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Show Li 1 i,, .1 Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Front Pages: Some of the generals of Lindy's war college took hope that Moscow's note to Bulgaria promised Bolo opposition to the Rat-zis Rat-zis in the Balkans. But Arthur Krock chilled the hope in his Washington Wash-ington column. Every time Stalin pouts at his best girl in Berlin, warned Krock, they make up the tiff with a deal at the expense of a weak neighbor . . . Rob't Minor, who replaced Browder as Comrade Big, used to city edit the Daily Worker. Once, when a Rolls and flivver came together. Minor flipped the item to a rewrite man. "Here," he said, "write that from the Class Angle" . . . There is a class angle to the hoss tracks, too. Take George F. T. Ryall's account of the opening day at Tropical Park, following the closing of blue-blooded Hialeah. Biggies from Hialeah, reported Ry-all, Ry-all, visited Tropical "to see how the other half bets" . . . Irving Hoffman's Hoff-man's report to the Hollywood Reporter: Re-porter: "Honey chile Wilder went out with Rags Ragland Saturday night, and on Sunday was seen at the Stork with Bob. Ritchie. In other words, Honeychile's gone from Rags to Ritchie." The Story Tellers: William L. Shirer's adventures in Naziating Germany are running in the Atlantic Monthly, and make very enlightening enlighten-ing reading . . . Jan Valtin's "Out of the Night" has set an all-time record at The Book-of-the-Month Club, beating Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by 3,000 copies . . . Phyllis Brooks of Hollywood Holly-wood and "Panama Hattie" is in Screen Guide . . . She avers: "A man is a chump to marry an actress, ac-tress, and who wants a chump?" . . . When Scribner's Commentator Commenta-tor reprinted an interview given by Benny Goodman on the radio, it failed to include the maestro's statement state-ment that Democracy is necessary if America's type of free improvised impro-vised music is to live. Goodman made quite a point connecting Democracy and Swing. But Scribner's Scrib-ner's took pains to blot it out . . . Fortune has a timely article entitled: en-titled: "Eddie Rickenbacker Looks Ahead" . . . Margaret Case Harri-man Harri-man has been commissioned to write a book on New York wits . . . The only objection to that is Margaret Mar-garet can't include herself. Hers is the kind you can mow lawns with. Typewriter Ribbons: Fiorello La-Guardia's: La-Guardia's: We are not offering England help because of our military mili-tary strength, but because of our military weakness . . . Cal Tin-ney's: Tin-ney's: Ambassador John Winant doesn't have nine children like Joe Kennedy, but he has ideas for making mak-ing this a better world for what children chil-dren he does have . . . Illinois State Journal's: All the world's a stage, and it is just too bad that its very worst actors are forever crowding to the front of it . . . Robert Quil-len's: Quil-len's: There won't be any "big push" in the Balkans. The python doesn't push a rabbit while swallowing swal-lowing it . . . Anon's: When two women suddenly become friendly, it's a sign that some third woman has lost two friends. Man About Town: One of the few lady "newspaper men" among the interviewers at a recent Mrs. Roosevelt press conference confer-ence was Mrs. Maybelle Manning of Miami . . . While asking Mrs. President Pres-ident something or other Maybelle began powdering her nose and the compact fell to the floor ... It was a red, white and blue compact, on which was prominently inscribed: We Want Willkie!" A iact high Naval authorities relate re-late to intimates: About the five Americans piloting as many "Eagles" over Norway, who returned re-turned safely to London after knocking knock-ing ofl forty-five Messerschmitts . . . The Commander is last-named Taylor. Tay-lor. . . New Yorkers Are Talking About: The sleuths studying the numerous numer-ous soldiers and sailors who patronize patro-nize Yorkville grills . . . That Ass't Navy Secretaryship rumored . for Thomas G. Corcoran which can go to Mr. Warner, vice president of Pure Oil, who spurns it . . . When Secretary Frank Knox saw Jack Alexander's swell writeups in Life he intoned: 'Oh, boy! Wait'll my wife sees those pictures with my i mouth open!" The Federal Communication G'nmmKh, which just ordered the fingerprinting of all workers in shortv;ave foreign newsrooms. All will have to show their U. S. citizen-shir' citizen-shir' records . . . Yarnannka h Co., a Fifth Avenue store, which Rhipperl considerable stor-k back to the Orient Ori-ent reeeritly. How come if Janan "expeeU no immediate trouble with the U S."? . . . Joan Crawford riot embracing Christian Science as reported recently She in a convert, con-vert, they say, to Unity, In which a secretary In a High f 'riestrxa. |