European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes wednesday october 7,1987 today s crossword tag sales there ought be a Low 8 Andy boo Ivkov there ought to be some Legal Standard for what can be called a lag Sale. A real tag Sale is a great american tradition thai Aho May be called a garage Sale or a Yard or Lawn Sale. Bui now there Are impose pm who Are ruining lag sales for the my of us. The original idea was thai since once in Aboul every 10 years hit average american household accumulates a lot of things the owners no longer use but which they can t bring themselves to throw away they have a Friendly Little Sale on their front Lawn in their backyard or in their garage. The spoilers Are making a business of tag salts. Some neighbourly appearing con artists have a tag Sale sign they bring out every year to trap unsuspecting passers by. The unwritten Rule about i desc Sain always has been that they offer no newly acquired items specially bought to be resold. No tag Sale was Ever intended Tobe Macy i basement. Just As soon As someone starts having a lag Sale every summer you know these peo ple arc not playing the game fair and Square. They Are in the us Sale Burn Csc and can l be trusted. Chances Are. They travel around to other tag sales buy junk Mark it up and sell it on their own front Yard to genuine homemade junk when in fact it s imported. Naturally exceptions will be allowed to the resale Rule if something n acquired at a tag Sale that seems like Good idea to buy at the time but which turns out to be a terrible idea this is a legitimate item far resale. Any longtime tag Sale devotees know the genuine tag Sale items when they Sec them. The following Are examples of genuine lag or Garog Sale items an old bicycle slightly Rusly usually Junior size. A souvenir plate Wilh a picture of Richard and fat Nixon on it. A Christmas present Scarf unused and still in its original wrapping with the Sec through plastic cover. T a set of six cute Little pronged forts with Liny handles shaped to look like ears of Corn designed to hold ears of Corn while they re being Caien. An old Iron Wilh a frayed Cord. A wooden Box of Rusty old tools. Bad Wood carving or porcelain figurines. Several unopened copies of Reader s digest condensed books. Almost anything goes in a lag Sale but it must be an average american household s attempt to unload junk it does t want. Money should not be the first consideration in a genuine tag Sale. The Luckiest you can be at a lag Sale is to see a big homely old chair you want to buy and discover it too Hig to fit into your car. Anything you can t buy at a lag Sale for whatever reason is usually a Blessing. I Call on Congress to pass lag Sale legislation that will protect this great american institution from ending up As just another Chain store on the Stock Exchange. C Tribune Mudra san Tocoi 38 memorable years on the trib Paris they be been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the International Herald Tribune in Paris and i came Here for the party. I m proud to say that i have been continuously associated with the trib for 38 years. Fourteen of them were spent in and were the happiest Yean of my life except for the first three when i lived there As a Bachelor. I went to i urls As a so Udint in late 1948 and lucked out by gelling a Job on the Tribune in Early 1949. The position was restaurant and nightclub Colic and the was 125 a week. Writing Aboul food in Paris was no problem. But wines were a Little trickier. So i did what almost every american in France was doing at the time i faked it. I was told by friends that if the wine bottle had a neck it was a Burgundy and if it had shoulders it Wasa Bordeaux. When it came to distinguishing reds from whiles it was every Man for himself. To make the gourmet Job less Boring i took along an Irish american lady from Warren pa., who offered to Tell me what dishes were hot and what ones were cold the trib did t keep me on the food beat forever. I started covering other stories of interest such As the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier the Corona lion of Queen Elizabeth the feud Between Aristotle Onassis Wiuf Stavros Niarchos the slate visit to Paris of Roy Cohn Ano avid Schinc the opening of the Istanbul Hilton the discovery of the dead sea scrolls in Israel the breaking of the six Minnie louvre record and Elizabeth Taylor s futile attempt to walk through the Rome olympics without getting pinched. 1 also covered the International set which Only had the most Beautiful women As members. It was French Law unfortunately then was this Irish american lady from Warren pa., who kept following me around so i never could sit Down Wilh them and get their real stories. I almost had a Duel with movie producer Walter anger Over Joan of James Hagerty Eisen Hower s press Secretary took me to task Tor writing spoof of his press briefings and i got caught crashing a fancy costume parly in Venice dressed As Louis Xiv. I mention these things not to brag though anyone who has Ever worked on the Paris Herald Tribune tends to do a lot of that sort of thing but rather to show you Why i was so Happy to be of the 100th anniversary Celebration. You cannot return to Paris after having lived there for 14 years without getting scary eyed. To celebrate the anniversary of the trib 1 wanted logo Back to All the flesh pots and Low life i knew when i was a boy columnist. The trouble was there was this Irish Amer ican lady from Warren pa., who kept insisting since she was the Only one who would Eai Wilh me in Paris 38 years ago she had a right to lag along. E lot Angal Tamsi across 37 unique ending for thing sheep or seven5 table leaving8 venomous 38 Swiss capital 39 the Reou Aalto he. Smokes 41 remain 12 away from 43 Laud the storm 46 Ronger or 13 Pooch with no Pedigree learner is kind of a Onassis is hungarian so ceremony yet stockings s3 ode topic?89 Ruebl for on Down 1 kind of food 2 bread spread 3 tap trouble 4 leave5 Wood Irrel 65rekoffice 7 Shade Rivers tapestry Wall hanging 9 vacation Choice 10 window Section 11 practice forthe Ling 18 soap ingredient 20 hurry solution time 2d Sliu 50 Decimal units 51 Beach finds4tv comedy 22 rank offering 23 town i Belgium 2s Fri apr Eire 28japanehvegetable 27 Ocean routes 29 Small pie31 common value12 Beard on wined Black boar adjunct 21 Dpi iiil24 i irl Ami 25 one of those things 28 chooses30 Wii otg.33 american humorist34 one of Chechur Chilli 35 unrefined36 extinct new Sealander a unit r i a we 10-7 my 34 breeders 38 proverb40 River to the olh42 kind of residue43 chief god of memphis44 san italy45 Jacob s brother 47 new Yor canal 48 italia Noble houav49 equal 12 make Aboo boos3 hebrew letter 10-7 the far Side i Hope pcs but too to Lewing Hom. Of Ittah. Isups1nk. Hie boat i a
