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Inside Indi olis By Ed ® dianapolis
TN ASKING you on bended knee, if my wife mes ere or, calls, don't give h - Plate.” e acu That actually happened in Room 845 of the Illinois Building where all ‘those little plates that make buying so easy originate. Innocently printed on the glass door are the words: Charga-Plate Associates of Indianapolis,
My purpose in Room 845 wasn't to plead on bended knee. Check the joint, yes. Here's why. Supervisor Thelma Fidler took it upon herself to send me a Charga-Plate when she caught a namechange of a person who cooks for me now. Doesn't mend socks, yet. v Charga-Plates have been known to frighten cash-on-the-line buyers. One would have blanched
. these rosy cheeks. There were two in a card with
this Tiote: “Also one for Mr. Sovola. Much, much happiness, Thelma Fidler, supervisor. This same wish from all the ‘Charga-Platers’.” Hmmmmm. The door to 845 was open. Six pairs of bright eves looked up. Like a ‘pinball machine, the eves were joined, one by one, with smiles . . . ping. ping, ping. How a man could walk into the office and raise a ruckus ahout his wife's Charga-Plate is mystifying. No wonder he went on his knee. Mrs. Fidler assumed there was a question ahout her office. First, you had to meet the staff which included Donna Stocker. Aileen Stout, Leona Flynn, Betty Smith and Esther Swinford. 0 © oe OVER 400 Charga-Plates a day are put into the mail; 100 are new accounts. Currently in use are more than 300,000 plates. You can subtract one that I know about. A Charga-Plate can be used in 11 stores. Mrs. Fidler owns one of the few plates with 10 notches. A notch on a certain spot of the plate designates the store where it will be honored. Her plate resembles a comb with short teeth. . Most of the work on plates originates in the association: Every day a boy gathers up plastic gacks from the members with their orders for the day. This may involve making a new plate for a customer, changing a name, an address, posting a withdrawal. Mrs. Fidler is proud of her record for 24-hour
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23—At last—just what you haven't .been waiting for—the “inside” on Rita and Aly. .. .
Of course, you newspaper readers may be sick of the whole Rita-and-Aly Story. But you can’t be as sick of it as the newspaper writers. Especially this one, who's worked on it for three years in Paris, Cannes, London, New York, and now Hollywood. Nevertheless, from sources that seem good to me, although they may -turn out to be as confidential as a signboard, I can assure you that the reason Rita’s been slow to accepting a reconciliation is: Money. Not money that she wants. Money that she’s got, or getting. She's to receive 25 per cent of the profits of her new picture, “Affair in Trinidad,” which should amount to $1 million, at least (for her). So, with that, and profits on two other pictures due, she’ll soon be loaded. © “I've got money and I'm happy at the studio— why should I go back to being unhappy?” she reasoned when Aly wanted her back. That’s not saying she won't go back, the female heart being what it is. Because Aly’'s charming, and women like his romancing manner. Men like him, too. I saw the Prince arrive the other day at a party Otto Preminger gave. There were many handsome, witty men present, but the women soon paid attention only to Aly. SG 9
THE PRINCE is “substantial folks,” too. He owns 11 homes, and employs about 500 people. A man like this could have been “gold-dug.” But Rita’s not that type, despite the usual Hollywood- idea. § Somebody said she could seize assets of Al and Aga Khan in Switzerland and elsewhere, “Oh, no, I couldn’t do that,” she said. In fact, her highly-publicized “demand” for $3 million for Yasmine never was made. It was a mistake. + Rita did think Her daughter should get a¥ well treated as each of Aly's sons, They each reportedly got $1.5 million. A reporter misunder“stood and thought. she was asking, for as much as both sons. -- "7, > Rita, furthermoré, has vast affection for the old Aga Khan, When she was packing her bags to leave Aly, her famous father-in-law sat on the bed, sadly watching. The main reason she has never filed her di-
Rita
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 23—I love the alibi as an art form, due to having employed it as a necessity for years, and have bumped into a couple lately that were completely entrancing. See where an actress name of Gloria Grahame just got a divorce in Los Angeles on the premise that her late husband, a Mr. Nick Ray, was sullen. This caused Gloria to lose weight, so she shed him. Snap. Like that. Then I see a piece in the papers about a Hollywood writ- ~ er named Bernard Schoenfeld, a Harvard man, who tells the House Un-American Activities Committee that ‘the shock of President Roosevelt's death drove him into the Communist Party.” I now believe I have heard everything. It would seem that Miss Grahame should be pelting her ex with posies, because all the women I ever meet are dying to lose pounds and trying every whichaway to devise means to cut the heft without giving up the delicious gin and the tantalizing potatoes. Here's a dame got a man who sgits in- the corner and pouts; third pout and she chops off a pound. This man should be treasured, not divorced. He is more to be cherished than Gayelord Hauser, who wants the victim to inundate herself in yoghurt, smear her brow with blackstrap, and chomp constantly on carrots.
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THIS IS ONE of the few recorded instances
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made the deponent thin, and they knock him for it. Last time I checked with the distaff, unhappiness made the female fat. The reason is that they submerge the love pangs in food, which is called sublimation. Papa don’t love mama, mama heads for the fried spuds and the buttery bread. Papa scowls, mama weeps and gains and gains and gains. Unhappiness makes the glands grow active, and when a dame has active glands she either throws a lamp or gets ravenous. It is a cute commentary on the country, at that. All over the nation females in pursuit of gvelteness are growing crankier and crankier as they chew the rabbit food and become jaundiced in the presence of blagk coffee and hard-boiled eggs. They get so irritable that husbands feel like divorcing them. Of a sudden we have a poor guy who has invented the perfect reducing dodge and all he gets for his pains is a divorce and possibly an alimony smack. It'll serve this girl right, now she's happy and unwed, if she gets RS fat as a hog. <>
PROGRESSING TO the delicate sensibilities of Mr. Schoenfeld, the screen writer, we might observe that this man never wrote a script before so:pregnant with possibility. I offer herewith a short scenario of my own. The man from the bank calls up and says
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service, An order comes in one day and the plate is in the mail the next. Once a customer opens an account, he's permanently on record. The original name and address stays in the file no matter what happens. Every change and type of service rendered goes on the card. 5 “We keep pretty good track of eur customers,” said Mrs, Fidler proudly. _ . Charga-Plates which are no longer usable are destroyed. A record is kept of when it was destroyed. No plates remain in the office. New ones are used to address an envelope and then they are sent to the customers. Mrs. Fidler's advice to Charga-Plate holders is to buy only what can be paid for in 30 days. We who belong to the tin-plate club should be glad she just makes the plates. If she were a sales clerk well, the association would have to have a kneeling pad. “ BD. 0 PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE: Municipal Court 1 Judge Joe Myers had to file a bad check charge against the purchaser of his car “What a deal,” moaned Judge Myers. “No car, no customer and me holding a rubber check.” Another Joe, General Hospital Medical Director Joe Bean, spent an anxious day at home checking his two youngsters, ages 2 and 9 months. The former told Daddy “baby” -ate a bottle of aspiring, Evidence in play pen looked serious. Later “Big Brother” claimed he ate the aspirins. Dr. Bean is of the opinion neither ate any aspirins. He had two. “a ub LUCILLE MAYS, City Hall switchboard operator is the one wha greets a caller with “Good morning, City Hall” or “Good afternoon, City Hall.” No other operator can make that statement, apparently. 4 SS oH WELL, BLIMEY: Former commandant of the local Naval Armory Capt. F. F. Knachel was recently presented with a portrait of himself by a group of local visiting reservists in Detroit. Most frequent comment made was how much it resembled Winston Churchill. Maybe an ol’ sea dog was used for the model.
‘Why Be Unhanpy : Again?’ Asks ta
vorce action is that she feared it might hurt the Aga during his illness. Another reason is probably that she still likes
the guy. If this “reconciliation” fails, it may be attempted again next year. Anyway, the Prince
Aly is likely to visit Rita year after year. This year, of course, he came to sell horses and to see Rita. . As one friend who likes him said, “He combined business with misery.”
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MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.... There seems to be some question as to the identity of the fellow mentioned in Pat Ward's suicide note. The way we heard it months back it wasn't Jelke but a prominent singer ... Mickey Jelke’s looking for a press agent for obvious reasons. One p. a. who turned down the offer, was told, “There's good dough in it.” : Gregg Sherwood, who appears happily parted from Horace Dodge, his cigaret lighters, etc, laughed it up over champagne at El Morocco with old friend Herman ILevin, MARQUIS FILIPPO THEODOLI, a staffer at the Italian State Tourist Office, surprised and overpowered a thief (with three previous arrests) about to steal his car ... Ivan Black and Jim Moran signed for 26 weeks as jockeys from the Blue Ribbon over WVNJ , .. Joe Louis Blue Angeled with singer Dolores Parker . . . Corinne Calvet is on Pantomime Quiz, the CBS-TV show. Herb Shriner will replace the ailing Fred Allen on his projected TV quiz show. . . . The Tony Bentleys (Deborah Kerr) will apply for American citizenship. . . . Oscar Chapman will be advance man for Stevenson’s whistle stop toyr and also liaison between Gov. Stevenson and the White House. The father of a gal singer recently picked up on a narcotics charge is running for Congress in a New Efigland state.
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Bob Olin, a boxing champ 15 years ago, sparred with challenger Rocky Marciano. “I coulda knocked him out easy,” Bob said jokingly, “but I didn't want to have to fight Walcott for the title.”
WISH I'D SAID THAT: “These days,” says singer Frank Stevens, “there’s hot speeches in the air and hot air in the speeches.” EARL'S PEARLS .:. . “Now,” says Sonny Howard, “it’s up to the D. A. to get some of the cream of society to spill.” A press pass, as told to Jerry Lester by Taffy Tuttle, is when a reporter makes a play for a dame. . . . That's Earl, brother.
New Crop of Alibis Found Entrancing’
get it up, Buster the day is here, and why ain't vou paying your lowful bills. Fear not; scrooge, say I, I am no longer accountable. Why, sezze, are you not liable? Damon Runyon is dead, sezzi. But that was a long time ago, sezze. No matter, sezzi. This is a case of delayed shock. Go whistle for your money, I am not responsible. Damon died. Comes the call from the office someday and the man says where's the column at? Can't write, sezzi. State of shock. Howcome, the man says. We send the money. You send the column. Not me, sezzi. George Washington is dead. Grief-stricken, me. es THE DAY I beat the dogs and squander my substance and set fire to the United Nations building and hock: mama's muskrat, I got only one answer when the D. A. points the finger and mentions rape and murder, too. Why, the D. A. will say. Why? Don’t blame me, junior, is the witness’ retort. Haven't you heard? Truman beat Dewey, and I haven't been the same since, There was a time when I fancied myself as a right fair alibi builder, a fine fabricator of excuse, a shifty boy with the plausible explanation for nonperformance, But I doff the sombrero, I make the deep bow. Miss Grahame and Mr. Schoenfeld have me backed off. The other night when I was a real bum on one of those TV quiz shows and didn’t answer anything right all I said was, I been sick with the virus Q. I should have told them that mama was mad at me and, anyhow, I just heard tell that Ulysses S. Grant wasn't President any more.
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q. I have an amaryllis which has not bloomed for two years now, Last summer I took it from the pot. It did not do any good. This year I left it in the pot in the ground Have a nice plant with good dirt in the pot. Why no flowers? Mrs. William Lampe, 928 N. Parker Ave.
A. The crucial period for amaryllis is just after the blooming period. It is like the spring flowering ffodils and tulips. It pre-packages its flower uds in that afterblooming period. And at that time it needs plant food in proper balance. Too much leaf stimulating nitrates will give you a beautiful plant but poor or no flowers. I rather think that is your trouble. So grow your bulb on. Take it indoors before frost. Dry it off gradually, Store it in a dark not too chilly spot. In spring bring it to light and water it as always. Then, whether it blooms or not, get busy giving it some fertilizer solution that will encourage bud formation. Repot it in soil to which you have added at least a teaspoon of bone meal to a six-inch pot. You could, if you preferred repot it-this fall. I repot my own amaryllis in spring but your bulb needs better plant food soon.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1952
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MEET ME AT THE FAIR—Visitors to this year's fait will same scene shown in this 1926 photo—differing mainly in costume and number of people.
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By LLOYD B. WALTON
THE STATE Fair Grounds has come to life again after a vear of comparative idleness as Indiana prepares to celebrate the 100th birthday of her State Fair. The clatter of pounding hammers mingles with the myriad animal noises and shouted commands of workmen much the same as they have nearly every year since the first fair was held at old Camp Sullivan in 1852. That first fair grounds was the small patch of land now called Military Park at New York and West Sts. A large cornfield stretched along West St. east of the grounds. No amusement stands or sideshows were permitted in the grounds. These were lined along the streets bordering the fair. The principal amusements at the first fair were the horse races held on a half-mile track. An Indianapolis newspaper writing its pre-fair story advised Indianapolis citizens to be on the lookout for pickpockets. In the quaint style then in use the paper said: ‘Citizens beware. We are informed a host of the light-fingered gentry are in town seeking whom they might devour.” As the original idea of the fair was to increase interest in farming and farm products it was reqhired that all exhibitors pay $1 to Become a member of the Indiana State Agricultural Society. ¥ ns =» PERHAPS the most complete and colorful account of
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the first fair was the one written by L. Bollman, a farmer. His complete article was in-
cluded in the official reports of
the State Board of Agriculture that year, “What a mass of people,” wrote Mr. Bollman., “And what a confusion of sound. The merry laugh is almost unheard in this neighing of horses and braying of mulés and lowing of cattle, and bleating: of sheep and grunting of hogs. “Listen to this medley of music,” he continued, ‘sounding out of these numerous tents on either hand, mixed with the roars of grizzly bears, and the not less unmusical voices which urge us to walk in and see the great and wonderful Giant and Giantess, or the Sea Dog, or something else exhibiting in the tents.” Mr. Bollman’s account then took in the whole fair describing the livestock on display and the newly patented ‘“‘machines” to help the farmer in his work. “The reapers and each their respective advocates, and the mowers are closely scrutinized,” he wrote, “And well they may be, for they cut fifteen acres a day, at but little more cost than one acre {8s now cut by the scythe.” ” ” »
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"fort the fair to be in a different location each year. ‘So in 1853.
the second fair was in Lafa- » yette, The next year it was in Madi-
se finishes in last year's Grand Circuit races. This has become an outstanding feature of the fair.
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son, but returned to Indianapolis tha following year. In 1859 it was In New Albany; 1865, Ft. Wayne; 1887, Terre Haute, and then returned to
Indianapolis to stay. , After the Civil War the fair grounds was moved to Camp Morton, a military post and stockade for Confederate prisoners, which was located where 19th and Alabama Sts. are now, At that .time the location was outside the city limits, The 1866 State Fair Premium list published the following description of the Camp Morton fair grounds. “The fair will be held on the grounds owned by the State Board of Agriculture, now a historic spot, known as Camp Morton—being a beautiful tract of 36 acres, directly north of the city—once well timbered, but now somewhat destitute of the beautiful shade of 1860, in consequence of the occupancy of the grounds as a military rendezvous for two years, and
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THESE premium lists contain much of the history of the growth of the State Fair, The Indiana Department of the State Historical Library® has a collection of them which is nearly complete from the third fair to the present time. In the 1890 list-a single ticket admission to the fair was quoted at 50 cents. A horse and rider could enter for 75 cents. A one-horse vehicle and driver paid 75 cents, but a twohorse vehicle and driver had to pay $1. An interesting item was noted in the 1864 premium list. The question was asked: “How many of our people have reflected that the wheat or corn crop of the United States would pay the war debt in one year?” The increasing need for the invention of labor-saving machinery was noted also in the 1864 list. The writer stated: “The decrease of labor, which
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ALL—Prize entries in last show pose with their youthful masters.
EARLY 20's—It was a "must" for the fair visitor to, see these lovely ballerinas do their interpretation of “Cleopatra.” » =
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has been occasioned by the constant drafts upon the people for soldiers with which to put down this infernal rebellion, and pun=ish tories, thus diminishing labor, has rendered the introduction of labor-saving machines indispensable.”
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THE RAPID growth of both the fair and the city soon brought a need for more spacious grounds. In 1891 the present tract of 214 acres was purchased and the first fair held there in 1892, In 1921 the State Legislature took over the Fair Grounds and authorized a bond issue of $1 million to build a modern fair . ground plant. The legislature . also created the Indiana Bodrd: of Agriculture as successor to the ‘State Board of Agriculture and made it trustee of the Fair ° Grounds property. hg Under the direction of this board the Indiana State Fair . has grown to be recognized as « one of the top fairs in the coun= *
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