Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Feb. 3 I5 28 Mar. 6 n fflnclergractfualfe 2 dar? My first day in Evander. I feel like a little frog in a big pond, who was once a big frog in little pond. The place is immense. I could hardly find my rooms today. Mom says I can wear long pants all the time now. Maybe the fellows won't play tricks on me anymore when they see me with long pants. I got on the traffic squad today. I hope to be a lieutenant some day. I can hardly wait until I get early session. It's pitch black when I get out. Besides, I can't join any teams. I want to get on the football, the basketball, and swimming teams. I7 My midterms come next week. It seems ages since I was in public school. I wish I were back. 30 Whoopeel I passed all my examsl I feel as if I'm walking on air. Apr. 16 I visited Lenny today. He's the fellow in my civics and general science classes. I-Ie's a nice guy, but I think I'm smarter than he. I think we are going to be close pals. Mr. Werblow says I'd make a good scientist. I like Mr. Werblow. May 6 Saw dirigible Hindenburg flying over city today, six hours before it crashed in Lindenhurst. lune 13 The Prince of Wales gave up a kingdom for an American today. Maybe he's got a fairy book complex. I7 Monday is regents week. I think I'll go up to the Public School and talk with some of the teachers. I've been promoted. Lenny is going to the country. Wonder what I'll do this summer. 26 Iuly 2 Amelia Earheart is lost over the Pacific. Hope they can find her. Sept. 15 Gosh it feels good to be back in school. Never thought I'd miss it so much. I met all my old friends. Lenny has grown an inch and a half. He is almost as tall as I. 27 No fooling around this term. I'm going to work and get good marks. Oct. 3 Please God, why, oh, why did you have to include French in the curriculum? 13 Discussed Saturday's game with the guys. I wish I could get on the team. I'd love to get my major Nov. 15 Downtown all day buying clothes. Mom says I grow out of them faster than she can buy them. Dec. 15 Iapan's apology for Panay incident accepted. I-'rom the boos in the movies, it seems many would have liked us to fight them.

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cultured wit, Therefore- Information, Please and other quizzes depicting experts, or just plain people, in the act of sharpening their wits, The entertainment world was divided into two parts in the sum- mer ot 1940: The World's Fair and the all-year-round movies and theatres. With a day of record attendance, the Fair-a great show lor a great people about to undergo a great trial-closed in autumn 1940. The movies, as well as many plays at the beginning of the winter season, were largely musicals, constituting apparently needed escape entertainment. Others- The Ftamparts We Watch being a good example-reflected current events. Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator -a gibe at Fascism and Walt Disney's Fantasia - a bold adventure in the art of filming, held the spotlight on Broadway. Grapes ot Wrath, the film version ot the book by the same name, was also conside-red one ol the best pictures ot the year, and its director, Iohn Ford, who succeeded in capturing the few essential elements in the sad life of the Okies, was awarded the best-direc- tor-of-the-year prize by the New York film critics. In an era when popularity was being scientifically established by polls, America admired: Its greatest star -l'.D.R., W.L.W.-a good and spectacular fighter, Winston Churchill-even more so than Will- kie, Mrs. Roosevelt-symbol ot modern, emancipated womanhood Charlie Chaplin-the sublime and melancholy comedian of two generations. Polls-since we're speaking ot polls-were taken of everything, really without discrimination. Movies, personalities, desirability of double-features, etc., etc. Every now and then-- particularly at election time-a couple ot polls were counted among the victims of crude reality and were never heard of again. But the well-established ones, such as the Gallup and Fortune polls, held their own even it-once in a while-the wrong candidate got into the White House with the wrong number of votes. To sum it all up, we lived a hectic life and, between breath-taking events and many another unimportant but thrilling happening, we hardly had time to gather our thoughts. But somehow we smelled it in the air that we were the end of something and the beginning ol something new. And somehow, too, we felt that whether that some- thing new would be better or worse depended entirely upon our- selves and upon the fight that we were willing to put up for things that had so far served us well and made our lives worthwhile. And, possibly, it was that teeling that weighed down on us and made us think that ot all graduations ours should be a most solemn one. ALEX BICKEL

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Feb. 4 18 20 Mar. 5 I3 Apr. 20 May 20 25 Iune 3 4 6 7 9 20 July I7 Z6 Boy, am I glad this term has come already. I thought I'd never pass. I Being a lieutenant is not what it's cracked up to be. I thought I'd be something, but I'm nothing except a stooge for the captain. I guess the captain's the thing. According to Hitler's speech today, he wants a give and take policy. He'll take and everyone else will give. I think Chamberlain doesn't mind. Maybe he is looking for blessings and he realizes that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The Russians are 'still liquidating. I guess they use the courts to keep the judges working, everyone in Russia works. What's more, they may want to use them legiti- mately some day in the future, so they keep in practice. Finished Clarence Darrow's autobiography today. I think I'l1 be a lawyer. I resemble him in a lot of ways. I had my first fight in school today. I hope it's the last. One of the fellows wouldn't give me his name and in- sulted me. I should have called a teacher, but it would have made me look yellow. Besides, I was scheduled for a visit to the dentist anyway. I have the strangest feeling I'lI never pass the French Re- gents. Oh well, it's three terms off. Uncle Harry from Chicago visited us today. He says I've grown. Fire drills are wonderful. We shguld have more of them. Would never have passed Bio exam without assistance drill made available. I saw President Roosevelt and Mayor La Guardia pass down Eastem Boulevard to the World's Fair. A cop grabbed Arnie as he ran out to say hello. It's boring to sit in the study hall all day doing nothing. Cuts don't pay. G Ioe Louis put Max Schrneling to sleep in one round, to- night, to dream about Aryan superiority. , My teacher's as funny as a crutch, but I laugh all period. I've decided I must pass at any price. Lenny and I went to, the World's Fair today to see Howard Hughes land after a world flight. A screwball called Corrigan left for Califomia and landed in Ireland. He must have had his motors in reverse. Lenny got a swell shot of Ward as he jumped from the