European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes Friday May 25,1990 faces a Nopla Nesif you Don t know the tune s name it helps to hum from wire reports if you want to learn the a Zucchini method of playing the piano or need Sheet music to a furry lice Quot by Beethoven the Carl Fischer store in Chicago is the place to go. Customers who fracture the language and the lyrics done to deter the music trained Sale clerks. But it helps if visitors can hum a few bars. Quot it s better than when they Tell you they re looking for a certain music Book and All they know is that its Green a said floor manager Larry Heidl of the music store which stocks 610,000 titles and Bills itself As the world s largest. Heidl and two salesmen stood at the counter As a Young woman Sang a i love you a then dropped Oft into hum. She was the fourth Hummer of the Day at Fischer where singing whistling and tapping on the counter arc an acceptable substitute for not knowing the name of what you want. What about music being the Universal language of Mankind a a lot of times titles Are in foreign languages. People somehow put them into English Quot Heidl said. A customer once asked for Quot Christmas intruder when he wanted Quot Christmas another requested a furry lice instead of a Fiir Elise a a Wash it Oft was really Johann Sebastian Bach s a wac hot Aufu and the a Zucchini methods of piano playing translated into the Suzuki method. Once the goal is Clear Sale clerks May have to search through an inventory that would stretch a mile High if stacked. Potter a Tenor with the Chicago symphony chorus who works part time at Fischer says one of the most often requested songs in the past year has been a wind beneath my wings by Bette Midler. The customer called it a the wind beneath my my train late for work and need an excuse a Chicago commuter rail service is Happy to provide a note a if the applicant was Lardy because he Rode a delayed train. Such a note might read a to whom it May concern this is to advise that Metra electric trains were unavoidably delayed due to difficulties encountered in suburban service on this Sharon Austin a division manager for Melra noted that she once copied a note 200 times for sailors. A they were Only 17 and 18 and scared out of their wits that they a be considered awol a she plane ride the co Pilot was a dead Duck but the Pilot and passenger lived to Tell the Tom Potter left and Larry Heidel Are surrounded by a Small part of the inventory at Carl Fisher music store. Story. The 3-Pound Duck landed in the Copilot a seat after crashing through the single engine planets Windshield. A it happened real fast. I saw a Shadow closing in on my Windshield and then Felt a Rush of air coming through a Pilot Oddvar Sand of . Flying service based at Juneau Alaska. A i had feathers in my the Duck is in a Freezer he said. A a in a going to have it the Accident occurred As Sand was taking a passenger on the 40-mile flight from Hoonah to Juneau. A i did no to have a Chance to Duck a he quipped. One Bird crashed through the Quarter Inch plastic Windshield bounced off the dash hit Sand in the Chest and fell into the co Pilot s seat said chief Pilot Lynn Bennett. Sand suffered a Gash on his head that took six stitches to close. His passenger in the Back seat of the Piper Cherokee was not Hurt. Pond near the Small town of Ware. Wildlife officials heard about the Salmon Bonanza two Days later Prescott said. The two workers involved will have some explaining to do he helps the Prince Prince Charles admits that he Speaks German better after having a drink. The 41-year-old son of Queen Elizabeth ii and heir to the British throne told a group of businessmen a i am the kind of englishman i think who finds conversing in a foreign language is made much easier with the assistance of a Small alcoholic beverage. A maybe that a Why i succeeded in failing my of level German. Alcohol was restricted at school a he card questioned fishing for answer Springfield mass., wildlife officials went fishing for answers after anglers started hauling in Salmon from a Trout Pond. They discovered that two workers taking the Salmon from a state hatchery to protected Waters in a Reservoir had decided to Quot liberated some of them said Carl Prescott Deputy director of the division of fisheries and wildlife. The 850 fish fins clipped for identification were dumped into snows a baseball card expert has raised doubts about the authenticity of a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card that turned up in Pittsfield Maine saying it looks too thin and too Bright to be real. An authentic card in Good condition featuring the Hall of Fame shortstop from the Early 1900s could be Worth As much As $ 100,000, one dealer said. Arlo Quint 12, said he had unearthed the Wagner card and three others while digging for Worms in his backyard. The cards were in an old tooth powder can Quint said. Quint who has a collection of More than 5,000 baseball cards said he was convinced after the cards were inspected by an expert that the cards were reproductions. A i can to believe it a he said dejectedly the Wagner card surfaced Only about a month after a boy in Stockton Springs about 30 Miles away found a Honus Wagner card under similar circumstances. The authenticity of the Stockton Springs card had not been questioned said Mike Osborne owner of a card shop that is handling its Sale. A i have no doubt in my mind that it is legitimate a he said. But the similarity of the discoveries almost immediately sparked doubts about Quint a find. Bob thing who has been collecting cards for 40 years and inspected Quint a card said in a Telephone interview that the paper on which the card is printed appears to be thinner than it would be on an original. He also said the colors appear to be too Rich and deep and that the Ink on older cards showed up in lighter shades. Thing also noted that the lower portion of the card where reproductions printed in later years would have been marked As a reprint was missing. In new York baseball card authority Lew Lipset said that All of the original Honus Wagner cards remaining with perhaps one exception were believed to have been issued by Sweet caporal cigarettes. Quint a card however is marked As a Piedmont cigarette Issue. A if you want my gut feeling there a no Way in hell a said Lipset who has written three books on the subject. Dear Abby about five years ago i gave up my career As a pharmacist to become a police officer. It was a painful decision since i had become personal friends with Many of my customers and i knew i would miss them. However the attitude of Many customers at the pharmacy was too discouraging. One of my customers was a very obese woman who came in faithfully for her amphetamine dear Abby pills every 30 Days. She used them for weight loss. After a few months i asked her Why she did no to try a weight loss program. She said she had a a slow Quot metabolism and ate Only one meal a Day. Weil i happened to Sec her at an a fall you can eat Buffet and she put away three times As much food As i a and in a a Man 6 feet tall and 215 pounds a and i play handball three times a week always an excuse to justify it. I have sold medication to drug abusers bodybuilders married spouses with cd and people with emphysema who still smoke while using oxygen. They All had excuses i am now a police officer and do you know what Many people we arrest have a a excuses for breaking the Law. America did not become the great country it is today by making excuses. If one Day we Are taken Over by a harder working better educated country i wonder what our excuse will be. Sign me a no excuses dear no excuses 1 tried hard to find an excuse to junk this painfully Onest letter but i find one. So Here it is warts Abby America has become a society of a excuse no matter what a person does wrong there a honest and All. Dear Abby this is in response to the cent amp us Bureau urging everyone to fill out and return the 1990 census forms. Living in a Small country town i received and filled out my census form. In 11 places it stated a do not mail the form a it will be picked up by the census 7 Well i am still waiting. An article in our local newspaper said that the census people were disappointed in the number of forms that had been returned. I called the local newspaper and asked if they knew whether the forms would be picked up a or should we mail them Back they said they would get Back to me with the answer. In a still waiting. Two of my neighbors never received a form to fill out. A couple of other neighbors have their forms completed and Are waiting for the census taker to come by to pick theirs up. They re still waiting. Maybe 10 years from now when they Lake the next census think its important enough to be counted. A still waiting rur a. In Queen Creek Ariz. Dear still waiting move Over a hundreds of others Are also waiting
