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The Era -- Day By Day
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Here's a great shot of Milton Caniff at work -- with a young actress posing as April Kane. Caniff used live models for most of his characters, especially for complicated scenes and poses. Some were friends and relatives, but occasionally he'd hire professionals when he wanted a very specific look.
Please tell us that she is telling that creepy Crispin guy to back off. (Actually, though, I believe the scene he's drawing is an illustration for one in a series of "young adult" novels he wrote in the early forties, based on the strip and featuring the same characters in slightly toned-down adventures.)
(I can't imagine, though, how this particular adventure would be "toned down.")
Please tell us that she is telling that creepy Crispin guy to back off. (Actually, though, I believe the scene he's drawing is an illustration for one in a series of "young adult" novels he wrote in the early forties, based on the strip and featuring the same characters in slightly toned-down adventures.)
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That Caniff-at-work pic with April is too good to be true. Just fantastic.
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Makes you wish a real A-budget T&TP movie had been made. But nobody took comics seriously enough in 1941 to consider doing that -- so all you got were kiddie serials and B-series pictures. With the right cast, it could have been a spectacular wartime propaganda/adventure film.
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And the right cast would definitely include Ann Savage and Dorothy Malone. ...and, a bookworm nerd GI.
The GI is a paratrooper lost inside a bookshop owned by sisters Ann and Dorothy. Won't divulge the
script but it would be a spectacular wartime propaganda/adventure film, ménage a trois trials through
tribulation, rated G. GI only. Really a morale boost for the boys.
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What a missed opportunity, especially for T&TP as that material is smart, adult, engaging and, as you note, timely propaganda / adventure. I've watched a few of the serial episodes of T&TP on TCM and they are all but unwatchable.
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Republicans opposing President Roosevelt's Lease-Lend bill today sought to enlist the aid of Democrats in writing major amendments into the measure. As the second day of full-dress debate on the bill opened in the House of Representatives, Rep. Hamilton Fish (R-NY) intimated that some "conversions" among Democrats have already been made, and it is rumored that Wendell Willkie will suggest modifications when he testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee upon his return from London next week. The amendments mentioned by Representative Fish are aimed at circumscribing the powers the bill would provide to the President, including a proposal to limit the aid program to the British to one year, to hold the total cost of the program to $2,000,000,000, and to prohibit the transfer of American naval vessels or their use in convoys to ship goods to Britain.
President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba narrowly escaped an assassination plot today, and took steps to suppress an incipient revolt by swift action overnight to arrest his naval and war chiefs, and by the suspension of all civil liberty guarantees in the island nation. President Batista assumed personal command of all Cuban armed forces, and established his headquarters at Camp Columbia, army base outside Havana. He is expected to broadcast an address to the Cuban nation later today.
The possibility of a settlement in the war between the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and the radio networks appeared on the horizon today, as officials of ASCAP planned to go to Washington for a discussion with the Department of Justice on a possible consent decree concluding the Government's pending lawsuit against the society. Broadcast Music Incorporated, rival copyright licensing agency established by the National Association of Broadcasters, has already signed such a decree, but it will not go into effect until a similar agreement is reached with ASCAP.
A story published yesterday in a Manhattan newspaper declaring that the Duchess of Windsor has undergone a face lift was repudiated today by a spokesman for the Duke of Windsor. Captain Vyvyan Drury, the Duke's aide-de-camp, speaking from Nassau, Bahamas, denied that any such surgery has taken place, and added that the physician named in the article, one Dr. I. Daniel Sharrell, "is unknown here or by Nassau immigration authorities."
State Assemblyman Robert F. Wagner (D-Manhattan) announced today that he will rush the introduction a bill barring any increase in New York City subway fares without a municipal referendum. Mr. Wagner criticized "higher fare proponents" of pushing for an "upward revision" of the present nickel fare.
(Slow news day.)
(Don't get too cozy there, Lennie, that new cab isn't gonna drive itself.)
A fifteen-year-old Negro fugitive from a Georgia chain gang is being held without bail in Brooklyn while local authorities seek to prevent his extradition back to his home state. Magistrate Charles Solomon has appealed to Governor Herbert H. Lehman for aid in holding up extradition papers in the case of Jay Gould Cotton, who escaped and fled to the North after being sentenced to ten to twenty years on the chain gang for a $50 grocery-store robbery. Magistrate Solomon, in seeking the aid of the Governor, declared that "the social aspects of the case far transcend the legal phase."
(And for your convenience, many of these fine Brooklyn merchants offer one-stop gambling, loansharking, and murder-for-hire services. Just ask at the counter!)
(Um, Indian head pennies were last minted thirty-two years ago, and you don't really see that many of them floating around anymore. But I guess it's still too soon to make "put the squeeze on Abe" jokes.)
A forty-nine-year-old one-legged man was being held this morning on charges that he beat his wife with his crutch. Leroy Cadmus of 181 Throop Avenue was ordered held on $300 bail by Magistrate Vincent Sweeney for General Sessions court.
"Dusty" writes in to Helen Worth to commisserate with "Disillusioned's" recent comments about her husband who does nothing but work, eat, and sleep. She's in the same boat, and says she agrees with the reader who wrote in to say that at least he's not out drinking and fooling around with other women like so many men are nowadays. Dusty recommends getting outdoors and finding refreshing things to do away from the home as a way of escaping the
boredom of married life.
("I told you we should have joined that bowling league instead.")
It was great to have Al Jolson back on Broadway again in "Hold On To Your Hats," but not so great that Jolie has now left the show and has forced it to close, throwing the entire cast out of work. Arthur Pollock wonders if the whole show was just an ego-booster for the star, who, having had his fill, is willing to abandon everyone else who worked to make the show a hit. "Hold On To Your Hats" was still drawing well, but Jolson claimed his health would no longer allow him to continue in the production. The star is now being sued by the producer, who contends that the performer's sudden departure has killed plans for what would have been a profitable tour.
(What people did before there were internet "wellness" forums.)
If you need another reason to dislike the World Champion Cincinnati Reds, here's another one. Mr. Crosley's club has declared that "under no circumstances" will it put up in a Brooklyn hotel when it comes to play the Flock this summer. The harsh rebuke of Larry MacPhail's request that visiting clubs secure local accomodations has drawn the ire of the Emir of Ebbets Field, and you know what that will mean. But Larry is pleased, at least, that the Phillies and the Cardinals have agreed to stay at the Hotel Bossert instead of seeking Manhattan lodging this year, and the Cubs may be leaning in that direction as well. But Mr. MacPhail is really sore now at the Boston Bees, who primly declined the Dodger request, declaring that the "bars and nightclubs" in Brooklyn would pose a "too many pitfalls" to Mr. C. D. Stengel's innocent boys. "Where have those fellows been living before this?" queried Dodger secretary John MacDonald as his boss sputtered with fury. "The Seamen's Home?"
National Football League Most Valuable Player Ace Parker, who has apparently realized he will not make the grade with the Pittsburgh Pirates this spring, has signed a $7500 contract to play for the Football Dodgers this fall. But he has not given up entirely on baseball -- it is now reported that Mr. Topping is trying to convince Larry MacPhail to acquire Parker from the Bucs as a potential summer gate attraction at Ebbets Field. Or, more likely, at Montreal.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby will take time out from their radio and movie chores to hit the golf links in a series of fund-raising matches on behalf of British War Relief. The comic and the crooner are both pretty fair players -- even though the last time they golfed together they got neatly trimmed in a doubles match by Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg.
(Better give the kid an extra zap, Doc, for the Federal judge who'll have him up for mail theft.)
(Look at it this way, Jo -- at least you're not dealing with Oakdale.)
("Hah!" says Mary. "Leave ME to starve in the street for five years will you? Revenge is a dish best served ice cold -- from a can!")
("Aw gee whiz Dan, we didn't even use the rubber hose. You told me we could use the rubber hose!")
President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba narrowly escaped an assassination plot today, and took steps to suppress an incipient revolt by swift action overnight to arrest his naval and war chiefs, and by the suspension of all civil liberty guarantees in the island nation. President Batista assumed personal command of all Cuban armed forces, and established his headquarters at Camp Columbia, army base outside Havana. He is expected to broadcast an address to the Cuban nation later today.
The possibility of a settlement in the war between the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and the radio networks appeared on the horizon today, as officials of ASCAP planned to go to Washington for a discussion with the Department of Justice on a possible consent decree concluding the Government's pending lawsuit against the society. Broadcast Music Incorporated, rival copyright licensing agency established by the National Association of Broadcasters, has already signed such a decree, but it will not go into effect until a similar agreement is reached with ASCAP.
A story published yesterday in a Manhattan newspaper declaring that the Duchess of Windsor has undergone a face lift was repudiated today by a spokesman for the Duke of Windsor. Captain Vyvyan Drury, the Duke's aide-de-camp, speaking from Nassau, Bahamas, denied that any such surgery has taken place, and added that the physician named in the article, one Dr. I. Daniel Sharrell, "is unknown here or by Nassau immigration authorities."
State Assemblyman Robert F. Wagner (D-Manhattan) announced today that he will rush the introduction a bill barring any increase in New York City subway fares without a municipal referendum. Mr. Wagner criticized "higher fare proponents" of pushing for an "upward revision" of the present nickel fare.
(Slow news day.)
(Don't get too cozy there, Lennie, that new cab isn't gonna drive itself.)
A fifteen-year-old Negro fugitive from a Georgia chain gang is being held without bail in Brooklyn while local authorities seek to prevent his extradition back to his home state. Magistrate Charles Solomon has appealed to Governor Herbert H. Lehman for aid in holding up extradition papers in the case of Jay Gould Cotton, who escaped and fled to the North after being sentenced to ten to twenty years on the chain gang for a $50 grocery-store robbery. Magistrate Solomon, in seeking the aid of the Governor, declared that "the social aspects of the case far transcend the legal phase."
(Um, Indian head pennies were last minted thirty-two years ago, and you don't really see that many of them floating around anymore. But I guess it's still too soon to make "put the squeeze on Abe" jokes.)
A forty-nine-year-old one-legged man was being held this morning on charges that he beat his wife with his crutch. Leroy Cadmus of 181 Throop Avenue was ordered held on $300 bail by Magistrate Vincent Sweeney for General Sessions court.
"Dusty" writes in to Helen Worth to commisserate with "Disillusioned's" recent comments about her husband who does nothing but work, eat, and sleep. She's in the same boat, and says she agrees with the reader who wrote in to say that at least he's not out drinking and fooling around with other women like so many men are nowadays. Dusty recommends getting outdoors and finding refreshing things to do away from the home as a way of escaping the
boredom of married life.
("I told you we should have joined that bowling league instead.")
It was great to have Al Jolson back on Broadway again in "Hold On To Your Hats," but not so great that Jolie has now left the show and has forced it to close, throwing the entire cast out of work. Arthur Pollock wonders if the whole show was just an ego-booster for the star, who, having had his fill, is willing to abandon everyone else who worked to make the show a hit. "Hold On To Your Hats" was still drawing well, but Jolson claimed his health would no longer allow him to continue in the production. The star is now being sued by the producer, who contends that the performer's sudden departure has killed plans for what would have been a profitable tour.
(What people did before there were internet "wellness" forums.)
If you need another reason to dislike the World Champion Cincinnati Reds, here's another one. Mr. Crosley's club has declared that "under no circumstances" will it put up in a Brooklyn hotel when it comes to play the Flock this summer. The harsh rebuke of Larry MacPhail's request that visiting clubs secure local accomodations has drawn the ire of the Emir of Ebbets Field, and you know what that will mean. But Larry is pleased, at least, that the Phillies and the Cardinals have agreed to stay at the Hotel Bossert instead of seeking Manhattan lodging this year, and the Cubs may be leaning in that direction as well. But Mr. MacPhail is really sore now at the Boston Bees, who primly declined the Dodger request, declaring that the "bars and nightclubs" in Brooklyn would pose a "too many pitfalls" to Mr. C. D. Stengel's innocent boys. "Where have those fellows been living before this?" queried Dodger secretary John MacDonald as his boss sputtered with fury. "The Seamen's Home?"
National Football League Most Valuable Player Ace Parker, who has apparently realized he will not make the grade with the Pittsburgh Pirates this spring, has signed a $7500 contract to play for the Football Dodgers this fall. But he has not given up entirely on baseball -- it is now reported that Mr. Topping is trying to convince Larry MacPhail to acquire Parker from the Bucs as a potential summer gate attraction at Ebbets Field. Or, more likely, at Montreal.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby will take time out from their radio and movie chores to hit the golf links in a series of fund-raising matches on behalf of British War Relief. The comic and the crooner are both pretty fair players -- even though the last time they golfed together they got neatly trimmed in a doubles match by Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg.
("Hah!" says Mary. "Leave ME to starve in the street for five years will you? Revenge is a dish best served ice cold -- from a can!")
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And in the Daily News...
I hope Mr. Weisberg's family kept that medallion and sold it for a huge pile before Uber destroyed the market. And I hope somebody drops a bag of rocks on Lorin Willis's head.
Hey, Tracy -- don't forget, the Chief's birthday is rolling around again.
Clip and Save.
Listen kid, keep your illusions, OK? You really don't want to know what he had to do to get out.
C'mon, Snipe, let him have it. You won't even have to get out of your chair.
All right son, let's see you get out of this.
You know, Krome is a real louse and you shouldn't ever feel sorry for him, but still...
While most organ grinders did work with monkeys, as the stereotype would have it, some few, usually of Russian descent, did vary the act with dancing bears.
Another classic visual stereotype: derby hat, cigar, big black moustache = hotel detective.
YOUR MOVE, KID.
Hey, Tracy -- don't forget, the Chief's birthday is rolling around again.
Clip and Save.
All right son, let's see you get out of this.
YOUR MOVE, KID.
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Seriously, it's not as if Manhattan rolls up the carpet at 6pm and everyone goes home.
A...I hope Mr. Weisberg's family kept that medallion and sold it for a huge pile before Uber destroyed the market. And I hope somebody drops a bag of rocks on Lorin Willis's head....
Re the burned woman suing the chop house, I have no idea about the facts in that instance, but even into the '80s, many smokers were shockingly careless about how they discarded their matches. You'd often see a smoker light up and then shake his hand, which held the lit match, once or twice and then just let the match fall without ever looking to see if it went out first.
Re the medallions, there was a time when families like the Weisbergs (or Ernest Borgnine in "A Catered Affair") could buy a medallion as a way to go from being a cabbie working for someone to being a small business owner, but by the '00s, the medallions had mainly been bought up by largish companies who - with protection from the politicians who happily took their campaign contributions (and graft, let's not kid ourselves) - screwed both the drivers (hard) and the public (hard). The system collapsed because Uber provided the spark, but everyone, other than owners and politicians on the take, hated it.
...
All right son, let's see you get out of this....
You told us he lived to, at least, 46, so I'm not worried about him and I have no real vesting in Tang, but where is Hu Shee? Lord, please don't take Hu Shee from us; she is so young and good and has so much life ahead of her.
...You know, Krome is a real louse and you shouldn't ever feel sorry for him, but still......
It is hard to be human and not feel horribly sorry for someone about to have an arm amputated, even a scumbag like Krome.
So, was Smallville not well known as Superman's hometown back in '41? It seems odd that a big strip like "Tracy" would use the same name - no?
...
YOUR MOVE, KID.
In general, I think those kids are way too young to get married and Lana can do much better, but Harold can't. Marry her if she'll have you kid and then do what she tells you to do.
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Spell appeal rescind; absolutely no legal basis except racism to have first implied.
Trial judge should be cited for allowing improper prosecution jury summation.
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Terry of course continues his comic odyssey, escapes execution.
Harold is far too immature for marriage. Lana, sweet rose may see this fact.
Trial judge should be cited for allowing improper prosecution jury summation.
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Terry of course continues his comic odyssey, escapes execution.
Harold is far too immature for marriage. Lana, sweet rose may see this fact.
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"Smallville" didn't show up in "Superman" until the "Superboy" strip came along after the war. I think Mr. Gould uses it in at least a couple of sequences before that to represent one or another of the little towns in the remote orbit of Tracy's City. In 1941, Superman was never Superboy -- he didn't take on a costumed identity until he showed up as an adult in 1938. His childhood and family background were given very little attention until they got sketched out a bit in a "young adult novel" published in 1942 -- which seems to have been a pretty good year for "young adult" comic-based hardcovers.
Harold's age tends to float a bit given that he was sixteen or seventeen for about eighteen years, but we know that he graduated from high school in 1939, which would make him twenty this year -- the same age as Skeezix, and probably three years older than Terry. Of our three young members of "The Greatest Generation," Harold is unquestionably the least mature for his age -- but I also suspect that he is the only one of the three who has been inaugurated into certain adult mysteries, courtesy of the time he spent last year with Senga. Just imagine.
I get the feeling that Lana is a bit older than he is. Not Sally Snipe older, but maybe 21 or 22. Old enough, one hopes, to know better if what seems to be about to happen happens.
Mr. Stengel played in Brooklyn and managed there, so I'd imagine he'd know better than anyone just what a hive of villiany the bars and nightclubs were. In fact, he could probably give his boys a guided tour.
Harold's age tends to float a bit given that he was sixteen or seventeen for about eighteen years, but we know that he graduated from high school in 1939, which would make him twenty this year -- the same age as Skeezix, and probably three years older than Terry. Of our three young members of "The Greatest Generation," Harold is unquestionably the least mature for his age -- but I also suspect that he is the only one of the three who has been inaugurated into certain adult mysteries, courtesy of the time he spent last year with Senga. Just imagine.
I get the feeling that Lana is a bit older than he is. Not Sally Snipe older, but maybe 21 or 22. Old enough, one hopes, to know better if what seems to be about to happen happens.
Mr. Stengel played in Brooklyn and managed there, so I'd imagine he'd know better than anyone just what a hive of villiany the bars and nightclubs were. In fact, he could probably give his boys a guided tour.
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Thank you re Superman.
Lana is clearly smarter and much-more level headed than Harold, but like all of us, she has her weaknesses and not recognizing her own value could be one of hers.
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Meanwhile, here's something pretty impressive -- a series of original press photos of the big midtown crime spree last month, incuding shots of our Hero Cabbie wounded on the sidewalk --
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"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player.
It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in." Casey Stengel
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The United States Chamber of Commerce today came out in formal opposition to the Lease-Lend bill for aid to Great Britain, charging that under the legislation, the President would have full authority to turn the entire Army and Navy over to "foreign powers" without requiring a vote of Congress, and would also have the authority to "seize private property for delivery to foreign governments." Chamber president John S. Kemper, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also declared his organization's view that the bill would not contribute to the defense of the United States.
A woman wearing a black shroud and a painted skull-head mask rose in the public gallery during debate today over the Lease Lend bill in the House of Representatives, and began to wail and shake her fist at the astonished lawmakers. The woman, who had been sitting among the newspaper reporters in the section of the gallery reserved for the press, donned the mask just before standing up and moaning in a loud voice "MY NOVENA! MY NOVENA!" Arrested on the spot by Capitol security, the woman was taken to the office of the Sergeant at Arms, where she was unmasked as a young woman in her twenties, who gave her name only as "Andrea," from New York, and described herself as "a pamphleteer, but no Communist." She also advised police that "DEATH is the victor, not Germany or England! That is what I wanted to impress upon the House!"
The nation's First Lady, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, appeared before 1700 striking employees of the Leviton Manufacturing Company in Greenpoint today, in a precedent-shattering speech in support of the lengthy walkout, which began last August and has shown no sign of immediate resolution. Members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 are demanding a $16 per week minimum wage, and a closed shop, and Mrs. Roosevelt commended them for their firm stand. "You are interested in getting a better life," declared the First Lady, "and I am afraid that I agree with you!" Mrs. Roosevelt went on to state, "I have always felt that it was important that everyone who is a worker should join a labor organization, because the ideals of the organized labor movement are high ideals. They mean that we are not selfish in our desires, and that we stand for the group as a whole. That must be the attitude of every citizen."
Fire ravaged a landmark building in Williamsburg last night, leaving the six-story Gomer Building a charred shell. Flames were visible more than a mile away, and trolley and elevated lines were halted as firemen battled to keep the blaze from spreading into the surrounding neighborhood. Until two years ago, the building had served as Station A of the Brooklyn Post Office, but since had been converted to factory lofts, with a floor-covering store and a bar occupying the street-level floor. The building was empty when the fire erupted, save for a few patrons and staff in the bar and grill, and they escaped safely. Total damage to the building is estimated at $75,000.
In Vichy, Pierre Laval has demanded that he be named Premier, and that he be given the right to name a Cabinet of his own choosing and that he be made subject to a National Assembly whose members he would personally select. Marshal Henri Petain has summoned his own Cabinet today to discuss the Laval ultimatum with Otto Abetz, German envoy to Paris, in an effort to resume full cooperation between the Vichy government and Germany.
Royal Air Forces planes are pounding the French coast in a series of daylight raids today, following a night of attacks on the German industrial center at Dusseldorf. Points on the French invasion coast were also targeted by British night raiders.
Police in the Bronx are investigating the strangling death of a 29-year-old woman, whose body was found sprawled on a bed in the Grand Concourse apartment she shared with her husband, a wholesale grocer. Mrs. Kitty Pappas was found dead by her husband John upon his return from work yesterday, and police anticipate questioning "a family friend" about the slaying. There were no other marks of violence upon Mrs. Pappas's body, and no valuable items were missing from the apartment.
Sandbags were removed from the presidential palace in Havana, Cuba today and a normal police guard replaced the details of soldiers who had blocked access to the building in the wake of President Fulegencio Batista's suppression of a purported revolutionary coup against his government. Chiefs of the Cuban armed forces have been purged in the wake of the incident, and most have fled by airplane into exile in Miami, Florida. Only the former Navy chief, Colonel Angel A. Gonzalez, remains in Cuba, and he is jailed under heavy guard. American Ambassador George S. Messersmith has wired President Batista to congratulate him for his swift action in suppressing the rebels.
Dodger President Larry MacPhail announced today that the political turmoil in Cuba will not alter plans by the Brooklyn club to conduct Spring Training in Havana. The team is scheduled to leave for Cuba in eleven days.
Fight manager Hyman Caplin will stand trial alone as the alleged head of a two-million-dollar Brooklyn cardsharking ring, after all his co-defendents changed their pleas to guilty. Caplin's attorney Sidney Rosenthal immediately moved for a mistrial, arguing that the pleas were allowed after the jury for the trial was seated, thus predjudicing the jurors against the lone remaining defendant, but Judge Peter J. Brancato immediately dismissed the motion.
(Keep puffing, hon -- a career as a gravel-throated, rasp-voiced character actress awaits you.)
A 71-year-old mother wept yesterday in Coney Island court as she handed her 42-year-old son, convicted of beating her, a dollar bill before police led him away. "For him to buy cigarettes in jail," said Mrs. Antoinette Durante after her son Albert Durante was found guilty of slapping her with a pair of rubber boots at their home on West 19th Street. "Pick a fight with some of the able-bodied men in jail while you're there," advised Magistrate Charles J. Ramsgate, "if you must fight somebody."
"Unhappy Bride" writes in to Helen Worth to warn other brides: if he runs around before marriage, he'll keep running around after. "He said he thought it was no harm for a man to have two women in his life. How would you treat the situation without a quarrel?" Helen takes a deep breath and says "it is useless now to tell you that your insistence on marriage to this man was a mistake. Leave him now, before a child comes along to create economic dependence." To say nothing of the physical dangers -- Helen advises Unhappy to read "Shadow On The Land," a book about syphilis, if she has any doubts of that.
(Sergeants never get any respect in the funnies.)
(SPRING IS COMING.)
The amputation of a 32-year-old worker's arm and leg by a doctor using a penknife failed to save the man, who was crushed after being drawn into a machine at a Long Island cement plant yesterday. Greaser Stanley Los of Jamacia was mangled when his clothing got caught in the gears of a separating machine at the Long Island Cement Products Corporation plant in Elmont, and though Dr. Wilbur G. Holz of Valley Stream freed him from the machine by sawing off his right arm and leg with his pocket knife, Los's injuries proved too severe for him to survive, and after several blood transfusions he died at Nassau Hospital.
With less than two weeks to go before training camp convenes in sunny Havana, sixteen Dodgers remain unsigned, including the entire infield. While 22 Dodgers are officially in the fold, including eleven pitchers and seven of the nine outfielders on the spring roster, the entire infield of Dolph Camilli, Pete Coscarart, Pee Wee Reese, and Harry Lavagetto has yet to return contracts for the coming season. You may recall that Camilli was the most enduring Dodger holdout last spring, at one point threatening to spend the summer tending to his farm in California rather than play for what he was offered. Other prominent Dodgers yet unsigned are pitchers Whit Wyatt and Luke Hamiln, and newly-acquired catcher Mickey Owen.
(SPRING IS REALLY COMING.)
At the Patio this week, it's Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in "Bittersweet," paired with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rita Hayworth in "Angels Over Broadway." Sorry, no cash giveaways this week.
Have you listened in yet on Henry Morgan's early-evening six-a-week show over WOR? Mr. Morgan is a very funny fellow, and "Here's Morgan" is just the right amount of sarcastic, satirical humor to get your evening listening off to a good start. Mr. Morgan has transcribed a series of spot announcements to promote the show, and you'll hear them popping up over WOR all during the day. "Nobody can be funny six nights a week," proclaims the announcer-turned-comedian in one of the, "And so can Mr. Morgan!"
(Yikes. Whatever you do, keep Sparky away from Uncle Bim.)
("George Has Funny Ideas Again." = sad family euphemism heard far too often.)
(Damrite! Mary is taking NO MORE OF THEIR CRAP. On the other hand, you barely know Sue, who you only met for a couple of weeks over a year ago. And didn't Ted used to have brown hair?)
(Point of order -- even in the fast and loose world of 1941, you have to hold some kind of medical or nursing qualification in order to legally possess a syringe, let alone give injections. And we all know the only M. D. Dan has is "Mighty Dumb.")
A woman wearing a black shroud and a painted skull-head mask rose in the public gallery during debate today over the Lease Lend bill in the House of Representatives, and began to wail and shake her fist at the astonished lawmakers. The woman, who had been sitting among the newspaper reporters in the section of the gallery reserved for the press, donned the mask just before standing up and moaning in a loud voice "MY NOVENA! MY NOVENA!" Arrested on the spot by Capitol security, the woman was taken to the office of the Sergeant at Arms, where she was unmasked as a young woman in her twenties, who gave her name only as "Andrea," from New York, and described herself as "a pamphleteer, but no Communist." She also advised police that "DEATH is the victor, not Germany or England! That is what I wanted to impress upon the House!"
The nation's First Lady, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, appeared before 1700 striking employees of the Leviton Manufacturing Company in Greenpoint today, in a precedent-shattering speech in support of the lengthy walkout, which began last August and has shown no sign of immediate resolution. Members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 are demanding a $16 per week minimum wage, and a closed shop, and Mrs. Roosevelt commended them for their firm stand. "You are interested in getting a better life," declared the First Lady, "and I am afraid that I agree with you!" Mrs. Roosevelt went on to state, "I have always felt that it was important that everyone who is a worker should join a labor organization, because the ideals of the organized labor movement are high ideals. They mean that we are not selfish in our desires, and that we stand for the group as a whole. That must be the attitude of every citizen."
Fire ravaged a landmark building in Williamsburg last night, leaving the six-story Gomer Building a charred shell. Flames were visible more than a mile away, and trolley and elevated lines were halted as firemen battled to keep the blaze from spreading into the surrounding neighborhood. Until two years ago, the building had served as Station A of the Brooklyn Post Office, but since had been converted to factory lofts, with a floor-covering store and a bar occupying the street-level floor. The building was empty when the fire erupted, save for a few patrons and staff in the bar and grill, and they escaped safely. Total damage to the building is estimated at $75,000.
In Vichy, Pierre Laval has demanded that he be named Premier, and that he be given the right to name a Cabinet of his own choosing and that he be made subject to a National Assembly whose members he would personally select. Marshal Henri Petain has summoned his own Cabinet today to discuss the Laval ultimatum with Otto Abetz, German envoy to Paris, in an effort to resume full cooperation between the Vichy government and Germany.
Royal Air Forces planes are pounding the French coast in a series of daylight raids today, following a night of attacks on the German industrial center at Dusseldorf. Points on the French invasion coast were also targeted by British night raiders.
Police in the Bronx are investigating the strangling death of a 29-year-old woman, whose body was found sprawled on a bed in the Grand Concourse apartment she shared with her husband, a wholesale grocer. Mrs. Kitty Pappas was found dead by her husband John upon his return from work yesterday, and police anticipate questioning "a family friend" about the slaying. There were no other marks of violence upon Mrs. Pappas's body, and no valuable items were missing from the apartment.
Sandbags were removed from the presidential palace in Havana, Cuba today and a normal police guard replaced the details of soldiers who had blocked access to the building in the wake of President Fulegencio Batista's suppression of a purported revolutionary coup against his government. Chiefs of the Cuban armed forces have been purged in the wake of the incident, and most have fled by airplane into exile in Miami, Florida. Only the former Navy chief, Colonel Angel A. Gonzalez, remains in Cuba, and he is jailed under heavy guard. American Ambassador George S. Messersmith has wired President Batista to congratulate him for his swift action in suppressing the rebels.
Dodger President Larry MacPhail announced today that the political turmoil in Cuba will not alter plans by the Brooklyn club to conduct Spring Training in Havana. The team is scheduled to leave for Cuba in eleven days.
Fight manager Hyman Caplin will stand trial alone as the alleged head of a two-million-dollar Brooklyn cardsharking ring, after all his co-defendents changed their pleas to guilty. Caplin's attorney Sidney Rosenthal immediately moved for a mistrial, arguing that the pleas were allowed after the jury for the trial was seated, thus predjudicing the jurors against the lone remaining defendant, but Judge Peter J. Brancato immediately dismissed the motion.
A 71-year-old mother wept yesterday in Coney Island court as she handed her 42-year-old son, convicted of beating her, a dollar bill before police led him away. "For him to buy cigarettes in jail," said Mrs. Antoinette Durante after her son Albert Durante was found guilty of slapping her with a pair of rubber boots at their home on West 19th Street. "Pick a fight with some of the able-bodied men in jail while you're there," advised Magistrate Charles J. Ramsgate, "if you must fight somebody."
"Unhappy Bride" writes in to Helen Worth to warn other brides: if he runs around before marriage, he'll keep running around after. "He said he thought it was no harm for a man to have two women in his life. How would you treat the situation without a quarrel?" Helen takes a deep breath and says "it is useless now to tell you that your insistence on marriage to this man was a mistake. Leave him now, before a child comes along to create economic dependence." To say nothing of the physical dangers -- Helen advises Unhappy to read "Shadow On The Land," a book about syphilis, if she has any doubts of that.
(Sergeants never get any respect in the funnies.)
(SPRING IS COMING.)
The amputation of a 32-year-old worker's arm and leg by a doctor using a penknife failed to save the man, who was crushed after being drawn into a machine at a Long Island cement plant yesterday. Greaser Stanley Los of Jamacia was mangled when his clothing got caught in the gears of a separating machine at the Long Island Cement Products Corporation plant in Elmont, and though Dr. Wilbur G. Holz of Valley Stream freed him from the machine by sawing off his right arm and leg with his pocket knife, Los's injuries proved too severe for him to survive, and after several blood transfusions he died at Nassau Hospital.
With less than two weeks to go before training camp convenes in sunny Havana, sixteen Dodgers remain unsigned, including the entire infield. While 22 Dodgers are officially in the fold, including eleven pitchers and seven of the nine outfielders on the spring roster, the entire infield of Dolph Camilli, Pete Coscarart, Pee Wee Reese, and Harry Lavagetto has yet to return contracts for the coming season. You may recall that Camilli was the most enduring Dodger holdout last spring, at one point threatening to spend the summer tending to his farm in California rather than play for what he was offered. Other prominent Dodgers yet unsigned are pitchers Whit Wyatt and Luke Hamiln, and newly-acquired catcher Mickey Owen.
At the Patio this week, it's Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in "Bittersweet," paired with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rita Hayworth in "Angels Over Broadway." Sorry, no cash giveaways this week.
Have you listened in yet on Henry Morgan's early-evening six-a-week show over WOR? Mr. Morgan is a very funny fellow, and "Here's Morgan" is just the right amount of sarcastic, satirical humor to get your evening listening off to a good start. Mr. Morgan has transcribed a series of spot announcements to promote the show, and you'll hear them popping up over WOR all during the day. "Nobody can be funny six nights a week," proclaims the announcer-turned-comedian in one of the, "And so can Mr. Morgan!"
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And in the Daily News...
Besides, "Hedy LaMarr" will look much neater on the patent applications.
Hey Nina, did you try one of these?
Yeah, kid, it's time to swiften up. Harold Teen might be a dope, but you can't say he isn't a sharp dresser.
Ordinarily, our Annie has a very sensitive BS detector, but it seems to be malfunctioning.
What kind of dreams do you think Chester Gould has at night?
CALLED IT. Poor Tilda.
Given the extremely tenuous state of US-Invader relations right now, do you REALLY think triggering an international incident is such a good idea?
Next: Skeezix tries to grow a moustache.
Look, Moon, I keep telling you -- you should just go on home. Hollywood already has a Cagney.
ARRIVING TONIGHT. MEET ME AT STATION. LOVE YOU MISS YOU. ALWAYS -- YOUR LIL BUG.
Besides, "Hedy LaMarr" will look much neater on the patent applications.
Hey Nina, did you try one of these?
Yeah, kid, it's time to swiften up. Harold Teen might be a dope, but you can't say he isn't a sharp dresser.
Look, Moon, I keep telling you -- you should just go on home. Hollywood already has a Cagney.
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Grin and Bear It recalls a recruit named Wiloughby at Ft Polk, Louisiana. I saw a drill sgt walk up
to Wiloughby's top bunk, recruit snoring loudly. The drill sgt whispered "Wiloughby, time to get up."
Wiloughby sleepily stirred, mumbled something in reply. The drill sgt overturned mattress and all,
blanket shrouding Wiloughby as he crashed onto floor.
to Wiloughby's top bunk, recruit snoring loudly. The drill sgt whispered "Wiloughby, time to get up."
Wiloughby sleepily stirred, mumbled something in reply. The drill sgt overturned mattress and all,
blanket shrouding Wiloughby as he crashed onto floor.
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And a bonus page from today's News --
Jimmy Powers has been crusading for batting helmets ever since Mickey Cochrane was almost killed by a beanball in 1937, and the News has made it an official part of their sports-section editorial platform. And MacPhail, after all the skulling incidents last summer, is a zealous convert.
Oh, and hey gals -- get a load of this kid Rizzuto. Big brown eyes, wavy brown hair, and he's almost old enough to vote.
Jimmy Powers has been crusading for batting helmets ever since Mickey Cochrane was almost killed by a beanball in 1937, and the News has made it an official part of their sports-section editorial platform. And MacPhail, after all the skulling incidents last summer, is a zealous convert.
Oh, and hey gals -- get a load of this kid Rizzuto. Big brown eyes, wavy brown hair, and he's almost old enough to vote.
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Lana, dearest rose, ruby beyond price please wear your glasses. I was afraid this would happen.
Terry is a prisoner of the Japanese Imperial Army. Might as well be dead.
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From a quick search, I can't tell if the building survived. Had it, it would have held small factories until the '70s. Then, it would have sat abandoned for a decade os so until artists started to move to its run down but affordable (rental price), large and well-lit spaces for a decade or so. Then, a developer would buy out the building form the descendants of the original owner (just glad to get a good price for a building that, less than a decade ago, was all but worthless), do expensive renovations and sell or rent the spaces for a lot of money to wealthy Hipsters (or Hipsters with wealthy parents).
Tweak this story a bit and I'd advise the police to question John Garfield's character from "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
...(Yikes. Whatever you do, keep Sparky away from Uncle Bim.)...
"Spark Watts" really seems like a window into Boody Rogers' daydream fantasies.
...What kind of dreams do you think Chester Gould has at night?....
Panel three, in the full context of the story, is truly scary.
...Given the extremely tenuous state of US-Invader relations right now, do you REALLY think triggering an international incident is such a good idea?....
Not just saying it, but had the exact same thought as I was reading it - that sounds like the exact opposite of how the Japanese would want to play it.
What about Hu Shee - where is Hu Shee? (The Greek Chorus, having quit "Harold Teen" in disgust, can be heard quietly chanting "Hu Shee, Hu Shee, Hu Shee....")
...[ARRIVING TONIGHT. MEET ME AT STATION. LOVE YOU MISS YOU. ALWAYS -- YOUR LIL BUG.
"You're not leaving - you're staying here with me - you're transferred now -- yes, transferred to my heart - will you marry me, Lana?
Worst, most-cheesy-sounding proposal ever.
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