Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1952 — Page 21
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Inside Indianapolis
. By Ed Sovola
THE PHILOSOPHY of Carl Cochran, small businessman, is: “If they want it, they want .it and if they don’t, they don't.” Carl operates the Sales Shop, 634 Masschusetts Ave. During the past 11 years, Carl says he's had everything in the place except a team of horses, Most of my window-shop-ping ‘is done closer to the Circle and it isn't often three old canes, a used baby toddler and a set of unmatched pots and 7 { pans catch my eye. For some reason the display did and I pushed on the door, which, in- VAN cidentally, if you wanted it badly enough, Carl would sell it.te you. Just inside the door, a stack Yl nf used paint can be seen. For ale? Certainly. Carl explained quickly that anything with a “Not for Sale” sign on stays, otherwise—either make an offer or ask the price. * “ dv 0 A VISITOR is immediately impressed the piles of merchandise and junk. 1 can junk because Carl admits himself that, spring, some of the stuff is going out on dump pile. Carl is an easy talker and he doesn’t use high pressure methods. Neither is he insulted when you mention the appearance of his store “Customers who come to” 4 second-hand store don't want it to look good. They want it all disorganized. They get a kick out of tearing things up and getting dirty,” confided Carl. “I cleaned @nce and nobody came in for a week.” One side of the store was filled with smaller articles such as rusty lunch boxes, shoes, umbrellas, canvas folding cots, clothes, lamps, tire rims, tires, hub caps. Everything seems to depend on the law of balance and gravity. oo oe oe A PAIR of tennis shoes were wedged hetween a lamp and tire rim. Tangled in the laces was a wire coat hanger. Tangled in the eoat hanger was a canvas traveling bag and propped against the bag was an umbrella. I can't imagine. what would happen if someone wanted to buy the ten nis shoes. Maybe .Carl wouldn't sell. He has a cardhoard Budweiser picture of Gen-
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eral Custer's Last Stand that he won't sell. Not right now, at least. He enjoys looking at it Three old wooden c¥Mairs, marked $1, were
near the ceiling. Carl shudders when he thinks
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Feb. 22- In New York, everything . A fellow who has a wonderful stomach—or 2 simply horrible one—stood in front of people the other night afd gulped 24 drops of nitric acid. Before the main course, he crunched some glass off a water tumbler, some chunks from a phonograph record, and some phonograph needles “I'm very disappointed,” he said, licking his lips blissfully after dining on the phonograph record,
you see
“that . I. can’t get permission to do something else 1 do often, bury myself alive for 72 hours : : “I'm a father and grandfather. I have re-
So after drinking the nitric acid,
sponsibilities. to take any
I'd better rest—as I don’t want unnecessary risk.” The fellow who was being so cautious about his health was Hatayogi L. S. Rao, .62, a longwhiskered, long-haired Yogi, from India. “He could pick up the atom bomb and eat it” and it'd never give him worse'n hiccups,” one spectator said. Us New Yorkers have great “I-want-to-see” curiosity; so a good crowd was in the Tudor Room at the Henry Hudson Hotel when he came, barefoot, to the platform, and faced us amid burning incense. “000000000000000000h,” he began, then after 1 lot of .strange -sounds, he addressed us as: My dearest souls.” Peace, he said, would come through mastery Af the body by the mind, by Yogi. Picking up ihe water glass, the hors d'oeuvre, he let us eximine it, then bit off a quarter's worth. Cranch. cranch; ecranch,” was the approximate sound from his mouth. . . . And that “Poison” hottle stared at us from the table. You folks who like a nice juicy jazz record for dinner would have watered at the mouth when he bit into “One More Kiss.” More cranch, -ranch; cranch. Then he asked some women to toss the phonograph needles into his mouth, as though they were peanuts or popcorn. Then—the poison. “How many drops are fatal?” “Four,” somebody thought. “Let's fix it at 16. Let me be liberal,” But he actually poured 24. He tossed it off out of a wine glass, like brandy, saying he'd control its passage through his body with his mind and never feel any burn-
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he asked.
he said.
Selts ‘Em Everything
lf They Want It
Whenever anyone buys a chair, tested for strength
of those chairs. he says, it iso pulled down,
and “dust.gets all over the place.” 3
“How about getting nicer chairs?”
“Get real nice stuff and people won't buy.’ o> # &
The Indianapolis
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 22, 1952
{NOTICED two lawn movers on sther wie FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY —
of the store. Both were buried under other articles. Doesn't worry Carl. He doubts whether anyone will come in for a lawn mower at this time, ‘If they do, he'tl tell them t& come back in the spring, when there is grass. Old bird “cages. old canes, even when they're half covered with insulation tape, “always sell.” Carl told about an old fellow in the neighborhood who came in for a 50¢ cane. “Poor ol’ guy lives on less than 30 bucks a month so 1 gave him the cane. I don’t do that if I see them hitting the taverns. If I catch Him going into a tavern that cane is going back in the window.” Carl picks up most of his merchandise at auctions and when older peoplé move. He had an elderly woman come in while I was there who sald she was moving and wanted Carl to take advantage of the bargains she had Probably some more bird cages and gas stove irons.” The latter are in demand for door stops.
THE DISPLAY people will undoubtedly disagree witn Carl, but he believes if you want to sell a piece of merchandise you have to hide it. In a second-hand store a customer wants to dig and. when he digs it out; don't be in too much of a hurry to sell. Carl has a copper kettle, he's going to sell one da. and is the size of a washtub ple wanted to buy. it but he refused, guy will eome along. Just like the time he bought a picture of an Indian for a dime. A couple of days later a man said it was just what he was looking for and put five bucks on the line. Which proves, ‘if they want it, they want it.” Not all deals are profitable. motor cost him $14 they don't want it,” Carl's out of luck. “People don't have the money anymore.’ sighed Carl. “Excuse me, I'm closing up.” The time was noon and he had a date with a stop =ign at 10th and Carrollton Ave. Carl is a school traffic guard at School 10. Yeu can do that when you're an independent small businessman.
over 60 years old, It isn't very pretty He said three peoThe right
An old outhoard and finally, went for $4. “If
We Go fo See Yogi Guzzle Nitrie Acid
David Davidson whom. IT met in the audience “During prohibition I drank acid every nigh' and nobody ever thought anything about it.”
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... Ella Raines—wh: hecame a mother five weeks ago—is going skiin in Sun Valley, then to Hollywood to do a Re oublic technicolor, “East Wind to Java.’ If Milton Berle goes to another sponsor (wi don’t think he “iy, who'll get the Texaco spot” Could it be "J. C. (Oh, all right, you force m¢ -Jack ter ) The Eddie Cantors are grandparents via dt: Janet (Mrs. Robert Garis) . .. The Eleanor HolmBilly’ Rose trial (if it ever happens) isn’t likely ; to occur till next fall .. . Johnny Jelke and Debbie Smith, the model, caused a genuine sensation in Acapulco . . . Veronica Lake's wearing a “Pixie Cut” created by John Fonda. Seeing newlyweds Benay Venuta and Fred Clark at the Blair House, we asked them how they met. “Playing husband and wife in ‘Light Up the Sky,” said Benay, “——and we didn’t like gach they: ”
WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Any speaker who doesn't strike oil in 10 minutes should stop boring."—Louis Nizer. Film and TV luminary Horace McMahon's starting personal theater appearances (1st in Seranton) but though he got raves as a police lieutemant in “Detective Story,” he'll still be billed as “Hollywood's Favorite Gangster” ... The Sid Caesars had a fon , . . Polonaise Patter: June Havoc'll play “Affairs of State” in London. Ya oe oe TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Then, according to Murray Dale, there's an actor who has three companies after him—gas, telephone and electric. The Walter Winchells visited Lindy’s‘ and W.W’s also been back to his regular hangout. His return to the air is expected Mar. 2. . . . Milton Berle and writers Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen called it a day . . . In Washington, they were going to preview “Five Fingers” for all the FBI men, but J. Edgar Hoover said no more than six can be together at the same time.
Miss Lake
Pupils Honor Mr. Washinzion
HOW DO YOU DO?7—A formal bow and curtsy by these pupils of School 39 start the Virginia Reel and Washin.
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members. The Couples are Dora Crowder and Herbie Rose left) and Anita Hougland and Hephon Fisk.
MUCH OF government
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By DAVID WATSON the business of stopped observance of the birthday of man who long has been popfilarly known as “the father of our country.” But the public &chools have a more direct method of recognizing George Washington, twice President of the United
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States and revolutionary military leader. They are attending classes as usual and are reviewing his life in pageagtry, song and verse. For weeks. the elementary and high schools have been at work. on special programs. All this week the finished products have been presented at gspecial® school gatherings and ParentTeacher Association meetings. Some went on stage today.
Typical of the school observances were those at Washington High School, and Schools R, 521 Virginta Ave. and 39, 801 S. State Ave.
Dressed in period costume the children of the grade schools went through the 18th century dances of Washington's day, and then told the story of the statesman's life. The well-known Colonial Chorus of Washington High key noted the birthday schedule at the West Side school. Youngsters in the primary grades, too, were initiated into oo
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ton's Birthday exercises presented for the school's PTA
A STEP — then + curtsy. This old dance was De gd Fe. demonstrated at School 39 by Bonnie Switz and en :
: . : hatchets, cherry trees and scrap Ronald Saunders, in observance of Washington's hooks of clippings from papers
IT'S DIFFERENT NOW-—Cimparison of life in Washington's anv and 1952 was portrayed, in part, by Michael Steadham, Irene Larter and Gorden Smock
oo oo oo “SAVE YOUR MONEY,” warns Lynne ‘Gilmore. “You never know when you may need some
How come? the Stan Bukor Agency. take $350.
He’s being booked for lectures by For $400. But might
“What's so great about it?” demanded author
Americana
scrap paper.” + —— That's Earl, brother.
Bootlegging's Back.
_Birthday.
and magagines
*SCHNOZZOLA
(standing) and Pat Clancy, of School 8. 3
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By Robert C. Ruar: And Taxes Pid, N Cyrano of the Cellars Moved NEW. YORK, Feh. 22—Although I am not among my sisters in the WCT d UU. But, un- : N 5 ro y ‘ = + a drinking man myself, since I consider alcohol fortunately, he er cherishes iret —. has too 0. Into His Own Nightclub Upstairs
a basically ireacherous fluid, which encourages undue frivolity among the. young and .causes little vein to bust in the cheeks of the old, 1
cannot but decry the high cost of distilled spirits
as a grim tuning fork to the tenor of our times.. This is not a stand I might
no dough does not necessarily emulate a man of high purpose. What ‘he does is pry the top off a flagon of shaving lotion or unzip a ¢anister of entrapped heat, or sneak into the nearest alley for a jug of suspect ’'shine, which wears no man’s tax collar. That these potions corrugate his innards, hob-
“Broadway is a great street when you're goin’ up but when you're goin’ down take Sixth Avenue.” —From the Sayings of Mr.
James Durante.
By: GENE FOWLER
floor as a comedian. As an employee at other clubs, whenever Jimmy had tried to say anything the bosses had stopped him. Now he was a ‘boss hime self. He could do what he
A have taken in the past, when nail his organs and inflict severe contusions of THREE persons, ‘above all the others in Jimmy wanted to do. President and ey de rly tats his. moral maintenance makes very Nitle aifer-”" te’ lorful career, had the deepest influence on Treasurer Clayton said so. been called prejudiced by an ence. Not if he’s real parched of throat and soul. uranie 8 OIG 1 RPE ai Clayton hired a piano player . occasional 42h of dandruff-re- “aw him. called “Sticks” to play the Duiin BS ul a, unhung- THEY SAY bootlegging is bigger business io- First, there was Bartolomeo, his sweet-tempered rante songs. . i over citizen that I be—drat day than it was back in prohibition, and getting father. The second was Jeanne, === - Ee. And ndw Clayton coin e sre" = that doctor—I think that 10 bigger all the time. Glad cries echo from the . his loyal wife, who loved him EDITOR'S NOTE: The fifth einams for Da ranie of bucks a gallon in tax is too swamplands ‘and high hills and even backyards, possessively. The third was installment of the life story Sc inozz e, .— Sc) nozzola, danged much for anybody to as the smell of cooking mash fills the wintry air - Tou Clayton, fiery tempered °f one of America’s Freien or shply. ; chnozz. “Clit 0 have to pay for a jug of hooch. and the imminence of stark, sudden blindness worshiper of the Durante star. ¢niertainers. Gene Sak would —_ en Ope y I am now prepared to answer Mr. Omar Khay- lurks like Aladdin in a fruit jar. Of these three, Clayton ‘be- the author, is the noted dig ould. Fur Sut. 2 : e c en, vam’s querulous query about what it is that Gentlemen . who used to toy with a suspicion came Jimmy's chief mainstay, grapher. These Shapers are Prete an Jo look, br Te, and er vintners buy that’s one-half so precious asthe of ‘bonded. stock to ward off a cold are gargling his advisor, confidant, best from the book, SCH! o. heh he tons je | e wa a Ls stuff they sell. They buy battleships, bud, with lemon extract again, and I suspect that the bath- friend and sometimes severe ZOLA, recently published by g y the and ye
the tax on tipples.
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is to tax it, and tax it some more, and then slap
tub will once more produce a substance more voncrete than cleanliness, such as gin.
trunk) with its smaller branches into the house, cut the end off clean, dusted it with a rooting
disciplinarian. down the love these two men
Broadway set
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the Viking Press.
n ” » THE CLAYTON influence al-
the cashier to stand aside while
There were two large win-
that he has discovered oil. Then Jackson would ask where,
singer at ‘his, club.
A a 3 e like nobody's business and - Clayton would sa “In 0, Eventually, if the rapaciousness of govern- s one Gance ' . " Yr lt it 3 AN EMPLOYER of mine, a fellow with little ment Ea to. its a: Shots Cort. had: one for the other as on and you won't do us nothin Jimmy's Schnozz. h b its *Xpens > of its outstanding miracles. \ an When Ji ¢ nderful telltale marks of the lusty liver on "his person- yes there will be such a high tax on everything. ClayPon, five or six vears i, $0 hdusht this over. ey Ls my refused to pervlaid ality, has broodingly compiled a table of national ,jeasant that we become a nation of lawbreakers: older than Jim, was much more C an on ) ough CI Oye A . Sanne . sontinus her b > decline, based on the rise in booze taxes since (Cronks, ave'll be, driven to a life of shame—by > mature and worldly wise. They : in a A Sag a) er, the disappointed . BU te repeal. In 1933 the taX on a proof gallon of government greed. Haul the cat out of the copper met soon after Jimmy Durante | “at COTURE 8 OO 7 'H00 TL pan apie] hindy Spirit was BLI0 Eu it had risen to $4. In yettle, maw, I think I'll g0 in business for myself. had started to climb in the n yore. bully or a tough guy pdr a Baviser oat ze8 19: is now 50. word 47% in as ] y. la) surped.—- ’ : . - m y fy s: navy That is better than $2.60 per quart of federal \ - Durante; ihe Cyrano of the Pufther auglinol £11 80 some ey ot ing tat Place. : d tax alone, which works out in the vicinity of 16 Dishin the Dirt cellars, by the early 1920s, had ] I ; mmy Durante help nah ; cents in the government till for every hearty A moved “upstairs” to lead his SORA. be president and I'm : matters by telling Jeanne little \ ih ¢ Slug.eie you. are ot a Sviot one-ounce man. and Wig Marguerite Smith Tanda pis own plore. Fie Sonya be treasurer, too, of the y TON “You po lles, saving that he was going ' / occasiona waste a . - a . — . " go Id i 1 i a sermon in scotch, or basic truth Q-—Last fall T purchased a 4 ft. pink dogwood. Po Detaie In “That's good enough for me,’ DURANTE ND Lou CLAY ou’handlie the money, théatrical ‘managers to find ) in bourbon, it is simply that what has happened A couple of weeks ago some of our cats got to “°0 YE A ot to more . Jim said. “You can handle the Lou, ‘all want to do is play the piano.” - work for her on the stage. He - 5 to booze is. what's happened to just about every- playing in and broke gre one of the big main) ° "gg0 a week. : money, All I want to do is play Orie morning, - as president “Lou. go apen the front win- = did not ‘sense that Jeanne had $3.98 J thing in the era of murder by taxation. The idea branches. rought” this branch (more like a piano. and treasurer, Clayton asked dows." a secret desire to work as a Bi
another plaster on it, until nobody can afford it. Then everybody quits buying it, and the goose no longer renders up the golden breakfast. oo oh oe
chemical and set it in wet sand. A week ago some tiny nodules were showing at the end, I've
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column
of 1923 that Clayton entered into Jimmy's career and friendship. Lou was one of the best soft-shoe dancers Since the days
most at once affected the business. The strong-minded Lou could say ‘no” to a best friend. Clayton's unyielding observ-
he checked up to see that the reading coincided. with the amount of cash in the drawer.
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dows overlooking 58th 8t., with panes painted green and covered by black curdains. Clayton went to the windows,
» » » HE ALSO could not see that he was well on his own way to becoming a great entertainer. Even if he had, he would not
| : t of Minstrel George Primroge. nce of his code, “don’t push _ ; 2 : parted the curtains, then a of Js Eeiiey 5) ds salle ner tne BY in The Sunday Times He had been a headliner on the aM ioe round.” made up for Puss THE RIBBON showed hi opened one creaking window. : a - oe tananced Sanne eanne’s : 4 Orpheum circuit at $1500 a nte's lack of purpose. Jim club had taken in more than Jimmy said, “Look out and “ of. businéss by greed alone. dug 15 removal 2 ‘been, afraid to disturb it since then. But now week. He had earned a fortune would shillyshally, avoid de- $7000 that night. ' The till, see that nobody is passing.” And that" he says, “was the (1) incentive to buy Suk 43) yy a, a 1ny green leaves are beginning to show. Now but dissipated it by gambling, cisions, try to please everyone however, held $700 less than: - Clayton gazed out on the | biggest mistake I ever made.” takes a very rich man eliber t d is the wet sand sufficient to nourish these leaves his greatest weakness. and get into all sorts of mix- 2 early morning street. Nobody Unkn to Jim, ‘his wife be- 3 drunkard today, if he uses legal booze, stamped oo. wall as make roots. I was wondering about Clayton was practically broke the recorded amount, Lou came so unnerved and ill that
with the legal sticker. Toots used to say that any bum who couldn't get drunk before midnight wasn’t tryin’, He might add today that anybody who does get
- using fertilizer . solution? Os manure water? Or
put it into dirt? Mrs. R. B. A-—1 wouldn't disturb the cutting to transplant it until it is really growing well. But in the
when Durante offered him 25 ‘per cent of his little club, “if you only just come in.” Durante had -two partners already,
ups. Jim had never paid much attention to the cash register. Like all the other equipment at the club, it was an antique. ,
asked, “where’s the rest of this money?”
Frank Nolan offered the explanation, “this cash register
was to be seen. Durante picked up the cash register and threw it out the window. “I'll tell you somethin’, Lou,” he sald. “that damned register
she drank duting her \ nights at home. haa’ not
tremity she ar
loaded is either buying on expense account or is meantime it will, as you suggest, need some- Frank Nolan, an ex-waiter. and Bacli evening "Wien A : : ) n, i 3 g when the club is second-hand, and it jumps.” ain't never gonna jump no . engaged in illegal eterprise for undercouriter thing to grow on. Fertilizer solution is ideal. Eddie Jackson, an entertainer, opened it contained what wal . Clayton ookad at in more.” : : ~orayton she ee ; easly Use it very weak at first. Giving the plant- who later became part of the called “the bank. petty cash’ “We're over: $700 short here, a ee L ! Pec If we achieved a nation. of teetatallers as an occasional dose of manure water will be good ~ team of Clayton, Jacksonand, in the amount of $500, to make: and the afiswer that I get from DURING the first week at bh
e as I, the prohibitive tariff on nerve tonic might be called a sin tax. or a powerful force
for its helpful bacterial action. As soon as growth
seems normally fast, you will be safe in trans-
Durante. - ¢ 1 don't want you to put up
-. change, because there was no
tab-signing, no charge accounts, ,
our’ partner, Mr. Nolan, is that, the register jumps.” ;
the Durante Club, Clayton decided to take Jim away from
4 for Fou, and - there would ‘be great rejoicing planting the new plant. “ no cash,” said Jim to Lou. “You and no .Bonkkeephig. Durante took the Initiative. the piano and put him on the do 3 hey CMR : : : fo Mad tly a - « : Be : a a r Li ae “gli : i oh : 3 : 0 i ha ir : . 3.3 He ? : ad T . . 3 . iid % < . $i x Le : rh ; : a. 2 y 2 = ; i o onl a ry o ta : . Py a : £ ; :