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...heat that finally sent Congressmen's rage sky-high was Columnist Raymond Clapper's remark: "People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress...
Standing at attention while Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall intoned the formal citation, lean-faced, balding Jimmy Doolittle bent forward while President Roosevelt pinned the gold, blue-ribboned medal above his left shirt pocket. Not even a columnist, chortled the President, had known the identity of the raid's leader...
...Brooklyn Dodgers got the razzberry last week. Reason: they were six full games ahead of their nearest rival in the National League. Spokesman for the hecklers was mustachioed Dan Parker, New York Daily Mirror sports columnist, Dodger fan and leading U.S. exponent of Brooklynese. Wrote...
...Columnist Raymond Clapper reported last week that...
...these troubled times, must make patriotism real and functional. It isn't until one uses deodorants "under arms for a nation under arms" that the term so flatly defined by Mr. Webster takes on true meaning. It is only when the Mum Company asks: "Are you your own fifth columnist? Do you sabotage your personal attractiveness with underarm perspiration on short wave broadcasts?" that the word becomes utterly challenging...