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MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941

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—By Raeburn Van Buren

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THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO DUMB CLUCKS WHICH STOPS AT THE WRONG TOURIST CABINS, KID” Ir JUST AN'T SAFE HERE, SEE 2 NOW-~ IF YOUD OF STOPPED AT OURS ACROSS THE ROAD YOU'D OF RESTED EASY-GET IT?

Today's Short Story—

ANY OTHER © NAME

By BORIS KRITCHEVSKY

ALL MY LIFE I have been Hyman Brezinsky the grocer and nobody minded it. Fact is, everybody liked Hyman Brezinsky. My goods were always the best

even if I had to pay a little more |. * wholesale.

My word was as good as gold, my scale was always right even if the city inspector didn’t like it and I never went for fancy names like X. W. or B. L. Food Mart. It was always Brezinsky’s Grocery, Hyman Brezinsky, Prop.

It was Brezinsky on the sign, the}

‘bags, the door, windows and Brezinsky to the customers and salesmen, only the drivers called me Hymie, but what can you expect from a driver? My name was good enough for everybody else and myself until my daughter Fanny grew up then I discovered all of a sudden that it’s a disgrace not a name. What's the matter? It ain’t stylish. It’s-too foreign. 2 2 n EVEN WHEN she was in high school she used to come home complaining about the greenhorn name every once in a white. “Look, Pa,” she used to say, “everybody I know is changing his name for an American name. Rosie Bitterstein changed hers to Rochelle Bittner, Abe Levin is Alfred Le Vine, only I got to go around with that foreign name.” “For my part you can call yourself Miss America or pick any name from the society page,” I used to tell her, “but Brezinsky is good enough for me. Time enough to change after a bankruptcy, God forbid.” So it kept on like this all the time she was in high school. She’d bring home some fancy name and I'd say no, then she’d cry a little bit and that was that until she graduated from high school and entered college. pen around the house: : #.. 82 a FIRST OF ALL she announced that we’d have to move out of the flat above the store where we'd been living for over 15 years. “What the matter with the flat?” I ask her. “Nothing,” she says, “only it isn’t good enough for the people I expect to meet in college.” “The girl's right,” says my wife, “she’s growing up and it's about time we began thinking about her future.” “And we could use some new furniture too,” adds Fanny. “Maybe you should get a new modern father too?” I ask her. “No,” she says, “youll do, only you could change your name to something more American so’s I could introduce myself without blushing.” So we finally agree that she can have the new flat and furniture but the name remains Brezinsky. ” E-3 8 WELL, TO MAKE it short, right after the holidays they rented an apartment in a new building and got busy shopping. All alone in the store with only a boy to help me I was so busy that I didn’t even have time to look at the new flat or anything they bought. All I hear is the department store delivery boys hollering ten times a day, “Package for Brezinsky, five dollars. Box for Brezinsky, 10 dollars.” The store’ bell rings, the register rings and my head rings. \ Finally moving day comes around, the wife gives me the new address and tells me not to worry. “we'll take care of everything,” she says, “een the supper will be ready when you come home.” It was Friday night so I closed up eariy and went home. The flat was in a nice building with a fine lobby, marble stairway, green -carpets and shiny mail boxes. I look for my name on the mail boxes but I don’t see it. There is a Levin, a Kaltmeyer, Greenleaf, Breen but no

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wife trying to keep us quiet.

and ask the lady on what floor the new tenants moved if “Second,” she says and I walk upstairs. “Why didn’t you ring the bell, Pa?” says Fanny opening the door.

“I didn’t know which,” T say. “Our :

name isn’t on the mail box yet.” “Oh,” she says, “I forgot to mention, it’s Breen. Lovely name. Pa

isn’t it?” she smiles. “Real American.”

” z 2 DON'T ASK. It was a riot with me hollering, Fanny crying and my But when she showed me that ‘she signed the lease for me as Hyman Breen and registered herself in colBreen I decided to

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“I gotta trot in a crouching position today—he’s got calluses again!”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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By William Ferguson

? A THIEF NOT ONLY STOLE SECOND AND THIRD

Ball Game.

ANSWER—1. Yes, We Have No Bananas. 3. Walking by the River.

2. Take Me Out to the 4. Home on the Range.

make the best of it on condition that the new name stay in the flat, in the store it’s to be Brezinsky, like it always was. But it was no use. A week later a delivery boy comes to the store with a package for Breen. “There is no Breen here,” I tell him hoping that he’ll go away but he insists that it’s the right address. While we're arguing Fanny comes in, takes the package from the boy and pays him. So that’s how the customers found.out about the new name. o ” 2

I WAS plenty mad and threatened to sell out and move to a different neighborhood but the women customers said that my wife and daughter were right. “What then?” they said. “Such a refined, Americanized girl that goes to college should marry a butcher or a grocer maybe? So if you want a professional for her you must have an Americanized name.” Maybe they were right after all, because soon after she met a fine boy and they're getting married next week. A lawyer he is, maybe you've heard of him, Attorney Morris Finklestein of Finklestein, Levy & Cohen, real-estate lawyers.

TOMORROW—Forty mugs hold a lot of coffee, as in “Home Again,” by Sylvia Singer.

(All events, names and characters in this story are fictitious.)

BUG RUINS SAFETY DAY BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (U. P.).—A bug got the blame fer Birmingham's only traffic accident on a recent day. The insect flew into the automobile of Mrs. W, H. Stafford, 31,

and caysed her to lose control of the car, : he

NEW ALLOY USED IN REPAIRING SKULLS

By Science Service CHICAGO, July 7.—Many a soldier came home from the last World

War with a. metal plate in his head when a piece of skull had been shot away or so crushed that it had to be removed. Soldiers and civilians similarly injured in the present war will have their skull defects repaired with vitallium plates, it appears from a report by Dr. Fred W. Geib, of Rochester, N. Y. in the forthcoming issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Vitallium, an alloy of chromium, nickel ‘and cobalt at first proposed for dental use, “makes the strongest and least complicated plastic repair of the skull known,” Dr. Geib declares in his report. “It is rigid, stronger than bone, noncorrosive and inexpensive and requires a much less complicated cranioplastic operation than any in use at the present time. The patient can be back at work on heavy duty Mian three weeks after the operaon.” The vitallium plate which Dr. Geib recommends is cast according to a pattern of the defect in the patients skull. Slots are cut into it from the outer edge, so that it can be bent to fit the skull. Lugs extend over the edges of the skull and the plate: is screwed into the skull through holes in these lugs. The plate for one of Dr. Geib’s patients was made within two days. The

operation of inserting the plate and fastening it to “the skull takes

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Beach Society is all a-twitter over the latest doings (or undoing) of Flossie Phlupp! This time, they say, it really hurt ! Tek, Tek !! Flossie lost her heart, her Papa's Pants and the man, too, who simply wouldn't be it ! Well, dort give up, darling..... even tho you ARE inarut!

IF YOU'RE SCARED, STAND AWAVY/

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