Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1959, Tokyo, Japan An Inch hews and an Inch there m need a Tux see Sam Scogna by Robert j. Serling up staff writer Washington is full of important people like the president Cabinet officers generals senators and Sam Scogna. Sarn is very important to the nation s capital. Me rents tuxedos and ails. His of your old tailor shop contains about 1,000 lures tails White Coats and cutaways. And in a town that has some kind of formal affair going on nightly this adds up to a flourishing business. Sam is u gentle soft spoken Man who never gets sore at a customer. Not oven when lie brings Back a rented Tux perforated with cig Aret Burns which happens quite often. There was one High ranking government official who rented a Brand new set of tails and the next Day returned u Model that must have been worn to Lincoln s inaugural Ball. He insisted it was the one he rented Sam recalled so i let him get away with it. Hut never Sam buys a Tux at wholesale and Only about 40 rentals out of each suit. As Washington s oldest and biggest dress rental outfit lie gets the majority of hard to fill orders. Like a Tux someone ordered in a hurry fid coat trousers with a 42-Inch Waist and u Sie 14-und-a-half shoes. Turned out in was pro football Star Leon Hart in town for a sports dinner. According to Sam at least 50 per cent of the men attending the average formal dinner in Washington Are wearing rented t uses or tails. It used to be considered a social come Down if you did t have your own dress suit Sam explained. But that s not True anymore. In the old Days some of my congressional customers used to come in and explain their tuxedos were at the cleaners or being fixed or had t arrived from Home yet. All obviously phony excuses. Nowadays no one feels it s Neces sary to explain Why he s one of Sam s tuxes was used in an elec Tion Campaign. Seems a Texas Congress Man had an opponent who charged that the lawmaker was living like a King in Washington. The congressman had Sam s Bill for a rented dinner jacket photo graph d. Then he put the picture into wide circulation to prove lie rented his dress suits like any other Ordinary Man. Sam stays on the political Fence. After All a Democrat looks just like a Republican and vice versa in a stiff White shirt. About a year ago he moved from his old second floor shop to a new place on fashionable Connecticut Avenue. 4 Goren on Bridge East West v u 1 n e r a b 1 e. East deals. North West k q j 4 9542 10 9 7 v k q j a k 3 2 k q .1 9 5 East 4 9 8 3 2 10 7 i q u 7 4 3 2 South 4 a 10 g f a 8 3 4 j 5 4 al a 10 8 the bidding East South pass 1 4 pms 2 ptas 5 4 of a pass opening Lead owe of the in 14 West North pass 2 4 pass 4 it pass 7 4k pass King of 4-most provocative hands from the open pairs event of the1 nationals held last de Cember in Detroit is shown today. The contract most frequently reached was six no Trump which came Home when the Queen of diamonds dropped double ton. At other tables the final contract became variously six clubs seven no Trump and seven clubs. A mixture of Good and bad Luck attended one pair that arrived at a grand slam in clubs South holding 13 Points in High cards with three aces chose to Start with one club As a prepared Ness measure. North asked for an immediate review of the bidding to be sure he was not hearing when Given reassurance he embarked subsequently on 9 Blackwood Call and determining that partner had three aces be contracted for a grand slam. This was rather on the aggressive Side. But. He chose to Gamble that in addition to three aces partner would have something like the Queen of diamonds. Then too if partner had either a single ton or a double ton Diamond the South hand would produce two ruffing tricks. West opened the King of Spades and the Outlook was Bleak. To have any Chance Declarer would have to drop the Queen of Dia monds so he ruffed a Spade and cashed the top diamonds. When East obliged the total of tricks Rose to 12, this number could be raised to 13 by setting up the South hand. Declarer planned to Ruff three Spades in the Dummy and use the Ace. Ten and eight of clubs to drawn Trumps. All he required was a 3-2 club break. Unfortunately however East showed up with four Trumps and it was impossible for Declarer to Ful fill he contract. Copyright 1981 the Elk i no tribunal the stars and stripes mrs. Edward Sprock left joins mrs. Jerry Jamison at the Mike of the no masseur Morocco air base station for one of their Tri weekly broadcasts of ladies news and views started the latter part of Januar. Each 30-minute show feature recipes announcements music and other items of interest to american women in the area. Mrs. Sprock is the wife of m sgt Sprock of the 3155rh support Squadron and mrs. Jamison is married to 1st it Jamison of the 357th fighter interceptor Squadron. Mrs. Rodney Hought the wife of a Mats Captain assists behind the scenes with program Force photo additional volunteers have joined the american red Cross program in Europe with capping ceremonies at various military installations signifying the successful completion of the required training courses. I France at the . Army Garrison in Verdun Caps were received Hii mesdames Sante Coslar Charles Hewlett. Richartz hit Lett. Wallace Hutchinson Humphrey Jones and Albert. O Neill. Col William f. Spurgin Garri son commander also presented a special certificate of achievement during the evening to m sgt and mrs. Anthony Quinn in recognition of their daughter s contribution to the local Volunteer pro Gram. Frances Quinn who has returned to the states worked More than "00 hours at the . Hospital in Verdun during the year before her departure. At Dreux air base 23 names were added to the Volunteer Ros Ter. New staff aides Are. Mes Dames Virginia Battle Elsie Greenlees Lottie Mannino Betty picking and Audrey Thompson. Capped As Gray ladies were mesdames Elfrieda Austin Judie Bell Ruth mockery Liddell Eardensohn Joanne Grafton Mil dred Ingram. Maria Kliolz Sara m i 1 i h a e a Carol Miller Ruth Moreau Joycelyn Rivers Barbara Shaw Christiane Sailer Lillian Siler Jean Thomas Helen Wil Liams and Virginia Williams. In England the first Gray ladies capping ceremony held Albent Waters air base honoured mesdames june Atchison Freda Chupack. Naomi Cooper Beverly Dean Kathryn Erickson Mary Gault. Patricia Gray Verda Green Mary Hain Jane Johnson. Joan Jones Dorothea Lyman Gertrude Mahoney Sally be mrs. Bernard g u f i e r Fries wieners for audience con sumption at the Kitchen exhibit sponsored by the american women s club in Berlin at the City s annual agricultural fair. She is the wife of the american minis Ter . Mission to Berlin. Smith Martha Snow and Hazel Taylor. In Germany new nurses aides in Berlin include mrs. Samuel Rothman mrs. Victor , mrs. Virgil r. Boeckli mrs. Alfred h. Crisp mrs. George m. Cron mrs. Nathaniel r. Hoskot and mrs. Frederic . Sec and mrs. Peter Dobinchick now residing in Fuerth Germany announce the engagement of their daughter Iris to sp4 Peter , son of or. And mrs. Frank Lamontagne of Chicago. A stateside wedding is planned next Bride s father and Fiance Are assigned to the same army unit near Fuerth. At left mrs. De w i n Dank Worth right president of the Allied officers wives club in Naples Italy chats with mrs. Charles r. Brown wife of the newly appointed com Mander in chief of Allied forces Southern Europe at a Tea. Wednesday. February it 1959
