Show y A 4 reporters bookmarks Book markss marks W ti whiles queens die proud ly harcourt brace contains contain this beautiful and the plane 11 it t something that belongs to ta the government with a number its old 89 99 the beautiful NEW flying fortress that belongs to you its more lore than your home bome its well a kind of a sweetheart all of you picked her up on off the assembly line at the boeing plant where she was born a beautiful smooth shining naked thing then all of you took her up over the clouds and wrapped that beautiful blue star spangled gown of the skies around her which to Is the way every fortress ought to be dressed because the queens of the high skies n H Ull steins the rise and fall of 0 the house oi of simon schuster Is a tragic story of at the slow glow death ot of germanys germanas Germ anys greatest publishers via the swastika poison the history ot of its downfall has an uncanny uri canny way of paralleling some of the events already taking place here the author reports that he told conservative german dailies to offer stiffer resistance to the rising tide of but they and even chiefs of his own paper told him not to be so pessimistic about the danger within they feared that such stories would lose subscribers bers so they did nothing and now cow they have nothing from exchange e ship 11 by max hill of the associated press an fn far r aar rinehart clean people the japanese bath provides what probably is the dirtiest way of getting clean in the world scores of men women and children bathe in th the a same fame water which Is hot but surely not enough to kill germs each wing of my prison had a row of five japanese type baths one of them usually out of order that meant the prisoners had tour four tubs and the water emptied until the last man passed through the line the native prisoners were first but there was only one place for the foreigners last II 11 allen alien smiths book life in a putty knife factory contains considerable sid erable amusement including A man who becomes the writer of a column is much worse off his brain achieves such a state that no respectable spec table gumma would ever attach itself to it he becomes a straightforward paranoiac he suffers first from headache palpitation d digestive lg estive disturbances and incapacity for mental exertion after that corne come intense egotism selfishness conceit overbearing pride violent temper and moroseness how do I 1 know this I 1 was a columnist my own favorite is W W around newspaper offices where it Is ii fashionable to scoff he gets very little outspoken applause your omnis swaggering newspaper man greets his name with a sneer I 1 never did I 1 sneer even though it made me appear to be sharp as a tack time ot of reace peace an exciting tale by ben ames williams houghton mifflin 0 contains this gem so now youve seen where your ancestors fied lived mark told his son as they came into familiar surroundings dont ever forget that youre more than a new englander out of your eight great great grandparents two went from massachusetts to ohi ohio 0 two went from georgia to MI mississippi ss Is one lived in california one in oregon one in minnesota and one your mothers great great grand mother oame name from germany two of your great grandpa grandparents ants came from wales your grandparents cariie came from ohio michigan and minnesota youve got all the blood strains in you tony youre not a westerner nor a southerner youre sin an american secretary harold ickes the autobiography to of a curmudgeon reynal hitchcock Hitche ock offers the following in the chapter called blessed event mouth to ear rumors about a public man are almost without e exception so fiercely barbed that most people would hesitate to repeat them out loud if they should be said of a private citizen the private citizen has easy recourse to the courts I 1 protection under the law so to too j I 1 grant you in theory has the public man but the more public he be Is the greater the probability that tha should be prove that he actually cortie commit t the crime the publicity that he bo would get would leave the world convinced that he was wag in the neighborhood when it occurred in other words the people can believe virtually anything concerning a man in public life provided that it Is sufficiently unbelievable it if you are still squawking squawk lne about rationing then read round bound trip to russia by walter graebner lippincott pin cott is publisher Graeb ners exciting book says fays that no civilian in russia may travel by air or rail or own a wr car eggs when you can get them cost each newspapers are used for rolling cigarettes and to put between blankets tor for more warmth 1 ninety live five pe per r cent of all food and the annual civilian food consumption there Is less than the annual civilian waste in the U S I 1 |