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...included U.S. jazz and a quiz program. The winners carried off armloads of shoes, shirts, dresses, loaves of bread. Some of the youngsters were suspicious of the friendliness they encountered. The owner of a big Berlin movie theater invited the kids to come and see the show (The Dark Mirror, with Olivia de Havilland). Afterward, one 16-year-old thanked the manager: "It was very nice indeed. Yet when I come to think of it, why did you invite us? There was nothing political in the film? I've got to think it over...
...with a wife and three children. The reporter found the Massolos' former maid. The last morning she visited the house she had found a note on the door telling her she was no longer needed. She went in anyway, noticed blood spots on the carpet and on a mirror, then hastily left...
With the census seven weeks old and still unfinished, the nation was acting as apprehensive as a housewife getting a new hairdo. Many a city had a horrible premonition that it wasn't going to look as flashy as it had hoped when it finally got to the mirror. The alarm over a short count was greatest on the West Coast; city officials were using everything but moose calls and native beaters to get every last bum and baby located, quizzed and accounted...
When a newspaperman gets beaten up while on the job, his colleagues usually have a sympathetic word for him. But last week, in Hearst's New York Mirror, Columnist Walter Winchell cracked: "The attack on a newspaperman by 'unknown' assailants . . . reminds the wags of critic [Alexander] Woollcott-of whom it was quipped: 'If that guy's ever found murdered-half the population of N.Y. will be held under suspicion...
...newspaperman Winchell was talking about was his Mirror colleague, Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, 45, whose previous publicized licking was administered by weedy Crooner Frank Sinatra at Hollywood's Ciro's nightclub. This time Welterweight (138 Ibs.) Mortimer was beaten by an unidentified thug at 1:45 a.m. in the washroom of New Jersey's Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer...