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Karnofsky, former Seattle Reporter, reports from
" Somewhere in Alaska" After Year's Silence
Dear Mr. Blackford:
~f that old axiom about the middleman
getting the profits is correct in a prac·
tical sense, then the center-handler in this
transaction - the ubiquitous censor - is
doomed to disappointment, because the
frui ts of his labor will be a mere jag of
words, and not so prettily put together
either. ,
As you no doubt are aware, I can't
tell you precisely my present location.
However, the permissable "Somewhere in
Alaska" covers a multitude of places, many
of which are being complimented by in-
clusion in that phrase.
Now Converting.
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
16
FOR
NOVEMBER
1943
First and foremost, convey sincere greet-
ings to all Coindom, especially to those
Pacific Northwesterners. Seattle's Coin
Row has a capable representative in the
Alaska Communications System: Private
Ron Repple of Northwest Sales. At last
reports, Ron was batting a 1,000 aver-
age for Uncle Sam in the Evergreen City.
You probably are asking: What is the
coin machine situation at your present
station? The answer is very simple: I
have yet to see my first piece of equip-
ment. I don't have to tell you that this is
an isolated outpost, because any place of
this size and status that has no coin-op-
Blue Grass. Dark Horse.
Sport Special. Sport Event
Into
SPORTSMAN
TRIED! TESTED! PROVEN!
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Lon9acre and Thorou9hbred
Here is the Service we give:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
We create and design a new play board
for your games-colorful. original, spec:-
tacular.
We replace the old 17x23 inch back-
board and glass with a new back-
board cabinet and glass, size 23x23 .
All mechanical parts are
thoroughly checked - add-
inC) pans where nec.essary
for mechanical perfection .
Cabinets are redesigned in
their entirety-new, smart,
colorful .
New moldings-new legs
-to make of the finished
product a game of real
beauty.
Also Converting
WAR ADMIRAL
era ted equipment is certainly isolated.
I can't discuss my work on account of
the middleman and specific weather refer-
ences run smack against that same gen-
tleman's grain. My present duty is on the
graveyard shift; needless to say, I am
plenty busy. Outside duty hours, I spend
my time battling through censorable wea-
ther and mud sloggy and deep enough to
provide every child in the United States
with a lifetime of mud pies. And wind?
The most hellish tornadoes in the U.S.A.
are gentle waftings compared to the howl-
ing cycloanics (a word of my own inven-
tion; Mr. Webster, please take note) in this
locality.
Present living quarters are winterized
tents which we hope will still remain
after Dame Nature gets her sails up.
Quonset huts will soon be available for
all, but there is something cozy and fam-
ily-like about three or four in a tent com-
pared to 10 or 12 in a hut-at least while
the tent still retains the vestige of a roof.
The item most fellows miss most is
women-but a chap could live in the good
old U. S. A. and still miss them, except
that here you miss them entirely and do
not even get the satisfaction of a near-hit.
The film "White Cargo" showed at the
local theatre (which does double duty as
mess hall), and when Hedy Lamarr started
shaking her torso, there were more gasps
than have emanated from the wounded in
any single battle to date.
This rough and rugged life may turn
me into a sourdough, but ·never a sourpuss.
I gotta do justice to that serviceman's
star in THE REVIEW, don't I?
. The food is fair: sometimes good, other
tImes not so good; but when you're hungry
and there are a slough of other soldiers
ready to wolf away the chow, the uten-
sils and the cooks at one sitting, it just
isn't practicable to halt proceedings and
make any special requests. Every situation
has its compensation: there are no fancy
menus to figure out, no mental debates
over what to order. Uncle Sam has thought
of everything--Qr almost everything.
I miss THE REvIEw-especially those mo-
rale-lifting front covers. How's about send-
ing a copy along? I will probably have to
fight to .keel? the cover on the magazine,
but fightlllg IS a part of this game and the
experience may be salutary.
When we moider dose bums and the
Wings of Peace once again hover over
civilization, I'll be looking for the coin
machine business to leap into record-
breaking preeminence. Also, I'll be look-
ing for a job. When you expand your ~taff
to meet the urgent demands of a more coin
machine-conscious populace, do you sup-
pose you'll have an opening for a live-
wire associate editor?
(H-m-m-m! This is very peculiar;
( See O UR BOYS, Page 18)
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