Show 1 e V I E j I V Lint From a Blue Serge Suit Just before the war Jan tin lin the eminent Polish pianist waon was wa wason wason on a world concert tour and at on one point visited on the Is Island Is s land of Majorca which was th the place where Chopin lived lin Un visited the monastery which wa was Chopin's home and has since been turned into a private residence hoping to see sec the piano on whIch Chopin played He was told that th the piano was now the property of a I private family In Palma located that family and as he stood In rapt awe looking at this box which was the instrument of th the grea great t Polish immortal the man o othe of the house said Surely Mr Smet- Smet erlin youre you're going to play on it HI iU replied reverently Oh Oh I I wouldn't think of touching it To which his host said Oh nonsense non non- sense sense sense-my my children bang on it a athe all the time I. I d Supreme Court Justice Hug gogo Black Is a fiend for lyonnaise pota pota- I toes A new waitress at his favorite favorite favor favor- ite He restaurant brought him trench french frenchi fries in n error and told him sh she I couldn't change the order A Washington reporter seated near nea nearby nearby by asked her if It she knew the patron patro was a n United States high court judge Unimpressed she refused t to change the order explaining How often do they change their decisions de de- visions Weve We've only used It twice before I but every time some contributor contribute I offers it we get the giggles and have hav to print it t over again Its It's about abou I Mr and his year four son They were strolling in the park and the boy kept asking asking ask ask- ing all sorts of questions It wa was getting on Poppa persisted wet wo kind flowers Is doze How should I 1 know exploded explode Am I in the millinery James Gordon Bennett who use used I to own the N. N Y Y Herald had hat a list of for reporters that tha was as long as the memory of or a radio radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio comedian Every once In awhile a awhile while though the boys made him take one back Dont use patron or guest In referring to a paying payin customer at a hotel one rule rule nil went because you are using th tie e word incorrectly The rule was changed when th the boys on the rewrite desk searching for other words started to refer t to persons who registered at hotels a as inmates New Yorkers' Yorkers Notebook Notebook I IThe The English are giggling over ove the cooks cook's dog at an field The canine dashed down the runway runway runway run run- way in pursuit of a plane taking off oa off Does Does your dog always d do that a new officer asked The cook said yep Why the officer wanted to know I 1 dont don't know sir replied th the dogs dog's owner But what worries m mis me meIs meIs is what hes he's going to do with i It when he catches a plane Ivor vor Newton the London pianist heard a Cockney give this explanation explanation explanation tion of his own courage regarding the robot bombings I 1 see it like this It must take the Germans a lo loof lot lotof lotof of trouble to make the bloody things and then they have to get them into those pits and up in the air and it is quite a long way from France to London and if It they do get to London London London Lon Lon- don they still have to find Limehouse Limehouse Lime Lime- house and even then it Isn't everyone everyone everyone every every- one who can find 37 Bulstrode road where I 1 live and if it they do its it's 10 to 1 that I would be down the corner inthe in inthe n the Pub At the home of mutual friends after the funeral of the Archbishop of Canterbury Winston Churchill who was touched by the prelates prelate's passing said Once again the nation nation na na- tion has lost a great churchman and a great Englishman Then in an aside Mr Churchill who credits cred credits cred cred- its his 70 years to having a drink now and then added And once again one of my good friends has hasmet hasmet hasmet met the untimely end of a complete teetotaler Story of the Week The newest General Patton legend according to returned just-returned correspondents When the Germans cold murdered Gen Maurice Rose Patton Patton Patton Pat- Pat ton was strangely silent for a long time Then he reached slowly into his jacket pocket from which he removed a German-English German diction diction- ary any And crossed out the word mercy The other night Prof Prot Leo Reis- Reis man relayed the one about the trainee traine at a naval radio training center in Georgia His s station was s the radio tower He became worried when he couldn't account for an incoming fleet of planes He fl flashed shed X Radio adi S Pilot Jones Been Tower ca calling messaging you but got no answer It If yoU hear me wings Shortly came the reply Pilot t Jones calling X Radio Tower J 1 landed two hours ago If It y you you U hear ne One tower |