The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-14

Office the other day I've been
taking things bit easy. Been
reading all the letters l scooped
up in the raid. Next week we'll
start smuggling in aliens. From
California. It's probably the in
fluence of THE Filibuster" that
has started this mad, local crime
wave.
BARBARA THOMPSON sends
a grand little note to the Crime
Corner" Okay, Barbara, from
now on you're a member Of "the
mob" in good standing,
Brownsville, Tex, keeps crop
ping up nthis column. Every
time it does ! get a laundering to
slap my Stetson over one ear
and take off Tor visit to that
good old Rio Grande Valley. This
time the urge was given impetus
/ by lovely MARY LASSWELL
and that noble Texas tonic, Bour-
bon,
Yup, l kept that sone Oh the
House" date with Mary and
Commander and MRS. &c. G.
LUBBOCK and doggoned if it
doesn't turn out that Mary Lass
well used to be Mary Lubbock on
account Of her being Commander
Lubbock's sister and that they
are from Brownsville Well, you
could have knocked me over
with a fender!
Their great grandpappy was
governor of Texas, and there is
a town named after him called
LUBBOCK, Texas.
The reason Mary's name is
Lasswell is that one day her
brother brought a fellow officer
home named Lasswell who looks
like Humphrey Bogart, only tall
er, and Lasswell, being heap
smarter than most chaps from
Missouri, took a deep breath and
dashed off to corral marrying
license and a parson. Con1nlander
Lubbock has never let his sister
better him in any deal, SO he
hoped up to Canada, tangled his
spurs at a pretty Canadian lass
named MARIE. who'd been putt
Iting him soff for a spelf. and
lassoed her right into wedding.
| So the other day we cat around
and cut up old touches. All ex-
cept Commander Lasswell, who
happens to be in France.
We talked about the Ell Jardin
Hotel, over in Brownsville, and
lTy Moulten Cobb and his cigars,
the Klgores, from up the Valley,
Cleo Dawson, another writing
lady ("She came to the Valley'o
from Mission, Matamoras,. just
across the International Bridge,
Charro Days, and just about
everything you can imagine
When they were kids in Browns
vile, the Lubbocks lived next
door to the editor of the Herald.
Mary and her brother haven'i
been back to their home town in
Isome time, but they're aiming to
visit there in the near future.
The vivaeious authorizes OF
High Time" Studs in You
Eye" and One On The House
spent an all too brief vacation ii
Key West. but hopes to return
this summer for a longer visit
She will probably cruise down on
her yacht, THE Whistler" The
boat is aptly named as Mary is
certainly the kind of gal at whom
II will gladly whistle.
Right now she is up IN Rich.
mond, Virginia. The Junior
League up there is holding q
combined book authors dinner
and crippled children's benefit
tonight at Miller, and Rhoads
lDR. DOUGLASS SOUTHALL
| FREEMAN, author of LEES
tLIEUTENANTS" acts as toast
master and the impressive list
| Of guests and speakers includes
John Herman Ian authority or
everything and star of Informa-
ton, Please'o, NANCY ROSS
ICLAIRE-BARNES and MARY
lLASSWELL. Mary will speak or
1.-The Anatomy of Humor."
| She and her brother certainly
| have a monopoly on humor and
Ihow to handle it! An hour with
| them and you find the world 8
pretty bright and happy place
and the devil take the flying
| saucers.
/ Miss Lasswell, incidentally
| thinks the plan for an architec-
| tural ordinance here in Key
| West is a must" She is enchant-
ed with our town and the people
there. She agrees that it would
be shame to watch it lose its
personality.
| Someday we'll have a get-to.
lgether here again, and mebbe
one over in Brownsville. might
paraphrase an old saw BY quip.
ping, you can take the Lub.
| bocks out of Texas but you CAM
| take Texas out of the Lnbbocks. :
x 4 ~
| am going to have to do some.
thing about BOB and LEE POL.
ILOCKl Such goings ong They
celebrated their wedding ami
yersary on April 18th, but col
into an argument as to whether