The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 22, 1952, Page 10

Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, November 22, 1952 { By Dan Barry T-TELL IT TO ve MAKE PRESSED / ©. DUCK... UNDER \ AN GLASS... W-WITH TRUFFLES! HAL . BOYLE | SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK ®—The explosion of an H-bomb weapon in the Pacific may have startled the dip- Jomatie world. The average Ameri- can, however, took little more note than if, on a summer night, he had glanced up and seen a star fall, Chapter 31 UX smiled. “Besides getting under your skin, ex- actly ae did she for" = “When Dora Kellams di baby’s grandmother had ee nifer with Mrs. Jennings, an old acquaintance. Mrs. Jennings ran a nursery and boardinghouse up near White Plains. Later, with the grandmother’s death, Mrs. Jen- that the baby be Previous tid:cz- of other new ,|and marvelous ways in which the MANDRAKE SAID WAIT HERE. ME FEEL LIKE FOOL, HIDING IN THIS DISGUISE IN MY OWN COU THAT BIG ABOUT TH ~-LET'S HAI LOOK. "TO WAKE UP THE SHIP? TURN ON THAT CEARCHLIGHT, CAPTAIN? SHINE (TON THE WATERS DO AS | CAV! human race could destroy itself have exhausted his capacity for error and dismay. The ordinary mortal today is iced of being frightened by graph- ie previews of what may befall him. He has eaten the bread of crisis so long it has come to have a stale taste. People were so upset over the atom bomb that the wider threat of the H-bomb can hardly appall them. You have to rest from fear sometime, and the average man feels like taking a seveuth-inning stretch right now. “So maybe I’ll get conked some- time by an H-bomb instead of an atom bomb,” he thinks. ‘What dif- ference does it make to a fly whether it is swatted with a rolled up newspaper or a baseball bat?” He is also losing his ability to marvel at the fresh marvels of science, because so many of its wonders turn out to be blunders. This has been a fearful and tre- mendous century of strident and continuous change, multiple deat’ ‘| and vast growth. It is perhaps the most adventurous and exploratory century in history, one that has thrown a small candle of light into the darkness of strange new worlds which seem to many more terrify- ing than inviting. A man who is only as old as this century--just 52 years-has endured a lot. He has weathered at least three depressions and two and a half world wars. When he pauses to eatch his breath and look back, it seems to him that nothing has re- mained unchanged with the possi- ble exception of mother love. The safe-seeming world he was born into has vanished long ago. He has seen the horse arid buggy replaced by the jet plane, the stereoscope slide give way to the television image, chewing tobacco succeeded by bubble gum, The key phrase of that sturdy, distant time was “all I want is a fair chance, an opportunity to show what I can do.” Badgered and bedevilled by these years of ceaseless change, a 52-year-old man today works fewer hours than his. father did. But his leisure also is now tormented by fears of new dooms his grandfather never dreamed of even in his night- mares. allowed to stay on in her care. | We wanted to place the child somewhere else, but Mrs. Jen- rings had her way.” “She'd tumbled to the story?” “To part of it. She knew who Jennifer’s father was, a,out T Hughes being in Sing Sing. Just that. She’d gotten the B hngisies Theresa Kellams to blab that much. She didn’t know about me or the others. She didn’t know, but she probably guessed the truth, guessed that our inter- est was more than just discreet friendship for an unfortunate comrade in prison.” Phillips made a face. “Anyhow, she got in touch with Hughes, gave him carefully worded bulletins on the baby’s progress regularly, and gt aug! Ss to instruct us to pay lib- erally) for the. child’s support. She won Hughes’ confidence, and throt years, right to the end, they kept up a lively corre- spondence.” . “How were you able to transfer ire sey and take over custody ater’ _ “With Hughes’ consent.” Phil- ips Peering “I had | come somebody important, somebody who could give the girl advantages. Hughes prevailed upon Mrs. Jennings to go along with my plans.” critic shud- ered. “Tt was that Saye pa aes be- tween Hughes and Mrs. eae that sent Longo to her room the Hotel Orleans.” Phillips nodded. “She Hughes’ death wasn't action as it seemed to be. She came here and made a scene, accusing me.” A thought held Deverear “Then Longo didn’t j ber just go to her room for that corre: mdenee. He » but her went there to Let Em Marry Young, Dr. Says LONDON (® — Girls should be permitted tc. marry at 15 if they are biologically ready, Dr. Marie Stopes, famed writer on marital problems, has suggested to a royal commission on marriage and di- vorce. However, she said yesterday, she | nego yl earn mai » She it thin! y should be legally possible. “The present age limit of 16 is too high and ignores the bio- TOUGH | Port wtame made murder super- Phillips silent, and the d fie Rate hice & in got to talking?” oe “Buloffs. He plotted and tored the ret of us to go along with him. Longo was man. Buloff p: him a twenty- thousand-dollar fee for the 0b, and eee to maneuver Longo “Just when did Buloff enter a enter the “A few years after Hughes’ sen- tence. He found out about us, ex- actly how . don’t know, and gave us choice of paying blackmail or poie arrest.” Phillips’ face darkened. “We paid.” “How much? “We gave him the lion’s share of the Brey money. a juent- aS us prospe: ‘astle, ‘timer, and myself, Buloff made further demands, exorbitant de- rineetmeais a ie in our successes and ‘@ odded miserably, his voice wrenched a little *And we cut ourselves a piece of that Hell Buloff gibbers about when we —— in So Hara to ety oursel Buloff is a complet madman.” FF E i ore ' i personal More acute, and therefore he a bigger kick out of it.” shrugs’ CoP : u he increased = pam —_ Own. enjoyment of. pain. Hell became some’ ed. “I don’t know. I don’t Pretend to understand Buloff. The pee a chameleon, impossible to fathom.’ “And the girl, where is she?” by § don’t eee Q: “Barly this’ morning™ Pali arly mo! Me i looked at the detective curiously. oo your interest in Jenni- ler?” Devereaux*ignored the query. ‘ou insist 7“ beyond terete tary complicity in the murder of ughes, you are innocent of the other ki‘lings?” Phillips nodded. “I didn’t kil on 0 OF Caste or Latimer,” he ipplement uskily. fe won't make too much dif- ference in how you fare in court,” the detective said. “A ye lus comp! 1001 that Electrical conbame te Messenger, is enough to get you life imprisonment at the least.” He thrust his arm out, up. “Til take your : ips said, “Ni hy signer, approached the BS38 BESSSEE FERp op ij Tt is no wonder that this middle-| logical tendency to marriage,” age man in a middle-aged century | Dr. Stopes’ said in a memorandum. | now often yearns, most of all, for| The expert, who is 72, said one- Some form of security, a sanctuary | third or one quarter of Britain’s from the threat of immense danger} girls are ready for marriage at that has palled his times almost | 15. | BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH By Fred Lasswell WHAT TH’ DING: DONG DO YE WANT ME TO DO-- GO ROOST WiF TH’ CHICKENS ? \ ) ¥M WORRIED TO DEATH ABOUT ETTAS BE S4FE George McManus By Paul Robinson as long as he can remember. Even the young, ordinarily venture- some, are infected today by the craving for a kind of security no generation ever really has had in the long hard lot of mankind on his earth. The-ordinary mortal would like science ‘to quit dealing up fresh mass@eath instruments and build him instead an escape hatch from the ‘perils of the Twentieth Cen- tury. | But'dn his heart he knows the | wry truth: there is no escape hatch. A man must live in the jtime he has been allotted, and |face its tasks with what courage | and kindness and hope he can mus- | ter, “I’ve discovered that, biologieal- ly, British women are three main types; those who are fully mature and ready for childbearing at 15 or 16; the larger, number—the average type—ready for marriage about 18 to 21, and those who can be married but who are not sexu- ally mature until the age 27 to 30. “Many of our grandmothers were happy brides at the age of 16 and even 15. When women are biologically capable of bearing a child, they should be legally ca- |pable of marrying.” Bobby Adams, Cincinnati Red ‘third baseman, went to bat more than any other member of the team in 1952. He appeared 637 times. OZARK IKE “AND AFTER TWO FAIL TO wines ‘THE CISCO KID SERORA, YOu Look YES, INDEED! HE RAPPY. THE FORTUNE-) PREDICTED (> MARRY