European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse 9 weekend the Magazine of the stars and strikes february 1948 Dick Jones associate Sterling lord John Sharnik Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval production chief Steven Lakos assistant Ransom air vow George John Powers Dan Regan Martha Salter Grace Schmidt chief Hans Hubman Michael Vaccaro contributing editors mtg womb Rucheil Dorothy Arthur Joseph Werner Craif a race Eugene Morton Italy Betty new York William Stuyvesant lieutenant colonel William abtigle9 Italy communists face a Melton Davis 5 chum with Bubble Dan Regan 10 bavarian Wenmei prym 11 picture Tobies Little Man against the 2 ikes new House 4 new 8 sebum 15 How to be a 17 household verse Lyddle 19 crossword sad Bakers cartoon 23 letters to the 3 Over the column by the editors those United John Druckenbrod reporter in route Davos looks by Sterling lord books and reviews movie review Caw zone release movie now showing Over the weekend 3 4 16 19 20 21 of Tui Igstadt livelier wits and an in contributor to these Joan whose on leap year thought on the approach of february appear on Page has been called the poetess laureate of lower hut not to her she has been with end 4or the past two and a half yearn Cut sly manages the managing editors untidy office before the stripes Joan was with army special in Paris and she had come Down to the latter City from Wallasey to before the War her Fortune in Wallasey she was something of a Prodigy Compo cog from the age of most o her efforts were publicised but quite a few were published by the Liverpool its Tefs my father worked for them told by Way of explanation i got the five shillings six Pence for each of them keeping the stripes managing editor in line is a Fuu time Wirt Impi Tatiom to find enough time to rear an extremely Well behaved name of Eddys main in life is Root while her mistress rather fancy dessert that invariably appears on the menu As baked these Days miss Liddle writes verses when the spirit moves when i see something that strikes me funny the first thing you know in writing a verse about she concerning the origins her Poffs in the she was hard put to apply kids that one was sheer she told sheer the studios were jumping when re Porter Werner prym arrived in the sch Abing Art Colony to investigate life in the famous bavarian Boh Finiff Psge trym sound that the group of people usually labelled atheists or agnostics by the burghers of Munich had abandoned their paint pots and typewriters to join in the theoretically Christian preceding aside from ascertaining general conditions prym was interested in checking a statement by one Tho a Learned scholar and authority on the who sch Abing never had and never will have a shortage of pretty whats More they Are an intelligent Brand they Are always on the Lookout for new contacts and this often j results in Fasching with the Schwabinger convinced prym that Roebbert had spoken like a scholar pure the woes of a roving correspondent for weekend Are to get his Story of the chicle invasion of Europe with Bubble gum Page Dan Regan left Frankfurt in the dead of night on a Sleeper bound for six hours and forty minutes later he was roused from bed by a customs official who wanted to know what he was doing in Holland a perverse switchman had uncoupled regans Schlaf Wagen from the Liege bound flyer and sent it along with a train bound for our sleepy armed Only with belgian francs and travellers checks finally convinced the authorities he was not a spy but he was forced to buy a new rail ticket in dutch guilders which he could obtain Only by giving up travellers finally arriving in Regan settled Down to his first real meal in Twenty hours with real restraint he skipped the full course dinner choices and ordered the Blue plate Regan is no fool he knew hed have to turn in an expense the blow came he discovered after he had left the restaurant that the economical Blue plate special corned beef hash with one one hard Roll and spa water actually Cost him had forgotten the Dif Ference in Exchange rates Between belgian and French that night Regan met Joe the bubblegum and Learned that Bubble gum kept his pockets filled with a Good substitute for corned beef hash on the evening our report from those United states Page 4 this week is from the Busy typewriter of John an ins Washington weekends cover boy wading in the surf of the Pacific Ocean on Hawaii Waikiki Beach is Twentymon Thold Bill Bill was enjoying his first dip in the cover photograph and pictures for the Story Little Man against the sea Page 2 were taken by Bert letters to the editor 0 pioneers sir May i take my hat off to weekend for publishing the Pioneer Fife and Welcome to it by Virginia Neff in your january 31 she is an artist after my own heart we Are All living her Pioneer life but Shes first person who has been Able to give it Back with a be Lieve me you have to live it to appreciate who is Virginia Neff and where does she live by All Means give us More of Pioneer would be a Nice yours for continuing a Good Maga Augusta Beard Berlin the in order Virginia Neff is Robert Amer ican dependent living in Bentheim Auerbach with husband lieutenant Neff and a five year old girl and two boys aged three years and fifteen months re Pioneer life was her first published piece but she Hopes to have More she has prom ised to let us see More other writ ing but Date she Hast come across with if Beard knows any Way of making writers work when they dont feel like Shehas solved one of the most difficult of All editorial prob will probably receive a special pulitzer slighted sixth sir though All of us in the sixth con Stab regt know what unit portrayed Speed trap february 14 and Are duly we would like to inform you that there aint no such animal As the 16th regiment Alfred Yani Azat Schweinfurt Ebin go bhath1 it is indeed myself that is sorry to have to take up the shillelagh with weekend instead of coming across with the but Regorrah it is a sad Day for Auld Ireland when one of your contributors Speaks bad of the Little Isle and another of them Doest give us the wee bit of credit that is our sure now that i think of shame on yourself for publishing such stuff i am referring to Daniel far sons article Hyde january 31 and Fred doer flangers fantasy Ireland newest smuggling january Grimm himself should be jealous of the latter gentle mans the former was a grand but it scalded me to the heart when Parson said All Bonar Thompsons Fine sayings follow the traditional form of the British in the manner of Oscar Wilde and ill have you know that neither of these Fine gentlemen Are there As Irish As the Hills of Donegal and tis themselves would be the last to deny it it might Surprise the Haw de Haws to know that quite a few Learned men consider the great shake Speare himself an an tis in As you like it get the Broad hint if they can take it of course ire land has plenty of Genius to but tis More thana Little pathetic that England Lack of Talent makes her claim Irish writers As her this is International plagiarism on the grand i know that the English Are hailed As Good but what a shame it is they Are so Seldom Good winners or Good writers i suppose tis the Irish in me that makes me introduce a bit of but when Parson states that Thompson was born in Northern ire of an Ulster farm labourer 1 must disagree with him As the implication is that Northern Ireland and Ulster Are the they Are not Ulster consists nine six of which continued on Page 22
