Show 4 t r I e Private Papers of a Cub Reporter Thornton Wilder was recently recalling recalling recalling re re- calling h his s last visit to London After a luncheon at Barrie Barnes s 's flat the exquisite little genius Max Beerbohm said Mr Wilder you haven't remarked on the view of I the Thames from here herc Wilder replied to the general effect that nothing adequate had occurred to him Whereupon Beerbohm said People usually do you know Only last week for instance lV Mr Ir Gene Tunney the fighter was here and admired it tremendously As a matter of fact he spoke of it with such eloquence and such sensitiveness sensitive sensitive- ness that really I felt quite coarse The FBI is more interested in a prominent Chicago psychiatrist who obtained an appointment to The Morale Board of the Col Donovan Office This doctor a Hungarian an who recently became a citizen was given a routine check by the Men G-Men When an agent called I at his home he spotted a large framed portrait of Mussolini affectionately affectionately affectionately I inscribed That made it more than a routine investigation and led lcd to the fact that Fritz Horvath Horvath Horvath Hor- Hor vath Hungarian Nazi leader is is' isa a frequent guest at the Drs Dr's house And at conferences in a hideaway hideaway hideaway hide hide- away in Chicago Horvath has definite Berlin connections connections and and the doctor may learn for the first time- time i that he hc is not going to be accepted I for that swell job with Col Donovan i I The Women's Business and Professional Professional Professional Pro Pro- Group annual Friendship Dinner took place the other night I They had previously announced that they would make known at this dinner the dinner the ten big important women women women wom wom- en chosen to represent the U. 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S To inspect civilian defense in England England England Eng Eng- land The list was prepared i and sent to Mrs Roosevelt for her herI okay The names submitted I did not measure up to her requirements requirements requirements require require- ments and dissension grew to such sucha a pitch that the idea has been temporarily temporarily temporarily tem tem- deferred and possibly shelved A vet recalls when Chinatown was big news every night And how an assistant district attorney was phoned out of f a sound slumber one wee hour with the news of a massacre in a Chinatown dive When he got there still fastening fastening fasten fasten- ing his clothes he found the joint deep in blood and bodies on the I floor the floor the hatchets and knives still in em The bart bartender was moaning moaning moan moan- I ing and weeping noisily What happened the happened the d. d a. a shouted I What happened was the reply as the tears dangled from his mus mus- tache Every customer ran out without paying his check Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Dinah Shore sings the blues on her new solo SunI Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- I day spot and relieves you of yours I Frank Blacks Black's classic renditions renditions renditions rendi rendi- via NBC's American Melody elody Hour are something to hug Take time big-time talents like Paul Muni Judith Anderson Raymond Massey Ruth Gordon mix with a top notch script and you have that Red Cross program program good good as the cause Betty Hutton is a zippy person welcome to the Bob Hope bill He said vitamin pills take her You dont don't wonder hearing hearing hearing hear hear- ing Richard Crooks sing why he is with the Met Met but but you wonder why James Melton who precedes him on the same station isn't Everybody Everybody Every Every- body was that surprised when the I N. 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R Thompson is selling his favorite old story again Cafe again Cafe Society this Society this time timeto to Click Amazing how interesting Thompson can make them seem in print In reality they are as dull dullas as a blank wall How to Be Cole Porter is the caption of a a Look article about the composer Its It's good advice if you happen to be Porter but late even for him Radio Movie-Radio-Guide starts a two in expose on this columns column's favorite news commentator in the current issue The fallacy that the Middle West Vest is isolationist isolationist-is is exploded by Time which points out that polls have proved otherwise The so-called so isolationist Midwest it says in part exists only in the minds of congressmen who have failed to k keep ep abre abreast st of of a great surge of public opinion during recent recent re re- cent months Some people it seems mistake the Chicago Tribune for the mid mid West The Press Box Another correspondent correspondent corre corre- with a good book is Ray Ray- Raymond Raymond 5 mond Daniell 11 Civilians Mu Must Fight Daniell Darnell who covered the London raids reports reports' a fail failure to chase his office boy to co cover ver when the he bombers came The kid squawked the underground hideouts were to too o risky The last time he e went down he lost 10 playing cards Somerset Maugham in a foreword foreword fore fore- word to the Daniell Danis ll volume explains news censors as Urn more ore anxious not right to do the one wrong r ng thing than to do the he |