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Show MIRACLE SURGERY A dog's life? For Butch, a cocker spaniel owned by artist Albert Sraehle, that's good enough. He works twice a week posing as a model, gets paid off in filet mignon, hob nobs with glamorous creatures and gets fan mail from around the globe. A dog's life, in-deed. ir.w ) ill lira b m Butch will pose plain or fancy, sitting in a bathtub, running hither and yon af-ter a ball and will assume any other fantastic attitude required of him as a career dog. He invariably gives the artist his whole-hearte- d cooperation, a lar virtue among models of any species. ry!T"!fT'L?? ? If -- iJ rtfl m 'it H 's 11 "ii i't' I !t; 1 singu-lis 3&f.i' t"4 ii m ! I ' 1 1 MrV Ff '""w""'ff ' ; - fJm v ; ". if ?SI ' fl J r 3 . . tp i. I; r I a y3 - r: 1 . y & $ 1 ""- -- I ft I ;V ' " 9f A veteran cover-do- g now, Butch looks ': ! J g ' lA v X . Dver some of his earlier works (above). He , - 4 VA has 17 championships to his pedigree but 4ivfci'. would rather bask in the kleiglights with gA4nV''V '. ' beautiful gals (see right) than cavort in !gtlV' ' show-do- g circles where the working con-ditions hMgamir-- "'"' ' are not half so congenial. Like a trained and vet-eran burlesque man, Butch has a flair for the spotlight. He is hard put to steal the scene, however, when he poses with such a pictur- - esquely adorned beauty as ' cover-gir- l Barbara Nichols (below). The dog's master, Albert Staehle, is seated at the drawing board, be- - mused by the whole thing, - ttta '' s' i V-- i ' MAHONEY SRVvT 0NE 0,7 tHt LtADlNli WUMLN'b TENNto SpSyAtttl ) PLAYEW FOW CVE A PKCAW:, HAS llW WN0,i SHARED 39 NATIONAL TlTLtS. JfJZTkrX?fe M FTOOOT BABLALCSK.HIAND STRAPS hJr' ' iLCRj AfTAO CD TO TMt IUP AND ;T LTHr? Ml RUNNING BACKS CAWlD THE kAL T?HOUGH CHUCK MEDJCK IS BLIND, HE 13 13 I A PROMINENT TABLE TENNIS REFEREE . HE 1 my"" B CALLS THE SHOTS BY EAR! f VI. 1 K Gold to Work vnT 11 1 wished, write !" ' eta'ry situation in this V terms of an econo-- , ' not- But I do m - i ' if fundamentals 1 iink I have enough I ?, to " to understand them fearful I and are, ' "Sled inflation, or a 5 we have a , e of inflation now. 'T - produce depression, V : money as the - ,gcPause of both. Our money, all the cur- - aside from a Urn-J-silver certificates, r value. The foun-- i, " n 5, on which it is is-- , lability, not an asset. It .eed by nothing less than We can-- ; .J indebtedness. into the national treas-- L ive for it anything ex-.- y of the same kind, , tangible value, either. I, printing presses con-- ; I turn out an ever-ln- -l rolume of such money '' inevitably lead what I iy md other European k s experienced follow- - - dose of World War I ?t we get will be 00 by the same causes :b worthless money. "1 r,cy of Germany, at that nothing back of it re--' a stable, tangible value, !' ihich their paper marks ".i exchanged. Because of t non their money became C, for anything except for 1 ebts. Those who were accept those printing j in payment of a debt nothing with it, for it - achasing power, it had it value. In Germany eless currency produced 0 td inflation. The after- - 1 hat inflation was depres-th- e rise of Hitler. 1, e government needs mon-edi- t, it can, and does, "I banks to buy government ;!h these bonds a as security can, and do, issue bank ' :b bank notes represent largest part of our na- - l rency. It is the same as resi money. simple expedient of Jtjonds as they are of-'-k ' paying par for them, ling for them with d more printing press the government has i icd the price of its At In Germany, the t, press currency will pay it it will not buy a dol--1 rth of commodities for V ol printing press cur--. It is a simple method Warily maintaining a Ice for government put it cannot be as it could Germany and other In countries. I congress enacted the I that started us on the Pith printing press mon-toa- d took us off the gold it repudiated our prom-of- f our indebtedness in len it repudiated our redeem our outstanding ln gold on demand; it doors for inflation. le legislation changed I' gold from $23 an ounce f to maintain that price I to buy all the gold of-fti- at price. As a result, s of all the mon-- I f the world stored in j" vaults, but not working. f the doors on Infla-- should put that gold Hie job; we should get ! Bold basis for our f' M at the old price J ounce, but at a price F from $35 to $40 an Hwt would stabilize f hout what they now J would maintain our e at about their pres--e; e could pay off erment Indebtedness palely the same' the debt was con- - i ant of all, our re- - I o!d standard would eless w of printing .i'J.and t would stop jading spree in whjch indulged- - Tbat wa most and what we I 18 civil service em-- e f government, the head epartment in one of I 5v He wanted 8 ay he could get L'S sma11 dePart--C nhing for them to tto Jr, raise ne wa"ted k t0 the payroll. hS? service u StJd "ed law that f change ii it would. 'j , Doctors End Long Torture SAN FRANCISCO--An unprece-dented operation which rostore1 the ability of a man "to swallow has been reported by three University of California surgeons. A gunshot wound caused the f. flictior. of the unnamed patient. He had to take all food and liquid through a tube that ni throat Any attempt to swallow caused coughing and strangling, He could not appear in public. After three years of this torture. the man was on the verge of suicide, the surgeons said in a medicai publication. The Annals of Surgery. Bullet Cut Nerves The doctors, Howard C. Naff- - riger, H. Glenn Bell, and Cooper Davis, found the bullet had cut four important face and head nerves. The nerves could not be restored. The surgeons decided ' to try to cross-conne- some of the healthy muscles of the throat to replace those made useless by nerve degeneration. Medical books did not show the surgeons all they needed to know about swallowing. Slow-motio- n y movies of normal swallowing and the patient's attempts to swallow showed for the first time, they said, the mechanism of the procedure. Before operating on the patient the doctors experimented on three monkeys. One of the things about the pa-tient was that some of the use-less muscles in his neck bulged out when he tried to swallow, obstructing the throat passage. The doctors bound these mus-cles with a strip of thick, tough sheathing tissue which normally covers the main bundles of blood vessels and nerves in the neck. The other main difficulty was that the patient's Adams apple would not rise. This is one of the important movements in swal- - lowing. j Surgeons Split Muscle The surgeons made a length-wise split in a muscle which runs from the back of the head to the base of the tongue and the chin. This muscle normally retracts the tongue. Part of the muscle was left for the tongue. The other! part was tied to the Adam's apple, restoring its ability to rise The patient was afraid to try his rebuilt throat at first, but now is swallowing normally, the doctors said. The new operation may help some war wounded. . SPOfi TLIGHT 1 Connie and Lonnie and Mack By GRANTLAND RICE years ago kid SEVENTY-FOU-saw Aristides win tha first Kentucky Derby. His name is Matt Winn, now nearly 88 years old. Seventy years ago, another kid showed up in one of the minor mi eastern ball parks, possibly Pittsfleld, as a lean, lank scrawny catcher. His name is Connie Mack, now 86 years old. Also some 70 years ago a high school kid did some pitching and play-- new shoots are stronger and live-lier than ever. My soul is more lu-minous when my body powers be-gin to fall The snows of winter may be on my head, but the sun-shine of eternal spring It In my heart." This is the answer to Winn, Mack and Stagg "The snows of winter may be on their heads, but the sun-shine of eternal spring is in their hearts." They never look behind. They look only to the days and yean ahead. The past is dust. It la only tomorrow that matters. This keeps 'em young. The Big Year Unless an unexpected Jolt arrives at some early date, Messrs. Winn and Mack both figure that 1949 may be the best year either has ever known. Colonel Winn la certain that his Derby will lure more than 100,000 spectators into his stands, and set a new mark. There seems to be grave doubt in many centers that any Kentucky Derby ever drew 100,000 Tans. Two years ago this doubt waa expressed In loud tones. I asketf Colonel Winn for the correct figures. "I'll tell you," he said. "Tell those who doubt the figures that I will be glad to bet $10,000 that we had 100,000 or more spectators, and if they care to take the bet, I'll guarantee to prove it to their com-plete satisfaction." No one cared to take the bet. Derby Day at Churchill Downs la beyond description. You can call the place a madhouse and then retire. But for all that, it is a ter-rific show, due largely to tradition and the showmanship of Colonel Matt Winn. The amazing feature Is that so many take their beating, year after year, and come back for more. So far as competition goes, 1949 has everything It takes U build up Interest with the possl bility or probability of a big. well-balanc- field. The next two weeks will tell us more about this. In the same way, Connie Mack believes be has a good chance to win the American league flag again. He makes no pennant pre-dictions, but he will explain to you that if one or two things happen, his Athletics will be in front at the finish. He fully expects to be run-ning down the stretch in September, and this time he s equipped with reserves to handle bad breaks. ing end before he Grantland Rice entered Yale. His name is Alonzo Stagg, also set at the tender age of 86. Here are three men who might have the slogan, "Life can begin at any age, but it only warms up In the 80s." For Matt Winn is handling the production act for the 75th Kentucky Derby, the greatest of them all in the words and mind of this Incredible turfman. At the same time, Connie Mack Is dreaming of bis 10th pennant, actively In charge of ball club that has chanee to win with just a few lucky spins from the wheel of chance. And with Messrs. Winn and Mack featured entries in racing and baseball, Lonnie Stagg is actively helping young Lonnie, his son, to teach the young men in a Pennsy-lvania college how to tackle, block, run and throw passes. Here are three men who can lay claim to a total of 260 years and are not only actively connected with sport, but in two instances, Winn and Mack, with the biggest shows of the year. This has never happened be-fore. Certainly no two men at the ages of 86 and 88 have played such leading roles In sport, and Stagg, at 86, Is prob-ably In better condition than either. At a party one night in Los An-geles two years ago, I recall the block that Stagg put on the burly Curly Lambeau, explaining some play, as the big man, then coach of the Green Bay Packers, showed his astonishment, Connie Mack said, "I think I'll leave for my seat before I get killed." It was Victor Hugo who wrote, in effect "I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest that more than once has been cut down. The Filibuster Would Permit Senators to Die Talking j WASHINGTON, D. C.-- The an-cle-and honorable custom of fili- - I bustering is based on the proposition that a senator may talk himself to death if he chooses. American legislators have been taking advantage of the filibuster "right" ever since the nation was born, but now some senators think it's time to put an end to it. Spon- - sored by Republicans, a proposal to change senate debate rules also have support from some Democrats. If they have the voice and senators may now, under certain circumstances, talk as long as they wish. Senators have kept the floor for hours or days and in relays for weeks and even months to de- - feat a proposed law. They don't talk, necessarily, tc persuade opposing senators. Thej may Just talk to make the opposi-tion so weary it will give up out ol boredom. The fabulous Huey Long of Louis iana read the Bible, offered advice on love affairs, told how to fry oy-sters and make "pot likker," read a biographical sketch of Frederick the Great and quoted Victor Hugo supporting an amend Long was ment to the national industrial re-covery act in June, 1935. He talked j 15 hours but lost the debate. If YOUR SCISSORS REFUSE 1 ' ""TV TO CUT ROSE STEMS AT THE I ypKMESS! FIRST SNIP, IT'S PROBABLY Oj, .MiAMmJ y BECAUSE. THEY'RE TOO DULL. fffijl X IN ADDITION TO SHARPEN- - - W.iSSIaN. ING THE BLADES AND TIGHT-- p? i) Wte?gggg; "iMw BNING THE SCREW HOLDING V '...'.. '. "SrSJ THEMI TOGETHER, FILE OR V- - - CS-fj- T SfT&k- - GRIND A NOTCH IN ONE OF V S "rs THE BLADES. KvSffi. THIS WILL HOLD THE STEM 1 lpvVLVV' IN PLACE WHILE THE OTHER HjrVi BLADE IS CUTTING IT FROM )OOR OR WINDOW FASTENED WITH ADJUSTABLE HOOK OF THE TYPE IOWN HERE CANNOT BE OPENED iY SMALL CHILDREN. THIS SAFETY HOOK IS MADE BY CUTTING A REG-ULAR DOOR HOOK IN TWO, THREAD-ING THE FRESH-CU- T ENDS AND SCREWING THEM INTO A TURN-BUCKL-A MERE TWIST WILL TIGHTEN OR LOOSEN THE HOOK. Police Called to Rid Dwelling of Noisy Cats j' ROSELLE, N. J. - In the home of Mrs. David J. S c h u 1 m a n i , five ot was the cats' meow-w- ith them vocalizing until police drov them out with blackjacks. j One was chased out by the fin. officer to arrive, but returned. The) took to the rafters when attacked Concerted police effort finally wa successful in ridding the home a cats and howls "I can't understand how they get in." said Mrs. Schulman. It" doors are locked." The cats move too fast to be coun ltd accurately. But Mrs. Schulmar said she thought there were five The howling in the basement frorr boosts he. soprano to bass, perhaps estimate. thinks the cat Mrs. Schulman were courting a female feline whic household "more o. belongs to her less." She said the female jus adopted the Schulmans. cat goes Mrs When the lady Schulman hopes the rest of th beasts won't find the house so a tractive. sighed Mrs Schu "Last year." in the attic. VW man. "they were got them out of there. and now they're in the basement. he Also, said Mrs. Schulman. is allergic fi daughter Valere. 5. cats. |