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Show Man About Town Democrat chiefs are Brim report that Time-Life nuKv !- Luce's private poll are for Wallace. That's, J . cent of the population ley threw a private part ft political wnters. Said he J ; consider running as ve . losing ticket and h. ft i Trumanagene can't win 0 presidential situation is',"'5 Truman won't listen to wf! w Dewey won't listen to Tat Eisenhower won't listen to th 15 pie. - NBC banned jMirf version of "My Old Flame'' V3'1 ago. "Too gruesome." Prettj , W time, too . . . This i, -ht paragraph of Time's InternatJ ': section: "Every month br. "- ti'.W calamity graver than most m ' battles. Millions pass into ji,''' between one week and the next r fate of whole continents swings V A' a day's news. A fifth of the we ?' people are involved in actual ' l,cl No place, from the Congo to Sj'! bergen, is safe. Nobody is SK, m' . . . This is the news weekly w repeatedly chastised us for ening the people" and "waraia; "' the danger of another war." I ' pioi Fly-Swatter Dept.: A Congr sional board now urges a 10 ft i"' Hon dollar airplane program it " "head off the next war" . , , n, lit New York Post's foreign chief f lie S. Mowrer, reviewing the ft'edi 8 crisis, concluded: "The deprea bt ing thing is the pattern. It gjvo me a sickening feeling of this j et where I came in. The pattern to for war!" . . . Columnist Marquis o!e Child's report: "Until the disaster I i to Czechoslovakia there was i ; comforting feeling here in Ylii pil ington that the danger of war m something fairly remote, a matta of five or seven years. The cm fortable assurance has vanished." " . . . Some fellow-newspapermts try to make our predictions tot bad. But the fellow-travelers h BD Europe make them look good. Postcard Poll This is the final re port on the "I want to see T as our next presidenf'postcardpotl 1 Over 100,000 postcards came in. a Eisenhower 36,007 bis Wallace 19,374 Dewey 10,221 Vanderberg 5,817 :i Truman 5,060 to Stassen 4,684 :c Taft 3,331 c I can't resist adding this footnote, ie Bricker of Ohio, who for years kt . been getting away with the counter w teit claim that the people ol this country wanted him for president polled exactly 105 postcards. T E columnist (tsk, tsk) polled mort v than 500. Politically speaking, thii 1 means that the only thing Britier t can carry is his suitcase. t Memos Of A Midnighler ' That John (Inside U.S.A.) Gunlha , would merge with Commentator Vat , dercook's former wife was recorded , here when she went to the Virgin , Islands for her division . . . Satin, i the Chicago dancer now in a Cuba! prison lor 15 years, will appeal os u the grounds that the shooting of to , lover took place aboard an American , ship flying the Yank flag outsid; , "Cuban jurisdiction" . . . George Truman and Clifford Evans, wio , romped around the world in PiP" j Cubs, will aim for the headlines t with a round-trip to South America. Via an "unfeasible route" . . . Toy magnate L. Marx is supped to have offered one million bux t General Eisenhower's campaign i he would have run for president When Bob Benchley was sharins nnm.fr: noil rriri with Dorothy a Carnegie Hall office with DorotW Parker, his work was constantly interrupted by telephone calls for her. "Is Dorothy Parker there! someone asked. 1 "No, she isn't." W "Are you sure Dorothy T'w isn't there?" insisted the voice, "Positive," Bob assured. "Well," the phone caller J"" sisted, "how do you KNOW Dorothy Doro-thy isn't there?" . "Because," he replied, " the men's room at the Waldorf. The End of Don Wahn: H Stack's name must be familiar you. He has been contributml this column over the name of u Wahn for 25 years. His offerings ways popped up in other places In an army magazine signed someone else, usually by a hoping his girl might see it- J But many times a chorus P" plain Jane Doakes would P" purse and reveal several of clipped or torn from the colun His last note was in the handw ing we were so familiar with quarter of a century: "I am ably ill," it said, "I leave eve thing to my wife. Goodbye, Stack." And then at 10 nunu past midnight Phil jumped froni Gibson firm's offices. A cab dr racing north said he saw the plummeting down. Now be 1 8 and the last Don Wahn he w ted was set in type for the night he jumped, darn it. |