Evening star., 1946-08-19

bet I didn't know his States motto,
the nickname of its residents, and
the year it was admitted to the
Union.
Would he feel like fool when I
answered, Liberty and Union, Now
and Forever, One and Inseparable, p"
"flickertails," and 1899?
As a matter of fact, I feel some
thing like a fool for having all this
information in my head, but I can't
help 1t. I was visited today by
Professor Leslie B. Bennett, memory
expert, and I became so interested
IN the lesson in the training of the
memory that he gave me, that I
forgot to tell him I had thousand
and one things to do and would
have to see him later.
25-Year Job.
Prof. Bennett, 81, OF Asbury Park,
N. j. (pop.: 14,61D and Jacksonville,
Fla. (pop.: 173,065, in 194O has been
developing his memory method for
25 years. He has taught his courses
all over the United States and given
hundreds of lectures and demon
strations. He insists he is no genius
(although some of the feats OF
memory he performs make you
doubt his world, and that with time
and practice any one can develop
a memory just as remarkable as his.
He gave me a lesson for about an
hour and a half, and the results
were downright remarkable, con-
sidering what he had to start with.
l have lived in a hotel for a month
and still turned the wrong way
when got of the elevator, and I
have never known which Is the
switch that turns on the upstairs
light and which is the one that
lights the living room.
I intend to see more of the pro-
lessor. He hadn't been teaching me
more than 20 minutes before dis
patched a sharp postal card to a
hotel in st. Louis telling them where
1 had left a hat 10 years ago, and
to please let me have 1t by return
mail. Before an hour was up
distinctly recalled the name OF the
girl to whom I had given my fra
ternity pin some 20 years ago, when
we plighted our troth in a Model T
Ford, which we had borrowed from
ner brother for the evening.
Wants That Pin Badly.
She'll get sharp message from
me, dressing her down for not re-
turning the pin when our romance
went on the rocks in the form of a
big, handsome football player from
the University Of Georgia. I want
that pin badly. 7 don't think 4
middle -aged man looks properly
dressed without his fraternity pin
on his vest.
A good memory can be a pain In
the head, too. It was just after I
had learned to name the Presidents
in order, either backwards or for
wards, and that the black-capped
chickadee Is the State bird Of Maine,
that remembered that I owe Fred
die Russell OF the Nashville Banner
IS. I trust that Prof. Bennett hasn't t
visited Freddie, and that Freddie has
forgotten.
I also remembered the day that
Jack Lueddeke and I, upon entering
the city Of Tacloban in Leyte
sampled what we thought was jap
anese rice alcohol. 1t turned out
to be an inferior grade of airplane
gasoline, which had been abandoned
by the Nips. Before we could get
our flaps down, Jack and I circled
Leyte three or four times, and every
one said it was very pretty sight
The next time the Professor gives
me lesson I want him to teach me
now to remember to forget tthe
things I don't want to remember
like the night Larry Smits and ]
wouldn't let Morton Downey sing
at a party because We thought we
could sing so much better.
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