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Show l i f. issasfg-. i In Our Town: Sallies In Our Alley: Rogers Stearns (the 1-2-3 host) says he didden go to the Derby this year just mailed 'em his shirt. . . . Oz Nelson's nifty sum-up: "There are two kinds ol people in H'wood the stand-ins and the stand-outs." . . . Jerry Lester thinks the guy who dug up Mussolini's body and took only his leg musta been his agent. Midtown Vignette: It happened the other afternoon in a Radio City elevator. ... A prim looking woman wom-an was teddibly embarrassed when her garter slipped from her nylon. . . . The elevator operator, noting her predicament, stopped the car and doused the lights until she made the adjustment. Irving Berlin's famous song hit, "Blue Skies," will be a click all over again this year when it is revived re-vived in Paramount's film of the same handle. Count Basie waxed the first recording of it, due next week. . . . Both Louis and Conn tell listeners lis-teners they expect to win by kayos on the ground both are now "older" "old-er" than they were. . . . The John Erskines (Helen Worden) are studying study-ing Greek for their visit to Greece. Erskine plans a book comparing ancient Greece with today's version. ver-sion. . . 20th Century-Fox bought "Foxes of Harrow," the best seller, for 150 Gs, outbidding Paramount and several Independents. . . . The Rockefellers and the broadcasting firms have been having a quiet feud for years as' to whether that part of the city should be called Rockefeller Rockefel-ler Center or Radio City. Hotel rooms are so scarce for any purpose that the hotelmen find themselves the worst victims. . . . Needing a hotel for their annual, convention they were unable to find a single leading hotel in the U. S. to accommodate them on the convention con-vention date except one. . . . That hotel is in Biloxi, Mississippi, and they can have it, because the season sea-son will have been over and it's the hottest time of the year down there. They took it! Sounds in the Night: At the Singapore: Singa-pore: "I hear Serge Rubenstein is in such deep water that he's gonna show up at his trial in a diving suit." ... At Ciro's: "She's so broke she doesn't know where her next heel is coming from." ... In the Stork: "Get a look at that beautiful beauti-ful fiddle of a figure" ... At the Village Corners: "She's decided not to be 25 until she's married." . . . At Gilmore's: "Aw, stop talkin' through your halo!" . . .At the Mermaid Mer-maid Room: "Marriage is the magic wand that changes Pupply Love into a dog's life." ... In the Cub Room: "I got a novel idea for the radio. A Mr. and Mistress program." The Federation of Churches is going go-ing to raise heck with the Army for allegedly burning tens of thousands of Bibles left over In army camps. General Motors' Frigidaire branch has the inside track, they say, on Bing's return to the air If they can deliver a half-hour NBC spot. . . . LaGuardia has refused to accept any part of the $15,000 salary sal-ary as chief of UNRRA. . . . London reports that Sean O'Casey's play, "Red Roses for Me," is his best since "The Plough and the Stars." It is headed for The Big Apple. . . . Car dealers hear that 180,000 new ones will be rolling off the assembly assem-bly lines sooner than suspected. . . . The authors of "Woman Bites Dog" will be amused to know that on the night the show premiered a woman publisher's mutt bit her! Physicians and vets were dragged In, and there was an air of general hysteria. David Terry, who is of Italian descent, de-scent, was listening to a bigot belittling be-littling foreigners. . . . "And I suppose sup-pose your ancestors came over on the Mayflower," challenged Terry. "Well, yes," said the louse, "now that you mention it, they did." "Well," said the descendant of Columbus, "where do you think they would have landed if mine hadn't found tiie pluce first?" At a round table discussion of newspaper editors the other eve a publisher opined that Congress, on matters of OPA and such legislature, legisla-ture, was running the country behind be-hind closed doors. "That part isn't so bad," observed an editor. "What worries me is the way Congress runs things behind closed minds." Horace Greeley's line on the craft: "Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it." Slrcet Scene. The little old lady, an institution on 50th Street (as she is the only podiller nllmved to squat in (he Saks' foyer) arriving there by keb . . . They say an American Ameri-can Riviera may spring up at Wcst-1 Wcst-1 port. Conn., ilie home at several j cultural leaders. Vin (he Longshore Club property into which mucho ! mazunin will be chucked. . Memo from Jed Kilcy at the St. Francis Hospital, Miami Deach: "Two years aj:o I was married in this town. One year aj;o I was divorced here. This year I was only run over." |