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Show j Man About Toivn: J Erio Johnston, Chamber of Com-j Com-j merce chief, has been cracked down by his superiors over the Russian ' boosts. They feel he was too pro. As of today, no postwar trade agree-j agree-j ments between U. S. industry and i Russia have been set up. One ol j the biggest shipping deals, however, Is being readied without their help! j . . . Paul McNutt's receptionist at the WPB has become the hottest model on the Conover list. She is Ann Bell. . . . The newsprint short-age short-age may be over by mid-December. Wood pulp is waiting for shipment from Scandinavian ports. . . . pais : of Steve Early hear that his sinus agony (caused by Washington's cli-mate) cli-mate) may force him to quit against ! I his wishes. i i Paulette Goddard and her groom. Buz Meredith, have asked the FBI ! to probe the poison-pen writers who have landed divorce rumors in va-', va-', rious columns. . . . The reason the planned new mag Pageant has been held up is that it planned to ape Coronet and then decided not to. j After spending a mint, too. . . . J Overheard at the White House: I "Clare Luce is the Aimee Semple McPherson of the Stork Club." . . John Edgar Hoover was so ill recently re-cently he thought he would die. "Going My Way" will gross 8 million. mil-lion. Producer Leo McCarey will i get about two million dollars for his bit. . . . Sec'y of War Stimson is : mending now. He went to the Adi- ! rondacks recently where a nurse remained re-mained in attendance. ... Jesse lones, whose condition worried pals. Is better. Notes of a Newspaper Man: Damon Runyon and a New York newspaper apparently disagree on Ihe hobby of some Americans who-njoy who-njoy telling quips on well-knowns. , . . Mr. Runyon, in his column, tomplained: "It is always bad taste tor people to sit around and make odious remarks about any national i leaders of respectability and integrity." integ-rity." . . . The same morning a respectable New . York newspaper featured a report (in a box) quoting I Washington columnist. . . . The j itory dealt with the argument: "Who Was the Strongest President?" . . Dne arguer said Lincoln because he iplit rails. Another said Washington because he tossed a dollar across Ihe Potomac. But FDR was de-:lared de-:lared the strongest. "He threw the U. S. Treasury across both oceans!" Now that is a pretty good gag. But It is also pretty stale, too. ... It was used often during the second campaign of Woodrow Wilson in the war debt issue. . . . The quips and Darbs about Mrs. Roosevelt are still Seing swapped by anti-4th Termers, ! and the President is often the butt of devastating jokes We do not recall hearing that they complained. . . . Mr. Runyon probably will admit ad-mit that it isn't so bad to tell a joke is it is to elect one. Governor Dewey isn't immune from the jokesmiths these days. . . . rhe current quip has him suffering Irom fierce insomnia which "keeps aim up aU night pacing up and 3own under his bed!" . . . The New Dealers go into spasms over that one. But it was funnier 20 years Igo when Al Jolson told it after an (vernight trip from Boston. ... "I iidn't sleep a wink," he groaned. "One of Singer's Midgets drank lome coffee and paced up and down bis upper berth!" Col. Carlos Romulo, who helped! MacArthur and Quezon escape to Australia, didn't know that persons tddressing Congress must not do seta se-ta uniform. He has been in his army uniform for years. ... An hour before be-fore he spoke in the House the other Jay Romulo was informed that he onust wear civvies for the event. . . . His staff hastily borrowed civilian ci-vilian apparel. ... On the way to J the Capitol he realized he was wearing wear-ing his army sox. ... He paled. . . . "I am wearing the wrong iox!" he exclaimed. "Oh my goodness, good-ness, tvot'll I do?" ... His Girl Friday solved matters right there on the Capitol steps. ... He wore ber bobby sox! A New Yorker just back from Argentina alleges that the majority of the people there are not anti-U. anti-U. S. or pro-Nazi. . . . Most of the people, said our informant, do not even take the government leaders seriously and openly quip: "If I thought my son would ever grow up to be President of Argentina, I'd lave sent him to school!" Norman Littell, of the Dept. of Justice, and Will . Clayton, Jesse Jones' man, regret that feuds cannot be carried beyond the grave. . I The Demmy Nat'l Comm. is func-i func-i tioning as smoothly as a ward at Dr. Freud's. . . . Churchill has cooled I Dn the King of Greece, but has I warmed on the King of Italy. . . . White House attaches are blaming each other for the recent Willkie boner. . . . General O'Dwyer becomes be-comes a civilian about October and will start campaigning for the Mayoralty. May-oralty. I |