Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-17

"A little boy who needs N 10
exercise his legs. An infantile
paralysis victim, he spent SIX
months in an iron lung.
We think he will get "A car.
However, IL is physically Inn
possible for me To keep track of
so many requests. Readers Will,
am sure, understand that L
would like 10 help them all, but
can't do it.
However-maybe there's an
idea for some one. Remember
the Old G hatita9H lecture.
Acres Of Diamonds. - that told
how ideas for fortunes lay UNDER
meath the avera age person
nose
Somebody could readily start
a business dealing in articles
that are scarce because OF the
war. Metal toys electric irons,
second-h alarm clocks,
vacuum cleaners. children 5 sver-
shoes and can openers. Perhaps
the Goodwill Industries could
set up an office 20 make lists OF
people who have such things 10
sell. and of people who want 10
buy them. and charge a COM
mission on sales
Many Drtroiters have such
articles and aren't using them
Yet these things are Impossible
TO find in the stores.
Cali the the venture "The Inn
possible Shop" designed 10 find
The Impossible. IL would work.
Rare a. alarm clocks are, I've
heard of two secondhand ones
for sale in the last week.
Both have been sold, so don't
call me up.
Clifton Webb and c harle s,
Gentry expected Noel Coward
here this week 10 see his play
"Blthe Spirit. but Cow ard
couldn't come. Flu Col. Ron
ert r. Glenn head Of the 2lOth
Coast ARTILLERY tanti-aircraiO,
the first Detroit regiment 10 go
into active service. ! think.
PASSED through Detroit the other
day He's been in the Aleu-
tianS.
one Of his troubles was keep
ing the fire gong in his shack.
Whenever A plane few over,
the suction put the fire out o..
Sgt Tom Fallon. home long
enough 10 get married, after
two years in Alaska, Immedi-
atelv caught a cold. something
he hadn't had IN his two years
in the North.
silly true story: \ landlord
rented a fat over on Third ave-
nue.. didn't get his rent, and
finally eyicted the occupant. rs
the few sticks of furniture were
heinr carried out, a man stepped
up and asked 90 rent the place
a months rent in advance.
The landlord rented the place.
4 month later, the rent was
in default again. The landlord
discovered he had rented the
place back 10 the man he had
Just evicted.
Joe Freedman OF the Brass
Rail hands me a check for 500
from him and Bill Boesky for
Santa for Servicemen Joe
will sell Goodfellow papers for
the Old Newsboys next week,
too. Remember. nobody gets any
change when he buys a paper
next Tuesday. The money goes
10 underprivileged children.
I have Just heard about
Detroiter who was stone broke
in the depression. a friend lent
him a dollar. The first thing he
bought was a paper, TO read the
Help Wanted" column.
He got no change from MS
dollar. Then he realized that II
was Goodfellows Day. He didn't
ask for any change. though. He
went hungry that day, and Is
glad Of II.
Add fire fans Capt James
Vernon Jr.. who has wig
wageing red light on his car,
and a fire alarm bell IN his
apartment, and goes to fires
every time he gets chance.
Joseph and Hildegarde De
Grimme-she's a descendant OF
the Grimm brothers who wrote
the fairy tales-soon will get
their final citizenship papers IN
Detroit.
The Miss Nanessi" who
dances at the Club Casanova,
broke her back few years ago
slipped on a subway station
stairway in New York-and was
told she could never dance or
walk again. In two years she
had learned 10 walk again, and
soon after that was dancing 80.
Jack Marshall, the mimic who
Is AZ Saks Just now, does his hit
by writing sheet Of original
gags every two weeks. He mime
ographs II for friends In the
army, and now IL Is being copied
by people all over the country
foP the sau1a ntIrnoea