Show Scribe Faces aces F Real Test T est Of Sickness in Survival Of Fri Friendly Witticism sm By JOE WILLIAMS WILL S Special to The Telegram NEW NEWY YORK Jan 21 21 I 1 dont don't know just what the records show but I haveS have a a- feeling and its it's still somewhat painful that I must I have been th the last mart marl in America to surrender his appendix I didn't realize how mid I I had been until recen recently ry when 1 I began meeting up with whole regiments regiments regiments regi regi- ments of ot persons who were stripped of ot their appendix years and years ago ego For a a. while I 1 felt shamelessly antiquated until I fou found fourd d that to these neatly carved veterans of ot the surgical wars I stood tood out as something something some some- thI thing g of a a. curiosity To them em it was incredible le that I 1 had escaped the croakers as long longas as I 1 did They agreed that either etherl I Iwas was very fast on my feet or a sri an uninteresting uninteresting un un- un- un interesting specimen n. n I 1 can can cannot not account for tor my protracted protracted pro pro- liberty but sheer vanity compels' compels me to insist that on the words of ot established authorities I Iwas Iwas was not an uninteresting specimen The fact is that as far back as last June Doctor Docter J. J Jwu was wu eyeing me inc with greedy desire but my ray my sublime discouraged all suspicion This was wan at a golf tournament at t North Hempstead I 1 was not exactly burning up the course Being sternly opposed to In- In In I never do anyway I 1 appealed to the doctor for counseL counsel coun coun- sel ad Td rd advise a major operation said the doctor Td cut it out en en- Urel u It wasn't until a few days before Christmas that I realized he was referring to my appendix and not my golf game Even so 10 with all this time for planned campaigning the catch was wal not simply achieved I rely for my information naturally on the words of ot spectators who filled the ring ring- side seats and overflowed the gui lerie I do not wish to pretend r tend th th audience was entire friendly When the gent In WhIte wh who seemed to be serving as a. a sort of of fore caddy turned on the gas I 1 heard say Hey you dont don't t have bave to d da del daI that Read him one of at ht his column That'll put hIm to sleep I must warn you that the operation oper oper- itself Is never very The critical teat test comes in Ia beIn able to survive the witticism of your associates These run to two invariable e pat pat terns No 1 1 Sorry Sorry to hear yo you had to take another cut No 3 2 Glad to hear your opening wai wal such a grand success After two or three days of this you find yourself pleading desperately desper for tor more mort ether a limit to mans man's c capacity for suffer ing |