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Show fhl.Phillipr If Oscar Purkey to Trygve Lie "Mr. Trygve Lie, secretary-general of the United Nations, says IJV. has not succeeded in capturing the imagination and harnessing the enthusiasm of the' people of the world." News item. Dear Trygve: Me being a G.I. In the recent globul shindig and having high hopes about the U. N. making breach of the peace unpopular, I I am Interested in your coming right I out and admitting that it ain't so hot so far. The U. N. has not only not captured np imaginations, It has not even made contact with them. And as a harnesser of enthusiasms enthusi-asms It looks like most of the time it could not tell a horse collar from a fly net And what is the trouble? I will tell you, Mr. Lie. There is no color, no ziperoo, no showmanship showman-ship and no wallop in the routine. This U. N. has got the biggest chance in the world, it has got the center of the stage and extra spotlights spot-lights and it is duller than another musical comedy interpretive ballet. bal-let. First of all why does it make so much fuss about a permanent home when it should be too busy to be home much anyhow and how does it expect to harness the enthusiasms en-thusiasms of people living in one-story one-story bungalows and Quonset huts all over the world when it keeps issuing maps where it would like to have maybe 40 acres of choice real estate including manor houses, mountain views, cross ventilation and swimming rights? I tell you as just another guy getting humpbacked hump-backed living in a Quonset without even a shower that the U. N. would harness my enthusiasm faster if it could give me the idea it didn't need so much de luxe real estate. You and the boys just grab yourself your-self a few Quonsets here and there, do your laundry in the sink and be satisfied with one pot of geraniums for landscaping and you will make a hit with the peoples of the world okay. And for the luwapete put on some counterattraction to crab this Gromyko's act. If you want to capture cap-ture imaginations do something about Mister Veto even if you have to fix it to bring in some delegates on onr side like Frankie Sinatra, Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr. The world is pretty soft in the head and as all it goes for in a big way now Is light stuff and crime you have got to get some big amusement amuse-ment world names in the show. Look at the newspapers, the front pages are full of pictures of boy bandits, flagpole brides and 12-year-old gunmolls. Couldn't you fix it to have some of these kid outlaws out-laws stick up a meeting of U. N. and maybe have a delegate from Holland marry a delegate from Australia on top of a flagpole over U. N. headquarters so you could get immediate attention by people everywhere? You will not capture no Imaginations Imagina-tions and harness no enthusiasms nowheres unless you do. Yours with best wishes, OSCAR PURKEY. FORGOTTEN AMERICANISMS 1. "Official club rate for caddies 75 cents, no tipping" 2. " gave you a dollar for that round; where's my change? Ye Olde Cynio Dear HI To help starry-eyed teenagers who drape themselves them-selves over juke boxes, interpret the songs of undying love to which they are listening, a song writer's calendar is appended: 1. "Always" six months. 2. "Forever" three months. 3. "Forever and a Day" two and a half weeks. 4. "Through All Eternity" five days. 5. "Until the End of Time' 48 hours. Chailes H. Morhardt. "Forever Amber" will be produced pro-duced by the movies washed up, dry cleaned and with all the amours, belches, boudoir scenes and rough talk removed. And possibly pos-sibly retitled "Infrequently Amber." Am-ber." Frankie Sinatra substituted for Drew Pearson the other night. But we still think those bobbysoxers will hesitate about buying men's hats. RINGSIDE Moscow complains that the United States has the best seat at the Paris peace conference. It still regard it in the same light as an outdoor fight. "We have been taking metal out of one hill for 60 years and there's still more high grade ore in it than I there was at the beginning." Butte i attorney. "That Butte barrister must be an Irishman frorr Waterbury," i says Dan Parker. |