Show mom aborn scare in washington washington was frightened out ol of its iti dreams the other night when the most violent and torm storm vve ave ever witnessed atomic he h e capital it broke about 2 is a m and lasted several hours next day wherever you went from the white house to harveys rant the people all said the same thing 1 I thought russia dropped an A bomb on us the lightning just stop and the boom boom of a zillion rolling bass drums made me wonder onder it ff that exactly what our men go through up front during war A devoutly religious woman said nobody can make me believe god arrange it ii just that way right over washington D C so all the wicked men at the pentagon would be reminded add of what war sounds like when it gets close sounds in the night athe at the harem a comedian was bragging how bow he vowed lern em at miami for two weeks 1 I wowed bowed ern cm in chicago be fore that he added and I 1 was a wow in frisco tool you must h a v N e 11 interrupted wally the tha act in show busi business 1 at the encore same someone was reading aloud the news that thai hollywood publisher billy Wll wilkerson kerson led lana turner down the tha aisle for her fourth marriage to which dot Hil gallen she been able to io do it blindfold edl robert Bl merrill errill the met alet star itar WAS telling an opera c aitio one of his first jobs wax was at youngs gap hotel in the catskills serving meals oh said the critic in those days you yon were a singing waller waiter in those days sighed merrill Merrl ll 1 I was a waiting singer manhattan Alu murals rals the elevator operator at E who still wears his battered stir air corps hat up and downing his bis plane the blood bank on street for or the palestine wounded the sign in the window of a street russian restaurant dishes tor for democratic gourmets the columbus avenue delicatessen which advertises the new lox lax once a li heckler eckler caused the death 0 of f a great star to hear vaud evets argue it literally not professionally sio nally it happened at the palace ln in 1513 1913 his name was nat wills a beloved tramp comic the headliner was sarah bernhardt it was the opening matinee and sarah went over big i the clapping kept conlong lon on long after she took her last bow wills made the boner of coming on stage the audience broke into heavier applause and an usher who waited too long handed a huge bokay of nf posies over the footlights they were for sarah of course wi wills is motioned to her to come on sta stage g and n take them lie he removed his hat in great respect to her but a heckler f give lem cm to wills hes dying ill two a dayers insist the cruel crack ruined mined the sensitive wills he was never the same after it A few years later he died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage broadway never stopped wondering bernard baruch Barn cli whose advice Is widely sought Is considered by many to bethe smartest man in the he country lie ile wears a hearing aid A well known poll politico tico often seen een with baruch was asked it if barney still had trouble with his hearing 1 I really dont know he replied a when im with baruch I 1 just listen tho press box simple to savvy the diplomatic scrambling if 11 you re member that the tha international crisis now has reached the stage where nations are more concerned with military positions than moral standards sudden thant appeasement can only give us a peace to end all peace the reports about the booking russian dominated nations are tak ing merely indicate that the kremlin drove out the nazis in order to install communistic slot machines in a bronx haberdasher shop ft a patron was blowing his top op about the president everything lie ho does makes me mad he bar barked ked 1 I dont get apoplexy shrugged the storekeeper ile he cant help it it just happen to bo be his I 1 linell N Y washington chitchat one new york paper la 13 preparing an expose fracture the country it alleges that the head of a greatly publicized congressional gressional ion committee was a member ot of the klan ln in 1925 under his real name how come editors tried getting an interview with frances crane heiress ot of tho the plumbing inn firm for or tune ashes jon jan Masa ex wife reported still bitter british officers say aay macarthur has more military know how hovi than any man iunce napoleon A 0 |