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RIVIERA - TIMES

Coral Gables Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 2214 S.W. 8th St., Miami, Florida. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Miami, Fla. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Controlled Circulation. Member FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATED DAILIES OF FLORIDA. S. S. HOFFMAN, Editor and Publisher. A. E. Harum, General Manager; J. B. Moore, Associate Editor; H. W. Smith, Advertising Manager; J. E. Wilson, Mechanical Superintendent. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six months, $6.00; one year, $12.00; by mail, six months, $1.00; local, $12.00; one year, out-of-town, $12.00; daily delivery by carrier, 25 cents per week. Entered as second class matter May 21, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 6972, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-1624. Classified Dept. 48-2831. The Times accepts advertisements in forms for which it is advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 - ASSOCIATION Active Member

Be Wary

The police department announced yesterday that it was ready to give a "hot" reception to any confidence men, burglars, pilferers and those of similar ilk who seem to arrive here about the time the race tracks open up. All police officers, they report, have been alerted to be on the look-out for such characters. Coral Gables businessmen should also be alerted for another type that seems to head south about the same time—the fellow who starts within the law yet manages to trim hundreds of merchants each winter, giving them next to nothing in return. He's the fellow with the fly-by-night advertising scheme or similar promotion that begins to make his appearance about this time. He's glib and he's smooth as he sells his bill of goods, but approach them from some type of a program to schemes almost fantastic in their novelty. The coming of "the season" seems to be the signal for dozens of "publishers" of all types of guide books, folders, brochures and programs to make their appearance, all promising to start the tourist dollar rolling into local cash registers. Unfortunately the few legitimate guide book publishers suffer from his depredations. If you're in business in Coral Gables, you can rest assured that sometime soon, this type of fellow will begin to beat a path to your door. Be wary—be sure. Before spending money for something that will do you little or no good, check up on what he has to offer. Ascertain if it's a legitimate enterprise or one designed only to assure him a winter in the South. Above all, don't be afraid to tell him "No!"

OUR TOWN Jimdash By AL HARUM

It seems years and years ago since we wrote about our "cruiser" "the "Thirty" (that means "the end" in newspaper language). When the 1946 hurricane swept the "Thirty" up into the mangrove a mile and a half from Matheson Hammock Harbor we took a solemn oath (1) never to own a "cruiser" again and (2) never to write another line about the "Thirty." We also resolved never to own a boat again unless we were able to spend at least half a week aboard her at dock, polishing, and wiping, and cleaning and testing and bailing. Well, mostly we've kept our resolution. We haven't written a line about the "Thirty" until this minute and we now have a boat which we carry with us on a trailer. The name of this new amphibious marvel is the "Jimdash." A jimdash is that short line that shows up at the end of each story in your newspaper so that you know when its ended. "Jimdash" is sort of a first cousin to "Thirty." "Thirty" means the end of a telegraphic or typewritten story and the "Jimdash" means the end of the story in type. And we sincerely hope that the relationship between the "Jimdash" and the "Thirty" (God rest her soul) ends right there. The "Jimdash" is powered by an inboard, air-cooled engine and you can travel all day on a couple of gallons of gas. Well, the "Jimdash" is wonderful. It acquires no barnacles because we wash it with fresh water after every dunking. If the motor gets to missing or sputtering we drive it up to the local auto mechanic. If it needs a wiping we pull it up in the porte cochere where its shady and wipe it. We don't have to bail it because it has an automatic bailer. If we want to go fishing off Tavernier we drive down to Tavernier and slide her in. If we want to go to Shark River we drive down there and put her over. If the Bay catches our fancy a neat little derrick in Coconut Grove puts her overboard and pulls her out. For a man whose opportunities to go fishing are few and far between the "Jimdash" is just the trick. Take last Sunday for instance. We went out at 11:30 a. m., were back at 1 p. m. with two mackeral and a blue runner which we ate for dinner. Yes sir, a jimdash may end a story but it sounds like the beginning of good fun and fishing for us.

TIME TO GET SERIOUS! By Paulson

"If we don't do something about all these auto-accidents, see Congressmen will soon be running out of constituents."

It Says Here By...

They brought a monkey into the local hospital the other day suffering from sun-stroke. It was a pretty sick monkey. The medicos tried everything: oxygen, artificial respiration, everything in the book. But the monkey kept getting sicker and sicker. When it died, the people who owned it (named Hansen) carried it out of the hospital wrapped in a blanket the way it came in. They buried it yesterday. The girl who told us about it said when the monkey was brought in she thought it was a baby because of the way it was all wrapped in the blanket. Then she saw a tail hanging out of the wrappings and she knew it was a monkey. She was the saddest of all when the animal passed away. The Geoffrey Helms have a new kitten—a Tiger striped one at that. The selection was made because Geoff is a Princeton grad and is partial to anything that looks tigerish. . . . It looks like the Elks Minstrel, set for next month will be postponed. Too many other activities around Christmas time. . . . One local merchant gave a measly two bucks to the Christmas decoration fund, then when he saw the list of what his fellow businessmen were doing, he upped his ante $18 . . . Of course some people haven't given anything yet. . . . Fred Grinham the Dromists, in a "big story" soon. That's a good way to give a newspaperman nervous prostrations . . . Wonder when they're going to put the "One Way" sign up on Giralda east of Ponce. It was okayed several weeks ago . . . The Military Order of the World War has again secured the services of Col. Charles G. Mettler to do the commentary on the Army and Navy game broadcast. The colonel does a swell job of it. A girl who is one of our best news sources was called into her boss' office the other day. Her boss said: "The city editor over at the Riviera-Times spoke to me on the phone today. He said you've been giving him a lot of stories. He said you'd been very helpful." The girl thought "Pack your bags, Sally. You're out of a job again." But instead of firing her, as the girl expected, the boss said she was to get a ten dollar a week raise and keep up the good work. We hope the moral isn't lost on anyone.

Anticipation Is Major Part Of 'Big Moments' By Nancy Mottram

Looking forward to something is always a thrill, and yet there's a bit of the unknown about it. If you have something planned in the future, you can't help but be happy thinking of it, and a little afraid that maybe—just possibly—it won't be just as you imagine it. Even through the glow that the thought of an event brings, waiting is often agonizing. Father Time seems to move with lead in his sandals, and clocks just aren't on your side. During this period, you can't help but mull your plans over, plot every move, and in general, decide how you can arrange things in the best possible way. You hope against hope that nothing unlooked will happen before then. It's a time of your life that keeps you floating on a cloud. There's a little fear, too. When you want something very much, almost everyone gets the nagging feeling in the back of his brain that it won't come off just the way he wants it to. And often the situation changes. But nine times out of 10, the unexpected happenings turn out for the best, and you have more fun as a result of the change. It's silly to let little worries about a big event get you down. Nothing ever goes exactly according to schedule, and you can't fix things ahead of time anyway. By the time the long-awaited day had rolled around, all your activities would seem like old stuff, and would have lost their glory. It's better to try to take small differences in your stride, without letting little sad things set the slightest upset in your plans. The main event is the big thing. It's that affair you should concentrate on, and let the little troubles that are bound to crop up disappear without fading you. It spoils a bit of your joy to bother yourself seriously about trifles. The future always appears through a rosy haze, and there's that wonderful feeling of not knowing what it will bring. Enjoy those times to the fullest. They don't show up on your calendar often enough to regard them with a casual, bored air. Don't let your enthusiasm run away with you, but that feeling of knowing that something special is going to happen is one of the happiest moments in your life.

TALKING TURKEY Gobblers Will Be Goners When Gableites Join Kin at Groaning Thanksgiving Boards

Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Sandquist, 3010 Segovia Street, will take part in a family reunion over the Thanksgiving holidays. It will be held at the Prairie Avenue home of the C. H. W. Roads on Miami Beach beginning tomorrow and lasting through Sunday. Also present will be Commander and Mrs. R. D. McGlathery and children, Sandy and Davy, from Green Cove Springs, and Mrs. Clifton G. Bailey from Jacksonville. Mrs. Bailey is Mrs. Sandquist's sister, and Mrs. McGlathery is her daughter. Mrs. Bailey will drive down for this special occasion with the McGlatherys. They will arrive tomorrow. * * * It'll be a family affair at the Red Feather Farms when the Lebarons, Loeschers and Mahans get together for dinner Thanksgiving Day. Coming down from the University of Florida for this occasion, Donald LeBaron will join his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest LeBaron, his grandmother, Mrs. Otto Loescher, and his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Mahan for a quiet Thanksgiving celebration. * * * Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hamilton, (she was the former Patricia Paine) of Washington, D. C., will have a family dinner Thanksgiving Day. Their guests will include Mrs. Hamilton's mother Mrs. R. R. Hogan and Major Hogan of Charlottesville, Va., and Coral Gables; Mr. Hamilton's sister and brother-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Victor Alfaro, Madame Alfaro and also Dr. Alfaro of Panama. Major and Mrs. Hogan have closed their summer home 'Whitegate' in Virginia, and are en-route to their winter place at 1700 Country Club Prado. * * * Mrs. John Robert Hoehl, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Weiland, will return to Gainesville tomorrow. She came down for the Florida-Miami game and she has been visiting her parents while here. Leaving in the morning, she will get back to Gainesville in time to spend her first Thanksgiving with her husband who is attending the University of Florida. Mrs. Hoehl, the former Johanna Weiland, and John were married last June. * * * Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Shikany, and Mr. Shikany's mother, Mrs. Anna Shikany from Casper, Wyoming, will be Thanksgiving dinner guests of the George Shikany's at their home on 2300 S. W. 22nd Terrace.

REVIEWING THE NEW BOOKS By UNITED PRESS

A vivid panorama of American history in pictures and text is presented in The American Past, by Roger Butterfield (Simon & Schuster, $10). This oversized volume contains about a thousand reproductions of photographs, paintings, engravings, drawings and historic documents, many in full color. Explanatory texts tell the running story of the republic from Concord to Hiroshima, 1775-1945. As a history text book its value is debatable, but for sugar-coated instruction in highlights of American history the book is a fascinating "freedom Train." Further adventures of Alexander Botts, fabulous salesman, have been assembled by William Hazlett Upson, his creator, in a collection called Earthworms Through the Ages (Rinehart, $2.50). The title, of course, refers to Earthworm tractors, which Botts has been selling so ingeniously for, lo, these many years. It is in the usual format of correspondence between Botts and his sales manager and later president, Gilbert Henderson. There are hundreds of chuckles and outright laughs in this book. Bill Mauldin in Back Home (Sloane, $3.50) does a first-class job of telling just how he found things when he returned from the wars as a very important person. Mauldin, as fine a writer as he is a cartoonist, tells how difficult it was to readjust both his thinking, his and his cartooning for peace-time scale. He also announces that he is finished with political cartooning. From now on, he said, he will try to draw "little pictures of life in America—kids, cops and dogs" because "my radical years are almost over." Book-of-the-Month Club selection. The modern trend of making information not only easily available but palatable is strikingly reflected in the Encyclopedia Britannica's new edition of Britannica Junior. Written principally for school children, it features large type, short sentences, simple language, and plenty of illustrations, many colored. The set sells in the neighborhood of $125 to $150, depending on choice of supplementary volumes and series. Father can now find all the answers to his own questions without embarrassing Pop. And if Pop skims through these handsome volumes (15) he will be surprised to see how much he has forgotten—or never knew. GENERAL The Journals of Andre Gide, translated by Professor Justin O'Brien (Knopf, $5). First volume (1889-1913). Two additional volumes will follow. The Everglades, River of Grass, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, (Rinehart, $3.50): The history of the Florida Everglades. Untriangulated Stars, edited by Denham Sutcliffe (Harvard, $5): Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet, to his friend. The Trollope Reader, by Esther Cloudman Dunn and Marion E. Dodd (Oxford, $4.50): Introduction to or refresher course in Trollope's works. New Viking Portables ($2 each): Chekhov, edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, consists of short stories, plays and letters of Chekhov. Russian Reader—selections by Bernard Guilbert Guerney of short pieces from the writings of many famous Russian authors of past and present. Luxury editions of classics by Heritage Press: The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett; Penguin Island, by Anatole France; The Adventures of Hajji Baba, by J. J. Morier; The Book of Job in the King James Version; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., by Laurence Sterne ($5 each).

UP AND DOWN BROADWAY By JACK GAVER United Press Drama Editor

New York—(UP)—The heartiest laughter heard in a theater for quite a spell was at the opening of the Parisian singer Edith Piaf at the Playhouse. The audience wasn't laughing at Mlle. Piaf, who is in the nosey nose side, but at an act on the surrounding variety bill known as Les Compagnons de la Chanson. Les Compagnons are nine young Frenchmen in stairstep sizes and mostly in the pastry category. They sing, and very well. They also monkey around with various comical instruments, including a kettle drum. They fracture the funnybones of the spectators with parodies on choral and orchestral groups. In a sense they are a combination of a couple of acts, say, the Minnevich Harmonica Rascals without the harmonica and the Milt Britton band, but better. They are better largely because they are more subtle and display wider abilities. Mlle. Piaf has no one but herself to blame for the fact that these boys not only are on her show but that she follows them on the bill. She put them there. It is a tough act to follow, but the tiny brunette scored heavily with the first-nighters in a series of sad songs about life and frustration. She sang mostly in French, which didn't convey much to me, but it was obvious from her facial expression that her songs were of the suffering type. Her voice is a bit on the raucous side, as opposed to the gentler tones of Lucienne Boyer, yet she doesn't approach the gravel manner of our own Ethel Merman. Her gestures are economical to the point of stinginess; she just stands there calmly and lets her voice and face do the work. * * * "The First Mrs. Fraser," which St. John Ervine wrote almost 20 years ago, has been revived by Gant Gaither with Jane Cowl as star in her first local appearance in five years. I have had a pleasant memory of the original New York production, in which Grace George and A. E. Matthews had the leading roles. It was performed with just the right light touch in all departments, and the play itself was remembered as a pleasant, urbane piece about divorce in England. The revival is not nearly so appetizing. Only Reginald Mason in the secondary role of family friend seems to have the proper touch. The rest, from Miss Cowl down, are out of key or so much deadwood. I cannot believe that the script itself has dated to the point where it would be impossible for any cast to make it good entertainment. Others in the cast include Henry Daniell, Lex Richards, Emily Lawrence, Kendall Clark and Frances Tannehill.

SHORT QUIRKS Gets $20 Lesson

Pittsburgh, (UP)—A smartly-dressed woman entered the beauty shop where Mildred Wampler worked and identified herself as a sister of Miss Wampler's fiance. She said she needed $20 and her brother had suggested borrowing it from Miss Wampler. A much wiser Miss Wampler discovered later her fiance has no sister. Red Book Grows New York, (UP)—The New York Telephone Co. has distributed a new Manhattan "Red Book" largest classified directory ever published in the United States. The book has 1,865 pages and weighs five pounds. It includes 260,500 listings. About 590,000 copies were distributed. Atomics Improve Cattle Chicago, (UP)—Radioactive tracers are paving the way for healthier livestock in the atomic age. Scientists in the Institute of Radiology and Biophysics, one of three institutes in the University of Chicago's $12,000,000 nuclear research program, report it is now possible to learn how copper and cobalt influence the growth of pastures and cattle grazing there. With tracers scientists can follow these minerals from the grass right through the cow's digestive and circulatory systems. Penalty Fits Crime Cheyenne, Wyo. (UP)—Juvenile Judge A. J. Williams decided that four 11-year-old boys who think it's fun to turn in false fire alarms need to learn how a fire department works. He ordered the four boys to report to the fire chief daily for 10 days to do odd jobs about the fire house for one hour each day. Jobless But Happy Bloomington, Ind. (UP)—A radio manufacturing firm here gave Robert E. Kelly $500 for a suggestion that eliminated the job of storekeeper in the plant. Kelly was the storekeeper. Schools Make Houses Humboldt, Ia. (UP)—Some people in Humboldt County are solving their housing problems by buying abandoned rural school houses. Five rural schools in Grove Township have been sold at auction, at prices ranging from $375 to $975. Family Runs to Twins Glenford, Ohio (UP)—Mrs. Charlotte Ridenour believes her family may have set a record. She has twin sons, twin grandchildren and two sets of twin great-grandchildren.

Food for Thought

Mrs. Orrin M. Clark of Deerfield Beach is a veteran campaigner against status quo in the kitchen. She became mighty annoyed that pumpkin traditionally appeared on the table on 75 of the year—Thanksgiving and Christmas—and then at the tag end of dinner in a pie. The lady took steps. The result was creamy, golden "Pumpkin Bisque" that goes to the head of the menu and head-of-the-class too. Scald, pare and cut a small pumpkin into pieces. Boil in salted water until tender; drain; and whip to mush in the electric mixer. Using a heavy hand on the butter, make a rich but not too thick cream sauce. Combine mashed pumpkin and sauce, stir well. Just before serving add two tablespoons of cooking sherry and top with croutons.

Wear the Length That Suits Your Personality

"Utter nonsense!" Billee White tossed her head in an emphatic gesture that sent tawny blonde curls flying and set gold earrings jangling. "Don't let anyone tell you that you MUST wear your hemlines 14 or 12 or 14 inches from the ground!" The smart young Gables stylist gave her own 14-inch skirt an impatient flounce. (On her, it looks good!) "People make me so darned mad when they say belligerently 'What about these long skirts?'" she admitted. "The word is 'longer'—but how much longer should be determined solely by height, weight, contours and personality of the individual." As manager and buyer for Alice-Kay, Ltd., on Miracle Mile, Miss White several times a year is faced with the job of selecting new fashions that South Florida women will want to wear four to six months hence. She's already had a peek at 1948 resort, Spring and Summer designers-originals—and this time her job was a cinch. "Never before have women been offered such a range and variety of breath-taking clothes—or such an opportunity to express their own personalities within the latest trend," she said. The trend is toward even more lavish use of yardage and materials for both daytime and evening wear, Miss White reported. "It's the natural reaction of women everywhere to want a complete reversal from the no-hem, no-pleat, no-seam clothes imposed by wartime regulations," she said. "And right there you have the simple explanation for the new lengths to which fashions are going!"

MRS. F. IRENE SEARS Announces THE RE-OPENING OF The Green Candle Tea Room 53 SILVER BLUFF

THIS EVENING AT 5:30 SPECIAL THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER Served from 12 Noon to 8:30 P. M. $2.50

Col. Glomb Returns To Army Post

Lieut.-Col. F. F. Glomb Jr., son of Mr. F. F. Glomb, of 702 Cutler Road, has returned to Andrews Field, Washington, D. C., where he is permanently stationed. Both Colonel Glomb and his wife have been in Selma, Ala., for the past several months, where the colonel has been on army assignment.

FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS SEE LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR

2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586

Miss Cannady Host

Miss Jeanette Cannady, 2118 Hibiscus Avenue, Coconut Grove, will be hostess to the Y. W. A. of the University Baptist church tonight at their general meeting beginning at 7:30 p. m.

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