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Today's Women Are Too 'Footy Department of Agriculture: "Feet and shoes travel many miles." I stumbled upon this nugget of knowledge while researching for today's column, which is going to be about Ameri- By PHILIP LOVE WASHINGTON (NANA) It's amazing what one can learn from government books and pamphlets. As an example, I offer this piece of intelligence from a publication of the Hank Henry Is Headliner The Hank Henry Show is a popular comedy routine now going into its sixth month in the Jewel Box Lounge of the Las Vegas Hacienda Hotel. "The Joker Is Wild," can women's feet and how they have grown. I was looking for data to support my belief that most of today's young women have bigger feet than their mothers and grandmothers had. In fact, some of them have even bigger feet than their grandfathers.

Unfortunately, I got sidetracked in Children's Bureau pamphlet No. 41-1954, "Your Children's Feet and Footwear." For a mere 10 cents this handy little publication offers these gems of advice: "The time to replace shoes is when the child has outgrown them." "Ballet slippers, loafers, moccasins and high-heel cowboy boots are designed for a special purpose." "When a child is learning to walk, he needs to have shoes that allow him to make natural use of his feet." "The widest part of the shoe should fit the widest part of the foot." So Informative This was all very interesting and informative, but it wasn't what I was looking for. It took great determination, if I do say so myself, to drag myslf away from this vertible treasure trove of knowledge, but I did it. I turned to the section entitled "Shoes" in "Consumers All: The Yearbook of Agriculture 1S65." It was on page 345 servations. And these have emboldened me to state flatly that today's young women, by and large, have bigger feet than the women of earlier generations.

I've read, for example, that Jackie Kennedy wears a size lO'fe shoe. My mother, by way of comparison, wore a 7, and my maternal grandmother a 5V2. True, Mother and Grandmother often complained that their feet were "killing" them, but I'm sure this wasn't because their shoes were too tight. I prefer to believe it was because, on their busy shopping days, they walked much more than the 10 miles which the Agriculture Department credits to today's mothers. Father never let Mother learn to drive, and Grandfather had a horse and buggy.

Size 10 At a dance I attended last week, a woman kept kicking me on the shins. This was rather strange because she was dancing with another fellow. I fox-trotted away as fast as my little feet would carry me and, at a safe distance, turned to look her over. Although she was only about 5 ft. 5, her feet must have been at least size 10.

And a quick survey of the ballroom revealed that most of the other women under 40 had equally large feet. Don't ask me why so many of today's young women are so footy. About all I've gotten from my research and observations, really, is the idea that this excessive footiness may have something to do with the popularity of the frug, watusi, and other modern dances. They do save a lot of wear and tear on a man's shins. 1 1 and jump.

As you step off, your body's weight travels down through the heel, along the outside of the foot to the ball, across the heads of the long bones to the first metatarsal, and to the big toe. The big toe launches the walking motion. Each foot in turn bears the total weight of the body." A Question But this wasn't what I was looking for either, fascinating and enlightening though it was. Somehow, I mustered the this question: "Is it true that women buy more shoes than men do, or is this just another men's joke?" In a release from the Haskin Service, an information syndicate, I found strength to tear myself away and direct my research into other paths. The answer: "Ordinarily, for every pair of shoes a man buys, his wife buys three.

His daughter also gets three pairs for each pair he buys his son. The only optimistic note to all this, from the man's point of view, is that women and girls usually pay less for their shoes than do men." Well, so much for research. All I can do now is to rely on personal ob HANK HENRY a and straight man, Eddie Innes. The show features ventriloquist Jay Nemeth, who has appeared 11 times on the Ed Sullivan Show; exotic dancer "Miss Exotica" and dancer Lee Sharon. To round out the show song stylist Ruthie Gillis not only sings but takes part in several of the skits.

Eddie Fox is Splashy Opening One Way To Get To the Auto Races of this handsome 406-p a volume that I learned how much feet and shoes get around." 30,000 Steps I '1 1 bet you didn't know, any more than I did, that "an average, healthy 7-year-old boy may take as many as steps every day." And would you have guessed, "That adds up to 10 miles a day and more than 300 miles a month?" And that the boy's mother, "on a busy shopping day, may walk 10 But, as Al Jolson used to say, "You ain't heard nothin' yet." Listen to this: "Feet carry the weight of your body and provide means to propel you when you walk, climb tal is a means of supporting her six children. Mrs. Fellin and her husband used to attend races together, but after he died she found that just watching the action wasn't enough. She went to Dr. Michael Polacek, who is the volunteer medical director for the Milwaukee division of the United States Auto Club.

He is at the same hospital where she works. Now she's right up where the action is at track-side in her role as volunteer nurse. Racing interest started in her family back in the 1920's hen Mrs. Fellin's father built himself a racing car and competed on small tracks in Wisconsin. A new generation keeps the interest in racing going.

Two of Mrs. Fellin's sons are championship Soap Box Derby racers. Henry is currently one of the country's No. 1 burlesque comedians. His last engagement, before the Hacienda, was 14 years as King of Comedy at Las Vegas' Silver Slipper.

And during that time he found time to play in the movies, a Eleven." "Pal Joey" and "Pepe." He also starred in "Not To-nite, Henr and "Soldiers Three." At the Hacienda Hank is supported by comedian Sparky SUNDAY SHOWCASE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST STARS! A group of top name personalities, including newlyweds Charo and Xavier Cugat and singing star Line Renaud who winged all the way from Paris for the event, toasted the formal opening of Las Vegas' new $25,000,000 Caesars Palace recently. The three-day inaugural party, fit for all 12 of the Caesars, feted the Romanesque hotel with a festive splash unsurpassed in its lavishness and revelry. The unrestrained gaiety and joy that heralded the Las Vegas strip's 12th major gaming spa was punctuated by a poignant scene in the Caesars Palace glamorous and unique lounge, Nero's Nook. A duo-team of the Ritz Brothers, toplining the rooms entertainment, were tendered a lounge rarity at their initial performance a thunderous standing ovation from a jam-packed audience. In acknowledging the unnrecedented tribute, Harry Ritz brought tears to the eyes of many first-nighters when he included his late brother, Al, in his remarks.

"The three of us thank you," he said. New Show Opens Aug, 19 Comedian Redd Foxx opens a three-week engagement Aug. 19 in the Aladdin Hotel's Bagdad Theatre. Jackie Mason, who closes his Aladdin engagement the day before, after playing to overflow crowds for 20 consecutive weeks, will return to Milton Prell's plush resort hotel later this year. A popular old-time comedian's hilarious dead pan antics launched the Aladdin Hotel's afternoon laugh parade two Fridays ago when the Ben Blue Show began a programming policy of 2 and 4 p.m.

shows daily. Another Las Vegas "first" for the Aladdin Hotel has been the presentation of an all-girl topless band. The "hip" horn-blowers show their brass at 3:15 and 5 a.m. as part of Ron Stanton's "Pussy Cats Galore Revue." Ike Cole, the late Nat "King" Cole's younger brother, is now in the fourth week of a highly successful Las Vegas debut at the Aladdin. Cole has taken a leaf from Buddy Greco's music book and deserted his piano for a straight singing role, backed by a full orchestra.

By KATHLEEN HEALY MILWAUKEE (UPI) Auto racing may be considered a man's world, but that's not how Mrs. Narciso Fel-lin of Milwaukee looks at it. Whenever the big cars have roared around the track in suburban West Allis in Wisconsin this summer, she has been on the job. Mrs. Fellin is the nurse and the only woman on the United States Auto Club track-side crew at West Allis.

The dark-h aired widow says her interest in the sport developed because a good friend of her late husband was a race driver. The race track activities make a nice change of pace from her world of hospital nursing. Nursing used to be an avocation, but now her job as a night shift staff nurse at a Milwaukee hospi jP9s9. reservations col! 936-524 or yowr travel agent. 1 1 1 STAR-BULLETIN ADVERTISER Page 16 Honolulu, August 14, 1966 TV ALOHA.