The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 31, 1954, Page 8

Story Of Disgdiertts’ New York City Is Told By Man smpenceayt s (Special To The Citizen) iobaiem By JACK M. LEVINE PP NEW YORK CITY — It was} . Tuesday morning, March 23. Short- ly before 6 a. m., New York World- Telegram and newspaper Sun pho- tographer, Phil Stanziole wended his way to the temporary resi- dence of Mr. and Mrs. Abelardo Disgdiertt. He was on an assign- ment to photograph the infant De- lores who, two weeks before, had THANKS! You Have Made Us A Million Dollar Institution In Less Than Two Years Your Savings are loaned to help people Buy, Build or Repair Their Homes. Your Security is in HONESTY and EFFICIENCY, not only of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association but also in the honesty and efficiency of our political leadership 80, MAY WE BEG YOU TO REGISTER Before April 3rd and VOTE YOUR HONEST CONVICTIONS MAY 4TH FIRST FEDERAL SAVING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Deposits Insured by Federal Savings and Loan Ins. Corp., to $10,000 each account OPPOSITE BUS STATION Fred J. 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Eaton and Francis Sts. TELEPHONE 2-7061 ectic Departure arrived in New York, blind. This | Delores’ father. “The photograph- morning she was returning to Key |er is still trying.” We were set to West, her sight restored. It was a|leave our Long Island apartment. York’s teeming millions. It was the | Telégram’s City Desk. ‘“‘What hap- climax of an epochal “mercy flight! pened to our photographer? He to sight.” |seems to have gotten lost.” We But little Delores manifested an | filled in the details. More back- unwillingness to be photographed | ground information. at six in the morning. She cried.| More phone calls. More conversa- | Her fraii wail seemed to blend in with the musical motif of the dawn | serenade. New York was in the |throes of awakening from its noc- line and told the clerk at the air- tural slumber. Soon, little Delores’ | port that there was unavoidable de- |tiny voice would be drowned out/lay. We’d be just a few minutes |by the clang and crescendo of the | late for check-in. | symphony of New Yorkers awake} It was at this point that wife, and at, work. Anne, made a dash for the dres- Conch’s Cheer ser drawer. She came up with a For the better part of two hours, | blue and white beret, with a star the patient news photographer |00 top. It was her uniform cap tried to create the mood for little|f Marathon’s American Legion Delores’ proper pose for posterity. | Auxiliary Unit 154. | But, his efforts were rewarded by Faithful To Marathon |the infant’s rendition of the Key| “Late or no, Legion Auxiliary West version of a sound the photo- | 154 will get Delores to the plane grapher would normally associate |0M time,” shouted Anne. “Let’s | with baseball fans at the nearby | 80!” And in true Jackie Gleason | Yankee Stadium. Baseball fans, | style, but sans travelling music. . . the world over have learned to) “away we went.” recognize and identify the “Bronx| arly morning traffic is terrific Cheer.” Little Delores’ version | at this hour. That’s where Anne’s could, more aptly be termed the | World War II Red Cross training “Conch’s cheer.” came in good stead. While your Simultaneously, miles away, on | Teporter made hasty notes, wifey Long Island, your reporter was en- | negotiated the distance across photographer was through. It was World Telegram and Sun, and with | diertt’s dwelling in record time. little Delores’ father. We had spent the better part of an hour, this | luggage in the car trunk. Delores morning giving Delores’ story to} and her parents in the back seat. the paper’s rewrite desk. Again “away we go.” It was on Levines Assist Wife Anne and your reporter|learned that the infant is a car apartment at 8 a. m. We were to| entire trip. She fell fast asleep and pick up Delores and her parents |dozed continuously until plane de- and drive them to La Guardia air-|parture time. port in time for a 9 a. m. check-in | Made It On Time with the airline officials. | Came another phone call from ' it to the airport in plenty of tome. Big 3 Reach Compromise On Red Trade By SEYMOUR TOPPING jof trade” with the Soviet bloc in Britain and France have reached a | Teduirements. : | compromise agreement to ease re- ane | st night, Stassen told news- strictions on the sale of strategic | oe ae ort his government goods to the Soviet bloc in Europe | has “no objection at all to trade while tightening up on products of | in peaceful goods with Russia.” | definite war potential. | “In fact,” he said, “the United The Western Allies announced | states wants to encourage as much |the agreement last night between , ” | ; 5 s hat trade as can be done. |U. S. foreign aid chief Harold Nees a said the agreement will Stassen and top British and French pecresaraas Jed polici | appa |be a guide for detaiJed policies to officials at the end of a two-day |. hammered out in talks in Wah- | conference. . | ing! on and Paris, | The agreement marked an im- ane ton wees | portant compromise between grow- |ing European demands for more | trade with Russia and her satellites | |and the continued desire of the united States to keep all strategic | goods out of Communist hands. The three powers ruled out any jchange in the present stiff restric. | |tions on trade with Red China and | ‘North Korea. A communique issued after the | meeting said the three countries | will open talks with their allies— the other NATO nations, West Ger- | many and Japan—on revising the | bans on trade with Russia “by nar-| rowing substantially their scope |’ and increasing their effectiveness.” | The communique said the three | allies will work for “‘an expansion About a third of the area of the Inited States still is classified as forest. Who Lent A Hand success story in the midst of New| The phone rang. It was the World-| tion. Finally, the word that the/ now 8:00 a. m. We called the air | gaged in relay phone conversa-|Long Island, through heavy east | tions with the City Desk at the| Bronx traffic and to the Disg-|.. Just time enough to stack the | the dash to the airport that we| were due at the Disgdiertts’ Bronx | baby. Not one whimner during the} Despite our late start, we made | LONDON (#—The United States, | Europe “compatible with security | Before heading back to Washing- | From # NEW YORK CITY.—Conchs Prepare To Leave The Bronx: This photograph might well be entitled “An Infant Conch’s Farewell to the Bronx.” The Conchs pictured are little Delores Disgdiertt and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abelardo Disgdiertt. The photo was made during the vain effort of a New York news cameraman, over a two-and-a-half hour period, to have the little girl pose properly And, Delores and parents embark- jed on the triumphant flight back to Key West. On Saturday, we heard from Ma- | rio Disgdiertt. Delores and her pa- jrents had stayed at the Bronx apartment of Mario and his family. Mario, Abelardo’s brother, is also a native Key Wester. Here we learned that the World- Telegram and Sun photographer had, very thoughtfully, sent little Delores the unused prints of the scenes depicting her New York |temporary farewell. We wonder | how she will feel about posing for | Photos when she returns in July, Successful Operation If there was any doubt about the success of Delores’ eye operation, such doubt should have been dis- pelled by this incident. Demure De- lores took one look at herself in the mirror. Right then and there, for the first time in her life, she realized that a young lady, age seven months, does not look her best, when roused from slumber. . .at six o’clock in the morning. A woman’s vanity must be serv- ed. . .even at the ‘tender age of seven months. For little. Delores, it was really “Veni - Vidi - Vici.” Her New York experience, in paraphrased latin traslation — “I came” to N. ¥. -“I saw,” for the first time -in my life. . .“‘I, Conch, awed” | by it all, am grateful to my fellow Key Westers who made it possible. 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