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The Era -- Day By Day
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I've seen up close what smoking Camels for decades can do to a person. Ten to one that Miss Dorothy Van Nuys of Santa Barbara, circa 1971, is not going to be a pretty picture.
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I was born in '64 and, thankfully, never smoked, but had relatives who did and others who didn't. Almost to a person, the smokers aged poorly looks and health wise and died younger from, usually, smoking related illnesses than the nonsmokers. It's pretty amazing how correlated the poor looks and health were to the smokers as they aged. The few alive today from my parents' generation were all nonsmokers (or quit in their 20s or 30s after being light smokers). All the heavy smokers, even the ones who stopped in their 50s, didn't do well.
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French literary author Margarite Duras (1914-96), a siren in youth, destroyed her beauty and health
with tobacco and alcohol. Her deterioration was not merely remarkable but tragic.
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Absolutely.
Pushed the envelope; unfortunately, Caniff didn't break any glass or suffered overzealous
editorial restraint afterwards with our alley cat and testosterone Terry heartbreak kid zero....
And with that ledge scene in Raven v Dude having establish sufficient precedent for crawling a ledge
or through window, and by Juliet Capulet no less, I expected a shattered window and screaming cat climax
back at the dam with Burma, or a little drop amidst soap subsequent bath scene. Rub a dub dub.
All followed with of course purring contentment post game analysis plus some meaningful dialogue-
at no extra charge.
The kid's light-in-the-loafers act ain't cuttin it.
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What we don't know is if Caniff got any after-the-fact riot act read to him Re Raven-Dude-ledge.
It kinda feels that way as he's been pulling back where you'd be expecting him to push the envelope out farther.
Just a thought.
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Methinks you're right.
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He's definitely gotten some haze from Mr. Patterson at the Daily News about "the Invaders." The occasions where he's shown identifiable Japanese planes got him in quite a bit of trouble -- the whole "Invader" thing comes direct from the front office, and he's been told to back off direct portrayals. So I suspect that we will be seeing less of "the Invader" in the months to come, until Mr. Patterson sees fit to change his views. And the Kiel thing didn't go over too well either.
The editorial hand on these strips, as we saw with the rise and fall of Nick Gatt, is generally pretty light -- until it isn't.
The editorial hand on these strips, as we saw with the rise and fall of Nick Gatt, is generally pretty light -- until it isn't.
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Reading these past few days, various societal tragedies: the young nightclub singer who shot
her five year old daughter before committing suicide, laid to rest together---overwhelms, numbs mind
and senses with sorrow. And the note the deceased left her former husband... I've commented before
the candid nature of yesterday's reportage, its content and starkness is all the more gripping by
frank portrayal. The comics therefore I believe should follow reasonable suit. If current world events
are to be intimated, why not explicitly state the case in similar factual terms?
her five year old daughter before committing suicide, laid to rest together---overwhelms, numbs mind
and senses with sorrow. And the note the deceased left her former husband... I've commented before
the candid nature of yesterday's reportage, its content and starkness is all the more gripping by
frank portrayal. The comics therefore I believe should follow reasonable suit. If current world events
are to be intimated, why not explicitly state the case in similar factual terms?
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That murder-suicide was particularly awful - 80yrs later and you can still feel the anguish.
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Russian forces have hurled back the Germans 20 miles west of the Dnieper River in the Bobruisk sector of the vital Moscow front, in one of their greatest counter-offensives of the war. A correspondent from the official newspaper Izvestia telephoning from the front reported that not only had Nazi forces been driven back, they had been driven back across the river itself north of the city of Rogachev, which, it was reported, has been retaken by Soviet troops. Civilians returned to that city last night to find that their homes had been looted and burned by the German invaders. The highways leading in and out of Rogachev were reported clogged with captured Nazi tanks.
Official Nazi reports stated today that a Russian tank counteroffensive in the Kiev sector has been halted by German forces, and that German troops have sliced thru secondary defenses in the Dnieper/Dvina area en route to Leningrad. "The advance of the German troops upon St. Petersburg" -- referring to Leningrad by its pre-revolutionary name -- "continued without halt," reported the official DNB news agency.
British planes today dropped many tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the German industrial areas of Bremen and Hanover, in what the Air Ministry described as one of the largest air raids of the war. Extensive fires were started, according to an Air Ministry communique, and much damage was done to industrial targets. Five British planes were lost in the raids.
It is expected that District Attorney William O'Dwyer will be named by a conference of party leaders tomorrow as the Democratic mayoral candidate for the 1941 election. It is expected that the Tammany ticket will also include hotel executive David H. Knott of Manhattan for the largely-symbolic office of controller, and either Max J. Schneider or M. Maldwin Fertig, both of the Bronx, for the presidency of the City Council. The ticket as thus envisioned would not only be balanced geographically, but also in terms of religion -- with O'Dwyer a Roman Catholic, Knott a Protestant, and both Schneider and Fertig Jewish. On the Republican side, it is generally understood that Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey will not be the mayoral candidate, with Mr. Dewey expected to reserve himself for a run for Governor in 1942.
Records seized for the Amen Office by a squad of fifteen policemen, eight assistant attorneys-general, and eight accountants and special investigators attached to the Amen staff are undergoing close examination today in Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen's ongoing probe of the Brooklyn-Queens paving industry racket. The documents are to be formally impounded today after their seizure last night from the offices of eight contracting firms and the private homes of four men. The probe took on a new angle last night when it was revealed that the name of William F. Brunner, former chairman of the now-discontinued Board of Aldermen who was recently appointed by Queens Borough President George U. Harvey to succeed the retired John J. Halleran as Queens Commissioner of Public Works, has surfaced in connection with the investigation of a slush fund established by a group of paving contractors for the benefit of Mr. Halleran, with allegations now raised that a small portion of that fund was diverted to Mr. Brunner for use in his campaign when he ran as the Democratic candidate for borough president, against Mr. Harvey, in 1937.
(We could probably use a scorecard here, Mr. Schroth...)
Striking employees of the J. R. Thompson Cafeterias will receive a $2 a week pay increase across the board, under a new 15-month contract calling also for the establishment of a closed shop. Two hundred and twenty five workers for the quick-lunch chain had been on strike for 17 weeks, forcing ten cafeterias to close while the negotiations continued.
A Bath Beach man was shot in the thigh last night, while he sat in the bedroom of his fourth-floor apartment. 25-year-old Leon Jacobson of 8640 Bay Parkway felt a sudden pain in his leg and looked down to see blood. Police called to the scene found a spent 22-caliber bullet on the floor, and speculate that someone might have fired a pistol from the roof of one of the nearby buildings while "indulging in target practice." Mr. Jacobson's wound was treated by a doctor who lives in the apartment house, and was said not to be serious.
The widow of Lou Gehrig has signed a contract to consult on a motion-picture version of the late Yankee star's life story. Mrs. Eleanor Gehrig signed the deal today with Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn for the picture, and will "assist in the preparation of the script."
(Just be sure you don't turn on the oven jet by accident when you're frying some meat.)
Buster Keaton seems to be making himself right at home in Brooklyn. Following his engagement at the Brighton Theatre in "The Gorilla," the one-time silent-screen comedy star will now move to the Cedarhurst Theatre for a juicy supporting role in the comedy-mystery favorite "Mr. and Mrs. North."
(This is one of those plays -- a classic "sophisticated" May-December romantic melodrama -- that I've heard over and over again in various radio adaptations, but I've never seen it done live on stage. The best of those radio versions featured none other than John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie -- and aside from the novelty value, they were actually really good in it.)
(Where's the Anti-Cigarette League when you need them?)
T. H. writes to Dr. Brady complaining that his wife won't give him pie because Doc said in a column that too many carbohydrates are dangerous. Doc says pie is fine if you are an active person who exercises a lot, but for the average man who sits on a chair all day such desserts only "build slacker flesh." If you want pie, work for it.
(YOU TELL 'EM!)
(NBC's Announcers Handbook actually had pages filled with just such exercises.)
("HAH!" hahs Joe. "YOO HOO BLUE! Hah! Ya dress ya team up in clown suits, ya gonna get a clown game! HAH!" "Hmph!" hmphs Sally. "'At Durocha! Puts himself in jus' so he c'n say he's leadin' t' team in hittin'! Ya won't see Petey doin' 'at!")
Composer Robert Russell Bennett, whose "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" showed a fine Brooklyn spirit again delves into local lore for his next radio premiere. His symphonic piece called "Six Paragraphs from 'Sodom On The Sea'," in honor of the new book by the Eagle's Jo Ranson and Oliver Pilat of the Post, will "capture in musical form all the noise and color that surrounds the popcorn peninsula."
(HMPH. Sparks refuses to wear a skin tight superhero uniform, despite having the figure for it -- but wears an ascot with his bathrobe. HMPH.)
(Fight the power, George!)
(Yeah, and if you think that's bad, wait'll you start looking at paving contractors.)
(WRIST EATING DOG! WRIST EATING DOG! WRIST EATING DOG! Nahhh, just doesn't have the rhythm...)
Official Nazi reports stated today that a Russian tank counteroffensive in the Kiev sector has been halted by German forces, and that German troops have sliced thru secondary defenses in the Dnieper/Dvina area en route to Leningrad. "The advance of the German troops upon St. Petersburg" -- referring to Leningrad by its pre-revolutionary name -- "continued without halt," reported the official DNB news agency.
British planes today dropped many tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the German industrial areas of Bremen and Hanover, in what the Air Ministry described as one of the largest air raids of the war. Extensive fires were started, according to an Air Ministry communique, and much damage was done to industrial targets. Five British planes were lost in the raids.
It is expected that District Attorney William O'Dwyer will be named by a conference of party leaders tomorrow as the Democratic mayoral candidate for the 1941 election. It is expected that the Tammany ticket will also include hotel executive David H. Knott of Manhattan for the largely-symbolic office of controller, and either Max J. Schneider or M. Maldwin Fertig, both of the Bronx, for the presidency of the City Council. The ticket as thus envisioned would not only be balanced geographically, but also in terms of religion -- with O'Dwyer a Roman Catholic, Knott a Protestant, and both Schneider and Fertig Jewish. On the Republican side, it is generally understood that Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey will not be the mayoral candidate, with Mr. Dewey expected to reserve himself for a run for Governor in 1942.
Records seized for the Amen Office by a squad of fifteen policemen, eight assistant attorneys-general, and eight accountants and special investigators attached to the Amen staff are undergoing close examination today in Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen's ongoing probe of the Brooklyn-Queens paving industry racket. The documents are to be formally impounded today after their seizure last night from the offices of eight contracting firms and the private homes of four men. The probe took on a new angle last night when it was revealed that the name of William F. Brunner, former chairman of the now-discontinued Board of Aldermen who was recently appointed by Queens Borough President George U. Harvey to succeed the retired John J. Halleran as Queens Commissioner of Public Works, has surfaced in connection with the investigation of a slush fund established by a group of paving contractors for the benefit of Mr. Halleran, with allegations now raised that a small portion of that fund was diverted to Mr. Brunner for use in his campaign when he ran as the Democratic candidate for borough president, against Mr. Harvey, in 1937.
(We could probably use a scorecard here, Mr. Schroth...)
Striking employees of the J. R. Thompson Cafeterias will receive a $2 a week pay increase across the board, under a new 15-month contract calling also for the establishment of a closed shop. Two hundred and twenty five workers for the quick-lunch chain had been on strike for 17 weeks, forcing ten cafeterias to close while the negotiations continued.
A Bath Beach man was shot in the thigh last night, while he sat in the bedroom of his fourth-floor apartment. 25-year-old Leon Jacobson of 8640 Bay Parkway felt a sudden pain in his leg and looked down to see blood. Police called to the scene found a spent 22-caliber bullet on the floor, and speculate that someone might have fired a pistol from the roof of one of the nearby buildings while "indulging in target practice." Mr. Jacobson's wound was treated by a doctor who lives in the apartment house, and was said not to be serious.
The widow of Lou Gehrig has signed a contract to consult on a motion-picture version of the late Yankee star's life story. Mrs. Eleanor Gehrig signed the deal today with Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn for the picture, and will "assist in the preparation of the script."
Buster Keaton seems to be making himself right at home in Brooklyn. Following his engagement at the Brighton Theatre in "The Gorilla," the one-time silent-screen comedy star will now move to the Cedarhurst Theatre for a juicy supporting role in the comedy-mystery favorite "Mr. and Mrs. North."
(This is one of those plays -- a classic "sophisticated" May-December romantic melodrama -- that I've heard over and over again in various radio adaptations, but I've never seen it done live on stage. The best of those radio versions featured none other than John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie -- and aside from the novelty value, they were actually really good in it.)
(Where's the Anti-Cigarette League when you need them?)
T. H. writes to Dr. Brady complaining that his wife won't give him pie because Doc said in a column that too many carbohydrates are dangerous. Doc says pie is fine if you are an active person who exercises a lot, but for the average man who sits on a chair all day such desserts only "build slacker flesh." If you want pie, work for it.
(YOU TELL 'EM!)
(NBC's Announcers Handbook actually had pages filled with just such exercises.)
("HAH!" hahs Joe. "YOO HOO BLUE! Hah! Ya dress ya team up in clown suits, ya gonna get a clown game! HAH!" "Hmph!" hmphs Sally. "'At Durocha! Puts himself in jus' so he c'n say he's leadin' t' team in hittin'! Ya won't see Petey doin' 'at!")
Composer Robert Russell Bennett, whose "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" showed a fine Brooklyn spirit again delves into local lore for his next radio premiere. His symphonic piece called "Six Paragraphs from 'Sodom On The Sea'," in honor of the new book by the Eagle's Jo Ranson and Oliver Pilat of the Post, will "capture in musical form all the noise and color that surrounds the popcorn peninsula."
(HMPH. Sparks refuses to wear a skin tight superhero uniform, despite having the figure for it -- but wears an ascot with his bathrobe. HMPH.)
(Fight the power, George!)
(Yeah, and if you think that's bad, wait'll you start looking at paving contractors.)
(WRIST EATING DOG! WRIST EATING DOG! WRIST EATING DOG! Nahhh, just doesn't have the rhythm...)
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And in the Daily News...
1941 leans back and laughs. "Wait, ya mean sin needs an invitation???"
("Household will show every consideration for your circumstances." Yeah, they'll be sure to knock first when they show up to repossess your bed.)
"Results subject to change without notice."
Just don't slip in the shower and hit your head, or we'll be right back where we started.
Yeah, they're gonna get along just fine.
Oooh, I love a good locked-bus mystery.
I mean, it's not like he hasn't had it coming...
Workin' hard or hardly workin'?
Hollywood and Vine? You mean Owl Drug? Hmph. You wanna get discovered, kid, you gotta hang out at Schwab's.
Let's think about this a sec. Timothy Teen is Harold's grandfather, and Thomas Teen's father. But Timothy Teen, by his own admission, never married. The Teen family tree must be very very interesting.
("Household will show every consideration for your circumstances." Yeah, they'll be sure to knock first when they show up to repossess your bed.)
Workin' hard or hardly workin'?
Let's think about this a sec. Timothy Teen is Harold's grandfather, and Thomas Teen's father. But Timothy Teen, by his own admission, never married. The Teen family tree must be very very interesting.
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I read that book Lizzie recommended about the Dodgers leaving town and tearing the heart
out of Brooklyn, unforgivably cruel, heinous depraved heart indifference, deliberate intent, malice
aforethought, conspiratorial deprave, dishonest, greed-run-amuck. And not just that ba***rd leprechaun
either, lotzsa blame to go around town with the boys. And those poor fans. God bless them.
out of Brooklyn, unforgivably cruel, heinous depraved heart indifference, deliberate intent, malice
aforethought, conspiratorial deprave, dishonest, greed-run-amuck. And not just that ba***rd leprechaun
either, lotzsa blame to go around town with the boys. And those poor fans. God bless them.
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All this and the US entry is still five months away.
No kidding, that's a thick paragraph that took two reads to kinda sort out. This one is a giant ball of corruption. Amen and his team are going to be quite busy for awhile.
Did Trigger break out?
...(Just be sure you don't turn on the oven jet by accident when you're frying some meat.)...
Thinking the exact same thing: It's all tralala until you're blown to kingdom come.
...
(This is one of those plays -- a classic "sophisticated" May-December romantic melodrama -- that I've heard over and over again in various radio adaptations, but I've never seen it done live on stage. The best of those radio versions featured none other than John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie -- and aside from the novelty value, they were actually really good in it.)...
Does he get to paddle her behind in this one too?
John: "I know it's radio, but for realism, I think I should actually smack her behind."
Sound technician: "That won't be necessary, Mr. Barrymore, as we can create a realistic version of that sound."
John: "Still, to help everyone get in character, it might be a good idea if I give it a few good wallops."
Elaine: "Go to hell, John."
...[
(NBC's Announcers Handbook actually had pages filled with just such exercises.)...
What's up with Lichty? I'm seeing a lot of hair on some of those heads today.
...
(Fight the power, George!)...
"The worst is that mother just sniffs when I ask her if she thinks Hartford could possibly..." Tuthill has a way with dialogue.
...
(WRIST EATING DOG! WRIST EATING DOG! WRIST EATING DOG! Nahhh, just doesn't have the rhythm...)
While I don't like to encourage this line of thinking, I agree, it doesn't work.
...Yeah, they're gonna get along just fine.....
[Voice in the crowd] "GIRLFIGHT!"
[Voice of reason] "It's offensive to imply that these two smart, worldly women won't be able to, what, huh?"
[Crowd voice again] "It's starting!"
[Voice of Reason] "Out of my way, I want a good seat."
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Let's take a look at the geometry for a second....Dude Ranch moved in on cue after Raven
did the ledge crawl; Pat and Raven prior to the window of opportunity? Now Raven is beginning
the suspicious with Sky King? We have two triangles? Stack 'em and square the corners of this deck
like Scarne and Terry is odd man out. Or, we can stick to the arithmetic and just figure the early speed
outta the gate to first stake, track furlong length, any bias, and the hoss to bet on. Flying blind here too
with Burma all hot to trot. And, no doubt previously mentioned editorial dictate.
did the ledge crawl; Pat and Raven prior to the window of opportunity? Now Raven is beginning
the suspicious with Sky King? We have two triangles? Stack 'em and square the corners of this deck
like Scarne and Terry is odd man out. Or, we can stick to the arithmetic and just figure the early speed
outta the gate to first stake, track furlong length, any bias, and the hoss to bet on. Flying blind here too
with Burma all hot to trot. And, no doubt previously mentioned editorial dictate.
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Let's take a look at the geometry for a second....Dude Ranch moved in on cue after Raven
did the ledge crawl; Pat and Raven prior to the window of opportunity? Now Raven is beginning
the suspicious with Sky King? We have two triangles? Stack 'em and square the corners of this deck
like Scarne and Terry is odd man out. Or, we can stick to the arithmetic and just figure the early speed
outta the gate to first stake, track furlong length, any bias, and the hoss to bet on. Flying blind here too
with Burma all hot to trot. And, no doubt previously mentioned editorial dictate.
That is a very smart breakdown of why I said this a day or so ago:
[Giddy with excitement and said real fast] "Raven and Burma and Pat and Dude all in the same place - I can't wait!"
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What I really want to know is what's Pat been up to since, what, last winter. "Whew, I never thought I'd get rid of that stupid kid."
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Pat is an unknown character to me, of course; though I surmise Terry is held in certain regard
around the strip with Pat probably holding an avuncular attitude towards our amiable kid.
Caniff certainly wove a web of intrigue within editorial fiat.
I now recall Pat and Dragon Gal fell inside passionate embrace-fade to black.
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I still think that what Pat did to Cheery Blaze was mean and uncalled for. Even if she did try to poison him.
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Meanwhile I've been searching most vainly for a color shot of the infamous "yoo hoo blue" Cubs uniforms, but I did find this B&W photo -- that's Jimmie Wilson, the manager, and Dizzy Dean, who has just announced his retirement, no doubt because there's such a thing as something too clownsuit even for him.
The "yoo hoo blue" is the same shade that would become popular in the 60s and 70s as "powder blue," and would, in fact, be worn again by the Cubs and many other clubs thru the 80s. But baseball wasn't quite ready for such flamboyance in 1941.
The "yoo hoo blue" is the same shade that would become popular in the 60s and 70s as "powder blue," and would, in fact, be worn again by the Cubs and many other clubs thru the 80s. But baseball wasn't quite ready for such flamboyance in 1941.
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