Show I 1 I 1 I 1 IMM e ah about sports broadcasters i ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA somebody said that there were always two big sporting events the one graham mcnamee saw and the one that actually took place but alongside the present sports broadcasters grahams wildest flight would sound like the dulcet twit of a timid love bird as compared with the last ravings of john mccullough coaches brag of the lowered percentage of serious football accidents this fall but oh think of the radio zionists wind irvin S cobb up the season suffering from nervous exhaustion wrecked vocal chords violent rush of loud words to the mouth complete collapse even madness be passing the rest cure sanitarium and as the windows burst outward hear pouring forth something like this oh boy boyl with one tremendous burst irish goldberg is jamming his way from the red back line right through the black interference nothing can stop himl him but dont get worked up what you hear is merely a convalescent microphone orator mentioning a checker game between two fellow inmates and reverting to form virtues in snakes SOMETHING I 1 said recently about the folly of killing every snake on sight without investigating the snakes character brought a flock of letters from readers who dont like snakes even a so called venomous snake may have his better side in kansas in the old local option days you could get a drink only on a doctors prescription excepting in case of dire emergency such as a snake bite so every properly run drug store kept a rattlesnake on the premises to serve the citizenry and the only time a drug store rattler ever refused to bite a thirsty stranger was when he was all worn out from accommodating the regular local trade and what though it was a snake that led eve astray in the ga garden aden of eden he may have brought sin into the world but we have missed a lot of spicy reading matter in newspapers if he yep I 1 plead guilty to thinking an occasional charitable thought for any decimated and vanishing group I 1 feel that way about old line republicans public ans and mustache cups and red woolen pulse warmers IN a NO political predictions E TAKE the opportunity to announce W WE that the literary digest or rather its journalistic journalist ic successor C asor will not conduct a poll on next years congressional and state elections the burnt child dreads the poll let others go around taking straw votes but the way the digest folks feel now and in fact have felt ever since ince last november they tart start a canvass to prove that tw two and two make four because look here what if it should turn out that two and two merely make some more marx brothers or a double set of siamese twins any anyhow how the business of basing coe cocksure asure predictions on half cocked estimates seem to be flourishing these days figures dont lie but the citizens who furnish the figures may do so either unintentionally tio nally or just for the sake of a laugh augh the rise of candid camerata ional izing say we just thought up that word proves that a photograph of things as they are is mightier than a lot of loose statistics predicated on what t the he vo voters may or may not do and probably wont when the tinte comes a 6 4 forgotten stars interviewers clamored for ONCE a hearing and her face was on half the magazine covers and her name in letters of flaming light above all the marquees once impressive P re t tycoons y coons catered to her temperamental pe whims press agents waited upon her courtiers attending a queen autograph seekers besieged her then while now only bill collectors desire her signature and like to have it on a check speak of her to the newer generation and somebody will say who spell it please she is all through all washed up but like the deaf husband whose wife has slipped will be the last person in town to hear the news having traveled a road which is aes sues ues mighty few round trip tickets she he still dreams of a comeback come coine back she is the most tragic and the most pitiable figure and one of the commonest om monest to be found in this place ilace called hollywood she is any one ine of the host men and women who ten years ago or even five were glittering stars in movi cland IRVIN S COBB copyright service lct |