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Lunchroom Proprietor H. B. Clifford collected the kiss Paulette Goddard had promised the man who brought the most aluminum to her door. It lasted 45 seconds, by the stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded...
...bridge of the cruiser he was usin' for' a flagship. We had three other cruisers with us. Just like at Jutland, he was goin' ahead, scoutin' the enemy. 'Two Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn't say a word. 'How many...
...will attack and two will ram,' he says to the captain. 'Will we attack, sir?' the Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that...
...mention incendiary bombs and London-sized targets), blackouts are no good, anyhow. So let's substitute light-outs. When bombers come, turn on all lights. Install more lights to turn on. Make earth and sky one luminous hell for enemy pilots. Blind them with clustered searchlights. Fool them with lights around empty fields. Simply by lighting up everything, obscure all worthwhile targets...
Next day Mr. Kellogg was given the lie direct. First to do so was Ickes. "This is no time," cried he to a press conference, "for any man to fool either himself or the people. I don't know whether Mr. Kellogg was trying to fool himself, but he certainly was misrepresenting the facts to the people." Asked whether he felt that 0PM should seek a new power expert, Ickes replied: "Why, they haven't got one now." And Mr. Kellogg? "Ha! He's worth all of the $1 a year he's being paid. . . . Papa...