Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

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MIR. PIONEERING except We
cant see why a man who can
handle distilled spirits. boats
and pinbsll machines couldn I
absorb the oleeHaaFgarine right
in stride.
TERSE: over on Lafayette
there's another store going into
the business of selling only food
which X not rationeti.- hey estt
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. II so happens, Is a
personal friend OF ours, James
mickey Mcclure, young com
mercial artist who is less than
an inch under seven feet tall.
They dressed him in n long
opera cloak and green mask.
the idea being that he would
roam through Detroit, people
would ask him who he was. and
ne would say, "Tbe Phantom OF
the Opera"
WE WENT along with Mickey
for part of his evening The job
was little out Of Mickeys
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 H.
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 ~ surprised
as seeing n seven-footer at a
ringside table that she gasped
and sat down on the ice. Or
maybe she Just slipped, hut we
think II was fright.
"A man ut a bar looked up.
shook q bieary head and an
nounced In n loud voice, Tim
going In lay of this STUFF now"
s-And ut the Wonder Bar
the headwaiter. not batting an
eye at his masked guest, merely
insisted on Mickey producing
his birth certificate 10 prove he
was 81.
Aside from that, everything
was perfectly calm. except that
on the street people were in
clined 10 stop stock-Siill on the
sidewalk and stand with their
mouths open.
Mickey also made IL point
10 walk along the line of people
which is, these DAYS, always at
the state liquor store. Nobody
said anything. al all. so Mickey
finally gave them a cold eye
and said in a loud voice. You
better quit drinking that stun.
Look what IL did 10 me-" But
nobody dropped out of the line.
GOOD GIRL: I suppose chill
dren get pretty tired Of having
grownups continually urging
them 10 he good
Kitten has been waiting i'm
patiently for me 10 make a
isck-o-lantern from the rather
puny pumpkin which was the
best we could find this year.
She asked me about II again
ct breakfast. and with the usual
fatherly superiority / said, I'll
see about il if you'll be a good
girl"
IL was" said Kitten. II was
n good girl for a while yester-
day"
The only fair thing 10 do is
hx the pumpkin right away.
AF-TERTHOUGHT. 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 rut Of peace. quiet
nerves and big pumpkins.
And then we begin 10 think
that we're pretty selfish to
think about things like that.
even II IL docs seem such q little
thing 10 want
We were thumbinc through a
magazine called Column Re
view when We ran across this
paragraph, credited 10 Poland
Fights:
Tho Polish children today
play q new game. when Ger
mans are not In sight, they
divide into two groups. One
group with wooden sticks for
rifles Is the firing squad The
other, and the children are
usually most eager 10 belong to
~. lines mp nv q wall 90 be shot.
A the officer gives the com
nsnd IN FIRE. the children nv
the wall cry. Long Live Po-
land ~ they sink 10 the
ground"