Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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WALTHAM HIGH SCHUOL . . . . Applicants are also provided with roller skates ..... A new comic strip, The Smith Fami- ly - - - and How It Grew will be featured on the fun page of the World-News next week, and we think that the Bonner, jacob, Brennan collab- oration really has something here. We suspect that the characters are fashioned after the lives of Florence, Herb, and Larry, three eminent stage personalities. The subject, however, is one on the side of the Lord, for, indeed, He must have loved the name to place such a number with us! We did a bit of ear-unbuttoning on hospital premises last eve, and behind one of the sick-room doors discovered Tony Abramo, who insists his pneumonia was decidedly provoked by his hospital attire that provided an over-dose of ventilation. . . . . But Tony was doing all right, being waited on hand and foot by proby nurses Mary Collins, Mildred Slaunwhite, Helen Pederson, Mabel Read, and Vivian Thomas ..... And some guys have all the luck - - - even with pneumonia! .... The hos- pital records read Thomas Leonard - - - cuts and bruises .... but we'd say victim of circum- stances. It appears that poor Tom was shuffiing the pasteboards in a Not According to Hoyle bridge foursome with the missus fthe ex-Alma Thurberj, while Al and Verla fSloperj Fiorelli made up the other couple. Because his thumb was on the ace of spades, he led, and so did Alma. Tom found out weeks later that he had re-negged. Family misunderstandings can usually, we reckon, be traced to the card table! In his book Oh, You Funny Man a biography of Robert Sullivan by Don Felt, the author recalls the supposedly authentic account of the life of Mr. S, provided by himself. I was born, claims Sul- livan, on the seventh hill of Rome in the year 1865, wrote Uncle Tozzfr Cdfijllii! in 1877, in- troduced the lawnmower into Sahara Desert civili- zation in 1883, died in 1884, and was buried in Grant's Tombf '.... Warren Wentworth, author of What Men Think About Women-or Do They? was recently reported seen passing through Watertown with his wife, the former Vera Ben- nett, en route to Germany. They plan to leave the baby in a North Station locker as they fear Warren Jr. might develop a Hitler complex. They will pedal their way to Berlin a-top a tandem. . . . . Sam Stroum, a student at the Dan D. Lion Academy, just captured the fish-swallowing crown from co-ed Violet Rudolph. After not only catch- ing but downing the three little fishes from the iddy, biddy pool, the champ remarked, A bit heavy on the epiglottisj' and then did a fade-out. . . . . The Tel. and Tel. Company now employs Harriette Gordon, Dot Rollins, Estelle Harris, Cora Height, Rose Olivo, Betty McAdoo, and Kay Trainor, the Whats YOUR number? girls. . . . On a recent nation-wide radio popularity poll, the Pantanella Sisters Sixty Minutes of Beauty program rated tops. The beautiful voice of the beautiful Margaret Hicks, soprano, combining with the beautiful baritone of Fred Brown, won the beautiful award for this beauty preparation and Station ZAIA ..... It's pointedly evident that stenog Norma Turner's engagement to her em- ployer was known only to the majority population of Boston ..... As for the boss, johnny Gigilo Ahern, he labored under the impression that it was all a happy friendship! There'll undoubtedly be fireworks, 'cause attorney Darwin Wilder has been called in to serve the hash on Mr. A! Chin up, eyes forward, johnny, me lad. We know how it is! .... Forrest Higgins, formerly the spark plug in the Hayes, Eagan, and Hayes Motor- cycle Industry, has left that concern to enter the ministry. Mr. Higgins, we hear, was recently crit- icized by his elder professioners for exclaiming to the trials and tribulations of his parishioners with a Whew-w-w and not a tsk! tsk! tsk! . . . Arctic explorer Maurice Desisto was greeted upon his re- turn to Waltham by Mayor and Mrs. Allen Glid- den fnee june Taylorj, and we noted several flat- tering varied comments were passed on the little beard sprouted by the North Pole adventurer. The most noticeable, however, was from newsboy Tony Gullotti, who nudged his companions and said, Look, Columbus!' '.... Authors of If He Could Only Cook, Helen Abelli, Alice Buckley, and Margaret Crawford state in the preface of the book that love is a man's insane desire to become a woman's meal ticketl' '... . So now I know! . . . . Do you feel logy, run-down? Do your most vital digestive juices flow at a rate of four quarts

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way over the raill' '.... We quote from the Life 4124! Leiferr of Ernerzf Iqlifclfdl january -4, Snowinl. Can't go huntin '.... january 5, still snowin'. Canlt go huntin '.... january 6, Still snowin'. Shot grandpawu .... Second-story man Handy Andy Andrews, renowned King of the Underworld tsometimes referred to as Warren- dalej, was picked up by police today after the Killer-Diller's sticky fingerprints were found on the safe of the Safford Sweete Shoppe. Poor Andy had been indulging in his pet passion . . . lolli- pops! A group of femmes in the local social whirl namely: Valerie Aylsworth, Louise Farese, Ther- esa Bahros, Ruth Moore, Hazel Pike, Phyllis Sharpe, and june Richardson instigated the foun- dation of the Bohunk Ballroom for Bashful Boys. . . . . You males that are so proficient at TOE dancing should definitely fand we DO mean defr- nitelyj make application ..... Instructor Evelyn Patterson of the College of Unscientific Observa- tions, asked the question What is dust?', . . . . Bright student Ann Murphy answered, l'Dust is mud with the juice squeezed out' '.... Under- taker james Shields is reported as being that cer- tain way about his chum-about-the-morgue, Regi- na Ring ..... Miss R, by the by, reads l'True Love Stories at her mortuary work. Life, she thinks, is SO romantic! .... The local state has several rep- resentatives to that bevy of unsung heroes and her-- oines that never appear before the moviedom cam- era, namely, Marjorie Daniels, that recently de- signed the gowns for Edna Banis in the picture Daydreams of Tillie, the Typist in which she is starred with Dick Flynn. Then there is Ethel Gib- son, who is official Ufacemaker' at the Franklin- Milesky Studios. Ethel has glamored-up such G. Gfs fglamor girlsj as Patricia Whitten, Myrna Huntley, Edith Winberg, Phyllis True, and Mari- an Colson ..... It was the socially-prominent Irene McCourt-VinLeBlanc wedding ..... The sky was blue. The birds twittered. The wedding march pealed out. They had been married. He looked happy, she looked shy. The little lady had now cancelled the renewal of her hunting license. . . . . The Doe-Doore Publishing Company put a new edition of Great Poems of The Day on their OF 1939 selling list. Perhaps the most touchingly beautiful rhyme was that by Edris Hill, which reads: Someone spilled the sausage wurst A yellow dog got there first He grabbed the sausage like a hog, just 'nother case of dog eats dog. Stylist Anita Weiner will present her annual modes in fashion in the Riseberg Silver Salon next month with Boston's most beautiful models, Betty Hayden, Virginia Felt, Ruth Merklee, Eunice Ohl- sen, Viola Studley, and Kay St. Germaine on dis- play. The wornen will be at the salon to see the gowns, but many a man will be paying for them, so we warn the poor unfortunates ..... Card- shark Howie Woodbury has just published an- other book, l'Etiquette At the Card Table, or No Penalties Attached, and in it he warns the femi- nine bridge fan to take it for granted that the man she married still has as much common sense as on the day he selected her as his wife. Virginia Cronin's humorous pictures in this little volume illustrate the evils of the card game, or How Not to Play Bridgell' Norman Gaudet, who has been studying piano abroad, will soon return to make his American de- but and to see Elaine Edgar. The musical world predicts their marriage as soon as he accepts the Pottle Piano Company's offer as head piano tuner. . . . . A few of the mob are taking a ride .to the tune of lf I Had the Wings of An Angel since Sheriff Ed Wallace caught up with them. Ray Morley took some bread from a baker fsteal- ing dough againj, Pearl Marcou was seen beating up an egg, and Bill Gorgone has been stealing rings from a bell. Naughty, naughty, kiddies! . . . . Latest edition to the Cotton Pickings, Broad- way musical, are Norma Bearisto, Ruth Wellman, Norma Benson, Virginia Stevens, Catherine Tewks- bury, Nancy Cafarella, Mary Cincotta, and Olive Dougherty. We refer, of course, to the chorus line ..... Nice work if you can get it! Dave Krongard has opened a learn-how-to-drive-in-one- easy-lesson station on the Norumbega Tower road for feminine license hopefuls .... The auto school provides a tomato can on wheels and a choice of Bill Pendergast, Orazio Arena, Norman Hoar, Don Westhaver, and Carl josephson as instructors.

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CLASS OF 1939 a day? .... If so, we recommend Lively, Little Liver Pills produced from the magic caldron of the makers, Eleanor Lombardi, Helen Staves, and Frances Mahoney. Teletype typings ..... The Barbara Bradfordj a pleasure yacht named by its owner Salvi Albert' for his fiancee, just ran on the rocks oil Long Islan I Sound. Although the engagement party on board was literally broken up, everyone was save! Hazel Dunbrack, Mary Enos, james Carney, Pearl Powers, Edna Banks, Marjorie Myshrall, and Phil Carrigan were brought to safety by Captain Fran McGowan, of the fishing launch Worm Wrang- ling On the Waves. .... Another vote for terrn firma! .... The movie of the month appears to be The Life of. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, an almost poetic production written by Jeanne Blanchard. You'll cry at the touching per- formance of Cora Day as Elizabeth, and admire the fine work done by Daniel Healy as Browning. Betty Cotter, the Rose Casellas, Delta Grant, Hazfl Anderson, and Marian Matthews add beauty to this zorh Century Campana-Caminiti film .... john LaRosa, proprietor of the Barbarous Bavarian Bar- ber Shop, located within the World-News build- ing, persuaded society editor Marjorie Haverstock to try his l'Snappy-Snippy Shingle, that he has fashioned with the onward and upward trend in hairstyles. Mr. LaRosa clapped and clipped snapped and snipped, and the society editor, con- sequently, has been forced into hermitage'l with the nearest thing to a Cannonball that we've seen yet! .... The latest dictionary on the market is written by joseph Freeman. Concerning the com- parison of the word dead, the die gives the definition by saying dead . . . without life. . . . Deader . . . see Lincoln .... Deadest . . . Pompeii ..... Report has come in from Michalsen Square Stadium in Raimey Valley, South Dakota, where the biggest glove match of the year has just been fought ..... Handsome George Krinoples matted opponent Curly Ray McCarthy after a two-minute exhibition of iisticuffs. Krinoples wore his usual catcher's mask to protect his baby-blue eyes from becoming blackened, and Slugger Ray appeared with his tresses curled in a Katsogianis coilfure, the most stunning seen on the mat all season! .... Since I made these notes on my scoop sheet, I picked up a choice bit concerning the man- ner in which man-about-town Pat Devlin paid up his bet with actress Georgia Thurston on that Krinoples-McCarthy bout, but in-as-much-as the column has gone to press, and I can't spell the word Hosculationl' anyhow, I'm afraid you'll never know the tale! Y7e mourn the passing on of financier john Kokidko. Although he wore a straw hat year- round and floppy socks, he was good, kind, and trusted his wife's knowledge of mushrooms. His widow is the former Ruth Foley ..... Yokel Fred Gardiner, currently visiting the Big City from his glorified garlic for shall I say onion?j farm, supped at Damorte's Dirty Spoon last night, and was heard to say to the waiter, Say, there ain't no turtle in this soupf' to which the waiter snapped back, No, and if you'll look closely, you'll see there ain't no horse in that horse radish, either. . . . , . The reporter is proud to announce that a former fellow classmate, Fred M. Bevins, has en- tered the priesthood. Fred, a fine, God-fearnig boy, was always the sort you'd say went about singing of jacob and the golden stairs ..... Pro- prietor of the Doggone-it School for Dawgs, Frank Wians, whined a soulful plea to Helen Cor- coran last eve, and the little lady threw all her career plans to the merry bow-wows. But it won't be long before Mr. W. will be 2 permanent board- er in the matrimonial doghouse with thousands of other unfortunate males ..... The Massachusetts A. A. will send Frances Carlson, Isabel Martin, Laura Ferro, and jimmy Delaney as her sport rep- resentatives to Olympland this spring to compete for world honors ..... Because it's spring Qtra- laj, Mr. Fran Doherty has published in his latest magazine article Are You A man . . . And If So Why Not Do Something About It? the fact that the species of man is severed into three distinct groups, namely, bachelors, husbands, and widow- ers. The bachelor, says Mr. Doherty, is just a mass of obstinacy, while the husband has either been victimized and captured as a prisoner, or else taken as a consolation prize. The widower, how- ever, must, indeed, be on the side of the Lord . . . . Ahmenl . . . . Ginger Hammond, just tive