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Show I f I I I Yl P """"." Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter The harassed attache of the American Amer-ican Consul at Lisbon sweari this happened: A small, shy little man leaned confidentially across his desk and said: "Please, Mister, could you tell me il there is any possibility that I could get entrance to your wonderful won-derful country?" ... The attache, pressed by thousands of such requests re-quests and haggard with sleepless nights, roughly replied: "Impossible now. Come back in another ten years I" The little refugee moved toward the door, stopped, turned and asked, with a wan smile: "Morning or afternoon?" aft-ernoon?" I Well, as most of us suspected, that I Nazi aviator who escaped from a Canadian concentration camp has lamistered to Peru, forfeiting the $15,000 bail posted by the German Consulate. This is good news, because be-cause the government officials will henceforth crack down on them all, and there will be no bail for any of them . . . However, the clever aviator didn't have all the laughs during his escape . . . The first week here he was taken to many of the.Broadway hot-spots ... In one of them he got a double "Mickey" for talking too much and loud and when you've swallowed a "Mickey" (no less a double one) you can escape es-cape all you like, but you will never feel better than a dead duck . . . Which is a lot better than feeling like a live Nazi who has swallowed a double "Mickey." Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Wireless: Authorities on the Far East expressed the opinion that Japan is strictly a gymnasium fighter. fight-er. Lots of form in the workouts, but a stumblebum in the ring . . . Upton Close called the embrace with Moscow an admission that both nations na-tions know they are "hopelessly outclassed out-classed in the Pacific" by your Uncle Un-cle Samson . . . Edgar Snow doubted doubt-ed that the Japs would do any scrapping scrap-ping on the water, realizing that British and U. S. sea power would make them velly solly . . . And James Young, who was jailed by the Japs for his dispatches to here, predicted pre-dicted that some Japanese screwball screw-ball army officer, not the gov't, would get that country Into trouble. If so, he warned, pact or no pact, Stalin's planes would be over Tokyo like files, dropping pineapples in their suki-yaki . . . Many reasons have been advanced for Cholly McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's drop in popularity, but no one seems to have mentioned the program on at the same time Helen Hel-en Hayes . . ; No Yank-Giant ball game broadcasts this year. Can't find a sponsor willing to spend that sort of coin. Remember last year how the ball clubs took bows for being be-ing good Samaritans to the poor shut-ins? The Front Pages: The Times asked a sensible question in a recent re-cent editorial. Why, it wanted to know, should Sen. Reynolds of N. C. head the military affairs committee? commit-tee? In his eight years in the senate, sen-ate, says the Times, the only qualification quali-fication he has piled up for the important im-portant post is seniority. You might as well argue that the last banana that hangs on the stalk Is the best-when best-when it's only the ripest . . . Even before Lindbergh, the notorious publicity pub-licity dodger, poured his latest abuse on Britain, the Herald Tribune had soured him. That daily called attention at-tention to Major de Seversky's answer an-swer to the Lindbergh letter. It echoed the Major's query, to wit: "Where does a peace-time aviator get off to pose as a know-it-all on combat flying, of which he hss had none, yet?" . . . Samuel Grafton has a good suggestion. Let's give France food on our own terms, he proposes, and if Hitler doesn't permit per-mit those terms then the French will know who's starving them. The Story Tellers: The reefer-smokers reefer-smokers who want to pamper Hitler in order to help U. S. trade, can snap out of their pipe dreams by reading "To American Business Men," in Harper's. T. Graydon Upton, Up-ton, a banker who saw and smelled Naziism grow in Berlin, reports that the tycoons who backed Adolf were the first to be burglarized by him Remember it's an American bank-er bank-er saying this . . . Spain is supposed sup-posed to be broke and hungry. So how can it afford to distribute, free of charge, an expensive booklet called Spain? ... This monthly reports what's going on In the country, coun-try, but carries no word of Nazi troops huddling there to charge on Gibraltar. Who is paying for this high priced job of printing? The Magic Lanterns: "Ziegfeld ?s.r hJ",', tri-bute to tte Iateglrl-"FnifiL Iateglrl-"FnifiL ing the pattern tiS r MTng U iS bi' dutiful, du-tiful, costly and strictly for the eye. Bgand'Aook-don't analyze.!. The Great American Broadcast" is a jong-and-sentiment picture of the networks' baby days. It's pleasan righttm? dieS rGr: ri0" -d a Gob" Is slap-happia sS SL' ZtiT WildCSt chas ince ftJKKr cops were mm Ut |