The Era -- Day By Day

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(It's somehow comforting that, even with the war news as dismal as it is, there'll always be a place right up front for a juicy celebrity divorce.)
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This was Myrna's first of what would be four divorces, which puts her in the ranks of a good utility infielder for Page Four.

The Campbeltown is a fantastic story.

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Mrs. Marie "Dearie" McKeever Mulvey has been chosen Brooklyn's Ideal Mother for 1942. Mrs. Mulvey, owner of a one-quarter share of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a prominent horsewoman and is active in local charity work. The wife of Mr. James Mulvey, a Dodger vice president and the New York representative for film producer Samuel Goldwyn, and the mother of daughters Marie, age 16, and Anne, age 10, and son Stephen, age 14, and the daughter of the late Stephen W. McKeever, from whom she inherited her Dodger stock, Mrs. Mulvey will be honored on May 10th, Mother's Day, with a dinner at the Hotel Granada. The Mulveys live at 39 Maple Avenue in Flatbush.
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It's good to see that Sally's let the Coscarart trade go. Wouldn't the Mulveys be thrilled to have Joe and Sally knock on their door. Joe saying hello with an extended hand while Sally's already launched into a passionate Dodger discussion.

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(I don't think I've ever heard anyone call her "Hay-dee.")
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While fluffy, there's some surprising frankness in the Hedy article; although, my memory from when I saw "Ecstasy" many years ago is of her being naked a whole bunch in it and not just in the water a la Marueen O'Sullivan's body double. It's also funny that they mention her "remote control device" (early signal hopping), but then blasely move on, as if movie stars invent military devices every other day.

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(Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth are, in 1942, clandestine lovers, which explains the lock of hair.)
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Teller: That's very nice ma'am, now I'll need to see two forms of ID please.

Good for Glenn Ford: Here you go Orson, I'm done. Oh, and you can have this lock of hair too.

And in the Daily News...

"Lots of people get along without racing stables."
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Yes, the tone-deaf cluelessness of that story is awesome. Her $60,000 a year (after tax is how that usually works) is worth a bit over $1,000,000 today.

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"Yehudi" -- a Jerry Colonna reference. Which makes you wonder just how it is that Pat, who hasn't been stateside in about eight years, is keeping up on his goofy American pop culture.
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"Shut up Normandie and be glad I left your evil husband behind."

Since the News implied it has out-of-state subscribers in Virginia, maybe Pat has an overseas subscription.

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Ah, a new Sunday storyline! Either it's about Josie's first fumblings of pre-teen romance, or it's about Harold being rejected by the Army for having a rubber spine.
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Had that wrong, thought Ed would keep milking the old storyline.

 

[Harp]

Myrna Loy has always shone the silver screen with her grace, beauty, and elegance.
She lived her final years in retirement in New York City and hailed Helena, Montana where
she is buried with her family; far removed from both Hollywood and Manhattan.
Similar to Garbo, also a decided New Yorker, Myrna Loy cut a figure solitaire, despite marital
ties with inordinate divorces if I recall correctly. A lady with her own mind and style.

Saw a publicity photo of Ginger Rodgers earlier this week. Stunningly beautiful woman.
WLS Chicago would run her pix w/Astaire all New Years eve; almost got her autograph whilst
a smitten teenager. Understand she too inordinately wed, divorced. Most unfortunate.

Heddy Lamarr came to my attention courtesy Playboy. Say what will be said, that particular
publication offered mouth watering girls, well researched articles, strict editorial standards.
When Hef passed and Junior took over the Rabbit warren progressivism diktat mandated no
nudity whatsoever, and the kid found himself under a rock. Back in the day its movie reviews
offered excellence tinged sensual snaps of by-gone silver screen starlets of yesteryear and
the times of studio lots fenced by exclamation marks. Heddy remains a siren.

Love this thread.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And as a bit of a bonus today, the story of Gussie Freeman, the Lady Boxing Champion of Greenpoint, makes for interesting reading. Heading over to the Ingersoll Library and cracking open the dusty old bound volumes of the Eagle, we find her story in the April 28, 1895 issue:

"Men, she says, know that they must not talk nonsense to her." Keep 'em flyin', Gussie.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Nice weather we're having.)

The three months' defense of Bataan Peninsula and the fortresses of Manila Bay by American and Filipino forces has not reduced the ability of those forces, now under the command of Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright to dish it out. Japanese invaders discovered that the hard way over the weekend when they launched a "heavy attack" on the right center of the Bataan Line, and began preparing a water-borne invasion of Corregidor fortress and the other island forts. Both were smashed by Wainwright's men with "heavy losses" for the enemy, while the defenders suffered only light casualties.

Thousands of Japanese troops converging on Toungoo from three directions virtually overran that city on the key Allied flank in Burma today as outnumbered Chinese defenders fought their way eastward to new positions. Dispatches reported that key fighting still raged along the Rangoon-Mandalay railroad in Toungoo's eastern suburb where the Chinese broke thru a Japanese encirclement to frustrate an "annihilation plan."

A method of creating artificial fog as a method of frustrating enemy bombers will be tested today in the Navy Yard district. Mayor LaGuardia in his regular weekly broadcast yesterday over station WNYC announced the test will operate "from the roof of a laundry building," and the Army Information Service confirmed that the test is being made under military supervision using a device called a "duo-spray," manufacturerd by John Manton Company, Inc., a boiler repair company located at 708 Court Street. The Mayor further noted that if the test is successful, the device may be used to obscure industrial centers, plants, airports, shipping centers, and dry docks, as well as urban and suburban territories.

("Huh," huhs Joe. "Who in Brooklyn takes t' Heral' Tribune? Ain'nat f't'em Wawl Street charachtehs?" "Giant fans," sniffs Sally. "At'sa papeh f' people root f't Giants." "In BROOKLYN?" gawps Joe. "Ain'nat agains' t'lawr or sump'n?" "It's whatcha call a abbaration," declares Sally. "I bet t'ey slink outta t'house inna deadda night, wit' a long coat on witta colleh toined up, meet some characta wit'ta Bill Terry button on, slip 'im t'ree cents, an' slink back home." "What c'n be done!" groans Joe. "I t'ink," declares Sally, "t' Rapp-Coude't committee is onna case.")

(Oh look, GWTW is back at the Astor. Selznick must be short on cash.)

(And whatever you do, don't let Leon Henderson find out!)

With the Bronx Grand Jury preparing today to launch its investigation into charges that city employees used city-owned materials to pave the courtyard of National Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn's Lake Mahopac estate, close friends of the political leader indicated today that he will not resign his national job, nor will he step down as head of the Bronx County Democratic organization. Since Paul J. Kern, ousted president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, aired his accusations of the paving irregularities three weeks ago, reports have been current that Flynn would quit both posts. Kern has charged that 8000 stone blocks used to pave an antique Belgian courtyard at the Flynn estate were stolen from the city. It was also learned that Flynn will appear before the Grand Jury if the jury considers his testimony essential to the inquiry. He has stated that he was unaware that any city materials were used in the work on his Putnam County property, or that any city employees worked on the project. Flynn is also reported to have told friends that "an overzealous Bronx borough official" acted on his own initiative to send a city paving gang to Lake Mahopac, with city-owned paving stones, to build the courtyard, and that all of this was done without informing him.

("Semi-Bald Graying Righthander!" Well, at least he isn't fat.)

"Myrt and Marge," veteran radio serial of backstage life, left the air as of Friday, to be replaced by "Stories America Loves," a new program serializing famous novels, beginning with a dramatization of "The Shiek." "Myrt and Marge" had run for its most recent sponsor since 1937, but faltered after the death in childbirth last year of Donna Damerel Fick, who had always played Marge, opposite her mother Myrtle Vail as Myrt. Mrs. Vail replaced her daughter with actress Helen Mack, but the program has failed to recover its former popularity.

(But only if he takes off that ridiculous uniform!)

(There really is a rational explanation for every unexplained phenomenon.)

("She's started making me dress up like a pirate, and she won't explain why.")

(A hard-hitting expose of urban corruption disguised as slapstick ethnic comedy? All right then.)

(Prowling by stealth in a windowpane plaid overcoat? Yeah, you'll win the war.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Wait, Don Wilson? Jack Benny's sidekick? "Six delicious flavors -- strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon, and lime?" The Freddie Fitzsimmons of the microphone? *That* Don Wilson? "Well!"

"*ALMOST* every good restaurant!" You can just hear the Whitesidean sniff of contempt in that phrase.

What with the war and all, you just can't get the help.

"WELL WHAT DO WE DO NOW?" Should've asked for a new partner when you had the chance.

Fortunately, Andy has a whole closet full of ill-fitting plaid pants.

Normandie used to be a lot smarter than she is now.

Either he's heading for the Maine woods, where there's a busy Army air base at Presque Isle, or he's bound for Alaska. Either way, hope he brought an overcoat.

In which case, not having a car is a really good thing.

How many nineteen-year-olds own a tux? Goofy must really get around.

"Not so fast, bud. Step inside, and let's have a look at ya!"

 

[Fading Fast]

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(Nice weather we're having.)
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Why the heck would a Buddhist being giving Hitler money?! [Makes screen larger] Oh, Bundist, never mind.

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("Huh," huhs Joe. "Who in Brooklyn takes t' Heral' Tribune? Ain'nat f't'em Wawl Street charachtehs?" "Giant fans," sniffs Sally. "At'sa papeh f' people root f't Giants." "In BROOKLYN?" gawps Joe. "Ain'nat agains' t'lawr or sump'n?" "It's whatcha call a abbaration," declares Sally. "I bet t'ey slink outta t'house inna deadda night, wit' a long coat on witta colleh toined up, meet some characta wit'ta Bill Terry button on, slip 'im t'ree cents, an' slink back home." "What c'n be done!" groans Joe. "I t'ink," declares Sally, "t' Rapp-Coude't committee is onna case.")
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(Oh look, GWTW is back at the Astor. Selznick must be short on cash.)
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With the Bronx Grand Jury preparing today to launch its investigation into charges that city employees used city-owned materials to pave the courtyard of National Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn's Lake Mahopac estate, close friends of the political leader indicated today that he will not resign his national job, nor will he step down as head of the Bronx County Democratic organization. Since Paul J. Kern, ousted president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, aired his accusations of the paving irregularities three weeks ago, reports have been current that Flynn would quit both posts. Kern has charged that 8000 stone blocks used to pave an antique Belgian courtyard at the Flynn estate were stolen from the city. It was also learned that Flynn will appear before the Grand Jury if the jury considers his testimony essential to the inquiry. He has stated that he was unaware that any city materials were used in the work on his Putnam County property, or that any city employees worked on the project. Flynn is also reported to have told friends that "an overzealous Bronx borough official" acted on his own initiative to send a city paving gang to Lake Mahopac, with city-owned paving stones, to build the courtyard, and that all of this was done without informing him.
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Flynn's going to try a version of the "Shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!" defense. This will require an "overzealous Bronx borough official" to step forward and take the rap. "Nope, I never talked with Flynn. I just decided on my own that he'd like an antique Belgian courtyard at his Lake Mahopac estate, so I did it without asking." Uh-huh.

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(But only if he takes off that ridiculous uniform!)
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Maybe Lady Teacake is a cousin of the Mitfords and likes the uniform. There was a lot of inbreeding amongst the aristocracy.

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(Prowling by stealth in a windowpane plaid overcoat? Yeah, you'll win the war.)

That and invading Russia was just one-too-many mistakes.

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"*ALMOST* every good restaurant!" You can just hear the Whitesidean sniff of contempt in that phrase.
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Unfair, but I'll bet Bette didn't get a dime for the use of her profile.

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"WELL WHAT DO WE DO NOW?" Should've asked for a new partner when you had the chance.
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Wiggle or roll over to the furnace and melt the paraffin away.

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Normandie used to be a lot smarter than she is now.
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Smart Normandie: Thanks for getting rid of my hateful scumbag husband. Oh, Merrily is your and my love child. Now get us the hell out of here.

Merrily: Daddy!

Pat: Oh Christ.

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Either he's heading for the Maine woods, where there's a busy Army air base at Presque Isle, or he's bound for Alaska. Either way, hope he brought an overcoat.
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In 1942, teenagers hadn't yet decided they don't need to wear winter coats in the winter, so chances are Skeezix took his overcoat with him.

 

[Harp]

First, both Ms Beverly and Ms Ganly? have great gams. Man does not live by breast alone....
And that idiot Fiorello with all his anti-burlesque ruse-I miss the Star girls. End of rant. Sorry.

Now, the war aside, I found a solid Estates & Trusts case. If I were the late Mr Kent's personal
counsel I would have advised transfer of all real property and entire kit-n'-kaboodle portfolic
to revocable trust. The whole nine yards. And while he was alive, and as the Grantor.
Then, all real estate would be safely tucked inside trust; whereas, any mortgage refinance would be
refinanced into trust. As trustee, my firm would handle all the particulars. All i's dotted and t's crossed.
Provision but not profligacy for little Peggy Sue.

As an aside, Bing Crosby's sons were manchilds, poor little rich kids never forced to grow into adulthood.
And when the old man's money ran out or held back, the suicides began. So I heard....

Normandie is an admirable, very impressive lady. And for some inexplicable reason she reminds
me of Susan Hayward in Soldier of Fortune with Clark Gable. Filmed in Hong Kong, Susie-Q wants
Gable to find her captive husband, and Clark bar tries to steal first base after a quick dinner.
Yes, Sue is in my fantasy harem. One of my first acquisitions as a matter of fact. But while I can
deal with Susan, I'd advise Padraic to sever heartstrings, fold his hand, cut his loss, split the scene.
Cross the Rubicon with a gal like Norms, it's over bro.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Conscientious Objector Camps" were, to be blunt, labor camps, operated under military/penal discipline. There aren't many Hollywood stars, in 1942 or 2022, who would go to a labor camp rather than violate their personal beliefs, so whether one agrees with Mr. Ayers' principles or not, one must offer him profound respect. And I don't know how anyone could watch "All Quiet On The Western Front" without having their views on war shaken to the core, let alone to actually be the star of it.)

The president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey today denied all charges that his firm has deliberately retarded the production of synthetic rubber in the United States as part of a business agreement with a German chemical trust. Appearing today before the Senate Committee Investigating the War Program, W. S. Farish contended that even the present level of US development of synthetic rubber would not have been achieved without Standard's pioneering work in that field. Mr. Farish began his testimony by denying that his company or any of its officers have been disloyal to the United States, declaring "I repel all such insinuations with all the power at my command. I do so with indignation and resentment." In previous testimony, Assistant Attorney General Thurman A. Arnold stated that Standard of New Jersey and the German firm of I. G. Farbenindustrie have entered into a cartel agreement assigning certain Standard patents to Farben, thus retarding the development of American synthetic rubber. Committee Chairman Harry S. Truman (D-Mo.) declared that if true, that arrangement is an act of treason. Faris acknowledged that certain arrangements between I. G. Farben and Standard do exist, but he contended that the contracts "did inure greatly to the advance of American industry," particularly with regard to "our present war activities in aviation gasoline, toulol and explosives, and synthetic rubber itself."

Soviet forces attacking unceasingly and fiercely to crush German lines around Leningrad claimed today the annihilation of at least 2500 more Nazi troops, and that prisoners and war material were also taken. It is stated in official dispatches from Moscow that progress is also continuing along the fronts north and south of Vyazma.

The sea and air battle for control of the Allied supply route to Russia continues today with Berlin claiming the sinking of four more ships carrying war supplies to the Soviet port of Murmansk. The German radio, describing a battle that began Saturday, told of a heavy bombing of the now ice-free port, and a further successful attack on an Allied convoy off the Russian coast by Nazi planes, ships, and submarines. In the southern Berents Sea, according to Berlin broadcasts, four transports totalling 27,000 tons were said to have been destroyed.

A move to revoke the U. S. citizenship of imprisoned German-American Bund leader Fritz Kuhn will be made shortly by the U. S. Department of Justice, it was indicated today. Kuhn, presently serving a sentence in Sing Sing Prison for embezzlement of Bund funds, would be interned as an enemy alien once the cancellation of his naturalization is confirmed. Kuhn is said to be among 200 disloyal foreign-born citizens against whom action is to be taken shortly, and that number is expected to reach 1000 by the end of this year.

(Check his courtyard.)

The Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus opens its new season in New York on April 9th, with a Madison Square Garden show featuring "The Ballet Of The Elephants," performed by 80 pachyderms to the music of Igor Stravinsky. The number will be choreographed by George Ballanchine of Broadway fame, and will be staged by another renowned figure of the legitimate stage, John Murray Anderson. Circus officials state that 11 members of its elephant troupe who died from poisoning last year have been replaced, but no further clues have been uncovered as to the perpetrator of the poisonings. More than 800 performers will appear in the "Greatest Show On Earth," with the cast headed by the world-famous gorilla couple, Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua. The entire proceeds of the opening night performance will be donated to the Navy Relief Fund, the Army Emergency Fund, and the President's Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

More than 20 employees of Frederick M. Loeser & Co. received their certificates of completion as graduates of a Red Cross emergency course. Loeser's downtown store is now fully staffed and organized with volunteer roof-watchers and other emergency personnel.

The rubber shortage means a comeback for that imposing garment of mother's time, the back-laced corset. With manufacturers agreeing to limit corsetry to no more than two two-inch strips of elastic per garment, designers have returned to the old method of firm cotton and rayon fabric, well boned, and pulled into shape with strings. Manufacturers expect that "slim young things" will dispense with girdles entirely due to the shortages, but women who require the support of a firm foundation garment, or who have become accustomed to it, will have little choice but to master the art of lacing up.

("You haven't seen GWTW until you've seen it twice!" I wonder how much Mr. Crowther got tipped for that statement.)

("Ace Noodle Co.")

("No, Fitz, put your rifle down, that's just Leo. Fitz???")

(And we welcome another permanent addition to this strange little household.)

(Tell us, George, and be honest. Do you drink?)

("So I guess he's forgiven me for burning his house down?")

(I wish we had such an efficient public works department in my town.)

(Dan, why are you skulking in the woods wearing a hairnet?)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Well, more than enough Page Four today to go around. The "automatic hostess" fad won't last long, but while it does, it'll be popular novelty in bars and cheap restaurants.

C'mon, Butch, be square. Your reputation depends on it.

I look forward to meeting Mr. Zaney.

Excuse me, Patrick, let ME have a word with her. Lissen, kid...

Well, at least it'll pass the time.

Where would I go? A podiatrist?

So Walt -- there's a lot of work a veteran of the last war might be doing...

"Hey Mac, got anything by Alma Gluck?"

You're gonna be in big trouble once the Pullman Company finds out what happened to its stool.

Two sad walruses sat under a tree...

 

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The president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey today denied all charges that his firm has deliberately retarded the production of synthetic rubber in the United States as part of a business agreement with a German chemical trust. Appearing today before the Senate Committee Investigating the War Program, W. S. Farish contended that even the present level of US development of synthetic rubber would not have been achieved without Standard's pioneering work in that field. Mr. Farish began his testimony by denying that his company or any of its officers have been disloyal to the United States, declaring "I repel all such insinuations with all the power at my command. I do so with indignation and resentment." In previous testimony, Assistant Attorney General Thurman A. Arnold stated that Standard of New Jersey and the German firm of I. G. Farbenindustrie have entered into a cartel agreement assigning certain Standard patents to Farben, thus retarding the development of American synthetic rubber. Committee Chairman Harry S. Truman (D-Mo.) declared that if true, that arrangement is an act of treason. Faris acknowledged that certain arrangements between I. G. Farben and Standard do exist, but he contended that the contracts "did inure greatly to the advance of American industry," particularly with regard to "our present war activities in aviation gasoline, toulol and explosives, and synthetic rubber itself."
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This needs a full trial.

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The Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus opens its new season in New York on April 9th, with a Madison Square Garden show featuring "The Ballet Of The Elephants," performed by 80 pachyderms to the music of Igor Stravinsky. The number will be choreographed by George Ballanchine of Broadway fame, and will be staged by another renowned figure of the legitimate stage, John Murray Anderson. Circus officials state that 11 members of its elephant troupe who died from poisoning last year have been replaced, but no further clues have been uncovered as to the perpetrator of the poisonings. More than 800 performers will appear in the "Greatest Show On Earth," with the cast headed by the world-famous gorilla couple, Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua. The entire proceeds of the opening night performance will be donated to the Navy Relief Fund, the Army Emergency Fund, and the President's Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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It's worth a look-see to check if Tootsie is working there.

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(And we welcome another permanent addition to this strange little household.)
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Maybe she'll befriend the turtle; he needs a friend.

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("So I guess he's forgiven me for burning his house down?")
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He had good insurance coverage.

And in the Daily News...

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Well, more than enough Page Four today to go around. The "automatic hostess" fad won't last long, but while it does, it'll be popular novelty in bars and cheap restaurants.
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As you note, a full Page Four today including a human chain saving a dangling window washer and a crazy gun-moll wannabe.

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C'mon, Butch, be square. Your reputation depends on it.
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My guess is the worst LaGuardia is guilty of is looking the other way before and/or after the fact, which was probably the only way to survive in politics then (and now).

The noose is tightening a bit around Flynn.

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Excuse me, Patrick, let ME have a word with her. Lissen, kid...
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By all means, Lizzie, please talk some sense into her. She's killing me right now.

And once again, from the great beyond, our beloved Miss Raven Sherman thinks, "Really Pat, do you have to be so cold about it. I thought there was a little feeling of love between us. What? Dude? A girl sometime just needs what a girl needs. That didn't mean anything."

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"Hey Mac, got anything by Alma Gluck?"
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If they really want to kick their house party up, they should hook into one of those automatic-hostess systems.

 

[Harp]

Ms Smitty or was it Smith? would be best advised to claim false imprisonment.
Severance from her deceased boyfriend is as valid a defense as any in this wacko bank job.

The tragic demise of Ms Moore lends speculative consider of fetal viability during gestation
and the law's ever increasing recognition of the fetus within womb prior to birth.

Padraic had dalliance with Dragon Gal, a helluva dame whose allure is pragmaticism writ large
in addition to being knock out gorgeous.... And that Normandie can throw a hard right cross
punch all the way from left field.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Mr. Kern's latest statements are the textbook definition of "doubling down." And as long as we've got the textbook out, the definition of "pliant lackeys" would seem to be "The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.")

Radio Moscow reported today the recapture of the town of Vitebsk, only 75 miles east of the old Polish frontier, is near, even as military experts predicted that the Germans, within a few weeks, will throw as many as 1,250,000 men and powerful concentrations of tanks and planes into a final desperate effort to win the costly Russian campaign. Vitebsk is 350 miles south of Leningrad and 75 miles northwest of Smolensk on the central front, where Soviet forces have been trying for weeks to close a trap around the Germans.

In Hackensack, New Jersey, the Fox Theatre announced today that it will discontinue screenings of the motion picture "Dr. Kildare's Victory," starring Lew Ayres, after threats of a boycott in the wake of Ayres' refusal to serve in the armed forces. The theatre ran the film yesterday, and was to have presented the picture thru tonight, but manager Richard Carnegie reported receiving "about 150" telephone calls threatening a boycott against the theatre unless the film was discontinued. Ayres was ordered interned this week in a labor camp for conscientious objectors, where he will remain for the duration of the war unless he agrees to accept noncombatant military service. The actor cited "religious objections" in his refusal to accept induction.

The President of Brooklyn College issued a warning today against "diploma mills" that offer "bargain baccalaureate degrees" in the present emergency. In an article written for "The Threshold," official publication of the International Student Service, Dr. Harry Gideonse denounced "professional vested interests" for the practice of "educational opportunism" in wartime, noting that one school doubled the size of its incoming freshman class to offset the loss of fees from seniors and graduate students who have left for the armed forces. The purpose of such schools, Dr. Gideonse asserted, "is to collect the same amount of fees from the average student rather than to achieve a well-defined pedagogical objective."

Brooklyn's Jews, in spiritual company with their brethren thruout the world, will at sundown today begin the eight-day observation of Passover, commemorating the escape of the ancient Israelites from Egyptian bondage. In observation of the holiday, three hundred Jewish servicemen will be the guests of local families for the traditional Seder dinner. Seders will also be held at Camp Upton in two of the camp's largest dining halls for about 800 men. At the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, the youngest resident, 68-year-old Wolf Kurtzman, will ask the traditional four questions of the eldest resident at the table, 108-year-old Isaac Shafferman.

("I'm gettin' Leonora one'a t'em rabbits," declares Joe. "T'bigges' one t'tey got. SOLID, not holla!" "What's a seven mont' ol' baby gonna do wit' a choc'late rabbit?" protests Sally. "She's on'y got one toot'!" "Well," murmurs Joe, "I t'ought I might, hold onta it till she's ready. Put it inna safe place." "Yeah," agrees Sally, gazing at the unbuttoned button on Joe's waistband. "A safe place.")

("Whatever," sighs Lana. "At least he's not Artie Shaw.")

The Eagle Editorialist comments approvingly on the remark made by one serviceman to another as they arrived in Sydney, Australia, and noted its resemblance to their dear home town. "We might as well be in Brooklyn!" they agreed. "Take the Smith Street trolley," declares the EE, "and see the world!"

(Years indeed.)

(If MacPhail gets Derringer away from Cincinnati, I will take back every crack I've ever made about him. But somehow I don't think that he will, so the cracks stand.)

(Well, you had your chance to do something about it...)

("In the groove?" George Bungle, Secret Hepcat.)

(Clearly the butler is an Axis spy. Clock him now, Mary, so we can get on with the Leona antics.)

("Senora Hemophelia?" I don't want to know what's in that chili.)

(Guess Dan can't hear THE ROARING OF THE SPEEDBOAT MOTOR. Unless it's one of those rubber-band jobs.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Amidst all the typical Page Four stuff, it's good to see the World's Fair bombing hasn't been forgotten.

Get used to "cash and carry" for the duration.

Ah, that will be Mr. Zaney. Of course.

Either it's the greatest troll of all time or Gus painted himself into a corner with the plot.

"At least until this WAAC thing gets going. Then I am G-O-N-E."

Pat's face in panel three says it all. Oh Mr. Caniff, why must you toy with us so? C'mon, toots, level with him.

Annnnnd Fading wins the prize.

It's gonna be a long war.

Meanwhile, Suzy-Q has taken advantage of this interlude to skip town, leaving no forwarding address.

Swinging doors? Bartender with a big moustache and a roached haircut? Must be one of those "Gay 90s" theme joints.

 

[Harp]

Padraic: Request the learned trial judge for permission to treat witness Norms as hostile.

Caniff sketches characters of meaningful cut, tailored to readership hearts and minds.
I care about Burms-she recalls a woman in my past; and HuShee is a Chinese girl admired
at distance since she was with a Chinese diplomatic delegation... don't I wished.....
And my avuncular self believes Terry needs slack and a real adolescence back home...
with HuShee as his girl....
And as what my dear mom predicted, a confirmed Irish bachelor-ethnic emphasis most
pejorative, never explained except with a roll of her eyes, I am hardly fit to toss any non legal
advice at anyone; but Pat should simply walk away.

The edited canon of journalist ace reporter I.F. Stone's coverage of wartime corporate
profiteers, piratical dogs and snakes makes fascinating read.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And as a bonus today, a 1983 piece of Milton Caniff art from his "Steve Canyon" strip, the feature he did for the last forty years of his life, after leaving "Terry" in 1947.

From left to right, could that possibly be Capt. Blaze, the Dragon Lady, Dude Hennick, Terry, Pat, Dr. Ping, Hu Shee, Burma, Connie, and Big Stoop?

*snif*

 

[Fading Fast]

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The President of Brooklyn College issued a warning today against "diploma mills" that offer "bargain baccalaureate degrees" in the present emergency. In an article written for "The Threshold," official publication of the International Student Service, Dr. Harry Gideonse denounced "professional vested interests" for the practice of "educational opportunism" in wartime, noting that one school doubled the size of its incoming freshman class to offset the loss of fees from seniors and graduate students who have left for the armed forces. The purpose of such schools, Dr. Gideonse asserted, "is to collect the same amount of fees from the average student rather than to achieve a well-defined pedagogical objective."
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That problem is still with us.

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("Whatever," sighs Lana. "At least he's not Artie Shaw.")
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The description of the "song pluggers" was interesting, but what an awful sounding job. You can also see the roots of the 1950s payola scandal in the comment about promoting songs on the radio.

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(Guess Dan can't hear THE ROARING OF THE SPEEDBOAT MOTOR. Unless it's one of those rubber-band jobs.)

"Zing" "Bang" Really?

And in the Daily News...

Amidst all the typical Page Four stuff, it's good to see the World's Fair bombing hasn't been forgotten.
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This is one of the few times we've read about an upscaled abortion clinic. You know they had to exist - there had to be a carriage trade for abortions - but it seems that it's always the "back alley" ones that get caught. My guess is someone didn't make his or her monthly "insurance" payment to the Policeman's Benevolent Association.

The building it was in, 116 E 63rd, was built in 1920 and is still standing today as a very, very expensive coop with individual apartments running between $1+ million - $4 million.

Here's a pic of its entranceway:

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It's gonna be a long war.
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I have had a variety of jobs over the years, most very different from this one ⇧, but that scenario - where someone, either a customer or a person not in your department, shows up with some article or something to tell you how what you are doing, the thing you have spent a massive amount of time learning, aligning to regulations, etc. , is wrong - happened occasionally in every single one of them.

 

[Harp]

Pedagogical dollar didactive from Brooklyn College, home base of Prof Frederick Wheelock,
Latinist extraordinaire. Why oh why do I always learn so late? I should have gone to Brooklyn
and studied under Wheelock. 'The poor man's Harvard.' Poor? I was flat-assed broke.
And did I ever knock around.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Until 1976 you could have gone to Brooklyn College free of tuition, as long as you were a Brooklyn resident and your grades qualified.

 

[Harp]

Until 1976 you could have gone to Brooklyn College free of tuition, as long as you were a Brooklyn resident and your grades qualified.

Well, before very busy; in '76 I was surfin Kaneohe, crash pad studio in Makkiki Heights, chasin wahinies all over Honolulu.

 

[Harp]

And as a bonus today, a 1983 piece of Milton Caniff art from his "Steve Canyon" strip, the feature he did for the last forty years of his life, after leaving "Terry" in 1947.

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From left to right, could that possibly be Capt. Blaze, the Dragon Lady, Dude Hennick, Terry, Pat, Dr. Ping, Hu Shee, Burma, Connie, and Big Stoop?

*snif*

I'll admit it, I adore Burma and Dragon Gal. Hopelessly in love.