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Show Phillips- P Wanna Be an Eagle? The individual, formfit, quick detachable de-tachable helicopter is at hand. Slipped on, as it were, over the head, requiring no time to adjust and able to take you aloft by zipper. It is called the Hoppi-Copter. It really outboard-motorizes you for life among the barn swallows. It is guaranteed to do tor you in the air what an outboard engine will do for a canoe in the water, only more so. All we hope Is that it has big- letters on tU-"BE SURE TO CHECK GAS BEFORE PULLING PULL-ING STARTER-CORD." We don't want to get up 1,000 feet over the picket fences and discover that we forgot about fuel. The big merchandising possibilities possibili-ties are seen in its use by the masses as a substitute for the flivver. No traffic signs, no dead ends, no hydrants, no "No Parking" signs. Just strap on the one-man, demi tasse easy-to-wear hoppi-cop-ter, pull the string and . . . zippee! . . . you are an airborne commuter, the equal of the eagle and the superior supe-rior of the wild goose, the redheaded redhead-ed woodpecker, the busy bee and the ' runaway boxkite. It may not be long before Little Willie will be equipped with blades to dash to the grocery for a loaf of bread, Father buttoned up in gadgets gad-gets to fly him to the Elks' picnic and Mother fanning her way over the housetops toward the fire sale. We were about to order one to- day. Two things stopped us. How to get a set of spare blades, and a rumor we might have to stop in midair mid-air to have the old ones honed. VERNAL VOID Spring is a sham a fraud a mock Without that rich brew known as bock! Avery Giles. 1 ... THEY'LL CALL IT WORSE NAMES j The New York World-Telegram sports staff has been given a two-year-old race horse and is looking for a name for it. The colt is by Impound-Floradora Girl. Our first suggestion would be "Flora-Scoop." Or how about "Sextette Boy" or : (carrying the sextette motif further) fur-ther) "Six Star Sporting"? j ... "General Marshall attended the , 'Nutcracker Suite' at the Bolshoi theater In Moscow." News item. i . Probably had a nice evening thinking of some of the nuts he wouldn't mind cracking. ... A LINK WITH HAPPIER DAYS In New York City the police have been ruthlessly tossing out of windows win-dows the belongings of two allegedly eccentric old men, who lived alone in Fifth avenue and apparently never nev-er threw anything away. Crowds in the streets cheered. It continues to shock and mystify us. We find but one clue to the sad performance . . . an ancient sled found in the litter. Could it be that this relic of a happy boyhood, this reminder of a sweeter day in a less cockeyed civilization, was more than a harassed, cynical New York could endure? ... United Nations formally took over Its New York City building site recently. re-cently. The rough blueprints show, j we understand, a doghouse for Gro-myko Gro-myko In the northeast corner. ... The Moscow ballet put on "Romeo "Ro-meo and Juliet" for the Big Four. That scene, we hear, where Romeo I wants to interest Juliet in democracies democ-racies and her relatives come ! through with the veto power was I terrific. I ... I Do you remember when two could ! live as cheaply as one? "Now not even ( one can do it," says Elmer Twitchell. ... There must be millions of American Amer-ican kids growing up with the no-I no-I tion that the only thing wrong with I Jesse James, Atilla the Hun, Cap-1 Cap-1 tain Kidd, Bluebeard, Al Capone and ! Billy the Kid was that they were ' always being impeded by commercials commer-cials and time signals. ... Mr. Twitchell reports seeing the first robin yesterday. It was accom-j accom-j panied, he reports, by a plumber and I helper. I ... A normal size airmail stamp has ' been put on sale by Uncle Sam. This will be great news to most Americans Amer-icans who have been longing for a return of the day when the post office of-fice department would deal in stamps that took but one man to lift. ... WORLD OF TOMORROW ! Ex-Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania says that in the light of the atom bomb and the Russian aggression, aggres-sion, there is not more than an even chance that 10 per cent of us will be alive in five years. Been listening to the Buck Rogers program, eh? ... I It now takes 12.000 Chinese dollar! to buy what the American dollar will buy. In other words, 24,000 of then: I for some bubble gum and an apple. |