Show I R y I i Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter The harassed of tho the American American American Amer Amer- ican Consul at Lisbon swears this happened A small shy little man leaned confidentially across his desk and said Please Mister could you tell me if there is any possibility that I could get entrance to your wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- country The pressed by thousands of such requests requests requests re re- re- re quests and haggard with sleepless nights roughly replied Him Impossible possible now Come back in another ten years I IThe The little refugee moved toward the door stopped turned and asked with a wan smile Morning or afternoon afternoon afternoon aft aft- Well Vell as most of us suspected that Nazi aviator who escaped from a Canadian concentration camp has to Peru forfeiting the bail posted by the German Consulate This is good news because because because be be- cause the government officials will I henceforth crack down on them all and there will be no bail for any of them However the clever aviator didn't have all the laughs during his escape The first week here he was taken to many of the tl Broadway spots hot-spots In one of them he got a double Mickey for talking too much and loud loud and and when youve you've swallowed a Mickey no less a double one you can escape escape escape es es- es- es cape all you like but you will never feel better than a dead duck Which is a lot better than feeling like a live Nazi who has swallowed a double Mickey Notes of an Innocent B Bystander stander The Wireless Authorities on the Far East expressed the opinion that Japan is strictly a gymnasium fighter fight fight- er er- Lots of form in the workouts but a stumblebum in the ring Upton Close called the embrace with Moscow an admission that both nations nations nations na na- na- na know they are hopelessly outclassed outclassed outclassed out out- classed in the Pacific by your Uncle Uncle Uncle Un Un- cle Samson Edgar Snow doubted doubt doubt- ed that the Japs would do any scrapping scrapping scrapping scrap scrap- ping on the water realizing that British and U. U S S. S sea power would make them velly solly And James Young who was was jailed by the Japs for his dispatches to here predicted predicted predicted pre pre- that some Japanese screwball screwball screw- screw ball army officer not the would get that country into trouble If f so he warned pact or no pact Stalin's planes would be over Tokyo like ike flies dropping pineapples in their suki yaki Many reasons have lave been advanced for Cholly McCarthy's McCarthys McCarthys McCarthy's McCarthys McCarthy's Mc Mc- Carthy's drop in popularity but no noone noone noone one seems to have mentioned the program on at the same time time time-Hel- Hel Helen en Hayes No Yank-Giant Yank ball game ame broadcasts this year Cant Can't find ind a sponsor willing to spend that sort of coin Remember last year how low the ball clubs took bows for being being being be be- ing good Samaritans to to the poor shut-ins shut The Front Pages The Times I asked a sensible question in a recent recent recent re re- re- re cent editorial Why it wanted to know should Sen Reynolds of N. N C. C head lead the military affairs committee commit commit- tee In his eight years in the senate senate senate sen sen- ate says the Times the only qualification qualification qualification he has piled up for the important important important im im- im- im post is seniority You might as well argue that the last banana that hangs on the stalk is the best best best- when its it's only the ripest Even before Lindbergh the notorious publicity publicity publicity pub pub- dodger poured his latest abuse on Britain the Herald Tribune had soured him That daily called attention attention attention at at- to Major de answer answer answer an an- to the Lindbergh letter It echoed the Majors Major's query to wit Where does a time peace-time aviator get off to pose as a know-it-all know on combat flying of which he has had none yet Samuel Grafton has a good suggestion Lets Let's give I France food on our own terms he I proposes and if Hitler doesn't permit permit permit per per- mit those terms then terms then the French I will know who's starving them The Story Tellers fellers The reefer- reefer smokers who want to pamper Hitler in order to help U. U S. S trade can snap out of their pipe dreams by reading To American Business BusinessMen BusinessMen BusinessMen Men in Harpers T. T Graydon Upton Upton Upton Up Up- ton a banker who saw and smelled grow in Berlin reports that the tycoons who backed Adolf were the first to be burglarized by him Remember Remember its its it's an American banker bank bank- er saying this Spain is sun sun- posed to be broke and hungry So how can it afford to distribute free of charge an expensive booklet called Spain This monthly reports what's going on in the country country country coun coun- try but carries no word of ot Nazi troops huddling there to charge on Gibraltar Who Vho is paying for this high priced job of printing The Magic Lanterns Girl pays tribute to the late glorifier glorifier glorifier glori- glori fier by following the pattern of his Follies Meaning it is big beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- costly and strictly for the eye Just go and look look look-don't don't dont analyze The liThe Great American Broadcast is isa isa isa a song-and-sentiment song picture of the networks' networks baby days Its It's pleasant and the melodies will follow you right home A Girl a n Guy and a Gob is slap-happy slap slapstick It gives you the wildest chase since the Keystone cops were falling out of jalopies |