European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. Ill no. 13 april 24, 1948 the Magazine of the stars and stripes editor Dick Jones associate editors Sterling lord John Sharnik Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval production chief Steven r. J. Lakos assistant editors Daniel Farson Ralph l. Harwood John h. Powers Dorothy n. S. Russell Grace Schmid Tarthur m. Brant Del Alwyn George chief photographers Hans Hubman Michael Vaccaro contributing editors Germany William b. Leo Russell tones. Dorothy Gies. Arthur Noyes. Julia Edwards. Joseph Fleming. Werner fanning. Austria Ernie heed. France Eugene Levin. Italy Betty Luros. New York William Stuyvesant lieutenant colonel William m. Summers editor in chief articles communist menace spurs German recovery by Jack Raymond 5 move Over maestro./. By Lawrence Newton 6 Sailor on the Bench. By Julia Edwards 10 serial terror House -. Part i of an eight part mystery by Rob Eden 19 picture stories father of Prince valiant. 2 doll size diesel. 4 Italy s army. 8 Suzanne looks to Hollywood. 11 College girls tour. 14 dear alligator7 features crossword. By Charles Erlenkotter 23 sad sack. George Baker s cartoon 23 departments a Manly letter to the editor Over the weekend .1 a column by the editors those United states sailing sailing by Henrietta Leith books. Notes and reviews movie review double life. U. S. Zone release movie guide films now showing Over the weekend 3 3 4 16 20 21 a note from one of our stateside correspondent plus the receipt of an irate letter a Manly letter to the editor this Page puts the subject of men this week. The note Calls attention to a new men s Wear idea in the u. S. Called the bold , As explained to us by an aggressive postwar tailor requires a firm american set to the jaw carried out in the lines of a few simple accessories such As wide spread collars wide ribbed socks wide patterned suits and wide brimmed with gunmetal Gra bindings. It occurs to us that what the designers have in mind in t necessarily a bold look at All but wide look something which most successful american males manage to achieve anyway aftera certain number of years of sitting at their office desks. Furthermore if the. Men s Wear lobby is trying to Fob this off As something new and refresh ing then there s something phony about the whole business. The wide Angle Collar we believe was first popularized by the Duke of Windsor and behave come to associate the style with the ancient period of his reign As Edward Viii. Wide patterned suits Haven t been news since our own under graduate Days which we recall Only faintly in connection with Coolidge rallies and. A Lune called horses horses crazy Over horses.", in snort we find the Prospect of this wide new world of fashion spectacularly unexciting. To whole thing smacks not of Progress but of reaction and we think the clothing people As presumably Loyal americans Are making a big mistake by bringing it up just now when any slight quaver of european Public opinion might Send the whole continent tumbling toward the communists. The author of communist menace spurs Ger Man recovery11 Page 5 is a former u. S. Army sergeant named Jack Raymond who sandwiched stint on the stars and stripes Between his two sessions on the new York times. Now the Frank Furt correspondent of the times Raymond was with the stars and stripes in Italy and became first editor of a weekly publication known As the stars and stripes Magazine a sort of out of Wedlock Parent of weekend. Raymond s stripes Magazine was a weekly supplement published in Paris in the summer of 1945. Though it was Slick and urbane it was also difficult to deliver and it never quite Gotto the troops who were stationed in Austria and Czechoslovakia. For the stripes staffers who a separate edition for these isolated troops there was no other answer than to publish a second Magazine a locally focused product which they called midweek redeployment and one thing an another led finally to a Hasty family reconciliation which resulted in weekend after the demise of Bot the Raymond brainchild and midweek. Now As if cementing the relationship Between weekend and his own Magazine Raymond has returned a Wel come expert on the German economic situation. Those United states Page 4 was written by Henrietta Leith. Associated press new York correspondent. There is an unsubstantiated Rumor around theban american airways office that stewardess Helen Reynolds a ked in be assigned to the new York to Frankfurt run because she liked to read week end. The Paa Fly boys watched her like Haw son 68 flights and reported that every time she hit the Excelsior hotel on Frankfurt s Bee lined for the newsstand and Laid Outher dime. No telling How this urge might have affected Helen s efficiency on the Job pan am officials decided so they went into conference and the result is that now Helen gels week end in new York along with everybody aboard. The airline describes it Asa service to passengers. When the traveler settles Down for the Long hop he is handed a copy of week end with the suggestion that this is the Way to get to know this strange occupation land he is about to visit. Weekend is the life of the . he is told. We Don t know How or Luce feels about this but we re Happy. It always bothered us to know that Helen had to Fly 4000 Miles each week just to read this department. Weekend s cover shows aspiring actress Suzanne Toffel tucked in for a Good night s sleep in her Home in Zurich Switzerland. In spite of he glamorous Hopes Suzanne looks to Hollywood Page 11. Suzanne is a Domestic creature who Cooks washes dishes and sews her own clothes. When Nick de Morgolin made this photograph Suzanne was about to begin a nightly ritual saying Good night to her collection of dolls striped pants and a Belt in the Back sir every Spring in Europe a great an wonderful discovery is made the Amer ican female discovers the Continental male. He is announced with All. The. Fanfare attendant on the arrival of anew Star. To the accompaniment of millions of heaving bosoms this Peren Nial old Gim crack is dusted off its worn spots painted Over and it is displayed for the. Delectation of the american female and the instruction and guid Ance of the american male. The earliest record of this Sham dates from 1633when, in Salem Massachusetts mistress prudence Crabtree was overheard Tell ing the other mistresses of the Essex county bundling Circle she wished she were Back in England where she said Yemen Are be the whitened Bones of this seasonal bore have been lately spaced up and exposed by you and your staff a Marshall plan for the Eadies april 10 in your occupation Godey s lady Book at surely an unguarded moment in an essay remarkable for its strict hewing to the line Laid Down by mistress crab tree in 1633, a person ducking behind the name of Mary Geyer gives another twist to the american male s Forelock and she thinks sends him spinning. Well i Don t know about the rest of your readers but pm getting to feel a Little fed up and a great Deal unappreciated. Personally i Don t care if All the Little girls of the Jones Junior High class of 33, run off with Portu Guese fishermen and get drowned Buti do think it s High time someone struck a blow for our much defense of course need be made for the american male who inspire of the raking he gets from types like Mary Geyer the blows to his mos secret experiences by the Kinsey report and the Day to Day kicking in the Teeth he gets while figuratively speaking tying Milady s shoe manages to taken All Comers fairly successfully. And indeed i am far too Gallant to beat the american female in print especially since America As Columbus discovered along with the continent is completely dominated by women and the form of government there is Best described As a Matriarchy. It might be profitable think to dissect the Continental male and examine his component parts in the Cool impartial Light of my experience with him. The Continental male More specifically the specie West of the Rhine is a dark Type and not very tall. He is Given to enhancing his height by the ,. Continued on Page 22
