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Show Hffi.PhjIpr 'WNL tarn RARELY SEEN A prison scene in which the Inmates In-mates are not working In a shoe factory. fac-tory. A cowboy picture in which none of the characters are named Tex, Buck or Gomez. TEN CENTS AN 'ARTICLE' A half dozen railroads have announced an-nounced that porters will now charge 10 cents , per "bag or arti-cle" arti-cle" at railroad J; I. r'-- terminals, turn- 1 . I ing over this LX-JLJ money to the rail- i v roads and being iA Nj) r. placed on regular tf Vg!L. "Jrf wages. Well, the rate is screwy and unfair to everybody. every-body. On the New Haven road, wh(jre it is being tried, we saw a woman give a brief case, a small cape and a demi-tasse bundle to a porter. She thought she was being g generous when r-&? she handed him 20 CentS- Alld y0U l.W shouldhave heard l SA? "7 her wnen Por" : TfK ter demanded 30! y--Si (P. S. During vLfj'HiJy the argument a man who had given giv-en a porter a bass viol to tote handed hand-ed him a dime, which was strictly regulation.) The 10 cents per article rate is just going to make travelers hesitate' hesi-tate' to hand to a porter anything smaller than a concert grand, an Iron stove or a parlor rug. Mile. Eve Curie has a word for it. She says the Atlantic may be America's Amer-ica's Maginot ocean. If Gibraltar falls a certain insurance insur-ance company is going to have to change that calendar. AND HOW! "The new French constitution will give France an ultra modern version of democracy." Marshal Petain. Wanna bet? Hitler and Stalin may think they have their troubles, but look at Mussolini; he's written a play! HOME NEWS It was a funny noise that woke him He thought at first 'twas rain, But found his fife was dusting With a piece of "Cellophane." T. H. Miles. Elmer Twitchell is a nervous wreck. The doctors can't make out whether it's liquor or seeing Charles Laughton as the Hunchback of Notre No-tre Dame. Elmer Twitchell saw a sign over a store "To Lease for 99 Years" the other day and remarked, "I wouldn't touch it. Just about the time I got to making it pay, I'd have to give it up." Do you remember away back when all we had to worry about was whether the Chinese war would last very long? Quantity production of airplanes will be all right, provided they don't forget to tighten the left wing or fasten on the propeller. THE LAST RETREAT The thinning ranks that fought alone, They gave their very latest breath Like Alan Seegar of our own. They kept their rendezvous with death. Now reveille shall wake no more, Nor enemy shall ever route These victors over modern war Forever in their last redoubt. Harcourt Strange. ASSISTS Simile: As jittery as a European travel folder in a foreign investment broker's mail. My pet peeve: the announcers who make a cereal story out of a baseball game. Sam Michael Gevins. One of the most trying moments mo-ments In the life of any radio addict comes when the broadcaster broad-caster announces he will now give the news of the momentous naval engagement and then takes time out to describe a chocolate bar! There are so many nations trying to get into this world war that it may be necessary to announce an-nounce a waiting list AND THEN THERE'S THE FAN SVHO IS SO DISGUSTED WITH THE YANKEES THAT HE THINKS NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN MUST BE COACHING 'EM. IT WAS THE FIFTH SCOTCH As I was driving, free from care, I hit a car that wasn't there; It wasn't there again today, They come and towed that car away. L. M. Prescott James Fitzgerald wonders if Hitler keps a scrap book. |