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Show jYofpj of a City Slicker: Margaret Bourke-White, just back from taking pictures of world famous statesmen, was showing her long line of short-snorters . . . Several Sev-eral were autographed by Eisenhower, Eisenhow-er, Marshall, Churchill and others, but the one that held the eye was a bill inscribed, she said, by people with whom she had been torpedoed . . . "Huh?" you hull. "Oh," says Margaret, "you'd be surprised at the people you meet nowadays, who have been torpedoed!" tor-pedoed!" La White was on a ship that sank in the Mediterranean ... A troopship, troop-ship, it appears, including about 200 British women, returning to England Eng-land from the Colonies ... All were saved by British warships. The 200 women salvaged nothing but their lipsticks! Joey Adams forwards the one about the French peasant in occupied occu-pied territory, whose home had been ransacked by the Nazis ... It is not humor. It is grim stuff brought here by escaped refugees . . . The famished man caught a tiny fish and raced home with it . . . "Here!" he said to his wife, "at last we can eat!" . . . "But how will we cook it?" she asked. "They took our coal and wood, our matches and even the stove!" . . . The peasant took the fish to the lake, tossed it back and stood watching it wiggle back to life . . . Suddenly the fish gave the Nazi-Vichy salute and yelled: "Viva Laval!" Fort Custer's company commander, command-er, ironically enough, Is a full-blooded Indian . . . March of Time's latest, lat-est, "Inside Fascist Spain," makes audiences wonder why the State Dep't plays ball with Franco . . . James Cromwell's new business: "De-inking" all the paper used at the Pentagon Bldg., Washington. Secret papers no longer are burned, but de-inked . . . Permission for Kate Smith to sing "God Bless America" in "This Is the Army" cost Warners' $10,000 . . . The Boy and Girl Scouts get that song's royalties, royal-ties, $113,000 to date. George Lalt, the INS correspondent, correspond-ent, says there is little love lost between be-tween King Farouk of Egypt and the British High Commissioner . . . They needle each other often , . . One day the Commissioner remarked re-marked to the King that a man hasn't proved his mettle until he has shot a lion . . . Farouk proceeded to the Cairo zoo and shot sevenl IVeio York Heartbeat: Sallies in Our Alley: Confrere Skolsky, as all Hollywood knows, is a furious hypochondriac. His pockets bulge with medicines at all times ... As he walked past a drug store the other day, Arthur Murray said: "Don't you want to go in?" . . . "Nh-nh," nh-nh'd the colyumist, "I don't need anything" ... "I know," was the reply, "but tnaybe the druggist does!" . . . Lucy Monroe counsels: Three ways to avoid criticism: "Say nothing. Do nothing. Be nothing!" Midtown Vignette: Groucho Marx tells it. Happened, he says, to a pal who wanted a pair of bowling shoes but was reluctant to surrender surren-der his ration coupon ... He went to a sporting goods shop where he told the owner: "Your brother said I could buy a pair of bowling shoes here without a coupon" . . . The boss nodded and sold him the shoes ... As the patron started to go, he said: "Now that I've got 'em, I gotta got-ta confess your brother didn't send me in" . . . "That's all right," the owner said, patting the chap on the shoulder, "don't worry about it, boy. I ain't got any brother." Broadway Tinsel: Ingrid Bergman will be the third star to be honored with a Time cover. Rita Hayworth was first ... A sign outside the Los Angeles Marriage License Bureau: Bu-reau: "Think! Is It Cupid or Conscription?" Con-scription?" Sounds In the Night: At the Hurricane: Hur-ricane: "Her husband doesn't talk in his sleep rhe just grins" . At La Conga: "The same flattery that turns your head will later turn your middle" ... In the Mayan: "She fell for him hook, line and bank account" ... At LaMartinique: "His favorite exercise is taking bows" ... At the Famous Door: 'He has that typical B'way look-green look-green with envy!" Manhattan Murals: The Chinese copy girl in the AP news room . The undertaker's office advertising: "Air conditioning." All Hollywood is swapping this one ... It concerns a movie favorite, favor-ite, whose most recent film is one of the season's biggest hits But he hasn't seen it although he keeps figuring out ways to do so . His wife, the legend goes, is sure that he was and still is in love with the girl who played opposite him in it . . . The wife will not go to see the picture and has threatened everything if he sees it . . .He almost al-most saw it one night last week but the Mrs. threatened to swallow some pills and he didn't go. |