Judge — January 1937 — page 32: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

HIGH Swing High, Swing Low— So Long 1936! Judge Jr. has assembled a lot of old calen- dars, cuffs, and haphazard notations which he and Hennery have compiled during 1936. As milestones of reference to guide Young 1937 as he looks back over his shoulder, we venture to submit a few. If any of them strike the pleasant gongs of reminder in the brazen breasts of our followers, we shall be happy. And if you take exception to any of them—write your Congressman all about it. We don’t want to hear... it takes our mind off the Social Security Act! MOST EXCITING Athletic Events: Yale-Princeton football game. Final game of the Open Polo Championship. Bestlooking Automobile: Cord—all the others now look as though they had come out of the same ice-cream mould. Best Sports Writers: Boxing—Wal. ter Stewart. Baseball—Bill Corum, Foot- ball—George Trevor. Tennis—Fred Hawthorne. Anything at all—Joe Wil- liams, Jimmy Powers, Bill Cunningham, John Kieran, and George Trevor. Best Coaches: Mr. Shaw, Santa Clara. Mr. Blaik, Dartmouth, Mr. Waldorf, Northwestern, Mr. Harlow, Harvard. Mr. Farley, Washington. Best Movie Drama: Dead heat be- tween “Dodsworth” and “Winterset.” Best Movie Comedies:."Hands Across the Table’; “Mr. Deeds.” Most Adult Movie Shorts: That fel- low Benchley—heh, heh, heh! Best Made-up Newspaper: York Herald Tribune. Most Bohunk Newspaper: Any Boston paper. (“Transcript” subscrib- ers need not write—it only runs up the blood pressure!) Most Hypocritical Columnist: O. O. McIntyre (and they say he's richer'n Croesus!) ‘ New Judge HAT Best Out-of-town Columnist & Sos- sage Maker: Chet Shafer, of Three Rivers, Mich. Best Football Player: Lawrence Mer- riwell Kelley—over there on the Old Yale Fence. Best Debunking Article: J. C. Fur. nas’ revelations on Mother, Bowes, “Terrified Amateurs"—in the final issue of the old “Life.” It was a whizzler! Best Billboards: Ford—on ideas from the great cracked brain of ole Ed Graham, the Seer of the Wabash. Most Satisfactory Silence: That of Father Coughlin. And what's become of that great humanitarian — “Old Oarp” Townsend? Most Hilarious Editorial Profile: Wolcott Gibbs’ complete job on Mr. Luce, of “Time.” In the Nov. 28th issue of the “The New Yorker.” Best Fun of All: A bonus check from the boss. (Oh, Sorry.) Prettiest Girls: Madeleine Carroll, Merle Oberon, Claudette Colbert-—and John Powers’ admodels at 247 Park Ave. Best Pre-Election Columns: West- brook Pegler’s, on “Needling the Re- publicans,”” Bestlooking Hostesses: Chuck your hat in any Longchamps Restaurant—you can't lose! (Now, if they'd only bring the price of a pot of coffee within the reach of labor . . .) Most Insulted Man of the Year:* Dr. Franz Sarga, of Budapest. Nine duels scheduled in a week—even if they are in the bag. The Doc declares his oppo- nents claimed he married for money. What's the matter with that, Doc? Best All-round Political Commenta- tor: Dorothy Thompson, with Mr. Lippmann’s hot breath right behind. Funniest Stories: “Chinaman on Honeymoon,” “The Four Lazy Camp- ers,” “The Bishop's Building Fund,” “We've already established the Princi- ple—". Haw! All-time High for Under-statement: Alfred Duff Cooper, Britain's Sec’y for War, remarks that “one reason for the shortage of recruits was that the army did not offer a man a ‘safe career’.” Alf, you're &illing us—get on with it! All-time High for Waste Motion: Postmaster-General James A. Farley of the United States kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle. Most Unfortunate Event in Aviation: Dick Merrill's bringing Harry Richman back home. comicbooks.com