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Show Hi I Qifil Things About New York: Just about the time city ball was being built a young man was indicted in-dicted for the murder of bis sweetheart sweet-heart . . . Political Influence resulted re-sulted In Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (the town's top criminal crim-inal lawyers) uniting in the accused's ac-cused's defense. . . . The judge was named Lansing. ... He suggested acquittal. . . . The aunt of the murdered mur-dered girl Interrupted the jury foreman fore-man as he announced: "Not guilty!" by shrieking: "There is no justice In heaven If those who have treed the slayer of my niece go unpunished!" unpun-ished!" . . . The weird finale ta the case was written by history. Hamilton, in his prime, was killed In the duel with Bur.r. . . . Burr died In disgrace, hated and despised, and Lansing, the Judge, disappeared as mysteriously as the long missing Judge Crater. In a magaxlne article Gen. Wild Bill Donovan, head of the O.S.S. in World War II. says in part: "Only now in America are we awakenbg to the existence of the hard fact that the Stalin challenge to our world is indistinguishable from the Hitler challenge. "Many Americans (name two. General) who knew the situation and were familiar with Russian subversive subver-sive activities besought our statesmen states-men to inform the American people. "Russia's malicious lies and distortions dis-tortions have gone unanswered and unchallenged." News Item: Demmy Chairman J. Howard McGrath (in a statement state-ment observing the third ann'y of FDR's death) said President Truman Tru-man had carried out the Roosevelt Roose-velt program. Who were the other five pallbearers????? pall-bearers????? Bigtown Mnrals: The blind man at 42nd and Vth. He drums up trade for the sightseeing bus. , . . Third avenue Tessy, whose hobby-Is hobby-Is riding the 3rd avenue bus scaring scar-ing the passengers with a bowl loaded with turtles. . . , Sign on the harness of a horse on 2nd avenue: ave-nue: "Move Over Auto. I Was Her Long Before You Were." . . . The-autograph The-autograph hounds outside the mid-town mid-town drug store (about eight thutty-in-the-mornlng) just to see their baseball heroes look grouchy. . . . The only place that sells a chocolate choco-late soda for a nickel: A vending: machine on 6th at 46th. Mary Dewson ("Molly" to her pals) was one of FDR's earliest and most devoted associates , , . James Farley sent her a copy of his book about FDR . . . She returned re-turned It with this note: "The Lord forgives but I don't" Star In Tonr Eyes: Sarah Bernhardt Bern-hardt sent reviewers into the street dancing. But she didn't cherish her many ecstatic reviews as much as a note she received from Victor Hugo. , . ,' After her performance In one of his plays he sent Bernhardt Bern-hardt a huge diamond with the following: fol-lowing: "You have been great and charming. You have roused me me, the old combatant and, at one moment while the public whom you enchanted cheered you, I wept This tear which you caused me to shed Is yours, and I place myself at your feet" Barrymore's mightiest greasepaint grease-paint triumph was Hamlet A producer pro-ducer informed him: "You played Hamlet perfectly." "I have played . many, many roles," Barrymore-countered. Barrymore-countered. "But I AM Hamlet!" In his book, "Late City Edition. City Editor J. Herzbcrg lauds district dis-trict men "as the artery of th newspaper business." Now he's fired seven of them saying say-ing "they are obsolete." In Washington the high court ruled (0-S) reversing decisions prohibiting the sale of magailnrs bearing rlsgay titles such aa "Bargains "Bar-gains In Bodies," "Girl Slave to a Love Cult," etc. . . . Previously, no less than 17 Judges of the N. Y. court of appeals, court or apeclal sessions, appellate division and N. Y. state supreme court voted to prohibit them ... The ayes of six men In one court outrnled 17 to courts that voted nay . , , The ma- . Jority rules ? 7 ? Churchill had the Life staff In n tizzy Just as they were going to press. He cabled five paces of corrections. cor-rections. They made them because his contract calls for them, and ho covered himself by marking the proofs: "Okay, but subject to further fur-ther correction." When they were "caught,' Life's Mr. Longwcll almost had apoplexy when another cable came reading: "Due to Inst minute polltlcnl complications, com-plications, hold up all articles!" It was a gag by an office clown, but Mr. Longwcll was In no mood tor quips. Tlenty cain was raised because of It - Itm: "Deepest hole In the V. 8. a the Grand Canyon." Next deepest Is the atate department depart-ment pigeon-hole In which the pro-Naxl pro-Naxl record of Hie Grand MufU Is burled. |