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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Correction of myself: There is a difference between editorial cartoons and cartoons in the "funny papers"... Still, Frank King deserves one!
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    King certainly should have! Soldiers hiding in slit trenches and hoping for the best would have made a good candidate for that. Military reality - not rah-rah enthusiasm... Bill Mauldin did get a Pulitzer for one of his cartoons, but that's a couple of years in the future (1945). Editorial...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Skeezix and his crew hiding in slit trenches and hoping that the next one doesn't hit them is giving a much more realistic picture of real-life WWII than any of the other comics, and a better idea than most of the real "news".
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    Suggestions for action packed or thrilling vintage movies

    Three classic action/gangster pictures: "Little Caesar" (Edward G. Robinson) "The Public Enemy" (James Cagney) "Scarface" (The real one with Paul Muni in 1934.)
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Real world identity: Alvy Moore/Hank Kimball was a Marine rifleman on Iwo Jima - tough enough for anything. (And Eddie Albert/Oliver Wendell Douglas won a medal for valor at the invasion of Tarawa.)
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Dan Dunn should be checking with Mrs. Eliza Potts about some quality dentures after *trying* to remove metal-jacketed bullets from cartridge cases with his teeth. OWWW!!!
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    King is doing as much for the ground forces as Caniff is doing for the Air Corps. King's attention to detail in terms of Army equipment, field gear, and firearms is amazing. This may not mean much to the average reader, but he even included the magazine-winding-key on the Tommy gun (!). Prior...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    "That's the difference. If a newspaper screws up, there's accountability." That may be true in theory, but less so in practicality. Case in point: The local newspaper ran a headline which was not only wrong factually, but was somewhat inflammatory on a topic of public contention. After the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This reminds me a story, which may even be true, concerning a WWII British ground crewman who was working on a Spitfire engine when he broke off a bolt on that engine. He is said to have said, "F***!! - F****ng F****rs F***ed!! English eloquence...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That plot was so familiar that I had to look up "They Made Me a Criminal", which turned out to be a 1939 re-make of "Dolan", with John Garfield instead of Gable, and Ann Sheridan instead of Young. The dogged detective in that one is Claude Rains. (Who is excellent...) The "child stars" are the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'd like to strongly "second-the-motion" concerning both the quality of "Requiem" and the acting skill of Jackie Gleason. A somewhat similar movie in which Gleason is superb is "The Hustler". His "Minnesota Fats" character out-acts Paul Newman by about 5 to 1.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    You might want to check your sources - Teddy, Jr. came ashore on D-Day (Utah Beach) as the Assistant Division Commander of the 4th Infantry Division. He died of a heart attack almost six weeks later.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    You may be thinking of his autobiography "The Brass Ring". It's in that one that he expresses great respect for Milton Caniff.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    'Playboy" - I only buy it for the articles... If you want Mauldin's own description of the Patton encounter read his (Mauldin's) book "Up Front" (1945). One of the best WWII books ever written, especially the war from the ordinary GI's perspective.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    It was perfectly legal and common for officer's uniforms to be produced by private (commercial) tailors. All that was required was that the uniforms had to have an inside tag saying that they met Army specifications. Consider the temptation for a tailor to take some extra cash for making a...
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    Uncool, dorky things you won't be caught dead in

    A good friend of mine (a computer-science major) showed up for his Ph.D. dissertation-defense wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and tennis-shoes. He had already been hired by Microsoft, so he was "in uniform" for that job. (He was the best IT/software person I ever knew...)
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Sim, 100%... I don't even bother to watch the others anymore... (And Jacob Marley's ghost in that one is the best, also.)
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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    Uncool, dorky things you won't be caught dead in

    You are more "generous" than me. I thought "Gestapo" for the three cops in the first picture.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I don't get it either... I have given up trying to...

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