Oh Lord, the drama. It's every bit as much as Betty Lou's beauty parlor.“I had no idea a machine shop could be such a hotbed of intrigue.”
I gather that you’ve never worked in one.
Oh Lord, the drama. It's every bit as much as Betty Lou's beauty parlor.“I had no idea a machine shop could be such a hotbed of intrigue.”
I gather that you’ve never worked in one.
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("Hmph!" says Sally. "The coicus will not exhibit in Brooklyn this year! I ask ya!" "They can't take the competition," snorts Joe. "You ride the 86th Street trolley inna mornin', you'll get all th' coicus you can handle.")...
..."E. R." writes to Helen Worth for advice on what to do about his brother, who is 27 years old and trying to get ahead, but insists on going with "A.," a 25-year-old "lady of leisure" who constantly keeps him out on dates until 3 or 4 in the morning. Helen points out "no man ever does anything he doesn't really want to do," and Brother is old enough to make up his own mind. "I am sorry," she says, "to be unable to cast my ballot for your side, but I cannot."...
...Testimony in the trial of seventeen members of the so-called "Christian Front" on seditious conspiracy charges came to a sudden halt today in Brooklyn Federal Court when the prosecution's key witness collapsed during a break in his testimony. Denis A. Healy, an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who had infiltrated the Front, fainted as a result of what police are calling "a nervous collapse" during a brief recess shortly after 11 this morning. Healy was taken to Cumberland Hospital by ambulance, where authorities are releasing no information concerning his condition. A motion calling for an extended recess was made by Assistant Attorney General Harold Kennedy, and this was granted by Judge Marcus B. Campbell, who ordered that the trial resume Friday morning....
...A Manhattan woman says she wants no part of a cigar box full of cash she received in the mail yesterday from someone in Chicago she doesn't even know. Mrs. Jack Klein of 250 W 94th Street says she was handed the paper-wrapped parcel, bearing a return address of a "Mrs. J. Reed, 5846 West Lake Avenue, Chicago," from the doorman of her apartment building, and when she opened it she found a total of $1251 in one, five, and ten dollar bills. At first she thought her husband, a fur merchant whose dealings sometimes take him to Chicago, might know something about it, but he was as baffled as she was. The Kleins have turned the parcel over to the police, and say they want nothing further to do with it. "We are horribly puzzled and embarrassed," says Mrs. Klein. "Receiving an envelope like that is disquieting." Police say that if no one comes forward to claim the money within six months, Mrs. Klein will be entitled to keep it, but she says she has no interest in doing so
("Howcum we don't get nothin' like that in the mail?" wonders Joe. "I even enter all them contests on the radio, and we never get no box fulla dough." "I wouldn't be too embarrassed if we got one," says Sally. "'Course, I also wouldn't put nothin' in the paper about it...")....
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A lot of people don't realize this, but 1940 was the Golden Age of Lima Beans.....
Yankee manager Joe McCarthy thinks Dodger rookie sensation Peewee Reese is the real thing. The Dodgers beat the Yanks in Owensboro, Kentucky yesterday, 10 to 6, and the pride of Louisville put on quite a show, scoring two runs, including one on his own homer, and made a rash of brilliant fielding plays. Marse Joe says of Reese "that boy's got it!" The Dodgers and Yanks will clash again today in Peewee's own hometown of Louisville.
After his active baseball career he was part of the (in my opinion) best baseball announcing duo ever: PeeWee and Ole Diz broadcasting weekend games. I'm not really a baseball fan, but I'd watch just to see what they would say and do.And we see him now as a young kid, full of promise, on his way to Brooklyn for the first time in his life, with no possible idea of what lies ahead.
Try not to think of him eighteen years later, tired and broken, reluctantly heading not North to open the season, but West -- he is the first man on the Dodger roster who will one day play in Los Angeles.
...Following allegations in a Brooklyn Eagle article this week that a "prominent politician" had offered a bribe to a police captain in connection with Murder For Hire gang informant Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen has moved to present the matter to a special grand jury. The Amen Office issued a summons today to Police Captain Nicholas A. Pissara of the Liberty Avenue precinct to appear before the panel and reveal the name of the man who is alleged to have offered Captain Pissara $500 to have two detectives who had "annoyed" Reles transferred out of the Brownsville-East New York district. District Attorney William O'Dwyer denies that such a bribe was offered, stating that he has investigated the allegation himself and has found it to be "completely untrue."...
..The Rangers and Maple Leafs meet tonight in Toronto in Game Five of the Stanley Cup finals with the series knotted at two games each. Hear the contest at 8:45 pm over WHN...
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fat and 37 years old
has "knocked hell out of the German Messerschmits every time they met,"