Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-05-22
Personalities
BY Nell DOdson

Alpud Isl ITdI6rIuIys AdSI year
in Chicago, Ben caused a near
sensation at the Kappa summer
formal when he appeared all
logged out in his white full dress
uniform. They had to pick the
swooning femmes up from the
dance floor, s'help me. Davis
wanted to go into the army air
corps but he couldn't get in so he
will have to be satisfied with a
regular army post somewhere. He
is supposed to be engaged to get
married Immediately on gradua-
ton, and that takes him out of cir
culation. One of his Chicago pals
tells the story of walking down
the avenue with Ben in New York
and seeing people turn around in
the middle of the street to stare
at the tall, broad-shouldered young
cullud West Pointer.
Boom goes a campus romance!
Two good pals of mine have come
to the parting of the ways, and
I'm very sorry to see the split. But
just as love affairs begin, so must
they end. S'too bad because some
body is always left holding the
bag. In seven out of ten cases,
it's the girl who gets it in the neck.
Poor wimmen folks!
Two people often begin their
heart affair by agreeing to come to
a friendly and sensible parting if
one or the other should get tired.
But what happens? When the
break finally comes, the agree
ment is usually forgotten, and
somebody gets a grand case of
Mysteries. IF there's anything that
completely floors a man, it's to
have hysterical femme on his
hands. He doesn't know what to
do or what to say, and he hovers
uncertainty in a state of disgust,
bewilderment, and just plain stage
fright. (And don't tell me nothin'
about throwing any Mysteries,
pal) If the gal could only say
sweetly: "All right, let's call it
quits. Goomby, sonny boy. And
don't get your big feet tangled up
in the rug on the way out" But
only dame with heart of dou-
BILE stone can stand by noncha-
lantly while Her Whole Existence
calmly checks out and calls it a
day. On the other hand, when it's
the man who gets the go-by, he
usually falls back on that worn-out
line: "You've been making fool
out of me-" When a man gets
it in his noodle that a woman's
been making a fool out of him,
nothing under the sun can make
him change his mind. Even when
the gal explains that she hasn't
been trying to make any fool of
him at all, but she is just tired
of the little affair, the guy still
hangs onto his original moan. He
will probably go out and drown
his sorrows in gallon of giggle-
soup and tell his best pal how he's
been tricked and is through with
the female sex forever. Tsk, tsk.
Last Saturday afternoon I
dragged Vida Parker out to the
Minnesota-Iowa track meet at the
stadium, We sat out in that aw-
full sun and positively toasted
while we watched Homer Harris
and Clyde Briggs and Gene Skin
ner, the University of Iowa cul-
lud tracksters, go through their
PAGES. Parker kept saying she
didn't understand why I had been
raving about Harris and Briggs be-
cause she couldn't see where they
were such hot-chas. Bein' on &C
counta' the sun made such a glare
on the field that no one could see
a damb thing anyhow, I just let
her rave. After the meets were
over, I took her around to the
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