Show Private Papers of a Cub Reporter Thornton Wilder was recently re re- calling his last visit to London After a luncheon at Battles Battle's flat the exquisite little genius Max said Mr Wilder you haven't remarked on the view of the Thames from here Wilder replied to the general effect that nothing adequate had occurred to him Whereupon Beerbohm said People usually do you ou know Only last week for lor Instance Mr Gene Tunney the fighter was here and arid admired It tremendously As a matter of fact he spoke of of it with such su h eloquence and such sensitive sensitiveness ness that really I felt quite coarse I The FBI Is more snore Interested In a prominent Chicago psychiatrist who obtained an appointment to The Morale Board Boud of the Col Donovan Office This doctor a Hungarian an who recently became a citizen was Vas given a routine check by the Men G-Men When an agent called at his home he spotted a large framed portrait of Mussolini affectionately affectionately inscribed That made It more than a routine investigation and led lcd to the fact that Fritz Hor- Hor Horvath vath rath Hungarian Nazi leader is a frequent guest at the Drs Dr's house And at conferences in a hide hide- hideaway hideaway away In Chicago Horvath H has definite Berlin connections connections and and t doctor may learn for the first tima tIme tIme- I that he be is not going to be accepted I for that swell Job jO with Col Donovan ono The Women's Business and Pro Pro- Professional Professional Group annual Friendship II Dinner took place the other night 1 I They had previously announced that they would make known at this dinner dinner the ten big important worn worn- women en chosen to represent the U. 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S To inspect civilian defense in Eng Eng- England England England land The list was prepared and sent to Mrs Roosevelt for her okay The names submitted did not measure up to her require require- requirements requirements ments meats and dissension grew to such sucha a pitch that the idea has been tem tern temporarily temporarily deferred deterred and possibly shelved I I A vet recalls when Chinatown was big news every night And how an assistant district attorney was phoned out of a sound slumber one wee hour with the news of a massacre in a Chinatown dive When he got there still fasten fasten- fastening fastenIng I I ing his clothes he found the joint I deep in blood and bodies on the i floor the floor the hatchets h and knives still in I Iem em em The bartender was moan moan- moaning moanIng moaning ing and weeping noisily What happened the d. d a. a shouted What happened was the reply I as the tears dangled from his mus mus- tache Every customer ran out without paying pa ing his check Notes Not of an Innocent Inno nt Bystander The Dinah Shore sings the blues on her new solo Sun Sun- Sunday Sunday Sunday day spot and relieves you of ot yours Frank Blacks Black's classic rendi rendi- renditions renditions renditions via NBC's American Melody Hour are arc something to hug f or Take time big-time talents like Paul Muni Judith Anderson Raymond Massey Ruth Gordon mix with a top-notch top script and you ou have that Red Cross program program good good as the cause Betty Hutton Is a zippy person welcome to the Bob Hope bill He said vitamin pills take her You dont don't wonder hear hear- hearing hearIng ing Richard Crooks sing why he is with the Met Met but but you wonder why I IJames James Melton who precedes him on the same station isn't Every Every- Everybody Everybody Everybody body was that surprised when the N. N Y Yo Times succumbed to radio It is only adding a voice to the I ribbon that unwinds the flashes I around the Times The Story Tellers C. C V. V R. R Thompson is selling his bis favorite old story again Cafe again Cafe Society this Society this time timeto to Click Amazing how Interesting Thompson can make them seem In print In reality they are as dull dullas dullas dullas as a blank wall How to Be Cole Porter is the caption of ot a Look article about the composer Its It's good advice If It you happen to be Porter but late even for him Radio Movie starts a two in expose on this columns column's favorite news commentator In the current issue The fallacy that the Middle West Vest is isolationist isolationist-Is is exploded by Time which points out that polls have proved otherwise The called so-called Isolationist Midwest It says in part exists only In the minds of congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of ot a great surge of public opinion during re re- recent recent re- re recent cent months Some people it seems mistake the Chicago Tribune for Cor the mid West The Press Box Dox Another corre corre- correspondent correspondent correspondent with a good book Is Ray Ray- Raymond Raymond mond Daniell Civilians Must Fight Daniell who covered the London raids reports ports r a failure to chase his office boy to cover when the bombers came The kid squawked the underground hideouts were too risky The last time he went down he lost 10 playing cards 4 c Somerset Maugham Mangham In a fore fore- foreword foreword foreword word to the Daniell Daniel volume e explains news censors as more anxious not notto notto to do do dothe the wrong thing tb n to t do the right on 1 |