Townsend High School - Optimist Yearbook (Vickery, OH)

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im? Again, I go back to the office. And now I have an assign- ment to cover a new Broadway show. It is an oddity because the entire show is made up of only three people, and no one has ever seen the faces of those three. They wear masks during all their many acts. And what acts!! They do juggling, singing, playing instruments fpiano and two guitarsjg they do whole Shakespearean plays in pantomme, they wrestle fthough every- one thought that went out with televisionj and they even get around our national laws and conduct give aways. They're called the SLC's Cpronounced Slicks J and brother! they really are. What a show!! good for a matinee. But now that it's over I think I'll go back stage and try to see these gentlemen. Here's a dressing room with S on the door. I'll knock. Three beauti- fully harmonizing voices answer Come in. So in I go. Oh, no!! What to my wondering eyes should appear but the SLC's without their masks who are no other than: Simons, Joe of course: Lutes, Wayne: and Carey. Which Carey? Frank of course. We re- minisce a bit and I find out all the details of their once agvain joining forces and combining talents. It seems Joe wasn't making out so well on his ranch in Texas, Wayne had given up farming shortly after graduation, and Frank, well, his story is too sad and long to relate here. A If I hurry, I can just make it ,back to the office to make my deadline. Something seems to be holding up traffic, My good- ness, what's that marching down Broadway,--a parade? I'll in- quire of this lady here. Yes, she says, it's a parade. A parade of iome Ohio farmer and his 15 children plus a cow. This I must loo into. Calling one of the children aside I asked, what goes on? He replied, Dad lost an election bet. Oh, and what's your name? I said.. Wayne Lortcher, Jr. was my answerq That does it. Another day like this and I quit the news- paper work. Things like this aren't even worth that big, bold by-line that says-Carol Thayer. QQ The End. Q 3- If f , A , - xffff W fi' xi'