Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-24

busman's holiday.
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He was talking TO Hardy
Crowell. who credits Red Coff-
man with the worst faux pas
ever committed in the South.
Coffman, big and husky but
much too shy for a salesman,
tried being a candy salesman
when he finished school.
He starved his way through
the South until at last he found
a storekeeper willing TO try a
consignment Of the candy.
But" said the wary buyer,
"are you sure the public will
take this candy?"
Take it," said Coffman, Jubi-
liant over his first sale. They'll
take IL like Grant took Rich
mond."
That ended his career in the,
South.
Carl Clarke. killing few
minutes looking at books at Al
/ Hamer's, and waiting until hair
rut time. He's been To the same
barber regularly for 10 years.
For the first time, he had tn
wait for an appointment. His
barber IL so busy now that he
gives customers cards telling
them what time In come back.
Around the corner. Skipper
Schwinmer, the only person we
know who still uses the express
sion bless your heart" Is here
in body only. In spirit. he's out
on his farm at Cohacta, the
other side of Howell.
He opened it up for the sum-
mer. this week, the first guests
being Ray Yearwood's Boy Scout
troop. Yearwood. a policeman,
leads a troop made up largely
of boys who have been IN
trouble.
Bless your heart" says Skip
per. "you never saw a better
DeOHNcu ibt Ot UoNNs
From now until fall. n steady
procession Of boys will be visit
ing the farTn--one mans per-
sonal contribution toward
meeting the juvenile delinquency
problem.
So. let's 60 across the street
and see Mark Paterson Of the
one-T Patersons. and a native
Detroiter who. but for his father,
might have been n tuggler In
stead of operating n clipping
bureau.
As n boy, he belonged 10 the
ITALIAN Club. Anybody remem-
her IL? II WAS made up Of boys
who aspired 10 vaudeville and
theater.
As an embryo iuggler. Pater-
son rounded up 20-odd boys 10
see w. &. Fields at the old
Temple Theater. They com
.mandeered the front seats and
pplauded madly when Fields
lid anything funny. They APP
plauded when he didn't.
To them. he was the ultimate
hero.
Fields. thinking he was being
raZzed, got the Dtters. gave up
trying 10 iuggle, threw tho balls
AZ the boys and walked off,
threatening
TIL see you mugs, after
ward"
So the kids went back to see
him.
I'VE told him." said Paterson,
"that we were just trying 10
show how much we liked him
and, when he heard that, he
cried. Then. he took us across
the street and bought dinner for
the lot of us and, n couple Of
weeks later, we got n life-slZe
portrait from him"
Paterson's frien d S h j p with
Fields has endured for over IS
years. and when Paterson's
daughter, now Mrs. Brooks
Marshall. was married. Fields
remembered TO remind her that
he had held her in his arms
when she was three months old.
But Paterson (who could
iuggle seven balls ut OnCe) never
became n juggler. He had con-
tract but his father found out
and, religiously opposed 10 the
theater, forbade such career.
He also burned the autographed
pictures Of actresses I'm tights
that Paterson had hidden in his
trunk.
Later. Paterson used 10 walk
with Fields from his hotel to the
theater when Fields was in town
hut, for a long time. Fields
would cross the street or 60
around the block to avoid passing
movie house. Thought they
Threatened to ruin people like
him. Wonder if he ever remem-
hers that-when he gets his pay
check in Hollywood =? ~
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From there down to the
Mariners Mission and Capt.
Lucas says the dignified Old