The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-02-09
BY DAVE WEST

Storm warning for tender SEN
sitivities: a tune which has been
reported as popular in England
for some time is now being loosed
on the air waves by American disc
jockeys. Should you imagine you
near something that sounds like
81 tawt l taw putty tat" toming
that is, coming, out of your rad
| 10, tear the bloomin' floor plug out
or, believe US, you'll toon do
trazy-for that's EXACTLY what
you heard!
| Some of the tricks in the trade
of running restaurant have
good deal in common with the an
alytical tricks practiced by mys-
tery-thriller detectives. If you
frequent the same lunchcounter or
soda fountain regularly, to keep
caught up on your daily coffee or
Coke requirements, chances are
that the people who serve you
know a number of things about
your habits that you have no idea
of yourself. An alert waitress
can glance at the booth or counter
vacated by her regular customers
and tell you, often, just who has
been served there last. Customers
may fold their napkins in certain
patterns; or they will grind out
a certain number of cigarette
butts on the edge of their sau-
GERS; others can be identified af-
ter they've gone by the number
of cream containers left beside
their cups; some toast-eaters new
er touch the crusts of the bread
they're served. There are as many
unique habits as customers, al
most. Presumably waitress
could learn to identify female cof-
fee customers by the shade of the
lipstick smudges left on their
cups. But that would call for OBJ
servation of a higher order than
any waitress in Manteo Tor all of
eastern Carolina, probably needs
to use to identify a coffee cup
left behind by Aycock Brown,
whose particular give-away is
this: Aycock drinks his coffee
black-but he insists upon being
given a spoon with his cup. If
you see coffee cup on the coun-
ter with a used spoon in the sau-
Ger beside it, but without trace
) of cream or sugar in the cup, de-
) pend upon it, you are close on the
: trail of the fast-moving news
hound of the Carolina coast (Ay-
: cocks fox hound publicity sug-
gests calling him a "foxy news
homeland, if you have tried
2 to out-fox the busy Mr.. Brown
: lately, perhaps you'll be inclined
to let the adjective stick.)
Guess we aren't cut out for a
prophet. Every year we are sent
subscription to a different mag
azine by waggish friend of ours
E The popularity of the gift has
always been that it is always a
magazine of which we've never
before heard, and we never see
another copy after our annual
subscription expires. Last year we
e received "The Folklore Quarter,
r ly." The year before that "The
r Rabbit Breeders Journal" This
:, year we are on the list of "Pro,
Y phecy Monthly, Official Publica.
n ton of the American Prophetic
e League, Inc.," published, of al
places, in Los Angeles. We have
e read the January and February
S issues with great care-and YET
e we picked out last Saturday a:
:, the day to move from one house
e to another-and that, in case your
: memory is very slipshod, was the
!. day of the big snow.
e The last doubt about whether
h reading society pages is reward
f ing has been dispelled: thank:
to the habit, we now know thai
f there is lady in Stockton, Cal
e ifornia, named Mrs. Coy Pigg.
:. Somehow we got on a mailing
j. list (the kind known as Sucker,
d we fear) of an outfit in Honolulu
known as a "Dianetics Research
Il Foundation" We had no idea wha
a the word "dianetics" meant; 81
e we tore open the envelope ant
r started to read the tract enclosed
W The way the thing was worded
e we soon learned that we were be
It ing referred to as "the pre-clear.
i. Apparently that is the term TO
h all persons who have not mad
g use of dianetics to straighten tn
curlicues out of their thinking
Ie processes. We blushed, but ad
is mitted that might be US, and rea,
"a on-until we came to this ques
If tion-and-answer, which was sup
e. posed to enlighten our ignoranc
IS about what dianetics is Tor are ?
,e 20: Is dianetics a form of hypno
tism? A: In hypnotism engram
are established. In dianetics tn