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Show New Yorkers Are Talking About: Baron Oppcnhrim of Germany, who can't get back into the U. S. from Mexico because he has no visa. He' the bloke who got in the newspapers news-papers when that pretty dancer jumped to her death from his apartment apart-ment window . . . The defense post In Washington that Robert Moses can get if he wants it . . . The $2.r),000 they gave Ben Hecht for one week's work on "Foreign Correspondent" Corre-spondent" . . . Frances Farmer end D. Flamm, the radio magnate . . . Ursula Parrott, the novelist, nd her ex-groom, John Wildberg, the producer. The new plane program to make It the United States of AIRmerica . . . Valcntina, who designed a wardrobe for Norma Shearer to wear in "Escape," being mighty surprised to see the screen credit go to Adrian . . . The dismissal of charges and complete exoneration of W. D. Clelland In a Canadian court when his wife, former showgirl, didn't appear to press her complaint . . . The luck of King Carol and Lupescu being run out of Rumania where the quake might have killed them . . . The rumor that the Dorothy Doro-thy Arnold police files have mysteriously myste-riously disappeared. Her fadeou? wua never suiveu. The first rumor of FDR's plans after 1944: He can become editor of the Atlanta Journal, owned by his dear friend, James E. Cox of Ohio, according to chums of Cox . . . The silent but smoldering rivalry between Tommy Manvllle and George Trommer over the prettiest belles In the show sector. Lucky girls they get the costliest gifts while the vet Romcos quarrel over them. Pathfinder mag's remark that the Literary Digest didn't fold up because be-cause of its bum guess on the 1936 election . . , That's like saying the bird died from the fall Instead of the bullet . . . The forthcoming book by Don Qulnn about the radio censors who spoil programs. It is brilliantly titled: "Idiot's Delete"! Reprinted from ye ed's air Journal: Jour-nal: Heat and pressure bring out the best in steel and men ... In a hot campaign both political parties have sharply set forth the things they hold different . . . Lest they forget, your newsboy reminds the American people of things they hold in common . . . Together, they own a great Union, a Declaration of Independence, In-dependence, a Constitution and a Bill of Rights . . . They hold these things together because they hold, separately, the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness . . . They know by now that an American Ameri-can election decides only policies, not principles . . . Under our common com-mon law traditions the majority is privileged only because under our common sense Constitution every minority is protected . . . They own a common future because they own a common past . . . Nobody will ever know the politics of the Unknown Soldier. The people who buried their heroes together at Trenton, Shiloh, Manila and the Marne, will continue to bury their differences at the polling places. To both parties then, the American Amer-ican people owe their thanks for producing pro-ducing a house not divided but devoted. de-voted. Orson Welles' constant dinners with his pretty sec'y, Kathryn Trooper . . . The lavender lads who are flocking to see "Charley's Aunt" . , . The 4,000 reserve officers who will be called between Nov. and Dec. 15 in N. Y. . . . Jack Dempsey's real burn over Gene Tunney's quoted quot-ed political speeches about Dempsey's Demp-sey's war record and Dempsey's oath to sock him on sight . . . Ambassador Am-bassador Wm. Bullitt's "torch" for his old girl whom he met again in Washington the other day but who has married another . . . The admission ad-mission now by their Intimates that Myrna Loy and A. Hornblow Jr. are on the verge . . . Betty Allen's thumbnail descriptions of Goebbels and Hitler: Peewee and Peeyew. Diamonds will be cheaper in 1942 because a company mining silver and gold in Central America has discovered diamonds on its lands . . . The forthcoming Dies committee commit-tee "white paper," which will contain con-tain the names of the U. S. Nazis and Scummunists with whom they are at war . . . Claude Rains' retreat re-treat to his Pennsy farm to undergo an operation . . . The line sweeping Hollywood after it was overheard at the Houje of Murphy bar: "He's the type that got a helping hand and broke It off at the elbow." The Cuban comul general's son and Charlotte Van Duyn, the Dutch rhumba dancer at Havana-Madrid a breathless Pan-American alliance . . . The Herald Trib's forthcoming expose on names bigger than Tex Eieber and Dr. Westrick and several sev-eral "loyal" American big guns who should be shot ... All that extra airline, industrial and national advertising ad-vertising the Times got plus $80,000 in political ads during the campaign cam-paign . . . The soon-due clean-up of all subversive outfits, including the Scummunists. |