Show 1 I The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter A visiting movie star was asked which man she would enjoy meeting most To the amazement of the Interviewers she said Albert Einstein Einstein Ein Em- stein The noted scientist was lecturing in Manhattan and he agreed to see her With the scribes scribes' scribing and the flashlight b bulbs the star in an awed voice said Its uIt's a thrill to think that l am talking to the one man who than knows mows more about the stars any other living person Not quite replied Einstein uNo Noone No will do dolo doto doto do- do one ne ban an predict what a star to lo get her name in the papers They tell the one about the colo- colo se lel speaking at a dinner in his honor honDr hon hon- or Dr before embarking for Africa I thank you he concluded for your fOur kind wishes regarding my welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare and I want you to know that when I am far away surrounded by ugly grinning savages I shall always always always al al- al- al ways think of you Jackie Coogan recently back from in Burma and India I said that his Burma Glider group landed near a small tribal village miles back of the Jap lines Having the assignment to construct an airport in less than 12 hours Coogan called over a native native native na na- I tive chief and asked that he parade I the villagers that he wished to recruit recruit re re- re- re cruit bruit as workers Hundreds of them were girls wearing very little One however was better groomed than the others Draped to her ankles was a huge towel with the words uMa Mayflower May flower Bower Hotel Washington D. 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C At an airport the other day a de de- de- de sailor sat waiting for hours I He lie appeared so depressed a sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- pathetic bystander asked him what I i the trouble was He said he had I lust just come in from the South Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- for a four-day four His home was Plas an hour and a half away by air He had just been put off one plane in favor of a higher priority priority priority He hadn't been home in 1 two years His father had died in inthe inthe the ilie meantime and every hour now 1 seemed an eternity r But what really got him down he added was that two planes had left for his home homeburg homeburg homeburg burg but couldn't find room for him despite the fact that the last person person person per per- son to board the plane was a civilian carrying a golf bag When Norway was invaded civilian civilian civilian civil civil- ian Germans fled Sweden because they expected that country to be Invaded next A German who bad tad been buying up dollars at half the he price took a train one night from Stockholm His suitcase contained about one million dollars in small and large bills He knew he i could not get by Swedish customs with it and that even if he did the Gestapo would catch up with him himin himin himin in Germany Not long after midnight midnight midnight mid mid- night the twain stopped at a small station The German hurried out with his valise found a dark spot near a tree buried his treasure look took careful note of the spot and boarded the train r Thru his window window he made a note of a sign on ona a door on the side of the depot It said A few weeks ago he got permission to return return return re re- re- re turn to Sweden At the station he showed the t ticket seller the memo af of f the name he Had fiad copied down The Die ticket sellers seller's eyebrows jumped high and then he grinned in Swedish means WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN WOM WOM- EN The frantic dope is now traveling all over central Sweden at night hoping to find the right depot not knowing th that t even if he heIs heis heis is that lucky the Swedish authorities authorities authorities ties are waiting for him t I This is how Russia whipped its Black Market In Russia the soldiers get additional pay for each b battle they are in and not h having a ving anywhere to spend it they send it home The kinfolk are making more money than usual in spite of what y ou n hear and onH n all fill 11 fh th V is ie i it h h r R D r i M w 0 U w y us sia Bia now has too much surplus coin as well as a Black Market which gets 40 rubles for nylons and 50 for fora a bottle of Scotch The Soviet being realistic about it decided decided decided de de- de- de to go into the Black Market racket so now they have owned stores in all aU communities They are called Government Government- Owned Black Market Stores o or r whatever the Russian is for that and any citizen can shop in the them In this way the gets get s back all that surplus money And keeps the citizens honest a athe at atthe atthe t the same time Over here surplus surplus surplus sur sur- plus money is being enjoyed only y r by the mobs who keep it all at I since they rarely pay taxes Marine 1st Mitchell Paige just returned after 26 months in inthe inthe inthe the S. S Pacific one of two living enlisted enlisted enlisted en en- listed Marines in this war to hold the Congressional Medal of Honor has the unique distinction of being the only infantryman in this war to tobe tobe tobe be grounded Wearied by the comparative inactivity of a forward forward forward for for- ward training camp in New Guinea following the Guadalcanal campaign campaign campaign cam cam- Paige stole a ride on a B 25 scheduled to bomb The Ther hero was then grounded fo forthe for forthe r the duration r r 5 4 r |