The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

City politics?? TRAFFIC NEWS? Hey, WHAT PAGE IS THIS AGAIN?

And no, wise guys, Mr. Roosevelt is not planning an Atlantic rendezvous with Miss Rheingold. Although that'd be better than anything on Page Four today.

I ask ya.

I don't want to see Little Face going to the bathroom. Seriously, Mr. Gould. I really don't.

Never mind the sheriff, summon the Rapp-Coudert Committee!

I dunno, something is spoiling the drape of that suit. Oh wait, it's your body.

Dude didn't kiss Raven in the dark. Terry did. SO THERE.

Yup, vacation's over.

Exactly what you think he did, he did. And then she did right back.

Today we'd call it "a senior moment," but in 1941, they'd just say poor old Plushie is getting senile.

 

[Harp]

I thought Sky King made a pass (So did Raven).
Terry (redrawn Caniff caricature who ahh had a Dragon Lady tutorial), now reticient to say the least; embolden makes a move on Raven??????

 

[Fading Fast]

...Two sisters of the late Long Island oyster king William Randolph of West Sayville will appear in court today to contest his will, which left most of the pioneer oyster planter's $500,000 estate to George R. Coydes, "commonly known as his son." Mr. Randolph's sisters, Mrs. Rebecca DeGraff and Miss Christina Rudolph, both of West Sayville, claim their 87-year-old brother was "unduly influenced" by Mr. Coydes in the preparation of that will prior to his death on July 20th. Mrs. DeGraff was cut off with $5 in the will, "for reasons best known to myself, my family, and my friends," while Miss Randolph received a $10,000 trust fund. Other small bequests were left to various friends and employees and to five Long Island churches.

In a courtroom bristling with guards, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and three criminal associates were placed on trial today for the 1936 murder of candy-store operator Jacob Rosen, who was shot down in his shop in Brownsville just days before he was due to testify before Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in an investigation of Lepke's trucking racket. On trial with Buchhalter in Kings County Court are Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, Philip "Little Farvel" Cohen, and Louis Capone, with the latter three accused of being the actual gunmen in the assassination carried out under Lepke's direction. A pool of 250 talesmen has been assembled for the start of blue-ribbon jury selection this morning.

Angered because she had made a disorderly conduct complaint against him, a 50-year-old Astoria man shot and killed his 42-year-old wife last night and then turned his rifle on himself. Police say Mrs. Elizabeth Gastic was killed by her husband Louis Gastic in the ground-floor apartment they shared at 25-50 41st Street, shortly after she had filed the charge, which was to be returnable tomorrow in Long Island City Magistrate's Court....

A contested will of an Oyster King, a mob rubout of an informant in a candy shop and a disorderly conduct complaint leading to a husband-wife murder-suicide - Page Four all but writes itself today.

... ("I'm tellin' ya," said Joe as the IND train rattled onward, "t'is long-haih music, it's t'stuff! Dincha jus' HEAH MacPhail tawkin' wennat fella went ta' tootin' onnat t'ing made a noise like a kazoo! Whassat called again?" "'At's a bassoon," sighs Sally, upon whom the late hour is weighing heavily. "A bazoon? Zat like a bazooka? Like Bob Boins onna radio?" "CHOICH AVENEH!" bellows the conductor, "TRANSFA HEAH FA T' B-M-T!" The car rocks to a screechy halt, and Sally wearily braces herself against the splintery wicker seat in an effort to rise, but her path is blocked by a beefy gentleman in a sweat-stained polo shirt, with the stump of a cigar in his teeth. "MOVE IT, FATS," growls Sally. "Comin' t'rough!" "Hey!" says the beefy gentleman, turning on Joe. "Whatchoo say, bud? You callin' me fat?" "Nah," sweats Joe. "Downeah." "Oh," says the beefy gentlemen, shifting his cigar to the other side of his mouth. "Jeez, you ain'no sylph yaself," he mutters as he waddles toward the door. "Say lissen," growls Joe. "Ah, nevamin'," sighs Sally, as she pushes herself out of the seat. "One mont' left. JUS' ONE MONT' LEFT.")...

... (Peggy's mind flashed back to another starlit night, a night in 1923. She was eighteen then, a young girl full of hope and romance. Now, at the bitter age of 36, she looked deep into J. Hartford Oakdale's heavy-lidded eyes, squinting so as not to see the crows-feet, and took a deep, deliberate breath....)...

The big-picture decision she might be facing is marriage to blowhard Oakdale or a spinsterhood caring for George and Jo in their old age. Is she too old to runaway and join the circus?

...
(And as she gazed at the face before her, Kay Fields realized her life, too, stood at a crossroads. She too was 36, going on 37, and for the first time in her life she had known accomplishment, excitement, a sense of purpose. And as she stared into the watery eyes and the simple-minded grin of the man before her, she made a decision. "Sorry, mister," she whispered. "Thought you were somebody else. Hey Irwin, did you bring that corned-beef sandwich I ordered?")

In sympathy with you Lizzie, all I can do is repeat my comment from yesterday in the "great minds think alike" tradition:

"Kay, it's decision time. Think hard about your life with Dan Dunn and without? Saying nothing is an option."

... City politics?? TRAFFIC NEWS? Hey, WHAT PAGE IS THIS AGAIN?....

Page Four needs to have a team meeting about what Page Four means, especially with all the raw material we saw earlier in the Eagle.

Page Four Editor: People, we have a sacred duty...
Staff: Sacred?
Page Four Editor: Shut up, a sacred duty...
Staff: [moans in unisone]

The (since upgraded) Third Avenue and Willis Bridges are still a holy mess as there is simply too much traffic trying to sluice through too few lanes. It is insane up there at rush hour and only modestly better the rest of the time.

Pretty good "The Neighbors" today.

... And no, wise guys, Mr. Roosevelt is not planning an Atlantic rendezvous with Miss Rheingold. Although that'd be better than anything on Page Four today.....

From what we've since learned about the Roosevelts' marriage, let's not dismiss the idea hastily.

...
I ask ya.....

Apparently, we aren't the only ones who've noticed.

... I don't want to see Little Face going to the bathroom. Seriously, Mr. Gould. I really don't....

Let's just make it a general rule: We don't want to see anybody going to the bathroom.

...
Never mind the sheriff, summon the Rapp-Coudert Committee!...

Good one, Lizzie.

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I dunno, something is spoiling the drape of that suit. Oh wait, it's your body.....

Good one, Lizzie.

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Dude didn't kiss Raven in the dark. Terry did. SO THERE.....

Maybe, as Caniff intentionally left it unclear yesterday. I continue to argue there should be no problem here as it's a game of two on two, who really cares who covers whom?

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Exactly what you think he did, he did. And then she did right back.....

Veronica is not thinking smart for the game she's playing as door #2, that just walked in, might be a better option than ancient Tim.

 

[Harp]

Maybe, as Caniff intentionally left it unclear yesterday. I continue to argue there should be no problem here as it's a game of two on two, who really cares who covers whom?

I thought Dude played Burma as a foil and later kissed Raven, buuuuut apparently mebbe knot, all-of-asuddenz
the kid gets his ass in gear and moves in on the witch after she put her broomstick down inside the darkened shelter?
Lotza loose ends here. First, Burma n Terry couldawouldashoulda, Terry gets the shove-and a bit pious at that-and now
the kid gets Ravenous? Ain't buyin this. Sky King crashed the catfight, totally up ended the board.
If Terry wanted a flyover go at Raven he should have kept himself glued to the dance floor instead of walking
out like a wilted wallflower all pensive and confused. And another thang: if Dude and R are gonna stand up and hook up
their static lines for a jump in the sack, nothing is stopping em. If it isn't gonnabee, throw in the cards and cash out.

 

[Fading Fast]

I thought Dude played Burma as a foil and later kissed Raven, buuuuut apparently mebbe knot, all-of-asuddenz
the kid gets his ass in gear and moves in on the witch after she put her broomstick down inside the darkened shelter?
Lotza loose ends here. First, Burma n Terry couldawouldashoulda, Terry gets the shove-and a bit pious at that-and now
the kid gets Ravenous? Ain't buyin this. Sky King crashed the catfight, totally up ended the board.
If Terry wanted a flyover go at Raven he should have kept himself glued to the dance floor instead of walking
out like a wilted wallflower all pensive and confused. And another thang: if Dude and R are gonna stand up and hook up
their static lines for a jump in the sack, nothing is stopping em. If it isn't gonnabee, throw in the cards and cash out.

When you're in your twenties and the remaining ten or fifteen are back in the bride and groom's suite unnecessarily still drinking at 2am, it's hook up time and, IMO, it's less about whom than making sure you have a seat if the numbers don't line up. Basically, that's where these four are and, since the numbers line up, they are making it harder than it should be. For a roll, Raven and Burma are the same thing as, I'd guess (have to ask the women), are Terry and Dude. This isn't marriage - partner up, have fun, wake up the next morning in tangled sheets and limbs with a hangover and go on about your day.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I suspect that Terry's motive -- and it had to be Terry, look at the look on Dude's face thru all this, he's thoroughly fed up -- is that he wants to ensure that Mr. Hennick pays no further attention to Burma by tricking Raven into furthering her own goals with Dude. Terry may not understand what it is that he wants to do, but he doesn't want anyone else doing it.

I look forward to Pat walking in the door sometime soon and putting an end to all of it. If, that is, the DL has not left him a withered husk.

 

[Harp]

IMO, it's less about whom than making sure you have a seat if the numbers don't line up. Basically, that's where these four are and, since the numbers line up, they are making it harder than it should be. For a roll, Raven and Burma are the same thing as....

I would counter pragmatism over prurience, confining supposition to Caniff and recognizing his editorial stricture.
The strip itself is hardly rapacious but restrained, admirably so in some respects, and despite its circularity
the format actually offers certain vantage. Terry as redrawn by Caniff is too sexually diffident to play any lothario,
while Dude's extrovert guise conceals an emotionally grounded personality; presumably for the duration.

 

[Harp]

I look forward to Pat walking in the door sometime soon and putting an end to all of it. If, that is, the DL has not left him a withered husk.

She dropped the pistol.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Soviet forces have definitely stopped the great German offensive in the Smolensk sector, and are preparing to launch a major offensive of their own in the Karelian Isthmus sector of the Leningrad front. So report well-informed sources today in London, where it is stated that half a million Red Army troops are massing near the Finnish frontier under the command of General Grigori M. Stern, Russian hero of the Russo-Finnish War. A Soviet war communique stated today that Red Army troops under the command of Col. Makerchin completely routed a German regiment of 3000 men in the Smolensk sector, killing 500 and taking the rest prisoner, while capturing a radio station and five field guns.

The Nazi High Command stated today that Russian forces in the Ukraine are making a fresh attempt to break out of the German "ring of encirclement" wrapped around them by the Wehrmacht, with fierce attacks reported to have been "beaten back" by Nazi troops. A German communique also reported the occupation by Nazi forces of the Estonian town of Tapa, along the main railroad leading to the Russian-Estonian frontier.

Japanese heavy bombers today arrived at Phnom Penh, in French Indo-China, adjacent to the Thailand frontier, even as Thai forces concentrate in large numbers on their side of the border. Several Japanese artillery and light armored units that had been in Phnom Penh since last week departed today for an unknown destination.

A 54-year-old invalid, confined to his bed on the third floor of a four-story frame house in Park Slope, was rescued this morning by a friend as fire swept the building. John Haas of 668 6th Avenue was carried thru a wall of smoke and flames
by a neighbor, 23-year-old plumber Charles Micell, who lives across the street at 687 6th Avenue, and who had raced thru the burning building waking sleeping tenants before wrapping his invalid friend in a blanket and carrying him safety. Another neighbor, 34-year-old unemployed chauffeur Michael DeMatteo of 318-A 21st Street, rescued a mother, Mrs. Marion Lynch, and her five children, aged from 8 years to 15 months, after first noticing smoke pouring from a tailor shop on the ground floor of the building. WPA carpenter Frederick Trapenese, another tenant at 668 6th Avenue, who was in his apartment with his wife Clorinda and their seven children when the fire broke out, carried and led the family to safety. Also safe are 43-year-old Angela Engelke and her three grown sons, who escaped from a third-story apartment.

Brooklyn department stores are rationing silk hosiery to three pairs to a customer, and women are storming the counters, while store officials try to stem the rush by declaring that there is still enough silk yarn on hand in the nation's mills to keep the production of stockings going "for several months to come." It was emphasized yesterday by Mr. Earl Constantine, president of the Hosiery Manufacturers Council, that the order issued last week by the Office of Production Management freezing the processing of raw silk from Japan only applies to that industry -- and that silk that has already been processed may continue to be used. Nonetheless, the rush continues today, with a spokesman at Namm's declaring it to be one of "holiday proportions." Spokesmen for Abraham & Straus and Loeser's stated that those stores suspended all telephone and mail orders for hosiery effective yesterday morning, but at Oppenheim-Collins and Martin's, where such orders continued to be accepted, "the telephones were swamped all day."

The silk panic has turned attention to alternative fabrics which may be used for hosiery. It is estimated that there is enough nylon on hand in the nation's mills to take care of about twenty percent of the total hosiery production for the year, but it is also noted that this supply could be taken by the Government for the manufacture of parachutes at any time. It is also noted that some women have found that they are unable to wear nylon comfortably due to its failure to absorb moisture. Rayon stockings remain, and will likely remain, available, but, like cotton lisle hosiery, have never enjoyed wide acceptance among American women. Rayon manufacturers today warned that the market will likely soon be flooded by inferior grades of rayon hosiery rushed into production by inexperienced manufacturers, and it is feared that unfavorable experiences with such products will further sour the stocking-buying public on rayon hose.

The price of gasoline in Brooklyn and Queens has risen 1/2 cent per gallon due to a "loss of revenue" attributed to the new overnight fuel curfew, according to members of the Gasoline Merchants of Brooklyn & Queens, who met last night for an emergency conference at Oetjen's Restaurant in Flatbush. The members of the association voted to continue their endorsement of the curfew, although they also complained that "the little man" was not consulted before the curfew plan went into effect. The United Press reports that fuel prices along the Eastern Seaboard are increasing in all seventeen states where the curfew is in effect, and it is believed in all quarters that formal rationing limiting consumers to no more than five gallons of gasoline per week is coming within the next month.


Hopes for early replacement of trolleys displaced by the demolition of the Fulton Street L by buses were dashed today by Mayor LaGuardia, who noted that the nationwide aluminum shortage created by diversion of the metal for National Defense purposes has delayed completion of the vehicles. In addition to the new buses for downtown Brooklyn it is reported by the Mayor that new buses to replace defunct trolley routes in Manhattan and the Bronx will also be indefinitely delayed.

A report in the London Daily Mail stated today that "a very high personage," possibly Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself, may fly to the United States for a conference with President Roosevelt. A visit by Mr. Churchill, or alternately, a visit by the British Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook, would revolve around discussions of the need for greater cooperation between Great Britain and the United States.

(C'mon, who WOULDN'T wanna be on this jury!)

(DON'T MAKE ME PULL THIS CAR OVER!)

(Funny how hair turns dark after you stop sending the kid to Westmore's.)

(The Lichtys have two daughters. Can you tell?)

(HA HA TERRY ARE THE GIANTS STILL IN THE LEAGUE? And Reiser has sciatica and he's only 22? That's nothing, I had my first attack when I was eight.)

(I'll hand it to Boody, this storm scene has been graphically well handled. I'm practically seasick.)

(You can just hear poor Peggy's desperation here, as she waits for her mother's head to explode. She won't be waiting long.)

(And Chekov's Stove goes BOOOOOOOOM)

(Not only is Kay a fine Secret Operative, she's also much smarter than Lois Lane.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Yeah, you better get this mess with Oberon straightened out, or a lot of people in Brooklyn with names that start with "V" are gonna be awful sore.

Exactly what I thought. FREE THE MONKEY!

Everett Marshall? Helen Kane? The Chester Hale Dancers? This sounds like a swell show, in 1929.

OK, now it's obvious Warbucks didn't have any secret mission on this trip, he just came out here to screw around with the locals.

There are times, I am sure, when Tracy questions his life choices.

Ha ha, Dude's a dope.

The more I see this poorly-fitting suit, the more it bugs me. Hey knobhead, next time spring for the alterations.

See, this is what happens when you feed a stray dog.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Emmy would make an outstanding character actress if Margaret Hamilton wasn't around.

I mean, c'mon, it isn't like the whole town isn't already gossiping about the old goat and the gold digger.

 

[Harp]

I missed the kissing bandit play entirely. And I thought Burma initiated Slavic defense with a feint deceptive Rook,
yet kid cherry bomb crashed his personal check...though not mate.

Not tortious interference as common law applies but Terry nevertheless committed a tort of battery
strictly construed by kissing Raven, and upending Catfight Chess.

 

[Fading Fast]

...Hopes for early replacement of trolleys displaced by the demolition of the Fulton Street L by buses were dashed today by Mayor LaGuardia, who noted that the nationwide aluminum shortage created by diversion of the metal for National Defense purposes has delayed completion of the vehicles. In addition to the new buses for downtown Brooklyn it is reported by the Mayor that new buses to replace defunct trolley routes in Manhattan and the Bronx will also be indefinitely delayed....

Had he been left alone, John Henry would still have his hammer.

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(Funny how hair turns dark after you stop sending the kid to Westmore's.)...

It seems like the Patio, etc. has been quiet of late.

.... (You can just hear poor Peggy's desperation here, as she waits for her mother's head to explode. She won't be waiting long.)...

Her best strategy would be to elope and present it as a fait accompli. Said another way, ask for forgiveness not permission. That said, she needs a third option - find a normal guy or get a job and move out.

...
There are times, I am sure, when Tracy questions his life choices....

I don't know, introspection does not seem like a Tracy trait.

... Ha ha, Dude's a dope....

With her confidence shaken, all Dude has to do is knock on Burma's door a little bit later tonight to get his game back. And he'll then have a notch on his bedpost for both Raven and Burma. The DL will be a much harder one to get.

... The more I see this poorly-fitting suit, the more it bugs me. Hey knobhead, next time spring for the alterations.....

But then he wouldn't have money for Brylcreem.


Question: Has anyone else experienced FL being down off an on for several hours today?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep, it was down for me from about 930-11 AM. Been happening a lot lately -- I don't know if its just a northeastern thing or a global one.

Mid-summer is a slow season for the movies in 1941 -- most of the big releases are already out, and the new season doesn't get underway until the fall. Hollywood works in the Era under a carefully-defined release calendar, with the prestige pictures coming out during the busy winter months and the less hype-worthy productions trickled out during the slow season. The "summer blockbuster" mentality won't become a thing until the 1970s.

I look forward over the next few days to hearing Jo recapitualte every seedy thing Mr. Oakdale has ever done. It's a long list, and I'm sure she won't miss a detail. I've known real-life Peggys, though, and it'll take being left at the altar again to make her give it up.

 

[Fading Fast]

Yep, it was down for me from about 930-11 AM. Been happening a lot lately -- I don't know if its just a northeastern thing or a global one.

Agreed, it was bad today and has been happening more lately. It was a problem a few weeks or maybe a month or so ago, then seemed to get better and now - the past few days - has been happening again. But, just to note, for me anyway, it's only been an FL problem - all my other sites are working fine.

 

[Harp]

Ditto here in Chicago; just FL, all other sites receptive.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Secretary of State Cordell Hull today declared that any move by Japan into Thailand "would be a matter of concern" to the United States. Speaking at a Washington press conference this morning in response to comments by British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden that anything involving Thailand "is of interest to Great Britain, Secretary Hull stated that "the United States has many times made clear its opposition to conquests by force." Mr. Eden's remarks yesterday, meanwhile, were prompted by allegations in Japanese newspapers that Britain is involved in "intrigue in Thailand," which Mr. Eden argued show that Japan is attempting to "manufacture a case for Japanese intervention in Thailand."

Authoritative sources said today that the United States has dispatched its first shipment of armaments to the Soviet Union, in fulfillment of its pledge of immediate support in the Russian war against Germany. The shipment includes both weapons and industrial machinery, the latter to be installed by the Soviets in munitions factories east of the Ural Mountains.

The German High Command stated again today that the battle for Smolensk has been "fought to a victorious end," and that Nazi forces will now move on with "vast new operations." It was claimed that total losses for the Red Army now exceed 4,000,000, and that "the Soviet field army is to a great extent destroyed."

Reports and rumors that President Roosevelt's "vacation cruise" has included a secret rendezvous at sea with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill are neither confirmed nor denied in official quarters. Impenetrable secrecy continues to surround the possibility that the two Anglo-American leaders met somewhere in the northwest Atlantic to discuss closer cooperation, as reports circulate in official Washington that the President transferred at sea from his yacht to a fast Navy cruiser which was to carry him to the rendezvous point. The movements of the President are classified as military secrets by the Navy, as are the movements of Mr. Churchill by the British Admiralty.

The question of whether a woman may shed her bathing suit and don her street wear under the Coney Island boardwalk without being guilty of public indecency came before Magistrate John D. Mason in Coney Island Court today, but a demonstration by 39-year-old Mrs. Ruth Fox of 434 E. 54th Street of exactly how she managed the change of clothing was shelved. Mrs. Fox admitted that she had changed under the Boardwalk in violation of Park Department regulations, but denied that she committed an indecent act in doing so. Mrs. Fox accused Magistrate Mason of trying to make her a "laughing stock" when he asked her to demonstrate just how she had performed the change. The Magistrate insisted that he just wanted to know how she could do it without making an indecent exhibition. Mrs. Fox told the Magistrate that she simply pulled her dress on over the bathing suit, and then let the bathing suit drop, but the Magistrate insisted on a demonstration. The police patrolman who arrested Mrs. Fox then intervened, offering to do the demonstration himself. There the Magistrate let the case drop and fined Mrs. Fox $2 for the violation.

Forty buses rented by the Board of Transportation from the Twin City Bus Company will allow the start of bus service along former Fulton Street trolley routes this Sunday, sidestepping a delay in the purchase of new buses for the routes due to National Defense-induced shortages. The new buses will allow demolition of the remaining pillars from the Fulton Street L along those downtown trolley routes, which have remained in place after removal of the rest of the L structure as necessary supports for trolley wires. Six other trolley lines will be replaced by buses as soon as the remaining 210 buses authorized by the city can be obtained. The rented buses will operate between Fulton Street and Alabama Avenue, and will provide, according to the Board, more frequent service than was available with the trolleys. It is expected that the advent of the buses will mean that the Fulton Street shopping district will be a "de luxe thoroughfare" free of any trace of the "Black Spider" by Labor Day.

Five men and a boy were rescued by a Coast Guard cutter off Lindenhurst after their disabled cabin cruiser was spotted by a Coast Guard airplane. The cruiser Mildred B had been adrift about 30 miles east of Fire Island Inlet for over a full day after a leak in its fuel lines spilled its entire supply of gasoline into the bilge. A white poodle dog was also rescued.

Full scale rationing of gasoline in the State of New York grew ever more imminent today as word circulated that state authorities have already printed official ration cards. State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Carroll E. Mealey, who also serves as Federal Petroleum Co-Ordinator for New York, confirmed that "a rationing plan has been submitted to Washington," although he stated that he has as yet seen no copy of a ration card.

(The summer theatrical doldrums are well underway when the biggest new attraction is an Abbott and Costello picture. And for some reason I get the feeling that Mr. Francis really doesn't like "Tobacco Road.")

Inflation of food prices continues, with reports that the standard 18-ounce loaf of bread now sells for 11 cents at grocery stores and bakeries, up a penny from the former price. Bakers say rising costs of labor and materials are responsible for the increase.

E. R. S. writes to Helen Worth noting that she is another middle-aged woman who finds the doors of employment closed to her. "As soon as the employer sees a gray hair, he will not ask what your qualifications are," she laments. "I do not feel that I have reached the age where I must sit with folded hands waiting for my children to support me, as I know that they need all they have for their own families." Helen is sympathetic, and hopes that "with war work, the mature woman will be given an opportunity heretofore lacking."

(I'll sure be happy when we don't have any more cheap grandstanding politicians.)

(The jokes on her, though. They couldn't get real champagne because of the war, so that's actually Canada Dry.)

(So where's her fascinating backstage biography????)

(A 100,000 seat stadium in Woodhaven? Cantilevered stands over Bedford Avenue? Pushing left field back across Montgomery Street? If only it wasn't for the war. Oh, and five kids now for Camilli? No wonder he's tired.)

(And even worse, Sparky will never get back the deposit on those rented tuxedo pants.)

(But what if Oakdale knows *Peggy* did it, and is trying to protect her? DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT, JO???)

(He's the only reporter on the only newspaper in town and yet he feels the need to wear a press card in his hat band. Somebody watches too many Lee Tracy movies.)

(Behind the dark glasses, "Charlie's" eyes widened in panic. Irwin was onto him, and was against all odds, about to drag him back to that miserable routine he'd thought he'd escaped forever.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Gee, Mr. Dewey. Just how carefully do you screen these assistants?

(A straight flush in clubs, with which I won 31 cents off my mother and her friends. I was seven, and it was the peak of my card-playing career. Oh, and Mr. Kermit Schafer will be heard from again in the 1950s, when his LP album of reconstructed/simulated radio fluffs will become a best seller under the title of "Pardon My Blooper.")

(Those weren't fire engines, they were MacPhail getting hot under the collar. "A BASSOON? I DON'T SOUND LIKE A BASSOON! YOU'RE FIRED!")

Yeah, yeah, he's a real Clever Sam with his novelty glasses with the fake pupils painted on the lenses. But you'd think he'd come up with a more convincing name than "Jasper Jones," especially for "over there."

Didn't Harold Lloyd do this bit in a movie? Isn't this about where a mouse should run up Tracy's pants?

So that's where Tilda was all that time -- training to be a Secret Operative! Meanwhile, Andy is off to his new job as a sidewalk pitchman. "Tell ya what I'm gon'a do!"

RAVEN-KISSING TERRY! RAVEN-KISSING TERRY! RAVEN-KISSING TERRY!

The book on the desk is "1500 Useful Business Letters," but Chigger got frustrated after reading the first two.

Oh, by all means let's do!

Gee-Gee came all the way west to work in a Polynesian-themed drive-in, where they serve hamburgers with a slice of pineapple. Hooray for Hollywood.

 

[Harp]

____________

Terry just confessed. So totally out of character, he deliberately committed a trespass on this triangle,
which more properly construed is a woman's heart, sowing confusion with a simple kiss.
And a slip between the tongue and the lip can cause a fall.

____________

 

[Fading Fast]

...The question of whether a woman may shed her bathing suit and don her street wear under the Coney Island boardwalk without being guilty of public indecency came before Magistrate John D. Mason in Coney Island Court today, but a demonstration by 39-year-old Mrs. Ruth Fox of 434 E. 54th Street of exactly how she managed the change of clothing was shelved. Mrs. Fox admitted that she had changed under the Boardwalk in violation of Park Department regulations, but denied that she committed an indecent act in doing so. Mrs. Fox accused Magistrate Mason of trying to make her a "laughing stock" when he asked her to demonstrate just how she had performed the change. The Magistrate insisted that he just wanted to know how she could do it without making an indecent exhibition. Mrs. Fox told the Magistrate that she simply pulled her dress on over the bathing suit, and then let the bathing suit drop, but the Magistrate insisted on a demonstration. The police patrolman who arrested Mrs. Fox then intervened, offering to do the demonstration himself. There the Magistrate let the case drop and fined Mrs. Fox $2 for the violation....

She should have just gone to Valley Stream State Park.

The judge sounds like a real *ss.

...Five men and a boy were rescued by a Coast Guard cutter off Lindenhurst after their disabled cabin cruiser was spotted by a Coast Guard airplane. The cruiser Mildred B had been adrift about 30 miles east of Fire Island Inlet for over a full day after a leak in its fuel lines spilled its entire supply of gasoline into the bilge. A white poodle dog was also rescued....

Talk about burying the lede, tell us more about the poodle.

...Five men and a boy were rescued by a Coast Guard cutter off Lindenhurst after their disabled cabin cruiser was spotted by a Coast Guard airplane. The cruiser Mildred B had been adrift about 30 miles east of Fire Island Inlet for over a full day after a leak in its fuel lines spilled its entire supply of gasoline into the bilge. A white poodle dog was also rescued.

Full scale rationing of gasoline in the State of New York grew ever more imminent today as word circulated that state authorities have already printed official ration cards. State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Carroll E. Mealey, who also serves as Federal Petroleum Co-Ordinator for New York, confirmed that "a rationing plan has been submitted to Washington," although he stated that he has as yet seen no copy of a ration card....

Maybe this rationing wouldn't be necessary if certain boaters didn't leak their entire fuel supply into the bilge.

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(The summer theatrical doldrums are well underway when the biggest new attraction is an Abbott and Costello picture. And for some reason I get the feeling that Mr. Francis really doesn't like "Tobacco Road.")...

No kidding, nothing is a must see. "They Met in Bombay" and "The Bride Came C.O.D." are both serviceable, but nothing more.

After seeing her in "One Million B.C.," I'm up for pretty much any Carole Landis picture.

Miss Landis in "One Million B.C."



Am I just missing it, or did the Patio not even advertise on this page?

... (A 100,000 seat stadium in Woodhaven? Cantilevered stands over Bedford Avenue? Pushing left field back across Montgomery Street? If only it wasn't for the war. Oh, and five kids now for Camilli? No wonder he's tired.)...

Crazy audacious, think Jules Verne novel. As you imply, if not for the war, and if MacPhail had wanted it, the financing could have been found as the revenue stream from the seats could have supported it (at least that's a back of the envelop guess), but as we all sadly know, it was not to be.

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(He's the only reporter on the only newspaper in town and yet he feels the need to wear a press card in his hat band. Somebody watches too many Lee Tracy movies.)...

If he was really riffing on Tracy, he'd be drunk, banging Connie about now and Gribble could easily buy him off.

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RAVEN-KISSING TERRY! RAVEN-KISSING TERRY! RAVEN-KISSING TERRY!...

Good call Lizzie. If ever a late-teenage boy needed a tumble with an experienced woman, it's Terry. None of this is about love.

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Oh, by all means let's do!....

What a great setup for Veronica. Nothing is going to make Tim more jealous than seeing his friend with her while he's with a woman his own age. He won't abide it. Veronica, if she doesn't screw up, should have her choice of the two shortly.


And it's been another day in which it seem FL is being powered by the California electric grid. It's been up and down all day so far for me.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep, up and down here for a good part of the morning. Technology is a wonderful thing.

That Dexter Park idea is fascinating in retrospect. The Bushwicks will continue to play there thru 1951, and the stadium itself will remain in place as a stock-car track until 1955 -- so it should, at least, have attracted notice from W. F. O. as a possible site for a new Dodger stadium when he was rattling his sword in the early fifties. Technically, it's in Queens, but it's right on the border with Brooklyn, enough so that no one complained about a team calling itself the Bushwicks, and there was enough acreage that the site could later accommodate a housing development and a supermarket -- so why not?

The extending seats around the right field wall by "arcading" them out over Bedford Avenue is basically what the Red Sox have done, on a smaller scale, with the "Monster Seats" at Fenway Park. That stretch of Bedford Avenue is a lot wider than Boston's Landsdowne Street, which would give a lot more room for a lot more seats.

The other thing that's very interesting in that column is George V. McLaughlin's interest in "colored players." Mr. McLaughlin is the bank's trustee for the Ebbets estate, and as such swings a great deal of influence in Dodger affairs. Without his support, Branch Rickey will not, in 1945, be able to go ahead with signing Mr. Robinson, and it's interesting to see that well before all that happens, Mr. McLaughlin is paying close attention to "colored players."