MissNathalieVintage
Practically Family
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...("HAH!" says Joe. "How 'bout he do like we gotta do on them trolleys an' sit onna papah. I allays lookunna th' seat, seefIc'nfinea Woil-Tellagram -- it's good 'n sof'." "If he's liketha restat'em judges," adds Sally. "he don' need no paddin'.")...)
...An all-time football attendance record will be set in Brooklyn this afternoon as the Grid Dodgers and Giants clash at Ebbets Field. Ten thousand general admission grandstand seats will go on sale in the marble rotunda this morning....
...Rumors out of Boston suggest that troublemaking young slugger Ted Williams may be changing his socks soon. The Red Sox are reported to be considering a trade that would send Williams to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for outfielder Taft Wright, infielder Johnny Rigney, and a bindle full of cash, but Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey is seen as unlikely to go for the bait. Yawkey has nothing but money, and a reputation as a buyer not a seller -- and despite Williams' reputation as a hothead, he is probably the single greatest asset the Bosox have....
... View attachment 276987 (The irony of the New Deal is that it made a lot of so-called "self made" fortunes possible.)...
"Eh," say The Boys. "It's a Chevy. Whattaya want? Call us back when it's time to work on the Pontiac account."
Junior Tracy's story is wildly convulted. When he first showed up he was the unwilling young henchman of a petty thug called "Steve The Tramp," who used him a a lure and a lackey in various criminal schemes. He came to Tracy's attention when he stole Pat Patton's watch -- not hard to do, really. Tracy rescued him and adopted him -- although legal adoptions by unmarried men weren't at all a common thing in the 1930s, he went so far as to change the boy's name to "Dick Tracy Jr." (Since the boy went by "The Kid" at the time, at least that got Chaplin's lawyers off his back.)
Then it turned out that Steve the Tramp was actually Junior's stepfather, who had run off with his mother when The Kid was just a baby, stealing her away from her husband, a rough Wild West type miner named "Blind Hank" Steele. It was then revealed that The Kid's real name was "Jackie Steele." Steve the Tramp was working by this time for Stooge Viller -- whose demise we saw earlier this year -- and mounted a scheme to get Junior/Jackie/The Kid back, during which Viller killed Blind Hank. Junior and Tracy were reunited, and Tracy of course became a model parent, carefully supervising every phaase of the boy's life. Nah, actually, he lets him run loose in the street to get mixed up with weird parking lot rackets.
Junior will eventually grow up to become a cop himself, and presently works as a sketch artist at his dad's precinct. He used to be married to a woman from the moon, and has a half-Lunarian daughter who has electrical horns on her head and hangs out with her best friend Little Orphan Annie. (The modern Tracy strip has gotten a bit "Chicago Tribune Syndicate Cinematic Universe" in recent years. Along with Annie becoming a semi-regular, Harold Teen and Walt Wallet have both shown up as guest stars, and I expect at any moment that Andy Gump will appear to give Tracy an exploding cigar.)
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The Football Dodgers just can't get the hang of the Giants, losing yet again to their cross-borough rivals by a score of 10-7, before a record-setting crowd of 32,958 at Ebbets Field. The Giants took full advantage of every break that came their way in the tense contest, while the Dodgers kept missing chances to get ahead, fumbling themselves out of a possible touchdown, and then fumbling again in the fourth period to give the Giants the route to the winning score. Brooklyn also lost out on two chances for field goals when kicker Ralph Kercheval limped onto the field with his injured toe and missed both opportunities. The use of the wounded Kercheval caused much second-guessing of Coach Jock Sutherland, who defended his decision, noting that Kercheval seemed fine and "couldn't miss" during pre-game workouts. The loss drops the Football Flock into third place in the National Football League Eastern Division....
...NBC Television will cover the election returns with charts, maps, and tables to illustrate the figures as they come in. Coverage will begin over W2XBS with a simulcast of Lowell Thomas's regular 6:45 radio news period, and will continue thru the night....
A... View attachment 277331 "Oh do come outside so I can show you around! I bet you don't have swamps like this in Beverly Hills!"....
"And with friends like that...."
I used to have one of those "Autodex" things on on my desk at the radio station, filled with the names of Important People, all of whose names I have now completely forgotten.
...Election returns will be announced for the stage at all Century Theatres in Flatbush tonight. At the Patio, see Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in "Brigham Young, Frontiersman" and John Barrymore in "The Great Profile." (Somebody with a real sense of humor put that bill together.)...
...("Howya say'at name, anyways?" wonders Joe. "Hidgebee? Heyegbee? Higgbah? Hig-bay?" "Red Ba'bah says 'Higgbee,'" insists Sally. "Ahhhhh," snorts Joe. "Whassheeknow? He don'eev'n tawk English. W'attahell's a 'catboid seat" ennyway?")...
... View attachment 277657 OK, so Poison, Lilacs, Goofy, Beezie, Shadow, and Pop are all present and accounted for -- but who's this random kibitzer in the beanie with his back to the camera? G'wan, punk, this is a private party.....
How funny would it be if Pat did pick up the phone at the Explorers Club:
"HuShee! Great to hear from you, how is everyone?"
"We've been kidnapped by a powerful and evil warlord who is threatening to turn the DL and me into his concubines and kill Raven if her bank doesn't pay a large ransom."
[A distinct swallowing sound can be heard amidst a loud, happy crowd noise in the background] "Hmm, that's a tough one, is Dude with you?"
"Did you hear me, we are in dire straits?"
"If you do see Dude, tell him they've expanded the beer list here at the Club."
"Men."
"Just kidding, now, where are you?"
"You're not funny."
"Come on, you're smilin' a little bit."