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Oh, my! I just noticed I mixed two newspapers together by mistake. I was totally not paying attention to the dates even thought I thought I clicked on October 27 when I needed to log back on, the other date was for October 31, 1940
...A 36-year-old Long Island man arrested on a pistol charge claimed today that he was offered $5000 to assassinate Mayor LaGuardia. Warren Lay of Maspeth was arrested at a bar and grill in that town last night, after patrons had alerted police that a man with a gun was making threats against the Mayor. Lay told police that he was hired by a "a man named Joe" in Queens to kill the Mayor during an appearance in College Point today, and that he had been taken blindfolded in a car to Brooklyn, where "a Negro" appeared and buckled a gun belt around his waist. "Joe" then drove the car back to a gas station in Maspeteh, where, Lay maintained, he was given his final instructions. Police say Lay "had been doing some drinking."....
....At the Patio this week, Myrna Loy and William Powell in "I Love You Again," paired with Lloyd Nolan in "The Gangs of Chicago."...
Thank you very much, kind Sir.As someone who has posted book reviews in the movie thread and done other such silly things, I make no judgements, but continue to thank you for your efforts in enhancing this thread. I really enjoy your Tribune posts.
Advice to Joy -- never trust a man who lounges around in a quilted smoking jacket while poring over his collection of other women's phone numbers.
...The Plumbers Union today joined the Teamsters in throwing up a picket line around the World's Fair, as members of Local 1 protested the use of Parks Department workers to disconnect and disassmble the Fair's fountains and other water fixtures. The Teamsters began picketing the grounds yesterday after discovering workers using Parks Department trucks to load furniture. Meanwhile, the Parks Department has signed a $60,000 contract with the Albert A. Volk Company, wreckers, to demolish Fair buildings. That contract does not include the cost of removing foundations, which will be done on a per-unit basis....
.... View attachment 275629 Football fans will find this a very large weekend, between the Army-Notre Dame game up at Yankee Stadium, North Carolina vs. Fordham at the Polo Grounds, and the Giants and Dodgers going at it Sunday at Ebbets Field. Total attendance for Saturday's college sets should hit 100,000, and there'll be a strong turnout at Brooklyn on Sunday to see if the Football Flock can break their ten-year losing streak against their uptown rivals....
...Meanwhile, a reported proposal by crooner Bing Crosby to purchase Boston's other ball club has been squelched by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The Judge ruled yesterday that Crosby's plan to buy the Boston Bees is out of order because of Crosby's involvement with horse racing out on the Coast....
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Well now, so Childs is going to splurge its advertising budget on radio, eh? Phil Cook, a jolly ukelele-playing song-and-patter personality, has been doing early mornings over WEAF or WABC for about ten years now, and his act is now about nine years' past its freshness date. Good move, Childs.....
The Bees just can't catch a break. They almost got expelled from the National League in 1935 after they got evicted from their ballpark when the owners of the field decided it would be more profitable to run dog racing there. Judge Landis didn't think much of that, either.
Bing, however, will one day emerge as part-owner of the Pirates. After, of course, Judge Landis has gone to that great Commissioner's Office In The Sky.
Lois de Fee there was quite a prominent personality around the raggedy edge of the Era. She spent many years in burlesque as the World's Tallest Stripper, and she only died within the past few years. Her personal effects, including her stage-music library and her scrapbooks, sold at auction for just $840. Sic transit gloria mundi.