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Show Li I ' ---'-3 '' L,t -1,,i-..-,-J Portrait of a Man's Thouglits: The Front Pages: Bruce Bliven, Freda Kirchwey and other editors of the opinion weeklies argued that the U. S. war propaganda copies the methods of the last war and also the Axis pattern. The Axis tactics must be all right, the way some of our elected officials are mouthing its messages . . . The Sun found a silver sil-ver lining in the trials of France's ex-leaders at Riom. Daladier's pop-offs, pop-offs, The Sua points out, have put the accusers on the defensive. The ex-premier reddened the court's kisser kiss-er by delivering a long spiel praising De Gaulle, which Berlin won't care for . . . Dan Parker's wrist-spanking of the race tracks, for making the customers finance the owners' patriotism, was lifted by another a. m.er. But for some reason expired ex-pired in one edition . . . The UP's figure wizard broke every heart in Hollywood with his breakdown of the proposed new income tax. An income in-come of a million, he estimates, will eat up enough U. S. and California taxes to leave the receiver approximately approxi-mately $20,000 in the red . . . Too many correspondents are guessing that Hitler won't have the stuff for his Russian Spring offensive. Two years of underselling Berlin should teach us better. He simply loves us to get optimistic. TYPEWRITER RIBBONS: Edmund B. Chaffee: The majority oj us are jor free speech only when it deals with subjects sub-jects concerning which we have no intense in-tense convictions . . . Lin Yutang: He was talking in an unbuttoned mood . . . W ilia Cather: Puffy white clouds racing rac-ing like lambs let out to pasture in the spring . . . Mary Roberts Rineharl: She was gnawing on her grievance like a dog on a bone . . . Jan Struther: The apple tree buds were as tightly, rosily clenched as a baby's fist . . . Maurice Walsh: The cold spit oj rain in the wind's mouth. The Story Tellers: Vogue, like lots of us, is disgusted with the way theater audiences respond to The National Anthem. The mag is sore at "the ridiculously casual way in which the audience giggle and whisper whis-per while 'The Star-Spangled Ban-, ner' is being played as though it were a device to enable them to put on their coats and powder their noses to music" . . . The blackout, John Gunther reports after sampling London's, is "an unmitigated nuisance." nui-sance." He urges (in Liberty) that the UTs. avoid them as long as possible ... A beauty expert in Collier's advises gals to be natural, to be themselves. He says they should leave their faces alone, except ex-cept for foundation cream, powder, rouge, lipstick, mascara, eyeshadow and bluing . . . What, no newsreels? The You-Don't-Say Dep't: The SEP editorialist is one of the few ex-isolationists who has remained ex. This excerpt from an editorial is a good reminder for our Cliveden Set: "It is sink or swim. Japan is not waging war on the President. Hitler is not warring on Dorothy Thompson. Thomp-son. In defeat, if you escape with your life, you will escape with little else, depend upon it. "The British, the Germans, the Russians and the Japanese have no illusions. They know they are fighting fight-ing for self-existence, and the devil take the hindmost. So are you." Some people think freedom of the press only gives you the right to agree with them Happiness doesn't depend on having a lot or a little. It depends on having what you think is enough . . . Doing silly things occasionally prevents us from being silly permanently . . . It is well to ignore the detractors who disagree dis-agree with what you say because they would disagree with anything you say . . . Funny that it's easier jor a friend to remember the one favor you didn't do than recall the many favors you did. The Clivedunces would rather try to win an argument with the President Presi-dent than help him win the war . . . An honest columnist is bound to step on many toes because there are so many heels around . . . Any kind of constructive criticism will always be considered destructive by those criticized . . . Some Congress- men think of the people only when I they need their votes . . . Some ex-ostriches should be reminded that you can't love freedom, if you use it to hurt the country fighting for it ... A gal doesn't have to be intelligent in-telligent to outwit the smartest gent she just has to be beautiful Uncle Samson can't hold back the enemy, if he can't trust the people behind his back . . . The time to worry about what your enemies say is when your friends start to believe them. Buy Defense Bonds The Wireless: There was a message mes-sage from a Tokyo broadcaster which should make licking the Japs a duty. It told that American prisoners pris-oners of war have been put at hard labor. These prisoners were the defenders de-fenders of Wake and Guam . . . The first tip from the loudspeakers that the RAF had blasted Paris carried plenty of irony. You recalled that the Parisians, when France .surrendered, .surren-dered, rejoiced that the Heinie pineapples pine-apples had spared the burg . Wednesday night lost Fred Allen but picked up a capable comic to sub, meaning Ransom Sherman. |