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Show Typewritar Doodling No wonder everyone was looking forward to a happier New Year. Look at some of the things that happened hap-pened during 1948. Use Koch of lampshade infamy had her life sentence sen-tence commuted; Pro-fascist Serge Lifar staged a rectial at NY's City Center; pro-ditto Kirsten Flagstad played Carnazi Hall five days after Pearl Harbor's anny; Dictator Franco was embraced by ex-New Dealer Jim Farley; Hjalmar Schacht, who financed the Nazis; was exonerated by a denazification court as not being a Nazi; and to top it all, our allegedly most upright magazine Time, was being edited by an ex-Cornmunist! Another reason "Lend an Ear is showkay is the amusing galivanting of Yvonne Adair. Very tomboyst-rous. tomboyst-rous. . .The understatement of the week was Rita and Aly's confession to reporters that "they are fond of each other." I suppose Romeo was merely fond of Juliet. . . Nothing as disgraceful as the un-American committee's attempt to smear the good name of Laurence Duggan. That committee defames innocent and patriotic Americans. . .but has't done anything about the KKK. Shameful. .Because of the Whitta-ker Whitta-ker Chambers affair, Henry Luce's "March of Time" had to recall its Christmas cards. The cards featured featur-ed a globe of the world (with film strips protruding), and it looked like a pumpkin. ' The holier-than - thou goons who feign horror at reporters who publish gossip give us an opportunity to revive a statement state-ment that once appeared in a country weekly: "If you get born, marry, have a baby, die, or some other accident happens to you, please let us know not that we give a darn, but most of our readers have a lot of curiosity." curio-sity." That explains our position posi-tion expertly. Wanna make a fortune In Movie-ville? Movie-ville? Sell rose-colored specs. One producer insists that the depresh there "is largely psychological." Oh, sure. . . Radio critics are wasting their brick-bats. Nine of the top 10 Hooper daytime programs are soap operas. . .The plot of the film christened christ-ened "Whiplash" concerns an artist who becomes a pugilist and has his manager's wife fall in love with him. That's practically a replica of Odets' "Golden Boy." The "difference" "differ-ence" is that in Odets' play the fighter figh-ter was a violinist. . .Several dajs ago John Foster Dulles told reporters report-ers he recommended Alger Hiss for his job with the Carnegie Endowment Endow-ment for International Peace. Our listeners heard that a month ago. Imaginative camera work and hep direction can be found in the film. "The Dark Past." It grips the attention despite the fact almost all of the action takes ta-kes place in a single room . . . The NY Times editorialist apologized apol-ogized for a misleading headline and story on its front page which was based on a statement by Cong. Mundt. But when a columnist's colum-nist's sources give him a bum steer belittlers holler like he had committed a crime. Ho-hnm. Here's another Heil - Hitlerism: Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kassel-ring Kassel-ring is a convicted war criminal. He was given a death sentence by a British coi-rt, but it was later commuted to life imprisonment, of course. A fortnight ago the British allowed Kesselring to leave his cell and spend a 10-day holiday at a sumptous Bavarian resort with his wife. . . Apparently, being convicted as a war criminal'is almost as good as joining a country club. Churchill knows how to take a bow gracefully.. In his mem-wars Winston states: "I hope you will give full consideration to my words. I have not always been wrong" So you want to be a writer, eh? Last year almost 2000 novels were published. pub-lished. Only about a hundred were money makers. So stick to your bookkeeping iob, Elmer. . . A tone'' of irony: Televish is a red-ink pre p osition. But networks can take the oss because of the huge profits they garner from he ar(;h en elevish-radio . . The President ra tes having his salary hoisted The Presidency is one job that hasn', had a raise m 40 years . . The new charmer in the film, "Every Girl Should be Married"-Betsy Drake-has Drake-has the Stardust touch. She has a SyrLSPealting VOlce that Ctg the ear like a kiss fits the lips. Before Prentice-Hall agreed t Gen Ike) they wrote him asking i But GenV6 he did |