The Era -- Day By Day

[Harp]

Last week's literary Lothario and scam artist Louis Reycroft with his Saturday Review of Literature lure article
hooked me by his audacity and the gulllibility of his female prey. A lonely hearts thief is the lowest of the low.

In college, assigned paper writ for a painting displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, I discovered
the museum an excellent place to meet girls. I even joined the Institute's library so I could do research
there and prowl around afterward; dumbass that I was, flat-ass broke Gi Bill college student talking to gals
hailing the Gold Coast, Lake Forest, Kennilworth as if I could invite any of them to lunch or dinner.
Me Irish charm went far but when I explained the financial side of my life I soon discovered a pauper
is not a prince, though not necessarily a simple pawn either, so I decided to play the cards a bit.
Parental objection crashed my house of cards, long story short. But I did later meet an older lady
of sufficient means so a pauper can become a prince. Or, a boy toy. Semantics.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's not a male or female thing, but in many marriages one spouse dominates and things work better when everyone figures that out. Joe has yet to fully figure out that, in most cases, agreeing with Sally is the way to make their marriage work. It's not a matter of right or wrong, it just is. If Joe wants to stay in the marriage and not fight all the time, he'll just have to be the one to give on a lot of the issues.

Joe, gawdluvvim, is a kind-hearted, rather happy-go-lucky soul with a healthy respect for the forces of nature. Sally is a bundle of frustrations trying to escape the dark shadow that, she imagines, her Pigtown pedigree casts upon her life. She could only live with a Joe, and I think Joe, for his part, understands and accepts that. He does wish, though, that she had never run into Coscarart that time in the subway.

I'm looking forward to seeing exactly how this spy ring in Maspeth actually worked, and what information they gathered. And how an eighteen-year-old girl became its mastermind. Seems like Dunn ought to be working on that.

I hope there's also some followup on the Army's shabby CYA response to this plane crash. There probably won't be, given the times, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't have been.

Gee, whatever became of Bobby Riggs, anyway?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Germany today accused President Roosevelt of "launching the United States on a course of shooting incidents" in a deliberate attempt to provoke war between the two powers, and while admitting that a Nazi U-Boat did in fact attack the U. S. S. Greer in the North Atlantic last week, the official propaganda agency of the German government, quoted by the DNB news agency, stated that it did so "only after the Greer attacked first."

In Washington, meanwhile, the U. S. Navy responded to the German accusation by reiterating its earlier statement that the submarine attacked the Greer, and then the Greer launched a counter-attack. It was added that no further statement on the matter will be made except by President Roosevelt himself.

The head of the Senate Military Affairs Committee warned yesterday that "the United States is reaching its limit" in the wake of the Greer incident. Senator Tom Connolly (D-Texas) declared that the U. S. "will not long tolerate" such attacks on its ships or its citiziens. But Senator Robert Reynolds (D-N. C.), an outspoken critic of the Roosevelt Administration's foreign policy, stated that he is relieved that the American public "have not become excited as a result of the incident."

President Roosevelt will broadcast tomorrow night from his home in Hyde Park, New York, with a speech said to be "of world wide importance." Announcement of the broadcast caught newsmen by surprise, as there had been no previous hint of such an address. It is anticipated that the speech may be intended as a response to Germany's admission of responsibility in the Greer incident. The speech will be heard Monday night over the networks of NBC, CBS, and Mutual, from 10 to 10:15 pm EDST. It will also be relayed to the world by short-wave, and translated into fourteen languages.

The Red Army today is reported to be hurling saw-toothed attacks smashing three Nazi divisions near Kiev, to have driven back a German spearhead, and to have blasted two of eight crack Luftwaffe units attacking Leningrad. Soviet reports from a dozen points along the battlefront state that Red Army ground forces along with strong air support are moving into a wide-scale counterattack against German forces.

In Berlin, all Jews over the age of 6 were ordered today by the Gestapo to wear a large yellow star with the word "Jew" printed across it in black lettering. The order specifies that the star must be "worn visibly" at all times, and must be "firmly sewed to the left breast of clothing." The order issued by secret police chief Reinhard Heydrich also declared that no Jews will be permitted to leave the area in which they reside without special permission of the police, and that no Jew may wear "any order or decoration." The decree covers the entire German Reich, along with the protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia.

In the face of heated objections from Kings County Republicans and their legal battery, Justice Edwin L. Garvin ruled yesterday that there are sufficient legal petition signatures to place the name of Democratic Borough President John Cashmore on the GOP primary ballot. After striking all questionable names from the petitions, Judge Garvin ruled that the remaining 3240 names exceeded by 740 the number required by law to secure a position on the ballot. The ruling is certain to be challenged in Appellate Court by the county Republican organization on Monday.

School opens across Brooklyn tomorrow, as pupils return to the old grind after weeks of relaxation. But they should remember that their plight is shared by more than a million other students in more than 700 elementary, vocational, junior, and senior high schools across the five boroughs. The estimate of total school enrollment in New York City is down more than 40,000 from last year, the result of declining births and immigration.

("Boy!" exults Joe. "Ainniss sump'n! Ain' a empty seat inna house! Looka t'em people settin' onnem roofs ova on' Stodda'd Place! Wonna if y'c'n see any'ting f'm t'at fah? Alleese people! HEY TERRY YA BUM YA! IS BROOKLYN STILL INNA LEAGUE?" Sally is uncharacteristically quiet, and seems to be gulping for breath. "HEY! HUBBELL! OLD MAN!!! YA PANTS IS DROOPIN, OLD MAAAAAAAAN!!!" "Hey," yelps Sally. "Watchit! Ya spilt ya beeah!!!" "Huh? asks Joe. "I ain' got no beeah." "Wellenn howcum I'm all wet? Ya spilt SUMP'IN!" "I din'spill nuttin'! Hones'!" "Well lookit! It's like I'm sittin in watah a'sump'n! Like -- I'm -- sittin' -- in....JOE! I'M SITTIN' IN WATAH!" "AWRIGHT WHITELOW! ASSAWAY TA T'ROW 'EM!" "JOE!!!!!! I'M SITTIN' IN WATAH!!!! JOE!!!!!" "What, what, ya sittin' in watah? OH. YA SITTIN' IN WATAH?" "Joe, i t'ink it's time." "BUT T'GAME AIN'EVEN STA'TED!" "JOE, IT'S TIME! HEY, USHA!!! USHA! OVA HEAH!" "It's TIME? IT'S TIME!! HEY USHA!!! HEY HILDA! RING YA BELL! HEY USHA!!!! USHA!!! ANYBUDDY! IT'S TIME!!!!!")

War Department officials yesterday described as "most lamentable" the deaths of three Long Island children in the crash of an Army training plane last week in East Hempstead, but the both the War Department and Army have declined comment on a written protest sent to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt by the mother of one of the deceased youngsters. War Department officials stated that it was "official procedure" to obtain liability waivers against future suits for property damage in such incidents, responding to a complaint by Mrs. I. Arthur Kramer that the only contact she had from the Army over the death of her child was a visit from a junior officer requesting that she sign such a waiver. The War Department also declined to comment on Mrs. Kramer's statement that the Army sent no flowers to her child's funeral, other than to note that such matters are left to the personal discretion of the officers involved.

Dr. Brady goes on the warpath against "leading nose and throat specialists" who promote radical tonsillectomy "by the old Spanish method" when really all that's needed is treatment of the infected portion by diathermy. Tonsils, he declares, should not be removed in their entirety except in cases of cancer. "There is no excuse for the butchery which too many small time leading nose and throat specialists inflict on their patients."

(I had a radical tonsillectomy at age four, which left me with an altered voice and the ability to make it do strange tricks, which, in turn, enabled me to earn at least a bare living for much of my adult life. SO THERE.)

(In a windowless turquoise-walled first aid room under the grandstand, Sally lies on a table while a nurse reassures her that the ambulance is on its way. "Hey!" declares Joe. "'J'a see 'tat door when t'ey brung us in heah? DODGAS CLUB ROOM it says onna door! Right acrost f'm heah. Imaginnat! Hey, izzey got a radio in heah? Game gonna sta't pretty soon! HEY! Looka t'at! Comin' outa t' club room -- numba t'ree! Ya know who t'at is? Numba t'ree?" "Sir, either go outside or take a chair, but either way please close the door," commands the nurse. Joe looks at Sally, and Sally, her eyes wide and her face flushed, looks at Joe. And Joe, quietly, closes the door and takes a chair.)

The Football Dodgers sneak into the Ebbets Field spotlight Tuesday night as they host the Chicago Bears in a pre-season contest that will mark the Chicago club's only metropolitan appearance of 1941. Coach Jock Sutherland will have only 17 returning veterans on his 41-man roster, and it's strongly hinted that some of those won't make it to the regular season. Originally Jock hoped to have nearly 70 men in training camp, but Uncle Sam took care of the first cut, with 22 players now in khaki and another 5 have given up football for defense jobs.

(At least she got the ballots in.)

(Pro football is only the second sport after baseball to move to a commissioner form of government, and Mr. Layden is the first person to hold the job. Little does he realize what the future holds in store.)

Old Timer Mrs. Carl Schroeder now lives in Hampden, Massachusetts, but her heart remains in Williamsburg, where she remembers those grand old days when she was little Nettie Kunkel sitting on a stool at Kestler's Candy Store on Grand Street. "What great big sodas for a nickel! I used to send mine back and say it was too sweet and get it refilled for the same nickel! That used to get Nick Kestler angry!"

Actor-writer Jimmy Gleason can't remember his theatrical debut -- which is understandable, since it happened when he was only two months old. And he hasn't stopped since, in a career encompassing the stage, the screen, vaudeville, and radio. Somewhere along the line he found time to serve in the Spanish-American War, and again in the World War, but otherwise he's spent his entire life in show business. His play "Is Zat So?" was a smash hit in 1925 and cemented for all time his persona as the fast-talking New York character who knows what it's all about. You'll see him once more in that role in Columbia's "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," now showing at the Fox Brooklyn.

("Going straight?" AS A REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER????)

(Don't worry, he'll soon die of radium poisoning.)

(I was wondering why we hadn't seen Fat Hermann here in a while. Looks like he's been on a diet.)

(Nobody respects Bill, not even the narration box. And Wolf is getting pretty sick of his job too. "Grrrrr." Maybe he and Sandy can team up.)

(Aw c'mon. Expecting Jo not to rake up the past is like expecting the sun not to rise.)

(Yeah, that's how it goes with appeasers.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Nice to see that Orator Southard has been suspended as a deputy sheriff "in the interests of departmental discipline." At least that's something.

Aw, c'mon. They love "Boogie Woogie Garbage Man" down at Roseland.

I imagine a garbage man sees a lot of things, but wouldn't random decomposing cow hides in an alley raise some questions?

Um, Mr. Mosley, I realize you work a few weeks ahead, but just the same, a storyline about a dopey and bumbling Army pilot is probably not in the best of taste just now. Can't we go back to the piranhas?

A "wild man?" I don't think so. This guy seems just mildly annoyed.

The look on poor Willie's face in Panel Two as he prepares to go thru this routine yet again suggest that he, too, is considering career options. Maybe he could team up with Captain Blaze.

And so ends our summer storyline. Next week, join us as Shadow hooks up with Veronica.

And just like that, Judy maps out her future career.

Say what you will about Raven, but the woman is made of solid steel.

Jeez, Punj, a time like this and you didn't bring the rug?

 

[Fading Fast]

...
("Boy!" exults Joe. "Ainniss sump'n! Ain' a empty seat inna house! Looka t'em people settin' onnem roofs ova on' Stodda'd Place! Wonna if y'c'n see any'ting f'm t'at fah? Alleese people! HEY TERRY YA BUM YA! IS BROOKLYN STILL INNA LEAGUE?" Sally is uncharacteristically quiet, and seems to be gulping for breath. "HEY! HUBBELL! OLD MAN!!! YA PANTS IS DROOPIN, OLD MAAAAAAAAN!!!" "Hey," yelps Sally. "Watchit! Ya spilt ya beeah!!!" "Huh? asks Joe. "I ain' got no beeah." "Wellenn howcum I'm all wet? Ya spilt SUMP'IN!" "I din'spill nuttin'! Hones'!" "Well lookit! It's like I'm sittin in watah a'sump'n! Like -- I'm -- sittin' -- in....JOE! I'M SITTIN' IN WATAH!" "AWRIGHT WHITELOW! ASSAWAY TA T'ROW 'EM!" "JOE!!!!!! I'M SITTIN' IN WATAH!!!! JOE!!!!!" "What, what, ya sittin' in watah? OH. YA SITTIN' IN WATAH?" "Joe, i t'ink it's time." "BUT T'GAME AIN'EVEN STA'TED!" "JOE, IT'S TIME! HEY, USHA!!! USHA! OVA HEAH!" "It's TIME? IT'S TIME!! HEY USHA!!! HEY HILDA! RING YA BELL! HEY USHA!!!! USHA!!! ANYBUDDY! IT'S TIME!!!!!")...

Oh come on! That is just not fair. Would it be wrong of Joe to meet her at the hospital after the game? These things usually take some time anyway.

...Dr. Brady goes on the warpath against "leading nose and throat specialists" who promote radical tonsillectomy "by the old Spanish method" when really all that's needed is treatment of the infected portion by diathermy. Tonsils, he declares, should not be removed in their entirety except in cases of cancer. "There is no excuse for the butchery which too many small time leading nose and throat specialists inflict on their patients."...

What? No pamphlet?

... View attachment 359837 (In a windowless turquoise-walled first aid room under the grandstand, Sally lies on a table while a nurse reassures her that the ambulance is on its way. "Hey!" declares Joe. "'J'a see 'tat door when t'ey brung us in heah? DODGAS CLUB ROOM it says onna door! Right acrost f'm heah. Imaginnat! Hey, izzey got a radio in heah? Game gonna sta't pretty soon! HEY! Looka t'at! Comin' outa t' club room -- numba t'ree! Ya know who t'at is? Numba t'ree?" "Sir, either go outside or take a chair, but either way please close the door," commands the nurse. Joe looks at Sally, and Sally, her eyes wide and her face flushed, looks at Joe. And Joe, quietly, closes the door and takes a chair.)...

Sigh.

...Actor-writer Jimmy Gleason can't remember his theatrical debut -- which is understandable, since it happened when he was only two months old. And he hasn't stopped since, in a career encompassing the stage, the screen, vaudeville, and radio. Somewhere along the line he found time to serve in the Spanish-American War, and again in the World War, but otherwise he's spent his entire life in show business. His play "Is Zat So?" was a smash hit in 1925 and cemented for all time his persona as the fast-talking New York character who knows what it's all about. You'll see him once more in that role in Columbia's "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," now showing at the Fox Brooklyn...

A talented actor who adds something to every movie he's in.

...
(Don't worry, he'll soon die of radium poisoning.)...

No kidding.

What happened to the wallet?

Stamm's exposition is horribly awkward and transparent.

...
(I was wondering why we hadn't seen Fat Hermann here in a while. Looks like he's been on a diet.)...

Maybe he lost weight going in and out of Edison's house too many times. That is an obnoxious thing Edison did.

... (Nobody respects Bill, not even the narration box. And Wolf is getting pretty sick of his job too. "Grrrrr." Maybe he and Sandy can team up.)...

Doesn't "Dan Dunn" usually continue with its regular storyline on Sundays?

...
I imagine a garbage man sees a lot of things, but wouldn't random decomposing cow hides in an alley raise some questions?...

He still doesn't understand that you don't "negotiate" with gangsters this way.

...[ And so ends our summer storyline. Next week, join us as Shadow hooks up with Veronica....?

Credit to Ed for, effectively, milking one joke for an entire summer.

Heck, Veronica's gotta do something while waiting for Gramps to return.

... Jeez, Punj, a time like this and you didn't bring the rug?

It will pass in time, but for now, I'm just happy we aren't singing the praises of Bill Slagg. That was awful.

I think Sandy's getting a bit jealous of all the action Wolf's been getting lately. Sandy's barking into the phone right now and, I'm just sayin', I wouldn't want to be Sandy's agent today: "You get fifteen percent for doing what exactly!"

 

[Harp]

Judas tosses around that possessive pronoun like a leprechaun but he's a Burma babe busted flush.
Well bless Bess. and raven's gonna shoot sky king if he keeps sayin that.

 

[Fading Fast]

Judas tosses around that possessive pronoun like a leprechaun but he's a Burma babe busted flush.
Well bless Bess. and raven's gonna shoot sky king if he keeps sayin that.

In the "great minds think alike department," my comment from a couple of days ago:

Raven: "Dude, if we're going to be stuck down here together for some time, just know, if you say 'Bless Bess!' one more time, I'm going to punch you in the face as hard as I can."

 

[LizzieMaine]

Well, remember that the DL cut out Big Stoop's tongue for less. I wonder if Raven has a bayonet?

 

[Harp]

Well, remember that the DL cut out Big Stoop's tongue for less. I wonder if Raven has a bayonet?

Raven's tongue is honed to a razor edge; sufficiently sharp, but wielded for vengeance its keen edge
will inflict a certain cost for her.

 

[LizzieMaine]

America's most prized military secret is now in the hands of the Nazis, according to U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy. In a sensational revelation this morning in Brooklyn Federal Court, Mr. Kennedy testified before Judge Mortimer W. Byers in the trial of sixteen accused German spies that the Nazis have gained the secret of the Norden Bombsight, a device said to be so accurate that it permits a flier 10,000 feet high to drop a missile into a target the size of a flour barrel. Mr. Kennedy's statement came during his testimony concerning the activities of Herman Lang of 74-36 64th Place in Glendale, the only one of the sixteen accused spies from the Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island area. A naturalized citizen, the German-born Lang was formerly employed as a draughtsman and machinist in the shops of the firm of Carl I. Norden, Inc. of Queens, originator and manufacturer of the famous device. Mr. Kennedy stated that Lang visited Germany in 1938 and accused him of carrying the particulars of the bombsight with him on that trip. Mr. Kennedy further charged that Lang, upon his return to the United States and his employment with the Norden firm continued to channel information on developments there to German authorities, and that a total of 10,000 Reichsmarks are on deposit in Lang's name in Germany as payment for his services.

The Nazi High Command today reported in a special communique late today that the "encirclement of Leningrad has been completed." The communique issued from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters on the eastern front asserted that mobile units of the German Army broke thru Russian defense lines along the Neva River, capturing the town of Schlissleburg, thru which run railroad links connecting Leningrad to the rest of Russia. Nazi sources also stated that Finnish troops have advanced down the narrow peninsula between Lake Lagoda and Lake Onega, cutting off access to Leningrad from the east.

A great force of British bombers pounded Berlin last night, engulfing the heart of the German capital in flames and causing extensive damage in what is reported as "the biggest raid of the war." With the city illuminated under the brilliant light of a full moon, hundreds of RAF raiders rained destruction on the seat of the Nazi government, in an attack marking the one-year anniversary of massive German raids on the docks of London. Nazi authorities condemned the raids as "a detestable lout's trick."

Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, who died yesterday at her Hyde Park home at the age of 86. The President has postponed his until Thursday night his scheduled speech said to be "of major importance to the world," and will attend funeral services for Mrs. Roosevelt in Hyde Park tomorrow afternoon at 3 PM. Mrs. Roosevelt had returned home Friday from a stay at the family vacation residence at Campobello, New Brunswick, but fell ill upon her return, and passed away from natural causes, yesterday afternoon at 12:15 PM.

The Brooklyn Republican organization argued this morning in Appellate Court to overturn the ruling of Supreme Court Justice Edwin Garvin that Democratic Borough President John Cashmore be placed on the GOP primary ballot, after presenting a sufficient number of valid petition signatures to earn that position. Attorney Kenneth M. Spence, representing the Kings County Republican Committee argued before the court that all of the petitions presented "were so riddled with forgery, perjury, and fraud that all must be rejected."

(In the maternity ward at Swedish Hospital, three blocks from Ebbets Field, Joe sits at Sally's bedside. "I seen Hilda today," says Joe. "She says she rung t'bell for ya an' ta give ya her best. Hey! Y'know what? T'ey tol' me 'tis is t'same hospital t'ey brung Medwick ta when he got hit las' yeah." "We ain't namin' her 'Ducky,'" sighs an exhausted Sally. "Be a good nickname t'ough," suggests Joe. "A good nickname f' little Leona." "Leonora," corrects Sally, who wants only to sleep. "Leonora," smiles Joe. "I seen her t'is mornin', they' got 'er in one a t'em glass t'ings, onna'tem inkaba'tas, in a room behin' a big winda. T'ey said she was jus' a lit'l oily, a week maybe, an' t'ey needta keep 'er inneah for now. Jus' like ta Woil's Fair, 'cept ya don' hafta pay t'look. I seen her an' I fel' like I oughta say 'Hello Folks!' But I din't. Hey, kid, t'ey won bot' games. Hilda tol' me. T'oiteen ta one inna foist game an' ya boy Petey even got inneah, an' Camilli, he had two homahs, an' Higsby wen' t'whole game an' wonnis twennyit'! Twenny games! Yeah! Try t'at in Philadelphia, huh? Annen t'ey wonna secon', 4 ta t'ree, an' Casey come in an' wonnatwun. Pretty good, huh? Hey Terry, Brooklyn's still inna league, huh? Hey, Sal -- ya lissenin'?" But Sally is fast asleep.)

A 25-year-old Coney Island man who tried to make a big profit reselling tickets to yesteday's Dodger-Giant doubleheader at Ebbets Field was fined $25 for illegal speculation. Appearing in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, 25-year-old David Lauer of 3033 Coney Island Avenue, a shipping court in a millinery house, admitted to purchasing 11 tickets to the doubleheader at $1.10 apiece, and sold all but four of them at $1.50 each on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard near the ballpark. He was trying to sell the remaining tickets when he was interrupted by Patrolman Abraham Cohen, who arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.

The Coney Island season is over, but it isn't officially over until the completion of Coney Island Mardi Gras, which opens tonight under the theme of "V for Victory. Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine will be guests of honor for "Police Safety Night," which inaugurates the week-long festival this evening, and will review a parade featuring units of the department, emergency squads, and the Police Department Band.

(I could really go for a dozen sugared crullers right now, but I'm making do with a Tastykake Lemon Pie. Sigh.)

(Joe wishes something better was playing at the Patio because he's going to be spending a lot of time in the neighborhood. And Mr. Cohn's review of the Soviet films is interesting because I actually have a small trace of Yakut ancestry. Who knew?)

(Cue Mr. Fats Waller, singing "Get Some Cash For Your Trash.")

A monument of black granite was erected today over the spot on the former World's Fair grounds where the Westinghouse Time Capsule was interred in 1938, for recovery five thousand years later. The Parks Department placed the circular monument at the location which was once the courtyard of the Westinghouse exhibit "in order that the civilization of 6938 will have no trouble locating the capsule," which contains a record of modern civilization and a collection of objects used in everyday life sealed within a glass cylinder inside a torpedo-shaped copper-alloy casing specifically engineered to withstand the passage of five millennia. Mayor LaGuardia is scheduled to preside tomorrow over dedication ceremonies for the monument.

(And as Sally sleeps a quiet sleep, Joe at her bedside makes his way thru the Eagle. "Hamlin," he mutters. "Hamlin!")

Babe Ruth predicts the Dodgers will win the pennant. The Sultan of Swat, who takes more interest in his golf game than in diamond doings these days, took time out this morning to tell the Eagle he favors the Flock over the Cardinals as the pennant race hurtles into the final stretch. The Babe is no stranger to Ebbets Field, having pitched here for the Red Sox in the 1916 World Series, and having served as a first base coach for Brooklyn as one of Larry MacPhail's early gate attractions in 1938.

(Pity poor Cecil Travis. Everybody would be talking about him now if it wasn't for that Williams.)

("Jeter?" In New York? Ridiculous.)

("You don't understand, mother. Hartford did the RIGHT THING. Do you know what I mean? THE RIGHT THING? Mother? MOTHER? Oh, for god's sake...")

("Oh Mr. Smoothmoves...")

("Excellenzy!" Wait, is this a rerun? Didn't you used to have a black hood?)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Yep, there's always a crap game...

Bean season already? Where does the time go?

Possibly the most Daily News page layout ever.

OK kid, let's see your yapping mouth get out of this.

"Sorry Charley."

Ohhh Min. Stay spicy.

"Oh, and you should've seen the thing this man had on his head. Looked like he picked up a penwiper by mistake." "Very funny Walt. Look. I've been meaning to talk to you about your own hair..."

All in one truck, huh?

Poor Mush. His careful plan to get Moon off his back once and for all is falling apart.

Nothing beats fried chicken.

 

[Harp]

^My kind of cad. I avail Sapphic poetic verse, A rose whose beauty strikes lightning..
Liz Barrett Browning is good too. Sonnets From The Portugese. Donne is laconic but in a pinch,
a pinch of Donne works. Cupid's day is night. And, the first minute after noon is midnite.
And the gals love it. Even the ones who pretend otherwise.
I was at the laundry last week and this gorgeous gal came in and I told her she was the most
beautiful woman I had seen all day. Caught her by surprise, me politically incorrect Irish charm.

 

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America's most prized military secret is now in the hands of the Nazis, according to U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy. In a sensational revelation this morning in Brooklyn Federal Court, Mr. Kennedy testified before Judge Mortimer W. Byers in the trial of sixteen accused German spies that the Nazis have gained the secret of the Norden Bombsight, a device said to be so accurate that it permits a flier 10,000 feet high to drop a missile into a target the size of a flour barrel. Mr. Kennedy's statement came during his testimony concerning the activities of Herman Lang of 74-36 64th Place in Glendale, the only one of the sixteen accused spies from the Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island area. A naturalized citizen, the German-born Lang was formerly employed as a draughtsman and machinist in the shops of the firm of Carl I. Norden, Inc. of Queens, originator and manufacturer of the famous device. Mr. Kennedy stated that Lang visited Germany in 1938 and accused him of carrying the particulars of the bombsight with him on that trip. Mr. Kennedy further charged that Lang, upon his return to the United States and his employment with the Norden firm continued to channel information on developments there to German authorities, and that a total of 10,000 Reichsmarks are on deposit in Lang's name in Germany as payment for his services....

"America's most prized military secret is now in the hands of the Nazis, according to U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy."

This had to be stunning and deeply infuriating to the public at the time.

...A great force of British bombers pounded Berlin last night, engulfing the heart of the German capital in flames and causing extensive damage in what is reported as "the biggest raid of the war." With the city illuminated under the brilliant light of a full moon, hundreds of RAF raiders rained destruction on the seat of the Nazi government, in an attack marking the one-year anniversary of massive German raids on the docks of London. Nazi authorities condemned the raids as "a detestable lout's trick."...

"Nazi authorities condemned the raids as 'a detestable lout's trick'."

The thing about unhinged propaganda is it's unhinged.

...
(In the maternity ward at Swedish Hospital, three blocks from Ebbets Field, Joe sits at Sally's bedside. "I seen Hilda today," says Joe. "She says she rung t'bell for ya an' ta give ya her best. Hey! Y'know what? T'ey tol' me 'tis is t'same hospital t'ey brung Medwick ta when he got hit las' yeah." "We ain't namin' her 'Ducky,'" sighs an exhausted Sally. "Be a good nickname t'ough," suggests Joe. "A good nickname f' little Leona." "Leonora," corrects Sally, who wants only to sleep. "Leonora," smiles Joe. "I seen her t'is mornin', they' got 'er in one a t'em glass t'ings, onna'tem inkaba'tas, in a room behin' a big winda. T'ey said she was jus' a lit'l oily, a week maybe, an' t'ey needta keep 'er inneah for now. Jus' like ta Woil's Fair, 'cept ya don' hafta pay t'look. I seen her an' I fel' like I oughta say 'Hello Folks!' But I din't. Hey, kid, t'ey won bot' games. Hilda tol' me. T'oiteen ta one inna foist game an' ya boy Petey even got inneah, an' Camilli, he had two homahs, an' Higsby wen' t'whole game an' wonnis twennyit'! Twenny games! Yeah! Try t'at in Philadelphia, huh? Annen t'ey wonna secon', 4 ta t'ree, an' Casey come in an' wonnatwun. Pretty good, huh? Hey Terry, Brooklyn's still inna league, huh? Hey, Sal -- ya lissenin'?" But Sally is fast asleep.)...

They should name her "Dodger," but since they won't do that, how 'bout "Dodger" as a middle name?

...A 25-year-old Coney Island man who tried to make a big profit reselling tickets to yesteday's Dodger-Giant doubleheader at Ebbets Field was fined $25 for illegal speculation. Appearing in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, 25-year-old David Lauer of 3033 Coney Island Avenue, a shipping court in a millinery house, admitted to purchasing 11 tickets to the doubleheader at $1.10 apiece, and sold all but four of them at $1.50 each on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard near the ballpark. He was trying to sell the remaining tickets when he was interrupted by Patrolman Abraham Cohen, who arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct....

Good to know the police shut down the last ticket scalper in Brooklyn.

...
(I could really go for a dozen sugared crullers right now, but I'm making do with a Tastykake Lemon Pie. Sigh.)...

The sugar cruller caught my eye too - don't remember seeing them at H&H before. Nothing wrong with a Taskykake pie, but I lean toward Drakes if I have the choice.

... (Joe wishes something better was playing at the Patio because he's going to be spending a lot of time in the neighborhood. And Mr. Cohn's review of the Soviet films is interesting because I actually have a small trace of Yakut ancestry. Who knew?)...

"Watch on the Rhine" will be turned into an outstanding movie in '43 with Lukas and Bette Davis in the staring roles.

...A monument of black granite was erected today over the spot on the former World's Fair grounds where the Westinghouse Time Capsule was interred in 1938, for recovery five thousand years later. The Parks Department placed the circular monument at the location which was once the courtyard of the Westinghouse exhibit "in order that the civilization of 6938 will have no trouble locating the capsule," which contains a record of modern civilization and a collection of objects used in everyday life sealed within a glass cylinder inside a torpedo-shaped copper-alloy casing specifically engineered to withstand the passage of five millennia. Mayor LaGuardia is scheduled to preside tomorrow over dedication ceremonies for the monument....

I'm surprised it hasn't been stolen by now, assuming it hasn't.

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(Pity poor Cecil Travis. Everybody would be talking about him now if it wasn't for that Williams.)...

Kinda like what Bing Crosby said about Frank Sinatra.

... ("You don't understand, mother. Hartford did the RIGHT THING. Do you know what I mean? THE RIGHT THING? Mother? MOTHER? Oh, for god's sake...")...

Oh dear God, the world can't be that cruel to Jo.

... ("Oh Mr. Smoothmoves...")...

Connie can really be a clueless rich girl sometimes: you go back to the office with your boss, you don't stay for another cup of coffee. On the other had, she has, on occasion, shown some gumption.

... Possibly the most Daily News page layout ever.....

QED from above:

"Nazi authorities condemned the raids as 'a detestable lout's trick'."

The thing about unhinged propaganda is that it is unhinged.​

Great call, very Page Four.

... OK kid, let's see your yapping mouth get out of this.....

Warbucks: "We'll give you the kid if you agree to not flood the mine."

Annie: "What!!!!"

Scuttle: "We'll flood the mine twice if you give us that kid"

Annie: "What!!!!"

Sandy: "Oh for God sakes, I've had it, get my agent on the phone."

...[ ....

That was a Jo-worthy riposte.

Who says you can't learn anything from comics as I think we are seeing how Rogaine obtained its original patent.

 

[Harp]

A 25-year-old Coney Island man who tried to make a big profit reselling tickets to yesteday's Dodger-Giant doubleheader at Ebbets Field was fined $25 for illegal speculation. Appearing in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, 25-year-old David Lauer of 3033 Coney Island Avenue, a shipping court in a millinery house, admitted to purchasing 11 tickets to the doubleheader at $1.10 apiece, and sold all but four of them at $1.50 each on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard near the ballpark. He was trying to sell the remaining tickets when he was interrupted by Patrolman Abraham Cohen, who arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.

A ticket scalper is a troubador, a knight errant trouvere who seeks not fortune but reasonable profit,
charges cost sufficient to twinned market and public acceptance; and, quoting Bernard Baruch,
"all of life is a speculation." Whether struck upon sidewalk or within commodity brokerage aegis all
reasoned bow to chance in search of gain is not without honor.

 

[Fading Fast]

A ticket scalper is a troubador, a knight errant trouvere who seeks not fortune but reasonable profit,
charges cost sufficient to twinned market and public acceptance; and, quoting Bernard Baruch,
"all of life is a speculation." Whether struck upon sidewalk or within commodity brokerage aegis all
reasoned bow to chance in search of gain is not without honor.

I agree and, with certain limits as to initial distribution (re the IPO market), believe in a robust secondary market for tickets, which is what scalpers provide. I don't go to too many events anymore, but it seems like we now have legal secondary markets for tickets for many things.

Back in the '80s, right outside of Madison Square Garden (in its expansive plaza) you could have (and I did) learn a lot about trading, market making, bid-offer spreads, liquidity, option time decay, etc., by paying close attention to the way tickets were scalped. It was an incredibly well-developed market even if it had to stay somewhat in the shadows.

 

[Harp]

^I once paid for breakfast with requested marks and received dollar change.
A small currency scalp. Long mark, short dollar spread. Highly instructive.

Bernard Baruch also said: "in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
Of course, the progressive liberal view of life-the all rights, no responsibility clowns-would take exception
to this particular right as it implies individual responsibility and obligatory disciplined restraint.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Who needs 'em, who's got 'em?" -- That Guy in the Subway.

 

[Fading Fast]

"Who needs 'em, who's got 'em?" -- That Guy in the Subway.

Exactly.

 

[EngProf]

America's most prized military secret is now in the hands of the Nazis, according to U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy. In a sensational revelation this morning in Brooklyn Federal Court, Mr. Kennedy testified before Judge Mortimer W. Byers in the trial of sixteen accused German spies that the Nazis have gained the secret of the Norden Bombsight, a device said to be so accurate that it permits a flier 10,000 feet high to drop a missile into a target the size of a flour barrel. Mr. Kennedy's statement came during his testimony concerning the activities of Herman Lang of 74-36 64th Place in Glendale, the only one of the sixteen accused spies from the Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island area. A naturalized citizen, the German-born Lang was formerly employed as a draughtsman and machinist in the shops of the firm of Carl I. Norden, Inc. of Queens, originator and manufacturer of the famous device. Mr. Kennedy stated that Lang visited Germany in 1938 and accused him of carrying the particulars of the bombsight with him on that trip. Mr. Kennedy further charged that Lang, upon his return to the United States and his employment with the Norden firm continued to channel information on developments there to German authorities, and that a total of 10,000 Reichsmarks are on deposit in Lang's name in Germany as payment for his services.

The Nazi High Command today reported in a special communique late today that the "encirclement of Leningrad has been completed." The communique issued from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters on the eastern front asserted that mobile units of the German Army broke thru Russian defense lines along the Neva River, capturing the town of Schlissleburg, thru which run railroad links connecting Leningrad to the rest of Russia. Nazi sources also stated that Finnish troops have advanced down the narrow peninsula between Lake Lagoda and Lake Onega, cutting off access to Leningrad from the east.

A great force of British bombers pounded Berlin last night, engulfing the heart of the German capital in flames and causing extensive damage in what is reported as "the biggest raid of the war." With the city illuminated under the brilliant light of a full moon, hundreds of RAF raiders rained destruction on the seat of the Nazi government, in an attack marking the one-year anniversary of massive German raids on the docks of London. Nazi authorities condemned the raids as "a detestable lout's trick."

Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, who died yesterday at her Hyde Park home at the age of 86. The President has postponed his until Thursday night his scheduled speech said to be "of major importance to the world," and will attend funeral services for Mrs. Roosevelt in Hyde Park tomorrow afternoon at 3 PM. Mrs. Roosevelt had returned home Friday from a stay at the family vacation residence at Campobello, New Brunswick, but fell ill upon her return, and passed away from natural causes, yesterday afternoon at 12:15 PM.

The Brooklyn Republican organization argued this morning in Appellate Court to overturn the ruling of Supreme Court Justice Edwin Garvin that Democratic Borough President John Cashmore be placed on the GOP primary ballot, after presenting a sufficient number of valid petition signatures to earn that position. Attorney Kenneth M. Spence, representing the Kings County Republican Committee argued before the court that all of the petitions presented "were so riddled with forgery, perjury, and fraud that all must be rejected."

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(In the maternity ward at Swedish Hospital, three blocks from Ebbets Field, Joe sits at Sally's bedside. "I seen Hilda today," says Joe. "She says she rung t'bell for ya an' ta give ya her best. Hey! Y'know what? T'ey tol' me 'tis is t'same hospital t'ey brung Medwick ta when he got hit las' yeah." "We ain't namin' her 'Ducky,'" sighs an exhausted Sally. "Be a good nickname t'ough," suggests Joe. "A good nickname f' little Leona." "Leonora," corrects Sally, who wants only to sleep. "Leonora," smiles Joe. "I seen her t'is mornin', they' got 'er in one a t'em glass t'ings, onna'tem inkaba'tas, in a room behin' a big winda. T'ey said she was jus' a lit'l oily, a week maybe, an' t'ey needta keep 'er inneah for now. Jus' like ta Woil's Fair, 'cept ya don' hafta pay t'look. I seen her an' I fel' like I oughta say 'Hello Folks!' But I din't. Hey, kid, t'ey won bot' games. Hilda tol' me. T'oiteen ta one inna foist game an' ya boy Petey even got inneah, an' Camilli, he had two homahs, an' Higsby wen' t'whole game an' wonnis twennyit'! Twenny games! Yeah! Try t'at in Philadelphia, huh? Annen t'ey wonna secon', 4 ta t'ree, an' Casey come in an' wonnatwun. Pretty good, huh? Hey Terry, Brooklyn's still inna league, huh? Hey, Sal -- ya lissenin'?" But Sally is fast asleep.)

A 25-year-old Coney Island man who tried to make a big profit reselling tickets to yesteday's Dodger-Giant doubleheader at Ebbets Field was fined $25 for illegal speculation. Appearing in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, 25-year-old David Lauer of 3033 Coney Island Avenue, a shipping court in a millinery house, admitted to purchasing 11 tickets to the doubleheader at $1.10 apiece, and sold all but four of them at $1.50 each on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard near the ballpark. He was trying to sell the remaining tickets when he was interrupted by Patrolman Abraham Cohen, who arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.

The Coney Island season is over, but it isn't officially over until the completion of Coney Island Mardi Gras, which opens tonight under the theme of "V for Victory. Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine will be guests of honor for "Police Safety Night," which inaugurates the week-long festival this evening, and will review a parade featuring units of the department, emergency squads, and the Police Department Band.

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(I could really go for a dozen sugared crullers right now, but I'm making do with a Tastykake Lemon Pie. Sigh.)

View attachment 360025 (Joe wishes something better was playing at the Patio because he's going to be spending a lot of time in the neighborhood. And Mr. Cohn's review of the Soviet films is interesting because I actually have a small trace of Yakut ancestry. Who knew?)

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(Cue Mr. Fats Waller, singing "Get Some Cash For Your Trash.")

A monument of black granite was erected today over the spot on the former World's Fair grounds where the Westinghouse Time Capsule was interred in 1938, for recovery five thousand years later. The Parks Department placed the circular monument at the location which was once the courtyard of the Westinghouse exhibit "in order that the civilization of 6938 will have no trouble locating the capsule," which contains a record of modern civilization and a collection of objects used in everyday life sealed within a glass cylinder inside a torpedo-shaped copper-alloy casing specifically engineered to withstand the passage of five millennia. Mayor LaGuardia is scheduled to preside tomorrow over dedication ceremonies for the monument.

View attachment 360027 (And as Sally sleeps a quiet sleep, Joe at her bedside makes his way thru the Eagle. "Hamlin," he mutters. "Hamlin!")

Babe Ruth predicts the Dodgers will win the pennant. The Sultan of Swat, who takes more interest in his golf game than in diamond doings these days, took time out this morning to tell the Eagle he favors the Flock over the Cardinals as the pennant race hurtles into the final stretch. The Babe is no stranger to Ebbets Field, having pitched here for the Red Sox in the 1916 World Series, and having served as a first base coach for Brooklyn as one of Larry MacPhail's early gate attractions in 1938.

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(Pity poor Cecil Travis. Everybody would be talking about him now if it wasn't for that Williams.)

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("Jeter?" In New York? Ridiculous.)

View attachment 360030 ("You don't understand, mother. Hartford did the RIGHT THING. Do you know what I mean? THE RIGHT THING? Mother? MOTHER? Oh, for god's sake...")

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View attachment 360032 ("Excellenzy!" Wait, is this a rerun? Didn't you used to have a black hood?)

"America's most prized military secret (Norden bomb sight) is now in the hands of the Nazis..."
I can't resist mentioning my own interaction (sort of) with the Norden bomb sight.
When I was in grad school I was doing some work in the Computer Center and met a beautiful redhead. (She was also working on her Ph.D. - the Center was where grad students went to meet potential dates.)
Upon introductions, she said her name was ______ Norden.
Being a WWII-nut, I blurted out, "Like the bomb sight." Instead of saying "Huh?", she said "Yes".
It turns out her great-uncle was Carl Norden of bomb sight fame, as mentioned in the news article.

It was a good start to a moderately-long relationship.

Norden bomb sights were considered so secret that at a local airport, which was a bomber training base during WWII, the only remains of the base are concrete bunkers where the bomb sights were stored. They were taken out under armed guard, put in the bombers, and put back in the bunkers when they weren't in the planes.

It couldn't have been known to the people of late-1941, but the Luftwaffe never had any planes that could have taken advantage of the Norden's capability. The few four-engine bombers that they had didn't have the range, bomb-load, altitude-capability, or defensive-armament to make substantive use of such a bomb sight. The "spies" could have shipped complete operating Norden bomb sights to the Nazis and it would have made no difference to the conduct or outcome of the war.

 

[Harp]

The "spies" could have shipped complete operating Norden bomb sights to the Nazis and it would have made no difference to the conduct or outcome of the war.

The Lotte 7 sight produced for the Luftwaffe came closest to the Norden but did not feature autopilot capability.
Norden roughly scored 30% accuracy at altitudes between a grand and 21k; factoring wind sheer and bomb
sonic speed traject which eluded calculus throughout the war. While Norden did not bolo the range its low
accuracy against initial expectations busted flush. I once attended a lecture that hosted the co-pilot for
Nagasaki, which run of course used Norden to sight. Accuracy or its approximate result is difficult achieve,
thankfully all and every advantage proved mark.

The Duquesne Spy Ring encirclement netted thirty-three individuals, many naturalized Americans and is the largest espionage prosecution in American History. Herman Lang received eighteen years imprisonment but was deported to Germany in 1950. The 1945 film The House on 92nd Street is based on the Duquesne Ring.