"HE DID**
A
SHORT
SHORT
STORY
by A1 Stein
Archie stepped from the airplane to
the solid pavement of Anchorage Airport,
Kan, he thought, is it ever' good to get
awAy from the "Rock". He was glad he had
taken this leave,
Archie had heard of the fabulous pri
ces in Anchorage Bmonths ago when he re
ported aboard his Aleutian duty station.
As quick as things could be taken care
of, checking in, checking out, eot.. Are
bio hailed a taxi and was on is way
downtown. As he rode alone the neon st
rip that iunglish feeling came over him.
He- stopped the taxi at a, brightly lite
drug store.
Archie had only one fear that night.
He was loaded with cash, nearly $700.00.
Knowing he would only be staying in Anc
horage several days, Archie decided to
keep the money with him, so that night
instead of doing the town as he had ant
icipated, he spent the evening in a movie
then i^ent to his hotel. The place” was
fairly cheap,$10.00 per night, so he we
nt to bed feeling he hadsaved money that
evening.
The next morning as Archie was having
breakfast in the hotel coffee” shop, he
met an old, old friend from his home to
wn. ?
Archie found his friend was now appea
ring in a group that had been touring
the Alaskan cities. His friend' was a
singer. Knowing him quite weld, and that
he intended to be in town a week^ Archie
asked his dear friend if he wouldn’t ke
ep his money for him. The friend agreed.
Archie gave him $600.00.
That night Archie did the town. The
next morning he got another $100.00 from
his old friend and that night,Archie did
the town. The next morning, he did like
wise,and that night, Archie again paint
ed the town.
- The next morning Archies friend loft
toym unexpectedly. (Con’t top side,) , .
Luckily for Archie the friend left the
remainder of his money in the hotel sa.fe<
Archie never returned to the hotel, I
guess he did himself away on that last
hundred dollar spree.
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1 Calypso music in Korea? Strange, but
true; desire becoming the mother of in
vention, six musicians of the 1st Cav,
Div. there, lacking the instruments for
the proper sounds, have formed a combo
with makeshift devices, Ceral boxes fil
led' with stones have become gourds and^|
washpans are,now bongo drums, with two™
hairbrushs and a harmonica to fill out
the unit..Biggest blue eyes in Holly,
wood belong to Carolyn Jones, The Texas
co-stars in “Marjorie Morningstar" with'
Gene Kelly and Natalie Wood,,.Star half
back Frank Gifford of the pro football
Giants has been signed by Warner Bros,
and will combine gridiron and movie-mak
ing careers.
Co-star Mitizi Gaynor made a personal
appearance at the NYC premiere of ’’South
Pacific,” The showing was for the bene
fit of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial
Stadium.
They said its “A wedding ring is a
matrimonial tourniquet designed to stopT
circulation,51
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by Galen Drake of CBS rad
TOPS in POPS . , , The nation’s top
ten juke box tunes, as published in this
weeks’s ’’cashbox Magazine,” were, in or
der:
11T equila ” ( C hamp s)
"Who’s Sorry Now” (Connie Francis)
"Lolliepop” (Chordettos)
’’Sweet Little Sixteen” (Chuck Berry)
’’Catch a Falling Star (Perry Como)
"It’s Too Soon to Know" (Pat Boone
”26 Miles” (Four I reps)
"Arc. You Sincere” (Andy Williams)
"Sail Along Silv’ry Moon” (B, Vaughn)
“Breathless" (Jerry Lee Lewis)
(AFPS Weekly Feature)