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Show im s 'ATiTi IN U I LmJ1""'""-"! l They tell you it actually happened, j I dunno ... He was managing editor edi-tor for a New York syndicate. Now with OWI . . . Several years ago a comic strip was submitted to him ... He liked it. Recommended It for syndication . . . The boss to whom he delivered it took it home J j . . . Next day he memo'd it wouldn't ; ! do. The kids he showed it to didn't I j care for it, he said . . The young i ; cartoonists were disappointed, of course . . . They finally got their I strip started in a cheap comic weeklyfor week-lyfor practically nothing per week . . . Every year they brought it oack to the m.e., who liked it. but he couldn't get It on his chain . . . The boss still didn't like it . . . Another An-other syndicate made an offer, but the boys gave the m.e. another chance . . . They were turned down ... It now grosses $5,000 per week ria royalties from newspapers, radio and gadget makers . . . The first lyndicate boss, who spurned it so many times, demanded to know what aappened . . . The strip is the renowned re-nowned "Superman." Be Is a nice kid Always laughing or smiling ... He worked for an ad agency before the war started, where they used to kid him a lot because be-cause he liked colorful cravats and apparel ... No zoot suiter, more Lucius Beebe ... One day they nearly drove him out of the place because he turned up wearing a purple-colored vest . . . Then came the draft, and he was among the very first accepted . . . After 17 months in action he showed up again . . . Now, wherever he goes, his old pals show him considerable respect re-spect even though he wears purple ... On his chest ins uie's am Diiion was to oc name bandleader . . . Studied almost al-most every Instrument ... He finally final-ly became one of the great arrangers, arrang-ers, instead ... He couldn't "front" for a band, it seems . . . Wasn't the type, the agents said ... So he was hired as head arranger for a well known orchestra . . . The leader lead-er of which was a "front man" because be-cause he looked it . . . The front man could never read a note of music, mu-sic, but he had a baton man's "personality," "per-sonality," whatever that is . . . Each performance the arranger stood backstage and saw the "leader" "lead-er" take the bows for his work . . . Not long ago the arranger (who knows nearly every instrument) was Inducted. Because of his musical background, by golly, he was made army bandleader, a commission due soon. The bandleader's front man was drafted a few weeks ago . . . You guessed it . . . He's a private In the infantry still trying to keep In time! New York Novelette: She was a waitress in a small Midwest hotel . . . Because her feller played in the band . . . One day a stranger offered her a screen test chance . . . She spumed it . . . She wanted to be near her Joe hoping he'd ask her to marry him ... All uvasudden her Josephus wrote one of those screwy nonsensical national anathemas anathe-mas which periodically sweep the land ... So he upped and left for The Big Burg . . . Leaving her behind, be-hind, of course . . . Two months later she followed her broken heart ... In New York he bluntly told her that his plans did not include her. He said he was waiting for a movie agent who was bringing him contract for Hollywood any momentand mo-mentand would she please leave? . . . She found herself staggering down the hall towards the elevators, where out stepped the guy who offered of-fered the screen test back home! He recognized her and had no trouble selling Hollywood to her right there . . . You anticipate me . . . Her Joe still is waiting for the same agent with his movie contract-and wondering whatinell happened? Quotation Marksmanship: Mark Twain: Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is . . . Karen Cooper: In war, as In baseball, those who do the striking strik-ing are against the men who are in there pitching . . . Louis Nizer: I don't like people who smoke a pipe of peace only tor the purpose of creating cre-ating a smoke-screen . . . H. Whitman: Whit-man: Billions of Jack Frost's paratroopers para-troopers descended upon New York ... A. Lincoln: By giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free . . . Richard Todd: We can never lose our way if we remcm-ber remcm-ber Lincoln's Gettysburg address . . . C Carton: Speeches as long as a rainy week-end . . . Herald Tribune: Trib-une: Chennault Thorn In Tokio's Side, May Prove Dagger In Its Heart. You hear all kinds of explanations on how the famed gatecrasher "One-Eyed "One-Eyed Connolly" got that name . . . This is new to us ... The current character, they say, is not the original origi-nal ... The original, a hard-boiled vagabond, died about 30 years ago . . . That One-Eyed fellow (unable to crash the gate at big fight in Chicago) climbed to the roof and threw brick through the skylight ... It landed In the ring near the referee, who picked it up and called out: "One-Eyed Connolly's card. i |