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Show HHP K! fllan About Town: San Franciscans are t&Ikin about: The more than 200 G-Men (not including the numerous state , department confidential agents and New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Or-leans, etc., ace detective t guard the delegates and diplomat. The Big City "dicks" are assigi-nd to spot well - known pickptL;ets. "dips," rogues galleryitcs andlcan-nons" andlcan-nons" as big-time crool-Jt are called by the gendarmes. . .II The heaviest protection is for i;ff;ia's Mr. Molotov. . . As one JoJ Wd-gar Wd-gar Hoover man put it; "IiLi be guarded by nearly 200 RusJ,: secret se-cret servicemen so an FBItgent i won't get within 200 yards cf him." I FDR's pal, Charlie Mtchelson (he , was 75 the other day), raising eye-: eye-: brows with the prediction: "Mayor j LaGuardia may be the Democratic I nominee for governor of N.j Y." I . . . John Metcalfe, the Washuteton , correspondent, here for a New fork j gazette. He's finishing a book cllled 1 "Tin Cup Diplomacy," which i will i please the underpaid workini in ! our state department. . . . Tb return re-turn of Joe Rosenthal (this 4 his home burg). Joe is the AP rlUcus- focuser who took that wonderful i picture of the Flag being planted on Iwo Jima. . . . Kent Cooper, the AP boss, is offering reproduction a of the famed photo at $1 the profijtto go to the Marines via Navy Rlf. : ,. -': n .' v t- - , ; 7 : ' ''',1 ' WALTER WINCHIELL IN SAN FRANCISCO The renowned rivaary between Los Angeles and the San Francisco correspondents, which Meorge Polk carries on from his Washington beat for his L. A. paper. George won't refer to it as the San If rancisco conference. con-ference. He calls it the California conference. . . . The "real reason" Cong. Clare Luce returned to Italy. They say she wrote a book there in which she does "a job" on Edda Mussolini. Mike McDermott, the popular ipecial ass't to Sec'y of Statetinius. He arranged hotel rooms for over 900 newspaper men, newsreel cameramen, cam-eramen, colyumists and radio prima donnas and then wound up with no "decent" space in which to sleep himself. . ." . The musical show, "Watch Out Angel," which folded at the Curran theater Satdee night after a three-week run. Too bad. Borne of the score was very good and several people in it are talented, tal-ented, . . . The Alcazar theater re-aamed re-aamed the United Nations theater. Its new marquee was arranged via the War Production board via request re-quest of the state department. Glenn Allvine of the Will Hays zoo is in charge. The Hollywood films there will be changed daily for the dele gates. "Going My Way," frixample, will be heard in Czech for the Czechs. In Portuguese for the Bra-tilians, Bra-tilians, etc. Jack's for Big Town food, bter than most spots in New York. The two Stork clubs. And b.BU-llngsley b.BU-llngsley can't do a thing about the name piracy, either. Seems they registered the name in Calif, before Mr. B. got hep. . . . Barbara Burke, ex-Follies dolly, recently dl- ! vorced, who becomes a bride again thortly. She's the prettiest gov't worker in town. . . . Ralph Ober's comment: "The passing of FDR was the shock heard around the world. . . . Ernie Pyle, who died with the Americans he loved. But be will live in the hearts of Americans Ameri-cans who loved him. The plight of S. F. restauranteurs and swank hotels trapped between OPA rules and the confabbers. No butter, no steaks, etc. . . . But you have little trouble getting what you want in the small restaurants along Market street. Archibald MacLeish who has put up his Alexandria, Va., house for sale on the cue-tee. He's asking $G5,000. , . . Jimmy Byrnes' report on mobilization and reconversion which has all England talking. It's j on their best-seller list. . . . The sug- gestion that FDR's profile be put on I dimes. Good idea, especially for the March of Dimes drive. I President Truman's first query to politicos looking for patronage: "I know whom he knows, and all that, I but what can he do?" i |
