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Show m Man Playing the Portable: Broadway Confetti: Waldorf hotel barbers, summoned to suites by foreign for-eign diplomats, are searched by guards for concealed weapons. Nobody No-body thinks of the razor! ... The reason one of the lawyers (on 42nd street) is never in after 8 p. m.: He's at the Harem waiting on tables. ... Not once, they say, has Mr. Truman sat on his new porch. Too visible from the street; sell-conscious of oglers A Philly spender spend-er (making our bistros) is perfected perfect-ed at all times by a female bodyguard! body-guard! Her unique job Is keeping him from being careless with tips to ciggie and camera-gels. Hez a nesty hebit of tossing $50 bills. Sights You Don't See From Bus: The drug store at 56th and Madison which now features a maitre d' for its sody fountain! Leads you to the fountain stool, helps you get seated, takes the order. . . . The Broadway infants' in-fants' shoo called: "Babydash- cry." . . . Charlie's bargain store on the lower East Side, which offers a lady's handbag on sale for only $200! . . . Sign in a 47th street bookshop: "Wise Men Fish Here." They Ail Come Back: As a boy, Glenn Cunningham's legs were scarred horribly in a schoolhouse fire in Kansas. . . . Robert Allman of the University of Pennsylvania wrestling team was tagged "the most courageous athlete of 1938;' he was blind. . . . Bernard Baruch is deaf, but it doesn't bother him. To concentrate or doze, he just unhooks un-hooks his hearing aid. . . . Francis Parkman, one of the greatest historians, his-torians, was crippled. . . . Madame Curie had tuberculosis, was threatened threat-ened with blindness. Did she stop? . . . Infantile paralysis claimed the body of Sir Walter Scott but not the spirit . . . Tuberculosis didn't dull the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson. . . . Beethoven wrote the music he never would hear. MANHATTAN HEARTACHES Ghostly lovers in an aged rendezvous . . . Return again to heed the golden sound And whisper of the love that once they knew . . . As they spread their magic carpet on the ground. Ghostly lovers meet to fan the flame . . . And linger for a while as sinners will To bet their chips on life's romantic ro-mantic game . . . And spin the wheel to feel the gambler's thrill. Yet ghost-ly ghost-ly lovers part as mortals do . . . Till evening breathes again her mystic themes And cloaks them in the haunted rendezvous . . .To laugh and love and weave their gentle schemes . . . Secrets are the things that lovers share . . . And there are quite a few to this affair Andrew Cowans. Times Square Ticker: Investing In plays is risky enough to make a slot machine envious. However, the best bet appears to be musicals. musi-cals. About 40 per cent of the 1947-48 1947-48 season's song-and-dance shows turned out to be money-makers. . . . Jean Tennyson's work for hospitalized hospital-ized vets is the talk of concert circles cir-cles Paris designers (of femme apparel) are studying Hollywood atyles. Their slipping is showing. . . . Locals moan "it's impossible" to export goods to Yurrop unless more than a dozen people "are taken care of." (Black market red tape). Manhattan Murals: The Iceland Ice-land restaurant, Broadway landmark, land-mark, which weathers all sea-ons. sea-ons. The eye-holding colored photos of the eyefuls (In the show) In its windows. ... The forlorn 57th street shop (located (locat-ed in the center of dozens of second-hand fur places) which says (almost apologetically) in Its windows that It sells only new furs. ... The movie theater the-ater (the Elysee) which has a glass-enclosed section on the orchestra floor for its more (ahem) socially acceptable clientele. cli-entele. Hmf. The Big Show: The chorus and show-gels in the Ringling Bros. Barnum-Bailey circus get as high as $80 (down to $40) depending on the number of productions they ap- Pear in. They are guaranteed a I weok oeason plus free board, j room and transportation (on tour). All personnel sleep in air-con- dUioned U. S. government hospital j cars, purchased last year and con-, con-, jcrted Into traveling hotels. The ! 82-fnot silver-enameled, streamlined ! Rmghng red) sleepers resemble j f e Super Chief The only two I bookings not under canvas are New ! York and Boston. ... The cost to I stage the circus daily u $23,000. - Susie, one of Eldridge's per-! per-! nS Chimps' der"and kleenex ; lardrenrhCOld- : 5'000 ieces f ! arobe are m the show. . . 50 men 6 Wr the costume depart- Ham JJallantine. a former newspa- is ma-;-The pink s,je can"y color , granulatd sugar with one Cl n f Whirkd and heated' cLv ?ru ?gar makes 15 20 eSft CkVn dry weath- e to eignt when it rains. who'thi 'ne by those "ho thik we're at war. Only Jjt thoSe who think we're It |