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The Era -- Day By Day

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Pickets and non-union miners engaged in free-for-all skirmishes today at four mines in Gary, West Virginia, as the U. S. Coal and Coke Company operated six mines on a restricted basis in defiance of a United Mine Workers order withdrawing union workers from captive coal pits. A company superintendent stated that 650 men of a usual first shift of 1200 workers were working in the mines this morning, as fistfights between pickets and non-union workers broke out at four of the six mines. One union man was arrested on a charge of firing a pistol.

Meanwhile, sympathy strikes are developing as union workers at commercial mines declare "a holiday" in Western Pennsylvania and northwestern West Virginia, where an estimated 10,000 men are reported to have supported the captive-mine strike by walking off the job. Those commercial mines, producing the bulk of the nation's soft coal, are covered under CIO closed-shop contracts, such as UMW President John L. Lewis wants the capitve coal-mine operators to sign.

Mr. Lewis charged today that steel mill operators are "depending on the Army" to break the strike after negotiations collapsed yesterday afternoon. Steel company officials were to meet with President Roosevelt at 11:30 this morning, and a measure is already pending in the Senate that would grant the President authority to Federalize the mines under the same protocols that now govern the Federal seizure of manufacturing plants. That measure, introduced this morning by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally (D-Texas) would also authorize a Defense Wage Board to determine wages paid workers in seized facilities.

The fourth annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations gave its full and unqualified approval to the United Mine Workers' quest for a closed-shop contract with captive coal mine operators. The vote today lined up 5,000,000 CIO workers nationwide behind UMW President John L. Lewis. Transport Workers Union president Michael Quill declared to the convention that the mine standoff was not caused by the union or the workers, but by "the billion-dollar steel corporations who own the mines."

Japanese envoy Saburo Kurusu met with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull for more than an hour this morning in a visit that was expected to be a mere courtesy call. But the length of the closed-door meeting suggested to Washington observers that the real conversations had already begun to resolve the question of peace or war in the Pacific. Asked by reporters what was discussed in the session, as he emerged from the White House in the company of Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, Kurusu merely smiled and stated "very many things were said."

German reports claim that Nazi forces have taken the city of Kerch, straddling the border of the Crimea and the Caucasus on the Kerenchki Straits, and assert that the capture of that city gives Germany "complete control of the Sea of Azov," cutting off Soviet supply routes to Rostov, and opening the way to a full invasion of the Crimea. Red Army troops, however, are reported as still holding strong positions at Yerukle, six miles from Kerch.

Irving "Waxey Gordon" Wexler, one time Prohibition beer baron, was before a police lineup in Canarsie today on a vagrancy charge, after patrolmen recognized the 53-year-old racketeer entering an apartment house. Wexler told police he was working as a salesman for a Canadian cleaning-fluid concern, and declared that "the old Waxey is dead," but the patrolmen brought him into the East 104th Street precinct anyway for questioning. Despite the vagrancy charge, Wexler had $350 in cash on his person at the time of his arrest, and was in the company of "a well-dressed woman" believed to be his wife.

The Brooklyn Commissioners of Elections expect to certify the reelection of James V. Magnano as Kings County Sheriff and Peter J. McGuinness as county register -- despite a decision by voters in this month's election to abolish both of those offices. The commissioners stated today they do not believe they have the authority to refuse to certify Magnano and McGuinness. Meanwhile, operating under the assumption that the vote to abolish the positions takes precedence, the Municipal Civil Service Commission is moving ahead with plans to conduct competitive examinations for candidates to hold the new city-wide offices of Sheriff and Register at lesser salaries than were paid to the county office holders. It is expected that whatever action is taken, litigation will result.

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(Yeah, but what about Major Bowes' jewel-encrusted cigarette case? Any luck finding that?)

A Brooklyn girl with a heavy handbag helped her fiance, a policeman from Queens, to break up a holdup last night at a bar in Harlem, but a bandit and a bystander were killed in the incident, leading to possible homicide charges for two other thugs. The young couple, Louise McCabe of 744 Halsey Street and Patrolman Joseph Halliday of Sunnyside, were in Romano's Tavern, 2363 2nd Avenue, when three bandits appeared, brandishing guns, and scooped $4.40 in cash off the bar. Patrolman Halliday, who had just come off duty, ordered Miss McCabe under the table and whipped out his service revolver to exchange fire with the holdup men. Halliday hit 23-year-old Russell Marsala of 244 E. 71st Street in Manhattan twice, and winged one of his companions. As the two other bandits attempted to flee, Miss McCabe emerged from her hiding place and slugged them with her handbag, rendering sufficient damage to hold the two until two passing radio patrolmen noticed the commotion and offered reinforcement. Marsala died at Harlem Hospital, as did the tavern's cook, 52-year-old Eduardo Corchia, who was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired during the exchange. That slug will be examined in an effort to determine who fired it. Police noted that Corchia had been carrying $600 in cash, and the surviving bandits will be questioned in an effort to determine if that money was the real target of the attack.

The trial of prominent Queens bookmaker Frank Erickson on charges that he assaulted elderly millionaire Louis Untermyer at a party at Untermyer's home last May, will get underway today in Morristown, New Jersey. The incident is said to have been preciptated by a visit to Mr. Untermyer by Mrs. Mary Lucas "Bobby" Crawford, ex-showgirl, and Miss LaJunta White, prominent woman golfer, but precise details of the alleged assault remain a mystery. Prosecution of Erickson by New Jersey Attorney General David Wilentz is said to have been encouraged by a letter from Mayor LaGuardia, who has crusaded against Erickson for years, denouncing him as "a cheap tinhorn" and "public nuisance number one."

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(Actually, history tells us that Massasoit was not a "king," as the Wampanoag had no concept of "royalty," but rather a "sachem," elected by democratic vote. History also tells us that Pocahontas [c. 1596-1617] was not, in fact, "a bag of gumdrops.")

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(I'm all in favor of arming turkeys. Let's make it a fair fight!!)

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(Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick....)

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(Kids Today.)

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("The Football Dodgers? Are they still in the league?")

Plans are reported to be in the works for a motion picture about Our Dodgers, to be made by 20th Century Fox. Tentatively titled wither "Our Beloved Bums" or "Dem Lovely Bums," the film will star Pat O'Brien, and will feature the actual Dodgers themselves, to be filmed at Spring Training next year. The story outline "describes the rise of the team to the National League title," and will take full advantage of "the tremendous appeal, both commercial and emotional that the Dodgers pack."

Two local youngsters star together on the same Sunday afternoon radio program over NBC's Blue network. Thirteen-year-old boy yodeler Olivio Santoro of Inwood, Long Island and eleven-year-old contralto Marion Loveridge of Bay Ridge are both veteran performers, in spite of their youth, and both hope for show-business careers in adulthood -- Olivio as either an opera singer or a star of Western pictures, and Marion as a leading lady on either the motion-picture screen or the musical comedy stage.

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(Slappy really needs to work on this whole self-loathing thing.)

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(You won't find clues sitting behind a desk. How about dragging the river? Oh, wait, George will probably fall in.)

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(Better take a shower first, kid. That onion smell is bru-tal!)

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(AW COME ON, LET US! YOU NEVER LET US DO ANYTHING FUN!)
 

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And in the Daily News...

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Come on, Hoover, make yourself useful. Solve this elephant thing -- or else!

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This should certainly be -- you will pardon the expression -- rich.

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Wear and tear, poor eyesight, and ill health -- well, at least you haven't got a sick cat.

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How about, Daddy, when all this is over, we find you a nice quiet room in a nice quiet retirement home. Wouldn't that be nice? Three squares, a warm bed, and all the jigsaw puzzles you can do.

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"This can't be my husband! My husband's an idiot! Oh well, never mind..."

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No, kid, the line is "Yoo hoo!"

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Nice work if you can get it!

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Yeah, word gets around.

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Hey, it's better than saxophone lessons.

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And Goofy gets his revenge for all those years of being called "Goofy."
 
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...Irving "Waxey Gordon" Wexler, one time Prohibition beer baron, was before a police lineup in Canarsie today on a vagrancy charge, after patrolmen recognized the 53-year-old racketeer entering an apartment house. Wexler told police he was working as a salesman for a Canadian cleaning-fluid concern, and declared that "the old Waxey is dead," but the patrolmen brought him into the East 104th Street precinct anyway for questioning. Despite the vagrancy charge, Wexler had $350 in cash on his person at the time of his arrest, and was in the company of "a well-dressed woman" believed to be his wife....

Some deeper game is being played here.


... Brooklyn_Eagle_Mon__Nov_17__1941_.jpg (Yeah, but what about Major Bowes' jewel-encrusted cigarette case? Any luck finding that?)...

Sounds like an inside job. Here's a horrible thought, the jewel thieves could melt them down and sell the gold, since it would be almost impossible to sell them as is.


...A Brooklyn girl with a heavy handbag helped her fiance, a policeman from Queens, to break up a holdup last night at a bar in Harlem, but a bandit and a bystander were killed in the incident, leading to possible homicide charges for two other thugs. The young couple, Louise McCabe of 744 Halsey Street and Patrolman Joseph Halliday of Sunnyside, were in Romano's Tavern, 2363 2nd Avenue, when three bandits appeared, brandishing guns, and scooped $4.40 in cash off the bar. Patrolman Halliday, who had just come off duty, ordered Miss McCabe under the table and whipped out his service revolver to exchange fire with the holdup men. Halliday hit 23-year-old Russell Marsala of 244 E. 71st Street in Manhattan twice, and winged one of his companions. As the two other bandits attempted to flee, Miss McCabe emerged from her hiding place and slugged them with her handbag, rendering sufficient damage to hold the two until two passing radio patrolmen noticed the commotion and offered reinforcement. Marsala died at Harlem Hospital, as did the tavern's cook, 52-year-old Eduardo Corchia, who was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired during the exchange. That slug will be examined in an effort to determine who fired it. Police noted that Corchia had been carrying $600 in cash, and the surviving bandits will be questioned in an effort to determine if that money was the real target of the attack....

"...and winged one of his companions." That's not a phrase you hear anymore.

Lizzie, any distant Brooklyn relatives named McCabe in your family, just asking?


... Brooklyn_Eagle_Mon__Nov_17__1941_(3).jpg (I'm all in favor of arming turkeys. Let's make it a fair fight!!)...

You could argue nature set the parameters of the fight and man just beat turkeys to the invention of gunpowder and metal forging. Hence, it was a fair fight and the turkeys lost.


... Brooklyn_Eagle_Mon__Nov_17__1941_(9).jpg (You won't find clues sitting behind a desk. How about dragging the river? Oh, wait, George will probably fall in.)...

After they find the fiance, maybe they can look for Tootsie.


... Daily_News_Mon__Nov_17__1941_(3).jpg How about, Daddy, when all this is over, we find you a nice quiet room in a nice quiet retirement home. Wouldn't that be nice? Three squares, a warm bed, and all the jigsaw puzzles you can do....

Right about now, I'd look the other way if Punjab and Annie shot Warbucks in the back.


... Daily_News_Mon__Nov_17__1941_(4).jpg "This can't be my husband! My husband's an idiot! Oh well, never mind..."..."

"This can't be my wife. There's no way a good-looking woman like her would marry someone who looked like me."


... Daily_News_Mon__Nov_17__1941_(7).jpg Yeah, word gets around.....

Apparently, what happens in the interior of war-torn China, doesn't stay in the interior of war-torn China.

Don't sweat it kid, Hu Shee is the one - now go find her.
 

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Nope, this was her sister, the one who was married to a freighter captain who got torpedoed off the coast of Africa and spent two weeks adrift on a raft. When he finally got home she said "WELL WHAT KEPT YA?"

As for Lil, I've always thought there was nothing wrong with her that wouldn't be cured by getting away from her mother. When she was staying with Pruny she seemed to be getting herself squared away, until Harold came along with his dopey butcher-van elopement, and then her mother shoved her into a forced relationship with the late Truck McClusky. She did, we will recall, take responsibility for her part in the business with Lana, so hopefully she's learning to keep her mother at arm's length.
 

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Nope, this was her sister, the one who was married to a freighter captain who got torpedoed off the coast of Africa and spent two weeks adrift on a raft. When he finally got home she said "WELL WHAT KEPT YA?"

As for Lil, I've always thought there was nothing wrong with her that wouldn't be cured by getting away from her mother. When she was staying with Pruny she seemed to be getting herself squared away, until Harold came along with his dopey butcher-van elopement, and then her mother shoved her into a forced relationship with the late Truck McClusky. She did, we will recall, take responsibility for her part in the business with Lana, so hopefully she's learning to keep her mother at arm's length.

The longshoreman in my family (by marriage) is more of the gentle giant type. In his day he'd fly LAX to NYC just to take in a performance or two of the Met.
Nope, this was her sister, the one who was married to a freighter captain who got torpedoed off the coast of Africa and spent two weeks adrift on a raft. When he finally got home she said "WELL WHAT KEPT YA?"

As for Lil, I've always thought there was nothing wrong with her that wouldn't be cured by getting away from her mother. When she was staying with Pruny she seemed to be getting herself squared away, until Harold came along with his dopey butcher-van elopement, and then her mother shoved her into a forced relationship with the late Truck McClusky. She did, we will recall, take responsibility for her part in the business with Lana, so hopefully she's learning to keep her mother at arm's length.


But let's face it: Lena the Meddling Battle Axe is one of those antagonists we've grown to love to hate.
 

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Six elderly patients of the Brunswick Home, private sanitarium at Amityville, L. I., died early this morning in a roaring fire that destroyed the main building of the institution. The fire began in the kitchen of the building and was discovered shortly after midnight, and burned out of control until 2:15 AM. By the time firemen could control the blaze, the 53-year-old wooden-frame house, one of 15 that make up the institution, was a mass of burned wreckage. The dead were identified as 68-year-old Harry Duncomb, originally of Brooklyn, a patient at the Home since 1920; 62-year-old Abraham Michaelson of Manhattan, also a patient since 1920; 80-year-old Mrs. Adelaide Raynor of Freeport, a patient "for a few months;" 54-year-old Thomas R. Riker of Massapequa, a patient since 1938; 64-year-old Vincenza Botticiello of East Hempstead, also a patient since 1938; and 52-year-old Mrs. Isabel Pawson of Rockville Center, a patient since 1940. Thirty other patients, most of them elderly men and women suffering from "nervous ailments" were wheeled or carried to safety by fireman. A male nurse, 29-year-old Percy Mactin, was trapped while engaging in rescue work on the second floor, and leaped from a window, suffering a broken right leg.

President Roosevelt today gave the go-ahead nod to Congress to proceed with anti-strike legislation intended to give rulings by the Defense Mediation Board the force of law in preventing work stoppages in critical defense industries. Chairman Mary T. Norton (D-NY) of the House Labor Committee indicated that that panel will meet in executive session tomorrow to begin consideration of such a bill, drafted by Rep. Norton as a substitute for several other anti-strike bills pending in Congress. The President reached his decision today after conferring with railroad and labor leaders in an attempt to avert a possible railroad strike.

The decision by the President comes as violence broke out today in two states involved in United Mine Workers strikes at captive coal mines. Two miners belonging to an "independent union" were reported wounded at Gary, West Virginia when they charged a UMW picket line, and numerous clashes were reported at steel-industry-controlled mines in Western Pennsylvania. Mass picketing was underway at captive mines in both states.

As the situation continued to develop today, President Roosevelt sent a message to the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations urging that member unions take steps to ensure that defense production "continues without interruption." In a statement read to convention delegates by CIO President Phillip Murray, the President stressed that democratic freedoms -- including labor freedom -- are "threatened by the menace of Hitlerism."

The Japanese Army and Navy today assured the Diet today that the armed forces are "fully prepared" to meet "eventualities" and "changes in the situation" after the lower house of the Japanese parliament passed a resolution urging the Japanese Government to continue its present "Greater East Asia" policies. Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo, in his role as War Minister, spoke for the Army, while Navy Minister Admiral Shigetaro Shimada stated that "the Navy has completed all necessary preparations."

Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen today assigned Assistant Attorney General Mary Flynn to serve as his official observer at the assault trial of Queens bookmaker Frank Erickson in Morristown, New Jersey, and directed her to report on any testimony Erickson may give with implications for the Amen Office's investigation into official corruption in Brooklyn. The assignment comes as Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine acknowledged today that an investigation is underway into the activities of a police captain who committed suicide earlier this year, and who was with Erickson when the gambler was held up by thugs at the New York Athletic Club on April 24th. "If any captain had been associated with Erickson," stated the Commissioner, "then his death is beneficial not only to the department but to the people of New York."

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("Hey," wonders Sally. "Would you fight a dool f' me? I mean, just t'eoretic'ly." "A dool?" replies Joe. "Wit' swords an' guns an' allat? Well, jeez, I dunno. Al'tough, t'at time downa Dykeh Beach, 'at saila said ya hadda big mout' an' tol' ya t'be quiet, I was 'bout ta whack 'im oveh t'head wit' a bot'l." "Why din'cha?" asks Sally. "Well, I mean, it wasn' empty. I mean, I would'n min' losin' two cents onna bot'l, but jeez, a nickel f' t' soda -- 'at kinda t'ing runs inta money. I guess it don' matteh much if y'a Prince, but I got r'sponsabilities." "Yeah," says Sally, "All t'inks considehed, I'd rat'eh have you t'en a Prince. B'sides, when ya back was toined, I pegged 'at saileh backa t' head wit' a sea oichint. Bet he's still pickin' out t'em spines.")

An Astoria man has sued civilian firms constructing a Navy base at Argentia, Nova Scotia for $50,000, charging that the companies working on the project require their employees to live in filth. In a complaint filed today in Brooklyn Federal Court, Victor H. Kraus of 2408 37th Street, who was hired as an accountant on the project at $75 a week, but when he arrived at the job site, he was put to work instead as a timekeeper at $45 a week. He further charged that food was served at the worksite on "greasy dishes washed in cold water," that the single doctor and two male nurses on duty are constantly drunk, and that due to the unsanitary conditions he contracted a severe case of conjunctivitis. Kraus further alleged that the companies, the Geo. A. Fuller Company, the Merritt, Chapman, and Scott Corporation, and the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, have conspired to use the project as a way of helping their employees to "evade or avoid" their obligations under the Selective Service law. Mr. Kraus further stated that when he complained to management about the working conditions, he was denounced as "a Communist and a labor agitator."

The German Air Force announced today the death of Col. General Ernst Udet, World War ace and originator of the Nazi parachute technique. The report stated that Gen. Udet died "while experimenting with firearms." During the World War, Udet was second only to the famous Manfred Von Richtofen as an ace, with 62 kills to his credit. Last summer, rumors circulated that he had "fallen out of favor" with the Nazi government and had committed suicide, but General Udet received a United Press correspondent at his Berlin office and "smilingly" discounted the rumors. Nazi Fueher Adolf Hitler ordered a state funeral for Udet, and ordered Luftwaffe Squadron No. 2 renamed in his honor.

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("Mammy's" seems to be leading the race so far, but the Automat has yet to be heard from. And I must admit I wouldn't mind a few Chocolate Turkeys to break up the monotony.)

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(Well, a buck and a quarter if you want to go to Flushing. But who wants to go to Flushing? And what's this "Chimney Corner" place? Never heard of it.)

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(Homes For Defense.)

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(Basketball in 1941 is a game played primarily by students and semipros, and ranks far behind football and hockey in fall-winter public interest. You can see how little interest the Eagle has in the game by the fact that they have given this photo a caption that has nothing to do with basketball or even with anyone actually shown in the picture. You're actually looking at the Phillips 66 Oilers, a touring semipro team that will face Orbach A. A. at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. Plenty of seats available!)

Dr. Brady is on the march against smoking and drinking, which, he warns, saps a young man's efficiency and potency, especially when consumed at the rate of one or two packs of cigarettes a day and ten highballs a week. "The young man resorts to smoking and drinking in the first place in a sort of sissy hope of concealing his weakness of character or his general inferiority from his acquaintances or himself." He further warns that the very fact that such questions have to be raised is a sign of "degeneracy which amounts to a national peril."

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(Cyrano d'Yoohoo.)

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(OK, now, Philip Marlowe wouldn't put up with this.)

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(Do you get the sense that Dale and Allen don't like movie stars very much?)

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(That's right, Dan -- play dumb. Or in other words, be yourself.)
 

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Doc Brady, your comments on the Army situation? And if this arrest turns out to be the guy responsible for the poisonings, I hope they turn him over to the elephants for punishment.

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"Hey!" ask 10,000 to 15,000 non-resident servicemen. "Which way to Polly Adler's?"

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Next question: "How comfortable are you discussing your sex life with some random guy with a camera in the park?"

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"Oops. Missed."

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"Ah. Need money? Mole most happy to loan at 30 percent. Sign here."

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No, stick around. Wait'll you meet Tilda!

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So who's April been talking to? Bucky Wing? Dr. Ping? Dude Hennick? That German officer who shot Kiel? Hu Shee herself? C'mon kid, let's have the dish.

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Hey Tops, for ten bucks there's guys who'll puncture your eardrum. Sure ticket out.

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It's tough to be a nurse in Comicsland.

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"Hey, remember that time we eloped and you forgot to get a license and I called you a rattle-brained hepcat and left you at the side of the road?" "Yeah, and remember that time you got engaged to a creepy old man and he got killed and I ran away to New York for a year and got fleeced by a French prostitute?" "Oh, and you must remember that time I thought you wanted to marry me and all the while you were engaged to that blonde and you were too gutless to tell anyone? And it all came out and we were all humiliated in front of everybody?" "HAPPY TIMES. Happy, happy times."
 
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... View attachment 379983 ("Hey," wonders Sally. "Would you fight a dool f' me? I mean, just t'eoretic'ly." "A dool?" replies Joe. "Wit' swords an' guns an' allat? Well, jeez, I dunno. Al'tough, t'at time downa Dykeh Beach, 'at saila said ya hadda big mout' an' tol' ya t'be quiet, I was 'bout ta whack 'im oveh t'head wit' a bot'l." "Why din'cha?" asks Sally. "Well, I mean, it wasn' empty. I mean, I would'n min' losin' two cents onna bot'l, but jeez, a nickel f' t' soda -- 'at kinda t'ing runs inta money. I guess it don' matteh much if y'a Prince, but I got r'sponsabilities." "Yeah," says Sally, "All t'inks considehed, I'd rat'eh have you t'en a Prince. B'sides, when ya back was toined, I pegged 'at saileh backa t' head wit' a sea oichint. Bet he's still pickin' out t'em spines.")...

Sally's been showing her appreciation for Joe recently, it's nice to see.


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("Mammy's" seems to be leading the race so far, but the Automat has yet to be heard from. And I must admit I wouldn't mind a few Chocolate Turkeys to break up the monotony.)...

Also Childs has been noticeably quiet. Didn't a Chinese restaurant sweep in and win it last year? The Fading Fast are planning on going to H&H again, but we can be swayed. If "our number" pays off (what was the number of attendees at Belmont yesterday?), maybe we'll live it up for $2 a pop at the Hotel Bossert in the "Georgian Room," but it will probably be H&H with a couple of extra pieces of pie taken home for later.


...Dr. Brady is on the march against smoking and drinking, which, he warns, saps a young man's efficiency and potency, especially when consumed at the rate of one or two packs of cigarettes a day and ten highballs a week. "The young man resorts to smoking and drinking in the first place in a sort of sissy hope of concealing his weakness of character or his general inferiority from his acquaintances or himself." He further warns that the very fact that such questions have to be raised is a sign of "degeneracy which amounts to a national peril."...)

As we know, he's not wrong in his main point, but even for 1941, his "messaging" is a bit aggressive.


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(Do you get the sense that Dale and Allen don't like movie stars very much?)...

So much so, they keep drawing her ugly. Something happened to one of them with a star at some point.


... Daily_News_Tue__Nov_18__1941_.jpg Doc Brady, your comments on the Army situation? And if this arrest turns out to be the guy responsible for the poisonings, I hope they turn him over to the elephants for punishment...

Top two quotes:

"Prior to the defense mobilization...the commercial prostitution was barely breaking even with the amateur and part-time competition." [Umm, "amateur and part-time."]

"The recruitment of prostitutes has kept pace with the recruitment of the Army. It is one of our most expanded war industries."

Then as now, legalize and regulate to protect the women, first, and customers, second.


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Next question: "How comfortable are you discussing your sex life with some random guy with a camera in the park?"...

Seriously, not a lot of 1941 shyness here. Maybe the interviewer set up shop close to an army base.


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No, stick around. Wait'll you meet Tilda!...

You got a rich and kind uncle and a nice and pretty wife. Take a look in the mirror big guy, why leave - what do you think is out there for you?


... Daily_News_Tue__Nov_18__1941_(6).jpg So who's April been talking to? Bucky Wing? Dr. Ping? Dude Hennick? That German officer who shot Kiel? Hu Shee herself? C'mon kid, let's have the dish....

April's going to demand doctor Parran inspect Terry's...a, well, inspect Terry before she's going to let him come near her. It's not just the regulars, you have to worry about the part-timers and amateurs too.


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"Hey, remember that time we eloped and you forgot to get a license and I called you a rattle-brained hepcat and left you at the side of the road?" "Yeah, and remember that time you got engaged to a creepy old man and he got killed and I ran away to New York for a year and got fleeced by a French prostitute?" "Oh, and you must remember that time I thought you wanted to marry me and all the while you were engaged to that blonde and you were too gutless to tell anyone? And it all came out and we were all humiliated in front of everybody?" "HAPPY TIMES. Happy, happy times."

All very good and true points, Lizzie, but then there's this: The wedding is over, it's 1am, everyone's been drinking for hours and are now just hanging out in the hotel (maybe, back then, at someone's house) with the post-wedding vibe of sex in the air. It's one of the most sex-inducing set-ups known to mankind.
 

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With 55,300 commercial coal mine workers in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania now having walked off the job in a sympathy strike in support of the United Mine Workers' demand for a union shop in steel-industry captive mines, President Roosevelt today urged both sides in the dispute to agree to submit the dispute to arbitration for a final decision, or to agree to "maintain the status quo" for the duration of the present national emergency. "Work in the captive mines must recommence," declared the President in a letter sent to UMW president John L. Lewis and the presidents of United States Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. But an industry spokesman in Washington predicted today that "nearly every soft-coal mine in the nation" will be closed on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, in sympathy with the UMW's demand for a closed shop contract in the captive pits. Should that prediction come to pass, by the end of this week more than 400,000 miners can be expected to join the strike.

British foreign secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons today that Britain is taking "all military action" against Finland, Rumania, and Hungary as allies of Germany in the invasion of Russia. Mr. Eden acknowledged that there are no zones in which British troops can be expected to clash with the forces of these nations with the exception of naval blockade zones, where British ships have already taken action to block Finnish merchant ships attempting to enter those sectors.

Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen today revealed that he has applied for municipal funding to cover the cost of Amen Office operations for the first six months of 1942, putting to rest rumors that he intended to close down his investigation into official corruption in Brooklyn as of the end of this year. The special prosecutor declined to specify the amount requested, but it has been learned from another source that the sum of approximately $140,000 has been sought, roughly equivalent to that of the present six-month period.

A slip of paper found in the pants pocket of a wealthy Fulton Street candy manufacturer led his wife to a Prospect Heights apartment -- where she discovered her husband in the arms of "a blonde rival." Mrs. Gladys Bitrain of 712 Jefferson Avenue named that rival, Mrs. Anna Amondola of 1307 Pacific Street as co-respondent in her trial for divorce from her husband Leon Bitrain, and acknowledged today in trial testimony that upon discovering the scene, she slapped Mrs. Amondola's face and ripped the pajamas from her body. Mr. Bitrain and Mrs. Amondola denied all charges, with Mrs. Amondola stating that she was "a waitress" in Mr. Bitrain's establishment, and declaring that their meetings were purely of a business nature. The slip of paper found in Mr. Bitrain's pants was identified as a rent receipt, and the superintendent of the Pacific Avenue apartment house testified that Mr. Bitrain and Mrs. Amondola rented the apartment together last November -- and that "they acted like a couple of newlyweds" as they did so.

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(And that's good news for the Eagle, the Evening Post, PM, the Daily Worker, the Bronx Home News, and the Jewish Daily Forverts.)

Brooklyn families have responded with such enthusiasm to requests to "invite a serviceman to Thanksgiving dinner" this year that there aren't enough men stationed at Fort Hamilton to accept them all. The commanding officer of the local base, Lt. Col. George Clark, stated today that "it speaks well for the generous heart of the people of Brooklyn that they are so willing to open their homes to the servicemen," but that there aren't enough men available to fill all the requests.

The leader of "godless Russia" recently raised his glass in a toast to President Roosevelt and said "may God bless him in his task." Premier Joseph Stalin toasted the President at a Kremlin dinner last month at which American and British dignitaries were honored guests. The toast was the big moment of an extraordinary evening during which Stalin met for seven hours with officials of the American and British commissions that had recently made arrangements to send vital supplies to the Red Army. A translator explained to the guests that Stalin had been trained for the orthodox priesthood, and frequently engaged in Biblical phraseology, even more so than Lenin, but it was also explained that Stalin's invocation of the Deity was "no slip of the tongue," but a specific message intended for both the President and the American people.

A speedy acquittal in Morristown, New Jersey for Queens bookmaker Frank Erickson on charges that he knifed millionaire Milton F. Untermeyer at a party earlier this year revealed nothing concerning Erickson's relationship to a New York City police captain said to been present during a robbery at Erickson's apartment last April. Untermeyer intimated during his trial testimony that the captain was John F. Kenna of the 14th Division, Brooklyn, who committed suicide two days after the robbery, but he stressed that his description of the man came from Erickson, not from personal observation. The jury in the assault trial agreed with the defense that Untermeyer was injured in a fall while under the influence of "sleeping powders and liquor." Eighteen stitches were required to close his wounds.

A test case to determine whether pinball machines are gambling devices will be taken to the Appellate Division following the conviction of a man and woman in Queens yesterday of trafficking in illegal gambling equipment. The two, officials of the Triboro Vending Machine Company of Richmond, were accused of violating gambling laws governing the possession, transportation, and sale of pinball machines, and were released on $500 bail pending sentence. Assistant District Attorney Albert Short stated that, if the convictions are upheld, it will mean the end of the pinball trade in the State of New York by affirming that the mere possession of such a device is a violation of the law.

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(I'd really like to see just how big the portions are. And do you really get those paper frills on the drumsticks?)

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(Point of Order: half a Southern Fried Chicken is not a Thanksgiving dinner, even though I'd much prefer it to turkey myself. So we must rule Price's out on a technicality and award the 1941 prize to H&H. And after dining, be like Joe and Sally and do yourself a favor and go see Hal LeRoy at the Flatbush -- we know him, of course, as the living embodiment of our boy Harold Teen in the 1934 movie based on the strip, but he is also the greatest eccentric dancer of his generation. Not to be missed, even if he doesn't do "Me and My Shadow...")

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(We haven't seen the General in a while, but it's good to know that National Defense is in good hands.)

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(We may recall that Miss Judge is the former Mrs. Dan Topping, tossed on the discard pile after Sonja Henie came along. But we don't see Miss Henie doing ginger ale ads, now do we? Stick that up your double axel, toots.)

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(Insane rumors are the hot stove's finest fuel. Le Canard Medwick indeed.)

Glamour girl Jinx Falkenburg is Bing Crosby's guest on the Thanksgiving night edition of the Music Hall, 10pm over WEAF. Also joining Bing will be Raymond Massey, soon to be seen in the Boris Karloff role in the picture version of "Arsenic and Old Lace."

James Warwick's psychological thriller "Blind Alley" will be seen as the first new television drama of the fall season, Friday night at 8:40 over WNBT.

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(Never mind his head, worry about his liver.)

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(Plushbottom sure has a lot of relatives.)

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(Tom's a writer, so of course he has no experience whatsoever in matters like this.)

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(I bet Kay wouldn't end up handcuffed to a chair.)
 

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Stick around, Rev -- maybe Tommy can give you some pointers.

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So stop sending the bill collectors around.

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Even at $2.35 per hundred that doesn't leave much of a margin on a 3 cent paper. No wonder they're sore.

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Everybody's got an underground lair these days, but only the Mole can make a paying business out of it.

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"Ah -- Mr. Warbucks. Uh -- welcome back. " "You're great, Bill Slagg. Just great." "Yeah. I'm great. Thanks Mr. Warbucks. (sigh) Thanks."

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"Say Pat, when you were on the run that time with April and Captain Blaze and Raven -- what really happened?" "Well, April had cholera, and..." "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, PAT."

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"And...and we have a SON? And he's off somewhere fighting dinosaurs deep inside an old volcano? Well at least SOMETHING makes sense!"

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"Well, let's make it before I get drafted, which I expect any day now..."

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It's hard to live a life where everybody's wise to you.

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The night before the morning after.
 
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...A slip of paper found in the pants pocket of a wealthy Fulton Street candy manufacturer led his wife to a Prospect Heights apartment -- where she discovered her husband in the arms of "a blonde rival." Mrs. Gladys Bitrain of 712 Jefferson Avenue named that rival, Mrs. Anna Amondola of 1307 Pacific Street as co-respondent in her trial for divorce from her husband Leon Bitrain, and acknowledged today in trial testimony that upon discovering the scene, she slapped Mrs. Amondola's face and ripped the pajamas from her body. Mr. Bitrain and Mrs. Amondola denied all charges, with Mrs. Amondola stating that she was "a waitress" in Mr. Bitrain's establishment, and declaring that their meetings were purely of a business nature. The slip of paper found in Mr. Bitrain's pants was identified as a rent receipt, and the superintendent of the Pacific Avenue apartment house testified that Mr. Bitrain and Mrs. Amondola rented the apartment together last November -- and that "they acted like a couple of newlyweds" as they did so....

How many in-person business meeting do you know that have taken place in pajamas?


...A speedy acquittal in Morristown, New Jersey for Queens bookmaker Frank Erickson on charges that he knifed millionaire Milton F. Untermeyer at a party earlier this year revealed nothing concerning Erickson's relationship to a New York City police captain said to been present during a robbery at Erickson's apartment last April. Untermeyer intimated during his trial testimony that the captain was John F. Kenna of the 14th Division, Brooklyn, who committed suicide two days after the robbery, but he stressed that his description of the man came from Erickson, not from personal observation. The jury in the assault trial agreed with the defense that Untermeyer was injured in a fall while under the influence of "sleeping powders and liquor." Eighteen stitches were required to close his wounds....

Wow, did not expect an acquittal and, definitely, did not expect it this fast.


....A test case to determine whether pinball machines are gambling devices will be taken to the Appellate Division following the conviction of a man and woman in Queens yesterday of trafficking in illegal gambling equipment. The two, officials of the Triboro Vending Machine Company of Richmond, were accused of violating gambling laws governing the possession, transportation, and sale of pinball machines, and were released on $500 bail pending sentence. Assistant District Attorney Albert Short stated that, if the convictions are upheld, it will mean the end of the pinball trade in the State of New York by affirming that the mere possession of such a device is a violation of the law....

No comment from The Little Flower?


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(Point of Order: half a Southern Fried Chicken is not a Thanksgiving dinner, even though I'd much prefer it to turkey myself. So we must rule Price's out on a technicality and award the 1941 prize to H&H. And after dining, be like Joe and Sally and do yourself a favor and go see Hal LeRoy at the Flatbush -- we know him, of course, as the living embodiment of our boy Harold Teen in the 1934 movie based on the strip, but he is also the greatest eccentric dancer of his generation. Not to be missed, even if he doesn't do "Me and My Shadow...")...

It's been oddly quiet from the Chinese restaurants this year.

I'm surprised I've never seen (to the best of my memory) "Honky Tonk" ever pop up on TCM, it seems right in that channel's sweet spot.


...Glamour girl Jinx Falkenburg is Bing Crosby's guest on the Thanksgiving night edition of the Music Hall, 10pm over WEAF. Also joining Bing will be Raymond Massey, soon to be seen in the Boris Karloff role in the picture version of "Arsenic and Old Lace."...

Radio does not allow for a full reveal of Ms. Falkenburg's talents. Now, Massey, on the other hand, has a face for radio.
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... Daily_News_Wed__Nov_19__1941_.jpg Stick around, Rev -- maybe Tommy can give you some pointers.....

The cynic in me has a hard time getting past "marriage number five."


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Even at $2.35 per hundred that doesn't leave much of a margin on a 3 cent paper. No wonder they're sore.....

It looks like 65 cents per hundred or ~$12 in 2021 dollars. Clearly not a high margin business, but in NYC, the volume these guys move is crazy high. Plus they, in theory, make more money on the other things they sell, but it's the newspapers that bring the customer flow. To be clear, I'm not arguing one way or the other about the strike, just thinking out loud about their business model and noting what, over the years, some of the news dealers I've gotten to know have told me.


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Knowing his "clientele," he will not get away with taking all their money for long. It's a bad business model as one of them will kill him. Even in illegal activities, you need to have satisfied or, at least, not seething-with-anger customers.


... Daily_News_Wed__Nov_19__1941_(6).jpg "And...and we have a SON? And he's off somewhere fighting dinosaurs deep inside an old volcano? Well at least SOMETHING makes sense!"....

Think this through buddy, go for a conjugal spin and, then, consider your options. Remember, you have a rich uncle and pretty wife - then look in the mirror.


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Well said, Lizzie.
 

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British Empire troops, supported by Royal Air Force planes and ship concentrations off the coast of North Africa, battled their way into Libya along a broad front, in an effort to smash a German-Italian army holding ground from where last year British forces knocked Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's Italian Terribili out of the war. British General Headquarters for the Middle East said the first wave of the attack had carried Imperial troops fifty miles into Libya from the Cyrenacia coast east of Sollum on the Egyptian-Libyan frontier to the Giarabub oasis in the south. The International News Service reported that the bulk of the British forces were a fresh crack army of 750,000 men. Hundreds of American-made tanks received their first battle test in the attack, and early dispatches state that many German prisoners have been taken and much Axis equipment smashed.

President Roosevelt is expected to make an appeal direct to striking coal miners in an effort to go over the head of United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis in reaching a settlement of the work stoppage in pits owned by the major steel companies. The President, declaring that he is "through with letters," is expected to offer a guarantee of Government protection to workers who agree to return to their pits. Lewis's prompt rejection of the President's request for a mediated solution to the current dispute is said to have exhausted the President's patience so far as further appeals to Lewis are concerned. The strike is spreading to the nation's commercial soft-coal mines, where an increasing number of miners have left their work in sympathy with the captive-mine workers.

Japan is confronted by an "unprecedented crisis," and that nation "literally stands at the crossroads of a rise or fall," declared Premier Hideki Tojo before a committee of the Japanese parliament. Tojo declared that because of the crisis, Japan is keeping "a large amount of reserve funds on hand," as members of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry declared its full support for government efforts to mobilize the nation's "total economic strength" in order to meet the present national crisis.

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(In Flatbush, over on Midwood Street, Joe and Sally and Sally's ma are joined at the Thanksgiving table by an uneasy-looking young private from the Bronx, who has come from Fort Hamilton to join in a traditional Brooklyn holiday dinner. "A proivate, eh?" says Ma. "My hoosband was a proivate farrst class in the last war. Of course, he didn't come home." "Um," says the young man, "T'ese peas is pretty good." "Hey bud," says Joe, trying to break the tension. "Whatcha t'inka t' Woil' Series? Wan'nat awful?" "Awful f't Bums," laughs the private. "Annit takes t'Yanks, boy, t' show 'em up f' Bums! 'At Owen! I seen inna newsreel, wit' him scramblin' f'tat ball, an' I tell ya, I ain' laffed so much. An'nat Hoiman, gettin' hoit like he done, anney hadda put innat bum Coscarart..." "Uh, Ma," interrupts Sally. "C'n I have a new spoon?" "Whats wrong with yer old one?" Ma inquires. "Um, t'is one's -- ah -- bent.")

The schoolboy football season draws to its traditional climax as Samuel J. Tilden High School meets Thomas Jefferson High in the 12th edition of their annual feud at Boys High Field. And at Brooklyn College Field, Brooklyn Prep and St. John's Prep clash for the 27th time. Out at Dexter Park in Woodhaven, John Adams High faces Brooklyn Tech.

A sweet-toothed thief who substituted rolls of peppermint lozenges for rolls of coins at a bank where he worked as a teller received a suspended sentence and a year's probation after confessing his crime in Manhattan Federal Court. 35-year-old John Francis O'Connor of Brooklyn pleaded guilty to swapping the rolled candy, with a coin placed over each end, for $1080 worth of coins from the vault of the Dyckman Street branch of the Bank of the Manhattan Company. The substitution was not discovered until O'Connor went on vacation last week. The culprit told the court he stole the money to help take care of his semi-invalid mother.

Prohibition beer baron Irving "Waxey Gordon" Wexler was at liberty today after being cleared of vagrancy charges. Wexler, who had $350 in cash on his person at the time of his arrest Sunday night, and who told police that he was working as a salesman of cleaning fluid for a Canadian concern, was freed on the condition that he "stay out of the city." Magistrate Leonard McGee, in releasing the one-time underworld figure, declared that "people of a certain type are objectionable to the community."

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("If It's Got The Stuff, A Nickel's Enough.")

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(You're not supposed to bite the goldfish, you're supposed to swallow them whole. Obviously this actor is not a college man.)

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(Tiny white lights? Well isn't Martin's faaaaaaaaancy.)

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(Just a few years ago, that truck would've been a horse-drawn cart. And it won't be long before it is again.)

The skeleton of a young woman found this week on the 5000-acre estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr. at Pocantico Hills has been identified as that of a refugee from Hitler Germany. Mrs. Edith Kath had been missing since July from a convalescent home in Eastview where she was employed. Near her bones were found a soft-drink bottle half full of liquid and a handbag containing, among other things, two razor blades. It was reported at the convalescent home that Mrs. Kath, at the time of her disappearance had been increasingly despondent over the fate of her husband, who remained behind in the Reich.

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(Mr. Burge has been a highly touted prospect for several clubs since 1938 without ever actually managing to play a major league game for any of them. I don't think that Johnny Mize -- or Dolph Camilli, for that matter -- have too much to worry about.)

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(Just in time for Thanksgiving!!)

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("It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to see that YOU YOURSELF, sir, are Horace -- posing as your own brother! Off with that phony moustache! Come on, off with it! Hmm. Better pull harder! Hmmmm. Well, maybe not. Never mind then.")

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(Tom, you dumb rube, don't you know script-doctors make a bundle??)

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("I'll chain you to the bed so Excellency will not suspect." "Oh yes. Well, if you MUST chain me to the bed...")
 

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"Office Wife," as in the soap opera "John's Other Wife," was an obnoxious slang term of the time referring to a secretary. And as for young Gloria Vanderbilt, I really want to know what she's got rolled up in her pompadour.

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The broadcast doesn't seem to survive, but here's a few short home-movie clips showing the balloons...


Although there have been licensed-character balloons in past parades, notably, last year, Superman, generic figures seem to predominate this year. Can't believe Disney didn't spring for a Dumbo balloon.

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Happy Thanksgiving.

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The prewar "Crisis of Masculinity" was real.

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Snipe is the most realistic woman in comics.

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THOUGHT YOU'D GET A CHARGE OUT OF THAT HA HA HA HA

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It's not like anybody's gonna miss the real Andy.

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Unlike other comedy-relief sidekicks, Connie is actually highly competent. And a relentless disciplinarian besides.

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I am astonished by how limber Emmy is. I'm about her age, and the day when I could bend over like that is long, long gone.

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"So -- pick up where we left off?" "Um, where *did* we leave off?"
 
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(In Flatbush, over on Midwood Street, Joe and Sally and Sally's ma are joined at the Thanksgiving table by an uneasy-looking young private from the Bronx, who has come from Fort Hamilton to join in a traditional Brooklyn holiday dinner. "A proivate, eh?" says Ma. "My hoosband was a proivate farrst class in the last war. Of course, he didn't come home." "Um," says the young man, "T'ese peas is pretty good." "Hey bud," says Joe, trying to break the tension. "Whatcha t'inka t' Woil' Series? Wan'nat awful?" "Awful f't Bums," laughs the private. "Annit takes t'Yanks, boy, t' show 'em up f' Bums! 'At Owen! I seen inna newsreel, wit' him scramblin' f'tat ball, an' I tell ya, I ain' laffed so much. An'nat Hoiman, gettin' hoit like he done, anney hadda put innat bum Coscarart..." "Uh, Ma," interrupts Sally. "C'n I have a new spoon?" "Whats wrong with yer old one?" Ma inquires. "Um, t'is one's -- ah -- bent.")...

No good deed goes unpunished.


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(You're not supposed to bite the goldfish, you're supposed to swallow them whole. Obviously this actor is not a college man.)...

"In or out of a sweater Miss Turner is an excited recipient of Mr. Gable's kisses..." I bet that statement is true.


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(Tom, you dumb rube, don't you know script-doctors make a bundle??)...

Writers hate everything about working in Hollywood except for the money.

"Tom, am I leaning over far enough in panel 3, have you gotten a good look?"


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("I'll chain you to the bed so Excellency will not suspect." "Oh yes. Well, if you MUST chain me to the bed...")

Yup, if ever a moment called for a James-Bond-style quickie with the seductive adversary....


...

Although there have been licensed-character balloons in past parades, notably, last year, Superman, generic figures seem to predominate this year. Can't believe Disney didn't spring for a Dumbo balloon....

The Thanksgiving Day Parade is one of the few touristy things that many New Yorkers often go to.


... Daily_News_Thu__Nov_20__1941_(5).jpg THOUGHT YOU'D GET A CHARGE OUT OF THAT HA HA HA HA...

I'm impressed that he only tried to take back his $2000. Tomorrow night, kill the Mole in his sleep, turn the juice off and take all the money.


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Agreed, this Andy seems smarter and more interesting.


...[ Daily_News_Thu__Nov_20__1941_(7).jpg Unlike other comedy-relief sidekicks, Connie is actually highly competent. And a relentless disciplinarian besides....

I have no doubt Caniff is setting up the next cool storyline, but for now, some energy has gone out of "Terry and the Pirates" since Raven passed.


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"So -- pick up where we left off?" "Um, where *did* we leave off?"

Harold: "It's been a long time since I've strolled up your walk, Lillums."
Lillums: "It ain't happening tonight, buddy."


@Harp - just checking in, your posts have been missed. Hope all is well.
 
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Non-union coal miners raked a line of United Mine Workers pickets with gunfire this morning at a mine in western Pennsylvania, leaving eleven of the strikers wounded. The ambush at the Edenborn mine of the H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Company at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, was denounced by W. R. Hynes, spokesman for UMW District 4 as "not a battle, but a vicious attack on peaceful pickets by hidden gunmen." The spokesman charged that the shooters were in fact "professional gunmen," and warned that if the ambush is a sign of where the situation is going, "no one knows where this will stop, because we are going to defend ourselves. Company officials declined to comment on the incident or on the charge that "professional gunmen" were responsible. Hynes added that those responsible for the attack "are a bunch of damn fools. Things can happen here -- these hills are soaked with the blood of our people."

The Pennsylvania incident occured as some 214,000 commercial coal miners in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Ohio are reported to have joined in sympathy strikes in support of the UMW's strike against steel-industry-owned captive coal mines. President Roosevelt today is reported to be waiting for the results of a meeting between UMW president John L. Lewis and the union's Policy Committee in Washington tomorrow, before he announces any further federal action to deal with the strike. The President has requested that both sides in the dispute agree either to freeze discussion of UMW demands for a union shop for the duration of the present emergency, or to submit the matter to binding arbitration, and the Policy Committee meeting tomorrow is expected to take up that question.

A big battle of tanks was reported today south of Tobruk as the British mechanized offensive continues in an effort to trap and destroy Axis forces in North Africa. Authoritative quarters report that British armored columns comprising the main force have passed Tobruk itself and are already "many miles" west of the town, causing enemy forces to be trapped. In Berlin, authorized military quarters acknowledged for the first time that the British offensive in North Africa constitutes "an extremely strong attack" that "cannot be discounted as a purely propaganda affair."

The former rector of an Episcopal church on Staten Island is suing his congregation for $75,233.33 in damages, charging that officers and leading members of the church had him kidnapped and taken to Bellevue Hospital, and subsequently had him committed to Rockland County State Hospital. The Reverend Guy L. Wallis, a minister for more than fifty years, and former rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church in Tompkinsville, S.I., accused the church leaders, led by church warden Ranse Rogers and "leading congregation member" Pietor Vosburgh, of conspiring to get rid of him as rector "due to differences of opinion" by charging him with being "a dangerous lunatic." Rev. Wallis claims that Vosburgh took him "for a ride" in the spring of 1940, a ride which ended up at Bellevue, and that church leaders then arranged matters to commit him to Rockland from May 17, 1940 to March of this year. The defendants denied a conspiracy against the pastor, but claimed that Rev. Wallis had been assaulted by a criminal in December 1938 and had since that time had "denied the vestry its constitutional rights" and had "behaved harshly toward parishoners," causing church attendance to decline. The defendants also denied causing Rev. Wallis to be committed to the hospital, declaring that the decision to do so was soley made by doctors at Bellevue.

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(FACE EATING DOG! FACE EATING DOG! FACE EATING DOG!)

The Crime Duchess of California died today in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison, becoming the first woman ever to be executed in that state. Ethel Lela Juanita Spinelli, a 52-year-old gang-leading murderess died with photographs of her children and grandchildren clutched to her heart. Mrs. Spinelli went calmly to her fate, in contrast to her cursing rampage yesterday in which she expressed the hope that her blood would "burn holes" in those who prosecuted her. Mrs. Spinelli was convicted of ordering the murder of Robert Sherrard a slow-witted 19-year-old member of her gang of petty thugs, whom she feared would inform police of killing committed by that gang during a holdup in San Francisco.

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(Wallace Carroll, a foreign editor for the United Press thru the 20s and 30s, is even now working on a book about his experiences, "We're In This With Russia," in which he will state the case for the Grand Alliance.)

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Vichy France are near the point of collapse today over the question of collaboration between the Petain Government and the German conqueror. Despite many false alarms that Vichy may turn what remains of the French Army and Navy over to Germany, it is believed that the "crucial moment" is now at hand.

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""C'n you b'lieve t'at guy?" growls Joe, as he tucks into a plate of leftovers. "A Yankee fan. Inna Army! How d't'ey ev'n let a guy like t'at in? I mean, who's side's he on? I ASK YA!" "Petey's ain' no bum," Sally seethes. "He done t'bes' he could, comin' in like t'at. If you'da sat onna bench all yeeah, you woudn'a hit neit'a." "A Yankee fan," marvels Joe. "I guess it takes all kines...")

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("Holly Scented?" Or is that just to mask the aroma of gin exhaled by Santa?)

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(Little late, aren't we? Fair season ended a month ago.)

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(Manhattan College playing its home games in Brooklyn? Well, I mean, Manhattan College is actually in the Bronx, so I guess anything's possible.)

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("Wow, that's a *BAWK BAWK BAWK BAWWWWWWK* relief.")

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(NOTHING SUSPICIOUS GOING ON HERE)

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(Gabe's sport coat from the Press Agent Collection at Davega.)

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(And somewhere Kay is saying "Dan? Dan who?")
 
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...The former rector of an Episcopal church on Staten Island is suing his congregation for $75,233.33 in damages, charging that officers and leading members of the church had him kidnapped and taken to Bellevue Hospital, and subsequently had him committed to Rockland County State Hospital. The Reverend Guy L. Wallis, a minister for more than fifty years, and former rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church in Tompkinsville, S.I., accused the church leaders, led by church warden Ranse Rogers and "leading congregation member" Pietor Vosburgh, of conspiring to get rid of him as rector "due to differences of opinion" by charging him with being "a dangerous lunatic." Rev. Wallis claims that Vosburgh took him "for a ride" in the spring of 1940, a ride which ended up at Bellevue, and that church leaders then arranged matters to commit him to Rockland from May 17, 1940 to March of this year. The defendants denied a conspiracy against the pastor, but claimed that Rev. Wallis had been assaulted by a criminal in December 1938 and had since that time had "denied the vestry its constitutional rights" and had "behaved harshly toward parishoners," causing church attendance to decline. The defendants also denied causing Rev. Wallis to be committed to the hospital, declaring that the decision to do so was soley made by doctors at Bellevue....

This isn't our typical 1940s story and, clearly, there's more to come with this one.


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(FACE EATING DOG! FACE EATING DOG! FACE EATING DOG!)...

Tuffie sounds like a sweetheart. The proper chant for this one is "Pistol-Waiving Idiot Doctor!" (whose sentence should not have been suspended).

Lizzie, don't forget to write down your "FACE EATING DOG!" outburst in your journal for your counselor.


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I see someone had her Wheaties for breakfast today.

It's funny to see, effectively, a "Black Friday" add before it was called "Black Friday" (which is a horrible name).


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(And somewhere Kay is saying "Dan? Dan who?")

Kay, Connie, Lillums, Snipe, Sue, Nina, Burma, April, Cheery; love is hard.
 

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