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Show IP - Lint From a Blue Serge Suit: Confidential gov't statistics reveal that Hitler is losing the war, but winning his biological aims. He has been able to stunt the growth of ten million non-German children of the next generation. . . . Marilyn Cantor, one of Eddie's five daughters, will soon make her debut as a night club singer. ... A new Byrnes edict, they hear, may be the discouragement discourage-ment of dog shows. That overworked simile, "As persistent per-sistent as an insurance man," is debunked de-bunked by the news that ninety-two per cent of all private American dwellings have no insurance against burglary. . . . When you hear anyone any-one say that a man is a member of the RCF it means "Rocking Chair Fleet." . . . The big laugh these days is walking through Yorkville and seeing all the Italian spaghetti places which replaced the beer halls where the Bund boys plotted their putsches. Some Americans are urging a world-wide free press. It's a good idea. But there are still many ob stacles to be overcome before the American press can be as free as the Constitution says it should be. . . Sudden Thawt: The American car optimists aren't among the imerlcans taking part in the bitter truggle at Iwo. The end of the clggle shortage will be a relief. Not because it will give us smokes but because be-cause It will stop the epidemic of nnfunny gags. Those quips are harder to bear than the shortage. . . . Of all things. The other day a solon attacked those who censor newspapermen. He was one who attempted to mui-tie mui-tie us! . . , Law and order can stop rabble-rousers. About a year ago Boston hate spreaders were running wild. A new police po-lice chief was appointed, he cracked down on the troublemakersand trouble-makersand they scurried back to their holes. . . . The Red Cross reports that our men (held prisoner In Germany) are being neglected terribly since German officialdom bas broken down. That our men are freezing because be-cause of lack of proper apparel. . . . Over here, Instead of putting put-ting Nazi prisonera In the North (in Wintertime) we bunch many In Florida to trim palm trees! That's dumbocracy! Unity Dep't: Sumner Welles is making literary history. Two of his tomes are among the first ten bestsellers. best-sellers. . . . Memo to those who believe be-lieve war workers can be recruited via voluntary methods: A reliable daily reported that the voluntary methods were tried In one Massachusetts Massa-chusetts town two weeks ago and they flopped. ... So did the drive for war workers in Phila. Too think our radio soap operas tug at the heart? You should hear the show called "The Robinson Family." a tear-duct dilly which BBC shortwaves to our shores. . . . "Jodie Mann" is a name said to have been coined by Louis Arm-strong. Arm-strong. It is spreading among GIs. It refers to a guy who thefts your girl while you're in uniform. ... A cop on a coast movie lot, now over 70, has been sitting at the gate i for years complaining of the Inactiv- Ity. He recently had a heart attack. The doc recommended: "Complete rest." . . . Of aU things! A dep't store on Wilshlre Ave., Los Angeles, offers women's kerchiefs for $125 each! Next to rationing Sinatra has become be-come the pet subject for radio wheezes. One recent week four successive suc-cessive NBC shows twitted him. . . . Those jabbing blue pencils at newscasters news-casters who express opinions should remember Oscar Wild's common sense: "One can give a really unbiased un-biased opinion only about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion opin-ion Is always valueless." . . . Are drama critics losing their power? A play that opened a few days ago rated raves from two aisle-sitters and It shuttered after two performances. perform-ances. The Newspaper Story of the Week: A Chicago newspaper considered a campaign to name the city's new airport after America's highest ranking General . . The publish-er, publish-er, one of the New Deal's bitterest foes, was pleased with the Idea and started to promote the plan. . . Until someone pointed out that the new airdrome would then also be named after the New Deal's best Chicago booster "Marshall Field"! The Magaslnes: One of the newer midget mags frames a nifty pen-portrait pen-portrait of an American who has effectively ef-fectively battled Nazi propaganda buzi-bombs aimed at your mailbox. He Is Henry Hoke, author of "Black Mail." . . . Harold Ickes leaves be-littler be-littler punch-line drunk via a digest piece that unleashes a wallop In every ev-ery paragraph. Mr. Ickes certainly has the ability to make words show their muscles. . . . Mags are now loaded with fiction based on Main Stem characters. Most of them art echoes of Damon Runyon's classics. |