The sub., 1943-09-09
M0chine Shop Office
 By Ogden Driggs

appears to be settling down for the fall campaign. The nine-hour shift Is becoming a matter of course, and sunburns are paling under early morning moonbeams and starlight. Doc. Gilger went fishing Sunday which isn't news-but when asked of his luck, he said he had lost an anchor and 35 feet of line. This being the first whopper your correspondent had yet heard from Doc, we asked him what he used for bait. He gave us to understand 1t was a squid. Too bad 1t got | awayl
 kept successfully under cover of late, but we believe we shall be able to devote some space in this column to Henry Clarendon and his matrimonial intentions in our next. Incidentally we believe we are entitled to more items of this nature and herewith appeal to the consciences of those who are hold ing out on us.
 Restrictions on telephones seem to have been alleviated for we now have two more in the office on the desks of Messrs Van Camper and St. Germain. Jim's devotion to the tried and true Is evidenced in his instrument which is definitely pre- war. We understand his number on the party line is ring 3.
 Van has left the select compan- lonship of the first shift to join that exclusive clique known as the sec- ond shift. They will be pleased to hear that Van thinks it as good as vacation since he can sleep late, and never did get to bed betimes anyway.
 Victory Gardening has become manifest upon the lunch table now where any noon you can see the tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, rad iSheS, etc, raised by Messrs Brooks, Leatherman, Heyniger, ct al. Frank O'Connor has raised bumper crop, too, according to his own testimony, but so far it has been all conversa- ton and no carrots or cucumberS.
 Tina Barnes returned today from week in Vermont and now has us getting nostalgia about our few days in Nantucket and your few days in New Hampshire or at home where you were master of your own time and Independent as an army mule.
 By the time this sheet reaches the eyes of our subscribers or of those lucky few who are able to procure copies (2c at all news stands), Tina Barnes will have joined her husband in Maine and will be digging in for a good old fashioned winter. And with her she will take the best wishes of the MSO. And the crystal ball says that Jo Langewisch will still be giving his invaluable efforts to the Boat Company, but will no longer be quartered at the Victory Yard.
 Henry Clarendon has been reserv- Ing valuable space in this column for a special deadline bulletin which so far has not materialized. For an eligible young man like Henry, that could probably mean only one thing, although, for the life of us, we can't figure out what 1t is. An, yes, must be them love- birds in the rafters again; so, let's out with it, Henry.
 We're getting sensitive up here about being called the great un- washed. It seems the go-getters in Maintenance, having secured the length and breadth of the land, re- port there is no soap to be had. Looks as though we need a new expediator. But confidentially, folks. soap flows freely up on the hill.
 Charlie Prick has left the MISC to shift for itself while he gets re- acquainted with New York, the Zoo, Hizzoner, etc. Dick Dudley has had to make a noble sacrifice to the war effort and get here at 6:3O