Niles Junior High School - Milestones Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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IRVIN6 MANDELBLIT. QBR WAR HUMOR War is fhe grimmesf and mosf horrible business in fhe world. Our fighfing men are willing fo fighf fo fheir deafh, buf in fheir spare fime fhere is nofhing fhaf fhey like beffer fhan a good ioke. Here are a few of fhe many hundreds of jokes fhaf have sprung up during fhe war. Lieufenanf lin a ragel: Who fold you fo puf flowers on fhe ColoneI's desk? Orderly: The Colonel. sir. , Lieufenanf: Preffy, ain'f fhey? ' - 12: :I1 fi: :If Privafe Williams failed fo answer roll call one clay and when fhe Sergeanf invesfigafed, he found him seafed on his bunk Iaboriously spelling ouf a leffer. Wrifing fo your girl again, I suppose, growled fhe Sergeanf sarcasfically. Nof af all, said fhe soldier. I am wrifing a leffer fo myself. Indeed, said fhe Sergeanf, and whaf have you gof fo say 'ro yourself? I-low should I know, said fhe soldier, I won'f gef The leffer fill Monday. :is sg: si: si: The officer of fhe day was quesfioning a'rookie guard, infenf on finding ouf how well he had masfered fhe regulafions. Suppose you looked up and saw a baffleship coming over fhaf drill field fhere, whaf would you do? The rookie sfared af 'rhe officer in amazemenf and suddenly gulped ouf, I'd grab a forpedo and sink if. A The officer gave a diabolical faugh. Where would you gef a 'forpedo? he sneered. The rookie sfared him sfraighf in fhe eye and replied The same place you gof fhaf baffleshipf' . I A rookie. on his firsf guard dLify,i halfed fhe officer of fhe day for roufine recognifion. Whaf would you have done if I hadn'f halfed? fhe officer said. Why I'd have called fhe Corporal of fhe Guard, sir. Oh, no, you wouIdn'f. Whaf would you have done? Yes, sir, I'd have called fhe Corporal of The Guard fo help haul your dead carcass away. FRANK SINATRA-THE VOICE EEK. THE VOICE is passing by. Should I swoon or should I sigh, I'Ie looks so fragile, pale as fhe moon Oh, fhaf man, I fhink l'II swoon. Should I run and pull his fie? Oh-nof fhaf, I fhink I'II die. Should I run and kiss his cheek? Oh-nof fhaf, I'm much foo weak. When he sings, I'm filled wifh zeal, All my hurfs begin fo heal. For dear life fhe mike he holds, The girls do scream. I-Ie almosf folds. Oh, fhaf VOICE ,is passing by Should I swoon or should I sigh, I-le looks so fragile, pale as fhe moon. Oh, fhaf man, I fhink l'll swoon. ANNETTE BERGMAN DORIS WUNSCI-I 9Bl ...44..

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.,-. W5 mr T' ' Xjigiijge T 5 JANE EYRE The picTure, Jane Eyre had a very vivid likeness To The book excepT Tor a Tew minor incidenTs. The casT was well chosen and Jane porTrayed by Joan FonTaine does her parT wiTh greaT Teeling. Jane Eyre was The Type picTure To Take our minds oTT The desTrucTion and horrors OT war around us. The sTory is a moving one and iT leaves you moTionless, speechless. and uTTerly pleased. The sTrong love OT Two people 'iighTing againsT Their loT in liTe all woven TogeTher makes a grand- Siory' LUCILLE MELE, QA3 THE NORTH STAR . The NorTh STar is a picTure oT grim realism. lT is abouT Russian people living in a SovieT village. IT is a sTory dealing wiTh The Nazi invasion oT Russia on a beauTiTul June Day. The Town is siTuaTed near The German border. Following The end oT The school Term The youngsTers oT The village are on a walking Trip To The ciTy when suddenly They are Tired upon by German bombers. Surrounded by Traged and deaTh, They suddenly come oT age. AT The same Time back aT The village, Their parenTs decide To burn Their homes and coops so ThaT They wouldn'T Tall inTo The hands oT The Germans. The duTy Then Talling on The children is To deliver needed ammuniTion To The Russian Guerillas in The mounTains. This They do, going Through one oT The mosT heroic baTTle scenes ever shown on The screen. All The deTails oT resisTing The ruThless. hearTless. cruel enemy are shown in greaT deTail. Ann BaxTer gives an appealing perTormance as a schoolgirl in love wiTh one oT The village boys. Farley Grainger, who is blinded by a Nazi hand grenade. Two oTher ouTsTanding children are Jane WiThers and Eric RoberTs. Dana Andrews plays a dashing young piloT, and WaITer Brennan. an elderly Tarmer who helps To deliver The ammuniTion. OTher villagers who so bravely deTend Their village are WalTer l-lusTon, Ann Harding. and many oThers. Eric Von STroheim and lvlarTin Koslic play German docTors whose business iT is To bleed The children To provide blood Tor TransTusion To The Nazi wounded. These scenes made a greaT impression on The minds oT Those who saw iT. LENORE RUBIN. 9A3 Some oT The boners ThaT occurred in Mrs. Browne's ariThmeTic classes. l. The square oT The hippopoTamus lhypoTenusel. 2. An icicle lisoscelesl Triangle has Two equal sides. 3. To biscuiT lbisedl a line means To cuT in halT. 4. There are Three inds oT cemeTeries lsymmeTriesl-line, poinT. and plane. 5. To coin lcoincidel side means To TIT upon each oTher.

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MY MASTER JIM A Poem BASED ON THE sronv or A noe My masler .lim has gone away once more. Bul' here I wail al' his bedroom door. Manyda s have passed. Where can he be? l'm sure he hasn'l forgoflen me. . Weeks have passed, monlhs have dragged by He slill isn'+ home, I wonder wh I+ has been a year Io This very dfay Since my Masler Jim has gone away. Why doesn'+ he come, he knows I wail- When l hear his loolsleps, l'lI run To 'rhe gale Three years l've no+ heard 'lrom Jim, my masler, Could he have mei wilh sad disasrer? I'm also geliing old and weak, I+'s hard lo run 'ro 'rhe garden creek. Bul' Jim. my masler, is e'er in my mind, As a masler and friend so very kind. M Ihoughls are so lar. so far away I know my Jim will come home some day, Bul alas. I know Ihe day musl' come, When I will nor sil wilh Jim in Jrhe sun Bul fill lhal day. I'll +hink of him, My loyal and lailhful Masler. Jim. ' ALBERT SCHWAM, QA: SUCH IS LIFE In spring. a young man's fancy Lighlly Turns 'ro Ihoughls of love As he woos his sweel lair maiden 'Nealh lhe skies above. Now lei me fell you a slory, A mean and ugl lale. Aboul a sweel iiair maiden And her aggressive male. A He Told her lhal' he loved her And fhat she was The only one. She lrusled and believed him And Ihoughr his love she'cl won. One day while he was slrolling Through a liHle lown, He mel a girl and married her And Iel his old love down. She wailed ,lor her lover Unlil she losl' all ho es. She jumped info 'rllne river Whlch proves-'rhal girls are dopes. ADELE ROSENTI-IAL, 9AR 1 45 1