The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-02-02


costly one as the fire spread
swiftly through the dry under
brush.
Mrs. William O'Neal called the
fire department to the scene when
she observed the spreading fire.
startling to hear it around the
drill yard. i /;
Californians from the wrong"
part of the state were always do
ing two things at once. One was
talking. They always talked and
did some other thing at the same
time. They were bridge players,
tennis players, few of the more
physical sort of them even played
a graceful sort of BASEBALL. But all
the time they did any of these
things, or anything else, they
talked-brightly, beautifully, con-
tinually. The ceaseless prattle of
a southern Californian in show
er room or across a pile of spuds
on KIP. duty, was just too soft
sounding, too mice" for the or
binary CT to hear without being
embarrassed by it. A Californian
from the south could put to flight
whole squads of dusty, whiskery
infantrymen from Kentucky, Mi
chigan, Ohio or Mississippi, sim
ply by tracing a gesture in the
air with his long, sensitive fingers
and saying in his charming voice,
"Now, what do you Think say
WHAT do you think of dreadful
thing like that?"
This Los Angeles paper was
written just like Angelenos talk.
Reading it was embarrassing in
the way it is for a fellow to buy
a suit of long-handled underwear
from pretty girl clerk in de-
partment store.
The cafe-society syndicated col
umnist Cholly Knickerbocker's
stuff fit the Examiner far better
than it could any of the New York
papers. He was reciting the list
of his scoops and exclusives for
1850" in the Rose Bowl Edition.
Greatest of all of these, he said,
was his "first" revelation of the
Bergman-Rossellini affair of in
glorious memory. 'But there were
many others, too, some of which
may have received a larger echo
if the world had been in a more
normal condition." said Cholly
(oh, save US from that kind of
"normalcy!) The others were
such scoops and exclusives" as,
Barbara Hutton's separation from
Prince Igor Troubetzkoy; marital
trouble between ex-King Peter of
Yogoslavia and Queen Alexan-
dra; a prediction of the divorce Of
the Robert Montgomerys; he
printed the "irst rumors" of the
end of Liz Taylor and Nicky Hill
toms romance. There were more
like that did all these things
really happen? Write your cous-
in in L. A, he'll knowD
A local Cholly, Cholly Angelo
no, was burbling escatatic Califor-
niese about New Years Eve par
ty attended by 200-odd Angelen-
os. There was more to the col
umn, but before we had gotten
far in it our attention wandered:
we got to thinking about 20O-odd
Angelenos land, be sure, many of
them would be odd) talking 500
charmingly about so-and-so's lat
est affair of the heart, or illustrat-
ing with lacey gestures exactly
how bold Erwin played the scene
in the drug store with heartbrok-
en- Belinda. When we began to
feel like we'd been through that
party ourself, we hurriedly turn
ed the page.
Doctors advertise out there.
They advertise "sure" cures for
anything. Mostly they profess to
do it with herbs. One ad advised
us to "Reduce Scientifically in
Just the Right Places. Lose Those
Holiday Pounds" We learned that
we could have this done for $3.50
Including BATH"
Every section of the Examiner
was in the idiom. On page / was
three-column picture of two doc
tors holding the first baby born
in the county in 1851. Mugging
like DR.. Christian and DIR. Kill
dare.
Even the classifeds have char
acter of their own. One under a
column headed evil Swap" read:
mink coat (ranch) stylish Tuxe-
do front, large turn back cuffs. |
Swap for diamonds or new car"
In a Los Angeles paper there's
always suicide story or two. For |
the Rose Bowl Edition, we thought |
they had something rather novel: |
the suicide had poked dynamite
cap into his ear and set if off with |
flashlight battery.
Somehow, we can't really blame
him-but he certainly ought to