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Show IIP ft I -' 1 THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER: The Front Pages: Benito's setbacks set-backs have made him a little punchy. His rag is whining that the Fascist army was pushed into war before it was ready. That's from the great warrior who waited 'til France was on the floor before he jumped in and swung . . . And you'll notice that Finito, who argues that "war is the most glorious adventure of all," is punishing his son-in-law Ciano by letting him have a little of it . . . Red Star, journal of the Bolshy army, and the N. Y. Times are seeing eye to eye. Both came out with data showing the Axis powers had overmatched themselves with Britain . . . The Washington Times-Herald Times-Herald fell into line for a Pulitzer blessing by digging up that alleged sale of civil service records to a couple of "naturalized" Americans from Germany . . . The French wire service, Havas, has been taken over by the Vichy puppets and will operate as the French Office of Information. In-formation. Meaning Berlinforma-tion Berlinforma-tion . . . Funniest newspaper comment com-ment came from D. Boone's colyum. He spoke of the many Americans, including Mr. Willkie, who had gone to London to "verify the war." me wireless: 10 aaie none or tns appeasers has answered a query popped by James P. Warburg on a recent broadcast. He wanted to know why those who are having such alarms about President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's "dictatorship" haven't expressed ex-pressed themselves on a world dictatorship dic-tatorship by the Axis thugs . . . Gen'l Johnson opposed Warburg's side that being one of his days to be against the lend-lease measure . . . Boris Karloff was a very bright scholar on the Fadiman grilling. The guy can scare you with learning, too! . . . Linton Wells offered a laugh in his news session. He reported re-ported that the Fascists built lots of first class roads in Ethiopia after they rolled Haile Selassie. Now, he said, they find them very useful to retreat over . . They thought J. Barrymore a yap for parading his private life. He now laughs last-since last-since he gets fancy moolah for joking jok-ing about it in public. But with Town Hall Meeting of the Air on at the same time how many listen to anything else? The Story Tellers: Andre Mau-rois, Mau-rois, who watched France's politicians politi-cians ready that country for slaughter, slaugh-ter, gives you the shudders with his account in Harper's. Some of the incidents are too much . like the goings-on among the pop-offs who claim to be good Americans . . . Eleanor Roosevelt pays for her celebrity in Coronet. She gets herself her-self credited with one of the corniest corni-est of the Commy gags the one about the bolo sharing everything but his shirts because he's got two shirts. That made its appearance about the time Karl Marx was riding rid-ing the soap-boxers . . . The Sat-evepost Sat-evepost in a letter to a subscriber said: "When the U. S. is destroyed, remember the Post said so, .etc." . . . P'raps it oughta be called The Doomsday Evening Post. THE VILLAGE NEWS-PRESS: (Prop, and Editor, Waller Winchell) Ye ed's esteemed rival, the lY Times editorial page, submits a brief, but pungent, question, as follows: fol-lows: "We. hope that when the Senate Sen-ate Committee on Foreign Relations calls its own witnesses to testify on the proposed plan for aid to Britain it will invite Colonel Lindbergh to return to the stand, if for no other reason than to ask him this single question: 'You say we should prepare pre-pare to defend ourselves. Against whom?' " Dern good question, say we. In fact, that's exactly the way we put it only a few weeks ago in the colyum col-yum called: "Back-Talk of a New Yorker." Mr. Q. Reynolds, who is visiting friends and kin (after a long stay in the British capital amidst bomb and shell), visited our sanctum and told this story. Seems a London citizen citi-zen was asked what he'd like to do in the war ... "I have my job all picked out," he said . . . "What is it?" they asked him, "in the Suicide Sui-cide Squad retrieving bombs that don't explode?" . . . "No," he replied, re-plied, "I got it all picked out don't you worry about it" . . . "But," they persisted, "what is it? In the R.A.F. ? Something dangerous and wonderful like that?" . . . "No," he said, "I want to be chauffeur to a General with a yeller streak!" Mr. Gallup reveals that FDR's popularity has reached a new high. In spite of the Chicago Tribune, NY Sun and SEPost, by heck! Verne Marshall called up our various vari-ous bosses to complain about ye ed's opinions of him and his statements. Then he got on a radio station and called us names . . . We are happy to report that the Cedar Rapids Gazette Ga-zette (which he edited) still prints our nonsense. But not his. The Florists' Telegraph Delivery Ass'n has a new expression for an extra-large order of flowers which worried husbands send wives. They call it: "The Doghouse Corsage" Cor-sage" ha, ha. |