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Show IK Notes of a Nciv York Nevsboy: An exciting biog of a toe American, Ameri-can, "Eisenhower" (Winston) by F. T. Miller, contains this bite retting paragraph: "General Eisenhower was aroused to outbursts of indignation indigna-tion at the subversive groups that were giving 'aid and comfort to the enemy' at a time of our nation's peril. Ike's scathing remarks would scorch this paper. He had no tolerance toler-ance for the 'damned deaf, dumb and blind fools' who could not see what was sure to happen if we failed to heed the warnings. The Axis was out to conquer the world and enslave humanity. Naziism :ind Fascism Fas-cism must be crushed if hunmn freedom free-dom was to be saved. . . . Eisenhower Eisen-hower had become known as Alarmist Alarm-ist Ike' because of his constant predictions." pre-dictions." Move over, Walter and make room for Eisenhower! The same tome also offers a delightful de-lightful anecdote about General Eisenhower's mother. . . . Whenever When-ever soldiers pass her home at Abilene, Abi-lene, Kans., she proudly remarks to neighbors: "I have a son in the army, too!" When he was given the Peabody award for "presenting outstanding radio humor over a period of 12 years," Fred Allen was introduced on the air this way: "Three great men of American humor," said the announcer, "are Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Fred Allen!" "Fine state humor is in," Allen ad-libbed. ad-libbed. "Two of them are dead and one is out of work!" Stories about newspapermen are as arresting as the yarns they write. Horace Greeley inspired some of the best bits of newspaperman stuff. He was once parked in a hotel lobby reading his Tribune when a stranger stran-ger informed him : "I never read that sheet. I feed it to my 1 goats." . . . Greeley merely intoned: "If you continue reading other papers pa-pers and feed your goats these Tribunes, Trib-unes, one fine day you'll wake up and find that your goats know more than you do!" When Joseph Pulitzer retired, he sent his staff a message which deserves de-serves to be framed in every newsboy's news-boy's office. The Pulitzer prize advice ad-vice is now a part of the masthead of a St. Louis newspaper: "I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles; that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice I or corruption, always fight demagogues, dema-gogues, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy sym-pathy for the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing the news." Add Good News: One of the Bund camps in New Jersey has been I turned into a boys' vacation camp. Happy to learn that a part of the U S. once again belongs to America. Ameri-ca. .. . The legit stage takes bows as a haven for intellectual issues. Yet the season has produced only 1 one expert play on a serious theme: "A Bell for Adano." . . Trend of the Times: We used to hear a great deal about Nazi supermen now we hear more about American superfortresses. super-fortresses. Hoop-la isn't everything: A. J. Cronin's "The Green Years" has topped the fiction best-seller list longer long-er than "Forever Amber," despite ! the latter's publicity barrage. . . . The house foreign affairs committee is now probing America's war criminal crimi-nal policies. We hope they will spotlight spot-light the peculiar activities of the state dep't boys dealing with that problem. . . . Joseph Conrad once i said: "Gossip is what no one claims ! to like but everybody enjoys it.". . . Our Sherlock Ho-Holmes Dept't: A UP dispatch states: "Rifle shots were fired into the office of Mario Berlinguer, high commissioner in Rome, for the punishment of Fascist crimes. The official was wounded by flying glass. Police believe the shooting was an attempt to assassinate assassi-nate Signor Berlinguer." Awgwan! Two soldiers and a sailor on Broadway, reports Jan Murray, were discussing their plans after curfew time. The first serviceman said: "Gee, it's midnight. Let's have some fun riding through the park in a hansom keb!" . . . "Naw," naw'd the second. "Let's call up Mabel and Jean!" . . . "Oh, nuts!" said the ' third. "Let's do something really ex- citing! Let's go to some restaurant and watch the civilians eat!" Among the strange sidelights of the war is the almost complete brushoff most newspapers have given to the fighting in Burma. Reports Re-ports of the battles in that sector are buried on inside pages or ignored. ig-nored. Many Americans will probably prob-ably be surprised to learn that bitter bit-ter fighting has taken place there, which has resulted in important Allied Al-lied victories. . . . And the battles are continuing. . . . During the last year the amount of Japs killed in the Burma theatre equals the number num-ber eradicated in the Pacific! |