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Show Walter Winchell Muni Rejects $5000 for -Talk on Radio . Mesaee ef Cehanaisfs Girl Friday Dear Mr. Wi The publishers of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon telephoned. tele-phoned. The col'm la In their paper, pa-per, one of the mora powerful journals in the nation. . . . They thought you'd be amused to know that the Wichita U.I prexy made a remark about you la defense of a professor of German who had been dismissed. ... He had been dismissed pending a probe ef charges in the book, "Secret Armies," Ar-mies," which wss sent to every senator and congressman and which drove the pro-Hitlerites a little daffy. . . . Anyhow, the German prof was just reinstated on a day-to-day basis. . . . President Presi-dent Jardine, in defending this prof before the board, told a fib about you. He said you had "gotten "got-ten into a lot of trouble for sending send-ing the book to congress." ... Of course we didn't have any trouble whatever; 99 per cent of the legislators legis-lators thanked us for sending it to them I ... I reminded the Beacon Bea-con bosses that the Dies commit-mite commit-mite confirmed a great many of the exposes In that book. models In tne-Helena Rubinstein windows were done by Jan Norrlsa, . . . She used her 17-year-old daughter as the model for all the figures. . . . lazy Ellnson was Just in breathless. . . . Ssld to tell you not to psy any attention to all ' those rumors about the Bremen. ... He says he happens to know that It Is In a bottle in a Fifth avenue window) , . . May I bow on the exposure of the nasi pilots on Columbian air line story which broke last Friday? I used It months ago. . . . Paul Muni turned down a radio guest shot one broadcast at $2000. Said he was too tired. . . . Texaco was the sponsor. . . . Later Gulf offered him SAVIA fnf. mktlm. ahn( But Muni was still too tired. , . . Boy, that's some tired, huh? Bee Palmer,' who swung swing In the whoopee decade, finally got that quiet abrogation In the Chicago Chi-cago courts last week. . . . Zieg-feld's Zieg-feld's latest exploiter, Bernard Sobel, is amazed at this coincidence. coinci-dence. He hss a book due next month with the same title as George Jean Nathan's ("Encyclopedia ("Encyclo-pedia of the Theater"), which la due In Jan. Bernard's Is at the printers already, so Mr. Nathan will simply have to dig up another name. . . . District Attorney Dewey has selected his brain trusters for his presidential campaign. Elliott Bell Is among them. He resigned from the Times financial staff to head the ecenomlc end. . . . War note: A man by the name of Mars sells military supplies en Fourth avenue S. Mars). t sent Senator Nye that stuff you left me. About the man who works on Frits Kuhn's Yorkville rag passing around printed (embargo (em-bargo squawk) letters to the guests at a wedding ann'y in the Bronx last week. . . , Ruth Weston Wes-ton of "American Way" lost her doggie (Shandy), who is old snd deaf. Would you say something In the psper about It, etc.? , . . You might hand out praises also to Mr. Bercovici's morning news sense. He makes It all very clear. . . . Wanna bet that Samuel Grafton's Graf-ton's column Is destined to take the place of Brisbane's? I've been forgetting to read most of the locals, lo-cals, but not his stuff. Every word a sock. . . . You said to make a note that the underworld never calls him "Lrpke" but "Lep" . . . Hoover, I understand, never calls him anything but "Mr. Buchalter." Year Oiri Friday. Copyright, 1939, Dally Mirror. |