Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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T was only upon the contrnued exhortatrons of both parents and physrcran that we decrded to attend, as our first recreatron rn three years, a performance by Sheepshead mas ter prestrdrgrtator and medrum At the theater we were enjoyrng the spectacle when the trme arrrved for the trrck of the evenrng Lrke all good members of hrs professron, Sheepshead rmmedrately called for the cooperatron of hrs audrence, ask mg rf anyone would allow hrmself to be put rnto a trance urte accus tomed to such a practrse after seven terms at Townsend Harrrs Hall we volunteered although only after he had promrsed to brrng us back to our old state whrch, as we have sard was not much of an rmprovement The agreement berng made we rmmedrately got down to busrness One tall fellow rn balloon pants grabbed us by the neck whrle another Hrndu, wrapped rn a patch work qurlt, manhandled us as rf we were a package marked Fragrle I fact, the entrre process resembled a physrcal exam at school, only one drdnt have to answer any stuprd questrons After they had us straght Jacketed Sheepshead began to mut ter somethrng whrch sounded almost as bad as a first term German student, when We were roamrng the streets of New York, pockets bulgrng wrth money, but at the same trme, frrend less, forsaken, and wrth a heart sad rn rts yearnrng for the frrends we The Semor knew at TH H Frnally we bought a second hand copy of the Frehert, when, much to our drsgust, our eyes met an eleven column artrcle wrrtten by Henry Block, and rllustrated by Dunbar Roman, on the rns and out of the Peruvran sewer system Unconscrously we opened to the feature sectron but, too lazy to rarse our half closed eyes to the top of the page we began to read And although many Representatrves do not realrze the true relatron of Whats thrs we asked ourselves Ha' As we thought Melvrn Good man rs wrrtrng another drssertatron Cl'1Cy Desrrrng somethrng of a lrghter vern we decrded to see a musrcal ex travaganza We opened to the theater page and there rn bold type was a dramatrc crrtrcrsm of Brkales new presentatron Horrrfyrng the Amerrcan Grrl, wrth Scotty McDer mort Ah here rs the thrng sard we breakrng rnto a run But whats thrs? Well well so thrs rs the Wrllv Van Rosebroeck Funeral Chapel? And Vmcent Montalbano rs Socral 3 - 0 7 7 a I l 9 ' ' 7 7 . u , ' . . ' on the 'The Man and His Constitu- Q! ' .lf I-1 ' - ' Q f if , - - rn - .L . ,- a ' ' 9 a . U g 1 Page Forty-two

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Prophesy Director? We always knew those boys would carry out whatever un dertakrng came therr way At last after escapmg two trucks and a sedan we reached the subway station and recervrng the wrong change we looked up to drscover the agent was none other than Bert Rap paport up to h1s old tricks We began to walk lersurely to wards the wartrng tra1n when ZOW1Cl pack us 1n the car Glancmg over our shoulder we not1ced Charley Ordman glrmmermg from beh1nd a subway guards badge No sooner had the tram begun when we heard a crash felt a wrndow pane on our head and smelled a tenfic odor But as we had expected rt was none other than the playful and rndustrr ous Maxwell Wertzman revolver 1n one hand and a mrxture of sulphur and z1nc rn the other tryrng to de termrne the respectrve strengths of each In a short trme the tram arrrved at Trmes Square and alrghtrng we proceeded to the street There on the corner was a large crowd 1n the center of whlch stood Kurt Lehman on a da1s by Krrkman swayrng the assemblage w1th those 1mmortal words Step up folks only a drme ten cents At the theater we were greeted by the flat nasal Yeah of Edward Schlessrnger actually 1n office Even 1f lf was only a box office he had still the laugh on Danny Hrrschl and erry Buslrk who were st1ll run nrng up and down the a1sles search lrghts 1n hands In sprte of jerrys drfficulty 1n read1ng numbers and after berng ousted from f1ve drfferent places we finally seated ourselves rn the last row of the second balcony After readrng the short story rn the pro gram wrrtten 1nc1dentally by the far famed Wrlham Grbson we wart th1s9 Well we ll be darned 1f If 1sn t Edgar Kerner prernrer danseur and the Amado Canton Grrls Thus rt was that we decrded that New York was too far gone We then boarded a shrp manned by Meltzer and Lavrne of aquatxc fame We soon became desperately 111 and upon awakenrng we thought we were 1n heaven But no we were merely feast1ng our eyes on the wh1te garb and angel1c features of jack Wolfson the Sh1PS steward We finally awoke and saw a man who seemed strangely fam1l1ar Its Sheepshead' No Sheepshead rsnt Sheepshead at all It IS only Don Kern 1n drsgurse 7 7 it 7 . 7 7 li 77 , . - J 2 ' . . , - , . A , . . , . . . . . , , , . ' 1 , . , . . . , v , . , . . , , . - 1 a , - Someone from the rear began to ed for the curtarn to r1se. Whats . Q . O , 7 7 7 , . a i ' - 3 , , . . u , 7 7 ' 7 7 7 ' 7 7 , - . , . . . , j 7 7 ' ' 7 ' 7 , . , . Pg F ty-th