The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-06
NOTES oF \ NEW YoRKER

Robert Littell's campaign in Read CTS Digest Con the obnoxious radio eommercials) is one of the most Instructive critiques in ages HSee Here, Private Hargrove" by Marion Hargrove of the Army (he's d Corporal now) is an amusing book. The first reports about the author didn't reveal that he is no stranger to putting down words x. .. He was a feature editor on Char- lotte (N. O News ... The Wash lngton press corps couldn't get the President to be explicit when he banned certain columnists and radio commentators at his press confer ence the other day -. They have 8 pretty good idea whom he meant, though <. Kaltenborn's pronuncia- lion of Russia always tickles these ears "RuSs-ee -yuhhh" <. And < his tissue" comes out "iSs-ee-yoo" For the first time, we think, the newsreels didn't blue pencil the uanns and hells In the cur- cent shots of the American Flying < Fortress crews they use those words, < bub oV AOCo CN4s odA0 VI VAAS &uNy Dept when he cusses about your complacency.
 The fact that Administrator Leon Henderson continually sings Anna pola" and knows only the title-word of that ditty, endears him all the more over at this desk. That's the the only word we can remember of It, too The delightful recording of Irving Berlin's Army show tunes lets you all the way down when ! It fails to include This Time" the most marchy of the score '. Fifth Avenue, between 42nd Street and 58th, after midnight would give sky invaders the shivers-so blacked out is it But not near the Plaza where, for some reason that eludes us, the street lamps are fully on until dawn {. You can always tell when it is 6:45 g. III. in midtown New York .. That's when the first of the transport planes roars vest ward . .. Every time you see ban- anas displayed on the fruit stands it means that some freighter was lucky Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, inspired by fighting Chaplain at Pearl Har- bor, is a holy-roller honey.
 The argument advanced by isola- tionists: But that was before Dec 7thl" doesn't get me, at all
 Those who didn't have the intel ligence to see what was coming be- fore that date = aren't going to have much more intelligence after it Another thing that depresses me is watching a comedian who is Hopping But not when he planes it on the spectators
 You know the type. He says: That's the trouble
 "What's-a-matter? Can't you hear me out there?" =. That's the trou- ble. The local acoustics are toe good .. One drama page, report ing on the Drama Critics Circle elections, listed Brooks Atkinson "o1 the Herald Tribune" An, vel .E. P. A. once said fame was a; fleeting as a ferry boat shine Judge Pecora, who was challenged to a duel, might be comforted bI what HeyWood Broun once did '.
 An Upstater wrote him saying: "Yol wouldn't dare come up here and say that!" Broun wrote him: "Il be up there and say it next Friday at half past five!" <. One of thu group who heard Broun discuss it asked: And did you?" 70 course not!" he replied.
 know that the song, "Wondel When My Baby's Coming Home, isn't what the Army prefers thu troops to get melancholy about, bu it is a tuneful thing The las time saw Lord Louis Mountbat
 ten he was unhappy over his recal to London 7. Because he was t serve at a desk in the Admiralt.