The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-14
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Your editor has just returned
from more or less extended va
cation and is having hard time
settling down to work-something
to be regarded ~ . necessary evil
in the kind Of weather we have
been having this week. We con-
sole ourselves with the thought
that we wouldn't be happy il we
weren't able to work at some-
thing we regarded as useful--and
we are thankful to be able to be
back on the job again.
AS always the incest part about
being away from home is getting
back and seeing everyone-feeling
that maybe some Of you have mis-
sed Us just q little. This first
column will be in the nature Of
purely personal chit-chat to let
you know where we've been and
some things we've been doing. So
if you aren't interested stop right
here.
Just this week I've returned
from Gadsden, Alabama, where
my mother has been quite i'll but
I'm glad to report she's much bet
ter now. She was SO much better
that she insisted my sister Bon
ME and take the trip we had
planned to New York City for the
week of July 4th, the one week
Bonnie had for her vacation since
she took one week off in Janu-
airy to be with me while / was in
the hospital.
Bonnie Brannon is just about
the sweetest sister girl ever had
and Il was a real pleasure to be
able to take her on her first visit
TO New York.
We left Gadsden via Southern
Anyways and in just Is minutes
landed in Atlanta where the air.
port seems to have outgrown the
buildings which look very tenn
porary. Arriving there and check
Ing in with Eastern we found that
Southern had forgotten to charge
us the extra fare for Eastern's
Constellation flight so we forked
over another twelve dollars each,
more or less, for the round trip.
We made the flight from Attain
ia to Newark, N. J. in three hours
and ~ minutes with one stop at
Charlotte, N. c. Much of the
flight was made at $4,000 feet
but we would have never known
It Il the good-looking stewards
passing up and down the aisles
all the way hadn't kept us fully
informed Of everything going on
in the plane. We meant to ask
why they didn't have girl stew
ardesses on the Constellation
flights but never did get around
to it.
At Newark we were met by
friends and in less than an hours
time we and our four bags in
Guiding $4,000 excess were COM
fortably installed in nice air.
conditioned room of the Wal
dorf-Astoria. Speaking of excess
luggage, l have never been able
to understand why a man weigh
ing 200 pounds can ride for the
same fare an air lire charges me,
and do weigh considerably less,
and then have to pay sixty-one
cents pound for excess from
Gadsden to New York. 1t just
doesn't quite seem right. Looks
like they'd allow you so many
pounds per ticket instead of your
own person plus forty pounds.
Not too many minutes later we
were up on the Starlight Roof at
the Waldorf, which is not COM
fortably air-conditioned, dancing
to the music Of Eddy Duchin,
which is nicer to listen to than
dancing and Mischa Borr, mas
ter OF South American music. The
Waldorfs idea, we presume, in
having continuous music is to
have something to suit everyone's
taste-but we noticed there were
only about fifteen couples on the
floor when the South of the bor-
der music was being played. The
sad truth is most North American
men just can't dance the rhumba
-and we've decided It's because
they're too inhibited-they lust
can't let themselves 60.
Our idea of a vacation is to
laze around and believe me, we
lazed. Having breakfast in our
room the first morning Bonnie
asked how much the check was
! had just signed and told her
$4.86. Without trace of a smile
she wanted to know if we got
to keep the dishes.
What we enjoy most in New
York is the legitimate theatre
and we saw several excellent
shows including Lee j. Cobb in
Death Of A Salesman" a rather
morbid drama which won the
Pulitzer prize and Critics award
for 1919; Ruth Hussey, in a new
comedy, Goodbye, My Fancy"