The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-04


| NEW YORK-The party is beginning to get
rough up in Fairfield county, Conn., where
Clare Booth Luce, a Republican, of course,
and warty shapeless old bag with pool-table
legs and face that would clabber milk a
mile away, is running for reelection to Con-
gress. I toss in this little dash of descriptive
matter about Mrs. Luce because her campaign
manager says it is unfair to her to keep on
writing how good-looking she is as this tends
to suggest that she is using ex-appeal on the
stays and might ALLEVIATE the womens vote.
These dispatches aim to- be fair.
The communists of the Political Action Com
mittee have ganged up the frowsy old
ostrich in greater force and vehemence than
they have exerted against any other nominee
in the country except Tom Dewey, himself,
and now it has been announced that Mr.. Big,
in person. will make q tail-board appearance
and toss off few remarks in his Groton-
Harvard Cockney dialect as he passes through
Bridgeport, Saturday, on his way to Boston.
Henry Wallace, the Johnny appleseed Of the
campaign, who has been thumbing his way
around the east like a widowed bum and
making a speech wherever he finds as many
as two prospects, or even one, gathered in a
rapt throng, is scheduled to speak in eleven
towns.
This personal attention from the President
and the forgotten man might be attributed to
a spirit of personal revenge against the poor,
unsightly wench because she sometimes gives
an imitation of Eleanor Roosevelt telling a
humorous and comical anecdote about the
time Franklin said he would like to have his
shoes soled and the second butler hooked them
to the cash-clo' man thinking Franklin had
meant that he wanted them Sold
Just to give you an idea of the ferocity Of
the communist campaign, Clifton Fadiman,
sometimes known as Killer Fadiman, the bull
butterfly of the literary teas, made an Grafton
the other night in which he dropped ON
inous hint that if the Republicans should win
the election we would have a civil war. He
did not say what part he would take in that
civil war but it appears that that is the one
that he has been saving for himself for since
the age of 80 when he was a savage, but
vicarious anti-fascist in the Spanish thing, and
down to now in the present scuffle with Adolf
Hitler whom he fearlessly denounces, however.
Anyway, those citizens of Connecticut who
may be toying with the idea of voting Re-
publican cannot say the killer didn't give them
fair warning that heads will roll and the gut
tiers run with gore if they wreak their wicked
will at the polls come election day. The Re-
publcans may even take down their ticket
in fear.
The killer also accused Mrs. Luce of bad
manners being quite an authority on swinish-
nesl by reason of long association to say
nothing of natural gift, and said "she is
fresh from the fox-holes of Park avenue"
remark which elected from her the inquiry:
"And where IS your fox-hole?' which was ir-
relevant, Of course.
When she isn't prowling around the streets
soaring babies and bulldogs with that mugg
Of hers, Mrs. Luce takes trips to the war, in
person, and she has invited the killer to come
on up sometime and swap "reminiscences about
fox-holes under battle conditions She was in
Belgium and France during the blitz and made
two trips to the Orient where she scared sew
eral japanese divisions to death by pushing
her face up out of the trenches.
Another of the commands selected for this
shock operation by the communist-new deal
PAC axis, is old Dorothy Thompson, who has
been fading away as pundit ever since 1910
when she thought it would be a good idea not
to bother to hold a presidential election. Mrs
T. had lived long term in Germany and
now you find her mostly in the papers which
endorse Roosevelts own Hitlerian Innovations
She and the hag used to pull hair and kick
and scream in refined way a few years
back but Luce finally brushed her off, prob
ably figuring that she was just wasting her
time, and Thompson is now in there again
| trying to renew it, which might help the syn
dictate sales, although hardly much.
The Luce heard Quentin Reynolds, known to
the night clubs as the artful check-dodger, in
one of the attacks from the outside, and sug-
gested that the place for war correspondent
was with the invasion army and certainly not
Connecticut of which he is not resident
II do not envy this man who has chosen
this battle,'' she said, instead of reporting
the battles in which our men are fighting and
DYING
Well, this will give you an idea of the i'm
portance of this particular congressional dis
trict to the new deal and their communists.
The thing is personal with the Roosevelts and
deadly with the communists because the dame
insists that we ought to deal with Stain as
equals and establish a peace of free, indie
pendent European nations, not satellites of
Moscow On labor and war measures her
record is just about perfect even from their
own standpoint but for these two reasons they
are out to NOW her down.
Most of the conversational commands are
written-ou hacks and hams who would take
their pants off in Times square for line in
the papers, so their influence on the farmers
and factory workers of Connecticut may be
smaller than they hope.
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