THE GYMNASTS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 6

THE GYMNASTS

[By WHIM WHAM J The Mayor of New York (Mr William O’Dwyer) has announced that the city is hanging over Hunter College gymnasium in the Bronx to the United Nations fpr the Security Council meeting beginning on March 21. —News item. They could have selected a Theatre— A Church would be hardly the Place— Or Somebody’s Long Island mansion Might answer our UNO’s Case. A Pub or a Store or a Barracks Are other conceivable Sites, Or Madison Square, at the Garden there. So famous for heavy-weight Fights. It isn’t my Business to comment. But I must say it strikes me as rum That the Powers of the* Earth should assemble In a College Qymnasi-ujn. I can see the great Council surrounded By all Sorts of irrelevant Things Attached to the Floor and the Ceiling, a Score Of Ladders and Ropes and Rings, No Doubt there's a Reason behind it: The Delegates have to keep fit. Long Sessions are bad for the Liver, And Exercise sharpens the Wit. It might save a good Deal of Bother Whenever the Argument jars. If All could adjourn for a vigorous I urn

At the Horse or the Parallel Bars. But 1 fancy I see at these Sessions (I hate to seem Cynic or Scorner) One up in the Air and Another down there Doing Handsprings alone jn a Corner— Bidault up a Ladder, and Bevin Tiptoe on Stettinius’ Knees. And Vyshinsky—Oh where is Vyshinsky?— Up aloft on the Flying Trapeze!