The Era -- Day By Day

[Fading Fast]

I absolutely love this.

Baseball is as we know at heart a complicated and complex game of tactics and strategy with advantage
default given naivete and trickery if so achieved and once gained trumps all. Leo should have anticipated a balk, but so obviously played, Casey planted rubber with DeMaggio on Third, a fast pitch dealt but the discarded ball turned balk call and wave in. Truly classic diamond shirt front poker.

Casey's later conduct was unjustified and Durocher forfeited whatever argument he might otherwise
have had playing the sucker punched fool right down the middle. Predictable Leo was a mark
deliberately set up by his former manager.

Believe it or not, several seasons ago while listening to a Chicago Cubs game broadcast over
WSCR 67*AM The Score (ain't nothing like Major League Baseball and radio) Cubs hoss caller
Pat Hughes was caught flat-footed by an umpire's balk declaration against Yu Darvish, then going
through his two season Snowflake Samurai spell when he couldn't hit the plate.

"...ain't nothing like Major League Baseball and radio..."

I doubt the younger generations gets this, but if you grew up in a pre-internet, pre-cable-TV age like I did in the '70s, baseball on the radio is special in many ways.

 

[Harp]

"...ain't nothing like Major League Baseball and radio..."

I doubt the younger generations gets this, but if you grew up in a pre-internet, pre-cable-TV age like I did in the '70s, baseball on the radio is special in many ways.

Visuals and vocals each its turn, voice and vision.

Take, for instance, in the film Tea and Sympathy. Last scene, gorgeous Deborah Kerr starting to,
well, she stepped outside the batter's box. And beckoned the boy become a man by allowance,
waved in from Third Base, home plate freely given. Ranks right up there with Gable carrying Leigh
up the staircase, a real steal.

 

[Fading Fast]

This seems like a fit for this thread. Our favorite Brooklyn newspaper the Eagle gets a mention:

Sears Closing Brooklyn Store, Its Last Outpost in New York City
A liquidation sale is on at the Flatbush retailer, part of what was once a national retail juggernaut. Landmarking will protect the building but what comes next is unknown.

BY GABRIEL SANDOVAL@GLUISSANDOVALGSANDOVAL@THECITY.NYC UPDATED SEP 18, 2021, 9:53PM EDT

https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/2021/9/17/22680361/signs-sears-closing-last-nyc-store-brooklyn

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's really sad -- that store was a landmark in 1941, as we see from its many ads, and it's remained such, a lingering vestige of Old Brooklyn right down till now. Joe and Sally have shopped there many times -- it's sixteen blocks down from where Sally's mom lives, and it opened the year after Sally graduated from high school. And no doubt little Leonora will have fond memories of the place. If she's still around I hope she gets to make one last trip.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Ukrainian city of Kiev, third largest city in the Soviet Union, has been fully occupied by the Nazis, as German forces continue to thrust deeper eastward toward the industrial basin of the Donest. Meanwhile, a German communique states that Nazi forces, presumably including paratroops, have captured the two Russian island bases of Vormsi and Muhu in the Baltic and are presently engaged in battle for control of the Russian base at Osel. That base has been used as a vital staging point for Soviet air raids on Berlin.

A Moscow communique asserted today that the Germans lost ten crack divisions in their occupation of Kiev, and warned that Red gunners remaining in the Ukrainian capital will fight the invaders to the death. "The Germans will pay dearly for the city," emphasized the army newspaper Red Star, adding that "the Red Army is sparing no efforts to inflict the greatest possible damage on the German hordes."

The Paris radio reported today that twelve more French hostages have been executed by the Nazi government in reprisal for attacks against Germans in Occupied France. Meanwhile in Occupied Norway, "go slow" tactics by workers in Norwegian factories, on road construction projects, and other important work were believed today to be resulting in "most effective sabotage" and harrassment of German occupation forces. Observers believe that despite the utmost pressure from German troops, Norwegians are pressing their anti-Nazi campaign to the utmost, to the point where exiled King Haakon went on the air from London to urge the Norwegian people to remain "calm and patient."

The revelation of skyrocketing profits on defense orders has led the House Naval Affairs Committee to draft today a measure that would impose a ceiling of 7 percent on all defense contract profits. Committee accountants combing questionnaires returned by defense contractors are said to have concluded that profits being realized are in many cases beyond all reason.

("So ya see," murmurs Sally to the sleeping bundle in her arms, "ya gotta stan' up f'whatcha b'lieve in, n'matta what! Jus' like Petey!" "Huh?" mumbles Joe. "Nut'n," replies Sally. "G'back ta sleep.")

Police today are hunting for an acrobatic burglar who scaled a water pipe to enter the bedroom of a Manhattan socialite and plunder $50,000 in jewlery. Detectives say former president of the Chase Securities Corporation Duncan A. Holmes was dining with his family in a downstairs restaurant below their 17th-floor apartment at 895 Park Avenue when the burglar invaded the bedroom via a terrace and escaped with a pearl necklace, an emerald and diamond clip, an emerald and diamond bracelet, and several other articles of jewelry, along with fifty dollars in cash taken from a dresser.

The Speech Department of the Board of Education has declared war on one of Brooklyn's most characteristic traits -- the familiar local accent. Declaring "Brooklynese" a hindrance to success in adult life, Department educators will focus particularly on the eradication at the elementary school level of the most characteristic element of that accent, its pronunciation of "er" and "oi" sounds, along with its tendency to nasal inflection. Speech Department director Dr. Letitia E. Raubichek noted that even District Attorney William O'Dwyer -- though she emphasizes that he has "a clear articulation and a powerful delivery" -- still pronounces "bird" as "boid." In the interest of political fairness, Dr. Raubichek also criticized Mayor LaGuardia for his "tendency to falsetto" and his habit of "dentalizing his 't' and 'd' sounds," and called his speech patterns "not perfect."

(The "curl-coil merger," as sociolinguists call it, was, according to research, universal in New Yorkers born before 1900, regardless of social class, but due to continuing pressure from educators, it diminished steadily in each ensuing decade. In 1941 it's still very common in adults, but it will continue to fade.)

In Manhattan, a 52-year-old cab driver is $1000 richer today, thanks to his honesty. Cabbie Joseph Alsochin rushed a fare yesterday to Grand Central Station, but when he returned to his cab stand, he found that the fare had left behind a briefcase contianing $100,000 in negotiable securities. He promptly turned the case over to police, and the owner today presented him with a $1000 reward.

Tomorrow marks the start of the Jewish Year 5702, with extensive plans around the borough for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah. In a message to the Jews of America, President Roosevelt predicted "an end to the temporary darkness" enveloping the world, and urged that celebrants of the holiday "retain hope" for the future.

(The Eagle knows how to keep Larry in line. "No more Yankee Stadium talk, RIGHT LARRY?")

(Before a baby, though, don't you think you should try to find an apartment where the kitchen isn't in a closet?)

The peculiar effect that sunspots have on radio broadcasting horrified engineers at station WAAT in Jersey City yesterday, when their broadcast of Bing Crosby recordings was interrupted by a telephone conversation between two girls "intimately discussing" their dates of the night before. Engineers blamed "induction from a nearby telephone line," amplified by solar activity, as the cause of the phenomenon," and were about to take the drastic step of cutting the conversation off the air when the two young ladies faded away as suddenly as they'd appeared.

("Mona Leese?" Looks like the Star gots its license after all. Oh, and I was in a production of "Chicago" myself long, long ago, and I played the entire jury, all twelve members. Let's see Ginger do that.)

(Aw, c'mon. Fire the Maje? Durocher without Magerkurth is like John Barrymore without Elaine Barrie.)

(Mr. Chigger, is that you?)

(Making Oakdale a sympathetic character? BOLD MOVE, TUTHILL!)

(Hah! Stick it to him good!)

(At least she didn't shoot him in the restaurant. That poor waiter is having enough trouble as it is.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

I knew Page Four would get this, but I'm really disappointed there's no full stenographic transcript. And what about Bing Crosby?

(Anyone who ever bet anything connected with Queens Borough President George U. Harvey eventually had to "pay off.")

Hey! Sally gets mentioned in Ed Sullivan's column! How many radios does that make this year?

Awwwww, our boy's growing up.

"Just call me '27' for short, with the accent on the '7.'"

"Hey Punj! If you can tear off a metal door like that why don't you just dig us out of here with your bare hands?" "I don't like to show off."

Wise up kid, don't you read the papers? Your future life begins with the word "greeting."

"Whattaya mean? Don't you think she'll be relieved?"

It's like we don't even know you anymore.

Ever wonder why Emmy doesn't actually have any paying tenants?

 

[Harp]

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible,
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen....

-Love's Labor Lost V; I
____________

Magerkurth should not have been accosted beneath the grandstands but lacks the stuff.

 

[LizzieMaine]

IZZAT SO?

 

[Harp]

The 2015 season when the New York Mets rotation cut through the Chicago Cubs like a razor,
followed by the 2016 World Series when the Cleveland Indians' rotation came very close to closing
Chicago down completely demonstrated superb umpiring and lousy batting.
A decided lack of batting box disciplined focus eclipsed the Cubs' luck.

The following seasons turned the table with umpires busting flush with horrible plate performance.
It takes two to tango and solid umpiring behind plate and around bases is indispensible.

 

[Fading Fast]

The Ukrainian city of Kiev, third largest city in the Soviet Union, has been fully occupied by the Nazis, as German forces continue to thrust deeper eastward toward the industrial basin of the Donest. Meanwhile, a German communique states that Nazi forces, presumably including paratroops, have captured the two Russian island bases of Vormsi and Muhu in the Baltic and are presently engaged in battle for control of the Russian base at Osel. That base has been used as a vital staging point for Soviet air raids on Berlin.

A Moscow communique asserted today that the Germans lost ten crack divisions in their occupation of Kiev, and warned that Red gunners remaining in the Ukrainian capital will fight the invaders to the death. "The Germans will pay dearly for the city," emphasized the army newspaper Red Star, adding that "the Red Army is sparing no efforts to inflict the greatest possible damage on the German hordes."...

Based on these daily news reports, the Eastern Front might be the only war ever where both sides declare the war over as they claim to have achieved total victory on the same day.

...Police today are hunting for an acrobatic burglar who scaled a water pipe to enter the bedroom of a Manhattan socialite and plunder $50,000 in jewlery. Detectives say former president of the Chase Securities Corporation Duncan A. Holmes was dining with his family in a downstairs restaurant below their 17th-floor apartment at 895 Park Avenue when the burglar invaded the bedroom via a terrace and escaped with a pearl necklace, an emerald and diamond clip, an emerald and diamond bracelet, and several other articles of jewelry, along with fifty dollars in cash taken from a dresser....

"Mommy, Daddy, when I grow up I want to be a doctor."

"Son, the world is awash with doctors. We want you consider a career as a jewel thief. It's lucrative and you'll always have work."

...The Speech Department of the Board of Education has declared war on one of Brooklyn's most characteristic traits -- the familiar local accent. Declaring "Brooklynese" a hindrance to success in adult life, Department educators will focus particularly on the eradication at the elementary school level of the most characteristic element of that accent, its pronunciation of "er" and "oi" sounds, along with its tendency to nasal inflection. Speech Department director Dr. Letitia E. Raubichek noted that even District Attorney William O'Dwyer -- though she emphasizes that he has "a clear articulation and a powerful delivery" -- still pronounces "bird" as "boid." In the interest of political fairness, Dr. Raubichek also criticized Mayor LaGuardia for his "tendency to falsetto" and his habit of "dentalizing his 't' and 'd' sounds," and called his speech patterns "not perfect."

(The "curl-coil merger," as sociolinguists call it, was, according to research, universal in New Yorkers born before 1900, regardless of social class, but due to continuing pressure from educators, it diminished steadily in each ensuing decade. In 1941 it's still very common in adults, but it will continue to fade.)...

Lizzie, do Sally and Joe and all the others who speak "Brooklynese" know that they speak it? Do they have a full comprehension that they pronounce words differently or is it just the water they swim in? To be sure, the O'Dwyers of the world understand it as speech is part of their professional toolkit, but does the average Brooklyn Joe (hah-hah) understand it?

...The peculiar effect that sunspots have on radio broadcasting horrified engineers at station WAAT in Jersey City yesterday, when their broadcast of Bing Crosby recordings was interrupted by a telephone conversation between two girls "intimately discussing" their dates of the night before. Engineers blamed "induction from a nearby telephone line," amplified by solar activity, as the cause of the phenomenon," and were about to take the drastic step of cutting the conversation off the air when the two young ladies faded away as suddenly as they'd appeared....

Any chance, Lizzie, you have a link to THAT recording?

"Veronica? It's Senga, so for my date last night, I didn't even wear a pair of..." (sunspots flare, voices fade away).

...
("Mona Leese?" Looks like the Star gots its license after all. Oh, and I was in a production of "Chicago" myself long, long ago, and I played the entire jury, all twelve members. Let's see Ginger do that.)...

It would be nice to learn more about Mrs. Maria Kramer, the director of two notable NYC hotels. Good for her.

...
(Aw, c'mon. Fire the Maje? Durocher without Magerkurth is like John Barrymore without Elaine Barrie.)...

Meant to ask yesterday, Lizzie, do you know what happened to Fitz' big game, was he pulled for Casey and the famous balk? Or did I just miss it (quite likely)?

...
(Making Oakdale a sympathetic character? BOLD MOVE, TUTHILL!)...

Without Kryptonite, Superman is a boring character.

...[
(At least she didn't shoot him in the restaurant. That poor waiter is having enough trouble as it is.)

Marsh was ahead of his time. He really wanted to write a comic strip with a strong female lead - Kay - and strong female criminals (who outshoot the men in close combat).

... I knew Page Four would get this, but I'm really disappointed there's no full stenographic transcript. And what about Bing Crosby?...

I am opposed to "jailhouse justice," but if something happens to Celentane in jail, we can look into it after the fact.

...
Awwwww, our boy's growing up....

Wait till he figures out what Dude and Raven did to keep their pre-battle morale up.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't think anyone who speaks with an accent realizes it unless some outside factor makes them realize it - I know when I was growing up I didn't think I talked any different from anyone else, until I heard people who talked differently and started to think about dialects and tried to learn how to do them myself. And even then I thought it was other people who had the accent, not me.

But whenever there's an organized campaign to eradicate any kind of a low-status dialect there'll be resistance. I don't think Joe thinks about it much one way or another, but Sally graduated from Erasmus and she very well knows how to "tawk all propah" if she wants to. But she doesn't unless she has to, because "whot'hella't'em people tellin' us howta tawk?? I ASK YA!"

My mother is like this. She is, as I am, naturally non-rhotic -- we don't pronounce "R" before consonants, as is common in pretty much any working-class Northeastern-coastal dialect. But when she went to work at the hospital she forced herself to pronounce R's to the point where she exaggerates them, and I keep telling her it makes her sound passive aggressive. And then she says "It ain't passive."

According to the play-by-play here, the Pirates got to Fitz for two runs in the bottom of the fourth, and Leo pulled him for a pinch hitter in the top of the fifth. Larry French came in and held them scoreless until he himself got lifted for a hitter in the top of the eighth. The Dodgers scored three runs to take the lead, and Leo sent -- gawdhelpus -- Hamlin in for the bottom of the eighth. DiMaggio reached on a single and moved to second when Medwick bobbled the ball, and that was all for Hamlin. Casey came in and DiMaggio reached third on a sacrifice fly. And then the fun began. DiMaggio scored on the balk, Casey went berserk and walked Lopez, and then the humptiest of all humpty-dumpties, a .217-hitting second string shortstop named Alf Anderson, hit a triple to score Lopez and put the Pirates ahead.

While throwing a chair thru the umpires' window, Leo was heard by all present to scream "ALF ANDERSON??? ALF F***ING ANDERSON????" So you can understand why his nerves are still just a bit on edge.

 

[Harp]

A couple of guys from Maine were in my basic training company down at Ft Polk, Louisiana.

Geeesh. Say that again pal, what?

 

[LizzieMaine]

My brother was the only Northerner in his barracks at Fort Jackson. They nicknamed him "Sand-eatin' Lobster Boy," but fortunately he couldn't understand them, either.

All the Northeastern dialects are interrelated and share some common traits. I grew up speaking thick Midcoast Maine, but as I've gone along it's picked up aspects of Boston and New York depending on the last person I talked to. This is an unfortunate habit of mine. My surrogate daughter's husband's family comes from Philadelphia, and the last time they were up, I spent the better part of two days drinking "wooda."

 

[LizzieMaine]

A Nazi communique today claimed the surrender of the Soviet garrison at Kiev, the capture of two Baltic islands, and a foothold on the third in a blasting drive to clear the sea approaches to Leningrad and expose the Red Baltic fleet to naval attack in the Gulf of Finland. The new thrust against Leningrad comes as German forces in the south are reported slashing forward toward Kharkov and the Donets industrial basin. A war correspondent for the Italian newspaper Giornale d'Italia in a dispatch from the Ukraine stated that motorized units including Italian troops were pushing on Kharkov's defenses, and had "destroyed three entire Soviet regiments which did not surrender and did not yield, but died at their combat stations."

The Royal Air Force is reported today to have sent "swarms of daylight raiders" to attack targets in Norway, France, Holland, and Germany itself. The daytime forays are reported by military sources as "a sudden desperate attempt from the air to lure the Luftwaffe back from the Eastern Front" and give the Red Air Force and the British units operating with the Russians a needed respite.

An influential Georgia senator demanded today that "the clear cut issues of American foreign policy" be placed before the people for "the ultimate decision that they alone can make." Democratic Senator Walter F. George did not state in so many words that the "ultimate decision" is one of direct U. S. participation in the war, but observers found his implication in the statement clear. The Senator's statements follows the defection from the isolationist bloc of two prominent members of congress, Senator Tom Capper (R-Kansas) and Rep. Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois,) who this week announced that they are shifting their support behind the President's foreign policy, as well as the "thumping endorsement" of the President's position by the annual convention of the American Legion -- developments believed by some observers to herald the coming disintegration of the isolationist bloc led by Senator Burton K. Wheeler.

Charges of bigotry are being raised in the mayoral campaign, with accusations that Mayor LaGuardia failed to move for the removal of a member the medical board of the New York City Employees Retirement System when charges of bigotry on the part of that member were unanimously sustained by the former Board of Aldermen in 1934. Former Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, a supporter of Democratic mayoral nominee District Attorney William O'Dwyer, and a man long recognized as a leading figure in Jewish charity work in Brooklyn, accused the Mayor of inaction in the matter of Dr. Charles Fama, whom Justice May had accused of participating in meetings of the Ku Klux Klan in Jamaica, Queens, and also of making "wicked and stupid" anti-Roman Catholic statements both from the public platform and in his writings. Seventeen members of the Republican and Fusion parties had joined with Democratic Justice May in passing an aldermanic resolution recommending the dismissal of Dr. Fama from the medical board, but, charged Justice May, the Mayor did nothing and has done nothing to carry out that recommendation. Justice May also asserted that he had been told by the late Brooklyn borough president Raymond V. Ingersoll that Ingersoll "would not have voted" to confirm Dr. Fama if he had known about the charges at the time of Dr. Fama's appointment. Mayor LaGuardia, in responding to remarks in District Attorney O'Dwyer's radio speech this week, claimed that Mr. O'Dwyer "made a plea for tolerance and then exercised intolerance himself over a petty matter." The Mayor has not directly responded to Justice May's assertions.

("Borough Fans pour inta Philly reee-sented t'only score a' Higsby in allowed only 4 hits," recites Joe. "Whassat mean?" "It means," scoffs Sally, "'at t'fella setsa type is been drinkin' again.")

After years of sole reliance on the Boston Symphony and other touring musical aggregations, the New Brooklyn Symphony, Inc., a non profit organization of prominent citizens, announced yesterday that this community of 3,000,000 citizens will soon have a symphony of its own. Working with rapidity against the approach of the 1941-42 musical season, the organization announced in a meeting at the Hotel Granada that the new Brooklyn Symphony will offer a series of eight introductory concerts at the Academy of Music beginning on November 14th. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky, familiar to symphonic audiences in New York, Europe, and South America, will organize the orchestra, promising a first-rate ensemble of at least 100 pieces. A permanent Symphony committee to number at least 100 persons will be formed to oversee the operation of the new orchestra, and is to be made up of "men, women, and young people from every walk of life" with an interest in the cultural advancement of the borough. An organizational meeting of this committee will be held Thursday at 4:30 PM at the Granada.

Daylight Saving Time is scheduled to end for this year at 3 AM next Sunday unless the City Council agrees to a proposal to extend it for two additional months in the interests of National Defense. A measure proposing such an extension is now before the Council, and has been referred to committee for discussion prior to a vote.

(There's a big Firster rally coming up at the Academy of Music next week, and guess who is NOT listed among the speakers. I don't think he dares to set foot in Brooklyn.)

("Leo's Hollywood pal George Raft will be behind the Brooklyn dugout with Dodger fan Betty Grable." Yeah, this isn't the usual crowd they get in Philadelphia. I hope Mr. Nugent at least sends Larry a Christmas card this year.)

The Football Dodgers open their professional season this afternoon at Ebbets Field hosting the Detroit Lions. Ace Parker's baseball injury is all forgotten now, with the star back certified fit and ready for action against the Motor City squad paced by speedy Byron "Whizzer" White. Coach Jock Sutherland has his squad back at full strength this year what with the return of Parker from the injured list and quarterback Rhoten Shetley having this week received his discharge from the Army.

Joe Louis and Lou Nova are moving into their final week of training for their September 29th title bout at the Polo Grounds, with the Brown Bomber a 13-5 favorite to retain his crown. It will be Louis's 19th title defense since he took the championship from Jim Braddock in 1937, and is expected to be his final fight before going into the service.

(Pun making the rounds this week: "There's a new ruler in Iran!" "Are you shah?" "Sultanly!")

Old Timer Charles A. Hughes of Jamaica grew up in Glendale, where he has fond memories of the day a classmate on the way to school stopped to pet "a sweet little pussycat" he met in the street, right before he noticed the big white stripe down the kitty's back. "We had to bury his clothes six feet deep, and then had to dig them up and bury them again six feet deeper!"

(Thin skinned there aren't we? You'd think a crooked real estate developer could take it.)

(Well it took ya long enough!)

("That's it!" says Bobby Riggs. "I'll challenge MUSSOLINI!")

(Hey, Mr. Engraver! You got some marks coming thru that shouldn't be -- "BLACK MARY WORTH 9-21-41 3048." Must be the same guy that messed up the Dodger story on the front page. And Dan's been taking some acting lessons to go along with the machinists' training.)

("I love bacteria. Have you ever been in Oshkosh?")

(Hmph, those dark emperors and their armored turrets.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

(Sad to see what's become of Helen Morgan, who, in her day, was a great, great performer.)

(Now wait, I'm confused. Was it "Woo-Hoo" or "Yoo Hoo?" I know it isn't "Woo-Woo," because that's what Hugh Herbert says.)

("Shall we shake? Oh, and how's the anaphylaxis from all those bee stings?" Meanwhile, STEVE THE TRAMP! Long ago, he was a sinister, Fagin-like street hustler who used Junior as a pawn in carrying out his crimes. When Tracy captured him and sent him up, he went ahead and adopted the kid for himself. But left unresolved is Steve's real connection to Junior -- he is not his real father, but is he an uncle or a cousin? Or what? Perhaps we shall find out.)

Dude's been waiting months for a chance to show off like this.

OK, Punj, NOW will you dig us out with your bare hands? And hey, Mr. Gray, how's your investments panning out?

I never cease to be amazed at Mamie's physical dexterity.

Well, that takes care of the Sunday page for the next three months.

In the comics, all it takes to be suave man of the world is a moustache.

Um.

Welcome to civilization, bud.

 

[Fading Fast]

A...
("Borough Fans pour inta Philly reee-sented t'only score a' Higsby in allowed only 4 hits," recites Joe. "Whassat mean?" "It means," scoffs Sally, "'at t'fella setsa type is been drinkin' again.")...

Two Dodger wins, one Cardinal loss and a Whirlaway romp, now that is a good day in sports 1941 style.

...
(Well it took ya long enough!)...

Invisible or not, unless one of her unknown superpowers is an oversized bladder, that had to be one long night in the closet.

... (Hey, Mr. Engraver! You got some marks coming thru that shouldn't be -- "BLACK MARY WORTH 9-21-41 3048." Must be the same guy that messed up the Dodger story on the front page. And Dan's been taking some acting lessons to go along with the machinists' training.)...

Marsh and his editor have to make a decision to either continue the storyline on Sunday or not. This kinda-sorta repeating of the story in a slightly different way is awkward.

... (Hmph, those dark emperors and their armored turrets.)

A key for all the names and groups in this strip would be helpful.

... (Sad to see what's become of Helen Morgan, who, in her day, was a great, great performer.)....

The word "Jap" today is an insulting and offensive word and I believe it was used insultingly in the '40s, but was it one of those words that, back then, could also be used in a not-insulting way as in the headline "Jap Government..." or was that insulting too, but sadly acceptable at the time?

... Dude's been waiting months for a chance to show off like this....

Raven: "I know what you can do with a rifle."

Dude: "Raven, now's not the time to be talking about last night."

Terry: "Huh, what?"

...[ OK, Punj, NOW will you dig us out with your bare hands? And hey, Mr. Gray, how's your investments panning out?....

"Why doesn't my agent call? He should have heard something by now from 'Terry and the Pirates.' If I get injured in this stupid mine and can't take the Terry gig, I'm going to be p*ssed as h*ll at that good-for-nothing agent. Oooh, must scratch itch behind ear."

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Jap" was very common in the prewar era as "headline shorthand," especially in tabloid papers like the News. It seems to have been considered a more neutral term than "Nip," which was generally held to be, if not a direct slur, than a not-especially-respectful thing to say.

A closer look at the final panel of today's "Annie" reveals something even more shocking -- not only is Sandy fed up, but Annie herself has sprouted PUPILS. That gas must be potent stuff.

Dude is displaying Captain Kirk levels of swag today. Pride goeth before a fall, big boy.

 

[Harp]

Whenever everything with this truck convoy ambush is done and finished Burma will need some
wine and cheese to go with those crackers after the main catfight event on this card is over, Bless Bess.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Nazi High Command asserts today in a special communique that 13 heavily laden ships carrying 82,500 tons from two Atlantic convoys were sunk by U-Boats, among them four oil tankers. The date of the attack was not specified in the communique. Meanwhile an "extraordinary war communique" issued in Rome asserts that Italian "suicide boats" have entered the Port of Gibraltar where they sunk three ships and damaged another.

Berlin also reported today that German forces have repelled with heavy casualties all Russian attempts to break out of "a giant trap" in the Ukraine, and that Nazi raiders have destroyed 11 Soviet warships and merchantmen in the Black Sea and the Gulf of Finland.

A communique from Moscow reports that the Red Air Force, cooperating with Army units, continues to hammer furiously at enemy columns in an effort to break thru German thrusts in the Ukraine, as official sources accused Bulgaria of plotting to provide a Black Sea base for Nazi attacks on Soviet oil fields. A report received by NBC in New York from Ankara, Turkey stated that King Boris of Bulgaria is en route to confer with Adolf Hitler in person, and a report monitored from Rome stated that Bulgaria has agreed to join with Germany in "a holy war against Russia."

A former Brooklyn magistrate threatened today to personally arrest Representative Gerald P. Nye if the North Dakota Republican endorses "certain sentiments" expressed by Charles A. Lindbergh when Rep. Nye appears tonight at an America First Committee rally at the Academy of Music. Former Magistrate Joseph Goldstein sent a telegram today to Mayor LaGuardia warning that any statement made by Rep. Nye endorsing the "pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic" remarks made by Lindbergh in a speech at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa earlier this month, would amount to "an incitement to riot," given that the rally tonight will occur just after Rosh Hashanah services are concluded, and that "many Jewish persons" may be present. A force of 200 patrolmen has been assigned to guard the rally tonight. During a speech in Dayton, Ohio on Friday, Rep. Nye endorsed Lindbergh's remarks, stating "I agree with Colonel Lindbergh that the Jewish people are a large factor in our movement toward war." Speaking today to members of the Steuben Society at the Hotel Biltmore, Rep. Nye accused interventionists of "raising the issue of race prejudice" in order to split the popular front opposing the war.

("Hey!" shouts a neighborhood kid who has climbed the fire escape and is looking in the kitchen window. "You Joe? Guy onnaphone downa canny stoah wants you should wire'im twenny-five bucks. Says he's in jail in Philly an' needs ya should go his bail. Sez t'ere's a ottagraff bawl innit fawya." "Solly?" sighs Sally, with a roll of her eyes. "Solly," sighs Joe.)

A new popular song by a rising bandleader salutes Our Dodgers. "Dodgers Fan Dance," by Harry James bids fair to be the official World Series theme song in Brooklyn, with over 75,000 copies of the recording sold so far to platterbugs. Mr. James, former trumpeter for the Benny Goodman orchestra, is himself a rabid Dodger fan who is frequently found in the company of Dodger players -- despite the fact that he himself is not even from Brooklyn. He can't understand why he is a Dodger rooter -- he just is.

The United States is experiencing a prosperity more dramatic even than the boom of 1929, but Government and public alike are worried lest times get too good in an unbalanced way. More people are now at work drawing more wages than at any time since the first World War, while the cost of living is still below 1929 levels and industrial production is at an all-time high. Despite increasing wages and dwindling unemployment, protests over recent price increases have spurred Government leaders to urge President Roosevelt to speed legislative and administrative action to check the growing boom. Letters by the thousands are also pouring into government agencies, particularly the Office of Production Management demanding that steps be taken to curb rising prices.

(America's Biggest Small Town.)

(As a fan both of swing and of Gilbert and Sullivan, may I say that "The Hot Mikado" may be the single greatest entertainment ever conceived.)

The Eagle Editorialist declares that it's time to toin the tables on "better speech" crusaders who would do away with the "melodious accents of Brooklyn," where we "berl our eggs" and "adjoin to the adjernin' room." The crusaders would "reduce our children's speech to some academic dead level on which no distinctive flavor, no characteristic localism can be found." "We of Brooklyn carry our speech proudly, like a banner," the EE asserts, "but we are more broad minded than our critics." He points out that Red Barber talks nothing like anyone from Brooklyn, and that is one reason why Mr. Barber is so loved. "We don't demand he speak as we do," the EE observes. "Maybe it's time we told our critics 'leave us be, see, or some of our guys from Greenpernt or Flatbush'll toin around and loin you a thing or two."

(What, no "yoo hoo" joke? Admirable resistance.)

(Imagine what Camilli could do if he wasn't tired all the time.)

The Football Dodgers opened their season with a 14-7 win over the Detroit Lions at Ebbets Field yesterday, but Coach Jock Sutherland was none too happy with how they went about it. "The Dodgers didn't play good football" groused Jock. "The boys were smug, self-satisfied, and a bit too cocky to suit me." He observed that Detroit also played poorly, which was more responsible for the Brooklyn win than anything the Dodgers did to carry the game. The Football Flock will travel to Philadelphia this week for a night game on Saturday.

(I don't know about any of that, but I do know these people going by don't look very Park Avenue to me. You sure you aren't in the Village?)

(Now whooooooooooo could this be?)

(AH!! Kleek is clearly a SABOTEUR and a SPY who needs the vital intelligence that only a junior-high science book could bring!)

("And don't eat the face! Good boy! Don't eat the face!")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

So THAT'S why they didn't recall Mungo. Won't help, there's an extradition treaty with Canada.

Wait, what????

Absolutely! Something SHOULD be done! At least get him a good lawyer!!

Stop smirking, Punj, and get on with whatever it is you're going to do.

Yes, I'm sure that Andy will....FA'GAWDSAKES, VIN, WHAT IS THAT YOU HAVE ON YOUR HEAD?

"No more Mr. Nice Guy."

Reality shows were an actual thing in 1941, and they were just as schmaltzy as this. Hey kid, wouldn't you rather listen to Information Please?

The art today is magnificient. Mr. King has really been pushing out the boat lately, and it shows.

"Family, I'd like you to meet my wife, Senga."

Willie and Mamie really do love each other very much.