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Show 5'FPT'i Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Front Paifcs: The Jap-Eolo toast to love each other to pieces, the story of the year for The Daily Worker, caught that Commy sheet with its tongue tied. It offered no lowdown on the pact on the day vhen the yarn broke. Next day (maybe or. a tip from the Kremlin) it decided the treaty was an instrument instru-ment of peace. The sheet claimed Russia remains a "staunch friend" of the Chinese. Of course, the pact gives the Japs the green light to ex- I terminate these "staunch friends," J but the liolos feel that anybody who points this out is a dirty counter- i revolutionary capitalist . . . Alsop j and Kintuer don't agree with The Worker's rose-tined picture. They canvassed the State Dep't and couldn't get anybody to deny that Stalin signed on the dotted line because be-cause Hitler cracked the whip . . . Gen. Robert C. Richardson makes a good start as boss of public relations rela-tions for the army. "Don't try to conceal Information from the newspapers," news-papers," he advised his helpers. "They will only get It anyway from unofficial sources" . . . "Communist's "Com-munist's Wife Accused as Killer," headlines The Post. Say, we know people who think being a colum- nist s wife is a sure-fire defense for murder. The Wireless: The radio is one of the busiest Nazi weapons in the Balkans. Their prize flash was the lie about the British quitting Greece, but they landed some important im-portant minor falsehoods on the local lo-cal networks. One newscaster Is a pushover for their alarms. His late-at-night defeatism never holds up in tne morning, but it nelps Goebbels a lot by adding to the worries wor-ries of Americans. A dope at the mike is just as useful to the Nazis as a spy . . . Gen'l Johnson took a belt at some of the war "predict-ers," "predict-ers," meaning air commentators. The Gen'l is an odd one to object to forecasters. Consider all those uneaten guesses of his left over from the November elections . . It was strictly knock - down - and - drag-out when Col. Breckinridge and Sen. Tobey clashed on a forum. They junked the issue and grabbed at each other's throats. This ringsider scored a win for the Colonel. Typewriter Ribbons: Masaryk's: Dictators always look good until the last five minutes . . F. Scott Fitzgerald's: He had begun to have that harassed and aghast feeling oi those who live always on the edge of solvency . . . Emerson's: Every hero becomes a bore at last . . Emma Squire's: Waves leaped against the bow like rowdy dogs eager to play . . H. W. Beecher's: Poverty is very good in poems, but very bad in the house . J. Graham's: Remember that when you're in the right you can afford to keep your temper and that when you are in the wrong you can't afford af-ford to lose it. Notes of a New Yorker: Bob Considine, Arch MacDonald and others were talking shop and about Damon Runyon's genius . . . "I remember once," said Considine, "at a World's Series first game-all game-all of is in the press-box ran out of fingernails trying to dream up a snazzy lead paragraph. And all r.f us kept tearing the paper out of the typewriter and starting over and over again striving to be clever. Except Runyon. He began his story: 'Yanks, 2; Reds, 1." " The three most distinguished Americans to visit England in the past year were Welles, Willkie and Winant. One alert lad suggests that there is a symbolic connotation in the first syllables of their names, to wit: We-lles WILL-kie WIN-ant. Ma Miller, author ol "I Cover the Watertront," "Reno." and other oth-er book'., i'ves in La Jolla, Calif., in a nome right m the edge of the Pacific. The excessive Winter rains, aided by faulty drainage, shoved several tons of the beach sand and dirt into his basement and furnace room . . . Angry, he filed ....... nbnuioi iur damages. All he got was a lot of horse laughs and a newspaper headline which taunted: "Max Miller Used to Cover the Waterfront and Now the Waterfront Covers Max Miller." Several books about Winston Churchill have come out suddenly. One contains the story of the lady who harped on British war aims. She wanted to know what Britain was fighting for. To which he grimly grim-ly told her: "If we left off fighting you would soon find out" Hcywood Broun's best colyums (collected by his son) belong on the required reading lists. (Oh. how he is missed!) ... A beautiful beauti-ful humane philosophy is summed up in these words by Broun: "It is not fair that I should thwart and crush great eagerness for existence for the sake of the extremely mild diversion which I get from fishing. They told me that the fish cared very little and that they were coldblooded cold-blooded and felt no pain. But they were not the fish who told me" By all means, read the book. |