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...this record Scripps-Howard's astute Columnist Raymond Clapper found little to praise. "So far as the British are concerned," said he, "ours still is a popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
Wrote the London News Chronicle's Columnist A. J. Cummings: "We have in this country a great idle Army bored to distraction waiting impatiently for the invasion that will never come...
...when he lost control of his motorcycle in Hackensack, N.J., roared off the road and took a nose dive. // C.I.O.'s Phil Murray left the Pittsburgh hospital where he had been since a heart attack July 13. // Dim-witted Al Capone, 260 lb., is growing John Bull sideburns. // Columnist Sidney Skolsky announced that Judy Garland bites her nails...
...laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...
From London to the U.S. went Columnist Dorothy Thompson, followed by a story from British Columnist Hannen Swaffer. The story: At a dinner party talkative Thompson talked everybody limp. Suddenly Lord Beaverbrook interrupted, cried: "Thompson, shut up. . . . If you're not quiet, I'll tell a story about you." He told it anyhow: how he had once found Churchill in the dumps, had played for him a recording of one of Thompson's praiseful speeches about him. At record's end "the sorrow seemed to drop off his shoulders and he looked a young man again...