TITANIC exhibit coming to Davenport

It's no worse than...

the first song the Riverboat Ramblers would play when Tookers were on vacation: I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad, with everyone in the know snickering....... Did you ever see any Air Force escort at those locks when Col. Tooker got called off to 'emergency duty', Bob or Lexie???

Uh.....no. And I remember when he had "Naval Intelligence" looking into a three-legged stool that came up missing from his room. I was so glad to know that the cold war was not so pressing that they had time to check into Vic's misplaced furniture on the DQ!

And also no worse than.....

Questions asked in Titanic investigation: Did you leave the ship? No. Did the ship leave you? Yes.

Royal Gorge Train Ride: As the train is departing, the PA system plays Johnny Cash singing the Folsum Prison Blues, just when the train passes an obvious prison.

*RE: 'No worse than...*
Hi, Lexie:
Ohhh, those are droll ones posted above RE: TITANIC investigation.
Here's some other questions asked at the hearing: 1. "Ummm, other than the final nasty intercession of events, how did you find the food in 1st Class?" 2. "Other than that ugly iceberg, how did the voyage end for you?" Ans: "Oh, not bad until I had to make the last leg in a rowboat." 3. "Now, tell us clearly where you were when the the 'ship hit the fan'--I mean ice." OUCH!

R. Dale Flick
Coal Haven Landing, Ohio River, Cincinnati.

Lexie Palmore;24247 wrote: And also no worse than.....

Questions asked in Titanic investigation: Did you leave the ship? No. Did the ship leave you? Yes.

Royal Gorge Train Ride: As the train is departing, the PA system plays Johnny Cash singing the Folsum Prison Blues, just when the train passes an obvious prison.

Or the AVALON's now famous calliope player who serenaded the inhabitants of the Western Pennsylvania State Pennitentiary with, "If I Had the Wings of an Angel!"

"Oh, The Children ..."

Some years ago, my wife Peggy was invited into the home of an old lady who revealed that she, as a little girl, was on the TITANIC that fateful voyage. When the woman recalled the coldness of the night, Peg said a chill came over the room, and the woman, who said her name was "Mrs. Pink", seemed to return to that terrible scene, and she began crying in a loud voice, "The women! The children! The sreaming! Oh, the children ...."

After we were married, Peggy tried to find Mrs. Pink's little cottage, but it had been torn down, and all attempts to find "Mrs. Pink" on the roster of TITANIC survivors was unsuccessful, as "Pink" was obviously her married name. But, if you get a chance, ask my wife to recount her visit with the little old lady from the TITANIC, and you will return with her and Mrs. Pink to that morning my Grandfather Jesse turned 19.