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The doggie just wants to play! Look, he's smiling! Nice doggie!!!!
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Police in Queens are mystified by the unauthorized exhumation of a woman buried last Tuesday in Lutheran Cemetery. The grave of 49-year-old Mrs. Elsie Zinck of 332 E. 77th Street in Manhattan, who died January 3rd, was opened sometime late Friday, and both the outer and inner coffins were opened, with Mrs. Zinck's body left half out of the casket. A trench measuring about 30 feet by 8 feet had been dug alongside the grave. The undertaker responsible for Mrs. Zinck's burial, J. J. Stolbs of 1369 1st Avenue, Manhattan confirmed that no jewelry or other valuable items were buried with Mrs. Zinck, The dead woman's husband, Mr. Joseph Zinck, and her brother-in-law, Charles Lotterhos, were both questioned and could offer no explanation for the mystery....
...Announcing a tightening of his noise-abatement crusade, Mayor LaGuardia today ordered Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine to begin within five days a full inspection of every bus and taxicab horn in the city. Horns that play musical progressions are absolutely forbidden in the city, stressed the Mayor, and any that are discovered will be subject to confiscation. The Mayor also reminded all motorists that the sounding of horns for any reason other than to warn of immediate danger is prohibited by law, and violators are subject to the loss of drivers' licenses....
...A 16-year-old Brownsville boy who asked a passing patrolman for help in starting his car is under arrest for larceny. Patrolman Edward Hatch of the Liberty Avenue precinct noticed the boy in a stalled car at the intersection of Riverdale Avenue and Osborne Street and soon discovered that the youth had stolen the car, owned by Hyman Kessler of 406 S. 3rd Street, from a nearby filling station where it had been taken for repair. The boy, who told the policeman he had merely taken the car for a ride, is being held on $1000 bail pending an appearance tomorrow in Adolescent Court....
I know that Dan-Dunn-world is almost completely disconnected from reality, even for a comic strip, but the idea of cleaning a plane with gasoline in a closed building scared me just by reading it, even though D-D and idiot-Irwin don't really exist.
Back in my hot-rod days the often-quoted statistic - intended to dissuade real-world morons from using gasoline for parts-cleaning - was that the vapors from 1-gallon of gasoline would equal the explosive force of 93 pounds of dynamite.
Whether that number is exactly correct I don't know, but it's more than enough to blow the whole works up - building, airplane, and idiots in one big bang.
The potential harm from that comic strip is that someone in the real world might be tempted to use gasoline for cleaning.
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(I know *I'LL* never forget this show, because it was during a production of it that I took a big deep swig out of a glass that was supposed to be water but some dink backstage had filled with gin. I smelled something funny just before it went down, but I thought it was cleaning fluid they'd used to mop the stage.)...
.... View attachment 300494 ("Hey Sal," says Joe. "Didjasee...." "Did I see what?" growls Sally, carefully enunciating each word. "Umm.....Dan Dunn." says Joe. "Didjasee -- ah -- Dan Dunn today?")...
...National League Most Valuable Player Frank McCormick of the Reds doesn't think much of Our Dodgers, and he isn't shy about saying so. Big Frank tells Harold Parrott he can't see the '41 Flock with a spyglass, stating that they'll finish even further behind this year than they did last year. Frank is "best pals" with Fred Fitzsimmons, but he says he can't see Fat Freddie matching his 1940 performance in the coming season "Just imagine," he marvels, "16 won and 2 lost -- at his age! It just doesn't make sense!" McCormick also doesn't think much of Dixie Walker, dismissing Brooklyn's best hitter of 1940 with "he doesn't have much punch and doesn't figure to have as good a year again."...
Bucky is just a bit too cocky and stuck on himself, I think. Hu Shee is not going to put up with that stuff for very long..
I wondered if those slenderizing machines really did work. I know for myself I'd enjoy it rolling out the kinks in my tight muscles.
That was ice cold of Joy to hit the dog.![]()