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o yj v f s ' ' rVy at ' & ' i ' it i " $ ' ' n -j''-1. A BUZZARD'S KISS of appreciation 13 bestowed upon 15 year old Russell R. Rippell of Baltimore. Young Rippell found his unlikely pet two months ago on the family car. He had no trouble in persuading the bird to accept a lifetime meal ticket in the Rippell home. (International Soundphoto) American Millionaire Does Business With Congo Natives Leopoldville (U.R) If the natives of the Congo ever evolve their own original art forms, which seems likely, part of the credit will go to an American milionaire whose business sched ule must certainly be one of the strangest in the industrial world. On a dusty side-street of this Belgian Congo metropolis I found Maurice Alhadeff conduct ing the many enterprises that have made him one of the richest men in West Africa, with invest ment interests extending all the way to department stores in San Francisco. I've seen a lot of business of fices, but never one like this. For one thing the rickety front door was locked. I went around to the back yard and found a small army of natives squatting in a long line.eeach with a piece of sculpture or a painting or a aked clay pot before him. The line forms in the morning find lasts most of the day. Inside eti small office, made even smal F by stacks of paintings which pilled into an adjoining room, gnd innumerable sculptures, gtood Alhadeff he works stand ing up a stacks of banknotes on his desk. He had been on the phone conducting a business deal in French. Npw he replaced the re ceiver, motioned me to a chair and summoned the first native from outside the door. He was a ripple with shrivelled legs who dragged himself in on hand blocks. Pupil Meets Patron "This is Manolo, a Bantu," said Alhadeff. "He is the finest sculptor in the Congo." Manolo had brought along one of his pupils, a 14-year-old native boy, Marcelle, to intro duce him to "the patron." The boy had a striking wooden mask in his hands. "Youo good work," said Al hadeff handing Monolo some banknotes frgm the pile on the desk. He dug into a bookcase and pulled out a volume on the reek sculptor Praxiteles. "This .was the greatest scup tor who ever lived," he told the boy, "study his work, but do not try to copy it." Manolo and the boy left, and Alhadeff summoned a couple of aides to discuss a phase of his soft-drink operation her3 (he also pioneered air-conditioning for the tropics and has so many other American agencies he says he has t r o u b f e remembering j them all). The business settled he called in a native painter. "Not very god," he told the artist, "you imitate too much." Alhadeff is 59, grey, shrewd, of medium-height and stocky. An immigrant from the island of Rhodes, as a boy of 16, he worked in the mines of Katanga in 1912. He next became a trader and had one overwhelming am bition to obtain American citi zenship. As soon as he was able, he established residence in New York City and was naturalized. Not for Sale The Congo was booming (find Alhadeff went up with it. He got into building materials, plas tics, drugs, automobile tires, tex tiles. His interests spread to Britain and the United States, and friends reckon his fortune in eight figures. But he found out that the pro cess of making money, once you have a reasonable amount, has to be spiced with some outside hobby. So he found his release in art. Now he sends paints and mate rials and instructions into the bush to native artists and is al ways ready to praise r criticize j their work. He recently built a ceramics kiln for two natives ! whose latest vases and figures are considered brilliant. His ! nephew, Dr. Maurice Galante, a I California surgeon, tofik some I examples back to the states re- j cently. ! "People used to say nice things about native art," said j Alheff, "but the praise was i simply surprise that a native had i managed to make anything at all. I want the Congo artists to develop their own styles out of their ancient ways of expression My early trouble was that they were carvers not painters. But I got them American paints and brushes, and I have found at least one exceptional artist, Ko- yongonda." The paintings and sculptures are not for sale; he will keep some and give away the rest. Around Hollywood 4 By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) For 10 years Jimmy Durante has sign ed off "is radio and television programs with the mysterious phrase, "Good Night, Mrs. Calabash," and its meaning has been a perennial puz zle to show business. Today the Aline Mosby lovable Dur ante admitted that on a recent TV show he slipped and gave away his secret. "Maybe nobody got It, I dun no," rasped Jimmy with a twink le in Sis eye. Mrs. Calabash, from the clue he gave millions of viewers on his Oct. 22 program, is his late wife. Wife Died in 1943 Jeanne Durante died in 1943 after 22 years of marriage. In 1946 Jimmy suddenly announc ed, "Good Night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are," after his stint on the Gary Moore radio show. "I didn't say nuttin' to no body, I justsaid it," remarked Durante today. "The producer says on the next program it should turn out Mrs. Calabash was about a horse or sumpin,' I told him, I'm gonna say it every night, and don't nevah ques-chum me any more." The mystery of Mrs. Calabash brought Jimmy floods of letters through the years. Many view ers guessed it was the late Mrs. Durante. Pals say he is devoted to her memory. Though pretty Marjorie Little has been his com panion in recent years, he has never remarried. More fans figured Mrs. Cala bash was his late partner, Lou Clayton. Others thought Durante made up the name as a gimmick. No Hints Given The Schnoz always refused to hint about Mrs. Calabash un til his recent program. At the end of the 'Show, he sang, "I'm making believe . . . that you're in my arms ' . . .al thoifgh you're so far away . . . I kiss mv pillow makin' believe it's gou." Jimmy confessed today, "I've waited to put that song in that spot for years. Ya notice I said 'Csiabash' right after the song, to connect the two. Then I turn ed t go," he went on, and jumped up to demonstrate. "Then I came back and told about next week's show." On The Side 8y E. V. DURUNG (Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate, Inc.) Note a glamorous' divorcee criticized for having an escort described as "young enough to be her son." Such a criticism is unfair to women. Consider the number of men who escort to theaters, night spots, etc., fe males young enough to be their daughters. So, if a woman is young in heart, why shouldn't she enjoy a bit of youthful male companionship? October Best "What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come per fect days," observed Lowell. What the eminent New England poet claimed depends upon where you are in June. In New York the nearly perfect days come in October. Such days make great ones for strolling. Part of a tour took me to one of my favorite thoroughfares, Nas sau st. I first strolled there when an office boy. I noted that Andre's French Restaurant is still in business. So is Oliver Hitchcock's, the celebrated beef and beans eatery. Libby's sea food place is still active and continuing to feature Daniel Webster fish chowder. Dolan's on Park Row has gone out of business. So has Max's Busy Bee. Briefly Whoostarted adults referring to a mistake -as a "boo-boo?" It sounds like baby talk to me. . . . As for a man with the first name of Socrates Tsepelis of Brad ford, Pa How are you on name pronunciation. How would you pronounce Tsepelis? Wouldn't Take No "Thev Wouldn't Take 'No' For an Answer." That could be the title of a successful inspira tional book. Would deal with people such as Carrie Jacobs Bond. Turned away by all song publishers, Mrs. Bond became a publisher herself and sold her own works. Liberace, the much discussed pianist, was turned down by all networks when he first applied. So he produced his program on films and sold it to separate stations by the syn dicate method.- o Twins o o How identical are identical twins when they grow up? Re cently a pair of identical twins were entered in a bathing beauty contest. They are of the same height and weight. One twin wag the winner. The .other finished third. Hardly anybody can tell these twins apart. How ever, the judge said one twin was the winner because her manner of carrying herself and her general conduct was superi or to that of her sister who fin ished third. o Get It Right "When Heavyweight Cham pion Joe Lewis took on all com ers, he never sidestepped any body no matter how formid able." So I note it said. That's wrong. Joe refused to take a chance on fighting Maxie Rosen bloom. You question the claim. All right, ask Joe about it. He's an honest fellow. He will tell you. o Prolific Papa Joseph Codiroli Sr., e emi nent chef de cusine, remained a bachelor until he was 40. His late entry inta the matrimonial field did not prevent his becom ing the papa of a large family. He is the father of six children. He is now 77. His wife is 67. Mrs. Codiroli was 46 when she gave birth to her sixth child. Those Hunches At Belmont Park a New Yorker overheard a woman say: "I'm u playing Easy Mae. My name is Mae and I am easy." Easy Mae won paying $42 for S2. My informant, strictly a form player, hadn't collected a ticket. Entered in the next race he noted a horse named Brush Fire. As a volunteer fireman he fiad fought a brush fire the day before. He decided to go for the hunch system. He played Brush Fire. That horse won. So don't ridicule your, matrimonial mate when she plays a hunch. Re mind me to tell you about the young woman who collected a hajjul at Santa Anita on a win ning horse named First Baby. It seems she was expecting her first baby. A Nkhol's Worth of . . Comment On ss an Ey HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prgtrc Fwin Write Washington (U.R) What's! new in Washington: 0 Sen. Alexander Wiley, the Re publican from Chippewa Falls, Wis., observes in his weekly news letter in com menting on the foreign minist ers conference at Geneva: "While we 'constantly look for a Harman Nichol break in the cold war, we must remain ever mindful that 'a bear can Kin with a hug' and continue to operate from a position of strength." ; y ,-s Iff ' s j cash box and it was empty. The FBI started a check. The trail led to Chicago and thereon to Honolulu, where -the suspect finally was arrested. But ac cording to the FBI, the fellow had a good time on the way. He had S968 in his jeans when apprehended, plus S18 in a brief case. Before he left, the man had bought a nice ruby ring for S350 and a watch for S400. In Las Vegas, Nev., he picked up a diamond ring and got to prowling around the gambling tables where he won 2000, which didn't quite make up for the S9000 he had lost at cards before che ever left New York. Once in Honolulu he cashed in S3000 in travelers checks and was about to have himself a fine steak when picked up in a hotels Another law-maker, Rep Fran ces ir. JBOlton Ot unio, seni ner newsletter in from French Equa torial Africa. Mrs. Bolton is the ranking Republican on the sub committee on the Near East and Africa. She reported that hos pital and health conditions in the part of Africa she has seen are pitifully inadequate. In the cities people who are sick line up all day long just to "get looked at." Two to a bed in hos pitals, "with sometimes only a straw mat over the" springs. Other patients are on mats on the floor between the beds." Tfie Federal Bureau of Inves tigation has been doing some long-range gum-shoeing. A couple of cases in point: Police in Mexico arrested two men on suspicion of nothing much. One of them had adopted a Spanish alias William J. Seiz. His companion identified himself as Robert Sommers. Turned out to be brothers. "Seiz" had trouble spelling and pronouncing nis- phony name. Mexicon cops called Washing ton. J. Edgar Hoover's boys got On the job and from wired de scriptions of finger prints tne pair was identified as a couple of guys wanted by the United States commissioner in Los Angeles on a serious charge. During the same week, a New York bank reported that one of its employees didn't show up Bank officials opened the man's The Civil war, of course, is over, but the North-South skirm ish at nearby Fort Meade was held for the 12th time over the week-end with 200 skirmishes taking part. All of the weapons pre-date the close of the Civil war, in July of 1865. The Blue and the Gray met in proper uni forms. And they shot it out at targets. And who cares who won? The ancestors of enemies of a day gone by are friend now. ine boys in the press room at the new Department of State building ar wondering what will happen the next time a hot story breaks. The department has set up tape recording machines all over the sanctum of the room shared by the press. There are mikes and machines and the like to make a record of im portant speeches. A lot of mikes could tumble and a lot of speech es could be garbled by dumped over recording machines the tnext time something cbig comes up. Wednesday, November 2, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TOUES BETTER THAN NOTHING New Britain, Conn. U.R) The school board, which had a budget of S3,233,916.18, wound up the fiscal year with a balance of four cents. Minneapolis U.R) A report made here estimated that a jet engine with afterburners malces a noise equivalent to . that of IV2 billion people all talking at once. 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