Show ir i notes note of a city slicker when alexander bradu eted at ed from hamilton college he never st stopped talking about hla his alma mater so when the dramatic critic pass passed ed on it was natural that his hii ashes be interred at hamilton col lege cemetery with a few intimate friends and associates attending the services it rained hard for a whole day and night before the urn containing his ashes was lowered into the ground however someone miscalculated the ribbons ons by which the urn wits was lowered proved two feet short and so the u um rn had to be dropped into the hole partly filled with mud and water and when it tell fell all the mourners standing around the grave were splashed just like aleal said a beepat pal to the last a cri critien tiel hatina paxinos ou one of the stars in for whom the bell tolls is one ona of the worlds bitterest nazi fascist fighters katins learned how to hate bate them before she left her native greece you cant get et a work of art out of italy if you are not nn an italian citizen according to billy rose an art collector himself A pal of his in italy not long aap offered for a rembrandt and was informed that he could take it with him by having a likeness of mussolini paint ed cd over it the paint it was explained could easily be washed oil off without damaging the rembrandt it if they see you with a pie pic ture of 11 II duce said the dealer they will not stop you and so the art lover paid 11 id the and had no trouble bring ing the picture into the united states where he easily washed away the painting of mussolini to discover it was an pit pil of mussolini we asked a movie director how some of them acquired great reputations he offered this example A famous character actor in one of his early films was doing a desert scene in which he was to portray a man dying of thirst the director tried to get the actor to rea register ster the proper emot emotion lon but the terrible ham only managed to look farcical finally after repeated failure the director gave up to get them the idea across however he decided to photograph the actors feet throughout the scene showing him staggering along tale desert dropping one of his possessions after the other first he dropped his pack then his gun and finally his canteel canteen the critics voted that scene the outstanding one in the hecklers of the administration are having a field day with this one in sicily have you believe e a peasant invited a comrade to his home for a feast after two bowls of soup double offerings ofte rings of entree and a three inch american sirloin steak plus several ears of indiana corn on the cob loaded with maryland butter idaho potatoes with more butter and georgia wa ter melon and oodles of new york cream for their delicious yankee doodle coffee the guest beamed his appreciation not betl interrupted the host now comes dessert des what kinda dessert desser how con can we eat any more now comes tootsie hollst sold said the host tootsie Toots le rolls asked the guest tootsie rolls who knows shrugged the host lend leasel the magazines liberty scoops the field with a report alleging that new york school children find their lessons so exciting they hate going home when the bell rings I 1 dont believe it newsweek states that the ath year of the war produced only one great allied general sir harold alexander batso how about gen eisenhower Elsen hower who may be running mate mata in the 1944 presidential race sumner welles typewriter ran away from him judging by his text in coronet diplomatic jobs he noted are nonpolitical non political and bring success it if worked at hard enough would he say that now in the SEP there is a nice warm tale ol of the newspaper men covering the south pacific the biggest peril 01 ol the job warns the author Is capital 1 I poisoning H Bru bakeri bakers best item in his new yorker kidding the housing crisis in wash ington is evidently worse than ever drew pearson has had to move inac the doghouse col elliott roosevelt en a well deserved furlough to in the stork club the other night was wa being congratulated by intimates intimate you are thinner in th the e face said a newspaper man and ther pointing to his ribbons added auf bul a lot heavier across the chest the only decoration that counts was the reply Is the pur pie heart medal which I 1 wish I 1 hadi the purple heart ls Is awarded to the wounded Elli ElI alliotts elliotts otts lotts added cost him 43 pounds |