Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
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Man about 1Own
New Workers Are Talking About:
''The Lindbergh Line" slogan
quietly disappearing from all TWA
planes, Office doors, stationery, etc.
. D.. And the New York Republican
daily which is quietly ''going to work
on him" The way Kath Hep
burn was snubbed by Clevelanders
who invited her to an affair just to
chill her. All because she publicly
endorsed FDR. Next day many sent
Kate her photos requesting auto
graphs. She threw all the pix into
WaStebaSket George White
telling critic that he intended
spending S15O,0OO on the Cotton club
and the retort: "Why don't you keep
the S150,000 and call it good year,"
Walter O'Keefe's persistent re-
marks about politics at the British
war relief affair and the hullabaloo
they caused at the St. Regis roof
. The irony of those photos in
Life showing how wonderful British
ers and England are They were
taken by Cecil Beaten, who once
favored some of the things Hitler
stands for.
Kay Francis and her new ro-
nance, Ivan Golf He may 60 to
Hawaii to join her The Jack
DoyleS (Movita) who are now Loyal
Opposition" The terrific chill
DR.. Manfred Zapp (Nazi newspaper
service exec) reed from the men,
bers of the Natl Press club, Wash
ington, at their annual affair. His
table was isolated in the rear on
balcony No scribe would be seen
sitting with him Rags Rag
lands wooing of Martha Raye
Bert Gordon's big moment-Ruth
Daye, the dancer . Clare Booths
decision not to do colyum The
crepe over the doors of The Peace
Bldg. at 10th Street and With Ave
nue. The Clark Gables (Carole
Lombard) The rumor that a
gazette will not renew a political
colyumer's contract when it expires
because of recent avalanche of
protests The way Mussolini's
army is getting ''BlitzGreek
More Talk:
Angler Biddle Dukes planned
marriage with Margaret Tuck. 1t
may be postponed because his draft
number is soon to be called
The society lady who was fired from
one of the local war charities for
allegedly taking 10 per cent COM
niish on purchases The HTS
tocsin-sounding shortly for the drive
by General Woods group aga inst
William Allen White 's-the latter
sponsoring help for Britain The
uptown Cafe Society bunch who say
God Bless America" (instead Of
Gezzoontight) when you sneeze.
Vaughn DeLeath's return from the
Coast via Mexico for the familiar
reason 80 Frazier Hunts illness
at Norwalk hosp The stock
brokerage in the Fred French bldg
in the Wall Street area which leased
space with the provision giving it
the right to cancel in case FDR was
reelected. And invoking the clause
The phony investment firms
that are operating again, busting off
the old sucker lists with get-rich
schemes The dickering to put
Stokowski's Philharmonic on the
Mutual chain The many ex-
actors being engaged as floor walk
ers at a big midtown store.
General Pershing's return soon to
Tucson, Ariz., spiking reports that
he will be the Ambassador to Vichy.
Notes Of a Bystander
The Front Pages: Most of the
dailies, including London's, saw
Molotof playing bogey-man to Brit
ain by coming to Hitler's house. But
G. E. R. Gedye puts himself on rec
ord as saying it might just as easily
represent Adolf's panic. Having
Topped against Britain, says Gedye,
mebbe the Reich is yelling uncle -.
Incidentally, it took the Post to point
out that Molotoff's arrival in Berlin,
with all the comics dressed in their
best gold braid, is paralleled in Chap
lain's 'The Great Dictator" -. =.
The headline of the week was the
one The News put on Chamberlain's
obit: Chamberlain Finds Peace"
A dispatch that sneaked past
the Rome censor reports the Vat
lean rebuking a Spanish rag for
claiming the Catholics in Poland are
being decently treated. The Nazis,
apparently, are using Franco to
soften up their murders The
Fascist bladders are as disorganized
as II Duce's invincible legions In
the Pindas mountains. Virginia
Gayda, head blotter, alibis that the
troops were too green to deal with
the Greeks, and others insist the
rout of the black shirts by Greece Is
all British propaganda. Typograph-
ical errors, you know, like Caporett0