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Show Innocent Bystander: The conflicting stories from Iran recall a quip that was popular with overseas newsboys during the war: It concerns the Ministry of Information Infor-mation carrier pigeon, leisurely flying fly-ing to its destination, when It was Jostled by a second pigeon that shouted: "Get a move on. I've got the denial!" A N. T. editorial writer stated that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. cannot can-not hope to be President because he was born In Canada and a Chief-Exec Chief-Exec must be 8 native-born American. Amer-ican. Overwhelming weight of legal opinion: Anyone who Is born of American parents In a foreign country coun-try and properly registered can be President. . . . Ho, hum. Any other questions? Another reason for our tense relations rela-tions with Russia Is that the Americans Amer-icans Russia respected (and trusted trust-ed most) can no longer help us Iran out differences: FDR, Harry Hopkins Hop-kins and Wendell WiUkte. It happened at the Brooklyn Income In-come tax bureau recently. . . . Two men named Thomas McNally and Joseph Sweeney were having their tax forms filled out by an agent when they suddenly began speaking to each other In Yiddish. . . . Questioned Ques-tioned by the startled income tax agent McNally and Sweeney explained ex-plained they were Dublin-born Jews. Talk about blazing red faces: A few days after Lord Halifax publicly public-ly opined that Goering was anxious to prevent war Goering testified (at the war crimes trial) and took every opportunity to praise Hitlerthe Hit-lerthe Nazi system and everything every-thing the Nazis did. A quip causing tee-hees In some of the back rooms in Argentina concerns con-cerns the recent incident when Mrs. Peron turned up at a social soiree. . . . During the evening one of the guests turned to his neighbor and remarked: "Well there sits Argentina's Argen-tina's First Lady." i "That's no lady," was the retort That's his wife!" The State Dep't has been shoved around like a revolving door. But now it has been complimented the Rankin Committee plans to probe the SD. . . . Rankin's witch-hunting spree recalls the time a Dies Committee member (Cong. J. Par-nell Par-nell Thomas) ranted that the WPA theater was a "hot-bed of communism" commu-nism" and demanded the investigation investiga-tion of a play titled "Prologue to Glory." The play concerned an American named Abe Lincoln. Quotation Marksmanship: John W. Raper: A man picks a wife the same way an apple picks a farmer. . . . D. Yates: Bold as the bark of a puppy. . . . Voltaire: The ear is the road to the heart. . . . Muriel Gaines: His wrinkles are overloaded overload-ed with decisions. . . . Singapore Sal: The only difference among women is their faces. . . . James Kelly: She walked as though she were carrying a chip on her hip. . . . Nancy Donovan: An actor, full of hambition. . . . Chinese Proverb: Prov-erb: The broadminded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded narrow-minded see only their differences. . . . Seaman Jacobs' opinion of a guy with no Initiative: He's always in there catching. . . . Wm. Schiller: Our friendship with Russia seems to be strictly platomic. . . . Eileen Deneen: War dp we go from here? Sallies In Our Alley: A Broadway Broad-way showman vwlked up to a newcomer-lovely last night and asked: "Want to work In my night club as a showgirl?" ... To which her companion (agent Paul Small) said: "I offered her a receptionist's job only today at $25 a week and she laughed at me." . . . The showm in indignantly rejoined: "You're riot offering people $25 a week those days?" . . . "Who are you to talk?" barked the agent. "You'd offer it to a star!" . . . Ozzie Nelson says when a show's a success the producer pro-ducer knocks wood. When it isn't, he knocks critics. Midtown Vignette: At the Bernard Ber-nard Baruch dinner for Mr. Churchill, Church-ill, Cardinal Spellman was also an honored guest. . . . Baruch is a tall man Churchill is a shorty and they were having quite a time of it ; with the microphone. . . . Until, that is. a volunteer got up to help. . . . The mike-adjuster (raising it high or low) was the Cardinal. Years ago when a double-talking 1 official told newsmen, "I never said that!" (although a dozen reporters knew that he had), one editor ridiculed ridi-culed him by sending him the following fol-lowing note: "Sir: You may recollect we printed print-ed yesterday your denial of having retracted the contradiction of your original statement. Would you care to have us say that you were mis-i mis-i quoted in regard to it?" I i Confucius: Warmongers Mnking Mountain Out Of A Churchill. |