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...Last year, competition for seats on the last train to roll on the Black Spider line became so heated that it became necessary to run two "last trains."...
...Edward Arnold has become, in recent years, pretty much the smiling archetype of American Fascism on the screen -- and he loves it. Arnold says he relishes the chance to play villain roles, whether those of evil bankers, corrupt political bosses, or scheming publishers. Arnold started his career as a leading man but quickly found that it's the character roles that are most rewarding. You'll see him this week in "Meet John Doe," opening at the Times Square Rivoli and the 51st Street Theatre on Wednesday....
...A Brownsville baker foiled a robbery attempt this morning by knocking out a holdup man with a rolling pin. 67-year-old Harry Danenberg of 557 Wyona Street was at work behind the counter at Rothenberg's Bakery, 145 Belmont Avenue, when he was confronted by 25-year-old James White of 24 Liberty Avenue, who brandished a knife and demanded the contents of the shop's cash register. Danenberg reached under the counter, produced a rolling pin, and conked the robber over the head with it, dropping him to the floor unconscious....
...[(Cagney's in that picture too. Wonder if he uses Lux?)...
...Van Lingle Mungo, and his rebuilt shoulder, are done with the Dodgers as far as Larry MacPhail is concerned, after the newly-renovated hurler went on a drunken spree in Havana Saturday night after he had already been announced as the starter of the first game of yesterday's doubleheader against the Cleveland Indians. After learning that Mungo had snuck out of his hotel room after Manager Leo Durocher had ordered him to remain there, and had gone forth to sample the joys of the Havana night, and had then come staggering back to the Hotel Nacional, where police had to be summoned to settle him down and get him into bed, MacPhail flew into one of those rages of which only the Red Headed One is capable, and immediately cut the well-lubricated hurler from the Brooklyn roster, fined him $200, and banished him from the Dodger camp. Team Secretary John MacDonald was instructed to tell Mungo that MacPhail "doesn't care where he goes," but subsequently told the hung-over pitcher that transportation back to the mainland would be furnished him. MacDonald later gave Mungo a formal notice of his removal from the Brooklyn roster and advised him that he is to report to the training camp of the Montreal Royals at Macon, Georgia on March 15th....
... View attachment 316999 We have the True Crime editor with us today and I wish we didn't...
... I'd love to have overheard that conversation. "Still sending malefactors to a horrifying end?" "Indeed, sahib, and do you still heal the sick and raise the dead and -- I must say -- put a wonderful crease in a pair of pants?" "That I do, old friend, and I observe that your own trousers might benefit from my services. Make you a good price."...
(Cagney's in that picture too. Wonder if he uses Lux?)
...Van Lingle Mungo was a Dodger for ten years, but those days now appear to be definitively over, and there is talk now that the turbulent twirler may be bound for the Phillies. The Philadelphia club is in sore need of pitching, what with their having dealt their best hurler, Kirby Higbe, to the Dodgers last year, and with their next-best pitcher now enduring his first days as Private Hugh Mulcahy, U. S. A., and it is suggested that the Phils may attempt to claim Mungo on waivers after he was cut from the Dodger roster yesterday in the wake of his drunken rampage in Havana Friday night. Mungo, having been banished from the Dodger training camp, boarded a Pan American plane for the mainland today, vowing that he was "going to reform," but unless Reform is a town in his native North Carolina, there is considerable doubt that he will arrive at that that destination....
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This is basically the same one I have -- they produced this model both before and after the war, until early 1946 -- and for once the Boys are not putting you on. I've clocked mine and it really does run about twelve minutes an hour "under normal conditions." And that's with being nearly eighty years old.......
and for once the Boys are not putting you on. I've clocked mine and it really does run about twelve minutes an hour "under normal conditions."