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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

HOMOGENIZED VIGNETTES: Clear conse¢lence and out 100 bucks . . . that's Steve Greseck of the Office of Price Stabilization. Steve cashed his paycheck at a bank. Teller counted the money twice and Steve didn’t bother to recount. At his office he checked the contents of his wallet. Creditors force a man to do that. An even extra 100 bucks in bills winked at Steve. Hot and cold and happy flashes were still shaking his frame when he went to the teller's window and asked to see the amount of his check. Then he shoved the bundle through the bars. It was the clerk's turn to shake. There's a moral in this story. It's either behind the window or in front. . Leave us ponder a moment,

Mr. Sovola

AT THE Veteran's Administration. Jim Larson, former Navy officer, became involved in an argument about a “lover's knot.” He had never heard of the term or the knot while in service. A couple Army boys contended he was all wet. Before violence set in, it was decided to call Boy Scout headquarters. Top oflicials scratched their bugles. All they could think of was the obvious stuff about June and moon and tripe. Finally Mrs. Mildred Aderholdt gnd Miss Stella Doeppers were #5ked. If they didn’t know, the janitor was next on the list. In unison, the two ladies answered, “A lover's knot is a simple bow knot.” Knots. . -» o°» Wor

A “MELON MESS” is right. Kenneth Krempp. 8igma Chi fraternity president at Indiana University, and Bill Chambers, chairman of the event, were up here inviting about everyone with teeth to the “Melon Mess" at the Sig house next Monday. Somehow we missed the boys when they were In the office. Kenny and Bill left a note: , “We would like to know if you would be interested in counting a few seeds at the annual Sigma Chi Watermelon Mess . , hope to see you Monday.”

It Happened Last Nicht

Ry Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 19—Violating an old rule of mine, “Never give advice—sell it,” IT herewith promulgate a decree for beautiful girls who want to get famous on Broadway: : #“‘Always say the wrong thing.” Pretend to be stupid. Mispronounce common words and well-known names. Murder the language. Soon you'll be quoted—and misquoted ~everywhere. Miss Gloria Van Deweel is the latest. She's a 20-year-old blonde angel from Cleveland who fills out a bathing suit spectacularly in “Wish You Were Here.” Not long ago she was in a certain cafe. Over came wine and perfume, and a card bearing the proprietor’s name. Staring at the card, she said to her date: » “Who's Herman Billingsl$y?” » The Beautiful Wife and I took Gloria over to

Gloria

' Alan Gale's Celebrity Club.

We decided she’s just new around, that’s all. “You know,” she said, “I'm so Micky to be in

the show. There were 50,000 girls tried out for it.”

“Fifty THOUSAND?” I said. “I think it was 5000. Or maybe 500,” said her

date, Tommy Tryon.

“I know there was a 5 in there somewnere,”

. sald Gloria.

hb » WHEN SHE was trying out, Josh Logan, the

, director, asked her to sing. “I only know one + song,” Gloria said.

“Go ahead and sing it,” commanded Logan. “What is it?” “ ‘My Country 'Tis of Thee’,” replied Gloria— and did sing it. probably the ory girl who ever? got a Broadway role singing that song. “Some man approached me on a bus,” Gloria recounted, “and asked me if I was Marilyn Monroe. Imagine Marilyn Monroe riding on a bus.”

Americana

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By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 19—The lively blue eyes twinkled. At least I think they were blue. Anyhow, they twinkled, even if they didn’t actually belong to the owner. This young lady, who owned the eyes now, was wearing somebody else's eyesight. One eye belonged to a dead refugee. The other to a living woman who was forced to have it removed because of a brain tumor. One eye is nearsighted. The other farsighted.

But a ‘tiny woman named Alett Radzai of Miami doesn’t

care about a few flaws.in her je vision, She can see again, after [i 10 years of living in the dark. [ili She is seeing her husband for |} the first time. Also her three || kids. She says the husband turned out pretty good. Also she is highly pleased with the kids. - ' I was talking to the little woman the other day. She is up here on a fund-collecting drive for the Lighthouse of the New York Association for the Blind. This is quite a happy girl. She was studying to be an artist when the lights went out in 1940. Now she is studying again. And Al Dorne stakes his reputation as one of the top commercial artists of the country that he will have her making a good living from her art within three years. «0b

I IMAGINE that for an artist to get her gight back, after 10 years, is somewhat like a musician having his hands restored unexpectedly. This kid had gone bravely about the business of raising a family — and losing one of four babies — bucking some hard times financially, and now wham — she can see again. She can see the babies she never saw, the husband she never saw, and her drawing board. 8he's a kind of funny kid. I asked her about the first thing she did when she got out of the hospital with a new set of somebody else’s eyes. “I went home to cook dinner,” she said. “I was making Spanish rice. I put "the rice and the peppers and the saffron and the rest of the junk I always used and it looked funny. I called one of the kids over and said: ‘Hey, has this stuff always looked this way?’ The kids said sure, Mom. it always looks this way. I hadn't known that Spanish rice could be so bright and pretty.” An opacity of the cornea gradually turned Mrs. Radzai totally blind when she was 18. She had made as nearly a perfect adjustment to blindness as is possible when the head of Miami's Lighthouse, Dr. Bascom Palmer, told her there was a chance that a corneal graft could be successful in her case. 3 She had to wait two more years before the eyes could be found. There was the other long wait, motionless, her head braced firm with sandbags; while the graft operation healed — first the

. one eye, then the other. And finally she could see.

“1 could see swell but I couldn't coordinate at first,” she was saying. “| would see something over here and reach to pick it up and my hand

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‘ Diogenes, You Can Rest Now

Men, after an invitation like that, look Monday in the direction of Phi Delt Hill. An ol’ Phi Delt will be setting up a catapult. Would you all be interested in counting tomatoes as they fly over? rh SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: A depositor smiling at Teller Mrs. Dorothy Brown, Fletcher Trust, andsaying, ‘‘Helloooo, you're new here, aren't vou?" Dorothy, smiling saying ‘No, I've been here 10 years.” Biushing, the man sheepishly admitted he has been coming to 4he bank 10 years, Shall we meet again in 19627 . . . Sam Roth, beaming from ear to ear at St. Elmo's (formerly Joe Stahr's) Restaurant about the visitor from Denmark who stopped in for a steak upon the recommendation of a cousin in Tennessee. The Dane was en route to’ Chicago . .. Lincoln Hotel Barber Henry Bowsher vacating a chair to make room for a customer -— ever see a barber halfclipped clipping hair? Henry claims the best way to get customers is to attempt to have your own hair cut. Plural, some guys can do it. Al Koesters, Fidelity Trust Co. controller, gingerly fingering neckwear at Wasson's. “What you doing, Al?” “Buying TIES.” ,. , All right, let's confess. . Who is the administrative assistant at the telephone company still using a 1950 directory and getting into a tizzy over a dizzy number recently? > oS BOB GWINN, Industrial Exposition manager, has little hair left on his head to pull. You should have seen him the other day when 15 engineers from the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, France, Austria and Italy dropped in to see the Exposition. Imagine what it would be like to keep names such as Diamantidis, Poscetti, Busiri-Vici, Habraken, Mecklenburg and Ramboll straight. Hey, you . . . Ah, aren't parents and teachers nice? The Pike Township PTA scheduled a meeting half hour early Wednesday night so the members could see the Davey-Graziano fight on TV. Good meeting and good fight . . . on TV, that is. oid uy DID 'JA HEAR THE ONE ABOUT? ... George L. Aeckors. State Automobile Insurance man, knows when milk was higher than it was today . (George, get some good life insurance). Milk was higher when the cow jumped over the moon.

Showgirl’s Recipe For Fame; Be Dumb

Gloria herself used to be a teacher. (An Arthur Murray teacher.) Another beauty who recently got some local fame for malapropisms and mispronunciation was Ava Norring. . This shapely Hungariafi actress went to Hollywood with the help of her publicity. Her most celebrated remark concerned her husband who, she said, overheard her mistakes, “then went around my behind and told people.” She's now in New York and will remain, she told a friend the other day, “about sex more weeks.” She wanted to see him, she said, “and tell you about some Hollywood experiences that’ll make your hair spin.” o> Ro £3 THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. John Jacob Astor's new date at El Morocco was blond Gregg Sherwood. Horace Dodge's ex-gal, Gregg’s mom, from Beloit, Wis.,, was along, until the children sallied out into the night. : Eleanor Holm told ‘em at the Carlton she’s off to Florida for three weeks. . . . A reader suggests Bernard Baruch's advice to friends, “Be yourself,” might be extended to “But be your better self.” . . . Denise Darcel lost 20 pounds before going to Hollywood. She's now delightfully topheavy. Cafe socialite Nick Bjorn left for the Virgin Islands to become a bartender. . . . Is Henry Morgan going to become the Barry Gray of the new Hutton’s? Se db WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The average girl's ambition is to make some man a good husband” ~J. B. Clark, Charlotte. du TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Jack Paar asked Frank Scully, dad of five, why so many. “Because,” said Frank,” we never wanted the youngest one to be spoiled.” Lana Turner's scrap with Ferdinand Lamas —over another guy—has turned serious ... Dan Topping urged the Yankees to soft-pedal stories of dissension during the crucial flag race. ae ty ’ + «CHARLIE CHAPLIN has plenty funny stuff in ° “Limelight.” At a bar he tells a. backslapping pest, “Have a drink. Have Mat the qther end of the bar, though” ,, . That's Earl, brother.

Miracle of Surgery Restores Lost Sight

would go somewhere else. You see with your brain, I guess, and not with your eyes at all. It took Some time before I could get my brain and my new eyes to work together.” Ls SHE HAS BEEN working again at her art, via a course purchased for her by the Florida Council for the Blind. The course comes from the Institute of Commercial Art in Westport, Conn., a rather unusual home-study art instruction project which is supervised by such as Mr. Dorne, Norman Rockwell, Steve Dohanos, Harold von Schmidt and a handful of other famous professionals. Al Dorne was in the hotel when we were talking. Dorne is good enough to have made a couple mililon bucks with his fingers in the past 15 years. 3 “This kid's got it,” he said. “No matter whose eyes she’s using. If she’ll work at it she'll be making a good living at commercial art in three

- years or less.”

This could be—might not be. But I went away into the rain thinking what a wonderful thing it is that a woman can be blind for 10 years—and then, due to the marvel of modern surgery, not only see her visually unknown family, but entertain again the hope of being an artist. Whereupon I called upon my doctor for a check on my weary machinery. Maybe someday they'll find a way to graft a new set of animals into a creakIng torso. Both Al Dorne and I could use some.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1952

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YEAR 5713—

Rosh H

anah Begins Today

FESTIVITY—Edward Esserman sings as he holds aloft the blessed wine cup always a part of the holiday merrymaking in Jewish homes.

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GREETINGS—Small hands make cards expressing: "Happy New Year 5713", These nine busy children are: Larry Kaplan, Joyce Marcus, Steven Steinkeller, Elaine Calderon, Phyllis Cantor, Tobey Coraz, Sandra Cohen, Bobby Rose and Wendy

Waife. :

HOW AM | DOING? . ..

No. 5—

BIBLE SCROLL—Aaron Intrater of the assoflation reads sacred words relating to Rosh Hashanah, New Year, to pupils ett to right) Frances Roth, Lawrence Reuben, Leslie Podkin and eonard Bunnes.

Sicanoff.

Year,

CANDLELIGHTING—Rosalie Feffer kindles a taper as children of the Jewish Educational As. sociation kindergarten learn about their New

WISHES—Children, dipping bread in honey with hope that New Year, begin. ning tonight and ending Sunday, will be sweet, are: Alan Tavel, Sunny Schwartz,

Todd Goldstein, Norman Siegel, Richard Kagan, Robby Hochman and Steve

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Friends Are Essential In Business

By ROBERT FOSTER MOORE

Consultant to American Business

SYCHOLOGISTS list

the basic human needs .

of man. : We try to supply our

" bodily needs for food, clothing

and shelter. We take’ steps for protection against danger. We want conditions around us that help our self-esteem. Yet we have one need that is all-inclusive: Love and friéadship. This human desire needs no explanation, but do we fully understand it as a power that can

~ work for or against us in our

everyday business of professional. Mfe? We do not leave human emo-

- tions behind us when we ar-

rive at plant or office. It is not enough to satisfy our own need for friendship.

We must understand that similar desires exist in all those with whom we work or meet during the working days: Employees, bosses, clients, customers, the man at the news-

stand, the elevator operator and the young lady at the switchboard.

» 5 8 PEOPLE like to be noticed. If we pay no attention to them, they become unhappy. You like to be noticed. If no one pays any attention fo you, you become unhappy. People also like to belong; they want to be accepted, to be in the company of other

ON THE TOWN

cannot always choose their associates, they are nevertheless thrown together for at least half of each day.

How -‘well --a group works, whether it be labor, office or executive or a combination of all three, depends on the friendships within it,

As a future or present executive, you have the obligation to inspire the spirit of friendship within your company. What must you do to win the friendship of your group? You must be a pleasant person and sincere in your relations with people. Let's say you are a supervisor of a fairly large group of employees. Such a small, but important, means of recognizing each person by a "good morning,” will help to start the day right. Does that

A SURE THING—Friends can be helpful in business. , people. Although people at work

seem obvious? There are many persons who forget that it is their job to set the tone of an office. You can quickly change an uncongenial atmosphere to one of happiness by simple acts of courtesy. ” ” »

HELP THOSE around you when it is needed. When doing 80 give them credit for intelligence and you will be a very effective friend indeed to those who work with you. .Whether in or outside your organization, the friends you make will constitute a principal key to your personal success and effectiveness. I speak of friends here, not in the sense of ‘‘business contacts” developed simply for what you think you can get out of them, nor of persons whom you will try

to sell your “bill of goods.” Friends made for the purpose of selfish gains do not long remain real friends.

apm speaking.of friends you make. for unselfish purposes, .

the true meaning of friends— and to keep them—is a quality of your personal development that cannot be outranked.

Such skill, for it is a skill, requires certain actions, and positive thinking on your part before you can begin to win friends, Once you have perfected this skill, you will become as a magnet, able to attract friends in whatever circle, small or large, you travel. Friends must be won for the sake of “friendship itself. How does one make friends? ” ” ”

IT IS EASIER to answer that question by describing how to avoid making friends.

You make no effort to meet anyone. You think only of yourself. You make a beeline for your desk each morning, paying no attention to anyone. You make a beeline for home, when 5 o'clock comes around. You live a pedestrian, routine life.

You communicate with the other fellow only when necessary to the job at hand. . Maybe you will become rich this way—in gold, but not in friends. Friends are easy to find, easy to make, easy to keep. Be a joiner. Some people use that term lightly, The joiner I am

talking about is not the “gladhander” who joins clubs for the-sake of joining. ' The joiner I am writing about is the man who not only joins but who also takes part.

He makes friends by getting.

himself into - circulation, by taking on his share of the work or activity of the group.

At work, you join your friends at lunch, in your employee association activities, in your company outings. You try to meet and to make friends. You accept the . opportunities offered by membership in professional societies, trade associations and private clubs. on os n AT HOME, you get to know your neighbors, being careful, of course, that you or they are not likely to become either transients or bores. In your community, you join congenial groups, preferably the ones having to do with welfare and social work, where you can contribute to comsmunity life. The PTA, the hospital board, a fraternal order, a civic organization, a political group, the volunteer firemen, the local civil defense group and, of course, your church, all are groups which you can join. You join them, not for what you can get out of them, but for what you can give. The friends you make and the satisfactions you receive are natural dividends. NEXT: Maturity, Prosperity, Security.

By Gene Feingold

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—1 planted hardy sweet pea seed. They bloomed this year for the first time and they were white. Will they change or stay white? Mary Richardson, 1527 Bates St. A—They will stay white. It is only in exceptional cases that flowers change color or ‘‘sport,” to use the technical term. Nobody knows exactly why they do. Certain flowers are more likely to

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

do it than others. Chrysanthemums and African violets do it fairly often. I have never known of a case of hardy sweet peas doing it. Get seed of the pink variety next year. “©. QI have a potted philodendron that is developing what I call warts at the base of each leaf. Shall I pinch these off? Mrs. Joe Schuck, Shelbyville.

A—Philodendron naturally develops small.}-

aerial roots. I suspect these are the “warts” you are concerned about. Do not pinch them off. I mused to notice on one of my own philodendrons this summer that a rapidly growing stem had fastened itself firmly to ths smooth painted porch wall by means of Ais small air

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