MAY 23,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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'Ah, Paris In Spring!" Othman Gets Misty-Eyed, Sentimental
By FREDERICK OTMAN (United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris (UP)—Ah, Paris in the spring! Chestnut trees flowering white. Ancient gray buildings turning purple in the dusk. Rain glistening on Montmartre's cobblestones.
See? Every reporter visiting Paris has gone misty-eyed at its beauty and sat himself down at his typewriter to bang out a sentimental masterpiece. These essays mostly have come up goo.
Paris is the last stronghold of the plus four.
The gents who wear 'em usually accompany same with long white socks. The ladies dye their hair orange, lemon and pale strawberry color, except when they dye it sky blue or lavender.
Well, sir, I've got that sentimental feeling. The urge is strong to make a fool of myself in print. And what would you do? Talk about the formal gardens of the Tuileries so lovely that they almost hurt? Mention artists still trying to capture in paint the greenish-gray color of the Seine?
That is where the reporters get bogged down in adjectives, poor devils. Poor Othman. I've geed and hawd long enough:
I saw two men stop each other on the street, smile, say "aha," kiss each other soundly on both cheeks, shake hands, and go on their way. The chambermaid at the Hotel Etats Unis is my slave. I presented her with a piece of soap.
The bicycle built for two is a popular Parisian vehicle. Mademoiselle always rides behind, where she does most of the leg work.
A man in a beret in Paris does not look so foolish as a man in a beret in Hollywood.
Dinner for two last night cost me nearly $30. But as the waiter pointed out, it was a good meal. It certainly was, including strawberries in cream so thick it could be eaten with a fork. This was black market eating at its blackest, and I feel ashamed of myself.
There aren't enough taxis. The buses aren't much help, because nobody, including their conductors, has much idea where they're going. The city's dark bread has a nutty flavor, and probably is good for the teeth. Every girl I've seen has beautiful choppers.
Anybody who drinks water when he can get wine is regarded as a
dope. I've been thirsty for a swig of ice water ever since I've been here. Fashionable young men wear lace handkerchiefs in their breast pockets.
The house, which so far has one completed room, is the dream of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Snyder. And Snyder hands all the credit for it to book learning, both at the public library and in the Navy.
The ladies mostly have slightly different shapes from those at home; more curvy.
Malden, Mass. (UP) — A public library card was the passport to a seven-room, two-bath home now in the making at Malden.
American movies eight years old line up customers around the block. Order a cup of coffee and a bottle of liquid saccarine comes with it.
Months ago, the Snyders talked over the possibility of building with their own hands the home they'd always wanted. It had to have, for example, a basement playroom with an open fireplace, a living room with more than ordinary window space and a good-sized kitchen.
So Snyder acquired a lot from the city of Malden by paying its back taxes. The lot was on a hill-side composed of about 80 per cent rock, but Snyder just burrowed his way through by alternately heating the rock with a blow torch and pouring on cold water until the rock split.
'Booklearning' Beats Housing Shortage
I'm now going to have another vin blanc, get my suitcase and scram-scram. Me sentimental about Paris? I'm about to weep. Sounds silly, but it's true.
Then, guided by public library books on carpentry, masonry and other crafts, Snyder-aided by his wife and his father — built the seven-room house. The floors and the plumbing and the electricity aren't in yet, but Snyder's idea is to go slowly and pay for everything gradually so that he'll own his home outright.
Despite lucrative offers from house hunters, Snyder intends to keep the house, once it's built.
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OPA Plans Increase In Low-Priced Shoes
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The increase, expected to go into effect about June 1, would be granted manufacturers, but, since there would be no dealer absorption, the entire increase will be passed on to consumers.
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Washington. (UP)—OPA is planning a price increase of about 10 per cent in standard-type, low-priced shoes for men, women, and children.
Nationalists Push Toward Changchun
The Communists were reported massing reinforcements on the outer approaches of Changchun, for a showdown battle for the capital.
Nanking. (UP)—Chinese Nationalists have opened a big push on Changchun, capturing its outer bastion of Kungchuling and striking up on the Mukden-Changchun railway to within 20 miles of the Manchurian capital.
Fredia Hempel gave more than 600 "Jenny Lind" concerts after 1920, impersonating the Swedish singer.
Columbus.—Single men between 20 and 25 do not exist in Columbus, George Gleason, chairman of the Selective Service board, has announced.
Columbus Men Ineligible
Under the new selective service law the board can draft only one man before December.
Peterson Goes to Chicago
Capt. John V. Peterson, navy R.O.T.C. commander, will attend a conference for all the professors of Naval Science and Tactics of the Ninth Naval district June 3, at the N.R.O.T.C. armory of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, to discuss future plans for the N.R.O.T.C.
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