- Messages
- 17,196
- Location
- New York City
...
A 45-year-old equipment salesman began a 30-day jail sentence today after being found guilty of "making disparaging remarks about the American and British war effort." Moses Elisberg was found guilty of disorderly conduct after he was overheard saying to a group of people which included a plainclothes policeman, "who is this President Roosevelt? He's only a man elected by the people. He's not a god. We're losing the war! Who are these generals? They are only there because they knew the right somebodies!" Said Magistrate Robert Levis in pronouncing sentence, "I'm going to stamp out lying statements which are dangerous to the war effort."
...
If those represent the extent of Ellsberg's statements, Magistrate Levis might want to take another look at the Constitution.
...
(My grandmother did this to the end of her life.)
...
One assumes Field Marshall Annie is enforcing these procedures with her troops.
...
("Hah," hahs Sally. "An' if ya don't like t'way t'pain' job come out, y'c'n go to t' Patio -- an' rinse it all off inna pool!" "Watch out f'tem gol'fish, t'ough," warns Joe. "T'ey bite!")
...
Too much buildup in that story anyway.
Fitz: "Honey, did you know that the actor Sydney Greenstreet weights 300-plus pounds."
Mrs. Fitz: "Why no dear, that's interesting."
Fitz: "Boy, he's a big man."
Mrs. Fitz: "Yes he is dear."
Fitz: "Hmm."
Mrs. Fitz: [to herself] "Sigh."
...
A 30-year-old Stuyvesant Heights woman received a suspended sentence on a charge that she had insulted a patrolman who had told her and a group of friends to "move along" as they congregated on the corner of Reid and Gates Avenues. Patrolman John D. Foy brought Mrs. Richards Bey before Magistrate Charles Solomon on a disorderly conduct charge, but Magistrate Solomon suspended sentence after Mrs. Bey explained she had merely bowed to the patrolman and salaamed him in the Moslem fashion, saying, in a combination of "Moorish and Yiddish," "Peace be with you."
...
New York City has always been a beautiful mosaic of multiculturalism.
...
(Well, now, I wasn't expecting the Bungles to be replaced by a strip about talking dogs. How Jo would rage!)
But George would not be the least surprised or incredulous.
And in the Daily News...
There's a lot about probate law that I don't understand, but more power to Miss Beaton.
...
Probate law is an enigma even within the legal profession. Probate court feels very much like a game of judge's discretion.
...
Hundreds of miles away, Minerva Gump settles back against her pillow, closes her book, snaps off the light, and sighs her way to a restful, pleasant sleep.
...
And then she snapped awake, for no apparent reason, at the exact moment Andy bellowed out "Oh Min!" revealing some sort of otherworldly sinew that somehow binds these two together.