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Show 'WW s Notes of a I'ystandcr The front Pages: As long as the Rome and Berlin papers keep printing, print-ing, Firita in doesn't need a propa-K.'inda propa-K.'inda force. The Axis' squawks about the liritish attacks will have the whole world despising them even more than now . . . The trouble wilh covering plane attacks, confides James Aldric.h from .the British Mediterranean fleet, is that you develop de-velop "a tendency to see in the sky things you think are planes." Of course, you feel much relieved when they are planes. . . . It's good Huey Long didn't liv. His promise to make every man a king wouldn't be much of an inducement these days . . . The editorial salutes to the history and meaning of the City of London made shudders rhumba across the body. We recall similar editorials about Prague, Warsaw, Vienna and Paris much too reminiscent remi-niscent of an obituary notice. C. V. It. Thompson, the New York correspondent for the London Express, Ex-press, relays this current London quip: All the civilized nations had been destroyed, bombs had levelled every city in the world, and a lone British pilot who remained alive Hew his plane over Europe to search for some sign of life . . . But he could find none and no building unscathed un-scathed . . . Seeing nothing at all left of Europe, he started flying to the U. S. but his navigation was faulty and he ran out of gas, crashing crash-ing in the heart of the African jungle jun-gle . . . With his last ounce of strength he scribbled on a bit of fuselage: "Here died the last man on earth!" And then he died . . . Two little apes, who had been Watching Watch-ing from a tree, climbed down, waddled wad-dled over to the wreckage. One picked up the note, read it to the other and exclaimed: "The last man on earth! Good gracious, do we have to start this whole darned business all over again?" The Debunking Dep't: Mr. Woodruff, Wood-ruff, congressman from Virginia made a ringing defense of Colonel Lindbergh. He insisted that Lindbergh Lind-bergh must not be denied the right of Free Speech . . . Mr. Woodruff delivered some vitriolic remarks about people who disagreed with Lindbergh. This was a great waste of time, words and money, considering consider-ing that nobody has ever tried to stop Lindbergh from saying anything any-thing ... In fact, since entering the political arena, Lindbergh has been treated like a prodigal son. Both press and radio have given his comments com-ments conspicuous space and the networks have given him valuable radio time free . . . Even President Presi-dent Roosevelt is denied that privilege privi-lege at certain times ... In short, the press and radio (which Lindbergh Lind-bergh has often criticized harshly) have treated Lindbergh so fairly that Lindbergh himself has never complained about being mistreated. Sounds in the Night: At 21: "It looks like they're getting a more intellectual clientele the women are homelier" ... At the Riviera: "Sh.; goes around daring you to knock her conscience from her shoulder" ... At the Stork: "To me a p:.ght club is just an upholstered uphol-stered concentration camp" . . . At die Beachcomber: "She's an heiress and he's an heirdale" . . . At La Martinique: "She- in the powder room dulling her nose gloss, brightening her lips and sharpening her fangs" ... At the Village Barn: "One look at her figger and your eyes yell for crutches!" ... At Club Gaucho: "It's a pretty necktie, neck-tie, only it's not pulled tight enough" ... At Club 18: "He's as sincere as a Japanese apology" ... At Coq Rouge: "I went with her once. I had more fun biting my nails" ... In Reuben's: "It's a lucky thing for Buckingham palace that Goering wasn't dropped on it!" Manhattan Murals: The flip newsboy news-boy at Fiftieth and Seventh who shouted: "Britain Bombs Berlin'! Read about the Grapes of RAF!" . . . The shooting shoppes all over midtown, chiefly patronized by sharpshooting gals . . . The "funny-mans" "funny-mans" who wears FDR and Willkie buttons on his lapel sooo fun-neeeee! fun-neeeee! . . . Jack Alexander's smarticle on Billy Rose for the Esseepee will be christened: "Basement "Base-ment Belasco" . . . Add descriptions: New York is a big dice game. Everybody's Every-body's a loser, but nobody wants to leave the game. The Wireless: Attesting to the 14-karat 14-karat caliber of the British morale, Ed Murrow said they would rather live underground than under Nazi domination. . . . Cholly McCarthy is funny so long as he keeps his barbs well sharpened. But when he goes cute, he splinters. Man About Town: Jolson's second week in Philly grossed $33,000. he says, meaning $12,600 profit . . . What jokester pasted a Willkie sticker stick-er on Mrs. FDR's windshield at the recent Khinebeck fair when the chauffeur was dozing? . . . Quentin Reynolds escaped injury when the London apartment house he dwells in was bombed . . . When Franchot Tone was at Johns Hopkins hosp a nurse developed a rash which the specialists there couldn't diagnose. They finally called it 'Romance Rash." |