The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

Jack needs to loosen that tie. I think it's cutting off the oxygen to his brain.

 

[Fading Fast]

Jack needs to loosen that tie. I think it's cutting off the oxygen to his brain.

Heck, Mr. Beaverduck's neck is cutting off oxygen to his brain.

Jack's racing to get back to Joy and he doesn't even know that she's waiting for him at the airport in her underwear.

 

[LizzieMaine]

British Treasury officials have warned that they can purchase no more war supplies from the United States until and unless they are assured of American financial aid. So reported US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau today in a closed-door meeting with a House appropriations subcommittee. Following that conference, Mr. Morgenthau lunched with President Roosevelt, who has begun consideration of British requests for financial assistance, which may include loans, outright cash gifts, or "other arrangements."

Former Vice Premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval was abruptly released from confinement today after a sudden visit to Premier Marshal Henri Petain by a personal envoy of Adolf Hitler. Marshal Petain claimed that Laval was plotting against him, and it was after discovering that that he compelled Petain to resign from the Cabinet. The visit to Petain by German Ambassador Otto Abetz was an expression of "serious concern" on the part of the Nazi government over recent events in Vichy, and Abetz reinforced upon Marshal Petain the importance of full French cooperation in the spread of the "New Order" across Europe.

The eighteen-month-old girl who was to be raised "for eternal life" by a Long Island metaphysical religious cult has been returned to her mother, putting an end to the "experiment in immortality" that began when the sect took custody of the child a year ago. The Royal Fraternity of Master Physicians today turned Baby Jean back to her mother, Mrs. Catherine Gauntt, after acknowledging that "mother love" trumps metaphysics. Baby Jean has been raised for the past year on a strict vegetarian diet at the sect's compound at the former Cornelius Vanderbilt estate in Oakdale, now known as "Peace Haven." The sect had intended to legally adopt the child, but that process will now be discontinued, with full custody of the baby having been returned to Mrs. Gauntt. The sect's leader, Dr. James B. Shafer, warned that returning to her mother means that Baby Jean will not live forever, but added that "mother love is the greatest thing in the world."

A veteran Fulton Street civic leader today attacked the Citizens' Budget Committee for making "an ill-advised effort" to halt the bus contracts that he says would hasten the long-awaited demolition of the Fulton Street L. Herbert L. Carpenter warned that the Committee's action will "delay the rebirth of Brooklyn," and if it succeeds in stopping the bus contract, it will be "the most unpopular move the committee has ever made." Carpenter's warning was echoed by Henry J. Davenport of the Downtown Brooklyn Association, which has long lobbied for the razing of the L. Mr. Davenport argued that the city is well within its legal rights in agreeing to the bus contracts, and he urged that an injunction sought by the Committee to halt the buses be denied.

A 63-year-old Brooklyn Heights woman is in critical condition today after cutting off her left hand and putting it neatly away in a bureau drawer. Mrs. Lulu Johnson of 11 Schermerhorn Street was found in the bathroom of her apartment by her granddaughter, 13-year-old Estelle Somers, a student at Packer Collegiate Institute, and a friend, Mrs. Jessica Lozier Payne of 38 Livingston Street. Building Superintendent Otto Miller told police that Mrs. Johnson's husband died about ten years ago, and she had lived with her son and his daughter, both of whom died recently. Mr. Miller also noted that Mrs. Johnson recently suffered a stroke that left her hand paralyzed.

The Board of Higher Education took steps today to mount its own investigation into Communist actvity within the city college system, a move which lays the groundwork for the potential dismissal of 17 Brooklyn College instructors suspected of Communist sympathies. Following a four-hour closed door meeting at Hunter College, it was agreed that a Committee of Three will be appointed to "make a study of the facts." The probe will be independent of the legislative investigation now underway by the Rapp-Coudert Committee, but testimony gathered by that committee will be studied in the Board's own investigation.

Negotiations which may lead to a peaceful settlement of the war between the radio networks and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers are underway today in Washington under the auspices of the Department of Justice. A Department spokesman stated that it entered the controversy due to an antitrust suit filed against ASCAP six years ago and held in reserve since that time. It is contemplated that a compromise might be reached that would cause the networks to agree to pay ASCAP fees for network broadcasts using music licensed by the Society, but no fees would be assessed on programs containing no such music. Currently, NBC and CBS pay no fees at all to ASCAP, leaving that responsibility to their member stations. The Society has sought to impose a split in those fees between the networks and the local stations.

(My grandmother had that very same GE mixer, and knowing my grandfather, he got it wholesale thru our Firestone account. Small small world.)

("We oughta go!" says Joe. "Hah!" hahs Sally. "We should get in?" "Nah," says Joe, "lessjus'go an' watcht' cella-brutties. Annen afta' we c'n gota Mayflowa Donuts an' watch'm fry!" Sally nods. "Yeah. Yeah. I'mfa t'at!")

The Eagle Editorialist has long been in favor of the development for a long-range Master Plan for land use in Brooklyn, to be drawn up by the City Planning Commission, and he doesn't approve of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses' denunciation of such a plan as "the kind of Ivory Tower theoretical planning which dresses up revolutionary ideas in obscure and newly invented phrases." The EE points out that "long term planning" doesn't mean tomorrow -- and continues to believe that it's worthwhile to not limit new ideas when looking into the far future.

(If cartoonists are to be believed, little kids in 1940 were sarcastic, wised-up little brats. Which, in fact, has been true of all little kids since the first ones came out.)

(C'mon Larry, give the kid a job for the winter. He can make coffee, empty the wastebaskets, go out for sandwiches, stuff like that. Just make sure he isn't a whistler.)

Joe Louis let Al McCoy flail around for five rounds last night at Boston Garden, before closing him out on a TKO. "Wasn't much of a fight," said the Bomber as he laconically munched an apple in the ring after McCoy, left eye swollen completely closed, was led away.

"Honest wrestling?" It might become a reality at Madison Square Garden, where promoters are hoping to legitimize the grappling sport despite the consensus that you can't legitimize something that's never been on the square before. Pro wrestling has been a fake since it emerged from the carnival circuit in the 19th Century, and audiences used to half a century of the phony stuff are highly unlikely to support straight matches -- if, indeed, the promoters can even find any wrestlers willing to participate in them.

A Brooklyn man who dislocated his jaw attempting to eat a sandwich made from two lengthwise cuts of Italian bread will appear on "We The People" tonight. Printer Sam Kara will relate his experience to Gabriel Heatter at 9PM on WABC. Also on the broadcast, three Alabama men who were recently released from prison after being falsely convicted of bank robbery, and a 73-year-old woman attempting a new start in the business world after losing $2,000,000.

(There now, see how all these plot threads come together?)

(Well gee. If I had to guess which of our strips would be the first to show a guy getting his head squashed like a ripe casaba melon by a falling safe, "The Bungle Family" would not have been the one I'd pick.)

(Ahhhh, Leona. Her stinger has not lost its edge.)

(His master plan but moments from realization, Dan could scarcely conceal his glee.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

I don't know much about cocktails. Are the monkey-gland kind made with ginger ale or club soda?

Poor Johnny. They don't pay him enough, so he has to go out gigging for Santa Claus on the side.

Guess they've given up completely on the celebrity angle. Too bad, little Johnny up above might be available.

Ninety percent of the job is hiring quality help.

Flop sweat seldom visibly manifests like this, but there y'go.

Wump got the idea from that guy on the Hill Page the other day.

"Dear Helen Worth..."

Poor, poor Willie.

Dr. Ping *invented* "cool."

"Wait, no. Stop at Bohack's, willya, and pick up five cans of tomato juice. Campbell's, Libby's, I don't care what kind. Put it on my expense account."

 

[Fading Fast]

...Former Vice Premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval was abruptly released from confinement today after a sudden visit to Premier Marshal Henri Petain by a personal envoy of Adolf Hitler. Marshal Petain claimed that Laval was plotting against him, and it was after discovering that that he compelled Petain to resign from the Cabinet. The visit to Petain by German Ambassador Otto Abetz was an expression of "serious concern" on the part of the Nazi government over recent events in Vichy, and Abetz reinforced upon Marshal Petain the importance of full French cooperation in the spread of the "New Order" across Europe....

"Marshal Petain claimed that Laval was plotting against him, and it was after discovering that that he compelled Petain to resign from the Cabinet." Have I lost the thread (quite possibly) or was it Laval, not Petain, who was compelled to resign from the Cabinet?

... (My grandmother had that very same GE mixer, and knowing my grandfather, he got it wholesale thru our Firestone account. Small small world.)...

Growing up in the '70s, the Firestone stores in NJ, at least near where I lived, pretty much sold tires and some other auto-related stuff. They were not these Davega-like stores.

... I don't know much about cocktails. Are the monkey-gland kind made with ginger ale or club soda?...

In all I've read about NYC subways over the years, I don't remember that the 6th Avenue line had some kind of walking path from 34th to 42nd street. To be sure, sometimes before opening, they let the public walk through a new line, but this sounds like it was intended as a regular feature.

While not the most-Page-Four thing ever, the monkey-gland cocktail deserves an honorable mention.

The "Good Luck Secret" story is chilling and heartbreaking.

Good for the girl in "The Neighbors."

... Ninety percent of the job is hiring quality help....

"Suttinly"

... Wump got the idea from that guy on the Hill Page the other day...

So, we have Ms. Snipe and Skeezix left in the office with Ms. Snipe in charge.

"Skeezix, come in here and close and lock the door behind you."

... "Dear Helen Worth..."...

True for some men, not for others.

... Dr. Ping *invented* "cool."...

Maybe.

Curious to see how Dr. Ping pulled this one off. Caniff's good.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Transcription error on my part. Laval was sacked by Petain, who withered like a cheap grapevine when Ambassador Otto showed up. As Sam Spade might say, "a fine bunch of thieves."

We used to always have Firestone catalogs lying around the house when I was growing up, and they were full of this random merchandise kind of stuff -- the famous Firestone Christmas Album LPs came out of there. My grandparents' big living room radio came out of the Firestone book, and I imagine a lot of other stuff around the house that I never suspected came from there as well. But my mother got her first bike out of the B. F. Goodrich catalog -- which followed the Firestone pattern closely. I think by the sixties, the tire companies dealt mostly in catalog sales for their non-auto merchandise. If you wanted to get all this stuff over the counter, you went to Western Auto.

It feels like Caniff had at least a couple of strips nixed by the editor, unless that glasses business is a Chekhov's Gun waiting to go off.

Monkey glands -- and goat glands -- were a big craze in the Twenties, and it's kind of nostalgic to see them showing up in 1940.

 

[ChiTownScion]

I am remind by this how, in the 1950's, Lionel decided to market an electric toy train "just for girls," I suppose in the belief that girls were envious of the O-27 trains of their brothers. Freight cars, caboose, and even the steam locomotive were all in the most infantile pink and baby blue hues... and naturally the little girls wanted nothing to do with them. If she wanted a train set like her brother, she wanted one that looks more like a real train, too. The Boys really fumbled, the "Girl Train Sets" went unsold... and if you can find one in mint condition today it's actually quite rare and valuable.

 

[Fading Fast]

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I am remind by this how, in the 1950's, Lionel decided to market an electric toy train "just for girls," I suppose in the belief that girls were envious of the O-27 trains of their brothers. Freight cars, caboose, and even the steam locomotive were all in the most infantile pink and baby blue hues... and naturally the little girls wanted nothing to do with them. If she wanted a train set like her brother, she wanted one that looks more like a real train, too. The Boys really fumbled, the "Girl Train Sets" went unsold... and if you can find one in mint condition today it's actually quite rare and valuable.

Not as bad as "New Coke," but yes, a hugely stupid idea by a company. Here's a pic of the, as you noted, now much-sought-after "girl's" train:

 

[LizzieMaine]

Right around the same time Chrysler put out the Dodge La Femme, the first car "designed especially for women." Which meant it was the color of the milk after eating a bowl of strawberry-flavored breakfast cereal, and came with a color-coordinated pink purse filled with dainty matching beauty accessories.

The La Femme was laughed off the lot by its potential market, but it's very much in demand today -- among male car collectors. Go figure.

I never had a train set myself, but one of the toys I dearly loved as a littl'un was a slightly more dilapidated specimen of this:

And I still have it to this day. It originally belonged to my mother.

 

[Fading Fast]

My girlfriend's mother loves model trains. She has a track looping their den. I never had a set growing up, but it's something we've enjoyed together each Christmas (and usually provides something I can buy for her - she's not easy to find gifts for - for Christmas as there's always the "next thing" that you want for your set).

If I didn't live in a small NYC apartment, I'd have a small set somewhere as I love the sound and seeing them go round, but again, NYC doesn't allow for extra space for train sets. She did buy me a small loop set that we put up under our Christmas tree most years, which is really nice.

 

[MissNathalieVintage]

 

[LizzieMaine]

Aw, c'mon Jack. WNEW's got a pretty strong signal, and the "Milkman's Matinee" doesn't play no waltzes!

 

[Farace]

Aw, c'mon Jack. WNEW's got a pretty strong signal, and the "Milkman's Matinee" doesn't play no waltzes!

I so so so miss being able to listen to Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins on WNEW. There would be insomniac nights when I’d reach over in the wee hours and switch on the tube-powered Art Deco Zenith. The glow would slowly grow as the tubes warmed up, and there would be Jazzbeaux, broadcasting from the Purple Grotto three stories below Manhattan, opening his show with “Milkman’s Matinee.” Some nights, whoever was playing in town would come down after their gigs and jam in the studio. The soft glow of the radio dial, the only light in the room, and the smell that only hot tubes make, combined to make a warm, magical cocoon, and it could almost feel like I was the only one listening. Radio could be so good when it tried. But then there was the night I switched on the set, and the broadcast had devolved to being yet another syndicated episode of Larry King “Live.” I was heartbroken, and still am.

https://bayarearadio.org/audio/al-jazzbeaux-collins-jazzbo

(Some recordings of broadcasts at the end.)

 

[MissNathalieVintage]

I so so so miss being able to listen to Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins on WNEW. There would be insomniac nights when I’d reach over in the wee hours and switch on the tube-powered Art Deco Zenith. The glow would slowly grow as the tubes warmed up, and there would be Jazzbeaux, broadcasting from the Purple Grotto three stories below Manhattan, opening his show with “Milkman’s Matinee.” Some nights, whoever was playing in town would come down after their gigs and jam in the studio. The soft glow of the radio dial, the only light in the room, and the smell that only hot tubes make, combined to make a warm, magical cocoon, and it could almost feel like I was the only one listening. Radio could be so good when it tried. But then there was the night I switched on the set, and the broadcast had devolved to being yet another syndicated episode of Larry King “Live.” I was heartbroken, and still am.

https://bayarearadio.org/audio/al-jazzbeaux-collins-jazzbo

(Some recordings of broadcasts at the end.)

On Saturdays from 1-5pm in Chicago, IL there is the golden era radio program Those Were the Days
link to the website: https://wdcb.org/program/those-were-the-days and they also have their radio program guide, Link: https://www.nostalgiadigest.com/nostalgiadigest.html

And after Those Were The Days there is Midwest ballroom where they play a mix of classic jazz and modern jazz music.

And later on in the evening there is Holloywood Radio 360 at 8pm over on 560 AM in Chicago. Link: https://www.hollywood360radio.com/auto-draft-3-2/

 

[LizzieMaine]

I loved WNEW during what passed as my youth -- between it and Joe Franklin's Memory Lane Saturday nights on WOR, my musical education was in exceedingly good hands. I was there right up to the bitter end -- when WNEW shut down for good at the end of 1992, I sat in my living room by the radio to the moment of signoff, and sobbed.

One of the many reasons I loathe Mr. Bloomberg is because he was responsible for WNEW's demise. I grit my teeth when I tune thru what 1130 became, and the years have not eased the bitterness.

 

[Harp]

And later on in the evening there is Holloywood Radio 360 at 8pm over on 560 AM in Chicago. Link: https://www.hollywood360radio.com/auto-draft-3-2/

Saturday is usually taken but this evening program sounds great. Thanks a bunch.
I've managed to get a Sunday evening dial fix on an Ontario radio station-Zuma, which
features Big Band fare, sometimes the signal is good, sometimes not. But great music can
still be found across the dial.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fire swept thru two landmark downtown buildings early this morning, routing scores of after-theatre diners and pleasure seekers and causing an estimated $100,000 in damage to the Johnston Building, 8-12 Nevins Street and the adjoining Smith-Gray Building. Three firemen were reported injured battling the fire, which broke out in the back of the Ligget's Drug Store on the ground floor of the Smith-Gray Building, and spread rapidly into the kitchen of Joe's Restaurant on the ground floor of the Johnston Building. From there the fire erupted into Joe's main dining room, forcing about fifty diners to flee for their lives. From there, the fire climbed into the second story of the Johnston Building where it ripped thru the Roman Gardens Restaurant before advancing into offices and meeting-rooms on the third floor. In the Smith-Gray building, tables and equipment belonging to the Brooklyn Billiard Academy on the second floor were destroyed, while water and smoke damaged stock at Maison Sasa Millinery Shop, a Regal Shoe Store, and Cye Bernard's haberdashery at street level. Investigators have not determined the cause of the fire, but firemen reported a strong odor coming from the rear of the Ligget store, suggesting the possibility of a gas leak.

It is unclear what effect the fire will have, if any, on the tower clock of the Smith-Gray Building. The clock is a familiar downtown landmark used by generations of Brooklyn office workers to check the accuracy of their watches.

Meanwhile, fire lines cutting off Fulton Street led to a Livingston Street trolley jumping an open switch and colliding with an L pillar. One passenger was hurt in that accident, with the trolley motorman telling police he hadn't noticed the position of the switch, which had been opened to accommodate cars being rerouted from Fulton Street thru Lafayette Street and on to Livingston.

An unprecedented plan for backing Britain to the limit regardless of expense went to the nation today with President Roosevelt's declaration that the best plan for immediate defense of the United States was for Great Britain to succeed in defending itself. The President spent most of a fifty-minute press conference yesterday explaining the plan under which the US would buy at least $2,500,000,000 worth of tanks, airplanes, and munitions and turn them over to Britain on a lease or lending basis, with the terms not to come due until after the war. The President declared that he will ask the incoming session of Congress opening January 3rd to prepare legislation putting this program, or a similar one, into effect. The President stressed that the amount of equipment to be furnished under this plan will be on top of the $2,000,000,000 already on order by Britain under the "Cash and Carry" plan.

Two Italian divisions and thousands of Fascist militiamen are bottled up at Bardia, on the Libyan coast, as British Empire forces continue their drive against remaining Italian positions. Official communiques suggest that the British may take Bardia, a vital supply base for Italy's richest African colony, at any time.

A Brooklyn lawyer and taxpayer who has filed suit against the Board of Education demanding the removal of six Brooklyn College instructors suspected of Communist sympathies alleges that the Board failed to meet all legal requirements in appointing those instructors to their positions. The suit filed in Manhattan Superior Court by Irving B. Cohen claims that the Board failed to investigate whether the six were "morally fit" to teach in the city school system. The teachers named in the Cohen suit are Howard Seslam, "alias Hill, alias Paul Salter," assistant professor of philosophy; Maurice Ogur, chemistry; Harry Slochower, "alias Flint", German; Frederick Ewen, "alias Corvell," English; Murray Young, "alias West," English, and Elton T. Gustafson, hygeine.

A parcel-delivery driver who has always wanted to be a policeman, and who recently secured a place on the list for future appointment to that position proved his mettle today by foiling an armed robbery. 24-year-old James Jasinski of 56 Brooklyn Avenue, a deliveryman for the United Parcel Service, had just delivered a package to the fourth floor of a six-story apartment house at 1569 47th Street and was on his way down the stairs when he was accosted on a second floor landing by two thugs, one brandishing a revolver. The bandits took $27 in cash from the deliveryman, and then demanded that Jasinski give them his pants. Instead of complying, Jasinski dived at the gunman in a flying tackle, threw him down the stairs to the first floor, and then held him down until police, summoned by tenants disturbed by the noise, arrived to take the gunman into custody. He was identified as 27-year-old John Mucciola, unemployed painter, of 1040 57th Street. The other bandit got away in the confusion, but police recovered his car, and identified it as registered to Patricia Jacobsen of 528 51st Street.

(Yeah, good luck with that.)

(These kids today and their hoodies.)

The Capitol Theatre in Times Square announces a new newsreel policy -- beginning this week, selected subjects from MGM News of the Day, Pathe News, Movietone News, Paramount News, and Universal Newsreel will be combined into a single comprehensive reel, to be prepared on a twice-weekly basis. "No other theatre in the country has ever given such complete newsreel coverage."

("Hey, whaddya know?" observers Joe. "Sam an' Mamie Mullins got t'same tattoo!" "Oughta send *her* ova't Goimany'." says Sally. "Hitla'd nevvaknowwhat hitt'm!)

(Took me a second to realize this is supposed to be a "scalping" joke. Really, Lichty?)

New Cubs manager Jimmy Wilson will be in town later this week, and word is that he'll be getting together for lunch with Larry MacPhail -- and that could mean some movement in the Red Headed One's longstanding desire to bring outfielder Big Hank Lieber to Brooklyn. Tommy Holmes talked with Jimmy earlier this week, and nothing come up on the Lieber front, but you never know.

Pee Wee Reese will head to spring training in February with a new pair of shoes -- one of which contains special reinforcement to protect the heel he injured last August. In the meantime he'll continue to wear the hillbilly-looking high tops he sported when he came to New York this week for a medical checkup.

Talk that the Dodgers may acquire Lefty Gomez, Monte Pearson, or both from the Yankees appears to be as dead as George Washington. Larry MacPhail says he isn't interested in either man, noting that Pearson suffers from a rheumatic condition, and Gomez, once the top hurler in the American League, is damaged goods due to back problems. MacPhail accused Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow of "trying to shove the two" down Dodger throats.

The Americans skated to a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings at the Garden last night, breaking a six-game losing streak. The Starshirts are tied for the basement in the National Hockey League with Montreal, with just ten points on the season. The Amerks face the Wings in Detroit tomorrow, while the Bruins come in to the Garden to face the Rangers.

Woody Guthrie is a smart man. He's the Okie singer-guitarist heard regularly on the Monday night "Pipe Smoking Time" broadcast over WABC, and he says "New York, as a town, is all right. You get everything you could ask for here, if you can get it!"

(Jeez, kid, are you sure you want to marry this guy? I mean, 'thru a door' isn't gonna be much fun in the long run...)

(You know, with the circus season just a few months away, there might be a call for an act like this...)

(Yeah, ah, lissen here, Leona. Far be it from me to interfere, but you really need to check up on this guy before you try to do what I know you're thinking of trying to do.)

(In traction. That's how you'll come out.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

I don't know about immortality, but if those eyes are any indication, you really need to get the kid's thyroid checked.

She did, did she?

Accident insurance sold separately.

Ahhhhh, nobody draws "lurker in an alley" like Mr. Gray.

Stealing jokes from Joe Penner? That's pretty sad.

I might have guessed Snipe would be the type to go in for role-playing.

All well and good, but I bet we'll seeing this Oliver Hardy-type soldier again, and he won't be in a laughing mood.

Harold tries to remember that gadget Pop rigged up that time to keep Shadow away from the soda pumps.

Mr. Gould is working really hard to get an endorsement deal from Lifebuoy.

For that matter, I wonder if Willie's ever had *his* thyroid checked.

 

[Harp]

^^^Leona, Slim, and the nurse: ménage a t- sans ménage...no, Slim was dreamin, that ba***rd.

 

[Fading Fast]

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("Hey, whaddya know?" observers Joe. "Sam an' Mamie Mullins got t'same tattoo!" "Oughta send *her* ova't Goimany'." says Sally. "Hitla'd nevvaknowwhat hitt'm!)..

"Goimany" "Hitla'd"

...Pee Wee Reese will head to spring training in February with a new pair of shoes -- one of which contains special reinforcement to protect the heel he injured last August. In the meantime he'll continue to wear the hillbilly-looking high tops he sported when he came to New York this week for a medical checkup....

The Eagle really doesn't like Pee Wee's boots. Odd, as it seems that men's lace-up dress boots were still pretty common in the '40s (see the "Esquire's Complete Golden Age Illustration" thread in the "General Attire and Accouterment" section).

... (Yeah, ah, lissen here, Leona. Far be it from me to interfere, but you really need to check up on this guy before you try to do what I know you're thinking of trying to do.)...

Kudos to Leona though for being able to pull off some out-there styles. Today's getup, topped by that hat, would looks silly on most of our comic strip heroines - Ms. Snipe, Lana Lanagan, no way - but Leona has enough presence, confidence and attitude to pull it off. Raven, on the right day, probably could too.

... View attachment 290751 I don't know about immortality, but if those eyes are any indication, you really need to get the kid's thyroid checked.....

444 Madison rang a bell. It's a beautiful Art Deco building that gets kinda overlooked in NYC, but would be a star in many cities. I "discovered" it because my dentist, at one point, was in a nearby building and I noticed how insanely cool 444 Madison is just walking by it one day.

It's so crowded in that area, that it's hard to get a full shot of the building, but this web pic will give you some idea:

... I might have guessed Snipe would be the type to go in for role-playing...

King so wants to take this storyline where he isn't allowed to.

.. All well and good, but I bet we'll seeing this Oliver Hardy-type soldier again, and he won't be in a laughing mood.....

As we've noted, there have been a few continuity gaps recently such as how did Dr. Ping communicate with Terry about hiding in the water barrel. Also, that search took more than a few minutes, how did Terry breathe in there for so long?

^^^Leona, Slim, and the nurse: ménage a t- sans ménage...no, Slim was dreamin, that ba***rd.

Even the thought of that is well above Slim's pay grade.