Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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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

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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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WVALTHAM HIGH SCHOOL feet of cheer-temper for Pittsley University during the gridiron season, brightly remarked that she thought scrub teams were formed to keep the vars- ity players clean. Tom Maher, antagonist of the machine age, claims, Machines, so what? .... Love is still made by hand!' '.... Charles Woc lbury, who speaks so often on the Boston Common, was re- cently asked to speak at the graduation exercises of O'Reilly College. Mr. Woodbury informed the studes, You'll never amount to much. That thing called success comes to one man in every proverbial thousand . . . but, of course, if you want to TRY . . . that's YOUR business! Students Fran Punzo, Lillian Sheridan, Caroline Ferrasi, and Antionette Demeo concluded that Mr. Woodbury was either a communist . . . or a Republican! . . . Teacher of mathematics at Waltham High, Norma Bian- coni, says that most boys can't add, but they cer- tainly can distract! .... Title-holder of the Miss Waltham contest, lovely Peggy Shriner, is nick- named by her current Big Moment, Ralph Malm- gren, Hinges, because she's something to a-dore! Philosopher Frank Mase was heard making an observation of the vast popularity of Ferdinand with The little bull has certainly gone a long way! . . . Now didn't we TELL you so! . . . Did I ever tell you about my conversation with Presi- dent Winslow MacDonald? .... No? .... Well, we were both walking our dogs on the White House grounds, and then I saw him fPresident Mc- Donald, of course!j. He was coming along the sidewalk in my direction, and me and my dog came along in his direction, and then we met . . . and I was just SO nervous! .... And then the PRESIDENT of the United States said, Your lit- tle dog likes my little dog doesn't your little dog?' '.... And I said, Yes! ! ! With this, Barney concluded his lengthy tirade of naughty, but nice, news notes. He collected his column, now ready to go to press, and yelled for Walley, messenger boy for the World-News cityroom. The boy beneath the crop of blond hair me- andered slowly to the reporter's desk, took the papers from Shaw, and grinned maliciously ..... Hey, Barney, he ventured, complaint number 1001 in the form of some guy named Chuck Ed- wards is here to see you ..... Yeh, an' he says you're another Abe Lincoln - - - always for the peep-hole, by the peep-hole, and through the peep- hole! Barney grinned, opened his mouth to reply, but the hurricane of Mr. E's wrath blew in on them. just where IS this Barney Shaw? That's it, pointed young Walley. YOU - - - Barney Shaw, stormed complaint number 1001. Why, you CAN'T be - - - You're a- - -why, you're a - - You're right, Mr. Edwards, answered the scoopster. Barney Shaw's a 'WOMANV' Yes, and you're - - - why, I know YOU! . . . You're name's - - Right again, Chuck! My name's Smith . . . Justine Smith! JUSTINE ROBERTA SMITH, 1939.