Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Readers...
...accustomed to seeing this column start out with "Dear Tula", for that is the regular writer's one and only thought these days. In fact, Melvin Parnell, "Flotsam and Jetsam" originator and penman, has done such a good job of writing these letters to Tula that things have begin to happen fast and furiously. Tula is no longer in far away Chicago, but right here in Cambridge...
...course it is a secret where they are going. Mel wouldn't dare tell any of his "thoughtful" friends this dark secret--not since he heard what the Smith boys of Company C did to their "dear" name. sake, Hollister Smith, on the latter's wedding night several weeks ago.. The boys were so solicitous of Hollister's welfare that they called him long distance--Cambridge to New York City--just to ask him how he was. He mumbled an "all right" from his hotel room in New York and hung up. It is even rumored that the charges...
...Dear Tula...
Phonograph antiquarians, who hunt for sacred if scratchy records out of the dear dead past, had a wonderful prize offered them last week. It was a 1912 disc of the late great Lillian Russell, singing the hit of her career, Come Down, My Evenin' Star. Copies were issued by Manhattan's Collectors Record Shop. The recording showed its age. The sound of the little string orchestra that accompanied Lillian had the antique flavor of the wormholes in a Gutenberg Bible or the patina on a Hellenistic bronze...