Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1940 — Page 15

MONDAY, JULY 29, 1940 x == THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES . PAGE 15 SERIAL STORY— | FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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3 COMPARED WITH SOME OF THE JOBS T HAVE SUPERVISED! ONE DOESN'T ag : wan IN EXCAVATING SOME ANCIENT RUING |N EGYPT WE EASE UP ON i hy, 0) ONCE DUG A HOLE G0 LARGE THAT THE FINE STEAM THE FENCE, Theater 3 SUPPLY on AD GHOVELS WORKING ON THE PROJECT BECAME pion | WE'RE GONNA | x ROOM mh AT oo LOST AND IT TOOK A SEARCIAING PARTY Zz WHAT SAY? PY HAVE YO EAL 98%, 5 TWO DAYS TO ROUND THEM UP/wumn Z¢IM A BT SHOVEL HIM BY MILDRED Wikiiamrs; “5 | aw WH Sd 7 THEREAFTER THEY COMMUNICATED OUT WITH THE CHAPTER ONE | Eat Pa ve 30M WITH ONE OTHER

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Jean Reynold's last letter. He took it out and read it again, | trying to form in his mind a polite | reply, something saying firmly that he thought she was a swell girl but | that they had hoth better give up the idea of orange blossoms, wedding bells, and a two-room apartment in Boston. He would tell her he intended spending the summer on the Cape, keeping shop for his friend, Ned Walters, while Ned was ' in Canada.

But Jean's impulsive, upright Scrawl staring up at him from the beautifully monogrammed stationery didn't help matters: BY FF ; x “Darling,” he read, “What on = 7 j Nz) AN (J THE. GARDEN earth happened? Dad is eins (RE ¥ NT Re - THIS MORNING = ~ oh Jobs, he says, don’t grow on bushes. TLE LY : 3 . . RL Not one 1940 graduate in 700 could | of = : oS - ¥ a = COPR: 1OAL BY WER SERVICE. MIC. THE SMOOTH TASTE it 3

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have walked into a job as good as !| 1 \ the one he offered vou. But you A > » ; ~By Al Capp don’t have to take his old job, if you ‘ don’t want to. I told him so. Go- : ————————————— , —— —— ing to bat for you as usual. I love; 1] ! ny SO a o, for you to leave | “Life sentence, eh? . , . Try on this 30-pants suit!” HEARS IT OUT. - GARSON HAPPY A GUN Z7—- | Pp DID NOW YO 'LL without a word to me. That hurt, . . i — ; , M ' DONE APMITTED bay” IT'S q KNOW WHICH truly it did. . .” -) SCREAMIN/ HN ITs EY E £ 15 R Johnny crumpled the note and | HOLD EVERYTHING . \ IN as . J ONE threw it into the empty grate. He | Y 7 3 wi BLACK went to the door of his shop and| r r

looked out on the clean strip of | rm : : . : : = A “Ne AHM COMIN blue sea before him, watched the | : : ~ 4 . a \ gril 2

eee | gulls dipping like graceful waves in | CASHIER the sky. Why had he come to Cape | | i] chicken

Cod, of all places? : SANDWICH $ Memories of the Reynolds’ cottage| | 204 $

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with roses looking as beautifully un-| i real as a stage set, roses sprawling] | over the gateway and down the wall. Jean Reynolds, her brown legs trotting after him as they trudged over the wet sands. | Jean had always made him feel important and infallible. When her | father had brought her the nobbiest |

sailboat, she had murmured, “I! |: ; > I C _— —By Fred Harman wouldn't dare go out alone, Johnny. : y | RED RYDER

Always go with me, please.” : \ : - COME ON OUT, BOSS! AND I'LL BLAST YEAH? WELL, DON'T SHOOT, BOYS) PSST/--= WHAT DO And so they had plaved and | / Log H WE'RE GETTIN’ TH' 6 ANY BODY THAT I'M CALLIN® -=YOU'LL PLUG ME /# li ) CARE Spur Ju Bos railed and dug in the sand, until] : I KNOWING GOLD SHIPMENT/ : \ TRIES dha YOUR HAND / f : WE CLD suddenly they were grown up. He| f:\ - ; THE! : : . was at Harvard and she was stand- | = a = Lg ing with him on the bank of the] pS Charles, watching their sculls nose out a win. She was dancing with him at a prom, her pretty face up- : of - 2 ; | turned to his. She was saying as| To i bo i CITY STAGE, they walked out into the moon-| : Lid } UNAWARE light, “Why is everything I do with : di RES AVDER you such fun, Johnny?” And be- 1S ALSO cause the moon was pointing its] of A silver finger from behind the ivy- A af ; PASSENGER. covered corner of a building, mak-| : ; ing a fairyland of the whole vard he had answered, "IT feel the same I~ Ny ean He nad pissed Une small) ; 3 : 7-28 - _— 5 gr ; 7-27 corm ian av NEA SERVICE, INC. TM BEG. U8 PAT OFF AAG

» » » s A | . —By Bushmiller a= —— Ee 7.20 SHE HAD LOOKED UP at him COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE INC. 7. M. REG. U.S PAT. OFF ce - : ’ > / mr | {H - ace : =Z ‘es . ZA ne I 22720 [ \ with shining eyes, “Oh, Johnny, | “The top slip is the hill—the other one shows the number of calories ER. WHERE'S F BE 5S OUT IN THE WATER ZA HWM IT'S 7 [Lymn |

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this is what I've hoped for. And | and vitamins in your lunch. YER AUNT UT SHE'S OUT BEYOND KINDA WARM 7 =1

on our wedding day I want you FRITZ! ? YOUR DEPTH, SO YOU'RE A TODAY --- WILL and a prayer hook and the cameo.” | = - .

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session of her family, was a priceless bit of stone and gold fashioned by artists. And Jean wanted Johnny and the cameo on her wedding day. Standing in the doorway of his shop, decorated so festively with its strings of lacquered gourds, Johnny hated himself He wanted love, but a love more sweeping than the mere comfort he felt in Jean's presence. Once she had said, “Love comes in like the tide.” He wanted a love to come in that way, sweepingly and overpoweringly. The bell on the handle of his

shop door jangled and he walked i A MAN Ws <7) (EXACTLY! AND _/ PERWAPS ( SHHH! SOME ONE | PREPARE (OTTO! THAT AIRPLANE PILOT! I AM SUSPICIOUS to Qoeet 2 Susiomer, ; | | WAT 00 YoU SEE ON THE THIRD FLOOR/ FIELD GLASSES. | Ei I DISCOVER’ | THERE 1S 1S COMING UP THE |FOR TROUBLE / WARES JHE INKS HY So MNS SLEEP Da ie Prlteianally OF THE BUILDING ACROSS THE ME WAS WATCHING | || A RADIO SPEAKER | A TRAITOR DUMBWAITER WRONG? { DURING THE Daw, SUT I | > 2 o , S ING OUTSIDE oO / smiled > pr me—— THIS WINDOW AND HANGING ODTSID IN OUR : 4 ENGL SH

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had known he and Jean were : : ; LE a 7 CLOSING IN! washed up! This was the girl he A / Nr . 4. kn NS or had known in his dreams, a tall : == i y < i blond reed of a girl. He watched her as she roamed ebout the shop, reading the rhymes he'd written for his wares. He watched her and wondered where | she belonged in Capetown's assort- £ ment of summer people. The tide |ZF44 f 4 2 had come in, as Jean had predicted. iz 7 }, i 3 He was in love. : BY NEA SERVICE, INC. EES 7 oo A, CC — : ‘Anything in particular you| ee a 4 iis g i , Blosser wanted to see? Johny asked. "| “Oh, boy! Ts that goat seared!” FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS : al ae ; , and no,” she glanc at | - Johnny, and he noted that her eyes | a r LOOKING FOR MR. BING © TOO [we CAME uP 2) NC avee his SyeLL > were the deep blue of violets. “I 1S ---- J pu HERE WITH THE TS THE MAN HEARS want to borrow an old lamp for THIS CURIOUS WORLD BAD HE LOST HIS JOB 1 Guess Te /

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we borrow, It'll be good advertis-| HO } - - gi.” ER Ly 5) NEN “Oh, that part's all right. We| ) 3 — r F355 & = “i I Cape Codders are used to turning ry A 3 bY Sew RS everything over, lock, stock and [FJ TY AR A DRAGONFLY [Il barrel, for stage sets in summer] VAR MAY SPEND ihe You're with the theater. You see! ) : : EN THREE YEARS IM it's settled.” : 3 “i IN THE WATER She sat down on the old sea a 1 BEFORE chest in front of the window, X 5 EMERGING AS AN Her laugh belonged to Johnny's | . be ALRNAL INSECTS dream, a deep, melodious sound of rr: 3 bells ringing : In. BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES Sorry.” she =aid, “but I'm a win- A dow display somewhere else, That's what summer theaters are. Showcases where producers from New! York can come down to look over BN new shows and new talent.’ { : ‘Are you new talent?” Johnny | asked her. With one of Carter Earl's apprentices he might have | a chance; with actresses from Broadway the answer to summer romancing was usually, “No dice.” “You've been reading my mail | I'm new to them, but I'm not new, really. I'm Hayes, I'm Cornell, I'm Hepburn, But I'll have to prove | vi

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