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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sdvola

EVERYONE knows little girls are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” You won't get an argument about that from me. In fact, a real clever lad could add a great many other things to sugar and spice. If he were clever and not hungry. Awful changes take place when a man is hungry. Many men get along nicely without breakfast, That fad. .4 came into its own "about the time women were allowed to vote. When man made it- possible for women to have cooking fire at her fingertips, water at her fingertips and super market pushcarts replaced the plow, meat, potatoes, flapjacks, hot biscuits” and gravy -and grits no longer were associated with the crack of dawn. There was a time, and not in the distant past, either, when woman concerned herself mightily with the dinner table or carried hot vittles from home to her lord and master where er he be when the sun reached its zenith. : “ ; TODAY the restaurant. plant cafeteria, the hamburger palace cater to the wage earner, male and female. Now there ought to be room for both at the counter. From personal observa-

tions (over a Tong period time) and recent res

ports from irate hungry heads of families, one can say there isn't .room for both, Aaiso, it is the woman's fault that there isn't. The main-complaint is that women don’t know when to leave after they have eaten a clump of grass and sipped their buttermilk. The ¢omplaint “specifically mentions the after-dinner smoke. Cursory attention (you may take the phonetic meaning, too) was paid the female who has no business spreading out at:the lunch counter during the busy luncheon hour. It's an evil that has its roots in a document upon which our nation was founded. a Ta MAN HAS just about resigned himself to the fact that woman will anywhere he goes. The more hroadminded male will even admit he has contributed to this delinquency. You just ask questions such as this: Why don't

ladies arrange their luncheon dates for. 1:30 or 27

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 9—In the circusy world of Broadway here in the Big Town, there's a little guy we call “the Saloon Shakespeare.”

Half of the gags and comedy songs heard in top night clubs come from Eli Basse's brain. Hunched before a typewriter in a room at the Hotel Belvedere, over by Madison Square Garden, he tears off more songs than Irving Berlin. Big cafe stars pay $500 and up for a song—often in advance. : The strange thing is that one star got a song for nothing. He was Show Business’ Mr. Thrift himself: Rudy Vallee. “Rudy and I are good friends,” Eli told the Beautiful Wife and me. “He's the Johnnie Ray of the Stone Age. I'd rather write for people who are alive, that's all.” EH is clowning (a little),

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Rudy knew for half a dozen years that Eli

wrote for top stars: Joe E. Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Eddie Davis, Luba Malina, Robert -Q. Lewis, the Keane Sisters, Mitzi Green and Jack Carter. The B. W. and I often saw him publicly introduced as the ‘author of my material” by cafe comics. If Joe E. Lewis would say, “They fixed up the bar upstairs—pnt all new drunks around it,” we’d guess that Eli wrote it.

So Rudy, who eats in automats and lives in unswank hotels, though so many toss money away, summoned Mr. Basse. There was a dollar sign in his eye. “I want a song, but not a very expensive one because I'm not going to sing it much,” Rudy began by way of bargaining. ; “O.K. Then I won't write you much of a song,” Ell said. “Oh, no, I want a good song,” Rudy said. He named a price. Eli named the price, too.- What

Ell named it we can’t repeat. nil Rah “When you discuss money, it’s small talk,” Eli

said, and left. » OH WEEKS LATER, Eli was “guest celebrity” at Leon & Eddie's. ? Rudy was there and kiddingly told the crowd how he'd followed through by writing Eli a letter pleading for a song. ¥ “I always write jokes in my letters. So I'd have to have a deposit before I correspond with you,” Eli told him, “I don’t mind you trying to save money. but don't .try to save some that ought to be mine” sald Eli, and then, with a flash of wit, he said, “I'm sorry, but ‘My time is not your time.” Rudy laughed loudly.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

HOUSTON, Tex., May 9—There seems to be a great outbreak of morality in the nation, as exemplified by the presence of the Rev. Will Graham in this city. Mr. Graham, a disciple of the exhorting school of sin-chasing, has opened offices here for a solid month of driving out the devils, and his presence is worthy of front-page coverage and a special series of articles in a leading newspaper. Billy, if we may be so bold, is the hottest thing in the evangelist business since Bill Sunday. They packed 9000 in to see him the other night, at his premiere, and it was a real hot night, more suitable to cold beer and a rocking chair on the front porch. Billy Graham’s appeal over recent months—and he had Congressmen passing the hat’ in Washington—must be revulsion against the times and a sudden updrive of dependency on the oldtime religion. The moment is ripe for forceful coming out against the wrong. * A headline here yesterday described amply the fact that the Rev, Graham was going to film’ a movie whose subject was the emergence of right over wrong. Simple right, simple wrong, and no gray overtones or undertones of same. “o &

NOT SINCE the dear dead days of SankeyMoody has anything along the lines of the Rev. Graham been observed in the nation, and that covers a period of some 50 years. I faintly recall attending a devil-driving meeting of Mr. Sunday some 30 years ago, and he was a pure piker alongside the magnetic box office of the Rev. Will. It is real hell-fire hot around here these days, and the thirsty followers of Mr. Graham's words have exhausted the soft-drink machine across the street in the firehouse. But out they pour, in droves, and they are as thirsty for his condemnation of the wrong as they are thirsty for the

, drinks in the firehouse.

It is a new kind of emotionalisrh. Billy does not encourage hosannahs or amens, and he frowns on the shouted response. Too much noise among the audience makes him nervous. He is

no rookie at his business, but he still’ gnaws at his.

nails before he goes on. and he drains himself

- of energy as he damns the wicked.

>» @ 2 THE POPULARITY of the Rev. Will in the

hinterlands, as well as in the sophisticated cities,

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The questidn is‘hever answered satisfactorily because most questions pertaining to women remain unanswerable. They just don't, that's all. Men ask, why gals don't have more consideration for those who are waiting in line for a table or a tray. We all have noted that women have the same impatience for dawdlers that men have when they're on the outside looking in and lickin’ their chops and watching the clock. We (men) all have noted that 99 out of 100 males will finish a meal in a crowded restaurant and leave to make room for others. ‘Men realize that An eating establishment is entered for the

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TRUE, the practice of smoking on the street hasn't heen accepted universally by women. The panel was of the unanimous opinion that it won't

he long before women will be puffing on streets”

and sidewalks and then stricter anti-smoke ordinances will have to be devised. We agreed emphatically that an appeal should he made to women who smoke, chatter and glare the lunch hour away while man cools his heels and rubs an empty stomach, It just-isn't fair to hold a door open for a member of the opposite, “weaker” sex to have her grab the only avallable seat, It isn't fair for four cackling females to monopolize a table for an- hour ‘when the combined checks don't total miore than what one man gets nicked. There is a time and place “for the leisurely cigaret, idle conversation. A busy restaurant at high noon isn't the place. > > @ ONE MEMBER of the panel mentioned that he took the liberty once to politely ask a threesome to please vacate a table which they had occupied for 20 minutes after completing a long luncheon ritual. The man said he was threatened with bodily harm. The conclusion, based on the dubious proposition that girls are “sugar and spice and everything,” was that they don't think about the intricate nuances of getting along with fellowman. a Women want all the rights -and privileges of the male without accepting any of the responsibiliites. But lightnin’ strike you If you infringe on their rights. The panel asks simply and sweetly: Girls, give the working man a break. Eat your lunch and beat it. Smoke your cigaret behind the barn

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Thrifty Rudy Gets His Song

But Yankee thrift wasn't stopping there. Rudy told Eli he'd love to use a song he'd written for Comedian Charlie Farrell. Charlie no longer sang it. “So, all right, I sent it to him,” moans Eli now. “Did he pay you for it?” “Pay me? I even paid the postage. He does send me something, though, about once a month. Clippings about how well he’s doing. One day, I know, I'm going to get a gift. What? Oh, probably an autographed megaphone.” @ & & THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Ted Lewis collapsed (ulcer trouble) in Cleveland. From a hospital bed he recorded master-of-ceremonies announcements so his show at the Sky Lounge could go on. A famous B'way and Hollywood actor told bar chums his wife locked him out. . . . Ruth ‘Webb gave up her cafe career to comfort Tommy Manville at his home. . , . Nunally Johnson rushed in to talk a movie deal with 8id Caesar. Imogene Coca and Max Liebman. for Darryl Zanuck. . . ., Thelma Carpenter looks like a sure hit in “Shuffle Along.”

Rudy's

hb. a WISH I'D SAID THAT: “There's nothing wrong with my psychiatrist that couldn't be cured by a cauple of wealthy neurotics’—Coleman Jacoby. od ob EARL'S PEARLS , . . In “Of Thee 1 Sing" Jack Carson says an American President often needs naval aid, military aid and band aid. Joe Adonis’ prison release won't be hurried (due to all the racket smell) . .. A woman who started calling men names in Lindy's almost had Mrs. Tony Canzoneri to contend with. Mrs. C. said it wasn’t fair to the men who couldn’t decently retaliate. . . . Cafe operator Joey Kaufman, the ex-fighter, is mending after three operations. Shelley (Anything to Be Different) Winters shopped for a second-hand Cadillac. . . . Pau! Hartman’s show-stopping in “Of Thee I Sing” was thrilling. Especially because of his bustup with Grace. She should have seen how much B'way loves him. . , . Gov. Dewey may make a

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$e 6 4 TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Larry Adler, notifying police his car had been robbed, said the thieves had taken some belladonna, a medical drug which, taken in excess, might be fatal. “Those thieves might take some of it." Mr. Adler said. A policeman answered: “Well, let's hope so.” Billy Daniels jumped in and helped pick up Copacabana maestro Mike Durso when he ecollapsed on the handstand. . . . Helen O'Connell, the vocalist, now mother 6f three and back in the business, iz serious with Marilyn Maxwell's ex, Andy McIntyre, * A diplomat, says Lynn Gilmore, iz one who could make nothing sound like something. , , . That's Earl, brother.

‘People Seem Thirsty For Drive on Sin

too far away from the copy-book, and that cool and limpid reason may have been partially responsible for the mess we're in. The Saturday Evening Post, the other week, had a most provocative cover, showing the

, progress of parental control of kids from the

hairbrush penalty for transgression to the modern sweet logic of reasoning with the child. Possibly the reaction to the Rev. Will is'an exemplification of how far we have come; possibly we are honing for the hairbrush and the hairshirt. <>

IT HAS been a long, long time since I have seen evangelism covered as a front-page news story. os The Houston Press has been giving him more space than the papers of New York devoted to Willie Sutton, a dramatically unsuccessful bankrobber. It tells me finally that the people are hungry for something they have not been getting from their leaders, and their emotionalism is heading toward the old-timey right. - Mr. stamping out.sin, with both feet and a fuller business than South Pacific.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Any suggestions for easy growing flowers for summer would be appreciated. Mrs. Kenneth Buser, Crawfordsville. A—Most flowers are easy to raise when you once get your soil into good condition. Of the flowers that will grow in spite of unfavorable soil, marigolds top the list. Most zinnias (especially the cut-and-come-again kinds) will do well. (But, how they do grow and bloom if you give them good soil ana water them correctly.) Try

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

petunias also. Buy plants of these now for they arg slow-growing. Geraniums will do well in tight soil. They make good border plants, bloom freely, and make: good indoor arrangements. Then try some of the easy perennials. Hardy coreopsis, hardy gaillardia, the lovely golden yarrow, and.a number of daylilies will all give you plenty of flowers under ordinary conditions. But do begin a program of soil improvement. Then you can easily raise just about any flowers you want, with very little trouble. =

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GOD'S SPEED TO THE PLOWMAN-—AIl over Indiana the sharp share of the plow is turnin it in neat furrows ready for the planting. U. S. Department of Agricultural agents report farm ry throughout the state one full day ahead of schedule with 63 per cent of the fields finished. Typical is this scene captured by Times Photographer John Spicklemire showing Richard Ashley, 2107 N. Rural St., turning under a field along Fall Creek, northeast of the city.

‘MR. X’ GOES TO MOSCOW—

Gets ‘Wall Street Tool’ Tag

By GEORGE W. HERALD (Last of a Series) HE news of George Frost Kennan's appointment as American ambas-

sador caused a minor flurry

in Moscow. «2 The newspaper Pravda denounced him as a “war-mong-

er.” a “Wall Street tool” and an “imperialist spy.” But a few days later the Kremlin

formally agreed to accept his credentials and thus let him “spy” around at will. This didn't surprise insiders for, in reality, the Russians couldn't make a better deal. They are getting an American

envoy who, whatever Pravda

\may say, loves and undertands the Russian people and is deeply imbued with their culture. He also will be the first U. S. ambassador to speak their language, and this in more than the literal sense. He has been trained in Communist ways of thinking and can hold his own in any debate on the Marx ‘‘religion.” And while he may not often . share the Politburo's views, he isn't going to misinterpret them either. Last, but not least, Mr. Kennan: has done something that

would have disqualified a Soviet diplomat for any similar post: He has publicly bared his innermost thoughts on Russia's future and how it can be influenced. Thereby he has “given himself away” —a mortal gin for an envoy in the book of Stalin's tight - lipped officials. They probably hope a close study of his writings will always enable them to keep a few moves ahead of him. : According to Mr. Kennan, the Russians are unlikely to start a general war because their policy is based on the belief that “capitalism contains the

seeds of its own destruction.”

They think they can afford to

. be patient, even stage a retreat

now and then so sure they are about the end result. Opponents of this view point out that StaMn is known to have dropped Red ideology like a rotten apple whenever it suited his purpose. Moreover, most members of the Politburo are suffering from persecution mania, so there is a real danger that they may mistake our defense effort in Germany for war preparations. Therefore, these critics fear, it may take all of Mr. Kennan's tact and skill to keep the Soviet leaders from launching a “preventive war.”

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While the ambassador acknowledges this peril, he is inclined to take the same sort of long-range view on the Reds as they take on us. Anticipating what may happen after Stalin's death, he says: “The (Communist Party) membership at large has heen exercised only in the practices of iron discipline and -obedience and not in the arts of compromise and accommodation. If anything were ever to occur to disrupt the unity and efficiency of the party as a political instrument, Soviet Russia might be changed overnight from one of the strongest to one of the weakest and most pitiable of national soeieties.” Under these circumstances, Mr. Kennan believes that the most important influence the United States can bring to bear upon internal developments in Russia “will continue to be the influence of example.” He feels the Russian people may one day become our willing allies if the necessary alternatives are kept before (them) in the form of the existence elsewhere on this planet of a civilization which is “decent, hopeful and purposeful.”

- ” » IN THE days to come, the eyes of the world will often rest on George Kennan and watch

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how he acquits himself in this epic battle of minds. All our future may depend on his judgment and skill in certain situations. He has shown brilliance in the past; the future may thrust greatness upon him. But he doesn't particularly aspire to greatness; he rather wishes there won't be any need for it.

He sometimes recalls almost with nostalgia those hopeful days in 1944 when a more rational Stalin once said to FDR (as quoted by Mrs. Roosevelt): “You in the United States have come a long way from yout original concepts of government and its duties and your original way of life, I consider it absolutely possible that we in the USSR, as our forces’ develop and our people can lead an easier life, will, in our own way, come closer to some of your principles.” Since then, the Soviet rulers have led their people farther and farther away from .that goal and seem to have lost sight of it completely. If George Frost Kennan, can remind them again of this

~ peaceful ~objeftive and guide

them back but a few yards on the road to sanity, he is going to be a very satisfied man.

All U. S. Forces Now Work in Atom Warfare

By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Speeial Writer

YUCCA FLAT ATOMIC "EST SITE, Nev, May 9 (NEA)—A rapidly expanding nucleus of officers and GIs experienced in handling and maneuvering with live atomic weapons now exists in America's military machine. This valuable know-how could mean the difference between victory and defeat: for

the U. S., in casé of an all-out atomic war with Russia.

With Marine Corps participation in a live A-bogmb detonation, just after the big blast which was shown to the public, all U. 8. forces are actively in atomic warfare, Sn 2 a » THE 2100 Marines and more than 2500 Army troops involved in blasts bring the approximate total of U. 8. military personnel who have taken part in live A-homb tests up to 10,000. The Air Force, which dropped the first bombs in combat, and the Navy, as a result of the Bikini tests, account for the rest. Almost unmentioned, because its part of the test was handled so effortlessly, was the Air Force's amazing contribution.

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The job the Atomic Energy Commission asked Maj. Gen. John 8. Mills, boss of the USAF Special Weapons Command, to do was incredible. sy 8. a SOME TIME last February, when plans for the public test were completed, the AEC told Gen. Mills that at 9:30 a. m. sharp, on Tuesday, Apr. 22, he should arrange to have exploded an atomic bomb at a specific place in the air which was to be 3500 feet above a spot on Yucca Flat. To help the: bombardier, “Ground Zero” would be marked by intersecting bulldozer tracks. The AEC, a couple of weeks before it happened, ‘announced to the whole world what was going to take place at that tiny not bothering to worry

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THE confident nonchalance with which the Air Force drops live A-bombs is due in great part to the efforts of Col. Osmond. J. Ritland, who serves under Gen. Mills as commander of the test group which handies ‘such projects. Gen. Mills’ command embraces all Air Force atomic weapons development and testing, including such

things as guided missiles with atomic warheads. ~ Col. Ritland's policy is to spread actual drop assignments among as many different crews as possible, He reports that the job has now become very routine among his men. Most of the crews which he has trained, totaling many hundreds of men, are sent to the Strategic Alr Command where they add their experience to the ready force maintained by SAC. » ” » COL. RITLAND “IS ALSO actively engaged in developing the use of A-bombs for almost every type of plane the Air Force flies, He reports good progress in the carrying of Abombs by the jet fighter-bomb-er aircraft. Pilots with this experience are being graduated to units of the Tactical Air Command. Although the Army's part in the Apr. 22 test provided excellent experience for the troops, it pointed up just how much ground forces have yet to learn about the tactical use of atomic weapons. Later it was admitted that the 3500-foot height of the blast was probably too high for best tactical results. That height was

set for AEC test purposes, not for the Army. ” . . OTHER OFFICIAL Army observers said, after the blast, that it’ showed that probably the best tactical use of atomic bombs would be against air fields*and not against troops. These official Army statements have a bearing on the atomic artillery shell which the Army is supposed to have. If the Army does have a shell casing for a nuclear explosive, and the cannon to fire .that shell, there remain some problems. Like how big an explosive force to put. in the shell, where in the air to have it go off, how far into enemy territory to hurl it; and against what targets it should be used.

. » | J THE NET result of -the test as far as the Army is concerned was discouraging, according to a consenus of official observers. It erased some hopes that atomic weapons would revolutionize ground tactics. Marine Corps experts, on the other hand, believe their test will prove more encouraging as an aid to their basic mission, taking beach heads. They hope to show that one or more atomic bombs. dropped on an invasion point is the ideal way to neu-

tralize a beach before invasion.

Nation’s ‘Strangest Bank’ Pays 4 Per Cent

By ALBERT M. COLEGROVE PASHINGT Staft Writer WASHINGTON, May 9 —The country’s strangest bank will have its 80th birthday on May 15. This bank‘has paid its customers 4 per‘cent-on—their-s ings through -high times ‘and deep depressions since 1872, never missing a year, It's seldom ballyhooed. In fact, the directors frequently urge potential depogitors to put their money somewhere else— in Defense Bonds, for instance. For those who ignore these urgings and patronize the bank, there are strict rules: : ~ You can't withdraw your savings just any old time. You

Under certain circumstances, a depositor never can get his money back. ~ » . YOU CAN'T put in less than $5 at a whack, and you can't rail it. There's a ceiling on the amount you can deposit at

been gaining customers steadily, At last count—two months ago —almost 218,000 uncomplaining deposit book holders had a total of $42,106,660 socked away. Eccentric rules notwithstandIng, the bank is in solid with the U, 8. Treasury. In fact, it keeps its money there. : For. this is the little-known “Army Bank,” formally called the Soldiers’ Deposit System.’ Congress set up the Soldiers’

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1872. Too many soldiers were going over the hill. So Congress told the soldiers: : “Here's a bank where you

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THE ARMY Finance Corps administers the system. The Corps also is responsible for promoting the sales of Defense Bonds, for encouraging adequate family allotments and, generally, for urging troops to dispose of their. pay judiciously. Thus the lack of ballyhoo about Soldiers’ De‘posits. The Corps feels it un-

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out, there are good reasons for putting one’s money elsewhere.

You can have regular payroll deductions for Defense Bonds, insurance allotments, etc. To put money in the soldiers’ bank, you have to carry it to the Finance Officer in. your outfit.

You can cash a Defense Bond 60 days after you buy it. But Soldiers’ Deposits cant be withdrawn unless the depositor is (1) relieved from active duty honorably, (2) has just finished a 3-year enlistment, (3) dies, or (4) emergency which will

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@ Pakistan After Dark ir

Cars, Camels, Burros, All In Karachi.

By. WARD MOREHOUSE ']

KARACHI, Pakistan, Y May 9-—The airport's run- ’ way glinted under the i burning sunlight as the a Clipper circled for a landing; Xf there was a great immensity % of earth, shimmery and glassy in the noon- d time heat, Men in shorts and white uniforms swarmed down upon the big plane after it had rolled to a stop. One of those who ascended the landing platform ~ sprayed the inside of

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filed out, with health certifi ; cates ready for examinations i by a new and careful state, # 1 set foot upon the soil of the + ancient Aryans and turned to Ao gaze upon the Pakistan plain, y which had the rainless look, : it seemed as hot as the Mojave Desert. and there was now, for in AEsL KE Since Teaving Mew Tdlewlld on this“ arotind= the-world jaunt, a sensation of 4 remoteness, A dusty station wagon, driven : by a native, spun up to the Wl entrance of the administration building; in the distance loomed a work camel, plodding along i in great dighity and drawing a heavily loaded cart. My vaccination and inocula 1 tion papers were scrutinized by officials of this sovereign state 4 that had its beginning only five y years ago; my baggage was ; hastily inspected, scrawled upon 3 with chalk, and loaded Into the station wagon. 1 “What's the temperature? IT asked the white-clad N= j Bojonell, station manager for Pan American. “Oh,” he said, “It's about 108. Sort of like Texas, isn't it? , . Get right in and this man will take you inte town. Your reservation at the Hotel Metropole is all okay.”

Start From Scratch

SUCH WAS my introduction to a country in which the Macedonians of Alexander and the Persians and the Turks and the Afghans have wane dered in their time-—an eager, hopeful, wary and potentially prosperous country, starting out from scratch, which has an “ area about the size of Texas and Ohio put together. My home in Karachi for a

3-day stay is a large, square, high-ceilinged room with a tile flooring and equipped with a large electric fan, quarters for which the Metropole charges $10 daily, inclusive of three - meals, My room boy, or bearer, is an agile but fairly mournfullooking fellow who appears with fcewater every hour; my bags were brought up by a parade of boys, led by a midget, and the sum of 2 rupees (64 cents) for the job sent them squealing with delight into the corridor. I've heeri cautioned against drinking the tap water in Ka~ rachi and: told to skip greens and ice cream, but have been assured that the fish is fine, 80 I tried fish cutlets for breakfast, delivered’ to Room 122 by my bearer, answering to the name of Monsoon; experimented with pawn curry for lunch and went in for creamed chicken at Le Gourmet in the competitive Hotel Palace for dinner, off

243 Americans

COATLESS Americans and wives. were in the Metropole dining room at the luncheon hour. Seems that the American colony in Karachi totals 243; they're here with the Embassy, with the oil companies, in banking, in aviation and with insure ance concerns. One of them, wanting an apartment desperately, paid a rent advance of two and a half years to get it. It's in the line of reportarial duty to tell you that this Karachi, just a sleepy fishing village on the rim of the desert a decade ago, is now a city of a million people or more; that a Ford car, inclusive of duty and sales tax, costs $5000 and that gasoline runs to 70 cents an Imperial gallon; that local gemipros, the Clifton Players, gave a recent and creditable presentation of the stage play, “The - Heiress”; that Laura Hamilton, a Canadian soprano, is now appearing at Le Gourmet, and that, along with the hew-model cars, you will find camels, water buffaloes, burros and goats in the busy Karachi streets. . “The camel is an animal tha doesn’t get rattled,” observes the hospitable and well ine formed Patrick J. Sullivan Jr, here from the States as manager of traffic and sales for Pan American World Airways in Pakistan and Afghanistan, “And, the camel does hard work in Karachi and the bicycle isn’t a plaything, but a means of ‘conveyamee iow aay I shall be having lunch with . Pat Sullivan and will then a cul

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