Askov American., 1941-04-10

The Philly newspaperwOman, who
went to work in Goebbels' gar
bage factory two years ago. They
say she was the one who dreamed
up that free-cable-to-Hitler trick -.
The plan by Londoners to confer a
title on Quentin Reynolds when he
returns there The Trotsky book
on Stain which will be published
posthumously.
The strange stories from London
about Andre Maurois, the writer,
who is currently warning Americans
to remember the fate of France
The new resident agent of the Com
mys, a perfect Milquetoast in his
teaching job. His own Red col
leagues in the same college aren't
even hep to him.
Pearson and Aliens table-turning
on Congressman Sweeney of Ohio,
who IS suing them in every state.
He has lost out of already, in
Guiding the case of his home state.
P. & A. have filed against him,
charging "abuse of judicial process"
and ask $780, :. The legend that
Virginio Gayda was beaten up near
Rome by two heroes who escaped.
Mood:
'Ooray for the H'English: Cliff
Edwards told it over on the KNOCK
OUT set at Warmers. Two British
ers met after a long separation and
compared notes about their adven-
lures. "I've been drivin' ambu-
lances, putin out fires, hall sorts
of things" said the first. ''What
ave you been doin'?"
81 was at Dunkirk," said the
other.
"Gawd," gasped the first, "Dun-
kirk? It musta been turrible!"
''It was 'orrible," was the retort,
"rained every day!"
Our Ho-Hum Dept: All the Os-
cars for the best film acting went to
players who impersonated charac-
ters from best selling novels and hit
plays. Meaning that they had some
life before they were screened.
But those statues they give the ac-
tors are big ones-and they cast
shadows that black out the authors
who merely wrote the prize-winning
roles.
Observations: The N. Y. Times
points out the difference between the
Germans of l914-18 and the Nazis
of today. Won Papen, runner of
Hitler's dirty errands" in Turkey,
showed movie depicting the Nazis'
cruelties to the conquered peoples.
In the last war, the Times recalls.
the Germans tried to lie out of their
atrocities. Now they glory in them.
Imagine! Paramount recently
paid Moss Hart and associates al
most 100000 for the film rights to
Lady in the Dark" the hit show
Hart penned while under the care
of psychoanalyst.
1t is assumed that he will now
take out a big policy insuring him.
self against getting well.
Served Him Right: One of those
bores who begins his anesthetic
with: "You don't remember, do
you?" was properly stifled by a
fed-up victim with: ''No, amt
lucky?"
Form of Criticism: At the play
premiere the other intermission
time one of the critics wives was
telling Richard Watts, who hated it,
that she and her husband were hav-
ing fun. "Whatcha doing" intoned
Watts, holding hands?"
New Y0rchids: "Meet John Doe"
which the previewers insist will be
another feather in his Capra
Hugo Storms book, "Seven Lean
Hounds The editorial cartoons
of H. H. Bergman in the Springfield
(Mass.) Union-big-city stuff
Quentin Reynolds exciting book,
''The Wounded Don't Cry" which
father'd the ''Dunkirk" quip that led
a recent colyum.
In Fewer Words: Bumito has
double-crossed his henchmen over
here again. Many Americans came
back from Spain to deny the Fas-
cists and Nazis were helping Fran
CO. Now Old Badly sends Spain a
bill, itemizing the cost of every
Fascist retreat!
OF All Things: Cussing has been
outlawed among the soldiers at Fort
Devens, Mass. watch your Ian
guage," the men were told. you're