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Show K Tales of the Tonn: They were a couple of wild kids, and their marriage was made in heaven-like lightning. It happened over night. . . . Blase Broadway was even stunned by the news. Like impetuous kids they didn't plan very far in advance, and when it came time to locate an apartment, they found themselves out in the cold. Imposing on the well wishes of friends, they drifted from one family fam-ily to another. ... To bystanders It looked like the marriage would wind up on the rocks of Reno. . . . Then a strange thing happened. Her parents, who had disowned her when she wed the guy, suffered a change of hard heart. . . . "Come and live with us," pleaded her mother. Her father still hated the new son-in-law but allowed him to move in. . . . Well, the marriage is OK now, and pretty soon they expect to have an apartment all their own. . . . Seems her mother and father fought night: ly over the new son-in-law, and now mom is Reno-bound! They were both names on Broadway. . . . Then they drifted drift-ed into other fields. . . . But he was so busy with his New York nite spot and she with her magazine articles that they began be-gan to see less and less of each other. . . . Came the Inevitable. They split. . . . Didn't see each other for years. Only recently he heard from her. . . . She was suing him and demanding a sizeable size-able hunk of cash. . . . His hot spot, however, Is on the rocks. He is flat broke, and he told her so. . . . Now look what happens. Instead of collecting alimony, she is so touched by his pitiful plight that she's sending him a listful of folding money each week to keep the sheriff from his door. She Is a high-salaried buyer for a department store. Been there for years. Well liked . . . Came a strike, and all the sales help walked out. . . . The boss asked her if she would pinch-hit as a salesgirl until the strike was settled. ... As a personal favor she acquiesced. . . . Three days later she walked into the office with swollen eyes that told of sleepless nights "I'm resigning," she said. . . . "But look," argued the boss, "you've been with us for years; we've paid you well. Certainly Cer-tainly you can stick with us through this trouble." ... "I want to," came the tearful reply, "but for three nights I've been locked out of my home. My husband is a union official, of-ficial, and he refuses to sleep under the same roof with a strike-breaker!" The town's booking agents are guffawing over this. ... A much disliked colleague is currently being sued because he borrowed several hundreds from a yonng assistant, got the guy fired and then refused to pay. . . . Came a letter from the lawyer the other oth-er day, and the bonking agent furiously wrote back: "1 dare you to take me to court over the 500 bucks I owe George. Toil haven't any proof." . . . And then the chump signed his name! . . . Sohclpmeh! Although the President has no intention in-tention of running again, he will not officially announce it until the final moments, if at all. Because "he wants the final say" on the ticket. He will oppose Wallace for president presi-dent and James Roosevelt as vice-prez, vice-prez, according to intimates. . . . Political observers say Eleanor Roosevelt is the most popular and respected U. S delegate to the U. N. -.. 20 million white shirts, they say, will be released before the Yuletide holidays. . . . Statistics show that three-quarters of all surplus sur-plus materials being offered do not exist as presented. Mostly all conversion. con-version. . . Trie best golfers in the land rate Bing Crosby as a three-handicap three-handicap man. Wait'U Bob Hope reads that! Stage Entrance: Burlesque will celebrate its 50th anniversary anniver-sary by having a poll to deter-mine deter-mine the 10 best comics in bur-lesk. bur-lesk. The winner will be honored hon-ored with a golj putty-nose. Russell Patterson (the illustrator, illustra-tor, and Doug Hertz are looking for a beautiful Negro girl to "enter In the 1947 Miss America beauty contest." . . . AmM Andy call the depression the good old days when there was only a shortage of money. Something to recommend if you're in Miami Beach or nearby: near-by: The Community Concert series. Footlights and Spotlights: A Phil- y newspaper took a street poll It earned that three out of four queried quer-ied passersby were on some sort of buyers strike. . The U S. treas-ur treas-ur Ms out to clip the w.ngs of B'way angels ,f their income tax hnlos Z? n "traight- ' Several of the Broadway "Coney" .pot, have taken beating. They may shave their prices on most machines. P,,ijt. 'Cal exP"ts claim the GOP has rn.h back to life. Or i, may be "he tepubs just look alive when com-pared com-pared with the lv,mys |