Show s we must plunge our leaders have told us that as yet we are only ankle deep in the war no nation an and 1 no man can remain ankle deep they either cither plunge or get cold feet this means that the sacrifice of civilians must match the bravery of our fighting forces A nation lives by the higher values of its soul not by the lower prices on its store counters in 1912 1942 sugar is a luxury and gasoline a comfort but liberty and freedom are still american necessities A cuff on your american trousers worth a japanese cuff on your american jaw our problem at home is is not our standard of living too many brave americans have already set us a heroic standard by dying the marines who land on pacific beaches are in this war deeper than their ankles and the skies above the channel cannot be protected by price ceilings the men of bataan divided their food not profits and there was no night shift to relieve the defenders of wake it will cost most of our wealth to win this war but all our riches to lose it we must give most of our privileges or lose all of our rights captain colin kelly made his choice he went into this war not up to liis his abkes but up to his heart because he knew what it meant to buy peace on his knees notes of a new yorker john mason brown the dramatic critic who went under the surgeons blade to put himself in condition for a naval commission will prove to be worthy of the navy the navy need have no fears about his presence of mind either once when brown was delivering a lecture in new orleans he strolled up and down the rostrum making gestures as he lectured he strolled so far he walked off the platform dumping himself into some laps returning to the platform calmly albeit a bit bruised he continued with to pick up the subject where we dropped it 11 sallies in our alley gilbert gabriel the former dramatic critic is now an officer in the army somewhere in alaska before being commissioned some intimates were requested to give the war dept the lowdown on gils character fitness and so forth how are his morals was one query he is so moral replied a chum he should be sent there as a missionary aryl one of the broadway sportsmen was saying that the weather at saratoga was never important to a gambler because you can sleep like a top when youre winning and said a veteran when youre losing you spin like one david 0 asked sam goldwyn why do you hire so many writers for one picture because said sam from each writer I 1 get a germ i marx of the famed 4 marx men was the kid brother who was ordered into the act by their mother was too young to be trusted with valuable pieces of stage business or punch lines and so he merely tagged along making faces or joining in the chorus of course he was paid well while carpo chico and groucho squandered t their heir coin on their families I 1 fun or at dice games kept salting his away eventually he wearied of hamming it and suddenly popped up as a hollywood agent buying into a 2 prospering agency later he opened his own and represented many movie stars hes rich today his brothers arent in his spare time fussed bussed with mechanical things at home while the brothers made whoopee and now and then he was laughed at for wasting his time at his 1 experiments so what now owns a west coast defense planel man alan about town the star spangled bing crosby rumored washington bound to enlist in the army eligible he went there for orders on the great bond drive ty power who will train for the gliders proudly wearing the emblem of the marines as a boutonniere darryl zanuck who quit his Century Pox job at per week considers con considerably sidera bly relieved 1 I felt he said that I 1 was merely another actor playing a part hazel scott who clicked so big in hollywood getting a 1000 bonus from for her fortnights fort nights work burgess meredith wm and G 0 welles in the 1 2 3 dame hunters myrna myma ley lay the myrna lisa in the night at reubens horace greeley said go west young mani danl and what did he do he stayed in new york and got rich at mother kellys on broadway they keep telling you to keep punching hoping knock yourself out at the park central cocoanut Coco anut grove he was once caught in a truth at the aquarium she was so 0 o lovesick she took the first pill that came along at toots one of these days a check is gonna gonn reach out and fw y |