TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. April 10. 1956
On The Side
By E. V.'Durling
(Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.)
Which is the major factor in a kilt of that color? How about
the success of a popular song,
the words or music? My vote
ii for the words. Consider the.
importance of the words in such
smash hits as "I Wonder Who's
Kissing Her Now," "Just A
Wearyin' for You'and "People
Will Say We're in Love." Irving
Berlin once wrote a song that
was a complete flop. Several
years later he wrote new words
to this song but kept the same
tune. The result was that ter
rific hit titled "Easter Parade."
Horses and Women
History tells us the bridal at
tire of the sister of Frederick
the Great weighed 100 pounds.
No details as to what the attire
consisted of are given. Might be
interesting to know what the
"something borrowed" and some
thing blue" articles ' weighed.
Also how did this bride get to
the altar under all that weight?
Did she walk or did her father
wheel her in? This reminds me.
I recently said that well dressed
women of the yesteryear wore
35 pieces of attire as compared
to seven worn by today's fash
ionable females. Now a group
of young women of Manhattan
gay the claim is ridiculous and
challenge me to name the 35
pieces aforementioned or send
them a box of stogies to distrib
ute among their husbands. The
historian I quoted didn't furnish
this detail. So I am baffled. I
have asked our horses and wo
men department to check it but
all I have so far is a report that
Mid-Victorian women often wore
as many as eight petticoats.
Horses and women are certainly
a very difficult pair of subjects.
At tin.es the women are actually
harder to figure than the horses.
Fleast Note
It is said that a man with the
measurements that follow has the
best chance of easily getting a
well fitting, ready made suit:
Height, 5 feet 9; chest 38; waist,
35;. arms, 32, and legs (inside
measurement), 303,i.
Asides
Is your name Smith and are
you of Scotch descent? Are you
familiar with the Clan Smith
tartan? It is blue and green with
a check of red and yellow. How
do you think you would look in
your wife? ... As for long song
titles, do you recall that touch
ing ballad titled "You Can Have
Him, I Don't Want Him. Didn't
Love Him Anyhow Blues?"
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. What
was the name of the doctor who
did the plastic surgery for Mme.
Jacqueline Auriol, the French
aviatrix? A. The operations re
ferred to, 22 in all, were su
pervised by ! Dr. John Marquis
Converse of the Manhattan Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital. . . . Q.
In what part of Ireland are best
race horses bred? A. The County
Kildare. Incidentally, Nasrullah,
Khaled and Alibhai, the three
leading sires of last year in the
United States, wore all bred in
the County Kildare.
So They Say
The flower of those born under
Gemini (May 22-June 21) is the
rose. . . . The lucky number of
Aries (March 21-April 20) people
is nine. . . . Taurus (April 21
May 21) women are overemo
tional and extremely affec
tionate. Secretaries born under
Taurus are most liRely to enjoy
taking dictation while sitting on
the lap of the boss. Or, so say the
stargazers.
Victoria Shaken
By Earth Tremors
Victoria, B.C. (U.R) Two
earth tremors shook Victoria,
neighboring communities and a
small town on the British Co
lumbia mainland yesterday. No
damage was reported.
Homes in Victoria, Saanich,
Oak Bay, Esquimau, Gordon
Head, Langford, Colwood, and
Ladner, on the mainland, were
shaken by the tremors that hit
the areas over a 20-second per
iod. Professor Frank Newmann,
seismologist at the University of
Washington at Seattle, said the
quake was of a "moderate or
sharp" intensity, and said it was
"not of the destructive variety."
Newmann placed the center
of the tremor as "probably orig
inating in the waters near Vic
toria, or perhaps even in the
San Juan Islands."
' Theyll Do It Every Time
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SPRINTER WHO JETS OUT OF THE
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BUILDING FOP A H4LF-HOUI? WAITING
FOR HIS CAR-POOL B3LS TO COME OUT-
Back Stairs: Tourists at White House
By MERRIMAN SMITH
Washington (U.R) Back stairs
at the White House:
This is the boom season for
visitors at the White House.
Tourists are going through the
public rooms each morning at
a rate of about 4000 an hour
(the Executive Mansion is open
to the public for two hours of
each day).
One morning last week, three
nuns escorted a group of out-of-town
parochial school children
through the Executive Mansion.
As they left and walked out into
the balmy spring sunshine, one
of of the sisters turned to her
charges and said, "I told you we
should have brought our bathing
suits."
Robert Montgomery, President
Eisenhower's television and
radio coach, is back on the scene
after three weeks of skiing with
his family in Switzerland. He's
probably consulting on campaign
plans.
Another recent White House
returnee: chief speech writer
Kevin McMann, back, from a
long visit to Ohio where he is
president-on-leave of the Defi
ance Coolege.
At 11:30 a.m. last Tuesday,
the President, in a speech to the
Advertising Council, said, "gov
ernment officials are busy. They
are constantly putting out 'fires'
on Capitol hill."
The President didn't know it
but at the very moment he was
speaking, secret service agents
and police were trying to track
down a woman mental patient
who was busily setting fires in
the executive offices.
Normally, the White House
staff mess on the lower floor
of the west wing offices is strict
ly a male proposition. Female
guests are rare in the small din
ing room.
An enthusiastic exception was
made last week, however, for
Lt. Col. Edythe F. Turner, the
chief nurse for Fitzsimons Army
Hospital in Denver where the
president was a patient for seven
weeks last year.
She and Col. Inez Haynes
chief of the Army Nurse Corps
You'll hear all sorts of claims when you're out looking 'em over.
But before you actually make the move . . .
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longer than cars in its own field, 14.5 inches longer than cars in the "low price"
field. Dodge is bigger inside, too. More legroom front and rear! More hiproom
front and rear! Dodge gives you plenty of room to relax in comfort.
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way of driving old-fashioned, it's mechanically
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Dodge is powered for to
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type 260 hp. V-8 engine
develops tremendous
br-ik-away power!
Solid-that'S the way Dodge builds 'em! om the frame right os
up. Dodge is engineered to take the roughest punishment. EXAMPLE:
Box-section side rails provide greater strength and ruggedness than
common I-beam or U-channel type used in most other car frames.
Crossmembers are extra heavy. Here's solid dependability.
Who says parking Isn't fun?
Dodge power steering does
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lunched with Sherman Adams,
the assistant to the President;
Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder,
the White House physician, and
other ranking members of Mr.
Eisenhower's official family.
There may be tentative dis
cussings of a possible president
ial vacation in Wisconsin this
summer, but the folks out in
Colorado won't listen to such
talk.
A report from Pat Patterson of
the Arapaho Ranch at Fraser,
Colo., says he has it from the
horse's mouth that the Presid
ent's return to the western slope
of the Rockies "is already plan-
ned." And Pat has a lot of
horses to hear from.
The President put in some long
hours at his desk last week,
working later than 7 p.m. sev
eral days. One of the girls on
the staff, wearily closing up her
desk a little before 8 o'clock,
observed: "The Democrats call
him a part-time president. Hck,
it's time and a half." ,
SINKING PATIENTS
Indianapolis ttJJ?) Gen
eral Hospital was promised new
operating tables when the sup
erintendent reported the old ones
wouldn't stay put. Supt. Robert
Lowe said attendants had to keep
jacking them up during opera
tions because of worn-out hy
draulic lifts. Sometimes, he said,
surgeons had the unnerving ex
perience of watching their pa
tients "sink."
HE CAN TAKE IT
Marion. Mich. (U.R) Jake
Eisenga, pinned when a tree he
was chopping solit in half.
worked himself free, crawled to
his tractor and drove to the road
where his car was parked. He
then drove his car home and
was taken to a hospital in Cadil
lac. He suffered eight broken
ribs and a punctured lung.
Royally Turns Out
For Munich Wedding
Munich, Germany U.R) The
princes, ex-kings and nobles who
are boycotting Grace Kelly's
nuptials next week turned out
today to witness the wedding of
a cousin-by-marriage of Britain's
Queen Elizabeth to a nephew of
Austria-Hungary's last emperor.
Helen (Countess Zu) Toerring
Jettenbach, 18, and Archduke
Ferdinand of Hapsburg, 37, said
their vows at 11 a.m. in the ba
roque chapel of 1,100-year-old
castle Seefeld, overlooking the
Pilsensee.
The only reigning monarch on
hand was Prince Franz Josef of
Liechtenstein. Ex-king Umberto
of Italy, Britain's Duchess of
Kent, an aunt of the bride, and
Archduke Otto, pretender to the
Austrian throne, also were
among 72 guests who witnessed
the actual wedding and attend
ed the reception that followed.
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