| Show henry t enry McLemore Mclemore- vEW EW YORK YORK This This This is a a. story 1 out gut t Jerry Lewis You may have heard of him but I Ink v his I ry Is imI im im- I X r t a a. n t t. t i in story atory of ry Lewis the answer why hy this j is goto goto go- go to win i War war Tot Jot that thatTy i ry Ty is a a. p ge- ge who will ik up over over- ht a devoting dev- dev plan Lemore McLemore n attack ck st t the axis Not that he heVen hee e even Ven en a a. Sergeant York who 1 Eventually surround as many 10 enemy soldiers here isn't any certainty that ry fy will get abroad even but buthis buthis buthla his hla spirit his rus willingness to tove ve veI his willingness to get In Inre inre re fe re and pitch Is to be found answer to why this country st st eventually finish on top fie g e known Jerry for five ray ra He is strictly a member the th so called soft generation the e last last five five years Jerry has n what is known as a Broad Broad- Broady y playboy le was born in Manhattan and 11 lit ill the bugle blew always I 1 1 a a. cab to get to the movie und the corner He made the ht spot rounds as steadily faithfully as an animal seeks the Ule salt You could find him any night lIght in the tho places where the was considered considered considered consid consid- ered hard work the conga too much for a man and the war war- cry was Walter Waiter whenever there was a finger to b be lifted Before Pearl Harbor Jerry was wasa a 8 writer A sports writer The places like Toots Shor's the Tavern Tavern ern Daves Dave's Blue Room and Jack Whites White's were the places where he got as much mail as he did didat didat didat at his home He thought he was roughing it when he didn't get his A l sauce right along with his steak and he was known as a 8 fellow who had to have his sour cream served at room temperature un unless unless un- un n- n less the waiter walter wanted to get a bawling out He was overweight by 15 lIS pounds He could te tell you the year of any Scotch by the time the waiter walter was within 10 paces and he never lever lighted three matches in a row lest it wear him out Then all of a sudden Jerry who was A 3 told the mob he was going into the army The announcement was good for laughs from the Paramount building at Times square to Mike Jacobs' Jacobs office near Columbus Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus circle They gave him a A. going away party at his adopted home Shor's restaurant Broadway gathered to send away a fellow it loved but one it thought sure would be the worst soldier since Hector was a a. pup I M MacArthurs cArthur's gotta be good to 1 I stand this shock Comic Joe E. E Lewis said as Jerry left at dawn for Camp Upton That was weeks ago The other day in Louisville Private Jerry Lewis showed up at the Kentucky hotel He was making the most of a a. few hours' hours leave from Fort Knox where he heis heis heis is a member of the armored forces training center He was thin He had a hard look in his eyes His conversation dealt exclusively with tracks half-tracks machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns tanks jeeps and the joys of getting in there and serving our mutual Uncle He was running over with bars and stripes He who used to try to get to bed by dawn was full of the delights of getting up at such an hour He well He-well well Jerry Lewis was a a. soldier The dancing pump had made way for the brogan The martini had been displaced by a slug of coffee coffee coffee cof cof- fee black The friends he talked about were boys from Iowa Texas Wisconsin California and Florida He didn't say so but he gave his old writing pals the feeling that while it was all right you know to sit behind a typewriter and turn phrases it was a whole lot more fun to be In a mans man's army doing a mans man's work Jerry made us a 8 little uncomfortable uncomfortable uncomfortable in fact But we liked it If It there is one Jerry Lewis there must be a a. million all over the country Guys who chucked ed edthe the easy thing the soft thing |
