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Oh, and...
PUT THE KNIVES DOWN KIDS!
PUT THE KNIVES DOWN KIDS!
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The Era -- Day By Day
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(AMERICA'S COURAGEOUS SACRIFICE IS MUCH APPRECIATED!)
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Dear God, has there been any smaller war/ration-related issue that has received a disproportionately large amount of attention than this one? If you can't buy sliced bread, then buy non-sliced bread and slice it at home: problem solved.
Well, that's a completely new story for us.
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("Hmph, least she could've done is leave the hat too.")
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Until panel three, I was going to suggest Ms. O'Neil consider checking herself into Betty Ford.
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(The Secret Operatives sure do push the limits on secret spy gadgets!)
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Bond used a keychain with knockout gas. I think a Soviet spy once gave Bond a cigarette that gave off a gas that knocked Bond out. When he wanted to be more aggressive, Bond had an exploding pen, too.
And in the Daily News...
Ew.
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The heartbreaking thing about the "little knife thug" is that he had been locked up, then released only to slashed a pregnant woman and, possibly, to have committed a murder.
Well, we've gotten an education this week on the price of the, umm, uh, umm, comfort trade in NYC: To shop couture, we know it's $25/hour ($430 in '23 dollars) and at the bargain-basement store you pay $3-$5 ($50-$85) for a quick tumble. Markets are markets are markets.
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"Vuff!" must be German for "YI-I-I-I!"
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Since there's no one watching the prisoners right now, why not just free them and walk them out through the secret tunnel?
Oh, and...
PUT THE KNIVES DOWN KIDS!
Phew, The Greatest Generation can now go back to winning the war since it has sliced bread again.
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I do wonder if they had sliced bread in Stalingrad.
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Cork just wants to make Terrence the best pilot officer he can be. But Taffy got a few pulls in herself.
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For those looking to have a 1943 movie experience, TCM, at 12 noon (ET) today, is showing "The Human Comedy," which is currently playing at the Astor in 1943, as noted in this ad:
My comments on "The Human Comedy" here: #28,005 (second one down)
My comments on "The Human Comedy" here: #28,005 (second one down)
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("Afteh you went t' woik," says Sally, "I went t' Gawrden. Me an' Leonora. Jus' made it in f' t' fois' show. You know I ain' r'ligious a'nut'n, but it was t'decent t'ing t'do." Joe regards his wife thoughtfully. "I wisht," he finally replies, "I coulda gone witcha.")
French sailors who deserted their ships in the United States and went to Canada to join the Fighting French charged that their officers had been bitterly against the Allies even after the American landing in North Africa. Assembled in a Fighting French canteen in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 118 were assembled to receive their two day allowance of $4.50, and told the United Press of the attitude expressed by their former commanders. "After we received word of the North African invasion," reported a former cannonneer from the battleship Richelieu, whose name cannot be revealed because he has family in metropolitan France, "our captain, Marcel Duramond, made a speech to us saying that Churchill is a monkey, Roosevelt is a clown, and Petain is our only chief. He asked us to fight the Americans if they came." The cannonneer further related that he and others of the Richelieu crew met to discuss what they would do, sang the Marseillaise and "The Stars and Stripes Forever," and resolved to fight the Germans. The captain sent officers to break up the meeting, and after a subsequent meeting, in which the resolution to fight Germany was repeated, 30 members of the crew were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Those same officers, he said, were the ones who were "welcomed by the United States" when the ship made port in New York, and it was at that time that the anti-Nazi crewmen jumped ship. Others said that they had been told by officers that "the Americans were coming to deliver us into the hands of the Bolsheviks," but stated that they either refused orders to fire on Americans, or "didn't shoot very well."
New legislation that would bar the summoning of war workers for jury duty is being drafted today in Albany, and is expected to face smooth passage. An earlier bill, now withdrawn, would have instituted such limits for the 1st and 2nd Judicial Districts, while the new version will be statewide in scope.
Ceiling prices for hogs on the hoof will be established within the next few days, dispatches from Washington disclosed today, making pork the first meat to go under official price control from the barnyard to the dinner table. The live hog ceiling price is expected to be $15 per hundred pounds, FOB Chicago, a figure about $1 per pound less than the prevailing market price, but $1.75 per pound above the figure which Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard has said the government will support thru purchases. Price Administrator Prentiss Brown is expected to officially announce the price ceiling on live pork in a few days, with the concurrence of Price Stabilization Director James Byrnes, and it is said that Secretary Wickard participated in conferences to set the exact ceiling price, without concurring with the $15 figure arrived at. Retail ceiling prices for pork, announced last week by the OPA, will go into effect on April 1st.
(Remember when everybody got all worked up about how long it took top movies to show up in Brooklyn? And hey, nice to see Jinx is keeping busy.)
("You think THAT's bad? He gave me an application for the Todd Shipyard!")
(Hiring himself out as an accountant?? WHAT CRUST.)
(Ah, the story of Uncle Robbie and the grapefruit never gets old. But Tommy forgets to mention that the pilot involved was Ruth Law, one of the first women ever to hold a pilots' license. It's said this incident is responsible for teams that train in Florida being known, to this day, as "the Grapefruit League.")
(If this story leads into a "women in prison" drama, I for one will be not at all surprised.)
("Hippy? Don't know anybody by that name. But I did sell a hat like that to Bruiser Kinard. Who am I to judge?")
(C'mon, Dan, all your years of experience with underground lairs and you don't spot this right away? Kay will always be smarter than you.)
("But first I'll wait for them to stop at the Whirlaway Horse Meat Emporium! MMMM!")
(Be sure to get a written receipt!)
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Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before....
"They're gonna WHAT??" -- Tommy Manville.
It's good to see that even the middle of an intense strategic operation, Colonel Annie has time for paperwork.
One Big Happy Family.
"I never had to put up with jokes like that when I worked for Lichty."
Poor, poor Bim.
They say flying gives you a whole new perspective on life.
"Actually we're sending them all to the Civilian Defense so LaGuardia will stop squawkin'."
So many of Harold's problems would be solved if everybody would simply talk straight.
Not all pigeons have feathers.
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before....
It's good to see that even the middle of an intense strategic operation, Colonel Annie has time for paperwork.
One Big Happy Family.
"I never had to put up with jokes like that when I worked for Lichty."
Poor, poor Bim.
They say flying gives you a whole new perspective on life.
"Actually we're sending them all to the Civilian Defense so LaGuardia will stop squawkin'."
So many of Harold's problems would be solved if everybody would simply talk straight.
Not all pigeons have feathers.
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("Afteh you went t' woik," says Sally, "I went t' Gawrden. Me an' Leonora. Jus' made it in f' t' fois' show. You know I ain' r'ligious a'nut'n, but it was t'decent t'ing t'do." Joe regards his wife thoughtfully. "I wisht," he finally replies, "I coulda gone witcha.")
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Good for Sally.
I'm surprised, but to the best of my memory, I don't recall reading or seeing anything about this event before today.
No country's WWII story is perfect, but some countries' stories are much-less perfect than others.
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(Remember when everybody got all worked up about how long it took top movies to show up in Brooklyn? And hey, nice to see Jinx is keeping busy.)
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No kidding, it feels like deja vu reading a review of "Casablanca" now. Plus, Corby's accurate, but sloppy review was not up to her usual standard.
I checked on IMDB and Ms. Falkenburg's movie - which I had never heard of - gets a respectable 6.4 rating. Maybe it will pop up on TCM one day.
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(Hiring himself out as an accountant?? WHAT CRUST.)
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True, but even more surprising, what insane person or firm would trust this guy to do their books? It would be like hiring Madoff's accountant.
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(C'mon, Dan, all your years of experience with underground lairs and you don't spot this right away? Kay will always be smarter than you.)
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One tiny edit: "C'mon, Dan, all your years of experience with underground lairs and you don't spot this right away?
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"They're gonna WHAT??" -- Tommy Manville.
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They'll probably write a special exemption clause just for Manville right into the bill.
As a taxpaying resident of New York City, I can say we know that somewhere along the line, New York City got its permanent taxing power and it has been using it quite aggressively ever since as every single thing you can think of is taxed, and taxed heavily, in this city.
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Poor, poor Bim.
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How pumped is Andy to no longer be the black-sheep Gump?
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I just left the movie thread. Casablanca is great movie making. I don't recall really ever being lustful about
Mrs Miniver, but Greer Garson has an effect when posed as above.
Mrs Miniver, but Greer Garson has an effect when posed as above.
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That pose and that movie was an intentional attempt by Garson's studio, MGM, to "sex" her up.
"Random Harvest" is based on a James Hilton book, the author of "Lost Horizon." The latter is a book I believe you've mentioned you enjoyed. I think you'd enjoy reading "Random Harvest," too. It's a very different story from "Lost Horizon," but still has some Hilton "mysticism" floating inside it.
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Allied headquarters have occupied Metlaoui in a drive toward the Axis anchor point at Gafsa and have beaten off another enemy attack in the Sedjanane sector of northern Tunisia, it was announced in a headquarters communique today. French troops which have been methodically cleaning out Germans and Italians from the northwestern shore of Chott Djerid (Salt Lake) in south-central Tunisia turned northward to capture Metlaoui, an important rail and railroad center, from which the Allies can strike quickly toward Gafsa.
Plans for a postwar social revolution involving Government partnership in many private industries and a voice for labor in the management of industry are before Congress today with the sanction of President Roosevelt. The President sent Congress two reports from the National Resources Planning Board, asking "full consideration" of their recommendations involving a policy of "jobs for all" and an expansion of the Social Security system after the war. The report advises that industry and labor should share the responsibility of management and that in the case of the most vital industries, Government should share as a partner. Those industries where Government participation is recommended include the production of essential metals, synthetic rubber, chemicals, aircraft, shipbuilding, communications, and electric power. It was noted that Government has made a significant financial investment in these fields of industry during the war.
Hope for today in the Senate for the adoption of the Bankhead bill to defer farm workers from the draft faded as Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Montana) continued to push for an expansion of that bill to exempt all fathers from military service. Sen. Wheeler's push comes following a radio speech last week in which he condemned the drafting of fathers "while easy-chair bureaucrats" are allowed to continue in civilian life.
President Roosevelt today nominated two of the high commanders of American forces in the North African theatre of operations for promotion to the rank of lieutenant general. The promotion of Maj. Gen. George S. Patton and Carl Spaatz to the three-star rank would be, under the President's recommendation, a temporary promotion. Patton, an expert in mechanized warfare, is commander of the American western task force in North Africa, while Spaatz is the deputy air commander for all Allied forces in the North African theatre, serving under British Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder.
("....and their toes as bait.")
Brooklyn's prison problems would not be solved by the immediate demolition of the Raymond Street Jail, asserted Borough President John Cashmore today. In his first comment on the fight over the fate of the old, unsafe, and inadequate building now raging in and out of the courts, the Borough President noted that the demolition of the jail would require that prisoners now held there be transferred to Manhattan, leading to additional problems of transportation for both defendants and their attorneys. While declaring that the Raymond Street Jail is "nothing for Brooklyn to be proud of," and agreeing that the borough is "entitled to a new Jail," Mr. Cashmore, who has two votes on the Board of Estimate emphasized that closing the jail now could lead to the sentiment that Brooklyn doesn't need its own jail at all, therefore eliminatig the possibility of getting, after the war, "a jail that would commensurate with the dignity of the Borough of Brooklyn and its 3,000,000 people."
(Chef Boy-Ar-Dee has soup now? Count me in!)
Reader Chris Kinsella writes in to urge the Government to follow the plea of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to take a stronger stand in protest of the slaughter of 2,000,000 European Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices. "What can we Christians do at this time to show our Jewish fellow citizens that we are concerned about this terrible crime? We can turn to our nearest Jewish neighbor and say, 'Brother, I am sorry. Show me how I may help.' We can spike insidious rumors started by Nazi sympathizers and spread by the thoughtless."
("She's gettin' beets whether she likes 'em or not!")
Having failed in an alleged attempt to use religion as a cloak for villainy, a 24-year-old Manhattan man was under arrest today on charges of assault and robbery. Frank Cabra was arrested inside Holy Trinity Church by a patrolman who had chased him on foot from Columbus Avenue and 81st Street, where Cabra had robbed a courier of a $1500 payroll just withdrawn from the Corn Exchange Bank. Patrolman Lawrence Burns saw Cabra running up Columbus Avenue and fired a shot in the air. When the suspect ran into the church Ptl. Burns followed and found him seated in a pew with the money bag at his feet.
(Well, don't expect any steaks at Bear Mountain.)
Jack Benny, ill in Hollywood with pneumonia, reports that his condition is improving, but he expects to remain off the air for at least another couple weeks. His radio gang will continue in their regular Sunday night slot over WEAF, with Mr. Benny's spot to be filled by guest stars.
(It's just that easy.)
("Hmph! I'll have you know that the Willys Americar was rated the best value of the year by Consumers' Union!")
("Unless we again forgot to pay the gas bill.")
(IT'S ALL RIGHT BOYS I'M AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG. WAIT WHATTAYA MEAN MY PAL LEON HENDERSON'S NOT AROUND ANY MORE?)
("All right, this is getting confusing. Let's see some ID.")
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("Butter blonde?" Does the OPA know about this?)
(M. Houdry developed the fundamentals of his process in France in the 1920s, which makes you wonder how much of it is also in the hands of the Germans.)
Annie leaves that metaphysical stuff to Punjab.
"Fetch me the shotgun, Paw!"
Objective: Third Stripe!
"BESIDES HE WAS A TRUSTY! THAT COUNTS FOR SOMETHING!"
"Hmph! Who wants to be a shavetail?"
Quit showing off, Corkin.
The Art Of The Deal.
Well, at least you remembered it this time.
("Butter blonde?" Does the OPA know about this?)
(M. Houdry developed the fundamentals of his process in France in the 1920s, which makes you wonder how much of it is also in the hands of the Germans.)
Annie leaves that metaphysical stuff to Punjab.
"Fetch me the shotgun, Paw!"
Objective: Third Stripe!
"BESIDES HE WAS A TRUSTY! THAT COUNTS FOR SOMETHING!"
"Hmph! Who wants to be a shavetail?"
Quit showing off, Corkin.
The Art Of The Deal.
Well, at least you remembered it this time.
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There has to be a better way to word that.
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(It's just that easy.)
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I don't think they are fooling the old guy.
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Annie leaves that metaphysical stuff to Punjab....
No kidding, Lizzie, life has forced a hard realistic outlook on Annie.
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"BESIDES HE WAS A TRUSTY! THAT COUNTS FOR SOMETHING!"
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Joe looks up after reading "The Gumps" ready to make an indirect comment about brother-in-law Michael and jailbirds in a family, but sees that Sally is quietly reading and Leonora and the cat are napping and thinks better of it as peace is so rare, why disturb it.
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Well, at least you remembered it this time.
Lillums would be the nuclear option at this point, but it's still not too late to swap Joan for Cindy as the old man just wants a son-in-law and at least one daughter married.
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Well Hugh is confusing so I'll just go along to see where this all leads to.
Terrence now has some leverage over Cork, who came close to killing them with his lecture.
And dear Harold doesn't have much sense either. He's willing to wed for his boss, but not tell the bride his true feelings.
Terrence now has some leverage over Cork, who came close to killing them with his lecture.
And dear Harold doesn't have much sense either. He's willing to wed for his boss, but not tell the bride his true feelings.
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The current book is my copy of Keynes' General Theory before another look at Friedman's Selected Papers.
Every point raised by Chairman Powell robs middle class tax payers in the States of $5 billion, more globally thru
inflationary export. But the old rule holds-capital seeks the highest return; and a flat beer stock market gets sold to
provide other instrument purchase giving better principal return. Lesser banks will fall. And my favourite pub closed
quite unexpectedly. Greer Garson indeed. I need to watch Mrs Miniver again. That scene in the garden with the downed Jerry rules the roost.
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I find "Hugh Stiver" hard to follow. The transitions and narrative flow leave me confused and I don't care enough to try hard to figure it out. I've stayed with the strip because I like the illustrations and I like participating with you guys, but I do not like the strip itself.
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Hugh's biggest problem is that it's giving us too much plot and not enough characterization. When you look at "Mary Worth," which Dale Connor Ulrey used to draw up until about a year ago, you were willing to follow the twists of the plot because you'd gotten to know the characters well enough to care what was going to happen to them. Dale draws as well, if not better, than she did with "Mary Worth," but Herb Ulrey -- her husband -- doesn't give us enough characterization to make any of it really matter. What do we know about Hugh? He's a spunky newsboy with a kid sister, who lives with his grandfather and a cook. But what does he really think? What does he care about? What motivates him? With most of the characters we follow in the various strips, we can answer all those questions -- with Hugh, he's just a blank figure who moves thru plots where he isn't even the main character.
Now, you can say that, sometimes, about "Mary Worth," especially since Dale left, which makes me think she may have had a hand in writing there that she doesn't have working with her husband -- but even the supporting characters tend to have distinctive traits you can latch on to -- Leona and Angel Varden, for example, didn't just seem like plot devices. We've yet to have anyone appear in "Hugh" who's been able to come to life like they did.
Writing characters in serial fiction is a difficult challenge -- you have to move the plot but you have to take the time also to build characterization. Not everybody can be Milton Caniff, who is a singular talent, but all of our other strips, to a greater or lesser extent, are able to do that. It's frustrating that the Ulreys haven't gotten a handle on it yet, because Dale's art has never been better.
Now, you can say that, sometimes, about "Mary Worth," especially since Dale left, which makes me think she may have had a hand in writing there that she doesn't have working with her husband -- but even the supporting characters tend to have distinctive traits you can latch on to -- Leona and Angel Varden, for example, didn't just seem like plot devices. We've yet to have anyone appear in "Hugh" who's been able to come to life like they did.
Writing characters in serial fiction is a difficult challenge -- you have to move the plot but you have to take the time also to build characterization. Not everybody can be Milton Caniff, who is a singular talent, but all of our other strips, to a greater or lesser extent, are able to do that. It's frustrating that the Ulreys haven't gotten a handle on it yet, because Dale's art has never been better.
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("Sawrdines," sighs Joe. "Kippehed herrin'. Lox. Smoked eels." "Don' f'get finnan haddie," adds Sally. "Y'll live. B'sides, fish is brain food." "T'at 'splains," Joe moans, "why I awready got a headache.")
The Allies have thrown back three German thrusts in the Sedjenane area of the Northern sector and American planes have blasted an Axis motor barge in the waters between Sicily and Tunisia. The three attacks were made west of Sedjenane but the British Fifth Army stood firm, and repelled them all. By dusk yesterday, the Allies were in full control of all forward positions. Marauder medium bombers, with twin-engined Lightnings flying escort for them, fell upon the motor barge convoy, which was protected by warships. Direct hits were scored on three of the big barges, and one of them blew up. Three Axis planes escorting the convoy were shot down.
President Roosevelt said today that the question of planning now for postwar public works programs to provide jobs as a cushion against unemployment is squarely up to Congress. Discussing at a press conference the recommendations of the National Resources Planning Board for a vast pool of public works projects to take up the expected slack after the war, Mr. Roosevelt said it is plainly up to Congress to determine whether this country will be prepared for the letdown once war production ends or will not be ready to take up the slack. The President said that he agrees with the Planning Board's recommendations for continuing postwar planning, but emphasized that responsibility for the method and the continuance of the programming depends on Congress. The President also pointed out that the Planning Board has suggested about $7,000,000,000 worth of public works projects that could be undertaken as a serious guard against postwar unemployment. The Senate Appropriations Committee and the House of Representatives have already voted to end funding for the Planning Board, but the Senate has indicated that it will authorize its own study of the issue.
A battle over reapportionment of the state political map is raging in Albany, with an open attempt by legislative Republicans to line up county GOP chairmen against the bill backed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The anti-reapportionment faction argues that the plan as it stands would throw political control of the state into the downstate Metropolitan area, and would result in "an orgy of spending concentrated in that area at the expense of the rest of the state." Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in New York City are reported to be in conference, with Tammany leader Michael Kennedy and Assembly Minority Leader Irving Steingut of Brooklyn, representing Kings County Democratic Chairman Frank V. Kelly, discussing an "all or nothing" position on the bill. It is possible that the matter may be decided by the votes of Brooklyn Democrats in the Legislature. The bill is expected to find favor here as it will make overdue adjustments in the size of borough districts which have grown too large since the last reapportionment in 1917.
The city and the New York Zoological Society are today considering tentative plans for a $1,500,000 public aquarium, to be built after the war just off the Coney Island Boardwalk near Seaside Park. The aquarium would be patterned after the Florida Oceanarium, but would be constructed "on a much larger scale," with tanks considerably bigger than those at the old Aquarium at Battery Park. In addition to fish, tanks would be provided outdoors for seals, penguins, and other types of aquatic birds. The complex, to be built with a functional, modernistic design, would also include a promenade deck and probably a restaurant. A special subway line connected to the BMT Surf Avenue terminal would be provided to bring the new aquarium within reach of the entire city.
(AND NO HOARDING TUNA FISH)
Reports from Chungking, China say that the systematic drive by Japanese occupation forces to addict the local population to narcotic drugs has affected as many as 13,000,000 persons, and in many cases, children as young as 10 years of age have been forced by the Japanese to become opium, morphine, and heroin addicts. The Japanese have established factories to process opium into morphine and heroin thruout Northern China, and as a result, as much as 80 percent of the adult population in some Chinese cities have been forced into addiction.
The Office of Defense Transportation has ordered the discontinuation of private bus lines serving tenants of swanky apartment buildings in outlying sections of Brooklyn and Queens. These buses, which carry residents of these buildings to the nearest transit stops, have been ordered by the ODT to halt operations effective Monday, unless operators can prove that discontinuation will impose a hardship on patrons, other than requiring them to walk to their nearest regular bus or subway station. The order also applies to private buses owned by apartment building operators. All such buses are to be "laid up" until they can be reassigned by the ODT to more essential services.
Twelve French sailors who jumped ship to join the Fighting French are being held at Ellis Island after being rounded up by immigration authorities. The men, from the Richelieu and other French war ships now in East Coast ports for repairs, abandoned their vessels because, they assert, their commanding officers are loyal to Petain. Robert Valeur of the Fighting French Delegation stated today that the arrest of these men is a violation of an agreement between the United States Government and the Fighting French, concluded on August 2, 1941, requiring the extension of "all courtesies" to all members of the Fighting French forces visiting this country. But in Washington today, Senatte Foreign Relations Committee chairman Tom Connolly (D-Texas) declared "we'd be better off if they stayed on their ships anyway, wouldn't we?" Committee members Sen. Claude Pepper (D-Florida) disagreed with Sen. Connolly's statement, arguing that "one cannot help sympathizing with the laudable endeavor of these Frenchmen to return to active service in the war."
(Wait, you mean "Lucky Legs" isn't a searing, uncompromising drama of modern life? Aim higher, Jinx.)
Young Esther Zimmerman of 846 Prospect Place, Crown Heights, is the first woman in the city to work as an industrial die polisher. The petite graduate of Manual Training High School used to work as a technician in an x-ray and diathermy laboratory for a local skin specialist when she quit to take her present job with the Master Wire Die Corporation in Manhattan. Miss Zimmerman, who wears jumper-topped coveralls and always has a dirty face, spends her days polishing with diamond dust the tungsten carbide dies used to draw heavy wires for airplanes, and her success in the job has prompted her employer to hire other women as die-makers.
("Presoives? Whassat? I'm from Flatbush!")
Mrs. Louise W. Abel of Lynbrook writes in to express her solidarity with other Eagle readers who have written in to defend cats from those who seek their eradication. "We can generally judge a person by the way he treats animals, especially the cat -- which, if properly treated, and fed, and cared for, is a most admirable, clean, and lovable friend. An animal hater is not to be trusted with human life."
In Rockville Center, Mayor Edgar T. Beamish last night sent telegrams to President Roosevelt, Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt, and Governor Dewey requesting an investigation into charges that Negroes are being barred from Nassau County Defense Schools. A petition presented to the mayor by Ernest Van Purnell, representing the Peoples' Committee for the Mobilization of Civilian Defense Workers, charged that such refusals are being made to qualified Negro applicants, and further charges that those Negroes who do manage to attend the schools, and graduate, are being refused employment in Nassau County defense plants.
(Awwwwwwwwww, come on, Tommy. Sure, we all know what Mungo did that weekend in Havana, but why not let us revel in the story again? And no mention of Casey beating the snot out of Ernest Hemingway? STOP COVERING UP!)
(Hey Aggie -- aren't you cold?)
("This place is crawling with phony counts! They won't even notice one more!")
(Yeah, wait'll they finish their snappy repartee. THEN shoot 'em!)
("Waaaaaaaaait! OPA agents? THEN HOW COME YOU'RE DRIVING?")
("Never mind that -- what's happening to my hand???")
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They need to get Miss Barbara Brown in the WAACs with no delay. Definite officer material.
Tying up loose ends.
"A ghost would talk different?" Yes, they all sound like ten year old girls imitating Herman Bing.
"Well, I guess there's not much I can do here..."
A real pro would have a slick story all set to go. No wonder everybody thinks you're a punk.
"We'll have the smoked eels."
"Oh, and never eat a big lunch before going up."
"And did I mention, they're going to shoot at us."
"It'll be a great show! For the band we'll get Al Katz and his Kittens!"
"And if you don't, well, off to Reno."
They need to get Miss Barbara Brown in the WAACs with no delay. Definite officer material.
Tying up loose ends.
"A ghost would talk different?" Yes, they all sound like ten year old girls imitating Herman Bing.
"Well, I guess there's not much I can do here..."
A real pro would have a slick story all set to go. No wonder everybody thinks you're a punk.
"We'll have the smoked eels."
"Oh, and never eat a big lunch before going up."
"And did I mention, they're going to shoot at us."
"It'll be a great show! For the band we'll get Al Katz and his Kittens!"
"And if you don't, well, off to Reno."
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This always has been and always will be a dirty, dirty game.
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(Wait, you mean "Lucky Legs" isn't a searing, uncompromising drama of modern life? Aim higher, Jinx.)
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"The Hard Way" is a good version of the "I'll do anything I have to, to have my kid make it in showbiz" story. Strong cast headed up by Lupino in her sweet spot. My comments on it here: #28,001
As to our "Day-by-Day" friend Jinx, I believe ZZ Top summed it up well, "She's got legs, she knows how to use them."
She's been an x-ray technician and now polishes tungsten carbide dies with diamond dust. Sadly, I do not foresee a long life for this industrious young lady.
Quoting Lizzie, "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before...."
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(Hey Aggie -- aren't you cold?)
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Seriously, what the h*ll is she wearing? It's the middle of the day. But kudos to her for holding it up at her age.
I still think the old man sees exactly what's going on here.
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Tying up loose ends.
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"Madeline Webb, 28-year-old Oklahoma model who appeared in a World's Fair nude show...." God luv yah, Daily News.
Based on the era, the mob connection and the 13 witnesses, I'd bet Weiss, Simmons and Epstein are guilty of that murder - Leder, the owner of the pocketbook manufacturer, probably, was just trying to move his plant so he didn't have to pay "protection" money. And if by miracle, they didn't kill him, they probably killed many others.
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"Well, I guess there's not much I can do here..."
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I already like this guy more than Mrs. De Stross.
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