Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-03

! 49, RUrKRnIkl OOdyf hSA6a-
ing Flynn.
w. Winchell tossed q plug to
Martha Wolff for her novel
"Night Shift" He doesn't care
lbut we do where she's from.
She's a Michigan girl The
untold story Of heroism among
the Rreaseballs-the civilian
mechanics who keep military
machines moving-appears in
the February Coronet. written
by Christy Berth OF Detroit. II
tells how auto mechanics often
take greater risks, voluntarily,
than fighters in uniform.
WAR SIGNS: The all-night
movie advertising, open day
and night for war workers"
The couple who, because of oil
ratfoning intricacies, can't have
any hot water ut their house
unless they heat q kettiefui on
be stove. As q special treat, the
husband took his wife 10 . hotel,
90 she could have q bath. They
also visited friends ut the War
dell, and the host asked, what
will YOU have?' Instead of ask
Ing for q Martinin, they said,
"Could we have q shower ?" The
host blinked, but let them each
take hot showers.
II you meet any Civil Air
Patrol men, not in uniform,
don't ask them why not. unless
you first find out what these
fellows are really doing, without
benefit of publicity -. Another
thing that's happened more than
once-gellows getting and band
Detroit, banged up and band
aged, and telling their friends
that they were hurt in automo-
bile accidents Not until fighting
engagements were officially an
nounced were they allowed 10
tell that they were wounded in
line OF duty.
GOING AWAY PARTY: Doc
Greene. sports writer on this
paper and son of Sam Greene,
ditto on another paper. couldn't
think OF airy present that he
wanted when the staff collected
"A find for INN wi1en ne TOOK OFT
for officers training in the
t. marines.
So they gave him a lunch and
S54 in cash. TO do with as he
pleased. Before the afternoon
was over. Greene discovered a
crap game and lost every cent
of II. Besides, somebody prob
ably would have asked him the
S54 question in boot camp, any
way.
Information Please starts
working for a new sponsor Peb-
ruary Is. the n. J. Heinz Com
.pany, with n Detroit advertising
ency. MaXon's. handling the
recount Butler Sumner Of
-Maxon's. adds that the show Will
have one new twist, with an
.nouncements on food rationing
from Washington. Otherwise.
the Detroit agency will keep Its
hands off. 20 long "a Info Pts.
keeps Its present Hooper rating.
No, the show will not be broad
cast from Detroit.
BRIDEGROOM: jim Van
Kuren. the CKLW announcer.
Just got married. After eight
years of doing al his eating In
-yestaurants-is il any wonder
that, after breakfast. he absent
smindedly slipped n dime tip un-
der his plate. and didn't realize
he'd done II until his wife
laughed herself into Mysteries
SLOGAN: Our idea OF an ef-
fectiye slogan, cribbed from the
Detroit publication Of the Fleet
Reserve Associations: Don't for
get to buy War Bonds and
Stamps as though your life de-
ponds on It'll DOES"
PERSONAL ODDS AND
ENDS: Looks as though the new
. baby would be nicknamed Kit,
TO go along with Kitty and Kit
ten. Several column readers
suggested II Certainly. I'll
probably break down and write
about Kit occasionally. especially
after the notes telling me not to
TO take myself too literally. Re-
member. | said l wouldn't?
To Alanna: Certainly. Did you
know that some people up in
Flint wanted 10 name their baby
after you. having seen the name
Alanna in the column. long ago?
Another soldier who wishes
somebody would write TO him,
a girl or two, but his
mily say they don't know any
single girls: Pfc. Harold Moore,
A Battery. 155 Field Artillery
Bn.. APO 80, Camp Edwards,
Mass.
Snuffy McGill reports the
mixup In the draft board out
Brighton way, when a Mexican,
working on Bud Brennan's farm,
told the board he was "a Mexi-
can, born In Michigan" IL took
them all kinds Of trouble before
they found out that he WAS born