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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Losing Flesh

The rain came often and nlef-
cilessly. The squalls were cold now
I-miserably cold, and we huddled
together 10 keep warm. We were
almost without flesh. il seemed
when We lay down in the bottom
of the boat for warmth we were
wedged together. and our sharp
bones bumped painfully.
The only way / could stretch
out was 10 lie in the middle Of the
boat, the two boys one on each
side.
Tony's hips would be punching
into me on one side. Genes knee:
and elbows digging me in the back
We could lie together in this posi-
ton only a short while until ouI
circulation would be cut off. Their
we would have 70 get up anc
stretch 10 make our starved anc
sluggish blood move again.
Often we would deliberately
leave several inches of water II
the bottom of the boat, as it was
warmer than the air. When we
sat UP. the swift wind blew needle
point spray that seemed 10 pene-
Itrate our tender skin. In our dry
mouths. our teeth chartered until
they ached
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
New York
Heartbeat

topcoat. another all his ties, ap-
other all his hats, etc.
But there you go anticipating
what happened.
The draft board rejected him
and all those pals TO whom he
gave his clothes have gone here
and there.
He's back on Broadway, how
ever.
In a show called Strip for
Action!
MANHATTAN Murals: Ex-
WI President Herbert Hoover
and Jim Farley cab-hunting
after a world series game.
The cop on his knees pleading
with a motorist, who had started
a right turn against a red lamp,
at Lexington and 68th street.
Jack Haley in Ruby Zoos ask
ing Veronica Lake;
when you get a haircut do
you go to barber or an opti-
cian?"
Lueius Beebe at Bleeek's tell
ing how he offended a Washing
ton colyumnist. who evened mat
tiers the next day by colyuming
that Beebe wore a wrinkled suit.
In the Stork: Critic George
Jean Nathan and actress Julie
yden-Romeo g. Julie.
COUNDS in the Night: AT the
~ Hurricane;
us he conceited: He just
bought himself an engagement
ring"
In the Cub:
"She's the best ad HaIg &
Halg has"
At the Dixie Bar:
There's Prince Charming and
his Slipping Beauty"
TfHE Big Fime: The Havana
Il Madrid's new show.
Morton Downey at the Savoy
Plaza Lounge.
Bobby Byrne's version of
"Daybreak"
Younghill Hangs "Japan's
Secret Plans.
ColumbiaS screen scream,
My Sister Eileen
Alan Ladds emoting in Para's
Glass Key
Moro Morales lily. IF You
Only Knew" which Jimmy Dor
sey has platter'd for Decca.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

THE Big Parade; Mr.. and Mrs.
\ l. Edward Arnold of Movieville
entering the Savoy-Plaza-about
ayem-when most of the other
celebs are just starting 10 make
personal appearances in the
swanky saloons.
The Grand Duchess Charlotte
of Luxembourg and the Princess
Rene de Bourbon Parme tshe
was Princess Margaret OF Dem
mark strolling along Vth Ave-
nue., unnoticed by the local
yocals.
In the Colony: Sinclair Lewis,
Somerset Vaughan and Michael
Arlen-but not together.
Brig. Gen. T. j. Grayson Zone
of the youngest) and his daugh-
ter, Betty, of Sweet Briar Col
lege. collecting autographs in
Reuben's.
Martin Agronsky, the war cor
respondent. entraining for WASH
ingtoB to apply for commission.
Tommy Guinan.- reading a
lengthy complaint from his Sally
O'Neil of the screen, the p. s.
being Pardon -me-for not
writing this 10 years ago"
CALLIES in Our Alley: AT the
- Stork a stock broker, who
was flirting with girl whose
escort was woohed, was eau
toned by Adrienne Ames;
IL wouldn't get mixed up with
her. She's As hard ~ steel"
Really: said the Wall
Streeter, Common or Pre-
ferred ."
A midtowner was asked il he
had seen a certain new show.
NO" said the fellow. 81 read
the reviews. They were awful"
That's only because the show
U.s." was the retort.
Wynn Murray. OF Sons o
Fun was asked how she shelved
all that weight.
working" she explained, "for
AOlsen a. JOhnson"'
Claude Thornhill, the orches-
ira pilot, knows a chlorine who
has "a wonderful collection OF
4-Fs."
MEMOS OF Midnighter: They
ASl say the fireworks will ex-
plode about that Park Avenue
canteen when several debs are
summoned.
George Price returns 10 La
Congo.
Pvt. Louis DeMilhau of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Loses Feeling

In the fourth week had noticed
that my feet and legs were losing
their sense of feeling. This began
in the feet and moved upward, a
little farther each day. until the
partial paralysis reached my hips.
Practically all of the time we
spent sitting, or lying in the bot
tom Of the boat, which required us
to pull up our knees. Eventually
felt as If I had rheumatism. The
suffering was intense when I tried
10 lie down in the tortuous position
that the limited space required me
10 take.
The pounding of the choppy
waves beneath the fabric bottom
nearly drove me mad. Every night
! thought: Tonight / am more
tired than ! have ever been before,
so maybe this time I can sleep.
And every night the monotonoGs,
Earring hammer beneath me,
coupled with the always unexpected
drenching from above. drove me
10 sit up and wait for more favor
able conditions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

All is not yell within,
For still Ue ind
The face the unsrring inde1
OF the mind.
-Juvenal.
(There has been much dis
agreement as TO whether charac-
ter can be studied by the face.
Cicero agreed with Martial say
ing: The countenance is the
portrait of the mind; the eyes
are its informers." Shakespeare
said: There's no art TO find the
minds construction in the face"
e. V. d.
GOETHE and many others
VI claimed children born on
Sunday are lucky. Wonder what
B. Mussolini thinks of this claim?
He was born on Sunday At
one time the taxicabs in Cleve-
land. o.. had regulators at
tached which made il impossible
to go over 80 miles an hour. Be
nice if something like this
could be attached TO all civilian
cars for the DURATION The
more logical your dreams are
the less rest your mind is get
ting during sleep. Dreams are
wild and illogical because most
of your thinking system is TAX
ing a rest.
IN THE country where we
Il were this summer there was
no transportation near us. The
markets made no deliveries. II
was necessary TO use a car TO
some extent. Where we are now
in the city there is transporta-
ton on every hand. Deliveries
are made. Yet, we are given
the same amount of gasoline.
This doesn't make sense to me.
/ am asked by a Bostonian If
ever knew a couple who met
for the first time and were mar
ried the same day. never did.
Nearest / can come to it is Mr..
and Mrs. Martin johnson. Mar
tin met Osa Liegthy of Chanute,
Kan. for the first time on Fri
day and married her on Sunday.
THE name Chicago in Indian
l. language means where wa
tiers meet, or that is what I
have been given to understand.
Now a language expert says
Chicago means skunk" in In
dian language.
Recently have seen references
to "a pale petal blonde" Also
one to silver ash blonde"
This makes the blonde situation
more confusing than ever. I
think l will give up trying to
understand blondes. / know
what a dishwater blonde is and
that is sufficient achievement
TO satisfy me.
! CONTEMPORARY says most
~ women smoke because il
gives them something TO do with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
End Approaching

None Of us thought very much
about talking and carrying on a
conversation. We grew away from
that toward the last. Things were
becoming serious. We could see
that our end was approaching, one
way or another. We must be saved
soon. or we would die.
Tony and / seemed 10 be able TO
take il a little better than Gene.
He would beg us TO talk TO him,
and then the only thing he was
willing TO talk about was food. /
made a constant effort 10 be
affable and agreeable with both
boys. as / knew we were under a
constant strain and ] felt that II
was up TO me as leader 10 do all
in my power TO maintain good
feeling and harmony amongst us,
in an effort 10 ward off the ten
ldency We were all showing. so
obviously, TO brood over our posi-
ton. Clearly. our courage was be-
ginning TO fail us at this point.
When we had our sip of water
in the middle of the day, we tried
imagining il was coffee. The tiny
drink would buoy our spirits and
we could conjure, in our minds, a
good meal 10 20 with II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
CHAPTER 20

ing buried at sea on a rough day.
The warSman knows, when he
goes 10 sea, that he may not see
land again. Many of us have seen
a comrades body given 10 the
waves, and we are conscious that
the same fate may await US any
day.
Tony had said that he wouldn't
mind meeting Davy Jones on a
calm, beautiful day-he'd be per-
fectly happy to go if the sun were
shining and the sea was still.
Tony was the thinnest OF us,
and think he had an idea that
he would die first. Perhaps, also,
he had a horror of being eaten.
l think that may have been one
of the reasons why he suggested
now that we should jump over the
side and end it all. When he re-
called this later. he said he didn't
think he really meant it-and
again believe him.
At any rate, We put the ques-
ton before the house: If one of us
should die, should the others eat
his body?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
The Brighter Side
I THINK il is a disquieting

I THINK il is a disquieting
Il symptom of the present and
perhaps of the future that the
poor man has been robbed of
his strip tease for the benefit
of the rich.
1t is one of the many social
injustices that are overlooked
in times like these.
The strip tease is a commod-
ity peculiar to a form of public
entertainment known as bur-
lesque and until recently il al
ways has been retailed at a
price that put it in reach of the
proletariat.
This price was seldom over
one clam. or dollar, anywhere,
and in some places even less.
THE strip tease is an enchant-
Il ing process of slow removal
of garments by a lady, prefer
ably young, of physical contour.
fore and aft, calculated TO please
the human eye.
The title of the process Is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
BY Henry McLemOre

their lives must have silk, and
gave the yardage Of silk that
could be saved by the substitu-
ton OF the bow tie for the flow
ing four-in-hand.
/ AWDY knows, ] am patriotic.
II Lawdy knows. / know that
millions of Americans are pa
triotic and are willing 10 90 the
limit.
But there is a limit to the
sacrifice that civilians must
make.
Let them give up meat.
Let them give up sugar.
Let them wave good-by 10 rub
Der. gasoline, and friends named
Bott.
But when you ask Americans
10 wear bow ties, you have gone
too far.
There are only about four
Americans who can tie a bow
tie.
One OF them is Frank Crown
inshield. whose profile was re-
Gently completed IN the New
Yorker.
Mr.. Crowninshield. who. along
with being the last gentleman
in the country. is the country's
worst putter, and has cost hum
dreds of his friends hundreds Of
dollars by three-putting from
distance less than the width of
Vogue Magazine.
4 ND, IL takes Mr.. Crownin-
"a shield two hours TO tie his
bow tie.
So II is easy TO imagine the
time that II takes the likes Of
me and you and you and the
rest of you, TO get the knot in
the middle. the ends even, and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Would Eat Heart

One of the boys suggested that
IL might be a good idea 10 eat
part of the dead man, anyway.
We talked the proposition over al
length. Finally we all agreed that
the survivors should eat the heart
liver, and other such organs.
Today I don't believe that any
of us had real intention of stoop-
ing so. I'm sure 1 didn't, and
don't think the others did either
But ii offered a new source of con
Iversation to us. and we thresheC
liz out thoroughly.
I kept my eyes closed most Of
the time. now. when the sun was
out. Days and days of watching
the glaring water had strained my
eyes until now / could look into
the distance for only a few sec.
onds, then things would begin tc
blur. Afterward they panied me
greatly. and finally l reached the
point where even at night the re.
Election of the moon on the water
hurt them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
What War Bonds Buy

Winter flying jackets for
both the army and navy air
corps are regular equipment for
our aviators. They cost from SD
TO SIS and are made of horse
hide leather lined with sheep
shearling.
One Stamp book filed with
S1S.75 worth of War Stamps
will pay for one of these jackets
so necessary TO our airmen fly
ing al high attitudes and in
northern climes. Not only that.
but in 10 years the SlS.75 you
lend 10 your government will
come back 10 you as S25s Join
the ranks of War Stamp pur-
chasers through your Schools
at War Prorgam.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Rich Grab
Strip Tease

could relax In rich visual enjoy.
ment and high mental anticipa-y
ton that the shippers might 60
even farther than somewhat.
THE strip tease reached a TAFT
Il peak of artistic development
among some of the opponents.
I call to mind exotic Ann
Corio, ethereal Gypsy Rose Leea
volatile Kinda NASSAU, firery
Rose La Rose, and exciting Mar
gle Hart, among others. ~
How those gals can take off
their buds! "
They are all meat strips" and
in the heyday of burlesque
packed the houses of the Atlany
tic seaboard with the deserving
poor men. '
A couple of these ladies get
as high as $1,000 a week for
their esthetic disrobing. -
Eventually word was bruited
about among the rich that the
poor were having a good time
with these simple little spec
tacles and, as you know, the
rich can never abide the poor
enjoying any pleasures. z
saw the handwriting on the
wall some years ago when
swanky night club producers be-
gan presenting stripped young
ladies, but without bothering
with the artistry of the strip
ping.
They just hurled 'em at their
audiences raw.
=.
THE next step was the bare
Il faced robbery OF the poor
by Broadway theatrical produc.
ers.
They began putting on bur-
lesque slightly busted up at
S4.40 a head. which would have
been all right except that the
rich resolved that il was now
too good for the poor.
At least l like 10 think IL was
the rich who melted the cops
10 putting out Of business in the
burlesque houses the same thing
they were enjoying in the higher
priced joints.
l like TO blame the rich for
everything.
! have visited several bur-
leSque houses in various parts
of the nation lately and I am
deeply panied by the changed
atmosphere generally, but more
particularly by the decadence
of the strip tease.
The opponents thereof In the
houses of the poor man are not
permitted to display as much OF
their forms divine that you can
see any day on any bathing
beach. though around the corner
al a higher price the rich MAJ
see all.
I think this Is responsible for
much OF the current ennui
among the poor.
copyrighf 1852 BY KinE Essinres
Distributed ~ In.srnatiousI News ssra>s
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
by Damon RunyOn

somewhat obvious. Strip means
to remove. Tease is to vex, har-
ass or irritate.
The slow stripping. as afore-
said. does all that to the senses
of the observer, the vexation,
harassment and irritation de-
veloping from the fact that the
garments do not come off faster
and more completely
The strip tease has been an
institution in burlesque for some
years and, at the original price,
a source of great entertainment
10 masculine audiences unable to
afford higher priced diversion.
A poor man whose purse was
insufficient to meet the turn
stile tariffs of other theaters
could go into a burlesque house
for a moderate fee and there,
mid the clouds of tobacco
smoke and the odors of the pea
nuts and popcorn dispensed by
raucous vendors in the aisles,
and the aroma of his fellow men.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

their hands. Seems a ridiculous
statement TO me. ] have seen
many women smoking and knit
ting at the same time. And
while knitting they kept the
cigaret gripped between their
lips. Then you see innumerable
women smoking while driving
automobiles. Most WON n
shouldn't smoke when driving;
they don't seem TO know how 10
keep the smoke out of their
eyes.
81 am growing weary of hear
ing plump and dizzy danes
moaning about the shortage OF
domestic help" writes New
Yorker. eff these women can't
get help why don't they buckle
down and do their own house,
work. 1t might take a little Of
that excess fat of their too
tightly girdled frames"
Was interested in noting that
OIlc LIZ LuW al u Ne IDdllCIikCl 10
devoting considerable time to
trying to find the answer to the
puzzling question:
"Why does q woman become
gray but rarely bald:"
81 DARE you to name the 10
L actresses who are, I'm your
opinion, the most beautiful ever
screened, and, brother, IL you
omit Claire Windsor. you need
glasses" So writes New
Yorker. will take this dare but
must have time 10 consider the
matter. / suppose if 1 omit
Kathleen Macdonald that will
prove l need glasses, too.
A young woman of Seattle
who wears glasses discussing the
claim that men never make
passes at girls who wear
glasses, says that when her boy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

all the rest of the bow tie all
squared up. so that the wearer
does not look as IL he were an
early model of the Wright
brothers Kitty Hawk plane.
The introduction Of the bow
tie will come close TO ending all
war work in this country.
Men will have time for MOTH
ing else.
work that requires hours.
First, a man must look all
around for some one who can
tie a bow tie on some one else.
This always ends with the
same result. the same answer:
II can tie them on myself,
brother, but not on any one
else"
THE worst thing is 10 find A
man who says he can tie a
bow tie on another man.
This is awful.
He comes up behind you like
Stranger Lewis.
He pitts stFsngle hold on
you, He throws you TO the
floor.
He fights you. He refuses TO
give you up.
After Is minutes he says:
81 can't understand IL. i al
ways tie mine all right"
Men. let US fight 10 the hilt
this bow tie business.
The only man who ever tied
one easily and properly is a
man who has boa-constrictor
blood in his veins.
And what sort of country
is a country that has 10 depend
on men who have b. c. ances-
tors
Distributed BY MeNsught Syndicate, Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

friend Is about 10 kiss her good
night he says: 4
Honey, please take OF your
glasses, they are In my way"
Dispatch says twins in SYRIA
cuse, n. Y. were born a day
apart. Very unusual. But in
England. a couple of years ago
there were twins not only born
a day apart but they were born
in different towns!
John vANDERCOOK. news
ID commentator. He has a
beard of which he Is very proud.
1t was grown under the super
vision of a New York tonsorialist
who is said to be the country's
greatest beard growing expert.
Mr.. Vandercook started grow
ing a beard after reading that
a beard made a modest man
more masterful. He is now mak-
ing eight times as much money
as when he was clean shaven. .
A FEMININE subscriber says
"A she really has no desire TO
get married. She is very happy
now, and thinks IL she married
she might become unhappy. She
says:
when I say I don't want tn
get married, nobody believes
me. Men are the most skeptical.
Also, when a girl says she
doesn't want TO get married, 1t
seems to annoy some men. l.
really think some Of the men
who have proposed to me have
done so not because they wanted
to marry but just because they
wanted me to change my
mind" nj
GERMANS are, as a rule, very
VI tense. They relax with diff.
ficulty. A Russian relaxes
easily. A thing like this could
make the difference between de-
feat and victory in hard battle
or bitter campaign. IS
A year or so ago I suggested
that when Mrs" was in a film
or play title the piece was
usually success. I cited The
Famous Mrs. Fair" The Secon-
ond Mrs. Tanqueray." The No.
torious Mrs. Ebbsmith." Mrs.
Leffingwell's Boots" and several
other examples.
And since then Mrs. Miniver"
has been produced and is on the
way to gross millions. Maybe
I should have been a film pro-
duction genius. - .
A round robin letter received
from a group of young women,
in Los Angeles says in part:
"We are mattresses. We are
going to make you our confidant5
We will tell you our troubles
and this will get them off our
mind, making us less irritable
and therefore less likely to spill
hot soup on an annoying GUS
TONER"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

shs Uorns night cfubber.
This Is the Army" show. is
Gen. Lafayette's great-great-
grandson.
The advance sale Of that hit.
by the way. is running the biz of
shows on tour. One attraction
laid a neat egg in Pittsburgh
after great notices.
Buddy Clarke and his entire
band from the Park Central
Roof have enlisted in the Navy.
Leave for Florida.
Midtown walters, bartenders,
ct al, are asking raises that
would total S27. 900 a year.
Sunny Ainsworth of the Yer
sailles choir has a new 270-karat
blue topaz bracelet.
BROADWAY Beau Bfummei:
- His name is Howard Blame,
an actor. He has the reputation
OF being one of the towns best
dressers.
Spent nearly all his salary on
off-stage apparel.
Recently he was summoned TO
report 10 the draft board
His pals gave him a farewell
party.
This touched him so deeply
he gave all those friends his
finery,
This one a suit, that one
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Exhaustion GrOUs

No more favorable conditions
ever developed. AS time went on
exhaustion closed around me like
a tightening hand. l had to drive
myself to think.
Fatigue. and pain Of infinite
variety, loosed the reins of my
temper. When / spoke 10 one OF
the boys. and he didn't answer
but continued staring straight
ahead. l sometimes forgot that he
was under the same strain as l
and I ragged like a mailman
The outburSts never lasted long
I had not the strength There was
never an answering violence in the
boys; they had not the energy. OIL
didn't care, or didn't know.
Ito BE Continued
Copyright 1912 by Henry Holt 4 Co,
Distributed hV King Features syn. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Dinner al Genes

Sometimes we would GO 10
Genes house and have big din
ner of his Missouri hickory-Smoked
ham with all the fiXings. Another
time we would visit TonyS. where
we ate all kinds of Polish food
One of his favorite dishes was
what he called pigeon in
blanket" made by rolling ham,
burgers in cabbage leaves. II
sounded good 10 us then, and we
devoured il in our minds. Again,
we would go 10 my ranch, Calavo
in La Mesa. and stuff ourselves
with avocados and oranges.
Despite my own distaste for this
self-torturing conversation, 1 did
not discourage il. for at least il
occupied our minds more pleasantly
than any other thoughts we had
After the twenty-eighth day and
! the last coconut. we realized al
last that We we're starving. / am
convinced that the small amount
we ate contributed nothing toward
maintaining our strength. The few
unpalatable mouthfuls made our
suffering worse, if anything, by
stimulating the hunger and start
ing our juices 10 work against us
Inevitably, We discussed can
lnibalisnl.
One of the boys suggested one
day, Suppose one of US Starves
TO death-of course, one Of US
would 60 first-what should we dc
with the body7"
Tony had shown a horror OF be.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

NOW-let's See--where was I?
~ Oh yes, bow ties.
Now watch me give YOU bow
ties straight from the shoulder.
| gained the idea of a column
on bow ties from a correspond
ent who suggested that, 10 save
silk. the government should ban,
forbid. and throw out the four
finland job, and make il COM
pulsory for all American men
10 wear bow ties.
The correspondent put up
whale of an argument
He told all about how para
chutes are made of silk. and
how old ladies who have been
accustomed TO silk petticoats all