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tk Id By BOB SYLVESTFR By CHARLES McHARRY OKd for Cops (Lonfinnerf from pagm 3) 73 who serve as precinct community relations officers were briefed at Police Headquarters on methods of educating the public on the risks and dangers involved in vigilante actions. The sessions Home Cooking "Us stenographers and secretaries and gal workers in this town are on a brand new crusade," whispered a secretary I know. "We are going to slow down those fast food places and those fast drug stores In price at least. I know at least 10 groups of girl employes in Midtown firms who are sick and tired of the slop that is thrown at us at luncheon for the prices they think we should pay. My particular group decided on its revolution when one of us paid $2.85 before tip for an undercooked, greasy bacon and tomato sandwich, a cup of weak coffee and one of those tiny cups of cole slaw which are cured in sour vinegar.

What have we done about It? Easy. We eat lunch at home. Somebody's home. It goes The Big Apple Norbert Kearns Sr. of Howard Beach writes: "It's curious how the apple, that wonderful fruit, crept into our language.

If we cherish someone, the individual come the apple of our eye. If something is in good condition, we say it's In apple-pie order. A person who curries favor is an apple polisher, and someone spreading hokum is dishing out applesauce. When a ballplayer chokes' up, he's got the apple, and if you spoil one's plans, you upset his applecart. Anyone fomenting trouble Is introducing the apple of discord, and, of course, New York City is the "Big Apple." Yes, Mr.

Kearns, our town is indeed called the Big Apple, among other designations, and I like this: CAM WE -ET "TlMB FOfZ TOMORROW; "In an office there Is a girl or a couple of girls who live reason I VCTUPOJ'T don't know whether you have noticed, but a few weeks before you dispatched your note, we wondered in this column about the term and how it began. There were a number of answers, most of which placed the origin in Harlem. Here's a bit from leader Larry Tillman: "Back in the late '20s and early '30s, when Harlem was the showplace for out-of-towners, everyone visited Small's Paradise and an adjacent bar called the Big Apple. "Many black artists got their start in the Big Apple's little back room that was always crowded with white patrons, so when they returned home they talked about the Big Apple, spreading- its fame internationally, and it became synonymous ably near Manhattan or in quick Queens or not so distant Brooklyn. So we all whack up the cost of some decent sandwich material and, on big days even a bottle of wine, and we go to the girl's apartment and have ourselves a nice, leisurely lunch.

It's a petty mean boss who doesn't expect his gals to take at least an hour and a half for lunch in these modern times. That's more than enough time for a subway ride and a lunch fit to eat. "Furthermore, If our hostess and co-worker doesn't live too far away, three or four girls can split a taxi cab for only a little more than pubHc wiu continue toaay. Marchi Bares His Plan To Combat Crime State Sen. John J.

Marchi, the GOP mayoral candidate, revealed his own anticrime program yesterday by charging that a vote for any of his three opponents would be "a vote for mugging." He was quickly challenged by an angry Rep. Mario Biaggi, the Conservative Party hopeful, who declared: "I resent Marchi's slur. It is an asinine statement, worthy of an apology to myself and the other candidates." The Marchi program, included proposals to declare "a state of crime emergency" in the city as his first act in office, the naming of a deputy mayor for crime enforcement, "concentration" of police anticrime efforts, and special guards for crime-infested buildings. Korean War Spy Will Study Law New Britain, -Sept. 10 (UPI) John T.

Downey, the Korean war spy who returned to his hometown after 20 years in a Chinese prison, is going to Harvard Law School, it was learned today. Downey, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency and was shot down while on a spy mission over China in 1UH9. re turned last March. Just to be fair and square, as I always try to be, I called a boss I know who is afflicted with an entire floor full of secretaries and stenos. He said yes, the whole back-to-the-kitchen-lunch-movement is indeed growing.

"We have no objection whatever," he admitted, "except for that damned daytime television." And what did daytime TV have to do with a cheese sandwich and a cup of tea? "They can't resist turning on one of those old movies on TV," explained this boss, "and they get so hung up on the silly film that they can get to be half an hour or more late for work. Matter of fact, I am going to propose to our efficiency expert (and I call him that with my tongue In both cheeks) that we buy their food every time they come back to work on time." Local Notes: On most lunch hours, these weekdays, a juggling mendicant takes over the steps at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Ave. in the 60s, juggles five tennis balls and then passes his hat for donations. When "Fantasticks" producer Lore Noto gets through with his 13-year-old musical each night he plays pool at McGirr's on Eighth Ave.

until 4 a.m. And then rides the subway CHING CHOW THOUSAND 1RIENPS KAAV NOT ENOUGH IF-VCXJ HAVE ONE with New York." Then this from Manhattan's Allan W. McMillan: "The source of Big Apple relates to an incident between Clayton (Peg Leg) Bates, the great one-legged dancer, and Bill (Bojangles) Robinson. When Peg Leg arrived in New York in 1927, the Lafayette Theater was located at Seventh Ave. and 131st and performers would congregate in front of the theater every day and touch the Tree of Hope and wish for a job.

"On this particular day, Bojangles, booked to star in Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds," came by to talk with Peg Leg, booked to appear at the Lafayette the following week. Robinson said to Bates: "Say, kid, I hope you do okay here because this is the Big Apple, and if you do make good here youll do okay in show biz." Offering an entirely different explanation is Arthur Walsh of Bellerose. He states: "New York State boasts 38 varieties of apples. It's An Apple State John (Johnny Appleseed) Chapman (1775-1843), the eccentric who devoted himself to scattering the seeds of fruit trees throughout the -Ohio Valley, collected his seed in northern New York. The prime market for this produce is little old New York, the "Big Apple." "During the '30s and '40s," writes Broadway's Howard Weiss-man, "those of us who grew up in New "York danced the Lindy and regional of it together with the Shag and improvisa-tional Shine numbers in which one pair of dancers danced while others formed a circle to encourage and applaud.

All of the dancers had their turn, "This grew into the Big Apple, a mixture of square and round dancing centering on our own steps. At this time Walter Winchell and others" called Broadway the Main Stem. Is it possible that if one street was the Main Stem, the whole town surrounding it was the Big Apple?" rr home to Forest Hills. That's pretty fantastic all by itself. Show biz ain't all bad.

You have to wait three years to get on the backers' list for any Hal Prince production. The new fall rage in women's jewelry may be "pave faced" wrist watches. Each watch consists of 150 carved blue-white diamonds. Not in the shape of numerals. No, indeed.

Just in the shape of diamonds. You can get yours at Bueche-Girod on Fifth Ave. for a mere 540,000. dene I-rankel has directed the incoming "The Silver and Queen Saloon," first of the country and Western musicals. 1 nervous about the Daily News critics," admits Gene.

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