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Show ft 1 LL.J : r A'otes of an Innocent Bystander: Haw! Phil Baker tells about the six-year-old who was tugging a suitcase suit-case down Central Park West. The ' corner cop stopped her and asked where she was going. ' ,' "My Daddy . and Mummy were having a fight," explained the child. J "Mummy told Daddy to go to Tim- 1 buctoo, and Daddy told Mummy to go some place else. So, I left home nobody's sticking ME with any two-year two-year lease!" Forecast for 1912: From Jay ? Franklin's colyum in Richmond, Va.: "Walter Winchell will cease to write about Cafe Society because it won't exist. Walter Lippmann will write the best columns of his life and no- , body will read them. Mark Sullivan j will be drafted into Government service to help administer the v nationwide food-stamp plan. Doro- f thy Thompson will fight it oi with Clare Boothe Luce for the role of k Julia Ward Howe or Florence Night- I ingale. David Lawrence will con- ' tinue to do his stuff so long as he J, can find papers to print it, after which he will join the USO and work j in a canteen. Raymond Clapper ! will gain in courage and, breaking with Roy Howard, will emerge as a real columnist. Morning Mail: "Dear Walter: So j chorus girls never become famous j just notorious, eh? The Winchell y you say! Howz about Ruby Keeler, ( Barbara Stanwyck, Virginia Bruce, j Gladys Glad, Ina Claire and Jo-oiV Crawford? Go stand in a corner, but "V don't get me wrong. I'm a former I Hellzapoppin' chorine, and I have I good reason to be nuts about W.W. 1 Margie Young, Banjo Eyes." 1 THERE ARE MANY examples of f clever headline-writing. We think this r. is one of llie best: When John Mase. , field arrived here from England wher I he was poet laureate, he refused tc '. grant newspaper men an interview . . . ' So one evening paper ran this streamer: ! "King's Canary Refuses to Chirp" jj which made a better story than the in - terview could have been. 4 From the editorial page of the V. V. Post: "If Adolf Hitler captured Oar f Town, which are the first ten New York- ers he would hang? . . . Certain flames will spring to your mind at once. Dora 1 thy Thompson?. Walter Winchell?' I f Ladies first, of course. ' jj Capt. Patrick Smith, whose articles arti-cles on Japan were of great benefit fc to the U. S., is now an American and I ready for any service the country wishes . . . Salute to the National Maritime Union: The one Union whose members do more than work i |