MissNathalieVintage
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The Autodex was so much fun to use, push the pin up or down to the letter and it flipped open. It always cracked me up when it opened so fast.
...Nice to see an ad for Mountain Valley Mineral Water. This was Elvis Presley's favorite water to drink. I've had it and its great water to drink when I want to drink something with fizz but without sugar....
It's good Downwind has a business plan in mind if he's thinking of getting married.
Colonel McCormick was -- ah -- passionate about many things. "Simplified Spelling" was one of them. He's been crusading for that since the 1910s, and such constructions as "foto" and "thoroly" will be common in the Tribune for as long as he lives. But strangely, he never called himself "Kernel McCormick." Hmmmmmm.
I can think of no place that would be more fun to spend Election Night than the Roller Derby. I'm astounded they don't have that going on in Brooklyn.
View attachment 277990 ...An estimated 50,000 persons in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut gathered around television receivers in homes, hotels, bars, and party headquarters to watch the first televised presidential election returns. The National Broadcasting Company telecast Associated Press results last night over its station W2XBS, which had its cameras aimed at a news printer to show the numbers as soon as they were received....
... View attachment 277999 ("Hah!" exults Sally. "I'm goin' downa cannystore -- I gotta collect!" Joe blinks his eyes as she rushes out the door, and hopes she doesn't find out *he* bet on Manual....
...Football Dodgers tackle Bruiser Kinkaid was discharged today form Long Island Hospital after receiving a skin graft on his infected right hand. Kinkaid insists he will play Sunday against the Redskins even if he has to do so with a special cast on the injured had. The Dodgers will need to be at full strength if they hope to stop Washington's Slingin' Sammy Baugh, greatest forward passer of them all....
...The President and Founder of the Society For The Prevention of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn will go on the air tomorrow night on the "Believe It Or Not!" broadcast. Alexander Shankman of 320 Legion Street in Brownsville will be interviewed by Robert L. Ripley, and has reportedly been rummaging thru Brooklyn Chamber Of Commerce files to come up with facts to put the borough in the best possible light for the listening audience. Hear him Friday night at 10pm over WABC....
...Mayor LaGuardia will confer today with leaders of striking unions in an effort to end the impassed that has halted demolition work at the World's Fair. A total of 1200 union men are on strike, most of them walking off the job yesterday in support of action taken by the Teamsters and Plumbers Unions in protest of the use of non-union Parks Department workers to empty Fair buildings....
... View attachment 278374 ("Say, whattaya call 'is stuff?" grumbles Joe. "It's got seeds awlov'rit! An' howcum th' slices' so t'in?" "Eat it," snaps Sally. "It's goodfawya." "I c'n see th' meat right t'ru it! An' didjahafta slice th' meat so t'in? I c'n see th'musta'd right t'ru it! Hey, izzat ev'n real musta'd?" "Eat it," reiterates Sally. "It's goodfawya. Errol Flynn eats it. I seeninna magazine." Joe nibbles hesitantly at the seed-covered crust and...)...
...Football Dodgers owner Dan Topping has been declared the Best Shirted Man in Sports, according to an award given by custom-shirt manufacturer Frank Romm. Runners up were Dodger outfielder Dixie Walker and tennis star Donald Budge....
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(In 1969, science fiction writer Larry Niven will write "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex," an essay speculating on the disturbing physical consequences of Superman having sexual relations with Lois Lane. But will he be aware that Boody Rogers was thinking along those same lines nearly thirty years before?)...
...Mayor LaGuardia today ordered the suspension of 26 elevator inspectors from the Department of Housing and Buildings for accepting bribes and gratuities over a period of thirty years. The Mayor stated that he has been trying to run down the elevator racket in the city for twenty years, dating back to his time as President of the now-defunct Board of Aldermen, but was thwarted by the various private companies involved who declared the payments to be "legitimate graft." He stated today that he has finally received full confessions from 22 such companies that they have been making such payoffs to the inspectors. Four of the suspended inspectors are from Brooklyn and eleven are from Queens. All will be given departmental trials, but no criminal charges are contemplated....
...A strenuous sniffing safari thru a number of Queens dumps today left city officials in a nose-to-nose dispute over the relative merits of incineration and burial as the most sanitary method of waste disposal. Supporters of a pro-incinerator group led by City Councilman James A. Burke charged that rival supporters of the landfill method "sweetened" their demonstration by dumping sixty barrels of perfumed hair tonic in their pit in an effort to mask offensive odors. Queens Borough President George U. Harvey declared that the real odor was the "smell of politics," and charged that Councilman Burke was trying to stir up controversy in order to push himself forward as a Democratic candidate for Queens Borough President in 1941. Mr. Burke was seen to "look down his nose" at this remark.
(Why wasn't this story ever made into a Cagney-O'Brien movie?)...
... View attachment 278700 (Radio is such a shady business. The transmitter is exactly the same one they've been using since 1931 -- the only difference is that they moved it ten miles closer to the City than it used to be, and during the move they cut over to a smaller backup transmitter. So of course it's going to sound better when they switch back and forth during the demonstration broadcast. NBC will stay in Port Washington until 1963 -- until they sell the site to Perry Como as part of a renegotiation of his contract. [He wanted the site to build a new house.] The transmitter will then move to High Island, where, as WFAN, it remains to this day. )...
... Meanwhile, scapled Indians manager Oscar Vitt is likely to resurface in Jersey City, where reports have him taking over the Giants' International League farm club there....
... View attachment 278716 I knew three radio time salesmen who furnished their entire houses this way....