Show I I P Tales of the Town This story has never been printed before we are told How Vice President Henry Wallace scared his stat staff during the Chicago convention He left word that he was not to tobe tobe be awakened until 8 a. a m. m His secretary rapped on the connecting door and getting no answer opened it and looked in He was alarmed to see sec two boys asleep Inthe in inthe the twin beds The secretary hastened to spread the alarm He finally located the Vice President In the lobby reading a book Wallace explained At 3 in the morning two soldiers had knocked on his door while looking for someone someone some some- one else He learned they had no accommodations He Insisted Insisted Insist Insist- ed they take his room Then he dressed went downstairs and sat up all night reading Col James Roosevelt is supposed to have told this to friends He had just returned returned returned re re- turned after considerable action in the South Pacific when he be heI was stuck on a coast highway I He started to walk back to his Ws I camp Along came an army truck Colonel Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt welt using the hitch hikers thumb sign stopped it The Sergeant driving it welcomed him for a lift lilt lie didn't recognize recognize recognize rec rec- the Presidents President's son and started griping about his luck Colonel he said it sure is tough that two fighting men like us cant can't get into the Big Show instead of motoring along alonga a peaceful highway like this Yes it is said Roosevelt's boy but orders Is orders Yeah said the Sarge the trouble with men like us os Coland Colonel Colonel Colo Cola nd nel Is that we dont don't know the right people Most 1 of Wall Street has been keeping keeping keeping keep keep- ing a watchful eye lately on the Fisher Brothers who are prominent in the automobile industry One Oneat of at the Fishers was motoring through Manhattans Manhattan's industrial area recently recent recent- ly when a tire on his car blew He stopped near a small factory where he went looking for a phone He went to several places looking looking look look- ing for tor a booth and was recognized I Iby by the owners of small plants in inthe inthe i ithe the neighborhood The eyes of ot these excited minor tycoons popped as they saw him He must they reasoned be inspecting one of ot the factories And that is why the stock of a relatively minor company jumped 2 points The epidemic of suicides who have been committing sidewalk was stopped by a newspaper pho pho- A woman frantically telephoned a newspaper and said that her girl friend who lived around the corner from the paper I had just phoned that she was going to jump from her window Please she urged do something to stop her hen I The editor assigned assigned as as- signed a photographer to the scene Instead of ot phoning the police this hard-boiled hard thinking only of getting a good picture talked his way Into an apartment across the street and got his big camera ready The would-be would suicide climbed out on the ledge Just as she was about to jump he yelled Make it good lady I gotta make a living Go ahead She was so furious at this invasion invasion invasion in of ot her privacy she climbed back inside and changed her mind about the whole thing And you think you have it tough huh Along Melody Lane he heis heis heis is rated as a kid with a real fu fu- fu- fu ture Before he was drafted into the Army he was the conductor of ot the New York City Symphony And so the Brain in khaki made him a band leader The last time he was home on leave he was guest conductor of that august august au au- au gust group of long hairs when they held their concert at Carnegie Hall When he returned to camp he was summoned by the CO and handed banded hand band ed the bawling out of ot his life Because he failed to make a satisfactory satis saIls factory marching arrangement of ot the waltz Carolina Moon Intimates will tell you that they are beyond hope of ot reconciliation They no longer speak to each other or look at each other without glar glar- ing He is well known in the theater and so is she They decided de on an eventual divorce about a year ago But because of the exasperating apartment shortage both refuse to move out for each other They are keeping their estranged interlude as much to themselves as possible possible just just so they can have a place to sleep The Broadway Express Col Elliott El EI liott llott Roosevelt will marry into a publishing clan which bitterly opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed his pops pop's re reelection first public appearance since the welcome home parade will vIlI be bein bein bein in Washington within 4 weeks and not at the Dinner Th The buzz persists that Steve Early pr press pross ss chief will resign after the Inaugural to to make moke a decent liv liv- ing J James ames the bril brA Washington newspaper man predicted Deweys Dewey's electoral vote closer than anyone I IJ J |