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Show I ONCE OVER News, Views, Gross Information By H. I. Phillips "Halley Speaks at Niagara FaDs" headline. Any truth to the rumor Tammany sent him a barrel? bar-rel? . . . Things that grate on our nerves: Benedictions by airwave comics who have spent most of the program descrating just about everything wholesome and decent. . . . Cockeyed economies: An army department removing all white crosses from Hawaiian graves of our soldier dead because of the cost of upkeep, while Congress votes a few hundred thousand dollars dol-lars to give every member new electric typewriters. . . . Harry Gross will appeal his 12-year prison pris-on term. Possibly claiming he had "scratched" and wasn't even running. run-ning. In prison will Gross be named librarian because of his experience ex-perience with books? Or put in charge of the ice? Then there's the story he will refuse to wear prison pris-on black and white stripes as they are not his racing colors. . . . Walter Winchell has signed for life with ABC for a sum totaling millions. mil-lions. Walter now achieves the distinction dis-tinction of making so much money he will have nothing left at the end of the year. How about a greeting to all the "chips" at sea, Walt? . . . Hamburgers and frankfurters now go up under OPS permission and this seems pretty sad news, as it takes most Americans off their main food ... On the day Harry Gross was arraigned for his sentence the hunch bet by all the horse players around the court was "Here He Is" which won at $21.10, with some going to "Bargainer" at $24.10 on the same card. Everybody laid off "Ready Answer" which showed at $8.60. A Providence, R. I., court says a common problem now Is who gets the custody of the television tele-vision set. Well, It all depends. Is a wife Inconsiderate and cruel toward the set? Does she shove it around, Insisting the living room is no place for it? In using the vacuum cleaner does she tear the connections loose? Then she Is clearly unfit. On the other hand, suppose the husband makes beer stains all over the cabinet, tries to make delicate adjustments with a hammer and chisel or shuts it off when his team Is losing a series game with a cry of "Aw, this is a lousy video!"? Would you say Harry Gross was "the Grosstest with the mostest on the bulls?" . . . Bob Christenberry, proprietor of the Astor, is the new head of boxing, and we hear that a guest called the desk the other day and demanded, "Send up the proprietor. pro-prietor. The wife and I are having a fight and I want everything according ac-cording to the rules." ... A selfwinding self-winding watch has been turned out for automobiles with a guarantee to tell the right time. That's odd. We felt certain there was an understanding under-standing whereby nothing but defective defec-tive clocks were sold to automobile makers. SEASONAL The melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year . . There's trouble with the furnace and The thermostat acts "queer." Charlie McAdam, one of the 150 holders of a piece of "Saucy," an erratic filly, gave us a piece of his piece the other day. We made a $2 bet. The skinner finished 19th in a nineteen-horse field. McAdam's piece just managed to do that well Our piece was even farther back. Benson Ford says the auto driven by atomic energy is near. A lot of drivers behave as if they thought it here now. |