New School Bus ( )

Armiste Brooks starring Eve Arden. Well, it's generally accepted that it's mostly women who try to keep their ages a secret. But this theory was disproved last week at Madison High School where Armiste Brooks teaches English.

Yes, it was disproved most definitely by our beloved principal, Osgoode Conklin, who celebrated the birthday last Monday. When asked how old he was, he replied, a person is only as old as he feels. And while I don't think he made that up himself, he spent the entire week trying to out Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney.

I was discussing our boy principal with my land lady Friday morning at breakfast. You mean to say Osgoode is still making a spectacle of himself. Mrs. Davis, he's the biggest spectacle since the greatest show on earth.

Honestly, he's making a fetish of being young. Thursday he showed up at school wearing a bright red bow tie. A bow tie? How did it look? It looked like somebody had wrapped his abbens apple as a belated Christmas gift.

Well, there's one consolation, Connie. If Mr. Conklin is so busy with himself, he won't find time to bother you. Well, he found some somewhere. Tuesday morning, he assigned me the task of purchasing a school bus.

A school bus? Mr. Conklin feels we'll save money if we use our own bus for out of town games. So he persuaded the board to grant us an appropriation. How much did they grant you?

$130. $130. What in the world can you get for that kind of money? Well, so far I've only been offered one conveyance. What kind? A garbage truck. The way our team's been playing, I almost took it.