The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1952, Page 18

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Page 18 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 24, 1952 a eT FLASH GORDON AN ILLUSION! THE EXPLOSION... IT WAS ALL AN ILLUSION! MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN IMANDRAKE GESTURES --THE GUN SEEMS TO HOLD IT, KENT’ YOU'VE MADE ENOUGH TROUBLE ALREADY / ee CAME BACK BUT IT WASNT JOE ~CPANT) «AND JOE AND MAC ARE KNOCKED OUTAND<+ nS JOKES I’M NOT BUT WITHA 38 I'M A PANIC we THAT YOU'LL. LEARN PERSONAL a / way S WILL YE HOLD TH YOUNG~ UNS WHILST T RUN IN. TH’ HOUSE A SECONT, HONEY-POT ? Z JIG6S- THAT NEW DOCTOR I WENT TO CHARSEO ME TWENTY DOLLARS FOR a3 THINK IT WAS TOO | BESIDES -I DO! MUCH OF THE ADVICE HE GAVE ME’ TWENTY DOLLARS AVISIT! THAT'S, TOO THAT RIDOLES BARLOW 1S WHAT LT CALL A HUMDINGER OF A HUSBAND=* LOOKIN’ AFTER TH’ YOUNG-UNS SO'S HHS WIFE CAN GO TO TH’ QUILTIN’ PARTY By George McManus YES~-T REMEMBER YOUR W 7 YOu SURE HAVE A FLOCK OF FR:ENDS.’~ NOW I IKNOW WHO S| | WON THE POPULARITY FSS} | POLL IN YouR CLass! Y Sa NORTH POLE ™ — Well, chil- dren, you can go to bed now. Santa Claus is on his way to your house. He has your address in his pocket. He and his eight reindeer took off from a snowy runway just at twilight. And right this minute they are zooming through the skies with your Christmas presents~faster ... . |faster ... and faster. But of course he can’t come down your chimney until you are sound asleep. There was a lot of. excitement at the North. Pole this morning, I can tell you. Here’s what hap- pened: The eight reindeer trotted gaily out of their hangar at dawn and fhisked in their harness as Mrs. Santa Claus tied tinkly jingle to their antlers, - “Hold still, you little reindeer,” said Mrs. Santa. “Why don’t you act more like a Christmas tree? You don’t see a Christmas tree jumping around while it is being | *s decorated, do you?” A hundred little elves then tied a@ rope to Santa Claus’ big. red sleigh and hauled -it from the hangar. A hundred other elves-be- gan piling the sleigh full of presents. for all the boys and girls in the whole world. “T never saw so many presents,” said Santa, shaking his head. “More children every year. I don’t know whether my old sled will hold them all this year.” And then it happened--yes, right at that moment. cr-a-a-a-a-a-ck! One ‘runner ‘broke, and the sleigh sagged-to one side, spilling Christmas gifts into the snow. “Oh, dear!. Oh, dear!”’ said Santa Claus. “What a time for my sleigh to break down. What will I do now?” Cre-e-e-e-ek, |" Webs voice was puzzled:,“Well,| lad 4 «Clay on the. sh “Ever hear Fl a “It certainly would be terrible |. if all the children in the world rworke up tomorrow and found you hadn’t been able to: bring them their presents,” agreed Mrs. Santa. Just then a big weather obser- vation plane from the U. S. Air Force flew over. It circled and anded on Santa Claus’ private runway, and the pilot stepped out, and saluted. ‘ “Are you in any trouble, sir?” he asked. : Santa pointed at the broken run- ner on his big sleigh. The Air Force pilot: looked at it and smiled. asked Santa “An iticle, of courte,” seid Mr: “Oh, that isn’t such: a disaster, | way, sir,” he said. ‘Why don’t you Jet us lerid you a: modern jet: bomber, and you can deliver your. presents in it. After all, that sleigh is rather old-fashioned, and your reindeer are probably getting old and slow and could use a rest this year.’ Santa hesitated. He walked over and patted each reindeer on its muzzle. “What do you think?” he’ asked.’ “Do you want to stay home and rest this year?” ah The reindeer shook their heads, and big tears’rolled out of ‘their | he - brown eyes. They loved their job of pulling the big old-fashioned sleigh through ‘the Christmas. They looked forward to the trip all year long.* “No, thank you, I don’t. want your jet bomber,” Santa Claus told the airplane pilot. “We'll make out, in the old-fashioned way. I've never disappointed the children. yet, -and 1 won't now.” He called for his favorite black- smith, a grimy elf named Mr. Forge, and asked him if he could fix the sleigh. “I can fix anything,” seid Mr. Forge. ‘I can even fix a ‘television set.” “But what will you use to make OZARK IKE AS skies | éach |i DAYLIGHT HOLD.UP RETURNS INGOMPLETE. NEW YORK #"— Two» two. seemed. acquairited. field 000. they ~overlooked: almost $10, ™man try it, But just sup- ‘that after this here officer his head into that in’t lucky.. *Spose 1 then. icked the stick g into the fire. P brilliantly and then 2 a org #5 Hh eee ‘3 HE just as the stick had i Now he was and os drained 0! ee to carry ‘on ay, prolonged of ‘ a og Why, Web—then the u e was with gets a new com- mander and pr: to God he'll have more sense the last one His tired eyes circled the shad- ; ‘ ‘him| owed faces around the dying fire vighed sea chapped, hist Soir he lied his band ins gesture dismissal. “Good night, gentlemen. We'll i out at sunrise. Pass the word 2) along your men tonight and have them reatly to go as soon as ‘we can see.” it last to the defined and iree irom fusion as the result of a long evening when they sat alone beside the sapphire Gulf. “Sally?” she had asked softly. “Sally!” He stood stock-still im stunned am: ent. Sally! The proud, beau imperious wo- man who was waiting for him back in Westport! Sally! “What do you know about Sal- ly?” he demanded. “I've never mentioned her name.” Toni stood up and held herself tensely. “No, I dare say you did not mean to talk of her, but when you had the fever...” Yes, the fever. That black, night- marish day when his mind had been like a bed of unténded flame, driven in hot gusts through past and future, at the mercy of every errant gale of memory and hope and dreams that swept down upon him. “Who is this—this Sally?” “Sally? Sally is a very lovely lady who is waiting for me at Westport Landing. I've been most unfaithful to her—and most un- fair to you.” He was sick with shame, torn between Toni’s love and gallantry and the sudden sharp realization that of all the world, only Sally could possess and hold him ut- terly. “And so I have the answer to my question. She is between us now—and forever. Perhaps—per- haps, querido, it is for the best. You will go far, and I might fall behind along the way.” “T think that I shall always love you a little, corazon—and I will always hate you a little, too, Now, since Herrera desires me and you do not, I would like to go to him. Tam released, senor?” “You are released.” There was the quick flash of a smile, a kiss tossed from tawny fingertips, and she was gone, run- ning lightly down the beach to- ,| ward the encampment—and Her- 46. Thin chiplike layers 2. Make fat DECEMBER 25 the 8b rera. He turned and walked slowly Crossword Puzzle ; IN| IRiO|T MBO|L|E OREM TIRIVEE TEE ORRA\N| Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 6. Oldm:= “eb note 1, Moved on 101 wheels 6. Somewhat 2 Waken deficient in 3. Young devil =», hinns to” 3 to ‘Thus match 8. Organs of sight 9. Color Each: abbr, . Regular method . Annoys |. Dismounted Persian Altempt Chill . Apartment |. Misfortunes Contend suc- ). Folly Neckties *. Dome Outer garment Light mists . Epic poem |. Feminine . Corded cloth . 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