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The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 24

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The Pantagraphi
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Bloomington, Illinois
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THE PAXTAGRAril. ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, MARCT SO, CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM rruT--'- nvX 'r x. Jokes on Kremlin Set Regular Airing Prosecutor Finds Real Frustration At End of Trip Centre College To Honor Vinson With Memorial pSjwoy(3jujLiy Comedians Poke Fun At Commies 1 LAM LIN, V. VA. JV Prose cuting Atty.

R. Woodall was in Crusade for Freedom, Is usually thought of as an organization whose primary purpose is to Florida on a Sunday. A murder case was to come up here at 9:30 a. m. Monday.

Because of bad weather the airlines could get him to Washington, but not to Charleston. W. Va. In Washington his train had DANVILLE, KY. -UV- A shy bat determined young maa who was later to become chief Justice of the United States once begsed officials I Cer.tre College to enroll him for the senior year his pre-law studies.

Fred XL Vinson arrived at Centre in 19C3 from a small, con-accredited junior college ia the foothills of Eastern Kentucky. lLs beam truth to countries "blacked out" by the Iron Curtain. Supplying truth in radio broad casts, newspapers and through left but he lavishly tipped a cab driver and managed to catch it in i 7 other media is a serious business Alexandria, va. i j) Since the train would arrive in. emits didn't measure up to Cen- Charleston too late, he wired! I ahead for a chartered plane at I White Sulphur Springs.

The plane but the Crusade has a lighter side. Ruth Nathan, feature editor of magazine information, writes that hot or cold war, laughter is as effective a weapon as guns. To illustrate the point she tells of the Crusade's regular practice of transmitting a barrage of jokes on limited, but officials admitted yours: Vinson after he vowed to XT? got him to Charleston, at 7:10. II 1 7 lead in his class studies if they'd I lis car was parked at the air I mm-m mm port, and he headed for home. His car was damaged in a colli Eddie Cantor Garrv Moore sion but he drove on anyway.

i --r- At 9:30 he arrived in court let him in. Vinson kept his word and made a scholastic standing perhaps as high as any ever attained at the 137 year old Presbyterian-supported college. Ills grades averaged 93. Later In life, the chief Justice explained that "as a jailer's son Then the defense moved for con 1 lie. -i.

tinuance of the murder case. The judge granted the motion. the foothills, I was painfully the Kremlin and its activities to captive countries. Supplying these jokes are some of America's top comedians. Here are some of the brighter savings which darken a good Communist's day: Eddie Cantor When a Russian of the higher echelon is photographed these days, he throws up his right hand in a gesture of peace and breaks into a broad smile.

Let's not be fooled he's just laughing up his sleeve. Joey Adams I hear Bulganinis Helps Wife In Pinch 1 XV" 1 WICKLIFFE, KY. If) A lo cal citizen climbed on the roof, and lowered a chain down the; 1 1 shy and suspicious of anyone who wasn't kin to me." At Centre, he said. 'I learned to lov and enjoy people. Without that is pretty empty and vain." Now Centre is preparing to establish a $300,000 Vinson Memorial Foundation, which will provide a Vinson Professorship, Lectureship and Vinson Memorial V- few chimney to clear out the flue.

Ilis wife stayed in the house, holding a box over her head at the Cue's opening to catch the soot. The box overflowed, bathing the woman in soot and spreading it over the walls and floors ot all the rooms. pretty sick. Something he agreed OX A BENDER Doubling up for an exrrcUe with a double purpose is petite Mltxl Gaynor on the Hollywood set of "Anything Goes." Besides limbering Mltzl's body, the exrrcUe provides a good view or the dancer's pretty Irgs that stand perfectly straight as her palms flatten on the floor. with was eating him.

Garry Moore Since the start of the. Soviet Unions new "peace friendship-goodwill attitude toward America, the Reds are planning to hold more elections. But under this regime they do things differently than we do on Election Day, Over in Communist-ruled Roman ia, for instance, they keep the Joey Adams Jan Murray bars open and the polls closed. Jan Murray An American visi They've got nothing In those Com- that I went on to Prague. These tor in a Bulgarian restaurant com mie-ruled police states." are the most liberal and plentiful plained to the waiter that his soup Nonsense," the friend said: cities on earth plenty of free- tasted like a rubber tire.

"That's that's propaganda. Czechoslova- dom, lots of food, beautiful wom- Communist progress," the waiter kia has everything vodka, en. In fact, you can get every- beamed. "After only one genera women, song everything Po- thing you want, except red ink." tion, we've replaced the horse with land is about the gayest place I Henry Morran "Crusade for the automobile." can think of. Why don't you come Freedom asked me for mv favor- Earl Wilson a 1 Hartman with me?" he suggested.

ite Kremlin joke. I have no fa- hears that the Russians inspecting our mechanized farms left the No," the other answered, then vorite Kremlin joke for the same reconsidered. "Listen," he said, reason that I have no favorite United States feeling pretty sore 'when you get there, if everything cancer joke. Communism is just at each other. They couldn't de is as rosy as you say.

write me as hilarious as bubonic cide who was going to invent what and let me know." plague." Leonard Lyons Burnet Hershey tells of a political science student "That's pasv" th fripnd said. "But if these Red states are real-1 Pl who visits the Budapest public 11 Helpful I Wll vt ly not free," he added, "how can brary and asks the information I put that into a letter? I'll get iL clerk where he can find the book killed." hi vi imt: Leciiin "Unselfish Assistance of the So The other man thoueht a mo viet Union to World Peace." ment, then came uo with the an- uiuvtMbLiD, MAi6 The librarian replies: "Under swer. "Here what you, do," he ruute -mti uuam j. onneu 'fairy suecested. "If things ar rood, reportea crime at a bare mini- Joe E.

Lewis Two friends met write your letter in black ink: if mum and, when his listener on Broadway. "I'm going to War they're bad. write in red ink." prompted -quiet lor tne boys, PlfflW A A couple of weeks later the ceI reported these ac- saw, then to Prague for a vacation," one said to the other. "You don't say?" was the pu friend in New York received a let- uvmei wne "eeK ter that read: "Had a wonderful Aided children locked out ol 2led retort. "What kind of places time in Warsaw.

So wonderful house at night; cared for a stray are these to spend your vacation? horse and located owner; fixed broken pipe for an aged couple; TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT FOR: checked a dwelling for a gas leak at night; escorted a young woman from the railroad station early in JUNIOR EDITORS the morning; tied awning to store window to prevent it from breaking; notified a merchant TV set was running in his store; notified store manager of an un mm locked safe and waited until he arrived and locked it. Ana tnat, says Lonr.e as omy a smau part oi tne performed Science Lagging In Atom Town LOS ALAMOS, N. XL In this town of ultra-modern the youngsters haven't been rat ing too well in science, so teachers have set up special programs. Trop-Artic Motor Oil gives the protection your car's engine needs at every season of the year. It won't get too thick in cold weather.

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