Show 1 I I II I wf U The Tire New York Washington And Hollywood Express Nancy de dc Marigny will Inherit from the Oakes estate when matters are probated in Can Can- ada She also gets from the fortune Oakes left In Nassau But not until she is 30 and she's 19 now Wise father She's virtually broke had broke had to hock bock her Nass Nassau u farm etc to raise for the defense fee The lawyers however cut their retainer in half hal when they learned she didn't have haveIt It Intimates say the reason Dorothy Thompson has been so sentimental sentimental sen about postwar Germany is that shed she'd like to be the first Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- to Germany after the war warto warto warto to to straighten them all out She's said to be working on it already I Pearl Bucks Buck's comment on the Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- ChiI I nese situation We send missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries to China so they can go to Heaven Heaven but but we wont won't let them into this country Damon Runyon in his confessional confession confessIon- al the other day admitted bravely enough My prediction that the war warin warIn warin in Europe will be over by ChrIstmas Christmas Christ ChrIst- mas now seems seems somewhat improbable improbable improbable able Somewhat indeed We wondered who would make such sucha a statement We certainly never thought Runyon would want to contribute contribute con con- tribute to the complacency set It is comforting to learn leam however that he Is the first to debunk his own error We wish his friend Richard author of Guadalcanal Diary would tell his publishers to catch the next edition of his book and omit our name t where he carelessly put it and re replace reI replace re- re I place it with Damons Damon's Because we never said that any war would be over at any time We are the guy who always said it would never be over for some of us And that when anybody asked When is the war going to end the reply has always been When we win it itI I IThe The Statler in the Capital turned away contingent reservations one day last week We recently mentioned a war mothers mother's complaint about conditions in an Army hospital at Tuscaloosa Ala for returned wounded She told us the bed linen hadn't been changed for two weeks the mens men's pajamas ditto the food fod awful etc etc We sent her charges to the War Dept As a result the commanding officer of ot that hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital has been replaced and rushed to improve conditions We wish servicemen's newspapers everywhere everywhere everywhere ev ev- would reprint that please Edmund Wilson replaces Clifton Fadiman as the book critic on The New Yorker Warners Warner's has offered offered offered of of- Kyle Crichton of Colliers Collier's a contract to write out there In Miami Beach the soldiers who sing as they march invariably shout What the hell are we fighting for The and WAVES will win the war might be amused to read page 23 of ot the Feb 1908 issue of the Saturday Evening Evening Evening Eve Eve- ning Post The article on the page is titled Is Roosevelt a Menace to Business A noted booster boost boost- er was being teased about his loyalty loyal loyal- ty Listen said the heckler Willkie Wilkie has his eye on the presidential presidential presidential chair again That was the retort quite as good goodas as what Roosevelt's got on it it The bootlegger who has already emerged in the firewater shortage is isone isone isone one who shouldn't have the social standing he had in the Dry Era Now the circumstances are different different differ differ- ent If a man encourages a Black Market in booze just to get himself himsel an occasional quart hes he's doing something that hurts The Black Market needs only something like a popular product like booze to crack the whole structure of price control If booze gets flowing illegally its it's going to flood the works You can drink yourself right into inflation brother This is how the became New Yorks York's biggest real estate operators operators operators op op- During the War of 1812 the blockade hurt merchants most Astor loaned them money refusing all collateral but mortgages He gained all of ot his property through foreclosures Waterfront workers workers work work- ers have names for various piers They are usually named after women women wom wom- en Years ago the city's biggest sporting events were races between steamships in the Hudson A ship laden with gold was sunk in Hell Gate Channel 50 years ago a n apart apart part of Long Island Sound Many attempts have been made to recover the treasure but the gold is still there I Recently the AP and others reported re ported that correspondent Larry Allen taken prisoner by the enemy enemy enemy en en- emy had escaped and walked for a month back to our lines Later the story never confirmed was declared de Glared false Intimates just got gota gotI I a n postcard from the newspaper man mandated mandated dated Oct OcL So the stories that he escaped two months ago do donot donot donot not stand up Mailed it from the same camp hed he'd been at for a year A new lipstick due soon willbe will willbe willbe I. 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