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Show m i U LMfTl Iiilnm - -I Tales of the Totvn: This story has never been printed : before, we are told. . . . How Vice President Henry Wallace scared his staff during the Chicago convention. ... He left word that he was not to be awakened until 8 a. m. . . . His secretary rapped on the connecting door and, getting no answer, opened it and looked in. . . . He was alarmed to see two boys asleep in the twin beds. . . . The secretary hastened to spread the alarm. . He finally located the Vice President in the lobby reading a book. . . . Wallace explained. . . . At 3 in the morning two soldiers had knocked on his door while looking for someone some-one else. ... He learned they had no accommodations. ... He insisted insist-ed they take his room. . . . Then he dressed, went downstairs, and sat up all night reading. Lieut. Col. James Roosevelt is ' supposed to have told this to friends. ... He had just returned re-turned after considerable action In the South Pacific when he was stuck on a coast highway. He started to walk back to his camp. . . . Along came an army truck. . . . Colonel Roosevelt, Roose-velt, using the hitch-hiker's thumb sign, stopped it. . . . The Sergeant driving It welcomed him for a lift He didn't recognize rec-ognize the President's son and started griping about his luck. . . . "Colonel," he said, "it sure is tough that two fighting men like us can't get into the Big Show, Instead of motoring along a peaceful highway like this." "Yes, it is," said Roosevelt's boy, "but orders is orders!" "Yeah," said the Sarge, "the trouble with men like us, Colonel, Colo-nel, is that we don't know the right people." Most of Wall Street has been keeping keep-ing a watchful eye lately on the Fisher Brothers, who are prominent in the automobile industry. . . One of the Fishers was motoring through Manhattan's industrial area recently, recent-ly, when a tire on his car blew. . . . He stopped near a small factory where he went looking for a phone. ... He went to several places looking look-ing for a booth and was recognized by the owners of small plants in the neighborhood. . . . The eyes of these excited minor tycoons popped as they saw him. . . . "He must," they reasoned, "be inspecting one of the factories!" . . . Ajid that is why the stock of a relatively minor company jumped 2V4 points. The epidemic of suicides (who have been "committing sidewalk") was stopped by a newspaper photographer. pho-tographer. ... A woman frantically telephoned a newspaper and said that 'her girl friend (who lived around the corner from the paper) had just phoned that she was going to jump from her window. . . "Please," she urged, "do something 1 to stop her!" . . . The editor assigned as-signed a photographer to the scene. : . . . Instead of phoning the police, i this hard-boiled photogger (thinking I only of getting a good picture) talked his way into an apartment across the street and got his big j camera ready. . . . The would-be j suicide climbed out on the ledge. . . . Just as she was about to jump, he yelled: "Make it good, lady. I gotta make a living! Go ahead!" ... She was so furious at this "invasion "in-vasion of her privacy" she climbed back inside and changed her mind about the whole thing. And you think you have it tough, huh? . . . Along Melody Lane he is rated as a kid with a real fu-j fu-j ture. . . . Before he was drafted into the Army he was the conductor of the New York City Symphony. ... And so the Brain Trusters in ' khaki made him a band leader. . . . The last time he was home on leave he was guest conductor of that au-I au-I gust group of long hairs when they S held their' concert at Carnegie Hall. . . . When he returned to camp he was summoned by the CO. and handed hand-ed the bawling out of his life. . . . Because he failed to make a satisfactory satis-factory marching arrangement of the waltz: "Carolina Moon." Intimates will tell you that they are beyond hope of reconciliation. They no longer speak to each other or look at each other without glaring. glar-ing. . . . He is well known in the theater and so is she. . . . They decided de-cided on an eventual divorce about a year ago. . . . But because of the exasperating apartment shortage both refuse to move out for each other. . . . They are keeping their estranged interlude as much to themselves as possible just so they can have a place to sleep! The Broadway Express: Col. Elliott El-liott Roosevelt will marry into a publishing clan which bitterly opposed op-posed his pop's re-election. . . . FDR's first public appearance (since the welcome home parade) will be in Washington within 4 weeks and not at the Gridirion Dinner. . . The buzz persists that Steve Early, FDR's prss chief, will resign after the Inaugural to make a decent liv i ing. . James Wechsler, the bril liant Washington newspaper man, predicted Dewey's electoral vote closer than anyone. i I |