The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06

the pot They say that one player cleaned up the other rush. hour yelling "Morrisl" on a north bound Bronx express!
 On one of the forums the other Sabbath the opposing sides wrestled with the topic of the best way to stifle the Fifth Column. All agreed on one thing: Publicity is the best way to wipe out the rodents. But certain wv, who has been doing that for long time now is called "hysterical," among other things. Ho, hum .. Some of us, incident ally, are heckled for playing up "un- important" news .. But the Feb. 3rd New York H-T devoted a two colyum front page spread to the news that Princeton stewdentS are now allowed to have panther-soup in their rooms .. The same day the NY Times reported that all the bishops in Norway condemned the NaZiS Wonder how the Satevepost feels about that? Since the SEP ran a peice claiming the Norwegians are playing ball with them Ltndbergh, the aviation expert, claims we need 10000 planes to be safe Rickenbacker, a1- other expert, claims we need 150,- 900 planes .. In short, what the country needs is-less experts and more planes.
 Putzi HanfstaengPs boy, who has enlisted in our air force, states: What I do object to in America are the drugstore cowboys, who spend their afternoons with their girl friends, slipping chocolate frappes, never giving a thought to democracy and what it meansl" !. They aren't forgetting democracy, boy. They're enjoying it. That's one of the glories of it.!
 A Hialeah plunger has sworn off playing the horses. He found out that the only thing that runs true to form at the tracks is the armored truck that carries the arrangements profits to the bank.
 The cOlyum recently itemed that commentators should pronounce MT. Knudsen's name "Nood-sen", i, not Ka-nood-sen" A coun- try-woman of the Defense Chief responded by saying that K" was silent Well, she's wrong, too We now learn from Leon Hen- derson, one of MT. Knudsen's col leagues, that his name is pro- nounced "Ka-noo-sen"-the d" be- ing excess baggage.
 Over at the IS Club, Pat Harring- ton relayed this one on MT. Ka- noo-sen The Defense b1ggie was playing his favorite card game, poker, with some Washington cronies. The limit was dollar. During big pot, MT. Ka-noo- sen was about to wager a whole dollar to call his opponents bluff "Be careful" cautioned the opponent, that's a whole years Government pay!"
 Remember that oldie about the gink who has a strip of adhesive tape across his mouth and is told to take it off and find out who won the raffle? .. Well, it's turned up in a 4-star flicker, "Tall, Dark and Berle''! .. The London Daily Express reports this sign observed on a board outside a London church: "If your knees are knock ing, kneel on them" =. Germany's Minister of Justice has just died ;. Gone to join Justice, no doubt.
 It happened over at Barbara Hut tons house in Hollywood then other party The wealthy lady in vited several of her friends on tho Coast newspapers and trade dailies Herb Stein, of the Hollywood Reporter, a newcomer, was talking with her in a dimly-lit corner-s heart-to-heart talk.
 "This is all very nice," said Stein everybody is so pleasant to me But can you imagine how they'c snub me if didn't have colyum?'
 Can you imagine" was the grin reply, "if I didn't have money?"