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WHAT 18 so strange about free bananas on a trolley? The way passengers acted you'd think fares had been reduced for a change. As a user of the transit system's facilities, I decided to do something about the empty “Take One” racks near the exit. Circulars telling why fares have to be increased might have been appropriate but bananas seemed to be more practical, One dozen bananas (if W. Marshall Dale wants to reimburse me, they cost 68c) were
65 was at the controls. I won't use his name because he's such a pleasant guy with passengers, old and young alike, it's no use to have him labeled as. the “Banana King.” The “Take One” rack was empty. I slipped five just-ripe .barianas In the useless accessory and sat down. That was at Illinois and Market
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TWO WOMEN sitting by the door practically under the bananas cast a side glance at me on their way out. They stood on the sidéwalk and talked rapidly as the trolley pulled away. Passengers - who - hadn't seen the bananas placed Sompletely missed them even though the e than a foot from their heads. No wonder riders have so much trouble with the new green “Push” sign on doors. Folks just don’t look at signs. Or bananas. At Riverside, where the trolley turned around, I explained to the operator about the bananas. He became interested and said he had no obJection to continuing the project. “You'll have to take them out before they get rotten,” he cautioned. “I'll eat them before they get rotten.” rolled toward town. > © 4 ABOUT MIDWAY, when the trolley was half full, two young girls sat in the seat under the bananas. For several minutes they chatted and stared out the window. Then the bus was filled with laughter. The girls blushed, giggled and squirmed in their seats. Most of the passengers became aware of the
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bananas in the rack. By the time we reached Capitol: and Washington, we had a new batch of riders. The bananas hadn't been touched. From downtown to the end of. the line on S. Meridian St. passengers came and went and if anyone noticed the new deal in the rack, it didn’t show. Operator 65 and I were watching like hawks. Through the mile.square and on to Riverside we bounced. No takers, Operator 65 whispered that I ought to stuff the rack with dollar bills and see what happened. Free bananas was as far as I wanted to go. ¢ © o THEN WE RAN into a group of school children. About 20 flew around the bus before one of the loudest, most active kids spotted the bananas. All five were gone in a flash. Instead of eating the bananas, the children used them for pistols. I stuffed the rack with the seven remaining bananas. Two hung over the side. A person wouid have to be mighty dull to miss the arrangement: We picked up passengers at the same rate as the previous trip. They weren't any more alert. Operator 65 and I had trouble keeping straight faces when two lively young ladies sat under the
, bananas, What a coincidence. .
“Lookit the bananas,” shrieked the girl next to the window. Both jumped out of, their seats and sat down on the other side of the bus. They giggled until everyone in the bus was laughing. Such healthy giggles. eb & THE TWO GIRLS didn’t take a banana. A young man and a girl had a discussion about taking one. Neither was hungry. Another couple took one banana apiece without any show of embarassment whatever, Two ladies lifted a banana out of the rack and called “Thank you” to the driver, One elder gentleman helped himself to one. Two left. ? From the end of the line on S. Meridian St. to Illinois and Market Sts, the bananas went unnoticed and untouched. “If they're still there when I get to Riverside,” whispered Operator 65, “I'll take them home. This is my last trip.” You're welcome to them, friend. There's really no use putting anything in the racks. That bit of information is free to the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. ’
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Tt Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, May 8—Groucho Marx writes: “I read your column with avidity. Avidity is the name of a small Greek down the street.” > oo PAT O'BRIEN had wanted to surprise daughter Mavourneen. He'd flown in for a fathers’ and daughters’ communion breakfast at Marymount College. s Not expecting him, she'd gone away for a week end, and now a master of ceremonies was trying to soothe Pat's disappointment. " “For coming farther than anybody.” said the speaker, “we're going to present you with a 1952 Cadillac.” Listeners gasped. Pat's eyes grew large. “Windshield wiper,” added the speaker, Se © &
HERB SHRINER tells at the Palace about a farmer from near Terre Haute, Ind. who went away for the first time to see the big city —the big city being Indianapolis. “How’d you like it?” they asked him when he returned. “Nope, it’s not for me,” he said. “I'll still take the good old U. 8. A.” * & 4
EDDIE CANTOR was congratulated the other day on his youthful look. Eddie protested that he didn’t feel youthful. “But you haven't one gray hair,” said his friend, : “Yeah, and I blacken my shoes every day, too,” replied Eadie. >
\AFTER THE N. Y. YANKEES dropped a game to Detroit, a fan bellowed: ‘There's another game Joe DiMaggio lost.” “What do you mean, ‘Joe DiMaggio lost’?” spoke up Joe's roommate, Gentleman = Georgie Solotaire, angrily. “By not playing,” retorted the fan. (This was the first column to propose that Joe return. Now even one coach has said to Joe, “Gét back inte your uniform.” Joe, we learn, is in good condition, and hasn’t had an ache or pain all spring.) i ol
A LONDON paper says Dagmar “got famous just by breathing.” . . . When the Jewish Theatrical Guild gave a testimonial to Milton Berle, Berle referred to George Jessel, the toastmaster, as “the Jewish Continental.” . . . Henny Youngman explained why he was laying off: “I'm waiting for color radio.” . . Home from
"the Derby, Toots Shor, a boy with Eastern raisin’,
said, “Southern cooking is only for Southern people.”
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
HOUSTON, May 8—This turns out to be a pretty exciting country, and there is still some room in it for a growing boy to flex his muscles. I just paused briefly in some towns named Midlanl and Odessa, where the gold fever is still on, and the citizens are caught up in as much excitement as the '49ers feit, = :
Midland and Odessa are in = the center of the oil boom. It = is dreary land, but the people palpitate. There ds probably more money made, and more money spent in .this locality, than was fired into the breeze in the gold-rush days. There also is the same sense of impermanence—that the greasy gush can’t-go on forever, despite the 200-plus drilling-tool companies that flourish, despite the weird combination of mink-coat-and-dunga-ree aristocracy. : . ee @ IF YOU sit back East long enough, you are apt to get a little bit blase about the potential of this land, and maybe you compute everything in terms of the latest snide doings in Washington.
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If you rattle around outside New York and Wash-
n long enough, you can drop some of the ston: that afflicts us as we peruse the headlines. In many a way the country is still unharmed. What Grandpa knew about is still here; many things Grandpa didn’t know about have been added. We have the roads where Grandpa didn't ve any roads at all; we have the big iron birds to conquer the spaces which Grandpa fought h a horse. Bey water where no water flowed before, and there will be more water where it was always needed. ‘And there is still an aristocracy of accomplishment. The fimal frontiers have not yet been conquered, NOT fully understand oil, but I know wn Do represents an adventure. There are emigrations from the east—third-generation rich kids from Philadelphia are trying their iuck at finding it. And there is still scorn for oil in “these parts, for there are old-timers who will not corrupt their land by a search of the oll on it. In the gold-crazy days there were people who were still content to work the soil for what it would grow instead of what was hidden be- : neath Re places where oil bubbles richly beneath the ground, we are shoving up hrand-new cities, which mushroom as rapidly as the shanty towns ‘that sprung up in the Klondike. With the cities come modern advantages—schools, clinics, even ‘the curse of television. th Ve are stil pioneering today, still betting.
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Groucho Has New Chum, Mr. Avidity
BING CROSBY was 48 the other day and his wife Dixie gave him a surprise party for which at least one guest (Mrs. Herb Polesie) traveled cross-country. The invitations read “Black tie,” and added, “At least, aryl surprise him.” “> <*
THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Eleanor Holm and Joyce Matthews were in Toots Shor’s simultaneously, but, in tha crowd didn’t see each other. Billy Rose was at his Mt. Kisco home. The separation trial—on the calendar for this week— will probably be postponed. Ed Sullivan and Sam Levenson had words over a joke which Ed thought was personal and Sam said was just a joke . .. Peggy Lee and Robert Preston rekindled their flame at the Embers, then she left for Hollywood . . . The X. Cugats fly to Santo Domingo for a honeymoon after the wedding in Florida . . . Dorothy Dell's developed into a really swell radio singer. &
> WANT to _ help speechhandicapped kids? Groucho
Marx, Bob Hope and Art Link- : letter are publicizing the cause, Miss Dell , 1 wi, as $1 to join NAIL (Natl Aux. of the Institute of Logopedics), Box 2000, Wichita, Kas., an organization for women only. Your dollar will “talk for those who can’t.” A B'way writer and actor who wrecked an actress’ apartment were freed when they agreed to pay $1000 damages . . . Serge Rubinstein’s now putting out a financial information sheet.
* & © THE Igor Cassini-Mary Sinclair romance cooled: Career conflicts . . . Dancer Steve Condos
is in Wickersham Hospital for an operation . . . On the Edge of the Ledge: Wallace Beery’s dtr. Carol Ann, and actor Roger Allen; ex-Copa gal Marcy O’Brien and garmenteer Harold Whellan. & o
EARL’S PEARLS: An oral surgeon (says Sid Slate via Miami’s Joe Hart) is a doctor who talks a good operation. * > 0
TODAY'S WORST PUN: “Appropriate sign for places where he has sung: ‘Johnnie Ray Wept Here.” —Hy Zuberoff, EE “DO I LOVE MY WIFE?” a certain B'wavite was saying to Harvey Stone. “I love her so much I wish I was her son so I could run away from home” , , That's Earl, brother.
Bob Likes Folks Down Texas Way
THERE are all sorts of challenges for time to tackle, everywhere you turn. We still have over. 100,000 Navajos in New Mexico and Arizona to challenge our knack for dealing with the difficult. The problem of the Nava has not ‘changed, despite all our wild, sophisticated spendings. The problem with the Indian is still that of the age-old nomad—not enough running water, insufficient rain, overgrazed pastures for transient herds. We haven't even touched it yet, toward a practical solution. +
There is an open-handed interdependence out here that hasn't changed a whit since the wild-and-woolly days. I know a country doctor who makes $100,000 a year. . If he needs a rare-blood type, he can get on the local“tadio and ask for it, and within an hour 300 candidates will show up with their arms bared for the needle. This doctor drives a Cadillac, but he still works from 6 a. m. until midnight just like his Grandpa did, ¢ 4 >
IT IS heartening country, and it is good country, and, apart from the meddlings of a few petty little men in elected office, it is still wonderful country. And I do not think that all the stupidities of the people we choose to guide us can wreck it, in this year or the next 100 years: There's too much of it, with too many solid people in it. o
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—S8everal of us would like to know if the tree with the large blossoms that has been in bloom for some time is a magnolia or a tulip tree. Martie Cunat, 6464 N. Illinois. i A—The magnolias are ‘almost through blooming—the tulip tree blossoms after the soulangeana or saucer magnolia. ‘You can also tell which is which by looking at the leaves. Magnolia leaves are shiny. Tulip tree leaves look oddly like the
"Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
silhouette of a blooming tulip and are much thinner than the magnolia leaf. There is always .much confusion about magnolias and tulip tree ‘blossoms. A nurseryman friend tells a story (true) about the time when he was just new to the business. A customer ordered two magnolias —planted. After they were firmly settled in the ground he learned that what she really wanted was two tulip trees. Now, hé says, he always ‘when a customer orders either a magnolia or tulip tree to be sure they are ordering the one
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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1952
FAMILIAR PATTERN—
Unrest Is Jap Reds’ Goal
By ELEANOR SPALDING TOKYO, May 8—Communist violence promises to be
one of the principal problems of the newly reborn Japa-
nese government.
The Reds have virtually challenged the government
and the police, and the challenge has been accepted. But
the challenge is still not on a wide scale. Since December, the Communists have become more and more open in tffeir attacks. Their anti - American, antipolice campaign of terror, violence and propaganda reached its climax in the May Day riots in Tokyo and Kyoto. This latest outburst was nothing new. It was the same technique the Communists have been using since the Peace Treaty was sigried, only it was magnified. Instead of bands of five or six, this was mobs of thousands. Instead of attacking lone policemen, they charged groups. ~ » ~ BUT, BASICALLY, this was the Japanese Communists’ master plan for creating dissénsion and dissatisfaction. Underneath, it was the same system the Reds used in one incident that embarrassed them greatly.
On that occasion, five Communist bullies made a disas-
lone policeman on a quiet bridge in a little village on Hok-
- kaido. But their victim turned
out-to be a jiu jitsu expert. The five assailants wound up in the river. The policeman got a medal—and a bawling out from his superior for not saving at least one for prosecution. Since December, the attacks on police by Communists have gone on steadily. Two police have been murdered, 11 homes of officers have been ransacked, 200 police have had their guns stolen, and 37 police stations have been raided. It’s part of the Reds’ big campaign to cause unrest in the newly restored nation. They
fight police and, something of even more concern to authori-
- ties, they incite ordinarily peaceful citizens, : . » ~
IN ISHINOMAKI CITY, Reds led a crowd of 200 men and women in.a march on the mayor's office. They were demanding wage . boosts and school books. They locked themselves in the office, with the mayor as hostage, while confederates outside barricaded the building and sang Red songs.
_ Police had to be called to rescue
the mob. At Tokyo University, Com-munist-inspired students started a near.riot when they found detectives had attended a meeting looking for Communists. The Red-led students claimed that the police had no right on the campus, apparently feeling they were above and apart from the state. : On Hokkaido, after the disastrous earthquake, Communist speakers swarmed the island. Their propaganda was that the
mayor and disperse the
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money on repairing homes, rather than on supporting U. S. security forces. There have been other incidents, and other tactics. The wall newspaper outside a Communist ward office in Tokyo brazenly displays anti-American propaganda. It uses fact and fiction to discredit U. 8. troops. Beside the wall newspaper is a cardboard dove of peace, serving as a collection box.
” ” v POLICE, in raids on Communist hideouts, have rounded up arsenals containing weapons ranging from ancient bamboo gpears to the latest U. 8. Army guns. gas and time bombs, Two police
FORTISSIMO HEADACHE—
Met On Largest Tour Since '01 5mm
By RICHARD KLEINER NEW YORK, May 8—In the spring, Thomas Hillary’'s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of baggage cars—22 of them. It is his job to see that 22 baggage cars full of opera sets and costumes get where they should be in time for each performance of the Metropolitan Opera Co.'s annual spring tour. Every year, the Met hits the road, spreading its arias over wide areas. This year they'll visit 17 cities, from Boston to Oklahoma City, in a month and a half. Moving the more than 300 people—plus those 22 baggage cars-—is a fortissimo headache. $ In the first place, not every opera is presented at every stop. Meistersinger, for example, skips Cleveland, but is given in the next stop, Boston. So the Meistersinger sets and costumes and props are put in a car and
a led direct to Boston.
x -” » Ld MR. HILLARY has to keep track of the physical features of the 16 operas the company presents on tour, and see that the right costumes are in the right city on the right day. He usually manages, but once a
‘Mr. X'’ GOES TO MOSCOW . . . N
Looms As U.S.
By GEORGE W. HERALD EORGE KENNAN + never sought the limelight. He was happy to serve
his country behind the scenes. Even today he tries to avoid
publicity because he - feels it limits the range of his work. Ironically enough, though, his modesty was to make him a celebrity. In June 1947 a now famous article signed “X" was published by the magazine Foreign Affairs. The piece in effect was the blueprint for a new policy of containing Soviet Russia by the firm and skillful use of counterforece wherever she tries to trespass into other people's realms. Many citizens sought, of course, to identify the mysterious X. ‘When they succeeded, a perplexed and embarrassed George K. found his picture displayed overnight in dozens of newspapers and magazines. The course of action he urged duly became official U. 8. policy. It has remained so to this date. There are critics who feel that “containment” implias “status quo” and therefore is
no longer sufficient to deal with:
Russia in a changing world. But Mr; Kennan never believed in a “stand still.” He realizes ' America must do more
- thati just watch that the vacn-
ums left by crumbling colonial systerps not be filled by Red usurpers. He was one of tive
. originators “‘of the - Marshall
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RISE STEVENS—She was the
only one with a costume.
landslide caused the “Carmen” car to arrive late in Atlanta.
The star, Rise Stevens, had her costumes, because she trav-
Plan and considers Point 4 only a small beginning.
At the same time, he would like to see his country stand before mankind as a shining model of democracy which he fears isn't always the case.
“We must convince others that we are defending “omething precious,” he says. “The world, despite all its material difficulties, is still more ready to recognize and respect” spiritual distinction than material opulence.” f
TO ADD td that distinction, Mr. Kennan decided in August, 1950 to take a sabbatical leave from the State Department and probe more deeply than ever before into the motives of U. 8. foreign policy. He found that America had often acted in the past from impulse rather than cold-blooded reason.
Perhaps due to her puritan origins, she has been too selfrighteous in assuming that the whole world had to share her concepts of law and order. This had led her to fight each war as a police action against lawbreakers and to hope that, once they were punished, peace was going to reign forever. And each time she was greatly disappointed when a bunch of new lawbreakers appearéd on the international’ scene. : Mr. Kennan used his leave of absence to write a’ book, “American Diplomacy = 19001950," in which he urges. a fresh approach to these problems. - q % “He says the United Ktates Us|, Jesign itself to the fact
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The Reds use fire, tear
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RED VIOLENCE—A Tokys policeman examines the” car in
which a U. S. soldier was ston
to death and another injured
during a street fight last year stirred up by Communist demon.
strators.
stations were dynamited in March; flaming bottles have been tossed at three revenue officers; three railway cars have been set afire.
. The Communists in Japan, like elsewhere, capitalize on
“HSery SNd unrest.” Japan fe
too fertile a ground, as it has a high standard of living for the Orient. But there are many cases of tragic poverty. There's the man who lives beneath a bridge in the bombedaut ruins of Shiba Park in Tokyo. His hair ‘is long and matted. His clothes are dirty rags. There's a woman who lives beside the oily waters of a canal in Shimbashi in Tokyo. Her home is a cardboard leanto, the size of a telephone booth, held together with rocks. Her meals are cooked over an open fire, - » -. » THE REDS POINT to these poor objects, and people. listen.
els with them. But the rest of the company performed in street clothes, with an ocecasional officer's helmet or Spanish comb that they could scrape * together, The scenery and costumes began arriving as the performance began, and gradually the singers, donned the right costumes and the opera began to look like an opera. By the final curtain, it was itself again.
» ~ - WHILE Hillary worries about sets and costumes, Frank Paola worries about the people that have to use them. Besides the stars, there are 78 in the chorus, 36 dapcers, 92 musicians and 29 men and women who work backstage. Mr. Paola has to make train reservations for them all, see that they have their tickets and
- make the trains,
Years of experience with temperamental artists convinced the Met that it ought to let the individuals make their own hotel reservations. If the room turns out badly, the star can't blame it on anyone. Mr. Paola gives them all lists of available hotels and then drops the matter. ~ The Met's touring stars include well-known veterans, like Rise Stevens, Patrice Munsel, Dorothy Kirsten, Eugene Conley
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that it cannot make the world in its own image. Instead the U. 8. must learn to conduct negotlations with other countries “unsullied by arrogande and hostility” and strictly on the basis of its own self-interest.
“That's what diplomats are there for,” he asserts. “They aren't’ supposed to make all people happy but to show them a fair way of living side by side in peace, however dissimilar their doctrines.”
The ambassador doesn't believe that we shall ever see the kind of Russia we would like to see—a capitalist and democratic Russia. “A war will certainly mot bring about such a Russia,” he says. “Indeed, it would be most unlikely to lead in that direction.” %
One the other hand, Mr. Kennan points out that “there is no liberal tradition finer than the strain which has existed in the Russia of the past,” and he considers it quite ‘possible that freedom will come to RusSia “by erosion from. despotism rather than by the violent upthrust of liberty.”
That's why our envoy fervently hopes that some sort of agreement between East and West can be achieved in the long run. “Coexistence with Soviet communism has been possible for 35 years” he declares. “I don't know how long it will continue to be possible. But
as long ag there is -one-thou-
sandth of a chance that a major -
world conflict can be avoided, let usiguard that chance like of our eye. Let, it
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The estimates are that there are only about 10 per cent of the Japanese who are pro-Com-munist (about 8 million people) but these-are, of course, exceedingly vocal, And, like all Communists
EReY rE WelT-ofgiiized, deadly”
serious and completely unscrupulous. This is an excerpt from a pamphlet the police seized in a raid. These are the instructions the party gives to its Japanese comrades: “You should attack and resist thoroughly any trifling pressure and suppression and persistently launch struggles for protest. It js essential to attack headlong their (the police’s) armed strength, causing internal disorder and enlarging the scope of activities of the Communist cells planted inside and outside the police.” That paragraph was in a pamphlet that bore the title, “How to Raise Flower Bulbs.”
and Delia Rigal, as well as promising newcomers like Hilde Gueden, Norman Scott, Jean Maderia and Gabor Carelli. Mr. Paola shepherds them all, except when they take side-trips for concerts.
~ THAT'S permiss ible, if they are not scheduled for an opera and can get back in time for
their next scheduled appearance, Patrice Munsel once had to hitch-hike an airplane ride back to the company when the commercial plane she was booked on didn’t take off. She made the curtain with only a half-hour to spare. Another important member of the Met's Horace Armistead, in charge of stages and lights. He goes ahead to “case the joint,” namely the auditoriums. Often he has to install amplification systems or new lighting arrangements to insure a Met-level performance. This year's tour is the longest since 1901. It goes to some cities, like Montreal, that it hasn’t played in for more than 40 years. The Met says there is a wide-spread rebirth of inter. est in the opera, and the longer tour was dictated by public demand. no Those high - sounding words only mean more headaches for Mr. Hillary, Mr, Paola and Mr, Armistead.
Destiny’
not be said that we allowed any hope for the avoidance of war to die by abandonment or neg-
lect.” . ” ”
WASHINGTON observers believe it was to a great extent this wise and moderate treatise that prompted President Truman to call George Kennan back to duty and give him the Moscow assignment. Kennan accepted and then did some quick long-range planning of his own. , By going to Russia in May, he was obviously taking the chance that a new administration might relieve him nine months later. This hazard was somewhat reduced when he made a trip to Paris and had several long talks with Gen. Eisenhower.
The. point at issue was, of course, never mentioned, but this writer has it from good sources that Mr. Kennan won't have to worry about thd continuity of his work should Ike become President. What impact he left on the General can be gleaned from the following bit
One of the ambassador's favorite books is Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Romah Empire.” He likes to quote from it at length because he feels it has much bearing on current events. Well, a few days after Mr. Kennan's visit SHAPE staffers found Gen. Eisenhower, whe rarely reads anything but mystery novels for deeply engrossed in a copy of Gibbon. Pr Ae
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PAGE 19 Pakistan After Darke Night Flight Scenes Over Far East Sea
By WARD MOREHOUSE EN ROUTE TO KARACHI FROM BEIRUT, May 8—This is a flying story—
how you fly, where you fly, with whom you fly, when you move eastward during an allnight trip from the Medi terranean Sea to the Arabian Sea and the new state of Paki- * stan, a distance of some 2000 miles. . .. I'm typing these lines
on an eight-pound portable from a back-
cabin seat in a C o nstellationtype Clipper; there are about 30 passengers aboard, as representative of a cross section as you could * ever find in an airplane, The time HA, 10:50 p. m, Clipper is off Ward Morehouse the runway at Beirut and 1s climbing. Our pilot, Capt. Frank L. Rodman, once of Kimball, Neb,, wants an altitude of 15,000 feet for the tall moun.’ tains that lle to the east of ENTRAR) I RE o eon Li
Sukhuma Paribatra, He's been In America for the last five years. He's clutching his pretty wife's hand. They're both amused by the airport rumor that he is the brother of the King of Thailand. Just behind the Paribatras there's a bright-faced American
for a “West German house; seems that the West are again very much SrmaFs rs aga world mar- , ket. A passeriger who got on at Brussels, and who took one too many during the stopover in Beirut, asks to have his seat changed. There's mo objection. + + » Time lapse of two hours.
Dates, Wild Pigs
EVERYBODY off at Iraq, for a stay of 45 minutes, Carl Dorris of Denver, ‘way out Eden
at Basra for
manager Pan American World Alrways, talks over his coffee:
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“This Basra is a hell of a place; trace around here go BC. If you like to eat nd tattle River. About the world’s date supply from these date palms. my house we've had date ple, date custard, date cookies, Ca ‘every. thing; just mention word ang Me Dorris will onderful region, though. If you like 1 there are plenty of wild and wild pigs. Oil everywhere. That terrific ofl center in the little sheikdom of Kuwait ly 30 minutes away by those great pipelines that oil all the way across 8 are up to the porth. . « + Say, there are some nteresting on flight No. 4. your
“The Argentine girl front of the cabin is way to New Delhi to Brazilian, . “People in the Rockies wouldn’t understand this heat. It's sort of like in Bakersfleld, Cal. We don’t mind too much; we can always eat dates.”
Valley of Tigris IT'S NOW-245 a.m... . . I'm back in the Clipper for the fivehour flight to Karachi. Miss Cook, in an unrehearsed little speech, says there'll be breake fast before Karachi The Clipper, with Capt. Rodman and Copilot Garth O. Ritchie of Greensboro, N, C,, at the controls, in
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