Show I Henry Mclemore WASHINGTON The navy haS asked for the loan of J binoculars and I sent sentI civilian I mine off to towar war yester- yester day A'S AS As I closed 1 the lid hd on the worn leather case memories memo memories memories memo memo- ries of the sights I had ad seen through them them c came a m e eback back tack to me and I hoped that the officer officer officer who rece reI receives re- re I ce ves th them m would get as much pleasure pleas- pleas McLemore ure from looking flocking looking through their times 6 A Pejes eyes as I did r Of course hell he'll be using them fe In a lot sterner game than I did Fend end from a lot sterner stand 1 Football baseball racing and yachting arent aren't quite as rough games ps lS as war and the bridge of ofa ta a fighting ship isn't any press boxI box I w would have liked to have sent senta 1 a little message along with my binoculars I would have liked to h have ve told the officer into whose hands they'll fall a little game he could play with them ln in his idle time or when the i hours of the watch grow weary i Just put th them m to your eyes t officer my note would have said sald and try to recapture some somei i of the images that have ha been i on en their lenses You'll get some happiness some disappointment some chills some thrills and more than a 0 few laughs His blood would boil at the sight of one of the men who would walk across the glasses glasses- Herr Hitler Through them we my glasses and I watched Hitler from a distance of no more than 25 yards during all the days of the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Ber Ber- lin We watched him make his daily d dramatic ram 0 tic entrances through the tremendous gateway of the stadium We watched him open the games with words of peace when blood was in his heart We watched his face darken darlen when the American athletes athletes athletes ath ath- letes paraded past him without giving the nazi salute or dipping the colors The officers officer's anger would cool none if my first sight of Hawaii's Hawaii's Hawaii's Ha Ha- Diamond Head were brought back to him through the glasses I first saw DiamondHead DiamondHead Diamond DiamondHead Head coming out of the mists in the early morning A peaceful peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful American rampart that later was to be used as a shield for a treacherous enemy attack Then a smile would come to his face as the barren snowy wastes of the Alps took their place on the lenses This was the time I was half way up a minor Alp near Switzerland on my first and last mountain climbing trip I gave up about half way up and andI and andI I was searching the barren wastes for a St St. Bernard dog one of those fine those fine mobile flea- flea bearing bars who is supposed to have you what with him I never found a St. St Bernard Bernard Bernard Ber Ber- nard but I surely looked and looked If If the officer who uses my glasses has a shred of sympathy in his system he will shed an anold anold n nold old salts salt's salty tear when he sees running second to in the Kentucky Derby This was the Derby from which I 1 walked home from Louisville to New York having sportily wagered my entire expense expense expense ex ex- pense account on to win win The officer is certainly going to feel right at home when suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly he sees nothing through the glasses but a vast sweep of Atlantic ocean This will go on for days and days if he cares to follow it up as ocean is allI all allI I ever saw of the Americas America's cup yacht races at Newport Just why I was eve assigned to cover corer a yacht race will forever remain a mystery to me I never was able to distinguish between a balloon spinnaker and anda a bowsprit and the habit racing racing racing rac rac- ing yachts have of disappearing in different directions immediately immediately immediately immedi immedi- after the start of a race confused me to the end The picture of German parachutist parachutist parachutist para para- Max getting the works from Private Joe JoeLouis JoeLouis JoeLouis Louis should delight the officer Its It's a very clear picture too and catches the German against the ropes arms dangling by his side in the proper Marquis of surrender |