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Show Private Papers of a Cub Reporter: The Washington Wire: It almost causes fist fights when you mention it, but they are saying we'll have a new Chief Justice of the Highest Court in 1945 .. . The big corporations corpora-tions which want to put up reserves for post war conversion will soon be icussin' the Treasury's Randolph I Paul, who wants them paid out in I taxes now . . , The U. S. is getting I so much coin that the Democratic iNat'l Committee ain't gettin' any . . . Otto Hapsburg was rejected by the army because he claims Hun-i Hun-i garian citizenship ... His sponsor is a cabinet member's wife! . . . j The inner circles hear that Stalin thinks Germany will be out of the war by March. : E. P. Dutton, publisher of the sensational sen-sational No. 1 best seller ("Under Cover") has enough paper to sell another 60,000 copies. They indem-: indem-: nify book sellers against libel actions (none to date) as a result of selling it ... In Detroit Ass't FBI Chief Bugas said: "The FBI, in its anti-spy anti-spy work, hasn't had two cents' worth of help from Mr. Dies!" . . . How come the Dept. of Justice doesn't go after Joe Kamp for putting put-ting out pamphlets titled: "Dep't of Justice From the Secret Files of the FBI"? . . . Isn't the use of the Dep't of Justice name illegal? There is a Presidential order saying that the FBI reports are so secret not even Congressional committees may see them. War Correspondent Robert Casey (his last book was "Torpedo Junction") Junc-tion") was invited by the navy to do a book about submarine warfare . . . After three months with our undersea under-sea fighters, Casey submitted the manuscript . . . The navy censors deleted nearly 40 per cent of it . . . Casey was so infuriated he refused to permit the expurgated document to be published . . . Shortly after, the U. S. asked the star reporter to do another job . . . "On one condition," condi-tion," he said, "that I am assigned where there are no American censors!" cen-sors!" . . . Casey is now abroad getting the facts without "editing." New York Melodrama: In the Mutual Mu-tual Radio Theater on 52nd St. the other night the solicitation from the stage (for broadcast spectators) failed to arouse one citizen to buy a bond or stamp. After what seemed like ages and still no bond sales, a sailor yelled from the balcony . . . He rushed down to the stage . . . From his blouse he took a single crumpled dollar . . . Announcing it was his last dollar, he bought stamps with it . . . Then with a defiant air, he licked the stamps and pasted all of them on the stage . . . Then he left head high with a glare of contempt con-tempt at the audience . . . You could have heard their blushes drop for the next few minutes . . . After that, 950 people rushed to the stage to buy theirs . . . Hmf! The White House phone number Is National 1414 . . . The Troika night spot in the Capital 4141 . . . The cafe's exploiter in New York phoned the Troika. He absentmind-edly absentmind-edly asked for National 1414. When the Washington voice said hello, the p. a. shouted, "Well, we got in the papers today." "Really!" retorted the White House operator. "Don't we usually?" usu-ally?" A State Dep't source insists that the facts are absolutely correct . . . It seems that just before the recent blowup in Denmark, the Nazis had gone to King Christian and told him they wanted the Nuremberg laws put ini effect in Denmark . . . "But," the King protested, "I can't do it. Those laws are barbaric!" "Don't be a fool," said the Nazis. "Those laws are only designed to oppress the Jews of Denmark." "Examine the Danish constitution," constitu-tion," said the King coldly. "You will see that my official title is 'King of All the Danes!' " Vignette of a Patriot: She's a little lit-tle old Jewish lady of about 65 . . . She was inspecting the Coney Island garbage cans, with a stick in one hand and a big bag in the other . . . She looks for tins that housewives house-wives neglect to save for salvage . . . Three of her grandsons (all college graduates) are at the fighting fronts ... A neighbor saw her pecking at one can . . . "You won't find any there," he said, "all the folki in this house save their cans" . . . "Maybe," was the reply as she kept prodding the garbage, "somebody forgot." Sound In the Night: In the Stork: "He's in 6-Z. Rejected by the army and civilians!" ... At the Park Central Roof: "He must be important impor-tant Look at all the smiles in front of hi and the sneers behind him" ... At the Enduro: "Tell me something. some-thing. If you had it to do over again, would you still be the rat that you are?" Ex-Mayor J. J. Walker, snapped by a news photogger at Shor's, quipped: "It'll take more than one bulb to bring me back!" |