Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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Twenty-four candy in the movie capital’s Empire Thea- tre, which is managed by that great show- man, Edward (Three-Ring) Wixon. Another working girl who became dis- satisfied wdth her position is Norma Corne- lius. Norma, however, used a different tech- nique. When she got tired of slaving behind the counter of the local five-and-ten, she merely w ' ent to see Mr. Newberry. Result: J. J. Cornelius and Company. From Mashpee we learn that Lucinda Hicks has been elected as that community’s first woman selectman. She succeeds the famed Steven Peters, w ' ho is settling down to the life of a gentleman farmer in order to devote his full time to raising cane. A special symphonic concert will be given in the Quissett Opera House next week by Pete Peterson and his people-can’t-get-apart- ments-because- we’ve -got-all-the-flats orches- tra. Maestro Peterson is expected to play several selections from the works of the emi- nent temporary composer, John Powers, in- cluding excerpts from the famous Grand Avenue Suite”, known familiarly as the Short-Cut to Falmouth Heights”. While on the subject of music, it is in- teresting to note that Emma Medeiros has just won a damage suit from Dorothy Re- zendes and her makes-ya-wanta-go-home band. The damage? To Emma’s eardrums. Now a message from our sponsor, the makers of Weasel cigarettes: DAVIS: Get Weasel, the finer cigarette, today! HENRY: Weasel cigarettes are not only toasted, but also parboiled! DAVIS: They satisfy (some people). HENRY : Something new has been added to Weasel cigarettes: a six-cent excise tax! DAVIS: With men who know ' tobacco best, it’s Weasels, double or nothing! HENRY: Now back to Raymond Gram Cald- well and the new ' s! CALDWELL: We have just received w ' ord from our female Winchell, Miss Mary Sloat, that Lawrence Perry, climaxing twenty-six years of steady courtship, has finally gained Florence Neal’s consent to marriage. While on the subject of marriage, we are reminded that the former Miss Patricia Holden has recently taken as her fifth hus- band one Raymon Paltz. For reasons of se- curity (my security) names of the other four victims w ' ill not be mentioned. Ray, inci- dentally, once w r on second prize in a w ' orld w ' ide tail-tale contest. First honors, of course, THE LAWRENCIAN— 1943 went to the author of the Japanese naval communiques. Margaret Cassidy, after all these years, is still wowing ’em along the Gay White Way. Her most popular number is There’ll Al- ways Be an England”. Also in the entertainment world, we look with pride upon the achievements of that favorite comedy team of stage, screen, radio, and Morse Code, Carleton Miller and Eugene Higgins, who are now appearing in person and the R.K.O., West Falmouth. Next Thursday they w ' ill begin a limited engage- ment at Little Dan’s, the w ' ell-known night club managed by Stella Hicks on the Mash- pee Turnpike. Currently starring at the club is blues-singer Mabel Corey. The noted author, Raymond DePonte, has just finished another novel. This one is en- titled Murder at the Race Track”, or Por- terhorse Steak for Dinner Tonight”. The book has received favorable comment from the number-one literary critic of the day, Atina Fernandes, and thus seems assured of a good sale. A quick peek at the sports picture shows that the women ' s heavyweight wrestling champion, Miss Jean Barrows, will defend her title Friday night in the Fresh Pond Arena against a very promising challenger, Molly (the Mauler) Lehy. According to betting commissioner Warren Nickerson, the odds are that Miss Barrows, better known by her professional name, Big Bertha, will keep her crown. Also on the sports scene: a special mes- senger from upper Gifford Street repons that local boy Dennis Cruz, for the sixth year running, has captured first place in the all- Teaticket marble-shooting contest. Raleigh Costa came in a poor second, due largely to his unwillingness to shoot anything but square, spotted marbles. Now a few words from our sponsor, the Un-American Tobacco Company, makers of Weasel cigarettes. HENRY : Ladies and gentlemen, Weasel cigar- ettes are acknowledged by leading medical journals as the only brand which definitely cures all throat-soreness due to excess smok- ing! DAVIS: No other cough medicine can make this statement! HENRY : Remember, for every song Lee Davis sings on this program, a quarter of a million Weasels free are fed the Japs below the sea.

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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL Twenty-three Class Prophecy Durham Caldwell (The time is May 18, 1968; the scene, the broadcasting studios of radio station WHIZ. Grouped around a microphone are Durham Caldwell, LeRoy Davis, and Lester Henry.) (CHIMES: Bong! Bong! Klunk! ) DAVIS: This is station WHIZ, Nye Road, Massachusetts, on the air twenty-seven hours a day, eight days a week, Republican Stand- ard Time. It is now exactly thirteen o’clock, B-U-L-O-V-A, Ben Rus watch time. And now we bring you a special news broadcast by that noted commentator, H. V. Gram Swing Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell! CALDWELL: Good evening, ladies and gen- tlemen! The voice you just heard was that of our ace announcer, LeRoy Davis, the man who set television back thirty years. And now to get on with our program: Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Lawrence High School of the Class of 1943. As one of that illustrious group, I am extremely happy to be able tonight to bring you up-to-date on all its members. To begin with, seated be- side me are two well-known classmates, Mr. Davis, whom you were unfortunate enough to hear a moment ago, and that celebrated stooge and gagman (who ought to be gagged), the boy whose voice is killing mil- lions, Lester Henry ! (HENRY raises applause sign.) CALDWELL: And now the latest news of the Class of ’43! A bulletin just in from the War Depart- ment in Washington informs us of the as- tronomical rise and subsequent retirement from military service of that world-famous soldier James Antonellis. Jim. you’ll re- member, joined the Army twenty-five years ago as a buck private, determined to rise to the top. After reaching his goal several days ago, he was retired upon the special recom- mendation of the President with the per- manent rank of private, first class. Also from Washington, we learn that Rear Admiral Samuel Cahoon has been appointed head of the mathematics department at An- napolis. Nearer to home we find that Luana Wirick, who always wanted to be a private secretary, has finally landed a job — as secretary to drug-store tycoon, Lawrence Rowe, with the result that he sits in her lap while dictating. Bud’s rise in the business world has been phenomenal. Two years ago he took over his father’s small chain of four stores. To- day he has two Standard-Times routes and shines shoes on Saturdays. Maxine Holmes, most artistic member of the Class of ' 43, has just taken a new posi- tion, art director for the Burma-Shave Com- pany. Greta Garland also has an excellent art job. She draws the S” on Superman. Flash! Robert Peterson, the hamburger king, has developed a new-style meatball! We had hoped to have Bob Noce with us tonight; but, due to circumstances beyond our control, he was detained by Sheriff Gro- ver Bourne at Barnstable jail. The charge: bigamy. The women: Virginia Studley, the well-known poetess, and Edna Warren, woman lifeguard at the local bathing beach. And now a word from the sponsor of our program, the Un-American Tobacco Com- pany, makers of Weasel, the finer (?) cigar- ette. DAVIS: For your smoking pleasure, get Wea- sel cigarettes today. HENRY : Weasel cigarettes are made from the choicest blend of Turkish, domestic, and Am- erican tobaccos. DAVIS: Weasel cigarettes are queen-size, extra long to filter that sooty smoke! HENRY : Weasel cigarettes are packed in a special crush-proof package! DAVIS: Weasel cigarettes are also oval-shaped; so if they do get crushed, no one will know the difference. HENRY : Weasel nicotine has gone to war! DAVIS: Now back to Mr. Caldwell and the news! CALDWELL: Edward Dahlborg. as is well known, took his good looks to Hollywood several years back and blossomed into one of filmdom’s favorite leading men. His latest performance is playing the title role in Frankenstein, for the Thirteenth Time, Meets the Wolf Man.’’ The part of the Wolf Man is played by Richard Strand. Annette Augusta, after getting bored with selling candy in the Falmouth Theatre, also went to Hollywood. Now she is selling

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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL DAVIS: No ration points are necessary to pur- chase Weasel cigarettes. Get them today! HENRY: Now Professor Caldwell and the news! CALDWELL: Donald Croft, the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz alive, was re- warded for his feat with the appointment as warden of his old home. He writes that the prisoners on the Rock have a very fitting theme song: As Time Goes By”. Bill Knapp, upon completion of his course at Georgia Tech, returned to Cape Cod to pursue glamour girl fanet Thayer and a career as a successful engineer. Among Bill ' s engineering masterpieces are the suspension bridge over the local herring run and the new culvert under Route 28 in Teaticket. Another success story is that of ]ohn Bal- lard, inventor of the cheap-jeep with the steel-wheel, swing-wing, and boat-float: the first practical four-way vehicle, running on land, in the air, and on or under the surface of the water. (For a slight extra charge it squeezes oranges and mashes potatoes. ) A less happy tale is that of Dale Holmes. who amassed a fortune as manufacturer of Holmes’s Hotsy-Totsy Helicopters, only to lose everything with the advent of Bill Thayer’s rocket ships. Beverly Berg, who was so popular with the Navy that she was drafted into the WAVES, is still an old maid. She had a sweetheart in every port and couldn’t choose among them. Patricia Tollio and Betty Sample run their own quiz show over this station every Fri- day night. Their theme song: I ' ve Heard that Gong Before”. Only person to win the sixty-four dollar question so far has been Joan Trudeau. Her question: Who was Adolf Hitler?” Fire Chief Alvan Nickerson nearly burst a blood vessel yesterday morning when he was stopoed for speeding bv that fearless motorcycle policeman. Jack Tavaret. Jack. according to our on-the-soot reporter, Bob Moriartv. aggravated the situation by asking Nicky if he was going to a fire. Had it not been for the timelv interference of two ath- letic bystanders, Althea lllgen and Adeline Fish, there is no telling what might have happened. John Tsiknas. who could never finish a crossword puzzle by himself, finally Twenty-five teamed up with quiz-kid Paul Waters. To- gether they form the championship cross- word puzzle combination of Southeastern Massachusetts. Now a final, I hope, message from our sponsor. Incidentally, the opinions expressed in the following commercial are those of the sponsor and in no way reflect the views of anyone else. Mr. Davis! DAVIS: Ladies and gentlemen, I have but five words to tell you: Weasels are America ' s finest cigarettes. HENRY: This does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of our product by the War Department as that department does not en- dorse any products except dead Japs and Nazis. DAVIS: Well, ladies and gentlemen, our time is almost up; we’d like to give you some more: so we will. We now take great pleas- ure in presenting the person we know you didn ' t expect to meet: Durham Caldwell with more news. CALDWELL: Here is a human-interest story for you. When Dick Sample assumed the job of head football coach at L.H.S. several years ago, he vowed he’d never shave till his charges had beaten Barnstable on the gridiron. At the present moment Young Gov is searching for something to keep the moths out of his beard. Jeanette Bowman and Annie Grew have succeeded Irene Rich in the Rye-Krisp ads and gone her one better. These girls are so thin that both of them must appear together in order to convince the public they’re there. Carleton Wing, who spent twenty years in the Navy, gaining the reputation as the toughest C.P.O. in the service, finally tied a knot with Grace Kenerson and settled down ashore. After a few months of married life, the couple went to Margaret Simons and her good-will court for advice. As a result, Win%y applied for re-enlis tment, Grace ap- plied for alimony, and I’m applying for a motorcycle to get out of here quick. DAVIS: You have just been listening to the Voice of Horror ”. I mean this is LeRoy Davis, speaking for Durham Caldwell, Les- ter Henry, and the Class of 1943. HENRY: This is station WHIZ, signing off for good. ( Do you blame us? )