Show I III Notes of a New Y Yorker I The New York papers recently offered of- of of of- I an nn article by Gypsy Rose Lees Lee's mother The story was about Gyp- Gyp iy New Yorkers are familiar with the silly quarrel between these two Iwo Supposed to have started when Gypsy wrote articles for a Q magazine about her early career in which her mater was kidded a lot and unfrocked a little Broad- Broad later heard buzzing about mother and daughter getting to the point of name Once Gypsy received a telegram from rom her Mom which warned that unless the two could get together about a certain matter she the she the mother mother would would give the story to the newspapers Look Mom I dont don't be a fool replied replied replied re re- re- re plied Gypsy dont give it to the papers Sell it to them Now v is probably the last time to recount this instance of the humorous humor humor- ous play by-play that went on between and Henry Wallace When Mae West Vest was suing Frank Wallace for or divorce the papers were full of stories stories sto sto- sto- sto ries nez headed Mae Mac West Charges Wallace Wal Val Vallace lace ce Unkind to Her The President one out and sent it to the vice president with a note in his own handwriting reading Henry Is this the way to treat your worn worn- en I Ernie Pyle reported the incident of captured Nazi General von Schlieben Schlieben Schlieben ben who squawked to Yank commanders com corn I manders about American photographers photographers I taking Inking his picture without asking asking asking ask ask- ing permission And how General General Gen Gen- eral Collins reminded Von Schlieben that in the United States there is a afree afree afree free press and we in the army cannot stop our newspapers from printing the news and taking pic plc tures In Time or Life a few editions editions edi edi- ago we read what the photographer photographer said when Von Schlieben barked Oh I am bored with you American photographers taking my picture The American hocus focus man who understood German snapped back And Im I'm bored taking tak talc ing pictures of captured Nazi gen gen- This Is the newest Russian gag overheard at the Madison Bar So Sc Ivan Ivanovitch died gallantly in the midst of battle battIe sobbed Katerina Mikh a a You say he uttered my name with his last breath Part of It replied the returned returnee soldier only part of it An ironic fact is that George M Cohan never could scribble a successful sue suc ditty about baseball the sport he loved so much Cohan as all Broadway knew was a Pole Polo Grounds faithful Yet the two songs he wrote about baseball were never performed more than a few tired times even with John McGraw and the Giants lending themselves to its promotion Yet Albert Von Tilzer's Tilzer Take Me Out to the Ball Game is as famous as the game itself anc an Von Tilzer saw his first baseball contest contest contest con con- test only a short while back his tune had been played and suns suni for tor decades Take Me etc was not the firs' firs baseball song ever written In a ballplayer named Kelly was an ido Ida up in Boston A faithful fan scribble scribbled a ditty tagged Slide Kelly Slide The word three-word phrase became mon mor popular than the song A song was responsible for finish finishIng finishing finishing I Ing a baseball stars star's promising ca career career career reer when it looked as though h in he might develop into another Hubbel or Walter Johnson His name was wa Harry Covaleskie and he was the Phillies I One season he established himseL by pitching against the Giants thre three I times in five days beating them u it l all starts and taking a pennan right from under their noses The Thc I Giants burned up found out that Covaleskie as a kid hac trouped in amateur vaudeville sing ing Silver Threads Among Amon tin the Gold One afternoon the following sum summer summer summer mer Covaleskie was hurling again the Giants when from their dug dUgOll came the strains of Threads to The Giants kept this uj ut all during that series and other Na League clubs followed with t thi th same ribbing In six weeks Co Covaleskie Covaleskie Covaleskie was a nervous wreck The following year saw him fade from rom baseball completely Despite the warning against unnecessary travel vaca voca tion travel Is up 10 per cent Ap there are people who wondo won wondo wondo do anything to help win the war- war even if 11 it means staying home ant am doing nothing A certain New York State Senator after alter a nervous breakdown and j I holiday In a sanitarium was pro dooly He re turned to the Senate at Albany where be he engaged in a hot the first day j I During the debate one of his forgetting the mans man's illness lost his temper and yelled Youri Youre crazy I Pulling out his discharge i cat caU cate Our Hero waved it and said I can prove Im I'm sane sane now now cat i i you |