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We think alike - note my comments about Taylor and Burton and Gardner and Burton: #27872
And I agree, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is the exception, tough but powerful movie.
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We think alike - note my comments about Taylor and Burton and Gardner and Burton: #27872
And I agree, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is the exception, tough but powerful movie.
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Liz's performance opposite Brando in Reflections in a Golden Eye come to mind; most notably
her nude staircase ascent, which inexplicably draws Kim Novak to mind playing against Lawrence Harvey in
Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Dunno whysz.
The psychological crippled male protagonist might be at play,
and Harvey in Butterfield 8, not in control of himself....
Carson McCullers is a writer quite separate from Flannery O'Connor but southern Gothic cuts to the quick.
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The United States today denounced Japanese moves against French Indo-China as a threat against American possessions in the Pacific. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, on behalf of the U. S. Government, issued the denunciation in a statement declaring that such actions as are now being taken by Tokyo "imperil the defense of the United States and threaten the Philippine Islands and other Pacific areas." The statement released at a press conference today also declared that Japanese advancement into French Indo-China is "unwarranted," and that it is evidently "for purposes of further and more obvious movements of conquest in the adjacent areas."
Meanwhile, Japanese warships have appeared off the great French naval base at Camranh, and an official announcement of the occupation of key bases in Indo-China by Japanese forces is expected by tomorrow. There has still been no public announcement by French authorities as to the extent to which Japan will be allowed to move in, but wild rumors are circulating among the population. It has been claimed that Japanese warships have been sighted all along the Indo-Chinese coast, including the vicinity of Cap St. Jacques, entry to the port of Saigon. It is reported that the evacuation of Japanese citizens from Saigon has been halted in the wake of the French-Japanese agreement.
For the second consecutive day the German High Command has admitted that Nazi invasion troops in Russia are meeting "obstinate resistance," along some sections of the front, as they pass over "difficult terrain." But the German reports continue to insist that the invasion continues to make progress, with a claim today that German forces have "encircled and annihilated" Russian forces in the Nevel area of the Moscow front. It is further claimed that Soviet casualties have been high because "political commissars are forcing troops to defend hopeless positions."
The Office of Production Management announced today that a stabilization agreement has been reached with 800,000 members of unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor guaranteeing there will be no strikes on defense projects for the duration of the present state of emergency. Associate OPM director Sidney Hillman said the agreement assuring continuous work on Army, Navy, and defense housing projects during the life of the National Defense program. Under the terms of the accord with the AFL unions, there will be no strikes over jurisdictional disputes "or any other reasons," with all disputes to be settled by conciliation and arbitration.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today accused Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Montana), a leader of the Senate isolationist bloc, of "conduct that comes very near to the line of subversive activities against the United States, if not treason." Secretary Stimson made his statement at a Washington press conference today, accusing the Senator of sending postal cards to American soldiers urging them to protest against American entry into the European war. He exhibited as evidence of his accusation cards sent to the War Department by soldiers who stated that they received them from Wheeler.
A twenty-seven-year-old murder charge against a 70-year-old Brooklyn man has been dropped. Judge George W. Martin in Kings County Court today dismissed charges against Chester B. Duryea for the 1914 shooting death of Duryea's father, General Hiram Duryea, at their Bay Ridge home. The younger Duryea was committed to Mattawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane a month after the shooting, but was freed last year after doctors there ruled that he was sufficiently sane to confer with counsel. He was immediately jailed pending resolution of the charges against him, and after spending three months at the Raymond Street Jail, he was transferred to a sanitarium in Amityville, Long Island. Judge Martin dismissed the charges after Assistant District Attorney Thomas C. Hughes acknowledged that so much time has passed since the original indictment that a trial would not be appropriate.
(Uh-oh.)
A Bridge Plaza man found guilty of violating the city sanitation code by illegally keeping goats will go free -- on the condition that he dispose of the goats by next Tuesday. Magistrate Charles Solomon ruled in the case of 52-year-old Morris Cohen of 154 Hopkins Street that the ten goats held in a stable at 30 Boerum Street were a public nuisance, after neighbors complained of the odor from the animals and from the heaps of garbage they were fed. Cohen indignantly protested those claims, and told the Magistrate that all his neighbors love the goats, and in fact love them so much that they throw their garbage into his yard to feed them.
The proprietor of a Bowery tattoo shop and one of her clients will spend three days in jail after throwing a bottle of whisky at a police radio car. Police say 45-year-old Mildred Hull, tattooed-woman owner of the shop at 2 1/2 Bowery in Manhattan, and her customer, 34-year-old sailor Frank Duane, along with a second, unknown man, became involved in an argument outside the tattoo parlor, and Miss Hull attempted to terminate the argument by throwing the liquor bottle she was holding at the unknown party. He ducked, and the bottle struck the patrol car parked nearby. Duane protested when police arrested Miss Hull, and he was taken into custody as well on a disorderly conduct charge, although he had nothing to do with throwing the bottle.
(Well now, this certainly has Page Four potential.)
(Hmm. Imagine that.)
(I dunno if "so soft it can be gummed by the elderly" is really the best advertising position to take, but hey, whadda I know?)
The Eagle Editorialist ridicules the Nazi press for its recent "dramatic revelation" that President Roosevelt is a member of the Masonic order. "Senator Wheeler is a Shriner as well as a Mason, and an Elk besides," he notes. "Senator Nye is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. Well, Dr. Goebbels?"
(Sometimes I think Mr. Lichty likes to just draw a generic sketch, and then he lets his wife come up with the caption.)
(What nobody wants to say out loud, but which, I can guarantee you, everyone is thinking is 'What if what happened to Gehrig is happening to Camilli?' Hence the trip to Johns Hopkins.)
The Bushwicks celebrated the eleventh anniversary of night baseball at Dexter Park last night with a 3-1 win over the Kansas City Monarchs. Bots Nekola tossed a five-hitter to beat the powerful Negro American Leaguers. Tomorrow night another fine Negro club furnishes the opposition, with the St. Louis Stars invading Woodhaven. The Stars, who won the second-half championship in the N. A. L. last year, should actually be called the St. Louis-New Orleans Stars, since they are now playing half their home games in the Crescent City.
Not only is Lou Gehrig's wife acting as script consultant for the forthcoming film biography of the late baseball Iron Man, Lou's dog will co-star in the picture. The 2-year-old boxer named Kim will appear as himself in the role of the Yankee great's constant companion. Paul Gallico is writing the screenplay for Samuel Goldwyn, but no star has yet been cast to play Lou himself. A Goldwyn spokesman indicated that "all Hollywood leading men are being considered."
"B. C." writes to Dr. Brady, outraged that her high-school daughter was required to be tested for tuberculosis along with the rest of her class. "I disapprove of such compusory..." she declares, but Doc cuts her off -- in print, yet -- and snaps "You should be grateful your daughter is privileged to attend such a school."
("Dear Mr. MacPhail. In the interest of national defense, please send one of your protective helmets by parcel post at once to Mr. S. Watts...")
("Ah. Well then. I don't suppose you brought a hacksaw...")
(Hey, PM can get along without ads...)
(Listen to me very carefully. Your name is Charlie Blake. Your name has always been Charlie Blake. You drive a cab. You enjoy driving a cab. Driving a cab is the one thing that makes you happy. You never would consider doing anything but driving a cab. Because you are Charlie Blake, cab driver. Your name is Charlie Blake. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is simply playing a cruel joke on a simple cab driver. And you don't like fat men. You don't like fat men at all. Especially red-headed fat men who can't stop talking about goldfish.)
Meanwhile, Japanese warships have appeared off the great French naval base at Camranh, and an official announcement of the occupation of key bases in Indo-China by Japanese forces is expected by tomorrow. There has still been no public announcement by French authorities as to the extent to which Japan will be allowed to move in, but wild rumors are circulating among the population. It has been claimed that Japanese warships have been sighted all along the Indo-Chinese coast, including the vicinity of Cap St. Jacques, entry to the port of Saigon. It is reported that the evacuation of Japanese citizens from Saigon has been halted in the wake of the French-Japanese agreement.
For the second consecutive day the German High Command has admitted that Nazi invasion troops in Russia are meeting "obstinate resistance," along some sections of the front, as they pass over "difficult terrain." But the German reports continue to insist that the invasion continues to make progress, with a claim today that German forces have "encircled and annihilated" Russian forces in the Nevel area of the Moscow front. It is further claimed that Soviet casualties have been high because "political commissars are forcing troops to defend hopeless positions."
The Office of Production Management announced today that a stabilization agreement has been reached with 800,000 members of unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor guaranteeing there will be no strikes on defense projects for the duration of the present state of emergency. Associate OPM director Sidney Hillman said the agreement assuring continuous work on Army, Navy, and defense housing projects during the life of the National Defense program. Under the terms of the accord with the AFL unions, there will be no strikes over jurisdictional disputes "or any other reasons," with all disputes to be settled by conciliation and arbitration.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today accused Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Montana), a leader of the Senate isolationist bloc, of "conduct that comes very near to the line of subversive activities against the United States, if not treason." Secretary Stimson made his statement at a Washington press conference today, accusing the Senator of sending postal cards to American soldiers urging them to protest against American entry into the European war. He exhibited as evidence of his accusation cards sent to the War Department by soldiers who stated that they received them from Wheeler.
A twenty-seven-year-old murder charge against a 70-year-old Brooklyn man has been dropped. Judge George W. Martin in Kings County Court today dismissed charges against Chester B. Duryea for the 1914 shooting death of Duryea's father, General Hiram Duryea, at their Bay Ridge home. The younger Duryea was committed to Mattawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane a month after the shooting, but was freed last year after doctors there ruled that he was sufficiently sane to confer with counsel. He was immediately jailed pending resolution of the charges against him, and after spending three months at the Raymond Street Jail, he was transferred to a sanitarium in Amityville, Long Island. Judge Martin dismissed the charges after Assistant District Attorney Thomas C. Hughes acknowledged that so much time has passed since the original indictment that a trial would not be appropriate.
(Uh-oh.)
A Bridge Plaza man found guilty of violating the city sanitation code by illegally keeping goats will go free -- on the condition that he dispose of the goats by next Tuesday. Magistrate Charles Solomon ruled in the case of 52-year-old Morris Cohen of 154 Hopkins Street that the ten goats held in a stable at 30 Boerum Street were a public nuisance, after neighbors complained of the odor from the animals and from the heaps of garbage they were fed. Cohen indignantly protested those claims, and told the Magistrate that all his neighbors love the goats, and in fact love them so much that they throw their garbage into his yard to feed them.
The proprietor of a Bowery tattoo shop and one of her clients will spend three days in jail after throwing a bottle of whisky at a police radio car. Police say 45-year-old Mildred Hull, tattooed-woman owner of the shop at 2 1/2 Bowery in Manhattan, and her customer, 34-year-old sailor Frank Duane, along with a second, unknown man, became involved in an argument outside the tattoo parlor, and Miss Hull attempted to terminate the argument by throwing the liquor bottle she was holding at the unknown party. He ducked, and the bottle struck the patrol car parked nearby. Duane protested when police arrested Miss Hull, and he was taken into custody as well on a disorderly conduct charge, although he had nothing to do with throwing the bottle.
(Well now, this certainly has Page Four potential.)
(Hmm. Imagine that.)
(I dunno if "so soft it can be gummed by the elderly" is really the best advertising position to take, but hey, whadda I know?)
The Eagle Editorialist ridicules the Nazi press for its recent "dramatic revelation" that President Roosevelt is a member of the Masonic order. "Senator Wheeler is a Shriner as well as a Mason, and an Elk besides," he notes. "Senator Nye is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. Well, Dr. Goebbels?"
(Sometimes I think Mr. Lichty likes to just draw a generic sketch, and then he lets his wife come up with the caption.)
(What nobody wants to say out loud, but which, I can guarantee you, everyone is thinking is 'What if what happened to Gehrig is happening to Camilli?' Hence the trip to Johns Hopkins.)
The Bushwicks celebrated the eleventh anniversary of night baseball at Dexter Park last night with a 3-1 win over the Kansas City Monarchs. Bots Nekola tossed a five-hitter to beat the powerful Negro American Leaguers. Tomorrow night another fine Negro club furnishes the opposition, with the St. Louis Stars invading Woodhaven. The Stars, who won the second-half championship in the N. A. L. last year, should actually be called the St. Louis-New Orleans Stars, since they are now playing half their home games in the Crescent City.
Not only is Lou Gehrig's wife acting as script consultant for the forthcoming film biography of the late baseball Iron Man, Lou's dog will co-star in the picture. The 2-year-old boxer named Kim will appear as himself in the role of the Yankee great's constant companion. Paul Gallico is writing the screenplay for Samuel Goldwyn, but no star has yet been cast to play Lou himself. A Goldwyn spokesman indicated that "all Hollywood leading men are being considered."
"B. C." writes to Dr. Brady, outraged that her high-school daughter was required to be tested for tuberculosis along with the rest of her class. "I disapprove of such compusory..." she declares, but Doc cuts her off -- in print, yet -- and snaps "You should be grateful your daughter is privileged to attend such a school."
("Dear Mr. MacPhail. In the interest of national defense, please send one of your protective helmets by parcel post at once to Mr. S. Watts...")
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And in the Daily News...
We can go for days with Page Four just being humdrum routine stuff, but then you get a day like this...
There will no doubt be some readers who take this ad seriously, but those of us in the know recognize it immediately as a flat-footed parody of a famous Listerine campaign from the twenties: "Spring! For Everyone But Her..."
We take you now to the offices of the Seattle Board of Education. "Hey Sam, look at this. Postmarked New York, but no return address. Huh. Just a newspaper clippin' -- WELL WILL YA GET A LOAD OF THIS!"
"Why Grandma, what a big barrel you have..."
"Actually, Sahib, it is sacred to my religious beliefs, but I shall gladly forsake my lifelong vow for the chance to sleep on the floor at your feet." "You're putting me on, aren't you?" "What do *you* think, Sahib?" (gets out rug)
Annnnnnnd awayyyyyy we go!
If this catches on, it'll put poor Mr. Lichty right out of business.
"Don't worry son. After all, I was nothing but a feckless goof-off until I was thirty -- and then somebody dropped a baby on my doorstep. I had to swiften up pretty quick after that. Hey, son! Where are you going?" "I GOTTA GO TALK TO NINA, FAST!"
Emmy and Plushie were supposed to get married as "the Bride and Groom of the Century of Progress" at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, but I dunno, I think there was some little problem involving a sideshow dancer...
Those new padded-shoulder sport coats can make even our boy look impressive.
We take you now to the offices of the Seattle Board of Education. "Hey Sam, look at this. Postmarked New York, but no return address. Huh. Just a newspaper clippin' -- WELL WILL YA GET A LOAD OF THIS!"
"Actually, Sahib, it is sacred to my religious beliefs, but I shall gladly forsake my lifelong vow for the chance to sleep on the floor at your feet." "You're putting me on, aren't you?" "What do *you* think, Sahib?" (gets out rug)
If this catches on, it'll put poor Mr. Lichty right out of business.
Those new padded-shoulder sport coats can make even our boy look impressive.
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Solomon's courtroom is truly a sitcom come to life.
And eighty years later, Brooklyn would be one of the centers of tattoos' new mainstream popularity.
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(Well now, this certainly has Page Four potential.)...
God yes, especially since, for some unknown reason, Page Four has not provided 24/7 coverage of the bigamist-hula-dancer story, it has the capacity to dig into this one.
No kidding, you can absolutely feel that in the atmosphere.
...(Listen to me very carefully. Your name is Charlie Blake. Your name has always been Charlie Blake. You drive a cab. You enjoy driving a cab. Driving a cab is the one thing that makes you happy. You never would consider doing anything but driving a cab. Because you are Charlie Blake, cab driver. Your name is Charlie Blake. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is simply playing a cruel joke on a simple cab driver. And you don't like fat men. You don't like fat men at all. Especially red-headed fat men who can't stop talking about goldfish.)
Keep trying Lizzie, while I finish printing the "WE WANT KAY" posters for the rally.
Also, wasn't Dan somewhere far away when he got bonked? Didn't he float away somewhere first? How is he visiting someone at the same hospital Kay is in? The geography seems off.
...[We can go for days with Page Four just being humdrum routine stuff, but then you get a day like this.......
No kidding. Part of it is the luck of the news cycle (the Eagle gave us a pretty good hint that today would be a good Page Four day), but part of it is the editor in charge. As we've noted before - one loves these salacious, soap-opera, gossipy stories; whereas, the other one is more into true-crime and stupid-boring real news. The worst are the political column that just take up precious Page Four real estate.
...There will no doubt be some readers who take this ad seriously, but those of us in the know recognize it immediately as a flat-footed parody of a famous Listerine campaign from the twenties: "Spring! For Everyone But Her..."..
I didn't get it (and was thinking "what the heck") until the "Homotosis" line. It's pretty sophisticated or at least more modern/snarky in style than most '41 advertising.
...Annnnnnnd awayyyyyy we go!....
He's got all three in a room with a bed - we know exactly where Caniff wants to go. Damn censors.
Oh, and "butter-bean."
...
If this catches on, it'll put poor Mr. Lichty right out of business....
You know Chigger's following this story very closely and taking notes on the recipe.
...
Those new padded-shoulder sport coats can make even our boy look impressive.
Is gramps wearing saddle shoes?
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Gramps is as much of a hepcat clotheshorse as his grandson. Recall the other day he was frisking around in a letter sweater.
Harold is really milking that "Young Ronald Reagan" thing, but he's going to have to do more than that if he wants to make some progress with this situation. We don't want to see the old timer end up like Guggenheim.
I was trying to remember how it originally went down with Dan myself -- didn't he get thrown into a river out behind the Skull's hideout? Or was that the decoy? Marsh has not earned the right to be so confusing. After all, he isn't Chester Gould.
The dumbstruck look of "ooooooo I'm in for it now" on Hennick's face is absolutely priceless.
The Camilli thing was unsettling to me, even though I know the guy will live to be 90 -- long enough, in fact, to be screwed over by Hall of Famer Bud Selig. I have no idea what's wrong with him, but hopefully it'll go the same route as Hig's "appendicitis." This is no time for a repeat of last August.
Oh, and note that Roy Cullenbine is now hitting .352 for the Browns. Boy, Larry, sure would be swell to have him and Reiser in the same outfield.
I suspect the hula-bride thing will show up in one of those "DID JUSTICE TRIUMPH?" two-page spreads in the Sunday News. If and when it does, I'll be sure to present it as a special bonus.
Harold is really milking that "Young Ronald Reagan" thing, but he's going to have to do more than that if he wants to make some progress with this situation. We don't want to see the old timer end up like Guggenheim.
I was trying to remember how it originally went down with Dan myself -- didn't he get thrown into a river out behind the Skull's hideout? Or was that the decoy? Marsh has not earned the right to be so confusing. After all, he isn't Chester Gould.
The dumbstruck look of "ooooooo I'm in for it now" on Hennick's face is absolutely priceless.
The Camilli thing was unsettling to me, even though I know the guy will live to be 90 -- long enough, in fact, to be screwed over by Hall of Famer Bud Selig. I have no idea what's wrong with him, but hopefully it'll go the same route as Hig's "appendicitis." This is no time for a repeat of last August.
Oh, and note that Roy Cullenbine is now hitting .352 for the Browns. Boy, Larry, sure would be swell to have him and Reiser in the same outfield.
I suspect the hula-bride thing will show up in one of those "DID JUSTICE TRIUMPH?" two-page spreads in the Sunday News. If and when it does, I'll be sure to present it as a special bonus.
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The Guggenheim estate account imbroglio is amusing. It is not unusual amidst such genre geriatric
to have other "individuals" petition the court for right to join suit, mercenary though
such may be, but subsequent evident indigent circumstance serves sufficient chastisement all round.
to have other "individuals" petition the court for right to join suit, mercenary though
such may be, but subsequent evident indigent circumstance serves sufficient chastisement all round.
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And as for the triple play triangle, looks like Raven fell off the ledge or perhaps her soapbox.
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I find Raven a not alltogether unsympathetic woman. She is certainly noble and dedicated to cause.
But if the window is now closed with Hennick, so be it; and, if not closed, clarity is called for or forfeiture
chosen and accepted de facto, res ipsa loquitor. Time waits for no man, nor does it stop for a woman.
And Hennick has nothing to feel guilty about, neither shame nor remorse.
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A Japanese newspaper report today claimed that Japan is occupying French Indo-China in order to prevent the United States, China, and Great Britain from doing so. The article in the Japanese Army newspaper Sin-Shun-Pau stated that Japan is faced with "nipping the malicious ambition" of the US, Britain, and China to foil the rise of the Japanese New Order in East Asia. It is anticipated in the article that the full occupation of strategic ports, land and air bases in Indo-China will be "an accomplished fact" by Monday.
Simultaneous economic action against Japan by the United States, Great Britain, and possibly Australia is expected today to be the first counter-move of the democracies against Japanese aggression in Indo-China. Such pressure would mark the end of a two-year experiment on the part of the democratic powers of appeasement toward the Japanese Government and its ambitions in the East. There is speculation that the US may freeze Japanese assets in America and it is believed that Japan fears that its ships may be seized as well. In San Francisco it is stated that about forty Japanese ships bound for port have hove to at sea in anticipation of possible US actions. It is also reported that those ships are awaiting developments in Central and South America where, it is feared, if the US takes action to impound Japanese shipping, the Latin states will do likewise.
A communique from Berlin claims another 30,000 Soviet troops have been taken prisoner, and an even greater number killed, as fierce fighting continues on the eastern front. The communique states that 20,000 Red Army troops have been captured in combat around the Nevel sector west of Moscow, and another 10,000 surrendered after the claimed collapse of Red Army defenses further south near Mogilev.
A Soviet communique monitored in London states that intensive fighting continued thru the night on the Moscow, Kiev, and Finnish fronts, with battles in progress at five separate points along those lines. It was claimed that the entire German Fifth Infantry Division, only recently arrived along the front at Smolensk, has been "entirely wiped out." It is also stated that only one German plane out of a fleet bound for Moscow made it thru Soviet defenses, only to be shot down over the city after "randomly dropping bombs."
The racket-busting talents of Assistant Attorney General John Harlan Amen may earn him a berth on the Democratic Party ticket in the upcoming city elections, with Tammany sources stating that Mr. Amen is likely to receive the nomination to challenge Republican Thomas E. Dewey for the position of Manhattan District Attorney. Mr. Amen was appointed in 1938 by the U. S. Attorney General to head a special commission investigating official corruption in Brooklyn, and since that time has broken the borough's bail-bond racket and has uncovered evidence of extensive corruption in the granting of paving contracts in Brooklyn and Queens. It has also been rumored that, if Amen declines the nomination, Tammany may endorse Dewey for re-election -- providing that he refrain from interjecting his opinions in the mayoral race, where Democratic nominee William O'Dwyer will attempt to unseat Mayor LaGuardia.
A Staten Island Grand Jury today accused one of its own members of leaking confidential information concerning a case now under consideration. Grand Juror Carl H. Richter, who is employed as the treasurer of the R & H Brewing Company of Staten Island, is charged with disclosing secret information of Grand Jury proceedings by advising a friend, paving contractor Arthur Thompson, that he had not been named in indictments returned by the Amen Office in its ongoing investigation of corruption in the paving industry. Mr. Richter denied the charge, entering a not guilty plea, and is being held on $500 bail.
Another 25,000 air raid wardens are needed in Brooklyn, and a recruitment drive toward achieving that goal will begin on Monday. Joseph Ryan, the son of Assistant Chief Inspector John Ryan of the Police Department, and a junior executive in the real estate department of Consolidated Edison Company, will spearhead the campaign, on behalf of the Brooklyn Industrial Committee for Civilian Defense. Recruiters will be sent out to canvas the offices and factories of all business firms in the borough to sign up new volunteers on the spot for the warden service.
Two hoodlums accused of terrorizing Flatbush merchants are in custody after beating the operator of a Chinese restaurant who refused to deliver $1 worth of chow mein for free. Twenty-four-year-old Chester "Chowderhead" Johnson of 1597 E. 49th Street, and 24-year-old Joseph DeSylva of 4616 Avenue L are being held without bail for the assault on 37-year-old Herman Lum of 4204 Avenue D. Police say the two "strong arm men" have been threatening local shopowners by helping themselves to various articles and threatening "violent reprisals" to anyone who complains. It is charged that the two telephoned Lum's restaurant yesterday and ordered a delivery of food to a stationery store on East 45th Street. When Lum himself arrived with the order, the two men are accused of ridiculing the restaurant owner and beating him up when he asked for payment. A passerby, witnessing the assault, summoned police. Mr. Lum was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was treated for a fractured nose and internal injuries before identifying the two men as his assailants. The two men had previously been arrested in 1938 after stealing a taxicab in Manhattan and leading police on a chase thru Flatbush before they were run off the road on President Street. A year later, Johnson and another man were charged with throwing a pail of water thru the window of a synagogue in the Flatlands.
(I'd forgotten about Mrs. Schrein. See how everything ties together?)
(I have one of these, and they are, in fact, very good bikes. Better buy now, before they go on the ration.)
(This is a Disney feature you don't hear much about. It was cobbled together in the midst of a bitter strike by animators against the high-handed, low-wage conditions that prevailed for the rank and file at the studio -- a confrontation that Disney lost. That turned Uncle Walt himself into a vindictive red-baiter who went out of his way to harm as many of the insurgents as he could for as long as he possibly could. "The Happiest Place On Earth!")
(Even though Tallu is a Giant fan, Brooklyn loves her to pieces. She doesn't just have a lion cub, she's got Ricardo Montalban!)
(A little over a month from now, I will be performing a wedding ceremony for a couple of dear young people. I really hope it doesn't turn out like this.)
("OW!" ows Sally. "OW! OW! OW! 'Zis kid is all woiked up!" "Yeah," growls Joe. "So'm I. WHATEVVA'S GOIN' ON HAD BETTA STOP GOIN' ON! T'em Giants! Can't ev'n win when ya WANT 'em to!")
(Seriously, that's gotta hurt.)
(Back home, Jo feels a sudden disturbance in the energy of the universe.)
(LEONA! LEONA! LEONA!)
(Yes, Charlie Blake. That fat fellow certainly *is* funny looking. You can't think of anything else when you look at him. How funny he is, like a fat funny clown at the circus. How he makes you laugh. You can't think of anything else, can you Charlie Blake? See the funny fat clown! Hahahahahahahaha!)
Simultaneous economic action against Japan by the United States, Great Britain, and possibly Australia is expected today to be the first counter-move of the democracies against Japanese aggression in Indo-China. Such pressure would mark the end of a two-year experiment on the part of the democratic powers of appeasement toward the Japanese Government and its ambitions in the East. There is speculation that the US may freeze Japanese assets in America and it is believed that Japan fears that its ships may be seized as well. In San Francisco it is stated that about forty Japanese ships bound for port have hove to at sea in anticipation of possible US actions. It is also reported that those ships are awaiting developments in Central and South America where, it is feared, if the US takes action to impound Japanese shipping, the Latin states will do likewise.
A communique from Berlin claims another 30,000 Soviet troops have been taken prisoner, and an even greater number killed, as fierce fighting continues on the eastern front. The communique states that 20,000 Red Army troops have been captured in combat around the Nevel sector west of Moscow, and another 10,000 surrendered after the claimed collapse of Red Army defenses further south near Mogilev.
A Soviet communique monitored in London states that intensive fighting continued thru the night on the Moscow, Kiev, and Finnish fronts, with battles in progress at five separate points along those lines. It was claimed that the entire German Fifth Infantry Division, only recently arrived along the front at Smolensk, has been "entirely wiped out." It is also stated that only one German plane out of a fleet bound for Moscow made it thru Soviet defenses, only to be shot down over the city after "randomly dropping bombs."
The racket-busting talents of Assistant Attorney General John Harlan Amen may earn him a berth on the Democratic Party ticket in the upcoming city elections, with Tammany sources stating that Mr. Amen is likely to receive the nomination to challenge Republican Thomas E. Dewey for the position of Manhattan District Attorney. Mr. Amen was appointed in 1938 by the U. S. Attorney General to head a special commission investigating official corruption in Brooklyn, and since that time has broken the borough's bail-bond racket and has uncovered evidence of extensive corruption in the granting of paving contracts in Brooklyn and Queens. It has also been rumored that, if Amen declines the nomination, Tammany may endorse Dewey for re-election -- providing that he refrain from interjecting his opinions in the mayoral race, where Democratic nominee William O'Dwyer will attempt to unseat Mayor LaGuardia.
A Staten Island Grand Jury today accused one of its own members of leaking confidential information concerning a case now under consideration. Grand Juror Carl H. Richter, who is employed as the treasurer of the R & H Brewing Company of Staten Island, is charged with disclosing secret information of Grand Jury proceedings by advising a friend, paving contractor Arthur Thompson, that he had not been named in indictments returned by the Amen Office in its ongoing investigation of corruption in the paving industry. Mr. Richter denied the charge, entering a not guilty plea, and is being held on $500 bail.
Another 25,000 air raid wardens are needed in Brooklyn, and a recruitment drive toward achieving that goal will begin on Monday. Joseph Ryan, the son of Assistant Chief Inspector John Ryan of the Police Department, and a junior executive in the real estate department of Consolidated Edison Company, will spearhead the campaign, on behalf of the Brooklyn Industrial Committee for Civilian Defense. Recruiters will be sent out to canvas the offices and factories of all business firms in the borough to sign up new volunteers on the spot for the warden service.
Two hoodlums accused of terrorizing Flatbush merchants are in custody after beating the operator of a Chinese restaurant who refused to deliver $1 worth of chow mein for free. Twenty-four-year-old Chester "Chowderhead" Johnson of 1597 E. 49th Street, and 24-year-old Joseph DeSylva of 4616 Avenue L are being held without bail for the assault on 37-year-old Herman Lum of 4204 Avenue D. Police say the two "strong arm men" have been threatening local shopowners by helping themselves to various articles and threatening "violent reprisals" to anyone who complains. It is charged that the two telephoned Lum's restaurant yesterday and ordered a delivery of food to a stationery store on East 45th Street. When Lum himself arrived with the order, the two men are accused of ridiculing the restaurant owner and beating him up when he asked for payment. A passerby, witnessing the assault, summoned police. Mr. Lum was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was treated for a fractured nose and internal injuries before identifying the two men as his assailants. The two men had previously been arrested in 1938 after stealing a taxicab in Manhattan and leading police on a chase thru Flatbush before they were run off the road on President Street. A year later, Johnson and another man were charged with throwing a pail of water thru the window of a synagogue in the Flatlands.
(I'd forgotten about Mrs. Schrein. See how everything ties together?)
(I have one of these, and they are, in fact, very good bikes. Better buy now, before they go on the ration.)
(This is a Disney feature you don't hear much about. It was cobbled together in the midst of a bitter strike by animators against the high-handed, low-wage conditions that prevailed for the rank and file at the studio -- a confrontation that Disney lost. That turned Uncle Walt himself into a vindictive red-baiter who went out of his way to harm as many of the insurgents as he could for as long as he possibly could. "The Happiest Place On Earth!")
(A little over a month from now, I will be performing a wedding ceremony for a couple of dear young people. I really hope it doesn't turn out like this.)
("OW!" ows Sally. "OW! OW! OW! 'Zis kid is all woiked up!" "Yeah," growls Joe. "So'm I. WHATEVVA'S GOIN' ON HAD BETTA STOP GOIN' ON! T'em Giants! Can't ev'n win when ya WANT 'em to!")
(Seriously, that's gotta hurt.)
(LEONA! LEONA! LEONA!)
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And in the Daily News....
"Nothing more than a drunken brawl." You say that like they happen every day. Oh wait.
Sure, arrest the "lady golfer." But look what the men get away with!
Do you get the sense that people are a bit preoccupied these days?
"Nononono! I said 'dress up like a GUARDIAN!'"
The first "fauxhawk."
You know, fellas, there really are subtler ways to do this.
Stop smirking, Burms. It's only just begun.
"Y'know, Nina, in seven months I'm eligible to get drafted. Um, do you know what 3-A means?"
WELL THIS CERTAINLY ISN'T GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN.
It's a good thing for Willie that cryptocurrency doesn't exist in 1941.
Sure, arrest the "lady golfer." But look what the men get away with!
Do you get the sense that people are a bit preoccupied these days?
The first "fauxhawk."
You know, fellas, there really are subtler ways to do this.
Stop smirking, Burms. It's only just begun.
"Y'know, Nina, in seven months I'm eligible to get drafted. Um, do you know what 3-A means?"
WELL THIS CERTAINLY ISN'T GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN.
It's a good thing for Willie that cryptocurrency doesn't exist in 1941.
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Burma seems to be lying in the bed that Raven made.
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"Chowderhead" Really? Things are not going well when that is your acknowledged nickname. He has no future in the mob.
...
(I'd forgotten about Mrs. Schrein. See how everything ties together?)...
I had forgotten about her too. I had to read a few of those middle paragraphs twice to keep everything straight as this story is getting complicated - at least trying to follow the money is getting complicated.
I'm still amazed that Tallulah Bankhead is her actual birth name. That is a bet that would have cost me a lot of money.
...
(LEONA! LEONA! LEONA!)...
Lizzie, I believe we need to print up some showcards: "Leona Stockpool, The Governor's Wife vs. Connie Barclay, Niece of Mayor Gribble / 12 rounds / 3-knockdown rule in effect / Ms. Stockpool formerly of The Club Buccaneer /etc.
(Insert below photos where appropriate - they'll drive the gate numbers.)
Ms. Stockpool
Ms. Barclay
...(Yes, Charlie Blake. That fat fellow certainly *is* funny looking. You can't think of anything else when you look at him. How funny he is, like a fat funny clown at the circus. How he makes you laugh. You can't think of anything else, can you Charlie Blake? See the funny fat clown! Hahahahahahahaha!)
Irwin does get slammed regularly. Freddie Fitz, still smarting from the "waddled" comment, chuckles to himself "'funny looking fat fellow,' he is a funny looking fat fellow, he's not an athletic-looking guy like me."
I think we deserve a daily update on Kay's condition, the only one of these characters we really care about (and Wolf).
..."Nothing more than a drunken brawl." You say that like they happen every day. Oh wait.....
Another very Page Foury Page Four.
Ooh, a long-time housekeeper who will tell all at the trail - right out of a Hollywood script.
...
Stop smirking, Burms. It's only just begun.....
That is one serious jawline Raven's sporting - helps with her death stare.
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Lol! timely.... nice touch!Harp
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Now that you mention it---Caniff's pencil is nuanced, cuts like a strop honed razor...
but only in imagination, a realm of uninhibited indulgence. Dude's dialogue and dress are inappropriate
for circumstance and China garrison duty. His gab n' garb all wrong. Burma's third wheel is strained typecast.
Ditto Raven's Reverend Mother Superior act.
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Dude was much more impressive when he had a shaved head -- even the DL paid notice to "the Bald One." Caniff drew him that way as an inside joke: his friend Frank Higgs, who was the visual and behaviorial model for Dude had a bad case of lice at that particular time. By all accounts, the personal traits and habits of this Higgs fellow -- no relation, we presume to Irwin Higgs -- were translated directly to Mr. Hennick, and Higgs himself gladly responded from then on to the name of "Dude."
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Caniff's penciling a suited Dude with his aw-shucks mamn dialogue splain bit threw a curve.
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The best part of the story is that Frank Higgs was an actual freelance pilot during the real-world evacuation of Hong Kong, and was recognized -- from his depiction in the strip -- by Claire Boothe Luce, who was trapped in the city and looking for a quick escape before the Invaders arrived. "Dude!" she shouted, getting his attention. "Burma!" he is said to have shouted back. History fails to tell us if a real-world Raven Sherman was sulking in the back of the plane.
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And here I was comparing Sky King with Clark Gable in Soldier of Fortune, in the dinner scene opposite
luscious Susan Hayward and in particular the taxi kiss embrace outside his house with the darkened
Hong Kong skyline aflash with thunderous lightning and Sue sweetness cutting him another,
all his twisted steel sex appeal gone down the drain like Schlitz poured out a can.
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President Roosevelt today ordered the army and navy of the Commonwealth of the Philippines placed under the command of the armed forces of the United States for the duration of the present emergency. The move comes a day after both the United States and the British Commonwealth of Nations took action freezing all Japanese assets within their borders, an act seen as an essential declaration of economic war against the Asiatic empire. At Honolulu, it was revealed today that all troops under the command of the U. S. Army's Hawaiian Department have been placed on a "precautionary alert" footing.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Montana), isolationist arch-foe of the Roosevelt Administration's foreign policy, declared today that he endorses the President's move to freeze Japanese assets. "You may say for me that I agree with him," stated the Senator, "for the first time."
Meanwhile, Japan has retaliated against the US by freezing all American assets within its borders. The Domei news agency reports that as of Monday all financial transactions involving American and Philippine nationals within Japanese territory will require special permission from the Japanese Government.
Britain today notified the Japanese Government that all existing trade agreements between Japan and the British Commonwealth are now abrogated, following a similar abrogation by the United States against Japan several months ago. The agreements denounced under that declaration include the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1911, the India-Japan commercial convention of 1934, and the Burma-Japan commercial convention of 1937. British authorities stressed that the abrogation has been declared with the full cooperation of the various Dominion governments.
(Meanwhile, at his headquarters overlooking the Hudson River, Mr. Milton Caniff is taking furious notes and wondering how he can possibly keep up.)
Russia has stopped the German offensive on both the Moscow and Kiev fronts, with Germany suffering enormous losses as it attempts to restart its stalled blitzkrieg. A Soviet communique reported today that heavy fighting continued thru the night on both fronts, with the Nazis "throwing fresh forces into the lines in a vain attempt to resume their offensive" as the war ended its fifth week. The communique also noted that "captured German officers confirm the heavy losses."
The German High Command admitted today that a powerful Soviet counterattack has been launched northeast of Smolensk, with a combination of bad weather and muddy roads hampering the Nazi offensive across the Russian fronts. The communique marked the third consecutive day in which official Nazi sources acknowledged "difficulties" in the face of Soviet resistance.
The 54-year-old manager of a Brooklyn Heights hotel, missing since July 9th, can now be found at the Raymond Street Jail, where he is being held on a charge of grand larceny. Police last night arrested Lee N. Chalmers, manager of the Franklin Arms Hotel of 66 Orange Street, as he relaxed in a Greenwich Village restaurant, and charged him with embezzling $4500 in hotel bank deposits under his control. Chalmers, who was reported missing by his wife more than three weeks ago, had, according to police, been hiding out in the city the entire time. Chalmers was arraigned yesterday in Felony Court and is being held on $1000 bail pending a court appearance on August 1st.
A 27-year-old Long Island City man plunged into the oily waters of the East River, near a housing-project playground last night to rescue two boys who had gone beyond their depth and were being swept away by the current. Fred Peritiore of the Queensboro Housing Project didn't hesitate a moment when he spotted the youths flailing in the water, handing his nine-month-old baby to his wife and diving into the river after them. He managed to pull both boys up after they sank, and the three were swept nearly a hundred feet downstream before a Parks Department employee could throw them a rope. With his last bit of strength Peritiore grabbed the rope, pushed one of the boys into shallow water, and let the Parks Department worker pull him and the other boy to the river bank. Nine-year-old Nicholas Perise and 8-year-old Leo Chika, both of 41-04 10th Street, were given first aid at the scene and sent home.
From pots and pans to golf clubs, from kettles to hair curlers, the scrap aluminum overflowed its bin at Borough Hall this morning, heaping on the stone steps to the Borough President's office, as Brooklyn responded with zeal to the nationwide call for the vital war material. Borough residents have already exceeded more than half of the entire city's quota for aluminum donations, as the campaign continues. Aluminum articles may be turned in at all neighborhood police precincts and fire stations as well as at the big downtown corral. So far more than 85,000 pieces of aluminum have been collected in Brooklyn, to be melted down and remanufactured into parts for Army bombers and fighter planes.
(There's A New World Coming.)
Reader H. S. J. tells Dr. Brady where to get off in response to his recent column suggesting that ill-tempered elderly people be doped with alcohol to make them more compliant. "My father," the reader writes, "when he leaves the stuff alone does very well, although he has always been of an irritable nature. But from only the first drink, even if it is just a beer or two, it makes a fool of him, and more so since he has grown older. When he's had a few drinks, everyone's 'a damned fool' but him." The Doc ruffles his back and replies that he believes total abstinence is advisable for anyone under the age of 60, because senility seldom begins before that age. But from the age of 60 forward, he maintains, those who become elderly, infirm, childish, or senile can benefit from being "sweetened" with liquor.
(Let's name names, Mr. Schroth -- Socony and Esso have a lot of explaining to do. Their jointly-owned East Asian subsidiary Stanvac supplied 80 percent of the oil used by Japan to fuel the bloody invasion of China. On what moral basis is this justified? And the Roosevelt Administration doesn't get away unscathed either -- why weren't sanctions imposed in 1937? It's not like there weren't plenty of people demanding it.)
("Oh, I don't know, sweetie -- but keep up with the attitude, and you're going to be eating yours off a plate that says 'Bickford's.'")
("T'EY LOS' TWO GAMES TA T'PITTSBOIGS?" bellows Joe. "Betta sen' Wyatt ta see t'at John Hopkins too," adds Sally. "Maybe t'ey c'ngetta discount.")
("Killgallen!" snorts Sally. "Wit' a kid, yet! I HOPE SHE DON' PUSH IT DOWNA STAIAHS! I ASK YA!" "Lookit t' time," mutters Joe.)
(I don't think they need you, kid.)
("Ha ha!")
(Hey, how about let's blow off the rest of this story and see what John and Leona are up to in Brazil?)
(Yeah, this is why Irwin will never get his own strip. And way to violate patient confidentiality there, Doc. Of course, everybody knows the names of all secret operatives at all times, but still...)
Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Montana), isolationist arch-foe of the Roosevelt Administration's foreign policy, declared today that he endorses the President's move to freeze Japanese assets. "You may say for me that I agree with him," stated the Senator, "for the first time."
Meanwhile, Japan has retaliated against the US by freezing all American assets within its borders. The Domei news agency reports that as of Monday all financial transactions involving American and Philippine nationals within Japanese territory will require special permission from the Japanese Government.
Britain today notified the Japanese Government that all existing trade agreements between Japan and the British Commonwealth are now abrogated, following a similar abrogation by the United States against Japan several months ago. The agreements denounced under that declaration include the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1911, the India-Japan commercial convention of 1934, and the Burma-Japan commercial convention of 1937. British authorities stressed that the abrogation has been declared with the full cooperation of the various Dominion governments.
(Meanwhile, at his headquarters overlooking the Hudson River, Mr. Milton Caniff is taking furious notes and wondering how he can possibly keep up.)
Russia has stopped the German offensive on both the Moscow and Kiev fronts, with Germany suffering enormous losses as it attempts to restart its stalled blitzkrieg. A Soviet communique reported today that heavy fighting continued thru the night on both fronts, with the Nazis "throwing fresh forces into the lines in a vain attempt to resume their offensive" as the war ended its fifth week. The communique also noted that "captured German officers confirm the heavy losses."
The German High Command admitted today that a powerful Soviet counterattack has been launched northeast of Smolensk, with a combination of bad weather and muddy roads hampering the Nazi offensive across the Russian fronts. The communique marked the third consecutive day in which official Nazi sources acknowledged "difficulties" in the face of Soviet resistance.
The 54-year-old manager of a Brooklyn Heights hotel, missing since July 9th, can now be found at the Raymond Street Jail, where he is being held on a charge of grand larceny. Police last night arrested Lee N. Chalmers, manager of the Franklin Arms Hotel of 66 Orange Street, as he relaxed in a Greenwich Village restaurant, and charged him with embezzling $4500 in hotel bank deposits under his control. Chalmers, who was reported missing by his wife more than three weeks ago, had, according to police, been hiding out in the city the entire time. Chalmers was arraigned yesterday in Felony Court and is being held on $1000 bail pending a court appearance on August 1st.
A 27-year-old Long Island City man plunged into the oily waters of the East River, near a housing-project playground last night to rescue two boys who had gone beyond their depth and were being swept away by the current. Fred Peritiore of the Queensboro Housing Project didn't hesitate a moment when he spotted the youths flailing in the water, handing his nine-month-old baby to his wife and diving into the river after them. He managed to pull both boys up after they sank, and the three were swept nearly a hundred feet downstream before a Parks Department employee could throw them a rope. With his last bit of strength Peritiore grabbed the rope, pushed one of the boys into shallow water, and let the Parks Department worker pull him and the other boy to the river bank. Nine-year-old Nicholas Perise and 8-year-old Leo Chika, both of 41-04 10th Street, were given first aid at the scene and sent home.
From pots and pans to golf clubs, from kettles to hair curlers, the scrap aluminum overflowed its bin at Borough Hall this morning, heaping on the stone steps to the Borough President's office, as Brooklyn responded with zeal to the nationwide call for the vital war material. Borough residents have already exceeded more than half of the entire city's quota for aluminum donations, as the campaign continues. Aluminum articles may be turned in at all neighborhood police precincts and fire stations as well as at the big downtown corral. So far more than 85,000 pieces of aluminum have been collected in Brooklyn, to be melted down and remanufactured into parts for Army bombers and fighter planes.
(There's A New World Coming.)
Reader H. S. J. tells Dr. Brady where to get off in response to his recent column suggesting that ill-tempered elderly people be doped with alcohol to make them more compliant. "My father," the reader writes, "when he leaves the stuff alone does very well, although he has always been of an irritable nature. But from only the first drink, even if it is just a beer or two, it makes a fool of him, and more so since he has grown older. When he's had a few drinks, everyone's 'a damned fool' but him." The Doc ruffles his back and replies that he believes total abstinence is advisable for anyone under the age of 60, because senility seldom begins before that age. But from the age of 60 forward, he maintains, those who become elderly, infirm, childish, or senile can benefit from being "sweetened" with liquor.
(Let's name names, Mr. Schroth -- Socony and Esso have a lot of explaining to do. Their jointly-owned East Asian subsidiary Stanvac supplied 80 percent of the oil used by Japan to fuel the bloody invasion of China. On what moral basis is this justified? And the Roosevelt Administration doesn't get away unscathed either -- why weren't sanctions imposed in 1937? It's not like there weren't plenty of people demanding it.)
("Oh, I don't know, sweetie -- but keep up with the attitude, and you're going to be eating yours off a plate that says 'Bickford's.'")
("T'EY LOS' TWO GAMES TA T'PITTSBOIGS?" bellows Joe. "Betta sen' Wyatt ta see t'at John Hopkins too," adds Sally. "Maybe t'ey c'ngetta discount.")
("Killgallen!" snorts Sally. "Wit' a kid, yet! I HOPE SHE DON' PUSH IT DOWNA STAIAHS! I ASK YA!" "Lookit t' time," mutters Joe.)
("Ha ha!")
(Hey, how about let's blow off the rest of this story and see what John and Leona are up to in Brazil?)
(Yeah, this is why Irwin will never get his own strip. And way to violate patient confidentiality there, Doc. Of course, everybody knows the names of all secret operatives at all times, but still...)
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