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CROSS TOWN Bv Roland Coe "I'm afraid I'll have to apologize for the mnllifan. Today's a MEATLESS day y' know!" I ? > r/ \v BOBBY SOX ?y Marty Links "For Uu last time, Alvin?where were yon when I I was really to jo?" KAWCY By Ernie Buthmiller I I 1 NANCY-?? HAVE YOU W SEEN THAT STUFFED P WRO I IT DOESN'T LOOK m REAL ENOUGH--- w IT OU6HT TO LOOK /" I^MORE NATURAL Y A FEW WORMS \MISHT HELP ^ MUTT AND JEFF By Bud Fialier I I'M K?S SM. Dotf-rTmZl AL?mw8" Voo KNOW/THOUOKT I DID WHO YOU i UNTIL YOU CAME ukrrtsm me ntem and - / wwhb! HAW6V0UV> ANY CHILDREN? WHAT DOVtoOf DO FOR A <L LIVING AND I ARE YOO <M HAPPY OR-B fs*y what) | 16 THIS?J jf f ARE YOU U TAKING ? census? ^M^TMlNWNSABOjr) RENTING NEXT DOOR \ AND I LIKE TO KNOWL, ALL ABOUT MV k? NEIGHBORS BEFORE lftJM \I MOVE WMfBEsM UTILE REGGIE ? ? I ll 111 1 1 3 By Margarita T 1 (It) LIKE A 1 BASKETFUL TO FEEO THE BIROS .fg^Bp r bi?o j [Housef JITTER ?? ] By Arthur Pointer I I DRUGS) DRUGS REGULAR FELLERS *? iii ? ? By Gene Byrne* I I J / SET OUTA V * MIT WAV 30NNV V vauU tsrr V*N^ HUA.T7 r-^ trr2f iwSSMA ] ^2?T ( r*'J / US5fN--\ / ITXXI VWNMA \ / WATCH ML ) / GO JTANO ^C" I IMA SAM iA wot.' /I f oonJ \Jt f JO?v A/ ( \narrv>(j?J /^iow x*i oS?N ( JTU.L Mt ) ant> *eu eom U y^LfVE uaiapt^/'i VIRGIL By Len KleU | I j f POP I'M \ i pukyin iv an l / unscrupulous ) i villain- j i pall vou BE. r i tm mia J |va>DENJ/-Y? (wtU-.f*-) r i^iTr ~T / I AtNT ONE > TO 66 EASILY L (__ 6PU*NEOlf SILENT SAM By Jeff Hayes Manhattan Heartbeat Fifth Avenue, the teeming boule vard which runs the gauntlet from 1 south to 2340 north in the heart of the world's most important Treasure Island, Is the Avenue FOR the Americas. In 1918, during the first World War, it was for a time called the Avenue of the Allies, which fooled nobody. With a past as glamorous as Camille's, a pres ent as active as the dollar's. Ha future is as bright as radar's 1 Come Sunday, the city fathers of the good old days shut the Avenue off so that Sabbath worshippers could have absolute quiet. Now it's almost necessary to rope off the glittering store windows so that the strollers can't have free rein! . . . The Avenue is an international hodgepodge of everything: Toy fac tories, two art museums (the Metro politan and the Frick), famous cathedrals, churches and syna gogues, the Empire State (the world's highest, widest and hand somest), architects and stock brokers, haberdashers, interior decorators, women's apparel spe cialists, Radio City (which gives na tives their largest Christmas tree and an outdoor ice skating rink), a party favor house, swank restau rants, banks, and mansions filled with ghosts. The first Fifth Avenue Hotel ? six stories high (or can you stand it?)?was opened in 1859. It fea tured a novelty. New York's first vertical railway. What's that? Why, a passenger elevator?you dope. . . . Elevators along Fifth these days are such elegant affairs that opera tors are likely to look down their shafts at ordinary pilots of the Air Forces. John Barrymore earned and lost several fortunes during his turbu lent career. When a colleague chided him for his financial irre sponsibility, Barrymore recited an epitaph he had seen in Westmin ster Abbey: "What I gave, I have. What I spent, I had. What I left, I lost?by not giving it." Some of as wondered why Jed Harris, who once made a million dollars as a Broadway showman, didn't connect in Hollywood. . . : In siders insist this is why. . . . Friends brought him to Louis B. Mayer, the movie magnate, who had been in formed of Jed's genius on B'way. "How much money do you want a week?" asked Mayer. "How much do YOU get?" de manded Harris. That did it! When Heywood Broun first start ed reviewing Broadway shows he had the habit of making notes dur ing dull shows to appear that he wasn't bored. . . . The worse the show the more he scribbled. ... I One night he stopped making memos during a second act. . After the second interval the beam ing producer said: "I feel better since I noticed you put away your pad." "Yes," grumbled Broun. "1 broke my penciL" | outurns in uie uark: At the Sing- j spore: "He reaches (or the check like it was an atomic bomb!" ... \t the Stuyvesant Casino: "They jay he's an awful bore ? but I ihink he's rather expert at it." . . . At Ciro's: "When he dies the only j {uy who'll be sorry will be his in-1 lurance agent." ... At the Park Central Lounge: "A layman is a pedestrian who jumped too late!" . . At the Garden Restaurant: "He was just promoted from Account Executive to Office Boy." ... At he China Doll: "Her love is so lckle it oughta be listed on the Stock Exchange." ... At the Bronx too: "But son, I've told you a hun ired times, Senator Bilbo is in Washington!" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once re sted a bantering conversation he lad with a $10-a-week actor who ras cast in one of his plays. The roung chap had laughingly suggest ed that the two agree to divide their nonmss . ?*' * *" ? n.?? vavu uuici iur me rest of their lives. . . . Naturally, Sir Arthur had refused "such a ridiculous oHer." The JlO-a-week youngster was Charlie Chaplin. Harry Wagstaff Gribble, the pro ducer, director, author and all I around play expert, has coined a i svelegant new word to replace the inaccurate "Colored" and equally untrue "Negro." . . . The casts of both "Anna Lucasta" troupes are thrilled about it. It's a pip, to wit: Negramerican. This one has been pinned on vari ous hefty humans. But Alec Woo 11 cott enjoyed pinning it on himself. . . . When Alec was tipping the scales (in the 300s) two actors no ticed him wading in the Atlantic City surf. Said one: "Let's go swim ming." "How can we?" quipped the oth er. "Woollcott's using the ocean!" B'way (T. Weatberiy) Confnetus: There's No New Thing Under the Sun. But Some Of The Old Ones Are Plenty ai Pun I llfeMame ^oum Repotte* fa WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNVCmeMM WNU Wtkitft,w Buntm. all tjm St.. M. W. Stiller Attitude Toward High-Handed Unions Seen "THE "anti-Petrillo" is now the *? law of the land, signed by the President. And that signature marks a milestone of some kind, for this reporter believes that de spite the fact that we have a week toieed, supine congress, the law will mark the turning point in govern ment relations with labor abuses. This so-called Petrillo bill is a slap on the wrist for Mr. James Caesar Petrillo, head of the magi cians' union, but it eliminates abuses in only one industry, "featherbed ding" in the radio industry. It permits the same abuses to be prac ticed by Mr. Petrillo in other indus tries . . . notably motion pictures and theaters, and it leaves other | unions free to perform the same practices that Mr. Petrillo is pun ished for in the radio industry. For instance, the law says that ( Mr. Petrillo cannot levy a royalty , or a tax on phonograph records , used for broadcasting, but the union , can still levy this royalty on every record you play in your home. Mr. , John L. Lewis is at this very mo- ; ment seeking to levy a tonnage tax ( on every ton of coal, 10 cents a ton, ( to provide a huge fund for his min- . era' union. But Mr. Lewis is free . to do that since the "anti-Petrillo" law doesn't apply to the miners' , union. But a congress which gave in to political expediency in its worst sense, and played checkers with the i security 01 ine nation m tne emas ciliated draft bill, and which indi cated such utter stupidity and dis regard for the welfare and opinions of the rank and file of the American people in passage of the vivisected OPA bill in the house, probably could not be expected to take up the abuses of labor union leaders in one fell swoop. Unioru Are Neceuary Your Home Town Reporter be lieves in labor unions. They are necessary in our American way of life, since without them the Amer ican workers would be at the mercy Df greedy employers. Were it not lor labor unions, a man's toil would still be a commodity to be bought and sold, to be used or disregarded at the whim of any capitalist. But the abuse of these benefits which lave been granted to labor by cer tain labor bosses and in which these bosses even defy the government of the United States, should most def initely be curbed. Public opinion polls indicate that the rank and file jf the American people hold to this opinion and the folks who live in he small towns and the rural areas ire particularly incensed at prac :ices and unlicensed affrontery of some of these leaders. The Case bill, approved here by some of the farm organizations, will lie aborning in the senate and in he senate labor committee. A ma oritn n# I ?- - ' " jw.a+j ui uuo ii1111icc nas naa me i temerity to propose a measure | which would punish unions seeking to extort money from farmers by coercion or force and to prevent farmers from transporting perish able farm products to market. This has hapnened in Pennsyl vania, in New York, and in other sections wherein farmers' tracks have been overturned, or the farm er has been forced to pay tribute to anions to drive his truck of prod uce into the market place. But what about the farmer who seeks to transport nonperishable products? Why not include that in the bill for it is most certainly as wrong for unions to prohibit the hauling of logs to market as it is to levy tribute for lettnce. And why not at the same time protect others besides i farmers? A Tribute on Every Ton Now the entire country is Just about to pay tribute to Jchn L. Lew is before he consents to let his min ers mine coal for industry and to heat your houses. Mr. Lewis struts from the headquarters of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America, a stone-facaded building about a block from my office here, and which re sembles nothing more than an ex clusive Union League club or a Car negie library, and issues an edict... an edict to the Mine Owners, to Industry, to the American Public and to the Government of the Unit ed States . . . and he will probably get away with it. Wages for his miners is a sec- | ondary issue. What he wants most ; is that royalty of 10 cents a ton which would mean some SO to 80 million dollars a year in Mr. Lewis' coffers for welfare or whatever he determines to use it for. So what difference 400,000 miners out of work for three, or Ave or six weeks, | or why should Mr. Lewis care if members of other unions in steel, autos and a dozen other industries are thrown out of work by his coal strike ... or that production is stopped and reconversion slowed? Mr. Lewis wants to strut his power. =1 *jPHE argument broke into a rash A concerning the easiest position to play on a baseball team. Wa put the debate up to Joe McCarthy, who Knows what it is all about, no matter, what the position might happen to be. "Why don't you ask a lot of ball players," Joe said, "and get their slant? After Stiro weiss had played third three or four days, I asked him how he liked the < Job. 'Great,'he said. Srantluid Rice ?Dut do X still get paid on the first and fifteenth for playing third?" " We accepted Manager McCar thy's challenge and soon lined up the viewpoints of all the earnest athletes we could corral. In the concensus that followed, the catching assignment was rated the toughest by an extensive mar gin. What about the pitcher? The pitcher only works every fourth or fifth day, and too often only toils four or five innings. But the catcher, the better catch ers, get few vacations. Yon might talk to Bill Dickey some time about this and discover the beatings they take around the plate. Catching a hundred ball games a year is harder work than playing any other position for three hun-| ired games. All of which leads up! to the easiest or softest job on the! team. This is where the argu-1 ment started. Hot Corner' Easiest We talked with the Cardinals, Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Indians, and several others about the easiest position 10 piay. from the start the players began voting for third and first base. The consensus Anal ly settled on third base. As one veteran expressed it?"I'll tell you about playing third base. On a general average when they slap one at you. it is either a hit or an out?but nearly always a hit if you don't handle it.. Yes. there are bunts to cover, but as a per centage proposition, third basemen get few errors thrown into their rec ords. It always happens in a hurry at third base and it is all different at short and second. They have room enough and time enough to move around. The third baseman doesn't." The next soft job consensus went to first base. But a first baseman is supposed to be one of the best hit ters on the club. Charley Comiskey was the first of all the first basemen who left the safety of the bag to cut down a few drives slashed to wards right field. That, 50 years ago, was a daring innovation. It remained for Hal Chase to prove how an artist could handle first. But Hal was too great an artist for his own good along certain devious lines we won't discuss here. Now here is a peenliar angle. Baseball has known more great first basemen and more great sec ond basemen than It has ever known shortstops and third base men. Just how can von exnlain thus At first base we have had stars from the days of Fred Tenney on, through Frank Chance. Stuffy Mfr Innis, Hal Chase, George Sisler, Lou Gehrig, and Bill Terry. Many Stars at Second Second has the longest parade ot stars ? Lajoie, Collins. Evers, FTisch, Hornsby, Gordon, Doerr. But outside of the enduring Honus Wagner, shortstop has given the game few outstanding names. There have been such good ones as Ban croft, Jackson, Jennings, Tinker. Long, Wallace?but only a limited list ranged below Wagner's fame. Third base, voted as the easiest job cn the club to hold, should be arrayed and bedecked with great names. The list of good ones is fairly long. The list of great ones very scant. Jimmy Collins, Pie Traynor, Art Devlin, Heinie Groh. Red Rolfe, Bill Bradley, these were among ttte best. In order to ward off indignant and protesting letters we'll admit in advance that many good names have been left off the list, due mainly to a zigzag memory. The tough spot and the most im portant spot on the infield is the combination of short and second. Two fast men here can take pretty good care of the infield, especially those of the Rizzuto-Gordon and the Pesky-Doerr type, not to overlook Marion and his mate on the Cardi nals. Third base may be the "hot corner" but it also requires less terrain to petrol. ? ? ? No Roqm for Alibis The box score is a national in stitution that has been attracting more and more popular interest in the United States for 70 years. It carries compact news to count less millions from the smaller ham lets on to the greater cities and the smaller hamlets furnish most of the stars who gather their fame in big league centers. Here it is again with a complete record of runs, hits, errors, strikeouts, stolen bases. It offers no space tot alibis or excuses.
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