Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-17
The
Rambler
Some Thomoses
Moy Doubt This
By JACK JONAS

george ThomaSeS OF America
have organized to see what
can be done about so many
guys with the same name.
Pointing to Washington as
a horrible example, the group
said there are Al George
Thomases listed in the tele-
phone directory here. Any
body looking up his old friend
George Thomas, obviously, is
in trouble.
1t would seem, at first
glance, that the George
ThomaseS are the most
harassed /. group, as far as
name duplication goes, in
the country.
We don't know about the
rest of the country, but in
Westinghouse good a town
as any for someone named
George the George
Thomases are running a
poor eighth behind some
other Georges.
Basing it on the telephone
directory, as the George
ThomaseS of America did, the
George Browns Of Washing
ton top the list with SO.
Then come these, on down
the list: George Smith, 81;
George Miller, 81; George
Johnson, 81; George Jones
and George williams, 48 each,
and George Davis, as.
There aren't too many
George Thomases; there are
just too many Georges.
Nationality
A group of tourists, look
ing for the Church Of the
Latter Day Saints, stopped
beside st. Patrick'S on
Tenth street and examined
the plaque on that church.
The plaque explains that
st. Patrick's was begun as
a church for Irish immi-
grants who worked on
erecting the early Govern
ment buildings in Washing
ton.
'Is that who built WASH
ingtOh?" one of the tour
lists asked, in a surprised
tone. Il always thought it
was that Frenchman."
Colorful
A private pilot, old enough
now to look on bygone days
with a sigh, was talking about
how it used to be when he
flew over Washington.
When you'd look down ION
the rooftops of parking gar
ages" he said, they'd be al
most a solid black, with near
ly every car black. Now they
look like those custom color
charts you see in paint
stores"
Squish
American Aviation Pub
locations, which occupies
most of the eighth floor at
1901 Vermont avenue NV,
has been trying to get some
kind Of plaque attached to
the building to advise pO-
tential callers that they are
indeed at the right place.
But every time wOrkmen
try to drill into the stone,
water squirts out. It's been
doing that, a fellow there
says, ever since the stone
front was washed with =
what eIse?-water, several
months ago. The porous
stone apparently became
impregnated with the
water.
Trees
L. Miller wrote some time
ago asking where he could
view a thornless honey locust
at its best.
Mrs. J. Wilfrid Fleming, of
1880 Macarthur boulevard
NV, writes that I'VE have
several varieties of locust
trees, some thornleSs, and
the kind he is looking for
may be among them. We'd be
glad to have him view them, "
Mrs. William DreoS, of 6410
Tucker road Sc, says there
are some thornless honey
locusts at her place, too, and
she also would be happy to
have Mr.. Miller take a look at
them.
And Jim Wilfong, Of the
telephone company, says he
can't swear it's thornless, but
Maryland's largest honey To-
Gust is at The Hermitage, the
Tilghman ancestral estate
near Queenstown, just across
the Bay Bridge. That one has
a circumference Of some II
or 10 feet.
Rambling
Five women tourists board
ing a train at Union Station
were giving the conductors