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Bock Stairs: Capita! Banquet Season
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press While House
Writer
"Washington flJ.PO Backstairs
at th White House:
With the cherry blossoms each
spring, the banquet season comes
to this beautiful capital city.
Ballrooms of the major hotels
are filled several times weekly
with men in dinner clothes lis
tening to speeches, watching en
tertainment and eating essen
tially the same food.
President Eisenhower is back
on the banquet circuit. He has
four big ones within the next
five weeks.
Banquet attendance is a chore
for any chief executive. Because
of his illness last year, Mr. Eisen
hower was able to miss some
of the big affairs of the late
winter and early spring. But
now he is back in dinner table
action again.
under guard from the"' White
House kitchen.
This was true up to a point
the poison point. What happened
was this: During the afternoon
before the affair, F. D. R. de
veloped an excruciatingly sore
tooth, but he did not want to
cancel his appearance. He had
an aide call the hotel and inquire
about the menu for the evening.
Then he had the White House
kitchen prepare a mushy, chop-ped-up
version of each item on
the menu so he would not have
to chew with appreciable energy.
Ex-President Truman had an
other unusual banquet experi
ence. One of the White House
staff members who was to ac
company him to a dinner suf
fered from stomach ulcers. His
wife called the hotel in the after
noon and said her husband was
to be served nothing but a clear
soup and some dry toast.
Came the hour of the banquet
and somehow the kitchen orders
got mixed. The President was
served only a bowl of clear soup
and a few dry toast wafers while
the rest of the diners plowed
into a fish course, steaming
roast beef, fried potatoes and
the works.
Finally, Mr. Truman could
stand it no longer and inquired,
"Say, what is this don't I get
to eat, too?"
A mortified head waiter quick
ly remedied the situation. By
this time, the ulcer patient had
contentedly plowed through his
roast beef.
Why is banquet-going a chore
in the White House? For one
thing, the food usually is rich.
If he is watching his waistline,
as Mr. Eisenhower is, the heavy
cream soups and calorie-laden
gravies, plus desserts swatched
in whipped cream, can cause a
quick bulge in the middle.
? Some Presidents have gotten
around hazards of banquet diet by
eating first at the White House,
then just dabbling at the food
at the head table. A President
also knows that at every ban
quet he attends as an eating
guest, the hundreds of persons
spread put before his dais watch
every mouthful he takes. It is
like eating at home plate in
Yankee Stadium, facing the
crowd.
Another uncomfortable aspect
for a President at a banquet is
that he usually eats in the less-than-flattering
blaze of assorted
spot and floodlights. These lights
are not necessarily on all the
time, but they blaze into being
with sufficient frequence to
make the average affair uncom
fortable. At some banquets of the past,
Presidents have found them
selves seated near mortal polit
ical enemies, And they still had
to carry on some semblance of
civil conversation.
Suppose a President doesn't
smoke, as is the case with Mr.
Eisenhower. If his luck isn't run
ning too well at the moment, he
sometimes finds himself seated
between cigar smokers.
TELLS OF SLAYINGS With thumbs hooked in his belt,
11-year-old Robert A. Curgenven shows investigators
where he hid his .22-calibre rifle on the family farm in
Mansfield, Conn. The lad is charged by police with slay
ing his mother, father and brother.
Strange stories can come out
of banquets attended by a Presi
dent. Several years before his
death, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt attended an evening
affair at one of Washington's
leading hotels. And during the
evening a hot rumor spread
through the room that he feared
being poisoned that night and as
a consequence, had his meal sent
Spring Meeting for
ICEC Set at Talent
Ashland The spring meeting
of , the International Council for
Exceptional Children will be
held this year at Talent elemen
tary school May 8, Tuesday, at
7:30 p.m. Dr. Alva Graham,
president, has announced.
Karl Hays of the Phoenix
pilot school for mentally handi
capped children and Mrs. Kay
Baalman of the Talent school
will discuss respective programs
and show slides. After refresh
ments the members and guests
will visit Mrs. Baalman's class
room. A recent questionnaire sent to
ICEC members and others inter
ested in exceptional children re
vealed interest in problems of
children who are emotionally
disturbed; speech defectives;
non-reading; hard of hearing;
mentally retarded; cerebral
palsied; and gifted.
Response indicated a belief
that the ICEC is needed in this
Particular area. More than 50
persons agreed to support the
work of the organization which
is designed primarily to im
prove programs of aid to excep
tional children and to inform the
public about the needs of chil
dren who differ from the norm
in any one of several ways cov
ered by the study.
Dr. Graham is professor of
education at Southern Oregon
college.
Actress Waits Return
To Carpentry Practice
Hollywood (U.R) Actress
Elaine Aiken says that as soon
as she returns from location for
"The Lonely Man" she'll resume
her practice of carpentry.
Miss Aiken, a sleek blonde
who startles friends when they
learn she is a do-it-yourself girl
with hammer and saw, says she
isn't kidding. "To me carpentry
is wonderful," she said. "It
helps me relax. I enjoy it and
you should see all the cabinets
Medical School Research
Plays Part in Discoveries
Editor's note: This is another in a
series of articles prepared in con
nection with Medical Education
Week, April 22-28, on the stau-s of
medical education in the United
States.
New York It took more
than 30 years, million of dollars
and thousands of scientists to
carve out the research trail
which led to today's polio vac
cine. It also took at least 65 dif
ferent medical schools.
When newer polio vaccines,
or cancer drugs, or techniques
of heart surgery, are developed,
medical-school research projects
will play a large part in their
discovery.
Medical Research
More than half of the medical
research in the U.S. is conduct
ed in the nation's 81 medical
schools and their affiliated hos
pitals. No approved school is without
laboratories, technical equip
ment, and skilled scientists. The
range of their efforts is as broad
as medicine itself.
Many studies are basic re
search, aimed at gaining more
understanding of fundamental
life processes in terms of physics
and chemistry. They are not
linked to any single disease
problem, but their results may
be useful in many.
Others Projects
Others are clinical projects,
conducted in hospital wards
the safest, best-controlled testing
grounds for medical advances.
In many projects, medical stu
dents particiate. Some become
full-time researchers; others
combine research with practice;
many have little further contact
with the laboratory.
Public support of research and
training is overwhelming. Last
year the public gave some $240,
000,000 for research on cancer,
polio, heart disease and other
illnesses; and millions more
came from the government.
But paradoxically, as money
flows into medical schools in the
form of research grants, it
creates new economic problems.
Most of the grants are for
specific projects, and for the re
quired equipment. For each
project, the medical school must
find space, supply heat and
light, take care of purchasing
and accounting all tedious
but essential tasks.
Add Equipment
As research leads to new
knowledge, and medicine be
comes more complex, schools
must add new equipment for
teaching purposes.
The medical schools' research
laboratories serve another and
highly important function. They
are a major training ground for
non-medical graduate students
in the biological sciences, tomor
row's medical scientists.
There is hope in many quar
ters now that some of the eco
nomic problems will be solved
by different types of research
grants, provision for overhead
costs, and other means.
In any case, the economic
squeeze cannot obscure the ex
citement and the intelletual sti
mulus that research gives to the
doctor's training. "The scient
ists," one researcher observed
recently, "lives forever on the
edge of mystery."
Minister Admits Murder
'To Be Free To Work'
Greenville, S. C (U.R) The
Rev. Coke Cooper, 41-year-old
Church of God preacher, con
fessed Thursday he killed his
wife with rat poison so he would
"be free to continue my work
with the ministry."
Cooper gave Deputy Sheriff
Georges Lewis a signed state
ment saying he poisoned her
beef stew last October saying,
"I guess the devil got hold of
me." His murder trial was ten
tatively set for May 7.
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What is the ideal leg measure
ment? More than six well formed
young females competed for the
position of leg model for the ex
ploitation by photograph of a
new brand of nylon hosiery. The
winner's leg measurements were
as follows: Length, 32 inches;
calf, 13, and ankle, 7 inches.
Warning
It was Montaigne who said,
"Dreams are the true interpret
ers of our inclinations, but art
is required to sort and under
stand them." Keep that in mind.
Don't tell " anybody what you
dreamed last night, or the night
before either. The person you
tell might understand the' sig
nificance of certain dreams. As
I said before, in describing a
dream you may be revealing
something about yourself you
wish to remain a secret.
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. Who
was it said, "She was divinely
tall. I hate a dumpy woman"?
A. Byron . . . Q. Who is the rich
est living actor? What living
actors are millionaires? A. Rich
est living actor is probably Bing
Crosby. Other millionaire actors
are Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Ed
Gardner and Humphrey Bogart
. . . Q. Isn't "stogie" a slang
term for a cheap cigar? A. It is
so used by some people but
that is due to ignorance. A stogie
is a reasonably priced cigar of
distinctive shape made in the
United States, mostly in Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and Con
necticut, from domestic tobacco.
Webster's dictionary defines a
stogie as follows: "A type of in
expensive though not necessar
ily inferior, slender cylindrical
cigar."
Asides
Am asked in what show
George M. Cohan sang "Life Is
a Funny Proposition After All."
That was in the play titled
"Little Johnny Jones," in which
George also first sang "Give My
Regards to Broadway" ... Is
the seventh son of a seventh
son always lucky as is claimed?
Well, Perry Como, the vigorous
vocalist, is a seventh son of a
seventh son and he is certainly
doing all right.
Passing By
Sonja Heine (pronounced son
ya haynee). Scintillating skater.
One of the world's wealthiest
career girls. Among other pos
sessions, she is said to own her
weight in diamonds. Say Sonja
weighs 115, what would you
figure her diamonds are worth?
Guess, and then ask the nearest
jeweler.
Please Note
Saw the film version of the
O'Neill play titled "Mourning
Becomes Electra" on television.
There were two murders and
two suicides in that play. O'Neill
was the most morbid of all mod
ern playwrights. In 31 plays by
European Industries
Invited To Puerto Rico
San Juan, P. R. (U.R) Gov.
Luis Munoz Marin Thursday in
vited European industries to es
tablish factories in Puerto Rico.
He said the government is
looking for European technicians
and industrial know-how, es
pecially from Britain, Germany
and France, "where they know
how to make things with less
money."
Julia Adams Expecting
Stork Next November
Hollywood (U.R) Actress
Julia Adams said Thursday she
and her husband, actor Ray Dan
ton, expect their first child in
November.
The couple, both under con
tract to Universal-International
Studio, was married in February,
1955. They met while working
in a picture together.
him were depicted 11 murders,
seven suicides, 19 accidental
deaths and six insanities.
Among the Married
Are you still childless after
a number of years of marriage?
If so, don't get the idea you are
never going to pace the hospital
floor waiting for the news of
your wife's first blessed event.
A resident of London, England,
named Mrs. Marian Loew, had
been married many years and
had no children until she was
38. Then she gave birth to quad
ruplets! If quadruplets, all boys,
arrived at your house what
would you name them?
long Overdue Letters
'Returned To Sender"
Hoopeston, 111. (U.R) Two
letters mailed by Earl Benner of
Hoopeston in Russia in 1918 and
1919 were "returned to sender"
Thursday.
Bender wrote the letters home
when he served with the Allied
North Russian Expeditionary
Force in Russia. The yellow
marked letters came back in a
white envelope postmarked
Washington, D. C, with no ex
planation for "the slight delay."
Friday. April 27, 1956
MEDTORD (OREGOrT) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVER
CULMINATING COLLEGE ROMANCE, Autherine Lucy,
target of violence at University of Alabama when she
tried to enroll as the first Negro student, marries Rev.
Hugh C. Foster at Dallas, Tex. (International Soundphoto)
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