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THRILLING SHORT STORIES PUZZLES HUMOR STAGE SCREEN FEATURES RADIO PICTURES SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1941 Invader" 'Takes Over Captivating Penthouse Problems Tackled In Magazine For Sky Residents A -7 ii 'I1'1! II1 m.l" 93. ILWum' tm imp By Robert Barlow MANHATTAX, which tries to be first in eve rything-, can now boast that it has the -world's first penthouse reporter. This distinction falls to Mrs. Lillian Borehard, -who writes and edits a new magazine called "Penthouse and Terrace," a periodical dedicated to the problems and diversions of Gotham's ten thousands penthouse dwellers. beat," according to Mrs.

Borehard, embraces the approximately 5,000 penthouses and terrace Manhattan. Among its advant The oldest penthouse in New York, on top of the United States Army Building at the lower end of adds, "they almost always offer refreshment, liquid and soUd." ages, she explains, is the fact that penhouse people are unusually gray Although the movie? have dore and hospitable. "When I call upon them," she has ben inhabited for almost 40 years by a succession of their best to establish some sort of army officers and their families. connection between penthouses and Today, according to Mrs. Borehard, it's possible to rent a one- sin, Mrs.

Borehard points out that Hollywood is no more accurate in room penthouse for $75. At the other end of the financial scale is the sky bungalow on the roof of a this regard than it is any other. ACTUALLY penthouse people are city slickers who have suddenly Fifth avenue apartment house which cost its owner $250,000, Among its features are a putting gone crazy about gardening. Except for that, they're just like anj-one else. The only difference is that they give more parties." green and a bed so constructed that it can be made to glide out on the roof.

Penthouse dwellers in New York -rxi r-J Sr I jr I -i- tW ty i vci-tf xx x. xx include Kate Smith, George Kaufman. Edna Ferber, Jascha Heifetz, Conde Nast and John J. Anthony, radio's Good Will Counselor. Latest recruit is Joe DiMaggio, who has just acquired a sky palace on --r 7- West End avenue.

Fore some reason or other America's favorite batter objects to publicity about his new home, and Mrs. Borehard hasn't yet been able to track him down. "But I'll get a story yet," she Whatever its reputation today, the plain truth of the matter is that the penthouse, got off to a bad start. Centuries aero this form of habitation first appeared at the famous hanging gardens of Babylon, and the Oriental monarch who closeted their harems on these balconies gave them a bad name which has pe-sisted right down to the present day. The modern city penthouse evolved more or less by accident.

An ailing New Yorker, according to the story, was told by her doctor that she would have to have more air and sunlight if she wished to live through another winter. For various reasons she was unable to leave town, and her husband in desperation made arrangements for them to live in the three storage says, with a determination that would do credit to Richard Hard ing Davis. "And when I do, it'll be the penhouse scoop of the year." She's probably right, at that. HOW IT STARTED rooms which occupied the roof ofj their apartment house. Friend of the couple ii'io visited them in their makeshift i vjr i By Jean Newton- "A Hair of the Dog" IS nerves frazzled, his zest in Case Records Of a Psychologist life gone, Joseph Grimaldi, the "TjNit The Problem Clinic: By Dr.

George W. Crane Psychologist, Northwestera L'Eiversjty Intelligevre is defined as the ability to adjust successfully to one's environment. If you can pet a job and hold- it, win a vriie and rear family, then you demonstrate more intelligence than the college graduate who is a misfit in society or a hatless cherub as described below. A fat trav-half-? rack carrier of rcchaniztd forces takes Ttr "old swimming it" f.f tbe-e picnickers Ardmre. as it mrzw? Ict5 before be-r tuTed over to the -fd amy.

Known M-H car or armored it c2r. the farrier weighs fr-ur tfn; with its arn" or plates. It can And very too, is the Russian-born Frances Chaney, star of a. new Columbia dramatic program." A talented actress and linguist she's proficient in Russian, French, Italian and German Frances made her stage debut in Constantinople and came to America at eight. farm wasres are only $30 to $50 per month and one's keep.

Sometimes a married hired hand may be given a little eottag-e with an acre of ground around it and a chicken house. But the farmers I know expect their money's worth for every dollar they pay in wages. They don't go in for this leaning on shovel handles, so widely popularized the past six or eight years. home were impressed with the tun, the view and the breeze that they set up a clamor for roof-top dwellings of their own. Thus, in the Twentieth Century a group of New Yorkers rediscovered what the ancient Babylonians had known more than 3,000 years ago.

Around 1920, when the demand for roof apartments first arose, the New York building department had a regulation which prohibited the use of roof dwellings for commercial purposes. Only servants, superintendents and persons performing similar functions could occupy this advantageous location. BEFORE long a profitable trade in penthouse bootlegging arose. Handsome apartments, ostentatiously labeled "Janitor" or "Superintendent" for the benefit of building inspectors, were constructed on the roof and then rented out to eager tenants. When the building laws were revised a few years later, literally thousands of penthouses appeared in New York, starting a vogue which continues to this day.

ERVIX aped 21. is a college graduate. my school honors and diploma don't seem to do me much good right great English-Italian clown finally consulted an outstanding neurologist. "I would recommend," said the nerve specialist, "that you see Grimaldi!" "I am Grimaldi," was the toneless rejoinder. Perhaps the doctor did not know the identity of his patient: perhaps be did: and if he did, his advise was pattened on that in the old receipt books, which invariably counselled the sufferer from a hangover to imbibe sparingly of the stuff responsible for his katzen-jammer.

All of which sort of thing stems to the earthly lines in the earliest collection of English sayings, He3-wood's "Proverbes," circulation 1565. "I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night." he complained. "I've worn out a pair of shoes just walking around from one firm to another in search of a job. ANY OF our modern youths are dilettantes, flitting about Flas lies Of A rm ife Army Twins Meet Identical "CutUps" CAMP SAX LUIS OBISPO, Cal. Ray and Keed Johnson, enlisted men, are identical twins.

They were sent to the station hospital for identical oprra- lions. "They all tell me that business is slack, but they would be glad to hire me if conditions warranted it. Sometimes they ask me to fill out a questionnaire blank. "Dr. Crane, there any work for an able-bodied man?" -v! a-t as the and can nrarkments and Krtzrr.9.

Each car fight men and .30 i ') calibre machine In addition it can tow r-. cun. Six hundred 'Am are bein? built. labor because they have a white collar complex, while others who would gladly do pick and shovel labor cannot find an employer for their services. New England is full of litte farms with doors and windows boarded up, and nobody living on the land or cultivating it.

Here in the Middle the farmers want hired hands, but from one job to another, sampling it for a few weeks, and then quitting because they feel it is a waste of time to work until they have been psycho-analyzed or have gone through a vocational guidance examination. It isn't altogether the fault of our young people. They don't have enough horse sense. Our colleges fill them full of beautiful theories. A college professor of economics, earning maybe $3,600 per DIAGNOSIS yj ES.

THERE is plenty of work in this country, but many men don't want to stoop to manual ne diiubio surgery was formed by Drs. Lon and Jule Comroe, identical twins. THEY ALL GET OUR VOTES ONE-MAN SYMPHONY IN ACTION m.wrrmw i 1 year, tells them how to run big business. If this economist knew how to do it so well, do you suppose he'd remain on a $3,600 per year salary when he could actually go out into the business world and make 10 times that sum? Camp Forrest, Tenn. A privat" in the One Hundred end Eighty-first Field Artillery r.n.me out for calisthenics without an undershirt contrary to regulations.

Suddenly, someone saw General Ben Lear, a stickler for decorum, approaching in a car. Oh, oh," whispered an every-ready buddy, "faint quick." The soldier plopped to the ground awkwardly. Others pretended to give him first aid. The general's 5 An English professor, who never has sold a dime's worth of poetry, prose, short stories or even greet ing card verse, espounds very learnedly about writing salable copy. In my own field we have scores of nitwit psychologists who can't make a speech, write a salable story, or piece of acceptable advertising copy.

They hem and haw when delivering a public address or tremble in nervous fright and embarrassment. Thev couldn't sell auxo swept past. Then the private went to tb- hospital with a sprained ankle, Camp Gallon. Cal. Everybody at a Lakeside, rodeo laughed when Priate Frederick Hebert of Iowa, mounted the bull in a bull riding contest.

The spectators had indulged in round after round of thigh-slapping hilarity when other soldiers and sailors bounced off the big animal's back. But Hebert jockeyed the bull shout until the time limit pxnirprf snowballs to Eskimos. They are themselves, victims of meuroses and tics, or of divorce, and social mal x- 4 js-Kv NxX I adjustment. "VBVTOUSLY, I am taunting many i fS college teachers, hoping to rouse Then he lit a cigaret and com some of these second-raters from mented "I besen ridin? thm th! their smug compjacency. Students A3 I i7 .1 Tirh Jsci if I Us 3 i -1 v-fn 4 3 If I I I Ai fl.

2 ISA A I I graduating from such men are doubtless the sort who lost the following job: Some months ago thp trade magazine called "Hat Life" wanted to add a college man to its editorial department. The editor interviewed 14 young men for the job. Of these there were six who didn't even wear a hat! A man with horse Fense would at least have borrowed a hat when applying: for a job on a magazine devoted to stimulating more hat business in America. Since the liberal arts colleges 17 years. Last year I was champion all-around cowboy of th state of Louisiana." Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Private Gerald Schori answered the telephone at the information desk. The girl on the wire stated her case this way: She met a soldier at the municipal opera. She didn't know his name but he used to sing in the St Paul Civic Opera. She wanted to invite him and some other troopers to a dinner partv. And could the fellow to whom she was talking help her locate the gentleman of her quest among th 5,000 men at the post? "Sure." said Private Schnri.

Thi, is he," And he it was. ten i tJ I I certainly don't contribute much to your child's horse sense, please try to give him some before he aeave3 home. 15: (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, enclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope and a dime to cover typing or printing costs when you seek personal advice or one of his psychological charts.) The Debunker By J. Harvey Furbay, Ph.

D. fZyz-- -f 1 il I'' i 1 -A e'-H'5 fx, t- ifc I I t' Tip-Off A good look at the map will reveal the startling fact that almost the entire continent of South America lies east of North America. If 3'ou went straight south MEMPHIS. A sniveling seventh-grader walked up to his teacher and asked her to lend him a nickel. He'd forgotten his "protection money." It developed that a larger boy had been making the youngster "pay off" out of his lunch money or get thrashed.

Pretty candidates for the title of "Miss America of National Defense," are pictured beneath the American flag with mascots of the three branches of the United States armed forces. Left to right: Martha demons, with Navy goat; Mona Ohrtland, with flag; Frances Brix, with Marine bulldog, and Alma Carroll, with Army mule. Service men will select the winner in the national beauty contest to be staged in Venice, on August 17. A hundred or more girls will compete. from New York, you would land in the Pacific Ocean just off the west coast of Chili.

The westernmost part of South America i3 almost straight south of the tip of Florida, South America is southeast, not south, of North America. Tv Panhandle Pete'' Nash of the Music Festival held in Asheville last week. Mountains near Asheville, N. i He used a variety of instruments and a now? rendering "She'll Be Comin' horn from an old radio hooked up to his harmonica. Mountain" at the Mountain.