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12L Baptdi fi.nttet Am. tl. 1M IrVom Gantte Slaff to Rome) Dodie Hamblin Directs Olympics Coverage For Life and Sports Illustrated Magazines i 1 i cut By Nino Lo Belio. ROME By the time the XVII edition of the Olvm- unu pic games have run their 11-day cycle, Iowa's Dora Jane Hamblin will be rip-iaortin ALA CI ready to fight Hons and gladiaton in any .1 'AY iuwajf As editor In charge of Life 4 magazine's Rome bureau. Miss Hamblin has been ordered by, the New York office to drape a toga over her shoulder and marshal all "'3 I 7" 1 ..3 i her editorial skills for the big job of managing a staff 7 of 19 writers, photographers and legmen who'll be cover ing the contests for 2 of the VILLAGE Luce publications.

j- It's a challenge at which V. even Hercules would blanch, for all Herky had lo do was grab a few deadly monsters, clean the Aegean stables and pilfer a girdle from the queen of the Amazons. Life skid sister magazine, Sports Illustrated, will also be shooting the works for the 241 ath- AwocUUd htn. etic events DORA JANE HAMBLIN, former Gazette reporter, ii pictured at her dest In Rome, where she is head of Life magazine's news bureau. For the Olympics she will be In charge of It photographers and reporters for Life and Sports Illustrated.

During World war II, Miss Hamblin was a reporter, photographer and feature writer for The Cedar Rapids Gazette. She obtained hundreds of Interviews for "Women In War A native of Bedford, Iowa, she is a Coe collage graduate. Rome for the I960 itandi the Olympic FOR THE MODERN GLADIATORS Wifh iHilttti from around tht world eonvtrgtng upon Olympic qmei, the ancient city it full of open-armed hoipitality. Here, alongiide the liber river, -r i hat are i -t scheduled to run from Aug. 25 to Sept 11 here in the so far away from the front Hamblin is a fun-loving Italian capi- tal.

And al-f lines that nobody even both person. She plays tennis a blln, makes his home In Western Springs, III. Olympic Scoring. In spitt of the fact that ered to drop a bomb on me," Village built eipacially to houie the iporti gladiaton. After the gamei are var, the imicturei wm oe uiea for nout-Jng government workerj.

$32 Million To Stage Games Romans Are Proud of Massive Preparations for Olympics lot and spends consider though able time at the Mediter she admits. "You can say a 1 0 will nino etixo that as far as World war II ranean beaches. Recently she bought her first bikini view the conte'sts every day, was concerned, I heard it. she will probably miss the Olympics, Dodie keenly is Dodie Hamblin will probably Besides, I was too busy mix but hasn't had the courage looking forward to to strut around in It be one of the few persons in Rome who may never get ing doughnut batter in G.I. garbage cans to worry about The army of newsmen, "It's a three-piece bikini to see a single game.

games. She going 10 ny strongly to take in some of a war." The third piece covers al "I'll be so jammed with To Life. the track and field events my sins," she chuckles details, cables, dispatches, ITALIAN FOREIGN OFFICE 1,200 reporters and S00 photographers, are being housed In a Roman Catholic Institution. Dodie's first Job with Life After all, I'm 40 years old and maybt the basketball transportation, phone calls, so I don't dare walk around came as a result of a pro finals. housing arrangements, in it especially with my 22 checking copy and nursing "One thing I definitely do By Eugene Levin.

ROME (AP) This week the curtain goes up on the greatest sports spectacle the world has ever seen the 17th Olympic games. The stage Is set. Ancient Rome has taken on a new look with modernistic concrete stadijams and graceful ennrta nalares. all adorned fessional association with former Gazette Staffer Gene 36-59 measurements. bruised photographers that .1 not approve of," she adds MAIN OLYMPIC STADIUM Olympic sport fans are expected to number more than Farmer, who is now the mag The Roman newshen lives 'm lucky if I get to the firmly, "is the score-keeping azine's foreign editor.

Dodie by herself in a lavish sixth opening day ceremonies, 100,000 on any single day, system that the big nations use among themselves for worked for 18 months in the says Dodie in her roomy of and perhaps a million in all New York office as a "word floor apartment don't have an elevator and it's exactly 105 steps to my fice overlooking The Eternal political purposes. STADIUM OF MAKHIE STATUES They are crowded into ho dotter." City's magnificent Borghese "The Olympics are In tels, boarding houses, camp My job then was to read Gardens. dividual contests and the on Rome's Jani culum Hill. From her bath ing areas and private homes. No stranger to Cedar reams of copy all day long and check every word for Thousands of Roman fam room she has a perfect sight scoring should be kept at the individual level.

Let the big natiqns consider the games ilies have taken in paying accuracy in fact and spelling of the dome of St. Peter's Rapids, where she cut her eye-teeth as a reporter and feature writer for The Ga Over each word we used to Basilica. As she facetiously strictly sport and not a have to put a dot (in 3 colors) puts it: "I have a throne-to political affair for prestige guests at the request of gov ernment officials. The games have drastically upset Roman life. zette, honey-haired Dora TENNIS 1 COUNTS to indicate that we had throne view of the Vatican!" or propaganda capital." Jane Hamblin Is one of checked it in full.

It was Dodie recalls with consid As far as keeping score on Italy's most respected foreign correspondents. ike sitting on a haystack erable fondness her training Government workers by Dora Jane Hamblin is concerned, you can bet she's a days on The Gazette. She the thousands must rise and being responsible for all the hay," explains the Iowa She has been Life's Rome hours earlier than usual to winner all the way and a bureau chief for nearly 4 newsgirl. ROLU2 remembers the time when she, as women's tennis singles champ, teamed up good sport all the time. get to their jobs.

Authorities ordered the offices to open years, perhaps the only wom In 1950 Dodie was assigned IKATING an in Europe who heads to the Paris office as a cor maw with The Gazette's Frank earlier, and close in the aft ARENA Town Finaljy he bureau of a major news- respondent. In '52 she trans Nye, who was then men's with the colorful banners of the world's nations. The actors are here more than 7,000 athletes from 87 countries. It's the biggest cast the Olympic games have ever had. A vast audience Is already present Tens of thousands of fans have jammed into every hotel, every boarding house, eagerly awaiting the big show.

It gets under way Thursday, with the traditional opening ceremony complete with Olympic torch and parade of athletes, and ends Sept. 11. The Ittg and The Small Great nations and small will compete. A Ceylonese army corporal, Linus Diaz, who learned to run by mail, will finally come up against some of the track greats who met his written reauests and sent gathering organization. ferred to London and 2 years singles champ.

Gets Candidate ernoon, so that the city's big white collar population would be out of the way in the hours when the Olympic ater went to the Chicago "We managed to talk Pete Crackerjack. bureau where she stayed un Hdyt, then city editor, Into AVON, Ala. (AP) The At the foreign Press club til 1956. The Rome assign giving us an hour off to com fears of Avon's 200 residents traffic crush is expected here, veteran fourth estaters C.J A ment followed after that. She pete in a doubles match.

The 3-hour Roman lunch reveals, however, that after describe her as a "cracker-jack newspaper man." One Pete said he let us go if hour and afternoon siesta is that they might lose their township charter because the mayor wanted more time for fishing have been quieted. her Olympic chores are com we'd put the cup in The Ga a casualty of the Olympics TRAINING GROUND pleted, she will be reassigned Rome correspondent even claims there are only 2 good zette office," reports Dodie Most stores are remaining to New York In the fall for "Well, we got beaten open continuously from eporters in town "and a desk job as a rewrite man. badly by a 17-year-old girl a.m. to 11 a.m. to catch the Dodie Hamblin is both of and a handicapped polio vie Fonrf 'bf Italy.

Olympic customers. them!" tim. When we returned to READY FOR ACTION With huge excitement. Italy hai planned for iti role at host of the 17th Olympic games. Here are seen many of the new sports areas created especially for the Olympic.

Rome expects a million visitors during the games. In nearly 20 years of cov The city is festive. Flags of all participating countries The Gazette, the city editor "Sure, I'll hate to leave Italy," Dodie admits quite ering stories Dodie has man wanted to put the cup on Mayor J. F. Preston has appealed for several weeks for someone to qualify for the $50-a-year post.

He warned that he was going to give it up so he could have more time for fishing. Unless a successor was found the tiny Houston county community faced the possible loss of its 3-year-old charter. But all is well now. Thom aged to cram in a skein of freely. "I think the Italians fly from dozens of flagpoles throughout the city.

Stores display. We had to tell him news events that would make are absolutely the most won we lost in 2 sets. He growled, have special displays in their him instructions. Tlir Afoiinnlctnn. with ltSISe most newspaper men turn derful, most spiritually gen while thousands of ace," for basketball, boxing windows Athletes in mally shrugged his shoul to green with envy.

and wrestling, seating 3,500 ders and said, "Oh well, at first Olympic track and field During the decade she's east you got back in an their countries' uniforms transform the street crowds into a maze of color. But erous humans I ve met anywhere in Europe. No American who lives over here for any length of time can- do A big sports palace, al team, will pin its hopes on been abroad for Life, serv Italians were unemployed. The Italian countered that the nation's booming economy is taking care of unem hour. so for basketball and boxing Dodie is the daughter of as Efurd, 30-year-old grocer when the Olympics end all sturdy mountain tribesmen who learned to hurdle by jumping over wooden crates ing in the Paris, London and Rome bureaus, Dodie has other than adore the Italian seating 15,000.

Allen and Grace "Sailor" these surface signs of the The Flamingo stadium ployed as fast as possible. people who genuinely and who lost to Preston in Avon's first mayoralty voting 3 focused her journalistic mi Hamblin of Bedford, Iowa. on dusty caravan trails. for soccer, capacity 50.000 As for prestige, Italians sincerely want to be friends Russians, schooled and years ago, has qualified to games will be gone. Village Will Uoutte' Workers croscope on such big stories as the Dalai Lama escape made no secret that they just as soon as you meet." Swimming pools, prac tice fields and several exist Her sister, Mrs.

Arthur Ov-rom, lives in Keosauqua; her brother, Henry Sailor Ham-j conditioned In sports from hoped to gain a lot of it from run for mayor in the Sept. 19 city election. into India, the Helsinki In private life Dora Jane childhood, will defend the un the Olympics. Olympics, the 1951 Civil war Nevertheless, Rome wil ing sports facilities have al been pressed into service official team laurels they in Belgium, the 1950 ava have much to remember the Cedar Rapids Piano and oranmmm won at the 1956 Olympics in making all Rome a vast games by. The Olympic Vil Melbourne.

lanche in Switzerland, the poisoned bread scandal in sports center. Pride Is not limited to sport fans. Government officials take satisfaction in their massive effort of organization for the games. lage will become a housing Two of the city's ancient southern France, the death project for governmen Husky young Americans, keen and sharp, will be out to re-assert U.S. dominance ruins the Basilica of Max workers.

The Olympic hy of the king of England, Winston Churchill's return to of entius and the Baths of Ca Intellectuals beam at the at the games, i racala dating back 1,700 draulic system feeding pools and village will guarantee All will meet In a complex architectural gems of the fice in 1951, the death of Pope Pius XII and the cor years will be used for the 1 more water to parts of Rome Olympics, the work of 2 of Olympic wrestling and gym onation of Pope John XXIII of sporting stadiums, fields and palaces that have changed the face of The Italy's leading architects, that have often been dry in the past. A special Olympic When the New York office nastic events. Can't I7 Pier Luigi Nervi and the late ordered her to cover the highway and underpass will Marcello Piacentini. Eternal City. Italy, which turned down CeloBseum Brussels Exposition a few remain to help- harassed fcveryone else making a years ago, the cable carried Roman motorists.

The many the 1908 Olympic games be Olympic grunts and groans contribution toward the games also is proud. The stadiums will remain this cryptic message: f'We were even expected from the ancient Colosseum, a re In bringing the games to need you there a good corn military who equipped the cause it couldn afford to pay for them, has shelled out a whopping $32 million to buildJts 1960 Olympic plant. ALL-IOWA FAIR DEMONSTRATORS Pianos Organs BIG SAVINGS fed American who under Rome, the international Olympic village with furni minder of the days of the Olympic committee has re stands Europeans." ture for the 7,000 athletes, gladiators. But architects said it would be too difficult turned the sports festival to the composers and, poets who wrote special Olympic the part of the world where "I ir to erect stands among the To duplicate the facilities in the U.S. would several times that sum.

Unlike 1908, the Italian it originated. The early songs, the sculptors who cre rums. ated Statues for the stadiums games were held at Olympia MaratKbn runners on Sept and medals for the victors, 10 closing date of the games will race along the Olympic committee now has plenty of money largely be- in Greece, starting with 776 B.C. The Romans took over after their conquest of Dodie got her start in the newspaper game i le still a student at Coe college where she was graduated in 1941. While editor of the Coe Cosmos, she started doing stories for The Gazette on space payment.

Having acquired a mas the tailors and couturiers who designed the snappy Greece The first games uniforms Olympic officials and hostesses wear. There is hardly a Roman famous Appian way. Crowds once cheered chariot racers of ancient Rome along the same road. Rowing and canoeing events will be held on Lake Limited Number ACT NOW! were held in Athens in 1869, who does not feel that in cause of a weekly soccer betting pool It runs, No expense has" been spared. Started lw i Muolinl Benito Mussolini, Italy's Fascist dictator, dreamed of with only 9 nations partici ter's degree in, journalism at some way he has done some pating.

Since then 12 more Northwestern, she joined the Olympic competitions have thing for the" games. Some are leaving their cars at Albano, 15 miles south of Rome. Yachting will be been held. However, the staff of The Gazette. She covered the federal beat in home to try to ease the Rome games are officially staged in the Gulf of Naples, more than 100 miles away.

Cedar Rapids for 2 years before blossoming as a feature staging-the Olympic games He started building an Oiym But Rome is the heart of designated as the 17th Olympic games because the Olympic committee also caunts writer and photographer. 0 pic stadium. World war II halted construction. Republi the Olympics. It has the main stadiums Olympic-sized traffic jams The Olympic stadium, with 100,000 capacity, is the main sports site.

But these other new stadiums have also been built: While serving with the games that were scheduled but later called off because "Aero, free, Red Cross in New Guinea- and it has the Olympic village, where the thousands of Modem Air-Conditioned Studios, with Qullffrd PUne and Orjraa Techer can Italy finished it and went a lot further, Republican Italy even has of world wars, athletes have been housed inl Jn ancient times, EMpire 3-2740 Horry Chrbranea arid later in Europe after the war ended-Miss Hamblin used to send The Gazette a weekly story as a sideline to An Olympic velodrome, 322 First Avenue NE flew JbMa Certh Adkfan K. W. Utwlmea bright new 3-story apart- drawn criticism from some newspapers abroad that it for bicycle eyents, seating ment buildings perched on were different. The games were never called off because of war warfare halted for the games. was wastinff monev on the concrete stilts over green her public relations duties.

Olympic! Just to gain pres- A "Little Sports Pal lawns. "In New Guinea we were 1 i BBJiilWpi.