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Show BP Behlnd-the-Scenes Stuff: Newspapermen's News-papermen's shop-talk includes the alleged reasons for the unpopularity of De Gaulle in certain high political places. One statesman said: "He is arrogant, hard to get along with, stuffy." . . . Another revealed that De Gaulle "likes to make an entrance" en-trance" (especially in swanky hotel dining rooms; when a trumpeter too-tootles his approach with some ta-da, dee-da, dah, dee, da, dahlng). This got on the nerves of Allied big-shots. big-shots. It is said Mr. Willkie will certify to the last item. . . . De Gaulle Is called "the bride" when Roosevelt discusses him with Churchill via trans-Atlantic phone . . . Once FDR asked the Prime Minister: Min-ister: "How's the bride?" . . . "All right," Mr. C. is said to have answered, "but I am having trouble with the groom!" . . . Meaning Gir-J aud. . . . Americans and others j should not forget De Gaulle was the : first to yell: "We Will Fight!" The Squelch Proper: Radie Har-! ris relays the one about the feud j between Jane Cowl and Philip Meri-vale Meri-vale when they appeared in "The 1 Road to Rome" hit. Their quarrel-; ing finally aroused director Lester Lonergan, who succinctly said: "I i just want to remind you, Miss Cowl, that the billing on this play is ! Jane Cowl and Philip Merivale, not Jane Cowl vs. Philip Merivale." Oop: Recently a Nazi prisoner of war escaped from the stockade at Camp Crowder. He learned the location of the camp's supply warehouse ware-house and got there without being detected. He broke in, shed his PW uniform, put on an American uniform uni-form that draped him perfectly. But then he made the boner resulting in bis capture. Hunting through a stack of hats be put one on that fit him. Then he stepped out across the camp grounds and was seized almost at once. He had on the hat of a WAC. Ouch: It happened before Supreme Su-preme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy. The man before him said: "I would like to change my name. It's been a source of great embarrassment to me." 'What is your name?" asked Hiz-zoner. Hiz-zoner. j "Levy," said the fellow. j "Rarely In the life of any jurist," was the caustic retort, "comes there a motion which he can grant with such pleasure." Shawt-shawt: Returned bomber pilots have a favorite story not new to some of us on the papers. It deals with the U. S. bomber crew flying over Switzerland, which was hailed via radio by the ground crew of a Swiss anti-aircraft battery. "This is neutral territory. Get away or we'll open fire." "Yes, we know," replied the Yanks, to which the guns ack-acked. "Hey," radioed the Americans, "your shells are exploding 1,000 yards below us." "Yes," was the reply, "we know." Newspaperman Stuff: Editor and Publisher reports that Lowell Mel-lctt Mel-lctt (who recently quit his post as ass't to the President to do a syndicated syndi-cated column) has Just been granted a $5 raise by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Post-Dispatch a raise he requested 40 years ago. I At that time, Mellett asked his! managing editor for the pay-hike i and when turned down he quit The 1 P-D was among the first to buy his colyum. It pays him the wage he got when a reporter. As a matter of principle, Mellett Mel-lett asked the present editor to pay $5 extra. He got this reply: "Okay. Sorry you had to wait so long for It." Merciless Truth: John Erskine recalls re-calls a college dean who used to say you couldn't teach a man mathematics mathe-matics if there was a girl in the room, or if you could, he wouldn't be worth teaching. HchchelM The editor of This Week convulsed the column with the one about the sentry who heard a' noise and called out: "Who goes there?" A voice from the darkness answered: "Lieut. Jones. Let me through." I "I can't let you proceed, sir, with- out the password," said the sentry. "Oh, fergoodncsssakes," said the officer, "you know me well enough. Let me through." "No can do." was the retort, "gotta have the password, sir." Just then bored-wlth-lt-all soldier sol-dier In the nearby guardhouse yelled: "Oh, don't stand there arguing argu-ing all night shoot him." Quotation Marksmanship: Ted Boblnson: A pessimist feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.1 . . . Dorothy F. Grant: How many' times art we guilty of HatrlotismT, . . . Mary Innis: The frozen milk bottles wort crooked white top-hots.! . . . M. Cousins: The lonely night sounds of the prairie clawed at the windows . . . Irving Hoffman: "Gentleman": "Gen-tleman": What women call any man Uiev don't know well. . . . J. Drink-water: Drink-water: PoeU make everlasting monuments of moments. j |