LizzieMaine
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Too soon?
Too soon?
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("All gravy and no brisket!")
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A fourteen year old boy from Peoria, Illinois who convinced recruiters he was four years older to join the Marines has been reported killed in action. Private Norman Gibbs is reported by the Navy Department to have died on December 28th, just a year and thirteen days after he joined. His mother, Mrs. Rachel E. Gibbs, acknowledged that she lied about his age on his enlistment papers because after Pearl Harbor, "he wanted to go. I was proud of him then. I still am."
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(Maybe you can get Jack Benny to play third base, and Fred Allen to play first. I mean, they're already pals with Leo...)
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"Never mind that kid, it's below zero outside and you show up riding a bike with no gloves, no earmuffs, and a light jacket?"
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So that's who Dan Dunn reports to now!
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Most grabber what with a Chicago mobster moll slain and a lad killed for remarking a lady's dishpan hands.
Terrence is beginning to stir but drags and drags. Harold is more in than Flynn and hasn't a clue.
Seems Britain is entirely incompetent, on-strike, unemployed. I need a good film, maybe Everything All at Once.
Help me Fast, any suggestions what I should see.
("Mary Smith?" snorts Joe. "Ya need t'cawl Mary Woit'!" "If I hadda name like 'Iaquinandi,'" declares Sally, "I'da soit'n'ly been glad t'change it!" "Petrauskas is a pretty good name," declares Joe. "Yes," affirms Sally, as she glops oatmeal into Joe's bowl. "It is.")
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey today pledged that the state intends to do everything possible to ease the farm labor shortage and that an "extensive program" should be in place in time for spring planting. The Governor has appointed an informal committee under Lieutenant Governor Thomas W. Wallace and state Agricultural Commissioner Holton V. Noyes to study the problem and make recommendations. Possible solutions to the farm labor crisis in the state may include recruiting boys and girls from the cities to work on farms during their summer vacations from school, and changing school schedules to allow boys and girls to be released from classes in the spring and fall for farm work. Efforts may also be made to recruit permanent laborers, both men and women, for year round farm work, especially on dairy farms. A new program teaching agricultural practices may also be instituted in the form of dedicated agricultural schools in the cities.
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(OK, Butch -- over to you.)
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Hey Mike, what about that time you just had to stand behind that tree for a minutes?
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We saw Artie and Lana's marriage flare up and burn out in all its glory on Page Four a couple of years ago -- they both had some not-nice things to say about each other, which made for lively reading.
As for the cold, we had a pipe blow out over night in our hot-water building heating system at the theatre and are in all-out disaster mode. Water leaking down thru the ceiling over the stage, due to a frozen pipe rupturing in the main air handler. We have a bucket brigade trying to bail out out before it damages any of the stage gear, while I'm trying to get someone in here to deal with the pipe -- unfortunately all HVAC companies are on emergency duty this weekend due to such problems, and our regular heating guy, who's simply a burner-service man, was little help. I wish Sally's Uncle Frank was here.
("Don'worry," pronounces Sally. "It might just be a presentm'nt now, but he'll get indicted soon enough!" "I awrways t'ought'tat guy was a crook," adds Joe. "I neveh voted fowr'im." "Ya neveh lived inniz distric'," replies Sally. "Ya Ma does t'ough," notes Joe. "I wonneh if she eveh voted f'rim." "If she did," replies Sally, "she had a good reason." "What?" interjects Joe. "Nut'n." "Hey," adds Joe, after thinking a bit. "Did'n his name come up innat pinball racket t'ing a coupla yeeahs ago?" "Izzat so?" replies Sally. "Hey, you t'ink Camilli's gonna sign?")
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The Republican leader in Brooklyn's 18th Assembly District today denounced the War Manpower Commission's "Work or Fight" order as "a New Deal scheme" to give the workers of New York City a "raw deal." Abraham H. Goodman of the Kings County Republican Committee asserted that the order requiring all men in Selective Service class 3-A, regardless of the number of dependents they may claim, who are not presently employed in a war-essential job to move to such a job by April 1st or face induction into the Armed Forces, is "a grave injustice, because there is no war work for the large number of men affected." Goodman argued that since New York City has received "such a small number of jobs" under present war contracts that "the thousands who clamor at the offices of the United States Employment Service" will find that "there are not nearly enough jobs to take care of even a substantial proportion of these men." Goodman recommended that as an alternative to the "work or fight" order, that war jobs could be listed with local draft boards, and then offered to men in class 3-A, with refusal to accept such jobs made grounds for immediate conscription. He further suggested that, unless such a plan is adopted, Congress should take a hand in the matter.
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("What infield?" Yeah, Leo, if you do report to camp, bring your glove. Oh, and Robinson actually lost a fight? You really can't count on anything anymore.)
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("Hmph," snorts Kay Fields, Secret Operative 49. "'You'll travel as my fiancee,' huh? Doe-eyed simpering little child, falling for that old gag.'" "What's up," says Harrington, sidling smoothly up to Kay's desk, and slipping a hand around her shoulder. "Nothing," smiles Kay. "Nothing at all." "Wuf," adds Wolf, as Harrington slips him a cookie.)
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And in the Daily News...
Flynn must really be scared if he shaved off his moustache.
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Burma would've hogtied this guy long ago.
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