Evening star., 1943-05-06

III lne paper Aus
Henry McLemors. vised housewives
that this was the week they could
get the 18th egg OF the year.
II you were to hold an unpopu-
larity contest among our troops hero
today, John L. Lewis would come
close to edging out Hirohito, Hitler
| or Mussolini and, as a CT Joe said
to me, IF we feel the way we do
about him and the strike, you can
imagine what the boys in Tunisia
and other fighting fronts think
about his actions"
| Sign on the wall OF crumbied
building; Madame Suzanne, clair
voyant, has moved to new quarters
at such an dsuch a street. Bombed
out" Curious to meet clairvoyant
who couldn't see that her Office was
going to get bombed, I visited
Madame Suzanne atoher new ad-
dress only to find she had been
bombed out a second time. This
| time there was no forwarding sd-
dress, as she probably has decided
she had lost her gift.
Learn About Half Crowns.
London taxi drivers recently pro-
tested against Americans as Gus
toners, saying they didn't tip. What
they probably meant was that Amer
| leans have smartened up and are
not handing out half crown pieces
| for pennies as many Of them did
when they first got here.
The English army uses women
MPs to handle the thousands Of
women troops. The gal MPs ars
trained in the manly art of self
defense, but when I asked one the
other night what she did when she
ran across a fractious woman SOL
dier she said. Il forget all about the
training and pull her hair and
| scratch
American soldiers can rent BIZ
cycles to ride about the streets OF
London and 1t is shame Lord
Tennvson isn't still here to write
| of the sight of the Yanks charging
along on what. to them. is the wrong
side OF the street. challenging mon-
strous double decker buses. falling
off and generally risking life and
limb In the pursuit of what must
/ be. to them, no happiness. The
/ scene must match the charge Of the
Light Brigade for gallant reckless
ness.
Wales has protested formally
against the pronunciation of the
names of its towns by BIC broad
casters AS the names of most Of
the towns in Wales make a Fordhsm
football lineup seem like two-letter
crossword puzzle words in comparl- =
son. the betting is 8 to l that Wales
will get nowhere with it's kick.
Scores of English golf courses are
still open and they are heavily
/ patronized, particularly over week
ends. I played Royal Mid-Surrev.
which is Pam Berton's home course,
recently, and at the finish couldn't
decide whether I had been playing
golf or attending an Easter egg
hunt. With balls so scarce no one
ever thinks of abandoning the search
/ for one, and sometimes Is foursomes
| would be beating through the rough
and bushes together and often these
hunts would go on for an hour or
more.
Matches Are Scarce.
II there is a black market in Lon4
don. I haven't been able to detect
1t. If 7 knew of one, 1 might be
| tempted to buy some matches which
are scarcer than registered voters on
a desert island When you strike
match on the streets to light a
cigarette. strangers who also need a
light rush up like moths to the fame,
! The old superstition about three on
a match being unlucky has disap-
peared. Three isn't even par for tbs
course now.
Even pipes are rationed here. with
the most famous of all pipe concerns
limited to five day and. as a result,
/ Britishers who were great pipe
smokers are turning to the homely
old Missouri corncobs. One thing
there is plenty of it potato chips.
Never in history have so many people
eaten so many potatoes in so many
| different forms American soldiers
are handing out their candy and
chewing gum rations to children
along the street. The children like
/ the sweets better than the pennies
the soldiers handed out when they
first came over. The never failing
politeness Of the London Boobies.
They are 6-foot Emily Posts with
authority. The queue in front Of the
| theater where Gone With the
Wind" is entering its fifth year.
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