| Show Society Column Gush and Goo Disgusts Fern Beats and defeats about these bits of typographical goo and gush in the form of around the They are written by people supposedly in the know about every bit saccharine and slime in the town and it is the duty of these snoopers to write it up in an interesting and sufficiently sugary manner to hold readers and not only but people like to see their name in These columns are bylined usually by some clever title such as the the City or Stagger They concentrate on their friends and fellow affiliates and blow up countless The columnists have an uncanny knack for writing about people being at a certain place when in reality the people in question were nowhere in the For witness the case of a girl whose name appeared in a column called Lights of the Lower by Snoopy saying she was seen sipping a hashish cocktail in the company of one of the town's more popular sewage disposal Now it so happens that at the time the lady in question was confined to her room with an acute case of a rare tropical disease contracted from too many hashish Pin hangings are a big event and are played up in a very dramatic and colorful of the week Clementine is now wearing the Beta Theta Pi Kappa Alpha Elk's Tooth of Jose Flannigan over her golden meat cleaver of Pi Beta Phi A week later there appears an has returned the Theta Pi Kappa Alpha Elk's Tooth of Jose Flannigan it had a cavity it Other items are also treated with unusual and L. she is the former Miss Melody were seen at what famous dine and dance spot on Hyland You guessed it it was the Spoon Kitchen Bridget Ginsberg looking lovely in a draped afternoon dress of shift nibbling lemon flavored dextrose tablets in the Around the Gill of Grill no service under tables after We didn't get the name of the fellow she was with but in his condition I don't think he knew gazing starry eyed at each other in the Umpire Room of the Hotel Monday evening we saw Antanette and her soldier She was dressed in chocolate making a lovely contrast with the khaki of his gazing starry eyed at each other in the Referee Room of the Hotel Tuesday evening we saw An-tonette and her soldier boy She was dressed in pale blue and he was wearing the same damn Go and Wright you those characters are the sweet society spreaders for the three local Go get mad I said and I'm glad And at this point the men in white coats came and dragged away the shapeless form that was once a normal human being or as normal as the Chronicle will allow its members to |