Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-08
JIM BISHOP:
REPORTER
An Open Letter to Kim Noyok
Miss Kim Novak.

An open Letter 10
Miss Kim Novak.
Beverley Green Drive.
Los Angeles, Calf.
Dear Kim:
You're such a sweet person. !
had intended to reply to your
notes, believe me. But I'm lazy 1
and ! hate the typewriter and
now ind another lavendar .
card in front Of me and must .
answer now or the guilt feeling /
will get worse. In a word. We
Bishops are doing fine. Couldn't .
be better.
Gayle grows like crab grass. I
She is gone" on ice skating,
and she and her friend Petra
WEIGH go of together with
skates over shoulders and come
home TO exchange Band Aids.
wish she knew as much about
decimals and the tariff problem
Of the Mckinley administration.
! would be happy II she could
only learn to spell.
too have a project. For
years. the car has been out in
the driveway. 1t never got TO
the garage, so nof I'm doing
something about the garage. /
It's going to be a guest house. [
with California redwood on the
outside and knotty pine on the
inside. This, my father says. I
will match my head.
Anyway, he's the last one
who should do any finger-point-
ing. On Christmas Eve. he
bought a tom turkey and de-
livered 1t 10 my married daugh-
ter's house. We were all going
to have dinner with Ginny and
Charlie and this was the first
time she had ever cooked one.
Christmas Eve Excitement
Well. Christmas Eve. Dad was
In the bathroom and he tainted.
He lives with my sister Adele.
and she's one Of those this-is-
the-end characters. Pop fell and
Adele called the cops. II this
doesn't make much sense to
you. stick around and become
confused with the rest Of US.
There was nothing wrong
with Dad. He'll be rs in Octo-
Der and he's in good shape. The
police arrived with pulmotors.
oxygen masks. stretchers and
an ambulance. Dad. who once
was a lieutenant. roared that
he felt fine. but it made no DIFF
ference.
They had the equipment and
they wanted TO use it so they
carried him of kicking and
Tuning to Holy Name Hospital.
The doctors spent two days ex-
aiming him and you never saw
a more bitter Irishman. He was
still telling them that he felt
fine when they sent him home
the day after Christmas.
So don't pay too much atten-
tlon to a man who can't even
stay out Of the hospital when
he's well. Ginny made the tur-
key and it was great. That
bird was in the oven seven
hours and / was so hungry that
I nearly crept In beside II. The
pumpkin pie was homemade
too. Ginny was so nervous that
she only picked at it.
Family Gets News
She's pregnant and. when
we heard the news. the rest Of
the family said, IT'S about
time" Nobody ever loved chill
dren more; nobody ever prayed
harder to have six or seven In
a hurry. And here 1t is a year
and a half after the wedding
and my fingernails are chewed
TO the elbows.
OF course we did not forget
our other gals at Christmas.
We went out to see them. and
left flowers and petitions. We
don't count mass and COM
munion as special gifts. Those
will go on forever.
A year ago, my brother John
was given a polaroid camera by
his wife. This year she gave
him film. I have always envied
him. This kid knows how TO
live His wife wanted new
shelving in the kitchen so. in a
burst OF ambition. he tore down
the dish closet two months ago.
He wrecked the kitchen and
now Anna has TO wait another
month or two until he gets the
ambition TO make the shelving.
This shows who is boss. O.
course, she cut of his cigarette
money. but he says he was
dying to quit anyway.
personal CldaIights