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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30 40
ind SO vein age.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1950 (Tuesday)
In order to permit its em
ployees to enjoy the holiday,
the Mail Tribune will not be
published on Thursday,
thanksgiving day.
There are 15,756 children
between the ages of four and
20 In Jackson County, an in
crease of 747 over 1949, ac
cording to the county school
iuperintendent's office.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21. 1940 (Thursday)
Former U. S. Senator A.
Evan Reames of Medford was
the principal ' speaker at a
Democratic "victory" dinner
t the Hotel Ashland last
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Thanksgiving feasting is over
and now, cornea Turkey Cro
quettes Xux Chateaux, often
uspected by diners as being
hash with a codfish base."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1930 (Friday)
A lone armed bandit robbed
twt local hamburger stands
yesterday.
A carload of valley turkeys
was sent to San Francisco
this week where they will sell
for 26 cents a pound.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1920 (Sunday)
The Oak Grove district, at
special election Friday, vot
ed down a special 10 mill
levy for road Improvements.
Citizens of Jacksonville
held a banquet Saturday night
in honor of the defeat at the
polls of a proposal o trans
fer the courthouse to Medford.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 21. 1910 (Monday)
The Southern Pacific rail
road is erecting a new freight
depot two blocks south of
Main st.; it will be four times
larger than the existing one.
A local doctor has received
a large quantity of typhoid
vaccine from the federal gov
ernment to give free of charge
to anyone wanting it.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at ten cornet (i superior
even ar eight Is excellent) five at
III Is good.
1. How much money In
gold coin is in circulation in
the United States?
mous for their small ponies?
2. What Islands are (n-
3. What queen celebrated
her golden jubilee in 1887 and
her diamond Jubilee in 1897?
4. What do musicians re
fer to when they speak of
ASCAP?
5. What was man's earli
est known implement?
6. What is the United
States Flag called when It is
being carried by a cavalry
regiment?
7. Did War Admiral, Sea
Biscuit or Johnston win the
Kentucky Derby In 1P30?
8. What arc the first five
books of the Old Testament
called as a group?
9. Which musical instru
ment Is the highest pitched of
11?
10. W h a t have Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney and Sark
In common?
Answers: 1. Nona, since
1933. 2. Shetland. 3. Quean
Victoria. 4. American Soci
ety of Authors, Composers and
Publishers. 5. A stone. 6. The
Standard. 7. Johnston. 8.
The - Pentateuch. S. Piccolo.
10. English Channel islands.
I -ASSOCIATION
We'd Squawk Too
What would you do
beaten to death? Stroll on down tne street wniie
the killer rolled down his sleeves and strolled in
the other direction? . . .
Probably not. The least you would do is re
port the matter to the nearest policeman.
And what would you expect in return? Not
three months in jail.
And yet that's what two men in Medford got-
with another month to go.
...
E'RE told it's all legal and maybe bo. But
Norman Mclnnis and Virgil Ben
nett have a beef coming.
jail is that they're transients.
They came to Medford to work in the pear
harvest, where good earnings are possible. In
stead, they're getting $1.50 a day in jail. Even
the district attorney is sorry, and he doesn't blame
the men for sauawkiner. But he's got to have them
for witnesses when the trial of the slaying suspect
opens next month and he
them they'll leave town.
And who could bJame tnem now!
This seems one of those times when it takes
an iniustice to do iustice.
and Bennett will ever be goodwill ambassadors
for Oregon. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Watch Them
fVpcrnn's hillhnai'fl industry, victor in its ef
forts to continue the profitable despoilment of
Oregon s natural oeauty in jvuesaays election,
will now go to the Legislature to seek additional
protection from those who would regulate bill
boards. The industry, with the help of a good many
thousands of dollars from billboard people out
side the state, and many more thousands from
inside the state, managed through heavy, distort-
. e e 1 A HIT fp- 11. . IT
eel advertising to aeieat measure 10 on tne inov.
8 ballot.
Mnur trip "Orpirnn Council of Outdoor Ad
vertising," meaning the
will go to the Legislature
trols to strengthen tne existing outdoor adver
tising act through logical channels."
What they mean, undoubtedly, is they'll seek
changes in law to further protect their vested in
terest in the use of public roadways to put up
distracting commercial messages. Industries do
not go to law-making bodies and ask for regula
tion, althougn tney may
that they do. Coos Bay.
Puerto Rico
finv. T,nnis Munoz Marin took onlv 58 rer cent
am m 1 1 i . T-
or ruesaay s vote in ruerto ivico, wnicn is put
cent less than he received in 1956. But 58 per
cent was enough to sustain his program with the
aid of the two-thirds majority of the Legislature
which was also won by his Popular Democratic
party. The work of rebuilding the economy and
culture of Puerto Rico, which Governor Munoz
Marin and his associates have been carrying on
since 1948, will continue.
The Governor s quarrel with the island's ko
man Catholic Bishops over such issues as birth
control, sterilization and
have cut the majority he would otherwise nave
had, but its effects were not politically serious.
Governor Munoz Marin, himself a Catholic, evi
dently carried many of his coreligionists with him.
Everyone of whatever faith must rejoice in
some of the things that have happened in Puerto
Rico during Governor Munoz Marin's Adminis
tration. Twelve years ago poverty, unemployment
and a rapidly increasing population, indeed the
whole stituation which former Gov. Rexford Tug
well correctly described as "too many people on
too little land," made Puerto Rico a dismal pic
ture. In the intervening time real wages have
about doubled, schools have been made available
for all children, illiteracy has been nearly wiped
out, and in short the general welfare of the is
land has dramatically increased. Emigration,
which has sent many Puerto Ricans to New York
City and other American communities, is no long
er a matter of desperate urgency.
We wish Governor Munoz Marin another good
four years. New York Times.
Good and Bad
It would be hard to improve upon Benjamin
Franklin's familiar observation to Dr. Price:
"When religion is good, it will take care of itself;
when it is not able to take care of itself, and God
oocs not see fit to take
to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evi
dence to my mind that its cause is a bad one."
Liberty Magazine.
Falcons Suggested
Boston -rtJPD- Use of fnlcons
to solve the starling problem 1
at Logan Airport has been
suggested but a wildlife expert
says the idea Is probably for
the birds.
A former member of the
Massachusetts A 1 r National
Guard stationed at the airport
suggested unleashing hawks
and falcons to drive off the
starlings and seagulls that in
fest the airport runways.
Warren Runnier, Needham.
said falconry was employed
successfully at some British
airports and was used also in
South America to drive
if you saw a person being
Only reason .they're in
s atraid it he releases
'
We doubt that Mclnnis
billboard lobby, says it
"to seek additional con
try. to maKe it appear
World. :
Holds Course
1 - T" i X. ! T- 3 A
religious education may
care of it, so that it has
For Airport Use
pigeons away from cathedrals
and other large buildings.
Allen S. Kennedy, super
intendent of the state Bureau
of Wildlife Research and
Management, said he did. not
think falcons could solve the
problem and that the best
solution seemed to He in de
stroying the birds' feeding and
nesting areas.
Aviation officials have
blamed a huge flight of star
lings for the Oct. 4 Eastern
Air Lines crash that killed 62
persons. Last week a jet air
liner was forced to halt its
takeoff when it ran into
flock of birds,
Dennis the
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'A BIQ SOY IN THIRD GRADE
HOW BOUT THAT?
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
CREEPING CRISIS
Washington - A creeping
crisis now eroding the dual
foundation stones of Ameri
can foreign policy, the Unit
ed nations and the North At
lantic Treaty Organization,
coldly confronts the incom
ing Kennedy administration.
bo deucates, so severe and
so p o t e n
tial with dis
aster are
these , t w i n
problems that
an extraordi
nary prospect
is now raised.
This is that
the post of
chief Ameri
can represen
tative of the U.N., whatever
its past importance, will now
become hardly less significant
than the job of secretary of
state itself.
The United States is alien
ating, some of its oldest allies,
notably Belgium and France,
by taking at the U.N. an "anti
colonial" position against
their vital interests in Afri
ca. Already there are heavy
strains on the unity of the
heretofore dominant Western
bloc in the U.N.
Belgium, tragically buffet
ed in the Congo, now openly
speaks of a possible with
drawal from the U.N. France,
now in the seventh year of
her agony in rebellious ' Al
geria, is bitterly hurt with
us.
Worst of all, NATO Itself,
the West's, basic military al
liance, is reeling under all
these shocks, no matter how
many reassuring words are
publicly uttered
KENNEDY'S policies, mean
while, are likely to be
even more "anti - colonial"
than those of the Eisenhower
administration.
The long and short of it
Is that rarely has .any diplo
matic assignment imposed so
subtle and meaningful bur
den upon its holder. He will
need the greatest possible
skill, the greatest possible hu
man tact and human accepta
bility, to be able to say "no"
to our allies witn tne least
possible damage to the alli
ance Itself.
Thus. President-elect Ken
nedy's selection of his ambas
sador to the U.N. will be one
of the most difficult choices
White
Nixon Hopes New
Regime Doesn't Go
On Spending Spree
Miami, Fla.-IUPD-Vlce Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon said
Sunday night he shared the
hope with millions of other
Americans that President
elect John F. Kennedy would
not start a spending spree
after taking office.
Nixon said he hoped that
big-spending programs of the
Democrats would have "tough
sledding" in Congress and ad
ded, "that's as it should be.
It would be bad for the coun
try." Uraet Eye on Castro
On other matters, Nixon
urged the Kennedy adminis
tration to keep a watchful
eye on Fidel Castro's moves
In Latin America.
"We cannot stand by and
see Communists infiltrate and
take over in Latin America
the vice president said. "If
countries request a:d we
should step in and give them
the assistance they need
Nixon said Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev would
make a (at-nl mistake If he
believed "he can push us be
yond where we will react.
Menace
CALLED WE 'PAL' TODAY.
S. WHITE
he must make. This is the
more so because those who
know the president-elect be
lieve that in the real sense
he will be his own secretary
of state anyhow.
e e
rpHE NEW chief delegate to
a- the U.N., on the contrary,
may often be pretty much on
his own. He will be removed
from the White House both
by distance and by the re
quirement sometimes to act
in a quick, ab-lib way in a
forum where faster and fast
er decisions are becoming
more and more necessary.
These are among the rea
sons why there is a fairly
strong belief here now that
Aldai E. Stevenson will wind
up in the U.N. post. His credit
abroad is high. He is peculi
arly sympatico, as the Latins
put it - meaning highly liked
in the human sense - to most
of the world. And since his
second defeat for the presi
dency in 1956 he has made
it his business to add to his
already considerable knowl
edge of that world, especial
ly of the critical area of op
portunity and danger, Africa,
e e
BUT, ALL this notwithstand
ing, Mr, Stevenson is not
quite so sympatico with Mr.
Kennedy - and vice versa.
Though surely not "enemies,"
they are not -the most inti
mate of friends. And, justly
or not, Stevenson lacks that
full backing in Congress
which the president-elect be
lieves one of the requisites
for the new secretary of state.
So the solution of Steven
son to the U.N. looks rather
sound all around. The devot
ed Stevenson backers would
like to see him be secretary
of state and are urgently ap
pealing to Mr. Kennedy to
that end. Stevenson, himself,
characteristically, is asking
nothing and demanding noth
ing. His attitude will actually be
more effective than that of
his supporters with Mr. Ken
nedy, The president-elect does
not react well to demands,
particularly emotional de
mands. And he is coolly de
termined to make his top ap
pointments on the sole basis
of who he believes would be
the ablest man for what
(Copyright, 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
We'll react very strongly if
they attempt to push us
around," Nixon said. "We
must stand firm and outlast
those who are the enemies of
the Free World."
Nixon said he could not de
termine the exact reason for
losing the presidential elec
tion to Kennedy. But he indi
cated Kennedy told him at
their meeting here last week
that key Democratic victories
came In states where there
was considerable unemploy
ment.
"They were able to promise
more than we were," Nixon
said.
Offers Received
He said hes would postpone
serious thought on his future
plans until he returned to
Washington, but revealed he
had received "a number of of
fers from most of the states."
He squelched a rumor that
he would enter Thomas E.
Dewey's law firm in New
York by saying, "I do not in
tend to join any law firm In
New York and that includes
Mr, Dewey's."
New Census Figures
Powerful Constitutional Provision
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington (UPU New cen
sus figures reducing the con
gressional representation of
WPff some states
Ff 7 1 and increasing
i Mothers re-
I i C"-tf a niinds that
I M tYntm lea nnw.
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erful, if un-
Cj used, consmu
l tional provi
sion relating
to civil rights
and the con-
uieT wuloT gressional rep
resentation of , the various
states.
This provision is embraced
in Section 2, Article 15, one
of the reconstruction articles
commonly known as the 15th
Amendment. It was adopted
by Congress in 1866 and be
came effective two years
later.
The 15th Amendment pro
vided that: "Representatives
shall be apportioned among
the several states according
to their respective numbers,
counting the whole number
of persons in each state, ex
cluding Indians not taxed."
A foot note to "The Consti
tution of the United States"
edited by Thomas James Nor
ton explains further:
Up to this time (1868)
members of the House of Rep
resentatives were allowed to
each state in proportion to
the whole population and
three-fifths of the slaves but
this new provision (15th
Amendment) made each Negro
count as one.
Fraction Explained
The fraction of "three-
fifths! in counting the slave
population was imbedded in
Article 1 of the Constitution
dealing with the legislative
powers of Congress. Norton
explains that it came about
this way:
Although slaves were not
citizens or voters, the number
of them was considered in
laying direct taxes. The three-
fifths fraction had been
agreed on in Congress when
the question was whether, in
the levy of direct taxes, slave
holding states would be un
der-taxed (as Northern men
contended) by not counting
the slaves as population or
over-taxed (as the South
claimed) by counting them.
The compromise then made as
to taxation was employed as
to representation in . the
House."
Norton concluded that the
slave states received a dls-
propriate representation in
the House of Representatives
by reason of their slave popu
lation. The 15th Amendment
club in the closet deals with
voting rights for the offices of
president, vice president, U.S.
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Friday Night Thanks
To the Editor: All during
the Presidential campaign, I
resisted impulse after impulse
to write to the Mail Tribune.
This morning (Saturday) I can
no longer resist. .
Medford is full of disap
pointed people. Everyone ask
ing each other, "What hap
pened? I think I feel as sick
at heart as most of them, but
I do want to say something
for our Medford High foot
ball team. I have thoroughly
enjoyed every game they play
ed this year, and I saw all but
one. I feel I more than got
my money's worth from my
season tickets.
I've heard all kinds of ex
planation from "no competi
tion all year" to "over confi
dent." As to the competition,
if there was none, it wasn't
the teams' fault. They have
a district schedule to meet,
and if there was no competi
tion, they couldn't help that.
I understand Coach Spiegel
berg really had to scout for
non-conference competition
As for the "over confident,"
I don't believe it. "Over an
xious" maybe, but not over
confident. The whole team
seemed to sense a do or die
atmosphere all around them
They seemed nervous and un
sure, which we all know is
n't like our team. Maybe, we
as spectators were to blame,
the stands were unusually
quiet when I felt we should
be yelling our heads off.
I want to say a big
"Thanks" to a superb team
that has given us three months
of thrill packed Friday nights.
Now let's all get behind them
for the basketball season
ahead.
Mary Shaw
1605 Crown ave.
Medford.
Children Thanked
To the Editor: We wish to
thank the children of the val
ley who collected $785 in this
year's Trick or Treat for
UNICEF Halloween program;
representatives, state execu
tive, Judicial and legislative
officers. '
When the right to vote in
any such election is abridged
to any qualified voter, the
15th Amendment provides
that the basis of represent
ation in such state shall be
reduced in proportion to the
number of persons whose vot
ing rights have been abridged
bears to the whole number of
the state's qualified voters.
Norton further explains:
"This enables the nation to
inflict punishment upon the
state for preventing citizens
from voting - from voting for
national officers not only, but
also some officers ' of the
state."
Power Never Used
Congress has the power to
act under the foregoiig pro
visions of tile Constitution. It
never has used this power to
reduce the number of a state's
representatives in the House.
The weapon lies handy, how
Foreign Notebook: West Wants
No Repetition of Paris Fiasco
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the Foreign Editor's
notebook:
Delayed Summit:
The guessing in London is
that if there is a Big Four
summit con
ference next
spring, it will
come con
siderably later
VjttJ'l than first
I"-?' J thought. The
3f"M thoug
I rcaso
I the
reason is that
West
wants no repe-
SX-I1VJ on oi lasi
PMiTkEwsoM springs fans
fiasco and will take plenty of
time to prepare, probably urg
ing that the first contact with
Russia be at the foreign min
ister's level. Moscow's latest
maneuverings suggest that
Khrushchev aims at a quick
Berlin "settlement at the
next summer session, and a
foreign minister's conference
preceding it may help deter
mine the chances for success.
Scare Propaganda!
The Communists have
drawn up plans for establish
ment of a civil defense air
raid corps in East Berlin. The
step is in line with the Com
munist campaign to convince
East Germans they are threat
ened by an attack from West
Germany.
Gailskell Winsi
Hugh Gaitskell, at'least
temporarily, has quashed his
opposition among Britain's
Laborite parliamentary dele
gation. He now can be expect
ed to go all out to attempt to
convince the national party
that it must stop Its newly
adopted policy favoring uni
lateral nuclear disarmament.
He is expected to argue that
labor's poor showing against
the traditionally weak liberal
party in this week's by-elec
tion shows that voters will
the citizens who welcomed
these children and donated
coins; the Rotary club and
interested individuals whose
gifts made possible the pur
chase of the Danny Kaye
movie which shows how
UNICEF helps children in for
eign lands; Elliott Becken and
the principals who scheduled
the showing of the film in 14
schools; the students who
made gifts from their student
body funds; members of the
Applegate Grange who took
up a collection at their Octo
ber meeting; the young peo
ple of the Ashland Presbyter
ian church and the Talent
Methodist church who organ
ized their own projects to col
lect for UNICEF; the Mail
Tribune, local radio and tele
vision stations for their ex
cellent publicity: Sniders
and Jorgenscns dairies who
furnished cartons for the col
lection of coins; and the First
National- Bank for their an
nual service.
We greatly appreciate the
help of all those who super
vised the distribution of the
UNICEF cartons to the chil
dren. This help was gener
ously given by the Sunday
school teachers of the First
Presbyterian c h u r c h , the
Westminster P r e s byterian
church, the First mcthodist
church, many neighborhood
mothers and the Sisters at St,
Mary's. The film was shown
to several groups at St,
Mary's.
We are grateful for the sup
port of the many people in
the community which made
this year's UNICEF Hallo
ween the most successful to
date. More children partici
pated and the 1960 collection
was almost triple that of 1959.
Mrs. Marrs R. Gibbons,
Mrs. Rease Braley,
Cochairmen.
0
Remind Wilson of
ever, to any member of Con
gress minded to penalize al
leged discrimination against
Negroes in the South or de
siring, merely, to get his name
in the paper as a friend of
the Negro.
Stranger things have hap
pened in Congress than that
some member, for his own
reason, would challenge the
congressional representation
of some. Southern states, un
der terms of the 15th Amend
ment. The wholesale disen
franchlsement of Southern Ne
groes is more often claimed in
large numbers than it is legal
ly proven.
The claims persist, however,
and the 15th Amendment
awaits the whim of any leg
islator who may believe it
would be worthwhile to raise
in the new 87th Congress a
legislative ruckus of large
proportions.
Roy Wilkins, executive sec
retary of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of
not support a feuding party or
one favoring unilateral dis
armament. The by-election
Laborite candidates who fared
worst were those who opposed
GaitskelDs firm allegiance to
NATO. .
Diplomatic Blooper:
The Nationalist Chinese face
a major diplomatic challenge
in establishing smooth and
cordial relations with the ad
ministration of U.S. President
elect Kennedy. Since World
War II, Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek has found some of
his staunchest support ers
among the Republicans. Con
versely, they fear the Demo
cratic party to be too liberal
to stand firm against the Com
munist Chinese. The National
Dick West
Children's
Meets Bob
By DICK WEST
United Press International
Washington - IUPD - For the
first time since I stumbled
into the parenthood business,
I have become a hero to my
own children. Let me tell you
the secret of my success.'
But first let me explain that
children who
grow up in
become
rather blase
about the big
wheels that
spin around
here. They
don't regard
gov ernmcnt
officials as be
ing very important.
Many a night I have gone
home from work and dropped
names around like confetti.
My kinder didn't even look
up from the television set.
But now, I'm proud to say,
I've got them swooning into
their apple sauce. They think
the old man is pretty hot
stuff. The tide turned a night
or two ago when I greeted
them thusly:
"Children, shake the hand
that shook the hand of Bobby
Darin."
"Gosh, daddy-o," they said,
using my formal title, "how
did you do it?"
Just Lucky
Well, kids, I'm just lucky
I guess. Bobby was in town
over the week end to accept
a "personality of the year"
award from the Variety club,
and somebody called me up
and asked if I wanted to in
terview him.
So before you can say
Try and
it
-By BENNETT CERF-
TfTIEN CARTER BURGESS became president of T.W.A.,
" reports Walter Trohan, speakers heaped an hour of
praise and adulation on his head. His entire acceptance
speech was, "I am sorry,
gentlemen, my mother
could not be here today.
She not only would have
enjoyed this impressive
ceremony, but she would
have believed every word
of it!"
There was a crisis in Vic
tor Borge's home recently.
His brother swallowed a
pill that made him fifteen
years younger and he was
only 12 years old when he
took it
"Say something warm 1
and gracious," pleaded Borge, The boy obliged. He said, "Ones)
ous, I'm warm."
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An Incurable racetrack addict glumly informed his erorrteB fas
could not attend the inaugural of the Jamaica season. "My ffcel
wife," he mourned, "found where Id hid the bankroll end bleir
the entire wad on the grocery bill."
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Colored People (NAACP), es
timated last week that about
three million Negroes in some
Southern states were denied
the vote' in the Nov. 8 elec
tion. More specifically, Wil
kins cited Mississippi regis
tration figures.- .
He said 8,000 Mississippi
Negro citizens were registered
of a Negro voting age popu
lation of 495,000 in that
state. ':
Thomas James Norton's
"The Constitution of the Unit
ed States -Its Sources and Ap
plication" is a 319-page book
which discusses the Constitu
tion sentence by sentence, ex-.
plaining why and how it was
phrased as it is, and by whom.
The book is a short course in
basic government equal to a
college course in civics. The
price: 69 cents paperback,
cloth bound $2 postpaid from
the Committee for Constitu
tional Government, 210 East
43rd St., New York City.
ists apparently believed Rich
ard Nixon would win the elec
tion and allowed . themselves
to become careless. Three
weeks before the election, the
Nationalist foreign ministry is
sued a statement calling Ken
nedy's views on the off shore
islands "ridiculous" and "in
credible." Red China Trade:
Tokyo observers are pre
dicting stepped -up trade be
tween Japan and Communist
China. An increasing number
of ruling Liberal Democrat
party members are lining up
trips to Red China, apparent
ly in the belief the new U.S.
administration will take a
more flexible view toward
Red China.
Becomes
Hero;
Darin
"Mack the Knife" I was on
my way to Bobby's hotel
suite with my faithful Indian
companion, Dr. Zhivago, at
my side. I took Dr. Zhivago
along to serve as my inter
preter. When we got there, Bobby's
pad looked like a scene from
an old Marx Brothers movie.
People were going in and out
of doors so fast it made me
dizzy. Bobby must have a big
ger retinue than ex-King
Farouk.
In the midst of this confu
sion stood the bread-winner
himself, clad in a tight-fitting
silk suit which Dr. Zhivago
misiooK tor a matador s cos
tume. "They must be getting
ready to send him into the
bull ring," Dr. Zhivago whis
pered. Hard to Convince
I explained that the suit
represented the latest Am
tiental fashion, but Dr. Zhiv
ago remained dubious.
"If someone sold me a suit
like that, I'd sue the tailor,"
lie stiiu. ,
Eventually, we were able
to draw Bobby into a quiet 1
corner where we had a pleas
ant chat. We learned that he
has just returned from Italy
where he made a movie with
Gina Lollobrigida.
"How do you like Italian
women?" I asked.
i m a icmaie lover, Boo
by replied. "I don't ask for
their ID cards unless they
look under 18."
I don't remember much else
about the interview, but it'i
sure great to be able to bask
in his reflected glory.
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