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("Are ye sure," queries Uncle Frank, helping Sally into a kitchen chair, "that ye want t'stay heeere? Wooldn't ye be maaar coomforable at oor -- ah --ye moothar's place? Faaar th' toime bein', that is?" "Oh, no," interrupts Ma, "Oi'm sure it's bettar farr ye t' be in ye own hoom, aroond familiar things. Doctar Levine said she'd coom by an' check in regular, isn't that so." "Yeh," nods Sally, taking a deep breath as she looks around her kitchen. "Wheh's Stella?" she asks. "Th' Krauses been lookin' aftar'er," replies Ma. "An' Mistarr Krause said he'd been coomin' by here t'keep an' oye aaah th' apartment here. Emptyin' ye ice box pan, throoin' oot spaaarled food, keepin' things joost so." "Th' oiceman was heer this marrnin'," adds Uncle Frank, an' we staaahped by th' grocer this marrnin' an' got ye milk an' bread and all. Krause staahped th' milk d'livery whoile ye was -- ah -- away, but he said he'd call Renken's this marrnin' an' starrt it oop again. An' ye mail is tharr on th' table." "Ah," nods Sally with a sigh. "Letteh fr'm Joe. Musta wrote it befoeh -- I was away." "Ye can look at ahhl that latarr," bustles Ma, shooing away a persistent fly. "Smells funny," declares Leonora, wrinkling her nose and adding a decisive "Yuck!" "Ah," nods Ma. "Ye -- ah -- had some cabbage in th' box tharr that went bad. Mistarr Krause doon th' best he could, boot we'll wanna give it a good scroobin' oot with vinegar an' ahhl." "Yeh," sighs Sally, glancing across the kitchen at the peg by the door, where Joe's cap and windbreaker still hangs. "S' now what?" she wonders out loud. "Well, now ye joost take it easy f'ra while," suggests Ma. "Look thar, ye got magazines t'read, y'got th' radio. Thar's some good stories ahhn th' radio this toime a' day, maybe listen in ahhn sooma those, an' later aaahn ye can listen to th' baseball game." "Meh," mehs Sally. "Did Alice say anyt'ing about my jawb?" "Ye needn't worry 'boot that," assures Uncle Frank. "She's -- ah -- pooled some strings with th' plant managaar ovar tharr, an' they know it's easier t'bring back a trained waaarker than it is t'hoire an' train a new one. Ye can goo back when ye ready. An' doon't worry aboot money, we depaaasited Joe's last allaatment check far ye, an' -- ah -- soom additional payments that -- ah -- came in..." Ma shoots Uncle Frank a look, and from behind his fatherly smile he brushes her off. "Ahhl ye gaaht t'do," he continues, "is waaark on gett'n well." "Docteh Levine says maybe I c'n try goin' back t'woik inna week 'a so, d'pendin' on what happn's wit' t' medicine," replies Sally. "I feel stupid jus' sittin'eeeh." "Mistarr Krause will bring ye cat back oop t'ye t'night," assures Ma, "woonce ye get settled. An' Mrs. Ginsburg said ye an' Leonora aaahr invoited to go downstairs t'night t'have ye suppar with them." "Yeh," sighs Sally. "Ahhl roit then," concludes Ma, "Oi really moost get back t'th'store. Oi left Jimmy in charge, an' ye know how he loikes t'goozle down th' Coca-Cola. Come along, Francis." "Take care'a ye'self, choild," adds Uncle Frank, as they head to the door. "Yeh," sighs Sally, fingering the obsolete letter from Joe. "I'll be fine. Yeh.")
A billion dollars to beautify postwar Brooklyn has been set aside by the New York City Planning Commission, according to Commission member Cleveland Rodgers, who sketched out highlights of the program before the Brooklyn Kiwanis Club yesterday, and followed up with a detailed outline today for the Brooklyn Eagle. The plan is headed by the long-awaited replacement of the Raymond Street Jail, and will also see new construction of schools, hospitals, and parks across the borough. A total of seventeen new elementary and junior high schools will be built at a total cost of $23,067,472, along with four new vocational high schools. Brownsville will receive a new general hospital as one of six new health centers to be constructed, and a new sewage disposal system will insure that "the waters around the harbor can again be useful and healthful." Local landmarks to see improvement include Brooklyn College, Kings County Hospital, the Central and Montague Street branches of the Public Library, the Botanic Garden, the Children's Museum, and the Brooklyn Bridge. "These are all new things," assured Rodgers, "intended to make Brooklyn a better place for its citizens."
(Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye -- in the same picture. Imagine.)
(NO, I don't think so.)
(Sorry, they're all in the Quartermaster Corps.)
(Hey look, Frenchy's growing his moustache back! And I bet the beret will go well with the satin jammies!)
Leo Durocher is officially off the active player roster, following the signing of rookie pitcher Clyde King from off the campus of the University of North Carolina. Leo needed to free up a roster spot tomake way for the righthander,and accomplished that by deleting himself. It is rumored that King was presented with a hefty bonus check by Branch Rickey in exchange for his signature on a Brooklyn contract. He is the fourth teen-age pitcher to be signed by the Dodgers this month.
Liquid stockings are banned in certain Brooklyn schools, and a hundred girls who broke the prohibition on leg makeup at a private school in Flatbush have been "isolated" by the school administration. Bobby socks are also prohibited at this school, as are lipstick and rouge. Such prohibitions are not on the books in the borough's public high schools, with girls permitted to use makeup as they please provided they do so "with discretion." An administrator at Bay Ridge High School says that for the most part, girls cooperate with the "with discretion" clause, although an attempt at discouraging the wearing of slacks was ignored by the students and ultimately abandoned.
(Do you get the feeling that Barry has -- ah -- other inclinations?)
(George has read every Perry Mason novel.)
(A fixed horse race??? IMPOSSIBLE!)
(Scarlet's been working out.)
(Of all our strips, this is the one I would least expect to go down this particular road.)