Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26
DHiIy Short Story
This Here Love
By CHARLES Mc6UIRK

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1LDIERS are all right, but
there's a lot that can be said
,inSt having one for sweet
,rt. They can't belong 10 any
| because they don't belong 10
msekes.
| They're az tnPTT CouHtrN Cali
when their country calls, they
Ne 10 GO 10 Europe or Asia or
lea or Australia 10 answer.
20 where does that leave tho
Is they left behind them? Right
ere they started.
feh. Soldiers are here today
A gone tomorrow. They are
yays in a hurry, so they work
" fast.
They all have good line ana
Ien il hooks a girl and she fails
ere does she find herself7
On the other end of the world
I'M the guy she fell for. I've
m il happen. As a matter Of
n. I've seen il happen 10 myself.
"a what did II get me?
FELL FOR A SOLDIER
We'll. I don't know yet, All /
ow Is that | fell for a soldier
4 when l knew that a soldier
a the last thing IN the world
20 for.
[ was full of such propaganda
the above. ! knew all the
estions. thought ! knew the
swers. TOO. But ! didn't.
I didn't know the right one. any
W. Or did !? Gosh! I'm so
Infused since il happened that
ion't know where I'm al.
Now l do not want To appear 10
framing an abb. II happened
d sometimes I'm sorry and some
mes I'm glad.
But il did not happen in the ordi-
~ way. / would hate for any
Z 10 think that / was the kind
q girl who would kiss a soldier
e very first time she met him.
Yes. / know / did just that but
ere were what the long hairs call
xfenuating circumstances"
When / kissed the guy, did net
30 10 have il mean what il was
opposed to mean.
HOLD Is RECORDS
But right in the very middle of
! the darned kiss went off in my
eth and ! found myself meaning
81 what a girl is supposed 10
San when she kisses man.
xh!
I'm so confused. Well. let's
art this from the beginning. And
en- well know where we're going.
And maybe. in telling il, I'll find
II why the thing that happened.
: ii that clear? Gosh! I'm so
infused.
I am 19 years old. / know you'll
ink that's certainly starting at
e beginning.
But that has nothing to do with
e soldier.
i have 10 tell how old I am be-
use you will find out anyhow, If
u read any OF the pictorial mag
ines.
I am a swimmer and have been
r il years. Away back then,
ey started pointing me for the
|ympics. which would have been
Id. / think, IL Germany hadn't
en- afflicted with Adolf Hitler.
But anyhow, / swim a lot in
eets all over California, my home
ate. and often in the middle west
I'd in the east.
j hold Is records in different
'ents from the 100 meters to the
ok stroke. And this all leads up
the beginning of my explana-
On. which was in the pool of the
Dllywood & lympic Club, an
Iuatic organization.
It was in the Hollywood Olym-
6 pool that ! met Harold
ksanay. Harold. as you know, is
swimming champion and also an
pert diver.
1 kind of like Harold. In fact,
thought 1 was in love with him.
nd. maybe / was.
Maybe. If things had been diff
rent. maybe I'd be married and
} called Mrs. Harold Essanay
stead of Betty Thibault.
VOICE LIKE RUDY
However. Harold got the idea
lat / fell in love with him be-
luse he was an expert swimmer.
didn't.
I fell in love with him-or
fought l did-becauSe he has a
nee like Rudy Vallee and eyes
re Charles Boyer and the physi-
Il build of Jean Cabin. You
low. The French romantic star
/ guess / like Frenchmen best OF
nv nationality-or l did. They