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Show Notes of a Newspaper Man: Some of the Broadway braln-trust-ers were "solving" the world's problems. prob-lems. The gab switched to the re-emergence re-emergence of Joe Stalin. "I don't get it," said one. "So-called "So-called reliable sources reported Joe was very sick some said dying or dead. Now he turns up, and they say he's in the best of health and was merely enjoying a vacation." "Oh, I dunno," observed another Thinker. "I hear Stalin is far from well and right now is suffering from a terrific grippe." "Yeh-yeh," Interrupted a third who made the most sense. 'The same terrific grip he's always had on everything." Mayor O'Dwyer's two-cent sales-tax sales-tax plan to help finance the subway sub-way recalls the time Jimmy Walker was a State Senator and the legislature legisla-ture at Albany was arguing a raise in subway tariff. . . . State Senator Nichol was against raising the fare. "Don't you think," orated Senator Nichol, "that the people of New York City go too far for a nickel?" Walker's retort: "You've gone pretty far for a Nicholl" The elder Edison hated wearing a dress suit. Mrs. Edison, however, talked him into putting one on for a reception. . . . The affair was stuffy and Edison squirmed in discomfort. dis-comfort. ... He finally told Mrs. Edison he was going home. "I can't stand this doggone straitjacketl" he groaned as he left. At home, to make sure his soup-and-fish apparel would never bother him again, Edison took hammer and nails and nailed the suit to the wall. . . . "There," he said when finished, "I hope you suffer as much as I did " It Could Happen: A group of brass hats gathered to consider the formation for-mation of a Society for American Participation in World War III and TV. . . . The first speaker keynoted the meeting by declaring: "Regardless "Regard-less of the so-called agreements made by the Big Three, we know sooner or later we will have to fight another war! We will have to fight Russia over many things or Britain over markets! And " From the audience a voice hesitantly hesi-tantly inquired: "But, gentlemen, isn't there something we can do to PREVENT another war?" "What!" roared the chairman. "Throw that un-American out!" The mail brought this unsigned contrlb. A poet was irked by a pest who told him he could spend his time more usefully cooking. . . . The poet ignored him. . . . "Well," continued con-tinued the bore, "don't you think a cook is more important than a poet?" The poet pondered and then said: "I'm sure there isn't a dog in town who wouldn't agree with you." "Well, It looks like the honeymoon between Truman and Congress is over." "Yeah, novj he has good reason for going home to mother." Sounds In the Night: At the Diamond Dia-mond Horseshoe: "Relax, dearie, or that halo will choke you to death." , ... At the Embassy: "They wrote a song about her, 'O, What a Beautiful Beau-tiful Moron!' "... At the Zanzibar: "Dull? They named a butter-knife after him!" ... At Versailles: "He'll do anything for me, and I for him.t But I'm running out of right arms!" ... At the Golden Fiddle: "George Jean Nathan doesn't dislike actors. Only those he sees In shows." . . . At Ciro's: "She was in a terrible accident. She was having her face lifted and the derrick broke." Wilson Mizner's balm to newcomers newcom-ers in the theater: "Remember this most of the time the stumbling blocks which get in your way will merely be the dust you leave behind tomorrow." Faces About Town: Elliott Roosevelt Roose-velt being mobbed by admirers while leaving the "Show Boat" premiere pre-miere at the Ziegfeld Theater. . . . James Stewart Introducing Marie McDonald to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. . . . George Jean Nathan with a padre in the Cub Room of the Stork. Reforming? n. . . Former Sec'y of War Henry Stimson unrecognized by the Pierre passersby. . . Damon Runyon putting down candidates for a column about celehs who talk about themselves. . . . Marion Murray, Mur-ray, whose betrothal to a General was cancelled suddenly, trying to be gay about it. . . . Candy Jones, who has a cold, at the Zanzibar ringside, wearing (among other things) a baby's teething ring, the Inscription on which reads: "Don't Kiss Mel" Sallies in Our Alley: A ham actress, ac-tress, fnmed for her conceit, visited the Hartmans at the Waldorf. . "I had a big season in Hollywood," she boasted. "Including three terrific ter-rific scenes with Errol Flynn." . "Yen," quipped Grace Hartman, "he fights with everybody." . . . Oz Nelson says with many people marriage mar-riage is a gamble, but with Hnnk Greenbcrg it's a Gitnbel. . . . Alan Gale tells of the big advertising njency exec who died and at his funeral "everybody sang commercials!" commer-cials!" t |