The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-19
BY Dorothy Kilgallen

| Miami mas lts warm oceans ana
waving palms; Hollywood has its
everglare and the bright dazzle
OF a thousand movie stars; ST.
! Louis has a pennant-winning ball
club. and Dallas has its tall pink
skinned beauties. But ah, my
Chamber OF Commerce friends,
here in Manhattan we have our
four seasons! You may call II
Fall or Indian Summer or Autumn
whatever you call II, it's a cal
endar thrill. and you feel it be-
cause everybody does.
Nothing changes, yet everything
| changes. Same people, same
places. same scenic wonders-but
all with a new Tilt and lift, like
vain, pretty woman sparkling
under a new and wondrous bon
net. No sign inaugurates the sea-
son, yet thousand and one signs
are visible.
Coal slides down the chutes
into the happy bins. It's exciting
bumpty-whirr Is the beat OF the
bull-fiddle in the city's orchestra
OF sounds. The midtown weather
vanes, slim elms on Z. 55th ST.,
SILVER lightly In the breezes that
forecast the stylish color-turn-
ing OF their leaves. Bookies change
from checked sport shirts to ex-
pensiye white-on.white broadcloths
and. seerfashion, quote odds on
coming elections Favorites re-
turn to their Always inches and
shove off the newcomer substi.
tutes who have their clippings to
keep them warm....T The garble of
! football form and world series
baseball talk mingles with pleas
for tables at Toots Shor's.. Off
come the bow-tie stiles. and flam-
! boyant four.in-hands salute the
season., .Open-top Fifth Ave. buses
wend uptown to the Winter barns
for their Winter rest
observation-disclosures season is
in full swing, and famous feet trot
briskly around the reservoir in the
chill sunlit Observation-Disclosures
in Johnny Rockefeller's city-within-
a.city prune the boxed soil to the
stares OF the never-tiring oglers....
Nostalgia beams at us from the
stationers windows with their pen,
cilbox and slate displays. ."Ads
from down South try timidly to
attract our attention: they'll get
holder as the air grows colder.
Window mannequins pose in stoles
and scarves and little sable jack
ts..,.Sun glasses go back to the
cases except for the glamor guys
and girls who feel undressed with
out them. Sigmund Romberg re.
wives his Blossom Time" for the
Goth successive season. Fall house
cleaning is on at merry pace.
and painters scowl at you from
your dining room.
The film greats flock into town
for that everelusive suitable play
... BARRIERS whistle as they dust off
their sun-lamps. Oysters r in the
golf irons in the sports shop win.
| dows, and the ball-bearing hum OF
roller skates warns the pavements
go. Maddening hats replace the
schoolgirl ribbons on the heads of
the weaker sex, and the male OF
the species struts forth with
scratch felt top-pieces garnished
with screwy band gimmicks....The
Indy mob switches from cold
borscht to hot noodle soup. down
come the signs marked "Air-Cool-
ed" and brandy bracers at Cerut.
It's are needy stuff at the twilight
hour. Museums hum and hustle
with the teacher.pupils play.
The electric light bills rise. and
steaks replace salads on the menu
Those oh-hum notices about the
gambling ban float up from Flor
ida. oh. there,".A CLEAN returns
to the orbs Of the drama critics,
and picture houses announce that
super-dupers are on the way.
Bowling's in season. Stee-rik-k-e!
Woody Herman starts the parade
of the big bands to the hotel bis
tors....Hot chocolate signs smile at
you from drug store windows, and
the drink stands on Broadway en-.