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Show Si Li I J.wnl-s., I Lint From a Blue Serge Suit New Yorkers and others planning to visit Miami Beach this winter I "will be sleeping in churches and schools," according to the president of the Greater Miami Hotel Ass'n. . . . The Fibber McGee film, "Heavenly Days," briefly outlawed along with "Wilson" by some U. S. Senators (for showing to troops overseas), over-seas), will be released any day. . . . The new stamp commemorating the defense of Corregidor was crayoned cray-oned by Logan U. Reavis of Associated Asso-ciated Press. ... The Look publishers pub-lishers have been raiding all other mags for their new picture project to compete directly with Life. Gerald L. K. Smith, testifying before be-fore a congressional committee, said choosing between Dewey and Roosevelt is like choosing between a thug and a robber. If Smith isn't careful, Herr Goebbels will sue him for plagiarism. . . . Editor and Publisher's Pub-lisher's survey revealed that only 20 per cent of the papers are for FDR and that 10 states haven't a single Roosevelt gazette. When s Nazi war prisoner died on an American ship returning here It was decided to bury him at sea an hour after the black-out when the garbage was dumped too. Several of the accounts ta the papers pa-pers about the "Under Cover" author being ejected from Gerald L. K. Smith's press conference by the frightened Smith, exposed by the author, appeared to overlook the big point in the story. Instead of belittling author John Roy Carlson for being kicked out, why didn't they emphasize his heroism in going unescorted un-escorted right into the enemy's booby trap? Love Letter: "Dear W. W," writes correspondent Ray Josephs, Who covered South America and put it in a new click called "Argentine Diary," "Buenos Aires has a new newspaper an underground paper, in which its big feature is a col'm titled: 'El Wnchel de la Argentina.' The name was suggested when they learned you uncovered many a raw deal in the U. S. A. "Practically all the dallies there have been gagged and strait-jacketed strait-jacketed by the gov't, so that underground under-ground papers have sprung up everywhere. ev-erywhere. 'Winchel' gives out with the Inside stuff in back of every move made by the Fascist chiefs at the Casa Rosada (Argentina's pink White House). He prints documents suppressed by officialdom, tells the facts deleted by censors and exposes ex-poses the oo-la-la secrets of Juan Peron, Mussolini imitator, and No. 1 man in Argentina. The big-shots are going loco trying to learn where this new 'Winchel' gets his stuff. Caught reading him means the concentration concentra-tion camp at Patagonia. This is your monument in Argentina." Our best unreliable source from Berlin just airmailed the following flash. It seems that Adolf and Goer-lng Goer-lng had a tiff, again. Adolf spotted a new medal on Hermann's uniform and said: "How many times, Hermann, I told you dot you must not vare more mettles, met-tles, dan me? Vy you varing von extra mettle, hah?" "Oh, mein Fuehrer," whined Goering, "diss is not a new mettle diss iss my America First button!" Add tough breaks: Dean Hudson, band leader, lost out on a sponsored auto program. Because his name was the same as another car . . . Dinah Shore is the victim of a wild rumor which has made her miserable, mis-erable, despite the acclaim of overseas over-seas troops she entertains. She is happy with her marriage . . . Former For-mer AP correspondent Mark Barron who was stricken in Ethiopia and couldn't recover over there is fully mended since he was inducted. He is now a commando! There will be no fanfare about it, but the British military is about to hold its first court-martial in the U. S. . . . A British officer is the defendant. The case will be heard In New York and, for security reasons, rea-sons, in camera. . . . But the verdict, ver-dict, when approved by the British War Office, will be made public in I London. Varga gets $1,000 each for his covers from King Features . . . The next Sec'y of State for Cuba will be William Belt, whose family Is from Beltsville, Md., near Washington. He recently fought a duel in Ha-i Ha-i vana. His opponent was a newspaper news-paper publisher. Belt missed. The publisher refused to fire. Judging from the way some gazettes pass over the crimes of the Axis, the only way for Russia to get treated well in the press over here is to declare war on us. Oh-you-Kid Dep't: There was some comment on Cong. Clare Luce, with one of the lads hymning her for at least getting a little chic into congress. "Sure," conceded an acidy gaL "Clare wears the most stylish shoes a candidate's feet rver trembloH in." |