Show I 1 portrait of a man alan pecking at a portable the N J governments despos of the german american bund from the state sent the blood racing through my veins what a victory for all of us who have been taking the their insolence all these years why the N Y press campaign for f or similar action I 1 wish I 1 I 1 iw i id enjoy printing his cap and car numbers if I 1 think his employers would scold him for being human anyway he stopped his broadway trolley the other afternoon to unload some passengers and saw a blind man on the other corner ile he left his trolley and escorted the blind one by the wing to the other side of the congested street then he dang clang danged his bell and went on for the life of me I 1 cannot fi fiure figure ure out why amapola is so popular it has the corniest tune of them all and when intermezzo is played a la beguine I 1 feel like yelling Sto stop pill why do they abw always ays try to improve on masterpieces anyhow the commodity mo city research bureaus 1941 year book shows that the presidents emergency proclamation means increasingly crea singly strict rationing of vital war materials were getting invisible ration cards now my idea of a delicacy is the peppery red cabbage at moores when I 1 read that the authorities say no sabotage as in that huge sersey jersey fire I 1 wonder do the enforcement agents know that in york vine ville they brag that was our answer to the closing of camp nordland if the fire is due to negligence the insurance companies do not have to pay off but if it is sabotage they have to pay immediately mr G man hoover told me that the stories about the fire were inaccurate at first that instead of the damage being 25 millions it was only two that there a thing there of a defense nature or for britain and that no sabotage had been detected in short are not alone when it comes to getting wrong steers even newspaper editors fall fail hard for them now and then like we ordinary people I 1 know I 1 know im not a journalist im merely a teh the story ot of the week most unlikely to be confirmed japanese propagandists in the U S have just released the following flash that the chinese invaded california in A D something to worry about huh it must be wonderful to be an out of towner and visit the big street for the first time and see those lights it seems wonderful to me who has lived among them so long and I 1 get a belt too out of watching watchers watch them I 1 see news here and there and hear it too that washington D C is getting so crowded with people that it has become the nations boom town and that broadway showmen and others are seriously thinking of opening night clubs there to cash in quickly but they would be the suckers if they did apparently they do not know that washington is still an early town and that on saturday night the bars must close by midnight it is not a place where they stay up late since nearly all of them must be up early with the other worms the nu numerous parties given by the elite and officials there almost nightly consume all the best customers anyway and on the cuff notes of an innocent bystander broadway alien the orchids go to the editorialist on the N Y times for this the dionne quintuplets quintuple ts are seven years old in many respects it is a womans comans most delightful age at seven she sits on a mans knee without hesitation affected or genuine and without putting the knee to sleep unlike the older women of the household she enjoys listening to him in fact she encourages him to talk and she believes any story he tells her her curiosity over what became of his loss is unquestionably sincere while unduly interested perhaps in the state of his exchequer and never too proud to accept pecuniary aid she is no gold digger whose gratitude is measured by the amount of the contribution trib ution for as little as two copper cents she will bear hug his spectacles all out of shape and he feels sure she means it manhattan murals the subway singers who have switched from torch tunes to patriotic themes the sign in the druggists do you have tattletale tattle tale gray matter the greenwich village gin mill which conspicuously features a sign advertising the poor quality of its coffee the ath avenue barber shops sign satisfied haircuts or your hair refunded refund edill the street hawker selling glamour ties plain cravats with noisy stripes |