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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, September 15, 1944

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new lines for next season. They littlement, in the presence of the He was grateful for his aid; but
were eagerly attentive. All that girl, was a whip lashed across perhaps Ile would fare better
is, with the exception of the host. Max's face.
in the future if he didn't feel
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Jake was frowning. It displeased
"What do you mean, Jake— that he could rely on any one
you can make it the head of the him, Max surmised, that every- a baadchen!" cried Max. "I was in an emergency.
body had stopped listening to ex- a guest by your dinner, ain't it?
Belatedly realizing his tactless-
table'."
ploits
manifesting
his own con- And when Morris or Sam or ness towards his cousin in the
A few weeks
later
Max at-
.nded the annual Chanukah din- _ mercial acumen, in rapt attention Hyman tell a story, which ai- presence of a stranger, Jake Tash
tte at Jake Tash's. And again, to a failure. Max, however, did though in this country they aro completely reversed himself. He
all the previous years, Jake not let Jake's displeasure deter much longer than me, they don't became profusely complimentary,
in
n as
selected the successful manufac- him. He kept embellishing his speak half so good English like assuring Max that he respected
and storekeepers with tale, and when he reached the me, nor they ain't educated in him. The very first few dollars
facers
t their bejeweled
wives to sit near conclusion was rewarded by an American history like me, in Max accumulated, didn't he re-
him at the head of the table; explosive laughter. And Sam fact, they are so ignorant they pay Jake for his passage, which
an d s till once more Max found and Louis and Hyman and Mot.- move the lips and with a finger many a relation failed to do.
himself at the foot of the table ris expressed Max's social equal- follow each line when they read And when Max promised to re-
with the greenhorns, and Zalinan ity by raising their glasses to a pape•—when they make them- pay It loan in a month, his month
Slotnick and other chronic fail- him. selves heard, then it's O.K., but meant a month, not the six
"Did I feel good!" gloated when I tell a story, just because months of some relations, or of
arcs.
Max, dabbling at his food, be- Max. 'For the first time my I sit at the wrong end of the certain others who solicited addi-
ca me moody and introspective. relations take notice I got a table, then you call me a band- tional loans before canceling out-
standing obligations.
Seven years in the United States, personality. For the rest of that chen!"
For this admirable trait of
Jake scoffed at Max's com-
and not yet on the road to suc- dinner, I—like they say in the
parison to his cousins. If he character, therefore, he respected
cess. Due, Max felt, only to his theater—stole the show."
When Max was pressed by a felt so superior in education and Max, and urged him not to be
lack of big capital—a thousand
dollars. That thousand about creditor a few days later, he intellect, then why wasn't he as dispirited about his lack of suc-
which Jake developed a sudden went as usual in such a case to successful as Hyman and Sam cess. One must not overlook the
auricular defect whenever Max Jake's office. Jake wasn't in— and Louis and Morris? Instead, element of luck in a person's
but sonic one else was. A new Jake said, Max's business ven- success, in addition to his native
threw out a hint.
Max was depressed indeed. At office girl. And when Max got tures invariably died n-borning; ability, which Jake did not doubt
the head of the table Jake and one look at that girl! . . . She and for a man of 27 not ham- that Max possessed. Someday
Louie and Hyman and the others said Mr. Tash would return in a pered by wife or family, what Lady Luck would bestow her
were vying with each other about half hour. Actually, the 30 min- progress had he to show in the gracious smile on Max. And with
busy season and rush orders and utes that Max stole glances at seven years since his arrival in extravagant gesticulations Jake
swore that if Max refused his
first mortgages and second mort- her seemed a scant 30 seconds. this country?
Jake's brutal disparagement loan, it would break his heart.
gages, and at Max's end there And Max wouldn't deny that she
was nothing but the gurgle of looked his way a few times, too. within hearing of the girl on
He wasn't, he boasted, at all a whom Max wanted to create a
soup.
"Snap out of it, schlemazel!" bad-looking feller in them days. good impression, was salt rubbed
A scowl clouded Jake Tash's in the bleeding gashes. One heat-
Max lashed himself. "You ain't
eel word led to another and
no longer Max Magofsky. You face at sight of his cousin.
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"So you've turned out a corn- Max started for the door. Jake
are now Max MacGregor. And
don't forget it that where Mac- icker, Max—a regular baadchen!" drew a hand through his arm
he sneered. "All that was miss- a nd gruffly demanded why cou-
Gregor sits—"
sins should quarrel.
So Max snapped out of it. He ing was the plate!"
Max reared from his chair at
"Max, you came to me in office
began to talk—not like the oth-
ers at the foot of the table who Jake's depreciation of his con- for a hundred, I suppose."
Admitting that he had indeed
felt that, as poor relations, theirs duct at the dinner. A baadchen,
was the obligation to speak in Max explained, was a schnorrer come for the purpose of borrow-
subdued tones lest they disturb who entertained at home affairs ing that sum, Max said that he
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the braggadocio of the elect at with songs and stories. And would not take it now. He had
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the head of the table, but he since his compensation consisted pestered Jake enough in the past.
BRASSIERES
talked in his ordinary conversa- of a few meager coins the guests
tional tone. He told a joke. He tossed on a plate—in addition to
Made to Order
got a laugh. He told another. whatever drinks he swilled be-
lie got a few more laughs. His tween numbers—the tribe was
inferiority vanished and he en- held in small repute. Jake's be-
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While relating it, Max became
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talk of mortgages and strikes and

"Make out a check, please,
Miss Koppleman, for one hundred
dollars, and I'll sign it." There
was a proud ring to "I'll sign
it." To this day, assured Max,
his cousin's J. Tash constitutes
his writing proficiency. He asked
Max to assist Miss Koppleman
with the spelling of Magofsky.
"Excuse me, Jake. The name
is MacGregor."
"MacGregor! What makes
you, Max, to change your name
to an Irish name MacGregor?"
"Not Irish," corrected Max.
"Scotch. For two reasons, Jake,
I changed my name to MacGreg-
or. One, because from Magofsky
to MacGregor is very natural
the change. And second, because
there is by the Scotch people a
saying that where MacGregor
sits—"
"All, yes!" broke in the girl.
"Where MacGregor sits" — in
what seemed to Max a perfect

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