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...high note in unconscious irony was struck last week by Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, which editorialized: "Money is still needed to finance the Willkie campaign. . . . Greatly increased numbers of contributors mean a significant and healthy broadening of the base. ... All over the country smaller contributors are acting in the lively spirit of the man who pinned to his gift: My candidate's name's Wendell Willkie, His tones are not honey or sillkie; He's the first man in years To call forth my cheers, So-good luck with this $5.00 billkie...
...Perplexed bookies kept the odds at about the previous week's figure: 7-to-5 on Roosevelt. The New York World-Telegram figured that ardent voters had backed their favorites with some...
Some papers (including the New York World-Telegram, St. Louis Post-Dispatch) dropped Johnson's column that day. Others (Chicago Herald-American, Detroit Times} printed it. Dr. Dykstra said that, as far as he knew, he had never been mentioned in a Dies Committee hearing...
...Canadian press spoke out. Said the Toronto Telegram: "The whole program looks like a political sideshow designed to put up a front of doing something without arousing ill feeling on the part of those who are called up." Said the Globe & Mail: "All military experts reject [the scheme] as comparatively useless. . . . Soldiers who had barely learned to shoulder arms and form threes would be no more effective against the highly trained and mechanized forces of the enemy we are now fighting than an unorganized mob equipped with pitchforks...
...tender little tale about 24 hours in the life of Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...