The Era -- Day By Day

[Fading Fast]

Official Nazi reports today claimed that six Russian divisions on the central and northern fronts have been wiped out, and that "operations for the further annihilation of encircled Soviet forces are in progress." German military dispatches reported by the International News Services claimed that Soviet losses in the war so far exceed "the staggering total of 2,000,000 men."

Meanwhile, a Soviet war communique stated that the Germans are "throwing men lavishly" against the Moscow and Kiev fronts in "an effort to restart their stalled blitzkrieg," but their attempts so far to break thru the Red Army lines have been in vain. It was indicated that heavy fighting in the Pakov area, near the Leningrad front, had subsided overnight. It is also claimed in Soviet dispatches that guerilla attacks far behind the German lines are "taking a heavy toll" on the invasion troops.

Swarms of British planes raced across the Dover coast today in one of the greatest daylight raids of the war, with RAF bombers pounding German defense installations now under construction along the invasion coast in the belief that the British may be planning an invasion of their own into France. It is also reported that British raiders again struck German industrial installations in the Rhineland and the docks at Rotterdam....

It's stunning to know that this fighting, this killing on an insane scale, will go on for five more years and that it will take an incredible armada of ships and men, four years from now, to pull off the invasion talked about here.

...In Boston, a 16 year old boy faces charges of rape and murder in connection with the sadistic killing of a 15-year-old girl, whose mutilated body was found in the parsonage of a Baptist church in the Boston suburb of Reading, where the boy was employed as a caretaker. Police discovered the body of Miss Constance Shipp after receiving an anonymous tip of unrevealed nature. She had not been seen since she left her home about two blocks from the parsonage on an errand for her parents last Tuesday. Police stated, however, that the boy, whose name has not been revealed, does not appear to be responsible for the similar murder of another suburban Boston girl, 19-year-old Frances M. Cochran of Lynn, whose body was found in Swampscott yesterday. The boy had previously been convicted of rape, but was released with a suspended sentence....

A God awful end to this story. Lenient sentencing can have consequences.

... View attachment 348406 (There are quite a few valid claimants for the all-time title of "Hardest Working Person In Show Business," but Ted Lewis is certainly among them. He's still got thirty years to go. "Is Evvvvvvvrybody Happpppy? Yesssss sirrrrrr!")...

Heck, as you note, 25 years isn't that much, today we have bands and artists performing who were big names over fifty years ago. I believe, next year will be the sixtieth anniversary of the first Rolling Stones performance, with three of the five original members still playing in the band.

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(No no no no no no no..... Oh, and "...as he waddled off the field?" Jeez, Holmes, he may be fat, but the poor man's got feelings.)...

That is harsh and it wasn't his fault he got injured. Freddie wants to know what Irwin is up to - he finds solace in Irwin.

... (Ohhhhhhhh Marsh -- don't you DARE...)

Is he really going to kill off his best character by far? First Nick Gatt (the best character in comic strip land outside of "Terry and the Pirates") and, now, potentially, this. Who's next - Hu Shee? Is nothing sacred. And with a list a mile long of characters who should be killed off; yes, I'm thinking of you Gribble, of you Cheery, heck, take out Dan Dunn before Kay. Christ, he could have shot that fat tub-of-lard Irwin and the bullet would probably have gone in no farther than half way through all his blubber. I'm just getting warmed up if Marsh kills off Kay.

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Warbucks prepares for his sojourn to the lake by cultivating a ferocious pirate beard. AVAST ya SWABS!...

Gray, basically, gives himself a vacation day every Monday (our Wednesday) as he repeats Sunday's (using this term loosely) plot advancements.

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If you want to know the score, ask a player....

She's only living there because Raven, apparently, subscribes to the "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" view.

Just askin', did we ever actually get a bed count for Raven's apartment - she does wear that tie and all?

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"I mean, look at Winchell. All the time at the Stork Club! I'm not Winchell!"...

But does he broadcast to "all the ships at sea."

Jean?

... Poor Corky. The middle child. Thirteen years old, probably full of adolescent angst, and the best he can get is a minor walk-on part once a year or so....

I bet Freddie Fitz likes Walt.

... "Um, fine, I guess you can start by turning the lights on..."...

Once again, not one Fedora Lounge appropriate comment (even in response to your comment, Lizzie) comes to mind.

 

[Harp]

Terry just busted flush; perhaps he never held a torch for Burma, nor she for him, nor is close
proximity necessarily conducive to certain matters best left unsaid. Burma dealt the last hand to our boy.
A discard, Terry is still a loose string in a strip that bears his name.

The trois is a troika, little good will result. Caniff presumably marked a catfight card.

 

[Fading Fast]

Terry just busted flush; perhaps he never held a torch for Burma, nor she for him, nor is close
proximity necessarily conducive to certain matters best left unsaid. Burma dealt the last hand to our boy.
A discard, Terry is still a loose string in a strip that bears his name.

The trois is a troika, little good will result. Caniff presumably marked a catfight card.

Terry's best chance to get, umm, intimate, would be to go back into occupied territory and find Hu Shee (she loves "the yellowed-hair one"). Sometimes you gotta do whatcha you gotta do to get some.

 

[Harp]

A God awful end to this story. Lenient sentencing can have consequences.

Chicago homicide rates reflect judicial leniency with apparent abject absence of common sense.

Ancillary to this is the silence of progressive voices who advocated leniency based on race.
And, of course, "journalists" turn their gaze and remain blind to reality.

Illegitimacy, homicidal crisis. And America is such a systemically racist nation, so saith the New York Times.

 

[Harp]

Terry's best chance to get, umm, intimate, would be to go back into occupied territory and find Hu Shee (she loves "the yellowed-hair one"). Sometimes you gotta do whatcha you gotta do to get some.

Which brings back focus on our boy. Hu-Shee definitely made her intentions known, later he's wandering
around with hands tucked down inside pants pockets all-in-a-quandry over her.
Dr Ping laid down some Puccini and I thought the kid would wise up.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nazi raiders struck Moscow last night in the first mass air assault to strike the Soviet Union since the German invasion began a month ago. A fleet estimated at two hundred planes attempted to penetrate Soviet air defenses, but it is reported that "only a few" managed to do so. Those few caused several fires in the capital's central district, and left an enormous bomb crater in Manege Square, directly opposite the United States Embassy. Several casualties were reported,and Soviet sources indicate that 16 German bombers were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire. Despite the 5 1/2 hour raid, reports from Moscow this morning stated that the city was going about its business as usual with little indication that the assault had left significant damage.

A Nazi military spokesman stated last night that German forces have pushed 100 miles beyond the upper reaches of the Dnieper River toward Moscow, amidst German claims that "Russia is no longer able to maintain a unified central command, or oppose a connected defense line to the German assault." But Soviet reports state that the Red Army continues to hold Smolensk, the military gateway to Moscow, as well as Novograd Volynsk on the road to Kiev.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation today announced approval of a $425,000,000 loan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay for war supplies contracted before the enactment of the Lend-Lease bill. Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones stated that President Roosevelt has approved the loan to ensure that the British have dollar exchange without having to dispose of their securities and investments at forced sale. The armaments purchased before Lend-Lease were subject to the Cash and Carry provisions of the Neutrality Law.

A prominent gambler-bookmaker often the target of criticism by Mayor LaGuardia has been arrested and charged with attempting to kill a millionaire stockbroker at a party in New Jersey last month. Frank A. Erickson was arrested following a complaint from the alleged victim, 60-year-old Milton Untermeyer, who charged that Erickson stabbed him during the party at Untermeyer's home in Butler, N. J. Untermeyer told police that Erickson had "made an uncomplimentary remark" about one of the women at the party, and an argument between the two men ensued, following which, Untermeyer charged, Erickson produced a knife and stabbed him in the cheek and scalp, and also broke his jaw. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine released a statement today that the matter was brought to the personal attention of New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz by the Mayor, who has campaigned repeatedly to drive Erickson, a Queens resident whom the Mayor has a characterized a "a cheap tinhorn," out of the city. Two women who were also at the party have been arrested on charges that they acted as accessories after the fact by failing to report the incident to police.

Republican party leaders in New York City will meet today to discuss election strategy following last night's formal declaration by Mayor LaGuardia that he will seek reelection to a third term. The Mayor has already received the nominations of the City Fusion Party and the American Labor Party, and indicated in his broadcast last night that he would accept the Republican nomination as well if it is offered to him. The Mayor also stated that he will not seek the Democratic nomination in a primary run against Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, noting that to do so would only "confuse the issue." The Mayor declared that his platform in 1941, as in 1933 and 1937, will again be built on the single issue of "scientific, efficient, honest city government -- non political and non partisan, as opposed to political-machine-controlled government."

The deaths of two sisters found shot to death in their Borough Park apartment early this morning are being considered by police as a possible murder-suicide, but it is not yet clear who shot whom first, or whether, in fact, some unknown party may have shot both women. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Caroline Beardslee and her 40-year-old sister Mrs. Beatrice Hoffman were found this morning in their apartment at 1201 40th Street by Mrs. Hoffman's husband, retired Army officer Capt. Arthur J. Hoffman, who was returning home from a hunting trip. A heavy 45-caliber Army revolver with all six chambers fired, was found in Mrs. Beardslee's lap. Police initially assumed that Mrs. Hoffman shot her sister and then herself, but a preliminary examination revealed that Mrs. Hoffman had been shot three times -- twice in the left chest and once in the right -- while Mrs. Beardslee had been shot once in the left chest and once in the right temple. The sixth bullet was found embedded in the bedroom floor. An autopsy has been planned to determine the exact sequence of the shots.

(First Pacific map we've seen. Clip and Save.)

Food prices have soared across the United States since the start of the war. A report released to today by the U. S. Department of Labor Statistics reveals that since September 1939 overall food prices are up 15 percent, with prices up one percent across the board over the two weeks of July, an increase attributed to a combination of consumer demand and seasonal factors, increased Government requirements due to national defense, and speculative purchasing. Cabbage prices show the greatest increase, jumping more than 7 percent since July 1st. The cost of a pork chop is up more than 3 percent, and coffee is up more than 2 percent.

(Ew.)

(La Bankhead is better remembered in 2021 as a celebrity/personality than as an actual actress -- but in her time and in her place, she was the real deal. One of my regrets is that I'll never have a chance to see her on stage in all her glory.)

The Eagle Editorialist says it's high time something was done about building a new Public Library branch downtown. It took forty years to get the Grand Army Plaza branch built and opened, so there's no time like the present to get started on a Borough Hall branch to replace the present inadequate old library building on Montague Street.

(Well said.)

(Real friends are the ones you don't feel you have to clean up for.)

(Yahhhhhh, Hig being Hig, it wasn't something he "ate," it was something he drank.)

The eleventh anniversary of the first night baseball game ever played in the state of New York will be observed tomorrow night at Dexter Park, where, on July 23, 1930, the Bushwicks turned on the arcs for the first time to play the now-disbanded Springfields club. Tomorrow night, the high-riding Kansas City Monarchs, Negro American League champions four times in the past seven years, will furnish the opposition. The Bushwicks will also mark the occasion by donning brand-new uniforms, complete with "crash proof helmets."

The National Broadcasting Company will inaugurate its new Overseas Listening Post at Bellmore, Long Island, with a dedicatory broadcast to be heard tomorrow at 1pm over WJZ. The new relay center, which intercepts foreign shortwave broadcasts from all over the world and relays them to NBC's Radio City headquarters 35 miles away, will serve as the new stateside hub of the network's overseas news-gathering efforts.

(Someday, kid, you'll get the message.)

(Poor Leonard Weisberg. There goes his brand-new cab.)

(Demanding to see the manager, what else?)

("An' in the meanwhile I'm gonna stay here an' BEAT UP THE BALD GUY! YEAH! YOU HEAR THAT? I MAY BE FAT, BUT YOU ARE BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD! YAAAAAAAH!")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

We've had some horrific crime stories, but this one has to rank as one of the worst.

This was a very important, very provocative book in 1941, and it's still worth reading today -- it really peels back the underlying motives of a lot of those in the isolationist movement. And these are no radicals posting the ad: Raymond Clapper is a middle-of-the-road radio commentator and columnist, John Kieran is a sports columnist for the New York Times, Albert Lasker is the president of the Lord & Thomas advertising agency, Carl Van Doren is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Matthew Woll is a conservative labor leader in the AFL, and you all know Mr. Willkie. And, of course, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow is Charles Lindbergh's mother-in-law.

"Get Your Scrap In The Scrap!"

The hokey beard is bad enough, but I can't wait to see what kind of disguise they've got planned for poor Punjab.

Actually, the pompadour's pretty slick.

Of course you realize this means war.

THUGS IN DRAG! THUGS IN DRAG!

Eat up kid, don't you wanna be a big strong man like your Uncle Walt?

"Y?" Certainly not "Yale." Or Yeshiva.

If Kayo doesn't like you, you'll know it.

 

[Fading Fast]

...A prominent gambler-bookmaker often the target of criticism by Mayor LaGuardia has been arrested and charged with attempting to kill a millionaire stockbroker at a party in New Jersey last month. Frank A. Erickson was arrested following a complaint from the alleged victim, 60-year-old Milton Untermeyer, who charged that Erickson stabbed him during the party at Untermeyer's home in Butler, N. J. Untermeyer told police that Erickson had "made an uncomplimentary remark" about one of the women at the party, and an argument between the two men ensued, following which, Untermeyer charged, Erickson produced a knife and stabbed him in the cheek and scalp, and also broke his jaw. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine released a statement today that the matter was brought to the personal attention of New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz by the Mayor, who has campaigned repeatedly to drive Erickson, a Queens resident whom the Mayor has a characterized a "a cheap tinhorn," out of the city. Two women who were also at the party have been arrested on charges that they acted as accessories after the fact by failing to report the incident to police....

What real life would look like if it riffed on a "Dick Tracy" storyline.

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(First Pacific map we've seen. Clip and Save.)...

I checked the key several times, but I can't find any reference to Hu Shee's whereabouts. Why go through all the trouble of making a detailed map and then leave out the one piece of information we all care about?

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(La Bankhead is better remembered in 2021 as a celebrity/personality than as an actual actress -- but in her time and in her place, she was the real deal. One of my regrets is that I'll never have a chance to see her on stage in all her glory.)...

As with many of that era (possibly, none more than Norma Shearer), you see hints of her stage-actress roots in her movie performances.

...[ (Someday, kid, you'll get the message.)...

What we really learned today is that Sue has a chance at getting a job at "Harold Teen" or even "Gasoline Alley," but her agent won't even be able to get her an interview at "Terry and the Pirates" or, even, "Mary Worth."

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(Poor Leonard Weisberg. There goes his brand-new cab.)...

Good connect, Lizzie.

... (Demanding to see the manager, what else?)...

I'm guessing she's getting Bishop's to pull its advertising from Tom's paper, which is where the paper's real revenue comes from. The subscription money helps (and brings in ad money), but newspapers (back then) survived on advertising dollars from large accounts and classifieds.

... ("An' in the meanwhile I'm gonna stay here an' BEAT UP THE BALD GUY! YEAH! YOU HEAR THAT? I MAY BE FAT, BUT YOU ARE BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD! YAAAAAAAH!")

Snif.

... We've had some horrific crime stories, but this one has to rank as one of the worst.....

It's awful, worse than the murder-church-furnace one.

Separately, had to note this name: Mrs. Joan Kaufman Biddle Wintersteen Polk-Polk. I get that it's a bit of Page Four creation, but still.

.... Actually, the pompadour's pretty slick.....

It makes no sense, but it is very funny that there is a second hair sprouting.

 

[Harp]

Burma reminds the late actress Gloria Grahame; whom may have inspired Caniff, a woman who
dealt straight talk, publicly eschewed lingerie for sleeping raw, bedded her fourteen year old step son-lucky boy.
I believe she might even have later married the kid. She out cougared Cher. But at least she seemed
a woman who knew her own mind, for what said sentiment is worth considering all apparent abberrance in her life. A cat fight with Raven seems all but certain, the latter's disclaim of Hennick an obvious lie. Raven is a
ledge crawler, walking a heartstring for a man who just might leap at a chance with Burma after the jilt.
And Raven is the one who is seemingly fated to be hurt.

 

[Harp]

I checked the key several times, but I can't find any reference to Hu Shee's whereabouts. Why go through all the trouble of making a detailed map and then leave out the one piece of information we all care about?

Hu Shee is in Phu Tinh Ghia, North Vietnam. Two hundred twenty some miles north of the DMZ,
forty clicks west of the South China Sea. A nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to die there.
I had thought she was hiding out in Macau dealing pai gow poker at the Macau Palace, a floating casino.
But in 1937 China, it was strictly draw or stud.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nazi sources acknowledged tonight that German advances upon Leningrad and Moscow have "somewhat slowed down" due to terrific battles southwest of Novgorod and around Smolensk. It was reported that when Nazi Panzer forces swept beyond Smolensk on the highway to Moscow, they left behind "very large Russian forces" at the rear, the presence of which forces German Panzer and supply columns to take a wide detour around the city before reaching the advance units moving on Moscow. While the German High Command continues to claim that Smolensk surrendered last week, Soviet communiques insist that the city is still in Russian hands, and the need for such a "detour" would seem to confirm the Soviet statements.

The second German air raid on Moscow within the past 24 hours again rained high explosive and incendiary bombs on the Soviet capital, but Russian authorities say that, while there were "a few" casualties, there was no significant damage, with fires quickly extinguished by professional and volunteer firefighters and civil defense workers.

In London, authoritative sources believe that the "great German offensive against Russia has spent its force" in the face of unrelenting Soviet resistance, with informants stating that the Red Army is holding back the Nazi thrust everywhere except a few minor advances in the Smolensk-Moscow and Kiev sectors.

Efforts by selectees to start a nationwide petition drive opposing the extension of their military service beyond the one year originally authorized were condemned today by the Army Chief of Staff as "sabotage." General George C. Marshall, testifying today before the House Military Affairs Committee, acknowledged that he has received 341 letters from selectees protesting the proposed extension of service, but he also noted that most of them are marked by "evidence of collusion, duplication of phraseology, German signatures, and expressions of Bundist and Christian Front attitudes." The first wave of selectees under the 1940 Conscription Law are due to be sent home in September.

"Hennnnry! Hennnnry Aldrich!" has heard the call, and this time it isn't from his mother -- it's from his Uncle Sam. Radio and stage actor Ezra Stone of 148 Columbia Heights has received his greeting from Selective Service and has reported to Camp Yaphank for basic training. "The Aldrich Family" is presently off the air for the summer, and is due to resume broadcasting at the end of August, but it is unclear at this time if the 24-year-old actor will be allowed a Thursday-night pass to take up his role again.

Another prominent Brooklyn resident called to service this week is the principal of Erasmus Hall High School. Dr. John F. McNeill, who flew for the Army Air Corps during the last war received notice this week that he is being activated from the reserve officers list. Dr. McNeill, who is presently vacationing with his family in Maine, will be allowed to defer reporting until the fall, allowing him to finish preparations for the incoming class at the Flatbush high school, following a personal request for such deferrment by New York City Superintendent of Schools Dr. Harold G. Campbell.

Bookmaker Frank Erickson, wanted in the stabbing of a New Jersey millionaire, is expected to be in the hands of the Morristown prosecutor by the end of today. Reports from New Jersey state that Erickson was located by detectives today and is being brought in for interrogation. The Queens-based gambler, condemned by Mayor LaGuardia as a "cheap tinhorn punk," was accused yesterday in the stabbing of stockbroker Milton Untermeyer at a party earlier this month.

An unemployed Crown Heights man is in custody on charges of illegal possession of weapons and silencers after he was arrested for chasing his wife and two children around their apartment with a rifle and fixed bayonet. 48-year-old Frank Devigne of 707 St. John's Place had been drinking heavily before grabbing his rifle and vowing to give his family "a dose of the cold steel." Police summoned to the apartment found a cache of two rifles, nine revolvers, four bayonets, six silencers, and over a thousand rounds of 22 and 45-caliber ammunition. Devigne acknowledged that he had no permits for the weapons. "I didn't think I needed one," he told police, adding that he had inherited most of the collection from his late father. One of the rifles was an 1861 Army gun, while the other appeared to date from the time of the Indian Wars.

A 20-year-old Puerto Rican youth scrambled to the roof of a Boerum Hill tenement building after an argument with a woman over a game of cards that ended in a stabbing -- and attempted to leap four stories to his death. But a police net foiled that plan, and Freddie McDaniel is now in custody, charged with slashing Mrs. Mary Salvago with a razor blade. Police were called to the scene of the incident at 322 Atlantic Avenue where they found the youth already clambering to the rooftop. As a crowd of excited spectators gathered in the street and on nearby fire escapes to watch, the young man backed to the edge of the building and threatened to jump. As the rooftop confrontation continued, other officers deployed a net in the street below, and when McDaniel made good his threat, they were ready for him, quickly enmeshing the youth in the net and placing him under arrest.

Attorneys for the wife of William Guggenheim, Manhattan millionaire who left his entire estate to four Broadway showgirls, will attempt to break the will. Under the terms of the document made public yesterday, the late philanthropist ordered his entire estate divided among the four chorines, including "Miss America 1929" Lilyan Andrus, and cut off his widow without a cent. His son William Jr. was also disinherited. One of the four beneficiaries, Miss Mildred Borst, was employed as Mr. Guggenheim's secretary, a job which she says she was given after he met her while she was appearing in the show "Ballyhoo of 1932." "I was reading the Literary Digest backstage," she recalls, "and that caught his eye." In addition to his philanthropic work, the late Mr. Guggenheim wrote the lyrics to the popular song "You're A Glamour Girl."

Showgirls in Italy, meanwhile, have been ordered by the Fascist Government to stop "yoo-hooing" soldiers. An edict published in the official Fascist Party newspaper declared that stage sketches in which dancers frolicked in scanty imitation Army uniforms "are in bad taste," and that dance numbers or comedy routines parodying the armed forces, or featuring the military goose-step are therefore prohibited.

(He's fishing, but she's not biting.)

("Laryngitis in Rain?" Maybe she should have used an umbrella. Miss Ulric was a very big deal on the stage in the teens and twenties, as one of the original "vamps," and it must've been sad to see her croaking out Maugham on a stage in Flatbush. Sometimes they just don't know when to quit.)

Brooklyn city councilman Joseph Sharkey, the leader of the Council's Democratic majority, today accused municipal radio station WNYC of being "a Fusion medicine show." Councilman Sharkey charged that the $125,000 per year in city funds used to operate the station is being used to disseminate "political propaganda" on behalf of the City Fusion Party in its broadcasts of the utterances of Mayor LaGuardia. Mr. Sharkey charged that the station's microphones "are at the Mayor's beck and call 24 hours a day," and "woe betide the WNYC yes-men if a mike is not at hand and time not available whenever the Mayor wants to backslap his administration." The Councilman criticized the general run of the station's programming, but reserved his greatest ire for the Mayor himself, stating that he can forgive the station "its off-key symphonies, its Communist travelogues, his 'New York Advancing' comic operas, and his yes-men commissioners trying to keep up with the Mayor like a bunch of Keystone Kops. What I can't stand much longer is WNYC's constant interruptions for the name of the program's sponsor, 'Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of the City of New York.' It's the most overworked commercial on the air today!" Mr. Sharkey urged the City Council to take action to "limit the station's activities."

(Five kids, a full time job, and she's in her early thirties. Hope she makes it to forty.)

(Don't worry, maybe she's got a husband in every port.)

(WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TAKE BUCKY WALTERS FOR A RIDE?)

(Get wise to yourself, kid. Superhero-love-interest is a dead end job. Why do you think Hedy quit?)

(If this turns into a George-and-Oakdale jailbreak story, I for one will be highly satisfied.)

(Old Man Gribble better watch it, because Connie's gunning for him next. All part of the master plan.)

(She'll survive, but she'll wake up thinking she's a cab driver. YOU KNOW HOW THAT IS.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Gee I wonder what'll be on Page Fo.....ah. Never mind.

"Against White House wishes..." Tammany is as Tammany does.

There's a new world coming.

Hey, maybe they'll run into Bull Moose and Chester. Welcome to the News Syndicate Company Extended Universe!

"Duhh, not yet Boss, my seams is crooked..."

Nah, it takes at least three hairs to get a good combover.

Raven's such an ickie.

"And as long as we've got all this hay..."

Too bad for Veronica the Literary Digest's out of business.

Emmy clearly wasn't paying attention in her CPR class. I took that course and I don't remember anything about pumping the legs.

 

[Fading Fast]

...

A 20-year-old Puerto Rican youth scrambled to the roof of a Boerum Hill tenement building after an argument with a woman over a game of cards that ended in a stabbing -- and attempted to leap four stories to his death. But a police net foiled that plan, and Freddie McDaniel is now in custody, charged with slashing Mrs. Mary Salvago with a razor blade. Police were called to the scene of the incident at 322 Atlantic Avenue where they found the youth already clambering to the rooftop. As a crowd of excited spectators gathered in the street and on nearby fire escapes to watch, the young man backed to the edge of the building and threatened to jump. As the rooftop confrontation continued, other officers deployed a net in the street below, and when McDaniel made good his threat, they were ready for him, quickly enmeshing the youth in the net and placing him under arrest....

Wow, I've seen the net thing used in movies from the era, but what are the odds of it actually working in real life.

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(Five kids, a full time job, and she's in her early thirties. Hope she makes it to forty.)...

She might not share your sentiment.

... (Old Man Gribble better watch it, because Connie's gunning for him next. All part of the master plan.)...

If Connie does well here, I can see her jumping to "Terry and the Pirates." A good test would be for her to lock horns with Leona. If she can't handle Ms. Stockpool, Raven and Burma will have her for lunch.

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(She'll survive, but she'll wake up thinking she's a cab driver. YOU KNOW HOW THAT IS.)

If that happens, then I guess Wolf is up next as no one is making Irwin top dog.

I heard they offered the role to Nick Gatt, but he turned them down without even hearing the compensation package as being a secret operative for "Dan Dunn" is just too far of a step down for him.

... Raven's such an ickie.....

It's not the same divide as Mary Ann and Ginger, but it's the same concept of two different type of women (and living in the same hut).

... Too bad for Veronica the Literary Digest's out of business.....

Playing the part of Veronica will be the original Sweater Girl herself.

 

[Harp]

The Guggenheim will is headed for probate. The shills are devoid/divest standing and will be shucked.
In legalspeakze: Double D cups. Sonufabitch should have kicked the can intestate.

I occasionally enjoy a pipe with bourbon but never smoked cigarettes. Chesterfields three-to-a-pak
came with C-rations, parceled out as trade bait for a dessicated date nut roll.
Or, on one notably rare occasion, a captured Playboy centerfold taken off a Charlie captive.
(When circumstance no seez a woman since forever dog eared, dirty, torn centerfolds are accorded x-cept value)

 

[Harp]

If Connie does well here, I can see her jumping to "Terry and the Pirates." A good test would be for her to lock horns with Leona. If she can't handle Ms. Stockpool, Raven and Burma will have her for lunch.


It's not the same divide as Mary Ann and Ginger, but it's the same concept of two different type of women (and living in the same hut).

Playing the part of Veronica will be the original Sweater Girl herself.
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Connie is a looker. Can't see any plausible China road route for her. Now Terry definitely needs
to either hook up with General Claire Chennault and his American Volunteer group, take some flying
lessons, and start fighting this war, or get back to the USA, American chow,
and the New York Times.
(Chennault was quite the pragmatist. Ordered a bordello
established for his men, with proper medical staff to attend prophylaxis issue therein.
The Brass, of course, after scuttlebutt fot around to rumor and invariable innuendo, decided
to disestablish said house of joy; so syphillis, gonorreha and all such sins could flourish.)
__________

I always favored Mary Ann but loved Ginger. Early photos of Tina Louise are stunning for her
beauty. To avail Sapphic poetic verse: "The rose is the eye of the flowers; the lightning of beauty."
Ms Louise's beauty struck lightning.
___________

As you know Artie Shaw was married to Lana Turner, enlisted in the Marines I believe before
Admiral Halsey pulled him out to scare a band up for morale purpose. His wartime gang toured the South Pacific for eighteen months or so, until the band started to become a bit unglued.
Shaw, street wise and self educated was inside an officer latrine deep in the South Pacific theatre
when a smart ass officer-I seem to recall a liet. commander or higher approached him with an
outreach arm to shake hands, remarking that he wanted to shake the hand of a man whose hand
caressed Lana Turner's bosum. Shaw replied with a counter offer of another part of his body
that had intimate familiarity with her...

 

[Fading Fast]

Connie is a looker. Can't see any plausible China road route for her. Now Terry definitely needs
to either hook up with General Claire Chennault and his American Volunteer group, take some flying
lessons, and start fighting this war, or get back to the USA, American chow,
and the New York Times.
(Chennault was quite the pragmatist. Ordered a bordello
established for his men, with proper medical staff to attend prophylaxis issue therein.
The Brass, of course, after scuttlebutt fot around to rumor and invariable innuendo, decided
to disestablish said house of joy; so syphillis, gonorreha and all such sins could flourish.)
__________

I always favored Mary Ann but loved Ginger. Early photos of Tina Louise are stunning for her
beauty. To avail Sapphic poetic verse: "The rose is the eye of the flowers; the lightning of beauty."
Ms Louise's beauty struck lightning.
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As you know Artie Shaw was married to Lana Turner, enlisted in the Marines I believe before
Admiral Halsey pulled him out to scare a band up for morale purpose. His wartime gang toured the South Pacific for eighteen months or so, until the band started to become a bit unglued.
Shaw, street wise and self educated was inside an officer latrine deep in the South Pacific theatre
when a smart ass officer-I seem to recall a liet. commander or higher approached him with an
outreach arm to shake hands, remarking that he wanted to shake the hand of a man whose hand
caressed Lana Turner's bosum. Shaw replied with a counter offer of another part of his body
that had intimate familiarity with her...

If true, Shaw belongs in the Sexual Retort Hall of Fame along with Ava Gardner's comment about Frank Sinatra's, umm, equipment.

Google: "ava gardner frank sinatra 10 pounds" (it's rude for those who prefer not to read it).

 

[LizzieMaine]

Shaw never met anyone in any line of endeavor that he wasn't ready to pop off to for any reason or no reason. His books make for very interesting and exhausting reading whether you're interested in his music, his philosophy, or his extracurricular activities, all of which he discusses in great detail.

(I still remember this Atlantic Monthly profile.)

 

[Harp]

If true, Shaw belongs in the Sexual Retort Hall of Fame along with Ava Gardner's comment about Frank Sinatra's, umm, equipment.

Google: "ava gardner frank sinatra 10 pounds" (it's rude for those who prefer not to read it).

Mario Puzo captured Ava-and Frank's relationship with her-to a stunning extent.

After she skinny dipped in Hemingway's swimming pool he declared he would never change the pool water.

 

[Fading Fast]

Mario Puzo captured Ava-and Frank's relationship with her-to a stunning extent.

After she skinny dipped in Hemingway's swimming pool he declared he would never change the pool water.

Today, Ava Garden's comment is no big deal as ruder things are said every second on social media, but in her day, that was one bold and rude comment for a star to make.

 

[Harp]

Today, Ava Garden's comment is no big deal as ruder things are said every second on social media, but in her day, that was one bold and rude comment for a star to make.

Ava always gave as good as she got and her brash quip silenced a jerk reporter.
Loved her in Showboat and as mentioned elsewhere on this forum she gave Richard Burton a more
than merely adequate match in Night of The Iguana; much more than Liz ever did 'cept perhaps
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?