Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-08-20
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~ (f1aTCOuTt-bTaCe) contains lnlS
beautiful wordage: "And the plane
it isn't something that belongs to
the Government with number; it's
Old SO, the beautiful NEW Flying
Fortress that belongs to you. It's
more than your home-it's, well, a
kind of a sweetheart. All of you
picked her up off the assembly line
at the Boeing plant where she was
born-a beautiful, smooth, shining,
naked thing. Then all of you took
her up over the clouds and wrapped
that beautiful blue star-spangled
gown of the skies around her, which
is the way every Fortress ought to
be dressed, because they're the
Queens of the high skies"
Fl. Ullstein's 1.-THE Rise and Fall
of the House of Ullstein" (Simon-
Schuster) is a tragic story of the
slow death of Germany's greatest
publishers via the swastika poison
. The history of its downfall has
an uncanny way of paralleling some
of the events already taking place
here The author reports that he
told conservative German dailies to
offer sitter resistance to the rising
tide of Naziism. But they, and even
chiefs of his own paper, told him
not to be so pessimistic about the
danger within They feared
that such stories would lose SUBJ
scribers-so they did nothing, and
now they have nothing.
From Exchange Ship" by Max
Hill of the Associated Press Gar
rar-RineharD "Clean people? The
Japanese bath provides what prob
ably is the dirtiest way of getting
clean in the world. Scores of men,
women and children battle in the
same water, which is hot but surely
not enough to kill germs Each
wing (of my PRISON. had row Of
five Japanese-type baths, one OF
them usually out of order. That
meant the $50 prisoners had four
tubs, and the water wasn't emptied
until the last man passed through
the line. The native prisoners were
first-but there was only one place
for the foreigners-last."
II. Allen Smiths book, Life in a
Putty Knife Factory" contains con-
siderable amusement, including: "a
man who becomes the writer of
column is much worse off. His brain
achieves such state that no re-
spectacle gumma would ever attach
itself to it. He becomes straight
forward paranoiac. He suffers first
from headache, tinnitus, palpitation,
digestive disturbances, and incapaci-
ty for mental exertion. After that
come intense egotism, selfishness,
conceit, overbearing pride, violent
temper, and morosenesS. How do
l know this? l was a columnist.
My own favorite is w. w. Around
newspaper offices, where it is fash
ionable to scott, he gets very little
outspoken applause. Your omnis-
cient, staggering newspaper man
greetS his name with a sheer.
never did. I wouldn't sneer even
though it made me appear to be
sharp as tack"
"Time of Peace" an exciting tale
by Ben Ames Williams (Houghton-
Mifflin), contains this gem: $50 now
you've seen where your ancestors
lived" Mark told his son as they
came into familiar surroundings.
Don't ever forget that you're more
than a New Englander. Out of your
eight Observation-Disclosures, two
went from Massachusetts to Ohio,
two went from Georgia to Missis-
sippi, one lived in California, one in
Oregon, one in Minnesota, and one
your mothers great-grand-
mother-came from Germany
Two of your great-grandparents
came from Wales. Your grandpar-
ents came from Ohio, Michigan and
Minnesota. You've got all the blood
strains in you, Tony. You're not a
Westerner, nor Southerner. You're
an American"
Secretary Harold Ickes' 1.-THE Au-
photography of Curmudgeon"
(Reynal g. Hitchcock offers the fol-
lowing in the chapter called Blessed
Event: "Mouth-to-ear rumors about
a public man are almost without eX-
ception so fiercely barbed that most
people would hesitate to repeat them
out loud if they should be said of a
private citizen. The private citizen
has easy recourse to the courts
protection under the law. So, too,
I grant you, in theory, has the pub
lie man, but the more public he is,
the greater the probability that
should he prove that he didn't actu-
ally commit the crime, the publicity
that he would get would leave the
world convinced that he was in the
neighborhood when it occurred. In
other words, the people can believe
virtually anything concerning man
in public life provided that it is suf-
ficiently unbelievable"
If you are still squawking about
rationing, then read Round Trip to
Russia by Walter Graebner Clip
pincott is publisher) Graebner's