The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Never, ever go shares on a lottery ticket.

And never marry your agent.

And the funny thing is, here I was in 2021 reading the News just the other day and they still get, and print, letters like this. It's nice to know there's things you can still count on.

The poor Slaggs are absolutely terrified. WHAT HAVE WE INVITED INTO OUR HOME?

"Do you get that odor?" "Yeah, roast pork. I can't wait till lunch!"

Don't slouch, kid.

Wait, Bim has a sword-cane? Of course he does.

"Now we can KILL WILMER together! And maybe a movie and sodas after?"

In our real-world 1941, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson owns a string of race horses.

Don't smirk, Ma. Right this moment, Lillums is boarding a train for home.

 

[Fading Fast]

... View attachment 303010 (Mr. and Mrs Cornelius H. Tiebout? Mrs. Wilson Goodbody? Who's writing this stuff, John Cheever?)...

Good one. Also, let's keep these names in mind as there's a good chance some of their kids will be showing
up on Page Four in the future.

...A newspaper survey conducted in several key cities finds that a potential audience of more than 79 percent of the total American population is still waiting to see "Gone With The Wind," which tomorrow goes into general release after a year of playing reserved-seat engagements at road-show prices. The Civil War epic begins its local popular-price run at the Capitol Theatre tomorrow morning, with continuous shows starting at 9 AM.
...

...Magistrate Abner C. Surpless writes in to criticize the shift from trolleys to buses in Brooklyn, observing that the people who actually ride surface lines in the city clearly prefer trolleys, which are cleaner, safer, and more comfortable than any bus. "Those who advocate buses," he concludes,"are concerned more with the appearance of the streets and avenues than they are with the convenience of travelers."...

I think the streets look better with the trolleys.

... (That's "sic semper tyrannis," Butchie, but to be honest, I like your version better.)...

While this storyline has gone on for too long, oddly, George is in the right. Butch screwed up and he's unfairly blaming it on George.

... (OH COME ON)...

No weak excuses Mary, it's time to man up. Half of the tough stuff in life is dealing with conflicts of interests.

... Never, ever go shares on a lottery ticket.....

It is stunning how often lottery ticket winnings end up in court cases like this. Also, it is equally amazing how many large lottery winners are broke five to ten years out. While the number is disputed, it seems the two sides argue it's between one-third and two thirds. If they weren't state run and didn't bring in a ton of money for the government, the government would be investigating the companies running lotteries and the social justice warriors would be all over their "corrupt" business practices (the false advertising, the egregious "take" for the house and the social impact on the poorest in our communities).

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And never marry your agent.....

Have you considered an annulment.

... "Do you get that odor?" "Yeah, roast pork. I can't wait till lunch!"....

Yes, the odor line was gruesome.

... Don't slouch, kid.....

"Golden Terry." You gotta love Hu Shee.

 

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Really enjoying the Invisible Scarlet O'Neil comics.

 

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[Harp]

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed.
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Hu Shee, sweet exquisite rose, speak dear to the golden lad....
Golden lads and girls all must
as chimney sweeps come to dust. --Cymbeline

 

[LizzieMaine]

BALD HEADED MEN!

(Mr. Lichty looks up and says "What?")

I hope that Joy's domestic bliss doesn't mean she's going to give up flying, because, she's already proven that she's better at it than either Jack or Downwind.

"ACTS TO BLOCK DICTATOR BILL" -- Jeez, Colonel, settle down.

 

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"ACTS TO BLOCK DICTATOR BILL" -- Jeez, Colonel, settle down.

That headline jumped out at me too.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Don't smirk, Ma. Right this moment, Lillums is boarding a train for home.

I've only read the strip since I noticed it being posted here. Does Ma have any real reason(s) to dislike Lillums, or is she just all out for Team Lana?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ma Teen doesn't like Lena Lovewell, Lillums' mother, at all -- as we have seen -- and thinks Lillums herself is shallow and manipulative, and that she led Harold on in the whole botched elopement incident that led to Harold running away from home for a year.

There's certainly more than enough blame to go around there -- both kids were painfully immature about the whole thing. But if anybody deserves a kick in the backside, it's Lillums' mother, who couldn't stand Harold when the kids were in high school, hated him even more when he was just a lowly butchers' apprentice, and absolutely loathed him when the whole elopment thing happened, . But now that he's doing OK, suddenly he's a fine boy, blah blah blah. Hopefully Ma Teen will kick her down a cistern before this is over.

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ Well now, one thing I learned from all that (fun stuff, thank you for posting it Lizzie) is that Lillums has got some game to compete with Lana when the clothes come off.

 

[Harp]

⇧ Well now, Lillums got some game to compete with Lana when the clothes come off.

Lana is a sweetheart rose. Lillums is merely a thorn in the heart.

And remember what that Irish poet John Boyle O'Reilly writ,
...the heart
Is like a cup athirst for wine of love.

O'Reilly sums sweet darling Lana. Another eminent Irishman, William Shakespeare wrote,

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?

Shakespeare hit it right on the nail with Lillums.

And, there is no doubt that he was Irish.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The United States and Great Britain together cannot defeat Germany, declared Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the famed aviator went on to state "I would prefer neither side win. I'd like to see a negotiated peace. I believe a complete victory for either side would result in the prostration of Europe such as we have never before seen." Testifying in opposition to the President's Lease-Lend plan for aid to Great Britain, Col. Lindbergh argued that he has seen no sign of an impending German collapse, stating that "she controls the continent now," but stopped short of predicting a German victory in the event of an invasion of England. He also argued that America's present military strength is such that the present export policy is harming the cause of national defense. The Colonel also blamed the United States for "encouraging" Britain to enter the war "when they were not prepared for it," an attitude which he predicted "will be resented after the war."

The president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission was physically ejected from the City Council chamber today during a Council investigation of alleged irregularities in his department's activities. Commissioner Paul Kern was removed from the chamber by the Sergeant-at-Arms after denouncing committee counsel Emil K. Ellis as "a liar." The Council ordered Mr. Kern to stay out of the chamber unless he is subpoenaed to appear, and the Commissioner then criticized the body for "Nazi tactics," and announced a counter-investigation of his own, which he promised would "disprove the Council's charges as soon as they are made."

A motherly, gray-haired 61-year-old office clerk today admitted to embezzling $13,000 from her employer. Mrs. Catherine Carmody of Bensonhurst astonished police in the lineup room this morning by confessing to forging checks on the account of the Decorated Metal Manufacturing Company of 199 Sackett Street after she was denied a pay increase. Mrs. Carmody, who lives at 1543 58th Street with her unemployed husband and two grown children, had worked for the firm for twenty-eight years until she was laid off last September. She was arrested yesterday when a vice president of the company uncovered the forgeries, and stated that she began to embezzle funds about two years ago after other employees received pay increases and she did not. The method used is a familiar one, in which Mrs. Carmody kept the names of discharged employees on the payroll and cashed checks made out to them herself.

An youth organization chaired by former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney has begun a campaign against the American Student Union, a rival group it claims is Communist-controlled. The National Foundation of American Youth, meeting at the RCA Building in Manhattan today released a pamphlet entitled "How To Stop The Junior Fifth Column," which will be distributed in the public schools by student representatives. Students from Brooklyn College and James Madison High School in Sheepshead Bay were among those attending the organizational meeting of the new group.

Ten men and a woman belonging to the Brooklyn-based religious sect of the Jehovah's Witnesses were convicted today of disorderly conduct stemming from an incident in Flatbush on January 8th. The charges against the group stated that the defendants disrupted traffic and disturbed the peace by marching from Ablemarle Road to Church Avenue carrying placards denouncing organized religion and handing out anti-Catholic papers. Magistrate Jacob Elperin offered to suspend sentence in exchange for a promise that the incident would not be repeated, but attorney Hayden Covington, representing the defendants, refused the offer and promised to appeal the case. The eleven Witnesses, who all gave their address as the sect's headquarters at 124 Columbia Heights, were offered the choice of fines or a jail term, and each chose to be jailed.

President Roosevelt is keeping his own counsel as speculation whirls about the capital concerning a replacement for Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds, who announced his retirement this week. The name of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson has surfaced most often among those doing the speculation, but the President has given no indication of who he plans to appoint to the position, the sixth to be made by Mr. Roosevelt since he took office in 1933. Justice McReynolds was the most militant of the anti-New Deal bloc on the Court.

(Justice McReynolds was also an unapologetic racist and anti-Semite who often referred to Mr. Roosevelt as "that crippled son of a bitch in the White House." Ah, civility.)

(It's always good to learn useful job skills.)

(What'll they think of next?)

(It's a hard job to be the only one in your family who didn't win a Nobel Prize, but Eve Curie certainly has nothing to be ashamed of.)

Several readers write in to commend the Eagle for its support of Larry MacPhail's drive to bring the National League's hotel business to Brooklyn, and to point out the hypocrisy of the Brooklyn Real Estate Board, which endorsed Mr. MacPhail's crusade at their annual meeting -- at the Hotel Commodore in Manhattan. Reader Frank McCabe sums it up: "What Brooklyn needs is more Larry MacPhails!"

(Because how else are you going to see how thick the fuzz is on the woolly-bear caterpillars?)

(The Americans may be a lousy team, but there's no question that they have the snazziest uniforms in the NHL.)

If Paul Waner makes the Dodgers this spring, what of Pete Reiser? That's the big question as the hot stove burns down toward the start of training camp next month, and it's one getting serious consideration in Dodger circles. Reiser, picked up from the Cardinal farm system after Judge Landis turned him loose on a contract technicality, was the phenom of all phenoms at Clearwater in 1939, and did well at Elmira during the early part of the 1940 season before joining the Flock during the wave of injuries that kneecapped the club last summer. He played well at third base, shortstop, and the outfield, and gives every indication of being a coming star -- but if Waner, a hard-hitting sixteen-year veteran who loves to hit in Ebbets Field, catches on with the team, it's possible Durocher might start the season with him in the outfield. So where does young Pete fit in? With Cookie Lavagetto and Pee Wee Reese coming back at third and short respectively, that locks Reiser out of the infield, and there's no chance he'll take an outfield spot from Dixie Walker or Joe Medwick. And Durocher is highly unlikely to send Pete to Montreal. So where will he play? And when will he play? Dodger fans enthusiastic about his prospects have a right to know.

Babe Ruth is done with baseball, says his wife Claire, who today dismissed reports that the Bambino will take over as manager of the Seattle Rainiers in the Pacific Coast League. "In fact," says Mrs. Ruth, "the Babe isn't planning to work in baseball at all, regardless of what offers he may receive. We feel he's worked hard enough in baseball, and will take it easy now." Mrs. Ruth confirmed that the Babe, who last appeared in uniform as a Dodger coach in 1938, is presently in bed with a case of influenza, with a fever of 101, and is expected to remain off his feet for at least a week.

Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra, featuring Harriet Hilliard, open today for a week's engagement at the Flatbush Theatre. Also on the bill, young movie favorite Johnny Downs, comic juggler Bob Dupont, and the acrobatic Gheezi Brothers.

(Halfpint just bit Slappy's nose off. OOPS!)

(It's very hard to do physical slapstick gags in a static medium like a comic strip, but Mr. Tuthill is one of the few cartoonists who does it really well.)

(Oh please. Call Leona -- she'll do it without breaking a sweat.)

("Victorola?" Look, if you're gonna use snappy repartee circa 1912, at least spell it right.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Thirty-two-year-old Thurgood Marshall already has several important cases on his record, but is not yet a household name. This case will bear close watching.

"Now You Can Be Taller Than She Is" is the usual Adler pitch -- but this is the first time I've ever seen it directed toward women.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

"Watch out, Tracy -- Krome's getting away with the dough!"

Bim needs to get one of those new Chryslers with the extra headroom.

And the music swells.

KILL WILMER KILL KILL KILL WILMER

"Lana? Lana who?"

These unique shirts Mush seems to favor are a popular style of football jersey in 1941, and number 42 is most closely identified with Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears -- a club which counts Frank Willard among its fans. (The most famous man ever to wear Number 42 in any sport wore 28 last season at UCLA, and won't don 42 for another six years -- but to us in 2021 it's understandably startling to see it suddenly pop up in this context. I know it took me aback for a moment.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mrs. Lovewell is very fond of Harold:

 

[Harp]

The heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed.
Charlotte Bronte

Hu Shee unveils her heart.

 

[Fading Fast]

The United States and Great Britain together cannot defeat Germany, declared Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the famed aviator went on to state "I would prefer neither side win. I'd like to see a negotiated peace. I believe a complete victory for either side would result in the prostration of Europe such as we have never before seen." Testifying in opposition to the President's Lease-Lend plan for aid to Great Britain, Col. Lindbergh argued that he has seen no sign of an impending German collapse, stating that "she controls the continent now," but stopped short of predicting a German victory in the event of an invasion of England. He also argued that America's present military strength is such that the present export policy is harming the cause of national defense. The Colonel also blamed the United States for "encouraging" Britain to enter the war "when they were not prepared for it," an attitude which he predicted "will be resented after the war."...

It was a multi-decade effort as it took a tremendous amount of work for Charles Lindbergh to completely destroy the good will and hero status he had obtained as a famous aviator and, then, as the parent of the baby at the center of last century's most notorious kidnapping, but he proved to be more than up to the task.

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(It's always good to learn useful job skills.)...

To this day, parts of our culture still venerate farm work as honest and wholesome in an edifying way.

.. (Oh please. Call Leona -- she'll do it without breaking a sweat.)...

No kidding. Leona lives for this stuff. She's waiting up by the phone right now and she doesn't even know why, it's just her subconscious radar kicking in.

... ("Victorola?" Look, if you're gonna use snappy repartee circa 1912, at least spell it right.)

"Dan Dunn" would read so much more effectively with an operatic soundtrack playing in the background.

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Thirty-two-year-old Thurgood Marshall already has several important cases on his record, but is not yet a household name. This case will bear close watching....

"Fat Men's Shop - " really? Even growing up in the less-political-correct '70s, by then these shops had been renamed "Big and Tall" or, at worst, "Husky."

A... "Now You Can Be Taller Than She Is" is the usual Adler pitch -- but this is the first time I've ever seen it directed toward women....

Many women want the traditional appearance as much as the men. At 6'1", I've never dated a woman taller than me, but I have (back in the '90s when I dated) been on dates where we went dutch or the woman was treating and she wanted to slip the money to me so that it would appear to the waiter that I was paying. I never accepted that, but several women offered, even pushed me, to do it that way.

... And the music swells....

Hu Shee couldn't take it any more as Terry missed every darn signal she sent him - good for her. I'm afraid @Harp is going to prove spot on and our Hu Shee will not return, thus leaving Terry a broken-hearted young man.

While I think there is too-much gratuitous sex in shows today (I'm not against showing it, it's just ridiculously forced in everywhere now), this - Hu Shee has carried a torch for a long time and has a premonition she won't return - is when sex would be germane to the moment (but, clearly, that can't happen in a 1941 comic strip).

... KILL WILMER KILL KILL KILL WILMER...

It's really enjoyable to see Skeezix doing well on the road.

... "Lana? Lana who?"...

After chanting "Lana" until it made itself hoarse, the Greek Chorus just walks off in disgust.