Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14

sythia
blossoms on
( A leXandriane
MIR. PICKERING avenue, and
damp snOwflakes on the bios
SONS DIR. George Lechler OF
Wayne University. commenting
that the Neanderthal man ate
horse meat. tOo-hOrse, mann
moth. rhinOcerOs, bison and rein
deer. hut liked bear meat best e..
The gage around town about
horse meat-that II won't he
graded like beef. tn he
graded, instead, a. win, place or
show.
The current ea~t -f4ehes- game,
reported by Jim McCandleSS of
-. e. &. The gentlemen al your
elbow in q bar says:
Take a number under 1000,
write the figures backward, take
the difference between the
numbers"
After that lou use the new
Rumber and the phone book.
Fake that page, count down
five names, give the initial of
the name Then, the trlckster
tells YOU the phone number.
Usually you have bet him a
dollar he couldn't do II. You
always lose.
The trick ~ this: No matter
what numbers you choose. the
difference between them can he
only one Of nine numbers. He
can memOrize that many phone
numbers.
So YOU don't believe II? TRY
it--i0I minus l0i IL 29T. Like
wise 5O2 minus EOS. Or 75I
minus 457. Arithmetic Il won
derflIl.
The Detroit Chapter of the
Society for the Preservation and
Encouragement Of Barber Shop
Quartet Singing in America,
Inc, viii be five years old Fri
day and viii celebrate Al the
Book-CadillaC 49,. But the De-
troit Symphony needs a miracle
10 save us life
Incidentally. a musical organ
ization ScatterS far and wide
when n Scatters.
For example: Joseph Mos
hack. first bassOnist. has gone To
the ~. Louis symphony
Oboist Dirk Van limerick Ia the
Metropolitan Opera -. Gerald
Warns, 10 the Baltimore Sym
phony.
Radio took Others. Henry
Siegl and Otis Igelman are al
Detroit radio stations, and Siegl
has been Concertmaster for gal
lery concerts AT the Institute Of
Arts Carmine Coppola PLAYS
flute for Mo Leonard Il.
Smith and his famous trumpet
fnt into the navy.
Others are in factories. Arthur
Maebe AZ Ford's Highland Park
plant Eugene BrauSdorf Of
the bull fiddle. and MarhIs Eos
Senkemper. clarinet at Willow
Run.
Nearly all Will be back the
week Of May 10. however for
the music and ballet festival
After that who knows? Is
II the end Of our symphony?
Fred Goudie (who rides the
street cars these days, even "
ne does work for Motor Newsl
got of car and climbed onto
another one on the Grand River
line. when the motorman left
the old car nj the barns.
The motOrman started the
new car and clunked happily
along. The passengers let him
run for several blocks before
reminding him that he'd for
gotten something.
He'd left the conductor behind.
To finish the story. the motor
man stopped the car and waited
until the conductor caught up.
riding another street car. The
conductor just said
Where d'you think you're
goin' %"
That's all that happened.
a reader who liked our story
about tho dumb things that
sometimes 60 on in inspection
Jobs AT factories adds that the
principal hazing done in his shop
is.
First. To send a rookie
worker looking for, sky hook.
When he asks where 10 find one
they tell him to walk all over
the shop and keep looking up
until he finds one: and, second,
send him To the tool crib for
0boX OF emery sparks"
Joseph +. HorSte spells his
name with a final f., but dropped
the f for simplicity in naming
his firm the Horst Manufactur-
ing Co. This confused every
body when the company quail
fled for its army r award
until somebody remarked:
It's all right. He's just got
his r already"
Which makes US wonder why