Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-26

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MIR. PICKERING c u r m u q <
con is brutal enough 10 interfere
with that unwritten rule, II gen
orally turns out that n girl has
10 60 get the mail or something
when a celebrity's train Is ar
irving Anyway, so far as !
know, nobody ever interfered
with their fun.
The announcement Of some
body arriving goes around the
building like a good BRISK
breeze.
"All have To do" said Allie,
ais walk In the door and some
body says, Guess who's coming
in-it's Charlie Mccarthy "
We tried. for the fun Of n. to
find out how the reports spread.
Allie heard about Loretta Young
from Kitty Jackson. She got II
rom Cecile Jewell. who got II
IRON Lillian Mccarthy who got
il from Marian Benson IN the
station masters office.
But where Marian got II Ne
didn't have time TO find out. a
report travels a lot faster than
you can trace il in reverse.
Miss jackson once wound up
In Q picture with Mary Pickford.
Baseball players. once among
the greatest heroes, probably
will bs again, some day. School
boy Rowe and Hank Greenberg
were the favorites.
Charlie Carthy was
seven day wonder because he
travels like n person, or rather
like q baby. Instead OF putting
Charlie In trunk. Edgar
Bergen carries him like a little
child.
But The greatest figure Is n
president Of the United States.
With war on. the greatest Sc
crecy Is maintained, and when
President Roosevelt came here.
not even the officials Al the
station knew the time Of the
vidt until a meager hour ahead
OF time.
Even in peace time, tracks are
patrolled, crossings are guarded
and every switch on the route
OF the special train is spiked 49,
literally spiked. with huge
spike driven in 80 that tho
switch cannot accidentally split
or be thrown 10 the wrong
position.
On the Presidents last visit,
q detective was stationed at
every crossing. Everything was
secret.
Yet, when one detective ar
rived at the crossing that he
was 10 guard, he found, written
N the pavement In chalk:
The President will pass this
way"
Nobody knows Vet who wrote
n or how the information leaked
out.
RANDOM NOTES:
One Detroiter. waiting Tor
new alarm clocks 20 reach the
market 10 replace his, which
went blOoey. has solved tho
problem OF getting up. "a friend
works In a war factory. When
he gets up. he rings up the
clockless one on the phone
And they say that the tclc-
phone agency that used 10 spe-
cialize in taking calls for phySi-
Clans. is doing quite a business
IN calling customers in the
morning 10 get them up.
A recently reopened hotel i
getting some complaints because
il doesn't have phones in the
rooms and guests oyerSleep.
Omitted from earlier ac-
acknowledgements: Generous gifts
To the Sunshine Fund from Die
Tool Engineering Co, and Clar-
ence r. Tollzien Co.
Dick Worthington, once head
Of AGVA, is reported IN a
western hospital. Shell shock.
A harried housc-hunter re-
ports paying 500 as gift"
after which he suddenly got an
apartment which had been un-
available before. Another
applied at an agency and was
told that, for $40. he could have
tho address Of a place. No prom
ise that he could get IL; just the
address. He said no.
On the other side OF the fence
comes this letter
How bout the landlords
|de: rent 20 a nice American
family with children, hut I am
confronted with n firebug. The
little flrebug (age II years.
has been asked not to play with
matches. .|N
did II do any good? Not on