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Show Man About Town: President Roosevelt's pledge to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (to rush full-scale full-scale aid to China) will be evident immediately after Gen. MacArthur confers with General Wavell. The cue for the finishing touches on the United Nations' offensive on Japan . . . Wendell Willkie is hob-nobbing with New Dealers in the hope that FDR may not run (which is unlikely) unlike-ly) and that a runaway Democon-vention Democon-vention may nominate an anti-FDR, anti-New Deal candidate . . . The price of 4th Term support for Roosevelt Roose-velt (by the anti-New Deal Demos) will be the jilting of Henry A. Wallace Wal-lace as Vice President on the nat'l ticket . . . Dissident Southern Demos are boosting Jimmy Byrnes and Sen. Bankhead . . . The lads in the State Dep't, who have just been unmasked as the ones sending oil to Spain, are the same who kept sending scrap iron to Japan. General C. It. Smith (of American Ameri-can Airlines) is on the verge of becoming be-coming head man of The Ferry Command Com-mand . . . One of the newspapers is quietly checking the draft status of all known gamblers (big shots and small fry) since Washington classed them as non-essentials (something of an understatement) and ruled that all the 3As must be lAs . . . Don't be surprised if the WAACs are sent home from foreign duty. Gen. Eisenhower's biggest "problem" . . . Coal mining people peo-ple hear that John Lewis will succeed suc-ceed in staging a 35-hour week by April 30. Reporter Tom O'Connor, covering a speech by Capt. Eddie Ricken-backer Ricken-backer at the WaldoTf last week, wrote in PM: "Apparently attracted attract-ed by the success of such word-coinage as globaloney, Rickenbacker contributed the word scummunistic to the thesaurus of Luce talk" . . . Look, mister reporter: A guy gets a little bored having his word-style called "cheap Broadwayese" in one place and in another place credited to heroes as contributions to the war effort . . . The last time scummunistic scum-munistic appeared in this colyum was at least two years ago. Laugh of the Week in Washington: A Northern Senator hired a secretary secre-tary ... It is customary to engage one from the State that elected the incumbent . . . When anyone asked this doll where she hailed from, they were convulsed when she said: "Ah ciims fum Mahblehaid, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, suh!" P.S.: She has another job now, honeychile. Harper's is bringing out a Victory edition of "Sabotage," the best-seller, at half-price, to reach the widest possible public . . . When a pal told the Stork Club owner he intended calling the joynt "Sherman's Saloon," Sa-loon," the reply was: "Nobody ever called me Mr. Billingsley until I opened a saloon" . . . Lieuts. Nat Benchley and John McLain are wearing the latest navy campaign ribbon, showing service in the South Atlantic area . . . Shades of the Revolution: Top songs with the Lorgnette Set at the St. Regis Maisonette Mai-sonette Room are the Chetnik Song and the Soviet Cavalry anthem. Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: "The British correspondents in the V. S.," wires H. Hutchinson, chairman chair-man of their committee, "regret that you should have given publicity to the draft-dodging slur implied by your comment in the column. I am sure you were not aware of the fact that nearly every British correspondent corre-spondent now here either came after the war began or has been home since and that all came here with authorization of appropriate military authorities. All gave pledges to return re-turn whenever called. I hope you will set the record straight for the benefit of readers and British newsmen news-men here." Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes' definition of a Liberal: "The word is hard to define; it represents an attitude, a state of mind, rather than a specific philosophy. Liberalism is an ideal which goes under various labels. Sometimes liberals call themselves Progressives, sometimes Democrats, sometimes Republicans, sometimes Populists. It does not matter. The label is nothing the point of view is everything. But however we describe a liberal we generally recognize him by his deeds or words. A man's fundamental, funda-mental, long-range attitude towards life and the world fixes him permanently, per-manently, in the esteem and opinion of his fellow-men." Bob Hope's Little Linda and her school-chum, Carol Thomas, daughter daugh-ter of film producer Bill Thomas, were being driven to school by Mrs! Hope, who still is tittering over the little girls' repartee. "My father," said Miss Hope, "went to the studio." "My father went to the studio, too," said Carol. "Yes," said La Hope, "but my daddy makes pictures!" "No," corrected Miss Thomas, "my daddy makes the pictures. Your daddy only works in them." I : . J tern first. Then you can snip until it fits perfectly around arms and other supports and, if you make a mistake in the pattern just stitch a patch over it and start over again. Before removing the-pattern the-pattern from the chair, plan the openings so that they will lap neatly neat-ly and be sure they are long enough. In the finished cover either ei-ther bindings or facings may be used for irregular edges. NOTE This chair is from Mrs. Spears-Sewing Spears-Sewing Book 3, which also contains directions direc-tions for smart new curtains: and numerous numer-ous things to make from odds and ends, as well as new materials. To get copy of Book 3 send name and address with ls-cents ls-cents in coins to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 3. Name Address |