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DAILY MEDITATIONS
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k“ verse? Mail to—
: Holly Heights Chapel.
A. F. Pledger,
ut as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that
love them.—list Corinthians 2:9.
». GOP Platform Masterful
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. Piece Of Double-Talk
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
' CHICAGO.— (NEA) —The Republican platform
on which the new Presidential nominee must run
for election is an amazing 5,000 word document.
But not necessarily for the reasons which its draft
ers may point to in their pride of authorship.
~ As Senator Richard M. Nixon of California re
,markod, “It isn’t going to n:ake very many people
happy. But it may not make anybody mad.” Senator
Nixon should know, he helped write it.
On a number of key issues, it is almost impossible
to tell what the Republican platfornr stands for, due
to its apparent effort to take all sides of every ques
tion,
In the labor plank, for instance, the GOP plat
form guarantees to the working man “The right to
a job without joining a union.” This is the great
open shop guarantee, so much opposed by labor
union leaders and the principal issue in the steel
strike,
But in the next section of the labor plank in the
GOP platform, it offers to labor unions the right to
establish “union shop” contracts with management,
How these two things could be done at the same
time will take some tall explaining by the candidate
for the Presidency. Or, if he gets elected, it would
take some tall doing to settle the steel strike to
please both management or labor unions under
either or both planks.
On farm policy, the GOP platfornmr completely
ducks the controversy over the recommended level
of farm price supports. It says in one place, “We
favor & farm program aimed at full parity prices for
all farm products in the market place.”
This could mean 100 percent parity for support
prices, for all crops, both perishable and non-per
ishable. But in the next sentence of this plank of
the platform, this program is limited to “commodity
loans on non-perishable products.” And in the sen
tence after that, support on perishables is limited
to “loeally controlled” markeiing agreements only.
The 1048 platform does change the 1944 endorse
ment of flexible price supports. But the 1948 plat
form does not mention the 90 percent support level
now generally in effect. And it seems to endorse
100 percent support without saying so.
In the small business section of the platform it
says, “At the same time, we shall relentlessly pro
tect our free enterprise system it would be neces
sary to ban unfair trade practice laws, which fix
prices.
On the civil rights plank, in the same way, the
GOP comes out for states rights and federal anti
lynching and anti-poll tax laws, all at the same
time. The platform also makes a weak stab in sup
port of federal legislation to further fair employ
ment practices, without duplicating state efforts to
end such practices.
Here again is an apparent contradiction in
terms. No f&eral action in this field is possible if
states rights are to be respected.
On promotion of international trade and recip
rocal trade agreements, the GOP platforn says,
“. . . we shall press for the climination of discrim=-
inatory practices against our exports, such as pref
erential tariffs.” In the next sentence it says, “Our
reciprocal trade agreements . .. will safeguard our
domestic enterprises ~ , . against unfair import
competition.”
Reconciling those contradictions might well chal
lenge the ingenuity of a slippery eel. How foreign
discrimination against U. S. exports can be elim
inated while U. S. protection is guaranteed against
foreign imports, all in the name of sweet “reciproci
ty” is almost impossible to figure out.
The great foreign policy compromise worked out
by John Foster Dulles with so much ballyhoo in a
1,000 word section devoted largely to indictment of
the results from Democratic administration of for
eign affairs. It does not mention bi-partisan foreign
policy. This could lead to an assumption that there
would be no such thing if the Republicans win the
election,
As a whole, on both foreign and domestic policy,
the sections in whi'ch the Republican platform
minces no words and indulges in no double talk
are those which give well-deserved criticisnr to the
Democrats for their blunders of the past 20 years.
On that, all Republicans, and many Democrats,
agree unequivocally.
Six times I ran for president and six times I lost,
I think that’s enough.—American Socialist leader
Norman Thomas.
Ia our nation there are over 19,000,000 single
mea with problems of loneliness as serious as
those which beset our early settlers.—Bachelor So
elety of America member Jack Blatt,
I don’t #hink that because a person is a 8 member
of @ongress he should be treated any worse than
o¥her people.Jßep. A. 8, Herlong, Jr. (D.-Florida).
We should quote to them (the Russians) not from
our Washington and Lincoln, but from their Herzen
and Turgeniev and Gorki.—Senator Pat McCarran
(8.-Nevada).
An actress who travels about the way I do has
the same security as a sallor with a girl in every
port.—Movie actress Liz Scott.
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Let's Make The Russell
Dinner A Huge Success!
Tuesday night, July 15, citizens of Clarke county
and this section will have the opportunity of evi
dencing their appreciation to Senator Richard B.
Russell for the magnificent manner in which he has
represented our people during his many years in
the United States Senate.
The opportunity comes in the form of an Appre=
ciation Dinner honoring Senator Russell, which will
be held at Athens Country Club at 7 p. m.
Tickets for the dinner are on sale at $25 each and
may be purchased from any of the three local banks
or the Chamber of Commerce, as well as from indi
viduals working to assure the success of the occase
ion.
During his years in the Senate, Dick Russell has
been ever alert to do everything possible to advance
the interests of this community, latest evidence of
which is the powerful manner in which he, chair=-
man of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, sup
ported Tenth District Congressman Paul Brown in
successfully striving to bring the permanent Naval
Training School to Athens, giving this city added
revenue of several million dollars yearly.
While other cities in the state have similarly
honored Senator Russeil, this is Clarke county’s
first formal recognition and the people of our com-=
munity cannot afford to do less than did such cities
as Toccoa, Monroe, Elberton, Danielsville, and
others,
Let's all get behind this project and show Dick
Russell that we do sincerely appreciate his repre
sentation of us in the natnonal Congress,
Republicans Act Wisely
In Choosing Eisenhower
Few impartial observers—Republican or Demo
cratic—will doubt the wisdom of the nomination of
General Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Republican
standard-bearer for the 1952 presidential election.
Although inexperienced in politics and statecraft,
the general's organizational ¢kill, his intelligence
and his unquestioned integrity had an appeal with
the rank and file of the convention delegates that
was too much for the old guard politicians, lined up
solidly behind Senator Taft, to overcome,
Whether the GOP picked a winner in the Novem=-
ber presidential election remains to be seen. That is
an issue that will be influenced by a number of
factors, including the candidate whom the Demo=
crats will select as their standard-bearer. Another
factor is whether the new Republican leadership
will be able to successfully woo the support of the
defeated reactionary faction of the party that aimed
to win with Taft by fair means or foul. Few politi
cal conventions have witnessed such pronounced
acrimony and the inflicting of wounds that may be
difficult to heal.
In any event, the Democratic Party now knows
the formidable ticket that it must defeat if it is to
prolong its 20-year tenure in office That Senator
Taft would have been much more vulnerable than
General Eisenhower is generally conceded. This is
not to say, however, that we regard Eisenhower as
unbeatable. We do feel, though, that unless the
Democrats restore harmony in their ranks by
adopting a realistic attitude toward certain issues
that have split the party, and unless they choose a
standard-bearer who has more to offer the elec=
torate than Eisenhower, then it will be hard sled
ding, for undoubtedly the Republicans will make
every effort to win the support of dissident ele
ments in the Democratic party.
We hope that the Democratic National Convention
will realize that their only available candidate of
presidential stature who has the qualities necessary
to restore harmony in the ranks, and the statesman
ship to defeat Eisenhower is Senator Richard B.
Russell. Should any other candidate be nominated
by the Democrats, we fear the outcome may be very
uncertain,
A Hope For Europe
The Schuman Plan, having been ratified by all
six participating nations — ¥France, Germany, Bel
gium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Itgly—is
about to go into operation. It is a most significant
experiment in the unification of Europe.
The plan pools coal and sieel. The producing area
involved is a little triangle less than 300 miles from
tip to tip. While American steel operations stretch
across an area of 1,500 miles, the materials move
freelly. But in Europe coal and ore moving only 150
miles have been subject to half a dozen barriers and
other handicaps.
The Schuman treaty removes these barriers, cre
ating a single, free market for 150,000,000 Euro
peans. It is hoped there will be more competition,
greater efficiency, higher production and lower
prices. '
A nine-nran authority has been created cutting
across national lines, It has power to tax, finance
improvements, order thé modernization of plants,
fix production quotas, lower prices and improve
wages and working conditions,
If this authority, with representatives of the six
nations on it, can get along uvn economic matters, it
will inspire great hope for the cooperation of Eu
rope pelitically and militarily in building defenses
against communism.
The whole free world can hope that bickering,
war-breeding Europe is at last being converted into
a cooperative, peace-building continent,
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A President seldom gets a medal himself, usually
he gets brickbats.—President Harry Truman,after
getting medal as an honorary Ozark hillbilly.
We Americans die for our ideals but we can’t
talk about them.—Mrs. Perle Mesta,'U. S. ambas
sador to Luxembourg.
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Relief From Heal Provided By Fond Memory
Of "Cold Days In June”-Which Soon Ended
It was no use. We admitted de
feat. The heat wave had us in its
grip. Endless icy showers, long
tall drinks of tea, and cold towels
pressed to our fevered brow had
resulted in little if any relief from
the torrid temperature. Of a sud
den there came to us a statement
that we had read some years pre
vious about —_ “it’s all in your
mind”—a statement with which
we might have taken issue had
we not been so desperate.
So—following a process of logi
cal deduction—we concluded that
we must bring to mind some cool
ing thoughts to soothe our heat
struck frame. Alaska was out—
we'd never been there and were
assured that we could never con
jure a reasonable facsimile of that
frigid atmosphere. No help. More
mental wandering. Ah! Crags
moore! Here might be a profitable
thought,
Little Summer Theatre
To elaborate—Cragsmore, locat
ed in the Northern part of New
York state, was the location for
a unique little summer theatre,
The stage on which the thespians
romped each summer had been
placed in a reconverted barn—one
of the few old-time barn theatres
still standing.
Our visit in Cragsmoore that
summer was our inauguration in
the so-called professional field of
acting. We arrived atop the moun
tain on which the little theatre
in the first week in June. Hav
ing been designated as an ap
prentice, we set to with our “ap
prenticeship” tasks. In short—
we cleaned the work shop and the
summer cottages wherein the ac
tors would reside. That first week,
the weather was pleasantly warm
—similar to our early spring
weather in the South.
Ah—but the second week was
} Wilbur Peeble Reflects On Antics
B 2ty 01 6. 0. P. Political Convention
Hal Boyle,
Editor's note: Wilbur Peeble,
America’s most average guy,
managed to get himself into
serious trouble while attending
the Republican national conven
tion. He tells about it himself in
letter to his faithful wife.
CHICAGO (AP) — Well, Trel
lis Mae, I just hope you can real
ize the spot I've got myself in by
marching for Taft, Eisenhower,
Warren and MacArthur.
I have overnight become the
All-American Republican, and I
have had to beat down a move
ment among the stockyards boys
to name me for president.
Here’s how it happened, Honey,
and that blonde who held my
hand while the television camera
was pointed our way was just
joking—she said. Anyway, I did
n’t see her later,
Well, Dear, I didn't have a pass
to get into Convention Hall, and,
naturally, after a week of civie
duty here I wanted to see what
was going on.
I was standing at the entrance
to the hall when a fellow came
up to me and said, “How about
carrying this banner into the
hall?”
“Why, sure,” I said. And for
40-odd minutes I muscled that sign
saying “Win with Taft.”
Well, Honey, after that, just as
they were gbout to throw me out
of the hall, an elderly man with a
California acent thrust a “Win
with Warren” sign in my hand,
and said: “Carry on for a great
Republican Democrat.”
That was when I got hit by one
of the circling paper saucers they
were throwing up for fun. Of
course, the saucer that hit me
an entirely different story. By
that time, the Equity actors from
New York had made their ap
pearances and, scripts in hand,
assembled for the first reading of
our initial production. Having just
witnessed the sweltering heat
wave which began in the middle
part of June, we find it hard to
believe our own memory when we
think back on that first day of
rehearsals.
Proverbial Cold Day
Believe it or not—it was that
proverbial “cold day in June” in
all its actuality. The actors hud
dled together in the drafty thea
tre, which had not been designed
to weather a cold spell. An icy
wind whipped through the wide
ly separated boards of the ricke
ty old reconvented barn. Cast and
crewwere bundled in the heaviest
coats available and the lines they
spoke were accompnaied by tiny
clouds of fog issuing from their
mouths.
Periodically, some generous,
enterprising soul from among the
regular mountain-top residents
would come trotting into the thea
tre with welcome cups of hot tea
or coffee. Needless to say, this
first reading of the play was not
the howling success it might have
been. While the script called for
comedy, the cast could only give
dramatic groans instead of chuc
kles, frozen gestures instead of
lively antics, chattering teeth in
stead of wide smiles.
Somehow, we managed to keep
the residential cottages reasonably
warm with fuel gathered from the
surrounding woods. We dwelt at
one time on the plan of keeping
active guards posted around the
theatre for fear some frozen ac
tor should resort to using the old
barn itself for “kindling wood.”
We abandoned the idea as hope-
would have to have a stale hot
dog covered with mustard on it.
Honey, there is no way you can
take mustard off a suit here for
less than s2.so—and a letter of a
gratitude to the valet. There is no
charge for the black eye.
Well, Trellis Mae, then they
started the Eisenhower demon
stration, and the lady in front of
me tossed away her Warren sign
and said:
“If you can’t carry for Ike
you're yellow.”
So I. grabbed an Ike sign and
followed her gamely around until
she started talking to a widower
from South Dakota—or was it
North Vermont?
It became such a madhouse,
Trellis Mae, that when they nomi
nated Stassen I jumped up and
grabbed a sign. Then somebody
said. “We aren’t yelling for Stas
sen now. This isn’t 1948.”
Well, Honey, the conventior
was killing time, and {finally an
oil man from Oklahoma got up
and nominated General Mac-
Arthur, and said of him that®he
had “a name that will not die, and
will not fade away.”
The funny thing about the next
35 minutes of madness, Trellis
Mae, is that everybody joined in
it. It was late at night and the
delegates were very tired.
I don’t think they were politcal
ly for MacArthur at all. But he
was symbol-—like the American
§lags they hauled out and hollered
or.
The last banner I ended up
carrying said, “The people want
Mac.” I am not all all convinced
that is true—but it is a possibility.
The “Republicans were kind of
less since few of us atop that fri
gid mountain could be trusted to
withstand the temptation anyway.
Fortunately the actors own parti
cular code of honor prevailed in
that all srealized ‘“the show must
go on;” and with no barn—what
show?
Seasoned Troupers
Like the seasoned troupers they
were (still another code Which
the actor strikes to maintain) cast
and crew managed to whip the
production into shape by opening
night. But the comedy backstage
was much more pronounced than
that prevailing on stage. The lead
ing lady, who was scheduled to
float in front of the audience at
tired in a filmy negligee, huddled
between scenes in her drafty,
back-stage dressing room with a
heavy coat and muffler thrown
over the flimsy creation in an at
tempt to ward off pneumonia.
The character to whom fell the
duty of uttering the ironical lines,
“Hot, isn’t it?”, passed his test
with flying colors—not once did
he allow chattering teeth to take
him from a “temperate zone
mood.”
Well—our mental wandering
was fine, and worked miracles as
far as it went. But at this point,
we began to think of later duties
during that summer of theatricals.
It was at that point that our di
rector conceived the brilliant
scheme of having the apprentices
construct a new stone porch for
the theatre front. Our memory
now began to dwell on those
warm afternoons when we trotted
behind a wheelbarrow loaded with
heavy granite rocks.
Oh well—we reached for our
fan and a glass of tea and sur
rendered—another victim of the
heat!
mixed up, and weren’t sure whom
they wanted.
Leon Driskell
Suspense Of GOP Convention Fosters Many
Television And Radio Parfies In Athens
Who says Southerners weren’t
interested in the Republican Con
vention!
From all indications, Athenians
were huddled around their radios
and television sets in mass num
bers last week as the GOP dele
gates staged one of their longest
and most suspense-filled confabs.
Coming at a strategic moment—
hot summertime when folks are
wont to be sociable anyhow—the
convention fostered a number of
get-togethers for the sole purpose
of listening to politics and then
politicing a little oni the side.
We were guests at a couple of
the gatherings and had a rip-roar
ing time. There was a time in
our experience when our house
was the neighborhood center of at
traction on certain occasions.
Those were the days when not
everyone owned a radio and when
our wireless made a big hit be
cause of its reception.
Joe Lewis was the big attraction
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Laughion’s Wheel Spins - -
He's Champ At Movie Velo
NEA Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD —(NEA)— Be=-
hind the Screen: Hollywood’s
wheel of fortune goes spinning,
spinning, spinngng and Charles
Laughton, once neglected by the
movie barons, has now passed
Cary Grant and Gregory Peck as
movietown’s top turn-down parts
star,
Because of his “Don Juan in
Hell” tour under the banner of
Paul Gregory, Laughton has ve
foed 11 movies during the past
year, Now he many have to bow
out as Henry the VIII in MGM’s
“Young Bess” because of the de
layed starting date of the picture.
A couple of years ago, Laughton
couldn’t land a part in Hollywood.
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If her terms are met, Lena
Horne, now in London, will make
her movie comeback in a British
film as a dramatic actress. Not one
song in the script.
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Here’s something to burn up a
lot of movietown biggies. There’s
a new book out titled, “The 100
Most Important People in the
‘World” by Donald Robinson. Only
two Hollywoodites — Charley
Chaplin and Daryl Zanuck—are
included.
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Now it can be told that both
Gayelord Hauser and George
Schiee were prevailed upon by
20th Century-Fox to coax Greta
Garbo into making her movie
comeback in “My Cousin Rachel.”
Neither one succeeded and so Oli=
via de Havilland was signed for
, the part.
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Romantic threesome: Robert
Taylor, German beauty Ursula
Thiess and Taylor’s press agent at
the Beverly Tropics.
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Newlywed Robert. Newton will
play Ghandhi’s great political ri=
val in Gabre]l Pascal’s “The Life
of Mahatma Gandhi.”
Bing’s Family Photo
Paramount press agents are
open-mouthed about the first
photo of Bing Crosby and his
family ever published. For years
the boys tried to get Bing to pose
with Dixie and their sprouts to
no avail. Then one day Bing
brought in a negative that he had
taken himself and asked the photo
department to strike off some
prints. The publicity gang moved
in and got Bing’s okay for the
picture’s release. Biggest irony of
all is that Bing is minus his tou
pee—and has always put his foot
down about being photographed
,\ [* RUTH MILLETT *
B &8 More Important To Do Things ol
"™ With Children Than For Them
What a great many modern
parents don’t seem to realize is
that it is not as important to do
things for your children as to do
things with them.
The Browns are an example of
this. Mr. Brown works hard to
give his family everything he can.
Mrs. Brown tries to give the chil
dren every *“advantage.”
The Browns actually do a lot
for their children. But they do
almost nothing with them.
Night after night the children
are left with a sitter while the
Browns go out. When there are
guests the children are out of
sight by the time the guests arrive.
The family as a unit rarely does
anything together. Mrs. Brown
wants the children out from under
foot when she is working. And
Mr. Brown doesn’t want them
bothering him when he has an
occasional free evening at home.
When it comes time for a vaca
then and our front yard and liv
ing room was always full when
“the golden bombshell” was fight
ing. The radio, placed as near to a
window as possible, filled the
street with the rabid and breath
less voice of the sportscaster and
even children were subdued by the
magnitude of “listening to the
fight.” -
Forgetting the monumental
strides of science, we made an
embarsasing error during the ex
citement of the convention last
week. Determining not to be out
done in the current craze for Con
vention parties, we issued a couple
of invitations to “come out for the
convention tonight.”
Two-thirds of the chosen three
persons asked quite frankly if
we were in the possession of a
television set. When informed that
we had a rather out-dated radio,
they regretted with a fair show
of courtesy. The third person in
vited asked no questions, but ac
cepted with alacrity.
Our faith in humanity was re
stored to a great degree. Here,
we told ourselves, was a friend
who cared not whether we owned
a television set or an old ear
phone radio set. With a pleasant
glow of being liked for ourselves,
we met our friend at the door and
ushered him in.
“Where is it”, he said. Where's
the television room?”
It soon developed that we had
gained his acceptance to our home
on false pretenses and that he had
come anticipating an evening of
televised Convention antics. We
explained the situation with as
good grace as we knew how.
Although clearly unhappy about
being duped, our friend followed
suit and attempted to make the
most of an impossible situation.
Cokes and crackers made for no
better atmosphere and we began to
SUNDAY, JULY 1!. 12&&
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What's this? Shapely fl““
Dors, England’s answer to Mari
lyn Monroe, will do a striptease in
“Life With the Lyons”—the stage
musical with Ben Lyon, Bebe
Daniels and their children due for
a London opening. It's deseribed
ae a family musical.!
* *
Marie Wilson in a new gown
gave night-clubbers a start, The
big question was: Was she on the
inside trying to get out, or en the
outside trying to get in?
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Patti Page just recorded for
Mercury a song nominated for the
longest title on Tin Pan Alley:
“I'm Glad That You're Happy
With Somebody Else But I'm Sor
ry That It Couldn’t Be Me.” It was
written by two amateurs from
Boston,
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The Mercedes Marlowe who's
just been signed for one of the
“Racket Squad” TV filmsg is the
former women’s international ten
nis doubles champion and ex-girl
friend of Jack Dempsey.
* * *
Ezio Pinza, who ought te know,
is saying that Rogers and Ham
merstein will never sell “South
Pacific” to a Hollywood studio.
This 'n That
Warbler Julie Wilson suffereq
a physical breakdown in London.
Even stepped out of her rgle in
the stage comedy, “Bet Yaur
Life.”
Janet Leigh, on being told that
she. would play in MGM'’s “A
Steak for Connie”: “Ah, a meaty
role—at last.”
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Those who know him best claim
that George Jessel has two dif
ferent toupees—a “sincere” type
with a little gray for his role as
“Toastmaster General of the U,
S. A" and a black one for when
he steps out with a doll.
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Fanmania: Mary Clark, 14, of
Hackettstown, N. Y., in a fan let
ter to Betty Hutton:
I wish I hadn’t seen you do that
trapeze swinging in ‘The Greatest
Show on Earth.’ It looked so easy
I tried it with a trapeze on our
apple tree and broke my little
finger.”
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Fashion note from Al Allardale:
“The only thing about women’s
clothes that’s getting longer is the
shoulder strap.”
Sign in a Beverly Hills meat
market: “Choice cuts—but not in
prices.”
tion, the children are left yvith a
relative or paid sitter, and the
Browns go off to spend their vaca
tion with another couple or two.
They claim it wouldn’'t be any
vacation to take their children
along.
So actually, though the Brown
children have a great many ad
vantages, given to them, their
parents do very little with them.
They are shut out from any real
participation in family life. In
fact, there is no real family life
so far as working and playing
together are concerned.
The Browns are missing the real
satisfactions of parenthood and
their children are missing the real
warmth and security of family life,
simply because the Browns don’t
realize that what you do with your
children is even more important
than what you are able to for
them.
feel that maybe caviar and cham
{)agne would have suited him bet
er.
The evening’s ending was pleas
ant, however, We had turned
down a last minute invitation to
view T, V. at another friend’s
home and at the height of a fran
tic demonstration +to which we
were listening with little excite
ment, the friend called and insisted
that we “come right .on over.”
Our glum friend practically
dragged us to the car and began
making titilating conversation.
Racing up the street at our most
dare-devil pace (something over
thirty MPH) the atmosphere con
tinued to improve and we reached
our destination in genial moods.
The excitement still prevailed
in Chicago and we entered the T
V. room amid shrieks of joy ove!
an Eisenhower victory in the seal
ing of delegates. We managed to
get into the festive mood and ou
only sore spots of the evening
came when the two friends, whe
had pleaded “late work at the of
fice” and “I'm simply fatigued” 10
our generously proffered invita
tion, emerged from the kitchen
bearing potato chips and cokes.
It didn’t help much either whern
our single guest who had scorned
our refreshments heaped a napkin
with food and slumped ecstatically
ont the floor in front of the T. V.
set.
Our observations during the
evening were that most of _tho
anxious viewers knew very littie
about what was going on, but
when they did catch up with act
ivities they voiced approval and
disapproval with some vocifer
ousness. One young thing inter
rupted a demonstration of how
to give a home permanent 10
shriek out her jubilation over &
minor decision.