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...Stars & Stripes does not intend to change its formula, merely to offer more of it. The paper will go up to eight pages on Mondays, will not publish Sundays. The Sabbath is reserved for bluff & breezy Yank. The two papers, which are not for sale to Britain's public or soldiers, will cost the doughboys sixpence a week. Although their circulations are secret, they are unquestionably the fastest growing publications extant...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
Disclaiming some Jewish ritual, notably Rosh Hashanah (New Year), Boake Carter observes Saturday as the Sabbath and celebrates the Passover. He eats nothing that is not kosher, though he prefers to call it "Biblically cooked." When he was studying the rules that govern his diet, he made a trip to Manhattan's aquarium and "checked on the habits of forbidden lobsters, crabs and oysters...
What did the people say when the news of the bombing broke on the quiet Sabbath...
...terrible big black headlines, breaking the Sabbath peace, a mysterious little sheet shrieks such messages at New Yorkers. It is the New York Enquirer, only Sunday afternoon paper in the city. Making the most of its few unchallenged hours on the newsstands, it prints the wildest stories seen anywhere in the U.S. press. No less strange than the paper is its editor and publisher, a pudgy loudmouth named William Griffin. Last week the U.S. learned a few facts about Editor Griffin and his paper when he was indicted by a Federal grand jury on the charge of undermining the morale...