-ond Labor Leader

Durante Was a

Lan Ride 90 the old man posed on Schnoz-

the Durante-Kraut bout in the sports hall above the barroom. Durante fought under the nom de guerre of “Kid Salerno.” When the Kraut entered the ring Jim saw a scarred burly who must have been in every ¢ battle since Waterloo. A ringsider called out, “Go get him.” Ever alert to audience reaction, Durante turned to identify the spectator. The

for a tank were being loaded on

a cargo plane in California. Here, not far from the front, they're being unpacked by (left to right) Cpl. Edward L. Manemann,

Willimantic, Conn.; Cpl. Thomas Edwin Koster, Santa Monica, Cal. 24-hour rest. Favorite stop of

most of the crews is Wake, which provides good f8od, genial

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that it has hundreds of unique

"applications.

Foam rubber can be made. of both natural and synthetic rubber, although the natural latex is still the biggest source. Synthetic foam is newer and does offer the possibility of much ‘ower costs, but mass produc-

‘tion is yet to come in this field.

In the industry they're very touchy about confusing foam with. old-fashioned sponge rlibber. Foam is. softer than sponge, although there is still a good many uses for sponge rubber in mops and that type prodThe two differ in the method ‘of manufacture,

! i.-4 8 : FOAM, which was discovered in 1931, is made like you make an angel food cake, more or less, In both cases, the €nd product - becomes light and

- that

H. Key, Rockford, lll, and Pvt.

company, a swim and comfortable quarters. » Another route, flown mostly

» { whipped in Industry's answer to the egg-beater until it looks like whipped cream. 4 The resultant airy mixture is poured into moulds or spread in long sheets, It's then cured, washed, dried and sold. The curing is again. a secret process, ” n ” WHAT comes out is a product has somewhere around 250,000 air’ cells to the cubic inch. This makes it light, clean, resilient, cool. Other properties it has picked up along the way make it odorless, durable, easy to shape, quiet and moth- and

hasn't got is economy, but the foam fanciers insist it lasts so long that it is inéxpensive in ° the long run, and, anyway, the price is coming down fast. ‘The newest use of f ber is for home-

; , by wives and other

vermin-proof. The only thing it. :

‘Bust’ at Both

Kraut hit Jim flush on the chin, It was Kid Salerno’s last fight, Soon after he quit school, Jim went to work at a wholesale

. hardware store on Chambers ¢ St. at seven. dollars and a half

a week. > oN»

THE WEEK before Christ.

* mas the other boys in the store

appointed Jim their spokesman to ask for a raise in pay and shorter hours. They shook hands, and Durante went in to see the boss. He fell back when the great man barked out, “Leave the office.” The next Saturday Jimmy , found a slip of blue paper in his pay envelope, and on it the information: “Your services no longer are required.” \ Jim assembled his followers, “What's the next plan?” One fellow said, “Well, I need the Job.” Another said, “My mother is sick.” A third one explained, “i can’t quit. I been here three years.” The foreman came on scene, and Jim's friends promptly sauntered off, as “If they were strangers. That was his last experience as a labor leader. a

” LJ nr ONE APRIL day -in 1910, Jimmy, wearing a cap and a trirtle-neck sweater — his favorite garb — went to Coney Island, to Diamond Tony's, a beer hall .off Surf Avenue and 15th Street, near the ocean. He went to work there at a salary of $25 a week. He delivered his first week's pay to his mother. “Oh, Mom,” he exulted, “I'm makin’ more than the barbershop.” The next afternoon the wealthy piano player got into his father’s barbershop chair,

Ld . ~ x “HAIRCUT and shave please, Mr. Durante.” The old gentleman smiled, trimmed his son's hair, then gave him his first shave. Bare tolomeo continued to do this service until Jim went to fare off Hollywood. . “If I'd been taking care of this boy after he got to be a Hollywood fellow,” the old gentleman long afterward confided to a crony, “he'd never lost the hair.” (Copyright, 1982, by Gene Fowler)

NEXT: The Schnozzola takes a wife,

by the military personnel of MATS, goes up through Alaska, -The conimercial airlines flying under contract for MATS constitute the core of the Pacific air lift with 60 planes now in use, At the peak of the lift, however, the commercial lines only provided 66 out of the total of 250 planes in use.

ALL commanders in Korea are outspoken in praise forthe job the Korean air lift is doing supported by the MATS air life, They agree that it's sup plying to them the tools and comforts of war which are making the present highly une usual conflict a bearable one, Among the high-priority items being carried by MATS today are parts of planes, medicines, radio equipment, special &mmunition, aircraft engines, and all kinds of spare parts, The Pacific air lift itself is only a fraction of the total job MATS does. It has 100,000 miles of scheduled air transport lines which encircle the globe. Less publicized, “but vital to the mission there, is the big lift to Europe, helping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

countries arm against Red ag gression. 5 8 »

TWO other important MATS missions include the Air Weather Service, for all flying on a global basis, and the Air Rescue Service, whose missions of mercy have saved the lives of countless pilots and crews wha have crashed. Since the start of the Korean War MATS has carried on its Pacific air lift approximately 122,000 passengers, 23,000 tons of cargo and 7000 tons of mail,

NEXT: The new boots get delivered.

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Mouth About Foam Rubber

cut it with a pair of scissors to fit a beat-up chaif, then tack or

- cement it down. Or you can do

what industrial = upholsterers often do—make a “topper" about an inch thick and apply it over the usual upholstery, Hospitals are also convert« ing to foam in a big way. Foam" mattresses have been found. very beneficial to patients with back ‘injuries, And, although no research has been done on it,

rub- ‘there