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Show HIP m iVofes of an Innocent Bystander: From James W. Barrett's book on Joseph Pulitzer, the great newspaper newspa-per publisher: "A Journalist In JP's (Pulitzer) conception. Is a statesman states-man as well as a writer . . . The basis of It was something more profound pro-found than persistent curiosity about people and things. JP, of course, was the most incorrigible busybody of his day and age. His habit of asking questions about everything under the sun and demanding accurate accu-rate as well as Immediate answers was an amusing and often annoying annoy-ing trait, but It was only a mechanism mech-anism through which an eager, prehensile pre-hensile mind was kept supplied with working material. He had an objective ob-jective which he refused to put aside. As long as he lived, he wanted want-ed to Inform and mold public opinion not Just for the sake of profits, but for the sake of progress in the direction where he thought America ought to be heading." Our Incorrigible Busybody Dep't.: Doesn't Army Intelligence think that Great Britain has a severe case of brass-hat poisoning? , . . Aren't the members of the Supreme Court now all pulling one way at each other's a tv9 Ttsf wsf a Irnntv iVi m tm u i . I av J uu it i . u rw hi a m President changed the nickname for Morgenthau to "Six Per Cent Henry"? Hen-ry"? . . . What two Cabinet officers are suffering from make-up poisoning? poison-ing? (Their friends make up the stories, and they do the poisoning) . . . What Invention can drop a sandbag down a chimney at 20,000 leet? And what Sec'y of War would like to do It to what Washington col-yumlst? col-yumlst? Why do the Supreme Court Justices Jus-tices call their edifice "the Mausoleum" Mauso-leum" when It Isn't that lively? . . . Hasn't photography helped the British Brit-ish censors more than it has Hollywood? Holly-wood? Wouldn't this be an aid to Britain: To mail the photostats to your friends and let His Majesty's gov't keep the originals? . . . What Canadian official, who believes the war can be won by lowering wages, will shortly be elevated by a kick In the tall light? What she tank Is giving the Generals Gen-erals a bigger headache than the Privates who steer them? . . . What Ambassador turned in an honest day's work recently? . . . For what teers than for the Marine Corps? And which Sec'y of State is vastly amused? . . . Isn't it true that Jesse Jones loaned his brother $1.50? Anyway, Any-way, isn't Jesse wearing his brother's broth-er's gold watch? . . . Don't they call Sec'y Ickes "personality plus" since his secretary said good morning morn-ing to him? . . . Who defined a liberal as a guy who will forgive anything but a contribution to his campaign? . . . Aren't the officers of the Pacific Fleet split squarely on the question of whether it will take three weeks or a month to "solve" the Jap navy? . . . What prominent Britishers have the Jitters Jit-ters since the Gov't's inquiry into foreign-owned bonds. The only thing in which Noel Coward was small fry . . . And isn't it true that certain self-called Americans brag about their ancestors landing on Plymouth Rock and act as though they had Just crawled from under It? Man About Town: Memos of a Mldnlghtcr: Fishermen Fisher-men have told authorities that they've actually seen U-boats off the New England coast . . . That lovely Red Cross nurse in those new posters post-ers (she's marching with four men of the armed forces) is Hazel French of the Powers Pretty-Pretty Plantation. Planta-tion. Hazel won the nod over all the models who wanted the assignment assign-ment because of her beautiful brown orbs ... So what happened? The artist painted her eyes blue . . . There have been five new ditties with the title of Zanuck's hit, all ending with: "How green was my valley how blue was my heart." That's going to be quite a scandal over the refugee racket, dearie . . . It'll involve naturalization and immigration im-migration high jinks which have a pretty terrible stench. It'll wreck some prominent pollticos . . . Are the authorities following up the sensational sen-sational charges about the Met-opera's Met-opera's new star, a woman? Allegedly Al-legedly quite friendly with Quisling, Goering, et al . . . How good's that talk about Marshall Field bidding for the Times and Post after his Chicago paper is launched? . . . Anything to the rumor about his PM taking ads, changing its format and price to 3c? Chicagorillas, who were imported into Philly and N. Y. years ago to help in circulation wars are now being recruited fsr action in Chicago - in case, etc. . . . Add comical ironies: A B'way guy who pulled al-mcrt al-mcrt every major sin on the statutes, and nsver served a single day is now 'ji the Bastille for getting caught in a floating crap gamel . . . The colyum certainly hopes that Japan will select as her friend the Fleet-minded American Navy, Instead of the fleet-footed Italian Army. |