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Show HP Portrait of a Newspaper Reader Mumbling to Himself: Get the editorial writers tore and they perform at their sockiest. They hit glory on their pieces on the Nazi inhumanities at Lidice. Now they show their teeth again, hooraying Pres. Roosevelt for naming a mili-, mili-, tary board to try the eight Nazi saboteurs . . . Hitler will let out his customary howl about our un civilized methods, but how can he expect us to hear him? He lost his right to squawk at Lidice . . . Anyway, Any-way, what did his chumps hope fur in case the got caught with trunks full of explosives and bribe money? A scolding? Another thing how did the Reich act when a bomb went olf under a Munich rostrum a few minutes after Hitler minced off It? The Gestapo Ges-tapo lured two Britishers over the border to pin it on them. No crime was ever proved against the prisoners. pris-oners. They were Just executed to give Hitler a cue for another tantrum tan-trum . . . Most of our senators and congressmen In Washington are honest men. Good Americans, reliable reli-able citizens. The few legislators who are busy calling their critics smear artists have good cause to worry . . . Election Isn't far off, and their critics are giving them insomnia insom-nia . . . These worried congressmen congress-men coll their exposers Communists Commu-nists . . . Hmf! . . . Their most persistent critics are Raymond Clap-! per, Time magazine, the conservative conserva-tive N. Y. Times and the arch Re-publican Re-publican N. Y. Herald Tribune. And 95 per cent of the newspapers in America . . . What some congressmen con-gressmen call Communistic propaganda propa-ganda Is actually their voting records rec-ords and speeches from the Cong. Record. Once a ball player gets Into the big sugar he gets unpopular in the press boxes. Ruth used to take rides when he bickered for a heavi-er heavi-er wage. DiMaggio was assailed also for trying to do better. The latest patsy is the Red Sox star, Ted Williams ... He got fed up with the hoots of the bleacherites and let them know it. For Just losing his temper he was practically outlawed out-lawed . , . Why shouldn't he blow up? Others do, and nobody considers consid-ers them criminals . . . Actors in night clubs carry on steady warfare war-fare with the crude ad libbers, but they get cheers when they fight back . . . Maybe baseball wouldn't be such a dull business if they let a few more tempers loose. There are too many coppers running the game . . . Football coaches get all heated up, telling their players to go out and fight. In baseball, apparently, ap-parently, the athletes are Instructed to go out there and remember the customer is always right. Not over at this desk! Ilollywoodltes are going Into the army and navy Just like other Americans. Remember all the blah-blah blah-blah in congress when it was said the actors would rate deferment? . . . Movietown was recently criticized criti-cized for making films about the war. Now Variety complains because be-cause they don't make enough war films. Ho, humph! . . . The dimout doesn't mean much to New Yorkers, but it robs the visitors of the thrill of seeing the Incandescent Belt at its gaudiest . . . The White Way was Broadway's trademark, and the first peep at it always left the looker gasping . . . Best comment of all on the sight was offered by G. K. Chesterton, as A. Woollcott once reported. re-ported. Chesterton stared and marveled, mar-veled, then said: "What a thrill this must be for anybody who can't read!" Man About Toten: This Is the way Harry Hopkins proposed to lovely Louise Macy . , . The night before Mr. Churchill returned re-turned to London Louise went to the home of Mrs. Averell Harrlman to dress for dinner, where Mr. Hopkins Hop-kins called for her . . . As they were having a corktall (prior to leaving for the White House) Mr. II. (a shy aortuvarhap) asked Miss Macy to marry him in this manner: man-ner: "I was just talking to the President and I asked him whether be thought you would say 'yes' If I asked you to marry me and the President said he thought you would" . . . Her answer belongs In the history books . . . "As usual," she said, "the President is right." New Yorkers Are Talking About: Fred Allen's high blood pressure, which sent him hurrying to Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minn. . . . Lindbergh's definite threat to announce an-nounce his candidacy for office soon via the page ones. The Magic Lanterns: "United We Stand" is a stiff reminder to all of us that Hitler thrives on our disunity. dis-unity. It chronicles events from the Treaty of Versailles until Pearl Harbor, highlighting the Axis "divide "di-vide and conquer" technique . . . "Engle Squadron" shows Yanks in the RAF, with the blitz and the British reprisals contributing a powerful pow-erful Sunday punch. Diana Barry-more, Barry-more, Eddie Albert, Robert Stack and others show up handsomely, but the fattest role is played by the high explosives. |