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V Kaltenborn Kaltenborn Kaltenborn Kal- Kal described him as Von Rib- Rib ben tripe When we used it the air officials gave us a spanking Theres There's a Society for the Prevention Prevention Prevention tion of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn with headquarters in Manhattan The East Street station house is going after the joints clip-joints that took several visiting RAF lads lads If Secy of the Navy Frank Knox wanted to scoop the world imagine all the daily beats about naval matters he could tip off to the editors of his Chicago newspaper Sallies in Our Alley Hettie Cattell Cattell Cattell Cat- Cat tell the reporter records the one about Charles MacArthur and another another another an- an other scribbler who worked with him himon on the same gazette They were at atthe atthe atthe the funeral of a pal and almost as stiff as he was when the minister intoned The Lord and the Lord away To which MacArthur yelled out Well wot could be that The present feuding of the drama critics has started rumors that the Prize Play instead of getting the customary customary customary custo custo- mary plaque will be awarded the Gene Tunney Belt NBC wouldn't permit commentator John B. B Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy to use this on the network The only thing left for Mussolini to do is go over Niagara Falls in a balcony Manha Manhattan Murals The Street bookshop which prominently displays Earl Browders Browder's book This Way Vay Out The impoverished looking gink on Street who peddles peddles peddles ped ped- ten dollar bills three for a dime The middle-aged middle swish who carries a womans woman's large purse and stops in the street every few minutes to powder his nose The sign in the Tenth Avenue mission mission mission mis mis- sion house lobby People Who Dont Don't Vr Write te Home Dont Don't Rate One The midget usher at the Roxy who stands in the center of the huge lobby lobby lobby lob lob- by with a spotlight on him Looks like a fugitive from a totem pole The and Ave restaurant which invites epitaphs about Hitler for the window display The Ave place which placards We We trust our food pleases you Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- wise we dont don't trust Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter Strikes Strikes' and lockouts may deliver the knockout punch to the American way of life that life that the Panzer divisions divisions divisions divi divi- cannot It is time for plain talking Democracy depends upon the individual It cannot survive upon the blood and sweat and tears of The Other Fellow Unless management and labor are each ready to yield a point Democracy will be forced to yield the field By June one and a half million Americans will have left their homes and jobs for the Army and Navy These boys are an example of sacrifice to both labor and capital Their lives may depend upon American American American Amer Amer- ican factories producing materials in time Because Hitler's warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses already are bursting with ammunition for use against us all These American boys know that the Battle of the Argonne was not fought on any six hour day with day with time and a half for overtime And they know too that the Minute MinuteMen MinuteMen MinuteMen Men never wasted a second waiting for a dividend check The hour is too late for bickering The time has come for all of us to think of public duty instead duty instead of private right Every strike in the nation could be settled at once if the executive executive executive tive in the front office who gets 21 a day and the man in the overalls overalls overalls over over- alls who gets 42 a week would remember remember remember re re- re- re member this That the American soldier who gets 21 a month is ready to die for them both George Holland and George MacKinnon MacKinnon MacKinnon Mac Mac- Kinnon were bitter rival chatter- chatter on Boston newspapers MacKinnon eventually quit and came to New York He is now at Medical Arts Hospital where he underwent a major operation He almost had a relapse the other day when his estranged wife also a Boston newspaper writer wrote him that she was very sorry learn to-learn about his being so ill ill ill-by by reading George Hollands Holland's column 1 A Union College prof has predicted that in ten billion years the sun will lose the fuel that keeps it going Gosh Another thing for Miami ho ho- tel-keepers tel to worry about An Omaha reader writes that he asked a local German storekeeper why he opposed Hitler and He replied Even Hitler's Aryan air- air castles have bars on the windows Arthur Krock got agitated over the threat of censorship and yelled Boo in his New York Times I One neighbor he failed to scare was the Topics of the Times pillarist a column to his left The the very next day kicked i off Freedom of the press was never never never nev nev- er more widespread ad or more secure than it is today Hollywood reporters reporters reporters re re- re- re porters are ganging up against a censor censor censor cen cen- sor threat It would violate the freedom freedom freedom free free- dom of f the press they feel if they were made to agree on whom Betty Grable is eating her dinners with |