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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, Bad Handwriting Annoying; Modern War Goes Streamlined But Pigeon Still Holds a Place i ft + ky 4 ) AVING drifted around from the ~ starting spring camps of Calilmsjia to the closing spring camps some poltroon has asked ~.to work out the surer spots and big guesses of baseball's two W jeague shows. $ yy guess would be there are three Mya in each league which can be "Noved from the w"ssing division. limpey are the Yan- nS, Red Sox wywns mgerican and | Sox should caralone in American. The or Cardinals- ‘gs Cardinals It R = x Grantland Rice or ls-should have the main jump in National. I'll let you guess re the Browns and Phillies will j, ably wind up in the long pa- his leaves us twelve clubs under alt big tents for the main guessact. They are the Dodgers, Pis, Cubs, Giants and Bees in the jonal-the Indians, Tigers, White h t Athletics and Senators in the erican, I don't believe any of ie clubs can run 1-2 and I don't Neve any ~~ one By VIRGINIA (Released of them will with the finish after four years, and the are veland we Red with the have Sox Bob best a the almost Feller bet for is un- the first division next berth. After Mr. Vitt's Indians we have the battle for fourth place left among the Tigers, White Sox and Athletics, unless Bucky Har- ris can pull off a miracle. The scramble, tangle, or general upheaval is much more pronounced in the National league. After the Reds and ob Feller mdinals we have the MacPhail- yggocher Dodgers, Cubs, Pirates », Giants battling for the two open j##s- This is where the guessing ip ins to steam and emit smoke. . With two places open, I like DodgWi Cubs and Pirates as the best mis for Aiés. -ht these upper berth loca- Both the Cubs and Dodgers just as well keep an eye on team Frank M pittsburgh Frisch from is the bringing coast. It be the hardest-hustling Pittsgh team the Pirates have known t decade. ww Biggest Guess -ne Giants are a still -ss. As usual a large depends on how pitching works _how many vet- bigger part of it ALLE As cave in, how {Shy rookies blow. Mi Terry says his can: Mind *- bag season. .s announced ting Bill tones in last #il that his Giants ngiid finish 1-2-3. ip) remains an op: fist. He will need Bill Terry ts"the luck that Dame Fortune, that e-eyed wench, can dish out to a' as good as fifth. - my hazy winter book the battle fifth place will be between the tes and Giants, with the Pirates | ng the better chance to displace if Cubs in the upper set. Pow ll - usually the better find team the manager trying to pick wmeone else. example, Head-man Blades S@he Cardinals asked me rather d"eply why so many were picking "osCardinals to beat out the Reds. My Odd Angle Reds beat us last year,'' he =. "The Reds have improved. haven't. The Reds are all set. are not.'' sere is one answer-the Cardiif , being a young team in many hs last season, should improve. re is still no substitute for exence. a season loaded with fate, luck, ce and the rest of it, my guess f Lthis ton, 4 spot would be Cleveland and op division here are New York, Detroit for in the many A. more L. Joan Fontaine, under Hitchcock's direction, gave such a performance | that she has proved her right to! being known as an excellent actress} in her own right; the time may come when Olivia de Havilland will be known as ‘Joan Fontaine's sister,"" instead of its being the other way round. The entire cast is exceptionally good; it's one of the best pictures that have come out of Hollywood in a long, long time. So, even though you were quite mad about the book, don't miss seeing it. you pause kinks jing for g more the abruptly as you future. to 1941 than Frisch is he is to although Frisch, like any othcrappy manager, wants to win "y game win in sen first time Legion of sight. their share. The Pirates in recent Decency years cracked down on a picture made by a major studio f when it stepped on "Strange Cargo,"" the Joan Crawford - Clark Gable film. One of the objections was that there were ‘"‘lustful implications in diaf logue and situation."" This picJoan Crawford ture, incidentally, had already been passed by the Production. Code administration. 7 | } ALSO USES any of ° the grown-ups could reach them, Johnny swung Ann onto his back and marched her to safety. cantina pteente John Farrow, Maureen O'Sullivan's director husband, felt so strongly about getting into the war that he gave up his job and was sworn into the Royal Canadian navy; he's a lieutenant, and off to the wars. yeti Bs FROM LIST PRICE Mindful of the pigeon's place in warfare, the U. S. army has 10,000 of these birds, many at Fort Monmouth, N. J. Not only do they carry messages, but many are also trained to carry small cameras which take pictures automatically. Legislation is now being considered to protect the nation's 300,000 pigeons. Above: Closeup of the aluminum capsule. ac If Edward G. Robinson, of the movies and radio's ‘"‘Big Town'' can arrange his schedules he and Mrs. Robinson will accompany Symphony Maestro Leopold Stokowski on that musical jaunt to South America with a troupe of young American musicians. Stokowski is taking a complete symphony orchestra with him, composed Edward G. of talented young Robinson American musicians. Yes, ns eee he S do done her best, and all she could see if a lot was sit and wait-to When you of strangers liked her. miss it see it-and it's swell, don't she felt. how imagine can -you and over, was the showing When that covshe learned that she'd won to emshe wanted eted contract, in that audience. Mechanization comes to the igeon corps. Birds are trained ar hoidl a a mobile loft. Although food is an important element in the birds' work, their remarkable ability is attributed partly totheir shar peyesandears. only designed to protect AS LOW se - offered to take him along On his first ‘straight'? man. in that capacity appearances AS es LIFETIME two Ken got practically all the laughs-and he became lost his job. Whereupon own successful comedian in his NO th. 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And more-the Firestone Standard Tire has a deep, tough, rugged tread for long wear - it's scientifi- cally A reserve for the signal corps pigeon brigade comes out of his shell. Training will begin as soon as he leaves the nest. He'll live eight to ten years. In the W orld war, a pigeon saved 194 members of the "Lost Battalion." SIR! It's the famous Standard Tire, choice of millions of motorists for quality and long, dependable mileage. Now at a 25% discount from list price! U. S. army pigeons develop Coming "home" with a message, the pigeon flies to his coop gradually into first-class carriers. and thereby sets off a bell which | They are taught that food is available only at home. brings a soldier running. the Few people knew how much "Primrose of preview Hollywood it In Carroll. Path" meant to Joan she plays Ginger Rogers' brat Sister, and the option on her services than was written to run not longer after the picture's ofthree days procontract The ficial preview. to vided that she would be signed the if t contrac studio a five-year le for audience reaction was favorab her. Probably no showing of a picture She's ever meant more to a girl. everybody positor said he would, and this is what he read out: ‘Highly efficient compositor. I can recommend Mr. X with every confidence."" He was put on the firm's payroll immediately! A famous artist once wrote te the duke of Wellington for permission to examine and paint his beeches. The handwriting in the letter was almost illegible to the duke. He replied in a courteous letter, saying that for the life of him, he could not understand how anyone should desire to examine, much less paint, his breeches. There is a story told of the president of a railway company who once wrote to a man threatening to take legal proceedings ‘against him unless he ceased trespassing on his property. He used the letter as a free pass on the railway. PIGEONS! os Before From the Japanese Highway Code: ‘‘When a passenger of the foot hoves in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still is an obstacle to your passage, tootle him with vigour, expressing by word of mouth the warning HI-HI. "Go soothingly on the greasemud as there lurks the skid demon. Press the brake of the foot as you roll around the corners to save collapse, and tieup. ‘‘At the rise of the hand of a policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him, or otherwise disrespect him." Re from outmoded by mechanized warfare, the trusty homer pigeon is taking his place as an important servant on the Western front. Photos above show how pigeons are released at the front lines, important messages placed in aluminum containers strapped to their legs. Arriving at their mobile cart behind lines, the pigeons give their message to French poilus. U. S. ARMY Eight-year-old Johnny Sheffield is a hero, partly as a result of his role as Tarzan's son in a picture made not so long ago. The other day he and Ann Todd, who's a year younger, were working in a scene for RKO's "Little Orvie,'' when a water main burst, flooding the set knee-deep. Was The old farmer and his wife visited the menagerie. When they halted before the hippopotamus cage, he remarked, ‘‘Darn'd curious fish, eh, ma?" "That ain't no fish," she announced, ‘‘that's a reptile!'' And so the argument began. It progressed to such a point of violence that the woman began belaboring the husband with her umbrella. The man dodged and ran, with the wife in pursuit. Finding the door of the lion's cage slightly ajar, he popped in and cowered behind the biggest lion. On the other side of the bars stopped his wife, and shaking her umbrella at him, shouted, ‘‘Coward!"' Barbara Stanwyck is very proud of the gift with which Robert Taylor celebrated their first seven months of wedded bliss-a diamond-studded pin in the shape of a _ covered wagon. when ble over Chicago, Pittsburgh ‘(#) New York for the next notch w. From this unchartered medy# ll take a chance on Gabby ?tnett's Cubs. Frank Frisch is | the brace M"omes to acting as a National g"fue soothsayer. You can name Louis, Cincinnati and Brooklyn. h ers against the canons of good handwriting. When they are taken to task for it they plead in defense that their thoughts flow faster than their pens. Medical men attribute their scrawl to the fact that in their student days they had to take longhand notes at shorthand speed. Napoleon's handwriting was anything but copperplate. It is said that a love letter written to Josephine during one of his campaigns was, on first examination, thought to be a plan of a battlefield. If this story be true one does not require a large pinch of salt to swallow the story about the doctor whose private note to a chemist asking for the loan of a shotgun and shells was interpreted as a prescription. The handwriting of many literary men is extremely difficult to read. A famous author whose "hand"? was execrable threatened to dismiss a compositor who, in the setting up of his script, always had a crop of typographical blunders. When the compositor turned *‘He promised him his daughter in marriage, into ‘‘He promised him his torture in March," the author sent a note to the foreman ordering him to dismiss the compositor. The latter managed to obtain possession of the note, and went to a rival firm with it. Nobody could read the note, so the com- Farmer's First Thought screen. i Oe 90 victories 12 Self-Preservation well. Technically, it could hardly be bettered. The eerie, supernatural feeling that pervaded the book has been admirably brought to the the still on in to run 1-2, granting the fact were is nothing certain in sport. Mywtedly YOU question a friend's pronunciation of a particular word and set him right he will wait as patiently as an angler to trip you up when you blunder. Tell him, however, that his writing is illegible and he will accept your criticism with pleasure. It's a popular idea that because gond handwriting is no mark of a genius a poor "‘fist'' is. Such reasoning sounds convince: ing when we remember that men of genius are the greatest offend- Union.) BSECCA" was re-|; leased at last, a few weeks ago, and people are still arguing about it; the chances are that the arguments will continue for a long, long time. For it's one of those cases of "If you liked the book you probably won't For American \ fue, as the Yankees Gkees [F VALE Newspaper so Ti cting y Western be RR L First Division Clubs yok| by That's unfortunate, because the picture is superb. Hitchcock, the top-notch English director, handled it unusually -. Phillies in the ,, ional league. Yyhe Yankees and pace Then Again-Very Funny! like the picture." in the league- layReds, Cardinals Nghe Tootle the Horn! A =~ i Mlorida, UTAH OR PRICE GUARA YOUR OLD LIMIT the Firestene Spe atonwide NEL. Nod Narworb aret R Crooks, Margaret Listen to the Voice of Firestone with Richard Alfred Wallenstein, Monday Orchestra, under the direction of TIRE NITE MILEAGE Speaks 12.90 | 9.68 INCLUDES |