EM EM : monthly magazine - 01.09.1941, Page 15

Em Em
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Knudsen Visits Shipyards Catholic Honored
Williaítí Thomas Walsh, educator
and author, has been awarded the
Laetare Medal of the University of
Notre Dame for 1941, highest Cath-
olie honor for a layman in the U. S.
A professor of English at Manhat-
tanville College of the Sacred
Heart, New York City, Walsh har
published authoritative books on
Spanish historical subjects.
William S. Knudsen, director of the Office of Production Management,
shields his face from the glare as he watches weldcrs at work in the
Fore River Shipyards in Quincy, Mass. Making a whirlvúnd tour of
the defense plant, he urged all possible speed in production.
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
—By WILLIAJM RITT-
Central Press Writer
KO MATTER how early a
ftome owner puts up his sereeh,
íhe first fly always manages to
f#t Into the house ahead of him.
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•Vow that he’s having hjs
Uoubles in the Balkans Herr
Hitler must realize why ihey
call the Danube river blue.
! ! !
Grandpappy Jenkins says a
fortune awaits the inventor who
can successfully cross the dan-
deiion with the Mexican jumptng
bean, thus creating the self-
weeding lawn.
! ! !
Fish. according to a writer on
the subject, are easier to catch
if music is played. This must
have been the idea behind the
first night club.
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A woman writer is receiving
$175,000 ior the movie rights to
her yet-unpublished novel. The
hlms certainly gave a pretty
penny for her thoughts.
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An eastern zoo has a bird
which, when touched, promptly
faints. Sounds like the dove of
peace.
! ! !
Frenchmen can now buy a new
suit of clothes, but first they,
must trade in two old ones. May-
be 40,000,000 Frenchmen can’t
be wrong, but if this keeps up
they’ll soon be nudists!
Boy, 12, Gets Life
Prison for the rest of his life is the
fate of Robert Messex, 12. The boy
was sentenced to life imprisonment
in Waynesboro, Ga., for the fatal
shooting of his father in revenge for
a whipping.____________________,
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