The Era -- Day By Day

[EngProf]

Seriously, why don't we? We've been seeing this problem pop up in the papers, anecdotally, for two years now.




We saw this last week. These are not counter arguments, just timeline issues. Both points of view are correct.




Welles would have continued as a "fortune teller," but he realized there was more money in the Hollywood version of make believe.

The swastika has rightfully become one of the most hated and despised symbols in history, but when the Nazis were riding high, they quite effectively marketed the h*ll out of it.




"I was an inch too short."
"Only an inch?"

Why is she in her underwear in panel seven? Not complaining, just pointing it out.

I'm not just saying it, Lizzie, I had the exact same thought about Shadow before I read your comment. Ed could work six months worth of Sunday jokes out of that one scenario.




The description of the New Zealand patrol vessel's battle with the Japanese sub was as good as any Warner Bros. action scene. Heck, Warner Bros. will probably (or should) incorporate something like it into its next war picture.

The judge's instructions all but guaranteed Ms. Parrott's acquittal.




Even Gould wouldn't have a baby freeze to death as part of a storyline.




A fully-clothed and only showing a little leg Cindy, what is "Smilin' Jack" coming to!

I bet no one thought "Fritzi Ritz" would have the most Sunday comicstrip porn today.




Even in these not-great scans, you can appreciate the detail Caniff puts into his drawing of clothes. It makes sense consider that we've learned that he is also a fashion designer. Just the other day, Foxtrot Lamont pointed out the bomber jacket. Caniff is ridiculously talented.




My take is the judge realized she wasn't guilty of anything major and that neither justice nor military PR would have been served by finding her guilty of something minor, so he instructed the jury in a way that all but forced an acquittal.

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 uniform that fits a guy who says it's a "present" for his twin brother who's EXACTLY his size.
Black market meat and eggs... Black market uniforms...
Concerning Caniff's ability to draw clothes: In his autobiography, Bill Mauldin mentions that during his formative cartooning career he intently studied Caniff's skillful drawing of clothes, including how he illustrated wrinkles.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Concerning Caniff's ability to draw clothes: In his autobiography, Bill Mauldin mentions that during his formative cartooning career he intently studied Caniff's skillful drawing of clothes, including how he illustrated wrinkles.

Mauldin appeared in the American Civil War film The Red Badge of Courage opposite Audie Murphy.
I vaguely recall reading something inside Playboy magazine on Mauldin's depiction of haggard American GIs without
shave and sloven field appearance that drew famed General George Patton's ire. Mauldin got a personal interview
with Patton to talk things over. Unlike Mayfair-girls but no real editorial content to speak of-Playboy gave full packet.

 

[EngProf]

Mauldin appeared in the American Civil War film The Red Badge of Courage opposite Audie Murphy.
I vaguely recall reading something inside Playboy magazine on Mauldin's depiction of haggard American GIs without
shave and sloven field appearance that drew famed General George Patton's ire. Mauldin got a personal interview
with Patton to talk things over. Unlike Mayfair-girls but no real editorial content to speak of-Playboy gave full packet.

'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.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

'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.

When I was a cadet we studied the American Civil War, and, of course the Second World War. I seem to have heard
of a Mauldin book out there but I had impression of a more mature memoir published later in life. I'll look for it. Tnx.

 

[EngProf]

When I was a cadet we studied the American Civil War, and, of course the Second World War. I seem to have heard
of a Mauldin book out there but I had impression of a more mature memoir published later in life. I'll look for it. Tnx.

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

 

[LizzieMaine]

("A punchehed eahdrum," marvels Joe. "Howyaspose he got' t'at?" "Magehkoit' give it to 'im," replies Sally, without looking up. "Funny t'ing t' Awrmy," sighs Joe. "Reiseh t'ey'll take, but Leo t'ey'll leave. I ask ya.")

A visit to Rome by German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is seen by observers as an attempt by the Nazi government to counter the present Allied drive to put Italy out of the war. The German envoy has turned up in the Fascist capital at precisely the time when the attention of the Allied world has been focused on the visit to Pope Pius XII by Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, and on the rearrangement of the Mussolini cabinet which has sent Count Gaetano Ciano to the Vatican. The Ribbentrop visit to Rome also comes at a time when German propaganda efforts are focused on driving wedges of political suspicion between the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia, the ultimate goal of which is to cause the US and Britain to abandon their Russian ally and instead to join with the Nazis in a "holy crusade against Bolshevism." There are indications that Ribbentrop is dangling such a possibility before Mussolini in an attempt to induce him to stay in the war.

Although Lt. Col. William O'Dwyer has been granted approval by the Army to run for a second term as Kings County District Attorney in the fall election, he already faces a possible fight for the Democratic Party's nomination, it was indicated today. Rumblings in Brooklyn political circles disclose that "a quiet movement" has begun among some borough Democrats to put forward another candidate for the chief prosecutor's post. It is speculated that one motivation for such a movement would be to protect Brooklyn Democratic chairman Frank Kelly, who is at present torn between the conflicting ambitions of those in the party who favor O'Dwyer's renomination and insurgents who argue that O'Dwyer's commitments to the Army oblige him to be absent from Brooklyn for long periods, compromising his ability to effectively perform his local duties. It is also rumored that the insurgent faction favors the nomination of a certain prominent Democratic judge who would, if elected District Attorney, automatically advance to the position of front runner to secure the party's nomination for Mayor in the 1945 election. Lt. Col. O'Dwyer was elected District Attorney, replacing William F. X. Geoghan, in November 1939, and his term of office expires on December 31st of this year.

("The 3X Killer" was a serial murderer who terrorized Queens thirteen years ago, choosing his victims in secluded areas where lovers were known to park. He sent a written manifesto to the New York Evening Journal threatening to kill "thirteen more women and one man," and in another letter to a relative of one the victims, claimed to be a former German officer who had become agent of an anti-Soviet organization called "the Red Diamond of Russia" taking vengeance against its enemies. He was never caught.)

Speaking from the steps of Borough Hall this noon, Borough President John Cashmore declared the start of the largest door-to-door canvass in Brooklyn history, launching the direct phase of the 1943 Red Cross War Fund Campaign, with Brooklyn's quota set at $1,930,000 out of a national goal of $125,000,000. Mr. Cashmore declared, in a written proclamation read to a lunchtime crowd, that "it is essential to the welfare of our men of the armed forces on land and sea, from the Solomons to Alaska, in India, Iran, and Egypt, in Great Britain and Iceland, in Australia and Alaska, or wherever our men stand guard or are fighting, that the American Red Cross be provided with funds to maintain and expand its program of service."

Mayor LaGuardia appealed to the public in his weekly radio broadcast over WNYC to report to him personally or to Markets Commissioner Daniel P. Woolley the names and addresses of all persons known to be black marketers or food-price chiselers, and called upon Congress to immediately enact legislation meting out stiff Federal penalties for such violators. The Mayor called black marketeering and cheating on ceiling prices "mean and treasonous activities," and declared that the "despicable, mean, criminal bootlegger of Prohibition times" was an "ethical businessman" compared to today's black-market men --and those who deal with them. He warned that "unless drastic action is taken, and taken very rapidly, this whole food situation will become chaotic and disorderly."

Two men dressed in Navy uniforms waylaid, robbed, and beat two sailors so severely that they are now in critical condition at a Queens Naval hospital. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Naval Intelligence are looking for the bogus seamen who lured their two victims into an auto with an invitation to attend a party in Queens, but at the intersection of 49th Street and 50th Avenue in St. Albans, set upon them with gun butts, leaving them with possible skull fractures.

(These are hard times for peach-lovers.)

The Eagle Editorialist commends those Dodger fans quoted the other day from their Army posts at "New Brooklyn," somewhere in Tunisia, noting with approval the comment from Pvt. Peter J. Giacalone, a Bushwick boy, who declared "what would the Dodgers think of us if we let these cabbage-heads push us around and take this end of the pass? There ain't no second place in this African League." The EE observes "the stakes are bigger now. Life itself and the fate of free men hang in the balance. But the spirit of a fighting fan rooting madly from the bleachers or tangling with an umpire over an unfavorable decision is with us still. The Brooklyn team has shown itself to be a civic asset in numberless ways before. Now it shows up in North Africa -- to the dismay of the enemy."

("Professional entertainment." Oh, Mr. Lichty.)

The Army today officially confirmed the death of Master Sergeant Meyer Levin, Brooklyn war hero missing in action since January in the Pacific. His family had revealed his death last week, but only now has the Army officially acknowledged that fact.

(All right then, now that this is finally resolved, let's get down to business. DODGERS-BROWNS WORLD SERIES!)

"Goody Two Shoes" writes in to Helen Worth, at wits' end about her five year old daughter, who insists on spending her shoe stamp on a pair of brown patent leather slippers and nothing else but Goody says that, while she's willing to indulge the child, her own mother insistes that such shoes are impractical, especially at this time of year, and they would become shabby in no time. Helen advises that she agrees with grandmother on all accounts, and recommends putting the matter before the little girl as a way she can do her part to help win the war by foregoing luxuries in favor of the practical. And then just go out and buy her the same school shoe you'd buy anyway.

("Ah, yes. Here we go. 'Fair fa' your honest sonsie face --Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!' DAMMIT CRAYTON THIS IS THE WRONG BOOK!")

(This is what happens when you don't dress for the weather.)

("What's buzzin', cousin?")

("Never mind who this is. Will you do the job or not?" "How many cookies are we talking about here? I mean, I might be a mangy cur, but I'm an AMERICAN mangy cur." "Look, I don't have all day, they want me back on the set. Are you in or are you out?" "Well....")

("Well, I'd give a purty to know how you always seem to be where I am!")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Congratulations!" wires Jinx to the Sweater Girl of 1943. "Next stop, Miss Rheingold!"

HEY BUTCH HELP THIS LADY OUT

I wonder if you have to turn in a parental permission slip to join the Junior Commandos.

Well this will be gruesome.

"A band of brothers."

Poor Bimbo is new to this "secret lair" thing.

HOARDER

And they lived happily every after, until...

"Oh, and hey, you know who else is moving here? I bet she can't wait to see you!"

"You ain't ever had any old work yet." America's Most Realistic Comic Strip Married Couple.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh, and...

"Anyone?" says Roy Campanella. "Hey, remember that time I tried out last summer?"

 

[Fading Fast]

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A visit to Rome by German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is seen by observers as an attempt by the Nazi government to counter the present Allied drive to put Italy out of the war. The German envoy has turned up in the Fascist capital at precisely the time when the attention of the Allied world has been focused on the visit to Pope Pius XII by Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, and on the rearrangement of the Mussolini cabinet which has sent Count Gaetano Ciano to the Vatican. The Ribbentrop visit to Rome also comes at a time when German propaganda efforts are focused on driving wedges of political suspicion between the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia, the ultimate goal of which is to cause the US and Britain to abandon their Russian ally and instead to join with the Nazis in a "holy crusade against Bolshevism." There are indications that Ribbentrop is dangling such a possibility before Mussolini in an attempt to induce him to stay in the war.
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Tell me you need a Hail Mary without telling me you need a Hail Mary.

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("The 3X Killer" was a serial murderer who terrorized Queens thirteen years ago, choosing his victims in secluded areas where lovers were known to park. He sent a written manifesto to the New York Evening Journal threatening to kill "thirteen more women and one man," and in another letter to a relative of one the victims, claimed to be a former German officer who had become agent of an anti-Soviet organization called "the Red Diamond of Russia" taking vengeance against its enemies. He was never caught.)
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The guy drove his car with five bullets in him. Those bullets had to, somehow, strategically miss all vital organs and arteries.

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("What's buzzin', cousin?")
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We're in America; where exactly are all these escaped Nazi prisoners coming from? Are they spies that escaped Federal prison or POWs that broke out of camp? I don't think a lot of either happened in WWII in America. Where is Amber getting all her supply?

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("Never mind who this is. Will you do the job or not?" "How many cookies are we talking about here? I mean, I might be a mangy cur, but I'm an AMERICAN mangy cur." "Look, I don't have all day, they want me back on the set. Are you in or are you out?" "Well....")
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Oh, Sandy, does your insecurity know no limits?

And in the Daily News...

"Congratulations!" wires Jinx to the Sweater Girl of 1943. "Next stop, Miss Rheingold!"
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Does Lana Turner know about this?

What's next, the "Oomph Girl of 1943" contest?

"Now hold on there!"

(P.S. In real life, Ann Sheridan hated the "Oomph Girl" tag.)

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Poor Bimbo is new to this "secret lair" thing.
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Bim's got plenty of money. He should hire in Basement 'r Us' secret lair designer to come up with a better entrance than that casement window. To wit, they recently designed a secret door to a castle that is undetectable from the outside.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Cork's getting the chill cool reception. And to be honest about it the strip drags and drags.
I'm surprised Rouge has flown away.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Y't'ink so, do ya?" bellows Sally, slapping the paper against the edge of the table. "Two woids fawrya, Adolf -- SECON' FRONT!" "Joe gazes thoughtfully at Leonora, emulating her mother by slapping a spoonful of beets against her high chair tray. "Caehful wit'tat stuff," Sally remonstrates. "'At stuff is rationed." "Ain' no way 'tey could bomb us, right?" wonders Joe. "Izzeh?" "You betteh get t'woik," shrugs Sally. "Yeh," says Joe, his face still troubled. "I betteh get t'woik.")

Soviet armies under the command of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko pounded from the northwest toward the key Russian fortress at Staraya today, after liberating 302 villages in an eight-day offensive that smashed the most heavily fortified enemy zone long the entire 1500-mile Russian front. Front line dispatches said Soviet tanks, artillery, and infantry were driving forwards from the newly-recaptured towns of Luchkovo, 40 miles east of Staraya, and Zaluchie, 27 miles to the southeast. A special communique stated that Red Army forces have driven the Nazi invaders from 907 square miles of Soviet territory below Lake Ilmen. The territory, about 100 miles south of Leningrad, had been held by the Germans since September 1941. About 3000 Germans were captured in the offensive, and 8000 killed.

Fleets of Allied bombers were believed massing today for an all-out attack on a Japanese convoy moving toward New Guinea. It was the first Japanese move indicating the reason behind the concentration of enemy forces in the islands north of Australia, which had been underway for weeks. It was revealed in a communique from General Douglas MacArthur that the Japanese had been concentrating for "offensive rather than defensive action." The communique went on to state that weather conditions were such that an aerial attack of the sort that has, in the past, wrecked Japanese attempts to reinforce their New Guinea forces was "impossible." The communique stressed that the attack will occur "as soon as weather permits."

With the names of three former Democratic Governors of New York hauled into the budget debate in Albany as apostles of "spend, spend, spend," the Republican-controlled Senate today approved Governor Dewey's $396,000,000 executive budget and tax program for 1944. The GOP Senate leadership voted down all proposals by the Democratic minority for reductions in the recommended appropriations for highways, with Democratic leaders accusing the Governor of proposing the highway work as "upstate Republican patronage items." Senate Majority Leader Joe R. Hanley retorted with an assertion that Governors Lehman, Roosevelt, and Smith operated under a philosophy of "spend, spend, spend" during their administrations, and scoffed at what he termed Democratic attempts to "carry the banner for the taxpayers." Hanley further argued that the highway improvements are "necessary to permit farm products to be moved to market for the war effort."

An appeal of actor Mickey Rooney's 1-A draft classification has been filed by his employers, who contend that he is "an essential worker in an essential industry." The appeal by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. is the first of its kind to be filed since the Army began taking actors in wholesale lots, and brings out into the open the entire debate over actor-soldiers, one of the strangest of wartime problems to beset the Federal Government. The appeal was filed on the same day that another movie personality, Orson Welles, was classifed suitable for non-combatant service only after his draft board reclassified him from 4-F to 1-A. A physical examination found the 28-year-old Welles to be asthmatic, with flat feet and a weak back, and suffering from arthritis. He is expected to enter the Army within a few weeks. One of Hollywood's leading picture producers commented that "not more than 10 top flight movie actors of draft age remain in pictures," and asserted that if more go, "the motion picture as it is known today will deteriorate seriously." That producer noted that the 22-year-old Rooney is barely five feet tall, with a bad heart and high blood pressure, and asked "what good will he be in the Army? Yet he believes that it is for his Government to say where he can do the most good for the American defense effort. Someone must flatly say what is to be the Government's policy toward the motion picture."

("Nobody knew.")

Mayor LaGuardia is in Washington today arguing for a larger allocation of meat for New York City when point rationing of meat goes into effect next month. The Mayor is scheduled for a conference with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and other officials on that topic. Meanwhile, the first day of point rationing of canned and processed foods found consumers worrying more about saving points than dollars and cents, and live-wire grocers turned the situation into an advertising opportunity, piling prominent displays of non-rationed goods under signs reading NO RATION BOOKS NEEDED.

The Office of Price Administration today set a new ceiling price for eggs, effective March 11th. Grade A eggs will have that price set at 52 to 54 cents per dozen depending on size, with a 50 cents per dozen ceiling on Grade B eggs, and 47 cents a dozen for Grade C. The price in New York City for Grade A eggs will be 53 cents a dozen.

The OPA also ordered an immediate reduction of 7 percent in the use of malted barley and malt syrup by large breweries. The result of the order is expected to see a reduction in the alcohol content of some types of beer.

(Keep searching.)

"Citizen" writes in to pin the blame for the present "crime wave" not on the police, but on Mayor LaGuardia himself. "Racial pressure groups get a royal welcome from the Mayor," the writer asserts, "and gain not protection but license to do as they please." "Citizen" goes on to claim that he knows this because he has been so told by "dozens of police with whom I am personally acquainted."

(Lord Plushbottom -- in the hospital? Well it was only a matter of time.)

Four 17-year-old youths arrested on charges of riding their bicycles the wrong way in Prospect Park have been given suspended sentences in Flatbush Court. In suspending sentence, Magistrate Charles Solomon required the four youths to "go forth as missionaries," to spread the word among their fellow riders that bicycles must follow the traffic laws the same as any other vehicles.

(SUKEY! Hey Leo, he might not know much about cards and horses like Dressen did, but when it comes to baseball, you should listen to what he's got to say.)

George Burns and Gracie Allen will broadcast from New York for the first in years, tonight at 9 over WABC. The comedy couple is in town to prepare for Gracie's "threatened piano concert at Carnegie Hall," on March 16th.

(And this is why, when you write your name in a book, you should always do it at the TOP of the page.)

(Don't get too excited now.)

(How many Caniff swipes can you put in one strip. We have Burma, and Captain Judas minus his goatee, and I just realized that Mike is being played by April Kane. Did I mention yet that Mr. Andriola actually used to be Mr. Caniff's assistant?)

(You got a priority for those wagons, kid?)

("Sorry, mein boy, this is a private game!")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

SOY DOGS WILL WIN THE WAR

(DONT YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR ON???)

"Now, you know how to use a garotte, right?"

Well, at least SOMEBODY knows how to drive in snow.

Plus, that V-Mail is really hard on the eyes.

"ZANDER! ZANDER! YOU SWINE!" "Hey, how's it going?"

I can't wait till Flippo meets the DL.

Stick to GI 3.2 from now on, Sarge.

She'll be running the whole plant in a month.

C'mon, Shad, don't give up so easy. I'm sure they'd take you in the Junior Commandos.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh, and...

"The Lip is strong, but the Ear is weak." Been saving that one, have you?

 

[Fading Fast]

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An appeal of actor Mickey Rooney's 1-A draft classification has been filed by his employers, who contend that he is "an essential worker in an essential industry." The appeal by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. is the first of its kind to be filed since the Army began taking actors in wholesale lots, and brings out into the open the entire debate over actor-soldiers, one of the strangest of wartime problems to beset the Federal Government. The appeal was filed on the same day that another movie personality, Orson Welles, was classifed suitable for non-combatant service only after his draft board reclassified him from 4-F to 1-A. A physical examination found the 28-year-old Welles to be asthmatic, with flat feet and a weak back, and suffering from arthritis. He is expected to enter the Army within a few weeks. One of Hollywood's leading picture producers commented that "not more than 10 top flight movie actors of draft age remain in pictures," and asserted that if more go, "the motion picture as it is known today will deteriorate seriously." That producer noted that the 22-year-old Rooney is barely five feet tall, with a bad heart and high blood pressure, and asked "what good will he be in the Army? Yet he believes that it is for his Government to say where he can do the most good for the American defense effort. Someone must flatly say what is to be the Government's policy toward the motion picture."
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If Rooney's in, Shadow Smart better start worrying.

Usually, I'm skeptical, but Orson Welles always looked like he couldn't get enough air into his lungs to oxygenate his big fat body. In general, the guy always looked ready to die at any moment.

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("Nobody knew.")
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Heck, nobody in Germany knew even after the war until the allies told them.

We all know the horror of the Holocaust, but there was also plenty of this, "Christians joined with Jews in demonstrating," which gives you hope for mankind too.

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(Keep searching.)
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That's a cool and different ad for "The Human Comedy," a movie Sally and Joe should go to see. Sally would enjoy the book; I don't think Joe's much of a reader.

Comments on "The Human Comedy" movie here: #28,005 (second one down)

Comments on "The Human Comedy" book here: #8,443

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(How many Caniff swipes can you put in one strip. We have Burma, and Captain Judas minus his goatee, and I just realized that Mike is being played by April Kane. Did I mention yet that Mr. Andriola actually used to be Mr. Caniff's assistant?)
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That explains it. She does look like a-few-year-older version of April.

I always had the image in my head of Caniff working completely alone, but my God, putting out ~360 strips a year is a massive work load, so I guess an assistant makes sense.

I assume Marsh still owns "Dan Dunn," which is why his name stay on it?

And in the Daily News...

SOY DOGS WILL WIN THE WAR
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Might as well ration potatoes if you are already rationing butter.

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Well, at least SOMEBODY knows how to drive in snow.
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I repeat, Gould is not going to let a baby freeze to death. The mailbox in the background is the tell.

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Stick to GI 3.2 from now on, Sarge.
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Let's see a blackout drinker who is skeptical he has a problem swears once, while sober and under pressure, that he'll never get drunk again. Yes, this should end well.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Caniff had a number of assistants over the years, mostly doing lettering, background inking, and some inking of secondary characters. He always did the layouts , the penciling, and the inking of the primary figures himself.

I think Marsh still owns "Dan Dunn," although I've read a few things to the effect that his break with the syndicate that handles the strip when he went into the Marines was not entirely amicable. We'll see what happens when the war is over, I guess.

And in the meantime, I look forward to Mr. Andriola adding a fat, red-bearded British pirate, a haughty German with a fashy haircut and a monocle, a wisecracking pilot with a unibrow, and a stern-faced platinum blonde to his cast.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Some actor studio strip loan outs? All the gals look hot tarts to me.
Hugh has thrown me but I intimate a medical issue or death by the interior scene.
Cork hit the proverbial nail about loving the Chinese. Those gals are top tier, and Taffy got pulled.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Poultry! Chicken!" shrugs Sally. "Whattaw I know from chicken? I'm from Eas' Flatbush." "Aw, it won' be so bad," remarks Joe. "Y'c'n do a lot wit' chicken. When we was kids, my sisteh useta make a t'ing whatcha cawl a 'zrazy." Whatcha do is ya chop up t'chicken in lit'l bits, an' y'mash it up in a kind of a bawl, y'see, wit', ya know, some eggs t'hold it t'getteh, an' some mash p'tatehs, 'a whateveh y'got, inna middle, an' ya roll it in breadcrumbs an' ya fry it. It's kinda like a knish, on'y it ain't." "Yeah," says Sally. "But whatcha gonna fry it *in*?" "Ah," says Joe. "Ah," says Sally.)

"A world without bitterness" should be the postwar goal of the United Nations, declared Madame Chiang Kai-Shek last night in a Madison Square Garden rally capping her visit to New York City. Addressing an audience of 22,000 persons, Mme. Chiang extended the appreciation of the Chinese people for the aid America has provided "in the common cause" over the past six years since Japan invaded her homeland, and stated that "we have been heartened to carry on by the knowledge of your sympathy." She called for the right of "equal opportunity of development" for all nations, and declared that the stronger nations should consider their strength to be "a trust to help the weaker nations fit themselves for self-government and not to exploit them." While acknowledging the need for the present struggle "against wanton domination, whether economic or political," the wife of China's generalissimo urged all the Allies to work for a future where "we must try to forgive those who injured us and to remember only the lessons learned thereby." She defined her vision for a postwar world as not merely "a community of nations," but as "a society of nations," resting on "the pillars of justice, co-existence, co-operation and mutual respect."

The War Labor Board today released a unanimous recommendation requiring Montgomery Ward & Company to extend maintenance-of-union-membership and dues-checkoff provisions to employees at the firm's six department stores in New York, Denver, and Detroit. The recommendation follows a similar order covering the company's Chicago stores, which was resisted by company president Sewall Avery until the firm was personally told to comply by President Roosevelt himself. A statement released today by the company, signed by Avery, denounced the WLB conclusion, as well as a recommendation that arbitration be considered compulsory on any matter the employees' union may raise, with the exception of "general changes in business practices, the opening and closing of new units, or the choice of personnel, subject to seniority provisions."

In Poona, India Mohandas K. Gandhi's three-week fast protesting his six months of internment ended today as the imprisoned Nationalist leader sipped six ounces of orange juice as a group of his followers squatted on the floor of his darkened room chanting hymns and prayers of thanksgiving for his survival. Gandhi appeared weary and worn, but cheerful as his followers, joined by his wife, three doctors, and guards gathered at his room in the Aga Khan's palace for the ceremonial end of his "passive and unsuccessful tilt against the British."

(You can't take a shower in the dark? Unfamiliar territory, is it?)

A spokesman for Pan-American Airlines public relations department declined comment today on reports that the Yankee Clipper, which crashed in the Tangus River in Lisbon, Portugal last month struck a floating mine. According to that report, the mine had broken loose from its mooring as part of the harbor defenses of Lisbon and had drifted into the river, where it struck the plane on its wing tip, leading to the disaster that wrecked the plane and killed 24 persons out of the 39 passengers and crew aboard. The Pan-Am spokesman stated that "we will say nothing until the investigation is completed. We have nothing to corroborate that statement."

("We otta go see t'at when it comes to t'Met," says Sally. "I like Saroyan." "Really?" replies Joe. "I neveh seen you Saroy." A thrown dishcloth just misses.)

Announcing that he has been personally awarded membership in the Society For The Prevention Of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn by president Sid Ascher, Eagle radio critic William Juengst issues a stern reprimand to Jack Benny for commenting on Sunday night's broadcast that the audience greeting him recently at Sheepshead Bay was "cold as clams." That's a lie, declares Mr. Juengst, and he knows, because he was there and "we know darn well the boys nearly brought the roof down at both shows." Mr. Juengst sadly shakes his head in the direction of Mr. Benny, declaring that "Brooklyn always spoke well of YOU."

The Eagle Editorialist expresses the hope that the present wave of Allied bombings now pounding Germany are merely the prelude to the long-awaited opening of a second front on the European continent. "These new demonstrations of Allied air powe,r the German army and people must realize, are a prelude to a greater storm of death and destruction than they have ever visualized, in their most imaginative moments -- and to the invasion of their own land."

(It's all in the hips.)

(This is going to be a weird season, but if Fitz is pitching again, I for one am looking enthusiastically forward. And need I remind that when Pete Gray was on the Bay Parkways a few years ago, he was nothing short of a sensation -- he hit .449 in 1939, and was voted their Most Valuable Player.)

(No wonder forger-butlers are in high demand.)

(Where do you buy a pillow that big, anyway? Do you need a priority?)

("Oh oh this is it?" Wow, that Secret Operative training really comes in handy.)

(AHHHH WARM BELLY. IT'S GOOD TO BE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG.)

(They can't be Nazis, not with a picture of George Bernard Shaw on the wall.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Better at least execute Lepke first, the death house is getting crowded.

"Of course, the neighbors did wonder about what happened to their horses."

"WHO HAS TIME FOR A WARM BELLY THIS IS WAR!"

"GO WAY! MAMA TOLD ME NO SPEAK TO STRANGERS!"

That's right. EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT.

Yeah, well, you really *should* leave snow removal to the professionals.

"Nonsense, boy -- Monty will hear of this!"

"Sure, Major. Did I ever tell you about the time I parachuted into a Japanese prison and freed a high-value espionage asset? Well, all right, I helped Hu Shee do it, but still..."

Careful now, Mamie -- they count those tools every night.

The past always catches up with you.

 

[Fading Fast]

...

A spokesman for Pan-American Airlines public relations department declined comment today on reports that the Yankee Clipper, which crashed in the Tangus River in Lisbon, Portugal last month struck a floating mine. According to that report, the mine had broken loose from its mooring as part of the harbor defenses of Lisbon and had drifted into the river, where it struck the plane on its wing tip, leading to the disaster that wrecked the plane and killed 24 persons out of the 39 passengers and crew aboard. The Pan-Am spokesman stated that "we will say nothing until the investigation is completed. We have nothing to corroborate that statement."
...

If true, that's a brutal example of friendly fire taking out civilians.

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("We otta go see t'at when it comes to t'Met," says Sally. "I like Saroyan." "Really?" replies Joe. "I neveh seen you Saroy." A thrown dishcloth just misses.)
...

Kudos to Ms. Corby for seeing the value of the movie, even if I don't agree with every single part of her review. She did the hard thing and called it right in real time. I'm surprised this movie gets so little attention from classic movie fans today.

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The Eagle Editorialist expresses the hope that the present wave of Allied bombings now pounding Germany are merely the prelude to the long-awaited opening of a second front on the European continent. "These new demonstrations of Allied air powe,r the German army and people must realize, are a prelude to a greater storm of death and destruction than they have ever visualized, in their most imaginative moments -- and to the invasion of their own land."
...

Hard to believe, but the second front is still fifteen months away.

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(It's all in the hips.)
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Somewhere in that muddle is my butter-loving grandmother, probably throwing a few sharp elbows. And knowing her love of movies, after she's scored some butter, she's probably off to the Astor to take in "The Human Comedy."

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(Where do you buy a pillow that big, anyway? Do you need a priority?)
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After all the forced comicstrip porn we've seen, Stamm has a legitimate reason to show Scarlett in the bathtub and he goes for a close up of her head?

And in the Daily News...

Better at least execute Lepke first, the death house is getting crowded.
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Lieut. Mae Olson stay could only last an hour if she wanted to get out of there in one piece.

It was a different time as New York today has no appetite for capital punishment for anything, let alone black marketers.

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"Nonsense, boy -- Monty will hear of this!"
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Monty will and he'll go straight to Eisenhower with a stern demarche, but Ike will keep him waiting so long in the outer office that Monty will just go back and yell at his own aide. It was a pattern.


P.S., Glad that Fitz will be pitching again.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

I am confused after a tedious day. Is Harold on the run from a girl, maybe a pregnant lass?
And Hugh is really a mix. Lora is a doll, so I hope she stays in the story.
Terrence is dragging but as the line says, Hector, not Achilles is more remembered for that fight.
And Hushee must be quite the lass.