The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

(Buggsy was an electrician. Is Chester Gould writing the real world now?)

Russian troops, including ski troops and Cossacks cavalry are reported today to have broken thru the German lines at Kharkov, great industrial center of the Ukraine. The Kuibyshev radio reported the Nazis in retreat on both flanks of the city's outer defenses as Red Army forces push them thru a snowstorm of blizzard proportions. Between Kharkov and Kursk, 120 miles to the north, the Soviets made an advance of 15 miles and the German command is said to have thrown thousands of reserves into the lines in an attempt to stop the drive by hastily-organized counterattacks. The Moscow Communist Party newspaper Pravda reports today that in its advance to the Donets River, the Red Army found hordes of unburied German dead frozen in the streets of towns.

Two members of a Senate committee investigating national defense contracts today called for new taxes on excess profits instead of a flat limitation in order to prevent "outrageous and unconscionable" profiteering by defense contractors. Chairman Harry S. Truman (D-Mo.) and Senator Owen Brewster (R-Me.) agreed that placing a limit on profits under war contracts would not accomplish that goal, and that only under taxation would all contractors be certain to receive equal treatment. "I would be in favor," declared Senator Brewster, "of finding a fair method to determine normal corporation profits, and then to take away 80 percent of everything above that."

(Social media in action, 1942.)

The performer billed for years as "The One Man Vaudeville Show" has retired due to ill health after a 35-year-career. Comedian Joe Cook, whose career took him from the tank towns of Indiana to Broadway stardom, is suffering from Parkinson's Disease, a form of paralysis which has affected his left hand and arm. Cook, a talented singer, dancer, musician, tightrope walker, juggler, and pantomimist, whose best-known gag was to debate himself over whether he would imitate two or four Hawaiians, formerly owned a fabulous estate called Sleepless Hollow at Lake Hoptacong, New Jersey, but sold that propertly last year and now resides in Jackson Heights. His son, Joe Cook Jr., is an Air Corps cadet in Florida.

(We're right at the tipping point between the age of the neighborhood grocery store and the age of the supermarket. "Bohack Square" indeed.)

(It takes a certain audacity to do a production of "The Mikado" in February 1942, no matter how you adjust the text. And at the Flatbush, Slapsie Maxie AND the Adrian Rollini Trio? From the ridiculous to the sublime...)

(I once planted corn in a window box, and it didn't work out too well...)

A 25-year-old Schenck Avenue man faces a Federal prison term after his conviction on charges of draft evasion. Ralph O. Robinson, a recent graduate of Teachers' College at Columbia University had claimed to be a conscientious objector, but his claim was disallowed by Local Board #232, and Robinson refused to report for induction into the Army as directed. He was ordered remanded for sentencing on February 11th.

(Gawdblessya, Fitz. Even if they don't put you in the Hall of Fame, you're in mine.)

(Beefcake!)

(The thing with Jo's constant berating of George is that she is absolutely right.)

(I wonder if they have candy stores in Boomville?)

(This is even funnier if you imagine Der Fury delivering his lines in Ed Wynn's voice.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Aw, th' poor kid," says Joe. "'Magine gettin' stuck on a buncha pawkin' tickets run up by ya no-account brutta?" "What?" snaps Sally. "No, no, no," backpedals Joe. "HER no-account brutta, not, ah ..."

Cleaning up loose ends.

"Is it true you boys like to be called 'yardbirds?'"

Remember that Pat is working as an agent of the DL, and she would frown highly on him abandoning his post.

"Great, she's catatonic." "CATatonic?" yelps Sandy.

Mr. King has actually come quite a ways from the way he used to draw these characters, and has eliminated the broad dialect. There's a new world coming.

"It's Andy posing in his underwear!" Well, give the public what it wants.

The cream will soon be clotted.

You can see Emmy has given this matter a good bit of thought.

"Can This Marriage Be Saved?"

 

[Fading Fast]

...[ (It takes a certain audacity to do a production of "The Mikado" in February 1942, no matter how you adjust the text. And at the Flatbush, Slapsie Maxie AND the Adrian Rollini Trio? From the ridiculous to the sublime...)...

Herbert Cohn gets another one right as the best way to watch "All Through the Night" is to all but ignore the plot and just enjoy the quips, style and antics.

"Design for Scandal," despite a good cast, is boring.

It would be fun for Joe and Sally to go to see "Woman of the Year" at Radio City and then get a bite to eat at H&H, but with Joe's schedule, the baby and the cost, it probably ain't gonna happen.

... [ (Gawdblessya, Fitz. Even if they don't put you in the Hall of Fame, you're in mine.)...

Wonderful tidbits about Fitz in there.

Just guessing, but I'd bet DiMaggio's salary will make the best paid Dodger feel poor.

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(Beefcake!)...

Men have fought hard to be taken seriously for their intellect and then a strip like this comes along painting men as nothing more than objects for women's sexual desire and the cause is set back decades.

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(The thing with Jo's constant berating of George is that she is absolutely right.)...

If George had been an investor, it would have taken Bernie Madoff ten minutes to have stolen all of George's money...no, make that five minutes.

... "Aw, th' poor kid," says Joe. "'Magine gettin' stuck on a buncha pawkin' tickets run up by ya no-account brutta?" "What?" snaps Sally. "No, no, no," backpedals Joe. "HER no-account brutta, not, ah ..."...

Joe likes living dangerously.

Our milk firms had an unhappy day in court.

And what the heck happened with the poultry truck driver? That story is hard to believe.

It's good to have Page Four back. Can't help wondering what we missed: "The long unsolved mystery of the plump blonde NJ bank robber came to a surprising end today all owing to the serial number on a humble one-dollar bill used to purchase peroxide and some candy from a drug store in..."

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Remember that Pat is working as an agent of the DL, and she would frown highly on him abandoning his post....

Raven Sherman from the great beyond: "Well screw you, Pat Ryan."

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"Great, she's catatonic." "CATatonic?" yelps Sandy...."

"Plus only one panel and not even my good profile, I hate today." - Sandy

Doc's gotta get a real psychiatrist into that house with Katie and now Annie. His ad hocism ain't gonna cut it anymore.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Catching Up...

(And so the "Sauerkraut Bandit" became a legend...)

(There's an opera in this right here.)

(I've never been to a Turkey Bar. Do they have gravy on tap, or do they pour it out of a bottle?)

(The origin of the Tracy-Hepburn team.)

(Maybe you should just go out to eat. I recommend the Turkey Bar.)

(Dodgers lying about their ages? Tell me Fitz isn't really fifty.)

(I don't know what kind of bar Boody goes to, but it's definitely not a Turkey Bar.)

(The WASP! Well, at least we have a promising villian on the horizon. Unless he turns out to be some skinny guy with a long nose and a bad temper.)

(It really isn't this easy.)

(The Fury lives in a walkup in Bensonhurst? Wait'll Sally finds out.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Sure, but does Eugenia have a lion cub named "Winston Churchill?"

Clip and Save.

"Sometimes a sharp slap..." This guy was my dentist when I was six.

IF ONLY!

If Page Four has taught us one thing, it's to be suspicious of quiet men who spend a lot of time hanging around in cellars.

Ruby Bob must be Freddie's brother.

SANDHURST YOU RAT.

You think you're old now, Walt? You haven't seen the half of it.

Goofy's an idiot.

"Hah!" says Mr. F. Fitzsimmons of Brooklyn USA. "Lookit that fat guy move!"

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Donald Duck makes $80,000 for a seven minute picture? Let's see DiMaggio top that.)

(Wait, not one of them from Brooklyn?)

("Keep 'em clean" but "avoid toothbrushing?" Which is it, Doc?)

(If you kids can't get along and play nicely, we're going to take away your toys.)

("And fifty pounds of sugar, too!")

("He's quite hot." Well, I suppose, if you go for that type.)

(And which aviation comic strip might that be?)

("Such a stupid. HA!")

("Such a stupid. HA!")

("Such a stupid. HA!")

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Mermaid bureau?" Never heard it called THAT before.

Now, there's no need to be sarcastic.

"Ayuh!"

"He may or may not be conscious, depending on how hard I hit him."

Wait, her eyes are always like that.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Mr. King is trying. You've got to give him that.

"One Ton Trucke?" And his sons, Half Ton, Quarter Ton, and Roadster Delivery.

How's he get his neck to do that, anyway?

I have had lumbago, and Emmy's comment in the fourth panel doesn't begin to convey it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(The little item about Rep. Fish bears close attention. The Grand Jury will be very very interested in his testimony.)

The Red Army reported tonight that the siege of Leningrad has been further relieved, with huge tanks striking at stiffened German defense lines on the central front. Russian forces striking toward Smolensk and pushing westward on both sides of Kharkov in the south reported that Soviet tanks ranging up to 52 tons have inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, and had broken up German attempts to launch counterattacks. War front dispatches stated that fighting was becoming more intense as a result of the arrival of German reinforcements, including troops which Hitler was planning to hold back for a spring offensive.

The first wartime gubernatorial election confronting New York State voters in 25 years, and the role Brooklyn is destined to play in the campaign, which has assumed broad, general outlines, figured tonight in a growing discussion of political moves centered for the moment on Capitol Hill. The opinion has been strengthened that incumbent Governor Herbert H. Lehman will for the fifth consecutive time lead the Democratic ticket, and that former Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, defeated by Mr. Lehman in 1938, will again be the Republican nominee. But aside from these statewide discussions, a new factor may see Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer offered by the Democratic Party as a candidate for a judicial position, returning him to the bench he sacrificed at his party's call in 1939. Mr. O'Dwyer had barely begun the 14-year Kings County judicial term he was elected to fill in 1938 when he was tapped as a candidate for the District Attorney's office, winning in 1939 a term that runs thru 1943. But now that the leading members of the Murder for Money Gang are imprisoned, with some waiting in the death house for their dates with the electric chair, and it is now strongly rumored that Mr. O'Dwyer may step down to seek a return to the bench on a 1942 Lehman ticket.

Air bombing of Brooklyn is not merely a possibility -- but a probability, according to the head of the Civilian Advisory Service. Dr. H. Maxer-Daxladen of Manhattan, a civilian defense student of long standing, points out that, as opposed to Manhattan with its tall towers of steel and stone, Brooklyn contains many miles of low wooden homes and other structures, many of flimsy construction, surrounding highly strategic manufacturing and shipping facilities, along with vital naval and military installations. Brooklyn, he noted, is at a decided disadvantage in that it has a much smaller number of natural bomb shelters in the form of large steel-frame buildings. Dr. Maxer-Daxladen suggests that local civilian defense operations should be operated on a formal military-style enlistment basis, as opposed to the present pure volunteer system, to ensure the availablility at all times of a fully-trained civilian defense force.

Noted "Negro Baritone" Paul Robeson will sing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on March 29th in a concert to benefit Russian war relief. All proceeds of "An Evening With Paul Robeson" will go to purchase medical supplies for Russian victims of Nazi aggression. The concert will be Mr. Robeson's only performance in the metropolitan area this season. The program has not been determined, but is expected to include many of Mr. Robeson's old favorites, along with a selection of Red Army songs he learned during a pre-war tour of the Soviet Union.

(And up on the fourth floor of 215 Montague Street, beneath the baleful glare of the mounted moose head, Leland Stanford MacPhail glares balefully across the desk at J. Whitlow Wyatt. "HOW OLD ARE YOU AGAIN?" he snarls. "HOW OLD!" "Not as old as some people," drawls J. Whit, making a pantomime gesture as if to bowl.)

(He better be tough, salty, and crusty wearing a collar like that.)

Old Timer W.D. remembers the old days at P. S. 29 on Columbia Street, where gruff Mrs. O'Connor would make you sit with a wad of chewing gum stuck on the end of your nose, should you be caught masticating the chicle in class.

(Herb wants to make sure you're all clear on how he feels about "Kings Row.")

(Things I Never Knew Till Now: steamboats really were a big deal in the 19th Century Dakotas.)

(This is getting a bit icky.)

(C'mon, let's see Garner in a romper too.)

(Sunny needs a new snowsuit, that one appears to be wearing pretty thin in the seat. And as you can see, they call Der Fury "Der Fury" because of his calm and even disposition.)

(George has owned the same crappy car since 1923, and if anybody wants it they're probably just moviemakers.)

("Her hot desert blood does not mix well with the bold modern ways she learned in Istanbul." S'matter, bud, can't keep up?)

 

[PrivateEye]

Been out of town for a week, but it sure was nice to come back to the Daily News - even though the site update made me wait an extra day!

Interesting show on Discovery over the weekend, "Hitler's American Battlefield", about the U-boat activity off the coast off the Carolinas - some of which we read about here.

Had some good footage, worth a watch.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Yep, you wanted Page Four, and now you got Page Four.

Ahhhhh, where was Mr. Hill when the lights went out?

"Loookie! It goes up and down!" "Sigh, what's keeping those thugs?"

Maybe Maw Green should take over the case.

FACE EATING DOGS! FACE EATING DOGS! FACE EATING DOGS!

SANDHURST YOU RAT!!!!!

It's good to see they let Tops out of the guardhouse for the big party.

If you stop and think about it, Shadow really is just a little sociopath.

Now would be a good time for a guest appearance by Sparky Watts.

Everybody's doing blackout gags.

 

[Harp]

Tunis Quick should have been convicted of Murder 1st degree, not involuntary manslaughter
as this lesser charge is insufficient to motive and action pursuant this homicide. Passion is a tenuous
defense outside marriage, while defendant's innate vindictiveness is more the motivating force;
also, to reiterate, a twenty-one year old dating a fourteen year old girl is itself ridiculous.

 

[Fading Fast]

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(The little item about Rep. Fish bears close attention. The Grand Jury will be very very interested in his testimony.)
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Lesson from the night worker: don't carry a bullet around as a charm that you play with.

Why does anyone need to be told this?

The first wartime gubernatorial election confronting New York State voters in 25 years, and the role Brooklyn is destined to play in the campaign, which has assumed broad, general outlines, figured tonight in a growing discussion of political moves centered for the moment on Capitol Hill. The opinion has been strengthened that incumbent Governor Herbert H. Lehman will for the fifth consecutive time lead the Democratic ticket, and that former Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, defeated by Mr. Lehman in 1938, will again be the Republican nominee. But aside from these statewide discussions, a new factor may see Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer offered by the Democratic Party as a candidate for a judicial position, returning him to the bench he sacrificed at his party's call in 1939. Mr. O'Dwyer had barely begun the 14-year Kings County judicial term he was elected to fill in 1938 when he was tapped as a candidate for the District Attorney's office, winning in 1939 a term that runs thru 1943. But now that the leading members of the Murder for Money Gang are imprisoned, with some waiting in the death house for their dates with the electric chair, and it is now strongly rumored that Mr. O'Dwyer may step down to seek a return to the bench on a 1942 Lehman ticket.
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"Fully endorsed by, me, Mayor LaGuardia, [sotto voce] if it gets this guy out of my hair."

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(Herb wants to make sure you're all clear on how he feels about "Kings Row.")
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How in God's name did he talk that much about "King's Row" and not mention Charles Coburn?

I guess Ms. Hepburn is friends with all those who called her box-office poison.

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(This is getting a bit icky.)
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Embarrassingly, I lost the thread of the story line of this not-challenging strip and had to go back and reread it, but yes, now that I get it, it's icky-creepy. Also, I'm not really vested in these characters as they come and go and Stamm doesn't build enough back story for the reader to really care that much.

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(Sunny needs a new snowsuit, that one appears to be wearing pretty thin in the seat. And as you can see, they call Der Fury "Der Fury" because of his calm and even disposition.)
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"Sweetheart...you made be a fury to some people, but to me you are just an ex-paperhanger. Now, hush up, I've got a job of work to do."

Everyone once in awhile, corny Dan fires off a heck of a good line.

And in the Daily News...

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Yep, you wanted Page Four, and now you got Page Four.
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Sweet Jesus that is a lot of Page Four today.

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"Loookie! It goes up and down!" "Sigh, what's keeping those thugs?"
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It's possible Marsh wrote the entire broken-leg storyline for that one line to be delivered, it should be noted, by a drunk party girl at something like 3am in the morning.

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Maybe Maw Green should take over the case.
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What are the awards for comic strips called, the Commys []. Well, whatever they are, Sandy's use of body English and facial expression to convey emotion is worthy of one today.

"Thank you, I'll just add this to my press clippings." - Sandy

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FACE EATING DOGS! FACE EATING DOGS! FACE EATING DOGS!
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"Now Lizzie, we've made great progress, tell me what it is about, how do you say it, 'FACE EATING DOGS! FACE EATING DOGS! FACE EATING DOGS!' that so interests you?"

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SANDHURST YOU RAT!!!!!
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Just pointing out that Pat and Normandie will soon be a mile up in the air - if only they could think of something to do (that they've done before).

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If you stop and think about it, Shadow really is just a little sociopath.
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We say it every week, but every week Ed does it again - he tells the same joke on Sunday. It is something to behold.

Susie Q just entered the comicstrip tinniest-Wasp-waist list at number three.

 

[Harp]

Upon further thread review the docket pickings are ripe. I would have advised Colonel Beck
to have placed his Tennessee mansion in a 'tenancy in the entirety' trust; also, his second property
deed I presume to be in his possession, Ms Foster is an emancipated minor and therefore can enter
real property contract and transfer real estate deed. Yet, apparently she did not receive conveyance
thereof. So, Ms Foster is in adversarial possession of the property she claims was given her by Beck.
And her claim is tenuous, and contested by her former lover who faces statutory rape; while Ms Foster
might be named complicit therein charge as relates her younger sister. Accessory to statutory rape
of a minor; perhaps further charges if said sister crossed any state lines for illicit purpose.

Ms Montalbano may lay claim against her lover for marital estate citing joint tenancy under common law.
However, Mrs Colonel Beck was validly wed to the lead pencil at this time. And Mrs Colonel Beck has
absolutely no intention of divorcing a pencil factory during wartime government contractual.
However, if I were her counsel I would advise a New York divorce file which would include all marital
estate property with concurrent claim in Tennessee.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("I know," says Milton Caniff. "I'll have Terry catch up with April in Singapore, and...OH DAMN!")

("Stealin' a accordion?" huffs Joe. "''At ain'no crime." "Atsa public soivice," adds Sally.)

(Don'cha know there's a war on??)

("The meek shall inherit the earth.")

("The Old Jew Baiter" referred to here is a very specific example thereof -- Mr. Henry Ford, who last month released a statement in support of brotherhood and other wholesome things. Mr. Ford, however, did not , as a condition of that statement, repudiate his Nazi medal. And the "Wave of the Future Movement" is a direct reference to the Lindberghs, Charles A. and Anne M., and to Mrs. Lindbergh's 1941 book "The Wave Of The Future," in which she strongly suggested that global fascism was that wave.)

(Mr. Dunninger, referred to by Mr. Parrott, is Joseph Dunninger, aka Dunninger the Mentalist, a vaudeville fakir currently enjoying a vogue on the nightclub circuit, and soon to become a major star on the radio. And obviously, alas, a Reds fan.)

(Somebody really didn't think this thru.)

("As if you were leading a parade!" Yeah, with an elephant!)

(Cards? Oh, no, Mary's game is craps.)

(And when you get up there, do a few loops just for laughs.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Opiates were actually very commonly used to "settle down babies" in 1942. Laudanum, paregoric, and similar products were sold over the counter at the neighborhood drug store, and could be found in most medicine cabinets of the time.

"Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before..."

"Father John's" contains no opiates. It contains gentian root. It won't kill you, but it'll make you go out behind the house and throw up in the ditch.

"Jingo lingo?"

Where's Sam the Presser now that we need him?

"Poor Dick."

A crooked boxing promoter? HOW CAN SUCH THINGS BE???

Hams, roasts, fried chicken and FORTY POUNDS OF CHEESE? How can *I* get an invitation to this wingding?

When my grandfather didn't want to hear what my grandmother had to say, he'd lean back in his chair just like Willie, and turn off his hearing aid. My grandmother never threatened him with a broom, but I did see her once bounce a pound of raw hamburger across the top of his head.

I often wonder if there are any happily-married cartoonists.

 

[Harp]

The Rev Mr Chworowsky reminds me of that leprechaun about town but absent at the barricades,
William Butler Yeats, complete wearing pince nez, black ribbon affixed, patrician scowl, white suit jacket.
Gonadal insufficiency addressed sheep testosterone and Irish as the potato, but strictly stonebreaker,
Nobel laureate in tow Yeats disgusts me more so than Celine.

No offense to the reverend.

 

[Fading Fast]

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(Don'cha know there's a war on??)
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The math jumps out at you, but they did everything they could to not say the fare increase was 10%.

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(Somebody really didn't think this thru.)
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Does Rogers ever think his plots and science through?

Opiates were actually very commonly used to "settle down babies" in 1942. Laudanum, paregoric, and similar products were s

old over the counter at the neighborhood drug store, and could be found in most medicine cabinets of the time.
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Those are two brutal Page Four stories. Hopefully, the police will track down the killer of the woman in the hotel.

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"Jingo lingo?"
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"Normandie, come this way, let me show you around the aircraft. Oh, look here, how 'bout that, a little nook where no one can see us."

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Hams, roasts, fried chicken and FORTY POUNDS OF CHEESE? How can *I* get an invitation to this wingding?
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Do it now before rationing really hits.

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I often wonder if there are any happily-married cartoonists.

It does feel that way, but the flip is that there's no story in a happy, content marriage because there's no conflict. These writers need conflict and a lot of it to put out four panels a day, everyday and more on Sunday. So who knows, some of them might be happily married and they just pull material from other marriages.

 

[Harp]

Mrs Epstein committed infanticide by deliberate act, which recalls Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Woodward wherein an eighteen year old British nanny shook an infant to death. However Massachusetts
sets timed premeditation, Epstein is in greater jeopardy by time. And her defense will be temporary
insanity wrought by stress, citing her prior documented illness. Prosecution may need to offer a more
lenient charge but Justice demands the fullest application of law.

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Hong Kong air routes might be locked without radio contact point signals.
Celestial 'dead reckoning' might be optional for emergency navigation if plane has a sextant
used to take angular sight distance from a fixed star to horizon.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Nothing suspicious about this. Nothing suspicious about this at all.)

Allied forces which for ten days have held back the Japanese invasion of Burma at the Salween River, 100-odd miles from the Burma Road, today prepared to meet a new offensive north of the bomb-smashed river town of Paan. Japanese forces are reported to be gathering on the east bank of the Salween in Thailand to hurl an attack westward toward Toungoo, nearly midway of the Rangoon-Mandalay Railroad which is the first link in China's life line.

A Senate subcommittee is today prepared to take up where the house left off in discussing appropriations for, and personalities of, the Office of Civilian Defense, that office to which are attached First Lady Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, actor Melvyn Douglas, and dancer Mayris Chaney. The House, without so much as acknowledging Mrs. Roosevelt's suggestion that she might enlighten Congress on the manifold duties the OCD has been and will be called upon to perform, passed and sent to the Senate a $160,000,000 deficiency appropriations bill carrying a $100,000,000 appropriation for the OCD. Controversy has arisen in Congress over whether the movie actor Mr. Douglas and the rhythmic dancer Miss Chaney will expect remuneration from the Government for their services. Miss Chaney is presently on the Federal payroll at $4600 a year in the children's services section. When Mr. Douglas was appointed to serve as the head of the OCD Arts Council, it was announced that he would be paid at $8000 a year, but on Sunday, Mr. Douglas issued a statement indicating that he was working "WOC" -- without compensation.

Laura Ingalls' own words and possessions were laid out in testimony against her in support of the Government's charge that she acted as a paid agent of Nazi Germany, with the assignment to "soften up America for Adolf Hitler." The 38-year-old aviatrix is accused of failing to register with Federal authorities as a foreign agent, and if convicted faces up to two years in prison and a $1000 fine. In Washington Federal Court yesterday, two prosecution witnesses testified that they heard Miss Ingalls praise Hitler, and declare that he is the kind of man America needs. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation produced briefcases containing documentation of the defendant's activities on behalf of the German government, and also her personal copy of HItler's book "Mein Kampf," with many passages underlined in red ink.

(I had no idea they awarded an actual golden belt to Broadway producers. I wonder how many ended up in pawn shops?)

("I awways wondehed," wonders Joe, "howcum t'ey got tanks an' we dit'n? Be nice ta have a few tanks aroun', give t' neighbeh'hood atmospheeeh." "Nah," notes Sally, "t'ey'd neveh be able to pay off t' pawkin' tickets!"")

(Cuffed slacks? Not for long, kids.)

A bill now pending in the Legislature would ease restrictions on child labor, in anticipation of a future need to use children in place of adult farm workers expected to be taken into the armed forces or war work. The bill would authorize the release from compulsory education requirements children over the age of fourteen whose labor is required in the fields during planting and harvesting seasons. Opponents of the bill contend that it requires an insufficient level of proof of need before children may be released from school to take up
farm labor.

(Baldness is no grounds for exemption!)

(Phil "The Flea" Rizzuto? Is that nice?? And it's testimony to our fast-moving times that Dizzy Dean, who just turned 32, seems like a figure out of the distant past.)

(Do you get the sense that Boody is getting bored with his job?)

(No wonder they sleep in twin beds.)

(Yeah, and after she irons your pants, see if she'll turn your shirt cuffs.)

(And the Fury's voice is provided today by Mr. Joe Besser.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

The News lives for days like this.

Funny, she doesn't *look* Aryan.


"What do YOU think, Sandy?" "I think speaking parts get more than scale!"

"Ain't I got trouble enough woikin' for Sheffield's?"

"Normandie Burns!"

What chin?

*snif* Pal. *snif.*

Well, you should've been out there helping in the first place.

"POP!"

And please welcome our special guests today, Mr. Earl and Raisa Browder. Mr. Clark will be getting a call from the Dies Committee in the morning.