The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Thursday, July 31, 1952 CRICKET !#! | |= RECKON TH PORE LEETLE OH, LAWSY!! ad Goren (MW GLAD YE TRAT'S TOO BAD! TALWAYE LIKED GOOR Ste OPFER HIM'A JOB! JT / Gee, me. MORRISON, IF WHITEY SIGNS UP WITH THE BIG LEAGUE THINIC WHAT THAT'LL PEOPLE WILL POINT You OUT THERE GOES & f /\ ye XS UBARN ABOUT THE CRAZY K RANCHO BY DRINKING COFFEE F YOU MEAN WE'LL READ] Bp TEA LEAVEGT KIDS WILL WANT youn. AUTOGRAPH .’- You'LL BE IN THE PAPERS — ON TVS il THE FATHER OF THE Kees ' il ; 4 MEAN TO YOU.) 4 2% By George McManus By Paul Robinsun HELLO, CISCO! Hi, PANCHO! SAY, DID YOU HEAR THAT OLD MAN JONES RAN OFF WITH THE SCHOOLMARM T. 16 JALED Do sidetrack me, Paul. There's something yong = and you and Danny fohn Taylor—but particularly Kate—” “The last time I saw Kate she staggering drunk.” ‘was “When was that?” “The night you went to the theatre. She called in.” oan ny are you telling me about “Because, apparently something has—happened to Kate—” “What do you think has hap- pened?” js » “How terrible!” “I wanted 10 spare you this, Sandy—but perhaps it’s better you should: know. Danny won't say anything definite—and there was nothing in the papers.” “You received a parcel—” “It contained a white rose.” “But why a—rose?” ee was wearing a rose—that t” en you really 1 believe this = a conspiracy to destroy your min Paul? And 1s?” “What else?” = going to phone John Tay- “Don’t do that!” aca “Why can’t I phone him? “If oe do that it'll indicate to him ‘ e succeed. I wouldn’t like him to think that.” “Then what shall we do, Paul?” “Ignore the matter entirely. Let’s just go on as though nothing had happened.” “But we can’t do that, Paul! It’s wicked—foul! The police should be told.” “He isn’t breaking the law.” “At least we don’t have to stay TBanay'e hide the boat.” 's hidder. the boat.’ i mow. We ‘could phone for “To leave here now would be an pene ion of ae ane of remorse, ‘way. I'm ngi- gar guilty nor remorseful. But T am sleepy. Is the interrogation over?” For the first time in days Meli- sande smiled. SAYS] By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK ® — It must be Tom Swift. Yes, who else could it be but fun-loving Tom Swift, flying those flying saucers around? You rememter Tom, the all- American boy inventor. He took up where Thomas Edison left off. The Horatio Alger heroes were scheming opportunists, the Rover boys were juvenile hoboes, and Frank Merriwell was a tramp ath- lete compared to Tom Swift, the dedicated youthful scientist. A generation ago he was the fictional hero of every near-sighted lad whose scrawny frame com- pelled him to believe in the power of the brain over brawn. How they loved to read about Tom Swift ard | his motorcycle, Tom Swift and his glider, Tom Swift and his subma- | jrine, Tom Swift and his flying | machine, Tom Swift and his pogo stick. Well, sometime after the end of | World War I, as best I can recall, his fans lost interest in Tom and his fantastic contraptiqps and be gan reading Ernest Hemingway and Faith Baldwin. They had learned about love, and found it more fascinating than anything Tom Swift ever had invented Heart-broken, Tom dropped from sight. What happened to him? It*is my belief that all these y: } has been secretly perfecting { saucers, hoping with this crow scientific achievement to win his old fans back. Naturally, he will turn his in vention over to the American gov- | ernment, as he did with ail his earlier inventions. Right now, he's just having a little fun with the thing. Some one of these days a tall elderly man, not unhandsome de spite his graying temples, will g« in the Pentagon, iay a bundle of blueprints on the desk and sa “Here are the plans for my fly ing saucers. I give them to you as a patriotic service.” “And who are you?" will ask the ehair-borne eagle “Just Tom Swift,” will come the | firm but modest reply I hate to think what will ha then. Three Air Force cops hit him from three sides and csrt him off to a psychoputhic ward, » the fine oid entor yells, “I am too, Tom Swift! I am’ I am! | am!" And that will be the end of Tox Swift and bis fyicl saucers This will eliminate one of the two major problems facing the Air } Force today. One of these prot lems is its inability to catch a fly ing saucer its pilots can see but | don't believe in. The other is the problem im Korea: Its inability 1 | put up 2 plane that will enable its | pilots to close ih on 2 Russian {MIG-15 they ¢an see and believe | in—bet can’t cateh The reason | believe that the at his plan’s beginning to} sh “That's what comes of false images,” she said, st making Be It, nereablel” , ra Bane “fT love you. Paul. I really do.” “Don’t ask me. There’s no tee that ape of Cee gam Ye ‘angry more’ J “Ne more. eat “ sorry for Kate. It’s iy that way. Kate was no good to herself nor to anybody else.” He sat up suddenly and through the halt-open 3 “Almost sunset—” He scrambled. to his feet and to collect’ his paint materi uo won’t be ga lutching easel paint hurried from the SN the window, saw clamberii side, his figure and his hair s' up the evening breeze, was e evening —for the first time since their ar- rival—the sound of the wounded the silence of the e recognized the deep voice of John Taylor. “Is that you, Melisande?” “Of course.” in os, Our husband within hear- ing?” | ‘No. “Tm not Tleavi without Paul.” “You're an idiot, Melisande.” “Thank you. Why must I leave?” Einstein Ignores Flying Saucers LOS ANGELES # — Physicist Albert Einstein is serenely uncon- cerned about flying saucers. “Do Lhave to tell your” "an! fey well. Paul tried to mss der fate Sale. He might try same on “Kate herself. She’s here beside me now. Don’t you believe ma, Melisande' “Let me talk to Kate.” Funny how the room revolved i HOLLYWOOD NOTES Evangelist Louis A. Gardner | Fred wrote Einstein at Princeton to ask his opinion. Einstein replied: “These people have seen some- thing (underlined). What it is I do not know and I am not curious to know.” This was the extent of his reply, typewritten on stationery with he letterhead of the Institue for Ad- vanced Study, School of Mathemat- ies, Princeton, N. J. Gardner, an interdenominational evangelist, said he asked Einstein whether saucers originate in outer space, coming from Mars or Venus, or if they are products of military rivals jof the U. S. Air Force. Vogeler Refuses Teacher’s Post NE WYORK «® — Robert A. Vogeler says he will not lecture nor in any way take part | in a contemplated course in “‘tech- niques of espionage” at Peekskill, {N. Y.) Military Academy. Vogeler spent 17 months in a Hungarian prison as an accused spy. An agency spokesman for the school said that he incorrectly as- sumed that Vogeler might do some lecturing if such a course is of- fered in the fall. Vogeler is a trustee of the school. “I am not going to conduct or lecture at a course for the acad- emy on any subject. Such an idea was fever even discussed with me,” Vogeler said. There is often as much indepen- | dence in not being led, as in not being driven. —Tryon Edwards. eaves npn Seiten | flying saucers are a Tom Swift invention is that I can’t under- stand the Air Force's attitude to- ward them, It has checked some 2,000 re ted sightings of “flying sauc- n the last year—2S per cent tary pilots—and says 1,600 n can be explained as optical ons, caused by weather con: | s. Some 400 cases are still unexplained, but the Air Force it sees in them no pattern cal to the United States at puzzles me is why, with all thousands of American airmen the sky im the last World War, po flying saucers were reported before IM7. Were optical illusions | and weather changes invented in is47? we, 1 still believe there is thing besides fMlusion to it all. mt Tom Swift, then some entor is fooling around up maybe Jules Verne. ts one other possible ex- | planation. I heard one small girl te to another, “Of course, there aren't any fly « swacers,” she said. “They're tke Santa Claus and the aster bunny—it's your father and Aber, all the time,” the set of “Fair Wind to Java,” he almost gushed about the new vision,” he said. “That mi ing the public color which they can’t get on TV. Westerns, musicals, spectacles adventures are the ticket.” I suggest that perhaps the mov- fe makers feel the public fs sa- tiated by the vast outpouring of comely (and alleged comedy) on “That's very possible,” MacMur- He! noe oe suggested that —_— to laugh about in these es. “We made a pretty funny ple- ture called “Callaway Went Thata- way,'” he cited, but it didn’t de much business. “Of course, there | were several strikes against ft: The title wasn't good; there was a danger of offending stars; and appa the doesn't like wae a weaeaee | @P ask me if an adventure Pox -- eh ae he comment- | “It couldn't tougher than | comedies. Why, I've slipped in the pas = ce: fallen in water a anything for laughs. After that training, adven- ture pictures are a cinch,” | MacMurray was called to take his place in the scene. He shoul- dered a rifle and explained what it was all about: |. “Vera Ralston and 1 are escap- | ing with the crew of my ship, see, In this scene, we're standing om a rock while the lava flows by our feet. Then there's a big ex- pain and the house on the eliff up. Oh, we've got I thing in this pict | blowup of Krakatoa.” | Ladd and Flynn had better watch | out for this new kid MacMurray, He's going to be braver than both bed them. \'STAR * BRAND. | Steuer COFFEE | -—TRY A POUND TOVAT—<o