Show t i f I IThe The Broadway Lights The I Late ate Watch Billboard lists Ush 21 24 radio programs which cost sponsors sponsors spon spon- sors a n total of In free gifts to contestants in 1946 On Only one of the 24 23 shows Is in Hoopers Hooper's Inner circle of the first 15 After I six months William Schiller SchUler president president dent of the Polka Dot guild picked Gink Todd 3 a Cedar Rapids Girl I Chili Friday to inherit the crown of Williams his former formet trademark I does docs La Todd Eyewitnesses say more for polka dots than polka d dots did for Chill Wms Oh Now Looka Here Dept A show girl at Vanity Fair calls caUs herself hersel June July Anything to get Into a n column Strange Broadway Romances Arich Arich A Arich rich playboy bridegroom used to be his mater laws fella ellal The I 75 year old of a millionaire I I author 30 years herI her herI is wooing an I I I junior Oft On you kid Casting I II play The I note note- Theatre Ines new Big Dig People means just that It is s hiring ac actors ors who are at least six sic feet teet two Tito Guizar's Guizar s newest way of saying goodnight to a heel Have a happy appy drop dead I j i I I II Tris Coffin whose eyes andears andears and andears ears represent many ny Americans in the senate press gallery has hasa a n new book due doe soon titled I Missouri Compromise The TIle title was selected by the publisher publish publish- er because the book Is about what happened In Washington since death Much of oC the thc scene in Washington ashington these last two years cars the author anthor emphasizes emphasizes emphasizes sizes has been sad tragic and absurd I Times Square Local girls shudder when they discuss discuss New Yorks York's most terrifying wolf- wolf I one of our famed naval war heroes Jock Whitney may announce any week his plans to erect the worlds world's most luxurious racetrack in I Queens Very senator ex-senator R. R R. R Reynolds Is starting a law office In inI Washington as a specialist in government gov goy I departmental practice whatever that is is Sudden The only thing that nobody has tried to fix at Madison Square Garden is I Ithe the conditioning air system Will I Spruille Braden replace Gen Walter Walter Wal Wal- ter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow These days the post is equivalent to being second top man manIn manin manin In the state department Regarding Regarding Regarding Re Re- garding safety in aviation circles remember this fact It took the railroads rail taU roads 65 years to reach the high safety mark the airlines reached in their initial 20 Midtown Vignette They told toldas toldos ns os they brought it from Crom Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood where a n swank spot solved the matter of who pays the check This little gadget gadget gad gad- get discourages arguments and It is ft fun l. l besides It is a a. I souvenir bottle opener In InI Inthe Inthe j I the form Corm of a a. miniature hand I The index finger is pointed When the check is presented presented- you put the thing on the table and spin it And the person to whom the finger pays Street Scene Theres There's a youngster youngster youngster young young- ster in the window of a peanut shop on Broadway at His job Is Isto Isto isto to weigh peanuts on a scale He puts on quite a bit of pan- pan measuring the nuts described described described de de- de- de scribed by enchanted passersby as the netz He really Is a Chap Chap- Chaplin lin lin-In lin in the Harry Langdon manner 11 if you know your show business that is He convulses crowds which clog the sidewalk watching him For all I know by the time you read this he wont won't be bethere bethere bethere there but on n his way to Hollywood Newest big spender about midtown midtown midtown mid- mid town is a Puerto Rican named Nino Leaves a trail of big tips a mile wide nightly Ann Sheridan i now sleeps on a special glass mattress mattress mat mat- tress Fireproof and no allergy or Lucille Ball spurned I 1 her ber new car b because cause its bright red clashed with her orange hair The Intelligentsia Alma Archer Mirror beauty editor has a book o on what women think of men due in the spring The title ishMen is Men Ah Ralph Ingersoll has retired to his farm to write three novels Clare Luce will reveal the most intimate details In a mag on how she found religion She also is finishing a new book at her plantation Appleton will publish Jean Libman Block has haa a piece called Do They Gyp You When You Sell Seli Your Jewelry in the Feb Good Housekeeping Shedid She Shedid Shedid did the research with borrowed gems Dr A A. A J J. J Cronin the theauthor theauthor theauthor author is applying for U U. U S. S citizen citizen- ship The Washington Ticker The visit of President Truman South of the Border Is more than a salute to the new president of Mexico exico It is an out and open bid to strengthen the hand of the Mexican government against communistic infiltration in Central America Bipartisan Bi t I policy soon will be a thing o of the past I Mr Byrnes' Byrnes stilT stiff policy polley toward Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia oddly enough will become the Ute Republican position with positron with the new secretary of state backed by Mr Truman relying on a more concilia concilla tory attitude I I |