The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"1943" World Series? Can't wait to see the letters!!

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"I would never join any club that would have me as a member."

Tracy places far too much faith in the chain of command.

Well, isn't this going to be fun.

It's a wonder anybody ever has to ask that quetion.

Either he's a cop, or he's from Consumers Union.

There's been a lot of weird plots in this strip, but writing secret coded messages on your leg with a fingernail has broken new ground...

If you want to dance, LETS DANCE!

See, Sal, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.

BURN.

 

[Fading Fast]

The thirty-seven year old owner of a Prospect Heights tavern is being held without bail on a charge of homicide after he was accused of slaying, with one punch, a dance-band drummer following an argument with him over the affections of a female bandleader. Joseph Renzutek of 537 Clinton Avenue was arrested yesterday after bandleader Phyllis Lane walked into the East 67th Street police station in Manhattan accompanied by an attorney, who told police "there's a dead man in this woman's apartment." Miss Lane testified that she had found 42-year-old Jack Miehle of 1566 Coney Island Avenue, whom she employed as the drummer in her orchestra, laying badly beaten in a corridor of her Manhattan apartment building. An investigation determined that Miehle and Renzutek had been drinking together and Miehle made references to Miss Lane to which Renzutek took exception, and he is alleged to have struck the drummer a crushing blow in the chest which shattered eight ribs. An autopsy revealed that Miehle died as a result of internal bleeding. Miss Lane was ordered held on $5000 bail as a material witness in the case.

Jesus. Away from the awfulness, cool that she's a female bandleader – we haven't seen a lot of them in these pages.

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Ahead of your time, Ernie.

By far the most creative episode we've seen in this strip. And it is a pretty close, but not quite breaking of the fourth wall.

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Lately I've found that I need to be prepared for anything. But I was not prepared for, and AM not prepared for -- Scarlet O'Neil IN SPACE.

But to some extent, isn't she always?

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Either the News or Brooklyn's paper needs to did deeper into this story in the next day or two.

There's no universe where I see Sally delivering doughnuts, but I do see her as clearing her name by knowing the full Dodger lineup, and batting averages, and bases....

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BURN.

That could not have been more enjoyable.