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DETROIT, Nov. 13—There is always the first time. Rode in a roomette to the Motor City and my face was red all the way, ‘It still is.

When the car porter akked if I knew about the accommodations nf a roomette, I should have said --no: It would have been much simpler to say that. T was thoroughly checked out in day coaches and berths; mostly uppers. ®

No, I had to play the role of a seasoned traveler, With the .wave of a hand. the porter was gone. He wasn't 10 feet down the aisle when I began inspecting the fea‘ures of the roomette.

The shoe locker was easy’to find, as was the wash basin,

to wonder if the porter had started making up the sacks. I went gut to see, He was standing in the

‘rear of thé car.

“I think I'll hit the hay any time now,” I said, smiling. , 3 “Good night, sir,” he said. “What time shall I call you?" “Seven will be fine.” 3 Another hour went by and still no porter or bed. In a moment of indignation, F pushed the porter bell. The fellow appeared almost instantly. He was informed coldly that I wanted to go to bed. He gave me a look that presaged mental dis-

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,

Woman's Case Against Man—

Here's The Man Of The

By JANE WHITBREAD and VIVIAN CADDEN

1951

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five years of marriage uses an clothes locker, water cabinet, all aster, The man asked me politely to rise. Then ™ Ive years on I ; plainly marked. A big question was how they he reached up and pulled a Perio made bed out HE American man is a pushover for romance. _— 2 five Words eves WETS omg fo make Up a berth. A roomelie isn't of the wall, Every ‘wife, if she tries hard, can remember the v8 BRE, The NOMS MOS re. exactly a spacious affair. I was sure the porter Well, sleep didn't come easily. There wasn't : . . : : . a h - lh" ane at's king?" would solve the problem, enough reom in the compartment to kick myself, time when anything she did, said, or wore, rated the oh,” and “what's Sobking ) , X : Some oe rts count hat's * > Under the covers I blushed to such an extent that exaggerated superlatives of a musical-comedy love song. a I ir th ar D iale On y ’ CoC 18 $ V 8 \ IT WASN'T a pressing issue, but I began to the light hurt my- eyes os The charred lamb chop was TE NOTES Tie i Sundays, he occasionally says, look for the—the men’s telephone. In the back of : 4 o> 3 “the best thing I ever ate.” ED'S - NOTE: Fhis is - ie Eo \ ) my mind there was a sneaking suspicion that a MORNING came suddenly. The buzzer rang The hair piled on top. of the Second of a series in whic ;

roomette had one, Somewhere.

and a familiar voice announced that in 45 min-

head for cool- two experienced wives explode

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, 6 Wi i “ . 3 5 bands in general. CIN ANC ia) I looked everywhere. The more T ed, the Utes we would be in Detroit. Fine. The first thing ness ‘was “the against hus ) IN THE FINANCIAL realm, madder I became and the problem L dock to be- 10 do was get the bed back in the wall. How? gcweetest hajr- The two authors are mar- Mr., Groggle’s family leadercome acute. After peering into the wash basin half Where was the handle, a button, a lever? IT looked 4, T've ever ried, each has three children. hip takes the form of making

A dozen times, the shoe locker 10 times and even the clothes closet, I stepped out into the car. There was nothing that resembled a men's telephone on either end. The car forward was equally devoid of a telephone. The porter wasn't

everywhere except in the men’s telephone. It was under the bed. With visions of getting off the train in my pajamas, I pulled and tugged and felt everything that protruded. The last thing I wanted to do

Both are graduates of Vassar, where they ‘edited the college newspaper. These chapters are taken from their hook, THE INTEL-

seen’ (smack). ‘A Straggly button tightened on an overcoat, ‘so

Second of a

the big decisions and» then vashing his hands of the resilts. Thus, he will decide that t is impossible Amy to have a new coat this vear, That

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around. I began to perspire. was call for the porter. Just when it looked as if thoughtful.” A LIGENT MAN'S GUIDE TO leaves Mrs. Groggle to decide : What to do? TI sat in the seat next to the win- that was the last resort, the hed came loose. A new way of Series WOMEN, just published by what it. is possible for her to ES dow surveying the quarters. One of my bags was day coach man, slightly unnerved. give silent folding paper Henry Schuman, Ine. wear and how to cut Cousin on a fabric-covered seat. Could it be poskible? thanksgiving for deliverance. napkins, “so Effie's old plaids down to size od No harm could come of an investigation. T felt My face is still red. But wait until IT get into. “clever.” The an understandable but dis- and patch ‘the hole with the like Aladdin rubbing his lamp. Joy, joy, joy. my roomette tonight and head for New York. The caornflower torted view. leftovers, os ub porter is going to be looking at a seasoned trav- ghelving . tacked on the; cup- Not even the most dyved-in- He mav. with his unique un- \ Zo MINUTES. slipped into an hour and I began eler, full of savoir-faire, worldly. composed. relaxed. board, “just swell” the-wool Freudian suggests that derstanding of mechanical = 2 No one knows exactly when the male child is specifically atlers, ARBous oat i fo the American husband casts designed to bellow at a woman poor ca bid a de ) = : off this masquerade of court- who can't produce at once the. et he > \ RA, ship and becomes the silent tobacco pouch he mislaid yes- ED hearin It Happened Last Night Broadn ays Happy ner of marriage. terday, or who has forgotien : el ay Just have o samo ¥ By Earl Wilson Girl: Ginger Rogers The self-confident, precocious that Tuesday Sas Aunt Hep: says, meaning that Mrs. Grogtype often achieves a state of zibah’s thirty-second anniver- le will have to skimp a little : : . : mature churlishness as early as sary. on other things. NEW YORK, Nov. 13—Foolishly. T went over “Honey, it's done with a full wig.” she said. months after the ink is dry Man's disagreeableness is 7 a. = to console Ginger Rogers about her new show, ‘Want to see it?” Then as she started for it. she 0 marriage license. neither inherited nor inevitable. , a 2 Instead, she consoled me for trving to con- said to, Dorfman whose coat was in the way, yep He is born just as nice as any THE NET RESU LT of Grogsole her. “Doll, could I get up here?" THE NATURALLY timid 8irl child and is often mistaken g e's De Foyaliy: boii « : 4 NE Ak i i res sibility mGinger's the No. 1 stav-happy, happy-talking She brought it down. husband sometimes takes up [OF one in the carriage. But Tes De eRe i a gal around town now. It was dark hrown, and looks almost hlack to eighteen months before BINOSL Ae Soon a he learns 10 ow Sina ArotarE rit fen “I'm very happy about every- from the house. showing his true colors: by ig-- °° De 2 woman oh rar rn Lali rude. and usually dull person thing.” she said, looking up at “This wig changes my whole character” Gin- noring a new dress, retiring oh athe Sensory £7” who's really not fit to live me brightly and blondly as she ger said. “It got a hand last night.” behind a black cloud when the 2% ; fo with. sat in her dressing room at the “But why play two parts?" I said dash of Worchestershire has BUT TREATING his wife n The further ‘consequence is Plymouth Theater. “You're talking to someone who's an actress,’ been left out of the stew, mas- |jke an inefficient domestic is "He leave: companionship where children are told to leave that. if it must be assumed She had on a brown dressing Ginger answered. tering the monosyllabic eve- nat Mr. Groggle's sole contribu- thelr av rehoes.t that he is all he believes him-gown-—very good for blondes “It was written to be played by the samé per- ning. tion to making her Teel like a 0} ove : self tn be it leaves his wife with 'G. RS” on $t. Down- 0 vit wav it's writte < ase But dull. bright, and average complete nonentity ere is : with no functions worth menstairs a handsome young man i he way Ts Epp all husbands eventually learn never a list of the 10 prerequi- sumably engaged in Sole extra: household physically function- 4i,0ine other than the reprowas waiting to take her out. INSISTS playing two parts!” the accepted roles of the mar- sites for marital compatibility . marital dalliance or other. n ing : : ductive Poor guy, he was going to have “Where'd vou get the wig?” riage game, just as they learn that doesn’t include ‘‘compan- He brings himself home all If you have observed he What bothers her.eyven more to wait almost an hour. “A man named DeMann. Ronnie. I think it is. D0" 10 play baseball hy the ionship” in_bold type. Fight; ‘put he legves his come. mealtime “conversation a is that it takes her twenty“I have a lot to be grateful It we: ri al Ne ec onni y 18. age of nine In modern American usage. panionship where children are almost any couple in the din- four hours & day to fuift her for.” Ginger said now. “This ! : an : Some women whe have companionship” means the told to leave their rubbers. ing room of a summer hotel,

show will run a long time. Ginger Rogers

Dorfman. looked up the credits in the play

been married a long time are physical presence of the man in

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imagine when

no-account role. leading her to suspect that she's even less

“1 think it's nice and tight program. convinced that all men are or around the house. Mr. Grog- CONVERSATION is confined they conversed long enough efficient than he makes her now. People seem to like it.” “Ronald De Mann.” he read. “This dame is fundamentally antisocial and gie is not one of those disrepu- toa kind of family cable-ese, an to make the arrangements to out to be. “This is the happiest girl IT know." spoke up always right.” : that their natural talent for table characters who fails to abbreviated vocabulary that get there. ; et Nat Dorfman, press agent for the show. who had San unpleasantness is merely per- show up for dinner or disap- handles the essential mechani- A recent study showed that TOMORROW: The Modern

accompanied me on the interview. I had anticipated something different, for the show, “Love and Let Love,” which ran into sll sorts of trouble out of town after author Louis Verneuil got ill. got a couple of rough reviews. But now it's drawing standees—at least Ginger and her spectacular gowns ‘are drawing standees, + < >

GINGER on opening night got such an ovation that she walked in a circle on the stage while waiting for it to die down. In the middle of the play, she brake a fingernail off painfully while on stage, and had to glue it back on. “I learned the plav.” she and down the fields of my zouthern Oregon

“I read and talked it to my white-faced Here-

said. “walking 380-acre

up ranch in

fected over the vears. This is pears for nights at a time, pre-

cal requirements of keeping a

the average man at the end of

Wife's Dilemma,

1600 Penna. Ave. -Dream House Of '52

Some NewFeatures—

I's Almost Ready for

GINGER -who didn't think the show was fords. I'm no great shakes at learning. You just A exactly right herself-—nevertheless brought it have to get in there and woodshed it.” TV In Every Room, an Occupancy After Its A into town: A form of bravery. “What's ‘woodshed it’ mean?”

In fact, it's sort of a gallant thing for her to do when she could have backed out, instead of deciding to fight it through.

“It’s a show business expression. It means vou whip yourself into shape.”

“I gue®s vou have levis bv Schiaparelli on

Atomic Bomb Shelter

$5 Million Renovation

: By DOUGLAS LARSEN covers. Instead of dark wood “You really didn’t read vour reviews" I asked yout yaad J said. ey Times Special Writer panels or the le dining > NO, we evis by Levi ~ rs . od " room, ere Ww wood her? , a Ginger said. “I want to do more shows and WW ASHINGTON, Nov. 1J stained a light green. “No—but this is no slur at anybody. It's good movies, but 1 might surprise vou all some Presenting the Above the first couple of aore in humility. It's just that I wanted to stay 4... : un ) — ‘ Huy : \ day and retire to my ranch a59- floors, where the rooms for happy. + = 2 But it won't be for a long time, in my opinion. dream house of 1952: official and formal functions “I called my chum here” —she indicated Dorf- necause Ginger enjoys all this too much. She is It is rent free to the are located, the living quarters man—and told him. ‘You've read the reviews. | pelieve, the only actress who has a new dress right tenant: comes equipped for the main tenant and his What's the essence of the whole thing? ‘for her appearance on the stage during the 5 EE p . : . t s r with a highly efficient staff of family and the guest rooms will Thus Ginger got the general impression of Christmas holidays. maids. cooks. butlers, doormen be decorated in an early Amerito 38" the reviews without the pain of reading the not- It's bright red. and it's sooo purty.” Ginger gardeners .and social secreta- can theme with emphasis on eel slats so-good ones herself. exclaimed. ‘1 gave the dress a preview the other LA and is protected day and comfort and informality. bottom “Well, I enjoyed the show a lot.” I told her night. I might just wheel it out here on stage ee "3 . oN st efficient In these rooms printed cotx head And I did like her, and of course her leading any day.” Dght. by oi ost B tons, instead of silks. will be : x t L : atchmen § : , ins of silks, : ® man, Paul McGrath, one of the greatest actors D> » wale brand. Dew ieatures ii. used for draperies, coverings alive. na re a : . , a : : > oH > Like everybody, I was fascinated at seeing TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: During moments of clude an atomic bomb shelter: and trim. An old kitchen on her playing two Toles: An actress who's a lot Srandeur. Disc Jockey “Kal Ross’ tailor likes to a, radio, television set, tele- the lower floor has been relike Ginger Rogers, and that of a stay-at-home tall himself Kalis “press representative.” phone and public address sys- stored with stone fireplaces

‘ashable! shredded

colorful

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“HOW DO YOU make such a complete transformation?” I asked her,

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: Singer Ronald Rogers tells of the gangster's son—He's following in his father's hoodsteps

tem

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in every room; a solarium sun bathing on the roof; the very latest in air conditioning and humidity control equip-

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for use as a broadcasting and conference room. This, apparently, is to make fireside chats more authentic. A recent strike of plasterers

ment: huge cold storage rooms held up that phase of the job : t basement; n earth- . : A Y \: ed) m ne SE 1a 8 t but the plastering will soon be i -p { 1¢ ation; ve « LL : e Sua ke roo 3 54 Too \ finished. The biggest part of tors, and « ro 18, 1nciuda : . T} v . . . eleval 7S. ahd © on BCIY the job left to do is laying the or rox 18 . . . Americana 10. Electric Chair? wiiiverss: Bate al wid Pia . Nik > ~ ach room is decorated a« Marble. is being’ used for some with By Robert C. Ruark Like a Nap in the Sun cording to a plan which has Marble js Being’ yséd for some cady for been supervised by the U. 8 rooms while hardwood will be <" hem- Fine Arts Commission, the used in the living quarters ”g rr ata rAing rr; ; in the living quarters. ~ NEW YORK, Nov. 13—°T expect 1 must have around hollering: ‘Black bread' All mv children Most Lg Hp or — 2 = ; 2 4 : perts 1 the , NN. on decor na CIS ES » nat s ¥ killed mavbe 120. 130 people.” the man with the Ket to eat is black bread!” Woody Van Dvke whos seh a 5 IT IS ESTIMATED that some- : ‘ is direct relling y You r X time in December the construesquashed nose and wide mouth =aid. “I reckon recting 1s yelling back: You're supposed to No expense has been spared t an should be throush > be . a French assassin. not a 10th Ave ' tion men should be through T've been electrocuted 50 times. and hanged maybe ,... Make like a French assassin’ “ in making it the most modern and then the decorators and t w a tg ¥ F 1 < i Oo a 10, 15 times. but I will tell vou one thing * @ 3nd omioravie house in th painters will start working ntinuous : world. Exact cost of renovation ft h is finished. it will ’ A .. 80 = am concerned, pays better : ; > After that is finished, ti vashabile Crime. so’ far as 1 pa) McMAHON says that in one gangster picture iz. $5.761.000. Hrobably take about 3 months 1, green than law and nrder. I was doing better as a “after he had killed three people in the first three

% to move in-all of the used fur99 crook than I have been doing since I went Minutes, when he ran up the stairs and busted in ITS OTHER established niture straight. en Joe: Imorhey sha clvly, the entire Movie features include a haleony When that is complete. mas i dl, DK out! is Vv i ; a 2h 1 i th } resent This is a reasonably startling statement from deal of artistic satisfactio Is gave him a built at a cost of considerable be in Japuary, the present a man who is sitting in a respectable cafe, drink- “ beau: B mental strain to the present lessee, a Harry Truman and ing tea and who has a train to catch, although 1, > n hoodlum. McMahon says. "1 was. the occupant: a swimming pool; family, will move in for what ire net he is not on the lam. pri prea leet Sl A riers 3 invested the several acres of shady lawns, might be only a temperary oc- : y. Ss y scene w e [ : i - . - . . . ., DRE ther an vies and | There has been so much crime and corruption boss hood savs meet me so-and-so keep the en and SeauLill yarns ation BROADCASTING ROOM—In an old kitchen made over, fireside chats will be authentic. he f a Re: _- t s rt t wi x > < yf TP § ce; anc & Ig - Robe tate; as announced 99 about that 1 thought a sho t alk th Horace gine running, don't make no mistakes, all the othe: ton fence which is wired with ington, with churches of prac- + and a second home in Key torical pieces which cin be that he would like to live there MeMahon wold be dliaminating. JF. McMshor. hoods say: ‘Okay, boss.” Got so the writers lef ‘adar tically every denomin ition a West; Fla, which go with the found in the .countr) Ib: 1¢ f possible. It is known that i only 3 pasteboard crook. He got his flattened the spaces blank. They knew that okay-boss b This unique house is located few blocks away lease tically no items will be others are interested. too, but nose while earning the right to be named Horace had to be there.” n a not-verv exclusive sectio: Sometime vou might be This t5bulous residence used’ in the ovat 8 afe’ ‘walling for 4 more oppor y i of , nd y 4 S 3 ton o p 1es you migh ie i | Iaduiou resi 14] u ir ule I ated & alin LO morte Pi - as a child. I sympathize. The hump in my Boo. town. but it has an easy ad bothered bv visitors asking for be furnished largelv. with sec- g & ao tune time to announce their bid th set-| schnoz comes from having the middfe name of Iress Der. 16 P : \ Out ot % ng ot Ahan socom = ou Ses WHAT LSED. TO Jue . set-in Chester, -and don't anvbody laugh, because I'm MR. McMAHON played a very sympathe. ir ss to remember, 1600 Penn handouts but that Js all right andhs 4 furniture am Spon) 5 ir kp 1 : for the house. Tao & Ht wrist still sensitive. ’ role as a detective in both the stage and film vel svlvania Ave. N. W. It has an because the world's greates ments, but. as part of the ren rreen, Blue and Red rooms Sometime in November of 3:3 + © o& sion of “Detective Story,” and it has sort of pu ‘sy name to.remember. too supply of money, the U, 8 vation, all pieces have beer nue to be de 1952, the decision will be made Pe 2 him off his feed as a villain, He is inordinate! t's called the White House... Treasury js just across ti refinished and reupholstered colors b W Ving on the occupant and the for MAC has just finished a stint on the side of fond of cops, since he knows so manv, but h nd it is close to a good shop- street Among the extras Chev include the most priceless shades. Silk a satin will be rent sign will be taken down law and order. He has plaved the second Cop. In says that he has got to go collect this mon ng center, downtown Wash a vacht. a fleet of limousine lections of antiques and his used for draperies’ and chair for another four vears. both the s : rersi * , re : : ! . oth the stage and screen versions of “Detective grammed convict suit and get back into cha

Story.” Sydney Kingsley's fine piece of reportage on what goes on In a precinct station house. This, after a lifetime of playing gangsters in the movies, and, believe me, Horace McMahon, a gentle man with a twisted sense 8f humor, has been the most sinister killer of them all. in over 60 movies, . Mac played so many crooks that he has he. come a cop collector. He has been the policemen 's

acter again. “Being on the side of law and order is swell fays McMahon. “but in my racket the work steadier in a snap-hrim hat and a sinister « prassion. I am longing for my chopper, and mise the hot seat. | got so 1 never relaxed a: where so well ag in an ¢lectric chair. while t} fussed around with the electrodes, It

was hod as a nap in the sun.”

Library Runs by Wire

In Michigan, You Get the Word by Teletype

By BIRT DARLING

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’ University of Michigan Library, the Ryerson ry: inal tor years. nan ein De Times Special Writer + PubMe Library in Grand Rapids. the Detroit mostly 4s a Oph but a rote Ser ication: ANSING. Mich. Nov. 13— Michigan's — Public Library. —and— industrial reference if ko k h nr 3 4 via :. braries like that at General Motors. ‘he has come in know about half the detectives in Dishing the Dirt libraries are now linked together in the The ; et 81 Central NolOrs evitionl the country, He is very probably the top speaker- a - nda stvhe. network of Wins oC GSIErS TEeaving le) Ype Se in-demand at policemen’s functions all over the By Marguerite Smith rst state-wide teletype network of libra- here” have gone up in libraries throughout the

nation, merely because he looks so tough snarls so good.

and

“ Ob Bb IN ALL HIS YEARS of playing hoodlum, Mac

QI transplanted iris just before the tempe: ure dropped. I did not cut off the tops. Now am afraid the frost will travel down through th «caves to the roots. Shall I cut off the tops now

ies in the nation. All the public libraries ind some private ones are tied into the system 1 direct result of a fire that almost destroyed the Michigan State Library.

state. Even in the most remote corners of Michigan, people have come to take the service as a matter of course.

All they have to do is go to any state library

i ; ato ax 0 ok tit 4 and ask for information—-how many bushels of has had only two departures from type in the Will the plants need > The library lost some 35.000 books in the : h ; y 4 ’ 8 protection? Mrs. A. C. L. fire in the State Office Building last February. Potatoes are harvested in Maine in August, for viet os It Su. acudentally tlsea In 2 S11 Pak Ave. 7 Tens of thousands of others Ae ater soand example. “ 0 | iene . e other time, throug —Frost does not travel down the t o ard : vad BIO : - Hb | some freak of circumstance, got hooked into the roots. Possibly this idea jhe lop o and partially damaged. The rest of the 500,000-

role of 4 ¥rench assassin in “Marie Antoinette.” He had a terrible time in both. “I can't’ shoot from the hip, western style," Mac said. “I'm a chopper-man, or if it's pistols, I'm a shoulder-holster kid. Also, I never learned

“1-got suckered into that French period piece, how, God knows, and I'm sitting around for weeks, chafing with the ruffles on the neck and the buckles on the shoes, and finally I'm running

rises from the fact that frozen tops may mat over roots, hold mois-

ture, and eventually rot or “winter-kill" the roots. Do cut ‘the tops off vour iris now. But for anther réason, iris leaves harbgr insect pests and lisease over winter,

out of the ground too quickly as it thaws and’ freezes. Sa either cover lightly with some airy material (nothing that will ‘mat aver the. roots) or keep a close eve on them when ground thaws,

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answer at one of Michigan's branch public libraries, they'll get you the word while you wait via teletype, shown here (in background) at the state's information center in Lansing. = : - -

volume collection had to be dehumidified before it could be used. For a time, at least, the library was out of business But Mrs. Loleta D

Fyvan, the state librarian:

decided that « teletype network something she

before state officials and got the go-ahead. aon ] ; A TELETYPE, machine was hastily &t up in the basement of the State Capitol. Other machines were placed in extension offices, in the

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IF THE LIBRARY doesn't have the Infor. mation, it is a simple matter for the librarian to via teletype, for the fact from a library that does. Similarly, books can be ordered from branch libraries,

Get rid of the tops and you XE 1 : ipp : 8 ) 3 1ad long advocated would help ripple / irs y a m ney ue, how to get up onto, or down off of, a horse, Ter: get)nd of a lot of summer trouble.” The average n > Hbrare s s a p the crippled At first, only unusual and emergency req sts 3 rible i 1 h yt ' ! K : ibrary and be a good thing for the state's were filled. However. the tempo was stepped up 2 experience, In the last scene, Autry beat hell. iris-ist hardy enough not to need winter protec- Ro lib 3s Lom ; . out. of four of us and threw us off a streetcar tion But newly set plants of Ki A ibrary system as a whole, She pleaded her'case as the big state library ‘struggled back into opi : > : 50 a in eave INFOR TION PLE SE—If 3 i : i MA ’ A you ask a question they can't

eration, } i Now there are plans to extend the service to other co-operating libraries. Eventually, almost any Michigan resident will be able to almost any question answered “while you » Le