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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

WHEN women stand for half an hour to buy “nothing” 4 a fancy price, the situation warrants investigation. “Something for nbthing," I understand. “Nothing for something” 4s. the Palter Del.iso shoe. I've always. had an irresistible penchant for protecting the fair sex from getting messed up with nothing. Several seasons ago, bathing suits began to disappear over the horizon of fashion and I rode off to battle on my Underwood. It would take an unmitigated prig to claim fof himself the ultimate victory and return of one-piece suits, that mercifully cover a multitude of sins and still pique the imagination and allow the sun to sear.

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“NOTHING shoes don't demand the immediate attention Bikini bathing auite did, although, in a thinking man's mind, the guy who brings the bacon home ought to be informed why wifey might take bacon money and bring home nothing.” / With that attitude I went to the second floor of L. S. Ayres’ and saw Jerry Palter of the house of Palter DelLiso. Engaging fellow, this Mr. Palter. He talks.and acts as if he has something to sell. Build a better “nothing” for women and they'll beat a path to your order book. Why?

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“WOMEN are fastidious creatures and they are extremely fashion conscious,” explained Mr. Palter, juggling a wisp of a shoe. ‘Please note the style . . . so airy, so open, so light. High fashion with barefoot freedom.” Frankly, I had to look twice. There was more leather in the tongues of my shoes (high tops) than there was in the sample Mr. Palter was holding. “What an excellent model to show off a corn plaster and a Band-Aid on the heel,” I said.

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MR. PALTER recoiled as if he had been struck on the kisser with a mackerel. The reason I mention this species of fish is because I happened to be carrying a mackerel and it would have been an easy matter to get the proper reaction. But, Mr. Palter came through.

It Happened Last Ni By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Féb, 21—Dorothy Lamour— who now has some Texas oil property, thanks to work - ing for Glenn McCarthy's Hotel Shamrock—tells

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* me she’ll wear 24-karat gold flowered sarongs

when she goes into the Roxy Theater. And she’ll have $425 worth of beads on the bottom of her gowns. “The beads should be a good investments she said, “because I hope everybody’ll think it's the beads that.are shaking—and not realize it's my knees.” : oe oe oo TO SOME the laugh*of the week was Groucho Marx’s when he asked an Army captain (who was sore at his general) why he didn’t fire him. “{ know one Army captain who did it,” said Groucho. “Of course he was a very Democratic

fellow.”

do BARBARA NICHOLS, who plays Taffy Tuttle on “Stage Entrance,” and is in “Pal Joey,” was pretty mad when she read that Clark Gable had left “Pal Joey” during an intermission. “You mean he walked out on ‘our show,” she fumed, “after some of his corny movies I've sat through?” - :

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OVER AT THE LAMBS CLUB, Eddie Foy was asking for a map showing all our Army camps. Spoke up Jimmy Little: “Have you tried the Russian embassy?” 5 . CHARLES LAUGHTON was told by Marie Dube, the beautiful gal on color TV, that he'd look good in color. “Don't kid me,” he answered. “No matter how you show me, I'll always look like the back side

of an elephant.”

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HALF-PINT Conn McCreary, the great Derbywinning jockey, also known on all the Florida

and California tracks, always fascinates children,

and the other day Comedian Roy Sedley’s daughter, Dorene, 5, had her arm around Conn. Stuttefin’ Joe Frisco came along and said, “I just h-h-hope you two are married!” HUMPHREY BOGART was pretty mad at me for ‘printing his wire to Katherine Hepburn saying he had quit seeing Christopher Fry plays. “1 was going to have everybody at Western Union fired for giving out the contents of my telegram,” he said. “Then Baby told me that I'd had a couple of drinks and told you myself!” MILTON BERLE tried to get Sir Laurence Olivier for his TV show. But Sir Laurence did not wish to be a comedian’s foil. For the ‘answer given by a spokesman for Olivier was: “Sorry, but Sir Laurence does not

ahsk questions.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 21—The closing of Newark Airporf, and the curtailment of traffic at LaGuardia Field, because of three recent ‘and ter-. rible crashes at the Newark field, is an excellent sop to hysteria. But that's about all you can say for it. And it sets a frightful pattern fof what can happen to air travel - = all over the country. Newark Airport is generally conceded by pilots to be one of the finest and safest fields inthe —country, but a series of crashes in which nonfliers were killed in their homes has shut it down tight. None of the three -crashes was caused, say, far as anyone knows, by the same thing that caused another. You cannot say they set a pattern for danger, because Newark had

enjoyed a fine reputation of being singularly free from accident.

» * BUT THE ACCIDENTS hit, wham, wham, wham.” And the people yelled murder, and you can’t blame them .for yelling, not when folks who sit snugly in their homes are killed by

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. plummeting aircraff. And their cries of outrage

and of fear paid off in a considerable shrinkage of the New York area's airport facilities. The airlines themselves pared down’ schedules. Passenger space shrinks accordingly. Overseas trafic moves entirely from LaGuardia to Idlewild, which is. so far from Manhattan that only an overseas trip makes the land effort worthwhile. Some New York-bound flights, % former New York-originated flights, will be dispersed as far south as Philadelphia, as far north as Bridgeport, Cann. All of this is temporary, stop-gap stuff, solving mothing for the New York area, nor for the other metropolitan areas of America where the same situation one day mus} develop. . . oo oe WE DO NOT forget that the prime sales factor in air travel is speed between point of origin Travel time between city and airport, Lord knows, has been grisly enough. in past, and when you extend it farther . .. well. Certainly, I.do not wish to leave Point X on a trip to New York and he dumped off my iron bird in Philadelphia, -- Nor do I wish to travel by train from New York to Philadelphia. or Bridgeport to take a

. plane for someplace else, Nor do I wish, at this

stage, to see air travel rationed again, due to acute space shortages because of inadequate field

, facilities. It kills the whole Jrrpone of flying.

SUFFICIENT hysteria on the part of the people > who live close to all the airports of the country, when they are located .close to dense population,

: gud also inevitable.

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If You Want to Walk In ‘Nothings.” You Can “I just mentioned fastidious and fasiigin cone scious ladies,” hissed the shoe manufacturer, eyeing me as if 1 were a refugee from a police lineup. : “Perish the thought. We won't mention corn plasters-and Band-Aids or tape again. Mr, Palter bowed from the hip. He keeps his hair wellgroomed.

db “CAN YOU tell me, kind sir, why a shoe manu facturer can use half a steer to produce a pair

of shoes like the ones that adorn my feet for less money than the ‘nothing’ you are featuring for Spring?" Mr. Palter said he would gladly explain. It was the labor and detail that made the difference. “Take the pair of clod . .. shoes you are wearing, for example. How many operations do

you suppose are required to produce them? I'll

tell you . . . about H4. “How many separate operations are required to produce a Palter DeLiso pair? You don’t Know , . . 182." “hh ®

HE WENT on to say that better women's shoes are custom built by artisans. The intricate ‘detail, the choice materials, from fine alligator to nylon shantung, must be worked by skilled hands. That's the secret of a quality shoe. Quan tity has little to do with the quality. “The ‘nothing’ shoe has its origin in ancient Greece and Rome. Incorporated into the classic past is modern styling for added beauty.” Mr. Palter nodded to a model. I accepted the invitation to gaze at a pair of superb ankles and feet covered with “nothing.” The feet were a size 4B, "practically nothing as women's feet grow these days. Pretty. The model knew how to wiggle her’ foot just right, twist it just so-so to give one the illusion that the toes were the prettiest little things under nothing. OUT OF THE CORNER of my which required great effort to move from the 4B's, I noticed a substantial 9 or 10D plowing into a pair of “nothings.” Mr. Palter ignored my nudge. He turned our attention to his complete line, and even at a casual glance, it looks a mile long. Mr. Palter's line is of the same length. “Can you show me a pump with a medium heel?” asked a customer, “Certainly, madam" I'll put away the lance. “Nothing” shoes don't worry me and if women want them, Mr. Palter's got 'em. He pays taxes, too.

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ONE OF the most popular radio spielers here just got $5200 worth of dental work. Must be figuring to bite somebody . « . Thrush Jo Stafford’s marrying maestro Paul Weston . . . New midnitem: Jackie Cooper and Martha Wright . . . Bartender Bill O'Brien (of Pat Moriarity’'s bar on 51st St.) took his dog “Mike Murphy” from behind the bar, over to the Dog Show, and .won 1st prize for American-bred Standard Schnauzers. Who said you gotta be a Social Register dog?

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Marianne Reynolds, wife of tobacco heir Dick Reynolds, is improving from her nervous collapse she suffered when he asked for a divorce. She expects to be out of St. Luke's Hospital within the week . , . Mrs. Arthur Murray's TV show got the No. 1 Trendex rating on all of ABC. 2 o> 2 <@ NILS ASTHER, once Greta Garbo's leading man, is understudying Paul Lukas in “Flight From Egypt.” He's very popular with the cast , . . ; - “Whitehall 1212,” the radio

{ Small and Jack Goldstein, has been moved to 5 p. m. on NBC due to its good i rating . Milton Here wore cowboy boots when he took dtr. Vicki to Hanson's drug store .. Elsa Lancaster tells ner Blue Angel audiences who mention her double entendres, “I don't understand my material. Im glad you do.” Dorothy Dandridge, the hit singer at La Vie En Rose, attains a particularly smoochy effect by wearing Miss Dandridge 2 diamond bracelet . ABOVE her elbow. Grace Hartman's friends think she and Norman«Abbott, of her act, were wed in Mexico . .. A business analyst advised a major network to fire about 30 vice presidents and pay good salaries to a few good ones . .. Geo. Frazier and Joan La Roche, who've resumed, were at the Hickory House.

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JOYCE MATHEWS has an impersonator—a ,gal who goes to beauty parlors, uses Joyce's name, and tells folks she never went to Europe at all Actually, Joyce i& now about to arrive in Switzerland on her European tour. “She expects to return bY APF. 15. SOTO UN Site pd trata in rat - “Poise,” according to Freddy Martin, “is the ability to continue talking while the other fellow picks up the check.”.... That's Earl, brother,

Airport Crash Hysteria Can Ruin Air Travel

well within the realm of possibility, this can paralyze our functional web of air communication almost overnight. : So long as planes fly, people will be killed, both in them and by them. This also is true of trains, busses, boats, ships, autos, bicycles, horses and man’s own two-footed propulsion. Accidents by all carriers can be cut to a statistical mini. mum, but never abolished. So long as airfields are close enough to large cities to make their existence worthwhile, an _ occasional plane is going to fly through somebody’s living room. This is tragic, true, oe 0 <> \D SO we come to a rather important point: few freakish accidents can cripple a city's

starts to clamor? If the pattern uld not concentrated sabotage of andling equipment be a sinister method of causing a self-destruction of American air commerce, and by popular acclaim? The drastic revision of New York's airplane facility was caused by bpe thing, and only one thing—mob pressure. Whather it was righteous pressure or not is beside the point. The fact remains that concentrated clamor just chopped down our potential for swift, unfouled air service, and set back efiiciency many . bitter years. ’ “

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith 5

Q—1I am enclosing some ivy leaves from a side shoot of vine that is now growing well and has been ever since it was started about a year and a half ago. At that time I-used good black soil with lots of rotted cow manure. I'm wonder-

perpetuates, planes and plan

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column "in The Sunday Times ing #if" it needs more fertilizer or could it be a disease. Several times I've given the vine. your ammonia formula. Mrs, Ross Brown, Greenwood. A—The yellow tipped leaves look like some I've seen suffering from scale. So examine that part of the plant closely for little brown bumps

on the stems. The leaves you vnclosed had no -

scale on them, So, the other possibility is even more likely, Is your plant suffering from too much sun on this particular part? The heat of the sun is now getting tothe point where it really steams things up. Especially inside a window. Any of the plants that dislike heat (ivy, grape ivy," African violets, ferns, etc.) can take quite a little of the infrequent pale winter: sun without too much trouble. But by February they'll tell you to move them-te shadier spots, “* =~

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By GENE

FOWLER

James Durante.

RAGTIME Juumy Durante had played the piano

in perhaps 20 plac 's— none

of then: monasteries—when

the police closed the rowdiest of them all, Maxine's, in

Brooklyn.

“Maxine's was so tough’ Jimmy said, “that if you took off your hat you was a sissy.” After the police closed the place, Durante began to get

wrinkles in his belly, New York pavements seemed unusually hard and cold to the feet of the job-seeker, Men everywhere were worried, for the German Kaiser had Europe by the beard. The unemployed Durante was walking down Broadway one cold day when a friend] informed him that a job might be had at the Alamo, a cabaret in

Harlem. This downstairs hutch did a noisy business on West 125th St. between Tth and Sth Aves

It had a bar in one room and seated. about 200 persons at battered tables in another dimlv lit room.

- ~ ~ THE only fresh air to be had was what the customers brought in on their clothes. There was a bandstand upon

which a piano plaver and four other instrumentalists, and various singers and dancers performed. “I landed the -job at the Alamo.” Jim says. “and 1 fot $45 ‘a week and tips for playing from 8-o'clock at night till I

. was subconscious.”

After Jimmy had been at the Alamo for six weeks, the proprietor, Mr. Sakerson, put Durante in charge of the so-called “big numbers.”

Durante conducted piano playing contests and balloon: dances. Whenever Jim got up

Trom the piano to make a speech during a dance, Sakerson warned . him: “Make it short.” If Jim tried to say something funny, the proprietor silenced him. » » ” EARLY in 1918 a young ladv named Maud Jeanne Olson, a the Midwest; wandered into the Alamo at about

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth chapter of the penetrating life story of one of America’s great entertainers. Gene. Fowler, the author, is the noted biographer. These installments are, from the book, SCHNOZZOLA, recently published by The Vikking Press. 8 o'clock one evening. She was seeking employment as a singer. She had been sent by her agent to try out at the Ritz, a night ' club not far from the Alamo, and she had mistaken the Alamo for the Ritz. She walked into Jimmy Durante's life to stay for as long as she lived. Maud Jeanne Olson was born in Toledo, O., of 8wedish, Scottish, and French-Canadian ancestry. « After her parents were divorced, she was brought up by her grandmother. She had a lyric soprano voice and sang in Midwestern vaudeville houses under the name of Maudie Jeanne. She went to New York to seek a place in the show world and obtained a singing and dancing part in a Shubert production, but she sprained her ankle at dress rehearsal. x = o on » "THE unemployed girl chanced to meet a sympathetic restaurant owner and booking agent, Sigmund Werner, a jovial Hun-

garian who supplied musical talent for Bromdway restaurants,

Jeanne Olson was in her late 20's when she sought a job at the Alamo. It disturbed Durante to learn that Maudie Jeanne was a soprano--Jimmy never liked to have lyric sopranos in his shows. “Sopranos and violing always seemed a little bit sissy.” He sald. “We wanted noise, hrasses and drums and piano.”

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952

No. 4

DURANTE AS DURANTE—"1 tell them little

like not. tellin' Jeanne I'm playin’

When he accompanied Jeanne during the Alamo tryout, she asked “Whoever told you YOU could play the piano?" It was then that he coined the saying. “Them’s the conditions” that prevail.”

” nu » OF THEIR first days together Jim says, “she didn’t make me mad when she panned my piano playin’. I had to laugh. Whe# we finished work we used to go have a little bite to eat, and I'd drop her off at the door of her roomin’ house, and 1 was really crazy about her.” One afternoon Jim asked Jeanne to go to the Hippodrome Theater with him. Oddly enough Jimmy never had &een a play or a big musical show,

He had attended burlesque

UP FRONT IN THE TWILIGHT WAR . . . No. 3—

Combat Boots Kick Hole In Bottlenecks

By DOUGLAS LARSEN

Times Foreign Correspondent TACHIKAWA AIR BASE, Japan, Feb. 21—The new combat boot is this winter's classic example of how bottlenecks in the states are being broken, and the goods instantly delivered to the battlefield in Korea.

As they are being issued to more and more front line troops, more and more the dread danger of frostbitten feet is being eliminated among United Nations forces. The story of how the boot itself was developed by the Quartermaster Corps, and of how manufacture of them was

expedited; has Wen TairTy well

told. The dramatic finale, however, is now being written in the crowded air lanes between Japan and Korea as the 315th Air “Division, Combat Cargo, completes the last vital link in their delivery to the troops. From the 315th’s three major air lift bases in Japan the boots are part of a daily average of more than S800 tons of other high priority cargo which includes ammunition, fresh and canned foods, gasoline, medical supplies, tanks and truck parts and literally thousands of other items. These supplies flow into 60 rugged front line air strips all over Korea. o ” ” “NEVER BEFORE in military history has any: fighting force had this kind of logistical support,” says Gen. James A. Van Fleet, famed 8th Army Commander. “Through the use of Combat Cargo’s Korean air lift, the major stockpiles of military supplies in Japan and high priority items from the U. 8. are at our disposal in a matter of hours.” Here at 315th headquarters,

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last of three dispatches on the fabulous air lift supply line to Korea by ace Times reporter Dougias Larsen, now in the battle zone after his coverage of the defense bottleneck picture at home, His threepart series will be followed by

—ather-human-—reports—from- the

Korean front.

Maj. Harold C. Conners of Chi- » cago, a soft-spoken former sales engineer who is now director of combat operations, explains fur. ther: “We can drop 200 tons of any kind of supplies at the front lines in as little as three hours after we get the telephone call from the unit in Korea, Actually, at the present time our

delivery of the: new combat boots is strictly a routine for us.”

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THE fabulous records of Combat Cargo tell the story of the greatest air drop re-supply operation in military history, totaling more than 38 million pounds to date, Among things dropped, for instance, was the complete, unassembled, 32 - ton bridge which enabled the trapped 1st Marine Division to span a gorge in the Chosin Reservoir area last winter and make their now-famous Hungnam redeployment. The present relatively stable situation at the front today re-

TOURISTS’ LAMENT—

By JAMES MONTAGNES . Times Special Writer

TORONTO, Canada, Feb, 21° —North of the border, the Canadian dollar ain't what it used to be. It's better. Teghnically, this is expressed by saying that the Canadian dollar has reached par value with the U., 8: dollar. To American tourists, this means

- ‘the end of that favorable rate

of exchange they've long en-

joyed. The visitor could gO.

into a five-and-ten in Halifax

last summer, or’ a meat store in Windsor or. a trading post

in the wilds of Ontario, and

get $1.03 in Canadian money for every American dollar he exchanged. : Today it's an even-up affair. One American dollar equals ‘one Canadian dollar, and vice

versa. This foreign Adange.

rate is arrived at on the op¥n

markeks with every country’s - money bringing what (it's worth. The change in the Canadian dollar's value indicates a change for the better in Canada's financial strength. Part of the reason for the uptifin in Canadian financial fortunes stems from the American money which has come ngrth. Tourists brought in some, investors brought in more, Altogether, almost = $2 billion (U. §:"money) came to Canada in. the past few years. » "- N THIS MONEY has gone, directly and indirectly, to make Canada wealthier and more . -self-sufficient. Investors staked Canada's expanding mineral {ndustries—oil and coal-—and its, huge forest ana chemical works. Money went to, develop the Canadian power system.

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The Girl Durante Later Married / Didn't Like His Old Cap

ag: you know, cards with the boys."

shows, vaudeville, and amateur nights, but never a “regular” show. The Hippodrome was

. famed for its spectacles, Jimmy

had asked Jéanne to meet him at the corner of 43d St, and 6th Ave. She kept the appointment, to find him wearing a cap and a turtle-neck sweater. o Jeanne seemed embarrassed, “Are you going to the show with me?” ; “Why sure,” Jim “Who else?” “In that sweater and a cap?” » ” ~ SHE turned away as he ex-

replied.

claimed, “Daniel Boom wore a

cap.” About this spat the Schnozzola recalls, "For the life of me IT couldn't understand it. I had got tickets in the orchestra,

BOOTS, BOOTS, BOOTS—Supplied with a brand new type of winter combat boot, these U. S. soldiers head back to the front in Korea. Fast re-supply job is cited as a classic example of how bottlenecks are being Sh by the aerial supply line.

sults in large part from the bitter experience of the Red troops with the air logistics of Combat Cargo. For example, last May, when the Chinese were mounting their last and biggest push—-the one that was going to drive United Nations forces into the sea there was

found Canadian properties to be sound and to yteld a good return. Evidence of their faith in Canadian securities came recently, when a new bend issue pf a world-wide Canadian transportation system was offered on the New York market. The bonds had to be bought with Canadian dollars, and there was a rush in New York to obtain Canadian money .to pay for the bonds. So much Canadian industry has been started by American capital that the average Canadian is a little worried. He's afraid U. 8. interests are taking too big a share in their new developments, Canadian financial circles. are. ‘urging Canadians to follow the American

lead, and invest thei®own sav-

_ American mvestors Dave sion—and the

ings in homegrown securities, ea gay . . THE DOMINION'S axpan"ng

only one effective nreans: of stopping them. That was massed artillery defense, Combat cargo delivered by air was the straw that broke the Commie backs: It was the artillery ammunition which finally proved to be the margin between victory and defeat. In

Canadian Dollar Is Now On A Par With U. S.

strengthening: of the Canadian dollar is due to other factors besides American investments,

There have becn no major re-

curring labor troubles, despite some strikes in railways and manufacturing industries, ° And Canada is in the midst of a gigantic population growth. More than 500,000 people have

come from Great Britain and”

Europe in the past few years, and 175,000 strcamed into the dominion in 1951 alone. That was the biggest year since the 1913 immigration boom year.

The larger Canada’s popula-

tion, the bigger its home market and the less dependent it will be om foreign trade, -

Then, tod, Canada has high taxes, designed to curb spending and slow down the infla-

too. I tore 'em up and walked away. So after that, anytime I

‘met her, I had a necktie on, and

I never wore a cap again, which I found out to be the right thing to do when you go out,

Jimmy Durante and Jeanne Olson, were married June 19, 1921, at St. Malachy's Catholie Church on W, 49th 8t. Durante was 28 years old, and Jeanne a vear and several months older than he, For her wedding Jeanne bought a’ brown taffeta dress at a sale, She spent the night before the ceremony at the Werner's, sitting up late to alter the wedding gown. : The Alamo waiters, the sing-

ers, .musicians, and Mr, Sakere

son accompanied the" newlys weds to the wedding party at South Beach, east of Dongan, Hills on Staten Island. Papa Bartolomeo Durante, of course, went along.

- » - THE old ex-barber was fond of his daughter-in-law, and she of him. wear at the celebration, held in a roadhouse owned by dis~ tant relatives of the Durantes. There were ball games on the bkach, Italian dishes, soups, red wine for dinner, and then music and dancing. The next night Jimmy returned to work at the Alamo, alone. 2 Jimmy had astonished Jeanne by saying: “I don't want you to work any more,” As to this decision Durantesays: “Of course, I figured 24 hours togethér would spoil the marriage. I think it is the truth. party is 24 hours together with each other, well, naturally I'd get on her nerves and she'd get on my nerves. And I've got an awful bad . habit: Instead of tellin’ the "truth “se” as not to harm nobody, I tell them little lies; you know, like not tellin’ Jeanne I'm playin’ cards with the boys. “So I tell Jeanne I worry about her health if she works, when all the time I just don’t want her to work because I'm old-fashioned. And it was a big mistake to kill off a talent like Jeanne's, as things later turned out.”

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“Made” Durante. Copyright, 1953, by Gens Fowler)

10 hectic days and nights aircraft poured 6000 tons of 108 and 155 mm shells into one central front airstrip.

AE DRAMATIC as all this

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He gave her a rose to .

And in most cases It a

sounds today the operations of °

Combat Cargo have become & routine which has been integrated as a major phase of the total Korean War picture, Air logistics has won a new, firm place in this war, as well as in future wars, Genial, Capt. Frank Grabowski of Baltimore, responsible for the scheduling and air lift control, explains: » “Early in the war we would push the panic button every time something very unusual came up. Now we know ex= actly where every plane is at a given moment, what it is carrying, where it will stop next, and what its next mission is, We can quickly change any schedule, divert any planes, The unusual has become the routine.”

» ” ~ PRIORITIES are determined by a Theater Priorities Board ° on which all services are represented. a “Generally speaking,” according to Grabowski, “paratroop attacks have first priority, air drop resupply second, air evace uation third, and air lift of care go and passengers fourth.” According to the total stae tistics Combat Cargo has aire lifted more than 400,000 tons of cargo to Korea, in addition to more than one million pas~ sengers. “We are averaging more than 3000 passengers a day,” says Grabowski, “includ« ing about 1500 combat soldiers going to and from Japan for five days of precious rest and relaxation leave.”

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But there is credit control on industrial expansion, adminis. tered through the govérnment's - Bank of Canada, and consume er credit regulations are tight. er. than those in the U. 8. * x = ! FOREIGN exchange control originally came to Canada a few days after it entered the war in 1939. The government

~- set-a rate of exchange for other

curencies, with the U, 8. dole lar worth $1.10 in Canadian money until late 1950. HE Ra

Then most of the exchange P.

control restrictions wete lifted, and the Canadian dollar w allowed fo seek its own Immediately, the premium