Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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---all THE 1947 COMMENT 1-e-1--- Most of his leisure, however, is spent sipping and supping with affluent jingle composer Jim Biery while a group of Goldwyn Girls and a symphony on the patio provide appropriate dinner atmosphere.. l'0'h, the joy of being your own prophetl. -Colleen Leake recently led a seventy-eight block long parade--composed mostly of admirers--up Broadway. The parade was sponsored by The Retired Air Raid Wardens of Greater New York and Kukomong-o . If you ever have the pleasure of seeing the world famous Rockettes and your eyes get as high as the girls' faces you no dou'bt will recognize Jean Bank, twenty- third from the left. Dorothy Atteriberg is the star attraction off' the Follies in Paree. Charles Atterberg has rigged up television sets at various places in the t-heater allowing -him to enjoy the choice performances in the comfort of his own home. Wild Willie Hoffman has engineered a position as professional wrestler for Mike .Jacobs Bill won his last match from Bull Moose in three falls or throws. Willie was certainly throwing Bull that night. Rex Boehm, advertising model, is especially known for his portrayals of The Man of Distinction . Rex says he needs the Lord Calvert assignment to brace himself for his Stretchfy-seat 'underwear advertisements. David Koch rather unexpectedly took up art after visiting ar life class at Sunshine Art Sch-ool, Ohio. Bob Leu has a spacious ranch out west. His fifty thousand head of anteaters often get lost in the backyard, Phyllis Dose has the jotb of naming the new perfumes. She says this is quite an emotional strain. Mary Margaret Worster owns a chain of sweat sh-ofps in N. Y. Her company manufactures classy clot-hes for casual people. Like the wonderful one -horse shay, Martin Peterson's auto fell apart one day and started him. on the road to success. Martin is now known as the junk king of Annaheim, Mazzazza and Powdertown. Congressman Powell of N. Y. has employed Etta Woods as his personal secretary. The Dupy Fruit and Bakery Co. has replaced A8zP as the world's leading grocery. Carl has Shirley Chance managing his gigantic St. Louis warehouse. Phyllis Van Ausdall has become a photographer of male pinups. Women every- where rush to buy each month's Harpers to view the current Van Ausdall Boy. Keokuk's head librarian, Norma Stark has purchased two hundred copies of Nord Strum's new book Forever Ember Duane Bair has started a coast to coast chain of Kaiser-Engler automobile dealerships and has as his chief shop foreman and draftsman, Danny Bramhall. Jack Engler was just recently selected by Kaiser to take over Frazer's job as head of desi-gn and motors. Bill gchowalter and Clyde Ferris are now wardens at Idle Hour Prison . Ferris is day warden and Bill takes the night watch. Bill says this gives hi-m time to make his telephone calls to Powdertown. The fellows became wardens after serving aipprenticeships as Y.M:C.A. secretaries. H 'Carl Dresser and Guerdon Miller started on a world cruise in an all-plastic rowboat of their own making and design. Last reports indicate that they sunk off the coast of Bermuda. The plastic for the boat was furnished by the W. E. Smellum Chemical Co. and discovered by Eileen -Chamiber-s while concocting a Mead-ow Gold Sundae. Allan Terpening has resigned as the brains of the See Sul Bottieger Company and gone into a monastery to contemplate on the pin-'ball racket. Charles Henry is the winner of this year's Olympic diving contest. Yes, Charles is quite a splash, but so are Ira Jones and Betty Londrie wh-o placed in the breast- stroke and distance swim. Russell Moore and Betty Steeples are now starring in the Tarzan movie series. They have proved quite popular and have just finished a new film, The Son Of The Son O-f Tarzan in which Russell gets to grunt seven times. Agnew Rovane, former U. S. Chamber of Commerce president, has assumed control of the old Hay's office and has announced that in the future banning of movies he will let his conscience be his guide. TWENTY-SEVEN

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------if-I THE 1941 COMMENTIM-'-1-l Dick Shultz recently published his iMemo'irs . We hear that they are havingtrouble in Boston. Government agent Elaine Lawson solved the mystery of why there are so many Smiths. In a small Michigan city she located the Smith Manufacturing Co. Glenn Riley, who had a rather low opinion of education, is happy setting pins at Blankenship's Bowling Paladium Qrecently renamed 'Patty's and Jake's in recognition of J'ake's new -partner, the former Patty O'Sheab. Glenn is able to keep up a constant repartee with 'his neighboring pinsetter, an orangutan imported from the Belgian Congo. Every Sunday morning the kiddies -gather gleeful-ly around the radio to hear Uncle Clippert read the funny papers. ' Right after Kieth comes Reverend Gregory, a missionary from Ethiofpia, And right after the Reverend comes fifteen minutes of Torrid Transcriptions featuring song 'birds Eddy Jobe and Ida Belle J-ones. Only asbetsos-coated radios pick up this program. Cooperating to turn the platters are Anna Lou Vice and Margaret Whitaker. News Item: 'tConcert goers are recovering today from the explosive forces hurled at them from the stage of usually staid Carnegie Hall. The occasion was the presen- tation of Raymond Beat me Daddy Banghart's jazz symphony. One of the high- lights of the program was the playing of the Concerto for five Drums by the Don Higgins Hot Five. Another zooty performance was given by Maestro Banghart and Melvin play it sweet Bates who teamed together in a number called simnply, The Piano And Sax In This Modern World . Receivers of this year's Mucollogheigm Scientific Award are Doctors Robert Carter and Laurel Haggerty. The doctors were given the award for their meritorious work in establishing television communications with the newly founded moon colony. Bernard Norman is the head of an organization whose purpose is to teach people how to drive safely. Inseparable Bessie and Betty Rotter have opened a joint on the West Coast called Bess and Bett's and have grown quite wealthy dispensing clam chowder. Right between Mr. Adams and Mr. Levant, on an elevated chair, sits expert Nancy Elgin of Information Please . For three years, before she got her elevated chair Nancy's outstretched arm could not clear the table and Quizmaster Elmer Spearman was at a loss to explain what had happened to his lady expert. Richard Tucker shoos pigeons off a prominent edifice in New York. The principal of the new, beautiful, three million dollar Keokuk High School is Jack Fader. Jack has hired Joan Porter to manage the office while he coaches the state champion checker team. All-American Paul Deyo is coaching basketball and drop-kicking at Siwash Uni- versity. The I-Ianley's, 1Carl and Kenneth, are disturbing the soil for their living. They say they're doin' right well, to-o, what with all these g-ol' dern new fangled machines the city fellers are puttin' out. Evelyn Bundy is giving instruction for the French horn, saxaphone, and the gramaphone. Norman Inman, II, won this year's Soap Box Derby driving the high speed model his old man, Norman Putt Inman used to kick around. Margaret White, following her sister's footsteps, is auctioneer for the Pell Mell Tobacco Co. Although Jean Gabel did study bookkeeping it was incidental in her being hired as chief librarian of Bud .Nordstrom's private library. Bud married an heiress and illustrates pornography in his leisure moments. TWENTY-SIX

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it--at THE 1947 COMMENT 1-af---- Ray Williams is vocalist and master of ceremonies at Bob Erholm's new night club, The El Socko in Chicago. Bob has also hired the only two women chefs in the country to prepare his edibles. Delores Cramer and Darlene Matous's cooking has made The El Socko very popular with the gourmets. Charitable Ruth Kator distributes free Indian blankets to needy and deserving East Labradoreans. Julia Jones furnishes the blankets from her factory in Paw- tucket, R. I. Delores Sale's Bottling Co, is making a new Christmas drink, Tom and Gerry's based on a formula by Geraldine Oeh-migan. Al O'Bleness founded a firm th-at designs bathing suits. Al is workin-g on one now made of cellophane. Besides being an inspiration to the other artists, Shirley Theim, af membe-r of the firm, dresses up Al's sketches. Barbara Sandidge is a well-informed advisor in a Boston marriage clinic. The local pickle factory recently awarded a medal to Dorothy Ellison for picking the most pickles in one year. . . over a million! Until the housing shortage lets up, Mary Loeffler has 'leased a circus tent to house her growing family. Mary Jane Radel has made a fortune writing for the pulp magazines. Her formula: I just retell, in writing, of my many love experiences in high school. Word has just been received that an East Somaliland tribe, the Congopongocombos, has designated Phyllis Klapprott as land here we translate! The Girl, Who, More Than Any Other, We Would Like To Have Teach Us To Jitter.bug. Arlene Wirtz has been working in-dustri-ously on her book, Little Known Facts and Things About Little Known Facts and Things . lMon-sieur S'cripto advised us not to reveal what Bill Benson is doing . . . he's a bulb-snatcher! Ward Rein has his hands full milking the many cows on his large farm. It's been several years now since we were thumbing through the Society pages of the Des Moines Registr an-d saw a picture of Nancy Lammering along with some others under the heading Engagements of These Girls Announced . We trust she is married by now. Delores Laehn arranges music for the NBC Sfylmphony Orchestra. It is her job to arrange the music sheets in a neat stack after each performance. Making tall girls look small is Margaret O'Bleness' job. wShe sells them built down shoes with basement heels. Former track star Don Harmon is leading the kiddies' ponies around a miniature race track at the Kenkuk Street Fair, Betty Peterson peddles notebooks for the Utility Notebook Co. She sells them with varied ring spacings to fit paper with varied hole spacings. We hope that includes everyone, for Monsieur Scripto has quietly slipped back into his ink bottle. all tuckered out from guiding our fingers as the fates of our many schoolmates were being put on paper. Before bundling up our manuscript and handing it to the printer for him to decipher, we leave you with this thoughtfu-l thought: We were fully aware, that, without contrary insurance. atomic explosions may rudely annul our prophecies or any personal visions you may have of a peaceful, happy future. It was a horrible thought and we frantically dismissed it from our conscious minds, trusting in yours and the world's efforts and desire to annul atomic explosions! Besides, to prophesy where some KHS students will be and what they will be doing, if the world is blown to bits, could, to say the least, prove embarassing. Yours, Monsieur Scripto Bud N-ordstrom Ji-m Biery TW ENTY-EIGHT fK'f '