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The Era -- Day By Day

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Convicted bail-bond racketeer Abraham Frosch and his parents Israel and Lena Frosch are the key "fixers" in Brooklyn's murder-for-hire racket. So states District Attorney William O'Dwyer in revealing new facts to emerge from his investigation into the Brownsville-based ring of professional gangland assassins. The three Frosches are now in custody on charges of obstruction of justice, and are being held on $5000 bail apiece.

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Abraham and Lena Frosch were central figures in the Amen Office's investigation of the Brooklyn bail-bond racket, and Abraham Frosch provided key testimony in connection with that probe. Abraham Frosch was questioned yet again by Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen for more than four hours today, and in a statement, Mr. Amen questioned O'Dwyer's claim that Frosch offered a $5000 bribe to Harry Rudolph, an eyewitness to the 1933 murder of hoodlum Alex "Red" Alpert, in exchange for his silence. Mr. O'Dwyer, meanwhile, issued a statement of his own in which he contends that the Frosches have "intimidated witnesses and have been responsible for the spiriting of witnesses out of the jurisdiction of Brooklyn courts." O'Dwyer added, in a clear thrust at Amen, "Mrs. Frosch has written more bonds since she became a defendent in the Amen inquiry than she did before."

France has a new Prime Minister today, with the resignation from that post of Edouard Daladier. French President Alfred Lebrun has appointed Finance Minister Paul Reynaud to the office, directing him to form a "War Cabinet" to govern France moving forward. The new Prime Minister is known as a bitter foe of Nazism, and is expected to issue his formal acceptance of the appointment tomorrow. M. Daladier announced his retirement yesterday following a minority vote of confidence in the French Chamber of Deputies. Critics of Daladier's administration have called for a more vigorous prosecution of the war against Germany, and are expected to call for unity between left and right-wing factions in French politics to accomplish that goal.

Five persons were injured today when a plumber's blowtorch ignited an explosion in a Greenpoint old-law tenement. The building at 142 Guernsey Street was severely damaged when the torch ignited gas lines in a second-floor kitchen. The five injured persons included the plumber himself, 49-year-old Edward Jones of 285 E. 35th Street, who was burned about the face and hands, and a tilesetter, 24-year-old Frank Bravato of 248 Wyona Street, who suffered a broken foot. Two residents of the building were treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation, as was a fireman who responded to the explosion. All were treated at Greenpoint Hospital and released.

A 47-year-old Bronx woman is the leader of a card-sharking ring operating out of Brooklyn's St. George Hotel. Mrs. Jennie Rubin, also known as Jean Ruebens of 1001 Jerome Avenue, is being held on $10,000 bail after police raided a private room at the hotel in which a rigged poker game was taking place. Mrs. Rubin, and three male confederates were accused of swindling a "prominent Manhattan businessman" whose name has not been revealed out of $5000 in a crooked game of stud poker for which Mrs. Rubin acted as banker. Police charge that for the past ten years she has conducted similar operations in locations extending from the Catskills to Miami, Florida.

Dodger manager Leo Durocher will fly to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from the team's spring training headquarters at Clearwater, Florida for treatment of his injured right arm. Coach Charley Dressen will run the ballclub in Durocher's absence. Meanwhile, further reports from Clearwater state that first baseman Dolph Camilli and team president Larry MacPhail have agreed to terms on Camilli's 1940 contract, but the player still has not formally signed the papers. Camilli has been working out in uniform with the team, but did not play yesterday against the Cardinals, nor is he expected to play in today's Grapefruit League contest against the Yankees.

A thirty-five year old man pulled a Steve Brodie early this morning, leaping off the Brooklyn Bridge shortly after 6 am, but doctors expect he will live to tell about it. George Reid plunged 135 feet into the East River this morning, but was rescued by the crew of the Pennsylvania Railroad tugboat Altoona after the master of the vessel, Captain A. G. Hynes, saw him bobbing in the water. He was brought ashore at the foot of Adams Street and taken to Cumberland Hospital, where he was found to be suffering from a back fracture and other internal injuries. He recovered consciousness long enough to tell doctors he had recently been a patient at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC, but he did not explain the reasons for his attempted suicide.

The Flatbush woman who filed a court action to keep Bertrand Russell off the faculty of City College of New York says she did so for her daughter's sake. Mrs. Jean Kay says she actually admires Dr. Russell as a philosophical and mathematical genius, but she can't accept his teachings concerning premarital sexual activity among students. Mrs. Kay declared her support for sex education in the schools -- "Sex should be discussed in schools," she insisted, with her "brown eyes flashing," but she draws the line at encouraging students to indulge in it. She admits, though, that she wouldn't object to her daughter Gloria, a student at Erasmus Hall High School, reading and studying Russell's writings. "We're not holding back on our daughter," she acknowledges. "She does as she likes."

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(And in Berlin and in Moscow, unlikely Red Hook property owners A. Hitler and J. Stalin share a simultaenous thought. "Y'know, maybe we should refinance.")

Most of the 6000 workers who will run the 1940 edition of the World's Fair will be carried over from 1939. Fair officals say, however, that there will be about a thousand fewer Fair employees on the payroll than during the first season.

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("And we'd have won those other four games if we didn't cough so much.")

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("Yeah," says Joe. "Spencer Tracy. What's Easta without a ham?" Sally says nothing but slings a wet washcloth in her husband's direction.)

Easter ham is six cents a pound cheaper this year, so why not make it a big one. Cook yours this new way -- don't score the surface in the usual diagonal pattern. Make circular swirls instead with a sandwich cutter and outline the swirls with slivers of Maraschino cherries. Garnish with pineapple slices for extra zing!

The Eagle Editorialist praises the designation of the forsythia as Brooklyn's Official Flower, and urges residents to get behind the plan of Borough President John Cashmore and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses to plant forsythia in large quantities all over the borough, creating an attraction that will prove as much a Brooklyn symbol as the Bridge, and that will attract tourists just as the cherry trees do in Washington.

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(Kids Today.)

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The Rangers got off to an impressive lead in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, blanking the Bruins 4-0, but the Americans were not so lucky, falling 1 to 0 to the Red Wings.

The Dodgers beat the Cardinals 5 to 4 yesterday in Grapefruit League action at St. Petersburg, with pitcher Whit Wyatt and third baseman Cookie Lavagetto pacing the victory. Wyatt -- who figures to win twenty games in 1940 if he keeps this up -- throwing four perfect innings yesterday and striking out five. And Lavagetto, batting third for the first time this spring, may well have a lock on that spot in the batting order if he maintains his current power. Cookie broke up the game in the ninth inning with a grand-slam homer that flew all the way out of Waterfront Park, and gave Durocher convincing evidence that he will be a major factor in the Brooklyn power attack in 1940. Cookie hit second for most of last year, but if he moves to the power spot in the order, it's expected that Pete Coscarart, who has all the tools for a Number Two man, will be elevated to his former position.

Fred Allen's Person You Didn't Expect To Meet comes with a special guest tonight, as the comedian welcomes eagle expert Captain Charles Knight and his personal bird Mister Ramshaw, a full-sized Golden Eagle. Mister Ramshaw will demonstrate his prowess with an impressive flight around NBC's Studio 8-H before returning to his master's arm. What could go wrong? Tune in on WEAF at 9 pm, or listen in right here:


Really, what could go wrong?

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Please, please, please let Tootsie be a dancing bear. A dancing bear with a bad attitude.

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"Howie Reeks." I bet he does.

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Alert? How can you tell with those stupid hoods on?
 

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Rev. Dworecki went about it all wrong. Television's coming in, he could've gotten in on the ground floor.

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But Lord Plushbottom pretended not to hear the hurtful slur, huffed up his dignity, and strode proudly on.

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Keeping the gun right out in the open like that? How carefully does Axel screen his staff?

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"Want me to show you?"

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Uh, Gus? I don't think that's actually how tattoos work...

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Little does Skeezix realize that the junky old radio is actually a spy transmitter, used by Herr Moochby to communicate with his U-boat contact just offshore. And the typewriter is actually an Enigma machine.

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Hahahahahahaha at Willie sipping his demi-tasse in panel one. He might be a bum, but he's a *gentleman* bum.

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And to get one of those "little bitty" license numbers you have to be a serious bigshot. Thanks indeed, Bob.

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You better hurry home, kid. It's late, and Senga's waiting up to fleece you.
 
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Convicted bail-bond racketeer Abraham Frosch and his parents Israel and Lena Frosch are the key "fixers" in Brooklyn's murder-for-hire racket. So states District Attorney William O'Dwyer in revealing new facts to emerge from his investigation into the Brownsville-based ring of professional gangland assassins. The three Frosches are now in custody on charges of obstruction of justice, and are being held on $5000 bail apiece.

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Abraham and Lena Frosch were central figures in the Amen Office's investigation of the Brooklyn bail-bond racket, and Abraham Frosch provided key testimony in connection with that probe. Abraham Frosch was questioned yet again by Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen for more than four hours today, and in a statement, Mr. Amen questioned O'Dwyer's claim that Frosch offered a $5000 bribe to Harry Rudolph, an eyewitness to the 1933 murder of hoodlum Alex "Red" Alpert, in exchange for his silence. Mr. O'Dwyer, meanwhile, issued a statement of his own in which he contends that the Frosches have "intimidated witnesses and have been responsible for the spiriting of witnesses out of the jurisdiction of Brooklyn courts." O'Dwyer added, in a clear thrust at Amen, "Mrs. Frosch has written more bonds since she became a defendent in the Amen inquiry than she did before."...

Holy Cow, the Froschs seem like quite the little crime family (and maybe not that little).


...A 47-year-old Bronx woman is the leader of a card-sharking ring operating out of Brooklyn's St. George Hotel. Mrs. Jennie Rubin, also known as Jean Ruebens of 1001 Jerome Avenue, is being held on $10,000 bail after police raided a private room at the hotel in which a rigged poker game was taking place. Mrs. Rubin, and three male confederates were accused of swindling a "prominent Manhattan businessman" whose name has not been revealed out of $5000 in a crooked game of stud poker for which Mrs. Rubin acted as banker. Police charge that for the past ten years she has conducted similar operations in locations extending from the Catskills to Miami, Florida....

Gambling is like drinking; democracies can decide if they want to legalize it or make it illegal and have numerous and extensive illegal versions of it - there really isn't a third option in a country with basic human rights and the need to maintain the will of the people.


...The Flatbush woman who filed a court action to keep Bertrand Russell off the faculty of City College of New York says she did so for her daughter's sake. Mrs. Jean Kay says she actually admires Dr. Russell as a philosophical and mathematical genius, but she can't accept his teachings concerning premarital sexual activity among students. Mrs. Kay declared her support for sex education in the schools -- "Sex should be discussed in schools," she insisted, with her "brown eyes flashing," but she draws the line at encouraging students to indulge in it. She admits, though, that she wouldn't object to her daughter Gloria, a student at Erasmus Hall High School, reading and studying Russell's writings. "We're not holding back on our daughter," she acknowledges. "She does as she likes."...

If she were alive today, would her world be rocked. My grandmother died in the mid '70s and I often think about how this world today would look to her - it would take some adjusting.


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(And in Berlin and in Moscow, unlikely Red Hook property owners A. Hitler and J. Stalin share a simultaenous thought. "Y'know, maybe we should refinance.")...

It would be interesting to know more about the "modern amortizing mortgage plan" as "old-fashioned fixed mortgages" also amortize (at least the ones I've read about historically and have worked with over the past few decades). There are non-amortizing mortgage todays, but I've never seen a traditional "fixed mortgage" that doesn't amortize. And yes, I bet Hitler and Stalin have their money guys calling the Dime right now. If I was advising Hitler, I'd have him put Speer on it - he was one of those few guys in Hitler's leadership team who had a real brain.


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("Yeah," says Joe. "Spencer Tracy. What's Easta without a ham?" Sally says nothing but slings a wet washcloth in her husband's direction.)...

"I Take This Woman" runs on TCM from time to time and deserves to be better known. Not groundbreaking but a solid movie and an interesting pairing as Lamar's beauty and stature seem out of Tracy's good-guy-nice-looking league (really smart casting as it echoes the storyline).
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... The_Brooklyn_Daily_Eagle_Wed__Mar_20__1940_(7).jpg "Howie Reeks." I bet he does....

Not your usual 1940s gangster names.

I know we've talked about it before, but how brazen of the mob to put slot machines in businesses right out in the open. (See comment on gambling above.)


... Daily_News_Wed__Mar_20__1940_(3).jpg "Want me to show you?"....

Ahem, I'm just saying, "Dale Allen" is walking as close to the lesbian line as he can in 1940. Also, nice to see some early feminism - re Pat, Blaze and dishes (although, it would be news to Pat to learn that he has a wife - no?).


... Daily_News_Wed__Mar_20__1940_(4).jpg Uh, Gus? I don't think that's actually how tattoos work.....

I'm suspicious of Mazie's kindness here.


... Daily_News_Wed__Mar_20__1940_(5).jpg Little does Skeezix realize that the junky old radio is actually a spy transmitter, used by Herr Moochby to communicate with his U-boat contact just offshore. And the typewriter is actually an Enigma machine.....

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... View attachment 221390 And to get one of those "little bitty" license numbers you have to be a serious bigshot. Thanks indeed, Bob.....

Second time today (also in Little Orphan Annie) that we've seen "dotted lines" used to indicate where someone is looking - a bit much, but a quirky of-the-period comic-strip tick I guess.
 
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Keep an eye out for a popular variation of the dotted-eye line -- when someone is glaring with disapproval at another character, such as Jo at Oakdale, you might occasionally see a little row of tiny little daggers manifest between gazer and gazee. "Looking daggers," as the saying goes.

There was a popular panel cartoon that isn't carried by the Eagle or the News, alas -- its New York outlet was the Journal-American -- called "They'll Do It Every Time." This feature dealt with irritating things that people do "every time," and very often the character to whom the act was done would feature a deadly gaze labeled with an arrow or a flying paper tag: THE URGE TO KILL. The funnies were so direct.

I like that Raven tucks her sports jersey into her pants like that. Not a look too many people can pull off.
 
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Keep an eye out for a popular variation of the dotted-eye line -- when someone is glaring with disapproval at another character, such as Jo at Oakdale, you might occasionally see a little row of tiny little daggers manifest between gazer and gazee. "Looking daggers," as the saying goes.

There was a popular panel cartoon that isn't carried by the Eagle or the News, alas -- its New York outlet was the Journal-American -- called "They'll Do It Every Time." This feature dealt with irritating things that people do "every time," and very often the character to whom the act was done would feature a deadly gaze labeled with an arrow or a flying paper tag: THE URGE TO KILL. The funnies were so direct.

I like that Raven tucks her sports jersey into her pants like that. Not a look too many people can pull off.

Agreed, her lack of hips and good posture make that look work well for her - very Tea' Leoni.
 

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Brooklyn's "Murder For Hire" ring is reportedly raising a fund to bail out jailed colleagues who could "tell all" to District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Three members of the Frosch family, fingered as the bail-bond "fixers" of the racket by O'Dwyer's investigation, were bailed out of jail today after the US Fidelity and Guaranty Bond Company of Manhattan put up a total of $15,000 on their behalf, and a fourth bail bondsman with reputed ties to the murder ring, Alexander Strauss, has "mysteriously disappeared." The District Attorney believes the organized effort to keep the bail bond operators from "squealing" is being administered from outside of New York City, and possibly also from outside New York State. Police have broadcast an eight-state alarm for Strauss, who has vanished from his home at 1965 69th Street. Detectives investigated all of Strauss's known haunts, but came up empty. In addition to his bail bond racket, O'Dwyer says that Strauss also holds a "Shylock book" worth $15,000 in outstanding loans, and has been heavily involved in the Brooklyn bookmaking racket.

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Meanwhile, reports of a serious rift between O'Dwyer and special prosecutor John H. Amen over jurisdictionary matters led to a joint press conference with the two officials in Amen's office this morning, where both men issued a formal statement to reporters declaring that they are both operating on a basis of "friendly co-operation." Mr. Amen and Mr. O'Dwyer sniped back and forth this week over the activities of the Frosch family, which has been under investigation by the Amen office since 1938.

A three year old girl was crushed to death today by a malfunctioning self-service elevator in a six-story apartment building in Midwood. Young Rene Alprin was killed when the elevator at 2020 Kings Highway suddenly jerked upward, pinning the child between the edge of the car and the top of the doorway. Her mother, 40-year-old Molly Alprin tried to pull the child out of danger as soon as she realized what was happening, but was pulled off her feet and hung in mid air by her arm until rescuers could release the car. A neighbor, Mrs. Edith Fuchs, tried to rescue the Alprins, but fell into the elevator shaft and plunged twenty feet to the basement. Both Mrs. Alprin and Mrs. Fuchs are in serious condition at Coney Island Hospital. Doctors say Mrs. Alprin's arm was nearly torn from its socket. Building management cannot explain why the elevator car suddenly started.

When you pick up your copy of the Eagle next Monday, you'll see a bold new logo and layout, with the paper adopting an entirely new typographical dress designed by Gilbert P. Farrar, noted typographical authority and designer of "The Newspaper of Tomorrrow." The layout is clean and breezy, with the entire paper to be reorganized for easier, faster reading.

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Praising the new design is Borough President John Cashmore, who says "Brooklyn is fast becoming an ultra-modern borough, and it deserves an ultra-modern newspaper." Parks Commissioner Robert Moses agrees, stating "there is no point sticking to old forms merely for the sake of tradition."

The search is on at Columbia University for women's shoes in sizes 13 and 14, to be worn by the prettied-up male "chorus girls" who will be featured in the college's spring musical "Life Begins at 40." Wardrobe staff for the show have been combing the city for large-sized ladies' footwear, but have been unable to find dancing pumps that will fit 6-foot-5 lead chorine Thomas R. Durnan of Brooklyn, who was unable to particpate in the dress rehearsal for the show because he had no shoes. A group of professional models and dancers have been schooling the "young ladies" of the chorus line on feminine deportment and dance steps. The show will go on, assuming the proper footwear can be found, at the Astor Hotel on April 4th and 5th.

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("What if you ain't got kids?" mopes Joe. "We can pretend," declares Sally. "You think they're gonna check?")

"Just Another Mother" writes in to Helen Worth to comfort the lady who was obsessed with the idea her baby got switched at the hospital. "Just Another" says she used to struggle with the idea that her children didn't look like her nor like her husband -- but all those kids were born *at home,* not in the hospital, so they couldn't have been switched, could they. Sometimes babies don't look like their parents. It happens.

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(Mr. Chester has a swell band that uses that same clarinet-lead gimmick that Glenn Miller does, but has much more of a real swing sensibility. Starchy old Mr. Miller would never do a number called "Shoot The Sherbet To Me Herbert." And Shiela Barrett used to be on the radio all the time when Vallee had his variety hour, doing those clever character monologues -- why doesn't she have a show of her own, I ask you?)

Walt Disney's second full-length cartoon feature "Pinocchio" opened last night at the RKO Albee, and Mr. Cohn was on hand to partake of the festivities, calling the picture "a national treasure," as entrancing for the adult as for the child. The little umbrella-swinging frock-coated insect Jiminy Cricket steals the picture with his witty observations. And you are no doubt very familiar with his hit song, "When You Wish Upon A Star," which has been issuing from every loudspeaker within earshot since January.

Warner Brothers has announced that hereafter the Lane Sisters will be featured separately rather than as a team act. The only exception will be the "Four" series of picures, with the next installment, "Four Mothers," due later this year.

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(I used to deliberately write outrageous things on postcards, just in case these guys were reading them.)

Gossip columnist Clifford Evans continues to live dangerously, reporting that little Abe Frosch, bail bond king, was allowed to come and go from his cell at the West Side Jail as he pleased, and frequently returned to said cell from adventures outside in a "drunken condition." Cliff also puffs up a bit, Winchell style, by pointing out that he predicted the arrest of "Duke" Maffatore for the 1933 rub-out of Red Alpert three weeks before he was taken into custody.

Dolph Camilli still hasn't put his pen to paper with Larry MacPhail, but he not only suited up but took the field for the first time this spring, appearing at first base in the Dodgers' 5-4 loss to the Yankees. He showed the rust of a long winter by striking out on four pitches in his first at-bat against Yankee hurler Marius Russo, former Brooklyn College star who broke in with the Yanks last summer. Pete Coscarart was the Brooklyn batting star yesterday, going three-for-four with two doubles and two runs batting in.

Three thousand workers are on the job out at the World's Fair, with the official start of Spring kicking off preparation of the grounds for the coming season. The giant plaster statue of George Washington at the head of Constitution Mall is getting a fresh coat of white paint, as are other statues on the grounds, and crews were busy pulling protective straw coverings off the flower beds in preparation for spring planting.

Jack Benny will continue to peddle Jell-O for another four years, having renewed his contract with General Foods. Benny has pushed the gelatin dessert since 1934. Meanwhile, Jack will turn in a straight acting role on Sunday night when he stars in Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse production of "June Moon."

Martha Raye will play Pochaontas when Rudy Vallee presents an original musical-history sketch on the life of Captain John Smith, tonight on the Sealtest program at 9:30 pm over WEAF. Or tune in right here:


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Well, I'm disappointed that Tootsie is not a dancing bear, but the possibility of George getting an elephant up four flights of stairs to show her to Jo does offer considerable potential for comedy.

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I hope Mary found a bigger apartment.

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Short, flared coat -- extreme tapered pants. It appears that Mr. Pinstripe there hasn't bought a new suit since 1912.
 

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"Eugenic babies" were a thing for a while, starting in the late 1920s, where a woman would select a man as breeding stock designed to ensure the highest-possible quality infant, with no strings attached. It didn't always work out that way.

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"The prophet is without honor in his own country."

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Like I said -- what could possibly go wrong?

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"And if you fail, do not forget -- I shall certainly hang you by that ridiculous forelock."

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Tilda discovers class consciousness.

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Raven Sherman -- Woman With A Past.

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And eighty years later, Skeezix is a frail old man of 99 -- and he's still carrying this IOU around in his wallet.

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And once again, Vic cuts thru the crap.

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Hmph. Fred Allen's singer went on even when there was a loose eagle in the studio, and you're scared of a dumb little bullet.

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And speaking of clothes, let's admire Moon's impeccable fashion sense. A patterned shirt, probably pink with green figures, worn with windowpane checked pants, probably yellow or a light brown. And a brown derby to top it off. Apparel Arts, are ya listenin'?
 
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("What if you ain't got kids?" mopes Joe. "We can pretend," declares Sally. "You think they're gonna check?")....

"Wholesome, healthful, digestible pound cake...Your child's heath deserves the best" Really? I expect less nonsense from H&H. That said, I'd be buying up the entire list of Easter stuff.


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"Just Another Mother" writes in to Helen Worth to comfort the lady who was obsessed with the idea her baby got switched at the hospital. "Just Another" says she used to struggle with the idea that her children didn't look like her nor like her husband -- but all those kids were born *at home,* not in the hospital, so they couldn't have been switched, could they. Sometimes babies don't look like their parents. It happens.....

Also, wait to see how the kid turns out; the mother might wants some "distancing" excuse. I don't look at all like either of my parents, but there's nothing to suggest I'm not theirs (usually, some hint would've popped up at some point); whereas, my girlfriend looks like they put her mother and father in a mixer and gave birth to her - you can literally pick out each of her features in one or the other of her parents.


...Warner Brothers has announced that hereafter the Lane Sisters will be featured separately rather than as a team act. The only exception will be the "Four" series of picures, with the next installment, "Four Mothers," due later this year....

I protest.

The Lane Sisters:
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In reality though, only three were true "Lanes" with the fourth being Gale Page. There was a real fourth Lane sister, but she - for some reason - didn't make it in Hollywood.


... The_Brooklyn_Daily_Eagle_Thu__Mar_21__1940_(5).jpg Well, I'm disappointed that Tootsie is not a dancing bear, but the possibility of George getting an elephant up four flights of stairs to show her to Jo does offer considerable potential for comedy....

Being the realism killjoy, I'll point out how small that elephant is to scale. At this point, I want the Oakdale storyline brought back.


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"Eugenic babies" were a thing for a while, starting in the late 1920s, where a woman would select a man as breeding stock designed to ensure the highest-possible quality infant, with no strings attached. It didn't always work out that way....

And still doesn't today.

Also, "...who fulfilled the paternal role," there really is an endless list of euphemism for that, isn't there?

I looked her up and couldn't find anything about her as an actress on IMDB or Google, but of course, she might have used a stage name.


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"The prophet is without honor in his own country."...

That's really well done - you can absolutely see that happening in a family.


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Like I said -- what could possibly go wrong?...

"English Falconer Knight who is positively not the man who wouldn't take a job at the Eagle laundry because he had never washed an eagle..."

What!? Quite possibly the difficult, almost triple negative is why this sentence is incoherent.


...... Daily_News_Thu__Mar_21__1940_(3).jpg "And if you fail, do not forget -- I shall certainly hang you by that ridiculous forelock."...

In addition to the forelock, he could give Nick a run at who weighs in at the higher number.


... Daily_News_Thu__Mar_21__1940_(5).jpg Raven Sherman -- Woman With A Past....

Ahem, just ahem.


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And eighty years later, Skeezix is a frail old man of 99 -- and he's still carrying this IOU around in his wallet....

Panel 2, full-on film noir.


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Hmph. Fred Allen's singer went on even when there was a loose eagle in the studio, and you're scared of a dumb little bullet....

:)


...[ Daily_News_Thu__Mar_21__1940_(9).jpg And speaking of clothes, let's admire Moon's impeccable fashion sense. A patterned shirt, probably pink with green figures, worn with windowpane checked pants, probably yellow or a light brown. And a brown derby to top it off. Apparel Arts, are ya listenin'?

:)

Other than for Hollywood stars, Apparel Arts is simply clothes fantasy for the '30s and '40s.
 

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I think that's one of those rare dwarf elephants, specially bred for second-rate vaudeville acts. Or something. But Mr. Tuthill, whatever his deficiencies of scale, has given poor Tootsie wonderful facial expressions. I hope that George and his idiot cousin treat her kindly.

We never did get to the bottom of whatever Oakdale's scheme was, and he is still at large -- so we will probably see him again fairly soon.

Poor little Edmund Lee Hanrihan would be just over 80 if he's still with us, but seems to have no tangible footprints upon the sands of history -- the only Google hits he gets are for this story. So much for eugenics.

"The Neighbors" is one of those features that ran forever, but nobody seems to remember it today. Mr. Clark is an outstanding artist for the type of panel he does -- he's got those loose Lichty-type lines along with the Connor/Caniff ability to make his characters look like specific cetain people. I challenge anyone anywhere to draw a better sketch of a teenage girl completely losing it than the one we have here today.

If Raven's profile gets any sharper, she'll be able to match chins straight-up with Tracy.

And I'm not kidding with Mary X there. Wynn Murray, the Broadway belter who was featured vocalist on the Allen show, came on immediately after Mister Ramshaw headed up into Mr. Rockefeller's rafters, and all the while Mr. Allen is introducing her, and adlibbing about the loose bird, you can hear her trying desperately not to break out into uncontrollable giggles. But she does her number, and does it well, despite the risk of being dive bombed at any moment. A consummate professional.
 
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I think that's one of those rare dwarf elephants, specially bred for second-rate vaudeville acts. Or something. But Mr. Tuthill, whatever his deficiencies of scale, has given poor Tootsie wonderful facial expressions. I hope that George and his idiot cousin treat her kindly.

We never did get to the bottom of whatever Oakdale's scheme was, and he is still at large -- so we will probably see him again fairly soon.

Poor little Edmund Lee Hanrihan would be just over 80 if he's still with us, but seems to have no tangible footprints upon the sands of history -- the only Google hits he gets are for this story. So much for eugenics.

"The Neighbors" is one of those features that ran forever, but nobody seems to remember it today. Mr. Clark is an outstanding artist for the type of panel he does -- he's got those loose Lichty-type lines along with the Connor/Caniff ability to make his characters look like specific cetain people. I challenge anyone anywhere to draw a better sketch of a teenage girl completely losing it than the one we have here today.

If Raven's profile gets any sharper, she'll be able to match chins straight-up with Tracy.

And I'm not kidding with Mary X there. Wynn Murray, the Broadway belter who was featured vocalist on the Allen show, came on immediately after Mister Ramshaw headed up into Mr. Rockefeller's rafters, and all the while Mr. Allen is introducing her, and adlibbing about the loose bird, you can hear her trying desperately not to break out into uncontrollable giggles. But she does her number, and does it well, despite the risk of being dive bombed at any moment. A consummate professional.

Via my dad, grandmother and their friends, I was exposed to a lot of the GE growing up, but don't remember ever seeing or hearing anything about "The Neighbors." Whereas, things like T&TP, Bing Crosby and H&H were things I heard about from a very early age.

Raven's got a lot going on - strong character, strong physical presence, hinted at interesting past and what appears to be, and what the kids today would call, fluid sexuality (the similarity to DT's jaw is not accidental IMO as he's drawing her in a very specific way for a reason). As we've noted before, the comics were often simply not for kids. Today's T&TP strip is darn close to soft porn for the era.
 

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Two women were intensely questioned today by District Attorney William O'Dwyer in connection with the Brooklyn murder-for-money gang. The women, who are unnamed by the DA's office, are said to be in their late twenties, and to "know intimately members of the murder gang," and to be "familiar with many of the ring's secrets." A third woman will also face questioning, according to O'Dwyer.

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A fourth woman, 41-year-old Ruth Sewall of Brighton Beach, was questioned about alleged threats received by gang members demanding that she pay "protection money" to ensure the safety of card games hosted in her apartment. Mrs. Sewall was said to have refused to pay this money, and to have brought the matter to the attention of "certain other individuals" who saw to it that the offending hoodlums were "called off."

The District Attorney stated today that his investigations into the activities of the Brownsville-based gang found that it controlled every known racket within its "jurisdiction," said to cover territory in Brooklyn and Queens extending from Ozone Park to Coney Island. In addition to the murder-for-hire operation, the gang is said to be involved in prostitution, loansharking, blackmail, and protection rackets, "to name just a few." The District Attorney also stated that the murder-for-hire operation extends its activities far beyond Brooklyn, with connections drawn between this gang and murders in the Bronx and in New Jersey, where authorities in the town of Hammonton have asked Mr. O'Dwyer's assistance in solving the quicklime murder of reputed Louis "Lepke" Buchalter henchman Irving Mandel. Mandel was found in a shallow quicklime grave outside Hammonton on December 6th. He had been shot thru the head, his skull was crushed, and he had been stabbed in the back. Authorities say Mandel had been dodging a subpoena for his testimony in the Lepke case.

In the Bronx, 27-year-old Lazarus Black, a bakery truck helper from Brownsville, is being held on $20,000 bail as a material witness in the murder of 42-year-old music publishing executive Irving Penn, who was shot down outside his apartment building eight months ago by gunmen who reportedly mistook him for a man due to testify before Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in the Lepke case. Those gunmen, it is believed, were operatives of the Brooklyn murder syndicate.

The janitor of the Kings Highway apartment house where a three-year-old girl was killed in an elevator accident, and her mother and a neighbor severely injured, has admitted to police that he had been "working on" the elevator before the accident occured. 45-year-old Charles Calorsi, superindentant of the six-story building at 2020 Kings Highway, told police during several hours of questioning at the Sheepshead Bay station that he had been in the elevator control room at the top floor of the building when the accident occured, and that he "probably" threw the switch that set the car into motion, crushing 3-year-old Rene Alprin to death and injuring her 40-year-old mother Molly Alprin. Mrs. Alprin and a neighbor, Mrs. Edith Fuchs, who fell down the elevator shaft while trying to assist Mrs. Alprin, remain hospitalized in serious condition but are expected to recover from their injuries.

Mayor LaGuardia has strongly endorsed the new-look Brooklyn Eagle, which will make its first appearance next Monday. The mayor, upon examining a dummy copy of the redesigned paper, praised the Eagle as "alert and progressive, seeking not only to improve the presentation of the news but the method of its transmission."

The American ambassador to Canada will resign following a stinging rebuke from Secretary of State Cordell Hull. James H. R. Cromwell is expected to step down in a face-saving move after Secretary Hull strongly criticized him for departing from the official US line concerning the war in Europe in remarks before a Canadian audience. In that speech, Ambassador Cromwell praised the Allies and denounced Germany, comments said to not be in keeping with America's formal policy of neutrality.

The first Nazi ship to be sent to the bottom by a British submarine went down in heavily-mined waters at the mouth of the Baltic Sea. The 4947-ton steamer Heddernheim was sunk by a British sub attack eight miles east of Skaagen at the northern tip of Denmark, and the attack opened speculation that Britain may be opening a drive to halt shipments of Scandanavian iron ore to the Reich.

Forty-two-year-old comedian George Jessel is about to marry a teenage chorus girl. Reports from Hollywood say Jessel, who divorced his most recent wife Norma Talmage last summer, will marry Lois Andrews as soon as she turns sixteen next Thursday. Miss Andrews will require her mother's permission for the wedding, and is expected to grant her consent. Miss Andrews came to public notice last summer when she punched George White in the face, leaving the Broadway musical-comedy impresario with a pronounced black eye. She followed up that incident with another backstage brawl involving a fellow showgirl. "I'm a very lucky fellow," says Jessel.

A 46-year-old butcher was found stabbed this morning in a parked car in a "lovers' lane" in the Flatlands. Morris Schnerman of 3522 Flatlands Avenue was found in his car in a lonely area about 200 yards off Flatbush Avenue, a location popular for romantic trysting. Schnerman had been stabbed about the head and neck, but was able to tell police that he had been robbed, and described his assailants. He is being treated for his injuries at Kings County Hospital. Schnerman told police he lives over his butcher shop with his wife Rachel.

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("We oughta do this," says Sally. "We oughta plant some a' this -- For-sy-tha -- whatever. We oughta put out a winda box." And Joe says "Yeah, we'll have us the prettiest breezeway in Bensonhoist." "Ya bein' sarcastic again, aincha?" "Who, me? Why, when them sightseein' people come to look at it we can sell 'em hot dogs an' soda pop. It'll be a swell racket. I'll be able to quit tha pickle woiks. We can go on vacations. Ev'ry summa we c'n go ta Asb'ry Park.")

Pork sausage supplies are at their greatest level since 1933, so this is the time to make these succulent morsels part of your regular menu.

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"A. F. U." writes to reprimand Helen Worth for her oft-stated view that parents have no say on the lives of their adult children, arguing that the fact that parents give up their own lives for those of their children ought to count for something. Helen retorts -- with her usual grace and finesse, of course -- that your children don't ask to be born, and that when you bring them into the world, *you* are under *their* obligation, not the other way around, until they are grown, go out on their own and begin the cycle all over again.

Washington columnist Ray Tucker reports that the "radical sympathies" of renowned conductor Leopold Stokowski have brought him to the attention of conservatives on the House Appropriations Committee, and will cost him the job of serving as conductor for the National Youth Orchestra on its coming tour of South America. Tucker also notes that reports of Maestro Stokowski's "dallying on the Riviera with Greta Garbo" have also brought him into disfavor with the committee. Stokowski is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and is known to have conducted "The Internationale" despite American Legion protests.

James Stephenson takes on the role of Philo Vance in the latest movie adventure of S. S. Van Dine's snobby detective, and Herbert Cohn says "Calling Philo Vance," now playing at the Brooklyn Strand is a mediocre continuation of the long-running series that began with William Powell in the title role more than a decade ago. The plot is confusing and full of loose ends, and the picture in general is never better than mediocre. It's paired with an equally mediocre western, "Knights Of The Range," based on the Zane Grey novel, with Russell Hayden and Victor Jory.

At the Patio, it's Priscilla Lane and Jane Bryan in "Swiss Family Robinson," paired with Eddie Albert, Ronald Reagan, and Wayne Morris in "Brother Rat and a Baby."

Sheila Barrett's act at the Flatbush is the highlight of a so-so vaudeville bill this week, reports Robert Francis. Sheila's got plenty of new material, and her "Gone With The Wind" bit in which she impersonates Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara as portrayed by W. C. Fields and Fannie Brice is a show-stopper. But Bob Chester's band is too loud. (Mr. Francis, you're an ickie.)

Joe Vosmik, highly touted acquisition from the Red Sox, hasn't exactly set the Dodger traning camp on fire this spring -- but former Bosox teammates say he's just had a hard run of luck. Jimmie Foxx says the Big Bohemian must've hit 50 hard-line-drive rifle-shots straight into fielders' gloves last summer, and that if he'd had a run of luck like that himself he'd have probably hit around .276 instead of .360. Red Sox catcher Moe Berg agrees, noting that Vosmik never has been much of a spring-training hitter, but once the club goes north, he'll start to hit.

Dolph Camilli still hasn't signed. He pinch-hit to no effect on Wednesday, without benefit of contract, but is expected to sign as soon as he can get together with Larry MacPhail.

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The Bruins are now 7-5 favorites to eliminate the Rangers from the Stanley Cup playoffs following last night's 4-2 loss for the Blueshirts. The American are on the verge of elimination when they meet Detroit at the Garden tonight. Hear that game over WHN at 9:30 pm.

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A first in the long and colorful life of Col. Geo. B. Bungle -- he's being trolled by an elephant.

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Some protection.

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Mr. Marsh actually does a pretty good job of building up ominous atmosphere here -- until that jack-o-lantern face in panel four.
 

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And doesn't he just *look like* the kind of character who'd come up with something like this. In the movies, he'd be played by Frank McHugh.

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C'mon, Boys. Pull yourselves together here. You've got a dummy as your spokesman -- so why isn't your slogan "DON'T BE A DUMMY?" Sheesh.

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"Wait, you mean we *aren't* a kindly poor old couple who sell candy to children? Then why do I spend all day cleaning that damn store?"

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"Hm? Club Rhumba? Ridiculous. That's the station "Terry and the Pirates" is on. Wonderful program. You should listen sometime."

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Ahem, Patrick. Do remember that April is *Terry's* girl, and just because he hasn't been around for the past five months doesn't mean you've got a clear field. Maybe this is him outside now, finally come to perforate your treacherous hide.

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There must be at least a dozen other people there. Why not let *them* feed the jukebox, you profligate rattle-brained hepcat?

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Hmmmm. Who could this be? Townsend Zander, back from the grave to seek vengeance against Bim? We never saw the body. Tom Carr, driven mad and seeking vengeance against Bim? It wouldn't be the first time a good man turned to the dark side. Jay Golden Fleecer, back from his mysterious mission abroad and eager to reclaim you as his loving wife? No, I guess we can scratch that one.

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Yeah, well, no sane person would drink buttermilk either. So there.

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The wagon hasn't been built that'll hold Uncle Willie.
 
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...In the Bronx, 27-year-old Lazarus Black, a bakery truck helper from Brownsville, is being held on $20,000 bail as a material witness in the murder of 42-year-old music publishing executive Irving Penn, who was shot down outside his apartment building eight months ago by gunmen who reportedly mistook him for a man due to testify before Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in the Lepke case. Those gunmen, it is believed, were operatives of the Brooklyn murder syndicate.....

It was legal then / is it legal today to hold someone on bail just for being a witness to a crime? Or is it implied that he is also a suspect in some way? To wit, if someone does nothing more than witness a crime, can they be locked up and held on bail?


...The first Nazi ship to be sent to the bottom by a British submarine went down in heavily-mined waters at the mouth of the Baltic Sea. The 4947-ton steamer Heddernheim was sunk by a British sub attack eight miles east of Skaagen at the northern tip of Denmark, and the attack opened speculation that Britain may be opening a drive to halt shipments of Scandanavian iron ore to the Reich.....

Hadn't thought about it in advance, but had I been asked, I would have said that British submarines were already regularly sinking Germany's ships as Germany's had been doing to England's.


...A 46-year-old butcher was found stabbed this morning in a parked car in a "lovers' lane" in the Flatlands. Morris Schnerman of 3522 Flatlands Avenue was found in his car in a lonely area about 200 yards off Flatbush Avenue, a location popular for romantic trysting. Schnerman had been stabbed about the head and neck, but was able to tell police that he had been robbed, and described his assailants. He is being treated for his injuries at Kings County Hospital. Schnerman told police he lives over his butcher shop with his wife Rachel....

This one belongs in the "there's more to this story for sure" category as in, why was a married 46-year-old man parked in a lovers lane area, presumably, late at night, seemingly, without his wife (or for that matter, even with his wife since they have a home to do that stuff in)?


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("We oughta do this," says Sally. "We oughta plant some a' this -- For-sy-tha -- whatever. We oughta put out a winda box." And Joe says "Yeah, we'll have us the prettiest breezeway in Bensonhoist." "Ya bein' sarcastic again, aincha?" "Who, me? Why, when them sightseein' people come to look at it we can sell 'em hot dogs an' soda pop. It'll be a swell racket. I'll be able to quit tha pickle woiks. We can go on vacations. Ev'ry summa we c'n go ta Asb'ry Park.")....

:)


..."A. F. U." writes to reprimand Helen Worth for her oft-stated view that parents have no say on the lives of their adult children, arguing that the fact that parents give up their own lives for those of their children ought to count for something. Helen retorts -- with her usual grace and finesse, of course -- that your children don't ask to be born, and that when you bring them into the world, *you* are under *their* obligation, not the other way around, until they are grown, go out on their own and begin the cycle all over again....

I'm with Helen, but had I suggested such a thing to my parents growing up, I believe my father would have shot me, buried the body, come back home and he and my mother would never have talked about the subject again. In fact, after coming home, the first words from my father would probably have been, "what's for dinner?"


T...At the Patio, it's Priscilla Lane and Jane Bryan in "Swiss Family Robinson," paired with Eddie Albert, Ronald Reagan, and Wayne Morris in "Brother Rat and a Baby."....

I don't think Priscilla Lane was in "Swiss Family Robinson," but she was in "Brother Rat and a Baby."


... Red Sox catcher Moe Berg agrees, noting that Vosmik never has been much of a spring-training hitter, but once the club goes north, he'll start to hit....

Neat to see our "The Catcher was a Spy" pop up before he became a spy.


... The_Brooklyn_Daily_Eagle_Fri__Mar_22__1940_(4).jpg A first in the long and colorful life of Col. Geo. B. Bungle -- he's being trolled by an elephant.....

Bring back Oakdale.


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Some protection....

A convertible seems like a good choice to drive around someone you're trying to protect from the mob.


... The_Brooklyn_Daily_Eagle_Fri__Mar_22__1940_(6).jpg Mr. Marsh actually does a pretty good job of building up ominous atmosphere here -- until that jack-o-lantern face in panel four.

Yup


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And doesn't he just *look like* the kind of character who'd come up with something like this. In the movies, he'd be played by Frank McHugh.....

Good call. Mr McHugh himself:
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... Daily_News_Fri__Mar_22__1940_(2).jpg "Wait, you mean we *aren't* a kindly poor old couple who sell candy to children? Then why do I spend all day cleaning that damn store?"....

When he went into that "great leader" schtick, I thought we were going to have a crossover moment with Dan Dunn.


... Daily_News_Fri__Mar_22__1940_(4).jpg Ahem, Patrick. Do remember that April is *Terry's* girl, and just because he hasn't been around for the past five months doesn't mean you've got a clear field. Maybe this is him outside now, finally come to perforate your treacherous hide.....

To be fair, from what we know, Pat hasn't done anything untoward. Hey, they've been through a lot, if he's had a thought or two, so be it, but he hasn't done anything wrong re April - right or did I miss something?

I'm looking forward to Terry appearing, since I've been enjoying his eponymous comic strip without ever having met him.

Also, Raven's sarcasm is awesome - she's ahead of her time.


... Daily_News_Fri__Mar_22__1940_(6).jpg Hmmmm. Who could this be? Townsend Zander, back from the grave to seek vengeance against Bim? We never saw the body. Tom Carr, driven mad and seeking vengeance against Bim? It wouldn't be the first time a good man turned to the dark side. Jay Golden Fleecer, back from his mysterious mission abroad and eager to reclaim you as his loving wife? No, I guess we can scratch that one..

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It appears to be still possible to hold someone as a material witness, but it's much harder to make it stick today. The free and easy police methods of prewar America made it a very simple matter to lock someone up. If you didn't have a legitimate reason, you could just make one up and the judges, as we have seen, were not exactly avatars of pure constitutional justice. Of course, with such as Abe Frosch coming and going at will, it wasn't all that hard to get *out* of jail once you were in.

I kid about Pat dallying with April, of course. His heart truly belongs to the former Miss Normandie Drake, an heiress and adventurer who was last seen in the strip being married off to a flap-spined playboy named Tony Sandhurst. She hasn't been arouind since then, but she's still out there, and Pat knows it. Even the Dragon Lady herself can't make him forget. so what chance does Miss Sherman have?

Whoever laid out the ad for the Patio this week botched it up. Some guy with a pint of Four Roses in his pocket down in the linotype department no doubnt.
 

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A key figure in District Attorney William O'Dwyer's investigation of the Brooklyn "murder for hire" ring is reportedly ready to tell all. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, in custody for the 1933 gangland murder of "Red" Alpert, is reported to have agreed to reveal what he knows about the Brownsville-based murder syndicate following a plea from his wife and an all-night conversation with O'Dwyer. Mrs. Reles appeared at the District Attorney's office late yesterday, and when Assistant District Attorney Burton Turkus met her, she demanded to speak only to "the big guy." When O'Dwyer arrived at the office, he and Mrs. Reles immediately went behind closed doors, and when the door opened an hour later, Mrs. Reles, accompanied by two detectives, was sobbing. Turkus was then dispatched to the Tombs to bring Reles to Brooklyn for interrogation, which continued until Reles was returned to the Tombs early this morning. He is expected back in O'Dwyer's office later today to continue the questioning.

Meanwhile, a secondary phase of the investigation is underway in the town of Monticello, in Sullivan County, the favorite "cemetery" of the Brooklyn gang. Police there are seeking one Jack Drucker, owner of the abandoned farm where the body of Charles "The Chinaman" Sherman was found in 1935, buried in quicklime. Sherman was a prominent associate of Irving "Waxey" Gordon, until the Gordon mob broke up following its leader's imprisonment on tax evasion charges. Gordon had turned himself in to Federal authorities after realizing that rival mobsters were gunning for him. It is believed that Drucker may also be connected to the 1935 murder of "Dutch" Schultz, who, as he lay dying, is reported to have made arrangements for the Brooklyn "murder for hire" gang to rub out "The Chinaman's friends."

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Two men and two women are being held in connection with a pair of holdups in the Clinton Hill area last night. The group, armed with a .45 automatic pistol held up a garage at 210 Vanderbilt Avenue for $125 in cash and checks, and escaped in a stolen car. Shortly after they held up a delicatessen at 226 Greene Avenue for $15. A police radio car recognized the getaway car and forced it up the sidewalk at the intersection of Franklin and Lafayette Avenues, taking the four occupants into custody. Booked at the Classon Avenue police station were 20 year old Joseph Howe of the Bronx, and 20 year old John McBrearty, 18-year-old Dorothy Diggons, and 22-year-old Mrs. Annette Hannigan of Brooklyn.

The wise will wear winter raiment for the Easter Parade tomorrow, with wintry cold expected to prevail for the earliest Easter in 27 years. But you may attend the Sunrise Services in Prospect Park tomorrow with confidence, for the sun, at least will prevail.

George Jessel will have to wait a month before marrying teenage chorus girl Kay Andrews. The forty-two-year-old comedian received word from Mrs. Geraldine Andrews, the bride-to-be's mother, that she will approve the wedding only if the couple holds off for thirty days instead of marrying as soon as Kay turns sixteen this Thursday. Kay's father, George C. Gourley of the Los Angeles Police Department, however, strongly opposes the wedding, and wired Jessel yesterday to advise him of this fact. Kay Andrews disdained her father's objections, saying "He just resents it because he wasn't consulted first." Mrs. Andrews, meanwhile, flew in from Los Angeles yesterday and is staying at her daughter's six-room Manhattan apartment, equipped with an ermine bathroom, five radios, and a special closet to store an impressive collection of furs.

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("Will Jessel be countin' th' ballots?" wonders Joe. "I never liked him," adds Sally. "It's a good thing he ain't goin' after one of Cantor's daughters. Eddie'd lay him out flat.")

A contingent of Flatbush high school students picketed the home of Mrs. Jean Kay, whose lawsuit challenges the appointment of British philosopher-mathematician Bertrand Russell to the faculty of City College of New York. Marchers in front of the Kay residence at 585 E 16th Street wore signs reading "We Protest Mrs. Kay -- Unfair to American Youth," and "Confucius Say -- Students Vs. Mrs. Kay, 300,000 Students Can't Be Wrong."

Clifford Evans just won't let go of the Murder For Hire story -- he now predicts that "the Al Capone of the East," Mr. Joe Adonis, will be back in Brooklyn sooner than later to spend some time with DA O'Dwyer, once the top cop is finished with "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, ranking Brownsville gangster, who will have another speaking engagement with Mr. O'Dwyer in a few days. On another topic, Cliff taps Leo Durocher as Brooklyn's Best Dressed Man, noting his impeccable tailoring and nonchalant handkerchief as marking a man who was born to be an after-dinner speaker.

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(The bidding is open at $1. Do I hear 75 cents?)

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Johnny Mize had a field day yesterday, knocking three homers and batting in five runs to lead the Cardinals to a 10 to 6 win over the Dodgers at Clearwater. Coscarart and the still-unsigned Camilli homered for the Flock, but their power attack wasn't enough to bring down the Redbirds.

The slugging display yesterday points up a major shortcoming of the Dodger spring traning grounds. The right field fence is 290 feet from home plate at the foul line -- just like Ebbets Field. But while the Brooklyn ballpark has a twenty-foot-high concrete wall in right field topped with a ten-foot screen, the Clearwater yard has only a ten-foot wooden board fence. Consequently cheap home runs fly out of the park at an alarming rate, and if the Dodgers intend to return to the field next spring, a more substantial wall needs to be put in place to prevent games from turning into travesties.

The Metropolitan Opera presents Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" with Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagsted at 1pm today over WJZ.

At 8pm over WEAF, Arch Oboler presents Madame Alla Nazimova in "The Ivory Tower."

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In for a penny, in for a pound. How much does this elephant weigh, anyway?

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Mary's face in Panel Three = priceless.

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Striking random small towns rather than the usual major population centers is actually a very effective terrorist tactic. Score one for the Hoods.
 

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Hey kid, why not give Norma Talmadge a call first. She might have something to tell you.

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Hey pop, careful you don't drop your ashes in the egg dye.

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Aaaaaaaaaaand I have no idea who this really is. But I'm willing to bet he's now "Prince du Fromage." He looks cheesy enough.

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Among Nick's many accomplishments is the ability to prowl by stealth without ever leaving a trail in the brush behind him. Not an easy thing to do when you weigh 350 pounds.

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Boy, doesn't the Chief enjoy seeing Tracy get shown up. So you didn't get the suitcase. GET OVER IT.

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Slam, bam, thank you ma'am!

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Yes indeed. That first meal after payday is always the best one of the week.

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Hahahahahahaha at Harold's reaction in panel one. Oh-oh indeed.

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Ahhh, what's this now? Are we to conclude that Emmy has a piece on the side, and that piece is -- Elmo, the shiftless two-timing skunk? Oh, do tell more.
 
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A key figure in District Attorney William O'Dwyer's investigation of the Brooklyn "murder for hire" ring is reportedly ready to tell all. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, in custody for the 1933 gangland murder of "Red" Alpert, is reported to have agreed to reveal what he knows about the Brownsville-based murder syndicate following a plea from his wife and an all-night conversation with O'Dwyer. Mrs. Reles appeared at the District Attorney's office late yesterday, and when Assistant District Attorney Burton Turkus met her, she demanded to speak only to "the big guy." When O'Dwyer arrived at the office, he and Mrs. Reles immediately went behind closed doors, and when the door opened an hour later, Mrs. Reles, accompanied by two detectives, was sobbing. Turkus was then dispatched to the Tombs to bring Reles to Brooklyn for interrogation, which continued until Reles was returned to the Tombs early this morning. He is expected back in O'Dwyer's office later today to continue the questioning.

Meanwhile, a secondary phase of the investigation is underway in the town of Monticello, in Sullivan County, the favorite "cemetery" of the Brooklyn gang. Police there are seeking one Jack Drucker, owner of the abandoned farm where the body of Charles "The Chinaman" Sherman was found in 1935, buried in quicklime. Sherman was a prominent associate of Irving "Waxey" Gordon, until the Gordon mob broke up following its leader's imprisonment on tax evasion charges. Gordon had turned himself in to Federal authorities after realizing that rival mobsters were gunning for him. It is believed that Drucker may also be connected to the 1935 murder of "Dutch" Schultz, who, as he lay dying, is reported to have made arrangements for the Brooklyn "murder for hire" gang to rub out "The Chinaman's friends."....

Yup, we have our latest story in need of a scorecard.


...George Jessel will have to wait a month before marrying teenage chorus girl Kay Andrews. The forty-two-year-old comedian received word from Mrs. Geraldine Andrews, the bride-to-be's mother, that she will approve the wedding only if the couple holds off for thirty days instead of marrying as soon as Kay turns sixteen this Thursday. Kay's father, George C. Gourley of the Los Angeles Police Department, however, strongly opposes the wedding, and wired Jessel yesterday to advise him of this fact. Kay Andrews disdained her father's objections, saying "He just resents it because he wasn't consulted first." Mrs. Andrews, meanwhile, flew in from Los Angeles yesterday and is staying at her daughter's six-room Manhattan apartment, equipped with an ermine bathroom, five radios, and a special closet to store an impressive collection of furs.....

This will not end well, now or after they get married (if they even do). And what the heck is an "ermine bathroom?"


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(The bidding is open at $1. Do I hear 75 cents?)....

The early money is coming in on Horn and Hardart.


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Mary's face in Panel Three = priceless.....

At least Leona mentioned the much-ignored Bill in her list of people she's worried about.


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Hey kid, why not give Norma Talmadge a call first. She might have something to tell you......

Lois is a look-alike for actress Elizabeth Moss.
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... Daily_News_Sat__Mar_23__1940_(3)-2.jpg Among Nick's many accomplishments is the ability to prowl by stealth without ever leaving a trail in the brush behind him. Not an easy thing to do when you weigh 350 pounds.....

I might way 350 pounds Lizzie, but I'm still light on my feet, your friend, SG
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... Daily_News_Sat__Mar_23__1940_(4).jpg Boy, doesn't the Chief enjoy seeing Tracy get shown up. So you didn't get the suitcase. GET OVER IT.....

Quite the laughing faces in panel 2.


... Daily_News_Sat__Mar_23__1940_(5).jpg Slam, bam, thank you ma'am!....

And the Miss Raven Sherman hits just keep coming.


... Daily_News_Sat__Mar_23__1940_(6).jpg Yes indeed. That first meal after payday is always the best one of the week.....

Some really impressive less-is-more illustration talent on display from the file cabinet and firehose to the checkerboard floor and the lunch-counter stool. Plus his lean on the counter is perfect.
 

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Reputed number two man in the Brooklyn Murder For Hire ring Abe Reles is "singing his head off" in a "secret location" to Police Captain John McGowan and Acting Police Captain Frank Bals. Reles has offered to tell all he knows about the gang's operations in exchange for not being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Reles is believed to have been convinced to "squeal" by his wife, who is expecting a child and made the initial overtures to District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Reles' testimony is expected to break the murder ring wide open.

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Meanwhile, two minor gangsters have been arrested for the 1935 murder of John "The Spider" Murtha. Max "Maxie The Jerk" Golob and Frank "The Dasher" Abadando were taken into custody following testimony from Murtha's former sweetheart, 28-year-old Florence Nestfield, who told the District Attorney that they were the two men who drove up to her and Murtha at the corner of Van Siclen and Atlantic Avenues on the afternoon of March 3, 1935, and commanded her to "step aside, girlie," before pumping eight shots into her lover's chest.

The arrests cap a week of rapid activity in the District Attorney's investigation of the Murder-for-Hire gang. "Brooklyn has had its special prosecutors -- one of them is functioning now. But it was an organization Democrat with independent leanings who opened up full blast on the murder racket, who indeed recognized and established that the business of murder was organized on a business basis, with all the appurtenances of big business save for incorporation papers and a budget for advertising."

(And in one of the borough's better neighborhoods, Mrs. Marion C. Amen walks thru her living room and notices the Brooklyn Eagle wadded into a tight, angry ball against a rear wall. A table lamp lies in shards nearby. "John!" she shouts. "John Harlan Amen! What's the meaning of this? What's the matter with you??" There is no reply.)

Today is Easter Sunday, and wind-whipped finery is the watchword for church services and the famous Easter Parade. The cold weather shows no respite, with brisk northwest breezes adding to the wintry atmosphere. Pope Pius XI was on the air early this morning to deliver a global Easter blessing by shortwave from the Vatican.

Informed quarters in Berlin expect the "greatest wave of submarine warfare" of the European War to break out within two weeks. German submarines are said to be filtering into the North Sea and the North Atlantic for a new attack on British supply vessels. A large number of U-Boats were said to be massed off Norway yesterday, and it is reported that German subs will soon be as common in those waters as Norwegian fishing smacks.

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(Because nothing says the most sacred day in Christendom like a bunny's naked rump. "Shake your powder puff!")

Over the objections of the Radio Corporation of America, the Federal Communications Commission has reversed an order that would have opened up television to commercial sponsorship as of September 1, 1940, pending additional hearding to determine whether experimentation to achieve higher standards of television operation is being deliberately hampered by RCA. The FCC has also directed RCA to halt its current campaign to market television to the public, ruling that the campaign is "at variance" with the Commission's conclusion in a report issued February 29th that the technique and the quality of television as they now stand are not sufficiently developed, and that further research and development are necessary before television may operate on a regular commercial basis. RCA chairman David Sarnoff expressed "amazement" at the Commission's action, noting that his firm has already spent $10,000,000 on television development.

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(In case you missed it.)

Red Barber offers a telegraphic play-by-play broadcast of the Dodgers' Grapefruit League game against the Boston Beest, today at 2:40 pm on WOR. Jack Benny appears in a dramatic guise tonight, in Orson Welles' production of "June Moon," at 8 pm on WABC. And Charlie McCarthy will have a faux-pas or two for etiquette expert Emily Post on the Chase & Sanborn Program at 8 pm on WEAF.

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Soon-to-be-former Ambassador to Canada and noted premature anti-Fascist J. H. Cromwell makes the cover of "Trend" this week.

Marian Anderson will offer a recital at the Brooklyn Academy of Music tomorrow night at 8:30. Proceeds benefit the Finnish Relief Fund.

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Slugging was again the order of the day at Clearwater, as the Dodgers romped to a 12 to 4 win over the Tigers, with Jimmy Ripple's three-run homer pacing the Brooklyn attack. Tiger Hank Greenberg poled a tremendous shot off Tex Carelton, which flew at least 450 feet, without doubt the longest homer ever hit in the history of the Clearwater ball yard, but otherwise Carleton hurled a fine game, scattering six hits across six innings of work.

Old Timer Bessie Leveness remembers the good times at PS 1, when the girls and the boys were separated in the classroom by a wall of blackboards, and how the girls used to slip notes under the barricade when the teacher wasn't looking.

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I didn't know I had a "western art scrapbook," but thanks for the suggestions!

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Hahahahahahaha at the family portraits on the wall in panel eight.

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The dramatic rule known as "Chekhov's Gun" states that any element or detail introduced in a narrative must be there for a specific reason -- if a gun is shown, it must eventually be used. And under that principle, I expect that eventually the Chief's assistant, this fellow "Boose," will have to be revealed as a stumbling comedy-relief drunk.

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And when they end up in Night Court, the magistrate says "Not another fish story...."
 
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Reputed number two man in the Brooklyn Murder For Hire ring Abe Reles is "singing his head off" in a "secret location" to Police Captain John McGowan and Acting Police Captain Frank Bals. Reles has offered to tell all he knows about the gang's operations in exchange for not being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Reles is believed to have been convinced to "squeal" by his wife, who is expecting a child and made the initial overtures to District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Reles' testimony is expected to break the murder ring wide open.

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Meanwhile, two minor gangsters have been arrested for the 1935 murder of John "The Spider" Murtha. Max "Maxie The Jerk" Golob and Frank "The Dasher" Abadando were taken into custody following testimony from Murtha's former sweetheart, 28-year-old Florence Nestfield, who told the District Attorney that they were the two men who drove up to her and Murtha at the corner of Van Siclen and Atlantic Avenues on the afternoon of March 3, 1935, and commanded her to "step aside, girlie," before pumping eight shots into her lover's chest.

The arrests cap a week of rapid activity in the District Attorney's investigation of the Murder-for-Hire gang. "Brooklyn has had its special prosecutors -- one of them is functioning now. But it was an organization Democrat with independent leanings who opened up full blast on the murder racket, who indeed recognized and established that the business of murder was organized on a business basis, with all the appurtenances of big business save for incorporation papers and a budget for advertising."

(And in one of the borough's better neighborhoods, Mrs. Marion C. Amen walks thru her living room and notices the Brooklyn Eagle wadded into a tight, angry ball against a rear wall. A table lamp lies in shards nearby. "John!" she shouts. "John Harlan Amen! What's the meaning of this? What's the matter with you??" There is no reply.)...

:)

Also, perhaps Mr. Blackston can get that same "secret location" for Miss Stockpool to give her testimony.


... Pope Pius XI was on the air early this morning to deliver a global Easter blessing by shortwave from the Vatican....

Very cool Internet-of-its-day moment.


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(In case you missed it.)...

Lizzie, what do you think of the new look?


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Slugging was again the order of the day at Clearwater, as the Dodgers romped to a 12 to 4 win over the Tigers, with Jimmy Ripple's three-run homer pacing the Brooklyn attack. Tiger Hank Greenberg poled a tremendous shot off Tex Carelton, which flew at least 450 feet, without doubt the longest homer ever hit in the history of the Clearwater ball yard, but otherwise Carleton hurled a fine game, scattering six hits across six innings of work....

Maybe in addition to the short fence, they happened upon some of those 2019 baseballs early.


... The_Brooklyn_Daily_Eagle_Sun__Mar_24__1940_(8).jpg The dramatic rule known as "Chekhov's Gun" states that any element or detail introduced in a narrative must be there for a specific reason -- if a gun is shown, it must eventually be used. And under that principle, I expect that eventually the Chief's assistant, this fellow "Boose," will have to be revealed as a stumbling comedy-relief drunk....

Once you are aware of the "Chekhov's Gun" rule - whether in name or just concept - it changes how you read books and watch movies and TV shows. My girlfriend and I will often point out to the other a gun being hung; I'm not talking about a clue in a mystery story, but just something that you know will impact the plot or a character later. The best guns are hung without you noticing. Oddly, it feels off is a gun is hung and isn't used despite the fact that, in real life, it happens all the time. But then a story (in any format) has a limited way to tell its tale, so we've come to expect, consciously or subconsciously, certain things from it - right or wrong.

Back to Dan Dunn, if the country is under attack and the guy in charge (wearing a really loud suit) calls for Dunn as the savior, I hope there is a plan B.


... _Sun__Mar_24__1940_-2.jpg And when they end up in Night Court, the magistrate says "Not another fish story...."

:)

(The strip was read under protest.) Normally George is the idiot, but not this time.
 

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The chickens heard about Fred Allen's eagle and thought they ought to have a chance too.

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I've never lived on an RFD route, but somehow I'm certain that every one of these is true.

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"There, Chief Know It All Laffy Face! WHATTAYA SAY NOW?"

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You don't often see a full-body shot in "Annie," so imagine my surprise to see that terrifying international criminal genius Axel has such dainty ladylike feet. Just goes ta show ya.

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Yeah, well, drop something down a heat pipe sometime and see how desperate *you* get.

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I imagine we'll learn any day now that Raven wears that jersey because she actually played in the NFL.

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Ah, the good old Sugar Bowl. Panel one shows us, for the first time in ages, all of Harold's old soda-shop cronies. From left, Goofy Gilpin, who's, you know, Goofy; Horace "Lilacs" Teen, Harold's insufferable cousin; Preston "Poison" Pembrook, the star athlete of Covina High, and Beezie Binks, the rich kid who gets all the breaks. And of course, Alec "Shadow" Smart is always on the lookout for free sodas. Which clearly contain an ingredient that turns the consumer into a rattle-brained hepcat.

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Unfortunately for Chester, the Crown of Soltan bears an ancient curse which condemns its wearer to life in an endlessly squabbling family of two-bit social climbers headed by a weak-willed billionaire with a doll-baby wife and a gorgonous mother-in-law. Oh, wait. Well, never mind then.
 

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