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Show fcj H f -"-w.-j ' r.YayhMrri-i'isi Man About Town New Yorkers Are Talking About: The 400 per cent law biz tilt lor Willkie after his Collier's piece (answering (an-swering Lindbergh) . . . The trouble Haile Selassie's daughter is having getting a visa to come here . . . Adolf Hitler's nephew, Wm. Patrick Hitler, being summoned by the N. Y. draft board, and his plans to enlist en-list in Canada, instead . . . The muffled groans over at the Sateve-post Sateve-post because one year ago it paid St Ethical McKelway a big advance fee (for a series of South American pieces) and not one word has been submitted yet. Pegler's terrific mad-on with Liberty Lib-erty mag. He sold it a yarn on unions, guilds, etc., but it'll run side by side with a yarn debunking his piece. The debunking smarticle is bylined by J. WolL of the American Fed. of Labor . . . Shep Fields' definition of an isolationist: A guy who sits on a fence long after a normal man feels splinters. FDR being fed op with the Axis propaganda and his belief that a counter-offensive of free ideas should be sent abroad. He thinks it is Hitler's Hit-ler's weak point because in Europe any man who believes what he sees is a Fifth Columnist against Hitler! . . . The "beat" of the week: That the administration has been sounded out by influential Italian Ital-ian exiles for permission to set up in N. Y. the government of the Republic Re-public of Italy!!!!!! The Gov't is actively considering the best location in the U. S. where foreign agents can do themselves the most and the Axis the least good . . . Naval conferences in London have reached the point of a discussion discus-sion of joint command of all democratic demo-cratic vessels Atlantic (British), Pacific (U. S.) Notes of a Newspaperman The Story Tellers: Raymond Leslie Les-lie Buell, a Fortune editor, warns FDR is "in danger of becoming the American Chamberlain." That takes the President all the way around the block. He's been called "dictator," "warmonger" and now "appeaser." The name-callers invent the name to fit their special angle . . . There are six kinds of escort who are practically prac-tically a guarantee of spinsterhood, an anonymous model reports in "Beauty Is My Career" in Cosmopolitan. Cosmo-politan. The half dozen will spend plenty on a gal's face, but nothing on the third finger of the left hand ... An editorial in the SEP states: "If the country is unable or unwilling unwill-ing for the duration of the war to freeze its economic disputes, to forget for-get its class jealousies, to put out of its mind such a thought of equity of sacrifice, then its life is in danger" . . . Them's fine words. We hope the Satevepost will set an example . . Page 122 of the SEP has a cartoon about a silly ostrich with its head buried in the sand. It's good to know they can laugh at themselves them-selves . . . Read Stanley High's piece: "Hitler Ersatz Religion" in Reader's Digest. He says Germany is their God, Hitler is their Christ and Mein Kampf is their bible. The Front Pages: The Associated Press contributed great space and ink to a group's selections. They honored outstanding American women wom-en who "made the greatest strides in the last 50 years" ... In the field of aviation the honored were Ruth Nichols, a South American lady named Mrs. Miguel Otero, and Anne Lindbergh . . . Amelia Ear-hart, Ear-hart, in short, is not only Gone but Forgotten . . . The Pulitzer Prize Committee's award to the Pulitzer paper in St Louis (for getting rid of a smoke nuisance) was like seeing a man pin a medal on himself. This column's orchids for the best editorial cartoon of the month go to Rollin Kirby of the N. Y. Post . . . The caption was "The Capital of the World of Tomorrow Will Be Either Eerlin or Washington" (which Willkie Will-kie said in a speech) ... In a sofa chair is "Isolationist" with his newspaper news-paper (featuring Lindbergh's opposition oppo-sition to British aid) on the floor . . . "Average American" (that's you and me and Kirby) is pushing a finger in The Old Man's direction and saying: "I don't want war any more than you do, but I don't propose pro-pose to let this guy Hitler take ME over. And don't you call me a warmonger!" war-monger!" In Daladler'g new book, "France Speaking." there Is a good tip-off on why France fell . . . Daladier once said sadly: "What can I do about it? Gamelin doesn't LIKE tanks!" TyprwrlU-r Ribbons: Benjamin Franklin's: Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God . . . Anon's: Often the man the public tars and feathers today has a feather In his cap tomorrow . . . G. 13. Evans': The way to b'at convicts Is with convoys con-voys . . . Jack Warwick's: F'ew Americans want war. They hate It but h;itred Is not peace . . . Akron Ak-ron fJfaron-Jornal's: Just what are the Inalienable rights of a man who Is doing nothing for his country and Is trying to keep others from dorig anything? |