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Show III A'ofrs of a New Yorker: After all of George Jean Nathan's work and struggle for recognition, his home burg, Fort Wayne, Ind., erected a plaque to a movie gal named Jane Peters (Carole Lombard) Lom-bard) . , , Gary Cooper stands a line chance of copping the Academy Award this time for his tip-top performance per-formance in "Sgt. York" . . . When Gary was a student at Grinnell Col. lege, Iowa, he applied for membership member-ship in the dramatic society there and was spurned because, they said, he couldn't act . . . Back from vacationing in the Catskills, a Broad-wayite Broad-wayite enthused about the rural sector sec-tor .. . "So peaceful!" he raved. "Every night you're lulled to sleep by the chirping of crickets, the croaking of frogs, and the ripple of the borscht!" . . . New York is like i this: In the office building at 515 I Madison Avenue the tenants include the America First Committee and the R.A.F. Benevolent Society. Louis Fischer In his book recalls one of Goebbels' quotes which is probably choking Berlin's lyingest midget by now: "Whoever treats with Bolshevism will end by being devoured by it" . . . The gag in Rumania, they tell you, goes this way; "Bver since we joined the axis we are getting rooa line uer-many's uer-many's earthquakes like Japan's, and an army like Italy's!" Comforting Thought for the Drafted: Draft-ed: The Commander-in-Chief wants them to stay in an army camp for another year so that their families will never be shoved into a concentration concen-tration camp forever. Ray Clapper, the columnist, exhibited ex-hibited some of the abusive and . stupid letters he gets from Lind-berghers Lind-berghers . . . Clapper pointed out that abuse has replaced reason in the minds of those people . . .All of which is a new way of spelling crackpots . . . But get this irony. Those who submit vile letters are the ones who yelp that their heroes are being smeared . . . Hitler claims he li fighting a religious war against the Russians "who do not recognize any church" . . . That's a cinch to debunk . . . Every time Hitler's air force recognized a church In England they bombed It The Yoo-hoo incident between Lieut.-General Lear and troops train- ing In Tennessee has aroused national na-tional controversy, Many take the side of the General, claiming that discipline is more important than the soldiers' sore feet (from marching march-ing 15 miles in a 97 degree heat as punishment for flirting with some girl golfers) ... On the other hand, many think the punishment too severe. se-vere. The following story is offered to show that not all officers are starchy. On a dark, rainy night, out from the front lines of Verdun a water-soaked, water-soaked, mud-caked group of American Amer-ican doughboys trudged in the French mud ... At ease for a moment mo-ment one of them approached an officer in the darkness . . , "Excuse "Ex-cuse me, Sir, have you a cigarette?" . . . "Certainly, son," was the answer an-swer ... As the doughboy lit up his cigarette the match revealed the face of General Pershing. "General Pershing!" said the soldier. sol-dier. "Yes, son," replied the general, "you took an awful chance. I might ' have been a second lieutenant!" A London arrival (via clipper) brought a half dozen lemons which j is practically the same as a million dollars right now . . . The boys at the Savoy were smacking their lips over the thought of a lemon in their cocktails, when they discovered discov-ered that Kathleen Harriman, daughter of Averill, had used the precious lemons for a rinse! Typewriter Ribbons: Nate Collier: Col-lier: No horse can go as fast as the money you bet on him . . . Punch: His desire was nipped In the budget ... Ed Howe: A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice ad-vice . . . Lyman Beecher: Eloquence Elo-quence is logic on fire . . . Abe Martin: Hain't it a relief when a clerk finally admits he hain't got what you want? . . . Anon: You could tell the show's goose was cooked as soon as the audience started roasting , , . The Brandon Sun: Only two classes of people fall for flattery men and women . . . Jack Warwick: Many things can happen while the experts are making wrong guesses . . . George Bernard Shaw: In Heaven an angel an-gel is nobody in particular . . . Dolores Anderson: Everything in Hollywood is real except the people. peo-ple. When the White House sent some of the secretarial staff in a White House car to the funeral of Louis Howe's sec'y at Asheville, N. C, the car was barred from the procession pro-cession because it did not have a union driver . . . "Any three-card-Monte player will tell you," Howard Whitman declares in Coronet, "that ' good, simple, honest people make the best suckers" . . . Smarter j crooks will tell you different . . . t The ripest sucker is a chump with j a taint of larceny, and he's in- a vaifably booked. |