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Show U 1 l - - .V-'-"-..'.'L.:Jf Portrait of a Man With a Hammer: The biggest victory in the war so far was achieved by the Moscow officials of-ficials who coined this sentence: "Those German officers and men and members of the Nazi party who have been responsible for or have taken a consenting part in the above atrocities, massacres and executions, will be sent back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done in order that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of these liberated countries coun-tries and of the free governments which will be erected therein" . . . The best word in the ruling is "consenting." "con-senting." That means all the guilt won't be shuffled off onto Hitler and the Nazi suicides, who are a cinch to blow their scrambled brains out when Germany's licking becomes official of-ficial ... A lot of military murderers mur-derers are counting on a repudiation repudia-tion of the Nazi party to excuse their crimes when peace comes . . . That's why all those stories are trickling out of Der Slaughterland on how the army hates the Fuehrer. The German army hates only a loser. But there will have to be more punishment than sending the homicidal homi-cidal maniacs to the gallows and to jail. Somebody's got to pay for their destruction and rebuild the ! towns and cities they have burned and blasted out of existence. 'They can't restore the lives of their victims, vic-tims, but much of their destruction ' can be repaired. Because there's an I angle to their wrecking methods, as 1 Fletcher Pratt points out. The Nazis are whipped and they know it . . . They figure that the same old softies will be in charge of things as ruled after the last war when they escaped with their worthless hides. The sentiment, sen-timent, they hope, will be: "Oh, well, we've won the war so let's be merciful." mer-ciful." What's become of the Chinese Tongs? They're still in existence but are just peaceful benevolent societies socie-ties . . . There used to be a lake where Tombs prison now stands. What are now Front, Water and South Streets were all covered with water years ago, and Broad Street was a canal. The front pages of the Big City's first newspapers were devoted to want ads .... There are more than fifteen religious denominations in our city enjoying the fruits of .democracy's .de-mocracy's tolerance .. . . New York became a big town because it is a great seaport. Without the attraction attrac-tion of the port New York would be just another small town . . . The only traces left of the original inhabitants in-habitants of the big city are the Indian In-dian names of various towns. Manhattan Man-hattan (which is Indian for a place of beauty), Manhasset, Rockaway, Setauket, Patchogue and Montauk . . . The first battle between a sub and a battleship took place during the Revolutionary War near Governor's Gov-ernor's Island. The Magic Lanterns: The blood and sweat side of war is depicted in "Sahara," a worthy cinema report re-port of a skirmish in Libya. It's all war, with no gals to coo to between the cannon shots. Humphrey Bo-gart Bo-gart excels as the top sweater, with good jobs from J. Carol Naish and Rex Ingram . . . Red Skelton, Eleanor El-eanor Powell, Lena Home and Hazel Ha-zel Scott are the lures of "I Dood It." If you can abide the idiotic title, you might have some fun listening lis-tening to the jokes and music . . . "Leningrad Music Hall" is a collection col-lection of shots of Russia's lighter side, ballet, symphony, etc. . . . Arturo de Cordova, now acting before be-fore Hollywood's one-eyed monsters, stars in a Mexican version of "The Count of Monte Cristo." It carries no English title and it's not for you if you no habla espagnol . . . The 1944 election campaign is slanting a few of the newsreels already. Crude as a night club brushoff. The Word Rembrandt of the Week: Al Jolson, who has entertained enter-tained the troops in Alaska, the Caribbean Car-ibbean and Mediterranean sectors, wr.s depressed the other day . . . After reading reports from Boston and other Massachusetts .places about Hitler-inspired gangs beating up children of another faith ... "I wish," Jolson said, "those bullies could have seen what I saw in Sicily and Italy. One day with American Army officers I visited a cemetery, where there were many white crosses over graves of our heroic dead. There were Stars of David, too, and I saw our boys digging graves for others who were to die in battle. But nowhere in that American Ameri-can cemetery did I see any sign reading 'restricted.' " Quotation Marksmanship: B. May. fair: Memory is where our youth lives, after it dies . . . Howard Spring: The wind had cried itself to sleep . . . S. Schulman: Gen. Pat-ton Pat-ton gave me a ferocious look that pinned me against the wall ... P. Hammond: I don't believe there's more to that show than meets the r.oe . . . W. Mahoney: Americans love a parade, but too many Congressmen Con-gressmen are holding it up ... p. K. Thomajan: Tears glum-drops . . . B. Montgomery: When you hold prejudices, prejudices hold you down. |