The Era -- Day By Day

[Fading Fast]

^Interesting take on Burma.

Definitely a knock around gal but she has this quixotic streak that Caniff gifted her but not quite
played out yet neither erased from caricature. Evident tension betwixt her and Dude Ranch.

Obviously, I'm having some fun, but the theory is Burma's been frustrated by Terry's inaction, so when along comes testosterone Dude, she's ready.

 

[Harp]

Obviously, I'm having some fun, but the theory is Burma's been frustrated by Terry's inaction, so when along comes testosterone Dude, she's ready.

No doubt the kid's dropped the ball. Too many times perchance perhaps.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The idea for All-Star Game venues is that they alternate from league to league, and from "eastern" to "Western" clubs. So far it's been Chicago (AL), New York (NL), Cleveland (AL), Boston (NL), Washington (AL), Cincinnati (NL), New York (AL), St, Louis (NL), and Detroit (AL.). Philadelphia and Brooklyn are the only two eastern NL clubs not to have had it yet -- and Brooklyn draws better than Philadelphia any day of the week, even though Ebbets Field is slightly smaller than Shibe Park. (But it's also *bigger* than either Crosley Field in Cincinnati or Griffith Stadium in Washington.) So -- It's Brooklyn's Toin!

Attendance has been close-to-sell-out for all games played since the series started in 1933, except for 1936, played in Boston -- where the local management confused everyone by stating that reserved seats were sold out. Which they were, but over 15,000 general admission seats were available, and because of that announcement, went mostly unsold. What can you expect from a franchise that almost got evicted from its park in favor of dog racing?

Dude may be Dude, but I doubt Burma will fall for his chest-thumping bunk. Besides, she has a history with Pat, and figures that with a return to civilization now possible, he may again be available for consultation.

 

[Harp]

^World-wise, sage, sensual Burma; and the kid at maximum overdrive testosterone teenager status,
yet chaste, pure as the driven snow. Pat the glib Mick (I know my own kind) should nail it down, seal the deal.
But that creates a problemo. Terry is the marquee name, the guy who is supposedly carrying the strip.
And he's a busted flush in the romance game. Rolled the dice with Hu Shee and crapped out snake eyes.
He ain't a shooter. Kid's never been laid, either in a bar fight or budoir. Terry ought to go and find Chennault, pick up some flying time and sign on with the American Volunteer Group. Chiang is offering
a $5000 a Japanese Zero contract. Kid needs to get with another outfit, all this peripatetic trevail
garners nothing in the bank account. Just sayin'.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fighting stopped in Syria at 1 AM today when Gen. Henri Dentz, Vichy commander-in-chief, accepted British armistice proposals as a basis for negotiation, it was authoritatively stated today. Dentz was believed now to be at Acre, on the Palestine coast below Syria, conferring with Gen. Maitland Wilson, the British commander-in-chief, who crossed the lines with officers of his staff. Reports from Ankara stated that the armistice proposal carried a 90-minute time limit for acceptance.

Russia, again reporting that there have been no substantial changes on the front, disclosed today that its air force has opened a big new offensive against stalled German blitzkrieg armies. The afternoon military communique stated that fleets of Russian planes continue to rain "crushing blows" against German tanks and other mechanized and motorized units over a wide area, with further bombing underway on the oil fields of Rumania.

The Nazi high command may issue a new communique tomorrow on the situation facing German armies on the Russian front. Reports from Helsinki monitored by the International News Service state that German air raids on Leningrad, Russia's second-largest city, have caused huge fires in industrial sections. It is also stated by Finnish authorities that the Russian military situation on the Hango peninsula is "becoming critical."

Citing a "general apathy" among Selective Service registrants rejected for medical reasons toward treatment that could free them for military duty, the chief medical officer for Selective Service in the city is proposing new regulations that would require medical rejects to submit to forced treatment. Colonel Samuel J. Kopetsky urged the adoption of new rules that would automatically direct medical rejects into Army treatment programs intended to "rehabilitate" them to the point where they meet military standards for service. Colonel Kopetsky noted that optional treatment services offered by draft boards on an experimental basis in Queens drew little interest, and therefore suggests that making such treatment compulsory would "prevent ailing registrants from hiding behind their defects and avoiding the obligation of military duty."

Thirteen men are in custody following the seizure by Federal agents of the largest illegal distillery found in Brooklyn in the past six years. Treasury men today raided a large building at 156-160 Flushing Street, across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where they discovered a 2000-gallon still, 150,000 gallons of sugar mash, and six trucks used for transportation of illegal liquors. U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy noted that the giant still has been operating for some time on a 24-hour production schedule, and was producing 4000 gallons of liquor per day.

A strike by 300 employees of the Thompson quick-lunch restaurant chain in Brooklyn will come to an end after nearly four months. Officials of the J. R. Thompson Restaurant Company have reached an agreement with Local 302 of the Cafeteria Employees Union AFL, and will sign a contract on Monday.

The Eagle Editorialst praises President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie for the cordiality of their latest luncheon engagement at the White House, and wishes the two would confer more often on matters of National Defense. The EE believes the President should heed Mr. Willkie's recommendation that a single national head be appointed to coordinate all defense production, and that the President should also tell certain members of his administration, especially the Secretary of the Interior, to pipe down. "In spite of the delicacy of the present situation, Mr. Ickes began flaying wildly about the moment he secured a little power in the defense setup thru his appointment as petroleum coordinator."

(Mr. Ickes, you will recall, asked Americans to be judicious about their use of fuel, or face the real possibility of rationing.)

(It's tragic because it's true.)

(Heartbreaking.)

("T'em dopey dames!" snorts Sally. "Makin' wit' t' mash notes! Anna cakes, yet!" "Oh yeah?" queries Joe, squinting out one eye. "What'uzzat note I seen you drop ova t'rail? You writin' ta Coscara't again? I t'ot you'uz ovat'at!" ""'At note wuzn' f'Petey. It'uz f' Dressen! Yeah! I sez to him ta tell Petey he needs t'level out 'is swing an' stop steppin' inta t' pitch!")

Byron Nelson beat Ben Hogan to advance to the semi-finals in the P. G. A. national championship tournament in Denver. Nelson carded 136 for two rounds, edging out Hogan by a single stroke.

(The Bankhead playing third for Memphis is 21-year-old phenom Dan Bankhead -- who pitches when he isn't playing infield, and who, just six years from now, will suit up for the Dodgers as the first Black pitcher in modern Major League baseball.)

(This is a very cogent analysis of the "Vallee Problem," and one that, no doubt, Preston Sturges is considering even as we speak. From 1942 forward, Rudy's entire career will be spent playing a straight-faced parody of himself.)

("Why's everybody so touchy these days? Can't anybody take a joke?")

(MIND ON YOUR WORK, BOY)

(Could Jo possibly be having second thoughts? Nahhhh.)

("I CHALLENGE YOU SIR! I DEMAND SATISFACTION UPON THE FIELD OF HONOR!")

(Poor Wolf. Got his hopes all up for nothing.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Not marrying Herbert Ackerberg really is a call for celebration.

It may be cruel to say so, but Mary Jane honestly doesn't look all that broken up about it all.

"If you don't think perfume for men is a good idea, ride on the subways on a hot day." Unless, of course, every man on the car is using too much of it, in which case it's better to just walk home.

Of course, Dude's signature scent is a mixture of musk, panther urine, and avgas.

Vintage words that have vanished in your lifetime: "glim.'

The plot thins. Somebody please hit this guy on the head again.

You can take the schoolteacher out of the school, but you can't take out the teacher.

It's not that, it's that ever since getting an electric refrigerator, Min really misses the iceman.

"Can't you see I'm wearing my thinking caps?"

"Stepbrother?" That's a new one.

 

[Fading Fast]

...Citing a "general apathy" among Selective Service registrants rejected for medical reasons toward treatment that could free them for military duty, the chief medical officer for Selective Service in the city is proposing new regulations that would require medical rejects to submit to forced treatment. Colonel Samuel J. Kopetsky urged the adoption of new rules that would automatically direct medical rejects into Army treatment programs intended to "rehabilitate" them to the point where they meet military standards for service. Colonel Kopetsky noted that optional treatment services offered by draft boards on an experimental basis in Queens drew little interest, and therefore suggests that making such treatment compulsory would "prevent ailing registrants from hiding behind their defects and avoiding the obligation of military duty."...

In all the years I've read books, etc., and watched documentaries about WWII, this is the first time I remember hearing about forced treatment for medical rejects.

...Thirteen men are in custody following the seizure by Federal agents of the largest illegal distillery found in Brooklyn in the past six years. Treasury men today raided a large building at 156-160 Flushing Street, across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where they discovered a 2000-gallon still, 150,000 gallons of sugar mash, and six trucks used for transportation of illegal liquors. U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy noted that the giant still has been operating for some time on a 24-hour production schedule, and was producing 4000 gallons of liquor per day....

I assume it's a tax-avoidance scheme, but this story reads as if it should have happened ten years ago.

... View attachment 346384 ("T'em dopey dames!" snorts Sally. "Makin' wit' t' mash notes! Anna cakes, yet!" "Oh yeah?" queries Joe, squinting out one eye. "What'uzzat note I seen you drop ova t'rail? You writin' ta Coscara't again? I t'ot you'uz ovat'at!" ""'At note wuzn' f'Petey. It'uz f' Dressen! Yeah! I sez to him ta tell Petey he needs t'level out 'is swing an' stop steppin' inta t' pitch!")...

"I t'ot you'uz ovat'at!"

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(This is a very cogent analysis of the "Vallee Problem," and one that, no doubt, Preston Sturges is considering even as we speak. From 1942 forward, Rudy's entire career will be spent playing a straight-faced parody of himself.)...

It's not a perfect analogy, but there is a foreshadowing of Elvis' lost-opportunity movie career here too.

...
("Why's everybody so touchy these days? Can't anybody take a joke?")...

Maybe we should ask our radio scriptwriter, Harriet Wilbur, from yesterday's Inquiring Fotographer question about this.

....[ (Poor Wolf. Got his hopes all up for nothing.)

"Freddie, come on, the team's leavin', we're gonna miss the train."

"I'm just finishin' up the paper, hang on a sec." [To himself] "'Fat Guy,' ha, ha, ha and 'fat head,' such good writing."

"Come on, put the paper down, let's go."

"Yeah, yeah, I think I'll take the paper with me."

A...[ Not marrying Herbert Ackerberg really is a call for celebration....

The "Redhead Girl Flier" looks scripted out of central casting.

Frank R. Stevens should spend his time in jail thinking about his decisioning process.

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It may be cruel to say so, but Mary Jane honestly doesn't look all that broken up about it all....

It's amazing how fast this one went to trial - it's a murder trial.

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"If you don't think perfume for men is a good idea, ride on the subways on a hot day." Unless, of course, every man on the car is using too much of it, in which case it's better to just walk home.....

Can we learn a little bit more about the woman chosen as the "Ideal Blonde for 1941." What kind of contest was that and how many Page Four women were entered? I remember a slightly plump bank robber from last year who might want to throw her hat in the ring to say nothing of all the cheating and cheated-on blondes that populate Page Four all the time. It's a shame Jinx Falkenburg is a brunette (most of the time).

... Of course, Dude's signature scent is a mixture of musk, panther urine, and avgas....

Lizzie, did you get that information from Burma's or Raven's diary?

... The plot thins. Somebody please hit this guy on the head again....

[Once again, in a small box at the bottom of the comic strip page] Eagle Announcement: Next week, the comicstrip our readers have come to know and love as "Little Orphan Annie" will be renamed "Isn't Bill Slagg Wonderful" to better reflect its new direction. We know you will be excited to follow this evolution as, everyday and forever, the strip will now sing the praises of Bill Slagg.

... "Can't you see I'm wearing my thinking caps?"....

Her Senga future gets one step closer.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A special communique from the military headquarters of Adolf Hitler claimed today that the Stalin Line has been "broken at all decisive points," and that German troops are advancing on Leningrad, Kiev, and the approaches to Moscow. A report broadcast by Radio Berlin, monitored in London, claimed that "north of the Dnieper, German troops are standing before Kiev, capital of the Ukraine."

Reports from Moscow state that Red guerilla attacks far behind the Nazi lines, coupled by jolting blows from Soviet air bombers, "are presenting a rising danger to the German invasion of Russia." It is also reported that Red Army regulars supported by the air force continue to block renewed attempts by Nazi shock troops to cross two key rivers and establish bridgeheads on their eastern banks, still held by Soviet defenders. The rivers were not named in the report released by the official news agency Tass, but the chief rivers now defended by Soviet troops in the east are the Dvina, the Dnieper, and the Dniester.

President Roosevelt will consult Monday with Congressional leaders on what the Army high command regards as the "paramount necessity" for authority to use American troops any place in the world, and to keep all existing units in service. Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D -- North Carolina) of the Senate Military Affairs Committee has already introduced legislation to effect these recommendations, and it is expected that a similar bill will be placed into consideration before the House next week.

Barring unforeseen developments, it is expected that Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore will be nominated by the Kings County Democratic Committee as its candidate for a full four-year term in office. Mr. Cashmore, who succeeded the late Raymond V. Ingersoll last year following a special election to fill the one remaining year on Mr. Ingersoll's term, has also been mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for Mayor, but it is understood that the party establishment strongly favors his continuation in his present office.

It is also reported that Kings County Democratic leaders strongly oppose Judge George Martin's candidacy for reelection. Judge Martin, whose term expires at the end of this year, was impeached in 1939 on corruption charges brought by Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen, accusing the judge of complicity in the Brooklyn bail bond racket, but Martin was acquitted by vote of the State Senate in Albany. Rumors suggest that the county committee prefers U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy as a potential candidate for the judicial seat now held by Martin.

A 47-year-old Bay Ridge woman was killed yesterday afternoon by an explosion of cooking gas. Police say Mrs. Sophie Green of 255 74th Street was cooking meat on the top burner of her kitchen range when she accidentally turned on the oven gas jet. The fumes accumulated until they were detonated by the burner, throwing a sheet of flame into Mrs. Green's face. She inhaled the fire, fatally scorching her lungs.

At Camp McQuade in Watsonville, California, soldiers of the 250th Coast Artillery issued a challenge to the "Yoo-Hoo Battalion" of the 110th Quartermaster Regiment of Camp Robinson, Arkansas to prove their "manliness" by competition in a fifteen-mile marching race. The Arkansas soldiers have been widely derided after they complained to Congress about discipline they received after "yoo-hooing" at young women in shorts while on a march. "Out in this wild and woolly west," began the challenge, "our fighting men are fighting men, not pantywaists who want their mammas to wipe their noses and their Congressmen to mop their sweating brows." The challenge amended a postscript: "Out here, the girls yoo-hoo at us!"

(Yeah, boys, unfix those bayonets.)

(This is a really enjoyable book -- highly recommended!!)

Even as work continues on transforming the site of the late World's Fair into Flushing Meadow Park, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses has his eyes set on yet another public playground, with 18,000 acres of marshland overlooking Jamaica Bay proposed as the site for the development of a vast play area, perhaps as soon as 1943. Early plans call for a swimming area featuring purified water, along with facilities for boating and fishing, and picnic grounds landscaped onto the many little islands that dot the bay. An expenditure of $18,300,000 has already been scheduled for the expansion of one sewage treatment plant in the area, and the construction of three others, all of which will feed purified water back into the bay.

(Yeah, no time for lapses, boys, not with the Cardinals ready to fatten up on the Phils. Yeah, I'm talking to YOU, Mr. J. Whitlow Wiry Bald Headed Wyatt.)

Reds third-baseman Billy Werber is well-known as one of the best baserunners in the National League, but he's also now a published author. His new article on group life insurance policies has been published and republished in several leading insurance-industry journals and is already called one of the best treatises ever written on that subject.

(Mr. Werber did not confine his pen to the exciting world of insurance -- he wrote a controversial article for the Saturday Evening Post in 1942 lambasting "overcritical" fans and sportswriters, and two memoirs, "Circling The Bases" (1978) and "Memories of a Ball Player" (2001) which offer a vivid picture of Major League life in the 1930s. He's also one of the relatively few major-league players to live to see his 100th birthday, which came just before his death in 2009.)

(We've had presidents and kings and prime ministers and dictators on the front of Trend, but I'm pretty sure this is the first river to make the cut.)

In Albany, Oregon the proprietors of a traveling carnival finally found a good use for all those old Willkie buttons. When they ran out of lapel badges to identify 25-cent ticket buyers, someone unearthed a box of 500 Willkie pins, and doled them out to contented patrons.

In Pasadena, California Mr. Paul Cardinal must rank as the busiest man in the state -- he is, in fact, the proverbial "one armed paper hanger." Mr. Cardinal shows great skill at applying wallpaper despite his obvious handicap, to the point where many of his customers assume he's merely concealing his missing arm as a gag. But the missing limb is genuinely missing, and Mr. Cardinal has learned to effectively use his teeth, feet and body as substitutes.

Rosalind Russell, now seen at the Capitol opposite Clark Gable in "They Met In Bombay," has always been what they call "a regular guy" among screen actresses. She holds a B. A. in journalism from Barnard College, but as a young girl she was as fully at home on the baseball field and the playground as she was in the classroom. She lives presently in Beverly Hills with her wire-haired terrier "Cracker," and was recently voted Hollywood's Best Dressed Woman.

Old Timer Carl J. Goldbaum isn't Irish -- but he's a proud product of the old "Irish Town" neighborhood down around Prospect and Bridge Streets, where he was in a little apartment over Redman's Saloon. He later lived in a third-floor walkup on Concord Street where the L went right by his bedroom window, belching black smoke from its soft-coal-burning locomotive as it passed. "We got used to it," he says.

(He's such a good shot he doesn't even need to use the sight.)

(Wouldn't it be easier just to put a telescope in center field?)

(Old Willy figures if he prays long enough and loud enough, Larry MacPhail will send back his ashtray.)

(Never mind the wacky antics, I want to see more of this puppy. And "first promise that you won't kill me!" is even better if you imagine Irwin speaking with Joe Besser's voice.)

(Meta? Tuthill INVENTED meta.)

(And back with us in the role of Ace Hanlon, please welcome Mr. Claude Rains.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

1941 boiled down to a single page.

**KAFF!** **HACK!!*** ***CHOKE!***

"ONE AFTERNOON OFF! THAT'S ALL I ASK!"

And now even Maw Green is trolling us.

Didn't you learn anything from the last time, kid? Just whip out a flashlight and the Evil Spirits will worship you as a god.

RAVEN!!!!!!!! And I bet Pat's not far away, still wearing that stupid white dinner jacket.

Mr. Mosely tries to cram an awful lot into these Sunday pages, maybe more than he really can, but it's all worth it if we get to see Jack stripped to the bone by piranhas.

Unrealistic. Where's the ravenous swarm of seagulls?

Phyllis needs to have a long talk with her daughter about strange men on the beach with cameras.

Of all our funny-paper kids, Kayo clearly has the brightest future.

 

[Fading Fast]

...A 47-year-old Bay Ridge woman was killed yesterday afternoon by an explosion of cooking gas. Police say Mrs. Sophie Green of 255 74th Street was cooking meat on the top burner of her kitchen range when she accidentally turned on the oven gas jet. The fumes accumulated until they were detonated by the burner, throwing a sheet of flame into Mrs. Green's face. She inhaled the fire, fatally scorching her lungs....

The Eagle did not hold back in its description of this. Thank God there were no cellphone videos.

...At Camp McQuade in Watsonville, California, soldiers of the 250th Coast Artillery issued a challenge to the "Yoo-Hoo Battalion" of the 110th Quartermaster Regiment of Camp Robinson, Arkansas to prove their "manliness" by competition in a fifteen-mile marching race. The Arkansas soldiers have been widely derided after they complained to Congress about discipline they received after "yoo-hooing" at young women in shorts while on a march. "Out in this wild and woolly west," began the challenge, "our fighting men are fighting men, not pantywaists who want their mammas to wipe their noses and their Congressmen to mop their sweating brows." The challenge amended a postscript: "Out here, the girls yoo-hoo at us!"...

Kudos to the postscript writer.

...
(Yeah, no time for lapses, boys, not with the Cardinals ready to fatten up on the Phils. Yeah, I'm talking to YOU, Mr. J. Whitlow Wiry Bald Headed Wyatt.)...

It would come out differently if said by her, but somebody is channeling her inner Sally today.

It makes no sense, but I'm going to be sad when Dimaggio's streak is over.

...Rosalind Russell, now seen at the Capitol opposite Clark Gable in "They Met In Bombay," has always been what they call "a regular guy" among screen actresses. She holds a B. A. in journalism from Barnard College, but as a young girl she was as fully at home on the baseball field and the playground as she was in the classroom. She lives presently in Beverly Hills with her wire-haired terrier "Cracker," and was recently voted Hollywood's Best Dressed Woman....

She and Ann Sheridan strike me as two actresses that would be fun to talk with as they seem like regular people under all the Hollywood stuff. "They Met in Bombay" is a bit uneven, but well worth the watch, comments here: #26804 (second movie down).

...[ (Old Willy figures if he prays long enough and loud enough, Larry MacPhail will send back his ashtray.)...

If true about Hitler's door, that's another WWII thing, just this week, that I hadn't heard of before. I knew any visitor was carefully frisked, but the "electric eye" is a new one to me.

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(Never mind the wacky antics, I want to see more of this puppy. And "first promise that you won't kill me!" is even better if you imagine Irwin speaking with Joe Besser's voice.)...

It's 1941 and note the respect Kay's getting and the leadership she's showing. History is always more complicated than our shorthand version. I also love that Kay gets the job done with so much less fuss and ego than Dan ever did.

...

And now even Maw Green is trolling us.....

Dear Lord, please make the "Bill Slagg is Wonderful" storyline stop. I will eat all my vegetables, do my chores and go to bed on time, but please make it stop.

...[ RAVEN!!!!!!!! And I bet Pat's not far away, still wearing that stupid white dinner jacket.....

[Giddy with excitement and said real fast] "Raven and Burma and Pat and Dude all in the same place - I can't wait!"

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Unrealistic. Where's the ravenous swarm of seagulls?....

Sorry Ed, not one of those girls can hold a candle to Raven's profile.

 

[Fading Fast]

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(This is a really enjoyable book -- highly recommended!!)...

Just ordered a copy on your recommendation (I think you recommended it before and I had put it on a list, but just went and bought it today).

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nazi sources claim that the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev will fall to German invasion forces "by nightfall," even as the German High Command announced today that Finland and Nazi forces have begun a pincer offensive against Leningrad. The Finnish troops are under the personal command of Baron Carl von Mannerheim, chief of the Finnish Defense Council, and their route of action was planned out in collaboration with a Nazi offensive approaching Leningrad from the south.

Russia's latest war communique states that Red Army forces are holding the line on all three active fronts in the war against the German invaders, and that heavy air bombardment by Soviet planes continues over the oil fields of Rumania. A Rumanian communique monitored by the Columbia Broadcasting System in New York states that three oil tanks have been set ablaze by Soviet raiders in the Ploesti fields, and that there have been "several" civilian casualties.

A report by the Moscow radio monitored last night by Reuters claims that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering has been thrown into a concentration camp after a fierce disagreement with Adolf Hitler over the invasion of Russia. The Soviet reports quotes "well informed Stockholm sources" as stating that Goering and Hitler "quarreled violently" the night before the invasion began, with Goering arguing that the Luftwaffe is "unfit" for such an operation and refusing to take responsibility for the consequences. Hitler is reported to have denounced Goering as a coward and delcared that he will take full command of the German air force himself. "Disappearance of Goering's name from the German press," stated the broadcast, "seems to prove the veracity of this report."

General George C. Marshall told a group of senators last night that any refusal to keep trainees and National Guardsmen on active duty for the duration of the present emergency would "wreck the Army," and would, in effect, be a vote of no confidence in the present Army leadership. One senator who attended the closed meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Committee declared that General Marshall "went pretty strong" in his insistence that Congress must heed the advice of the General Staff on military matters. The General called on the committee members to support Administration proposals to remove the one-year limitation on service by trainees and Guardsmen and to permit such troops to be deployed anywhere in the world that the military situation may require.

A 25-year-old Ozone Park man has a throbbing headache today to remind him that robbing a stationery store owned by the Salmonson family at 91-60 37th Street was a bad idea. The Salmonsons -- Abe, Mildred, and their 8-year-old son Irwin -- were upset after being robbed of $100 by a sneak thief last week, and decided to lie in wait in case the burglar decided to return. Little Irwin lay awake last night in the front part of the store, guarding the till, and when he heard the sound of scraping at the store's skylight, he sent out an alarm to his parents, who were sleeping the back room. Leaping into action, Mrs. Salmonson raced into the shop's telephone booth to call police while Mr. Salmonson "swung with withering effect," and beat the intruder over the head with "a stout club." Dominick Romanelli, of 86-20 101st Avenue, recovered consciousness several hours later in Queens County Hospital with a fractured skull and several policemen standing guard over his bed.

(See, Fat Irwin, this is how you do it.)

(Hey, Tallu -- where's your lion?)

A 17 year old Brownsville youth will learn to treat his girlfriends with greater respect after being found guilty last night of a disorderly conduct charge. John Aparo of 600 Pine Street was arrested when police spotted him running up and down Coney Island beach carrying a fully-clothed woman, whom he then tossed unceremoniously into the surf at the foot of W. 8th Street. Aparo told Special Sessions Justice Matthew Troy, sitting in Brooklyn Queens Night Court, that he thought that, since the young woman was his girlfriend, he could do anything he wanted with her, especially on a public beach. "If you did that to your girlfriend," admonished the judge, "what would you do if she were your wife?" Aparo drew a suspended sentence of five days in jail on the condition that he improve his behavior.

Ann Sheridan will join the cast of Warner Bros. film adaptation of the Kaufman-Hart stage success "The Man Who Came To Dinner," now before the cameras in Hollywood. Monty Woolley will recreate his stage role of Sheridan Whiteside in the production, with Bette Davis and Billie Burke also in the cast. The play closed last week at the Music Box Theatre after a run of more than a year and a half.

("Billy The Kid" was called "The Kid" because he was, in fact, a Kid. Unlike Mr. Taylor.)

Reader John H. Callaghan writes in to complain that all the economic ills of today's modern world can be traced to one thing -- married women who work. "Surveys show that 60 percent of married women working in private business and civil service are married to working husbands. It accounts for the increased demands for childless one and two-room apartments, and the lull in building of one and two story houses, the loss of 55,000 children in the elementary grades of the city's public schools since 1936, and the unemployment of thousands of young men and women who find married women jamming up the channels of employment." He calls for combined action by private business and the Government to put a stop to this situation.

(Meet an incel, 1941 edition.)

(Wait'll you see him peel potatoes.)

A 66-year-old Coney Island strongman collapsed and died last night shortly after performing his act in the World Circus Side Show, 1216 Surf Avenue. Warren Lincoln Travis of 2840 W. 8th Street, who was over six feet tall and weighed about 230 pounds, had just completed his weight-lifting performance and had taken a seat on the platform when he fell over. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Mr. Travis had performed feats of strength in sideshows, circuses, and on the vaudeville stage for over 25 years, with an act including such stunts as holding the reins of two brewery wagons being pulled by horses in opposite directions, and supporting two tons of material on his back. He recently celebrated his birthday by lifting a total of 1,000,000 pounds with a forty-minute period. He had once been a physical-training instructor with the New York Police Department during the era when the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt was commissioner.

("Toined away!" fumes Sally. "Canya beat t'at? What goods' rainchecks if ya can't use'm!" T'bums. I wanned to see t'at Passeau! I got sump'n ta say to 'im!" "Ahhhh, nertz," says Joe."Who wants ta see t'Cubs anyways. Buncha bums. Hey! Looka t'is! T'at kid Rizzuta -- hittin' in 16 straight games! How 'bout'tat!")

Thousands of fans turned away from Ebbets Field yesterday made their way to Dexter Park, to see the Bushwicks split a twinbill with the Black Yankees before a crowd of 8500. The Woodhaven boys saw their ten-game hitting streak snapped with the loss in the opener, but they've still won 17 out of their last twenty games.

(OK, now I really want to read that New Yorker article. Oh, and "Dan Hopping?" "Sanjo Henie?" Jeez, Parrott, who's proofreading your stuff?)

The Dodgers' Friday clash with the Cardinals at Ebbets Field will be televised over WNBT. It's the high point of a week full of sports programming, including amateur boxing from Jamaica Arena, the Metropolitan AAU basketball championship game, and a one hour water show from Manhattan Beach featuring fancy divers, clown divers, and both straight and clown swimming races.

(See, this is why television got off to such a ragged start. Everybody knows you give swimming clowns top billing.)

Norman Corwin will dramatize the biblical story of Esther in his July 20th spot over CBS. He'll return to the good book again on August 3d by giving the Corwin treatment to the story of Job.

(Seriously, Doc? A room full of advanced scientific gadgets and you can't build a washing machine?)

(Tomorrow: George begins his crusade against the Lamestream Media.)

(We seem to have a common theme going on today.)

(In another moment -- Irwin will suddenly discover his constipation's cured.)

 

[Harp]

Marshall never penned a full autobiographical memoir, concluding his literary effort with the 1918 Armistice,
a prophecy made by Walter Short, commanding officer at Schofield Barracks in December 1941.
The Virginian's prescience, although correct with regards to pre war conscription drew an ominous blank
stare when the poker faced Pacific Map begged critical insightful soldierly analysis.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Sally sighs. Wait'll next year. And today's Neighbors is painfully, painfully true. I have often been that "quaint old character" myself. Shuffle and grin. It's a living.

WAIT TD'S AT DAVEGA OMG! Oh. Wait a minute. You bums.

This is a real piece of work by the Boys. You read this ad and you figure, well, Miss Van Nuys must be somebody -- a celebutante, maybe, or a Broadway dancer, or a movie starlet, or a rising young athlete, or some kind of somebody who'd warrant such a presentation, by name, in an ad by a prominent manufacturer. But in fact, Miss Van Nuys is just some random photo model, and Reynolds figures they can make her into a credible endorsement personality by simply presenting her as such and figuring the reader won't know the difference. It doesn't get much more cynical than this. I mean, at least Miss Rheingold won a contest.

Well, isn't that sweet. Let's at least hope Warbucks comes across and pays those ENORMOUS MEDICAL BILLS. Or is Bill too righteous even for that?

Yeah, this is why putting buses on Fulton Street is a bad idea.

WELL IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY DID

Yeah, that's about his style. And speaking of style, what happened to Raven's football jersey?

"Awww, I'm not a kid, Nina! I used to read the Sears catalog an' everything."

C'mon, nobody takes a bath with that much makeup on.

I'm impressed he was able to get his feet out of the pail.

 

[Harp]

^Is she Raven? Looks a calabi isosceles triangle with Terry the inscribed square, the gals,
and Dude Ranch Sky King angle of the dangle.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That is indeed Miss Raven Sherman. She first showed up last year when Pat, April Kane, and Captain Blaze were fleeing from the Invaders, and took shelter in the orphanage she was running for Chinese refugee children.

A typhoid epidemic swept that orphanage as the Invaders closed in, and they escaped on a commandeered riverboat to Hong Kong, with April sick from typhoid, Blaze one step ahead of the police, and Raven and Pat in a will-they-or-wont-they situation.

After Terry tried to bust up that relationship because he couldn't believe Pat was interested in Raven, Hu Shee showed up disguised as Raven's new secretary, and convinced everyone to help her in a secret mission to bust the Dragon Lady out of an Invader prison. They hired Dude Hennick to fly them there, they succeeded in their mission -- during which Dude and Raven most definitely Did -- but the plane got shot down and Hu Shee and Terry got separated from the rest of the party. We haven't seen Raven since, but it appears she's back in the aid-station business. She suffers no fools, takes no nonsense, and Dude, alas, considers her a challenge. Pat's views on that particular situation remain to be seen.

 

[Fading Fast]

...A 25-year-old Ozone Park man has a throbbing headache today to remind him that robbing a stationery store owned by the Salmonson family at 91-60 37th Street was a bad idea. The Salmonsons -- Abe, Mildred, and their 8-year-old son Irwin -- were upset after being robbed of $100 by a sneak thief last week, and decided to lie in wait in case the burglar decided to return. Little Irwin lay awake last night in the front part of the store, guarding the till, and when he heard the sound of scraping at the store's skylight, he sent out an alarm to his parents, who were sleeping the back room. Leaping into action, Mrs. Salmonson raced into the shop's telephone booth to call police while Mr. Salmonson "swung with withering effect," and beat the intruder over the head with "a stout club." Dominick Romanelli, of 86-20 101st Avenue, recovered consciousness several hours later in Queens County Hospital with a fractured skull and several policemen standing guard over his bed....

As we see time and again, this is a very Golden Era story.

...A 17 year old Brownsville youth will learn to treat his girlfriends with greater respect after being found guilty last night of a disorderly conduct charge. John Aparo of 600 Pine Street was arrested when police spotted him running up and down Coney Island beach carrying a fully-clothed woman, whom he then tossed unceremoniously into the surf at the foot of W. 8th Street. Aparo told Special Sessions Justice Matthew Troy, sitting in Brooklyn Queens Night Court, that he thought that, since the young woman was his girlfriend, he could do anything he wanted with her, especially on a public beach. "If you did that to your girlfriend," admonished the judge, "what would you do if she were your wife?" Aparo drew a suspended sentence of five days in jail on the condition that he improve his behavior....

As a close friend, who never made it past the 6th grade, of my dad's would have said, "You really want to learn him a lesson, let him sit in the hoosegow for five days."

...Ann Sheridan will join the cast of Warner Bros. film adaptation of the Kaufman-Hart stage success "The Man Who Came To Dinner," now before the cameras in Hollywood. Monty Woolley will recreate his stage role of Sheridan Whiteside in the production, with Bette Davis and Billie Burke also in the cast. The play closed last week at the Music Box Theatre after a run of more than a year and a half....

I've gone from liking to loving this movie over the years. Re Ms. Sheridan, she quite obviously did not deign to wear a bra in the movie. Or, said 1941 style, all her Oomph was on display.

...
("Billy The Kid" was called "The Kid" because he was, in fact, a Kid. Unlike Mr. Taylor.)...

Haven't seen them all, but recommend "The Great Lie" to Joe and Sally, especially with Sally pregnant (comments here: #28775).

...
(OK, now I really want to read that New Yorker article. Oh, and "Dan Hopping?" "Sanjo Henie?" Jeez, Parrott, who's proofreading your stuff?)...

Seriously.

...
(Tomorrow: George begins his crusade against the Lamestream Media.)...

It's so much easier today, you just pick the news source you like and then you get the story you want.

...
(We seem to have a common theme going on today.)...

A young Betty Joan Perske thinks to herself, "I can rock a figure like that all the way to Hollywood. Might have to change the name though."

...

This is a real piece of work by the Boys. You read this ad and you figure, well, Miss Van Nuys must be somebody -- a celebutante, maybe, or a Broadway dancer, or a movie starlet, or a rising young athlete, or some kind of somebody who'd warrant such a presentation, by name, in an ad by a prominent manufacturer. But in fact, Miss Van Nuys is just some random photo model, and Reynolds figures they can make her into a credible endorsement personality by simply presenting her as such and figuring the reader won't know the difference. It doesn't get much more cynical than this. I mean, at least Miss Rheingold won a contest.....

I agree with your take, but would add, they were simply ahead of their time as isn't that the internet/social media model so many celebutants use today - famous for being famous and all that.

..
Well, isn't that sweet. Let's at least hope Warbucks comes across and pays those ENORMOUS MEDICAL BILLS. Or is Bill too righteous even for that?....

...
Yeah, that's about his style. And speaking of style, what happened to Raven's football jersey?...

Thank God for that - that thing had to stink by now, even fresh out of the laundry. Looks like she's gots some sort of airport-manager outfit where she's rockin' the Dietrich/Hepburn trouser thing.

^Is she Raven? Looks a calabi isosceles triangle with Terry the inscribed square, the gals,
and Dude Ranch Sky King angle of the dangle.

That's Raven - blonde, rich, confident and already intimate with Dude.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And flashing back to last September 22nd, we see Raven and Dude in action...

 

[Fading Fast]

And flashing back to last September 22nd, we see Raven and Dude in action...

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And when you said, "see Raven and Dude 'in action'," I expected the window-ledge scene.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Tinder...

Sparks...

...and fire.