MissNathalieVintage
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Her parents really took out a big ad just for this photo to be the first thing one sees in the women's interest section of the Trib.
...The possibility that France may re-enter the war on the side of the Axis is forseen in Berlin, amidst reports that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop has left for, or is about to leave for Vichy. Dispatches from Switzerland suggest that the Axis Powers are attempting to persuade France to declare war on Britain by offering comparatively easy peace terms, and it is also reported that French president Pierre Laval is discussing the situation with Nazi officials in Paris....
....Fred Fitzsimmons not only led the National League in winning pecentage this year with a glittering .889, but he set a new league record in doing so -- surpassing the .824 mark set by Jack Chesbro of the Pirates in 1902 and equalled by Dazzy Vance of the Dodgers in 1924. That, says Tommy Holmes, ought to qualify Fat Freddie for a new award being given out this year by the Sporting News in honor of the top performance of the year by a veteran player. Certainly 40-year-old Jimmy Wilson's return to the active roster for the Reds qualifies, as does elderly Ted Lyons' fine performance this year for the White Sox. But Fitzsimmons also doubled thruout the season as a vital member of Leo Durocher's coaching staff -- when he wasn't pitching, he was coaching first base, and served also as Durocher's first lieutenant during team practices. Give him the award already!...
"What Are You Wearing Today?"
I wonder what a grand in cash at a fine men's clothing store would have really bought Harold back in 1940. A cashmere overcoat at Brooks Brothers (online, and it really does look like a decent one) will set you back at about $1,700. today. A decent suit can be had for about $800.....
I wonder how he plans to get all that stuff back home? He's going to need a steamer trunk, when all he left home with was a small suitcase.
It's time for a little box in the corner of the last panel each day showing the running total he's spent and has got left.
Well, you know, now that you mention it, he does kinda look like Ronald Reagan sometimes.
...The attempted theft of several housecoats from a Nostrand Avenue shop led to a furious foot chase thru Crown Heights this morning before the proprietress of the store captured the shoplifter. Two young women entered the dry goods and notion store of Mrs. Clara Stein shortly before 11 this morning, and while Mrs. Stein took one of the women into the rear of the store for a fitting, the other began "rummaging" thru the stock. When Mrs. Stein discovered that the woman had "rummaged" right out of the store with several housecoats, she chased after her, shrieking with rage, and finally apprehended the woman, locking her in a "half-nelson" while yelling for her son to go after the other woman and a third woman who had been waiting outside for the other two. Handicapped by high heels as they clattered down the street, those two were stopped by a bystander, 37-year-old Carl West of 1289 Union Street. After the young women gave Mrs. Stein $5 for the housecoats, no charges were pressed, and the three were let off by police with an admonition....
...The Eagle Editorialist praises Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen, pointing out that even though he has come out on the losing end of several high profile cases over the past two years in his investigation of official corruption in Brooklyn, he still has won about ninety-five percent of his cases....