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Show 'Mi Ll 1 t . , tJ,KU St,ic.) 'tiMltM, Late Afternoon: A book of verse that said what we could not . . . A sheaf of letters Inked In young romance . . . The wistful charm a two buck brownie shot . . . A wilted flower from some forgot-. forgot-. ten dance. These are the old, familiar souvenirs That lonely men have used to carry on. Mementoes of the gay and fragrant years Before the shadows lengthened on the lawn. Thus I set out to make the sloping hill That rises high above the teeming town, Where dreams are dead and all the world goes still As pilgrims watch the evening sun go down . . . Not much, I know, to see a journey through But these are all I have and they must do. DON WAHN. Things yon prob'ly didden know til now: That some years before the Declaration of Independence was signed a fellow named Appollos de Eevoire changed his name to Paul Revere so that his neighbors and friends would better savvy it. It has been estimated that more than half the Smiths in the U. S. originally were Schmidts or Smeds. Many Johnsons were once Jansens. President Pres-ident Polk traced his name back to Pollock, while Herbert Hoover traced his to Huber. General Pershing is the descendant descend-ant of one Pershin, who changed his name from Pfoersching. General Custer was the great-grandson of a man named Koester, and Admiral Dewey's ancestors were named Duce. Charlie Lindbergh's grandfather grandfa-ther was born Mannson; and if you want to make something out of name-changing try changing the fact that America came from the name Amerigo. Collier's runs what It believe i s scoop on the until recently hush-hush subject of Radar. One columnist got into lots of hot water for simply mentioning the word. Mechanix Illustrated ran a detailed de-tailed technical story (complete with drawings and diagrams) of how this secret war weapon works in it3 January, 1942, number. The title of the article was "Now Power Is Broadcast," and Thomas J. Naugh-ton Naugh-ton auth'd. Shortly after, the Satevepost ran a piece on Radar describing it thoroughly. thor-oughly. But all the while there was strict ' censorship in the United States. Censorship, despite the fact that when the Graf Spee was scuttled scut-tled off the coast of S. America there was Radar equipment on the mast And it was Radar that caused the great casualties at Dieppe. The enemy en-emy had it all the time. But it was against the law over here to mention men-tion it To make faces redder as early as 1932 the principles of Radar were written up at length in German scientific sci-entific magazines. Congressmen have been urging Americans to make sacrifices. And they have scolded John L. Lewis because be-cause he hasn't made any. But the news is that because the Senate dining din-ing room didn't have bean soup on the bill of fare (because of the food shortage) 25 Senators left their tables ta-bles in a huff. Can you Imagine the cause celebre the Senate would make out of that if Mrs. Roosevelt or Mrs. Harry Hopkins did that? The N. T. Sun editorial page offered of-fered this fond farewell for Admiral Yamamoto who is said to have led the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor: Har-bor: "... A hard, tough graduate oi a hard, tough school. Yamamoto was a fighting man, every inch of him. He knew his job thoroughly and did It well." The inventor of one of our most highly rated airplane engines was lunching with a Congressman in Washington. The legislator asked him if he didn't consider it unfair that whenever we enjoyed a big victory vic-tory in the nlr, the credit always went to the fliers who used his engines, en-gines, instead of to him. "Not at nil," replied the Inventor, "who ever heard tho name of Taul Revero's horse?" Tlio decision of the Kremlin to disenfranchise dis-enfranchise the overseas Commy groups li just a bit embarrassing to the American comrades. Klnda takes official recognition of them as nuisances. Kdillo Dohcrty, one of the bettor newspaper men. who is now writing tho story of the Sullivan Boys (who died In battle), has his favorite news story lend. It wns written, ho says, by Jack Lnwson for the old Chi. Iiecord-llernld. Mark Twain hnd passed on, and tho obit notice wns assigned to I.nw-son. I.nw-son. who led off with: "Tom Sawyer and IlucMobrn y Finn nro Orphans." If tiio Nnal nlr furoo hns a soil); It probably Is: "Don't got around tiuu-li any more." |