Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

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cru.u1C 70 60
70 tire staff MIR rIohtRI>G
school n Fort LoaNcrVor'H.
Leaving MS .aw.N here until
the end @, Tho school term,
though.
The store window dummies on
Washington boulevard that look
lust Ike Veronica Lake. horse
h,.nker haircut ard all And the
oh-so-rice dummies ins the So
nee store on Grand boulevard
that wear white pantieS while
the window dreSsers change
their dresses.
After the rumpuS in Wash
lngton over L. j Curriers' hid
To build prefahriCated dwellings
near the Willow Run bomber
plant, Currier is going ahead
with 400 houses on his own, not
as n government job.
The 400 will he within 10 to
II miles Of Willow Run, and the
first 200 will he started within
10 days at Pelham road and
Outer drive, Dearborn.
The lady with n had cold and
Aat
kleeneX in restaurant and
throwing the paper on the floor
for the waiter TO pick up.
Ann Corio, after white
Cargo" closed here. went back
to burlesque, doing S1,l00 worth
OF taking off in Toledo the first
week.
The fuss over the Ped Cross
donation that WAS turned IN
ANONYMOUSLY was for $40.
but there was $4,000 worth of
fussing from people who Just
took II for granted that II was
their money and they weren't
getting credit for the gift
That makes two misundor-
standings-the first was when
the donor heard a clerk say,
Enter this under 'misccllane-
Gus
"Oh. no." the man. corrected.
Anonymous not Mussolinl :.
~ that. the way Hitler is
running the Italians. they might
as well call the Duce Premier
Miscellaneous
Phil Woods letter from W. G.
Fields-Fields says he has his
war job picked out. "If ! see
any one going near the Pacific
Ocean Mth a bucket. I'll ill
'em full of lead. We need that
water for our navy"
And there's a man in Chicago
knitting one sock. It's for
Fields nose in case Of black
outs.
Question of the day: VIII
there he an explosion az 4 p. m.
tomorrow at Walter MaCRae'S
civilian defense meeting? And
II there isn't shouldn't
there be?
Elliott Spratt Hillyard Chemi-
cal sales manager. tipping the
Book Casino walters with de
Tense stamps. He spends S25 20
$40 a week in tips and rs all
in stamps HIS crew OF - sales
men are doing II. too
TIE -Four Harmony Notes At
the Three 666 Club, who began
singing when they met m 4
grocery store. and one happened
10 have a guitar, and PLAYED
Cir cf My Dreams ' That was
eight years ago. and they re still
singing together.
Short story, overheard a. ihr
Casanova. about the lawyer Who
forgot his real name When
Gerald Lynih Of Tho Herman
August law Offices went 20 got
his birth certificate. they SAID
they had no record of "a Gerald
Lyr'Vh bur we've cot a George
Washington Lynch Memory
flckerec Lynch remembered
that he Wa> horn on Washing
tons birthday and WAS named
G W. Lynch bu' he changed
ms name 20 Gerald 50 long ago
that he'd forgotten about H.
Molly of the marines. the re-
cruiting ascot j. plugging a
popular song that shes written
The new Brotherhood of
Magicians, DR.. Gina Bennett
saws. has formed a committee
to entertain in hospitals and
children's institutions II. l.
SNYDER. who works ~ one Of
the Detroit gun plants. has writ
fen verse that he titles Just
12-7-i1"-gPt it, 49,. And one
OF Eva NalSh'S newest g. called
Douglas Macarthur"
Believe IL or not: Railroad
freight has slowed up in the
Detroit depots. II takes more
work TO build plane motor bat
II takes less steel than an auto
mobile.
By the waN-would any 81
the Kids In Detroit hospitals lilT
some photos. stills such A. aJt
cent out by Hollywood ptFTrTC't,