The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-06
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, these bids. I'm going to stick em 25 and 50 bucks apiece. and up to 75, with travelling expenses
 Sure. Go ahead and soak 'em. 1 just never had the nerve"
 Listen. might pick out a reg ular topic for you and advertise 1t a little - mention 1t in all my let ters."
 "Ausgezeichnetl Peonyi Which do you think would draw more-a lecture maintaining that the Post War Generation are okay, and will get over 1t, or just the opposite - message that they're a gang of cockeyed hellions and harlots?"
 "Oh, give 'em the young-gener- ation-going-to -to-hell number. Mo- body wants to pay their good dough to hear that the kids are simply human beings.
 MEAN PLANISH was speaking this D evening at the joint dinner of the Daughters of Pilgrims. and the Upsala Bach Society, at New Ip- swich, 60 miles from Kinnikinick.
 He was not one of your nervous lecturers who spoke at their ap- ple- pineapple peach creamcheese salad, who shakily i'll up on coffee, and look glassily at the la dies to left and right. Dean Plan ish ate stolidly, and he thought very well of the Surprise Tee Cream, while to Mrs. Wiggleman the chalrwoman, on his right. he was saying, Yes. he did think the movies were & pernicious tnfiu- ence on the young. After that he said to the lady on his left tha' Yes, he did think the movies stimulated the imaginations and slicked up the manners of the young He was not jumpy even when Mrs. Wiggleman introduced him. He rose, put on his eye, glasses with flourish, and sailed his plane steadily into the trade winds of intellectually:
 Madame Chairman, Right Rev erend Sir, ladies and friends, 1t | altogether fitting and proper ane a happy portent for the future that the descendants of th' Yankees, my own stern but noble forbears, and the sons and daugn' ters of the great Swedish rac' should thus have met together and that I should endeavor to ad' dress you on the eyer-burnini topic of Today's Youth, for II what have these titan races bette united than in their emphasis or the scrupulous rearing Of ou' children7"
 sixty-two minutes later, he mad his landing, a little dazed now, anS they yelled and hammered tn tables, He enjoyed that. but 1t d.' not keep him from getting down ' the real climax.
 The first rule of all proiesslona lecturers, whether inspirations comic or travel, is to get you check before you leave the hall for otherwise, in the spell Of you wigaTdTy, they might forget ' send 1t on to you, So after he ha' shaken hands with 47 ladies an' i've men, he turned merrlly | MfA, Wikklelnhn hiu shsu, V though 1t were just little joS between them. T think cal save your committee a whol postage stamp fl l take my eheel along with mel"
 Mrs. Wlggleman looked shocked but before he went down to shru himself Into his dogskins overeoal he had the cheek tucked Into hi billiold,
 He WAS weary now, He drov back to Kinnlkinlck In so still paralysls that ho noted only tha lt had started lo snow. and that h must sec II he couldn't find no too expensive anaksskln belt 10 peony,
 She was asleep on the new chlnts covered chaius tongue when he cam In, but she jumped up and kisse' him.
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