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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Thursday, December 18, 1947, page 5 (of 12)
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CORAL GABLES— JUBILEE BLUBBER
By CORDON TAYLOR "Dear Gordon: With an icebag and a towel over my head (for quieting the confusion of my thoughts), I want to express as best I can the heartfelt appreciation due you, your wonderful, capable staff, and all those extra special members I worked with on the Glamour Fashion Show you requested. "When I said, 'Okay, I'll take the chairmanship of just two shows,' there was no way of my telling what kind of a response I'd get from my fellow members. Now I know. "The way Our Gang pitched in and started to work, taking any job assigned to them from the lowliest to the highest, with nairy a complaint, makes me feel, now that it is all over, all Xmasy inside. Monday night at dress rehearsal you saw how diligently each member of the cast worked ... each contributing his or her part so willingly. Even guests in the audience caught their enthusiasm and spirit. Special Laurels "Right here I'd like to pass out special laurels to my committee, the 'faithfulls' from the beginning: Ginny Woodward, Willa Robinson, Marge Gabriel, Jackie Pierce, Eunice Halifax, Helen Holley, Mary Moore, Marge Cann, Charlotte Holcraft (what a lightening job Charlotte did on the choral group), and Helen Pennock, bless her for holding down three jobs at once; to the lovely, lovely models and their husbands for overlooking a dirty run of dishes in the sink these past few weeks. The pleasure of working with Penn Pennock, Bob Crawford, busy men like Sid Cusack, Joe Mack, Dick Twentyman, Ernie Edwards, Bob McCoy, George Nichols, Lloyd Lysinger and others too numerous to mention, but not forgotten! "Well, that kind of spirit is what makes our club tick! Last, but not least, loads of thanks to the merchants for their one hundred per cent cooperation. They helped with us so closely, Gordon, the Fashion Committee offers to meet of them by their first names. A big cheer to all!!! "And now - the icebag has slipped, my eyes are closing, thanks for having your letter opener handy so I could express my sincere appreciation and admiration for all! Billie Harting" It is hard to say, Billie, just what the difference is between the CHARTS and an ordinary person, but once again you demonstrated your unbounded ability to come out on top of anything you tackle. On behalf of us hundreds who attended the show, we all thank you for the splendid entertainment. May the party you guys so rightly deserve bring peace and happiness to all. Date Changed The Junior Dance originally set for next Monday has been changed to this coming Friday, December 19, that, the schedule is the same: Youth Party Saturday PM; the Children's Party Sunday afternoon; Sylvia Furlong's Christmas Pageant Sunday night in the ball room at 9 PM; Employee's party Monday afternoon at 5 PM; the Xmas dance and buffet dinner (Food chicken) Xmas Eve; and that big eggnog party Xmas Day. What a calendar! Don't forget that pageant Sunday night, Sylvia is working mighty hard to give you a show that you will thoroughly enjoy. It, like the Fashion Show, is without precedent, and your reception of it is the determining factor in planning future parties for our future programs. Please remember that we want your reservations as early as possible. Try and make allowance for our errors here and there, as you can be assured we are TRYING. Tournaments and Trophies are having another meeting this coming Thursday night to keep alive our planning for the future. Great things came from that committee, and, although Rome was not built in a day, they put in some ground work that will endure through the ages. Monday Duplicate winners were Mrs. Mead Beebe and Mrs. Katherine Rhoads tying with Cy Washburn and Thomas Nawn (N-S); and Mrs. Wallace Foulks and Mr. Dwight Oxon (E-W). Tuesday contract winner was Mrs. Roy Wilson and Friday Contract was Mrs. Thomas Tawes. Thursday Duplicate winners were Mr. Walter Shields and Mrs. Annabel Wilson. We on the staff have the potent wish that some bright member will invent a pill that will permit us to sleep while going through the motions of automatons. MERRY CHRISTMAS. Club Events Thursday, Dec. 18 - Family Style Dinner; Duplicate Bridge, Card Room, 1:15 p.m.; Chamber of Commerce, Civic Room 12:15 p.m.; Metropolitan Life Dinner Dance, Ballroom 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19 - Contract Bridge, Card Room 8:00 p.m.; Rotary Club Luncheon, Civic Room 12:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20- Club Dance, Patio 9 to 1 a.m.; Youth Party 10-14 Years Sat. p.m. Patio. Sunday, Dec. 21 - Children's Party - Ages to 10 - Sun. p.m. Patio; Dinner and Dinner Music, 7 to 9 p.m.; Christmas Pageant, Ballroom 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22 - Duplicate Bridge, Card Room 8:00 p.m.
Housing Shortage Recalls Similar State In Bethlehem Many Years Ago
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN UP Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. (UP) - It's nearly Christmas, all right. Elevator operators have their gimme boxes out. Lady reporters are interviewing the wives of prominent men, asking 'em what they are going to give their husbands. The price of egg-nogg materials, including the eggs, is up. The butcher told my bride he couldn't offer her an estimate yet on the cost per pound of her turkey. Congress, which just had a vacation, is figuring on knocking off again tomorrow for two weeks. President Truman is getting ready to light his Christmas tree Saturday night and such a commotion is his back yard you never did see; Carpenters building phoney red candles, painters tinting green the speakers' stand, electricians snaking cables across the dead grass. The cops have chased the photographic Santa Clauses off F Street. The new model Christmas lamps give bubbles. For the first time in my life I'm getting a free tree; chopping down same from my south pasture. To Sing Carols Charley W. Tobey, the good grey senator from New Hampshire, will sing Christmas carols as usual in the New England snow. He has reminded his colleagues meantime that history still repeats itself; many years ago, he told them, a housing shortage forced a mother to cradle her infant in a barn. In a town called Bethlehem. Now many a child, he said, is glimpsing its first starlight through the window of a quonset hut. There has been a scarcity of wise men in these parts lately, however, while the nearest thing to frankincense available is a $135-per-ounce fluid called allure. Say Jingle Bells A large consignment of Japanese jingle-bells has arrived for sale, but I regret to report they are as flimsy as ever; it's odd how those Japs can't manufacture anything that doesn't crumble when touched. The Germans are something else; their toys this year are enough to make your eyes bulge. Particularly their miniature automobiles, which race across the dining room table- and turn around when they reach the edge. The U.S. Army of the Occupation came up with one Christmas scheme too late. It chopped the price of Jap silk in half, but this won't reach ladies' nightgowns until next year. Buy your wife a good silk gown for Thursday next and it'll set you back $50. No Wired Poems The Western Union telegraphers are figuring on going on strike in time to ruin the Christmas poetry-by-wire business. I hate to see a gent jobless at Christmas, but I can get along without the staff poet's canned sentiments. Also talking pre-Christmas strike are the cooks at the government cafeterias. I doubt if any federal clerk will mourn the lack of the traditional 50-cent Christmas Eve lunch of coolish turkey with a dab of cranberry sauce in a paper cup. Not many federal stenographers will be here a week from today anyhow. They've saved time off and, like the lawmakers, are hitching Nellie to the sleigh. The railroads and airlines are swamped with reservations out of Washington. The town ought to be a nice, peaceful place for a few days. One other thing: If Christmas is here, can the bargain sales in the department stores be far away? This year, unfortunately, they can. Because why should a storekeeper slash prices in January when he's dead certain they're going up again in February? That's the way it is, fellows. Might as well spend our money now as later.
Hint on Addressing Christmas Cards
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)-Alexander W. Graham, Kansas City postmaster, thinks it's about time the waste of Christmas greeting cards is ended. During the Christmas mail rush, millions of Christmas card envelopes are so poorly addressed that the department cannot deliver them. Graham estimated that about one-half of one per cent of about 2,500,000,000 letters and Christmas cards mailed in December will be undelivered. With help from the mailers of those cards, he said, the efficiency could be 100 per cent. He pointed out that a simple transposition of numerals in an address can toss a card into the dead letter office. The 1 1/2-cent postage make a card third-class mail, not entitled to directory and change of address services, he said. A third pitfall is that business of addressing a card to a street address "city." Such a card may be thrown into the wrong pouch and end up in Los Angeles. Even with 3-cent mail and directory service, the Los Angeles postoffice can do little about it.
Show Must Go On
WINDSOR, Vt. (UP) - The show must go on-even in prison. An inmate at Vermont state prison asked that his scheduled release be delayed two weeks so he could appear as a drummer in the prison minstrel show, "Stars in Stripes."
Girls Snicker But Male Veterans Take Class in Cooking Seriously
CARTHAGE, Ill. (UP)-When the Carthage College cooking class began this fall, the girls snickered as four ex-GIs answered the roll call. But the boys were serious. All four had seen their share of battles, both in World War II and on the football field. None thought there was anything effeminate about the study of foods. Miss Eileen Watt, the professor, began by teaching them the art of baking biscuits and muffins. Now they are turning out sponge cakes. All four take great pains with their creations, she said. Bob Dolan, sophomore from Keokuk, Ia., wants to be a foods instructor and is working toward a major in home economics. Dolan was a Navy cook for three years. He tried to enroll in the home economics clothing class, but they wouldn't let him because dress fitting is done before students. The school will have to construct private fitting rooms before male students can enroll in the class. Sherman Stevenson, former staff sergeant in the air forces, who served four years in the European theater, is another member of the male cooking contingent. He weighs 195 pounds and plays tackle on the Carthage varsity. He is majoring in physical education. Stevenson said he was learning a lot about cooking "that the army never taught me." Paul Cooper, third member of the cooking class was a Navy mess chief for three years, part of the time on Okinawa. Cooper, who pitched for the Carthage baseball team last season, said the Navy "gives you a general idea of cooking, but the foods course develops the finer points." Bill Bradley, 160-pound quarterback, said his appetite was whetted during 11 lean months in a Nazi prison camp. Bradley, a physical education major, said that he was taking cooking "to enhance my appreciation of it." He is married, but he said he doesn't experiment in his own kitchen. "My wife took this course last year," he said. Almond trees provide one of our most tasty delicacies and one of our most poisonous chemicals. The oil of the bitter almond is the source of deadly hydrocyanic (or prussic) acid.
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