The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 16, 1953, Page 8

"Monday, March 16, 1953 Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON MAG ClAt PUT‘ THOSE MANACLES ON YOUR FRIEND KING LOTHAR. CAPTURE HIM FOR ME. USE THIS ‘CLUB ON HiM jANO IT TURNS OUT | YOu WERE AFRAID we THAT YOU'D Ky Books by A. de T. Gingras (ONE TOUCH OF FRANCE by A. Hamilton Gibbs, book of poems published by Doubleday Publishing Company, New! York City, 188 pages.) This volume might be a boon to the living rooms and recrea- tion rooms of the land. Anyone who has visited France for two days or ten years, talks} about it, or shows home movies of it. And usually his enthusiasms are neither connected nor poetic, and his home movies mottled. So if anybody is tempted to give a description off the Louvre, or a verbal cafe by cafe ana- lysis of the Champs Elysees, it! might be a charity to his see to hand each one a copy of Mr. Gibbs’ book. | For the author is lyrical and! charming in his descriptions of France. Every line in the slim volume is a testimony to his de- ‘votion to his Gallic mistress. And he knows the lady he loves in her entirety, and in all her moods. - Mr. Gibbs begins the book with two short poems to St. Malo in Brittany, regretting that it was “all he gathered past, the finish- ed present, the assured future”, and today it lies gutted, a sham- bles. i H Then after a-short poem enti-| tled “Northern - France”, Mr. Gibbs plunges immediately into Paris, the heart of France. Place} de Vosges is there with its ar-} cades under Venetian red and \ iron balconies, and “in the mid-; dle imprisoned trees throwing leaf patterns on safe perambulat- ed babies.” Boulevard Saint: | Michel is there, lined with genial | cafes, with bookshops old and j new. And of course, the Cafe de; la Paix, where all you need is the | price of a coffee and a tip. And Mr. Gibbs speaks to the gargoyles of Notre Dame: “You have made her yours, Paris, By day, by night, In winter's sad snow and rain and fog, bi ¢! PG | AP Newstootures — IM- RIMBAUD rolled with punches he couldn’t dodge. He gasped for air like a thirsty man gulping water. So much water he gagged on it. Blood ran into Rim- baud's right eye, blinding it, and blood was a warm wetness on his broken lips. He hit Booger Bill in the belly, and heard him grunt, and knew the big man was tired. So am I, Rimbaud thought. So tired it took all his remaining strength to swing his fist. But he had to keep swinging; had to re- main on his feet, If he went down now, with this wild bull of a man above him, he’d get kicked to death. He knuckled blood from his right eye and saw Booger Bill’s fist coming at him, and attempted to dodge it. But the fist Gunfighter's Return by Leslie Ernenwein ing to when Booger Bill ineked fim in the side, agei again. And now, as aap was the sound of a horse raci out of the yard, and Hugh Jul shoutii “Come on, come on! That's Maiben!” After that, for a time, there was nothing at all. JAIN roused Jim Rimbaud, a sheath of pain that had its hot} ‘ core in his left side. He put his hand there and felt no blood. He wondered about the pain, and the throbbing ache his temples. And the was he? smashed | 4147) against the side of his head with an explosion that deafened him. After that, for a time, Rimbaud was remotely aware of going down and getting up; of stri being: struck; of seeing ger Bill’s blurred, blood-smeared face wabbling queerly before him. There was no expression on Bill’s face. It was blank, like a dead man’s face. But his eyes weren't dead; they were wild and alive and red as the inflamed eyes of bull. Then, from nowhere. at all, an- other face appeared — Shafter’s narrow, grinning face—and he ‘heard him shout, “Now you git it, Rimbaud! Now you really git it!” Rimbaud remembered an old trick learned in a Sonora mescal joint. A risky, desperate trick used for eens He went down side- ways, ling on the palm of his free hand and kicking Shafter in the groin as the redhead | | in. Rimbaud got up, ducked Boo- Bill's flailing fists, and knuck- blood from his right eye. He didn’t see the fist that sh him under the left ear, He tried to re- main upright, but there was no strength in his legs. The floor tilted se he heard Hugh Jubal brag, at’s how I chop ‘em down— with one punch!” them. oe! it Sam Mai! Ri baud muttered, “Thats” what saved me.” But the Roman Four trio would be back. He ai to untie hii amad lett hand, but the best feos pulied too tight. He hunched up on an elbow, cursed at the splinters of} than pain that movement broaght: and waited while a wave nausea washed through his . sweat- drenched body. Then he tried to 2 his head around and down to knot that his Even then Rimbaud didn’t go all | afla: the way down. He propped him- to} self uw Rimbaud swore, knowing in- stinctively that Stromberg’s men ters} would return. Es Bill. The at him also in retaliation for that ul a discarded his Buntline pistol in the yard, Rimbaud thought: I've got to get it before they return. With teeth clinched st the grinding in_his he rose to his ees. The dark room seemed to dizziness to pass. But it got worse. He started creeping toward the door, and was sick. After that, for what seemed an endless night- mare of slow motion, he crept and ried ot ys gs : while sweat coursed down his cheeks and the Booger Bil! Rimbaud thought instantly. Booger Bill coming back But it might be it might Sam Maiben, tats Sam had circled and come, back to give him a hand. Then it occurred to Rimbaud that Maiben{ wouldn't do that. He'd know better! to lead those devils back} here. So it must be Booger Bil!) riding into the yard. | : led by awful dread now, Rimbaud reached for the doors frame, grasped it, and. tugged him-, He had to get into the yard. Regardless of pain or dizzi- ness he had to reach his gun, or be booted to death. Fighting to bal- ance himself, Rimbaud staggered pare thine doorway, took one * ering step into the yard, and For a frantic moment, as he pis ee way up. out of the quilted blackness that engul: him, Rimbaud thought he heard a! voice that was far off, like th fragile echo of an echo, But it wa: too distant, and he wasn’t sure he'd’ heard it, until Della Stromberg} | knelt beside him and asked urg- i ently, “Did they shoot you?” (To be continued) |patch of floating weed to the|poise only captures for food such ~~ ALL THE TIME "TM INGULTIN! YOU,..T/M WONDERIN’ WHERE I SEEN VOU BEFORE... THEN, WHEN | YER RIGHT CROSSES MY CHIN, COMES T’ME..BEN BOLT! P | IMAGINE «++ ME, IN MY CON- DITION) ARGUIN’ WITH \O BRN BOLT! J SHE IS FINISHED !! 1 BETA HOSS TH’ SHIF'LESS In spring’s intoxicating light, leaves coming, In autumn’s warming gold, leaves falling, In summer’s precious sun, life) giving...” And, of course, April on the boulevards! After that, the author goes to the south. His love and his imag- ery describe Avignon, the Cote D'Azur, ‘Nice, Antibes, Saint Paul de Vence. A cozy little volume which says what nearly - everybody wants to say about France. . .but self on his hand and was endeavor- \next, it usually prefers to lie quietly among the floating S fronds, devouring any food i which happens to come within od, | Q. What is the food of the por- Q. What shell cannot be seen | poise? A. The common porpoise when alive? , jlor’s | bottlenose dolphin, | .A. The baby’s-ear or SilOr Se encatun ee ae ear shell, Sinum’ perspectivum, | J when alive is completely en- closed by the fleshy body of the} and mollusk lives partly’ buried on squid. One of its favorite fish is! vitamin A, ithe mullet (Mugil) which it is! War II the soupfin and west coast mie ah -_|fond of chasing in schools about | dogfish were the chief factors in mollusk on which it grows. This’ iniets and flats along the Florida|the production of vitamin A for fishes as it can swallow whole, Q. What.shark is of the most importance as a producer of yit- amin A? A. This is the soupfin shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, of the California coast, which matures or) at a length of aronud five feet. Tursiops|The liver of this species is the richest known natural source of and during World the United States and allied na- better. sandy beaches of Florida, where coast. A pérpoise will sometimes into | tions, Now that vitamin A can be SKONK MEANS te Het several times NOW ZEE FABULOUS °ZEE TOP” oss a mu vi im PLASTEUR OF PARIS WILL CELEBRATE it is often ome by bee uti the air before eating it. Since | produced synthetically, the shark pry od suis wai besoess Wei sake na Sere hithoush ihe Toke \théiriteeth: are designed a hold- ie spent has aro @ great us a Me *e gard, child’s picture book, pub-| cate pearly shell is inyisibi¢ - to ing rhther: then Bigg, por deal’ of: its Soraigy: Saporhanay lished by Charles Scribner's the collector, it can be freed “of | ---—-————————— ~~ Sons, New York city. 32|the meat by boiling. The shell is| pages.) decidedly flattened and recalls | An author should never sug-|jthe Pacific coast abolone in| gest in a title an adjective which | shape, but the two mollusks are} a reviewer might be tempted tonot closely related. attribute to the book's contents. Q. Can a porpoise be told from Unfortunately there is an ele-/a shark when seen from an air- ment of the silly in this book) plane? which cannot be attached wholly} 4 yes. Although the size and to the baby elephant hero, Willy | oioring may appear similar Nilly. The other animals have it) when they are seen from the air, Less : a porpoise may easily be disting- Stretching the old adage that | vicshed from a shark by the shape an elephant never forgets to 2/of the tail. In the porpoise this is breaking point, Mr. Weisgard | porizontally Mattened, as this an- manages to squeeze out of it an! imal swims with an up and down inoffensive tale about a baby ele-! ovement of the tail. In the phant who runs away from his! shark which swims as ordinary mother. \fish do, a sideways sweep of the} On an adventurous journey ‘tail, the latter is flattened verti- | through the jungle, he meets ally. This difference is easily mong other animals, an alliga-' seen from the air and serves to tor, a snake and a lion. These distinguish these animals at! might very well have —_ sha once. / threats to the roving elephant, bie and exciting to the child reader. In- oe ee —_ stead the author seems to hav ‘A. The sargusscm fish, Hiletzio| had a considerable amount o! “silly” left over from Willy Nil- | sibba, has a fleshy, froglike body | ly, and given the three a substan jand paired fins which are capa- tial shot of it. bie of being curled at the tips so; At places in the text, there are that it may grasp the strands of nice word variations from the us- | floating Sargassum weed in) , ual one syllabled variety found | which it lives. The color of the) i 5 in juvenile picture books. And | S@tgassum fish is remarkable in the author also has a nice feeling being brown, yellow and white for verbs. \in_ patches, exactly matching the | Willy Nilly slithers through | celor of the weed. Although the slippery leaves, creepy vines and Sargassum fish is capable of) tall elephant grass. He threatens swimming rapidly from one; | sieesirodeseds é to snap at flies and swallow bugs! and snip off cat tails like an alli- lent color taste. They are pre- gator. He rips past trees, cuts dominantly a sepia, with the col- through thick jungle foliage, and|ors ef autumn leaves and dark crashes through giant leaves. | green jungle introduced here and The illustrations are in excel-| there. NO-HE DION'T ~ TOLD 7. Kindled &. Biblical char 9. Social outcast 10, Vehicles for snow travel 12. Bubble 13. Twining plant 18. Moves. ‘tice 2i, Bathes 2 23, Choos by vote F —- By Paul Robinson Godly / LAST WEEK ITRIEDTO J] | LATER f/— ALL THE Giews “~~ / { pare you, ANO you cur 4 ADORE WATCHING You V \ PLAY BASKET BALL ON TeV. = WE SWOON UKE 5} FLIGS, INCLUOM 32 Ture to pres ganda ag SEER Ee JB a8: AREEAEe dd (Cdr. Wideman Is Transferred To Charleston 3252S" | Car. William B. Wideman, USN cer on the Staff of SarAsDevDet;his first tour of duty was the battleship Mississippi. TiS WET CLOTH SHOULD REVIVE Hm. net fi |is being detached from duty as since July of 1949. j xecutive Officer ef Surface Anti-. Cdr. Wideman is the son of the! | Submarine Development Detgch- Iete Dr. Samuel A. Wideman and ‘he Destrayer | ment with orders to report to/Mrs. Mary L. Wideman of 421 Charleston, S. C fer duty as Keenedy Street, Spertenburgh, § jCommander of Destroyer Divi- C. He was graduated from the i sion 222. Spartanturgh High School and at- Cdr Wideman’s relief iy Com- tended The Citadel ic Chariengs, mander Capers G. Barr. Je. $C. tor » period of que year.! USN, Commanding Qiticer.of the While 4 ¥ the Naval Ace- Destroyer USS Sarefieid. demy ved his Bachelor Wideman hes verved te of Science degree. Afier gratuat the capacity of Chief Mal Offi- ing from the Academs m 195 g i. hi F3 i Fal ! i i Eege Hesdervenville. sesignaient her Naval t thelr two was William Jr. 9 end Ernest, age & i if « sa # sf ry af e 3 € = Ladies lunch: Creamed chicken he vies on squares of split corpbread se- a Com- companied by fruit salad. Car. RS