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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola |

WE HAVE hedrd a good deal about wives

.and children of American servicemen pverseas.

There are two sides to an ocean and the situation. Through the courtesy of the parents of a young Air Force wife in England, a recent letter

- home is published. They advised and urged their.

daughter to remain in this country. The fact that “thew now can say, “We told you go,” doesn’t alleviate the pain they feel for a disillusioned offspring. < The letter is a monumental piece of- monotony that could only be written when the spirit is tormented by memory and the imagination sharpens ‘the comforts and“ pleasures of home, the home that was left behind.

. ao @ THE PILL of adventure need not be bitter since man does not live. by bread alone. Or pleasure, or comfort, A tragic note pierces the loneliness of a family circle when wise counsel goes unheeded and the pill turns bitter and the sound of a distant voice echoes and amplifies the sadness. It is a letter for those considering a new life in a foreign land for no other reason except to be near a ‘loved one. It I8 a Teter Tor THOSE Who" “have been” and have forgotten the bad, times. It is a letter for those who “haven't beén” and don’t *appréciate fully the things that make America what It is, the best country on the face of the earth. The letter:

“DEAR MOM AND DAD: I have a blue million things to do but. I must write tonight so 1 won't go to bed with tears in my eyes. I'm tired of stuffy old England. I want an ice cream soda. I want to walk into a drug store and spend about $10 on nothing. 1 want to get a little toy for Suzy and a half gallon of ice cream. “I want to buy ‘a comic book and a. tube of Prell. I want to buy a bag of bubble bath, a great big one. I want to look through the birthday greetings and Valentines and see what new funny ones they have. I want to buy about 20 baloons and blow them all up and have them all over the house.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

.NEW YORK, Feb. 26—Who else :but Wilson brings an international romance right up into: your lap, practically? & Miss Shelley Winters is a screwball—a fascinating screwball—but we have to admire.the lady for standing up for “the man I love” and telling her movie bosses to drop dead. I The Beautiful Wife and I

beloved Vittorio Gassman at the Blue Angle cafe the other

morning. “All . right, so I'm suspended,” Shelley shrugged, snuggling up into the hand-

some Italian actor's arms. “All that seems suddenly unimportant to me now.” " “You're being disciplined,” I reminded her. “I am?” she crawled deeper into his muscular embrace, “If this is being disciplined, I like it.” Then, snapping her eyes, the Peck's Bad Girl who overstayed her Rome courtship and vacation a couple of weeks sat up and said: “The company’s so mean. They wouldn't even tell me where to get theater tickets. Isn't that silly? Oh. we'll go on out to Hollywood next week some time.”

Miss Winters

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UNIVERSAL PICTURES had been trying to.

drag her back for finishing touches on a film for two weeks. = “I didn't want .to leave Italy without him. I didn’t think he'd like it.” Shelley leaned over close and put her nose approximately in his ear. “Don’t forget, I made six pictures last year! 1 may not ‘get the award for the best but I might get it for. the mostest!” . Then suddenly holding his hand, Shelley said. “Darling, George Stevens, the director, accepted the Photoplay Award for me today for ‘A Place

" in the Sun.’ He said, ‘T never thought I'd see the

day when you wouldn't show up for an award." "” > & SHELLEY'S been suspended before-.that was the time they met in Italy, last October. “We've been working for the airlines.” she said. “We've crossed the ocean 4 times in 3 months to he together.” 1 asked her what Vittorio had that Ul 8 men don’t . “The glamor of distance,” she said--but 1 must say he wasn't being very distant, neither was she. “What does Shelley have that Italian women don’t?” “upon’t answer, darling. You have an Italian audience!” | “You see” he finally said: “when we met we didwt know each other's language. And when you don't speak the same language Poet “You don’t waste time in chit-chat!” exclaimed Shelley, cuddling again. * THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Baseball's AComin’. Joe DiMaggio’s due here next week, en route to St. Petersburg to meét the Yankees (in his new capacity of ‘reporter). : Joyce Mathews arrived at St. Moritz. Switzer+ land, the outdoor sports paradise. But all the out-

Help Wanted By Elizabeth Toomey NEW YORK, Feb. 26 — Over in Formosa an American girl working for the United States goverment has her choice of spending her leisure hours at the movies, the Chinese opera, dancing or hiking—if any young ladies are intersted in

Formosa. And partically no young ladies are interested.

‘sighed Mrs. Billie G. Moore, the woman whose job

it is to hire secretaries for the Mutual Security Agency. . Righ* ow she's here trying to find secretaries willing to go to Southeast. Asia. : “The critical need” is for Rangoon, Saigon, Manila and Formosa,” Mrs. Moore said. The agency puts all those areas in it§ Southeast Asia classification. ; v oe oe oo

+ MRS. MOORE left her Washingtonwoffice with extensive notes on the advantages of life in these taroff places. After two’ weeks here she will go to Cleveland searching for secretaries. “Let's see,” she said, thumbing through a stack of papers, “Manila has swimming, baseball, soft ball, tennis, badminton, horseback riding, golf and night clubs. In Saigon the girls live in a nice

hotel owned by the government. There are single

rooms with baths and ceiling fans in every room.” Somebody always brings up the unsettled conditions in that part of the world, like the. fighting between Communist and French -forces near Saigon, and Mrs. Moore has to put. away ‘her liste,

’ .

“IN KOREA when the war broke out we got every one of our girls out,” she points out. Her agency, formerly the ‘Economic Co-operation Administration in charge of administering Marshall Plan funds abroad, now concentrates on developing mutual defense plans with foreign countries, she'said, | - ; a “If we could just get the girls to realize that besides a chance to travel it’s also a service to .their country,” she said a little desperately, “We .can have the hest economist in one of those posts, but. if he doesn't have a secretary he can't get

_ the work out.” ’ 3 ‘A girl has to he single and hetween.21 and

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Tells You About U. S,

“I'd like to ge to a department store and buy a new frilly blouse and Jimmy -a T-shirt, I'd like to look at rugs and pillows and shgets and towels and drapes. I'd like to buy a package of different colored panties and a new palr.of

“I'd like to’ look at toys and bicycles and balls. I'd like to look at-high chairs and lamps and pretty bowls and centers for tables. I'd like to walk through all the dress and skirt departments. I'd like to ride the escalators up and down about five times. “I'd.like to look at hats and purses. I'd like to look at cosmetics and jewelry. I'd like to walk all over town with you and eome home dead tired from shopping. : * 0% “I'D LIKE to ride in an American car and go about 70_ miles per hour. I'd like to go to church, our church. I'd like to ride on slick icy roads and play in foot-deep snow. I'd like to show Suzy off-to everyone, I'd like to come driving up there in a car with Jimmy and the baby and disrupt everything by bringing a cake and a half gallon of ice cream. “I'd like to have a nice big electric stove to bake in. I'd like to be able to put a cake in the oven and have it turn out perfectly. I want a stalk of celery, a carrot, banana, winesap apple. I'd like to get my hands on a good potato and come—kind—of—fresh—vegetables..besides. cabbage. and Brussel sprouts, “Yd like to see a quart of milk and eat some cottage cheese. I'd like to have some prunes stuffed with Philadelphia cream cheese. I'd like a great big lettuce salad with wine, vinegar on it, “I'd like to see all’ my relatives and go to a decent theater and to a drive-in movie. In short, I'd like to be back home and so would Jimmy. But then so would a million other men and women aver here. We'll be back in a little over two years. And you can see by the letter some of the things we'll do as soon as we get there. “You never really appreciate that wonderful country of ours until you've been out of it and see some other country. When 1 started writing this letter I was down in the dumps and homesick. I feel” better now. If I've bored you, just think how much good it has done me. -Love, Nancy.” Rough. Nancy leaves little unsaid. Plenty to think about.

Shelley Winters Deties Her Studio

door sports moved indoors just to look 'at her ... Albert Lasker, who's being checked up on at the Harkness Pavilion, appears to be in good health (and wealth, too.) , . . Basha Regis of “Top Banana” is a Hunter College - student international affairs. They're putting a plaque in Judy Garland’'s dressing room at the Palace saying it's her room. She expects to play there annually. It’s almost she'll make her movie comeback next fall .'. . Mrs. Mel Torme (Candy Toxton) lost her baby . . . Milton Berle's TV contract gives him permanent possession of the 8 p. m. Tuesday time slot regardless of sponsor. England's No. 1 Bachelor, the Earl of Dalkeith, ‘supposed romance of Margaret Rose, is still writing letters to NY model, Lee Carter Muriel Greenough, Dick Reynolds’ choice for wife No. ‘3, is an ex-journalist. And if she marries him, it'll be quite ‘a scoop financially. Pardon our braggin’, but the TB Drug and the Gloria Swanson-Brandy Brent weddin' were both foretold right here last week. “wb B FEARL'S PEARLS . .. Comedian Jack Leonard put it this way to an intruder:”“1 don't know you too well and I like it that way.” 3 * Oo b TODAY'S BEST LAUGH . .. “When Marlon Brando and these other stars famous. for being untidy expect company, they probably stay up all night dirtyving up the house” —-Will Jordon. Pres. Truman's friends think the only thing that would keep him from running would be a conviction that Gov.- Stevenson could make it "The Joseph Auslanders (Audrey Werdeman-— Pulitzer Prize winner) &xpect a baby in May ... Kaye Ballard was grabbed by NBC's talent sleuth, Joe Bigelow. ¥ Ww» bp CLARK GABLE and a beautiful ‘blonde left “pal Joey” at the first intermission the other night. One B'wayite said “It was either a terrible show—or a terrific blonde.” Actually, the blonde was Mrs. Wayne Griffin, wife of the Hollywood director, and her husband was there, too. The three were just too tired to see all of B'way's currently hottest hit. ; Wo FAYE EMERSON'S on the warpath against the Biow agency despite the fact her sponsor's offered to increase her program to a fulls hour. Her marriage, we're again told, is secure. . . . Milton Berle rates applause for his quiet, dignified conduct during the Billy Rose-Joyce Mathews situation. re, Mel Allen will probably do all the N. Y. Yankees’ -telecasting (assisted by Gleason and Crowley) this season now that it’s about decided Joe DiMag will handle pre and post-game stuff. . . . Allen Roth, Milton Berle’s band maestro, threatened to quit the show last night after a beef with agency man, Hank Ladd. Sh On

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: An efficiency expert, says Lester Lanin, is a fellow who says his prayers once a year, all the rest of the time says ‘Ditto.” “Be generous’ advises Guro the hairtician, “for when you ‘cast your bread upon the waters,

“it comes back a club sandwich"; That's Earl,

brother.

Need American Girls For Jobs In Far East

sonable enough to pass as a representative of the United States in foreign countries. > Hh Db “EVERYONE wants to go to Paris or Rome,” Mrs. Moore said. “It's even hard to get giris for reece and Turkey, though not‘ so’ difficult as ‘or Southeast. Asia.” The last girl she sent over to Saigon was a secretary from New Hampshire who had worked in Vienna, Shanghai and Manila with the Army and the State Department. That was just a few weeks ago. Now they need four more Saigon volunteers. “I hope to take an inspection trip to our different missions myself so I can tell the girls more about them,” said Mrs. Moore, who has two grown sons. Usually you can find her at home in Vienna— Vienna, Va., just across the Potomac, from Washington.’

Dishing the Dirt Ry Marguerite Smith

Q-—Is there anything wrong with planting plants in tin cans outside of appearance? Mrs. M. E, E 17th St. A—There’s just one thing you have to be care-

" ful about. Tin cans have always been my favorite

plant containers for young seedlings because they don't wobble around the way clay pots do on a

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

crowded ledge and they're always on hand-—as+ plant bands and the other marketed types of things for seedlings are not. But I learned the hard way what the hydroponics gardeners always warn about. If you start using chemical fertilizers “on ‘plants if metal containers you get all kinds of fancy chemical reactions started. Then if the plants don’t happen to like what you've stirred up, they just quit. If you pot your seedlings (or" house plants) in rich soil well-balanced with plant Tood you're safe to begin with. And of course you can always cover cans with any humber of

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Durante for $5000.

want ton replied. ‘But just don’t hurt

The Indianapolis Times

“When | sing a song | roon

‘it for anybody else. It's like

the kiss of debt.”—From the Sayings of Mr. James Durante. By GENE FOWLER JIMMY DURANTE went on a personal appearance tour in the latter part of

#1934 and early 1935.

Packed theaters greeted him everywhere. But in Pittsburgh

WO eR Porionces caused ...him...

great distress.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The eighth installment from: the book, SCHNOZZOLA, recently published by .The Viking Press.

One afternoon Jimmy went galloping among members of’ the audience. He paused to Kiss the head of a woman sitting in the fourth row, then returned to the stage; shouting, “Boy. 1 can’t forget that gal.” The audi-’

ence laughed and applauded.

The = next day the kissed woman and her husband sued She said,

among other things, that the

comedian had “overcome all my

resistance.” Her husband also felt humiliated.

Lou Clayton, Durante's part-

ner and manager, "squared the

beef” at the lawyer's office. Durante sat like a disconsolate anteater in his suite high, up

in the William Penn Hotel.

HE KEPT moaning to his

in my actions.” Clayton returned to the hotel

to find several pals waiting for him in the lobby. them that the charge against Durante had been withdrawn. One friend asked, chances of playing a gag on Durange?” ’

He informed

“Lou, how's

“You can do anything you

to with Durante,” Clay-

. him. What do you mean, you

attractive slip’ covers to make them look better.

want to play a gag?"

It seemed that a fellow townsman, Luke Barnett, was the greatest practical joker in the world. Sometimes he would pose as a ‘waiter at banquets, put his thumb in the soup while serving important persons, and

NEW YORK, Feb.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1952

SCHNOZZOL

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‘I'm as Innocent as a Little Ram,’ No. 8 Jimmy Wails at False Accusations

SHOCKER—Durante was in high hysteria. He didn't know the attack on the priest was a gag staged by his friend, Lou Clayton.

otherwise annoy with rude comments.’ ? “Luke once in while poses as a priest.” said one of Clayton's pals. “It's one of his biggest numbers.” Clayton was introduced to Barnett. They rehearsed the prank and Lou: returned to the Durante suite. |, - ” = ~

THE SCHNOZZOLA was clad

guests

in his bath robe. “All the red corpuskles is gone from my veins,” he moaned. “I'm just a

hollow shelf.” A knock sounded at the door and Barnett, dressed in the black garb and Roman collar of a priest, entered. “I'd like to talk to Mr. Durante,” said the psuedoclergy- - man with a thick Polish accent, “Not so fast,” Clayton said, in a voice Durante could hear

AVIATION'S PARADOX . . . No. 1—

Dollars Haven't

imes Special Writer

26—The series of tragic airplane

crashes shocks no one more than a layman who makes a thorough investigation of air safety precautions. In the words of a veteran pilot, these tragedies don't

“make sense.” Safety precautions taken by the scheduled air lines and government agencies

are impressive.

And yet “soft spots” in safety. operation. Just how or why they affect the recent crashes ig for the experts to say after their hearings. It is shocking to learn, for example, that more’ than $5 million worth of navigational aids is lying around more than 30 airports, unused. After traveling 3000 miles in airplanes, talking with their pilots and with the mechanics as they perform ‘the all-impor-

certain total air

there are the

_tant maintenance work, watch-

ing pilot ‘training, and interviewing government air safety officials, you get a general feeling of assurance in the air safety job being done. Then comes another crash at Elizabeth, N..J.—the third in

“two months. Total dead 117,

and the figure mounting. New-

ark Airport closed. » - -

“IT JUST doesn’t make sense,” says a veteran airline pilot. “I read what the paper says here, but Is can’t believe it. It just doesn't make sense.” And it doesn’t make sense in terms of placing blame for the crashes on Newark Airport, from which all three planes were either landing or taking off when they crashed. On paper, and in the virtually unanimous opinion of the men who fly the planes, Newark is the best-equipped airport and one of the finest from every standpoint in the country. And there is nothing now to indicate that the difport’s facilities were to blame in any of the crashes. Was it just coincidence? . There is nothing: now to indicate otherwise,

= BUT THE. possibility of a

“pattern” in the causes of the tragedies cannot yet be ruled out. And *with that in mind let's take a look at some of the soft spots in the over-all safety picture. They are not believed

- to be critical danger spots, but

they could become so. . First is thé matter of shortages—equipment and personnel —brought about by the military aviation’ drain®on existing supplies of both. : At one tiffte last year traffic in and out of the big Ft. Worth, Tex., airport was heavily -curtailed for fwo days because of a shortage of civilian air traffic controllers. re

un o ” - MORE RECENTLY, and for

. the same reason, traffic con-

trol services to planes was completely. halted for a time at certain points on the airways. AjrHine- officials blame the situation on the fact that military aviation is calling back to

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Each succeeding air tragedy leaves aviation baffled. “It just doesn't make sens,” says a veteran pilot, who knows the pains taken on the ground and aloft to make air travel as safe as possible. Times Staff Writer Wade Jones was already at work, before the latest crash, on an exhaustive report on what the airlines and government agencies are doing to cut the toll of air disasters. Here's the first of a series on aviation's paradox.

duty as Yeservisis large numbers of civilian specialists employed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration as traffic controllers, CAA admits the situation rand says it .badly needs money to train replacements for, the traffic controllers. Right now the situation is not critical, but it could he-" come sof CAA has_to begin scraping the bottom of the barrel for its highly specialized and safety-vital traffic’ controllers.

5 ~ n “THERE 1s no belying the seriousness of the situation,” says Elmer Thompson, spokesman for the Air Transport Association, trade organization of the airlines. If the airlines are to maintain a reserve pool of trained manpower. for use by the military in event of an all-out emergency, Thompson says, there must be some assurance that this personnel not be drained away from the airlines by military recall until there is such an emergency. The same, Thompson believes, goes for the reserve pool

| WELCOME IN TAHITI Natives are ig climaxed the plane's inaugural fight trom

in the adjoining room. “I'm Mr. Durante's partner and business manager, you'll have to explain just what you want to see him about.” “It's about a benefit. I'm Father Zbyszko of 8t. Viadimir's church.” : “Well now,” Clayton said, “Durante’s pretty much fed up with all these benefits and 1 dont..." “Aw, gee, hello Father,” said Durante, coming into the room. I'm so glad to see yah. Here, gimme your hat, What can I do for yah?" “You will maybe come out to our church and entertain the parishioners?” asked the false reverend . gentleman, “unless, of course, you are one of those lazy, stingy bums that never go to church-and . . .." “Aw, no, Father,” Jim protested. He displayed a crucifix

Bought

ring on a finger of his left hand, “I never miss Sunday mass or neglect a day of obligation.” : ~ » »

THE supposed priest frowned, “You interrupted me.” .

“Gee, Father, I'm so sorry.” “Quit swearing,” the visitor yelled. “And don't crush my hat. Have you no respect for the clergy?” Jimmy carefully put the man’s hat aside and said humbly, “Let me give you a check for $500.”

‘I'm np beggar, sir,” the call-

er scolded. “I'm only asking you to play a benefit,” “Sure, sure, Father” Jim

agreed. “Just you name the date. I'm eager to.”

“That's better.” The Father rosé to leave. “Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock then.”

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DEATH IN ELIZABETH—This is the third crash in Elizabeth,

N. J., in less than two months. The city, i Airport, was up in arms. Yet NewareAi .

the shadow of Newark is one of the most

‘modern in the world. Were these accident®just a coincidence?

of equipment maintained by the airlines for emergency use. » ae ONE PIECE of equipment the airlines would give their eye teeth to get is the radar responder beacon, which would enable a control tower to spot a given plane in the air regardless of interference’ by cloud banks or other planes nearby. But industry is ‘tiled up with production of similar equipment for the Air Force, say the airlines.

The military must have—and gets—the best of what it needs, but what remains is not always

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conducive to the best in airline safety. And while the government is on the. carpet, here's one that should strike home to us all: Right ‘now, $5 million worth of navigational aid equipment at more than 30 airports isn't being used because the federal government doesn't hive the money -to operate it,

» » ~ IT'S ALREADY been bought and paid for by the CAA, But that “agency simply doésn’t have the money to put it into operation—to pay for the necessary personnel and electrical power, :

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tion to the fact’ that he must

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Safety .

. from the ground, between elec-

. their OK on-Newark’s visual aid

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Clayton called Jim's atten-

he on stage at the theater by 8, then turned to the sham priest. “Father, that's the time Mr. Durante must go on——"

The visitor wheeled at the door. “You keep out of this." " . » “YES, LOU,” Jim said, “we can work out somethin’. “Now, besides all this,” the man in black went on to say, “I also want to advertise on billboards and In the dally press that you'll perform at my

“That's completely out of the question,” Lou sald. The visitor shouted at Clay“So you hate Catholics, eh?” : . The fake priest moved in on Durante. “Why, you big-nosed ham. What good are you to me if you won't let me adver

tise you? - How in hell can I get anyone into the church benefit?" While. Durante. was

astounded at the uncloistered language of the visitor, Clayton and Barnett went into the routine they had rehearsed. Clayton aimed a blow at the visitor's jaw. Down went the poor fellow, bellowing as though in great pain. Durante . cried, “Lou, Lou, you've hit a priest.” . » - THE “PRIEST™ arose, stag. - - gered out of the suite. Durante was in high hysteria. Shortly there was a knock at = the door. The priest stood between two detectives. One of the detectives said, “Sorry, Mr. Durante, but we've come to" lock you up. A ‘man that attacked an innocent wem- > an yesterday and today slugs a priest. is—" - By now Durante’'s eyes were leaking like faucets. He turned helplessly to his accuser. “Fathem. Father. How could you say it was me that struck you?" At this the practical joker removed his clerical collar. Then he took off his black

sport. The whole thing was just a gag.” Jim looked at Barnett and then at Clayton, who nodded. “It was a joke, Jim.” And now the irate Schnozzola shouted in all earnestness, “Knock his eye out, Lou. Mur-

der him.” (Copyright, 1952. by Gene Fowler)

Next: The Shanghaied Jester,

The | equipment includes approd¢h lights, instrument land ing systems, fan markers and radio beacons, and radar and tower. projects, .

There's still another field of ground equipment which is not nearly what it should be quant-ity-wise. That's visual aid. s =» =» : SUCH AIDS consist of lights and runway markings which help the pilot make the difficult transition, a few hundred feet

tronic guidance and his own vision.

Jronically, possibly the best ’ system of visual aid= in the ene’ tire country is at New Jersey's ill-fated Newark Airport.

Many airports in the country don’t even have white borders and white centerlines on: the landing strips. Both are tremendous aids to the pilot in darkness or bad weather. Fewer yet have lanes of approach lights guiding him into the end of the runway and indicating the altitude at which he should be a given distance from the runway'’s near end. = - * BOTH the International Afr Transport Association, an or ganization of the world’s scheduled airlines, and. the Airline ' Pilots . Association have “put

system and have been urging its universal adoption for three years.

But the CAA has not yet officially recommended its adoption. And again there .is the item of money. CAA would have to pay for all such installations off the runways themselves, And CAA can't pay to operate some of the equipment it already has.

NEXT: Training and regulations designed for safety.