Show e Editors Editor's Note While Winchell Is on vacation Jack Lait Is actIng acting acting act act- ing as guest columnist Recriminations Reflections Reflections- Ruthless rapacious James Caesar Petrillo PetrIno seems hell-bent hell to wreck the nightclubs of New York which cannot meet his latest demands demands demands de de- de- de mands and live Petrillo hasn't been getting his name in the papers papers pa pa- pers pens lately and has apparently de decided decided de- de to see to that I have long observed this egomaniac His union though In the is autonomous autonomous auton auton- and he Is its absolute duce He defies economic laws as he defies the nations nation's laws which he now is doing flagrantly and blatantly blatantly blat blat- antly and he loves it he loves that sensation of dictatorial arrogance arrogance arrogance arro arro- gance Hah Hah Im Im I'm bigger than all America Nothing can touch Pet Pet- rib rillo The world cant can't live without music music and and I own the music I have millions of dollars and dont don't account to anybody My voiceless fiddlers and drummers and horn- horn blowers worship me Congress passes a special law just against me and me-and and that law I break So this is a republic No king What a laugh Meyer Davis the thc society maestro wires me a lengthy defense of oC James Caesar Petrillo Petrillo Petrillo Pet Pet- rillo who he says has absolutely absolutely absolutely no jurisdiction over proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed raises In N. N Y nightclubs night night- clubs lie De adds There is too much hooey about Petrillo just because he is colorful If that's what's the matter with Petrillo Petrillo lo lo Im I'm color Im I'm also dumb But I retain my sense of ot smell The dynamic six footer Walter E. E Smith is in hi town again third time in two weeks hes he's flown hither I III got a nap In the plane he tells me I hadn't been to bed in four days and nights Smith whose hair is pretty white is only 40 But he does more things than anyone Ive I've ever known knO Within Within With With- in the year he has bought and converted converted converted con con- a Hollywood Honywood cafe into Tom Breneman's Brencman's run the morning breakfast broadcast there into a national sensation had it filmed for a feature promoted rodeos signed Gene Autrey for five years and will publish his biography bought a hotel and cabanas in Palm Springs tied up Pappy Boyington for tor his book and picture rights and has a Warner offer offer offer of of- fer on the latter organized a company company company com com- pany to publish a magazine devoted to western movies incorporated a company to produce Nils T T. T Grandlund's picture Rhythm Ranch bought Chestertown favorite fa favorite favorite fa- fa in the for highest price ever paid for fora a trotter to add to his large stable founded the association which converted converted converted con con- Santa Anita to trotting conducts conducts conducts con con- ducts the largest enterprise in the West making aluminum furniture and luggage And nobody can play harder than he or he-or or work half as us hard Durocher says Lew Parker acts as though he were fighting Joe Louis not St St. Louis Lt Col Gregory Pappy BoyIngton's BoyIngton's Boyington's Boy- Boy Ington's book is finished and in the I hands of the busy Walter E E. E Smith who seems to have about eight hands Not only will Smith publish but hell he'll do the movie himself as asan asan asan an independent perhaps as a road road- show entry Admiral Nimitz has offered offered of of- Smith any fleet facilities required required required re re- re- re I for the screen adaptation I The title first time announced anywhere anywhere any any- where is Where Are We Now Even Stalin's spies dont don't know Margaret l Truman's calls from Missouri to Washington are person to and the person Is Marvin Coles counsel for the merchant marine Gwendolyn Stone is a beautiful and talented dancer She has appeared in several west vest coast revue revue revue re re- re- re vue creations and in films including ing Night and Day No one seeing her would imagine that she Is a deaf mute and has been since c childhood She picks up rhythms with her feet via vibrations She She takes take direction and cues by unfaIling unfailing un un- failing lip reading S Santa nta Fe Skyway is carrying specialized specialized cargoes including perish perish- ables No schedules will be made Flying personnel will be mostly veterans 11 of ot whom have sl signed ned on One plane has Ihas refrigeration re re- equipment which weighs only 1 per cent of the gross tonnage and can ean register degrees degrees degrees de de- de- de grees below zero Marie Windsor Utah who took over Broadway via stage stag and radio is an in Hollywood Ben Bogeaus and Casey Csey Robinson who bought Hem Hem- inc way s Short and Happy Life of r FrancIs Macomber for peanuts worth are aiming at an Oscar Pat OBrien O'Brien is trying t to ln Interest erest movie money in a screen biography of his pal Mayor Bill BUI ODwyer wD Pat to P play y him With I Ithe ithe Abbott and yin Costello playing l the role of I 0 two other guys named LaGuardia i I II I |