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Their creations were used to frighten difficult children. As George and I always liked a little recreation we left the bus- iness section of town and headed for the amusement center. Upon entering the gym, we were reminded by a poster that Joyce “The Killer” Bayliss was wrestling “The Thin Girl,” who was none other than Helen McLaughlin. Joyce weighed 176 while Helen carried about 250 pounds. We passed through the corridor and on to the basketball court. There, two teams were battling it out for the championship. One belonged to Margaret Ellsworth, and the other to “Mr. X.” They made so much money with their basketball teams they opened a night club down town and called it the X-Ell. Their favorite per- formers were Galinos and Neilsen. Marian played the piano while Caroline sang and danced. While we were doing a few exercises in the gym, Secretary of State, Leo Govoni, entered for his daily exercise. He told us that Marcie Jones and Margaret Keating joined the “Wacs” to be closer to their husbands in the Navy. Having worked up quite an appetite in the gym, we walked across the street to Eleanor’s Swedish Restaurant. After Eleanor got out of school she replaced Mrs. Rogers as Representative. With the millions she made, she retired and built a restaurant. She had the finest Swedish food in Burlington. Ethel Jones provided en- tertainment for Ekwall’s restaurant with her forty piece “Hill-billy Band.” After leaving the restaurant, we crossed town searching for the Steamship Company. There, “Steamboat” Gould owned his own lines and did quite a flourishing business. Larry Azevedo had be- come a pilot and helped “Steamboat” out with his transportation. Having seen most of the city, we headed back to the residen- tial part of town where Burlington University was situated. When we entered the University, Miss Govoni, the secretary, told us that Miss Clark, the Superintendent, was out on official business. How- ever we roamed around the corridors and looked in several of the classrooms. In the Art class, Dorothy Murray was doing a fine piece of work teaching the pupils how to draw curves and angles. She told us she worked part time at Marinacci’s Halfsome, because she was donating her artistic talents as an act of charity. As we looked over the class of “’48” we found that Norman DeMone, an old married man, was still trying to get out of the twelfth grade. He said he was going to wait for his son to catch up with him. As the effects of the opium wore off, the vision of the future gradually grew dim. I quickly seized a piece of paper and jotted down the facts which had been revealed. Let us hope the class of °48 will look with satisfaction upon the shining careers awaiting them. Norman DeMone [e275]
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Prophecy The prophecy for the Class of “48” is amazingly strange. Phen- omenal ideas and dreams of the future come to those who indulge in the smoking of opium. Being a habitual addict, I am an expert on the wonders of this drug. Last evening as I sat at home inhaling the fumes, a heavy mist closed over my consciousness and trans- ferred it into the subconscious. As the mist began to settle I found myself on a street corner by a newstand. Buying a paper, I found the year to be 1958, and the metropolis, Burlington. In banner headlines on the editorial page I noticed a scathing article against “The Slums of Burlington,” written by that noted crusader against social evil, Lila Dupee, the owner and publisher of Burlington’s most important newspaper. Turning to the comics, I read my favorite strip, “Little Agnes” by that noted cartoonist, Fearless Foster. While looking over the classified gossip section, I noticed a headline. It stated, “Fran- cis Gentile is lecturing this evening at the Burlington University. His subject will be, “The Finer Points of Old English Lettering.’ ” I slipped the paper in my pocket and proceeded down the boule- vard. As I passed a dark alley a low voice accosted me from a deep shadow. “Hey, Bud, gotta dime for a cup of java?” I turned around and came face to face with my old classmate, Georgie Per- kins. His clothes were tattered and torn, and he looked as though he hadn’t eaten a decent meal in a week. He told me that ever since he found he couldn’t marry Betty Grable, he had completely lost his mind. Since I was famished myself, we entered Mary Mar- inacci’s Halfsome. She made her first million working in the Wholesome, and set up a competitive business of her own. While we were waiting for our order, George said he was just about ready to move to Jimmie’s Place. Mr. Rogers was proprietor of the Mo- dernistic Mortician Service. His favorite slogan was, “All our bus- iness 1s on the level.” After gorging ourselves with Mary’s fine Raviolis, we walked up the street to the Opera House. There, Janice Reed and her thir- ty-five male musicians were playing Romanoff’s Fifth Symphony. The show was an excellent one, but being anxious to see the rest of the city, George and I left early and continued up the boulevard. After walking a block and a half, we came upon a theater. The name of the picture was “The Red-Head Walks at Midnight” star- ring Joan McGowan and Don Ellsworth. Of course Don played the part of the Red Head, and Joan played the part of a notorious gang- ster. It was quite a picture. Across from the theater was a beauty salon managed by Jackie Graham and Marie Chaplin. They said it got quite boring waiting on women all day so they built their es- tablishment of glass, enabling them to see the men walking by. Next door to the salon was a women’s haberdashery where Barbara Bitzer and Helen Cabral created the latest styles in women’s hats. [ 26 ]
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