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History from the files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 veart ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1952 (Thursday)
Federal Bureau of Investi
gation Jails William K. Rus
sell In Portland; suspected of
the slaying of two United
Motors Service corporation
executives at Crater Lake July
19.
Chief Justice James T.
Brand of the Oregon Supreme
Court to open 12th annual
Shake spearean Festival In
Ashland.
20 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1942 (Friday)
Richard Hall, Jacksonville,
a survivor of the sinking of
the carrier Lexington, awaits
assignment to a new ship.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A ceil
ing on meat prices looms, as
. prices threaten to Jump over
the moon unaccompanied by
the old cow. There is talk of
readjusting the celling. Some
favor lowering the floor and
another school of expert- say
the same result can be had by
sawing the legs off the meat
block."
Questions for Candidates
Several weeks atro the Eutrene Register-Guard
ran an editorial which said bluntly that the state
of Oregon is in financial trouble. It suggested
that the people of the state should asK tneir legis
lators, present and potential, what tney intend 10
do about it.
The editorial (which was reprinted in this
newspaper and several others) pointed out that
the state will have some $33 million less going
into the next biennium than it did at the start of
this one ; that to maintain state services at their
present level will require millions more, and inai
some state services notably in education
m;ist be stepped up to meet heavier use and de
mand. The Pendleton East Oregonian agreed with
the Register-Guard's analysis of the coming fis
cal crisis.
IN SALEM, however, the Oregon Statesman took
an unexcited view. It suggested that the cry
of "wolf" has been heard before, but that Ore-
tronians are nhleernatic about this sort of thing.
The Register-Guard retorted by saying that
this time it isn't a false alarm.
And the Pendleton paper rejoined with a spe
cific suggestion that a net receipts tax, a mooi
fication of the present state income tax and a
broadening of its base, be devised to raise the
added new income. Such a tax revision has the
support of both Governor Hatfield, and the re
cent jjemocrauc party cunveuuun.
E NOW ask our candidates for the legisla-
ture these Questions:
1. How would you propose to raise the $33
million which was surplus going into this bienni
um, but which will not be available next year?
z. now do you propose to raise uie auuuiundi
$10 million for basic school support called for
next biennium in the existing law?
3. How do you propose to raise the additional
$21 million which the state system of higher edu
cation says it wiil need next biennium to care for
the exploding student populations?
4. How do you propose to finance the addi
tional needs of the community colleges program
now provided for by state law?
5. If you believe that no tax increase should
be passed, which state services, including those
mentioned above, should be curtailed or eliminated?.
IT IS unpleasant to contemplate a tax increase at
the state level, but it is either that or cut back
on state services.
We believe it is important, right now and be
fore election, to do some basic thinking about
what we want from our state government, and
how we're going to pay for it. We believe it is
important that we know the attitude of our pros
pective lenislators.
The Mail Tribune will gladly print any re
sponses to the questions above from any or an or
the candidates ror the state legislature. E.A.
Voice Crying in What' Left Of The Wildernet
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Prosperous Finland Still Has Economic
Worries; Now Biding Time, and Hoping
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30 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1932 (Sunday)
Jacksonville c 1 1 1 zens an
nounce gigantic celebration
this month; plan to recreate
the town as it was 50 years
ago, in 1882.
Plans for the dedication of
the new Jackson county court
house pre announced.
British MDs Hit Back
Litter Hurts
To the Editor: "Every Litter
Bit Hurts." Ana Imagine this
hurt in two ways, pride and
purse.
The Wisconsin state con
servation department said
Thursday, Floyd N. Johnson,
35, Red Wing, Minn., had a
habit of throwing beer cans
out of the window of his car,
over a 30 mile stretch of high
way. Judge Paul A. Magdanz has
ordered Johnson to clean up
part of the road or forfeit $75.
Johnson has pleaded guilty
to two counts in the case.
He paid a $10 fine for posses
sion of beer in a moving car,
and $25 for depositing debris
on a public highway. The
judge ordered Johnson to pick
up beer cans and debris from
both sides of the highway No.
10 for 7Vi miles.
The Judge ordered $75 of
the fine to be refunded, when
Johnson had cleaned up the
highway.
Johnson was arrested by a
warden who testified Johnson
made the trip from Red Wing
to Ellsworth about four times
a week, drank beer along the
route and threw empty cans
on the highway. How about
trying this on our offenders?
The above was taken from
the Red Wing Republican
Dally Eagle, Red Wing, Minn.
A. E. Smith,
1032 Winchester,
Medford
and gutter paving. Newtown
is one street. There are
many others. Curb and gutter
paving is being successfully
promoted with the beautiful
sounding words, "the demo
cratic way."
How long, O Lord, how
long will the people sleep,
while justice weeps?
Mrs. Alice I. Black,
812 Newtown it.,
Medford
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foraign Newt Analyst
Helsinki - Finland is a na
tion of full employment and
a steadily rising income. She
wants 10 Keep
it that way.
Emotional 1 y,
culturally and
economical 1 y
the Finns ar
0 r i ented to
w a r d the
West. They
want to keep
it that way,
too. Finland,
a nation of 4.5 million, lies in
the shadow of the Soviet
Union and its population of
more than 200 million. The
realistic Finns know that
their relations with the Rus
sians must remain cordial.
Even so, the Finns have
managed to retain both their
political and economic inde
pendence at a time when
mf ny another among Russia's
neighbors simply has disap
peared inside the Soviet bloc.
Finland's trade with Russia
accounts for less than 18 per
cent of her total.
In recent years, Finland's
gross nationai product has
moved steadily ahead at an
annual rate of better than 6
per cent, better than the
United States and Great Brit
ain, the equal of any country
in the world except perhaps
those in the European Com
mon Market and Japan.
Her income per capita is
around $1,000. Less than Swe
den's, better than any country
in South America.
All this has been accom
plished without the Marshall
Plan aid which benefited
other European nations out
side the Iron Curtain and
despite back-breaking war
reparations exacted by the
Soviet Union.
But despite this obvious
economic success, Finland has
nagging economic worries.
Pulp and paper account for
79 per cent of her foreign ex
ports. But Finland already is
is exploiting her forests at a
rate slightly above the time
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
required for regrowth and Is
at the limit of expansion.
While she has full employ
ment now, the next few years
will see 100,000 war babies
come into the labor market.
For these, jobs must be found.
Finland s hopes lie in its
expanding metal-working in
dustry, which ranges from
manufacture of e 1 e c t r leal
cable to heavy-duty ice breakers.
But to do it, she must main
tain her trade with the West.
Here two conditions will
be decisive.
First she must have an as
sociation with the common
market in which France, West
Germany, Italy, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg
are the present members and
which Great Britain is at
tempting to Join. Britain is
Finland's best customer and
she dare not take the risk of
restrictive tariffs closing her
products out of the European
market.
Second is the att'tude of tha
Soviet Union and the punitive
action the Soviets might take
if their present hostile atti
tude toward the common mar
ket persists.
At the moment, Finland is
biding its time and hoping.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(el New York Herald Tribune Ryndlcata
40 YEARS AGO
Julv 31. 1922 (Monday)
Arthur Barr, a bootblack,
Is tlie first witness in the
grand Jury probe of Ku Klux
Klnn activities; Klans men
blame current misfortunes on
a black cat that crossed the
path of two of their night
raiders.
SO YEARS AGO
July 31. 1912 (Wednesday).
Medford enjoys the best
health in its history, with
birth rate up and death and
disease rates down, says
Health Physician Dr. R. W.
Stearns.
City council announces its
Intention to force secondhand
dealers and Junk dealers to
report all property they buy.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct H tueerier;
seven or eight it excellent; five of
six it good.
1. Do moles eat earth
worms? 2. Which has the larger
population - Alaska or Hawaii?
3. The ocean area near the
Equator where the trade
winds meet and neutralize
each other Is known to sailors
as what?
4. Do calories measure
heat moisture, or nutritive
value?
5. Which of these is lenewn
as the Fourth BstMte - royal
ty, clergy, leiM ewacssien
or press?
6. Sunwlv e wawM
iii "The tuU. n
?."
7. '
a. j M'
Invets raineaa. er seaej e ?
Equalor?
fl. Whil lree-i aaval
hero Ip famous for saying.
'S.rike my colors. I have Just
begun tu fight"?
10. Columbus and Cabot
both died believing the) had
visited Asia; true or false?
Answers: 1. Yea. 2. Hawaii.
3. Doldrums. 4. Heal. S. Tha
prats. . Thoutand. 7. Dai
Molnei. 1. North. (. John
Paul Jones. 10. True.
The American Medical Association, in its Ion
running battle against the evils of "socialized
medicine," has frequently held up Britain's Na
tional Health Service as a horrible example.
It has pictured British physicians as unhappy,
and leaving the country in droves; it has de
scribed the level of medical service as inade
quate; it has assailed the costs as too high and
the administration as inefficient.
The British, by and large, have either ignored
this type of propaganda, or politely said nothing.
Now, however, it appears they are beginning to
talk back.
A NEWS story from Washington, printed in
the Oregon Labor Press, declares that the
"staid, mild and well-mannered British Medical
Society" is "exploding with righteous indigna
tion." The story continued :
"The British Medical Journal, oinciai puoiicauon
of the British doctors, has finally had enough. In an
editorial it bluntly charged that the AMA's attack on
the British health program whs 'vulgar, cheap and
nonsense."
" 'We watched with some dismay the mushroom
growth of the AMA's public relalinns activities and the
colossal sums spent by it to defeat what our American
colleagues call "socialized medicine",' the Journal said.
'This dismay is at the probably inherent weakness of
American medical services if such a vast effort has to
be expended on misrepresentation of what is happen
ing here in Britain.'
"The editor of the British Journal acknowledged
that there arc certain weaknesses in the English med
ical piogram. But he Is certain, he continued vigorous
ly that 'a great many doctors In the U S A. deplore as
we do the vulgarity and cheapness of its (the AMA's)
past and present attacks on the National Health Serv
ice.' " 'The AMA,' lie said, 'should understand that they
have a lot to learn from Britain ami Europe about
methods of providing medical services - from our suc
cesses as well as our failures.' "
IT IS THli AMA's attitude that it and it alone
is cmtAifkevl to tell the American people how
tKtf.r should pay their doctors' bills that is so
Tlw AM.., at first, was against health insur-
tm pWra, but finally accepted them when it saw
U w;a ffoinj to have' to. It was against social se
rvrit.? hen.it was first adopted. Most recently,
of courv, it has worked diligently to defeat a
plan for the expansion of social security to in
clude certain hospital and nursing home services
after the age of 5i.
It has assailed these modest social ami eco
nomic measures as steps toward socialized medi
cine, and then distorted the British health service
plan to prove now horrible sociali.cd medicine is.
One wonders how long they're going to get
away with it. E.A.
Dog Days news:
As this is written, the
weather bureau has just come
up with its forecast for the
next few days-which, it says,
will be without precipitation
and VERY warm under cloud
less skies. Daytime tempera
tures will be in the vicinity
of 90 degrees, with night-time
lows around 50 degrees.
This prediction is for the
high country. The forecast in
timates that down at the low
er levels the mercury may
climb well over the 100 mark.
Thor, the ancient god of thunder.
That raises a question:
Who was the cynic who
first conceived the idea of
calling destructive hurricanes
by women's names?
WHY
11
How Lonq?
To the Editor: I enjoyed
your good editorial, "Amer
ica the Ambivalent," M.M.T.
July 25. Will you permit me
to add a few thoughts of my
own?
You say, "we moan about
the high and rising crime
rate, and Increases in juve
nile delinquency." I add,
while we support with our
tax dollars the conditions In
our government that produce
the delinquents. J. Edgar Hoo
ver recently said that crime
is increasing five times faster
than the population.
You say, "we brag about
being the first 'affluent so
ciety', where all are now able
to reap benefits from the new
industrial and technical age:
yet somewhere between 30
and 50 million of our neigh
bors do not earn enough to
provide decent housing, food
and clothing.
You say, "we pay lip serv
ice to our democratic ideals
and equnlity of opportunity
for all; yet deny one-tenth of
our people the right to equal
housing and equal employ
ment chances."
1 say, shame on the leaders
of a nation that claims to be
Christian and the richest na
tion on earth, and more shame
on the people whose lethargy
has permitted such a condition
to develop and whose tax dol
lars are supporting such a
system.
Two and one-half months
ago the voters In Jackson
county voted down, three to
one, a county manager form
of government while they
support with their tax dollars
a city manager form of gov
ernment which is molded by
the same pattern and which
operates in the same dicta
torial manner.
A radio newscast July 2S
j announced that Congress has
boosted welfare spending to
$3 billion for I0H3. Welfare
is supported with taxpayers'
dollars. If the taxpayers in
Jackson county could know
how many people in their
county have been and still
are being forced onto welfare
by having expensive curb and
gutter pavings forced upon
them. I wonder If those tax
payer would awake.
The council at their last
meeting approved a curb and
gutter paving for Newtown
street between Belmont and
Catherine. This block contains
ten property owners, thre
are on fljed low incomes, in-
One Brief Moment
To the Editor: In recent
years the thirst of man is
something supernatural. Al
ways drinking to one thing or
another, man is seldom seen
with out a glass in his hand.
He is uncomfortable unless he
drinks before meals, with
meals and after meals.
He drinks to his friends
when they arrive, and to their
health when they leave. He
needs a drink when he reads
or writes, a drink when he is
thinking and a drink for re
laxing at bedtime for sleep
inducer. If there s any tning
left in the bottle he'll drink
to your mother and mine.
Some drink so they can
drive an automobile, others
to drown their sorrow or mad
dening thoughts. People drink
to stay healthy, others to for
get the illness they have, or
the doctor's bill for their ill
ness. Another group drinks after
their day's work is done, when
it's time to go home to the
wife and kids. The last group
are men who actually crawl
into the bottle and soak, men
who drag along year in year
out never getting any where,
living In a crowded, noisy
house where there are bawl
ing, screaming children fight
ing. He is met at the door of
his heaven on eartn by an
angel wife, cursing, nagging
and reaching for his money.
In the mercy of God, let
this man soak himself
liquor. Let him funnel the
maddening fire down his
parched throat. Let him in the
name of a merciful God be
able once more to go into his
mansion feeling he is the king.
Let this drink give him cour
age, to trample over his sor
rows, to soothe his sweating
brow. This one time be able
to know they have lived for
one brief moment before they
die.
E. Dykes
Box 5R
Eagle Point. Ore.
call it "Dog Days'
news?
The answer is that we are
now at the season that for
somewhere in the neighbor
hood of 20 centuries has been
known as Dog Days. The term
comes down to us from the
ancient Romans, who called
the half dozen hottest weeks
of the summer CANICU-
LARIS DIES which, as you
will recall if any of your
high school Latin has stayed
with you, means Days of the
Dog.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney i. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
NATIONAL CHARACTER
A note in the New York
Times advertising column
recently mentioned that "na
tional charac
teristics have
been playing
a growing
V, part in adver-
tising lately."
Alsop
THE NEW PHASE
Washington-In the modern
world, the economists have re
placed the theologians of less
enlightened ages. With infin
ite certitude but little certain
ty of accurate
p r e d i c Hon,
they speculate
upon the first
things and
last things of
our industrial-
1 c 0 m m e rcial
the same tok
en, Sovietolo
gists have
now replaced astrologers.
They read Pravda and Izves
tia as their predecessors read
the stars, and from these drab
perusals, they cast the horos
cope of this troubled world
for the next months and
years.
These reflections are in
spired by the memory of a
recent informal encounter be
tween eminent practitioners
of these two specialties or (in
the old sense of the world)
mysteries. The point that
emerged from their talk,
though it is not exactly news,
is at least well worth record
fn THE one hand, the econ-
" omists were worried, as
llfrA ii The new cam-
ts pa,gn f0?
'gfriFm i KLM Royal
. Dutch Air-
CCORDING to their theory
the Dog Star, or sinus.
rising with the sun, added to
the sun's heat and so in the
Dog Days (about July 3 to
August 11) sweltering human
ity had to bear up under the
combined heat of the Dog
Star and the sun.
Their theory wasn't too un
reasonable. Sirlus is the
brightest star in the heavens.
It radiates 30 times as much
light as the sun, but it is so
far away that its light (travel
ing at 186,284 miles per sec
ond) takes nine years to reach
the earth.
AT TIMES during these long
centuries, the mistaken
belief has prevailed that dogs
were likely to "go mad" from
rabies during hot weather. As
a matter of fact, the scientists
tell us now, fewer dogs go
mad in hot weather than in
cold. So this particular super
stition about the Dog Days
has largely disappeared.
In the newspaper business
we have a superstition that
in hot weather there isn't
much news but the weather.
Whence comes that heresy?
One suspects that it arose out
of the reluctance of human
beings to get out in swelter
ing weather and do the things
that make news.
Anyway. Dog Days news is
apt to be news that doesn't
carry much punch.
edi-
HIK:
What's Wrong?
To the Editor: Your
torial on public forests
lumber was very interesting.
Why don't we take a look at
the farm problem, unemploy
ment, juvenile delinquency,
the crime wave, and take a
look at business in general?
We have had moonlight
sales, sidewalk sales, man
ager's sales. Blossom bucks,
buy a new car and go to the
World's Flr on us, and many,
nianv more too numerous to
mention. There must be some
thing wrong somewhere. Why
don't we Just blame the Com
munists? Thov seem to be
causing all of our trouble. !
And again, after I think
about it, there could be some- j
thing wrong with our econ
omy. Now I should have never I
said that, because we are the
only country in the world
with a surplus of everything
and at least 50 per cent of our
people on the fringes of pov
erty. Eric Scvareld laid it on the
line in the Sunday. July 22.
M T. Poor Eric, he should not
think that way. he will be
accused of being a pinko. Any
way. Eric gets my vote.
Fay Prirhard
414 South First st.
Central Fomt, Ore.
HERE in the midst of Dog
Davs, here's a dog story
from St. Louis:
Duke, a handsome German
Police dog. is a member of
the St. Louis police canine
corps. Not only that, he is a
member of the narcotics
squad. His iob is to spot nar
cotics - either when cached
away or carried on the per
sons of narcotics venders.
Carrving out his assigned
task. Duke is calif4 upon to
investigate a refrigt ator in a
restaurant whose proprietor
was suspected of narcotics
dealings. When the refrigera
tor door was opened, an in
viting display of frankfurters
was exposed to view.
Did Duke warie into thorn
hungrily? He did not. With
his nose, he pushed aside the
tantalizing heap of meat and
exposed to view beneath it
EIGHT PACKAGES OF
MARIJUANA!
Harla "ncs. for in-
stance, stresses the "sturdy
reliability" of the Dutch peo
ple. And the new joint ad
vertising campaign conducted
by British Overseas Airways
Corp. and Cunard Steamship
Co. will emphasize the British
national character as being
"generous, impeccable, unob
trusive." These traits are true enough
as far as they go. But every
nation has a public face and
a private face - not hypo
critically, but simply as
matter of historical fact. In
one way or another, every
country is slightly schizo
phrenic.
To tourists, iha French
give the impression of be
ing debonair and romantic
and sensual. Yet, privately,
the French are immensely
shrewd, practical, realistic
and hold cool intelligence
in higher esteem than the
emotions. To the French,
stupidity is the cardinal
sin.
Likewise, the British are
stolid, well-mannered and
unobtrusive in their social
relations - but not in the
privacy of their clubs and
pubs.
There is a wonderful vein
of whimsicality and lunacy
that runs through the Brit
ish character. Lear's limer
icks, and the veneration of
"Alice in Wonderland." are
possible only in England;
the rest of Europe finds
them incomprehensible.
The starched shirt-front
and the striped trousers are
strictly for public consump
tion. In the private cor
ners of his life, the English
man easily gives way to
eccentricity and even a lit
tle madness. The most ex
travagant and ambitious
practical jokes have been
perpetrated by Englishmen
-along with the greatest
tolerance of tha idiotyncra
ciet of others.
all economists are nowadays.
One of them had begun to
suspect that the Western na
tions, with the U. S. in the
lead, were entering one of
the deflationary periods
which have been characteris
tic second phases after great
wars. These occur, he said,
when the fuel of demand
banked up in wartime at last
burns out, and the post-war
inflationary surge therefore
comes to an end.
His colleague was less
grim, but he too was alarmed,
because he considered that
the Western economies have
now reached a stage where
national economic policies
must be, above all, extremely
flexible and ruthlessly prac
tical. And he saw a contrary
tendency towards rigidity and
impractical rubber stamp -thinking.
On the other hand, the
Sovietologists were positively
merry and bright, despite the
Berlin crisis, the ferment In
South America, the risky bet
in Laos, and many another
cause for apprehension. Their
good cheer was based on their
conviction that the troubles of
the Communist part ot the
world were much worse than
any current Western troubles.
riiHE picture the Sovietolo---
gists painted appeared to
sustain their judgment.
Czechoslovakia, the former
showpiece, in deep disarray;
East Germany, a hideous na
tional slum, presided over by
an obscene, universally do
ing as well from a seemingly
incurable moral disaffection
that was how their story be
gan. In the Soviet Union, too,
they saw a disturbing failure.
The U. S. S. R.'s rate of
growth, they pointed out, had
failed to do what Nikita S.
Khrushchev once hoped that
it would do-namely, provida
enough resources to meet the
competing requirements of a
great military effort, a mas
sive industrial effort, and an
increasingly demanding popu
lation of consumers. They
even suggested that the re
sulting problem of investment
priorities might later turn
into a political problem.
Finally, looking further
eastward, they pictured Com
munist China in the grip of
an economic-political-agricul
tural crisis so terrible and un
precedented that its outcome
was unforeseeable. With de
creasing hope of rescue by a
good crop this year, China,
they remarked, was a country
where almost anything might
happen, but nothing good.
The point that emerged
from these exchanges is sim
ple but startling. The cold
war, in brief, seems to be pass
ing into a quite new phase,
different in basic character
from the long, stern postwar
phase.
11HE transition has been
marked by the persistence,
in this new phase, of the man
euvers and challenges typical
of the former phase, such as
the challenge at Berlin. But
this continuing political-military
competition seems to ba
losing Importance, compared
to another kind of competi
tion. This is the competition
between the performances of
the Communist and Western
forms of society on their
home grounds.
This is true mainly because
the Communist form of so
ciety has lately begun to per
form very badly indeed. A
breakdown or blow-up in
Communist China, for in
stance, will become a clear
possibility if the new harvest
is as bad as now forecast. Ana
whatever its other results;
such a breakdown or blow-up
would be a staggering cold
war setback for the Commu
nist cause.
Other developments which
now seem possible or prob
able in the Communist part
of the world, though less dra
matic than a Chinese break
down, would also be severe
setbacks. But the trouble is
that at the very moment
when the Communist form of
society has begun to perform
so badly, the vigor and econ
omic health of the Western
oerformance is also beginning
o be called into question.
Maybe that flexibility and
practicality the second econ-
tested puppet; all the rest of omist hankered for should be
Eastern Europe stagnant in regarded as necessary cold
varying degrees, and suffer-' war weapons.
ONE nion
er tale
Even in the realms of poll
tics and diplomacy, the Brit
ish display a note of levity,
where the representatives of
other nations would not per
mit themselves to unbend. No
American statesman, for ex
ample, would dare to behave
as rirolly as Lord Halifax,
Great Brilain's former For
eign Secretary.
Halifax was traveling to
Portsmouth one day, and
shared a railway compart
ment wiiii two very prim and
militant-looking ladies. As the
train passed through a tunnel.
ore Dog Days wenth- I Halifax took advantage of the
i darkness and noisly Kissed nis
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
THAT'S single-minded and
devoted dedication to
duty. If we humans could,
and would, do as well, think
what a world this could be.
The V S Weather Bureau
at Jacksonville. Florida an
nounces that the first official
hurricane or tropical storm
of the 1 Pr2 season will be
named Alma - which, it says,
is Latin for "snirit." Later
storms will be named Becky,
Celia. Paiy and Thora. Thora.
the weather sharps explain
is the feminine version of deed.
own hand a couple of times.
When the train drew into
the station, he rose, raised his
I hat. and asked gallantly: "To
which cf you two charming
i ladies am 1 indebted for the
.delightful incident in the
tunnel?" And he strode away,
1 leaving them glaring at each
other. "Unobtrustively" in-
CRITIC Brooks Atkinson confesses that when he wants to
' add some very unusual words to his vocabulary, he con
sults the works of S. J. Perelman. It was from this prolific
source, for instance, that
he borrowed, "a firkin of
butter and a hectare of
gherkins" to describe the
fare served at a picnic.
Mr. P. shingled his
country house, Atkinson
discovered, with "second
hand watUes," and he
"taps the dottle from his
pipe" by "knocking it
against the hob." He also
frequently "muckles fib
re towels" from airplanes
that carry him hither and
yon.
e
A fond mother, on the eve of her daughter's mi. . ,..,o,i
her husband anxiously. "Do you reaJly Wiink our Uuie girl is)
ready for the battle of life?" "If she isn't," snapped the husband
unfeelingly, "she never will be. Remember, we've seen her
through six engagements and htaven only knows how many
close-range akinruahea:"
e
English author Evelyn Waugh is no great admirer of th
maater minda out Hollywood way. To a London Journalist he
jeered, "Each book percha. for motion pictures has some in
dividual quality, good or bad, that haa made It remarkable. It ta
the work of a greit array of Jilghly paid and Incompatible writ
era to distinguish this quv, separate It, and obliterate It-"
In the lobby of "How to Succeed in flualnesa Without Really
Trying", a grateful patron presented Abe Burrows with a Itna
ham. thua giving- Mr. B. tha opportunity to.rejr.ark, 'aTlians:
1 11 smoke It later." 4 .