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BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
Hope Diamond—Not a Jinx Gem
But a Marble Carrying a Hex
By BILLY ROSE-
The members of the gang squatted in a small circle on a patch
of green a block away from the subway station at 242nd street.
Their eyes were in fixed focus on a shiny object at their feet—
the Hope Diamond ....
Let me end the suspense here and now by announcing that the gang
was made up of boys who had gotten together to deoide the marble
championship of the Upper Bronx, and that the shiny object at their feet
was not the unlucky stone of great price you’ve been reading about for
years, but a legendary agate known to small fry from the Triborough
Bridge to Spuyten Duyvil as the Hope Diamond shooter.
Now, a shooter, or “real,” as the
afficionados call it, looks a lot like
an ordinary mar
ble, but any kid
who knows a heist-
shot from a knuck
le-down can tell
you the difference.
The shooter is
heavier, truer,
m o r cunningly
fashioned than the
ordinary i m m i e,
and, even more im-
p o r t a n t, there
exists between it and the thumb
No. —
Nam,
Address
What to give? What to give? It
that question has you running
around in circles this Christmas
here’s a smart suggestion. Make a
list of your friends who enjoy
smoking. Then take the list into
your neighborhood dealer. He has
a well-stocked array of gay gift
cartons of Camel cigarettes—yes
mild flavorful Camels that bring
pleasure with every puff. And for
the pipe smoker or the man who
likes to roll his own, your dealer
will show you pound tins of Prince
Albert Smoking Tobacco—the Na
tional Joy Smoke. Both these popu
lar gifts come all dressed up in
special, colorful Christmas wrap
pings. You don’t even have to fuss
with a personal greeting card—it’s
built right into the package for
your easy-writing convenience
You’ll be good to your friends and
kind to your budget if you send
them Camels and Prince Albert!
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and forefinger of its owner a spirit
ual affinity which makes*it more
precious to him than all the other
marbles he owns. When a player
loses in a “for-keeps” game, he
pays off with common, earth-bound
miggels—he would no more think of
parting with his shooter than a good
family man would with his life in
surance.
...
NOW, IT FIGURES that by this
time you’re bustin’ to know some
thing about the owner of the Hope
Diamond shooter, and how the
fabled marble happened to wind up
at the feet of a bunch of kids on the
day of the big tournament. Well, for
you to get the complete picture, it
is necessary for me to sketch in
some of the background of the
shooter—a story which, I might
add, in many respects, parallels
the history of its super-jinxed
namesake.
As the fen-everything set recalls
it, the Hope Diamond was first
brought to the Bronx by a player
who originally hailed from Chepa-
chet, Rhode Island. After a series
of backyard triumphs, he won the
right to participate in a semi-final,
but the morning of the contest one
of the ball-bearings in his skates
got stuck and, in the header which
followed, his shooting finger was so
badly bruised that he had to with
draw.
Then, for * while, the malevo
lent marble was owned by Irv
Sondergaard, but shortly after he
acquired it, the boy developed a
game leg and was forever barred
by his doctor from kneeling on
the damp earth.
Finally, Whitey Wizcoczki, re
puted to have the most skillful
thumb north of the Harlem river,
latched on to the shooter, but two
days before the big tournament, the
jinx caught up with him and he
broke a couple of ribs falling off the
back of an ice truck.
The easiest thing, of course,
would have been to throw away the
hex-heavy shooter but, as you know,
the ways of men and urchins under
the spell of superstition are hard to
explain. Harry Winston’s Hope
Diamond, too, is supposed to carry
a curse with it, but as you may have
noticed, Harry hasn’t thrown it
away either.
...
AND SO, five minutes before the
contest, Charlie Hersch, Whitey’s
I Sheltered Many a Care
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SHELTERED many a heavy care
And hugged them to my bosom,
I held them close and guarded them
For fear that I should lose them.
One day I sat beside the road
All spent and worn and sighing.
Too tired to listen to the birds.
Or mark the white clouds flying.
Then suddenly, a shining note
Like silver dropped from heaven.
Pierced my ears; the cooling shade
Offered its wayside leaven.
The swaying grasses bent to touch
My fevered cheek, and blessed me;
A wild flower reached its gentle hand
, And lovingly caressed me.
The morning dew was like a drink
Of water for my thirsting;
I saw a lark lift from the grass.
His gold throat swelled to bursting.
I rose to take my cares again.
And carefully to bind them
About my bean—but they were gone
I searched, but could not find them.*.
GRACE NOLL
CROWELL .
closest friend, dropped the Hope
Diamond shooter in front of the
contestants with the dire words,
“Wizcoczki says anybody wants it
kin have it, only he oughta make
sure his family kin afford the doc
tor bills.”
Eleven of the players regarded
it with awe and distrust, but the
twelfth—a dark horse from the
swanky Riverdale section—was not
impressed. He picked it up, tried
a test shot, and said, “If nobody
wants the Diamond, I’ll use it.”
The
Fiction *
Corner
THE PRICE
By
Richard H. Wilkinson
T HERE was a strangeness about
Pancho Ortegna that was hard
to describe. There was mystery in
his eyes, a wildness, a curiously de
tached look. Yet he had the high
forehead of intelligence, the cheek
bones and nose of breeding, the
erect carriage of pride. He was the
type of man that you looked at
twice.
I first saw him two summers ago
in Cano. It was swelteringly hot
__________ outside, but with-
in the dark in-
3 -Minute terior of Cabello’s
Fief inn saloon y° u could
neuwn forget the heat
Ortegna was sit
ting alone at a table, an untouched
drink at his elbow, an open book
in his lap. No one bothered him; the
dancing girls veered away; there
was respect in the attitude of the
waiter who served him that wasn’t
evidenced for other customers.
“Who is he?” I asked Juan.
“Pancho Ortegna, the head hun
ter."
“Head hunter?” I stared,
drink held suspended. Jnan’s
white teeth flashed against his
dark skin.
"It surprises you, yes? That busi
ness of head hunting. Come, surely
you have heard of the head hunting
tribes?”
"Who hasn’t?” I assented. “But
who ever believed them?”
“Come,” said Juan. “You Amer
icans must be shown.”
I followed Juan dbwn Cano's
single street, beneath the blazing
sun, and into the cool dark interior
#»»pHE Ecuadorian government
^ will fine you $400 for posses
sing one of these heads,” Juan ex
plained as we left the store. "No
one has yet been able to discover
how the average tribes remove the
bones before the shrinking is done,
and little else about the actual
shrinking process.
“Pancho Ortegna is a scientist.
He came down here two years ago,
determined to solve the mystery.
Naturally he ran Into difficulties
because of the government rules
against head hunting. But this only
made him more determined. He
visited tribe after tribe. Those who
were friendly played Innocent, flat
ly refusing to admit any knowledge
about the business. From the other
tribes, the hostiles, Pancho barely
escaped with his life.
I glanced at Juan quickly. “Do
you mean ...”
Again Juan shrugged. "Who
knows. One cannot experiment
without the proper ingredients. Cer
tain natives have mysteriously dis
appeared during the past six
months.”
Unconsciously I quickened my
step, but when we arrived at Cab
ello’s, Pancho Ortegna was gone.
I <Mi not see him again for
two years. The second meeting
left an even more vivid impres
sion than the first. Joan and I
were renewing our acquaint
ance and discussing olfi times
over a bottle of Cabello’s fine
liquor. Across the room an old
man was reading a book.
“Pancho Ortegna!” I exclaimed
suddenly.
Juan shook his head. “No, that is
no one more important than Cabel
lo’s old father, who comes here
daily to get out of the heat.” His
face became grave. “You are cur
ious about Pancho Ortegna, eh?"
I admitted that I was.
“Come,” said Juan. And once
more I followed him down the blaz
ing street and into the gloomy in
terior of the shop we had visited
before. The object that the shop
owner carried when he reappeared
sent a cold wave through my body.
There was no mistaking it. It was
the shrunken head of Pancho Or
tegna.
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LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER
“Pancho Ortegna!” I ex
claimed suddenly.
af what might pass as a gift shop
back home. Juan spoke rapidly in
his native tongue to the swarthy
gentleman behind the.counter. The
swarthy gentleman looked at me,
shrugged, and disappeared into a
back room. In a moment he re
appeared carrying in his hand an
object that caused my flesh to
crawL
The object was a human head,
thrunk symmetrically to about the
size of an orange
The swarthy gentleman of
fered me the head for $25.
When I refused it, he shrugged
indifferently and disappeared
behind the curtains.
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torture
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colored fish
9. Chills and
fever
10. Coin
(Turk.)
11. A ducklike
diving bird
12. To gather
with
stitches
14. Guided
15. Father
17. Malt
beverage
18. Pronoun
19. Disparage
22. Any power
ful deity
23. Engrave,
as by
corrosives
26. Tempestuous
28. Retired
30. Shield
31. Captured,
as game
34. Military cap
37. Farm
animal
38. Fresh-water
tortoise
40. Hypothetical
force
41. A slight
drink
43. Erbium
(sym.)
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between two
mountains
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sun
48. Elude
50. Sheer
51. Half a pint
52.
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Indian
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stone
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tooth
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27. Regret
29. Evening
sun god
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32. Proverbs
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“Ya be lucky if ya don’t bust
a leg," said Hymie Michernick.
Well, for most of the cosstest
it looked as if the rich kid was a
cinch to whs. Not only did the
Diamond connect with everything
it went after, but it seemed to
hex the other shooters that at
tempted to hit it. Inspired and
made confident by its perform
ance, the kid from Riverdale
sighted long and carefully, con
sidered the topography of the
ground and, when the situation
called for extreme measures, even
shot from the stomach position.
However, as the match entered
the tenth and final round, a station
wagon pulled up apd a hefty Swede
of a nursemaid got out.
“Ja-ackie,” she shouted. "Din
ner’s almost ready and look at your
clothes. You’re a sight!”
"Wait a minute,” said the kid,
squinting at a marble four feet
away.
“Albert!” yelled the nursemaid.
A chauffeur with big shoulders
got out and walked toward the cir
cle. Jackie dropped the Hope Dia
mond in disgust, said “Aw, nuts!”
and climbed into the station wagon.
And, as it drove away, the blood
shot eye of the blue shooter seemed
to wink at the other players.
Hymie Michernick picked it up.
'This is the last time it’s going to
put the squltch on anybody,” he
said, and threw it as far as he
could.
Now, If the Hope Diamond had
been an ordinary shooter, the story
would end here. But, as I have gone
to some pains to make clear, it was
not. Propelled by the Michernick
muscles, the little ball of fire sailed
through the air for 50 feet, bounced
off a tin can onto the sidewalk, and
was picked up an hour later by an
intern on his way to the hospital.
"I know someone who’ll get a
real kick out of this,” he said, hand
ing the Hope Diamond shooter to
one of the nurses. "Will you give
this marble to the patient in room
218. Whitey Wizcoczki—the little
boy who broke his ribs.”
i&CSCREI
By INEZ GERHARD
J OHN DALL made a hit in his
first picture, ‘The Corn Is
Green”; in his fourth, Alfred Hitch
cock’s “Rope”, he got the big
break that every actor yearns for.
He has his first sympathetic role
in a long time in “Deadly Is the
Female”, for United Artists. But
his is no over-night success. He
learned his trade the hard way,
JOHN DALL
through six years of work in stock
companies and little theaters, then
as a walk-on in two Broadway
plays, finally in a good part in a
third one, which brought him his
Hollywood contract. He stands six
feet one, has brown hair and blue-
gray eyes.
The public has been so enthusi
astic about Milton Berle in “Al
ways Leave Them Laughing” that
Warner Bros, will produce another
comedy starring him.
Confined Flocks Make
More for Poultrymen
Average 28 More Eggs
Per Hen When Kept Up
Profitable chicken flocks usual
ly lay about 20 per cent of their to
tal yearly eggs during the last three
months of the year. They produce
one dozen eggs for each seven
pounds of feed, have less than 12
per cent yearly mortality, and
average 175 eggs or more per bird.
Here is how poultrymen may
achieve such records with their fall-
housed pullets and insure them
selves a profit:
1. More money will be made if
the flock is kept confined. Figures
show that confined flocks lay 28
A homemade grain chnte set
at a tilt on an old truck makes
qnick work of feeding scratch
to pullets on the Glendale
poultry farm at Somerset, Mass.
more eggs per hen than those given
the run of the farm. If it is desired
to turn the flock out for part of
the day, it should be done in the
late afternoon—on a clean, graveled
yard.
2. Supply plenty of floor space.
Three to four square feet for each
bird is about right.
3. Use a built-up litter on your
chicken house floor. In starting a
litter, use straw, wood shavings,
sawdust, peanut hulls, peatmoss
or any dry material available.
Champ Wheat Grower
Harold Pirtle, of Sullivan, Ind.,
shown above, was winner of the
1949 “pocket area” wheat growing
championship in a contest spon
sored by Purdue University and the
Southwestern Indiana Wheat Im
provement association.
He produced an average of 57%
bushels of wheat per acre on an
11-acre field. His prize-winning
wheat was Vigoo. the new stiff-
strawed, heavy-yielding red winter
wheat developed at Purdue.
Certified Seed Said
Need for Good Crops
Only by purchasing certified seed
can a farmer make certain he is
getting the best product available,
says Dr. R. P. Moore, director in
charge of the North Carolina crop
improvement association.
Dr. Moore says seed are unique
in that their breeding cannot be de
termined from appearance alone.
To determine in advance the type
of crop which a particular lot of
seed can produce, it is necessary to
know the history of the seed.
In the production of hybrid corn,
the plant breeder probably will
know much about the performance
of the proposed hybrid before it is
actually produced. After it is pro
duced, it is put through a series of
tests.
Diseased Livestock Costs
Fanner Millions Yearly
Millions of dollars are lost every
year in diseased livestock. Less
than a dozen diseases are causing
unbelievable losses in cattle, calves,
hogs and sheep.
Pneumonia and pleurisy are
most common, with pyemia, or
blood poisoning, in third place.
Immaturity alone claimed over one-
fourth of the more than seven mil
lion calves slaughtered annually,
according to the report.
FIRST AID to the
AILING HOUSE
by Roger C. Whitman!
Washing Painted Walls
QUESTION: How can I wash
my painted walls without having
the gloss come off?
ANSWER: Get one of the com
mercial preparations that is sold
in package form and follow the
directions for use carefully. You
can also use a mild solution of
trisodium phosphate for the pur
pose. This can be bought at a paint
or grocery store under a trade
name; a soapless cleaning pow
der. You will find directions for
use printed on the label. Do not
expect any glossy paint to keep its
gloss after many washings. Some
of it is apt to wash off after a
time.
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ANOTHER
1 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. What is the meaning of ren
dezvous?
2. By what name are the stu
dents at the U. S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis known?
3. Where is the “Rose Bowl” lo
cated?
4. From whom did the United
States purchase the Louisiana
Territory?
5. Which railroad employe has
the same authority on a passenger
train that the captain has on a
ship?
The Answers
1. An appointed place of meet
ing.
2. Midshipmen.
3. Pasadena, Calif.
4. From France, in 1803.
5. The Conductor.
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gist does not handle HADACOL*
order direct from The LeBlanc Cor
poration, Lafayette, La., and when
the postman brings your package
just pay the amount plus the c.o.d.
and postage. If you remit with the
order we will pay the postage.
Then, if you don’t feel perfectly
satisfied after using HADACOL as
directed, just return the empty car
ton and your money will be cheer
fully refunded. Nothing could be
fairer.—Adv.