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Show New York Picture Postcard: The 5th Avenue store which advertises ad-vertises a dog soap as "Shampooch" . . . Toscanini getting a bow from the hips from a 57th Street record shop owner ... The Broadway bright lights which go on during the day and off at night . . . The man leaning out of his 4th floor window at the Taft Hotel focusing his binoculars binocu-lars on the Winter Garden undressing undress-ing rooms . . . The "Queen of 47th Street" an old gal, who strolls there after midnight, attired in Gay 90s garb . . . The Music Hall lounge, swankier than most high-priced high-priced joynts . . . Stop and Go signs along Broadway, which pedestrians pedes-trians ignore like good advice . . . The well-behaved patrons in the Automat and the noisy drunks in the uppity places . . . Wall Street, the nation's cash register, crowded with some of the shabbiest buildings in town . . . Colyumists hearing a wit drop a pearl and tossing a coin to decide who gets it. Sixth Avenue auctioneers exploding explod-ing vocal Roman candles . . . Art-lovers Art-lovers in the museums and their velvet whispers . . . Two lovers juggling their dreams in whispered nothings . . . The photo of a wrecked Jap plane in the window at Dempsey's . . . The hungry pigeons at 54th and 7th every sunup sun-up waiting for the stationery storekeeper store-keeper to feed them . . . The cop's horse that accepts cookies only from the Roxy show gals near the stage door . . . The slanty penmanship of rain editing the park's complexion complex-ion . . . The man and womaneuvers that inspire so many of the Broadway Broad-way songs and tragedies. FBI men glad the "kidnap" scare in Westchester was solved so quickly quick-ly .. . "Couldn't spare 100 agents on a kidnap case now with all the other things to do" . . . That was the case of the nurse who allegedly al-legedly confessed she did it . . . She will get away with a ten year sentence, sen-tence, perhaps . . . Because she didn't leave the state and didn't hold the child seven days . . . The inside is that she wanted to "even things" with the tot's grandmother . . . The thing that gave the nurse cold feet was the murder nearby of those two children by Haight. Leon Henderson, the Man Who Rations Your Gasoline, etc., is one of Washington's hitch-hikers as a result of the ration rules . . . The other ayem the Administrator thumbed a ride and wasn't recognized recog-nized by the motorist . . . "This darn old gas rationing," grumbled the . driver, "gives me no bother whatever. I've fixed it so I get all I need! And nobody is going to stop me from getting gas, either!" "I'm going to stop you," said Leon as he got out. "Yeah?" was the parting shot. "You and who else?" The query by Mai Rutt . . . Wanted Want-ed to know if Kate Smith joined the WAVES would they call her a Tidal? . . . The recollection of Ed- Hurley about Donald Day, war correspondent corre-spondent for Col. McCormick, who recently enlisted with the Finns. Day's dad was John Day, one of the leading horse writers . . . Alfred Al-fred D. McKelvey, president of Sea-forth, Sea-forth, telling about the stenog working work-ing in an alphabetical agency . . . Seems that one division head (due to a shortage in office help) hired her to keep someone else from getting get-ting her . . . She sat around for weeks with nothing to do, and finally, final-ly, to keep her shorthand from growing grow-ing stale, went across the street to a court room and took down the proceedings pro-ceedings . , . Then she'd return and spend the rest of the day transcribing transcrib-ing her notes . . . The office head, noticing how very busy she was gave her an ass't! Memos of the Congressional Limited: Randolph Paul, FDR's tax brain, in the Mayflower dining room looking look-ing so harmless . . . The slow-moving cabs and cars. 22 miles per hour in the city . . . A $25 fine if caught going over 35 in the suburbs - . . WAACs in their smarter looking look-ing Winter apparel . . . Washington Washing-ton at night with no dimout regulations regula-tions ... The hotel ruling: "Don't care how important you are can't stay longer than 3 nights" . . . The careful checkup on persons visiting the Navy Dep't . . . "What do you wish to see him about?" . . "Navy business" . . . "Can't say that, sorry" . . . The newly decorated Commander, who carries his decoration deco-ration in his pocket . . . Said he wasn't used to it yet-and pals might think he was peacocking. Sign of Autumn: The outfield grass in the ball parks thinning out . . . The misery along the Bowery that imaginative writers mistake for mystery . . . The junk wagon which carries this legend: "Get in the Scrap Or Join the Heap!" Marines and their gals along Riverside River-side Drive in the dimout. Leather-9Ckf" Leather-9Ckf" ' Waldorf's gold- braided doorman - looking more austere than the Generals who dwell tit ' L - ThG white-'ing pausing to thumb through a discarded issue is-sue of Vogue at 54th and Madison. |