Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, , I 'HERE was a driving, winter rain beating down, blown by a wind from the barren lands or “somewhere north of 53.” Stepping into a half-guarding niche, who should we run into but Eddie Eagan, probably the best light-heavyweight college boxer of all time. At least, wearing the color of Yale’s blue, he was good enough to work out with such heavyweight fight ers as Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey and hold his own. He was also good enough to bring an offer from Tex Rickard of $25,000 to fight in the semi final of one of. the Gr&ntUndRica Dempsey - Tunney fights, which is pretty fair pay for a semi-finalist. Eagan, who is now a successful New York lawyer, began talking about a recent story I’d written con cerning the inability of college fight ers and other athletes to make good in pro boxing heavyweight ranks. I have always believed that Eddie Eagan, a first-class boxer, smart and game, a good puncher on the side, could have traveled quite a way in the professional game. He was smart enough to pick another career. "This matter of the college boxer in the pro arena is a hard thing to explain,” he said. "It isn’t a matter of the social side of life, social equality, etc., in which I have never been too much interested. But it does mean a mat ter of dropping down into a pretty tough racket where you are sudden ly surrounded by a group of people you’d just as soon keep away from. The lower sector of the fight game is something few people know about. But I can tell you it is pretty low. It is packed with rackets, double crossers, chiselers, etc. and you must work your way up through this group. It is a tough road up. Ask Tunney or Dempsey.” “This reminds me,” I suggested, of George Phair’s famous lines "Hail! the conquering hero comes— Surrounded by a bunch of bums!” Eagan laughed. "That’s about the way it is. And that’s one reason a lot of good college boxers or college athletes don’t care to enter the fight game as a profession.” Another Angle "Here’s another angle,” Eddie Eagan offered. “The crowd only sees the few survivors who get to the top or near the top. It rarely sees the wreckage of all the thou sands who started out, to finish punch drunk or walking on their heels. -Few of these have ever learned how to protect themselves. Too many are rushed forward too quickly. “I recall talking with Gene Tunney in his earlier years about this angle. “ ‘I’d made up my mind to do three things,’ Tunney told me. ‘The first is to learn how to defend my self, to protect myself. I don’t want to find myself punch drunk about the time I have a chance to get somewhere.’ *‘ ‘The second is that I am going to take my time. I know this re quires a lot of patience. But I am not going to be crowded into any ring fight I am not ready for.’ "The next item was the matter of condition—hard work—hard train ing. ‘After that,’ Tunney said, ‘I will be ready to take up the matter at offense—of learning not only how but also where to punch.’ “You must admit that Gene fol lowed this program faithfully,” said Eagan. “He made himself into a good defensive boxer. And he took his time on the way to Dempsey. From the day Gene won the light-heavy weight championship of the AEF in France he used up seven years be fore he thought he was ready for a shot at the big title. Seven years of long, hard training is a long time to wait. Few would ever have waited half that long. Gene was al ways a fellow of tremendous pa tience. In those seven years Tun ney never broke training. ’ “I recall later the time and thought Tunney spent on increasing his punching power. Also the time he spent on locating the spots where a punch would hurt most. And don’t ever forget that while Gene was no killing puncher, he could hurt you a lot. Ask Jack Dempsey—Jack’U tell you. I know. I’ve boxed with him a lot. Gene never threw wild punches. There are certain nerve centers which he knew all about—and he was ao curate enough to land just there., • • • Golfer an Athlete? Several people have brought up the point that a golfer isn’t really an athlete. I wonder how many know what an athlete really is? By the old Grecian standards, and it was Greece that originated the word, an athlete is one who trains for war. Golf happens to be a game that demands the top in concentration on the job. This is a vital part of any competitive sport. Golf is also a game that requires coordination in the way of mind and muscle. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE T HAT’S quite a jump that “Your Hit Parade” has made, from Frank Sinatra to Lawrence Tibbett; nobody can say that the executives aren’t giving us variety. They wanted to widen the musical range of the program, and it’s safe to say that they’re accomplishing their aim. They’ve also brought about a reunion. Some 23 years ago, Lawrence Tibbett was one more young man headed toward an operatic career—and Basil Ruysdael was an operatic basso profundo. He LAWRENCE TIBBETT showed the young man how to use his voice; in fact, Tibbett credits him for helping him succeed. Now Ruysdael is the announcer on the program that gives us the first operatic star to sing popular music regularly. *rZ— Abbott and Costello’s airshow con ductor, Freddie Rich, has been given an unusual assignment for the new United Artists picture, ‘‘A Walk in the Sun.” He will compose a special song to run throughout the picture, to interpret the differ ent moods of the story musically. It will also be used as a background for the narrator’s comments. —*— John Brown, who plays “Father” on NBC’s “A Date with Judy,” originally came to Hollywood to play in pictures, after specializing for years as a dialectician on the stage. “But in my first part,” says Brown, “I didn’t have a line. The director gave me a cane and said ’Just stroll past the camera.’ Then he added, ‘but remember to walk with a foreign accent!’ ” * Every weekday evening as Perry Como steps to the microphone for his solo on his airshow, a young lady—a different one each time— rises in the studio audience and tosses a white carnation at his feet. The girls belong to Manhattan’s numerous Perry Como fan clubs, which accord to members the honor of presenting their idol with flowers. * Hedy Lamarr, co-star of “Experi ment Perilous,” broke into the movies as a script girl, but didn’t go far; before she could really learn her duties, she was given a role in something called “Storm in a Water Glass.” She was just 15, had run away from school, and her family promptly staged a storm in a teacup. Hedy weathered it, and in another year was one of Vienna’/ reigning screen beauties. * Bill Goodwin, ace announcer who recently switched from the Burns and Allen program to Frank Sina tra’s, is doing right well , with his eareer as an actor. You heard him with George and Grade as “a friend to the Burns family”; you’ll ; ee him in a leading role in “Incendi ary Blonde,” and also in Alfred Hitchcock’s picture, “Notorious,” starring Ingrid Bergman. Lots more fun than Just announcing! Y * Butterfly McQueen, former come dienne on Jack Benny’s radio pro gram, has a comedy role in “Mil dred Pierce,” Joan Crawford’s first Warner Bros, picture under her present contract. As if that picture hadn’t been held up long enough, the star came down with flu and they had to shoot around her. * If you’ve always wanted to go to Mexico and see no immediate chance of doing it, make a note to see Republic’s “Song of Mexico.” James M. Fitzpatrick is neglecting none of the famous historic spots, none of the very beautiful ones. —*— Arthur (Dagwood) Lake of the CBS "Blondie” program says his destiny will never be complete till he co-stars with Dinah Shore. Asked if someone else wouldn’t do, he cracked, “In our family it’s a tradi tion that every Lake must have t Shore!” * ODDS AND ENDS — Drew Pearson, syndicate writer and radio commentator, makes his film debut in “Betrayal From the East," appearing in the prologue and doing the narration. . . . The script of the CBS “Suspense" drama, “The Man Who Couldn’t Lose,” has been bought by a Hollywood studio, and will be adapted to the screen. . . . Marie McDonald, who plays a fatal lady in “It’s a Pleasure,” was billed over Frank Sinatra when they both tang with Tommy Dorsey’s band, but she gave up her singing career to go into the movies. . .. Ted Malone, heard from over seas on the Blue, is writing a syndicated column, called “l Saw Your Boy.” Vitamins for Winter Are Very Essential For Health, Well Being Vitamin-rich vegetables tossed to gether with mayonnaise make this salad bowl good, healthy eating. Carrot curls and lettuce make a pretty color combination. It’s an easy matter to get vegeta bles and fruits into the diet dur ing the summer months because supplies are plen tiful. However, we need just as many fruits and vegetables in win ter, and there is not as much available. Every homemaker should make it her job to see that the family does not suffer from fruit and vegetable lack during the winter. True, sup plies are shy but there are foods in both categories that are in season, and these should be used for all they’re worth. If fruits and vegetables are served raw, more of the valuable vitamins can be saved. Salads should have a big place in the menu. Apples, pears, oranges and grapefruit offer variety and vitamins aplenty, whUe carrots, cabbage, beets, green beans, squash, turnips, spinach and brussels sprouts can hold their own on the vegetable front. Today I’ve selected vegetables which are particularly adaptable served in salad form. Tack these recipes where you can find them and serve often: ■Spinach Toss. (Serves 6) 3 cups broken lettuce % cup fresh spinach % cup shredded raw carrots 14 cup iced celery 6 radishes, sliced 1 tablespoon minced onion 14 cup French dressing Rub bowl with a clove of garlic, but do not let it remain in bowl. Put all vegetables together in bowl just before serving. Pour French dressing over all and toss with fork and spoon until well mixed. Hearty Winter Salad. (Serves 8) 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin 2 cups hot water 1 teaspoon vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup cooked peas 14 cup diced celery 14 cup finely shredded cabbage 14 cup diced pimiento, If desired Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add vinegar and salt. Chill until slight ly thickened. Fold vegetables into gelatin and pour into shallow pan or 8 individual molds. Unmold on crisp lettuce and serve with may onnaise which has been thinned with sour cream or milk. Golden Winter Salad. (Serves 6) 1 package orange-flavored gelatin 2 cups boiling water or 1 cup fruit juice and 1 cup water 1 apple, unpeeled and diced 2 tablespoons lemon juice 44 teaspoon salt Lynn Says Don’t Waste a Scrap: Every bit of food you buy can be made to work. Outer leaves of lettuce, spinach, and leftover bits of pars ley from garnish can be used to give flavor to soups. The same is true of leftover liquids left from cooking vegetables. Stale cake may be sliced and served with fruit and fruit juices. Combine with eggs and milk and bake into pudding. Or, use it to line pudding molds and pour gela tin or custard over it to make icebox dessert. Dry, leftover bread may be toasted and used on top of soup. Or, grind and make into bread crumbs, or use in stuffings to stretch meat. Syrups from canned fruit may be utilized for fruit sauces to pour over puddings and custards. Left over jams and jellies are ideal for pastry fillings and for flavor ing and sweetening stewed fruits and berries. Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menas Chicken Liver Spaghetti Parsleyed Carrots ’Spinach Toss French Bread with Butter Pickles Olives Honey-Baked Pears Ordnge Crisps •Recipe given. 114 caps diced grapefruit sections M cup chopped walnut meats Dissolve gelatin in boiling water and chill until it begins to thicken. Cube apple and sprinkle with lemon juice and salt. Remove all mem brane from grapefruit sections and dice. Combine grapefruit, apples and nut meats into gelatin. Pour into molds that have been rinsed with cold water. Chill until set and serve with mayonnaise. Hot Slaw. (Serves 8) 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 14 cup cold water 14 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon sugar 14 teaspoon salt 3 cups shredded raw cabbage Combine egg yolks, water, vine gar, butter, salt and sugar. Cook on low heat, stirring constantly, un til mixture thickens. Add cabbage and reheat. One of the factors which makes salad making so easy is the use of a real mayonnaise which is so smooth-textured and easily blended with the ingredients. It is nutri tious, too, for it contains oil and egg yolk which adds a vitamin D boost, to the diet: Side Dish Salad. (Serves 6) 12 carrot curls 1 cucumber, cut in fingers (or dill pickle) Lettuce, sliced Mayonnaise Wash and scrape carrots; cut in very thin lengthwise strips and leave in ice water until curled. Arrange carrot curls, cucumber fikgers and lettuce slices in salad bowl. Serve with real mayonnaise. Make your lunches vitamin rich by serving a sandwich with a rich- in-vitamin-B salad: Vitamin “B” Salad. (Serves 6) 6 cups cooked or shredded cabbage 114 cups cooked peas 114 teaspoons salt % easpoon pepper 6 tablespoons mayonnaise Mix cabbage, peas and season ings with real mayonnaise. Chill. Serve with a ba- con sandwich / !/ made with whole ' * wheat bread. Gar nish with water cress. Pears make a lovely salad when combined simply with lettuce, car rots and American cheese balls. It’s nice enough for company! When served with a whole wheat bread sandwich, this salad gives a rich vitamin “B” lunch. Lunch is a good time to get the salad Into ths menu. Company Salad. (Serves 5) 2 cups finely shredded lettuce 214 cups grated carrots 5 pear halves 10 14-inch balls of American cheesr 10 14-inch balls of cream cheese French dressing Arrange shredded lettuce on salad plates. In center of lettuce make a nest of grated carrot. Place pear half in each nest with balls at cheese in the pear cavity. Serve with French dressing. French Dressing. 1 clove garlic, grated fine 14 cup sugar 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 small onion, grated 14 cup tomato catsup 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups salad oil Mix all ingredients in order given with a rotary egg beater. Place in quart jar and store in cool place un til ready to serve. Shake well be fore using. Get the most from your meat! Get your meat roasting chart from Miss Lynn Chambers by writing to her in care of Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, III. Please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The - Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for January 28 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. LOYALTY TO THE KINGDOM LESSON TEXT—Matthew «:33: 7:12, 18-29. GOLDEN TEXT—Seek ye first the King dom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.— Matthew 6:33. In the kingdom of Christ there must be unquestioned loyalty. If then He is the King of our lives, we as Christian men and women will want to live in accordance with His blessed will. Loyalty to Christ leads to the best kind of living. It surpasses any ex perience of loyalty to a cause or a human personality. Instead of hin dering or limiting our development, it opens wide the grand vistas of a life altogether worth-while. It is a life: l. Well Ordered (6:33). Much of the distress in which men and women find themselves is caused by the fact that their lives are not well ordered. They live in a constant flurry of uncertainty, in decision and disorder. They have no proper center for their lives, and consequently they are lopsided and lacking in real usefulness. See how delightfully right is the experience and activity of a follow er of Christ. He is the center. The interests of His kingdom are the first in thought. His righteousness is the rule of life. Other things? Well, all that is necessary, God adds day by day. When the center of life is right, everything else is right—when that is wrong, all is wrong. Is your life centered in Christ? H. Kind (7:12). Spiritual principles apply to daily living, to our attitude toward our fellow men. Here we have the so- called Golden Rule. It is not the way of salvation; it is a summary of the teaching of the law and proph ets. But it does provide us with a splendid principle of daily conduct. Our active concern each day and in every touch with others is to be, “How would I like them to deal with me? Let me do thus to them.” That is a higher standard than you think until you really try it. Only Christ can enable you to do it. m. Fruitful (7:16-20). Two fruit trees or vines may look almost alike until the fruit appears, and then we learn the true char acter of each—whether good or bad. Every life brings forth some kind of fruit, and in its outward manifes tation the life speaks of the inward condition of the life. Unclean and profane speech, hatred, dishonesty and trickery—these come out of an evil heart. Righteousness, pure and kindly speech, thoughtful actions, honest and straightforward dealings —these speak of the good heart. The one whose life is centered in Christ (see above) is a vine after God’s own planting. His roots strike deep down into the grace and mercy of God, and his fruit is the Christ- like grace of Christian character (see Gal. 5:22, 23). IV. Genuine (7:21-23). Lip service will not do (v. 21). Even an imitation of the real serv ice of God’s people, but rendered without the backing of a life of faith, will result only in disappointment and our Lord’s own disavowal (w. 22, 23). The opposite of that is equally true. The real child of God works for Christ; he speaks of his Lord, and calls on His name. But in and through it all there is the evi dent ring of sincerity and genuine ness which marks it as the real thing. One does not hear much mention these days of hypocrites in the church. Perhaps we are loo polite to speak of them, or it may be that we think them too obvious to need pointing out. But they are there, going through the motions of a Christian life, talking the language, and imitating the works, but com pletely dead spiritually. V. Well Grounded (7:24-29). The figure of speech changes. In stead of being likened to fruit trees, men’s lives are said to be like' houses, with their various kinds of foundations and superstructures. The figure is an interesting and instructive one. There is only one foundation upon which one can build a Christian life. “Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (I Cor. 3:11). Therein lies the folly of the mod ernist or liberal. He has denied and rejected the only foundation—and yet tries to build a house of Chris tian character. When the real prob lems of life strike, he goes down in ruin. On the other hand, let no Christian who has laid a foundation on the rock fail to go on and build upon it. Thus grounded, his house ol faith will stand though the wind and rain and floods of life seek to tear it down. Of that kind of house we read that “it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock” (v. 25). This lesson will afford many pro fessed Christians a chance to test their lives and their loyalties by God’s standards. A POOR CROP, ALL RIGHT First Farmer—Ever have any ex perience with crop failures? Second ditto—Yes, I’ve seen a few m my day. First—What’s the worst one you 1 ever knew? Second—Well, back in ’98, I had a | corn farm, and the corn just didn’t i amount to anything. One day I had the preacher to dinner, and I cooked some of it, and he ate 14 acres of it before he got filled up! EVERS’ PITFALLS Cora—What ever became of that boy who made such violent love to you in the hammock? Dora—Oh, we fell out! Public Domain Visiting Minister (after dinner)— Where did you all git such a fine bird? Thoughtful Host—Pahson, when you all preaches a swell sermon, Ah don’ ask you all where from yo’ git it, an’ Ah hopes you all done have de same consideation foh me. Close Is the Word Mac—What do you mean by a “dear friend,” Sandy? Sandy—I dunno. But the dearest friend I had was a man that was married three times. He cost me two wreaths and three wedding pres ents. You Said It! Britisher—It’s really a crime the way you American soldiers have ruined our English language with, your slang. Yank—Yo’ sure slobbered a bibful that time, twerp! Free Lunch Junior—My mother says you have to give me a lot of credit. Soda Clerk—Why does she say that? Junior—Because I haven’t any money. Ouch! Joe—Who gave you the black eye? Bill—I told the conductor I’d lost my ticket and was traveling on my face. He said okay, I’ll have to punch your ticket. On the Sick List Doctor—Well, Mrs. Brown, what can I do for you? Patient—Sure, and if I knew that, I wouldn’t have to be paying you two dollars for telling me! Lucky Sailor Pacific Veteran—Yes, I was ship wrecked and spent six months on a desert island with a blonde. Listener—What did you eat? Veteran—Gee, I don’t remember! And Blonde Mrs.—And what possible excuse could the jury have for acquitting that woman. Mr.—Insanity, my dear. Mrs.—What, all twelve of them? Roman Roamin’ Joe—What do you know of Latin syntax? Bill—Did they have to j>ay for their fun, too? TRAVEL INFORMATION Stella—Now that we’ve arrived in Virginia, I want to find some of those plants they call the Virginia creeper. Della—That isn’t a plant; it’s a railroad. Very Common Type Harry—What do you mean calling me an “illiterate”? Joe—Well, you can’t read what you write half the time, can you? Pin Up Pun Sam—Why do you call that girl’s picture you’ve got up there on the wall “your stick up girl”? Clem—Because she is so stuck up! Wad of It? Britisher—Do you know what the most common impediment of Amer ican speech is? Y ank—Sure. Chewing gum! Smart Man Harry—What part of the food busi ness did you say your brother was in? Jerry—The eating part. Quick Answer Myron—What did the telephone girl say to you when she broke the engagement? Byron—Ring off. Wise Crack Joe—For two cents I’d knock your block off. Bill—Oh, a professional, eh? Hard to Swallow He—What’s that gurgling noise? She—That’s me, trying to swallow your line. Sivap Hearts Five months ago, a Russiam sci entist removed the hearts of a number of frogs and transplanted the hearts of other frogs in their place in the blood-vessel system, says Collier’s. Following the operation, the ani mals, many of which are still alive, showed no change in their behavior, and an electrocardio graph recorded no difference in muscle actiort between their origi nal and transplanted hearts. Tip for the Table MAN—5ay, is this really maJ> garine? WOMAN—Certainly. It’s No- Maid Margarine. 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