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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sov ola
THROUGH the door of the County Clerk's office, pass, rubbing elbows yet, the happiest and most disgruntled citizens in these parts, To the left as you enter the door, County Clerk ‘H. Dale Brown's workers sell marriage licenses:
To the right, they take alimony i payments. After studying the 2 MARRIAGE contrasts, I feel that a parti- ¢ ICEN tion ought: to separate
the = dreamy eyes from the dagger ¥ ALIMONY eyes. : : oC 2
At a safe distance from either line, this objective observer couldn’t figure out whether to
ers or_the knot seekers, It was a cinch I :had to feel sorry for one or the other, While watching the men and women in the alimony line, you're tempted to glance over to the lily-of-the-valley department and say, “Suckers, you'll be sorry.” >: e oo oe oe WATCHING the hand-holders, the whisperers, the gigglers and the blushers, music permeates the noisy room and the heart goes pitty-pat.a Young love, so full of promise, signing on the dotted line (sometimes X marks the spot) is a sight to make the most calcified heart flip a valve. What to say to the unfortunate who have failed to keep the sacred covenant of matrimony? You coutd say, “Ah, you're jealous of their happiness and bitter that for you it is all over. Remember, yeh, how you stood in fhe same line and whispered. rubbed noses, were impatient of each moment and your failure galls you.” (Maybe you would spout like that, but I wouldn't, Not even to the guy who ‘stands 5 feet high in elevator shoes and weighs 90 pounds. Ar™alimony line isn’t conducive to laughter.)
THE ALIMONY LINE appeared consistently and considerably longer than the license line. I asked Mr. Brown if Cupid was taking it on the chin, He is. During the first 22 days of this month, 340 marriage licenses were issued. During the same period ‘last year, 381 were issued. And is is Leap Year. In January of 1950, support payments he tune of $9910690 were paid into the County
Clerk’s office. Seems like a lot of dough for one
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Feb. 27—There I sat in this famous restaurant, feeling very proud of myself for my guest at tea was Marlene Dietrich, Two guys I know prety good were a couple of tables away, trying to eavesdrop and wishing they were with Marlene Dietrich, instead of each other. : “And then” Marlene said, suddenly, in a voice that filled our part of the room, “1 wear tights for the first time. : “I hope hose . two heard THAT,” I thought myself, but to her I said, politely, “Oh? The first time?” “Ummmmm.” Marlene had been having a tartar sandwich —practically raw steak—and she nodded above the sandwich and said. “Black tights I wear.” She smiled a seductive smile. “Undoubtedly they thought of the tights as a device to show the legs?” I asked. After all, back in Ohio, I was the politest little boy in school, and always said limbs, instead of
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Marlene
legs. And now I didn’t say “your legs” te Marlene. That would be too personal. “Yes. Because in the 1870 period, "” Marlene said, “the women didn’t show them.”
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I HOPE you "Il notice that even she didn't say “Jegs:”? Like I said, it Was (00. “per Sa Se “deligate. “Them,” she said. “Id have thought,” I said—hoping™ SEERA the two guys watching me could hear the trend of the conversation—“that sometimes in your movie career somebody would have thought of tights.” . : o a “OH, BUT I choose what I- want to wear. And there has to be. a. reason.” Marlene had finished the tartar steak sandwich, and now as she fumbled with a cigaret which I was lighting, she emphasized that point. . ‘Let's see, what is the reason this time?” 1 said. - “The picture is the life story of this woman.” Marlene answered. ‘‘She has had a busy life And at one time she was an actress. In 1870, I guess, the actress costume was high-laced boots and tights.” My hopes suddenly fell,
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Feb. 27—1I have been gcquiring thumb blisters in the rapid riffle of several volumes of divorce law, but so far have been unable to find any‘records of gentlemen being awarded divorces (with punitive damages) for the em-’ bezzlement of a dead lion by a wife. It may be that I am in process of making legal histo?y, and future students of the law will be forced to cite Ruark on lions before they achieve the sheepskin. The facts are, yerronner, that I once acquired, at great risk to life, limb and solvency, the corpses of two lions. These lions were shot legally in Tanganyika, under a full Ilicense, for which I have the receipt. They were shot by me in the presence of witnesses. judisprudence, these lions, to as felis leo, are the aintiff, which is me, or I.
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ON, RETURNING home from Africa to New York, plaintiff sustained great mental anguish and a seVere shock to the nervous system when a saloonkeeper, hereinafter to be referred to as the accomplice, approached my table and said, quote: “Thank you for the very nice lion.” “What lion?” I replied, digging into my yogurt. “The lion your wife just gave me,” the accomplice said, turning on his heel in order to pad the check with a few spurious items unordered by the
By all precepts of hereinafter referred legal property. of the
_ plaintiff. I have the check ‘here, verronner— ‘one
hamburg, raw, $12; one glass milk, $6.50, storage space for one lion (felis leo) $250.00 per annum, Insecticide to keep moths out of lion, $5.” Haying approached the bridé of my bosom (and she ain’t as young as she used to be, either) with an accusation of unwarranted disposal of personal property, to-wit, one felis leo, full forequarter mount with his feet on. a. papier-mache rock, I received the following answer, “Ha,” she said, and I quote. “Ha, ha. If you think a girl is going to live in a New York apart‘ment with two lions, you are out of Your ‘mind, Buster.” Buster, yerronner, is a snide way of re-.’ ferring to the plaintiff when the defendant wishes to place the Plainpy on the defensive. - IF THE COURT PLEASE, it may he spe-° cifically noted that the'lion illegally bestowed upon the fence, or accomplice, was in the plaintiff’s judgment the best lion, being unusually large in. size and lush of mane, This lon’s neck hair was roughly as red as
‘Dinah Shore's; making it exceptionally valuable
to the plaintiff, who has been secretly in love with Dinah Shore for years, but who has manfully su ssed his feelings out of deference to the 's wife and to Mr. George Montgomery, an unusuafly . large specimen of
.genus homo, who 1s married to Miss Shore.’
It 1s to bc noted further that no objections
were raised by the defendant against my posses-
sion of lion No. 2, who looked more like Russell
N, than he looked like a lion... Y. the court consider alsd “that the janitor bullding has » met me inti in the
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Love’s Young Pream Meets Alimony Row
month. © The take was greater after the “Runaway Pappy” law went into effect. The pressure: was put on pappies in mid-Janu-ary of 1951. Of course, théy knew it was coming. By the end of the month, $100,207.12 was on the books. A record was established for January of this year—§145.5606.42. ‘Feb. 6 was an all- -time high for one day '% business—$10,642.10. Costs money to live with ‘em, and costs to live without 'em. How does a man get ahead? On Valentine's Day, divorce decrees outnumhered marriage licenses issued by one. We should know such things before merchants fill their windows and counters with hearts and flowers. oo oe oo MOST OF THE MEN in the alimony line 2re blank' of face, give the appearance of extreme boredom. When two mien begin a conversation, it invariably is directed to the guys and gals on the other side of the counter. One cigar-smoking, well-dressed, portly gentleman in the alimony line stared mercilessly at couples in the marriage line. He didn't take his eyes off the license counter, And when he saw a girl touch her one-and-only’s slecve with her cheek and giggle, the ol’ boy hung his head. Some men in the alimony line simply turn their. heads when they see a young “buck” showing off in front of his future bride and parents. Everything is funny. The man with the cigar and experienced ‘eve tried to burn a comic groom-to-be to a crisp with his stare. The kid was immune and unconscious of stares because ‘he “was gittin’ maaaarreed.” ow oo» oe WOMEN in the pay-off line, I learned, bring in the money their former husbands and providers pay them. Maybe the old man. doesn’t have time to go to the courthouse with his contribution. His former spouse takes care of the detail. Support money. by law, must be paid to the clerk so a record can be kept. After it is paid in and recorded, the dough is sent to the proper person. The two groups have nothing in common. The one is starting out and the other is back and paying for the damages. Must be a depressing sight for all concerried. All hope and no hope. All smiles and no smiles. Tender are the hands that grasp the marriage folder. The.receipt at the ali mony window is usually jammed into a pocket. Parition is what they need in the clerk's office,
That "Gammorous’ Gal Wears Tights
“You wear high-laced boots?” TI said dis appointedly. “Oh, what a shame. How high?” For it seemed to me, that for this “gammorous” gal to wear tights and then to have the gams covered with boots, would be some terrible miscarriage of justice. “Oh, they go up. to about here" Then suddenly and without any ceremony, Marlene pushed back the table there at 21, hoisted her world-renowned legs up. on the seat beside her in full view of this blushing correspondent, and showed me. “Just to above the ankle’ she said with a don’t-take-it-so-hard kind of a smile, “Thank goodness,” 1 sighed. “For it be a crime against beauty, laced boots conceal the legs.” that even in mv worry, I still said, “The legs.” (I hope my two chums over.there saw THAT performance, I was thinking.) oe o 2 oo IT COULD BE that you are wondering what this is all about. It could be, too, that you have dropped off into a sound sleep, or are down at the corner, playing snooker. Anyway, it's about Marlene's new picture, “Rancho Notorious,” in which she wears—as I may have subtly hinted— tights (for the first time). Marlene is a busy girl for a grandmother, - what with doing a weekly radio show, and maka love songs in German . slfes beautiful ian her televiston. ; *Deo you coach Riva?” 1 asked. “Oh, God no. 1 would never. dare to coach her. She has more talent ‘than I ‘will ever have. I'm just there to tell her what she wants to know. That role I fill well. All my life I've been a good
would
You will notice wag polite and
mirror.” “I heard a rumor that your records were kind of sexy?” “Well, the musicians whistle—does that mean anything?” “Very good.” I said. “But I think I will write a piece about the legs.” I still said ‘the ‘legs. being such a gentleman. “Because, after all,
whom does ¢he public associate with beautiful legs?” “Betty Grable,” said Marlene. > SH TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “You can always tell a married man.” says bachelor Robert 2 Lewis, “but'why rub it in?”
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Bob Mourns His “" Red-Haired Lion
vants’ hall with the following statement: “Thank you for the pretty big deer you gave me’ for Christmas, it was just what I wanted. She—-I mean Santa Claus said it was a waterbuck.” 1 ask the court to admit as record the fact that said waterbuck may constitute the world’s record for Tanganyika, and is held second only to plain-
- tiff's red sled in plaintiff's esteem.
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AS FURTHER evidence of effort on the part of the defendant to unhinge the nervous system of the plaintiff, I cite a recent conversation between defendant and an interior decorator." “What in heaven's name,” the defendant said, “am I going to do with a lion, a leopard, a cape buffalo, a cheetah, two Thomson gazelles, two elands, an oryx, three Grant gazelles, two impala, and a boar warthog in that nasty little room where the old man plays the typewriter? What do you suggest as an answer to my problem?” “Get a divorce, dear girl,” the decorator was heard to answer by the elevator man and two distant cousins who owe me money. “By all means, get a divorce.” That is why I am suing first, yerronner. If this is not a clear-cut case of conspiracy to dispose of stolen - goods, of wilfully administered mental cruelty and a potential plot against the defendant's nervous well-being, then there is no justice left in the land. In summing, I would say that any woman so soulless she will illegally give away a fellow's best lion is apt to season his soup with a touch of ptomaine, for obviously she does not have his best interests at heart.
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—I have many small seedlings of shrub roses, multifiora and others, ina window. How soon can these and butterfly bush seedlings be put outside? E. 17th St. A—I'm afraid you'll have a young garden growing indoors before you can set these seedlings outdoors safely, Theoretically your rose plants are quite hardy. Tops of butterfly bushes definitely are tender. But seedlings raised under average indoor conditions are extra-tender. Such ‘plants always make me think of children who have been so shelteréd from all life’s hard
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column : in The Sunday Times
knocks they just can't stand up to the chill they get from normal difficulties, ~ Unless you want to wait until the end of April to sef your garden out, you'll have to harden these plants by gradu alty getting’ them used to outdoor conditions. That means putting them outdoors every mild day and. gradually getting them to take cooler and cooler weather.’
‘of temperature to the indoor. raised seedlings. . Another solution—set plants aut by the end of: March and cover with plant protectors. These are not $5pensivg and take the place of a cold-
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A cold-frame would be ideal help here for it eases the ‘sudden changes
The Indianapolis Times 1'
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1952
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“When | hear an imitation of Durante | feel pretty bad about it for they do the job better than | do.”—From the Sayings of
Mr. James Durante.
By GENE FOWLER LOU CLAYTON, closest friend and agent of Jimmy
‘Durante, had a seemingly
ruthless policy of making
decisions contrary to the wishes of Jimmy's wife, Jeanne. That policy should not be attributed exclusively to a
desire for money, True, Clav-
ton sought financial security for
Durante, If left to his own oddities of purse, Jim would gallop over the hill to the poorhouse.
So Clayton had no qualms about shanghaiing the Schnozzola. Among other factors, he felt that a theatrical tour of the British Isles would convince Jim of his own shining talents. “Jimmy's heart is in the right place,” Clayton said, “and that's what makes him understood by everybody. And when I wanted to take him abroad, I wanted the people over there to see hin «in. the flesh, and know what a great man he was. I wasn’t going to let anything or anybody stop this even if I had to trick him into getting on the boat.”
Clayton lured the Schnozzola aboard the Normandie on sailing night by persuading him to attend a bon voyage party for some departing theatrical people. Martin Beck, the vaudeville magnate, was aboard, as were Max Gordon, Broadway producer, and Ben Goetz, London Fepresentative of M-G-M Studios.
AT CLAYTON'S request Mr. Goetz had a piano placed in his suite. Jimmy and Lou arrived at about 10 o'clock at night. The party was going strong. The ship would sail at high tide at 11:30.
Jimmy sat down at the piano to play and sing. Clayton helped out with dances. “ The Schnozz became so preoccupied with his singing and clowning that he did not observe several guests legying the. suite. Nor did he hear the first warnings of “All ashore ashore.”
When tugs nosed in and be-
AVIATION'S PARADOX
Skilled Per onnel Troubles.
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EDITOR'S NOT E: The ninth chapter of a series from the recent book, SCHNOZZOLA, published by The Viking Press,
gan to whistle and the big ship's whistle blasted a reply, Jimmy shouted, “Ha. Ha. Somebody's competin’ with me.” Suddenly Jim stopped playing. “Lou, the boat's shakin’, Can't you feel the viperations?” He sprang up from the piano and ran to a porthole.- The lights of the pier were receding.
“Help” he howled, “we're on the brainy deep.” “Don’t. worry about it,” Lou said. “We'll get off at One
Hundred and Twentyv-Fifth St.”
. - n “WHY YOU BUM!” Durante screamed. “One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth St.! What do you think this is? The night boat to Albany?” “Well,” said Clayton, get off .at Portsmouth, or wherever it is we get off,” and he escorted his amazed pal to their suite on A-deck. He then outlined the route of their tour, said they must rehearse painstakingly so as not to use certain slang expressions that were all right for American audiences but meant some-
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thing quite different in England. > “Lou,” asked the Schnozz, “how do you know that the
people in Dublin, Ireland, will understand me? Do they talk English over there?” “They talk English better than you and me put together.” Jimmy cabled Jeanne, then proceeded to have a good time aboard. THE TOUR of Ireland, England and Scotland was an artistic and financial success. Near the end in Scotland, Clayton received a telephone call
No. 2—
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: "MIAMI, Feb. 27—At Miami's sprawling, fatermationsd Airport it's a rather common occurrence to see a fourengine plane suddenly lose the power from ene—or even two of its engines during a take-off.
But nobody holds his breath, and no crash sirens scream. The engine “‘failure”
isn’t bad in this case. In fact, it's good. It means thea t some airline pilot is undergoing training or getting a periodic check-up on his proficiency and that his instructor or check. pilot has deliberately cut the engines at a critical time to test the skill of the man at the controls. Needless to say, there are no passengers on board. Under Civil Air Rules every pilot must have a proficiency check every six months. There “are numetous -other Civil Air regulations covering pilots, and nearly all airlines maintain standards even higher than the minimums prescribed. All airlines maintain train--ing -schoals for co-pilots, and for pilots switching from one type plane to another. y nn i YOU CAN'T help noting in the commercial airline pilot of today the silver threads you'll find among the gold, red, black -and blond. A large number of the pilots are in their upper thirties, forties, even fifties. "That gray hair can be taken to mean lots of experience, and for safety in the air experience is one thing you want in the man at the controls. “The younger pilot may have faster reflexes,” says Capt. John Gill, Eastern Airlines’ chief pilot, “but the more experienced man will be more dpt to arrive at the right decision first, because of better judgment.”
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Each succeeding air ‘tragedy leaves aviation. baffled. “It make sense,” says a veteran pilot, who knows- the pains taken. on the ground and aloft to make air travel as safe
as possible. Times Special _ 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 second of a series on aviation!s paradox.
CAPT. D. C. PEARSON JR. assistant chief pilot in charge of training for Pan American World Airways’ Latin American division, says he has noticed recently a difficulty in obtaining sufficient numbers of qualified co-pilots. * He admits he doesn’t know all sthe answers as to why this condition exists, but believes that, like traffic controllers; congiderable numbers. of co-pilots are being called back into service by the military reservists. So hard-hit are the airlines by demands of the military for personnel that, as one airline official reported, “If a certain reserve unit-in California were suddenly called back to active duty, commercial airline operations would come to a virtual halt.” That unit is heavily loaded with top airlin@ pilots. One of the biggest problems facing the pilot today is the enormous number and complexity of the dials and instruAs it is,
$50 MILLION INDUSTRY
RICHARD KLEINER
Times Special Writer NEW YORK Feb. 27 « For years, the standing joke in the tropicdl fish industry has been that business is getting along swimmingly. It's more than just a joke today; that little goldfish bowl on your. living v 5o room table has boomed into a whale of a business that runs into the millions. It's hard to pinpoint the growth. The Census Bureau doesn’t count pet fish and gup‘pies don't have to register for the draft. But the best guess among men who know fish best is that between 10 and 20 million people share tfieir homes with fish ‘these days, about twice as many as did so 10 years ago. The business of .aupplying these fish and then keeping® them happy ‘with food, plants, medicines and assorted accessores has grown accordingly. ‘The Aquarium Stock Co., pe of the ingen in tbe Bai;
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mates that its own “buSiness has quadrupled since 1945. Irving Straus, president :of the Aquarium Institute of America, says that any estimate of the industry's annual dollar volume is “purely a wild guess.” His. own purely wild guess is that the tropical fish business Is now a $50 million-a-year industry. And it's growing. # % = THE LAST few years has seen the coming of the tropical fish store. Most fish were—and still are—bought” in pet stores, from a rusty, cloudy tank in a back corner, behind the parrots. But the latest New York classified telephone directory “iists 22 -all-fish stores, and the
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of the 3500 stores in America that sell fish, 100 sell yo’ other pets. Here tropital fish are king. The tanks are crystal clear and infinite variety of
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Lou Clayton Kidnaps Durante So He Can Tour British Isles
"WHAT DO You THINK THIS IS? The night boat to Albany?"
from Harry Foster, London representative of an American theatrical agency. Jimmy listened in on an extension In his TOOM: Foster was saying that a British studio wanted Mr. Durante to appear in a picture, “Land Without Music.”
The studio ig prepared to give,
Mr. Durante four thousand pounds or roughly the equivalent of $20,000 for four weeks work,” said Foster. “They must think Durante is a bricklayer, want $40,000, and I don't want it roughly, but in American money.” Durante hung up and ran into Clayton's room. “Knock it
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said Clayton, “I-
off, Lou,” he whispered hoarsely. "Please knock it off.” = Clayton paid him no heed. “Maybe” he continued into the phone, “if I can sit down
and talk to these people in per-
son they - will consent to ou: price.” « - Durante, unable to influence Clayton, returned to his room
to listen in again.
» - ¥ , “I WILL be In London .tomorrow morning,” Lou - was saying, “and will go to the
Savoy Hotel to register; then I will go out to Denham to see your people. I'll not let them or anyone else, even the King, knock Jimmy Durante off a pedestal.”
INSIDE AN AIRLINER—The complexity of the cockpit in
modern planes is a big problem
for aviation. There are some 100
instruments and dials, and’the industry is working to consolidate this equipment, to simplify operation.
some big airliner cockpits have some 100 -such gadgets.
» - = “THE BIG thing now ig to
consolidate some of this equipment,” says Pearson. That feeling is echoed by many others in the industry. Such consolidations are in the works and pilots hope te be getting ‘the "benefit of them soon. One important one would combine four present dials into one which would show simultaneously the airplane's direcion as well als the degree of its “pitch and bank. Representing the government in our 25-year-old, fast-growing air industry- over $1 billion in total operating revenues last
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tric eels at $2000 and evil-look-ing, toothy piranhas that like to eat: people and carry a §750 price tag. But guppies are only for beginners, and eels and piranhas . only for millionaires. Although some enhusiasts eventually build up collections valued in the thousands, with four or five 150-gallon tanks, the average collector is about halfway be- . tween that and the glass bowl. 28 =" IT IS this average fish tan cier that is the backbone of the
- industry. He goes in for the
standard fishes — things like’ mollies, bettas, barbs, tetras
and platies—which come in all shapes, sizes, colors and prices. In size, they range from the mosquito fish, which is about one-quarter of an inch long and b&ars live young that can be seén only under a microscope, to the discus fish, a round creature that reaches 10 inches in diameter and sells for about
#100 a pair.
In color, they range from the coal-blackness of ‘black.
: mally to the pase whitish ink an
vear—are the Civil Aeronautics. Board and its related, and sometimes overlapping sister agency, the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The two set up and enforce air traffic regulations for the entire county, establish rates and points to be served, prescribe safety rules, and investigate airplane crashes. CAA owns and operates all of the electronic traffic control and navigational aid equipment at the. country's airports. But sometimes it doesn't have the money to operate all that it owns.
» ” n ONE OF CAA’s important functions is to keep a daily re-
of the kissing gourami. Some are solid colors and some striped or’ spotted or spattered with color. Some are drab and some —like the brilliant neon fish with its shining blue-green and red. stripes-—sparkle like jewels in the lank, ” » IN SHAPE, they range from the slimness of the pencil fish, which stands on its nose and looks like its name, to the angel fish which, with its trailing fins, is taller than it 1s long. And there are curiosities, like sea horses, which need salt water, and the blind cave fish. "But only’one-third of a tropical fish. store's business, Mr. Straus estimates, is in actual fish. The majority of the sales are accessories. First come the. makings of a comfortable home for the fish--tanks, plants, colored sand and rocks, heating and filtering and aerating’ equipment to keep the Water clear. , Then. there is “food. Most
«Nohbyists use a Prepared food
‘Small Tropical Fish Become A Whale Of A Big Business
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“What's a pedasill?” Durante blurted out on the extensiom, Foster “was plainly amazed at this interruption. “Who was that?” ; “It's nothing,” Clayton said. “Something's the matter with our connection,” and he hung up. ‘Durante charged back Into Lou's room. “I don't know what your pedasill is ..,"” “It's a thing they put statues of heroes and big politicians on in the park.” “I don't want nobody to put me on-a pedasil.,” And Jimmy gave Lou a tongue lashing. “Are you crazy? Dickerin’ over a pedasill? If you'd knock off this offer, we'd get that twenty grand. What are we gonna do back in America? Let's knock it off.” \ “Not for any bargaine base ment price.”
” " ” “BARGAIN basement. Twenty thousand dollars, Lou. It's a European picture; they never show it in America, so it can't 3 hurt me.” ¢ ’ 1 “Jim,” said Clayton, “you can always get twenty thou-
sand. Let's see if I can't get forty. You know my slogan in of life ‘is, ‘If I can't get five I'll
fake two, and if I can’t two, I'll take one.’ The way you along, we do things for nothing. Betause with you it's ‘Let's knock it off.” Jimmy had no answer to this, He left the room, got his hat, and sulked out of the hotel, Lou caught the next train to London. . In a couple days Clayton phoned Durante. “I -got the contract in my pocket.” “Good, Lou. Good. Twenty grand is not to be sneezed at, even with a nose like mine.” “1 got forty. Now I'm going up to Glen Eagles while you have a week off in London. They've got two golf courses up there, the King's course and the i Queen's course, and I want to play them. I'll see you later. “Gee, Lou,” Jim said. “Don’t ever pay no attention to me when I say ‘Knock it off, but just keep on lookin’ for more bargains.” NEXT: Into the Dark Valley, (Copyright, 1953, by Gene -Powler)
E Te ‘on every mishap of cone sequence to an American com=mercial” airliner any place in the world, from Carlsbad to’ Karachi. What CAA is looking for principally is any pattern of trouble in particular types of planes from an apparentlv related cause. This could mean a mechanial or structural defect— usually In newer type planes whose bugs haven't been entirely eliminated—and if the pattern is definite enough it can mean the grounding of - all planes of that type until the difficulty is eliminated. CAB investigates all airline crashes to try to determine their cause. The amount of technical skill and know-how that goes into such investiga tions is tremendous.
” » » FOR INSTANCE there was the Bryce Canyon, Utah, flam« ° ing crash of a DC-6 in October, BB 1947, when all 46 passengers 5 and a crew of six lost their lives. CAB officials and more than 100 volunteer specialists from airlines and related manufacturers collected literally thousands of bits -of burned wreckage strewn along the 29mile path of the plane as it disintegrated in flight. . "The pieces were labeled as to the map location where they were found. Then began the long job of reconstructing the plane from its fragments in a 3 special hangar.’ & The job was almost completed when a second DC-§ crashe landed in flames at Gallup, N. M. The second plane landed in one piece with no fatalities and from it and what héd been learned from the first plane's wreckage, the cause of the fire in both cases was’ established and the fault corrected.
NEXT: Reckless pilots.
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MEDICINES “are "another big item, becduse fish are subject to disease. The chief enemy of fish is a fungus infection, called . | ichthoyphthirius—the fish peo {i= sensibly call it just “jek” — i
ultimately, dead fish. Many pat. ent -medicines claim to “ick,” as well as other disorders. Lastly, there. are for the tank.-These may simple things like anchors ans ceramic gadgets, or they can be . elaborate: decals which are plied to one whole side of we tank and make it look ge an
to care, one way or