Show If r- r I. I 1 ti S r 1 1 Notes of a Bystander The Front Pages As M long as theRome the theRome Rome and Berlin papers keep printing print ing Britain doesn't need a ProPaganda propaganda propaganda ganda force The A. A Axis Axis' is' is squawks squawk S E about the British attacks will have hav havethe e the whole world despising them even more than now The trouble u L with covering plane attacks confides James Aldrich from the British r t Mediterranean fleet is that you dep develop de- de p- p elop a tendency to see in the sky things you think are arc planes Of course you feel much relieved when they are arc planes Its It's good Huey Long didn't live His promise to tomake tomake make every man a king wouldn't F i be much of an inducement these days dars s The editorial salutes to the history and meaning of the City of London made shudders s 7 across the body We recall similar editorials about Prague Warsaw Vienna and Paris Paris much much too remIniscent reminiscent remit remi remI- t of an obituary notice C. C V. V r R. R Thompson the New T York correspondent for the London Express Express Express Ex- Ex press relays this current London quip All the civilized nations had been destroyed bombs had levelled every city in the world and a lone British pilot who remained alive flew his plane over Europe to search y w for some sign of life But he could find none and no building unscathed unscathed unscathed un un- scathed Seeing nothing at all left of Europe h he start started d flying ying to the U. U S. S but his navigation was a faulty and he ran out of gas crashing crashing crashing crash crash- ing in the heart of the African jungle jungle jun- jun rf gle gle With With his last ounce ounce of strength he scribbled on a bit of ofik of ik fuselage Here died the last man mani manon i on earth And then he died Two little apes who had been watchIng watching watching watch- watch Ing from a tree climbed down waddled waddled wad wad- died over to the wreckage One I picked up the note read it to the theother ther r other and exclaimed The uThe last n man manon an rV f on earth Good gracious do we have to start this whole darned business all over again V r Th The e Debunking Dept Mr Woodruff Wood Wood- li ruff congressman from Virginia Virginia- made a ringing defense of Colonel t WI Lindbergh He insisted that L Lindbergh Lindi Lind Lind- dt d- d i t bergh must not be denied the right i of Free Speech Mr Woodruff e. e delivered some vitriolic remarks t. t f about people who disagreed with t Lindbergh This was a great waste of time words and money considering considering consider consider- t ing that nobody has ever tried to stop Lindbergh from saying anys anything anything any any- s thing In fact since entering the j political arena rena Lindbergh has been treated like a prodigal son Both Bothi i v a press and radio have given his coma comments comments com com- a ments conspicuous space space and and the networks have given him valuable radio time time free free Even President Pres President ident i- i dent Roosevelt is denied that privilege privilege privilege lege at certain times In short t v the press and radio which Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind- Lind x bergh has often criticized harshly have treated Lindbergh so fairly fairly- y that Lindbergh himself has never complained about being mistreated Sounds in the Night At 21 It uIt looks like they're getting a more intellectual clientele the women are homelier At the Riviera She uShe goes around daring you to knock her conscience from her shoulder At the Stork Tome To Tome Tome me a night club is just an upholstered upholstered upholstered concentration camp At the Beachcomber an heiress and hes he's an t 4 At La Martinique uShe's in the powder room dulling her nose gloss brightening her lips and sharpening S. S her fangs At the Village Barn One look at her figger and your eyes yell for crutches At Club Gaucho Its uIt's a a pretty necktie necktie necktie neck neck- tie only its it's not pulled tight enough At Club 18 Hes uHe's as sincere as a Japanese apology At Coq Rouge I went with her once I had more fun biting my nails In Reubens Reuben's Its uIt's a lucky thing for Buckingham palace that Goering wasn't dropped on it Manhattan l Murals The flip newsboy newsboy newsboy news news- boy at Fiftieth and Seventh who shouted Britain Bombs Berlin 1 Read about the Grapes of RAF The shooting all over midtown chiefly patronized by gals The funny mans who wears and Willkie 7 buttons on his lapel lapel fun- fun Jack Alexanders Alexander's on Billy Rose for the will be christened Basement Basement Basement Base ment Belasco Add descriptions New York is a big dice game Everybody's Everybody's Everybody's Every Every- body's a loser but nobody wants to leave the game The Wireless Attesting to the 14 J karat caliber of the British morale Ed Murrow said they would rather live underground than under Nazi domination Cholly McCarthy is is' funny so long as he keeps his barbs well sharpened But when he goe goes cute he splinters t M Man n About Town Jolson's second week in Philly grossed gross he says meaning profit What jokester pasted a Willkie sticker stick stick- er on Mrs windshield at the recent Rhinebeck fair when the chauffeur was dozing Quentin Reynolds escaped injury when the ther r London apartment house he dwells 55 in was bombed When Franchot Tone was at Johns Hopkins hosp a nurse developed a rash which the specialists there couldn't diagnose They finally called it Romance Rash |