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MARINE BIRDMEN'S thousands of UN troops attended Easter services at makeshift teontline chapels? Marine airmen jammed this duetf. near their Korean air field to worship the risen Christy Study Of Puppet Co-Stars Essential To TV Performers NEW YORK, April form him almost every week. may think that a puppet is just Southern Belle surprised if someone suggested it I was odd he was able to talk to Home Detective 'tm Hank And Wife Come Out Even In Spat Over 'Showboat' Songs By HENRY McLEMORE "Just; becaue you're old LAS VEGAS if honesty were not only the best policy, but, the policy of this column, I would tell you that just as dawn broke over the mountains this morning Mary and I yanked into our levis, threw saddles over two spirited palominos, and galloped into the desert. Bpt that wouldn't be honest. It would have been a nice thing to have done, I know.

There would have breathed air fresher than that of a movie house at two a.m. Beyond the mountains colors no artist could duplicate would please our eyeballs (how's that for word imagery, hn and overhead stars would give us their final blinks (h about that, Comrade Shelley). Truth is, we were in Room 146 of our hotel, fighing like thieves. Fighting over nothing, after one of the happiest evenings we have had in Las Vegas. We had just helped give Jimmy Durante a final send-iff, had a nightcap of healing medicinal herbs with Morris Kleinman, and were healthy-, happy, and in love.

While I was looking for a fresh nightshirt, Mary, for no reason on the Lord's green earth, started singing songs. While the cold cream was going on she sang "My Bill." Then she sang, "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." "Don't you just love the songs from 'Showboat'?" she asked. "Try to name another musical that ever had four such great hits as "My Bill," "Can't Help Lovin 1 puppet, but that isn't the attitude "Magnolia, the ostrich, is a am ma jj us ji ev er thought Man," "Make Believe," and of Bill Sears. iv." of Bill Sears. Bill, who comes from line of people and has plenty of background of his own, believes you can not just create a puppet out of a few pieces of material and put it to work on television without a lot of second thoughts.

"You have to have a file on those fellows that would satisfy the FBI," he said. "If you don't know all about them makes them tick they will trip up a mere human who's working with them right in the country's living rooms. And that's an embarrassing place to be tripped." Bill is something of an authority because he is the Philadelphia radio and TV personality who is the mellow philosopher and interlocutor each Sunday on the "In the Park" program on the CBS- TV network. His co-stars are four puppets. Everybody's Number "The reason I get along so well with these characters is that I have their numbers," Sears continued.

"Of course, they have my number, too, but we won't go into that. "For example, there's Albert, the chipmunk, who lives in a hollow tree on the zoo grounds where the action occurs. Now, Albert knows that a chipmunk ought to live in the ground. He tried doing that, but it resulted in him getting head colds. So, he lives in this tree.

"Albert Is a teen-age type but he has a lot of uncommon sense. He's friendly and he will go along with anything his pals dream up, although he knows from experience that he's apt to be the fall guy. His patience is not limitless, however. Like most people, he can be pushed only so far and so often. A Decent Chap "We have a giraffe named Sir Geoffrey.

Distinguished family background, naturally. But don't get him started on that because he will discuss it for hours. Sir Geoffrey isn't happy unless he has a lot of lofty schemes in work. He would spend much of his time in solitary instead of having the run of the zoo, if Bill didn't get him out of scrapes. But in spite of everything, he's an awfully decent chap, you know.

"The background of Calvin the Crow isn't the sort you talk about vejjy much, Fact is, he has an uncle even Calvin won't discuss. Calvin has a lot of wordly -wisdom and at first encounter he seems to be a pretty rough sort, but there's a big heart under those black feathers. Mostly he has put aside his old ways and is a reformed character, possibly the most reformed character you ever met. He should be. I have to re- from the old South Georgia to a long.be exact.

Really beautiful, as female ostriches Scarlett O'Hara go. in A her regular whims and wiles. All she has to do is bat those long eyelashes and occasionally give a shy wink. But don't misinterpret those winks. Magnolia is a lady and you'd better not forget it.

We've, all learned that an irate lady ostrich is to be avoided. "As for Bill himself well, he's the sort of fellow who would be Thief Is Well-Armed DALLAS, April 8 At least one Dallas theif is we 11 armed, by ancient as well as modern standards. L. A. Dyer told police someone broke in his office over the weekend and etole a .415 caliber Derringr, of the type Used to assassinate, Pres- least one Dallas, thief is well as a modern revolver.

fY ef? practicing for rede, Pandora, the the about it. That's part of his. 1 wealth and wisdom." "In the Park" is the creation of Charles Vanda, a radio veteran who is fh charge of TV for station SCAU in Philadelphia, where the program originates. Sears and Paul Ritts write the half-h our program. Ritts and his wife, Mary Holliday, designed and built the puppets.

Ritts manipulates and "voices" Albert, Sir Geoffrey and Calvin. Miss Holiday "is" Magnolia. ''Ol' Man River. I wish I'd kept my mouth shut, but I didn't. "Only three of them are from "Showboat, 1 said.

'Can't Help Lovin' Tha Man' wasn't in the show." "It was, too," Mary said, baring, one fang. "I saw Ava, Gardner in it less thana year "Ha," I said. "You saw Ava Gardner. I saw Jules Bledsoe and Helen Morgan in Broadway show." the original a nd know creaky doesn't mean you everything," Mary shouteds The man upsta'rs tapped, and the house phone asked if we'd quiet down. "Did Ava sit on a piano when she sang 'My Bill'?" I asked.

"She stod by one," Mary said, clenching her fists. "That shows you are a schoolgirl, little one, so go to bed and admit I'm "I wouldn't go to bed for ten years when you are acting so stupid," Mary said, advancaing toward me with her knuckles roll' ed. I was foolish enough to say that I still didn't believe the song was sung in "Showboat." What happened after that resulted in the man upstairs calling the house detective. "Are you man and wife?" he demanded. "We ai-e right at this secondi" I said, "but don't lay more than 8 to 5 that we will be five minute." "Why don't you two go to sleep," the house dick said.

"It's late." "How do you know when it is late in Las Vegas?" I asked, drawing my dressing gown arsnd my ing my dressing gown around my nightshirt. "Do you know anything about 'Showboat'?" I asked. "Nothing," he answered, "except that both of you are makinar showboats of yourselves." Korean Action Kills Soldier From Austin WASHINGTON, April 6 The Department of Defense announced Monday one Texan was killed in action and another was missing in Korea. Army Cpl. Charles L.

Lund- qulst of 3501 Cherry Lane, Austin, was listed as killed, and Marine Capt. Dee Earl Ezell of Worth, as missing. Germauy WbenJtoseWtededbpecfc blows in fromJWunieh, doesrftw enterprising mechanic and Joe li AWOL Since 'Wfijfgf was charged Mbniky wlthfL. absent without leave from 1 tfi Army since April, "I must have a lot of bftcfi Wages coming," he said aftfef arrest. Amarlllo Airman Killed TULSA, April 6 Curtis M.

Sanderson. 22, man stationed at Amarilld Force Base, was fatally Jnjufe Sunday in a traffic accidertt miles east- of here'. Sanderson; 1 home was Pemberton, C. Ragland Services Set DALLAS, April 6 services (will be held Monday Alphonso Ragland, 86, president of the Metropolitan ness College here. Ragland dte" Saturday.

fH Bunny Has A MONTICELLO, April- 8 IIP) Easter had a birthday Sunday. The little girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Easter, was born on Easter Sunday, April 8, 1942. She won't have another Easter birthday in ths 20th century.

It Is said the glove industry first was established, in Nerot, France, in 1277. There's an old saying that a thing Is worth what someone is willing to pay for k. WeH, if you could tour the wholesale and retail used car auctions around the country, if you could survey hundreds of used car lots would discover that bring higher prices than any competitive by substantial npHATS I not be JL range. I WHY we 'feel owr '53 cars should not be compared with cars in same price range. Not because our competitors don't do a good they because we feel Ford Cars have more in common with the highest priced automobiles.

The siflularities are far greater than the differences. For example. Today, the most expensive cars in this country have V-type, engines. Ford Cars have had this exact same type ofeuguM for over 20 years. What's more astounding, the current Strato-Star V-8 sells for hundreds of dollars less than several other makers charge for a sis-cylinder car.

Now there's nothing wrong with a Six but they do cost less to make. Ford makes a most modern overhead valve Six iu the industry. And if it's a six-cylinder car you want, Ford has it and for less money than the V-8, which is as should be. What about ride? Here's another Ford similarity with high-priced cars Riding Comfort. One of the misconceptions for many years has been that what it takes to make a car ride well.

Ford has found that you can make a 3000-pound car ride softer and hoJd the road better by far than many cars that weigh a full 1000 pounds more. la the '53 Ford, for example, front end road shock has been reduced up to We say it most favorably with (fee beamiest cm said today, offer is caHed Fofdomattc. is the most versatile on the market, represents the most profound consideration of power transfer and that does the best job for our engines isn't even open to question, ft 1 better than you could shift by hand. What you can, see is also important. Here again Ford Cars lead not only in their price field hut in the medium and upper brackets as well.

Ford visibility is Full-Circle Visibility. This huge, curved unobstructed glass area, front and rear, plus side windows that allow aft passengers what the Itoteis caH "room with a view," Apitearnnce? A higher price, of cowrae, does not make a car more beautiful. Conversely, beauty in a Ford comes "for free." Ford has found that costs no more to develop a beautiful ear than one that is less pleasing in appearance. You can drive up to the most exclusive doorways io lite world and feel perfectly at home in yow Ford. Fords "belong" in exactly the same social category as the finest, one -of -kind creations.

After aA, a Ford a custom creation multiplied. What about running costs? Here's one ptac. that Ford's advantages are obvious. For ok and gas economy Ford has tfce big ears whipped. Ford parts cost kss.

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