Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

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As near as we can make out,
the best course IS 10 make a
wistful pun and admit that the
fate of the hamburger is "ceiled."
Likewise in the food line,
Gordon Castle notifies us from
Woman's Hospital (where he
still must spend another two or
three weeks convalescing) that
he has just heard from Jimmy
Stevenson. one of the best known
OF Detroit's radiOcasters until he
joined the army.
Jimmy, IL seems, had been
promoted 10 lieutenant colonel,
but decided not TO tell anybody
about IL. The promotion was
dated April l, and he thought 1t
might he an April Fool joke.
Anyway, Col. Stevenson Is
NOW Judge advocate at an East
Coast camp where American
troops are learning commando
tactics.
The most serious case that
Col. Stevenson has yet had 10
handle concerned the complaints
of oyster fishermen that the
mock commando raids were
playing hob with the oysters
sex lives.
Or, at least. that the landing
barges disturbed the oysters 10
much that they didn't propagate
properly. What Col. Stevenson
will do about IL femains n prob
lem. Raising n more phlegmatic
race of oysters might do II. IL
only YOU can think OF some way
10 make an oyster more pleg-
matte.
Speaking OF phelgmausm. the
least phlcgnatic person on our
paper is the critic. Charles
Gentry.
You might even call Gentry
enerveScent. or. as G.. j. Nathan
called Alex -Monllcntt- the
Times Square Seidlitz powder"
Just reviewing a play isn't
enough for our Gentry and. now
that Katharine Cornell is giving
Chekhov'S The Three Sisters"
Gentry is induStriouSly reading
the play. Russian literature
being what it is, reading the
play can be called nothing less
than extreme devotion 20 his
job. He even carries his copy Of
Chekhov around with him, and
reads II at odd moments.
The other night. Miss Cornell'S
name came up in a conversation
4 between Gentry and Dorothy
Dare. then singing al the
Bowcry. and Gentry remarked:
81 have Chekhov out i'm the
car"
"Oh," said Miss Dare the very
picture OF apology. I'm 80 sorry.
didn't realize that YOU had
somebody waiting"
Frank Morris. Times political
editor. told me the following
incident of which our mutual
friend. Omar Shull, is the hero
HE il driving down Fort
street" said Frank. land this
other driver keeps hogging the
middle of the street and won't
let him pass. Finally. he stops
on the car tracks, trying to
make left turn.
"Omar blows his horn and the
other guy looks hack and offers
10 knock his ears of. He doesn't
look 10 tough. 30 Omar pulls
over 10 the curb.
"Omar tells him that it's
illegal TO make a left turn that
way and the guy wants to bet
SEQ that II Is legal. Omar gets
$50 out and then (thiS is the
part that makes us admire
Omar'S quick thinking) Omar
flags a police car that's going by.
"Omar gives one OF the cops
his $50 and insists that the
other guy shell out $50. too.
Then, he explains to the be-
wildered cop what It's all about.
The other guy gets in his car
and makes the turn. The cop
gives Omar the $40 and gives
the other guy traffic ticket.
Nobody will believe II but l just
talked 10 Omar and he says
that's the way II happened"
Despite disbelief among some
/. people. the story bears unmiS-
J taxable earmarks of BENG
entirely true.
j checked il myself.
Without any preliminarieS.
asked Omar 10 lend me $40 and
he tossed the SO TO me without
even looking UP from the paper
he was reading. And there il
was, two days before pay day.
I handed the $40 back and
said I was just checking up on
the story, and Omar replied that
II was true. And that's that