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Evening star., 1952-07-10

an influence over 1t. She sat up
there in Boston and wrote letters
to her husband, who was helping
frame the Constitution in Phila-
! delphia and-well. never under
estimate the power of a woman
Miss Kellems quoted at some
length from Abigail's letters, in
cluding the one about the coffee
and sugar situation. This con-
tanned a blow-by- blow account o1
a raid by a group of women on
the warehouse Of a man who
wanted to charge too much for
his coffee. They made off with q
hogshead Of coffee. Miss Kellems
thought this was fine. It is not
known how she would feel if a
group Of men raided her factory
and made of with an assortment
OF cable grips. crying that her
price was too high. It is not
known, but it can be guessed.
Miss Kellems. the stern suffra-
gette. got around to truly novel
theory when urging that women
take q more active part in the
affairs around them. Women, she
implied. do not talk enough.
Lets not wait for (the men)
to tell us their IDEAS" she urged.
LETS tell them our ideas.
1
If so million women start talk
ing all over this country it would
cause a sensation" she declared.
1t might, at that. 1t would cause
more OF a sensation, though. if
so million women stopped talking
all over this country.
n X II
FUTURE BRIGHTENS Hope
suddenly dawned for ABC this
week after the gloomiest period in
Its history. Five months of hear
ings in the proposal to merge the
network and United Paramount
Theaters came to q sudden end
All parties concerned petitioned
the FEC to divorce the antitrust
issue from the case, review the
findings and act without waiting
Tor the examiners decision.
The case has become something
OF a cause celebre. The merger
was proposed approximately a
year ago to give ABC some badly
needed working capital. Since
then. all has been confusion
around the network and as the
hearings dragged on there were
certain signs Of panic. ABC|
couldn't move in a highly competi-
tive field. NBC and CHS have
been throwing their weight around
and ABC has been unable to make
TV programming plans for next
fall.
What happened was that the
FEC found common issues with
some other cases when the merger
came up and hearings were
Jumped. AS simply as possible, it'll
happened about like this. In 1913.
under a consent decree to end AMI
ANTITRUST suit. Paramount Pic
lures, Inc, was split into Para
Pictures (movie- -making)
and United Paramount TheatersI
(theater operation). Paramount
got the older company's stock inl
DuMont and Los Angeles TVI
station. UPT got a Chicago TVI
station. .3 |
Involved then with the merger
case were Paramount's petitionl
for a renewal Of the Los Angeles
stations license; the problem of
or not Paramount owns
a controlling interest in DuMontl
(Which it can't own and which itl
and DuMont say 1t doesn't own ;
the past history Of UPT, as all
company which resulted from ami
antitrust case, and a subsidiary
issue, the sale of UPT,s Chicago
TV station to CHS.
Small wonder that the ABC boys
began to get a trapped feeling.
There Is much more hope in the
air now, however. Variety, the
trade journal, Is even predicting
approval OF the merger by early
August. 4
Evening star., 1952-07-10

series created by Erie Stanley
Gardner.
$3.50, WRC-The Chase: A new
mystery-adventure series.
1O:l5, WOL-Guest Star: Arthur
Fielder conducts the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra in short concert
Television Today.
500, WMAL,=Family Playhouse
The film is mo Living Witness,
with j. Carroll Naish and Gilbert
Roland.
500, WTOP-Al Pearce Show: A
variety show. starring AL Pearce
makes its debut.
Evening star., 1952-07-10
Convention News

The television and radio
programs listed here are sub
ject to. change without
notice. due to the full broad
casting coverage Of the Re-.
publican convention. Some
scheduled programs may not
be broadcast. Other schedu-
led programs may be seen
and heard. The latest listing
Of planned radio and televi-
sion programs from the Chi
cago convention will be
found on Page One Of The
Star today.
Evening star., 1952-07-10
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WINx-1,soo k.-s a.m.-s:3o pm.
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Evening news broadcast, di-
rect from The Stars news
room, Monday through Friday
over Stations WMAL and
WMAL-FM; 6 pm.
Evening star., 1952-07-10
FM Stotions

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WBUz-FM-se.7 Me-, channel 7A
pm. to 9 pm.
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2:30 to II pm.
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] an. 10 9 pm.
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The Key West citizen., 1952-12-22
Chapter 81

SktdRtCk &4
THEY crossed the Color d o
i While the morning was still
a gray mist on the rim of the east
ern horizon; an endless, exhaust
ing drudgery that demanded the
last ounce of strength from the
iaded horses and haggard men.
Garcia's outriders came trotting
In before the crossing was COM
pleted, and Clay crossed the
stream to hear their report. They
had found the mesa, less than FIVE
miles north and west of the cross
ing.
"Very steep, mug alta" the
sergeant in charge reporte d i.
There is a pass like stair steps
going up. Perhaps it reaches the
top, perhaps it does not. Two Of
my men are still there, working
their way toward the top. When
we arrive, they will be able to tell
us If the road goes all the way"
I'VE can't gamble on it, Web" /"
he decided tersely. They'll keep
going as long as there's some
hope, but if they get to the mesa
and find they can't get to the top.
they'll be so disappointed they'll
want to lie down and die. We've
got to know before they go too
far"
Web nodded slowly. his eyes
red-rimmed from lack of sleep.
his body slack in the saddle from
fatigue.
"You want me to push on ahead
and see what Garcfa's boys have
found by this time?"
"I'll co." It was torture to force
out the words. 1t meant a break
neck dash across the prairie, per-
hapS a gasping, stumbling explo-
ration of the mesa trail, and then
another heartbreaking scramble
to return to the regiment before
it had marched too far along the
trail toward the plateau. Every
bone and muscle in his body was
throbbing with the aching pain
of utter exhaustion and mounting
fever. The saber cut across his
shoulder had been hastily washed
and dressed and it burned like fire
whenever he turned in the saddle
and every time his horses hoofs
struck the ground. He felt his eye-
lids dropping like leaden blankets
but he was the Colonel.
'Tll go, Web" There was a new
firmness in his voice now that he
had forced his weakness behind
him. "You stay here and get the
men across. Give them an hours
rest when the jobs done and then
start moving out toward the mesa.
I'll try to get back before you've
gone too far. Then we1l know
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-22

lently in light breaths that coula
not be heard a yard away.
The murmur OF voices came
again and he could hear a sudden
clatter of sound as a shifting tor.
rent of rocks was dislodged to rat
tie and re-echo against the grants
walls of the ravine. The fever was
burning in his head, setting BLACK
spots dancing before his eyes.
turning his throat and tongue a.
dry as old leather parched in the
sun. He closed his eyes for an in.
stan... fighting against the swirlina
weakness that threatened to en-.
gulf him. When he opened them
again, he saw that two men had
emerged into the open passage
way before him.
For an instant that seemed for.
ever, his blurred vision would not
bring them into focus, and Il
seemed to him that they were
strangers, enemies that he had
never seen before. Then the fog
of fever broke apart for a mo-
mentary breath of time and he
recognized them as two men of
Garcia's troop, the men who had
been left behind t. try to find Q
pathway to the top.
"Pedroi Antonio!" His voice
was cracked and harsh.
He saw their heads Jerk up In
sudden alarm and caught the
CLEAN of metal as their guns
leaped from their holsters.
"Quien?" The challenge was as
abrupt and uncompromising as q
rife shot.
He got slowly to his feet, feeling
the walls of the ravine swing in
slow circles around him, as the
hot fingers of the fever clutched
his brain again. He threw out an
arm to brace himself against the
rough stone wall beside him and
saw the troopers advance toward
him Ike two fantastic figures
moving erratically through the
fog:
The top of the mesa" he said.
docs the trail lead to the top?"
Dimly. he knew that Pedro was
speaking, caught disconnected
words and phrases.
Rough :" Pedro was saying,
and then there was an interval of
blackness, and then the words
Men and horses reach the
top =. wagons only part
way"
So there was a path to the top
of the mesa, an avenue of safety
for his men.
He tried to turn back toward
the entrance, stumbled, felt HIM
self falling as the earth spun in
flashing circles about him and the
Changing of ten thousand anvils
rang and thundereo in his ears.
Go be c0ntinaedl
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-22
G!!!|s4se!:&!'!!; :! 9 !: =; -.
,where we stand and what we can
By Homer Hoffen

where we stand and what we can
do"
LEAD high, he rode away at
Il a canter, outwardly as jaunty
and refreshed as il he had Just
arisen from a sound nights sleep.
His face was dry and hot and
there was a buzzing in his ears,
like that of a million bumblebees.
but he held his back stiff and
erect, his body firm in the saddle,
until he was so far from the cross
ing that the men beside it dwin-
died to minute black dots. Then,
and only then, he allowed himself
to slump in the saddle and rode
blindly and doggedly forward, his
body racked with pain, his mind
dull and insensate from the fever
tha: had descended upon him dur
ing the night.
Slowly the round tower of the
mesa crept up above the rim of
the horizon; stark, straight-sided,
fiat-topped, as impregnable as
some ancient castle carved from
living stone and soaring high
above the plain. Grimly he pulled
himself together and trotted to-
ward the narrow opening that was
like a cash in the wall of the
mesa. AS he drew closer, he saw
that it was a rocky, twisting gully,
perhaps ten yards wide at its base,
winding away into the interior
of the mesa, ascending steeply;
carved and followed out of the
rock by centuries of wind and
rain and erosion
There was no sign Of the two
men Garcia had left behind to
explore the trail and the sharp
fear ran through his mind that
they had been ambushed or de-
stroyed by some wandering tribe
of Comanches that might even
now be skulking in the dim re-
cesses of the mesa gulch. He loos-
ened the two revolvers that he
wore, and his eyes sharpened as
he moved slowly forward. The
trail turned and twisted so sharp
ly in its ascent that his field of
vision was limited to the fifteen
OF twenty feet of open space di-
rectly before him. Anything might
be lurking behind one of the
jagged corners he must pass. He
reined in abruptly, as he heard
voices far ahead.
He slipped out of the saddle and
tied the gelding he rode to a sharp
outcrop of rock. Crouching. he
scuttled forward beneath the
shelter of the overhanging rock
until he was past a ragged point
where the trail twisted sharply
to the left. There was shelter there
behind a mammoth boulder that
overlooked the rise ahead. He
held one gun ready in his hand,
his breath ebbing and flowing ST.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-22

fENlNEs Italy nF-fAH CAp1OoAOti
in hydroelectric plant at Belluno,
near here, cost the lives of three
workmen Saturday.
BERLIN R - Stenotypists and
secretaries are signs of capital
iSm," the Communist East Ger
man govern m e n said today,
Therefore, after January 1, they
will be called production helpers. I"
MANILA R-Thick smoke clouds
that resembled an atomic explo-
sion Saturday boiled from Mt.
Hibok Hibok as the Philippines
killer volcano" underwent mi
nor eruption.
Masses of rock tumbled down the
side of the crater, on the southern
island of Camiguin. Philippine
news service said people we're
warned to evacuate the danger
area.
SUNNYVALE, Calf. IA giant
Navy Constitution-largest land
plane in the world-landed safely
last week after fire knocked out
one Of its engines in flight.
The plane, carrying 130 passen-
gers and IS erewmen, came in at
slower speed, but the pilot, Navy
1t. ]. R. RAIDER, said the 92-ton
craft was operating normally.
The Lockheed plane-one OF two
in existence-landed on three en-
gines.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-22
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS

NEW 1Ohh lou can Duy
Santa Claus. The true spirit Of
Christmas isn't for sale.
But that doesn't keep a lot of
people from trying to do it every
year.
One Of the absurdities of the cur
rent season is the report that $50
neckties of velvet and gold are
having a brisk sale in North Car
olina. They are designed to be
given as presents for "men who
have everything already"
It would depress me if someone
sent me such a necktie (and, if
you were planning to do so, please
send the cash unsteady. For one
thing / hate a bargain basement
gesture. Anyone who sends you a
$50 necktie isn't trying to please
you so much as he is trying to
impress you.
And only a piker would be i'm
pressed by a $50 necktie today.
After all there are $50 neckties on
the market. Who wants to be
bought cheap?
Economists and sociologists now
regard gifts like $50 to $50 neck
ties as not only wasteful but
economically immoral. To me,
even when sent by men of wealth
to each other as a joke they can
well afford, they are just sad.
They may make fine "conversa-
ton pieces" but what kind of con-
cluSion can you draw from the
conversations? Only how easy it is
to throw money away on something
useless. / hate this conclusion be-
cause I have a vast respect for
money and the wonderful good that
can be done with it.
The evidence Of what money
cannot do is all about us. And one
of the times you see this best is at
Christmas. Many q wife who gets
a $4,000 fur coat from her hus-
band would rather know the
warmth of his old love again than
the warmth of his gift.
What makes a real Christmas
present? The thought and under
standing behind it. Only that kin
dies the bonfire Of the heart, not
the number of dollars spent. This
is particularly true of children,
whose rich relatives often try vain
ly to make them happy with costly
gifts but fail because they do not
know there is a better way. You
cannot bribe a child long if he
discovers you don't really under
stand him.
I remember as a child a poor
little rich boy who lived up the
street in a fine apartment build
ing came to our house on Christ.
mas morning.
"What did you get?" he said
practically.
"An orange, a sweater, a sled, "
I said, "and"-I held up q squirm-
ing puppy-"this!"
The. rich kid went crazy over
the puppy, and we played with it
for long time. Later we went up
to see his presents. The floor was
covered with toys--fancy electric
trains, chemistry sets, an indoor
golf course-and all were expen-
Sive. felt kind of dumb wonder,
there were so many.
The other kid, his dad and
got down on the floor and began
operating the electric train. Sud
denly the little rich boy looked up
and his face crinkled in passionate
crying.
Daddy, why couldn't l have a
puppy, too?" he wept. Its what
l asked for"
SON." said his father, "you
know dogs make your mother
nervous.
And remembering that long-ago
scene now, wonder what that
rich kid, now a middle-aged man.
viii get for Christmas this year.
hope someone puts something in
his Christmas stocking besides a
$50 necktie.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-22
News Briefs

VENICE, Italy R-An explosion
in a hydroelectric plant at Belluno,
near here, cost the lives of three
workmen Saturday.
Evening star., 1952-10-26
Navy Institute 10 Mark
Anniversary Tomorrow

The Navy Medical Research In
stitute at the National Naval
Medical Center in Bethesda OBJ
serves its 10th anniversary tomor-
row.
The institute is the principal
research unit of the Navy'S Med
ical Department. 1t conducts
studies into the improvement of
health, safety and efficiency of
naval personnel.
In its 10 years of operation 238
projects have been completed,
covering all fields in basic science
Extensive studies have been
carried out on protective cloth
ing, desalination of sea water,
aviation oxygen equipment. insect
repellents and other means of
insect control, physiological ef-
fects of tropical environment ar
the effects of immersion in cold
water.
Shortly before the end of World
War II the institute participated
in the Bikini atomic bomb tests
and has contributed much tc
studies on the biological effects
Of radiation. Capt. Wilbur E
Kellum is commanding officer, tn,
fourth since the institute wa
founded.
Evening star., 1952-10-26

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Evening star., 1952-12-18
Hiqhliqhts
Radio Today,

$3.50, WCFM-Listene Committee
for Better Radio: Chaucer's 'The
Squire's Tale"
$3.50. WGMS-Library of Congress
Concert. The annual concert COM
memorating the Birthday of An
tonic Stradivari is broadcast from
Coolidge Auditorium.
$3.50, WTOP-Bing Crosby Show
Ella Fitzgerald is guest.
10:45, WASH-Music: The Smith
Amherst Colleges combined glee
club sing Gerald Finzi's "Magni.
feat"
Television Today.
$3.50, WTOP-Four Star Playhouse
Charles Boyer protrays a romantic
pickpocket in "The Officer and the
Lady"
$3.50, WNBW-Treasury Men ir
Action: The drama is the "Case o1
the Weak Sister"
900, WMAL - Perspective: DR.
Sarah Gibson Blanding, president oi
Vassar College; DR.. Harold Taylor
president of Sarah Lawrence Col
lege: Prof. Alvan Barach of Bar
nard College and DR.. Mark A. Nc
Closkey, director of the Division oi
Community Education for the New
York City Board of Education dis
cuss, 1.-THE Value of College De-
gree for Women"
$3.50, WNBW-Ford Theater: La
raine Day stars in $50 Many Things
Happen"
1000, WTTG-Author Meets the
Critics: Edward Reid's "Mafia" is
discussed.
Evening star., 1952-12-18

television programs occasionally
do listen to the advice of the
snarling critics. OF course, it may
take some time.
1t was almost a year ago, or
the evening of December "a. 1851
to be exact, when NBC-TV gave
viewers one of the most reward
ing television hours they had had
It consisted not of heroic docu-
mentary, not of tense drama, not
of platoons of dancing girls and
a comic. It consisted of Charles
Laughton. who occupied the hour
by reading from Dickens Pick
wick Papers," from the Bible and
from several other things.
Several days later a suggestion
was set forth here. Somebody, D
it said, ought to hire Mr.
Laughton to 60 on television once
week and read Dickins for hall
an hour. Dickens or anything else
which caught his fancy"
There was no great rush in the
television trade to act on thi:
proposal. Nobody even bothered
to say it was silly.
|
| In the intervening year. how
ever, several things have hap
pened. More and more of those
in television have discovered the
difference between physical move
ment and dramatic action. They
have learned that moving people
around before the cameras does
not necessarily keep a show from
being static.
It has been demonstrated-by
Adlai Stevenson and Bishop Full
ton Sheen to name two-that a
man with something to say and a
skill at saying it can hold the at
tention of television audience.
It also has been discovered in
the TV trade that a personal ap-
pearance act Laughton has been
doing of and on for three years
in cities, towns and hamlets across
the country has been quite sue
cess. The act consists of just what
Laughton did on television last
Christmas eve.
Mr.. Laughton Saunters out on
the stage carrying an armful of
books and starts to read. He
stands or sits as the mood seizes
him and occasionally interrupts
himself to tell a joke or recite a
limerick. Reports are in unani-
nous agreement that he wins an
audience in no time at all and
holds its rapt attention.
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Now, at last, this same thing
is going to be tried as a regular
thing on television. This Is
Charles Laughton," a weekly Is
minute film series is scheduled to
start soon on % television sta
tions. Locally, the time an
nounced is Sunday at 6 pm. the
starting date January II, the sta
ton WTOP-TV.
What difference the use of film
will make remains to be seen.
Our guess is that in this particular
case it won't make loo much.
The poor quality of some of Holly
woods filmed TV shows is not
due to the fact that they are
filmed. It can be traced directly
to- the script.
Mr.. Laughton employs fine
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. like Dickens
Mark Twain. Thomas Wolfe,
Evening star., 1952-12-18
Charles Loughton to Come
To Video to Read Books
By Harry Macarthur

James Thurber, Stephen Vincent
Benet, Washington Irving and
others of stature. His reading of
their works on television could
turn out to be one of the bright
moments of the TV week.
X II y X
NAMES IN THE NEWS-Plck
Temples show this afternoon
tWTOP-TV-4 o'clock brings his
total to 600. Some statistical
soul at WTOP reports that Pick
has. during these 600 shows, given
away 1,500 silver dollars. .
Mailed out $4,000 fan pictures.
-. Sung "On Top of Old Smokey"
$500 times. Lifted 1000 chill
dren in and out of the saddle.
Which. at an average of 40
pounds per child, is 40 tons of chill
dren. -. William Bendix, movie
commitments now permitting. will
bring his Chester A. Riley char
acter to television. Starting
date for the TV Life of Riley is
January 2 and it will be a regu-
lar Friday-at-8:30 feature on
NBC-TV for at least 26 weeks.
Mr.. Bendix last was seen around
these parts lending a quaint
Brooklyn touch to a pirate movie
-. Marjorie Reynolds will play
the sorely tried but patient Mrs.
Riley. -. A new half-hour comedy
program starring Eddie Albert is
in the works at CBS-TV. A
daytime program for him also is
being discussed, same network.
/. Bing Crosby is getting closer
to television. :. Nothing definite
yet. but he has been discussing
possible TV formats with Bill
Morrow. writer producer of his
radio show. and Basil Grillo. &.
Grillo is executive producer of
Bing Crosby Enterprises. =.
Whether the show is live or
filmed will depend on the formal
CHOSEN. -.
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CHRISTMAS FILM-A new
Family Theater" film production
will be seen this Christmas sea-
son on television stations through
out the country. Titled "A Star
Shall Rise" it repeatedly takes
"a unique and different view" of
the traditional Christmas story.
This 1t finds in drawing a parallel
between the Three Wise Men, all
astrologers. and the simple shep-
herds to whom the angel appeared
to announce the birth of Christ.
The large cast includes Ray
mond Burr, Tony Caruso, Jay
Novello. Richard Hale, John Craw-
ford. Henry Brandon and Morris
Ankrum. John Brahm, when re-
Gently did '"The Miracle of Fatima"
for Warmers, directed "A Star
Shall Rise" which was made by
Roland Reed Productions at the
Hal Roach Studios. The scenario
was written by John T. Kelley.
A schedule of local showings of
"A Star Shall Rise" is not yet
available. WMAL-TV has. how
ever. signified its intention of
carrying the Family Theater"
film and other stations probably
will do so. too.
Evening star., 1952-12-18
On the Air

The people who provide James Thuber Stephen Vncen
teevison occasionally benet washington irving ane
do listen to the advice of the nr +oian;s;on ne
sarng critics. Of course 1t may of bright
Evening star., 1952-12-18
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