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Over the Boise's telephone jut-jawed Captain Edward J. ("Mike") Moron spoke to the spotter in No. 1 position: "How many ships have you spotted...
...always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists at the Famous studio recently answered a questionnaire asking whether they would prefer Superman for a husband or a boy friend. All said: boy friend. Explained one: "Trying to live with so super a husband might be awfully fatiguing...
This, the newest of all rackets, is so simple that a moron could work it. A station owner, patronized by an A-card holder known to him, sells ten gallons of gas and clips but one coupon. The extra seven gallons, if there is ever a question raised, can be explained away as a sale to a second customer holding an X-card. There is no means of checking the story, for the station owner is careful not to sell more over the limit to a stranger who might be an OPA investigator. Cheating of this type has been common...
Chambermaids at Yale's sister college, Smith, also threatened to strike last week over a story in Tatler, the campus funny magazine, about "Maids We Have Known And Loved"-including "one who was four feet wide ... a high-grade moron," another with "monstrous buck teeth." Smith's maids read, bridled, sent a committee to Warden Laura Woolsey Lord Scales demanding an immediate apology. The faculty suspended the Tatler and its editors wrote the maids a penitent letter. "We hope that [the maids] will accept our apologies and that they will be lenient with a sheer creation, unfortunate...
Gland Specialist John Brinkley, barely defeated (twice) for the Governorship of Kansas, once potent operator of a radio station over the Mexican border. Said William Allen White: "He will appeal to the hillbilly mind as it has never been lured before. . . . He is irresistible to the moron mind, and Texas has plenty of such!" Editor White's conclusion: Doc Brinkley...