The Era -- Day By Day

LizzieMaine said:

These unique shirts Mush seems to favor are a popular style of football jersey in 1941, and number 42 is most closely identified with Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears -- a club which counts Frank Willard among its fans. (The most famous man ever to wear Number 42 in any sport wore 28 last season at UCLA, and won't don 42 for another six years -- but to us in 2021 it's understandably startling to see it suddenly pop up in this context. I know it took me aback for a moment.)

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The Chicago Bears; even after two cups of coffee and omelet with toast, it is difficult to focus through
tear streaked eyes since Hu Shee, singed sweetness, so lovely angelic and all has set aflame thoughts
so depressing as mere mundane matters such as the ineptitude exhibited field and sidelines.
Related sartorial issues pale beside our pearl. I deliberately avoided 67*AM The Score and all banality
baseball this morning; no longer even look at the Chicago Tribune or Sun Times sports page,
and will instead focus pocus more scholastic pursuit. Not really, of course, but lingering New Year resolve
shines bright hopeful promise. Sid Luckman is a blast from the past. Thanks for posting.

Fading Fast said:

Hu Shee couldn't take it any more as Terry missed every darn signal she sent him - good for her. I'm afraid our Hu Shee will not return, thus leaving Terry a broken-hearted young man.

- Hu Shee has carried a torch for a long time and has a premonition she won't return - is when sex would be germane to the moment (but, clearly, that can't happen in a 1941 comic strip).

After chanting "Lana" until it made itself hoarse, the Greek Chorus just walks off in disgust.

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-Hu Shee/// Today's Hang Seng Index is experiencing vicarious climax, multiple Elliot Waves.

-Greek Chorous/// "Ah Teepotah" (trans. Forget it)

LizzieMaine said:

Ma Teen doesn't like Lena Lovewell, Lillums' mother, at all -- as we have seen -- and thinks Lillums herself is shallow and manipulative, and that she led Harold on in the whole botched elopement incident that led to Harold running away from home for a year.


There's certainly more than enough blame to go around there -- both kids were painfully immature about the whole thing. But if anybody deserves a kick in the backside, it's Lillums' mother, who couldn't stand Harold when the kids were in high school, hated him even more when he was just a lowly butchers' apprentice, and absolutely loathed him when the whole elopment thing happened, . But now that he's doing OK, suddenly he's a fine boy, blah blah blah. Hopefully Ma Teen will kick her down a cistern before this is over.

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Now, THAT'S continuity !

Poor dumb b@stard. I've traveled that route, and it's neither scenic nor direct.

Ma Lovewell reminds me of the mother of one of my own old flames. When I was dating her daughter, I was barely tolerated. After we had long since broken up, she had dropped out of her honors pre- med program to study English lit, and I was in my second year of law school, I visited- as daughter and I had remained friends. "Mom" treated me like a long lost son: go figure.

Not to be catty or anything, but Lena's sure put on some weight between 1937 and 1941. Happens to all of us, toots.

Fading Fast said:

...and our Hu Shee will not return, thus leaving Terry a broken-hearted young man.
- Hu Shee has carried a torch for a long time and has a premonition she won't return - .

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A heart can be broken, but the human heart is also resilient.
Our pearl Hu Shee will forever own a piece of Terry's heart and a deep place within his soul.
She is much, much more than a mere solitaire star, Hu Shee illumines the heavenly firmament.
Our pearl is the Moon; all other women are now for Terry tiny insignificant stars drowned in luminous fire
cast by this precious woman.

Somewhere, Milton Caniff is leaning back and saying "job well done."

President Roosevelt arrived this afternoon at Annapolis, Maryland in time to greet Lord Halifax, new British Ambassador to the United States, who arrived for his new post aboard the battleship King George V. The Ambassador will stop briefly at the United States Naval Academy before proceeding on to Washington to take up his new duties.

The revolution which has swept Rumania with the "moral support of the German Army" over the past three days has led to the mass murder of Jews, it was reported today. United Press correspondent F. E. Stevens, in a dispatch passed by military censors, reported today that Jews were being herded into cellars and shot, with at least 89 Jews in Bucharest slaughtered on Wednesday night alone. Authorities in Bucharest claim the murders were committed by "gangsters and extremists," but efforts by reporter Stevens to elaborate were repeatedly interrupted by the Rumanian censor, who snapped off the telephone relay whenever he attempted to answer questions.

Amid Republicans cries that a "gag rule" has been imposed, Democratic leaders in Congress today ordered the top-ranking officers of the Army, Navy, and Air Corps to testify in closed-door sessions rather than in public concerning the President's Aid-To-Britain bill. Representative Hamilton Fish (R-NY), minority leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, clashed angrily with majority committee leader Rep. Sol Bloom (D-NY) over the order for secret sessions, with Bloom denying with equal force that an attempt was being made to muzzle outside debate.

An acute shortage of aluminum caused by National Defense priorities may further delay the demolition of the old Fulton Street L. The L structure cannot be razed until the power lines for the trolleys now running along the Fulton Street route can be removed from it -- and that cannot happen until those trolleys are replaced by buses. Those buses have been on order for months, but the aluminum shortage has caused the manufacturer of the vehicles, the Twin Coach Company of Cleveland to hold back production, to the point where the firm's orders are running up to 3000 vehicles behind. It was hoped that the buses would be delivered by early March, allowing demolition to begin at that time, but it now appears that the schedule will again have to be altered, much to the dismay of Fulton Street merchants who have been waiting years for the removal of the hulking half-century-old structure.

The City Council committee investigating the Municipal Civil Service Commission today reported that the Commission's records are "heaped on a basement floor like rubbish and garbage," and that a $715.55 cash shortage has been documented in its accounts. The committee noted that fees taken in for examinations have been held in the Commission's office for days instead of being banked daily as required. Commission President Paul J. Kern, who was forcibly removed from the Council committee's hearing room yesterday, remained away from the room today as the investigation continued.

The operator of a hamburger stand on the grounds of the Republic Aviation Corporation in Farmingdale was served with a court order today requiring to move his jalopy. Peter Laines operates the hamburger shanty on Conklin Avenue under a concession granted by the Corporation leasing him a small lot. But Republic now needs to take a portion of that lot to extend a rail spur serving the plant for National Defense purposes, and when Mr. Laines refused to move his car to allow construction to begin, the firm sought and received a Supreme Court order compelling his cooperation. Mr. Laines insisted that he has a lease on the site valid thru the end of June, but the Court agreed with the company that National Defense needs take precedence.


(Oh come on, don't leave us hanging.)

A fellow aviator contends that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh either doesn't know what he's talking about, or "he has been bitten by the Nazi bug." Flyer Clarence Chamberlain, the second man to pilot a fixed-wing airplane across the Atlantic Ocean, told reporters at LaGuardia Field today that he believes Lindbergh's statements yesterday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee opposing the Lease-Lend Bill "ought not to go unanswered." Said Mr. Chamberlain, "If we sit back and let the British fleet go under, the Japanese could keep our Pacific Fleet so busy that the combined German and Italian, and remnants of the British and French fleets, could overcome our Atlantic fleet." Mr. Chamberlain argued that "we should sink the Japanese fleet on general principles, and supply the Chinese with everything they need to finish the job. Then we can turn all our attention to Europe."

("Cossack Style?" And yet they're the favored outerwear of CPUSA organizers everywhere.)

(In the offices of the Associated Press, an assistant comptroller is looking over Mr. Grover's expense account and suddenly everything makes sense.)


(Note who gets top billing. Miss Lupino, take a bow.)

The Eagle Editorialist expresses amazement at Col. Lindbergh's testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, and declares that his statement that he would "prefer neither side to win" throws his judgement into question. It is clear that he believes the Nazis have already won the war, and the EE hopes and doubts that few will have much faith in his opinions and reasoning.


(Fortunately for Mr. Lichty, the Herald-Tribune doesn't carry his feature.)

The Dodgers are beloved, of course, in Brooklyn -- but they are also developing a national following. As proof, consider the formation of a "No Third Term For Cincy -- We Want The Brooklyn Dodgers Club" on the campus of North Dakota State at Fargo, N. D. The Eagle received a subscription order this week from the club, with a lifetime membership card enclosed in the name of columnist Tommy Holmes. The club is also forming a women's auxiliary with the purpose of finding a suitable mate for that good-looking Cookie Lavagetto in order to prevent him from being drafted. "With Men Who Know Baseball Best," declares the club slogan, "It's Brooklyn In '41!"

Alice Marble suffered her first defeat last night since turning professional, falling to England's Mary Hardwick 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 before a crowd of 6000 spectators at Boston Garden. Miss Marble hadn't lost a match since falling to Helen Jacobs in England in 1938.

(I've never understood superhero physics, so this makes about as much sense as anything.)

(George has had severe bouts of amnesia at least twice before, each time leading to his developing entire new personalities, so I guess that we can conclude from this that his brain has serious structural defects. But then, we knew that already.)

(Well isn't that convenient.)

(Panel 3 is confusing. Is Irwin talking to the thug, or is he, after years of ridicule and oppression, finally looking Dan right in the eye and telling him where to get off? We can only hope.)

And in the Daily News...

Mr. Neighbors is listening to Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna. He thinks "Yehudi" is a scream.

No wonder Childs isn't advertising anymore. Loft's has tied up all the talent.


Mr. MacNamara seems to be a very hard man to please. Have you tried Woodside?

"Yeah, but what was that you was sayin' about 'let this cup pass from me?' I don't see any cup!"


I used to hate doing remotes. You were always running into crooks with throbbing-bullet shattered arms.

Yep, love at first sight. Look at Min tipping the wink there, she's already planning the wedding.

Your first lesson -- trifle not with Dr. Ping.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Willie in panel one is a dead ringer for my grandfather, except he had better taste in pants.


Little Josie's expression in panel two is inscrutable. And in panel three, it's terrifying. Be careful Ma, you are tampering with powerful forces. And myopia.

LizzieMaine said:

... ("Cossack Style?" And yet they're the favored outerwear of CPUSA organizers everywhere.)...

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So, Navy-style Pea Coats were being marketed and sold to the public as far back as 1941. Cleary, it is a classic that has survived, but I wouldn't have guessed that there was a "civilian" model dating back that far.

LizzieMaine said:

... (In the offices of the Associated Press, an assistant comptroller is looking over Mr. Grover's expense account and suddenly everything makes sense.)...

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If you want to get a feel for German nightclubs and entertainment in the '30s leading up to the war, check out the outstanding German TV series "Babylon Berlin." You can see how that surprisingly liberal nightlife culture fed into the shows/entertainment discussed in the above article.

LizzieMaine said:

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(Note who gets top billing. Miss Lupino, take a bow.)...

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And while Bogie gets more screen time, Ms. Lupino more than holds her own with Bogie in this really well-done movie that plays regularly on TCM (comments here: #28212). And the author referenced is W.R. Burnett who penned several excellent novels that were turned into equally excellent movies, none better, in my humble opinion, than 1950's "The Asphalt Jungle."

LizzieMaine said:

... (Panel 3 is confusing. Is Irwin talking to the thug, or is he, after years of ridicule and oppression, finally looking Dan right in the eye and telling him where to get off? We can only hope.)

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That one threw me too. Also, is Dan's jacket zipped all the way up or not?

LizzieMaine said:

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Mr. MacNamara seems to be a very hard man to please. Have you tried Woodside?...

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It took sixty or so years, but by the '00s, Brooklyn finally had a cooler vibe than Manhattan when the hipsters were having their moment.

LizzieMaine said:

... Yep, love at first sight. Look at Min tipping the wink there, she's already planning the wedding.....

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I'd say "Land O' Goshen" belongs in our thread on terms that are disappearing, but was it ever really a popular or common one in the first place? I've seen it in print a few times, but have never, ever heard anyone use. I never heard it from the older relatives and family friends that were around when I was a kid or in all the old movies I've watched - both of which are my main sources for hearing/having heard many GE phrases.

LizzieMaine said:

... Your first lesson -- trifle not with Dr. Ping.....

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It is time to remind Dr. Ping of the first rule in the Fedora Lounge Rulebook for Killing a TV, Movie or Comic-Strip Enemy: "Always kill your enemy as fast as you can and, then, check carefully to make sure he or she is dead."

LizzieMaine said:

... YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....

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Skeezix clearly ate his Wheaties this morning. Good for him.

LizzieMaine said:

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Little Josie's expression in panel two is inscrutable. And in panel three, it's terrifying. Be careful Ma, you are tampering with powerful forces. And myopia.

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Hollywood, too, understood the power of the "beautiful and sexy girl 'hiding' behind glasses" meme as, perhaps, the most famous of all examples is Dorothy Malone in "The Big Sleep." If you haven't seen the scene, it's worth clicking on the link to watch it:



Joan Fontaine pulled off another outstanding version in "Suspicion"

"Land o' Goshen" is a biblical oath -- it was, basically, the Hebrew ghetto in Pharoahnic Egypt, and thus not a good place to be. Or, if you were trying to say "The hell!" as an exclamation of disappointment or amazement, "Land o'Goshen!" was a minced substitute redolent of the nineteenth century.

In the popular media of the Era, it was a stereotypical way of showing that the character saying it was a hick or a rube or a clodhopper -- "Walllll I swan ta pucka!" or "by cracky!" meant the same thing. No up-to-date city person would use such a phrase, but someone from the small-town Midwest might. Or at least a Hollywood movie writer might imagine that they would.

That said, I never imagined Tilda as being a hayseed -- she probably picked up the phrase from listening to "Lum and Abner" or something. (And she got "heavenly days!" from Molly McGee.)

"Flyer Clarence Chamberlain, the second man to pilot a fixed-wing airplane across the Atlantic Ocean" - Alcock and Brown might beg to differ.

Regarding the variety of entertainment available in Weimar Berlin and later, the book Voluptuous Panic by Mel Gordon is quite informative and well illustrated. It includes a couple of tourist guides from the period that break down venues by one's particular personal preference.

Fading Fast said:

Hollywood, too, understood the power of the "beautiful and sexy girl 'hiding' behind glasses" meme as, perhaps, the most famous of all examples is Dorothy Malone in "The Big Sleep."

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As me grandfar spoke, "A fair colleen can raise the dead, lad."

A 7000-ton British auxiliary cruiser loaded with troops has been sunk by an Italian submarine according to an Italian High Command communique. The cruiser Eumaeus was torpedoed in the Atlantic, according to the communique, after a "sharp fight." The communique also reports that an Italian submarine has sunk the 6000-ton Greek steamer Eleni.

The Iron Guard extremist leader who led this week's revolt against the government of Rumania has been arrested. A newspaper report from Bucharest, Hungary states that Rumanian troops stormed the Iron Guard's "green house" quarters in search of Vice Premier Horia Sima, who had barricaded himself in the building. Charges of looting as well as rebellion were lodged against the Iron Guardists, who reportedly sacked synagogues and destroyed two newspaper plants during the revolt. Premier General Ion Antonescu declared today that the rebellion began with a foiled attempt by extremists to assassinate him.

Two Brooklyn gangsters are in custody in Miami Beach, Florida, awaiting extradition under indictments by an Amen grand jury in connection with a vast loan-sharking operation tied directly to the Murder For Money gang. Louis "The Blimp" Benson and Sam "The Dapper" Siegel, long known to the police as minor figures in Brooklyn organized crime, were arrested in a Miami restaurant after the indictment brought by Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen was handed up yesterday. The two men were charged with conspiring with Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who is telling all to Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, and 69-year-old Rose "Midnight Rose" Gold, the mother of Siegel, in making loans of $300 or less at higher than the legal interest limit of 6 percent. Mrs. Gold is the operator of a Brownsville candy store alleged to be the base of operations for the racket.

A Brooklyn police switchboard operator spent several tense minutes on the telephone this morning with a man contemplating suicide in a subway station, as radio cars rushed to the scene. Patrolman James Cavanaugh was on duty at Brooklyn police headquarters shortly after 2:30 am, when he received a call from a man who said he was calling from a pay station in the BMT station at 80th Avenue and 9th Street in Dyker Heights, and was planning to hurl himself off the platform in front of the next train to pull in. Patrolman Cavanaugh kept the man on the line while silently signaling another policeman to listen in on the call and send a car to the scene. Cavanaugh kept the caller talking for several minutes until the would-be suicide hung up, but he bought enough time for the radio patrolmen to arrive. They discovered 29-year-old Peter Larkin of 275 E. 26th Street in Manhattan standing on the westbound platform, gazing down the tracks, and took him into custody just before a train rolled into the station. Larkin told the patrolmen "he was tired of living," and was taken to Kings County Hospital for observation.

A former magistrate today called Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer in light of his recent testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Joseph Goldstein, speaking last night at the Coney Island Jewish Center, called the aviator "an enemy of democracy" who is "purposely endeavoring to pull the wool over Americans' eyes" with his statements that America should "negotiate with Hitler and his bloodthirsty crew. I infer from his remarks that it would not be unpleasant for Mr. Lindbergh to see Nazi ideology prevail in this country."

Dodger manager Leo Durocher today endorsed the Boy Scout movement's 1941 recruitment drive by declaring that "any boy pitching his way through this game of life will get to first base much quicker by being a Scout."

("Hah!" says Joe. "T'at Durocha. He otta help ol' blind Majakoit' acrosta street!" "Nah," says Sally. "'At was Germano tried ta do t'at.")


(It otta be "lit'l," and the stopped initial fricative is actually more of a "t" sound than a "d," but still, a pretty good effort.)

("Hah!" says Joe. "Remin's me uvva joke Solly Pincus tol' me downa plant. T'is guy says t'notha guy, he says, 'I met t'is goil out t'race track." Anna otta guy says 'Jamaica?' Anna foist guy says 'Nah, she wan' innerested.'" And Sally says "Y'otta book a week at t'Flatbush wit' a act like t'at.")


(Bum Of The Month Club selection for February.)

The six major leaguers most likely to go in the draft before the 1941 season ends are Hank Greenberg of the Tigers, Morrie Arnovich of the Giants, our own Cookie Lavagetto, Hugh Mulcahy of the Phillies, and a pair of rookie pitchers -- Roy Bruner of the Phils and Herschel Lyons of the Cardinals. All six players are unmarried men with no dependants, and have low draft numbers. The only official notice being taken of the draft by baseball is a clause inserted in all 1941 contracts stipulating that if a player is called into the service, their major league pay will stop as of the date of induction.

There has been no official word from the Dodger office on the status of Paul Waner, who wants very much to play for Brooklyn in 1941, and who has been actively recruited by Leo Durocher. But while Waner is welcome to come to Havana and work out as a free agent, non-roster player no contract offer has been made. Both the Giants and Yankees have already passed on signing Big Poison, but there are reports that two unnamed American League clubs are interested in the 38-year-old veteran.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will talk sports with Bill Stern on the NBC Sports Newsreel broadcast, to be heard Sunday, February 2nd at 9:45 pm over WJZ.

("I don't trust Dad and his experments." I imagine this is something she's had occasion to say before.)

(George speaks in tongues, and begins a new career as a charismatic preacher.)

("Turn it off? What, and miss 'Easy Aces?'")


(Psst, Dan -- you're talking into the wrong end of the phone.)

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Mr. Gottman isn't quite what you visualize when you imagine a gigolo, but the high-heeled patent leather shoes should have been a giveaway.


If you're curious, there's a couple of copies of the January 1941 "Harper's Bazaar" on eBay for about a C-note.


Not to be confused with the March Of Dimes, the "Mile O' Dimes" is a campaign to buy warm winter clothes for needy kids. And actresses.

Ping didn't take Brother Fading's advice, and now look.

If Am shows up next talking to Nick, I'll scream.

"I'll do anything you want, just don't jog the needle!"


Skeez and Nina are paralyzed with indecision because there's no haystack nearby.

I wouldn't imagine the Gumps could afford cathedral ceilings, but there you go.

Hurry up with those specs, kid, I can't see a thing.

Emmy and Plushie have been married for eight years now, and she still calls him "Lord." Which is deliberate, she wants to ease his disappointment from losing out on that Monopoly gig.

LizzieMaine said:

... The two men were charged with conspiring with Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who is telling all to Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, and 69-year-old Rose "Midnight Rose" Gold, the mother of Siegel, in making loans of $300 or less at higher than the legal interest limit of 6 percent. Mrs. Gold is the operator of a Brownsville candy store alleged to be the base of operations for the racket....

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That candy store could have come right out of "Little Orphan Annie" (in its Nick Gatt's days). We've talked about it before, candy stores were fascinating places back in the '30s and '40s.

LizzieMaine said:

...A Brooklyn police switchboard operator spent several tense minutes on the telephone this morning with a man contemplating suicide in a subway station, as radio cars rushed to the scene. Patrolman James Cavanaugh was on duty at Brooklyn police headquarters shortly after 2:30 am, when he received a call from a man who said he was calling from a pay station in the BMT station at 80th Avenue and 9th Street in Dyker Heights, and was planning to hurl himself off the platform in front of the next train to pull in. Patrolman Cavanaugh kept the man on the line while silently signaling another policeman to listen in on the call and send a car to the scene. Cavanaugh kept the caller talking for several minutes until the would-be suicide hung up, but he bought enough time for the radio patrolmen to arrive. They discovered 29-year-old Peter Larkin of 275 E. 26th Street in Manhattan standing on the westbound platform, gazing down the tracks, and took him into custody just before a train rolled into the station. Larkin told the patrolmen "he was tired of living," and was taken to Kings County Hospital for observation....

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Sadly, this is an example of how methods of suicide have a copycat or vogue nature to them as we've started to see this type of suicide pick up recently in these papers.

LizzieMaine said:

... (It otta be "lit'l," and the stopped initial fricative is actually more of a "t" sound than a "d," but still, a pretty good effort.)...

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LizzieMaine said:

... ("Hah!" says Joe. "Remin's me uvva joke Solly Pincus tol' me downa plant. T'is guy says t'notha guy, he says, 'I met t'is goil out t'race track." Anna otta guy says 'Jamaica?' Anna foist guy says 'Nah, she wan' innerested.'" And Sally says "Y'otta book a week at t'Flatbush wit' a act like t'at.")...

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Darn it if I didn't laugh at Joe's stupid joke.

My parents met at the race track. My dad was on a date, met my mother, got her number from a mutual friend later and called her up. Ah, Golden Era romance.

LizzieMaine said:

... (George speaks in tongues, and begins a new career as a charismatic preacher.)...

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"I've examined Mr. Bungle before, and know he is extremely thick skulled."

LizzieMaine said:

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Mr. Gottman isn't quite what you visualize when you imagine a gigolo, but the high-heeled patent leather shoes should have been a giveaway....

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There are still plenty of young men "sponsoring" older rich widows in NYC today. And, as in this case, if the end of the "sponsorship" doesn't go well, the details often spill out into the Press for the exact same reasons.

LizzieMaine said:

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If you're curious, there's a couple of copies of the January 1941 "Harper's Bazaar" on eBay for about a C-note....

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That is very, very cool. It's a cross-industry partnership I would never have guessed would have happened. Also, interesting plug for itself by The News at the bottom.

LizzieMaine said:

...[ Ping didn't take Brother Fading's advice, and now look.....

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"We put it in the Policies and Procedures Manual for a reason. People, we can't keep making this same mistake. Do you know the position you have put me in as I have no way of explaining this to management."

Looks like Raven and Pat in the first of the Bazaar drawings, and that's probably Normandie Drake -- who we haven't met over the past year, but who has a long history with both Pat and Terry -- and April in the second. Nice to see April up and about, and everyone having such a good time while poor Terry is out risking his neck. Hennick is probably off to the side somewhere spiking the punch. The DL is too busy saving her country to bother with such nonsense.

The idea of a single paper selling nearly two million copies a day is unthinkable now, of course, but it isn't even the News's peak circulation -- that'll come after the war. When I was reading it in the 70s there was always a logo on the back page that said LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN AMERICA, and they weren't kidding.

Speaking of jokes, shouldn't that be a "pari-mutuel" friend?

Fading Fast said:

My parents met at the race track. My dad was on a date, met my mother, got her number from a mutual friend later and called her up. Ah, Golden Era romance.

"We put it in the Policies and Procedures Manual for a reason. People, we can't keep making this same mistake. Do you know the position you have put me in as I have no way of explaining this to management."

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Your parents meeting for the first time is quite the Pari mutuel track story. (couldn't resist)

Ping should have read the "never get close to a prisoner" chapter.
Tang seems to have executed a mawashi ushiro geri. However, being Chinese it is more likely that Tang
is either a Kenpo, Wing Chun, Gung Fu stylist. So, that wasn't a Japanese technique.
Hmm, maybe a Ping pong?
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Lana, exquisite rose.

The young woman was very attractive in appearance,
a maiden whom no man had known.

Genesis 24:16

That Dorothy Malone clip yesterday really floored me brother. Thanks.

Hula hooping for exercise looks like so much fun, and super easy to do.