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...supplement for Yeoman Brill, I have been invited to corral letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, et cetra and formulate them so they will fabricate this week's column, Hence, I find my self poised over the typewriter with word baited fingers about to race (did I say race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...
Since Messrs. Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels et al. are still at large, the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes as yet has had little to do except receive complaints. But already it has a long list of accused. By the end of 1942 the delegates of nine German-occupied countries, where an estimated 3,400,000 people had been executed or had died in Nazi concentration camps, had proposed over 10,000 German names for punishment...
...Round column headlined: GILLETTE IS CHOSEN BY FARLEY TO BEAT ROOSEVELT IN 1944. The burden of Pearson's story was that James A. Farley had met with anti-Fourth Term Senators (including Missouri's Bennett Clark, Georgia's Walter George, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, et al.) to choose a candidate to win the Democratic nomination from Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. The man they settled on, said Pearson, was Iowa's handsome, white-thatched Senator Guy M. Gillette...
...seems that each Friday I am to be given the opportunity of expressing certain of my reactions to life, liberty and the pursuit of Ensigns who have failed to certify their copies to be true. Also, all news items, advice-to-the-lovelorn (with reservations, of course) and et cetera, are to be handled and mishandled here...
...advertisement [One Language Is Enough in North Carolina] as appeared on page 88 of TIME, June 14 (though I was heartily ashamed).... Please, leave such outbursts of "99% Americanism" to Social Justice and the Patterson-McCormick publications, and let TIME stick to the 100% Americanism of Sabata, Judd, et al. (p. 25, June 14 issue...