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Inside Indianapolis o, . : By Ed Sovola ALL 500-MILE RACE fans who haven't had a chance to go out to the Speedway yet, lend me your elbows. Here's a report that should give you - gverything but the exhaust fumes. For this trip, friend, we had silver badges that took us anywhere we cared to go. None of this bronze:badge-garage-area stuff 4 for us or sitting in the gwandstands with women and children. We were big loafers that day. 1:55—The guard at the gate waved us in. The lack of activity in the garage area was disconcerting. Do the drivers think ‘we can get out to the track every afternoon? 1:57—No use going into the pit area . .. no cars ,, . no drivers . . , Triple A officials ~ about half asleep. 2:01—FOUR minutes leaning on the wire fence is enough. When are they going to run the cars, day before the race? Might as well sit down and think this thing out. 2:04—Guard Russ Bowman came over and said t's been awful slow. So far, only one car was on the track. He thinks there will be plenty of activity a little later, 2:05—The sun is warm and it’s about time to have a slug of refreshments. Oh, oh, Johnny Parsons being paged on the public address system. 2:07—Telephone men stringing another wire across the main drag of the garage area. 2:08—SURE a limited selection on the refreshment front if a guy doesn’t have a taste for sweet things. - 2:15—Twelve ounces isn't much when you're thirsty. 2:17—Ah, the mechanics are enjoying themselves with a little friendly game of cards. Why aren’t they working on their cars? 2:20—Bear Wheel Aligner needs a customer. 2:21—The Bardahl Racing Teams cars look like they're ready to go. Mechanics sitting out

in front of the garages don't. 2:22—The Mayor of Gasoline Alley, Ed Wintergust, is feeling good and can use a little busipess. Not much doing.

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 7—When I was a kid, I wanted a dog; so my Dad got one of the neighbors to give us an airedale pup—and I had a dog. On the farm in those days it was very simple. But it gets complicated today in New York, Hollywood, Miami and other glamor centers. First, the expense. A fellow who went to see a man about a dog—and got into plenty of grief—is young comedian Phil Foster. “I'm a bachelor living in Brooklyn,” Phil says out at Bill Miller's Riviera, “and everybody says to me, ‘Whyain’tcha got a dog? All bachelors, they got dogs.’ “So a whole new thing opens up in my life,” Phil goes on. “I gotta go up to Connecticut to a kennel club. A very exclusive kennel club. There's a sign in front that says, ‘No dogs allowed.’ “ ‘The dogs start at $500 and up,’ a man on the Inside says. ‘What can I give you? ” “The directions back to New York,” Phil says. Wr oO

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Flatbush, Amenyuh,” Phil replies. “What about the question of family ” the salesman asks. “I don’t care about the dog's family,” Phil says. . “I don’t mean the dog’s family. I mean your family,” the salesman says haughtily. Finally the man says he can give Phil a used greyhound racing dog with only 500 miies on it, but Phil takes a Doberman-Pinscher with Clark Gable ears. Phil buys an automobile to get the dog back to Brooklyn. Trouble starts. Phil works all night and likes to sleep till 1, but the dog gets him up at 10. Phil is glad to get up at 10, at that, because the dog sleeps on his head. “MY MOTHER read somewhere you should call the dog the same name as you. Somebody calls up and asks, ‘Where’s Phil?” Mama says. ‘He's out chasing cats.’ Sometimes Mama and the dog get in a dispute over a bone. “He wants to bury it and Mama wants to put it in the chicken soup.” Of course, the dog’s got to go to college. Phil had to take the dog to school. The dog passed, but Phil flunked. - In fact, the dog is the valedogtorian. He's too smart, On the street Phil emits a wolf call and the dog comes charging. ‘“That’s me,” Phil says sadly, “I whistle for a girl and I wind up with a dog.” The dog eats three pounds of meat a day,

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

EL PASO, Tex., May 7—The late Richard Harding Davis once remarked that Juarez is hell, and he could have been right, because the little Mexican border city across the Rio Grande does not seem to have changed much. It is still the honkytonk town, which leads you to stop and think a

minute. The basic baseness of people is a proven commodity over the ages, and I wonder if some of We have a clean, most aseptically clean community in El Paso, just a short stroll across the busiest bridge in the world. Then we have a neon-lit ripsnorter in Juarez, to which all Texans have easy access. 2 = = IN JUAREZ you may order quail qr: wild duck for dinner. We have strict laws about wild game in our side of the country. We feéd up our teal, for instance, so that they may fly to Mexico to be trapped in nets by the Mexicans to be sold for a peso to our own nationals. But we are not allowed to shoot our own teal, because we cannot adjust our game season to fit the flight passage. "We do very rigid things about whisky, too. In Texas you may not order a drink at a bar, but must buy a great big bottle during the legal hours and drink it all, which seems to be the way of a man with a jug. So we lose money in El Paso, as it is the custom for people who wish to enjoy themselves to drive over to Juarez for the leisurely lunch, complete with quail, teal and the verboten martini. We afflict our luxuries with taxes. I just bought a bottle of tequila anejo for a buck-fifty. This is an inflated price, but less than the taxes we pay on a crock of bad blend. Old tequila is an amiable drink. It lends you the delusion of sobriety when in reality you are the King of Siam. So ob IN JUAREZ business is real busy. Taxis compete for your trade. The stores are open all night—whisky stores, food stores, music stores rl stores. , ver gr) = for instance, that prostitution fs wicked and evil and against all “the precepts of decency. But for some strange reason, prostitution continues to thrive. It is forbidden in El Paso; it is fashionable in Juarez. What makes me pause to ponder is that Juarez has been going on longer than El Paso, and the citizens of the Mexican town do not seem to be

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2:95 Wow . . . there's the Cummins Diesel. .Beautiful,, powerful-looking huiik of machinery. Wonder what it looks like with the front end in? 2:26—Mechanic painting the floor of a garage °ls a picture of industry: At’ that rate he ought to finish along with the winner of the 500 May 30. 9:28—Too soon for more refreshments. 2:29—-Wire fence in front of the pit area Is still the same. ! 2:30-S8peedway ought to rent cots on dull days. 2:40—Wilbur Shaw and members of the technical committee of “Triple A roaming around. oh

2:51—-SECOND always tastes better than the first. ‘ 3:02—Cummins Diesel going out. Here we go. 3:19—Going nowhere, 3:20—Low-flying jet causes a few necks to turn and one man to remark: “Most excitement we've had today.” 3:36—Hope the fence holds up. 3:37—Morris Special pushed into the pit area, 3:40—Hope springs eternal in a race fan's breast. 3:55—Lou Moore escorts a Blue Crown and Driver Leroy Warriner into the pits. 4:03—Morris Special pulls out and Cummins Diesel fires up. Oh boy. : 4:08—Pit area filling up with spectators and

the Cummins Diesel slides on the bricks. What will it do? i 4:15—Freddie Agabashian drives the diesel

around and around the track. oe oe oe 4:20—-BLUE CROWN going out and Potsy Goacher in 93 fires up, goes five feet and stops dead, Consternation reigns. Finally gets out on the track. 4:30—At last customers getting their money's worth. 4:35--Customers are going to be disappointed. Track is clearing. 4:40—Diesel going in. 4:42—Car 66 going in. 4:48—Blue Crown going in. Track empty . 4:50—Fence is beginning to cut+nto the arms. 5:10—Garage area quiet but there's talk another car may be going out. 5:15—Refreshment stand still in business. 5:30—Hope in a race fan's heart is only a flicker. :

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But Dogs Are Less Trouble Than Wives

and if he doesn’t get it, he eats Phil. Phil must live in third-class hotels because the first-class spots won’t admit dogs. : “Maybe,” says Phil, “I should have got married instead of getting a dog. “Still, there are three reasons why dogs are better, The license costs less, the dog’s already got a fur coat, and the dog looks better in a poodle cut than a girl does.” oo oe © a THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Frank Costello has a sense of humor about his legal staff, He told a friend: “It’s costing me a lot of money to get convicted.” , . , Note on the Virginia Forbes restaurant menu: “Live dangerously. In--digestible .but simply delicious—potato pancakes.”

Margaret Truman does the James Melton TV show May 29. . . . Billy Daniels was just great opening at the Copacabana, He followed Johnnie Ray who, as somebody said, “is giving his fans the best tears of his life.” ... Shelley Winters sits home knitting on her honeymoon because Vittorio Gassmann had a tooth pulled. . « « Geene Courtney will lecture to gals at the Hotel Waldmere on “How to Put Up a Better Front.” Jose Ferrer interrupted his performance in “The Shrike,” stepped down to the footlights and chided some people in the audience for laughing in very dramatic spots. Some, who approved, oy applauded him. . .. Mrs. Dick (Marianne) Reynolds will eventually let loose a sensational legal blast at her suing spouse.

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A Texan in/ New York was asked how he liked the place and said, ‘Fine, it’s the first time I've ever been in this part of Texas’ ”—Comic Bobby Sargent at fhe Copa. Artie Shaw, the cow-lover, is selling his herd. Prefers clarinets and, of course, wives. . . . Henry Paynter quit his NYU-Bellevue Medical Center publicist job. He may enter the ministry. Betty Hutton's dtr. looked at Mrs. Vincent A. Nardiello’s fur coat and asked her: “Did you kill something?” , .. Waxey Gordon’ll be defended in his trial by Atty. Martin Benjamin. . , . Horace Schmidlapp escorted Marian Saunders to the Copa. She dyed her hair red since splitting from her Chinese husband. . . . “Copa Girls,” a painting by Paul Meltsner, has been acquired by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. + + +» That's Earl, brother. .

‘You Can’t Enforce Morality on the Mob’

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MY THESIS is probably this: You cannot enforce morality on the mob, because one man’s morality is another man’s poison. I have a fresh story here at the moment. It says United States bootlegging is bigger and better than ever. And

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It seems as if peoplé will always want to fight bulls and drink whisky and so long as there are ooys and girls there will be a bit of pleasant trouble. We have attempted to indulge in a formala for a single world. We have not yet been able to solve the problem of El Paso on the one side and Juarez on the other, which makes me feel pretty feeble.as a taxpayer for the general improvement of the universe.

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IF MRS. ROOSEVELT or Trygve Lie or one of the other world-mouiders can decide the problem of El Paso versus Juarez for me, I will be pleased to be party to the remodeling of the globe, but in the meantime I think I will go to the bullfights. On Sunday. When the bars are open. And I am torn between quail or teal for lunch.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Could I raise marigolds on fill dirt that is part gravel? Fitch Ave. A—Yes, marigolds will grow fairly well even in such poor dirt as this. But if you possibly can mix some good topsoil in with the fill dirt (I'm assuming ‘it’s subsoil), they will do very

much better. If the dirt itself is pretty good, .

then the only complication the gravel will make is the need for more frequent watering. Q—How do you slip geraniums to increase plants for summer or for winter bloom. (Answering Mrs, Martha Sullivan, Pittsboro and others.) vi A-—-Take a piece off the old plant from six to eight inches long. Some think the slip roots

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column. .in The Sunday Times

easier if you get some hard wood or a “heel” at the bottom end. I've found it just as easy to ‘root completely soft cuttings. My own favorite method is to stick the pieces into a glass of water in a sunny window. You may have better luck insertir ; them half te two-thirds their length in sand or sandy soil. Do not cover with a jar (as you do rose cuttings). And do not keep them too moist. Just enough water to prevent wilting.

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By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON, May T— When the steel ease comes to “the Supreme Court, it will be considered by nine unique personalities. The Chief Justice and his eight associates, now called on to render one of the most vital decisions in Supreme Court history, are a strange group of clashing philosophies and brilliant minds. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson was appointed to his high post by President Truman. The two became close friends during their service together in Congress. Vinson, a 62-year-old Kentucky lawyer, was appointed to smooth the dissention existing among the justices. In that, he has been only fairly successful. His decisions have generally been classed as, copservative. Mr. Vinson, often mentioned as a presidential possibility, turned down Mr. Truman's offer of support and removed himself from the race.

Hugo L. Black, whose appointment by President Roosevelt in 1937 aroused a storm of protest because he was accused of Ku Klux Klan membership, has since become one of the most liberal men on the bench, He is a good friend of labor, and author of more dissenting opinions than any other justice, He has long been feuding with Justice Jackson, 2 = ”

Stanley Reed was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1938, after a career as a New Deal officeholder. He has been called the balance wheel between the liberals and conservatives on the court. Mr. Reed is one of two justices who gave character references for Alger Hiss during Hiss’ trial. s = EJ Felix Frankfurter, with a reputation as a brilliant law professor at Harvard, was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1939. He, too, had held New Deal jobs, and he joined Mr.

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possibility. In 1944, labor favored him as vice-presidential nominee instead of Harry Truman, but the party regulars turned him down as too leftwing. He has recently traveled and written much about the Far East.

» » ~ Robert Jackson, “then .attorney general, was named to the Supreme Court by" President Roosevelt in 1040. He is best known for his carefully thoughtout liberal decisions and ranks second among dissenters on the court. He prosecuted German war criminals and feuded openly with Mr, Black. . » ~ Harold H. Burton is the only Bepulien on the court. He is

‘MR. X’ GOES TO MOSCOW . . . No. 3—

He's Well Prepared For

By GEORGE W. HERALD

HIS friends in Washington, George Frost Kennan looks like one of

those men destiny seems to produce at turning points in our history. He actually possesses a sense of that feeling himself. “There may be a reason why fate pushed me into the diplomatic service,” he told an associate the other day. “A man has to do what fate calls him to do, as best he can.” The ambassador comes from proud old stock, so old indeed that his grandfather began a genealogy of the family with this sentence: “The Kennans belong to an ancient race of people, for their name is found in the Bible (see Chapter 1, First Chronicles, 2d Verse), The name is. there spelled Kenan, and one branch in America still spells its name, that way.” Mr. Kennan’s more immediate ancestors were religious refugees from Scotland and Ireland and came to the New World early in the Seventeenth Century. A Richard Kennan was a general in the Revohlutionary War; and Jefferson later made him the first governor of Louisiana. His son became a commodore in the U. 8. Navy. : But perhaps the most prominent of George’s forebears was another George Kennan who, oddly enough, gave Czar Alexander III a lot of trouble in 1885 when Century Magazine sent him to Siberia to investigate the exile system, He became famous as one of America’s foremost Slavicists, and the younger George first got in-

Scherbenske crashed his trailer into a’ railroad bridge in Minneapolis, causing huge beams and timbers to topple down.

terested In the steppes of the east by reading the many books his granduncle had written on his adventures in Russia.

n = tJ AS YOUNG Kennan's mother died a few weeks after his birth, he came under a strong paternal influence. His father, Kossuth Kent Kennan, was a Wisconsin attorney and a remarkable man, For 20 years, he traveled incessantly between America and Europe to recruit suitable settlers for the farmlands alongside the Wisconsin Central Railroad. He spoke five languages perfectly and tried to give his children a cosmopolitan outlook. When George was 8, his dad took him and his sisters to Kassel, Germany, where they went to school for a year. These childhood impressions left in George a taste for moving about the globe. As soon as he had graduated in history at Princeton, he joined the U, 8. consular service. From 1925 to 1929, he served in Geneva, Hamburg, Riga and Tallinn. Then William Dawson, the State-Department’s top “schoolmaster,” picked him as one of the promising young men to be trained in all matters Russian at government expense. Mr. Kennan entered the Seminar for Oriental Languages at Berlin University which took pride in giving its students the same kind of education upper strata pupils used to receive under the Czars. One summer night in 1931, he met a lovely Norwegian girl at a party British friends gave in Berlin, Her name was An-

neliese Soereneson, and he fell in love with her on the spot. He decided that the girl would leave Berlin only as his wife.

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Two months later, they were married, and she accompanied him back to Riga. In 1933, the budding diplomat got his break. He was assigned to Moscow as an aid to William C. Bullitt, our first ambassador to Soviet Russia. Mr. Kennan stayed tHere for four years apart from a brief interval as consul in Vienna. A period back in the States followed, and then he was really thrown into the whirlpool of history. Sent to Prague, he arrived there with the last plane from Paris the day the Munich Pact was signed. In March, 1939, he saw German troops enter the city and, when World War II broke out, he was ordered to Berlin as second secretary. That winter, he accompanied Sumner Welles on his tour of Europe. Later in the year, he saw the first 60 British air raids on the German capital. - EJ ”

AFTER Pearl Harbor, Mr. Kennan was interned at Bad Nauheim, and it took the State Department five months to get him released. From August, 1942, to December, 1943, he served as counselor in the Lisbon legation and actually was in charge of it. He conducted negotiations for U.S. bases in the - Azores, also worked out surrender terms for Italy with Marshal Badoglio’s emissaries. In the first four months of 1944, he stayed in London as a member of the U. 8. delegation to the European Advisory Commission. “Then he was transferred back to Moscow with the rank of minister. He assisted Ambassadors Harriman and Bedell Smith until

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a former U, 8. Senator and mayor of Cleveland, and was a good friend of President Truman when’ both served in. the . Senate. He is a methodical legal scholar and has rendered mostly conservative decisions, although he is not considered completely predictable,

Tom Clark is another ex-at-torney-general on the court, He moved over just in time to escape the recent scandals in the Justice Department. His decisions, like those of Mr. Reed, are considered as balance wheels between the two factions of the court.

Sherman Minton, the newest Justice, was appointed in 1949, He had been a Senator and a special assistant ‘to President Roosevelt and a judge on a lower court. He has consist ently sided with the liberal decisions of Mr. Black and Mr. Douglas. His home is in New Albany, Ind.

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April, 1946. He often ran the -embassy during his bosses’ absence,

It was in one of those periods that the young envoy's true caliber came to light. Early in 1946, there was a crisis in Iran because the Russian occupation troops had failed to leave on schedule. He was asked to formulate his views on this event and filed a detailed memorandum appraising Soviet tactics and long-range objectives. This dispatch was considered so lucid that Mr. Kennan was recalled to Washington to act as State Department deputy in

the newly reorganized National War College, His lectures on international affairs quickly hecame “musts” for all highranking officers in the Armed Forces.

Several months later, Gen. George C, Marshall was named Secretary of State and had to bone up on foreign policy in a

hurry. He naturally came across”

the Kennan dispatch that had by then become a classic of its kind. Impressed, he called in the author and in April 1947, after the breakdown of the Foreign Ministers’ Conference in Moscow, the General made Mr. Kennan chairman of a freshly created Policy Planning Board.

The board was directed to analyze general trends in world affairs, determine America’s best interests and formulate long-range programs. Thus Mr. Kennan suddenly rose, for all practical purposes, to the position of America’s chief global planner,

NEXT: Is Peace Possible?

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Lebanon After Darke

Life in Beirut Modern Both Day and Night

By WARD MOREHOUSE BEIRUT, Lebanon, May

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of Lebanon, wedged in unprotestingly between Israel and Syria, I tried to buy a camel when I arrived in 1930, but the cameltrain man didn't know how to get it to New York. Thipgs have changed since '30, Lebanon has, if 1 haven't, There isn't a camel in sight and shiny Ameris Ward Morehouse can cars are screeching along Rue Clemenceau and through Parliament Square, I've paused in the hilly, jangly, Arabic-peaking port'of Beirut, jutting out into the séa, for my second stop in this globecircling tour, coming in via the skyways from Paris, 2000 miles to the west, and flying above the Ionian Sea, the city of Athens and the island of Cyprus

en route, ones RL Cae a he SRP PR ATE 9” the Arab rid and upon the Asiatic mainland, I've made these mildly startling discov eries: There is no housing shortage in Beirut, New apartment buildings, made of steel, sand and cement, are going up, up. An eight-room apartment with two terraces in a vividly painted building and a good neighbor-~ hood, rents for $00 monthly. I. know; I was in it. There are a swarm of night clubs in town; some ones, too. They get the trade of oil rich businessmen from the oilrich portions of the Middle East; they get moderate prices for French vintage champagne and pearl-gray caviar from the Caspian Sea. There are some 3000 Americans in Belrmt; some of them live in five story walk-ups and make no complaints, A large room, inclusive of two meals, is available at the Hotel Bristol for $8; a standing-up ride on a bouncing trolley car cost a cent and a half, and you can go anywhere in town in a taxi for 45 cents, “We have everything here,” remarked an American who can speak a little Arabic along with his French, “that Switzerland has—the sea, water, mountains, the air, the beauty, along with bathing and skiing and famous ruins—and for about half the price, And there's the Holy Land, as easy to get to as Bos ton from New York.” .

East-West Parade BEIRUT, retaining some of the influence of the French, such as the out-of-doors cafes, and being Americanized to the extent of rum-and-cokes, gas stations with the U. B. A. look, canned goods on the housewiyes’ shelves and a Cadillac in every black (no super markets yet), is within an hour of Jerusalem by air. The bazaars of Damascus, due east, are within two hours by car. I haven't found the time for exploration of prehistoric grottoes, the Phonecian relics of the Greco-Roman. temples, but I've talked with a friendly Arab who says he knows every tree "in the Cedars of Lebanon, went down into the detonating Parliament Square, talked with an Englishwoman looking faintly like Marlene Dietrich, just in town after visiting the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane. ; And I spent a facinating hour in the pink-walled lobby of the Hotel Bristol, clean and glossy and frightening in its newness, watching Je Eas West passing parade. ugh the ever-spin-ning revolving door came tourists (getting here ahead of the hot season), oil men, students, local merchants, doctors, teachers, members of the crews of Pan American World Airways,’ and an American who said he had an appointment with H. E. Sheikh Bechara El-Khoury, president of the Lebanese republic. ¢

Lebanese Night Life IF. YOU'RE .ever out this way you can put in a good night-life evening visiting such spots as the Kit Kat Club and Le Grillon, run by Edouard A. Rizk, who believes he ‘serves the finest foods and wines to be found east of Paris, and if you're good and. lucky you'll spend several hours in the home of Bob and Emily Miller, once of Staten Island and living in Istanbul when I went there in 1949. : Mr. Miller, a valuable Middle East employee of Par American, has built an attractive bar of old packing cases in the living room of his apartment, he will soon install a brass rail

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