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Show fftl.Phillipr HALSEY'S BASEBALL CAP Admiral Bill Halsey's wife says the old baseball cap he wears "looks just awful." On the other hand, we think it swell headgear. It gives Bill the look of a tough pitcher pouring in his fast one and daring dar-ing the ump to say "Bain" The "look of eagles" is great, but the look of a baseball hurler who can also hit and field Is nothing to sneer at. The admiral's visor cap is probably prob-ably a factor in the present bej fuddlement and concern of the Japs; it has them guessing. It is not regulation, and anything like that bothers them. On one of the great admirals of the American fleet they see not an orthodox naval ( '' TKy ' If f- i ' 1 ADM. BILL IIALEY bonnet, but just a working chapeau, a tough piece of millinery . . . just the sort of old lid a man slaps on when he goes downstairs to lick a cop, settle an argument with a bill collector or take the bus to the chowder club picnic. The cap has a "scz you!" quality.' Some Japs have played just enough baseball to realize that it could be a baseball bonnet. For them to wear one would mean they wrould lose face. In Halsey's case, it adds to his face. To such Japs it complicates, still more, the question confronting the Nipponese empire: Should we bunt, try for a hit or hope 'for a foul fly? Keep that baseball cap on, Bill! And if you're wearing spiked shoes, using a new type ball and carrying car-rying two bats, it's okay with us. BACK HOME STUFF Fred Grave, the w. h: cigar maker, is the new headman of Morey's famous Temple Bar. . . . Cigars sure do bring recognition back home. . . . Mayor Murphy is a stogie maker by trade and has had six terms. . . . Frank Smith is doing a swell job with a column started by this correspondent many years ago, "The Clarion.". . . Hughie Reynolds' old cafe is now a chop suey spot, of all things! . . . Ye erfs heart went pitter-patter pitter-patter the other day when he passed Lenox hall, the dance hall of his youth, and saiv it all made over for business. . . . With Dick Miller and Eddie Stanford Stan-ford playing the music and all the pretty pret-ty gals in town dancing, them was the daze! . . . "Ask-Your-Neighbor" Pagter's clothing store, a landmark for years, is now a drug store . Bill lladdon, who, like all other kids, once hud an ambition to run away with the circus, had the unusual un-usual thrill of having a circus run to him. . . . Bill was counsel for Ringling Brothers in all that fire trouble. Wail From Miami Hi Don't anybody ever tell me again that Miami is not a "year around" pleasure spot! If I get a train out of here before August it will be a break! I ran across a fellow fel-low offering coach tickets 52 weeks ahead. He was nuts but he had something there. If I knew a witch who could fly a two-passenger broom I would marry her. Hilary. The Great Tripe Issue Dear Hi I asked a hotel man about the preparation of tripe and he said that it had to. be cooked and skimmed and cooked again, always al-ways keep the foam skimmed off. . . . "It's awful stuff" was his comment. com-ment. Somewhere, sometime, I read that a foraging party sent out from Valley Val-ley Forge returned discouraged with nothing but several tripe and some whole peppers, but the camp cook had some onions and potatoes and ! from these made the spicy stew that became the first "pepper pot." Mary Kate O'Bryon. Ain't It So! There really is No faster pace Than the downward drop Of a master race. CAN YOU REMEMBER Away back when people put their faith in super fortifications? . The motto of too many people these days Is "It's smart to be shifty." |