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. THE. NEXT time a down:at-the-mouth-and-neel character sidles up, and sticks his mitt out, ask him for ‘the story of his life. Daytime serial stuff. - ] $i Skidrow bums can” be a nuisance and the affinity they feel for my purse makes the ol’ eyebrows flutter. If, in one square; there are 50 pedestrians and one Joe Skidrow, he'll’ focus his red-rimmed, hound- = cog eyes on. my pocket. Never \\ fails. : 3 They're not born with vardboard in their shoes, wine on breaths "fHve=dav = old 4 péards on their chins, To reach rock-bottom, . they have to work at it. ‘Something in the moral fiber gives way and the skid begins. Always there is a reason even if some of us find it hard to condone and understand. I listened to a story. It could be fiction although the man had no reason to He. He said his story is straight and I have no reason to doubt him. " How did he manage to. get into his present predicament? .Did he ever have a home, job, family? -The man was pushing 50 and obviously had turhed more corners recently where taverns lurked instead of opportunities, I'LL DISMISS the thought that he did it for money although I gave him what. he asked for, 16 billion rashbuckniks. (In Lower Slobbovia the modest endowment would be worth 10c.) “1 was respectable once.” The man shrugged his shoulders and almost made a pass as if he intended to brush the dust off a sleeve. It wouldn't have done any good. “Yes, sir,” he repeated, “I was a respectable citizen once.” The story unfolded rapidly after he surmounted the initial barrier. For 23 years he was a happily married man. he said. Married when he was 21, His son and daughter are married and have families of their own now. He's going to visit them as soon as he “gets back on his feet.” Five years ago the man’s wife became ill. For two vears she was bedridden. At first he tried everything and did everything to help her. He'd come home every night, take care of his wife with the help of his son and daughter.
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AFTER ABOUT a year of that, my new friend began to stop after work for a short snort
it Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW "YORK, Mar, 5-—Movies are doing a comeback. Droadway picture houses are crowded. Whatever happened to television? Seriously, the picture biz is booming. Sam Goldwyn can revive his remark, “I don’t’ want to make a million dollars on a picture. I just want everybody in the country to see it.” And in line with that, here are Oscar winners. We were having a pot of tea with director William Wyler who has clipped them for two directors’ Oscars and asked him if he figured to cop one this year for “Detective Story.” “No. I'm voting for George Stevens. He will and should get the award,” replied Wyler. “I'll make book on it.” : Stevens directed “A Place in the Sun,” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters—I hope I got ’em in the right order. They get sore if you don’t. “What dame — woman — should win it?” we asked him, plunging on recklessly. “If I say Vivien Leigh, then Eleanor Parker, who's in my picture, is going to get sore as hell,” replied Wily Willie, “And if I say Eleanor Parker, then Vivien Leigh, who's.a good friend of ‘mine, will get sore as hell.” Goodness, looks like everybody's gonna be sore as hell around here. “How about the men?" pres Wyler considered one name. ‘Stank,” he said. “Don’t write that down.” (80 I did.) “Of the men, I would say it's between Marlon Brande and Humphrey Bogart,” he answered finally. - . “And for the best supporting actress, Lee Grant should and will win that Oscar, even though she is from my picture.” “WHERE do you keep your Oscars?” we asked him. “I got a bookshelf that I took the books out of. IT even put in a little lighting. When somehody comes in that I want to jmpress, I turn on the lights and light up all the Oscars.” “What picture did YOU like best?” Wyler demanded. “I never go to movies. I vrite about movie people, and I want to be fair. If I saw their pictures, I might be prejudiced against them,” I said. Anyway, we all agreed on one thing—movies are better than ever.
this year's
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK. Mar. 5—Our bright-eyed, beamish boy, Newbold Morris, the scandal-stalker, threatened out loud the other night to quit his job as high exterminator of the Democratic corruption bugs if President Truman didn't give him full support to fire the guilty. He then mentioned hoth Harry Vaughan, the exalted yardbird, and Bill O'Dwyer, the ambassador to Mexico, in the same disgusted breath. That's all, Newbold. Come home, lad. Job over. Because, Buster, you are bucking friendship of a type that was haughty stranger to Damon and Pythias. If the worst threat that our clean-minded Mr. Morris has to flaunt consists only of an intent to head back to New York’s.old corral, this is one cowboy who never should have left his range.
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THE OCTANAGE of Mr. Truman's regard for Gen. Vaughan is beyond computation. Almost since the day Vaughan mounted to eminence as dirtyHoke connoisseur and head bourbon:pourer in the Truman back room, the good general has been sacrosanct. You can mess that old boy. up with scandals and 5 per cents and hot perfume and deep-freezes and grimy associates. but Harry loves him for his own true self alone. THE COMIC-OPERA warrior makes the President laugh. and no court was ever complete without its court fool. That the fool wields power in the land is merely regrettable. but I'm betting Vaughan's around after Newbold has gone, back home, : AIN'T NOBODY going to do very much about that brothy bye, O'Dwyer, either. Our late mayor —he wag, you know, mayor. of New York until the big scandals brewing in police gorruption and political hookups with mobsters erupted —went over the hill with a portfolio under his arm, and lawzee knows what-all was. in it. Not even in the odd land beyond the looking glass would it seem less than outlandish to make an honored ambassador out of a crooks’ consort, which is what Bill O'Dwyer has been proven to be. But Harry blandly offered Willie a deluxe hideaway in Mexico, with U. S. prestige behind him. It-was an odd but effective way to duck extreme political unpleasantness, but slightly unworthy in its open-faced effrontery. I sometimes wonder about the contempt politicians show for the Intelligence of their subjects,
oe oe oe . WELL. there.ls Will down in Mexico, doing} fine in -oil, 1 hear, and it figures. Oh, how it figures, soldier hat cocked over one eve, still in the palace guard. , And then here is Newbold the brave all rearéd back to cast out the rascals.
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to fortify himself for the long evening. Nothing wrong in having a littledrink. For the week-ends, when he didn’t go to work, when he couldn't get a quickie for the road, Mr, Rye hauled in a small supply on Friday night. Excellent arrangement. It wasn't long before the week-ends required
-a larger supply. Of course, the new habit didn't
help his. wife in any way. Relations at home became aggravated when he missed going td work on Monday. The children scolded and pleaded. Mr. Rye went his merry way. ‘ One evening he “staggered home to find. his wife gone. The thildren had taken her to a pri-
“vate nursing home, The lid blew off his jug.
The next: morning a second hand dealer in sticks of furniture was called gn.>Mt _ Rye remembers the price he was quoted sounded big. Enough to get him to the West Coast. Hé remembers taking the scenic bourbon route complete with pink elephants. This mode of travel is slightly more expensive than the water route.
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JOBS IN Los Angeles weren't easy to get, Besides. the requirements were strict. You know, report to work soher, on time, no drinking on the job. : “It doesn’t take long, son." whispered Mr. Rye. “And when 1 finally heard my wife died, I really went on one” Main St. isn't far from Skidrow if you take the right alley. From consciousness to unconsciousness, booze, wine, ¢anned heat, are uppermost in a saturated brain. “You don't think of anything but where an. other bottle is coming from and when.” The time comes when deterioration is almost complete. Body and soul cry out for alcohol to kill the pain and stop the shakes; blot out shame and sense of guilt; bring back a false confidence that all is well; stir one to head for home along a torturous route. . +
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“I THINK I've had a change of heart don't look at- me like that =I mean it. God will forgive a sinner. I'm really going to buy coffee.” : That evening he planned to attend his second Salvation Army Harbor Light meeting. He's going to get off the bottle. He's going to visit his children and grandchild soon. They'll be glad to see him. “It's never.” o Makes a man think of that line: “There but for the grace of God go 1.”
not too late , . never too late . . ,
Rill Wyler Gives His Oscar Choices
THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Henry Morgenthau Jr. quietly: hopped on the Kefauver bandwagon. The Kefauverites will toss a big Madison Square Garden rally in April after the Circus winds up its run.
OPS boss Ellis Arnall is being spoken of as a possible dark horse running mate for Truman . « « Tage Erlander, Sweden's Prime Minister, will fly’ here early in April to attend the Rockford, Ill, centennial, site of a big Swedish community . . . The John Roosevelts, who've moved in from the Coast, took a Park Avenue apt... . Radio City Music Hall figures the millionth person to see “The Greatest Show on Earth” will appear on Monday.
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SHIPS AND AIRLINES are booked to capacity for the coming European migration this spring, expected to be the biggest ever. . . . Billy Talbert, winner of the Men’s National Indoor Tennis Doubles, is going to work for a downtown securities firm. , . . Socialite Bobby Hammond and singer Didi Douglas were a Mirador Bar midnitem. '. . . Operatic star Ruth Shelton of N. J. sings at the Cafe Grinzing. Air Force Gen. Sory Smith's right arm, Maj. Bill Lookadoo, told the Toots Shor mob that Maj. Bob Addie got out of the Air Force and will rejoin the Washington Times-Herald as Sports Ed. . .. Joe Colando, owner of Uncle Miltie, the nag, says he's recovered and will make a come-bhack at Jamaica in April. . .. Fran Keegan and the Cafe Albert parted after a misunderstanding. Roberta Carlen moved in.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: Refinement, as described by Janis Page, is yawning with your mouth closed.
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Hal Fimberg would have us believe his friend bought a 60-room house with no bath because he wanted to be filthy rich.
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EARL'S PEARLS . . . Learning that women used cosmetics in the Middle Ages, Robert Q. Lewis said a_lot of them still do.
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TAFFY TUTTLE'S beau told her, at Major's Cabin Grill, he had some irons in the fire, and she thought he'd given up golf , , , That's Earl, brother.
Newbold Morris Might As Well Go on Home
My, my. what brave talk we hear from the television sets these days. : Morris ‘was a Republican. of sorts, and a sworn political enemy of what Harry's outfit stands for. and so it figures he'll not be able to point the birds even-if he finds them' Hé just sizes up as a neat fall boy for the election conversation. Well, sir, Harry can say we opened the hooks to the opposition. Or, Harry can say, .it is just old political prejudice makes this dear, sweet fellow talk this way. Either way, nothing happens.
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I SEE where Newbold the brave is going to send thousands of questionnaires to government hired hands, asking where they got the money they keep in the cracked teacup on the mantel, and he aims to fire every last one of 'em if they won't say. I would love to see another sad sonf Hleading abject poverty, from Uncle Will O'Dwyer [Last time I read if, Willie was about to weave h ‘ife's own dresses, due to extreme indigence. No. Neuwhold, brave as thou art, 1 suspec’ you hetter come home now, while you still go’ your teeth. You are up against friendship lik unto David never had for Jonathan, which is 1. say you are butting vour head against a might: stout set of hricks.
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—1I didn't get mv dahlias and ,cannaz dug until after the light snow last November. All the roots were undamaged so T placed them in metal containers. covered with sand and took them tn the basement. Now though I haven't watered them some of the canna leaves are over a foot high and the dahlias have also sprouted. The basement isn't very cold but I have nowhere else
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to keep them. Should I leave them alone’ or cut off the sprouts now? Answer how and whenever convenient, Mrs. L.. E. Reinhold, 928 Arnolda Ave. A~Thanks, Mrs. Reinhold, for that “answer how and whenever convenient.” Mail is a problem. If other readers will also tack their telephone number onto thefr letters it will help-—or indicate that you will watch for your answer: in
‘the paper if it's of general interest. As to thosc ambitious tubers,
leave them alone unless vou can find a- cooler storage spot (a closet, a cupboard, an unheated hedrooms). At planting time if you can't save these first. leggy sprouts you still ‘have plenty of other growth buds on the roots that will ‘have Yazed along until proper growing time. You may he relieved to know this ig a fairly common problem with glads as well as dahlias and cannas.
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ANNUAL IU PRODUCTION—
1952 Jordan River Revue
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SEEING DOUBLE—Rosemary Dean (center) is flanked by Robert “Shanks (left) and Mark Gale, both of whom alternate in the role of Martin Brock, problem character in the 1952 Jordan River Revue. The student.written show opens tonight in the .Indiana University Theater on the Bloomington campus,
through 15.
THE ARMY THAT ISN'T THERE .
Every Man Is
By ED KENNEDY THE YOBITAI or National Police Reserve in Japan is as well schooled
in the art of basic soldiering as most armies of thworld. Regardless of their organization as engineers, artillery, tankmen or antiaircraft and other type units, all of the NPR troops have become exEDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Kennedy, Times staff writer, recently returned from Korea and Japan. This is the
third of his series on the Japanese “Army.” - pert infantrymen. The neces-
sary equipment to train them along other lines is not available. ' The training program ha: been rigorous and patterned exactly along U. S. lines, Former Japanese Imperial army officers are delighted with the American type of courses and the time spent on training. They are particularly pleased with the great amoumt of live ammunition we permit the men tn fire. They like the results, too. An average rifle company of 180 men will qualify’ 5 per cent as experts, 60 per cent as sharpshooters and the remainder as marksmen. Only a few have to refire. ’ on ” " THE Imperial army gave a man_only 15 rounds to fire be‘ore going to combat. We permit ‘each man several hundred. U. 8S. officers were skeptical it first about how the small statured Japanese would handle
the big M-1 rifle. There are no skeptics when when the cores are added up. Training “includes riot and. 0b control, which Ig in line
‘ith the Yobitai's adopted guise f policemen. Otherwise jt is ymplete military training. Antiaireraft units learn to pot planes and study aircraft dentification. Engineers build hridges and clear fields of dummy mines Artillerymen hnont mortars, as do infantry men n »” ” MEN. assigned to tank unit "ave a hard time doing thing and until they get
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tanks must he satisfied as in fahtrymen. But they tell you “proudly that -they are reall. tankers
It i= nbvious that somethin, will have to be tone soon ft take advantage of this snow ball start. The present roster of men has been through all i can take now without actuall) iaving additional equipment. Although it was suggested in ome circles, Gen. Matthew B vidgway has forbidden National - Police Reserve troops ~nd U. 8. Army troops working wut together at the battalion level. Such joint operations are ot .permitted and tactical nite’ of the. Yohitai are kept z far as possible from U, 8 actical troops. However, our Army iz eon-
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LEAD PAIRS—The two couples alternating in the romantic leads are (left) Marvin Solley and Greta Gray and (right) Phyllis Cline and David Krevitz. Besides tonight, the revue, an annual |U event, will play Friday and Saturday and Mar. Il «
ducting an on-the-job-training program, Service troops from Japan Logistical Command and the Yobitai work side by side at such things as shoe repair and heavy maintenance. : ” ” ~ > THE obstacle course, bain of many a draftees existence,
emerged from World War II as
the confidence course. Nearly every Yobitali camp has one and it is one of the most popular spots in camp. Some officers have removed it from the training schedule be cause the men go out and wark on it in ‘the evenings and on Sunday. This valuable training time is thus saved for othe things. The men use the UU. S. manua' of arms giving translations o our commands, As long ag the: stand still they are well drilled But as the comman: march is given, 38 short, usuall: howed legs step out in the mos! awkward cadence imaginable At any rate the men are en thusiastic in*training and wan to learn U. 8. advisers. ar unanimous in this opinfon:
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vou feel like your accomplish ing something.” ‘; Hours are spent daily | training aids shops by volun ‘sere, building wooden tank
ind machine gune so the Yohital will have something more than ‘a cardboard target to hoot at on the combat range. Currently the weapons trainng includes light, heavy and o0-caliber machine guns, 60 and 81 mm. ‘mortars, the rocket launcher, grenade launcher, rifle grenades, hand grenades, M-1 rifle, sniper rifle, carbine and .45 pistol. Ho Bayonets are not issued because of their bitter connation in the last war. In riot drill, however, men are taught three strokes from the "hayvonet manual, out the cold steel.
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WRITERS—Marcia and Chris Hamilton, - brother-and-sister team, wrote book, lyrics and music for the revue.
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COMICS—Holding Patricia Fisher is Charles Sena, chief male comedian of the show. Miss Fisher and Patricia Wilson (right) of Indianapolis, alternate in the goon-gal role of Sulla Ann Brodney, which requires a variety of absurd acting, from eccentric dancing
to parodied grand opera.
CONFERENCE—R. Lyle Hagan (left) of the IU speech and drama department, confers with Indianapolis student members of the cast (left to right): Barbara Lem. ons, Ann Garnier, Glenna Martin, Jack Featheringill and Harriet Stafford.
Infantryman
as well as knives and forks and spoons at chow time.
The men must all qualify in their basic weapon and fire all others for familiarization an advantage many American troops in Korea have. not had. : Maneuvers have been carried out up to the regimental level. In the field men wear fatigue
with light pack. They prefer a light pack to, none at all. Théy carry a shelter tent half, blanket, raincoat, toilet articles and meat can. The meat can is a food container
and also serves as.mess gear. The . raincoat is rewverzible,
white on the inside, and doubles as a snow camouflage suit. n on » THE. troops’ diet is heavy in.fish and rice. Rice is served with = every meal. - Sukiyaki, made of tough . beef, lentils, cabbage,” barley, seaweed, onions and radishes, and as-
sorted soups appear a great
deal on the menu. When they entered Yobitai most of the men ate with chop sticks, but many are changing over to “forks and gpoons. They find they can eat faster that way. »
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A full battalion of 900 men can be fed in a messhall with
only 200 seats in less than an
hour. They eat in great haste and with considerable audible appreciation of the food. In the Imperial army each man cooked for himself. They like the new deal. As long as the Yobital remains free of the Imperial army system of beatings and
thought policing the new polices ~
men-soldiers like the Yobital,
NEXT: A New Word in
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