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Mills rushed So We'll Knock into print. In Manhattan it published another song composed that Sunday afternoon: You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon. Excerpt: Uncle Sam is gonna spanky. Wait and see, before we're done The A. B. C. and D. will sink your rising sun. . . . You're a sap, sap, sap...
...office hang the originals of two creepy Daily News cartoons depicting "Uncle Sap" being seduced by the skeleton-headed harlot "World War II," gifts of her good friend Daily News Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor. Her managing editor, 39-year-old Harold A. Davis, came from the Daily News, as did several Newsday reporters. In the last elections she borrowed the Daily News idea of a "Battle Page."* Her biggest help came from the Daily News's late great promotion wizard, Max Annenberg. Max coached her on all the tricks of the trade, got her a general manager, William Mapel...
Mozart: Concerto in D Minor (K. 466) for Piano and Orchestra (Rochester Philharmonic with José Iturbi; Victor; 7 sides; $4.50). Late Mozart with plenty of Romantic sap. The Rochester Philharmonic, which started recording less than a year ago, again proves it is an outfit to be reckoned with. Pianist Iturbi scintillates at the keyboard, conducts the orchestra at the same time...
...press generally hailed the new tax proposals, prayed that Congress would have the nerve to cut out the non-defense plush trimmings and tax the sap out of the citizenry. Probability was that Congress would finally whip itself into such a hypnotic frenzy of patriotism and concern that it would pass a much-less-cowardly-than-average tax bill...
...Greeks turned to us for succor. . . . They declared they would fight for their native soil . . . even if we left them to their fate. But we could not do that. There are rules against that kind of thing. . . . An act of shame would deprive us of . . . respect . . . and thus would sap the vitals of our strength...