Show rp U r If BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET By JOE MAHONEY Attack of Amnesia Transforms Milquetoast Into Roost Ruler By COACH OF FAMEO&A3KETBALL STAC ON THE ORIGINAL CELTICS AND IS RATED ONE OF TIME BEST SHOTS Of CCNYWAS A ' BILLY kind “What of pilla should I take?" “Fun pills” said the “Buy yourself a sailboat take up or get a set of water colors and how to 4onl TO learn BEEN paint" N THE TOP TEN TEANIS RATINGS FOR 17 CONSECUTIVE: YEARS “And 1042 LEN MERULLO CHICAGO ERRORS MADE SHORTSTOP IN ONK INNING J cue I 4 Xfey q SPORTLIGHT- - By RICE- GRANTLAND ud Jack has Schmeling been an artist for some time Mickey even supposing don’t?" “Chances are nothing will happen except that a forget you'll few more phone On the numbers other Greb Was One of Boxing's Gamest WALKER the toy buU MICKEY other years had Just laid aaide his brush canvas easel whatever else goes with painting a picture For Mickey the embattled welterweight who fought such heavyweights as Sharkey and Max paints illu“moods" and sions" as well as landscapes and seaBut a big scapes part of his heart Rice Jtm belongs to the Grsntland rosin It has been just ROSE- hand there’s always the possibility that the spells may ge( longer and more That’s what happened fiequent not long ago to a good friend of yours” - call my name It I heard someone was Greb So 1 went over and sat with his gan£ Later on they all left us leaving only Harry and myself By that time my right eye was We closed tight and badly swollen became great friends and the ale we drank didn’t hurt us any “Finally about 3 a m we decided to look up another tavern As said to Greb — we got to the door ’Say if you hadn’t closed my right could have licked you’ eye “Greb turned on me with a inarl I thought he was going to he said bite me ‘you ’Say couldn’t Hrk me if I cut off both arms’ “Now” Mickey said “we had Just fought before a packed house 11 years since at Madison Square Garden at plenty Mickey absorbed anything resemb- dollars a seat We had Just been ling alcohol which is a good solid paid very big money And here we seat on the good old cart were beading for another fight with ’ be Just three spectators who were paysaid “My biggest thrill ing nothing “well 1 guess It wss sn evening “ ‘Come on' Greb said ’let’s I spent with a fellow by the name of Harry Greb It was m fight it out here' He started taking off his coat As he got the coat long evening starting In the 1C o’clock aronnd and locked which about off up halfway ring or tied up both arms I nailed him winding np around daybreak Td heard Greb hadn’t been on the chin with everything I had training right In fact he staged a It was a nectarine full of Juice Grb spun and crashed into the visit to a restaurant I was In staggering a little It was an act I was side of a car so hard he dented the I never threw a dead sure I could beat him He was running board Just as sure he could beat me I harder punch and he was wide open knew after the first minute of the Yon “1 gness 1 was lucky a was in I round for first that couldn’t kill Greb with an axe He bounded back from the car stormy night Greb was in perfect condition His act had been phony and started for me when a pair I was never in better shape of cops arrived Our three nowere still there “Ha almost knocked me out in pay apectators the second round I almost stopped They shoved me in one cab and him in the third But he was a dead Hsrry In another game guy and he could take it Ask “Greb was a great fellow I never Gene Tunney liked anyone better The next day Neither one of ns wasted two Tex Rickard sent for us He offered mil seconds We threw the us $100000 each for a return match But Now $100000 isn’t goulash punches we carried and I know Greb carried a lot He was fast Greb turned to me and said — ‘Mickand strong and rough fie was ey there are too many guys around I can beat easier than I can beat nly a dangerous puncher when can be got tired and quit moving you I like the easy dough around Then he could hurt you make Just as much fighting them’ I was in at 148 and Greb was ’I’ll tell you about Greb He was aronnd 160 Ho had too much a great guy He was a great fighter for me 1 knew by the 12th and one of the gamest men I ever round that 1 bad little chance to believe all those met And don’t win But we kept on punching stories about his being out of conto the final bell He into dition fought himself "It was a great fight” Mickey shape No man could travel 13 sakl “But I liked our next fight rounds at top speed and be out of same that better night I lost the shape “He had superb skill and the heart first one and I think I won the second ril tell you about that one” of two lions I've seen Greb go faster and harder In the 15th round than he did in the first He liked to Tb Second Fight gamblers by fakupset Broadway “After the fight Doc Kearns and ing a drunk now and then But 1 dropped into Duffey’s Old Tavern when you met him look out!” JERRY —and I’m sure you know the Jerry I mean— used to be one of Broadway’s leading juveniles lates Five years ago and as you know he put away his l and ‘got a job producing radio shows And not long after he marof a network ried the daughter executive bought a home in and decided to settle down "Wall as often happens when a girl has too much dowry bis wife did most of the settling for him She made him exchange his friends for hers his fun for hers gfOFIX - ITI — 81 Harold Arnett and his Ufa for hers And within year the man who used to be gay dog becama all dog — a W eslchester version of Caspar Milquetoast “After two years of being yammered at by his missus Jerry came in to see me one day and said that he was having trouble with his memory— that it was blacking out on him now and then I asked him some questions about his home life ard when he told me what it was like I advised him to stand up to his wife and if necessary slap her down occasionally He told me quite seriously she wouldn’t stand for sueh a tiling “One several months morning he came later to my office and told me quite a tale It seems that on his way home the night before he had had an attack of amnesia and when he came to 15 hours later he was in a New York hotel room with no idea of what had happened in between “I phoned his wife and from her story managed to put the pieces had together Jerry’s memory as he got to the door of snapped his house in Scarsdaie — perhaps in protest against the stuffy people his wife had Invited to dinner — and all he knew was that he was on a strange stoop standing a a Fiction going to be her J a couple of weeka” Connie after “And said all he’ my brother Tom’s guest and it’s up to You me to help entertain him Marc?” don’t you understand “Sure” said Marc not looking You at her “sure I understand go ahead and be nice to him Conall right” nie I understand Which was true bitterly true Marc had begun to understand two after Jud days had landed at the for a rberts fortnight 8 visit Jud was big and handsome and had a way with him In college he had been quits a his roommate rage Tom Norbert had raved about him before he arrived but even Connie hadn’t exspecimen pected such a splendid as Jud proved to be of manhood A roadster the before stopped house and Jud came bounding up the walk “Hi Connie” he grinned “All set for our round of golf?” Then he saw Marc standing on the porch beside Connie “Hello there Marc How about Joining us7” Marc smiled and shook his head “Thanks” he said “I’ve got a tennis date See you two tonight" If he reflected he could nly get Jud out of his element perhaps the college hers wouldn’t show up to well ntUD’S Morrison 3Mlnuti Several nights later at the country club dance Marc got Connie alone and suggested a fishing trip for the next day "We can take Jud along” he explained “It’ll new in his experbe something ience and probably he’ll get a bang out of Connie who liked fishing herself thought It was a grand Idea And so tha thre of them drove up to Beaver Lake the next day hold And understand ' V GRACE NOLL hoisted himself an open window then recognizing nothing through stopped to puzzle out the situation Who was he? What sort of man the window would climb through of a strange house? Only a burglar of course Ergo he must be a burglar And so he tiptoed upstairs entered his wife’s bedroom and began stuffing her jewelry into his pockets ESCAPE MATCHING He had a Jud from vague idea of resthe swirling torJud’ thereby establishing weakness in Connie's mind and his own prowess cuing rents SUDDENLY HE KNEW that he was helpless There was nothhe could do about the thing was happening between Jud Connie The feeling that he toward Jud was not one of condemnation If Jud but envy were trying to steal Connie away he was doing so unwittingly Any one but a fool could tell he wasn’t aware of any understanding existing between the girl and Marc ing that and had And scheme so Marc abandoned for revenge much Richard H Wilkinson (Eng) 11 Dried plum 12 Pineapples (So Am) 14 King of Bashan (Bib) 18 22 23 25 28 29 Period of time Former Russian council Largs manna crustacean Medieval boat Biblical character Sewing implement Perch Sailor (slang) Sharp to the taste In the afternoon they put on their waders and fished Connie elected to show Jud how to rig his line and cast and watching them Marc knew a feeling of He had to frustration planned somehow get Jud to follow him into the rapids where the going was and one treacherous where only in such things could experienced without losing his foot navigate 32 United States of America 35 36 Bat he did see her Connie came ever that night and found him sitting alone en the porch “Hello " she said “where In the world have you been?" "Away on business Unexpected" “Well I should think so” She came close to him and sat down "Jud left this morning He asked me to say goodbye to you” “Jud's a good egg” Marc said “Too good” said Connie “Goodness I’d hate to be married to a man like that” “You would?” said Marc astonished “why?” because — I would “Why? why too He’s She “And besides I’m satislaughed fied with the man I have — a man who’s big enough to be kind to a man like Jud Morrison” and when Abruptly he laughed she asked him what was puzzled funny he shook his head “There’s nothing really funny” he said “I was just thinking about a close call I once had— how near I came to making a fool of myself —and what a relief It Is to know I CROWELL "At this point bis missus walked in told him to stop playing cops and robbers and began badgering him at the top of her lungs But Jerry the burglar instead of melting into the carpet belted her one right in the teeth “That’ all there was to it Somehow he got back to New York checked in at a hotel and when he woke up his amnesia was gone” “Did you tell his wife that her husband wasn’t himself when he clipped her on the chin?” I asked The smiled “Of psychiatrist course not and what’i more I advised my patient to keep mum Jerry went home to a big reconciliation acene— the old story— and ever since the more spine he has shown the more supine bis wife has become “I went to his house for a poker session and the only recently time she came in the room was when she brought in the drinks To date there have been no recurrences of amnesia and it's my belief that if Jerry doesn’t take any more nonsense from his wife there won’t be” "Are you suggesting I go borne end bang a shiner on Eleanor's eye?" I asked “In your case" said the psychiatrist “I doubt if it’s necessary However if you have any more trouble remembering telephone numbers I’d suggest you invest a lew dollars in a r set” BY escaped” ACROSS 1 Upright 5 Cyprinold fish 9 Like a wing 10 River 21 besides “And I’m satisfied with the man I have — a man who’s big enough to be kind to a man like Jud Morrison" his They returned home the next day and the day after that Marc made When 8 business trip to Bejknap he got back Judson Morrison was gone Marc didn’t call Connie Tomorrow or the day after he was leaving on a month’s journey upstate He didn’t want to see Connie before he left It would hurt too 17 TO MIX PAINT TO MATCH WORK ALREADY DONE SMEAR SOME OP MIXTURE ON PIECE OF GLASS AND HOLD GLASS AGAINST SURFACE FOR COMPARISON IF SWATCH DOESN'T MATCH WIPE IT FROM GLASS BEFORE APPLYING ANOTHER SAMPLE X ) f Corner ONLY PAINT - Beside you in your grief I would not bid you cease your weeping friend Tears bring relief Let me come in — I wuuld ouly breathe a prayer And hold your hand For I have known a sorrow such as yours By NARROW Sorrow In ET me come in where you are weeping friend And let me take your hand who have known a sorrow such as yours Can underhand Let me come in — 1 would be very Still “AFRAID TO RING the bell he sneaked into the back yard found 15 MAKE HOT PLATE FROM TIN CAN ELEMENT SCREW AND INTO SIGN RECEPTACLE HEATING ELEMENT TO WHICH A PLUG AND CORD ARE ATTACHED £ OVER HOLE IN BOTTOM AND FIT RECEPTACLE mw OF TIN CAN LET EDGE OF CAN EXTEND SLIGHTLY ABOVE TOP OF ELE MENT AND PUNCH HOLES IN EDGE OF CAN FDR WIRES TO SUPPORT A GRATE To One The it" HOT PLATE - The other day I picked up the telephone to call Eleanor and it was almost half a minute before I could remember my number at home At the time this memory lapse didn’t seem worth brooding about but last night I happened to meet up with a I psychiatrist at the Stork Club and over a jigger of ginger-betold him what had happened “It was probably a mild attack of amnesia ’’ he said “As a rule 'the to want victims are folks who consciously or unconsciously escape from their routine chores and every now and then their minds blank out aa a protest against doing the same old things the same old way” (abbr) Past Recom- menced 39 Large fish 41 Fastener 42 Advertisement 43 Extents of canvas 45 Lettered telephone plates 17 Entitle 48 Solitary 49 Afresh 50 City (Okie ) DOWN 1 Cant 2 Eskimo tool 3 Beaches 4 Care for medically 5 Skip as a stone on INEZ GERIIARD THE SUCCESS of “Halls of Ivy” (NBC Friday evenings) proves that radio sponsors who for years lave been heckling Ronald and his wife to do a radio program were right For 10 years during which he had made but one film a year Mr Colman had held off and Benita backed him up 13 Secure 16 Longtng 19 Native of Boston 20 Soak flax 24 Water god (Babyl) 26 Neuter pronoun 27 Thrice f (mua) water 29 Clubs i 6 Greedy 30 Large 7 Kind of tropical riddle lizard 8 Outer layer Twilled of teeth fabric 11 Game played 33 Fastened on horsewith wax back 34 Sums up 37 Move sideways 38 Coalition 40 Dancing girl (Egypt) 44 Stitch 46 Cuckoo :r V i 'I RONALD ' tv COLMAN Then Jack Benny talked them to doing a guest shot on his program and other such appearances followed Finally along came Don Quinn who years ago had brought Fibber McGee and Molly to the air He had written the perfect show for the Colmans— for Colman as a college professor Benita as an his wife Result “The Halls of Ivy” a hit from the s’ art Morey Amsterdam is lining up tookings for a spring concert tour seems the comedy star is an accellist whom complished musicians have praised He plans to perform both classical and selections Listeners to Elliot Lawrence’s Friday night air ihow may soon hear composition “Ballet for Thirsty Arabians in Search of Water” Elliot says it was inspired by the water shortage from which New York is suffering his latest |