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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONTCLE. DELTA. UTAH So Wilson Held Up the War For Fast Shorthand Lesson By BILLY ROSE During the closing days of World War I, I took the President of the United States out of play for 15 minutes. I did it with my little shorthand pencil. At the time, I was working for the War Industries Board in Wash-ington as a stenographer, and running out to get chocolate sodas for Mr. Baruch, its chairman. A few days before the Armistice, a Board executive handed me a let-ter and told me to deliver it to the proper party. The proper party was Woodrow Wilson. The White House that day was a jumble of senators, Cabinet mem-bers, ambassadors and important brass. News of the Armistice was expected any hour, and the tension was like the last few seconds of the Dempsey-Firp- o fight. I handed the letter to one of Mr. Wilson's secretaries, and was asked to wait in case of a reply. A few minutes later the secretary tiimprf looking h trout. "Mr. Baruch tells me you can write 200 words a minute. I wonder if you'd give me a little demonstration." He handed, me a pad and a pen-cil, and picked up a New York newspaper on his desk. Then, in his clipped, precise speech, he read one of the editorials at about 150 words a minute. 'When he had finished, the President said, "Now let's hear you read it back." Well, as every stenographer knows, it's the reading back that' counts. I shot the editorial back at him a good deal faster than he had dictated it. And then I started at the bottom of the page and read the editorial backwards. Wilson chuckled. He asked me questions' about Gregg shorthand he was a Pitman writer. By this time, I was patronizing him a lit-tle the caddie who shoots a 61 t :. puzzled. "The President would like to see you," he said. I got trembly in-side. I was pushing 18 at the time-fr- esh out of the East Side, and also ln"louilr"i fv.ocVi Riir. mv Billy Rose dealings with Pres-idents had been 'limited to the one I had seen on dollar bills. Mr. Wilson smiled when he saw me. "I understand you're quite a shorthand writer," was his greet-ing. MY TREMBLES vanished. I knew the President was a shorthand writi- of sorts the tachygraphy magazines were always bragging about it. "I hear you're pretty good yourself, Mr. President," I blurted out. Mr. Wilson blushed prettily. "I don't get much chance to practice these days," he said, like a fisherman apologizing for a I had no sooner gotten to my desk than the phone rang. "Mr. Baruch wants to see you," said his secretary. "Pretty good for Delancey street" I said to myself as I walked down the hall. "Woodrow Wilson and Bernie Baruch in one hour." The girl in Mr. Baruch's office looked up as I bounced in. "The boss wants you to get him a chocolate soda," she said. isn t wnen ne dis-cusses mashie shots with a Rocke-feller. I PICKED UP the New York pa-per and handed the pad and pencil to Mr. Wilson. "I wonder if you'd mind writing for me," Mr. Presi-dent," I said. Wilson rubbed his glasses on his sleeve. "Don't go too fast," he warned. read the editorial at about one hundred words a minute, and then asked him to read it back. When I told him he had made no mistakes, the President sighed like a kid who has just finished playing The Elves' Waltz" for Paderewski. I picked up his notes. "If you don't mind, sir," I said, "I'd like to keep them." Woodrow Wilson reached for my shorthand notes. "We'll exchange," he said. I walked out of the White House and floated back to my office via the rooftops. CLASSlFlFf Made by cuilnJ. ' able chain tm ; frl available 0 F0B P Six room mode U ' for 8000 wol i GIFTWlVJaf ' diliniconliiniiow,! rt.,. I r-.-v s",4wi.s.,diiiUIkk,' . 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JiiL TO A CONVALESCENT AM praying for you, friend, while you are I waiting The long hour through for strength to come again. God grant you patience that you may wait bravely; God grant you courage for these days, and when The healing comes, as come it will, I pray, Health may be yours for many a useful day. In the meantime, rest, and know the everlasting 0 Arms are close about you, that they will jj f Sustain you, and a gentle voice commands you j j mffA "Know that I am God, be still, be still." !, And heeding him, his healing touch will mend L dk. 'our wearv ' heart and mind. God bless you, , Wl 1L friend. ? SPORTLIGHT Pro and Con on Big and Little --- GRANTLAND RICE The coach looked up with a happy smile As he turned and he spoke to me "This is the greatest ... Tt... Z. - ? ! V"" ' year i ve Knuur, He said with a look of glee. "This is my finest season yet, Whatever the old grads say. And I say my prayers as I go to bed For what fate's sent my way." Hart, at the age of 20, is 6 feet, 4 inches, weighing 245 pounds. Toneff at tackle is only 240. Martin at the other tackle is around 226. Minnesota goes far beyond this. Tonnemakr at center is only 240. A great center. Nomellini, a tackle, is 255. Ekberg, the other tackle, is 255. So here are three linemen who have a total displacement of 750 pounds. And it might be mentioned that Martin, Hart, Toneff, Ekberg and Nomel-lini can all move. There is nothing lumbering in their work. Hart of Notre Dame is as fast as most backs. In ad-dition to being a great end and a fine tackle he is also an able pass receiver. I doubt that foot-ball has another man quite as ' valuable as Leon Hart 245 pounds of speed, experience and about all it takes. Imagine such fast backs as Wi-lliams, Sitko, Coutre, Gay, Swisto-wic- Spaniel, Mazur . and others working back of that crashing Notre Dame line? Or such backs as Bye, Gregory and others working back of Min-nesota's set of mastodons and mammoths, including one or two dinosauri comparatively speak-ing, of course? ' Football's Big Gap One main trouble with football's schedules is the big gap that often separates rivals. For example Cornell was 50 points better than Yale and Army was at least 70 points better than Harvard. Notre Dame could have run well over 50 points against Tulane. Army and Navy should have ex-changed schedules these last two years. Army was equipped to face Navy's schedule and Navy could have done extremely well with Army's schedule. One of the main features of the year so far is the rise of Captain Tom Hamilton's Pitts-burgh Panthers. They nave beaten the team that beat Michigan. Here's a nod to coach Walter Milligan who has turned in one of the season's best jobs. And we might as well slip anoth-er chaplet of wild plum blossoms to Paul Bryant, Kentucky's coach. Paul Bryant is one of the best of the younger coaches. He is an old Alabama end, brought up under Frank Thomas, one of the masters. Mississippi was rated a good chance against Kentucky and Ken-tucky won 47 to 0. Kentucky beat Georgia 25 to 0. Grantland Rice "Whaddya mean," 1 said to him, "With all those no good bums You've lost five games and you'll lose some more Before December comes." "I know that, pal, but remember this He said, with his eyes aflame " don't have to play Minnesota, kid And I don't have to meet Notrt Dame." What Price Big Men? On a recent football excursion with Gene Tunney, Bernard Gim-be- l and General Reed Kilpatrick a slight argument arose as to the value of weight and size. It was Bernie Gimbel's idea that a player weighing 190 pounds was big enough for anybody. "How much better football players do you want than Doak Walker of SMU or Charley Justice of North Carolina?" Gimbel asked. "They stand at 165 or 168. Red Grange was 175. Jim Thorpe was around 180. I'm not a great believer in these 240 or 250 pound masto-dons." "It depends on how they can move around," General Kilpatrick said. "If they can move, weight's bound to help." Kilpatrick was a 210 pounder at Yale one of the e greats. Anyway the debate took us west-ward to a pair of teams known as Notre Dame and Minnesota. Bern-ie Gimbel's side of the argument was right most of the time. But recalling what happened to Tulane and Ohio State we felt something like Steve Owen who saw Minnesota practice "I was glad I was on the side lines," Steve said, "at least 60 yards away." The men I happened to think about were Jim Martin, Leon Hart and tackle Bob Toneff of Notre Dame Clayton Tonne-make- r, Leo Nomellini and Jer-ry Ekberg of Minnesota. Leon The Fiction BAYING THE MOON Corner and she was as popular as she was beautiful. This was discouraging and disheartening. Percy could of-fer nothing; she had her pick of the college. WAS one of the. Saturday night informal dances at the college gym. They had been dancing to-gether for perhaps 60 seconds when Delia looked up at him and said: "Aren't you the boy who can im-itate a dog howling at the moon?" Her eyes twinkled. Percy reddened to the ears. He felt a chill, a horrible apprehension. "No," he bleated. "No! Whoever told you that is crazy!" Delia didn't press the subject, but Percy knew he was sunk. He let a month slip by before he could con-jure enough courage to ask for a date, felt pitifully grateful when she assented. Within the following month he kept five dates with Delia, but it was always the same; the "thing" was always there between them. He thought she must think him ridiculous. She pitied him. During the intermission at the Dartmouth victory dance, Percy and Delia strolled out onto the now dry rink and sat down on the bulwark and looked up at the moon: Because of his great and hopeless love Percy was moody, unhappy, thoughtful. Suddenly he was startled by the petulant tone of his beloved. "I think it must be wonderful," she said. "What must?" asked Percival. "To be able to imitate things. I mean, anyone can play football, or learn to skate, or dance well, but it takes genius to be able to imitate things." "Do you mean that?" "Why, of course I do! I've always admired people who have creative ability. Genius. Of course I mean it!" She looked squarely at him, and the last trace of doubt vanished from Percy's soul like mist from a river bed before a rising sun. He stood up, he threw back his head, he looked at the moon and from his throat there came the clear, deep, rich tones of a baying hound. THE ALPHA, Alpha, Alpha, Alpha at Boynton univer-sity is responsible for the fate of Percival Oakes. It happened this way. During his freshman year the AAAA's pledged Percy to member-ship, and initiated him into the mystic three R's. (Rites, Rituals and Regulations.) Percy took it like , a man. When or-dered to imitate -- Minute a dog howling at 3 Fiction 'he moon, he did his level best. The result was as-tonishingly successful. Percy sur-prised even himself. The brother AAAA's cheered loudly and clamored for encores. Percy obliged a second time and a third. He was immensely pleased with the applause and at the atten-tion he attracted. The next day, en route to class, Percy was stopped by a grave-face- d sophomore and asked to give his imitation of a dog howling at the moon. For a moment he hesitated, conscious of a circle of grinning faces that had silently formed about him, faintly resentful of the fact that the brothers of the AAAA had made public the discovery of his hidden genius. He glanced once more into the grave face of the youth who had accosted him and then threw back his head and bayed lustily. A mighty roar of applause greeted the rendition. There were cries of "More!" "More!" Percival obliged a second time and then once more. Returning to college in the fall, Percy had completely put from his mind the cause and fact of his last year's popularity. There were other and more .important things to oc-cupy his interest. He was now a sophomore, with all the rights and liberties and sensations of impor-tance that are synonymous with that lofty position. Best of all, he 1 ,iv wrH He looked at the moon and from his throat there came . . . rich tones of a baying hound. was now unhampered by the d freshmen rules that had last year cramped his activities. One sophomore caused Percy's brain to swim. Here was loveliness and intelligence and femininity all combined. Unhappily, it took him a fortnight to negotiate an introduc-tion. Her name was Delia Winter, BY INEZ GERHARD DEAN MARTIN and Jer-ry WHEN Lewis (NBC Friday eve-nings,) teamed up for the first time, at an Atlantic City night club, they were so unfunny that the manager warned them they'd better pick up fast or they'd be out of work. Jerry says they used the old formula "All you gotta do to get a laugh is kill yourself." While Dean sang, Jerry rattled MARTIN AND LEWIS dishes, threw food, took up collec-tions among' the audience. They in-sulted the patrons, who howled with laughter and begged for more. That routine paid off; they have clicked in pictures ("My Friend Irma,") on the air and at night clubs, now make about $10,000 a week. Betsy Blair decided, when she married Gene Kelly, that her mar-riage was going to be more im-portant than her career. She was well set on Broadway, but she gave up the stage to be with him in Hollywood. So she's very happy over being signed for an important role in "Mystery Street," at the studio where he works. His next musical is "Summer Stock." Haide Goransen, the Swedish model whose picture was on the cover of a recent copy of "Life," has been deluged with movie offers as a result. 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