Lost Chords
A PTA meeting at Center Avenue Elementary School in Inglewood opened
Tuesday with a salute to the flag, after which the audience remained
hushed as a Girl Scout choral group assembled for a song and the
accompanist approached the baby grand piano.
The accompanist raised the keyboard cover. She lifted the movable music rack. A puzzled expression came over her face.
She tried them again, then crouched and peered underneath, then into
the instrument. She was no longer merely puzzled, she was baffled, even
desperate.
At this point Principal Irene Hoban went to the rescue and, amid laughter from the many community youth groups present, joined in the search.
In a moment Miss Hoban announced that some men scheduled to give
the auditorium a much-needed renovation had apparently started the job
that  afternoon without her knowledge, by removing the piano keys.
But all went well nevertheless. The choral group sang without
accompaniment and the proceedings were graced throughout with a nice
light tone.
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ANYONE WHO has visited General Hospital knows about the
colored lines on the floors and sidewalks which help people find their
way from one section to another.
The other day staff members at the City Health Department's new center at 2032 N Marengo
Street, a short distance from the hospital, were surprised to see
several persons dodging traffic in the middle of the street. They
turned out to be patients instructed to follow a line from the main
hospital to the children's unit. Somehow they'd gotten off the line and
onto the center white line. They  were retrieved in the nick of time or
doubtless they would be hiking out Highway 66.
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CORRECTION
He who hesitates is lost,
They taught me that in school.
But that is wrong I learned today-
They hadn't filled the pool.
G. C. McHose
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WHEN HE WAS 16, Steve Allen writes in Look, he bummed around the country and learned what hunger and poverty meant.
"I remember walking along a road in California one day and finding a
half-empty can of beans by the side of the road. I picked it up but was
disappointed to see that it was crawling with ants. Within seconds I
had shaken and blown the ants out of the can and finished the beans."
A
remarkably forthright statement from a man in a realm where everyone is
supposed to have a fairy godmother arranging his life.
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BANK NOTES -- Two
women met in a Sunset Boulevard bank and Frank Barron heard one say,
"Isn't it funny, the only time I ever see you lately is either here or
at the drugstore." "Yeah," the other said wryly, "every time I make a
withdrawal I get sick" . . . A woman cashing a check in a Westwood
Village bank asked for new $1 bills. The teller told her she didn't
have 25 new ones but could give her new fives. "Oh no," the woman said,
"then I'd have to take dirty bills in change somewhere else."
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AROUND TOWN--
Larry Brown of the SC golf team misfired a ball over the fence at
Wilshire Country Club and was looking forlornly at it when an officer
in a patrol car came along Beverly Boulevard, took in the situation,
stopped and tossed it over the fence. Yep, the long arm of the law . .
. As anyone could have guessed, votes against the death penalty in this
paper's poll on capital punishment have been received from rogues
signing Caryl Chessman, Harvey Glatman , Stephen Nash and Elizabeth
Duncan . . . Anyone else notice that the newspaper photos of the
collapsing Vanderbilt Apartments, 334 S Figueroa St., showed a scrawled
"Z for Zorro" on it? . . . The magazine Thy Kingdom Come, which
circulates among flying saucer groups, has the slogan "Be active today
or radioactive tomorrow" . . . A mortuary ad in El Pueblo offers a
"courtesy discount" to city employees.
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