Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
The
Rambler
CoIorfuI Tinkhum
Had q High Horse
By JACK JONAS

Dy JAIN JONAO
The death last week of
former Congressman George
Holden Tinkham brought out
many stories about the pic
tureSque life of the Massa-
chusetts politician.
For Mrs. Robert Whitney
Imbrie it recalled the tale of
the drinking horse.
For years, she said, her
Uncle Jack Alexander had told
her about the horse in Boston
which stepped up to the bar
and had its beer or two from
a bucket. The horse, he said,
was Mr.. Tinkham's in rs
younger days.
Il never believed him." she
said. Uncle always was one
to tell a tall tale.
But one day at a party
got up nerve enough to ask
the Congressman about it.
"'Of course it's true,' Mr..
Tinkham told me. When I was
a student at Harvard, I used
to ride downtown, OCCASION
ally, just for the ride. On my
regular route, there was this
saloon with the old-style
swinging doors.
1.-The horse would push
through the doors. The bar
tender knew us, and he would
set a bucket of beer on the bar
for the horse, and I would
have what I wanted.
Sometimes the horse
would have too much, and at
those times, the trip back
home was an adventure"
Inhumune?
Mrs. Mae Lynch was walk
ing along F street near one
of the department stores
and saw two men beside the
shipping entrance struggling
to open a big crate. As they
worked, she heard whineS,
grOwls and whimperS.
'FOr pity Sakes," she
asked, "what have you got
in that bOx?"
The men said they didn't
know, and went on working.
Mrs. Lynch was becoming
indignant.
"Don't you know you have
air holes in a box when you
ship an animal?" she asked,
huffily. "HOw do you expect
it to breathe?"
At that point, they got
the box open. Inside was a
televiSiOn set. The work.
men laughed heartily.
Zone of those men," Mrs.
Lynch said later, twas a
ventrilOquist."
Report
The Smithsonian Torch,
a Smithsonian Institution
employe publication, proposes
this stand ard no-progreSs
report:
During the report period
which ends (fill in appropri-
ate date, considerable prog
ress has been made in the
preliminary work directed
toward the establishment of
the initial activities. eve are
getting ready to start, but we
haven't done anything YETI
The background informa-
ton has been surveyed and
the functional structure of the
component parts of the cog
INFANT organization has been
clarified. Eve looked at the
assignment and decide d
George would do IT'D
considerable difficulty has
been encountered in the selec-
ton of optimum materials
and experimental methods,
but this problem is being at
tackled vigorously and we ex-
pect that the development
phase will proceed at a salts
factory rate. George is look
ing through the handbook
I'm order to prevent I'M
necessary duplication of pre-
vious efforts in the same fields,
it was necessary to establish
a survey team which has con-
Quoted a rather extensive tour
through various facilities in
the immediate vicinity of
manufacturers. George and
Harry had a nice time in New
York;"
Advice
Ray Twynham says he in
vited some w Washington
friends down to his home
near Manassas, Va, and
told them to call Union Sta
ton and check on the train
schedule.
sour friends called for
this inform a tiOn," Mr..
Twvnham turtles and the