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Show k .- . 1 CASOLATIOMSTS! According to a Washington report, over COO men have lost their lives at sea in an effort to deliver gasoline gaso-line for pleasure driving In the Eastern East-ern States. This means that the gas shortage is no longer a question of burning gasoline. It Is now a matter of burning conscience. Some people and certain newspapers news-papers continue to grumble about their loss of gas. But our armed forces have yet to protest their loss of blood. There are so-called Americans Amer-icans complaining today that they may have to walk. There are other Americans, casualties in battle, praying that some day they may be able to walk again. The measure of their heroism is the measure of the gas slacker's cowardice. The gas slacker has his constitutional rights mixed up with his driver's license. He thinks that 10 million Americans are ready to stund behind a gun so that he can sit behind a wheel. It never occurs to him that cheating an ambulance out of its gasoline is as rotten as cheating the wounded out of their bandages. To the Gasolationists, America Is only a road map. But for a man who doesn't need it, a full gas tank means an empty heart. The story letters: Hchcheh: Mefoofsky's little boy, Max Jr., fell In with some toughies on the block who taught him the Nazi salute. He came home parading parad-ing all over the house, doing it, yelling, "Hi, Hitler!" Mefoofsky's shocked entreaties were of no avail. In desperation he called in Dr. Schmetric. "Nu, doctur?" was Mefoofsky's frantic cry. "Do you tink ve'll have to hamputate?" Include Him Out! A favorite Goldwyn Gold-wyn story isn't a one-line snapper, to hear a Liberty editor tell it. It's b yarn that throws a spotlight on the famed producer. Mr. Goldwyn sent for Edward Chodorov to discuss writing a picture. pic-ture. He was shown a script. He told Goldwyn he didn't think it would make a good flicker. Of course, Goldwyn didn't hire him. The story was "Woman Chases Man" and was one of Goldwyn's few failures. Several years later, Goldwyn needed a writer. The new story editor suggested Eddie Chodorov Goldwyn hit the ceiling. "Never mention that name . to me," he thundered. "I won't have him around. He was connected with one of my worst flops!" The Dcp't of Justice is working over-time probing backgrounds of a crowd of candidates for various Federal benches . . . Admiral Kim-mel, Kim-mel, suspended following the Pearl Harbor disaster, was cheered by 200 of his Annapolis college-mates at a Washington dinner recently . . . Reader's Digest, which advertises 4 million circ, has 5. (Veto York Heartbeat: The Big Parade: Eve Curie, chin cupped in hand, studying the Hudson Hud-son from a Claremont Inn ringside table . . . Jeanne Cagney, Jimmy's kid sister, a refreshing breeze . . . Lieut. J. Bryan, 3rd, of the Curtis mags, and his bride doing the mid-town mid-town before shoving oft to a naval Indoctrination school . . . Dean Murphy, the mimic of FDR and other well-knowns, treating the Loew's Staters to- his art Memos of a Midnighter: Lord Mountbatten, while here, dwelled at the Lowell Hotel under the name of Major Phillips . . . Billy Conn's chums say he needs a fight, too, to pay income taxes of $11,000 . . . Add to the Fergoodnessakes Dep't: Brig. Gen'l Hale's punch line about Midway: "The Navy found the enemy en-emy and the Army, Navy and Marines Ma-rines gave 'em hell!" was edited by some radio stations to: " gave 'em the works!" . . . The Hays Office changed the movie title: "The Magnificent Mag-nificent Jerk" to "The Magnificent Dope," and what happens? In the film, the word jerk is heard three times. Polo Grounds Vignette: Johnny Long and Bob Chester relay it . . . Both stood, of course, when the National Na-tional Anthem prefaced the game . . . Directly in front of them stood B bloke wearing his sombrero . Bob tapped him lightly on the shoulder shoul-der and said: "How about your millinery?" mil-linery?" . . . "Oh, I forgot," was the reply; "I'm so sensitive about being bald" . . . "You're in good company," said Johnny, "so's the American Eagle!" How is the war going? On the neutral exchanges in Switzerland the Nazi mark has taken a terrific dive dropped 20 per cent in the last two wks. And to our whiners about Inflation: The U. S. $ has gone up correspondingly in Zurich . . . Hanson Han-son Baldwin, naval expert, believes the war will last seven years. One Important exec (not FDR) believes that by 1945 Germany will again belong be-long to the Germans and that Hitler Hit-ler wiH belong to the historians . . . H. L. Mencken's next book will be reminiscence? of his mag days . . . |