The Era -- Day By Day

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("Huh," huhs Joe. "Howbouttat? Ya guy Petey's got t'lowest battin' av'rage inna whole Nat'n'l League. Maybe he might do betta upta Montreal? I mean, lookit Mungo." Sally glares daggers. "He's still," she growls, "hittin' better'n YOU.")...

Has Joe lost his mind? In general, never make fun of Petey to Sally, but in her eighth month, he's completely insane to be poking that elephant []. Hope he has money for a new window and radio.

...Sidney Dean is the best informed actor on Broadway. You might not know his name, but if you've seen "Hellzapoppin'" -- and who hasn't -- Mr. Dean is that singular gentleman who sits at the side of the stage thruout each performance, ignoring the anarchy and reading a newspaper. Mr. Dean has been doing this since 1938, and has become extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of the news -- especially since he added a small portable radio to his routine, hidden inside his coat, and connected to a tiny earphone. He says he especially likes to listen to ball games and prize fights, and has rigged up a system of small visual signals he flashes to the boys in the orchestra pit to let them know the score. Sid says by now he knows every part of the show by rote, and believes he could understudy for anyone in the cast. "Except for the unicyclist," he notes. "I couldn't do that."...

If true about the radio, that's awesome.

... (Hey Scarlett, how much would you charge to go to Boston for the weekend?)...

Since Scarlett's only super power is invisibility, she'd never really be able to do this, especially not to his batting. A professional ballplayer is so fast and powerful, she (like any normal man or woman trying it), invisible or not, would probably just get hurt.

... A doctor and a chiropractor? Nahh, it never would have lasted.....

Here's a crazy thought, don't marry someone you've known for all of three days.

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Y'know something, Hennick? You talk too much.....

Why do we even bother printing these things?

... Well, then, I guess we know exactly what fate awaits Mr. Toemain the Great.....

We have a new entry in the comic-strip tiniest-waist competition.

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At last, Punj gets a sidekick of his own.

I know it's nighttime, but did somebody turn off the backlighting in "Little Orphan Annie?"

And as a bonus for today, the News goes in-depth on Buncombe Bob and the Hope Diamond Heiress!

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"Bob never took the trouble to distinguish his family from the 'tobacco Reynolds' clan." Yeah, that explains a lot.

How perfect that they've numbered the wives' pictures. You can feel a Page Four editor at work.

Do you think wife number three was trying her best to look like (of the era) silent-screen star Marion Davies.

 

[LizzieMaine]

At least four persons are dead and at least sixty were injured in a five-alarm fire that tore thru a freighter and a pier on the Brooklyn waterfront this afternoon, and authorities are investigating the possibility that the disaster was the result of sabotage. The fire aboard the Panuco, owned by the New York and Cuba Mail Line raged thru the ship shortly before noon today, as longshoremen worked to unload the vessel's cargo of lead, copper, and hemp products. That cargo burst into flame as workers milled about the ship in terror, with scores of men leaping over the side of the vessel into the water in an attempt to escape the flames, only to dive into a skin of flaming oil leaked from the burning ship. Thousands of downtown workers raced to the scene of the blaze, clogging traffic in the Boro Hall sector. Police on horseback fought to clear a path thru the milling crowd for firemen and to clear spectators away from the burning pier. Injured men, moaning in agony from burns, were laid out in rows all along the foot of Warren and Baltic Streets as doctors and nurses who rushed to the scene from Long Island College and Kings County, Holy Family, and Cumberland Hospitals attended to the victims. Fireboats flooded the ship with chemicals in an attempt to quench the ravenous flames, which quickly spread to engulf Pier 26, as firemen scrambled along adjacent rooftops to douse the burning structure. The ship was finally towed out to midstream, where it burned itself out around 2 PM.

Among the unsung heroes of the disaster was 21-year-old truck driver Donald Sweeney of 4514 Avenue L, employed by the Boro Hall Lumber Company of 127 Concord Street. Sweeney was making a delivery of lumber at the nearby Michaels Bros. Warehouse on Warren Street when the first series of explosions broke out aboard the ship. He raced to the scene, and, turning his truck into an improvised ambulance, loaded eighteen injured workers onto mattresses piled in the back, and transported them to Long Island College Hospital for emergency treatment.

Another hero of the blazing inferno was 17-year-old Edward Bonica of 376 Sackett Street, who pulled ten men out of the flaming water before falling into the blaze himself. "The eleventh was a little too heavy," acknowledged Bonica, who escaped the flames with only the loss of his eyebrows.

Borough President John Cashmore and District Attorney William O'Dwyer also raced to the scene from their Boro Hall offices to assist in rescue efforts, as did acting mayor Newbold Morris, who praised the firemen for their work in suppressing the fire, noting that the strong southwesterly winds this afternoon could have swept the fire along the entire waterfront had their efforts failed.

Thousands of telephone calls flooded the Eagle switchboards during the fire, beginning with the first explosions and continuing for nearly an hour. All fifty lines were tied up with calls from residents in search of the news of the fire, and urging the investigation of possible sabotage.

District Attorney O'Dwyer today ordered a delay in the burial of a 37-year-old Brooklyn man who served as secretary to the editor of the New Yorker magazine, and who was found dead under unexplained circumstances on August 14th. Harold D. Winney of 522 Ocean Avenue, secretary to magazine editor Harold Ross, was supposed to be buried in Schenectady today, but Mr. O'Dwyer has ordered the body returned to Brooklyn for further examination. Mr. Winney was found dead on the floor of his apartment kitchen last Thursday, the victim of gas asphyxiation. After the body had been sent upstate for burial, Mr. Ross's attorney received a mysterious telephone call from an unidentified man who offered to "make restitution" for $10,000 claimed to be missing from accounts under Mr. Winney's control. Police reported that Winney, who had worked for the New Yorker for about ten years, had left behind a list of persons to be contacted in the event of his death, but no further note was found, and the case is now being investigated as a possible homicide.

Reports from Kearny, New Jersey state that Army troops are preparing to take over the strike-bound Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, "when and if the President so orders." Chief Patrick Dolan of the Hudson County Police stated today that soldiers from the Second Coast Artillery unit at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn will be dispatched to seize the plant upon an order from the White House, but in Washington it was indicated that the President has deferred action on the Kearny strike pending further investigation. Machinists and mechanics walked off the job at the yard twelve days ago following the collapse of negotiations with management. Workers have pledged full cooperation with military authorities in the event that the yard is seized.

A 50-year-old Coney Island woman faces a hearing on Friday on charges that she violated city administrative codes by failing to remove a discarded bread roll and a slice of bread from the beach. Mrs. Clara Feinbloom of 1662 W. 9th Street was arrested after a confrontation over the abandoned baked goods with Special Patrolman Thomas Crowley of the Parks Department, along with a bystander, 27-year-old Harry Zucker, an attorney of 80 Maiden Lane in Manhattan. While no testimony was taken when Mrs. Feinbloom appeared in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, it was learned from the principals in the case that the accused woman had picked up a roll that someone else had left on the beach, and after examining it, tossed it toward a waste can. The roll failed to land in the receptacle, and when Patrolman Crowley, witnessing the incident, ordered Mrs. Feinbloom to pick up up and put it in the can, she reportedly refused to do so because the roll did not belong to her, and she had just found it on the beach. "Go pick it up anyway," Patrolman Crowley ordered, and when Mrs. Feinbloom maintained her refusal, he commanded a nearby little girl to dispose of the roll, which she did. Noticing a slice of bread on the beach, the Patrolman then ordered Mrs. Feinbloom to dispose of it, but she refused that order as well. At that time, Mr. Zucker, seated on the beach nearby, intervened in the argument, and asccused the patrolman of "browbeating" the woman. Patrolman Crowley then arrested them both. Mrs. Feinbloom was released on $25 bail pending her court appearance.

(This will certainly go over well.)

The Brooklyn Dodgers are now glorified in a new 64-page book, on sale at newsdealers thruout the borough and at Ebbets Field for just twenty-five cents. The publication, "The Dodgers -- Today And Yesterday," contains profiles and photos of the present Dodger squad, along with records and an outline of Brooklyn's proud baseball history. It is the first time that such a publication has been devoted to the doings of a single ball club, and features contributions by a number of leading sportswriters.

(Although they don't call it that, this is baseball's first "team yearbook" ever published. It'll go well with the symphony and the cantata.)

(We haven't seen an H&H retail ad in a while. Guess they had to wait for a pie glut.)

Three women were trampled to death in a riot in Harlem yesterday after "5000 Negroes" stampeded the Hudson River Pier at 132nd Street trying to board a steamship cruise bound for a picnic in Poughkeepsie. The cruise was to be sponsored as a fundraiser by Eureka Lodge 8152 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, but police say confusion erupted when large numbers of counterfeit tickets were presented at the pier. Lodge officials indicated that sale of tickets had been halted several days ago when the full number of available seats were exhausted, and police are now searching for the printer responsible for the fake tickets and those responsible for their sale. Five other persons were treated at Harlem Hospital for injuries suffered in the melee.

A yellow-capped Amazon parrot whose specialty is a performance of the Maine Stein Song was ruled off the air yesterday due to the continuing dispute between the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The parrot, a male who goes by the name of "Laura Buda" was to have performed his number on a special CBS broadcast from the Bronx Zoo, but when it was pointed out that the Stein Song is an ASCAP selection, the bird was barred from the microphone while the program went on with other acts, including a barking sea lion, a chimp, and an elephant, none of whom used ASCAP material. Laura Buda is said to be sulking today, continuously whistling the opening bars of the Stein Song at those who pass by his cage.

(There's already a chill in the air...)

(An elephant on the desk? Mr. Lichty's sympathies are showing.)

(Phil Masi. Of all people. PHIL MASI. Oh, and "The Giants are back in town today and the question on the lips of most New York and Brooklyn fans is 'why?'" I love the Eagle sports page.)

(Fussy haircut? Hokey beard? Horn-rimmed glasses? Cropped pants? No doubt about it, Sparky is the ur-hipster.)

(Uh-oh. If this ends up with Jo gagged and tied to a chair in a shack deep in the woods, I won't be a bit surprised.)

(Having seen several real-life small-town Gribbles in action, I can assure you that this never actually happens.)

(You got to hand it to the Skull for taking the time to button his suit coat before opening fire. There's no need to be sloppy.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Oh, Tommy, Oh, Tommy -- how you can love..."

Ever notice how many obviously-unread copies of Shakespeare and the Bible turn up in used book stores? And Mr. Friedman is so obviously lying. He can't wait to find a copy of the News under his seat on the subway so he can see what's going on with Burma.

Horrific. I hope they don't let this story drop.

Just don't fool around with the blanket yourself, kid, not till you've taken the safety course.

Vin is a ventriloquist, and now it's Andy's turn to be trolled.

Monk nothing, HE'S A SPY

Right, because this always works.

Such Crust! Hey Bungle, Chigs is stealing your catchphrase!

Gramps needs a long cold shower.

I do envy Willie's ability, at any time and in any place, to so thoroughly relax.

 

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...A 50-year-old Coney Island woman faces a hearing on Friday on charges that she violated city administrative codes by failing to remove a discarded bread roll and a slice of bread from the beach. Mrs. Clara Feinbloom of 1662 W. 9th Street was arrested after a confrontation over the abandoned baked goods with Special Patrolman Thomas Crowley of the Parks Department, along with a bystander, 27-year-old Harry Zucker, an attorney of 80 Maiden Lane in Manhattan. While no testimony was taken when Mrs. Feinbloom appeared in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, it was learned from the principals in the case that the accused woman had picked up a roll that someone else had left on the beach, and after examining it, tossed it toward a waste can. The roll failed to land in the receptacle, and when Patrolman Crowley, witnessing the incident, ordered Mrs. Feinbloom to pick up up and put it in the can, she reportedly refused to do so because the roll did not belong to her, and she had just found it on the beach. "Go pick it up anyway," Patrolman Crowley ordered, and when Mrs. Feinbloom maintained her refusal, he commanded a nearby little girl to dispose of the roll, which she did. Noticing a slice of bread on the beach, the Patrolman then ordered Mrs. Feinbloom to dispose of it, but she refused that order as well. At that time, Mr. Zucker, seated on the beach nearby, intervened in the argument, and asccused the patrolman of "browbeating" the woman. Patrolman Crowley then arrested them both. Mrs. Feinbloom was released on $25 bail pending her court appearance....

Sounds like the cop was being a bullying jerk, but just throw the bread in the garbage and move on. Everything isn't about a principle; sometimes, you just do something to get on with the day with as little hassle as possible even if "the other guy" is in the wrong.

...The Brooklyn Dodgers are now glorified in a new 64-page book, on sale at newsdealers thruout the borough and at Ebbets Field for just twenty-five cents. The publication, "The Dodgers -- Today And Yesterday," contains profiles and photos of the present Dodger squad, along with records and an outline of Brooklyn's proud baseball history. It is the first time that such a publication has been devoted to the doings of a single ball club, and features contributions by a number of leading sportswriters.

(Although they don't call it that, this is baseball's first "team yearbook" ever published. It'll go well with the symphony and the cantata.)...

Have you ever seen a copy, Lizzie, or was it printed on cheap paper so that all copies have long since disintegrated?

...A yellow-capped Amazon parrot whose specialty is a performance of the Maine Stein Song was ruled off the air yesterday due to the continuing dispute between the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The parrot, a male who goes by the name of "Laura Buda" was to have performed his number on a special CBS broadcast from the Bronx Zoo, but when it was pointed out that the Stein Song is an ASCAP selection, the bird was barred from the microphone while the program went on with other acts, including a barking sea lion, a chimp, and an elephant, none of whom used ASCAP material. Laura Buda is said to be sulking today, continuously whistling the opening bars of the Stein Song at those who pass by his cage....

Everything isn't about a principle; sometimes, you just do something to get on with the day with as little hassle as possible even if "the other guy" is in the wrong. Just let the darn parrot sing.

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(There's already a chill in the air...)...

Yet, unbelievably, it will go on for five more winters.

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(Phil Masi. Of all people. PHIL MASI. Oh, and "The Giants are back in town today and the question on the lips of most New York and Brooklyn fans is 'why?'" I love the Eagle sports page.)...

Great pic of the Dimaggio play at the plate.

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(You got to hand it to the Skull for taking the time to button his suit coat before opening fire. There's no need to be sloppy.)

This is why you can only read "Dan Dunn" as opera. All the Skull had to do was keep quiet as Dan wasn't hurting him at all. While the Skull isn't the sharpest crook ever, he'd have been smart enough to sit still. But from an operatic angle, what a dramatic scene.

... "Oh, Tommy, Oh, Tommy -- how you can love..."....

Might as well spend the money profligately now as, in a few decades, the courts will take all the company's money anyway.

... Monk nothing, HE'S A SPY....

I assume he works for Captain Judas.

But let's talk about this comment of Terry's "I'd be on my way if...." On your way to where young Master Terry? Where exactly are you going in war-torn China without Hu Shee to save you?

 

[ChiTownScion]

One thing that IS better now than it was in the era: the availability of pre- nup agreements.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Copies are still pretty easy to find. It was printed on a heavy pulpy newsprint, and it's usually browned a bit when it does turn up, but they're out there. There were multiple editions, including this one, distributed as an on-air radio offer by Mr. Barber, hence the "Lifebuoy" tag.

"Brooklyn has learned to love him." All except for Sally.

That's Babe Phelps, gawdbless the poor man, on the front cover. I ask you.

 

[LizzieMaine]

As for Terry, he's even more of a boob than we thought. And shouldn't he at least be trying to find out what happened to Pat, let alone Hu Shee? For that matter, you may recall when the group set out on the mission to break the Dragon Lady out of prison, they specifically left Big Stoop behind in Hong Kong. He'd be a handy guy to have around right now if they could get a message to him.

 

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Copies are still pretty easy to find. It was printed on a heavy pulpy newsprint, and it's usually browned a bit when it does turn up, but they're out there. There were multiple editions, including this one, distributed as an on-air radio offer by Mr. Barber, hence the "Lifebuoy" tag.

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"Brooklyn has learned to love him." All except for Sally.

That's Babe Phelps, gawdbless the poor man, on the front cover. I ask you.

"I ask you."

 

[Harp]

One thing that IS better now than it was in the era: the availability of pre- nup agreements.

The opprobrium surrounding the former President and usage of legal confidentiality somewhat surprised
as various convenience such as prenuptial is fairly common now.

 

[Harp]

As for Terry, he's even more of a boob than we thought. And shouldn't he at least be trying to find out what happened to Pat, let alone Hu Shee? For that matter, you may recall when the group set out on the mission to break the Dragon Lady out of prison, they specifically left Big Stoop behind in Hong Kong. He'd be a handy guy to have around right now if they could get a message to him.

Terry is like Jessica Rabbit...he cannot help the way he is drawn...or redrawn.

Caniff skillfully interchanged characters and loci but wartime China circa 1939 had its inherent limits which
he was forced to work with... The kid has little technical resources at his dispose and his teenage hands
full at the moment. Too bad his libidinous arrogance was cashiered by Caniff. I thought after reading those
extracurricular panels that the kid should have hung around town. Having DL as regular squeeze would definitely
sate any adolescent wanderlust.

 

[Harp]

I assume he works for Captain Judas.

But let's talk about this comment of Terry's "I'd be on my way if...." On your way to where young Master Terry? Where exactly are you going in war-torn China without Hu Shee to save you?

Hu-Shee is the proverbial ruby needle hidden in China's haystack. She's gone. Terry doesn't think about
her much, if at all, and he's a lost sheep amongst wolves.

Judas trowels mortar between the bricks of avarice constructed by Raven if the allude holds true.
And avarice may be the adhesive glue betwixt the ravenous lady and Sky King.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A call for divers to descend into the dangerous, water-and-gas-filled wreckage of the death ship Panuco was issued today after two more charred bodies were discovered in the smoldering wreck now grounded on the Gowanus flats. Crewmembers from the fire boat Fire Fighter discovered the bodies on the Panuco's forward deck, but were prevented by the poisonous fumes and intense heat from oil still burning under the aft deck from recovering three other visible bodies. With between 30 and 50 crew members and longshoremen still missing after the disastrous fire yesterday that destroyed both the ship and Pier 27, it is believed that many additional bodies remain inside the ruins of the vessel.

Authorities say a dull explosion was heard around 7:10 this morning deep within the wreck, believed to be the result of the detonation of flammable liquids still inside the ship.

Meanwhile, a Federal board of inquiry into the $1,500,000 disaster convened this morning in Manhattan with 56-year-old Albert Porter of Richmond Hill, chief engineer of the Panuco, the first to take the witness stand. Mr. Porter testified that the fire spread so rapidly, turning the ship into a floating torch, that nothing could be done to save the vessel or the pier. He testified that he and First Officer George Paterson had attempted to cut the ship free of its moorings to get it away from the pier, but were prevented from doing so by an intense wall of flame. Paterson's body was identified among the first three of those recovered from the wreck.

The War Department announced today that selectees and National Guardsmen will be released from active duty after fourteen to eighteen months, unless the international situation becomes more serious. Under the Military Service Extension Bill signed yesterday by President Roosevelt, the Army could keep selectees, guardsmen, and reservists in uniform for as long as thirty months or two-and-a-half years, with Regular Army men bound to service for a total of 4 and one-half years. The Army yesterday sent notice to the field calling for the release from active duty of more than 200,000 men by December 10th, with men with dependencies and hardship cases getting the first priority for release, followed by those men 28 years of age or older as of July 1, 1941, and then married men who request discharge after completing one year in uniform.

Germany is now claiming full control of all of the Ukraine west of the Dnieper River, the capture of 77,750 additional prisoners, and "the imminent dissolution of the Russian main army to the south." It was also reported today by the Nazi high command that German forces have seized a Soviet battleship and seven other warships at Nikolaev.

The United States may issue orders prohibiting Japanese now in this country from leaving without Federal permission, in a retaliatory step protesting Japan's sanctions against Americans attempting to leave that country. The order is seen as a specific response to the Japanese Government's refusal to allow 100 Americans now in that country to leave for home aboard the liner President Coolidge.

A 65-year-old grocer from Brownsville was shot and critically wounded in his store while resisting a holdup. Joseph Rosenthal of 366 Riverdale Avenue was rushed to Kings County Hospital with a bullet wound in his abdomen shortly after 7 AM. Rosenthal told police he had confronted "a 25 year old Negro" who attempted to rob him shortly after he opened the store, and was shot after "taking a swing" at the gunman. Another neighborhood grocer, 35-year-old Jack Pinsky of 457 Watkins Street, reported that a man matching the same description robbed him of $8 earlier in the morning.

In Reading, Pennsylvania, police are searching for a "sex maniac" believed responsible for the murder of an 8-year-old boy, whose body was found crammed into the ice compartment of an old wooden refrigerator in the back of a vacant store. The owner of the building noted an odor coming from the abandoned store and found the remains of frail young Billy Krewson in the ice box. Police say there were no marks of violence visible on the child's body, but it is believed that he was dead before he was put in the ice box. It was also noted that the door of the refrigerator was fully latched, making it impossible for the boy to have climbed inside by himself. The body was wedged so tightly in the compartment that police found it difficult to remove.

("Ha! Again wit' t' beans! All I gotta do is break a pencil inna phone, an' she buys ev'ry time!")

(Magistrate Solomon is what you call "a perpetual candidate." Which is fine, he's gotta do something with all that press he gets. Oh, and if you think the Musicians' Union is tough, wait'll you meet the Magicians.)

(I had a scooter like this, and I've got the scars on my knees to prove it.)

(Silver? Yeah, whatever. Listen, you wouldn't have any spare nickel layin' around would ya?)

(Poor Leo, always on the hot seat, but that's what happens when you work for a lunatic. And Reiser's only hitting .327? That was some slump.)

(I dunno, I think he looks kinda dignified.)

(Yeah, Jimmy -- ah, I mean, "Hartford" -- tell us all about that cheap showgirl who blackmailed you back in '23! Yeah, some of us have lonnnnnng memories, don't we Jo?)

(Boy, in Boomville things sure do move fast!)

("You PHONEY!" You really do have to feel sorry for the Skull. He's got great branding, but he can never quite manage to live up to it.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Tottenville! I used to have relatives that lived in Tottenville, and I can tell you firsthand that a little kid throwing a rock at a train would be the most exciting thing that could ever happen there.

Are these the rumors where he's so crazy he's foaming at the mouth and chewing the carpet? Try some mustard next time, it'll taste better.

The only woman Mr. Munkwitz has ever kissed, or ever will kiss, is the one he drew on his pillowcase that time with a crayon.

A whole new twist on "shut up, kid, or I'll kill you."

Well isn't this just cozy!!

"Are we going to let him GET AWAY WITH IT?" "Well, um, I dunno, I kinda wanted to get home early tonight. Maybe we should take a vote..."

In 1937, a writer named Walter Brooks sold a short story to Liberty magazine entitled "The Talking Horse," about a bumbling gentleman named Wilbur Pope who befriends a sarcastic talking equine named "Ed." These stories will run in various magazines for nearly a decade, and will later form the basis of a popular television series. All of which is to say that poor Gus is just a bit late to the party here.

Isn't it about time Mr. Wumple came back?

Every single kid strip in the history of comics has done this gag at least once. Even Kayo realizes this, but hey, it's a living.

Welllllll, I guess we know where Harold gets it from...

 

[Harp]

Burma may not realize the extent of Terry's infatuation with her, nor for that matter may Terry know himself.

That ba***rd Judas is quite a chameleon.

 

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("Ha! Again wit' t' beans! All I gotta do is break a pencil inna phone, an' she buys ev'ry time!")...

Wonderful, Lizzie, you'd make a nice little corrupt grocer in your next life.

Kidding aside, these are good ads.

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(I dunno, I think he looks kinda dignified.)...

I agree, it de-nerds him a bit, but I think the girls are more worried about their skin with only coconut oil for moisturizer.

... Tottenville! I used to have relatives that lived in Tottenville, and I can tell you firsthand that a little kid throwing a rock at a train would be the most exciting thing that could ever happen there.....

If that's what happened, if it was just a kid "goofing around" and he/she knows what happened to the train and he/she isn't a future sociopath, that is an insane amount of guilt for a kid to carry around.

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The only woman Mr. Munkwitz has ever kissed, or ever will kiss, is the one he drew on his pillowcase that time with a crayon.....

Mike McArthur is an *ss.

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Well isn't this just cozy!!....

She finally tossed the button-less blouse in the wash. Thank God, that thing had to be ripe.

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"Are we going to let him GET AWAY WITH IT?" "Well, um, I dunno, I kinda wanted to get home early tonight. Maybe we should take a vote..."....

"It's already been a long day and he's got a gun and everything. Does one more bad guy out there really matter, it's a big country? Okay then, it's settled, we call it a day and everyone goes home. Hey, Dick, can I catch a ride with you."

... Isn't it about time Mr. Wumple came back?.....

If/when he does come back, this crew will do anything for him - lesson learned.

 

[LizzieMaine]

American-built Tomahawk fighter planes and British fighting craft pursued a German twin-engined bomber over Iceland today during a 45-minute air-raid alarm. The Nazi plane escaped into the clouds before it could be overtaken by the pursuit ships, and no bombs were dropped. American naval and Army forces occupied Iceland last month, and remain based there along with British troops, but it has not been stated whether American fliers were involved in today's incident.

Red Army forces are reported to be throwing back Nazi invasion troops along the central front on the approach to Moscow, but a Soviet communique today acknowledged that German forces have advanced another 65 miles from the south along the approach to Leningrad. Heavy fighting is reported along all fronts.

A gateman and a watchman at Pier 27, where the freighter Panuco was destroyed in an enormous conflagration on the Brooklyn waterfront on Monday, testified today that no water came thru the 150 foot hose they unreeled as part of efforts to extinguish the blaze. Appearing before a Federal board of inquiry in Manhattan this morning, watchman James Durkin and gateman Horace E. Paine testified that they were on the street side of the blaze, and immediately unreeled a hose attached to the pier -- but both men flatly stated that no water came out. They were forced to abandon the hose and flee for their lives as the flames swelled across the pier. Thru the sheets of fire, they observed a longshoreman known to them only as "Pat," running and screaming with his clothing engulfed in flame.

Four more bodies were recovered from the oil-soaked debris floating in the water off the ruins of Pier 27 this morning, including that of 64-year-old longshoreman Paul "Pop" Kaminski of 330 Vermont Street, a forty year veteran of the Brooklyn docks who was last seen by his son-in-law Leo Zwick of 160 Russell Street, who stopped by the pier early Monday morning to arrange a lunch date, and with a wave from the Panuco, where he was bent over carrying heavy crates off the ship, Kaminski told him to "come back at 1 o'clock." It was a date that would never be kept.

Police say twelve "cylinders" found aboard the Panuco were not related to the explosion and fire that destroyed the vessel. The cylinders were examined and found to contain a fumigating solution commonly used to fight vermin aboard ships.

In Detroit, leaders of the American Federation of Labor warned of a possible general strike by 35,000 city employees if a tie-up of that city's municipal transportation system, which inconvenienced thousands of workers, is not resolved by tonight. The walkout by members of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach employees after the collapse of contract negotiations with the city has already forced the shutdown of the Hudson Motor Car Company plants, affecting 9000 employees there.

In Chicago a prominent banker is urging depositors to withdraw all their funds from their banks "for the duration of the Roosevelt-concocted emergency." President J. M. "100 Percent" Nichols of the First National Bank of Englewood declared yesterday that the war crisis has led to "the spectacle of a nation betrayed by its own officials, a people divided as never before, not even in Civil War days, and on all sides resorting to nature's first law of self-preservation," and further stated that under such conditions "he had no desire to continue serving as a custodian of other peoples' money." Nichols, a vociferous opponent of the New Deal, has been urging mass withdrawals from the banking system since last spring, and noted that only $39,000 remains on deposit with his own bank, most of it in accounts whose owners cannot be traced. The bank at one time boasted deposits of more than $7,000,000.

In Boston, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Terry Moore was hospitalized this afternoon after he was hit in the head by a pitch from Braves rookie left-hander Art Johnson. The star centerfielder dropped unconscious to the dirt around home plate, and remained unconscious for nearly ten minutes before an ambulance drove onto the field to rush him to the hospital. The injury to Moore is the second significant recent blow to the Cardinal pennant hopes, with right fielder Enos Slaughter already sidelined for the rest of the campaign by a shattered shoulder. Moore was not wearing a protective helmet when he was hit.

(You know, I think there just might be a market for a soap opera revolving around the romantic lives of prizefighters.)

"Miss B" writes to Helen Worth complaining that her friends are telling her she's too old to travel alone. She says she's "near the 60s" and is bored with her life. "I have $900," she says, "and I thought a trip to Florida would do me good. But my cousin thinks I'm out of my mind." Helen says "your cousin's views are archaic." She urges Miss B to go ahead and do it, but better to wait until September or October. And be sure to select "an unfashionable spot" so that your money will go further.

(John Barrymore was widely considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation. I just feel like I need to put that out there.)

(Patriotism takes many forms.)

(Mr. Davis, who came to Brooklyn as a throw-in in the Medwick deal last year, has always been a pitcher from whom little has seemed to be expected. And yet he always seems to exceed expectations.)

(Don Juan? How about Monty Woolley?)

(You gotta admire Oakdale's sang-froid. He's cool even in a cold sweat.)

(Just to be sure, you did take away the Skull's gun, right? Because, you know, he had a gun.)

 

[Harp]

^^^I haven't been following all this Skulldugery but the learned judge has suspended court
and probably declared prosecutor motion for mistrial or will shortly do so, and post motion
consolidation and witness condition subsequent will direct further legal recourse.

A physician directing the court is comic though. A chuckle or two at any rate.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Maybe these Princesses ought to get together and work something out.

When I was in radio during the First Gulf War, the owner of the station mandated that the Star Spangled Banner be played every day at the stroke of noon, leading into my noon news broadcast. It wore very thin very fast, especially since we had to keep it up for years after the war was over, but I did appreciate that it gave me about a minute and thirty seconds extra to finish writing my script.

You know, I could really get behind this.

Aw, c'mon. Shouldn't he be saying "YI!" in big shaky lettering? I always look forward to that.

I realize we've established that Little Face is not the brightest thug in the mugbook, but when you're in the back seat of a speeding car, shooting the driver is seldom the best strategy.

Awright, Burma. Which side are you on?

OK, Hawkman can talk to hawks, Aquaman can talk to fish. Looks like Andy's heading for a superhero career where he talks to -- um -- dogs, milk-wagon horses, and grackles.

I wonder what Godiva's up to now?

Kayo's trenchant critique of the health care system is well taken.

Better get that shake looked at, Gramps, while you can still afford it.

 

[Harp]

Burma is playing her own side. That can become a very lonely place to be.

 

[Fading Fast]

... (John Barrymore was widely considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation. I just feel like I need to put that out there.)...

Noting it again, the selection of movies in theaters in 1941 is incredible. Also, interesting to see almost every play listed under "Stage Plays - Manhattan" running now, was turned into a movie, some with the actors from the stage playing the same role in the movie.

..
(Patriotism takes many forms.)...

This one could be interpreted as being sweet as these women know they don't have much to offer the war effort, so they want their little contribution to do whatever good it can.

...[
(You gotta admire Oakdale's sang-froid. He's cool even in a cold sweat.)...

Oakdale is also darn good at framing things in a way that makes him sound noble; it's pretty much his entire game, "If it will help justice for me to stay off the stand, I'll be glad to make the sacrifice." We all know people like him. It is a marvel how they can make the most selfish thing they do, kinda sorta, sound self-sacrificing on the surface.


Did "Mary Worth" take a day off? Somebody needs to review her contract.

...
Maybe these Princesses ought to get together and work something out.....

Can't we just say it, the Princess was running a cat house.

"Two other women seized at the same time vanished after being released on bail and are being sought." Don't worry, they'll pop up in another raid.

Re the prison conjugal visits:
- One, nice euphemism "the sex situation."
- Two, "usually a prisoner may be visited only by the same woman each time -" heck, otherwise, Princess Olga could open up a string of prison branches of her business
- Three, "the women must past medical examinations -" that particular exam has gotta kill the mood for what is supposed to follow.

...
You know, I could really get behind this.....

"That's just crazy. You can't run a country that way; we need to take our politics much more seriously than this. I'd never deign to vote for, what?, wait, huh? Dorothy Lamour as Secretary of Glamour. Hmm, maybe I've been hasty. This could work.

...
Awright, Burma. Which side are you on?....

You warned us early on, Lizzie, Burma's on Burma's side. Plus she can't leave and go back to Raven's place until her blouse dries and it's humid as heck there.