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Show Memos of a Colyumist's Secy Hugh Baillie, United Press chief, now covering the war on the Eastern East-ern front, wires back that the Nazis aren't quitting yet. But some of Hitler's pals over here want us to! . . . One of my friends at Collier's Col-lier's tells me that back in the Spanish-American War our Navy was the first to use rocket guns on the USS Vesuvius. When it was told to some top Admirals they were flabbergasted. flabbergast-ed. Labor leader Lewis was the butt of a practical joker in a crowded Washington hotel foyer. Someone pinned a "For Roosevelt" button on his back, and was he fee-yoo-ree-usl The Press Box: The N. Y. Herald Tribune headlined that telegrams praising Gov. Dewey's oratory are pouring in . . . Howcum? Isn't there a ruling against wires of con- , gratulation during this war? . . . Remember the journalistic whoops when the gov't took over Montgomery Montgom-ery Ward? They wailed that it would devastate liberty . . . The other day the same gov't took over a large Ohio war plant and the same gazettes buried the yarn . . The Post offered an arresting contrast: One of its stories quoted Churchill stating that no war criminals will be free after the war. Another yarn revealed that British Fascist Capt. Ramsey (mixed up in Nazi espionage) espio-nage) had been released from gaol and was free to do as he bloody well pleased . . . How Tempus vu-gits: vu-gits: Commy newspapers in the L. S. now praise the Repub stronghold Wall Street. At the National Press Club, Washington, Wash-ington, the other day, George Gallup, Gal-lup, the surveyor of public opinion, was cornered by some scribes. One said: "Doc, what does it look like to you right now?" ... To which Dr. Gallup replied: "Roosevelt, Bricker, Fala, Dewey and Truman!" Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright, wife of the heroic General captured by the Japs, is due at the Waldorf October 7. She will do a broadcast with Mrs. R. Newspaperman Stuff: Two syndicated syndi-cated colyumers were talking shop the other night . . . The first remarked re-marked that one of his papers had dropped his stuff because he attacked at-tacked people the paper liked . . . The other said: "They tried that with me. But I quit!" . . . "Yeah," said Ann Sheridan, "but I'll bet you had to slide like hell to make it!" The Moom Pitchers: In the new "March of Time" due this week, "What to Do With Germany" offers of-fers the best shot yet of Hitler losing control of his eyeballs. The scene apparently was among film captured by the Allies from retreating Nazis. An amazing scene the convincer that Hitler is nuts . . . "Seventh Cross," a punchy anti-Nazi theme, becomes punch-drunk when it attempts at-tempts to show good Germans in the Fatherland. The President of Ecuador will be a White House guest. . . . "There's No Place Like Washington" will be published around Election Day. Cong. S. Bloom's dghtr auth'd. . . . Good news for the ladies: The WPB will give the official nod to shoe manufacturers manu-facturers some time soon. To make femme shoes again with high heels. . . . The Vatican's gold in the U. S. (since 1941) will soon be returned to Rome. It was flown here via clipper 3 years ago. . , . . 32,000 firms dealing with war industry have applied to Dun & Bradstreet's for rating. Meaning that many expect to resume civilian work shortly. . Beware of stories from H'wood on Sinatra. One aggrieved person has been gunning for him and may try printer's ink as the weapon. 1 Despite the promise of the Tru- 1 man committee not to do anything about the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, before Sept. 1st, the returned ' wounded there (Ream General Hospital) Hos-pital) have been quietly transferred by Gen. Somervell to Camp Atter-bury, Atter-bury, Indiana. . . . And, although he claimed there was no need for ' such a hospital on the Florida East Coast, Somervell is now transforming transform-ing the WAC barracks at Daytona Beach to replace the Ream Gen'l I Hospital. . . . The current "inside" I all over Washington and Palm . Beach is that someone very dear to I someone very influential used to spend the Winter at Palm Beach and ' was very upset when she could no J longer go there! Many soldiers signed a letter from Fort Bragg requesting mention of Margaret Connors, running against Clare Luce for Congress in Conn. They wrote: "We know from read-i read-i ing your column, that you don't go in for strictly party politics, and give a candidate from either party a good word if deserved" ... I assured them Miss Connors was mentioned often. . . . Cong. Anderson's Congressional Con-gressional probers (on financial ' backers of certain outfits) have summoned sum-moned Gerald L. K. Smith. About time! |