Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-29

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Mr.. PICKERING except We
can't see why a man VINO can
handle distilled spirits, boats
and pinball machines couldn I
absorb the oleomargarlne right
in stride.
TERSE. Over an Lafayette
there's another store going into
The business of selling only food
r. which is net Fat+eHeda. They eaii
il The PointleSs Store
BIG: The movies. which set
such store by odd stunts. tried
another one IN Detroit this
week.
This time, the Fox people
hunted up the biggest man IN
Detroit who. il so happens, is a
personal friend of ours. James
mickey Mcclure. a young COM
mercial artist who is less than
an inch under seven feet tall.
They dressed him in n long
opera cloak and a green mask,
the Idea being that he would
roam through Detroit, people
would ask him who he was, and
he would say, 1.-THE Phantom of
the Opera"
WE WENT along with Mickey
for part of his evening. The job
was a little out of Mickey's
line, and at first he kept say
ing, I'm certainly glad /
haven't run into any of my
friends anywhere" but after a
while he began 10 enjoy IT.
He went 10 some of the down.
town night spots like the Lon
don Chophouse, the Wonder Bar
and the Book Casino with the
following results:
1--One OF the girls in the Ice
skating show was 80 surprised
"a seeing n seven-footer at
ringside table that she gasped
and sat down on the Ice. Or
maybe she just slipped, but we
think u was fright.
a man at a bar looked mp,
ahook q bleary head and an
nounced In n loud voice, "Tm
going In lay of this stuff now"
3--And at the Wonder Bar
the heAdwaiter, not batting an
eve at his masked guest, merely
insisted on Mickey producing
his birth certificate to prove he
was 81.
Aside from that, everything
was perfectly calm. except that
on the street people were in
clined TO stop stock-still on the
sidewalk and stand with their
mouths open.
Mickey also made il point
TO walk along the line Of people
which is. these days. always al
the state liquor store. Nobody
said anything. at all, so Mickey
finally gave them cold eye
and said in a loud voice, YOU
better quit drinking that stuff.
Look what IL did to me-" But
nobody dropped out OF the line
GOOD GIRL: I suppose chill
dren get pretty tired of having
grownups continually urging
them 70 "be good"
Kitten has been waiting i'm
patiently for me 10 make a
jack-o-lantern from the rather
puny pumpkin which was the
best we could find this year.
She asked me about it again
at breakfast. and with the usual
fstherly superiority / said, III
see about it if you'll be a good
girl"
II was" said Kitten. ct WAS
a good girl for while yester-
day"
The only fair thing to do is
fix the pumpkin right away.
AFTERTHOUGHT: Concern
ing the above mentioned pump
kin. we have been thinking
witsfully of the big ones We
used 10 get. and wondering If
the world is ever going 10 settle
down into a rut Of peace, quiet
nerves and big pumpkins.
And then we begin 10 think
that we're pretty selfish 20
think about things like that,
even il IL does seem such little
thing 10 want.
We were thumbing through a
magazine called Column Re-
view" when we ran across this
paragraph, credited 10 Poland
Fights:
"The Polish children today
play = new game. When Ger
mans are not i'm sight, they
divide into two groups. One
group with wooden sticks for
rifles IL the firing squad. The
other, and the children are
usually most eager 20 belong tO
n. lines up by a wall 10 be shot.
As the officer gives the COM
mand 10 FIRE, the children by
the wall CRY. Long Live PO-
land" az they sink 10 the
ground"