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Show lis m They tell you It actually happened. I dunno ... lie 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 . . . Next day he memo'd it wouldn't do. The kids he showed It to didn't care for it, he said . . . The young cartoonists were disappointed, of course . . . They finally got their strip started in a cheap comic weekly week-ly for practically nothing per week . . . Every year they brought it back 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 fla 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." He Is a nice kid Always laughing or smiling ... He worked for an id 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 eery first accepted . . . After '17 months in action he showed up again . . . Now, wherever he goes, his old pals show him considerable re-ipect, re-ipect, even though he wears purple . . . On his chest. Bis life's ambition was to be a 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 lead-tr lead-tr 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 spurned 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 a contract for Hollywood any moment mo-ment and 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 for 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 remember remem-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 3t a big fight in I Chicago) climbed to the roof and threw a brick through the skylight ... It landed in the ring near the referee, who picked it up and called out: "One-Eyed Connolly's card. |