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CENTURIES (T HAS BEEN A HALLMARK OF OUR FAMILY wv IN FACT MENTION |5 MADE. OF IT IN THE z . ALMANAC DE GOTHA , WHEREIN OUR LINEAGE AND COAT \OF ARMS ARE DESCRIBED wr HAR-RUMPH/ 2 wan NOW A LITTLE WHILE AGO A PAPER BAG OF WATER : m DESCENDED ON MY HEAD, DROPPED FROM AN UpgISRS WINDOW EGAD, yNDLY REMEMBER THAT EVEN HOOPLE = HOSPITALITY CAN BE (7 ( Wy STRAINED TO THE ; 3 BREAKING POINT/ ww AND GIVE ME BR. MY HAT /

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{ YESTERDAY: Joe begs Sue Mary to give up her job and new friends, settle down and marry him. But she isn't ready for marriage. When Natalie suggests that they share an apartment, Sue Mary is moving in before she knows it. And she likes keeping house.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN LIFE IN. THE new apartment settled down. Joe came back from | his vacation and she had to face | the issue. “I simply couldn't stand that hal’ ‘ bedroom any longer,” she told him |g | while he listened, his face an expressionless blank. “After all, I : spend so much time with Natalie down at the hall, and I work with [3

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Vera, who is Natalie's best friend—" .. “And you go around with Nick, [§ who is the fourth in the quartet,” | Joe added quietly. | She flushed. “He's a friend of | mine, of course. They all are. 2 “And I'm tired of hearing you | say that they are Reds. | If you

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knew how silly that sounds. Just ‘because they paint. and write, and WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY are interested in politics you make . them sound crazy. Good heavens, [21 they aren't any more Red than I wpphis apartment is a real bargain . . . here’s a passage that leads into L I .

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am— , e. : i ; 2 Ti as i | your neighbor’s refrigerator!” losing our American freedom. | “The YP group is truly AmeriFi} can, Joe. Just because they aren't| J | blind to the mistakes being made here, and because they see the good in some other forms of gov- | ‘3 ernment, you — and others who | . # don't know the Youth [Progress AJAX : platform—say it's Red, or its Nazi. | How silly—" NATIONAL © “You're learning the lesson,” Joe gaid. He was taking her to a ball game | end he wore his team uniform. Joe : was a member of the plant nine and £ today two of the departments were bd | playing a sandlot game. : Sue Mary sat. oh the grass with wives and children watching the; § game. She couldn't let Joe know | ‘ just how much he upset her when : | he criticized the YP group. | He and these boys and men were Americans, too. That was what confused her. How could two such groups. both American, have such entirely different standards? All she had to fall back on was the léssons that Vera and Nick and Natalie had taught her. These people were workers, blinded, underprivileged. downtrodden and stupid. They had to be helped since they didn’t know how to help themselves. |’ Around her welled the traditional American baseball spirit. “Hit the old horsehide,” yelled little Tommy Slovack. “Strike ’'im out! Kill the umpire!” screamed. good-

natured .Mrs. Mahoney. It was like being back in a re- | i i i mote but familiarly dear past. Like SOME. 1140 SY NIA SIAVICE INC. TM MG, U. J, PAT. OOF. i high school days in Springville, of where no one thought of saving the . workers, or safeguarding American t ideals from warmongers. munitions | makers, capitalists. Where everyone knew his neighbor and went to the polls to vote for the candidate because he was a man they had all ¥ known for years and years, and be- | cause he was honest.

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IT WAS IN THAT mood that she teft Joe that evening and went back to the apartment. . She felt clean and healthy with the wind and the ; sun lingering in her hair and on \ her face, and the voice of the fans i {

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ringing in her ears. Sitting there on the grass after the game, eating some of the peanut butter sandwiches Mrs. Mahoney had insisted she share, and drinking beer that Joe had brought along, she had captured again that feeling of family untiy, of safety. She climbed the stairs to the apartment. The door was open so the cross-ventilation could cocl off _the room and Sue Mary heard Vera and Natalie talking.

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Suddenly she wished she was back in her old room. Back where “could settle these doubts, these conflicting ideas alone. started.” Vera's voice. came to Sue Mary against the background of “With the mother-in-law’s photo in the center, I can hit the bull’swith that fool Ross Clark Jr. : “Of course I'll use him, Il find] THIS CURIQUS WORLD in going to that office to work. And it’s fortunate that he's simple do, but we must consider every 1 ~ 771 , angle. I'll pump him, and do as] [1 ? ee LT [_/ oo ‘tened to those voices from a long ‘distance. But they were real. They “You may be able to handle your “ AS work. I don’t doubt but that you ) Then it sobered. “But remember this. Nick is a MEN’S i qust because of the work. I've 8.3 POUNDS. ; « watched his face when he's not “on- ’ Maybe he’s tired of our sort. Maybe he’s had too much feminine intelli#8 8 | : z Mary tried to get her thoughts in } - crder, but her mind was as helpless 3 “She’s pretty. I suppose you've } motrea thet” Nelle sia st Ist © oom © {TD ‘I've seen him react to that. Nick ANSWER—Ro : : R—Rock doves, unlike clay pigeons, i always has wanted to be needed,| haunt the rocky coast of Europe, and are the I hey

she knew no one, but where she could have privacy. where she “Well, I'm not worried. And I'm not going to let you get me music from the radio. “He's no eye every time!” § more serious with her than I am : out everything I can. That was _ the plan in the beginning; I mean " enough to be interested in me. 777 771 Te 1 don’t know how much good he'll He much undercover investigating as 1 can without tipping my hand. © » ‘ «And as for Nick—well, I know §, he's doing the same thing. It's not serious.” gt ; SUE MARY leaned back against the wall. Her mind refused to tunc.tion. It seemed that she had lis- \ N were the voices of girls she Knew, worked with, called her iriends. ° 2 QS can play this Clark guy for all he’s Worth.” Natalie's voice was amused. 4 man with emotions, with a heart.| CLOTHING 4 and I tell you he’s not doing all this] WEIGHS ABOUT scious of anything but her. When |. ‘she’s there, he goes into a fog. gence and wants a little oldfashioned feminine love.” - THE RADIO played on and th voices stopped for a while. Sue as her body. She knew she couldn't ya 1 tras have moved if anyone came along. WEST INDIES ISLANDS “A man would notice it long before| AAOUNTA you would. And rather helpless. IN RANGE. and this is a natural.” . mestic pigeons «0ld-fashionea feminine love,” Foe pigeons. ob. er

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hysteria, you can't tell me but that heaven's sake try not to worry me these big guys aren’t making money | about his falling in love with that hand over fist. It would help the|little innocent.” party to uncover a little dirty work between the politicians and our big y (Te Be Continued) businegsmen, dint 1t would mean our (All events, names and characters-in this candiwite would walk in oflice. story are fictitiou :

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