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Ted Mann's Formula No Secret i StM; ilVv'- I rp. THE MINNEAPOLIS WEDNESDAY. MARCH IS. 1861 REPORTING AT LARGE with Bob Murphy It NeVER TOO LATE to Learn Note: Ed Callies, Orr, to- A who retired as a dispatcher for the M. St.

L. railroad in Minneapolis at 70, has just won his wings. He passed FAA tests as an airplane pilot while on a -4- winter visit to McAllen, Texas. His son, William Cal lies, and a daughter, Mrs. William Zieske, live in Minneapolis, as do four grandchildren The annual St.

Patrick's day luncheon honoring John J. McDonough, former mayor of St. Paul, will take place over there Friday and on the letterhead listing committeemen you'll find such name transformations as that of "Robert F. O'Peterson." In Minneapolis, incidentally, Friendly Sons of St Patrick will resume their annual celebration at a dinner meeting Friday in the Radisson. i SPACE DOGS, TISHKA, AND CHERNUSHKA IN MOSCOW They appeared on Russian television program AP Wirephoto WENT TO A DO at Annunciation school for its hockey teams, on one of which my going -on -14 son played defense.

That team won nine games and lost one to capture the southwest park board midget division championship, and you never saw a happier bunch of kids in your life. (Nor a sadder one when they were knocked out In the city semifinals.) I've watched this park board athletic activity for some time and think It's mighty fine. I admire especially the coaches. John P. Hungelmann, who coached this team, puts in about four nights a week directing baseball, football and hockey in season, and for no pay.

He never, played hockey, incl- dentally. John Mariucci, the university hockey coach, handed the kids their emblems and summed up the rise of hockey when he told them "Ten years ago you couldn't give away a hockey stick in this town. Now you take your life in your hands if you walk down the street carrying one." THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS have given snow-shoveling kids some pin money, after a long dearth of it this winter, and that brings up a couple of dodges the boys have thought ud. In case of a light, feathery snow they'll T7 V- U. I Minneapolis Star photo by Wayne Bell TED MANN IN LOBBY OF HIS NEW THEATER Former RKO-Pan 'opens as Mann theater Thursday nepin between 7th and 8th.

Animals Winning the Space Race Animals are basking in the glory of being first in space. In Moscow, Chernushka, the dog the Russians say orbited the earth in a satellite this month, and Tishka, the pup of Russia's earlier space dog Strelka, appeared on a television program. Back in the United States, Ham, the chimpanzee of Project Mercury fame, continued to smile for the camera, indicating that glory has not gone to his head. By HERM SITTARD Minneapolis Star Staff Writer At 6 a.m. today, a heaw- Two years ago he took a clos er look and bought the building.

Iset man wearing a blue The RKO-Pan theatre is in stocking cap and leather show up very early in the morning, before the wind can the middle of that building. I jacket emerged from the Is 0 French Provincial blow the snow away. Other early biros mane sure mey a beat the sun, so Old Sol can't melt away their prospects. tinnco at 9751 Doan Rlwl They needn't have worried, the last couple of snows HAM Space traveler It makes no difference where he is, Mann's morning walk is a must In New York he hikes in Central park; then runs through a string of business appointments that may begin at 10 a.m. and continue till 1 a.m.

After that hike this morning, he shaved and cooked himself a small breakfast steak. Mrs. Mann and their daughter, Vicki, a West high school sophomore, joined him at breakfast. Then he caught a bus for work. I A French poodle followed Chicago advertising firm made up a map of the urcie lour route around Lake Superior, opened up with completion of a Canadian section of highway.

But the map didn't list uiiii iiuui tuc iiuusc aiiu frisked at his heels as Ted Mann, Minneapolis showman, I walked the half block to I Lake of the Isles. Chester MacArthur, an in- In vaudeville days it was the Pantages. Then it became a movie house. For the last 10 weeks workmen have, been tearing apart and remodeling the theater. They ripped out the wooden floors, cut into stores flanking the theater to make room for cantilevered stairways, installed a new sound system, and so on.

When workmen tack down vs. suranrp man. minpn aA ti iu. ss i fi-iicic, aim me iaii illivcu i A About 8 a jn. he climbed the stairs to his business of the last roll of purple and ffice over the World theater.

He's the first in the office in the morning, the last to leave gold carpeting, the place, Mann insists, will be the finest theater in the Upped Mid at night. Mann gets advance scripts uiiaiujr auuui uuwu uie top path that hugs the lake-g shore. A few minutes later, Huntington Brown, Univer-Isity of Minnesota English I professor, met and the ptrio swung north on a hike I around the lake. "It takes us 40 minutes to walk the three miles around I the lake," Mann reports. I "Everything is quiet then west.

of movies that are in produc If you visit Mann's office, tion, and studies new films you're liable to find him pac ing the floor under a shoulder it -318 i sometimes the moon is still shining. "In summer, a breeze rip- mount of a ferocious Alaska brown bear that seems to be leaping from the wall. Mann shot it two years ago on Admiralty island off the Alaskan coast As he paces, Mann puffs a cigar, waves his arms to emphasize his formula for success in the motion picture industry: "Give the public a in his private screening room to decide how much he can afford to bid for a particular film. Today he dropped into the high-backed leather swivel chair behind his angular walnut desk and riffled through construction invoices for the new Mann theater, 708 Hennepin Av. From his chair, Mann can look across 7th at the Stim-son building that fronts Hen- the town of Bayfield, or show its location.

Baytield squawked. So well and so loud, in fact, that the map went back to the printers, and on the new version will be Bayfield and Wisconsin highway 13. SPEED-READING is the aim of a lot of people these days and there'll be a demonstration of It at 7:30 tonight in Normandy hotel, open to anyone. Two college seniors, a junior and Dr. Francis Walsh, Minneapolis ophthalmologist, will demonstrate their ability to read rapidly.

In town is Mrs. Evelyn Nielson Wood, head of Reading Dynamics institute, Washington, which has taught high-schoolers to gulp 100 pages in three minutes and then discuss what they've read with complete comprehension. It's a new influence In education Lavish they were with pancakes at Hutchinson, the other day. For five hours the town Junior Chamber served ail comers to Hutchinson armory all the griddle cakes they could eat, for free, as a gesture of gratitude of the city's support. WE'RE A NATION of givers.

The other night, Vernon M. Blikstad reports, Joe Smith American Legion post met in the basement of Salem Evangelical Free church and got in a good mood passing motions to contribute to several charities. Then someone got a basket, put a sign on It, primed the pump with 70 cents, and passed it around." It came back with nearly $10 in change and bills in it. And what was the sign? "For the Venetian Blind" One of the big car manufacturers has mailed brochures plugging its product to 250,000 families named Murphy in the country, the delivery to coincide with St. Patrick's day.

They're postmarked "Murphy, N. I found it diverting that, in my mail the color of one of the cars pictured was green. And the color of another one was an unquestionable-orange. ALL RIGHT, I'm in a penitential mood. In a flurry of paper, Tuesday I credited a story on Winona boating to the wrong magazine.

It should be Popular Mechanics. Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics. Red of face, red of face, red of face. The Sunday Tribune Also Publishes Murphy's Column I pies the water or a fish I splashes near shore. It's the most relaxing part of my day that walk." I That calm morning jaunt is 1 quite a contrast to the hectic I pace Mann sets for himself the rest of the day.

in Hakata Bay combined to bring in 100 of the 15-foot blackfish variety. In the operation, villagers rope the tails and haul the whales to shore. ap wirephoto Whale of a Job? IfSS whales off the coast of Japan as fishermen and townspeople from Karadomari village MANN Turn to Page 2D Abstract Art at Walker; Institute Announces Aquisition -v V- fv I i I Ml How great a threat is the 1 ft. If Revolution? s. it.

i.v Scientists in western nations feel that Russia's tremendous strides in technology, science and economics may be a. greater threat to the West than was the Bolshevik uprising; of 1917. How have the Soviets been able to close the gap so rapidly on American industrial leadership? What does Russia's automation in industry and new economic power mean for the West? Be sure to read "Second Red Revolution" probing the an-swers to these and other significant questions. Starting in your next ittttmeapolte ctmnbap tribune OfcOEft THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE! your crW or farm service rouU ilttmn call yovr dltr or writ ui. In Minntjpolii or St.

Paul, call FEdrl i-3lll. Eighty works of contemporary art from the collection of Richard Brown Baker (above) of Providence, R. are being exhibited at Walker Art Center through Sunday, April 16. The collection includes oils, collages, watercolors, drawings and sculpture. Baker's prominence in the art world came when he acquired a large number of works before museums and dealers recognized the importance of the artists represented.

Works of Jose Luis Cuevas, Robert D' Arista and Irwin Ruben are included. Acquisition of a major painting for the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts was announced today. The painting, "Mrs. in Cream Silk No. 2," is by the American realist, George Bellows.

The large oil portrait is 53 by 43 inches. The woman pictured, Mrs. Tyler, was a' prominent Chicago social figure. She posed in 1920 wearing the wedding dress she saved from the great Chicago fire. Bellows, who died in 1925, is considered one of America's greatest painters.

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