Show the thc Stuff Newspapermen's News News-I News News- talk shop includes the alleged reasons for the unpopularity unpopularity- of De in certain high political I places One statesman said slid He is I arrogant hard to get along with I stuffy Another revealed that De likes to make an entrance entrance entrance en en- enI I trance especially in swanky hotel dining rooms when a trumpeter i tootles too his approach with some I ta-da ta dee da dah dee da dl I II I This got on the nerves of ot Allied big- big shots It Is said Mr Willkie will willi certify to the last Item De De' is called the bride when Roosevelt discusses him with Churchill via trans-Atlantic trans phone Once asked the Prime Minister MinI Min Mm- I ister Hows the bride Allright All Allright AlII I right Mr C. C is said to have answered but I am nm having trouble I with the groom Meaning Gir- Gir aud Americans and others should not forget Dc De was the first to yell We Wo Will Fight The Squelch Proper Radle Radie Harris Harris Har liar ris relays the one about the feud between Jane Cowl and Philip Merivale Merivale Meri- Meri I vale when they app appeared ared in The Road to Rome hit Their quarreling quarrelIng quarrel- quarrel Ing finally aroused director Lester Lonergan who succinctly said I just want to remind you Miss Cowl that the billing on this play is Jane Cowl and Philip Merivale not Jane Cowl vs Philip Merivale Recently a Nazi prisoner of ot war escaped from the stockade at Camp Crowder He learned the location of the camps camp's supply warehouse warehouse warehouse ware ware- house and got there without being detected He broke hi in in shed his PW uniform put on an nn American uniform uniform uniform uni uni- uni- uni form that draped him perfectly But then he made the boner resulting in I his I. I Hunting through a stack of hats he be put one on that fit him Then he be stepped out across the camp campgrounds campgrounds campgrounds grounds and was seized almost at once He had on the hat of a WAC Ouch It happened before Supreme Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme Court Justice Aaron J. J Levy The man before him said I would like to change my name Dame Its It's been beena a source of great embarrassment to me What is your name asked zoner Levy said the fellow Rarely in the life of any jurist was the caustic retort comes there a motion which he can grant grantwith grantwith with such pleasure I ShaWl ShaWl-sh wt Returned bomber bomer pilots have a favorite story not new I to some of us on the papers It deals with the U. U S. S bomber crew flying I over Switzerland which was hailed via radio by the ground crew of a Swiss anti-aircraft anti battery This isI is I neutral territory Get away or well we'll open fire I Yes we know replied the Yanks to which the guns ack Hey radioed the Americans your shells are exploding 1000 yards below us Yes was the reply we know Newspaperman Stuff Editor and Publisher reports that Lowell Mellett Mellett Mel- Mel Mellett lett who recently quit his post as II to the President to do a syndicated syndicated syndicated syndi syndi- column has just been granted a 5 raise by the St. St Louis Post- Post II Dispatch Dispatch-a a raise he requested 40 years ago I At that time Mellett asked his managing editor for the pay hike and n when turned down he quit The i u f-u was among the first to buy his It pays him the wage he got when a reporter As a matter of principle Mellett Mellett Mel Mel- lett asked the present editor to pay 5 extra He got this reply Okay OklY Sorry you had to wait so long for it Merciless Truth John Erskine recalls recalls recalls re re- re- re calls a college dean who used to say you couldn't teach a man mathematics mathematics mathe mathe- matics it U there was a girl hi irs the room or if you could he wouldn't be worth ten teaching ching The editor of This Week convulsed the column with the one about the sentry who heard a anoise anoise noise Doise and called out Who goes there A voice from the darkness answered Leut Jones Let me through I 1 cant can't let you proceed sir without without with with- out the password said the sentry Oh said the officer you know me well enough Let me through No can do was the retort gotta have the password sir Just then a with bored soldier sol sol- dier in the nearby guardhouse yelled Oh dont don't stand there ing lag all night shoot night shoot him Quotation Marksmanship Ted Robinson A pessimist feels bad when he be feels good for fear hell he'll feel worse when he be feels better Dorothy F. F Grant How many times tunes are we guilty of Mary Innis The frozen milk bottles wore crooked white top-hats top M. M Cousins The lonely night sounds sound of the prairie clawed at the windows Irving Hoffman Gentleman Gen What women call any man they dont don't know well J J. J Drinkwater Drink Drink- wa water r Poets make everlasting monuments of ot moments I |