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Show PI!!! h!;1 Li 1 li mnu'rli s- uft.v.-.vJ Notes of an Innocent Bystunaor.: This reporter couldn't believe his nose while reading a Variety report about the latest odious antics of blue-pencilers. But it happened in America, 1944. . . . Nonsensorship acts as if it were a candidate for the booby hatch. Frixample: NBCensors nixed a March of Time dramatization of M. Halsey's tome, "Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers." Sol-diers." The book's theme blasts intolerance. in-tolerance. . . . The censor claimed the dramatization violated censorship censor-ship policies (his own?), especially on the controversial subject angle, and was quoted: "You can say nothing noth-ing about intolerance!" . . . That remark must make the Constitution shiver. The Bill of Rights has been stabbed with censorial scissors. . . . You can't say anything about intolerance in-tolerance in Germany. Opposing intolerance in-tolerance would only lead to a controversy con-troversy with Hitler and his swasti-jkunks swasti-jkunks here. Does the censor fear offending them? . . . Our soldiers-are soldiers-are shedding their blood while fighting fight-ing intolerance but an American can't oppose it with words. ... It seems a censor in America desires to erect a concentration camp with a foundation of blue-pencils. Could anything be more arrogant and dangerous? dan-gerous? Wendell Willkie wrote these words a few years ago. They should be memorized by every American: "My creed, if I were asked to define it, would run something like this: I believe in America because in it wc are free free to choose our government, govern-ment, to speak our minds, to observe ob-serve our different religions. . . . Because we are generous with our freedom we share our rights with those who disagree with us. . . . Because we hate Do people and covet no man's land. . . . Because we are blessed with a natural and varied va-ried abundance. . . . Because we set no limit to a man's achievement; achieve-ment; in mine, factory, field, or service in business or the arts, an able man, regardless of class or creed, can realize his ambi-. ambi-. tion. . . . Because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true." In Fewer Words: It was easy for Willkie's enemies to hurt his heart it was such a big target. . . . When we heard that Willkie passed away in his sleep it recalled the tribute that was once paid to another famed American: "Death had to take hirn in his sleep it didn't have the courage cour-age to approach hm while he was looking." A short time ago this reporter made public evidence revealing the coddling of Axis war prisoners here. Our exposes were confirmed by many newspapers and magazines. . . . Now the House Military Affairs Af-fairs Committee announces that Axis war prisoners have not been coddled. cod-dled. . . . Eeeeekkkkl A Federal Grand Jury's report on Philly's recent hate strike reveals that 1776 bigots refused to work with eight Negro workers. ... In short: The 1776 Americans didn't have its spirit. Lovely Paulette Goddard told an interviewer: "You can always make money, and if you can't, it doesn't make any difference." . . . Paulette means it doesn't make any difference differ-ence if you're rich. Faces About Town: Donald Nelson, Nel-son, whose latest and best offer to return to private industry is $200,000. . . . Henry Kaiser building postwar world on a tablecloth at Henri's. . . . Myrna Loy stealing the show at the Stork. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt entering the enemy's battlelines (th News Bldg), where her syndicate is. Manhattan Mural: He Is a well known star from Hollywood, recently here on an alcoholiday. . . . After a long day and night of making the joynts some pals defied the - a. m. curfew and took him to a speakeasy which never closes. . . . The pals introduced the star as "a police official." offi-cial." ... On the way out the proprietor pro-prietor vigorously shook hands with the very drunk actor and slipped $20 into his pawl Sounds in the Night: At the Zanzibar: Zanzi-bar: "He's the fair-haired boy o) the foul-ball set." ... At Versailles: "Her definition of a bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who ha cheated some woman out of a divorce." di-vorce." ... At the Onyx: "Hmf. They argue about what kind of peace to give Germany, which has given the world no peace!" Mldtown Vignette: He had Just been hired as new headwaiter at Reuben's. To show Arnold, the boss, that he was on the hustle, he suggested: sug-gested: "You should get difTweni waiters. These men haven't much energy." . . . Reuben gave him the .fishy eye and then said: "Thesa men have been with me for 20 years. They know they can stay here ai long as they live." . . . "Okay," said the newcomer, "that's your re sponsibillty. But don't forget I tried to help." . . . Three weeks later he died from a stroke, |