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Show Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: Elmer Davis will be missed on the networks. His dry tones had a debunking magic that ruined Nazi lies with merely an inflection in-flection . . . Radio Rome needs an editor and a rehearsal. H. Denny, the Times man, has been back writing writ-ing pieces about the Italian situation situa-tion for over six weeks, but the Rome short-wavers announced the other day that he is a prisoner of Italy ... It is comforting to notice no-tice that the fright note gets more and more apparent in the Berlin broadcasts. They had three versions of American fliers over Rumania, which is the sort of stuttering that tips off a worried mind . . . Bing Crosby's appeal for 10 per cent of your salary for bonds was a corker. To wit: "It's not much to ask, a mere dime on a buck isn't giving till it hurts because you can't give enough money to hurt. I mean hurt the way some guys are getting hurt. Pay your way. Pick up your share of the check. Funny thing. Freedom Free-dom ain't free. But whatever you pay for it, it's worth it." The Front Pages: The Times editorial, edi-torial, "Lidice The Immortal," on the murder of a Bohemian village, will live among the masterpieces inspired in-spired by the war ... A Christian Science Monitor columnist pointed out this oddity in the news. That the king of Greece cooled his heels in Washington while the gov't welcomed wel-comed a peasant Molotov . . . Robert Rob-ert Lasch described the war policy of "The World's Greatest Waste-paper" Waste-paper" (in Chicago): "It has endeavored en-deavored to lodge the responsibility for the war with ourselves, rather than with our enemies" . . . Two local editorialists are engaged in a feud. The first reported that the Atlantic Charter was never ratified by the Senate. The other pointed out that the Senate never ratified the Declaration of Independence . . . From the L. A. Evening Herald-Express: Herald-Express: On the Noble sedition trial: "Noble's attorney asked the witness whether W. Winchell was mentioned at the meeting. 'It is likely,' said Ellis Jones, 'Winchell was attacking us week after week' " . . . With his gents' room journal-Ism, journal-Ism, huh? . . . Ralph Ingersoll asked the New York Post for a message on his paper's anniversary. The Post, which is over a century old, replied: "The first hundred years (see the N. Y. Post masthead) are the hardest." Typewriter Ribbons: John Anderson: Ander-son: It caused such a lifting of eyebrows eye-brows that some have not yet come down . . . The N. Y. Mirror: If you can't go over come across! . . . Jake Falstaff: Great buffalo clouds, roaming the blue sky prairie . . . Louise R. Peattie: A man's method of packing is to strangle his clothes and bury them . . . E. Buckler: Buck-ler: It is good to lie in bed and let sleep's drowsy wind blow out the candles of thought . . . R. L. Stevenson: Ste-venson: You don't really love freedom free-dom if you're not willing to protect it against those who hate it . . . N. F. (in a Letters to the Editor colyum) : How come Hitler doesn't blame the Jews for Heydrich's assassination? as-sassination? Is it possible he doesn't want to give the Jews credit for a good deed? . . . Anon: Scared as an isolationist congressman when you mention his voting record . . . C. E. Heller: Lucky as a mosquito on Marlene Dietrich's legs . . . John Harrower: As primitively brutal as a sissy biting his own lip. New Yorkers You Won't See from a Sight-Seeing Bus: Shoestring Annie An-nie as well-known as the mayor to the'Lindy Restaurant set. Always wears one shoe sans a lace and asks for a nickel to buy some . . . Razor Phil soft-spoken, well-dressed, well-dressed, who sells tickets for testimonial testi-monial affairs (to himself) a well-groomed well-groomed Commodore Dutch. Carries Car-ries a barber's razor in the rear of his collar for protection . . . Ted Lewis' original Shadow now has a bar and grill on W. 44th Street which features a juke box with only Ted Lewis recordings. Still wears a broken bro-ken down high hat, a la Ted . . . Jerusalem Jake a Negro who wears artist's attire. Always needs coin "to get back to Jerusalem." Speaks French, English, Spanish and Yiddish Yid-dish fluently . . . Morris the Dancer which he isn't. A bookie . . . The Owl a giant Negro. Gets the name because he arises every 3 ayem, clocks the horses at the tracks until 8 and peddles his figures to handi-cappers handi-cappers . . . Swifty Morgan a necktie peddler (to celebrities only, if you please) who rides in a chauf-teured chauf-teured limousine. Manhattan Murals: The winding garden path that leads to a sleepy little country chapel on West 69th Street . . . The pairs swapping goodnight good-night kisses in dimmed-out Times Square just as though it were a front porch . . . The topsy-turvy backstage set-up at "This Is the Army!" rehearsals. All the chorines chor-ines are boys and all the stage-door Johnnies are goils . . . The doorman door-man at the Waldorf with his pince-nez, pince-nez, white mustache and uniform more regal than all the monarchs who dwell there. |