Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01

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Mr.. rICkTRING the lives of
the people YOU meet, diScon-
nected and fleetlng
The sign in the Howard Street
Mission: How long since YOU
have written home:" An acCuS-
ing reminder that men who live
on 80 or 80 cents a day may
want the world 10 forget them.
rs the world, generally speaking.
has forgotten them"
Two high heeled. lipSticked
girls. going home from work
but you wouldn't know il unless
YOU listened 70 their small-talk:
And l knew the micrometer
must be wrong" says one. Il
took il over and tested il on the
10 blocks, and then told the
foreman. This mike is away out
OF whack
Bill Scholl. chattering about
the Detroiters (were YOU one:)
who wrote TO the Fox Theater
10 say that Gary Cooper had
made one mistake In "Pride OF
the Yankees" He batted and
threw Ieft-handed. like Lou Geh-
rig, hut he wrote with his right
hand. A how to these sharp eyed
-obseryers-but Hollywood still
wins. Gehrig played baseball
1eft-handed, but wrote right
handed!
Betty=and Muriei. on the
CKLW switchboard. answering
as men call up and ask. against
a background of whirring ma
chimes. how the World Series is
coming. Fans in the war fac
tories! And one lad who called
up every two or three innings
with. ITS me again. What's the
score now" 81 Freeman
adds: "A man walking down
Griswold street with his head
cooked over like this-listening
10 the ball game on a portable
radio"
Jesse FIeck. suggesting that
there are stories even In the
bread you eat. and sometimes
these stories are told. This time
n movie, being shown In Detroit.
"The Modest Miracle" recounts
the way In which our loaf Of
bread has changed because 80
years ago DIR. Christian Eiikman
meditated on a kernel of rice i'm
Java.
Fighting an epidemic Of beri-
beri, Eijkman noticed that some
natives were sick. but those who
ate the brown outer husks Of
rice were not FROM that start
came the discovery of B. and
other vitamins.
Not romantic, unless saving
lives IL romantic. And yet inn
portant enough Tor the Wayne
County Council az Defense and
n group Of anonymous bakers
and chain store men 10 bring
the film 10 Detroit.
Mary Niklas. the Detroit girl
dancer. stopping on her way
from Radio City Music Hall 10
q dancing engagement in Mexico
City. and talking about-cats.
And here's the latest jingle by
this dancing girl whose hobby is
poetry:
THE CAT
A creature sof, with SphinX-like
eyes.
To kick when things go wrong
Whose cries are heard on fiddle
strings.
And whenever women meet!
Cpl. Carl Welkenbach, home
IN Wyandotte on leave from
Waco, Tex. telling about the
strangers who picked him up on
the roadside at midnight and
drove him across Texas from
Waco to Dallas because were
lust riding around anyway. and
W. might - well see that Net
catch YOUR train" -. The sign
on the picnic fireplaceS in Palmer
Park: "ENtinguiSh fires during
hIarkoutS." Joe r. Brow
having his car toved 10 the
pound because. in fine diSdain NJ
warnings. he insisted on parking
smack In front ~ the Shubert
Lafayette Theater.
Bright sun on the old stone
work and new brick al For
Wayne. and soldier marching
down the street man with
rife behind him, toward the
guardhouSe. o.. a tramp anus
ing himself by tanning hi!
thumb on public drinking
fountain, 10 see the water spray
Gentlemen tipping their hat
unobtrusively as they pass 81
-Aloysius Church .N. 4 bit Q
everything ~ like glimpse
through a picket fence.