Andover Townsman, 12/5/1946
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
ted with that • thday 64 a. EEKS Andover's Own Weekly Newsmagazine hestra minimum. oret)ei TH AVENUE xi 2700 c, ;ram sec- iven. give rvice s re- :Wed Ares „de —14NollOgr :lars, IJ- stors !and Won't Be Long Now December 5, 1946 — 5 Cents urn. (Because of the embargo caused by the coal strike, the cut for this week's cover had not arrived at press time. Santa agreed to substitute.) "SI SUTHERLAND'S -'--- LAWRENCE Sur of war, persons find wi once be • side . Post-wi center • to revil • • silk ? T • • Drue Tt • Club la: • • terest t • Blon • wife of • Paris ec • • Tribune • war-tim She , • • is the h country ence, wh one fifth belongs • possible • • the who • Mrs. • • every da distribut areas. N buy new no electr the radio the newt In Fi people ar J.I' ry a the f o one al ners are c CHRIST Sure, the in 1944 an( different, aNaLinlraalrevaIdNmyady a adc b finding out. It must I: ted that A A Gift from Na v y h ; breaks in hlouavt re so many! y Such pretty things ... and and 1945. E Gifts of distinction that will make the war e pleasant check - marks by every was a ne% Aft er name on your giving-list. Gifts for one knows everyone on that giving-list in one, ,Atet ) ttd,19 va a hr sa big Christmas Store. So easy . so ments offer pleasant to tie packages of Christ- Army and 1 lures. mas Cheer from Sutherland's. Your Christmas Store BY indue, thing more mean direct from $5,000 1 or less. Ti poorer kids better footb; TO 'PHONE SUTHERLAND'S CALL ANDOVER 300 • NO TOLL CHARGE Star loon] are going to strict disci', help. They ; "SPIRIT OF SURVIVAL" STRONG IN FRANCE Survival . the return of prisoners and other products possible, hoping to and one who escaped to Dunkirk, later of war, labor deportees, and displaced get a large tourist trade next summer. going to Africa to join General de persons. From their exile they return to Gaulle's Free French forces. He was find what occupation has done to the The whole country is on very tight ra- once beautiful and prosperous country- tions so that there will be more for the killed in Syria just before the Vichy side . beginnings of rehabilitation. tourists. Army surrendered to the Free French Post-war life in Paris . once style Very active in the tuberculosis drive at Damascus. He had walked out to take center of the world. What is being done in France, she states that many thou- the Vichyites' surrender and, turning to revive industries . wine, cheese, sands of men and children who have around, was shot in the back. silk ? These topics were the basis of been released from prison camps have Dure in the meantime had been Drue Tartiere's lecture to the November such a low resistance that there is a broadcasting regularly to the Americas Club last Monday, which proved of in- very high tuberculosis percentage. The . moving with the French Government terest to all those present. adults are allowed two months time to as the Germans advanced. Soon after Blonde and fragile in appearance, the get back on their feet, and after that the German occupation, she rented a wife of Editor Geoffrey Parsons of the time they must take either a part-time small farm house near Barbizon, and be- Paris edition of the New York Herald or full-time job. This is made necessary came an active member of one of Tribune amazed her audience with her by the overcrowded condition of the France's most efficient underground war-time experiences. sanatariums. units. Arrested, interned and condemned She pointed out that in France there Mrs. Parsons, who plans to return to die, she was released through a dra- is the largest Communist party of any to France soon, has a colorful back- matic ruse, with an official but false country not under direct Russian influ- ground. Born Dorothy Blackman, she document establishing her as a harm- ence, which at the last elections received spent her childhood in Wisconsin and less, dying woman. While reporting reg- one fifth of all votes. All labor in France Mexico. After study in California and in ularly to the Gestapo, she continued her belongs to one trade union, and it is Switzerland, she embarked on a career underground activities, becoming known possible to call a general strike across as actress, taking the stage name of as the "Darling of the 8th Air Force." the whole country in two hours. Drue Leyton. In Hollywood, she was the During 1943 and 1944 she managed the Mrs. Parsons told her audience that heroine of the Charlie Chan series of escape of thirty-two Allied fliers shot every day a Russian influenced paper is movies. down over France. distributed free to the farmers of some In London in 1938, she married the After the day of liberation, Drue areas. Men who scarcely can afford to French actor-producer, Jacques Tartiere. made a flying visit to the United States buy newspapers, or whose houses have While lunching with her husband near in the spring of 1945 on a speaking tour no electricity, so they cannot listen to Marseilles on that fateful day in Sep- for the United States Army Air Forces the radio, thus do not hear all sides of tember, 1939, a radio blared the news and the Treasury Department. Her home the news. that France was at war. All plans can- is in France, and there she will con- In France, says Mrs. Parsons, the celled, Jacques joined his regiment. He tinue her work, helping with the tragic people are trying to save all the wheat was a lieutenant with the French Army, problems of rehabilitation. in following a pitch that far. the United States—the cash comes The Way of the Mob first. Ted is a great swinger, but even (To Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and the greatest need a little more time This applies to both coaches and Eddie Arcaro) to get the bat under way with full players. Unfortunately, the world All you who get the cheering power back of the motion. wrecking war also tore a heavy gash And the plaudits from the mob, A pitch two inches off the plate is into sportsmanship, the old idea of Who shrink because they bawl you Just as easy to hit as one over the a "fair field and no favor, may the Out upon some off-day job, corner. best man win.". Who scowl because they call you But any way you look at it, Wil- Sportsmanship is now a word you names liams dropped a bundle of prestige find in the dictionary. That no one likes to hear, since the slump overtook him back IT IS my belief that after 1946. Who keep the welkin ringing from In early September. It carried right Army and Navy will fade out of Football's Top Target The hoarse hoot to the cheer, on to the end of the season, and the football picture, as far as win- When you've piled up a long string Who build you up and knock you the world series. The boos sound. ners are concerned. of consecutive victories over a peri- down, ed particularly bitter in his ears. it Sure, they had all the best of it od of two and a half seasons, you From here to kingdom come, is reported. Well itiot's the a..' in 1944 and 1945. But 1946 will be mow what you are in football Remember as the game goes on— in, sports-- and e different, as Navy You are the top target of the year. They never boo a bum. already has found 'he one they all want to knock over. out and Army is especially the one who will get there I've heard them hiss Hans Wagner finding out. 'first with the blackjack or the club And I've heard them snarl at It must be admit- Cobb, Week after week, they were all ted that Army and I've heard them holler "Take him OIL and titer Army. First it was villa- Navy had the out," lova, then Oklahoma, Cornell and breaks in the two With Matty on the job. Michigan. Then came Columbia, war years of 1944 I've heard them curse when Ruth nuke, West Virginia and thc ONLY OIL and 1945. But when .ial test with Notre Dame. Penn- struck out— the war ended. it With the same type .%I Aida and the Nay ,•1.1sh will end Or Speaker missed a play. was a new story. For 40 years I've heard them rkl, of service that always After 1946 every he fray. other, run The heroes of their day. one knows Army Most of the two, three comes from special- Grantland Klee mil lour deep. Arno runs less than I've heard their roaring welcome any Navy won't Switch to something worse than tva deep. Non e Dame rims dent). izing in a single have a chance against the induce hum, r thanall the ollon s, three and ments offered all over the map But Eddie. Ted and Joe, get this- commodity. tour deep. Army and Navy can't match these They never boo a bum. lures. But they still can play only 11 By inducements I mean some• men at a time. This is something of Ted Williams could never hit hi.. thing more than scholarships I a fallacy in this modern game, earlier stride after Labor I/0 ANDOVER mean direct pay, which may range where they wear out quicker than A good point was made in sug from $5,000 to $10,000 a season.