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Show H'ii Bj botes of a Reporter to His Editors When "Old Acquaintance" troupe played command performance at White House, understand Peggy Wood left FDR practically speechless speech-less when she burst forth with: "Please. Mr. Roosevelt, dear Mr. President, don't send our dear boys over there to fight I have two arms, I have two legs, take me but not our dear boys!" etc. . . . Leon Henderson Hen-derson may ease out of defense board tired. 111 ... I hear Nelson (Sears-Roebuck exec on same board) will eventually inherit Knud-sen's Knud-sen's pdst Intimates of Camacbo believe he would follow any war policy adopted adopt-ed by U. S. within 24 hours . . . Jolson not stalling, really 11L . . . Peem's short-wave story about new British superplane (The Tornado) as reported by BBC from London appeared ap-peared In last "Things I Never Knew 'Til Now" col'm month before be-fore BBC confirmation. Appcasera who claim England can't win should read what Hitler wrote on that subject In Chapter XII of his book, viz: "The British nation na-tion can be counted upon to carry through to victory any struggle Ui&t It once enters upon, no matter how long such a struggle may last or .however great the sacrifice that may te necessary, or whatever the means that have to be employed; and all this even though the actual military equipment at hand may be utterly inadequate when compared with that of other nations." Long-winded Long-winded soandso, isn't he? Hear an afternoon N. Y. paper is readying a new colyumist, not a professional pro-fessional writer "but a famous personality" per-sonality" as a clrc builder. Starts in March. Understand it is not D. Thompson, who startstsame time. Radio key men have been conferring confer-ring secretly in Washington on the part radio will play in maintaining public contact in case we are actively ac-tively involved in war. Even during dur-ing possible bombardments . . . The Nazis have a neat method of trying to win favor with U. S. radio commentators abroad. They classify classi-fy them as heavy laborers for ration ra-tion card reasons. This entitles them to two pounds of meat instead of one. P. S. It doesn't work. MM There Is talk of Increasing the draft period to two years. . . . Ye ed salutes Homer Price for this form of criticism . . . People, he says, who claim the home town paper doesn't print all the news should be glad it doesn't! -W. W. Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Wireless: P'raps they don't settle many problems on the American Ameri-can Forum, but they get them out In the air and provide a lot of listen-able listen-able brawling. The back alley tangle tan-gle between Morris Ernst and Cong. Starnes a recent Sunday could be a sell-out at the Garden. The way to handle 5th Columnists was the temper trigger . . . Raymond G. Swing asked why, If Hitler has 36,-000 36,-000 planes, he didn't pour them at Britain when the conditions for it were good. We are, he hints, eating eat-ing too many Nazi figures without salt ... It was hard to get worked up over "Rebecca," even with R. Colman, I. Lupino and Judith Anderson Ander-son in excellent Jobs. England has taken too much lately for anybody to care about one man's love storms. The tear jerks were too pro-blitz . . . Jas. Thurber makes a discovery discov-ery about quizzes. They reveal how much the contestants don't know, which is colossal. The Front Pages: Lots of the antl-FDR antl-FDR dailies are making it tough for future historians. The same journals jour-nals that exalted Wlllkle up to Nov. 8 are calling him A Thing now. Because Be-cause he doesn't care if licking Hitler Hit-ler Is a party matter or a matter for humanity . . . The Berlin journals are easier on him than some of his old supporters . . . Ray Clapper says events are not consistent, "therefore why should I be consistent? consist-ent? Some people once they adopt an Idea, bury it in the ground and go on the rest of their lives defending defend-ing It, without ever re-examining it to see whether time and the elements ele-ments have caused it to decay into a worthless handful of dust In that way you can always be consistent and often wrong." ... A columnist in Hawaii observed: "I have written writ-ten many lines that have been stolen. sto-len. By numerous radio gag writers writ-ers solemn. But then, it is comforting com-forting to know. That somebody really reads this column." The Stnry Tellers: Sen. Sheridan Downey found himself labeled "Morton Downey" in New Horizons. His squawk ought to convince the editors he's no tenor . . . Leland Stowe, by-lining "I Saw Mussolini Humbled" (in Look), said: "The Greeks have very little respect for the Fascists' fighting qualities because be-cause the Fascists almost never fight hard when the terms are even" . . . "The Reader's Digest Reader" is must reading. It is a collection of that miniature mag's choice selections se-lections over an 18-year period. |