Show v- v 1 Y S the scenes Stuff News News- Newspapermen's Newspapermen's talk shop includes the alleged reasons for the unpopularity of De in certain high political places One statesman said He uHe is arrogant hard to get along with stuffy Another revealed that De likes to make an entrance entrance entrance en en- trance especially in swanky hotel dining rooms when a trumpeter tootles too his approach with willi some da ta-da dee-da dee dah dee da I This got on the nerves of Allied big- big shots It is said Mr Willkie will certify to the last item De is called tithe the the bride when I Roosevelt discusses him with Churchill via trans-Atlantic trans phone Once asked the Prime Minister Minister Minister Min Min- ister Hows the bride brid e U All Allright Allright All Allright right Mr C C. C is said to have answered but I am having trouble with the groom Meaning Gir- Gir aud Americans and others should not forget De was the first to yell We Ve Will Vill Fight The Squelch Proper Radie Harris Harris Harris Har Har- ris relays the one about the feud between Jane Cowl and Philip Merit Merivale Meri- Meri t vale when then they appeared in The I Road to Rome hit Their qU quarreling quarrel quarrel- I ing finally aroused director Lester I Lonergan who succinctly said I just want to remind you M Miss ss Cowl that th the billing on this play is Jane Cowl and Philip Merivale not I Jane Cowl vs Philip Merivale I Recently a a Nazi prisoner of war escaped from the stockade at I Camp Crowder He learned the location of the camps camp's supply warehouse warehouse ware ware- house and got there without ware ware-j being detected He broke in shed his PW uniform put on an American uniform uniform uniform uni uni- form that draped him perfectly But ButI I then he made the boner resulting in his Ms capture Hunting through a stack of hats he put one on that fit him Then he stepped out across the camp campgrounds campgrounds campgrounds grounds and was seized almost at once He had on the hat of a WAC WAG Ouch It happened before Supreme Su Su- prem preme Court Justice Aaron J. J L Levy vy The man before him said I UI would like to change my name Its It's been beena a source of great embarrassment to me What is your name asked zoner Levy said the fellow Rarely in the life of any jurist was the caustic retort comes there a motion which he can grant grantwith grantwith grantwith with such pleasure Returned bomber pilots have a favorite story not new to some of us on the papers It deals with the U. U S. S bomber crew flying over Switzerland which was hailed via radio by the ground crew of a Swiss anti-aircraft anti battery This is neutral territory Get away or well we'll open fire Yes we know replied the Yanks to which the guns ack Hey radioed the Americans your shells are exploding 1000 yards below us Yes was the reply we know I Newspaperman Stuff Editor and Publisher reports that Lowell Mellett Mellett Mellett Mel- Mel lett who recently quit his post as to the President to do a i syndi syndi- syndicated syndicated column has just been granted a 5 raise by the St. St Louis Post- Post Dispatch Dispatch-a a raise he requested 40 years ago At that time Mellett asked his managing editor for the pay-hike pay and when turned down he quit The P-D P was among the fir first t to buy his It pays him the wage he got when a reporter As a matter of principle Mellett Mellett Mellett Mel Mel- lett asked the present editor to pay 5 extra He got this reply Okay f Sorry you had to wait so long for forI r E I I it r l Merciless l Truth John Erskine recalls ref re recalls re- re f- f calls a college dean who used to say you couldn't teach a man mathel mathematics mathe- mathe l mat matics cs if there was a girl in the room room or if you could he wouldn't Ube be worth teaching The editor of This Week convulsed the column with the one about the sentry who heard a anoise anoise anoise noise and called out Who goes there A voice from the darkness answered Jones Let me through I cant can't let you proceed sir without without without with with- out the password said the sentry Oh for goodness sakes said the f officer you know me well enough Let me through No can do was the retort gotta have the password sir Just then a with it soldier soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier in the nearby guardhouse yelled Oh dont don't stand there arguing arguing arguing ing all night night s shoot night shoot oot him Quotation Marksmanship Ted Tec Robinson A pessimist feels bad bac when he feels good for fear hell he'll feel worse when he feels better Dorothy F. F Grant How many times are we guilty of Mary Innis The frozen milk bottles wore crooked white top hats M. M Cousins The lonely night nigh sounds of the prairie clawed at the I windows Irving Hoffman Gentleman Gentleman Gentleman Gen GenI I What women call any man manthey manthey manthey they dont don't know well J. J Drinkwater Drinkwater Drink Drink- water Poets make everlasting monuments of moments 3 |