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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. •DRAFT TRUMAN’ MEETINGS WASHINGTON. — While Repub licans were literally pounding on the outer gates during the Lilienthal debate. Democratic national com mitteemen from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia were enjoying a unique session with Harry Truman within the White House. Spoke up vivacious Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, Democratic commit- teewoman from Pennsylvania: "Mr. President, I have a request to make. I want a girl whom you know very well to open the '48 Dem ocratic convention by singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ ’’ Truman grinned happily, but while Democratic leaders got no commitment regarding Margaret Truman and "The Star-Spangled Banner," they did come away from the meeting more confident of their political future than at any time since Franklin Roosevelt died two years ago. The meeting had been arranged first in a series in which party kingpins will come to Washington to discuss national affairs with the President and top cabinet officials. It also was designed to warm up Democrats for a "Draft Truman” drive. ALIENS WITHIN THE GATES Congress is preparing further crackdowns on alien agents, chiefly those who enter the United States under assumed names, such as Gerhardt Eis- ler, the alleged Soviet agent who changed his name 10 times while shuttling back and forth between the USA and USSR. South Dakota’s Rep. Karl Mundt of the house un-Ameri can activities committee is in troducing a bill whereby aliens who obtain passports and visas be fingerprinted. The finger prints would be filed with the FBI, and all visiting aliens would be required to carry iden tification cards. The house un-American com mittee also will consider behind closed doors another measure requiring members of the Com munist party to register as agents of any foreign govern ment. MOSCOW DIARY Jottings from a Moscow diplo matic diary: "We have to be care ful lest our confidential files be pil fered. Delegates living at the Hotel Moscow do not work there. They work at their embassies. No papers of any kind are left in their hotel rooms when they leave. . . . Spasso house, home of Ambassador Bedell Smith, has been turned into an of fice building. . . . American MPs guarding the embassy are very carefuL A year ago when Jimmie Byrnes was here you could come and go at Spasso house every day. This time you show passes. . . . ■ Even inside the embassy we talk behind our hands. It's to stop the sound-waves and double-cross the dictaphones. . . . They say that when Joe Davies was ambassador in Moscow he collected a bushel basket of dictaphones every morn ing. The servants had put them in overnight. "Russia impresses one as a coun try united with a single will. . . . Un questioning obedience to authority. Practically no black market. .. . Val uables (aside from diplomatic pa pers) are quite safe in my unlocked hotel room. . . . More industry and energy than intelligence. . . . The maid who putties the cracks in my window lest I freeze is a peasant content to putty cracks for the rest of her days. "Here in the best of the Russian hotels, the mattress would be a dis grace to a second-class hotel in New York. The table lamp can be turned off only by pulling the plug from the wall. Toilet facilities remind one of a third-rate boarding house. . . . But the critic of these minutiae is likely to lose sight of the fact that Russia has been remade in the last genera tion, and that in the next generation she will be remade again. . . . Re member how Charles Dickens laughed at the crudites he found in the United States only a couple of generations ago." • :• • PRAYING FOR SENATORS Although few legislators seem to pay too much attention to it, each session of the house and the senate opens with a prayer. Recently the Rev. Peter Marshall, senate chap lain, delivered the following which seemed peculiarly appropriate: “O Thou who has the words of eternal life, help ns to culti vate proper speech," he began. “Surrounded as we are in this city with noble inscriptions of the plain, stirring words of wise men, may we say what we mean and mean what we say. And may it be worth saying. “Teach ns economy th speech that neither wounds nor of fends, that affords light without generating heat. Bridle our tongues lest they stampede ns into utterances of which, later, we shall be ashamed. This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.” The lengthy debate which fol lowed made it all too apparent tl.uf no one had listened. The Broadway Electrics: Memos of a Midnighter: The plan to “wreck” the career of Sinatra is based on a "rap" started by ene mies long ago. . . . Before Sally Rand opened at Greenwich Village inn, that spot was 40 Gs in the pink for the season. In two weeks Sally cut that deficit in half. . . . Joe Louis’ 125th street night club will become a super market. . . . The price for Longchamps is only four million. . . . Sonja Henie has a new tax problem. Her ranch near Oceanside, Calif., has sprung erl. . . . That was Lin Yutang, the phi losopher-author, dining at Yank Sing with the Lindberghs. . . . Only five night clubs in town are not for sale. . . . Rogers’ Comer will fade about May 30 after clicking during the war. It enabled owner Joe Rogers to buy the edifice he has rented to a cafeteria syndicate at 50 Gs per annum. Performers entertaining or visiting at the White House henceforth will be briefed on re fraining from any quips about the President’s piano playing or his old job. The Press Box: Saltonstall of Massachusetts is a presidential threat who is outsmarting the other GOP hopefuls by not getting worn out batting issues around. . . . Shed a tear for General Motors. They made a hundred million dollars less in ’46 than in ’45—just winding up with a paltry $87,526,311 net profit. Oh, well, things is tough all over, sister. . . . Justice William O. Doug las has been item’d (in several col umns) as the one to inherit Tru man’s post in '48. Lowell Mellett, former FDR aide and top Washing ton editor, is aiming at 1952 for Douglas, not ’48. . . . Help Greek Relief, which needs help for the sick and starving. The U. S. loan (if passed) will be for military aid, not starving. Several top comics will show how easy it is to get richer fea turing clean humor. Cantor, Bergen, Burns and Allen, Fib ber and Molly, Ed Gardner, Amos ’n’ Andy, Benny and oth ers have formed a co-op venture with H. Paul Warwick (the ad exec) to produce Audience Rec ords. Not excerpts from broad casts, hut new routines you can play at home. Radio stations and juke box operators will be penalized if they use them. Cast of Characters: Bert Lahr, the star of "Burlesque,’’ and this former four-a-day hodfer (5 on Sun days, bub) were fondly wondering about the old stage favorites. . . . Lahr did the research: Duke Cross (Wellington & Cross) now general manager for Elizabeth Arden. . . . Billy B. Van is the mayor of New port, N. H. . . . Oscar Shaw is a farmer at Gettysburg, Pa. . . . Harry Fender (of the Ziegfeld hits) is a lieutenant of motorcycle cops in St. Louis. . . . Mitzi Hajos is now casting director for the Shuberts. . . . The Templeton brothers (great Palace hoofers) now run a bowling alley in Staten Island. . . . Tom Hickey (another Palace pet) runs a furniture store in Scranton, Pa. . . . Walter Plimmer Jr. is now Father Plimmer of the priesthood. . . . Harry (and Eva) Puck is in the printing biz. . . . Florence Courtney (Courtney sisters) is a Los Angeles Christian Science practitioner. . . . Jean Dalrymple (of the Keith-Or- pheum circuit) is public relations chief for Lahr’s show. . . . Janet of France owns the gay cafe across from the Alvin theatre. . . . Jim Dooley (Dooley and Sales) has a roadhouse on Merrick road. . . . Maime Ward (the Flying Wards, famed aerialists) is Sally Rand’s wardrobe mistress. . . . Florine Mil- lership (Harry Fox and the Miller- ship sisters) is with the board of education in Chicago. . . . Jim Mul len (Mullen & Coogan) is a Philly deppitty sheriff. Showman Mike Sloane’s yard stick on success: When I was a poor actor I did without caviar because I couldn’t afford it. Now that I’m a hit producer, I do without it because I don’t like it! Sallies in Our Alley: Gertrude Niesen, whose song lyrics are the saltiest, blushing over a roue’s quips. . . . Gary Cooper unnoticed by a row of soda-sipping bobby- soxers in a drugstore. . . . Newest Broadway slanguage: "Get Coll- yer’d!" (for "Aw, get lost!”). ... Is a souftiern governor going to quit any day? Another case of “the woman I love.” She is a well-known novelist. ... A pending divorce case in Waterbury, Conn., is listed: "Punch vs. Punch.” Who, asks Dan Parker is punching whom? . . . A1 Capp (the Li’l Abner man) coined a word for his craft: Artoonists. . . . Didjsz know that Stephen Foster’s first published ditty (in 1843) was titled: “Open Thy Lattice, Love”? . . . G.I.s who were overjoyed when Truman tossed out brute Killian’s name (for promotion) will be de lighted with page 290 of the new book, “The Purple Testament," by Purple Heart vets. The chapter is “Justice. Lichfield Style." Don’t miss the book! COCK O’ THE WALK AT SCHOOL . . . Nonchalant as a deb on Fifth avenue, "Mr. Jeffrey" a rooster whose feathered feet give him a reasonable facsimile of the Chaplin walk, struts down the aisle be tween desks at Public School 97, Brooklyn, while the students look on in wonder and admiration. "Mr. Jeffrey" is one of the group of furred and feathered tourists, making the rounds of schools in the New York area with lecturers from zoo. HAIRSTYLES OF TOMORROW . . . Don’t laugh, these may be the hairdresses that you will be seeing in the near future. The distressing styles shown here were concocted of birthday candles, balls, bed room suites and what-have-you. They were featured in hairstyle show at Los Angeles, given for benefit of spastic children. Models, left to right, front, Jean Pagano, Dorothy LePle and Sally Wadsworth. Rear, Lonnie Bennett and Pricila Wilsey. CONTROVERSIAL HEN . . . The “eggcentricities" of Mrs. Babe, Rhode Island Red hen, which lays too many lop-sided eggs, have made her the center of controversy at Fresno, Calif. Alex Pretzer threat ened to send Babe to the block. Leader of the pro-Babe faction is the Pretzers’ daughter, Jeanette Bernice, 8, :: -m |§||i|gp BOY WONDER OF BILLIARDS . . . Emulating the start made by Willie Hoppe, the original “boy wonder” of billiards, even to the way he holds his cue, Jimmy Cottrano Jr., >, Flushing, L. I., N. Y., already is an excellent billiard player and consistently defeats grownups in exhibitions. Jimmy secured his early start by expert coaching of his father, who is a well-known New York billiard player. Jimmy says he will soon enter national tournaments. ‘THE UP’ OUSTED Commis sioner A. B. Chandler, czar of baseball, announced that for the good of baseball, Leo Durocher, manager of Brooklyn Dodgers, has been suspended for the 1947 sea son. “Accumulated unpleasant in cidents" was the reason given. ENVOY TO IRELAND . . . George A. Garrett, Washington D. C., in vestment broker, who has been named by President Truman as new U. S. minister to Ireland. He will succeed David Gray, who re cently retired. Wanna Be an Eagle? The individual, formflt, quick de tachable helicopter is at hand. Slipped on, as it were, over the head, requiring no time to adjust and able to take you aloft by zipper. • • It is called the Hoppi-Copter. It really outboard-motorizes you for life among the barn swallows. • It Is guaranteed to do for yon in the air what an outboard engine will do for a canoe in the water, only more so. All we hope Is that it has big letters on it—“BE SURE TO CHECK GAS BEFORE PULL ING STARTER-CORD.” * We don’t want to get up 1,000 feet over the picket fences and discover that we forgot about fuel. • The big merchandising possibili ties are seen in its use by the masses as a substitute for the flivver. No traffic signs, no dead ends, no hydrants, no "No Parking’ 1 signs. Just strap on the one-man, derol tasse easy-to-wear hoppi-cop- ter, pull the string and . . . zippee . . . you are an airborne commuter, the equal of the eagle and the supe rior of the wild goose, the redhead ed woodpecker, the busy bee and the runaway boxkite. • It may not be long before Little Willie will be equipped with blades to dash to the grocerjr for a loaf of bread. Father buttoned up in gad gets to fly him to the Elks' picnic and Mother fanning her way over the housetops toward the fire sale. * We were about to order one to day. Two things stopped us. How to get a set of spare blades, and a rumor we might have to stop in mid air to have the old ones honed. ' • ' > ' V f MASTERS GOLF WINNER . . . Jimmy Demaret, 35, Ojai, Calif., the former Texan crooner, who won the 11th masters golf cham pionship for the second time. His score for the 72 holes was 281, seven under par. HE KILLED MUSSOLINI . . . Walter Audisio, known in wartime partisan circles as “Colonel Vale rio,” is showm as he told 10,000 Communists how he personally executed Benito Mussolini and Clara Petachi. N iffl DE GAULLE’S COMEBACK . . . Gen. Charles de Gaulle, spearhead of the French die-hard spirit when France was overrun in 1940, shown) as he delivered address at Brune- val, France, as part of bis come back against French Communists. VERNAL VOID Spring is a sham—a fraud—a mock Without that rich brew known as bock! —Avery Giles. THEY’LL CALL IT WORSE NAMES The New York World-Telegram sports staff has been given a two- year-old race horse and is looking for a name for it. The colt is bj Impound-Floradora Girl. Our first suggestion would be "Flora-Scoop." Or how about “Sextette Boy” o) (carrying the sextette motif fur ther) "Six Star Sporting”? • * • "General Marshall attended the ‘Nutcracker Suite’ at the Bolshoi theater in Moscow.”—News item. • Probably had a nice evening thinking of some of the nuts he wouldh’t mind cracking. * * * A LINK WITH HAPPIER DAYS In New York City the police have been ruthlessly tossing out of win dows the belongings of two allegedly eccentric old men, who lived alone in Fifth avenue and apparently nev er threw anything away. Crowds in the streets cheered. It continues to shock and mystify us. We find but one clue to the sad performance . . . an ancient sled found in the litter. Could it be that this relic of a happy boyhood, this reminder of a sweeter day in a less cockeyed civilization, was more than a harassed, cynical New York could endure? » • • United Nations formally took over its New York City building site re cently. The rough blueprints show, we understand, a doghouse for Gro myko in the northeast corner. * * * The Moscow ballet put on "Ro meo and Juliet” for the Big Four. That scene, we hear, where Romeo wants to "interest Juliet in democ racies and her relatives come through with the veto power was terrific. • * * * Do you remember when two coula live as cheaply as one? "Now not even one can do it," says Elmer Twitchell. earn There must be millions of Amer ican kids growing up with the no tion that the only thing wrong with Jesse James, Atilla the Hun, Cap tain Kidd, Bluebeard, A1 Capone and Billy the Kid was that they were always being impeded by commer cials and time signals. • • • Mr. Twitchell reports seeing the first robin yesterday. It was accom panied, he reports, by a plumber and helper. • • * A normal size airmail stamp has been put on sale by Uncle Sam. This will be great news to most Amer icans who have been longing for a return of the day when the post of fice department would deal in stamps that took but one man to lift, • • • WORLD OF TOMORROW Ex-Gov. George H. Earle of Penn sylvania say?' that in the light of the atom bomb and the Russian aggres sion, there is not more than an even chance that 10 per cent of us will be alive in five years. * Been listening to the Buck Rogers program, eh? * * • It now takes 12,000 Chinese dollars to buy what the American dollar will buy. In other words, 24,000 of them for some bubble gum and an apple. J UST how important is rhythm and timing in sport? A short while back, my friend and critic, former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio, suggested this subject as a timely theme. It was the governor’s idea that rhythm is an important factor, not only in sport, but also in every detail of life. The testi mony seems to bear this opinion out completely. We first put the matter up to Eddie Dyer, the Cardinal manager, also a former football Gov. Cox star. “Rhythm,” Dyer •aid, “is hard to explain. But it is certainly important. Important In football—just as important in base ball. I would say that it meant the team play between mind and mus cle, as far as sport goes. You must think and act in one direction. You can’t think one way and act an other. "Certainly, such ball players as Musial, Marion, Moore and Slaugh ter all have rhythm. They have al most a perfect blend of brain and action — what you might call the split-second variety. There is never any sign of being Jerky or jumpy in what they do. "I would say the first move must come from a clear, untangled, smooth-thinking brain. Then the muscular side must take over at once.” To round out the advice, I switched the debate to my friend Frank Crowninshield, a patron of all the arts and of most sports, one of the most direct thinkers I have ever known. Crowninshield is better known as an editor, writer, critic and collector of art. But for over 50 years, he also has been one of the keenest of all sporting fans and fol lowers. Everything that happens in the world is his stage. Rhythm in Everything “Have you ever thought,” he writes me, "that the two prime es sentials in sport are rhythm and timing? And they belong together. But they are just as dominant in the arts, poetry, dancing, music, archi tecture, painting, acting and sing ing. “Absence of rhythm and timing,” he writes, “is just as fatal in all the arts as it is In baseball, shooting, bowling, fishing, running and all the others. Did you ever watch Bobby Jones? Did you ever watch a bird dog in the field? Did you ever read Shelley’s ‘Ode to the Westwind,’ or Keat’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale?' They all have the same basic quali ties—perfect rhythm. Nothing hur ried, nothing rushed.” We passed the problem on to P. Hal Syms, card and sport expert. “Rhythm,” he told me, "is the basis of any golf stroke. It is also the basis of winning bridge. It is the foundation of everything you do well; in sport, business, art or cards. “What is rhythm? It must begin, of course, in the brain. You must set your plans in advance. You must be ready for whatever hap pens. There should be no room left in the brain for panic or hurry, for overconfidence or despair. “Every part of life is competition —competition against yourself and your opponent. But you must be set and ready for whatever hap pens. You must never be caught off guard. Again, I say, this belongs to the brain. "It is from the brain or the mind that rhythm starts. If you are pre pared here, you are then able to send your message from the brain to your nerves and your muscles. When they respond, as they should if you are in good physical condi tion, you have what I call rhythm. I still say this applies to golf, base ball or football, just as it does to bridge. Bridge and Boxing "I have had nights at bridge where I saw that I was running on a low rhythmic scale. I knew my coordination was poor. On such nights, I cut out of the game as quickly as I could to wait for an other night.” “I put the same problem up to Jack Dempsey. T see what you mean,’ Dempsey said. ‘But I can’t explain it. We call it reflexes. When you are young, you see an opening and you let fly. Split second. When you are older, you see the same opening but you get there too late. When I was around 24 years old, my mind and fists worked together. They were a team, I guess. Maybe that’s what rhythm is. Maybe you might call it smooth action between the mind and the fists—or whatever you use in certain games.’ ” I can’t think of a better descrip tion of rhythm. Any poet most have rhythm in his brain and soul. But poets don’t have to blend this factor with physical action. There can be no set definition of rhythm as ap plied to sport, art, business, mnsic, poetry or anything else. In my opinion, rhythm means smoothness of action, the team play, the coordination of mind and muscle, where the directing force Is mind or brain. How to Raise and Train Your Do^ Teaching Tricks E VERYONE admires a well- trained pup. Don’t postpone teaching your dog appealing tricks because you think a special knack or skill is required. All you need is. patience and good humor. Remember that dogs have varying degrees of intelligence, too; don’t abuse your pup if he’s slow to learn. Better not begin training before three months old. Then stick to three short training periods i day until each trick is mastered. Our booklet No. 78 contains 20 illus trated lessons on teaching tricks and obe dience. Also chapters on diet, grooming, house manners, illness. Send 25 cents (coin) for “How to Raise and Train Your Dog” to Weekly Newspaper Service, 243 W. 17th St., New York 11, N. Y. 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