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HAD A Ser distressing communique from’ home and mother that may send: me flying any moment to the middle of the room where I shall kick and pound the floor, She can't do this to me Specificallv, the davenport at our house, that faithful giant of mohair and spring, has been replaced by something new and every vertebra ‘(how had news gets around) is threatening reprisal. - At any moment I expect them to heat against the spinal cord with the loose discs in my back.
My mother didn't go into } the gory details in her letter that my brother John wrote. stated
She simply and hlitgely that “everything af home is fine and we finally got rid-of
that ol’ davenport and chairs, You'll be surprised when vou come home for Easter.” WITH THAT davenport gone. 1 may never
go home, ever. "How can I walk into the house and look ahother davenport in the cushion? I'm ton old to begin a new life an a new davenport. What would I say”? How would T say it all choked up and bluhbery? : A loving son leaves hame for a little: while (it will be only 10 years in Septembherr and they cast out the furniture he loves, without warning. There yesterday, gone .todav. It wouldn't be "so bad if she had asked me tn come _home and pay my last respects. Ah, and if only T had been home .to defend the three faithfuls which have served us well for over a quarter of a century. Never a whimper about the load. To the last breath (that's up to the time my mother says to shut up) I would have tried to prevent the final disposition. To be fair about this, I. have to say we've talked about replacing the living room furniture for years, AROUT 10 YEARS AGO, Ma got om her high dishpan and. almost whisked the davenport from undeg my hack. We talked for days, ranted for hours, raved for minutes hefore it was ‘decided to try elip-cavers My. argument then. as it would have heen tnday, was ‘that our davenport (and chairs) had everything a good davenport should have:
It Happened Last ! By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Mar. 10—"Keep ’em laughing” is our simple aim in life. Some of our stories are old, some are silly, but some, you must admit, aren't funny, either. Anyway . .. Adm. Halsey man’s interview program the famous man said: “Admiral, how did you get ow oo oe WE HOPE our friend Frank Sinatra and the papers make up soon. We anticipate him doing great at the Paramount. The other day one Western paper headlined, “Ava. Gardner's Third Husband Arrives in Town’—didn’'t mention his name, >
was on a famous other night. The
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SPIKE JONES’ “Musical Depreciation Revue” plays Joliet Prison this week. So Spike wired the warden: “Put on extra guards. I don't want anyone to escape under cover of my music.”
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MICHAEL DISALLE’'S one of the best wordhandlers around. The day he left Washington for Ohin, he was in Toots Shor's with his wife,
and said, “I moved my two hags out nf Washington today. Really,” he added, with a look at his wife, “my three hags.”
Tough spot for a husband to_be in. plained, “My wife moved her hag, too.” MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, daughter-in-law of the great Teddy, dropped into the Lester Lewis talent and production offices to pick up some film of her late husband. A busy receptionist, seeing the handsome grandmotherly woman, told her, “I'm sorry. We're not casting today.”
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THERE'S A GROUCHO MARX quality to Vietor Borge's nonsense at the Waldorf Empire Room. Describing a love scene, he says: “He had his arm around most of her. They were sitting in a little hotel room in a little town. It was such
Americana By Robert CC. Ruark
NEW YORK, Mar, 10—You see where they gnt tha Navv nn the fire again for spoiling 23 grand worth of meat in a supply depot, and hetween the meat and the ovster farks you'd think the old s=enior =ervice had already blown World War II1. On' the non-hysterical side 1 would like to stick the neck ont a touch for my alma mater, who iz not the worst old girl in the world when you get to know her. She moves slow, but she generally gets there, and one thing you can always say for the Navy: She always has her worst foot forward “from a standpoint of public rela-
tions. She is, and has been, her own worst enemy in the public view, on o> WHILE THEY HOLLER about a few piddling dnllars’ worth of meat going had in a Navy deepfreeze 1 may “piddling” not from my vantage, but from a standard of purchases so vast that they dwarf the imagination and, while some hadyv makes a hig thing in Congress ahont oyster
forks, I will het von that vou didn't know the Navy haz, heen practicing an oer all economy measure that measures up to anvthing in big husiness The Navy, for instance, 15 3a 40 hilhon-dollar business that peddles its portion of future se curity to the nation Its enterprises combined more than outweigh the working operation of General Motors, General Electric, and American Telephone and Telegraph. Sears and Roebuck stocks 100,000 items—there are -2. 2 million separate items on the Navy inventory, ONE OF THE THINGS the Navy has practiced successfully since Jim F orrestal instigated it 1s a hardheaded efficiency effort called the
industrial survey division, under Rear Adm, Jack
Pearson. This is a task force compased heavily of experts~drafted from private industry, whose whale duty is to conduct surveys of naval institutions, techniques, and physical properties with
a hard eve Ao cutting the fat off manpower and materiel,
The men who farm out from the hig corpora
tions, the hig manufacturers and oil companies, don’t know anvthing at all about naval pro dure or time-wasting formalities, Their repor are
as unbiased as reports can he, and their authority comes direct from SECNAV.
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THEY HAVE FOUND faults and wastages, and their Tecommendafions have largely been adopted. - Savings into the millions have been effected, One survey alone of the Alameda Air Station resulted in a transformation of techniques that cut reconditioping time for aircraft in half. That achievement alone is immeasurable in lives as well as money. It 1s the popular thing In this Country ‘to howl our heads off at e military, and to think of all our fighting a s peapled by parasites who live a kingly life work grudgingly. while magnificently disregarding the enzta fn the taxpaver. In anme instances it is true. In all operations, private and public, there iza"a certain
~. amount of waste and inefficiency, boratizy ‘the
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‘Springs were as comfortable and at the same time
as strong As a masseur’s fingers; cushions were big-and deép and a 6-foot man could streten out without touching his head or feet; the huild was heavy, solid, sincere. In short, we had a work, horse, not a show horse. True, youth was’ gone. “The mohair wasn't pretty and the only curves were in your back if you had to move the stuff around during housecleaning time. Slipcovers did wonders to change the appearance and conversation, When I go home for Easter, Ma says, T'll be surprised. With my eyes. turned to the Rainmaker, I fervently offer up swafches of faded mohair in hopes that our living room hasn't lost that “liveding look.”
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MA COULDN'T, just eouldn’t, I sav, buy those instruments of torture that pass for furniture, It takes time and patience, but comfortable furniture can be had, One must be careful, however, In my wanderings over hill and living room ever since I took the last beer out of the refrigarator for the road 10 years. ago, the sacrum has. known many samples of inhuman furniture art, “1 have scooted on davenports that broke apart at the slightest movement. Undoubtedly the sectional stuff serves a purpose. Many homemakers have it on exhibition and they can keep it on exhibition. I'll sit on the floor, thank vou
My idea of an easy chair means it has a large support for my back. the seat is cuddlycomfy, it has arms that will support. during the
course of an evening, legs, head, arms, tray of sandwiches and sundry liquid refreshments. oe oo oe UTILITY comes first, T don't want an occasional chair that gives occasional comfort, I don't want to feel I'm sitting on top of a mushroom.
Don't sell me on fancy quilted designs, curved backs, parabolic sides, no arms, furniture that is unconditionally guaranteed to produce scoliosis
and 4 twisted psyche within six months. When I park this bag of hones after office hours, the receptacle must take all of me tenderly, and the feeling should be such as a baby experiences in a mother's arms. A chair or davenport shouldn't he a challenge to my comfort or sense of halance,
We had large comfort. at home. ves, we had it. Now what? Brother and sisters, tell me there ir nothing to. worry ahout. And to think the
atom bomb used to make me lose sleep.
Some Stories Are Old. Some Not Even Funny
a little town, it didn’t have a hotel—just a hotel room.” > » ” THE MIDNIGHT EARL . ., , Paul Scheffels, radio are parting company . . .
Balaban, Barney's
long one of Walter Winchell's important advisers,
and ABC Gloria
daughter, and Andy Baxter, of the Cleveland Indians management, seem serious . . .
Joyce Mathews has been seen around Rome half a dozen times without a man and one friend writes, “I know she'll be back to marry Billy Rose” . . . Sheilah Bond's in Columbia's “The Marrying Kind.” If Harry Truman runs, the Veepship’'ll be offered to Sen. Russell in an effort to woo back Dixie . . . Dagmar’'s TV *show’ll be at 12:15 a." m.—first big after- midnight video effort. Ingrid Bergman'll make another picture with Roberto Rossellini, “Duo,” in Italy, after having her baby . Milton Berle's pay will go to ahout. $15,000 a week If the new Texaco deal
Miss Bond
is signed . . . Irene Rich, 60, and Geo. H. CIlifford, 70, celebrated their second anniversary at the Tower Isle in Jamaica. ° SKN EARL'S PEARLS ,.. “You can’t take it with von" tants Boh Haymes, “unless you're only
going to Washington.” Wl TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Coleman Jacoby knows of a television gag writer who's =o rich he lives in a 12-room file.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Texas cowhoys now drive Cadillacs and get about 20 gals to the
mile’-——Mary Collins. TAFFY TUTTLE reported she had a date with the front of a theater—a marquee , , ,
That's Earl, brother.
I'nele Bob Defends His Alma Mater
hvdra-headed manster sn large as a diffused military force cannnt he run as econnmically and tantly az a single shep or a single ship. on ox oe 1 BELIEVE the military steady rap on the knuckles, to keep it in its place as the people's servant rather than the people's master. 1 think that their stupidities and wastages should he deplored and checked whenever possible. But there is always the thing we overlook; generally speaking, they do a hopelessly intricate chore pretty well, on the effort of sincere men who are in a sense dedicated, since.
dezerves a pretty
they do not work for heavy profit and there 1s no more old-fashioned peacetime security ‘and solid sinecure,. We have been screaming, too, about consolidating all the purchasing power for all the serv-
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ices, and that, tag. has some flaws which havent heen tharanghly exposed to public view, Right now ‘the Navy hiuvs all the paint for all the wervices. for instance. That can he pretty ally, fav. when the .Navv.has fn huy 1t in mavhe Philadelphia and then pay shipping rates to send it to the Army in east Texas at & 3 ABOUT THE ONLY POINT | make 1n th
sermbn 45 that you can't get vourzelf in a swivet
over some isnlated instances of mild ahuze or error when the bulk fs functioning pretty well for a sprawling monster. There are positives acs well as negatives, but the difference is that- no congressional ¢ommittee ever goes to bat to praise, ® -. - i . » Dirt Dishing the Dir - ' > By Marguerite Smith Q Trunks of two small fruit trees and a lilac
bush look green, What does this mean? I also find
patches of moss in my lawn. Central Ave, A— Moss on tree trunks may indicate need for more air cirenlation but does not hurt trees When trees and shrubs are spraved you rarely find mons on” them. As In the mnss in veur lawn, it could
Read Marguerite Smith's 5 Garden Column in The Sunday Times ’
mean 160 pich moisture or too little plant food. Sn consider whether; your lawn needs hetter drainage or more fertilizer, . Q—We want to move shrubs, ‘with evergreens. When is the best time? x rove, A-—The sooner the better, After leaves come out the shrubs will have more trouble adjusting to new growing conditions. If you move them carefully with ‘a good bail of dirt around the
roots "voit have every chance of success,
replace them Beech
Q-— My hegonias budded this winter, buds drv
several times , , , plants Charles Flver, Monti
ip and drop off . ., . lank healthy. Why? Mrzs, celln, . : . . A--Cauld hatiinhalanced plant fand, Try fertilizer sznlutinn. Or it might he insects (thrips),
Rog hot dry alr might also cause bud drop,
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The Indianapolis Times
MONDAY,
MARCH 10, 1952
PAGE 9
‘MYSTERY MAN’ GRUNEWALD
No. 1—
Henry Started Out As A G-Man
Ry FDWARD F. RYAN HENRY WILLIAM GRUNEWALD made himself Washington's best connected wirepuller by practicing on Congress, His friends—he has them in all corners of Washington got the laugh of their lives when Congress called him a “mvstery man.” Half the population of the U7, 8. Capitol are reputed to know him, from Sen. ators to doormen, from Repre sentatives to pages. From his unlisted telephone in the Capital's swank West! chester Apartment, Grunewald's wirepulling circuits run to all the echelons of government, His gravel-voiced “this is Henry" is the unmistakable badge of his business, even since his trunk line into the Bureau of Internal Revenue ‘has been exposed. Vice President Barkley knows Grunewald and says he always thought well of him. The same
goes for Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) the Senate minority floor leader. Democrat Grune-
wald gets favorable notice from Republican Sen. Owen Brewster (R. Me.) who says Henry always “seemed simply interested in doing good and never in asking for anything.” Few Democrats ean claim such praise from Brewster, . » » » GRUNEWALD prizes a thank-you note from President Truman for $1600 -he gave the Democrats in 1948, but he is not above dropping a G-note into a GOP campaign kitty, How many G’s are in Grunewald's own kitty is unknown. His. apartment, where he lives with his wife and daughter, Erna, is luxuriously but not lavishly furnished. He owns two Fords and a Lincoln, His wife owns a Ford. He visits frequently with his other daughter, Mrs. Christine Hartzell, who lives with her husband and two small daughters, in nearby Chevy Chase, Md. He has a big summer home in Spring Lake, N. J. He recently sold his $100,000 Miami Beach mansion to pay a $51,000 federal tax lien. His base of business operations is in the big downtown hotels near the Treasury. He still is in business at the old stand, he says. He wears a dual title, private investigator and public relations man.
In these conflicts, he “steers by the lights of his fighting little attorney, William Power Maloney, a former special assistant to the attorney general. They hold some kind of record: Congressional committees voted two contempt citations for Grunewald and one for Maloney in 13 months. " n ” FOR ALL Grunewald's cloak and dagger tactics, his job is to get things done simply, by pulling the right wires. He makes it
his business to know who's who
and what's what, He gets the word and spreads the word. He wires the vast mazes of Washington bureaucracy for sound and makes himself master of the switchboard. He gets on the inside of almost everything important In
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MASTER OF THE SWITCHBOARD—Grunewald wired the vast mazes of Washington bureaucracy and knew which wires to pull.
EDITOR'S "NOTE: and a Federal Grand Jury are investigating the fabulous Henry Willlam Grunewald, “mystery man” of the federal tax fraud hearings. Twice In 13 months, Grunewald has heen cited for contempt of Congress. But he is still operating as usual. This is the first of a series which do much to blow away the “mystery” of Grunewald. The author, Edward F. Ryan, is a staff reporter of the Washington Post,
Washington: except the District Jail. He has ample proof it will take more than a Congressional committee vote tn put them there. His first contempt citation was killed.
Now nearing 60, Grunewald is bald, with a grey fringe of hair, but his heavy features are vouthfully ruddy. He is light on his feet, vigorous in his actions,
He has the facial control of an actor—one moment he can look as blank as a punch-drunk pug and the next moment break the haze with a magnetic smile.
He is 5 feet, 8 inches, weighs about 180, and dresses nattily in ready-made suits. Friends
find him comfortable company, a good host, an easy spender. ~ n » WHILE talk {is his trade, (Grunewald owes his notoriety to shutting up. Whenever Congress gets curious, Grunewald shows beyond question that no Dutchman since William the
ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY—
Television May Cover The Nation Soon
By RICHARD KLEINER
Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Mar, The wonders of television — puppets, wrestlers and all
—will soon be available throughout the U.. S8., wherever there are people with a roof to
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stick ‘an antenna on. A ‘choice selection of initials — FCC. and UHE --are the keys that ill put a. TV set.in living ranms from coast to coast, The
Federal Communications Commiszinn i= about in - lift its freeze. which was prevented any
new®statinnz from going on the air since 1948 And Ultra High Frequency an entirely new radin hand. i= the medium over which most .of the new stations will tranzamit UHF spells a godd chance
that many sections of the U. S;, currently struggling along without TV, will have it by the end of 1953. For some, it may happen sooner, perhaps even this year And the America are
slices: Of
There miles ve never
non-TV tremendous, are -thougarids of square containing citizens who ceen television, This unnatural condition was brought about hy the ¢contariez and the
two main factors ness nf telev
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Ifilon way g freeze n ” ” nthet tele bounce back from the (which 18 a layer about 200 miles up). TV waves go right through this Jono sphere, meaning that reception on the Moon is wonderful, but also meaning that a television signal has a very small range on Earth, Thus, great parts of the U, 8. are completely out of reach of the 109 stations now telecasting in. 60 cities. And there are
kinds of
UNLIKE
waves,
anme rain 1210n WAaLes don't
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only 109 stations:hecause of the ’
FCC's action in banning new station ecanstruction. : The freeze was clamped on when the Cammizzinn_ hegan .warrying that the VHF zegment of ths radio spectrum
Congress
Silent knows better -the virtue of keeping a secret. His nickname, ‘The Dutchman,” was given Grunewald by
American Navy shipmates when he was in his 'teens. He was born in Port Elizabeth,
South Africa of German parents, Heinrich and Anna Grunewald, on May 19, 1892, He finished school through the level of junior high, including five years in Schleswig, Ger: many, and at 16 came to the United States. - His: father, a house - and - sign painter, paid the fare. He worked several months, as g¢ashier in his uncle's restaurant, then enlisted in the Navy. He, ‘told the Navy he. was born in New York City in 1890 and was a U. 8 citizen, a collection of errors left for his naturalization to clear up years later, ~ » " WENT to sea on the USS Connecticut, flagship of the Atlantic Fleet. - Athletics wag his hobby. He boxed, trained other fighters. He liked to fight, His idea was “get knocked out right away or knock out the other guy, don't prolong the agony.” He pitched a 1-to:0 shutout in a game at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and ‘a girl on the sidelines told him “you pitched a good game.” Her name was
HE
Miss Christine Marie Schu macher, and they started going together.
Grunewald left the Navy with
an honorable discharge on Dec, 26, 1914, Capt, W. R. Rush of the Navy Yard wrote him “I shall he glad to give you the good character you deserve.” He worked first as desk clerk in the Brooklyn Navy YMCA, then as a bookkeeper for Western Electric. He and Christine Schumacher were, married in
19186, - yn
IN MARCH, 1917, with an assist from Congressman Murray Hulbert of New York, Grune. wald was hired at $3.50 a day as a Justice Department agent for work in the New York office of the Bureau of Investigation, Grunewald’'s fluency in German quickly bhecame a major asset in tracking down German spies just as World War Ad began. For his most important exploit, Grunewald and other agents resigned from the Bureau and operated privately as volunteers. They performed a patriotic burglary meriting the highest: thanks of the nation. But the act was so charged with diplomatic dynamite they were forever disbarred from official public gratitude. Grunewald and his associates spirited away two tons of secret German Embassy papers from their hiding place in the Swiss (‘onsulate in New Yori, turned the lot over to the U. 8. government, ~ ~ ~ THE HAUL gave the federal agents a complete blueprint of
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SKYLINE OF THE FUTURE—Various UHF lenis are do up on a for tasting, These are the symbols of the new band that will bring television ta sections that now don't have it,
V'erv High Frequency which carries all existing| TV) waz getting avercrowded There was danger that stations were
tno clnse and terfering
wnilld begin inwith each other, n ” ”
IN THE three years of the
Great Freeze, the FCC and private groups studied and experimented. And they decided
to move up higher on the radio spectrum’, ta get more elbow room and more space for new stations. jhe VHE>Enge (30 to 300 megcveleg) to the 1'HF range 1300 ta 1000 megacveles), Actually, UHF haz heen =zef aside far televizinn since 19%4, hut for a while it lnaked Ike 1% wouldn't be-~needed, The new
They're going up from °°
medium grew gn fast, howe that the Commission decided 1 had hetter act, Already, it has divided "HE into 70 channels, ' 3s against only 12 existing VHF chan-~ nels. 1t has assigned channels
to cities from Millinocht, Me, to Ajo, Ariz. It confidently expects the nearly 2000 UHF stations—will some day blanket the nation, ~ » » THERE are channels assigned to towns and villages there's even one listed for a county that has only 600 inhahitants, Ahout the only places “that won't he within range of Faye Emerann will ha
. certain isolated mountainous
Wvyvom
regions in Nevada and ng J Thi great "uphe reel won't happen avernight When the
freeze is lifted, propably around the middle ofy March, there'll be ‘a 60 ot 90-day period for filing applications for the new channels. The FCC, at the moment, has some 400 VHF applications on hand, ones left over when the freeze was begun, They first, dustry may try, viginn to
may not act on these Some people. in the inthink the Commission "at first, to bring teleplaces which don't . hava it,” Others 2ayv thev may initially license cities on the transcontinental coaxial cable, It the thaw comes in March,
jerman espionage and sabotage operations in this country. The operation was a sensational spy thriller. Grunewald's participation in it is verified by FBI sources, men who served with and over him pay tribute to him as a wonderfully clever agent, while he played no commanding roles, he played many important ones. Grunewald and the others cased the place. They brought in a locksmith to make a door key. They arranged a vacation for the night watchman They took over an office on another floor for home base. In the congulate they found two huge safes and some 20 filing cabinets, The locksmith opened one safe with the comhination 1870, the year of the Franco-Prussian War, and the other with 1871, "we TO GET into the filing cabf« nets, Grunewald and the others used keys made by their locke smith. The agents made it their biisiness’ each night to take what/ they could, and to replace everything as they found it, down to the last grains of dust on the furniture. It took them several weeks to get all the material out, but their work remained undetected. A gold German medal, one of a number of decorations found in the safes, was given to President Wilson for a souvenir. For Grunewald the feat meant, a full-time career of spy chasing through the rest of the war,
(Copyright, 1952. by United Peature Syndicate)
NEXT: G-Man Grunewald.
estimates are that the earliest a new station could go on the air would be September. ” = ” ANOTHER possible delaying factor is the steel shortage, Most of the applicants have already ordered equipment —like transmitters-——which will be delivered ‘when and if their licenses are granted. Buf the hig transmitting aerials take Kreat quantities of steel and. if new stations pop up like mushrooms, the shortage of steel may seripusly curtail eonstrue finn Manv of the tions.
new UHF sta particularily thnsze in ‘maller towns, will probably he merely relay points. A UHF transmitter can pick up _ and relay programs beamed out bv existing VHF stations. This will cut the operating costs to the bone, vet assure the new trans. mitter's viewers of the best programs television has to offer, ‘Some new UHF channels are listed for cities that already have one or more VHF stations
in operation, This will mean greater choice of stations, and alsor a conversion problem for peaple who have, sets now. Rut it 1an't expensive; eonverters now being tested could” be ease
iv installed and would cost omewhere around $25. » ” » wold require a and different kind of home antenna.’ Compafites like RCA, which haz conducted extensive tests in Bridgeport, Conn., are atill experimenting with roof. top antennas of different dee sign. One of the best is shaped like a big bow-tie, Those tests showed, too, that the UHF signal is strong and clear, It’s a little. more resist ant to interference, such as auto ignition, than VHF. And color TV can be received on UHF, too. All. television officials, proe ducers, “actors, advertising agencies and even the puppets are’ excited about the FCG . thaw. They see the future af television -as rosy — even » black and’ white,
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