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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

AFTER THE “Campaign Cocktail Poll” was over—Stevenson, 90 votes; Eisenhower, 44. *And yesterday was Ike's Day in Indianapolis. No one was more shocked than Bob McKinney, energetic host of Circle Tavern, who concocted the poll and the cocktail. “How can I put the results in the window?” wailed Bob yesterday. “Stevenson rooters last night torpedoed the poll.” Monday afternoon, Bob was in high spirits, Don’t take that 7 Nterally. His “Campaign Cock- # tail” was going strong; Eisenhower was leading about 3 to 1; customers were complimenting him on a good idea. The poll works like this, You «= order the cocktail and the bartender hands you a pencil with which you mark a ballot to suit your political taste. That indicates whether the swizzle stick has an elephant or a donkey on the end of it. It’s not a secret ballot. Ingredients in the cocktail consist of rum, orange juice, slice of lime, orange and a maraschino cherry. It's served in an old-fashioned glass. Gee, the things you learn talking to Bob. Spent a few minutes in the establishment Monday afternoon marveling at Bob's ingenuity. With the early returns so heavily in favor of the General, it was a safe bet that Bob could post the first day's results in a way that the distinguished guest and his faithful backers would welcome. DAY BY DAY, Bob explained, the totals would be brought up to date. The poll would end on election day, Nov. 4. Clever. Then Monday night Stevenson, rooters lowered the hoom. - Four Democrats alone polished off 30 “Campaign Cocktails.” When they left, aglow from the heavy balloting they had engaged in, Bob's poll was shot. “It took a lot of talking to convince the Adlai voters that they only get one red, white and blue ‘I Like the Circle Tavern Campaign Cocktail’ button,” added Bob. “They wanted 30.” Good ol’ Ssssstevesssson . . .

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 10—TI love everybody . . . especially people that buy the paper... I said BUY, not borrow . ,. but I'm “just a little hurt” about Tin Pan Alley.

Comedian Joe E. Lewis takes care of that situation over at the Copacabana:

“I met a songwriter who was trembling from a bad dream,” says Joe. “He dreamed Tchaikovsky’s alive — and has hired himself a good lawyer.” Joan Crawford's about agreed to make her TV debut for Jackie Gleason's CBS premiere in two weeks—for $7500 and $2500 expenses. Alan Ladd’s dog was poisoned in Hollywood. They didn’t tell him till he’d left for Europe. For fear he'd call off the trip. ... Gertrude Lawrence was a Barry Gray fan. Told me so herself. He was probably the last radio commentator she heard. . . . The Maharajah of Baroda told Didi Douglas, the Toledo singer at the Park Avegue, “Didi, I met you teo late.” She answered: “But Maharajah, I thought Moslems can have four wives.” “New York's traffie’s improving,” sayeth Robert Q. Lewis. ‘Yesterday I got my car out of second gear.” o* > 0S

"BARBARA PAYTON (who has anew picture

out—something like the other one) is dating lords and earls in London. A B'way wiseacre says “Maybe she hopes to become a “Lady” ... Disregard the false bustup rumors about Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Enemies at work.

I'm sure proud of my friend Frank Sinatra out at Bill Miller's Riviera. His pipes are perfect, his singing is still a thrill. His admirers have been jammin and crammin’ since he opened: Faye & Stitch, Dagmar & Danny, Mel Torme, Johnny Johnston, Marilyn Maxwell, the Toots Shors.. And Ava gets in Wednesday. > Frankie and Comedian Joey Bishop are thin as umbrellas. Frankie tells the audience, “Joey and I may get together and do a single.” N’'Yorkers have to beware muggers on the uppity East Side. Actress Vivian Blaine’s huspand, Manny Frank, and her huge Boxer dog, were recently charged by two holdup guys while walking on Sutton Place. 2 “Get 'em,” Manny shouted to the dog, which chased one, while Manny outran. the other. The mugger chased by the dog had the hardest time— for the dog didn't return home for an hour.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 10—If anybody is planting recordings in the archives, I suspect that the last 12 months will make history as containing more miserable music than any other similar period of the past. The popular stuff has either been ultra sad or extra silly. The big smash performers have been weepers and grimacers. The old-timers like Peggy Lee have changed their straight style and become whoopers and face wigglers. They have even taken the old, good Gershwins and Porters and turned them into something between bebop and a hog call, The whiny hill-William stuff stays on the jukes and blats at you on the radio. I have come to fancy the singing commercials such as “Sound Off for Chesterfields” over ‘the ordinary fare. You finally arrivé at the conclusion that if just one singer, preferably girl, will do it like Margaret Whiting or Peggy Lee used to, a whole new vogue in entertainment ight get started again. Which idea took me down to the Village the other night to press a call on a dame I used to know in Chicago, a dame out of Royal, Neb. (pop. 190), a dame named Jeri Southern, Jeri plays a piano and sings. She is not the best piano player in the world or the:best singer or the prettiest girl. But then she can stop a room cold, so that the drunks don’t shout and the lovers don’t whisper. She builds a mood around herself and invites you to enter. 1 USED to hear her in a place called Le Boeuf, fn Chicago, an old brownstone converted into a restaurant. Jeri sat down in the cellar and played for herself, and sang to herself, She did not make soulful calf eyes on’ the ceiling, or twist her face into what girl singers construe as ecstasy and what really looks more like a reaction to severe stomach ¢ramps, She did not shrug her shoulders up and down to focus attention op her chest measurement in order to divert the customers. She just sat there and sang the old, clean stuff, playing a cool, clean accompaniment to herself, not striving for a lot of lace or crashes on the keyboards, and the net result. was marvelous. She is a sad and almost bitter looking woman when she is singing with hurt green eyes and a disillusioned mouth and a poker face. She underplayed her voice as she underplayed her piano, and somehow Le Eoeuf was jammed every night until it burnt down. I doubt if Jeri get fire to it, since she had finished her engagement a couple of nights before the fire started. The gal has a peculiar quality of instilling a great and somber sadness in her audience. She makes you feel somehow lke walking home at dawn in New Orleans, with all the good people and happy people asleep, and a few bad people » and a lot of rad people still up. “ .. &

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Another Ballot,

Pleesh, Bartender

HEY, DIOGENES: Traffic Officer Delmon Aldrich, Washington and Meridian Sts, tells of a truly honest man. About six weeks ago a man stopped to ask directions to the Log Cabin. If the. man had had a tail, it would have been between his legs. He didn’t look prosperous, wellfed or particularly happy.

Officer Aldrich was surprised to learn the man planned to walk the distance, He was applying for a job. “I gave him 15¢ and the directions to take a bus,” sdid the officer. . Later that afternoon the man was back, He didn’t get the job. He wanted to return the money. Officer Aldrich refused to take it. Yesterday, six weeks later, the job-seeker appeared again. He held out the 15 cents. “I've got a job and I want to pay my, debt, thank you very much,” said the man. Officer Aldrich is still shaking his head. o> > BH SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Armon Wade, head trimmer at L. Strauss, never can be caught without his hat on . .. winter or summer ... does he keep something under it? , . . Wilbur Shaw whispering that for the 1952 annual Press-Radio blowout at the Speedway Golf Course clubhouse, “Tony (Hulman) and the Gang” are going to serve frog legs . . . the chefs considered Dungeness crabs ... too hard to handle, they thought, after the preliminaries . . . duck thumbings as usual . . . and the usual...

Dick James and Paul Ross, co-chairmen of the public relations committee, for the Indianapolis Hospital Development Association, Inc, guarantee the first luncheon meeting of the committee will be “short and snappy.” . .. “12 Million or more by '54” . . . okay, 1:30 or more and I'm heading for the door. . . . Keith Bratton, Stark & Wetzel magazine editor, complaining about the

‘poor game of squash ‘racquets he played at the

Athletic Club . . . first game of the season . . . “I know what's wrong,” Keith quipped. “It's the nut on the end of the handle.”

Gags and Gossip Sweep Broadway

TAFFY TUTTLE says her eyes are like a pair of dice. All she has to do is roll them, to make her point. Yvonne de Carlo cabled that she almost drowned when a rowboat capsized in the English Channel while she was making a movie. . A big politician's more shivery than ever. Since Gangbuster Ed Reid of the biggest tabloid started working on exposing him. . . Nicky -Hilton now phones Laura Bartlett, the Riviera showgal. Hey, Secretaries, Ex-Secre-tary Betty O'Neil of Bloomington, Ill, is following Ethel Merman and Isabel Bigley to fame. Twentieth Century-Fox wants her after seeing her zip number in “Pal Joey.” Tip to bosses: Marry your secretaries and retire. B-Bop Story: “Where you going?” . ... “Chicago” . . . “What for?” “For a vacation” O'Neil «+. “Dont be a square. Send i —— Sor it

a print of “Limelight” . . . Wally Wanger, the dance director, has decided to give Connie Anderson a divorce so she can marry Ed Sawyer, Milton Berle’s chauffeur, . . : od de AUTHOR VIC LASKY and bride Patricia Pratt are honeymooning in Bermuda . . . The FBI's combing hep music circles for Fred Tenuto, suspect in-the Schuster murder. He's a jazz nut and may be in a band. : . Popular model Betty Tunnel weds Al Moslan, Minneapolis garment manufacturer. . . . Walter Catlett, the real Mr. Show Business, will be feted at the Lambs Oct. 11. ... Kitty Kallen goes to London with Martin & Lewis for the Coronation show next spring. Bb TODAY'S SHORT STORY: Will Jordan reates that he wrote so many love letters to his gal—she married the postman. Beloved Gertrude Lawrence was no stay-up. Once, invited to Toots Shor’s, she said, “Oh, I'd like to go. I've heard so much about Toots Shor, I'd like to know what she is like.” ... That's Earl, brother.

Popular Music Called ‘Miserable’

SHE MANAGES to get all the sound effect of a sad and cloudy dawn—the muted quarrel over there, the tinkle of a grieved piano here, a baby’s wail and a cat’s complaint—all the unrappiness of a lonely gray morning in a shutiown town. She has been at this singing business for 1bout five years, since she took off from Royal, and finally the Decca record people grabbed her ind let her sing a“eouple of simple songs like Better Go Now” and “When I Fall in Love” and “Something I Dreamed Last Night,” and all of a sudden my old Chicago chum is getting to be a big girl in the business. And all she is doing is attempting to bring sopular music back to normalcy—sung in tune, sung within voice range, played without bop, axecuted without centortion, wind tunnels, weeps r wails. Miss Jeri Southern is no Galli-Curci, and she will never be a lady Paderewski, but her aim is* 10ble and her execution admirable. I am betting you will be hearing considerable of my friend from Royal, Neb., whose population will probably remain constant now at 189, since its —most famous daughter seems unlikely to return.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—1I have a rose geranium that didn’t bloom very well indoors. I put it in the ground and it has been full of blooms ever since. Now how am I to get it to bloom this winter or do they bloom in winter? Mrs, H. L.. McBride, 3109 8. Tacoma. A—Don’'t expect too much of it this winter. Let it ease through the winter with no fertilizer and not too much water, It may bloom in the

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Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

house for you late in the spring. But any geranium that has bloomed through the summer will tend to go into a rest period during winter.

v Q-—What kind of plant food must I give a hydrangea?’ Mary Linder, 1136 N. Holmes. - A—If your soil is poor, try giving it some bone meal this fall, mulch with rotted manure or compost this fall and in spring give it some complete chemical fertilizer of the high phosphate or flower garden type.

Q—Can I transplant asparagus this fall? Mrs. J. A. Lien, 1512 Lawrence. : A—It's ordinarily moved in_ spring but there's no reason why you shouldn't move it in the fall. One of the most successful asparagus plantings we ever made was done in mid-summer. Conditions in the fall are ideal for transplanting just about everything in this climate, -

harlie Chaplin & Oona’ll be in tomorrow with

‘The Indianapolis Times

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Glimpses Of Ike's Busy Day Here

CAMPAIGNER—There's no doubt who is the favorite of TimWilcox, 5311 Boulevard Pl. He displayed this cap yesterday during the reception here for Gen. Eisenhower,

IKE VISITS BLOOD CENTER—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is shown how the blood center at Eli Lilly & Co. here operates. Demonstrating equipment during the General's visit yesterday were Fran’ L. Sisson and June McGonigal.

SMILES FOR EVERYBODY-—Gen. Eisenhower displays his broad grin as he enters Republican

of wide-eyed little girls headquarters, Indiana GOP faithful were out in record numbers to greet their presidential standard

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watched intently as Tke cut the ribbon of Republican headquarters. h : bearer here for a major speech.

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At the Fieldhouse—

They Liked lke Before Slugged at lke Take If From Agnes And Liked Him After | Rally—larvey _jie’s a Ladies’ Man

By TED KNAP Ito get into the Fieldhouse. They| John Carvey said today he was : They liked Ike when they left, had brought their lunches and slugged, cursed and spit on while| By AG NES OSTROM , jou hardly gel siasied hom i" but they had liked him before made a picnic of it. \he was publicly distributing an Hey, Mamie— beware. Your guy | Delaware St, Mrs. Dorothy Adthey came. | By the time doors opened. at| ; ; 1 4 ba. pen letter to Gen. Dwight D. Ike is a ladies’ man. jams, 111 E, 16th St., Miss Esther Nearly all the 19,000 persons 6:30 p. m. enough people were 4 { Thornt 5880 Crestview Dr who saw and heard Dwight Fisen- Waiting to fill the Fieldhouse as Eisenhower at last night's Butler: Take it from me—I'm sold. a Rios, A as Be hower at Butler University last fast as they could push in. Fieldhouse rally. He smiles out of the right side yy N Wide St Rr night had come there with minds| Here is what the people‘ said, Mr. Carvey is »f his mouth. His blue eyes Ike also made a hit with the made up. They were Republicans about the man they came to see: [the Democratic rinkle at the corners. Or did you ladies with his grand exit. When —always had been, probably al-! Mrs. Robert Bowes, 65, of 5855 candidate for > II saw him he was surrounded — ways will be. |Carroliton Ave. — “I'm for Ike Congress from now. 'by women, naturally. They were the people who raise more than 100 per cent. I even Marion County. And somehow you know he'd’ “ar. George H. Kistler, 3720 E. their heads in pride and exclaim have a personal letter here from In his open let- make you feel like the most im-| 04 of and Mrs. Roy Reeves Jr., “No one in our family has EVER him, thanking me for writing alter, he said: portant gal in the whole world if | 403 N. Sherman Dr. were ecvoted Democratic,” Inice letter to the editor. My hus-| “Dear General: you were on a date. | static. “The most wonderful smile The other people—the indepen- band was in charge of the Willkie| You have wel- I did when he just smiled down we've even seen—an all around dents and the “faltering” Demo- rally in Marion County, and Ijcomed to Your t me—he sure did—from where fellow,” they said. crats whom Gen. Eisenhower have always been a Republican,” |crusade, Jenner 'e was speech-making on the red,! Others like Miss Ruth Clidinst, wants to win—didn't come to pr. W. F. Paulish, 72, Franklin Who called you § shite and blue bedecked platform | 301 E. Sumner Ave.; Miss Virsee their favorite general. veterinarian—*I think he’s one of military god inder the “We Like Ike” sign.ginia Cochran, 1327 Central Ave.; This reporter buttonholed 26 the country’s best. I've voted Dem- father, Gen. Mar- at last night's rally in the Butler Mrs. E. O. May, 962 N. Pennsylvoters.in the Fieldhouse and But- gcratic in local elections, but al- shall, a living lle, University Fieldhouse. vania St. and Mrs. George Askler Bowl. Only one was a bona'ways RepuBlican in national and a front man for traitors and a y pet an evening with him is ren, R. R. 11, Box 7, thought he fide independent, and he was al- gtate.” stooge. How .can you consort with ¢,, from start to finish. He'd was a “grand guy.” ready pretty certain he'd vote for, Russell Bartley, 58, Worthing- this unscrupulous character?” say just the right thing. Just like, “He's the kind of a man you Ike. One other was a Democrat ton farmer—I vote for the man, Mr. Carvey said he was distrib- he did when he complimented the could sit down and tell your —corralled by his Republican fi- not the party. I voted for Dewey uting this letter when: Hoosier farm women on their troubles to.” He inspires confiancee—and he said Ike's speech jn '48 but I voted for Roosevelt

Mr. Carvey

hadn't ch d : ONE-A well dressed. matron, singing last night. a dence,” agreed Mrs. James Deadn’t changed his plans for three times. My mind was pretty .. =. «0 called him “a subver- He has a kind of sophistica- laney, 3106 E. Si. Joseph St. Miss Nov. 4. well made up to vote for Eisen- a oN wii : tion. Dinner would be correct. Jean Fleener, 746 N. Bolton Ave, Three Ovations 'hower before I came here. I just sive” and spit in his. face. Still, he has a comfortable look. added, “The man to win.” The GOP faithful gave Ike wanted to see him and make TWO -A man, accompanied by He did last night in his navy Yes, Mamie, us Hoosier gals

sure, so I could figure it out for his wife, grabbed him by the tie plue business suit with matching even liked the way he stood up Ike is honest. I've got and said: “You are the dirty SOB tie. and sang “On the Banks of the

three enthusiastic ovations. The first came with a roar as myself.

he marched into the Fieldhouse nothing against Stevenson, but who sent my son to Korea.” Conversation couldn't be diffi- Wabash.” And the way he and mounted the platform waving he's from Chicago and they have, THREE -A man, about 6 feet cult with a man like that. Life brushed back his hair from his both hands. It started like a loco- a lot of gangsters up there.” and 190 pounds, slugid him on wqu14 be gay. That's for sure. forehead. : motive, picking up speed. with Miss Esther Kinnett, 27, Mor- the side of the jaw and said: And Mamie. doy K . For sure, Mamie, you have chants of “We Want Eisenhower” gantown-—“That was a very good, “Take that you SCGB from Bill ~ he es Sa now Who .,mnetition. We like your guy Ike and “We Want Ike,” and remained straightforward talk. He's going Jenner.” Mr. Carvey said thi was pushing hardest to see him 4 here, He has charm. He's

a tumult for four minutes. to clean up the mess.” She is 7th blow sent him sprawling over a Yhen Bs Went oa, ae Field: sophisticated—in a subtle sort of

Cheers and whistles. were loud District Young Republican vice row of bushes. Even the way. He inspires confidence. He

: isis teen-age set came . ; again when he was introduced to chairman. Democratic congressional 4 has a way with the ladies. make Wis speech. That rafter. The ocratic g out to segfIke last night. Some 1 “Guess I always was a

A 28-year-old Indianapolis man, candidate did not bring charges ; rooni shaking was cut off at 90 seconds who said he couldn't give his Sandia the RR man Bes Were oR the IE pushover for blue eyes that Shige because he was on the air. name because he teaches school, gaid the three separate incidents poeds followed him around all and a smile that breaks out a The third ovation concluded his said he was a Democrat, and were witnessed by people in the day- from the airport, through over a guy's face. speech and trailed off in two min- added: |vicinity, Republicans and a few the parade and at the rally, : utes as the heat-harassed citizens Didn't Sound Like Ike |Democrats who were helping him They'd even shaken hands with Adlai’s Former Teacher

headed for the exits. distribute the literature him : | « ; ; : . ~| Bakes:Him a Cake Aoplruse Freauent It didn't sound like Tke was kes» pp q Mr. Carvey noted that Ike said SAN FRANCISCO Some stu-

Applause broke through fre- Speaking his own heart or mind. y,ogjers take their basketball a . quently during Ike's talk, gh only It was like someone else had writ- Hee ere politics seriously. And hese § what Yuey PLuuE dents may give apples to the a few hit fortissimo. This reporter ten the speech.” “I agree with him on that,” he he's wonderful B andl cacher, but Mrs. Bessie Moore counted 48 speech-stopping cheers, His fiancee, 23 and also a gaid. he he time for everyone Xs likes to give as well as take. plus 17 others than can count only teacher, is a Republican, “It (the The lucky sods Kapre Alpha ALES: Moore. 10 NY Fave

half because they didn’t quite Speech) sent me. Mr. Eisenhower . . , | catch fire. T seems to be the most honest and Release of Pupils hela Sororisy sisters, re Miss angel food cake which she had The loudest hurrahs came after Wholesome man in the country,” . arvara ryce, Carrollton | aked. She was the Democratic Ike said, “Too much has already She said. To See lke Denied Ave; Miss Joanne . Joyce, 215 pregidential nominee's fifth grade been taken from the American Mrs. Ralph Doriot, 67, 606 E. Blue Ridge Rd. and Miss Sara teacher when he attended Washpeople by the bungling and the St.—“I'm for Ike because the Pupils of the St. Joan of Arc Jane Clark, 5886 Forest Lane. ington Street School at: Bloomcorruption of the last seven COUNtry needs a cleaning up. But School were not released to at- The Re-omit en Bais packed a inoton Til. years.” I wish they had a bigger crowd tend the reception for Gen. Eisen- he Jad waited adn. he Son I Tip 2s oq Biggest boo—for the Truman. here.” She, sald she always has) ... at Weir Cook Airport as p, m. yesterday until he dame, Woman Is ‘Critical

, ted R lican, ites—came when Gen. Eisenhower V0 epublican Those are the gals that cheer After Gunshot Wound

Amos M. Osborne, 47. of 4165 N, reported in The Times yesterday, charged Democrats were demand- 3 515 ing 8 tical kickbacks from fed. Sherman Drive—“Ike can do more the Rev. Fr. John B, Cagey, super- College football heroes. | Mrs. Ethel Deas 0, oF Jul

eral employees. good accidentally than the Demo- intendent of Catholic schools, said There were other women—on| Schofield Ave, Although the size of the crowd CTAtS could on purpose.” Mr. O8-/y4,y the arms of their husbands— condition in General Hospital to- — Republicans had predicted 26,- borne said he was “independent” H 1 . chanting like school girls: “We day with a gunshot wound in the 3 : but hadn't voted for a Democrat Dr. Herman L. Shibler, superin- jjxe Ike.” Some thought he had|/abdomen.

‘He's Wonderful’

the Io a Lhe Ysa oighing. gince Al Smith: : tendent of Indianapolis schools, sex appeal, others regarded him Her 10-year-old daughter, Dotne y y 1COUr- ~ yohn MeGavie, 76, of 1110 Fay- said no releases from schools were a8 the “brotherly type.” tie, tofd police Mrs. Dean was t ette St.—'‘T think Ike's all right. f “Did Jou see him?” they asked, shot last night by a man who was

Early in Line authorized yesterday. talking right across their hus- refused admittance to the Dean

By car, bus and train, they came Mrs. R. W. Webb, 55. Anderson Spot checks today showed, how- bands. home by her mother. from South Bend and from Evans- “I like his personality. I think ever, that some parents "at Mrs. Mary K. Roberts, 3115 , Police arrested David Hamil ville, from Ft. Wayne and Terre he's smart and capable.” She al. Schools 43,.66 and 86 had kept College Ave. “couldn’t see enough ton, 40, of 2412 Baltimore Ave, Haute. Many waited more than ways votes GOP. children out of school on their of him. He's quite a man.” lon a charge of assault and batnine hours to hear their man talk. A. B. Cripe, 71, Delphi-— “Last own accord. School principals “He's. perfect,” chorused an- tery with intent to murder. By noon yesterday, Butler's time I voted for a Democrat was said they were without authority other group, “We love him.” | Hamilton was identified by campus was dotted with about 900 in 1932. I think I stil] like Taft to approve absences for the polit- ~ One group was sitting so en- Mrs. Dean and her daughter. as people who didn't mind walting better, but I'll support the ticket.” ical event. |tranced in a parked car they/the mian who fired the shot.

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