Show F i il w r the new york washington and hollywood express nancy he de marigny will inherit from the oakes estate when when matters are probated in canada she also gets from the fortune oakes lett left in nassau but not until she is 30 and thes 19 now wise lather father ashes virtually broke had to hock her nassau farm etc to raise for the defense fee the lawyers however cut their retainer la in half when they learned she have it intimates say the reason dorothy thompson has been so sen tl ti mental about postwar germany Is that shed like to be the first ambassador bas to germany alter after the war to straighten them all out ashes said to be working on it already pearl bucks comment on the chinese situation we send m missionaries assion to china so they can go to heaven but we wont let them into this country damon runyon in his confessional the other day admitted bravely enough my prediction that the war in europe will be over by christmas now seems somewhat improbable somewhat indeed we w wondered aed who would make such a statement we certainly never thought runyon would want to can contribute to the complacency set it is comforting to learn however that he is the first to debunk his own error we wish his friend richard author of guadalcanal Guadal canal diary would tell his publishers to catch the next edition of his book and omit our name where he carelessly put it and replace it with damons because we never said that any war would be over at any time we are the guy who always said it would never be over for some of us and that when anybody asked when Is the war going to end the reply has always been when we win it I 1 11 I 1 the statler in the capital turned away contingent reservations one day last week we recently mentioned a war mothers complaint about conditions in an army hospital at tuscaloosa ala for returned wounded she told us the bed linen been changed for two weeks the mens pajamas ditto t the e food oo 00 awful etc we sent her charges to the war dept As a result the commanding officer of that hospital p ital has been replaced slid and rushed to improve conditions we wish emens newspapers everywhere ery where would reprint that please edmund wilson replaces clifton fadiman as the book critic on the new yorker warners has offered kyle aih crichton ton of colliers a contract to write out there in miami beach the soldiers who sing as they march invariably shout what the hell bell are we fighting lor the and WAVES will win the warl might be amused to read page 23 of the feb 1908 issue of the saturday evening post the article on the page Is titled Is roosevelt a menace to business A noted booster was being teased about his loyalty listen said the heckler willkie has his eye on the presidential chair again that was the retort quite as good as what Roosevel ts got on it the bootlegger who has already emerged in the firewater shortage ge is one who have the social s 0 caal standing he had in the dry E era ra now the circumstances are different it if a man encourages a black ma market arket in booze just to get himself an occasional quart hes doing something that hurts the black market needs only something like a popular product like booze to crack the whole structure 0 of price control it if booze gets flowing illegally its going to flood the works you can drink yourself yo right into inflation brother this Is how the astoria asters became new yorks biggest real estate operators era tors during the war of 1812 the blockade hurt merchants its most astor loaned them money refusing all collateral but mortgages he gained all ot of his property through foreclosures fore closures waterfront workers have names tor for various barlou piers they are usually named after women years ago the cites biggest sporting events were races between steamships in the hudson A ship laden with gold was sunk in hell gate channel 50 years ago a part of long island sound many attempts have been made to recover the treasure but the gold Is 1 still there recently the he AP and others reported that correspondent larry allen alien taken prisoner by the enemy had escaped and walked for a month back to our lines later the story never confirmed was w as declared fal false e intimates just got a postcard d from the newspaper man dated oct ath so the stories that he escaped e sea ped two months ago do not stand up mailed it from the same game camp hed been at for a year A new lipstick due soon will be slogans slogan gand ld guaranteed to leave it its mark on letters to soldiers soldier |