The Key West citizen., 1952-10-14
CONCH
CH0WDER
BY RAYMER

end had various versions of the Ad-
lai Stevenson visit. Kay Hanskat Of
the PI office at the Navy said she
saw crowds of people lining the
highways, and that a plane over.
head flew a banner proclaiming
welcome Adlai, But We Like
Ike" Jeanne and Ski Skewis who
checked in Thursday evening at a
downtown Miami hotel said there
were a lot of out-of-towners regis
tered but that only 10, COO people for
Stevenson as against $4,000 for
Eisenhower gathered to hear Stew
enson's rally. They also said that
his cavalcade went down Flagler
street and that only thin line of
greeters were on the curbs. Most
shoppers just continued shopping.
The fiesta spirit was quite evil
dent Friday night at Sociedad de
Cuba when the last "baile" of Ell
Critic de Yara came off. Mr..
Abreu introduced me to the skipper
Of the "Jose Marti," and l sudden
" found myself doing sons, dan
sons. rumbas, a mafnbo and even
being maneuvered into a Conga
line. The next big dance is for Hal
lowe'en when it will again be time
to shake out the ruffleS, and cricks
in the hip.
Another exciting activity was at
tending the ''ham" set UP for
emergency testing on Saturday. Bill
Vette told me a most amusing
story about an amateur radio man
named Bob Beebe who lives in
Seattle, Wash. He had a maid who
was deaf and wore a hearing aid,
the gadgets can pick up on a short
frequency. So did / Saturday at the
Armoryl ! jumped as if were
hearing ghosts. Anyway, Beebe
was talking to some ham" on the
other side of the world and said
he wished he had a glass of milk
and cookies. In few minutes the
maid, who was downstairs, appear
ed with what he wanted. AS Hap
Adams has it, Get on Channel 10. {"
Lover Boy" Speziali shows evil
dence of not being full of brotherly
love The Lee Goddards are
back from Europe and / can hard
ly wait to hear of the various ex-
plorations in at least half dozen
countries Over Theah. Which re-
minds me to remind the George
Rennas that / have yet to see those
Wild West color films. Thelma
Ward ought to be back from New
England by now. She flew up to see
her son The ]. Edgar Willings
are also due in Key West. The
Players get rolling again tonight
and the play reading committee Is
gonna have to move fast as we are
behind schedule. First play of the
season will be decided upon.
A most exhilarating letter from
Barbara Schlech, wife Of Comdr.
Walter r. Schlech, Jr., now at IL
Post Hill Place, New London,
Conn. starts Hail to thee, vox-
populi" and brings news that Duffy
is paving the ground for the next
visit to the tight little island and
thought l would spend five minutes
in an impassioned plea for news
of any description to send with
aforementioned zoomie. How / miss
Key West. Advance word has it
that l would turn cyanotic for 4
glimpse of palm tree and velvet
sky" She wants a palm tree sent
up in the vip plane with Duffy.
She adds that Conch Chowder is
garbied now and wants to
know if the joic de vivre left with
the Schlechs. Yea verify, partly at
least. She sends word to all friends,
wants addresses md sends big
smooches for George Snd Elsie and
many others ''in the line Of fire
with hi TO Violence" and closes
with news that she expectcd 10 say
hello 10 Frenchy Williams ana Ma
jor 81 (sighl Minton when Tru-
mans plane touched at New Lon
don. So somebody with q less busy
typewriter can beat me 70 the
punch IL they like Barb wants
news. news, NEWS AND AD-