Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1952 — Page 17
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Inside Indianapolis * By Ed Sovola
FARLIER in the week in this space, a recipe for barbecued ox was promised. It still may be some time before you and I have use for it. But we can dream, can't we? In the Athenaeum tomorrow night, a barbecued ox will be a reality for 640 persons attending the annual Ox Barbecue. Several hundred members who were too late with their reservations can dream along with the rest of us. Manager Mar Hoffmann parted with the recipe. He recommends a better-than-prime steer between 750 and 800 pounds. Provides about 650 ample servings. This year, Fritz Siebe, chef's steward, and Chefs Arthur Garner and Elmer Rirdwell will be working with an 507-pound prize 4-H steer,
LATE this afternoon, the steer will be holted through the spine on a spit. It's a 20-foot pipe five inches in diameter. Not to be used by people living in apartment houses. The carcass will be packed with dry ice and wrapped in butcher's shrouds, the legs wired together and the rump and shoulders scored. Mr, Hoffmann estimates 400 pounds of charcoal brickettes will be used. The fire will be started at 6 a. m. tomorrow. Twelve hours are required to barbecue the steer, One year a watchman was entrusted to light the fire. He was eager. The shrouds hadn't been removed and they caught fire, It will never happen again. The carcass is turned a quarter turn every 10 minutes. You've heard of the term, ‘cooked to a turn.” Last year as the final quarter turn was made, one round of beef fell off. It was done. Throughout the day the meat will be seasoned with garlic, salt and pepper, oil and bastings of the heef. As the carcass shrinks, the six U-bolts holding the carcass en the spit will be tightened. When you try it, better have a mechanic on hand who doesn't mind hot jobs.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22—I heard it myself, Olivia De Haviland and British actor Richard Burton were talking about the Hungarian language on the 20th Century lot. Mr. Burton suddenly said: > “I only know three Hungarian *® words and they're all—Zsa Zsa Gabor.”
» » ” A MILWAUKEE ne ws photog., famous for his malapropisms, was explaining to a gal why he was late to take her picture. “Everybody's on vacation,” he said, “so our office is terribly underhanded.”
= = o 3 “I SEE Gen. MacArthur} took a $100,000-a-year job with Remington- Rand,” k says Herb Shriner, the feller from Indiana. ‘Gee whiz, I didn't know he could type that fast.”
» ” n UP IN San Francisco, “Napgrins” are popular. They're paper napkins with breezy sayings and a Taffy -Auttle-type picture put out by Monogram of California,
A sample is: “She's the kind of a girl that men forget (to introduce to their wives).”
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IN RAPID CITY, S.D., a cocktail party, invitation had a typographical error in it. Instead of “From five until eight,” it read “From five until tight.” SN a GROUCHO MARX played two weeks in La Jolla, Cal., in “Time for Elizabeth,” and reports that his curtain speech “was the talk of every sea shell from Malibu to Encinada.” His salary was $55 a week. With deductions, he got a grand total of $41.12 a week. His hotel bill was $525. “I just cite these figures,” he says, “to give vou an idea of what a shrewd businessman I am, and how successful I would have been had I assaulted the world of finance.”
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BOBBY CLARK tickled me when TI saw him fn San Francisco in “Jollyanna,” the new version of “Flahooley.” When he was trying to make love to a gal, she shouts, “Stop it, stop it. I'll call for help.” “Don't bother,” says Bobby. any help.”
“I won't need
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 The old boy turned 82 Tuesday, and the fact that he flew out to California to carve his initials on a redwood tells vou something of his stamina. Bernie Baruch has hit a secret where Ponce De Leon missed it. The older he gets the younger he makes it seem. I had a little chatter with \\ / / him just before he left, and 82 // the old gentleman stays the / same. It is only August and EARS / he is already warrying about Ny / the quail crop down in South O PNaNng 040) Carolina. He is fretting some ~ Mr about my health—I'm not 37 —~ Fl vm) ~
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yet and the old warrior is 82, = ‘Eee but he's worrying about my - health. I'm not worrying about his health, though. If there was ever a fair bet to live forever, B. M. Baruch is that bet. He has already kept his hair and kept his mobility and kept his brain. All intact, He gave up tobacco and he only toys with the one old-fashioned but he still eats with enthusiasm of a small and ravenous boy. He sleeps like a hibernating bear, and God gave him the wonderful gift of being able to drop off at odd moments, sitting in a car or resting in a chair.
HE STOKES his energy with little naps, and manages to drape more work around his siestas than the average youngster performs on purpose. Physically, about the only thing wrong with him ix that he is deaf in one ear and sometimes his feet hurt. They don’t hurt when he hunts, though. He walks still with a young man's long and steady stride. His restless brain is interested in everything. He writes a lot and reads a lot and ponders a lot. He canp~still get as mad as an Irish revolutionist, a I.am the kid who knows how mad he can get. He savors a joke, and laughs aloud at the foibles of his younger friends. When he laughs you can hear him in Harlem. I am a young man comparatively and he can tire me out with the force of his mental vitality, He can shoot better than I can and he rides a horse with more grace and decision. He can also bet horses better than I ¢An, because he sometimes wins. He still works at his basic business, which is making money in the market. BN HE HAS TAKEN an immense interest in this year's political scene, but has not declared for either candidate yet. He was the financial godfather of the Democratic Party, but my feeling is that he thinks maybe we need a rest from the Democrats for a while. When he decides you will hear it loud and clear. Old Uncle Sam is the greatest and most pas-. sionate American 1 know, and his faith.in the ‘future of this land is a sparkling thing before
. the moans and the walls of the defeatists. He is
also the most practical man alive, and one of the
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IT'S BEST to have an outdoor grill. Take adequate precautions against rain. During the 13 years the barbecue was held at the Athenaeum, it rained only once. Most disappointing to the guests who enjoy watching the final preparations. Gourmets George Kuhn and Herman Kothe, that year, put on raincoats and watched the carcass and the seidels of brew they were handling. The special barbecue sauce is served in bowls along with potatoes, corn on the cob and salad. From then on it's simple. No previous experience is necessary. For smaller parties, use frankfurters, wise follow directions as given, * +o JOHN PERRY, president of Fletcher Avenue Savings & Loan Association, the city's most eligible bachelor for years, passed two friends and recent Benedicts on Market 8t. and growled, “To heck with you guys, you're contagious.” Tomorrow John says “I do" to lovely Barbara Bran. dh ab RALPH W. BAUMAN, 3301 Central Ave. is ready for Christmas. For the past four years the retired contractor has had a mechanical display in the, corner window of the Power & Light Building. A sneak preview of his latest yuletide creation was given the other day in the Bauman living room. The two-floor display has 59 movable parts and shows how Santa Claus’ workshop operates. St. Nick's helpers paint, saw, pound under the watchful eye of the Big Boss himself. Power & Light is again considering Mr. Bauman'’s display.
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SHORTAGES: The Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors is pleased with the 79 applications for examination which will be held Sept. 9. Last year there were only 54. There are more openings than applicants. How's that? Monday is the deadline for making your application, I pass.
Plenty of Laughs On Trip Around U. S.
But to this Easterner, one of the delights of the trip was the sign on one of the San Francisco highways: “Caution. Fog Ahead.” “Osos WITH JET PLANES soon to carry commercial passengers, Gene Murphy of Las Vegas notes that they'll go so fast, people won't get air-sick ‘till two days after their trip and they'll have to think back to what it was that made them ill. ob “I'M GOING to buy you a drink,” Mike Romanoff told us here, “but if you blow it all over town, I'll never forgive vou.” By the way, the strange trends I noticed in imbibing were pickled mushrooms instead of olives in martinis , , . and a new drink: “gin on the rocks.” » “Gin on the rocks,” exclaimed a bartender who got that order. “That's a ‘man's Martini'.”
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.... Two of the persons supposedly sought for questioning in the vice affair, Chic Farmer and Marshall Edson, were both around town. 12 hours ago. . . . The leading man in a Broadway hit was picked up again on a sex offense ahd now must report to his probation officer every day. Everett Crosby's daughter Sue enters Johns Hopkins this week to study radiology. . . . Gary Cooper's taken up cricket in Samoa where he’s filming “Return to Paradise.” Joe DiMaggio donned uniform and worked out at the stadium. United Artists has set its greatest advertising budget to date on pushing Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight.” Two sons of Ibn Saud are French Casino regulars and prefer Vivienne and Janie. , . . Several more Broadway film houses are hanging ‘by a thread and will probably close before the first of the year. . ., , Linda Lombard brings her singing act to the Celebrity Club Aug. 29. Mack Sennett has TV bids to reactivate his Keystone Cops films with new sound tracks. . . . Hollywood designer Howard Greer is recovering at his ranch from a hush operation. oe oo oo EARL'S PEARLS , . . “I never realized the value of education,” says the harassed Bill Cullen, “until I remembered the kids go back to school next week.” wo hs TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: A friend of Ving Marlin married a gal who was really loaded. She wouldn't have dome it if she was sober. At the Jelke arraignment someone is reported to have chanted, “That must be Jelke 'cause jam don't shake like that.” , , , That's Earl, brother.
Baruch. at 82, Has Young Man's Zest
Baruch two and two have never made more nor less than four. His impatience with fuzz-head-edness is scathing and profane. THE OLD GENT enjoys the finest winter of life on record. He has been rich so long he knows how to pare a buck from his budget. He enjoys eating, clothes, sport, arguments, friends, food and a robust health that would be remarkable on a teener. He goes whizzing off to Europe or to California as blithely as a boy. He likes gossip, admires a pretty girl, and hates phonies. The zest with which he greets each day is unbelievable. And it is not an old man’s count-ing-of-the-hours kind of zest. It is a busy, young man’s enthusiasm for things of the moment. Elizabeth Navarro, his nurse-companion, is generally tireder than he is at the end “of a day. I AM, OF COURSE, a little prejudiced about B. M. B,, since it has been my good fortune to have been his hunting partner and occasional sparring partner for the past six years, but, prejudice or no, I think he is one of the last living symbols of America as the way God intended it to be-—honest, industrious, hardy, wealthy, kind, wise, generous and hard-headed. Happy birthday, chief. TI hope you live to be 150 years old and kill your limit of quail every day from December to March.
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q. I have a red clematis that hak never got more than three or four feet high. It blooms two or three times a season, It has been abused by painters at different times. But would you suggest using lime around it? .I have another clematis, purple, that does very well. Carrie Reinking, 730 N. Colorado. . A. It seems likely the painters have caused more of your clematis trouble than lack of ‘lime. But since clematis do like lime and lime will stimulate their growth, you might try a little (be sure it's no more than a small handful) around
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
the vine. Use it this fall. Then try also mulching the vine with a little leat mold or woods dirt or give it a dose of lawn fertilizer (high nitrate) to see if you can boost its growth. Q. When you make your soil acid with fertilizer, what fertilizer should be used to keep it acid? Bosart Ave, A. There is an acid soil fertilizer on the market for azaleas, rhododendron, and other acidloving plants. If you can't find this at your seeds.man’s, you can, always use a special acidifying
least sentimental about hard fact; To Bernie chemical such as sulfur or aluminum sulfate. : : y
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1952
MARRIAGE WHEELS WHIRL—
‘Teeth’ In Blood Tests
By HARRY MAYO
Cincinnati Post Writer | ,AWRENCEBURG, Aug. 22—Chester Guard, Dearborn County clerk of courts, could stop this town's “fast dollar” marriage racket immediately if he wanted to do so. He could that out-of-state through the procedures couples, That the notorious name Lawrenceburg is getting as the “Gretna Green" of southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. It would stop young couples from jumping at marriage simply because marriage is an easy leap in this county.
do it by insisting couples go test
local
same blood required of
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» » ~ LOCAL COUPLES take blood then wait while specimens are mailed to state lahoratories and reports
are returned. That takes three days. Dr. Samuel R. Damon, director of the bureau of
have to tests,
usually
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tories of the Indiana Board of Health, said this law applies to everyone who gets married in Indiana. An Ohio couple, he said, can get a blood in his own state. But the specimen must be mailed to an Ohio state laboratory. Instead, Ohio couples have been getting blood tests in Cincinnati or northern Kentucky. These laboratories supply certificates which are taken to Mr. Guard. . Mr. Guard accepts these certificates, although Dr. Damon insists they are not acceptable under Indiana law,
“I think the out-of-state certificates are acceptable,” Mr, Guard told the Cincinnati Post. But he would not comment beyond that.
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“And I'm not going to coms ment about anything -else,” he said. '
Mr. Guard profits from ‘“deluxe’ licenses dispensed through his office, The Indiana fee is
ONE FOR THE BOOKI(IES)—
‘Brain’ To Pick
Expect
By RICHARD KLEINER NEW YORK, Aug. 22—This will be greeted with of disapproval by all honest race horses, but it must be told anyway. Sooner or later, tronics experts,
brain will be perfected which will predict the outcome of horse races. Before you go out and bet two on the tube, be warned that
news snorts
say elecan electronic
—this delightful gadget may be a
long time in coming. The Age of ‘Electronic Brains, in which horse-race-predicting machines will abound, is not yet here. And it may take decades to arrive, but arrive it will. “Electronje brain” is the popular phrase for a device known as a computer. As its fame implies, this machine doesn't actually do any thinking. It
merely computes data that human beings feed it. Some of them work from figures (digital
computers) and some work from “things” (analog computers).
It is the analog computer that may be developed into a highvoltage handicapper. Currently
(get that one?) analog computers work on more serious problems, ~ ” ~
FOR EXAMPLE, they may
predict the flight of a guided missile. Humans give it the in-formation--sSuch as the weight
of the test missile, wind conditions, fuel consumption and so on--and the computer records
on a graph the predicted flight:
pattern. Instead of missile flight factors suppose vou gave an analog computer such information as the condition of the track, the past performances of the horses, the weight of the
£2, but Mr. Guard and hig deputies offer cardboard folders for
£6 and §7. Out-of-town couples usually buy them. Dr. Damon told the Post
that any action to stop illegal blood tests is up to the local prosecuting attorney, Richard Mattingly, Dearborn County prosecutor, said he had no idea of starting action. Asked if Mr. Guard could legally accept out-of-state blood tests, he replied “no comment,”
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THIS TOWN'S justices of
the peace, who collect $10 to $15 per marriage, don't want any changes, either. Among
them, they're performing 50 to 75 marriages a week, The yield in dollars is good. Until Kentucky compulsory waiting . law two years ago, Lawrenceburg had only one justice of the peace and not many marriages. It was entitled to four even then, but nobody was interested because the financial returns were small, Of a sudden, the fast-mar-riage business which formerly went to Kentucky started finding its ‘way here. At the next election, Lawrencemmg's quota of justices was filled. Today, four justices vie for the enrichening marriage trade.
adopted a
Jockey. Could a machine be perfected which would figure out the winner? ’ ‘It is not inconceivable,” says Rawley McCoy, chief engineer of the Reeves Electronic Division of Claude Neon, Inc., who has worked on the guided missile computer. “It's a problem of working out the right equations to give the machine. If somebody wanted to spend enough time, it could be done.” From that point, you can proceed on many flights of fancy fancy that could logically someday be fact. Why couldn't analog computers be devised which would predict the weather accurately, give you tips on the stock market, say what team would win the pennant, tell you what crops to plant each year, figure out exactly how much weight you'd gain (or lose) on a certaim diet?
POLITICS IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT... No. 5—
Active Workers
By JOSEPH E. McLEAN F YOU have finally decided to take a more active part in political affairs, you, as a citizen-politician, will inevitably face certain basic personal issues: How much time can you devote to politics?
Do you want to be active in a political party? If so, which one? Do you prefer to work as an independent?
Do you prefer to give priority to group activity? Are you willing to run for public office? Party office? Are you prepared to work for good, qualified candidates? There are certain things every individual can do: Register to vote, try to know the candidates, participate in the primaries and in the general elections, try to persuade your family and friends to vote. The last may be expanded to include organized activity such ag the important ‘“‘get-out-the-vote” campaigns sponsored by various civic organizations. Your other political activities will depend on your answers to such questions as those raised above.
” o » DO YOU prefer to be an independent or to work in a party organization? Probably the vast majority of citizens should belong to a party. Your decision, however, may be guided by several factors: Your temperament, the
nature of the parties in your community, and your objectives. Political parties seek to gain control of government through the appeal of candidates and programs. Should you feel that the parties’ candidates and programs offer basically no differences, you may wish to be an independent and hope the two major parties will compete for your vote, Or you may be interested primarily in a single problem — for example, constitutional reform—and wish to gain support of Democrats, Republicans and independents on a nonpartisan basis. A possible disadvantage here, of course, is that in promoting a single cause—however worthy—you may be limiting your effectiveness in other worthy endeavors.
n ” ” IT SHOULD be noted, also, it is sometimes possible to combine party action with a considerable degree of independence. Party workers need not be slavish adherents to a party line—especially if the line is laid down by a corrupt or firresponsible leadership. Independent members may force the
MIRROR-BUSTING. ASHENFARBS—
WHAM-7 Year
By WILLIAM MICHELFELDER
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 — A seven-year whammy that supposedly attends breaking a mirror has been lassoed by the Ashenfarbs, the most reflective family in the Bronx. The Ashenfarbs are reflective by profession, All day long 71-year-old Barnet Ashenfarb and his sons, Henry and Sam, ogle the walls of 88 Lincoln Ave, reflecting themselves in some 700,000 mirrors. Underfoot they hear the tinkling crunch of 500 broken mirrors a day, a cheerful reminder that 80 employees at the American Mirror Works hoot at the seven-year scourge, “We've got here joyful mir-ror-busters,” explained Henry Ashenfarb, a burnished-looking executive. “For 50 yearsswe've busted 'em left and right. And we've kept files on our mirrorbusters. “Nobody — but nobody -— has been struck by lightning, lost
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4 manhole, or lived seven years behind the eight-ball. ~ n n “DOES THAT convince people who come here looking for work? We've gotta show ’em thefe ain't no such jinx.” He swung on the photographer who had been studying himself, moodily, in a fragment of look ing glass. “How about you?” he snapped. "You feel funny about cracking a mirror?” Our man smiled loftily, “Pure hokum,” he said. Mr. Ashenfarb rolled in a giant slab of plate-glass, flushed a maHet from nowhere, “Hit it, boy!” he roared. Our man recoiled. “Well, now—" he muttered. “Forget the cost!” cried Mr. Ashenfarb.. “Smack her in two!" But our man hung back and Mr. Ashenfarb viewed him with compassion, “Don’t be embarrassed,” he said gently, “Just proves’ my theory that this centuries-old superstitution has a grip on the best of us.” Mr, Ashenfarb spread his arms
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THEY TESTED THE MARRIAGE MILL—Cincinnati Post re-
porters Art McKinney and Barbara Eickbush found "quickie" mars riages can be bought in Lawrenceburg.
Race Winners
The digital computers deal-
ing with figures, offer a more immediate practical future. Philip 8. Fogg, president
of the Consolidated Engineering Corp., says that one digital computer could replace 300 em=ployees in a bank, for instance or the ent billing department of a department store,
“Before long,” he says, “elec+tric impulses may be keeping track of your bank balance, your gas and electric bill, how much you owe the department store and the Insurance company, as well as all th® behind-the-scenes figuring on inventory and stock control, payrolls with numerous deductions, tax computation and general business statistics, “It's time to admit the vacuum tube is mightier than the finger.” Present electronic brains are pretty big machines. Mr, Fogg's
company makes one ahout the size of a grand piano, one of the smallest available, ~ » »
WHEN THAT happy day arrives, applications for the machine will be found everywhere. Already, men are adapting varlous computers for the following jobs:
Navigation, right in commercial airplanes. When the price and size are right, computers will take the guesswork out of navigation. This will add to airline safety. There'll be no more bumping into unexpected mountains, Education, specifically as a teaching aid in calculus. Mr. McCoy says it will make this branch of mathematics easier to learn, because it will solve differential equations graphically. Students will see problems worked out in front of their eyes.
Needn’'t Ape Party Line
"Party workers need not be slaves to a party line."
leadership to, assume a position more in "keeping with the public interest. There should he a healthy rivalry between the parties and between the parties and the independent voter. If the voter builds up a resistance to the superficial appeals of the parties, then the party organizationg should move toward a sharper definition of policies and a more honest exposition af their proposals,
un n on IF YOU PREFER to work in a party, which party should you choose? Again, certain imponderables are present. You may favor the national program of one party, but find that party In your state’and community is a corrupt organization,
Many New Jersey Democrats during the heyday of Boss Hague's power felt it was fu-
tile to work in the party or.
even to vote In the primaries, For years, many good Republicans in Philadelphia were ashamed of and apathetic toward their local Republican machine. One answer is to organize party members who agree with you and work WITHIN the party toward eliminating incompetent answer is to work temporarily with the opposition party if good candidates are being presented in opposition to those hand picked by your own party bosses, A different dilemma is pre-
leadership. Another .
sented if you live in a one-party community or a one-party state, The traditional dominance of one-party is not confined to the South. You may live in a city, county or even a state outside the South that votes a one-way ticket in every election. ” ” n SHOULD YOU favor the “permanent” minority party, your position is a difficult one. Certain compensations, how=ever, are available, By working in the minority party you are helping build a real twoparty system, and an organization that would be available to take over the government of your community should the voters rebel against the dominant group. Also, it is simpler for you to build your. personal influence within the minority party to the extent that you may serve on the state committee or as a
“delegate to the national party
convention; there you may have a greater influence should your local minority party be part of a national majority. As in the case of vour decision on being an independent, your choice of a party will depend on what you think of the parties’ current and potential programs. It also will depend on whether you have local or state or national goals in mind.
NEXT: The Year-Round Citizen-Politician.
Whammy ls Smashed
dramatically, seized the mallet, wound up and produced a shattering detonation, “There!” he said. "This starts another lucky day!” n n » FOUNDED in the 1880s, the American Mirror Works rose to enviable heights in the world of glass. “We got ourselves started by making those dis torting mirrors for the 1885 Coney Island sideshow,” recalled Mr. Ashenfarb, plucking a sliver of glass from his curly hair. “They’re still there.” This year the firm will break glass records by manufacturing thousands of auto mirrors for Chrysler, Studebaker and Ford. Thousands more will be turned out for the makers of vanity cases, pocketbooks and expensive luggage, Machinery for gilvering, cutting. beveling and polishing are Just far enough apart for skilled workers to stand between, Slabs are tossed around like massive
playing cards. Cutting instruments hurl wicked-looking . @
spears into the air. Wearing no gloves or eye-protectors, the cutters weave, as if rolling with punches, as the glittering shafts zoom toward them. nu n ~ “ABOUT 10000 finished pieces a day come off the line’ explained Mr. Ashenfarb, “No breakage unless we want breakage. And we do break. Just to keep the jinx out of mind.”
Behind us there was a dissonant explosion. “That would be Sam,” said Mr. Ashenfarb, looking awfully pleased. ‘‘After a couple hours of lugging hundreds of sheets of thin glass from wall to silvering rollers, he likes to heave one. On the house, of course. Just like a free beer at the brewery.” Back in the office, Mr Ashenfarb admitted to indoctrination for mirror-smashing, All the néw help at the American Mirror Works enjoy an orgy of busting up new mirrors, Sometimes Mr. Ashenfarb has to sell the job that's open, “New
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employees insist they've got no foolishness, until vou ask them to bust one. Zip! Out they walk.” n ” 5 DISSENTIN G applicants Rive these reasons for not taking a job
Breaking a mirror invites loss of hair. You will never marry for seven years afterward. A woman should not
look into a mirror seven weeks before childbirth. You fall behind in auto payments if you break a mirror. You get the seven-year itch. Your cat will have seven-toed kittens. You marry the seventh woman to come into your life and she turns out to be a lemon. “I.ook at the Ashenfarbs!™ cried Henry, with an affectionate sweep of the arm toward Sam and his father. “Do we look jinxed?” The others beamed. Sam picked up a heart-shaped vane ity mirror. “Here's mud in your eye!” he cried, smashing it across his knee, :