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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
Il-Houses tor kenf

MODERN, small unfurnished house,
4 miles southwest of Ell Centre.
Permanent tenants. Phone 8711-
W., evenings. lilo
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EXPERIENCED waitress wanted.
Apply after 2 pm. Riedy's 610
Main. 1-l6
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EXPERIENCED woman for maid
service. English Village. Call 1889.
In
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FOR SALE--Nice stucco, hardwood
floors throughout; nice living &
dining room; g bed rooms and
den; grand kitchen and service
porch; lovely basement furnished
for bedroom. Nice fenced back
yard; grass, flowers; citrus trees;
garage and cement walks. This
is a good buy. Will sell partly
furnished. Give immediate pos
session.
TYLER INSURANCE AGENCY
$40 Main Phone 660
1-12
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I2-Wan+ed to Rent

IRRIGATION DISTRICT employe
wishes to rent furn. house or
Apt. permanently. Phone Leo
Davis, 1873 Holtville. lilo
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REPRESENTATIVE International
Correspondence Schools for Inn
perial Valley & Yuma. Write P.
o. Box 536 San Diego II, Cal. 1-16
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FOR SALE-2 houses on 2h acres
just outside city limits, or will
divide if desired-$3750 if all TAX
en-. Some terms. Furniture for
sale extra. See Starr Won FluSs,
664 Holt. 1-l3
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IHBusiness Rentals

FOR RENT-New garage, 36X16 it.
on Hiway 80, near East Ell Centre
City Limits. Wired for welder. See
Roe Brock, 1856 E. Main. liz
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You Can Talk TO One Man
l9-City Prop. TOR sale


FOR SALE-Modern home, $50 San
calwood. Hardwood floors in all
rooms. Kitchen and breakfast
room inlaid nnoleum; all tile bath
and shower; plenty of closet
space; beautiful mahogany fire
place and book cases; living room
drapes; Venetian blinds, and
ceiling fan-duct cooling system
to all rooms; large desert cooler:
circulating oil heater-all go with
the house. One car garage, two
store rooms; stationary tubs in
garage; large summer room off
garage. Patio between house and
garage. Phone owner for appoint
ment, 507. LILO
FOR SALE-Unfurnished Stucco-
hardwood floors, living and din
ing room; bedroom, small sleep
ing porch; automatic water heat
er; laundry trays; kitchen equip
ped for electric and gas; south
side, naved street. Immediate
poSseSsion-$3750.
TYLER INSURANCE AGENCY
$40 Main Phone $50
1-19
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DEATH = FUNERAL
NOTICES

ALLEN, George s., died Saturday
in Ell lcentro. Services will be held
Sunday at pm. at Lemons
Chapel. Ritualistic services will
be in charge of Eureka Lodge No.
%, F.. & A. M, with Chester Lock-
ard, worshipful master officiat-
ing. Burial will be in Evergreen
p Cemetery. Lemons Mortuary is in
charge. 1-1Q
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REWARD $25-house or apartment.
Adults, no pets. Phone 1900, Ext.
2O6. Lie
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MODERN Ell Centric house wanted.
Furnished or partly furnished.
smokers or drinkers, 2 small
children. Permanent. Urgently
needed. Call CaleXico 865. lilo
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S-Help Wanted

WAITRESS WANTED-Neat ap-
pearance; experienced. See Mrs.
Lorna Barrette, Dining Room
Barbara Worth hotel. lilo
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FOR SALE-45 acres, soft land been
in alfalfa yrs. room and 2
room houses; citrus orchard. Good
improvements. mi. west on San
Diego Hiway, Ia No. M. l.. Boone.
LILO
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Lost, FOUND, Sirayed

IeosI, Iouno, onoIeo
LOST-Male wire hair Scottie,
weight Is lbs, grey and black;
white ring around neck, white
tip tail. Answers to "Tippie". $40
reward. Return to Nanking Cafe.
Ill
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FOR SALE-5 acres good small
house, fireplace; elec. range and
water heater; good water system;
bedroom set; fresh COW and about
60 iaying hens. mi. south of FL
Centre ON So. 9Th. Phone 9s0-R.
l-l2
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PINE VALLEY
For lots and improved property
In Pine Valley and Vicinity see
or write Z. G. Bangs, Real Es-
tate Broker. Pine Valley.
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27-Farm Implements
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FOR SALE-Immediate possession,
Groom house, service porch and
bath, on south size. PHI 1868. LIS
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WANTED-A IL ton truck not less
than IL ft. body. Phone Brawley
872l-R2. lilo
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FOR SALES bedroom house on
Sandalwood. 2 baths; double gar
age; York air conditioning. In
mediate posseSsion-$7500.
TYLER INSURANCE AGENCY
500 Main Phone $50
lie
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FOR SALE-Modern room furn.
house. Screen porch includes
washing machine. Chickens; lug
gage trailer. Inquire at 829 Fern,
Holtville. 1-13
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FOR SALE-Rooming house close
in. II rentals at $12 per week.
$4,000, half down. Price includes
! trailer and furnishings accord
ing to inventory. See Starr Won
FlusS, 664 Holt. LII
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

SLACK SOCKS in sturdy mereerized four-py
cotton. Dark solid eolors and bright Argyle
ploids. Synthetic elastic tops. g. VI, Soc
"HUooER" CAPS in wool and reprocessed
wool" poids The ottoched eormuffs give
extra protection against cold winds and
swing up or -------------i.so
YlNSPuPTrS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

Natural or olive cotton eobordine,
sturdy fobrie thot's been specially
treated for woter-repeIIeney. Lined with
"Duo-Suede," warm cotton fIonnel in
a bright plaid pattern. Sizes Z to 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

LANsBURGEs-Boys' Wear-Fourth Floor
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
Il. v. DURLING

character to dlssuade his wife
from purchasing shoes that
made her feet look smaller.
How about you, sir? Are you
man enough to stop your wife
from buying tight fitting shoes?
I Asst week I received a letter
II signed Lady Going to Bat
for Her Cat" She objected TO
my suggestion that. most cats
will not respond when called by
name. In addition She outlined
in detail the virtues of cats in
general.
"The trouble with you.r she
said, sis that you don't under
stand cats"
This remark cut me to the
quick.
/ have decided TO make a
study of cats.
will start with the five catr
owned by the grocer around the
corner.
From now on nobody is going
to tell me 1 don't understand
cats and get away with it.
WAS asked if there had ever
w been a song written about
a girl named Mildred. Said l
didn't recall any. 1 have since
learned that Jack Norworth, in
honor of a friend named Mil
dred, wrote a ditty titled:
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
uErHcFs&9~fMes
Answers to Veterans

He il a major. and i know. can
afford to pay moro than that tn
the support of his family, Is
there any way I'm which he can
be forced to increase the $l25T
Mrs. l.. B.
A-There is no set scale Of
payments which an officer Is
obliged to meet in the matter
of supporting his family; when
he will not voluntarily accept
his responsibility in this respect
the only recourse is TO write to
his commanding officer, giving
full details as % expenses IN
corhs. .Iiutnber ~oI'" dependents.
etc. 1t is not necessary to have
the commanding officers name;.
simply use the title and the
same address as you have for
your husband.
Q-Is the Disabled American
Veterans organization chartered
by Congress? What veterans
are eligible for memberships
A-The d. A. V. is chartered
by Congress. Generally speak
ing, American veterans, honor
ably discharged, who have been
wounded, gassed, disabled or dis
eased while serving in the armed
forces of the United States dur
ing time of war are eligible for
membership.
q W a soldier is working
tn = a non-commissioned off,
Ger, and IL he does not want to
work under him, does he have
to keep on working under that
man? Pvt. 8.
Ale does; a solder In the
army performs duty to which he
is assigned, and he has no right
to choose the officers or nom
commissioned officers who
supervised his work.
o. am the widow of q
World War III servlceman and
receive pension and insurance.
Will the pension be discontinued
IL I go to work: Mrs. b. j.
A-No. it will not. The widow
of a World War IL veteran is
not required to show dependency
in order to receive the pension.
Q-Are officers eligible for
discharge under the point sys-
tems Mrs. b. c. s.
A-Military necessity is still
the primary factor in the re-
lease of commissioned officers.
Officers with low point scores
may be released if declared sur
plus. and officers with high
point scores may be retained il
classed as essential.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
BY Damon
Runyon

Indiana, the son Of an adver-
tising man, began his Broadway
career as a chorus boy in
Shubert show. wrote the lyrics
for "Doggone Dangerous Girl, ""I
Love the Ladies" Get Out and
Get Under" There's a Little Bit
of Bad in Every Good Little
Girl" Everything Is Peaches
Down in Georgia. )" Everything
Is Nice II 1t Comes From Dixie
land" Tired of Me-" ID irty
Hands" Am l Blue" IF He
Can Fight Like He Can Love-"
and "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" Just
TO mention a few.
If YOU examine his lyrics you
L will find that, even though
the sentiment may now be
dated. they possess a peculiar
quality of their own-a rare
lit and swing that few other
lyrics writers ever possessed.
He wrote with different music
writer's &C Gorge w. Meyers,
Walter Donaldson, Harry Akst,
Murray Abrahams. Fred Fisher,
Milton Ager and Jimmy Monaco.
"He was the spittin' image
of Nunnally Johnson" insists
Milt Ager, who wrote the music
for two hits 10 Clark's lyrics.
The johnson he means is the
great writer-producer of Inter-
national Pictures out in Holly
wood and the classification
would put Clark somewhere in
between Adonis and B. c. Pull
ley in point of pulchritude.
Clark lived at the Somerset
Hotel in the mid-Forties. was
a steady patron of Texas
Guinan's various establish
ments. and a pal of the re-
doubtahle Wilson Miner. He
found drama a bit warmish in
one of the Guinan gaffs one
night and he said TO the dour
bartender: Take a hunk of
ice out of your heart, Brother.
put it in my drink"
"Clarky." Miner, Coley
Goetz (alSo a lyric writer and
an Englishman they had picked
up somewhere went to small
deadfall on Seventh avenue
where the chief entertainer
was Les Copeland, who in my
opinion was the originator Of
tn e so-ealled boogie-woogie
beat with that amazing left
hand of his.
"Beastly!" said the English
man after listening to Les
awhile. Positively beastlyw
Clark grabbed the English
mans wrist and held II, stand
ing in a listening attitude.
81 say" said the EngliShman,
"what II all this about"
II just have To feel the pulse
~ any one who does not like
rsgtime,' said Clark.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
AT YOUR SERVICE

n-My former wife received
o family allowance from f94s
to 1914 inclusive without me
signing any application for
same. We were then only sep
arated without q written agree
ment or court order limiting
her maintenance. No deductions
were made from my pay during
this period, but now they are
taking IL from my pay until the
indebtedness IL cleared up.
Could my wife get the allowance
With nv "oksy"S x. ~
Ny Dur wife was entitled 10
a family allowance of $50 per
month under the circumstances
you state. Whether you should
be liable now for deductions not
made during the period OF her
-efttftfcn1cnt deppnus upon
whether you stated that you
were not married when you first
entered the service. In some
justifiable cases, the secretary
of war may make remission OF
Indebtedness. Since we do not
know all of the facts in your
particular case, you should seek
the advice of your personal at
fairs officer.
QI have lost one son I'm
service and receive his insurance
monthly and also the pension.
j have another son now enter
ing the army; can he apply for
family allowance for me with
out interfering with the insur-
ance and pension. b. b.
A-Family allowance is paid
to the parent of a serviceman
when the fact of dependency is
established. II the receipt of
pension and insurance still
leaves you dependent upon your
second son for at least a SUBJ
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

Yes. Mother sometimes
had two "steadies," but if grand
ma had more than one, she was
looked upon as vain and flirta-
tious. Recently 1 called on
friends who have a very attrac-
tive daughter. Nine automobiles
were lined up in front of the
house. Instead of being thought
flighty this girls popularity was
laid to her good qualities of
beauty and personality{ This
modern trend to marry boy-girl,
girl-boy friends is highly desir-
able. w
2-No. The neurotic thinks
things that normal people re-
gard as very important are un-
important, and that what most
people regard as unimportant
are important. Neurotics exag-
gerate the most trivial, unfavor-
able comment into a deep in
suit, and are sure other people
are talking about them. Their
whole lives are concerned with
themselves. instead of outside
objects and other people.
Sit is the luckiest day in
the week. because so many mis-
guided people believe II IS un-
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
On the
Side

"Oh, Milly won't you be my
little filly and gallop around the
track of life with me-" So.
young fellow. IL you have a girl
named Mildred. there's some
thing you can sing to her.
The average age of the "a.
100000 automobiles still in OPP
GRAFTON in the u. S. A. is eight
years. The average mileage IN
$4,000. How does this compare
with the age and mileage Of
your gallant bus?
A CHICAGO woman who has
n had four husbands volun-
teers to furnish some inside in
formation on the male sex for
our Mules a. Men files. Sounds
all right. She should know some
thing A WAVE says she
met a marine named Ivory Lucy
but forgot to ask him whether
he was named after the soap or
an elephants tuSk.
Sixty nine per cent of the
cigaret supply in the United
States is smoked by women.
don't mind how many cigarets
women smoke but 1 wish they
would stop leaving around those
butts sloppily smeared with lip
stick.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

AN EXTREMELY successful
"A painting and decorating
contractor catering to the resi-
dents of the exclusive sections
of midtown Manhattan never
hires a man under so years of
age. He says the older men do a
thorough job while the younger
men are inclined to finish a job
as soon as possible with no
thought of thoroughness. AS a
matter of fact some of the
young fellows call the elderly
workers "old fashioned" be-
cause they are so conscientious.
COME men help their wives
~ buy hats. About one in five
million l think. However, l
never heard of a man helping
has wife buy shoes. That might
De very good IDEA.
Everything indicates the aver
age wife is not to be trusted
alone when buying footgear. A
mad desire 10 have her feet
look smaller causes her TO buy
tight shoes. Tight shoes make
females irritable. This causes
domestic arguments and that
often leads TO divorce.
The danger In the situation
is plainly evident. Even though
present at the sale il might
take husband of very strong
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

stantial degree of support. you
are entitled TO receive family
allowance. However, the pen
sion is paid to you because the
fact of dependency exists. AS
payment of the pension is adj
ministered by the Veterans Ad-
ministration, that agency would
have to determine whether you
were entitled to the pension
upon receipt of family allow
ance. Your insurance payments
would not be affected at all.
They cQhtinpe regardless of,
whether dependency exists or
So, ..ssG ~
Q-My husband Is an officer
and has been returned to this
country after ga years over
seas. He has cut my allotment
to SIPS for myself and two
minor children. / have a heavy
mortgage on my home which we
took on before he went into the
service and I cannot possibly
pay all expenses on this income.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
NV All TEuI VNINGTUEU On
W 1AAA AAAU w VAANOAAAIAAA/ Broadway

8" lNE NATION" is the title
" of a new book with many
illustrations) that should be on
your night table and your chill
dren's, too.
Morton Robinson's new novel,
The Perfect Round" Is another
! Recommendation.
Author of American Guerilla
In the Philippines" Ira Wolfert
wires: II is a vivid moving re-
minder to those who fought the
war and q warning TO those for
whom IL was fought"
Dana Wilson, a glamour gal,
Is back from Movietown with a
book debunking Hollywood. The
title is: Make with the Brains,
Pierre" Julian Messner is the
publisher.
Jack Roper, the former heavy
weight fighter. is now an elec-
trician for Preston Sturges, the
movie magician.
I. V. Soong, her brother, Is
the one who patched up matters
between the Chang Kai-sheks.
IHE Chase Bank and the Ma
l. tional City Bank recently
published names OF d e C e as e d
who had unclaimed deposits in
those banks.
Among the names were Bar
bara LAMAR. Raymond Hitch
cock, l. eslie ii owar d. Jack
Johnson the's aliveD the estate
OF Henry B. Harris (his widow
works for IMP at the informa-
tion desk); the estate of Anna
Held. Jean Bedini The hired
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
BUGS BAER

I'm never scared of the postwar world because 1
been through one and out the other end.
Let's what poerity that is already bought and
paid for 1t thousands of bridges that
it gets here. That's because you and kicking forth
the tolls.
1t gets the finest schools hospitals and colleges all bought
and paid for by and 1t hundreds thousands
of miles of roads smooth sales talk and going places
Posterity inherits going
Posery gets hotels railroads parks and develop
mens whose original stockholders have been shaken like
crumbs in apron Naturally there slight rental token
that with the of these structures. But that for
and tear.
The figure is that instead Of postery getting the
of things it is in strictly the cufferoo.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

GRANT CLARK-tall, thin, Of
VI pasty complexion and straw
colored hair, and one of the
greatest writers of lyrics for
popular songs that ever lived
some song writer's think the
greatest.
Whenever his name comes up
among the veterans of the busi-
ness who were contemporaneous
with "Clarky," they take off
their hats. figuratively speak
ing. He died some years ago in
California in his mid forties
leaving behind a high rating in
ASCAP, the song writers or
ganization, and a reputation the
breadth of the Roaring FortieS
for his wise cracks.
The lyric writer of today some-
thing like him is Johnny Mercer.
author of scores of hit numbers.
Grant Clark. who came from
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

Eddie Cantor as stooge),
Ethel Colt. S. p. Colt. Anna
Pavlowa. Helen Morgan, Dave
Montgomery and Fanny Ward.
The last mentioned is not de-
ceased. She tells funny jokes to
columnists at the Stork every
night.
TONY DeMARCO, who will in
= troduce new dance rhythm
soon c'The BombuccoD, will
appreciate learning that the first
American song written in that
tempo is Hoagy Carmichael's:
How Little We Know" Hoagy
rendered it in ITO Have and TO
Have Not" the Bogart- -Bacall
sizzler. Warmers, however, did
not like it in the Bombucco
pace-and made them sing il
straight. Hoagy made a re-
cording Of it "a la Bombucco)
for Ara Records.
JAMES PETRILLO. the Mu-
- sicians' Union boss, has de-
veloped a morbid fear of germs.
He carries an enormous stock Of
kleenex at all times. wipes off
doorknobs. won't use soap used
before, etc.
Soldiers about town are
spreading rumors about Fort
Dix where men are mustered
out too slowly" but that some
have gotten discharges after
paying SIS"
The Two Jima monument IN
the Times Squarea "a reproduc.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08
Brain Game Answers

THE recently married Shirley
Temple.
2-(a) is correct.
3-They were formed into un-
derwater demolition squads.
who swan ahead TO scout
reefs and put underwater
mines out of action before
our troops went ashore on
some Pacific islands.
4-Noel Coward.
5-(a) True. (bD False. Trollope
was a novelist himself.
6-Arthur Fletcher.
Toledo. Ohio.
S-John Greenleaf whittier.
The line comes from a poem
entitled Our Master" from
which the words of five WE'LL
loved hymns have been
taken.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

ton of the wonderful flag rails
ing event) will be shifted TO the
grounds OF st. Adams Hos
pital.
The Copacabana night spot
show crossed $50, 900 last week
that's bigger biz than any
Broadway musical hit.
Neat Mildred Pierce" exploit
tation: "She's the kind Of woman
most men want but shouldn't
havev
Ed Murrow's silly-dilly: "A
terrible thing happened TO me
last night"
'Zatso, what 2"
81 was carrying n drunk
home"
whats SO terrible about
that?"
"He dropped me-"
They would have you believe
Gen. Eisenhower was asked If
he ever served under Gen. Pat
ton. and that he replied; NO.
but ! studied dramatics under
him for four years"
Ben Hecht: Bigots are actu-
ally people who have been
driven a little mad by believing
too much with minds too small.
Rex Stout: A guest is jewel
resting on the cushion Of hospi-
tality.
Damon Runyon: Newspaper
men are always jealous of sue
cess--for another newspaper
man.
Anon: Autumn-when Mother
Nature changes pitticoats.
Bob Hannegan: A prophet is
without honor in this country
except a winner.
j Alexander: A crate fire
making lazy passes at the
spring chill.
Sol Levitt: Old soldiers re-
member outfits, but outfits
never remember old soldiers.
SCRAMBLED eggs George
~ Lait has received via u. S.
Intelligence officersl the dos
sier on him found in Goebbels'
files. A detailed account Of the
scribe's activities as gathered
by Nazi spies in Argentina from
the columns Of the wallpaper
N1tScias Graficas- %
The most widely circulated of
me mgest mags uses TIE fol-
lowing without credit: IAN
American takes off his hat TO
the past and takes off his coat
for the future" Which is eX-
actly the way We wrote tt,
A Sunday gazette-s fTtrFg src-
ton taunted the artistic snobs
who gaze down their Snouis at
scriveners who are popular with
the masses. The essay recalled
this maxim. .He writes nothing
whose writings are not read.
THE Funnies: Among newspa-
L per classics there is the story
OF the small-town editor who
was licked by an indignant sub
scriber. The editor reported
the battle this way:
There was a blow; somebody
fell. We got up. Turning on
our antagonist, we succeeded In
winding his arms around our
waist and. by a quick maneuver.
threw him on top Of us, bring
Ing our back at the same time
In contact with the sidewalk.
Then. inserting our nose be-
tween his teeth and cleverly
entangiing his hands In our hair,
We had him"
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-08

NOV the shameful, sordid.
~ truth can be told. There Is
hardly a member of Congress
who was not delighted TO see
Washington nosed out of the
World Series!
l will bet this goes particu-
larly for Happy Chandler. who
is both a senator and baseballs
high commissioner, but, OF
course, you will never get him
10 admit it. He'd have TO go
around Washington in disguise
if he did.
The reason for congressional
Joy over the Mats failure 10
grab the American League PEN
nant is almost too obvious TO
bother narrating. For weeks the
representatives and senators
had been swamped with re-
quests from voters, etc, 10 get
them World Series tickets
which they knew they couldn't
get!
It's tough for congressman
TO admit he can't produce. Also
ii lowers him sadly in the esti-
nation of his constituents-par-
ticularly prominent constituents
who want 10 see the World
Series.
MIR. JOHN MAYNARD, the
WI Washington drama critic,
swears this happened to friends
of his who immigrated to WASH
ington from New York. As